Chapter Twenty-Two: Stop the War

Back in the Skyla kingdom, Gordon had just recovered from the injuries he got during Thomas's royal ball. As a result, Gordon now has a faint scar on his face and his shoulder blade. During his recovery, he kept insisting that he's fine, but Salty and Rebecca thought otherwise. Taking care of Gordon was challenging but in the end, he had gotten better.

"There, Gordon. You are now fully healed.", said Rebecca softly as she removed the bandages from Gordon, "You only had a faint scar but at least your better now."

Gordon sighed. He was still mad at Thomas's action but at the same time, all he wanted to do at the time was to protect him from James, "I must talk to Thomas Rebecca."

"Are you sure that is such a good idea?", asked Rebecca, "He might still be angry from what had happened."

"Yes, as he needs to know what he has done. He also needs to know that my action was to protect him.", replied Gordon as he got out of his bed.

Rebecca sighed. She knew that James has no intention of harming Thomas and that the two were happy that night. Yet she knew she cannot convince him to not speak to Thomas because Gordons is a prince and she was... just a nurse.

Gordon then exited from his royal bedroom to search for Thomas. Then he went to Thomas's room. He reached the door handle and opened it wide. To his shock, Percy was inside of his little brother's room and there was no sign of Thomas's presence. Percy gasped. Gordon was surprised to see him, "Where is Thomas Percy? I have to talk to him right now."

Percy gulped, "Umm he… told me that he's… umm… talking to the twins."

Gordon knew that something was up, "Are you sure? The twins should be with BoCo, learning some magic spell. Unless…"

Gordon paused for a moment then spoke, "Perhaps he might be doing something else."

Gordon walked off to find Thomas and Percy knew that his impersonation and excuses would not last forever. For the first three days, he would tell them to go away in the best Thomas's voice and he even stole a magic formula from BoCo and disguised himself as Thomas, but he ran out of the potion. He knew he would be in trouble if Gordon or his family had found out about it.

Meanwhile, Edward and Henry were doing their royal duty, trying to make things right. They felt awful, especially Edward. He couldn't just believe in Thomas's action and what he had said to their father. His father was heartbroken from his son's harsh words. William couldn't find a way to forgive himself.

"My kings.", bowed Duck, "I just made another outfit you."

"That is good Duck.", replied Edward sadly, "Just bring it to me when you're ready."

"Yes, my king.", he bowed, and he went off.

Duck and his lover BoCo had noticed Edward's expression of sadness. They both felt pity for his grief. Everyone in the castle knew ever since Thomas lashed out to his father, Edward and every other royal member were miserable. Thomas used to be a happy, cheeky, and optimistic young boy and now he was furious about their overprotective behaviour.

The subjects did their best to please their kings by working hard. Like one time when Molly and Daisy cleaned the castle within three hours, they didn't get any praises, instead, both of the maids were pushed aside. They felt upset about it. Another time, Cranky was being less grumpy to his youngsters while teaching but he ended up been ignored. That got him very angry. The Skyla kingdom started to feel miserable as hours flew by.

Edward sighed, "This is my fault, Henry."

"No, it's not Edward.", replied Henry as he held his hand, "Thomas should have thought of his action."

"Still, if my family wasn't so protective to Thomas in the first place, none of this would of happen.", replied Edward solemnly.

Just then, William entered along with Gordon, "Have you seen Thomas?", asked Gordon.

The two kings shook their heads sadly. They both have not seen Thomas for a week. They probably thought that Thomas doesn't want to see them again, "No I have not Gordon.", replied Edward.

Suddenly, a trumpet was played out loud that could be heard from miles away. It came from Phillip as rushed to his majesties, "King Edward! King Henry! I got news!', he cried.

"Yes?", asked Edward.

"There's an army from the Fyre kingdom heading this way! Queen Frankie said it's war!", replied Phillip with fear on his face.

The royal family gasped, "It gets worse.", cried Phillip, "Thomas is missing!"

They knew they had no time to lose and that they need to get into action, "Phillip! Fetch Captain Connor and assemble all the guards now!", Edward commanded.

"Yes, my king!", replied Phillip as he raced off to fetch Captain Connor and to assemble the royal guards.

"I'm going in to serve justice!", cried William.

