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Beaten
By: Crystal of Psyche
Chapter 3: Kidnapped
Author's Note: Thank you all who reviewed me. I was kinda shocked about how much less of reviews I got for the second chapter. But I guess that's a part of life. Anyway, thank again who reviewed me the last chapter, at first I was thinking this chapter wasn't worth writing since no one had reviewed the first to days. But then a couple of you reviewed. So thank you…I'll continue just for you all.
(In a basement of a castle.)
"My royal advisors come out and bow before your king!" Two men came out of the shadows and bowed before the man who had called them.
"…Prince Harry, technically your not a king since you are not married and your father is on the throne right…"
"SILENCE!!!!"
"Yes, my Lord."
"Now gentlemen, a problem has formed in the past couple days. We need to form a plan…."Harry let out a evil laugh, making his royal advisors wince at the horrible laugh.
*****
(It had been a couple of days now…)
"Come on!! Bit please!! Pretty PPLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEE!!!!"
"No! You can go up and sit next to the driver but I want to stay here!"
Ashley pouted, "But I don't want to go alone."
"I'll sit with you," Ashley turned towards Leon. She smiled brightly and leaned out the window.
"Driver!! Stop for a second please!!!" It stopped and Ashley got up from her seat, grabbed Leon's arm and got out.
"Have fun!!!" Bit yelled after her.
"You too!!!" Ashley yelled back
Bit flushed a little, "What do you mean!?!"
"You know what I mean!!!!" Leena giggled. It was quiet, well if exclude Ashley's loud chatter outside.
"What are we going to do when we get to your kingdom?" asked Bit.
"SHOPPING!!"
"*grumbles* Great. What for?"
"Well we need to get Ashley some new clothes. You don't want her to stay in her rags all the time."
"Thank you for being so nice to us."
"All in a days work!"
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"I can't believe it! We're going somewhere different than our crummy old house. Heehee! Wait! The tax collectors will come by expecting us to pay our taxes! Ha I would like to see the look on their faces when the house is empty!"
Leon smiled. He didn't mind Ashley's loud chatter he kinda enjoyed it.
"Oh and look at that funny man on horse behind us!"
"WHAT!?!" Leon looked behind them and saw exactly what Ashley said. The man noticed he was spotted, he whistled and other men on horses started running towards them.
"Oh and look he brought friends!" Ashley said a little too cheerful, Leon's sweat dropped at her remark.
"Driver! Go faster!!" The driver did as he was told. The bandits started to gain on the carriage. Leon drew his sword getting ready for a fight. But the carriage stopped suddenly sending Leon flying; Ashley tried to stop him from falling by grabbing his arm, but couldn't. Instead she fell with him into the ground. Then quickly got up.
"Are you alright!?!"
"Y…yeah…" Leon turned towards Ashley and for the first time he saw fear in her eyes.
"Get behind me and I'll protect you!" Leon said. Ashley quickly did as she was told. The bandits had already circled around them by now.
"What are we going to do?" Ashley asked.
"We're going to fight!"
"Is that the first thing that came to your mind?"
"That's the only thing that came to my mind!"
"WATCH OUT!!!" A bandit swung towards Leon who quickly ducked and started fighting. Ashley backed away so she wouldn't get hurt, she looked towards the carriage to see Bit come out and start rto help Leon.
"Come here little girl!" A bandit had gotten away from the fight and started coming towards her.
"Stay away!!" Ashley grabbed a big stick and swung it and hit the guy on the head, knocking him out. Surprised by her strength she quickly gained her composure.
"Yeah!! That's right!! Stay down!!" Another Bandit comes after her again. She yelped and tried to hit him with the stick but he cut it in half, and she fell to the ground. She closed her eyes, but heard someone else being struck down. She opened her eyes.
"Leon!!! You saved me!!" She jumped up and gave him a big hug. She let go of him and surveyed the scene. Bit was struggling a whole lot, but she noticed the bandits weren't going after the carriage.
"Go and help Bit!! And I'll go see if Leena is okay!" He just nodded and ran back into the battle. Ashley started running towards the carriage but she heard horses hooves getting louder. She turned around and screamed.
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Bit was in the heat of battle when he heard someone scream. He turned around to see Ashley being picked up by one of the bandits on a horse but this one had a black cloak that covered his face.
"Ashley!!" The bandit on the horse was having trouble with Ashley. Finally he squeezed his hand on her neck and she went unconscious. He got out a horn and blew it. The other bandits stopped fighting and jumped on their horses and rode off.
