A/N: Sorry for the long wait! Like I said in my profile, my bus is the slowest thing on and under the planet. Add to that the fact that I'm extremely slow and you get this chapter! Anyway, in this chapter we get a look at our evil prince regent! ON WITH THE CHAPTER!
Chapter 9
The throne room, the palace, Caerish, Dargium
The palace was big enough. It really didn't need the gigantic throne room. The man sitting in the throne room was also out of place.
"Where is my dinner?" he demanded of a servant.
The servant jumped. "Oh, well, Lord Seari-" he started.
"EMPORER Seari," said the prince regent. "In a few days I will be Emperor Seari, and everyone will bow down to me." He sighed. "Until then you can call me what you wish."
"Yes, Lord Seari." The servant swallowed nervously. "Well, your dinner. The, uh, the cook, well, Lord Seari-"
"Out with it man!" Seari snarled. "Where is my dinner?"
"The cook, he… The cook burnt your dinner, sir. I mean Lord, I mean Emperor Seari," the servant stammered. Lord Seari scared everyone. But this servant, who was very new, was not used to the Prince Regent's outbursts.
"He did what?" Lord Seari spoke deadly quiet. "You didn't say he burnt my dinner, did you?"
If the servant hadn't been so new, he probably would have answered differently. "Well, yes, Lor-" Seari jumped up and cut the man's head off his shoulders with his sword.
"Worthless servant," he muttered, sitting back down. "It's completely pointless for me to have to dirty my sword over something so low." He snorted. "WHERE IS MY DINNER?!"
Wolf's den, the wolf caves, DargiumBy now, it was past dawn, and to be honest. I was worried. I glanced over at Master Artemis. He was still asleep. So was Holly. Great. We needed to leave. And soon. The Prince Regent probably didn't care that there was still a prophecy to fulfill. He would name himself Emperor as soon as possible, and the second he did; it would be over for all of the wolves.
Things were not going too well.
I walked over and began to nudge my master. "Wake up, Master Artemis," I said. "We have to get going. Things like this don't wait forever." Master Artemis groaned.
"Not now, Wolf," he said in his own tongue.
"That's not fair," I said. "You can't use that language. I don't know it. Or to be more accurate, I can't speak it." I put my back into it and shoved. "Come on, get up. We've got to get moving." My master sat up, rubbing the sleep from his eyes. He yawned.
"Do we have to get up so early, Wolf?" he asked.
"I'm sorry, Master," I said. "We do. It's already past dawn. We have to get going."
"All right, I'm up," he said. He turned to Holly. "Come on, Holly. It's time to go." She didn't wake up. "Wake up. Wolf says we have to go." Holly rolled over.
"Not now," she said. "It's too early."
"Oh well," Master Artemis said. "We have to go, according to Wolf."
"I'm not listening to that big flea-bag," Holly said. "I'm tired, and I don't care."
"Wolf," my master said, turning to me. "Do we have a bucket of water anywhere?" He said it loudly.
"Why do you nee-" I started.
Holly sat up quickly. "You wouldn't dare," she said, eyes narrowed.
Master Artemis smirked. "Try me."
"All right," Holly said. "I'm getting up." Then she saw the clothes that I had brought in earlier. "Oh no," she said. "I'm not wearing that."
"You have to," I said. "If you don't, the second someone sees us, they'll have us arrested. Unless you want to go around wearing clothes much to small for you, or get arrested, this is what you'll have to wear."
Holly looked at me with undisguised anger. "I'm not even going to ask where you got this." She walked off.
Master Artemis rolled his eyes. "Ignore her," he said. "She's just angry that people will think she's female."
"I heard that!"
A/N: This is kind of a filler chapter. It's kind of unnecessary, but oh well. That's the way the cookie crumbles. Ooh! Cookie, where?
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