"No father!", cried Gordon, "You're too old and you will get killed!"

"I don't care!", replied William, "I'm going to serve justice for my wife and save my son! Even if it kills me!"

"We all do it together!", cried Gordon.

Percy then joined in as he heard about their conversation. He then went up to them, "I'm sorry that I pretended to be Thomas. This is all my fault.", cried Percy.

"No time to apologise little brother.", replied Henry, "We must stop the Fyre kingdom!"

There William" Edward, Henry, Gordon, and Percy fetched their armour and fetched their horses. They all went outside the gate and waited for Connor and his guards.

"Guards! Assemble!", cried Connor as all the guards got on their horses and went behind the royal family and Connor.

The kings and their army were ready to fight with the Fyre kingdom. They were doing this not only to protect their kingdom and their subjects but to save Thomas and to serve justice for William's wife's death.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the forest, Flora, Emily, Caitlin, Ryan, Paxton and Diesel were riding on their horses, looking for James and to stop the war, "We going to do this together, even if it kills us!", cried Caitlin.

"Justice for James's kingdom and the Skyla kingdom!", shouted Emily.

Just then, all their horses came to an abrupt halt. They all stood up on its hind legs and to their surprise, they saw a mage on a grey horse with white spots with black mane, Toby on his brown horse with a black muzzle, Thomas on the mage's extra horse that was rose grey horse, James on Trusty and a man with scars on his face, riding a black and white horse.

"James!", cried Ryan, "Thank goodness you're alright!"

"We thought you've been killed James and same to you brother!", added Flora.

"Were fine and Toby told us about the war!", said James with anger in his tone, "I will kill Frankie!"

"Then who is that man with those scary-looking scars?", asked Ryan as he thought he looked rather scary.

"That's Hiro, the long lost prince.", added Thomas.

Then the others were surprised that the man with wicked scars on his face was the long lost prince. Their long lost prince was alive, "How did you get your scars and how did you survive?", asked Paxton.

"No time for questions Pax!", shouted Diesel, "We got to stop this and bring peace!"

"His is right as we have no time to lose. We have to do this, or the kingdoms will receive bad news.", added Nia.

"Come on!", shouted James as he got Trusty to ride.

Thomas was riding next to James and they've led the group to find where the battle would take place and to stop this once and for all. They all shouted for justice and they raced off as they fought against time.

At the open field, Queen Frankie was on the pure black horse that was once belonged to King Fredrick with her army right behind her. They all rode in line to prepare the war. King Edward was on his flea-bitten grey horse with his family and his army right behind him. Both of the kingdoms knew the war would be very gruesome, but they did it for their ruler.

Then they were face to face with their army. Queen Frankie gave an evil grin, "It's all over now! Your army can never beat mine and you will fall!"

"Your former king had killed my wife and your kingdom is delusional!", shouted William, who was next to Edward.

"We don't want to fight but you took Thomas away, so we have no choice but to fight until we get Thomas back!", shouted Edward.

"Where is Thomas?", cried Percy, who was on his palomino horse.

"As if I would…", replied Frankie with a sneer.

"Where is he now? Tell us now!", shouted Gordon as he demanded an answer as he was on his blue roan horse.

"Okay I will tell as it will make your revenge much stronger, which means our army will feed on the blood and we will win!", chuckled Frankie nastily, "You're precious Thomas is dead and I killed him!"

William, his family, and friends gasped in absolute horror. William closed his eyes with tears as his anger build. Gordon's eyes were built with tears and he screamed out in the sheer amount of anger. Percy looked down in guilt, only if he knew that Thomas was in mortal danger. Edward and Henry had their tears flowing but they were going to fight for Thomas.

"Sad isn't?", asked Frankie in a teasing tone, "Attack!"

The Fyre kingdom began to charge towards the Skyla army and the Skyla kingdom went to the Fyre army. Anger was building between them and the climax began to go skyrocket high. Then the two armies clashed, and they fought with all their strength. They both screamed in agony when someone was injured, both cried out for their kingdom's name and they both shouted at each other.

The fight was brutal, but Frankie didn't join the fight but instead watch it with a satisfied look upon her face. She knew she was getting close to destroy the kingdom and find a way to stay queen forever to avenge her ancestors.