Catlanda sat nervously, and impatiently in her chair in the courtroom with Marok, Rick, Evelyn and Jonathan. It was the day that Pyram and Caroline were being tried for the attack in the school.
"When will it get over?" she demanded, clinging onto the Spire.
"It hasn't even started yet," Evie told her from on the other side of Rick.
"I'm just glad the jerk's getting what he deserves for attacking Ardeth. The guy easily could've died from loss of blood," Rick muttered under his breath.
The doors behind them suddenly opened and Pyram was brought into the room. He angrily looked at the Medjai as he walked past them. He was almost snarling at them. He was led to a table where his female accomplice was already sitting.
"Look what we've gotten ourselves into all over that Spire," she whispered to him.
"I know. Did you know she's here with her friends?" he replied quietly.
She shook her head with obvious hate.
"Order!" came the judge's voice.
His stare came to rest on the two sitting before him.
"How do you plead?" he asked them.
"Not guilty," Pyram replied.
"Not according to the evidence we have. You almost shot one young woman before attacking another man and seriously injuring him," the judge replied, looking at the papers before him.
"Well, don't believe it," replied Pyram.
Rick was growing angry as he heard the statement.
'Believe what you will Pyram, if they let you out, be careful for they will come afer you,' he thought to himself.
The day went on and a few more witnesses were called to the stand until Pyram was called up himself. Catlanda and Marok stared him down as he walked up and sat there.
"Tell what happened in your words please," one man asked him.
"I was there with Caroline, listening to the young woman and man who were asked to come and talk to us about their homeland. Then the rest of their people ran in and attacked us," he said.
The people in the room began to whisper to each other.
"But all the other witnesses say you attacked the older gentleman that was with her and seriously injured him," the judge replied, looking through his papers.
"The woman is not as she seems to be. She lies," Pyram explained, starting to become angry.
The people in the crowd gasped and their jaws dropped. Catlanda's dropped the furthest.
"Why I ought to..." she started, climbing to her feet.
Four hands pulled her down.
"It's not worth it. We all know you're not," Jonathan told her.
"Try telling that to them," Rick said as she sat down.
They stared at the man at the front of the room before hearing the doors open to reveal a man. Pyram gasped when he saw the face for it was Ardeth.
"Really? Are you truly calling my daughter a liar?" he asked.
He began limp over to the front of the room. Rick and Jonathan stood to help him but he waved them off.
"You are obviously the one who's lying here. Your story does not match anyone else's and since it was this charming woman there who asked if my daughter could talk to you, I can't see why she is a liar," Ardeth told him.
"I have to ask you to leave," a man asked him, stepping before him.
Catlanda was angry. She could not hold it in any longer.
"Spire, think you can kill from the inside out?" she asked quietly through gritted teeth.
The yellow eyes was all the response she needed to smile. Pyram sat quietly in the chair at the front of the room, watching Ardeth being taken to the back of the room before he felt a burning sensation in his stomach. It progressed further down to his legs and up to his chest until it was throughout his entire body. He screamed out in agony as everybody there watched him in confusion, not knowing what to do. They watched him stand up with his hands on his head and still screaming.
Then he collpased onto the floor.
One man ran up to him. He checked for a pulse only to not find one nor was Pyram breathing.
"He's dead," the man told the crowd in amazement.
Everybody began to talk to each other about this. They began to mill around the room in fear. They had never seen anything like it before. Ardeth looked at Catlanda with a knowing smile. She laughed.
"What? I didn't do a thing," she said to him with a huge smile on her face.
"The day I believe that statement is the day...well...I don't know what kind of day yet," Ardeth started as he sat down beside her in Jonathan's seat which he willingly gave up.
"I won't even go there and neither should you," Catlanda said, the Spire tightly in her grip.
"Now I think we should go before anything else happens," Jonathan suggested.
Ardeth leaned on Catlanda as the six walked out of the now chaotic room.
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Once at the O'Connell mansion, Ardeth sat in a chair and closed his eyes as Catlanda kneeled beside him.
"Ardeth, how'd you ever get to the courtroom?" asked Evie.
"The people at the hospital released me once they saw that I would not stay for anything. I managed to find my way there. I needed to help my daughter," his said, breathing heavily.
Evie and Catlanda both smiled as they looked at the sun slowly drop over the horizon.
"Now get some rest. You need it," she told him before Rick walked inside and proceeded to help him upstairs.
"And I believe you really need it," Rick told him as they walked into a bedroom.
Ardeth climbed onto the bed and smiled as he fell asleep.
The End.
Author's Note-Thanks to everyone who has reviewed. Especially Deana. I'll be back!!