"NNOOOO!!!! COME BACK!!!" Bit shouted as the bandits ran off. He fell to the ground and pounded it with rage. Leena came out of the carriage and ran over to Bit.
"Don't worry Bit once we get to the castle, I'll send a big search party."
"I should've been there!"
"It wasn't you fault Bit…"
"You right Leena, it was my fault." Bit and Leena turned towards Leon. Who was looking at his feet.
"I was right next to her and I left her there. It's all my fault!!!" Everyone went quiet, until Leena spoke up.
"Well, you're not going to rescue her by standing around here!"
…Silence…
"Geez, well I'm leaving to find Ashley." Leena remarked.
"Sorry about that."
"Yeah we'll come."
*****
The bandit was running fast as he could. After awhile Ashley started gaining consciousness.
"Woah, where am I?" She then remembered everything that happened, she immediately stiffened, and looked up at her captor. She was currently sitting in front of him on the horse. She couldn't see his face because he had a cloak on, she could only see his eyes. They were a beautiful crystal blue color.
"What are you going to do to me?" She asked, you could sense the fear in her voice.
"We were hired to kidnap you. Now we're just going to hand you over and get our money," the man sadi with a slow, deep voice.
"So you're a mercenary?"
"You could say that."
"But why me?"
"Your full of questions."
"I'm just curious."
"Curiosity will kill you if you let it get to you too much."
"You still need to answer my question, why me?"
"Maybe you should ask the guy who hired us?"
She then went silent as they rode through the forest. They came up to a campsite, the rider got off and helped Ashley get off. He tied her hands together and took the other end of the rope in his hand and led Ashley through the campsite. All the bandits were looking at her; she scooted closer to the rider.
"Don't worry they won't hurt you," the rider assured her.
"Then why do they keep staring at me?"
"Cause you're a prisoner."
They walked up to a tent, and walked inside. Another cloaked figure was inside, but it was smaller than the rider.
"Mission complete," the rider said, the other cloaked figure turned around and Ashley realized that it was a woman. A woman was the leader of these bandits; Ashley was very impressed that she could lead a group of bandits.
"Nice work, we'll meet tomorrow at the exchange point." The rider saluted and left taking Ashley with him. They walked to another ten. In the middle was a pole. The rider tied Ashley to it with her hands behind her back this time. Another person came in.
"You! Stay on guard," the rider told him. He nodded and walked outside. Then the rider left leaving Ashley alone and scared.
******
"Wake up!" Someone was shaking Ashley awake.
"Wha!?!"
"Come on you have to get up!" Ashley blinked trying to focus; she then jumped a little. The rider was kneeling in front of her and was untying her a little.
"Come with me." He tugged on the rope forcing her to follow him. They walked to the front of the campsite and waited. Ashley is impatient person at times like these. There was a beat of hooves and a bunch of horses with soldiers. Then a carriage showed up; it stopped in front of them. Then someone she recognized stopped out of the carriage.
"Prince Harry!!!!" Yes indeed it was him. Ashley started to shaking. The rider realized that she was shaking and narrowed his eyes at Prince Harry.
"Ahh! Let's see," Harry walked up to Ashley, "You fools this is not the crown princess of Gallion!"
The rider spoke, "Well she fits the description you gave us. Red hair, around the age of 16, and she was the only girl at the scene."
Harry smiled, "You must be Ashley. I've heard so much about you from Bit. This is even better! Thank you sir. And here's your money." A soldier threw a heavy bag of money in front of the rider's feet. He picked it and gave the rope that had Ashley's hands tied together at one end to Harry. Ashley turned towards the rider giving a pleading look. He didn't say anything but his eyes said a mouthful. Ashley relaxed a little bit but tensed up when Harry tugged on the rope making her fall to the ground.
"Hey!: Ashley shouted.
"Don't worry, I've got plans for you!" Harry tried his evil laugh again. Everyone winced even the rider.
"Let's go!" Harry pulled the rope again forcing Ashley up. She gave the rider one last look. She looked into his crystal blue eyes again until she was yanked into the carriage.
Author's Note: Sorry it so long!
Phoenix: Geez, it's about time!! Spider webs were starting to form in this room!
Crystal: *A huge vein popped on her head* If you criticize me one more tie I swear!
Phoenix: At least it didn't take you ten chapters to get the action going.
Crystal: OUT!!!!!!!!!
Phoenix: Ahh!!!!!! *Gets thrown out of the room and the door slammed behind him*
Crystal: Sometimes I wonder how we're related. Anyway, the next chapter shouldn't take that long. It really depends on how much schoolwork I have to do.
Crystal of Psyche signing out!