Chapter 11. sorry for the horribly written sappy parts. I'm bad at writing feelings. No flames please.
11
"Angelos. Your name was Angel?" I stared into his white, glistening eyes.
"Yes, but you're missing the point. You now know why I came down."
"It was me. That's why you came down. You have that many feelings for me?"
"Yes. From the moment I saw you, I knew I loved you."
"I love you too"
Black ride stared at me in amazement. "You do?"
I nodded, and kissed him. It was warm and it made my head go fuzzy, but the best thing was that Black ride didn't pull away. We kissed for what seemed for hours. When we finally broke a part, I was smiling. And so was he.
"Race you back to the room" I said as I started running.
"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!" he yelled after me and started running after me. Black ride won by flying up the stairs and beat me by just 2 meters. We burst in the door to find Hope crying. I glanced at Holly, who was comforting her. She looked at me with anxious eyes. Her hands were covered in blood.
"What happened?" I said crouching in front of Hope.
"H-h-he's h-here! Inside t-t-the building!" Hope said between sobs.
"Who?" it was Black that was speaking now.
"Dying thorn!" She practically yelled. I looked at Black. He looked at me. We both had the same thought.
"Royal chambers" Black and I said at the same time.
"But where did the blood come?" from I asked. Hope looked up. Her face was covered in blood. Where tears should have been, blood poured from her face. I was horrified. "Black, you go alert Black lily, I'll go do alert the queen." Black ride nodded and left the room. I turned back to Hope. "You have to tell me what happened" I said. Hope was crying so badly I don't think she could get the words out.
"I'll tell you what happened. When you left, Hope and I chatted for a bit. Then, all of a sudden, she started crying. It was then the blood started. It came from her eyes, just like tears. And she just kept on saying, "he's here. He's after her" I didn't know what it meant, but I didn't like it. Then you showed up." Holly answered for her.
"Thanks. I gotta go now; will you try and clean up hope?" I didn't wait for an answer; I just bounded out the door and down the stairs.
The queen was consulting with Garnet about when I burst in the door.
"He's here! In the building!" I gasped. The queen stood up.
"Who?"
"My brother"
"But he's dead!"
"Not, he's not. And he's here, right now"
"How did you gain this knowledge?"
"Hope had a vision or something"
"How do you know that the child was telling the truth?"
"She was crying blood." There was a silence. The queen looked thought full.
"Gather up our best Fighters and a few rookies too and go find him. I will see what I can do to help" the queen finally said. "Here. You may need this." She handed me two gold bracelets, joined by a thin stand of sliver. I attached one to my wrist and Bowed.
"Thank you. I must go now." And I ran off to seek fighters. I managed to gather iro, running paw, black ride, black lily, huntress and the few rookies that were still in training. They seemed to be excited and scared at the same time. One of them came up to me and said,
"is this an exercise?" she said. I think her name was death strike.
"No. it's not." I replied to her. Her eyes got big and she ran back to her group. I rolled my eyes and caught up with black ride.
"are you ready for this?" I asked him.
"As ready as I'll ever be" he answered, and kissed me. It took me by surprise, and it knocked me backwards. He caught me just in time. I gazed into his eyes. Then I saw something behind him. It was dying thorn, up on the ceiling. I widened my eyes and caught black ride looking worryingly at me. I shook my head, which meant-don't do what I'm doing. I righted myself and whispered to him,
"he's up on the ceiling." Black ride nodded and stretched his wings casually. Once they were at full length, he shot up. He grabbed dying thorn and threw him on the ground. I jumped over to him and held one of my daggers to his throat. I bent down slowly, leaning on him the whole time. Then I whispered in his ear,
"Why are you here?"
"to get pay back for leaving me in the fire!" he said, disappearing. I bounced back up, already in a fighting stance. It was all quiet until I heard a cry. Dying thorn had one of the rookies. He held a dagger to her throat.
"come near me she dies" he growled.
I laughed. Everyone looked at me as if I was crazy.
"Oh, I won't come near you, but he will" I said gesturing towards Black ride. He was in there like a flash. He knocked the dagger out of Dying thorn's hand brought the rookie back to the group.
"nine against one? That doesn't seem very fair now does it?" he gave me a playful grin.
"no, it doesn't. That's why it should be just you and me Thorn" I gave him the exact same grin back, being careful to show my teeth, so it was more like a snarl. "get back guys" I ordered.
"Night hunter, may I remind yo-"Black lily started, but I cut her off.
"no time for that now. I said get back!" I yelled. Every one took a big step back. I stepped forward, towards Dying thorn. We circled for a while, but then I got bored. I lunged for him, aiming at his throat. He stopped and dropped to his knees and stayed there. He hung his head, looking as though he had given up. I pushed him down and he didn't resist. I took off the bracelets and put them on him. At once they tightened and secured. I stood him up and walk past black lily.
"Take him to the Queen" I said, not looking at her.
I ran back to my room and fell on black's bed. I stayed there, ignoring every one and cried.