A/N - Alright, I'm an sooo sorry that a lot of people have been confused
about this chapter. I was myself when i went back and read it correctly.
Anyway...the deal with Christian. I've changed it because it didn't make
sense so i'm sorry, you may have to go back and read this chapter again.
Christian is the middle child of Heith. Bobby's younger brother, and Noah's
older brother. He left suddenly after Bobby did, and Rovin was really angry
at him for that, she's never really forgiven him. So i hope this helps a
little bit and if there are anymore questions feel free to e-mail me. I'm
really really really really really sorry this is sooooo confusing!!! Thank
you all.
Chapter 14
They both stood and stared at the Spidren in fear. Rovin took out some daggers and armed herself. Rovin had never seen a Spidren before and she never really believed the stories that were told about them. Now that she was looking at one she believed all of them, and the rumor that they could tear a man apart. The Spidren was taller than she had heard them to be. This one was at least six feet if not taller. It was very fury and it's spider body was everything she had heard. The one thing that the storytellers had gotten right, was it's head that was human. Her legs started getting weak as she looked at the human head on top of the monster, with razor sharp teeth.
Rovin tried to stay calm as the thing advanced on the two of them. Daniel held his sword out in front of him as they both walked slowly back towards the edge of the pond. The thing had them cornered. The Spidren was huge and toward over them ready to strike.
Daniel ran forward and stabbed the thing in the stomach. Unfortunately that only made it mad. The Spidren reached out with one of its legs and swatted Daniel away like he was a bug. Daniel was able to grab his sword and it flew with him, creating a deep cut in the Spidren's stomach. The Spidren hissed some more and advanced on Daniel, who had hit a tree and lay on the ground moaning. It reared onto its back legs and from its belly it shot a silvery sack, which surrounded Daniel like a spiders web. The Spidren was obviously lazy and decided to pull Daniel to him rather than walk towards it. Rovin knew Daniel wasn't going to wake up anytime soon. She did the only thing she could think to do. Aiming carefully she launched three of her sharpest daggers at the Spidren. All three sank deep into its neck.
The Spidren hissed and turned on her. It was twenty feet away from her, but the stare from its cold, dark eyes made it seem like two. Still holding onto Daniel with one sack, it sent another stream of it towards Rovin. She leaped out of the way, but not in time. The sack caught onto one of her legs and the Spidren started pulling her towards it. Rovin reached into her chest with fear and brought out her favorite dagger. Without thinking she sat up as the thing slowly pulled her towards it and started sawing away at the web. The thing was like stone, but bit by bit it started breaking.
She sawed as hard as she could and as fast. Nothing did any good. She sat in front of the Spidren in less than ten minutes. Rovin reached up to stab the Spidren with her dagger but the thing knocked it from her hand. Rovin tried to call to life her magic that she had long ago forgotten about, believing it to be deadly. When she had buried it inside of her the only thing that wouldn't go away was her hearing, and every once in a while her power would become so strong inside of her it came out on its own. Now when she needs the power to burn the most its lost to her.
Rovin squeezed her eyes and was ready to accept her death, waiting for the Spidren to strike. She waited. And waited. Nothing happened. Nothing was heard but the sound of the Spidren screaming in pain. Rovin opened her eyes to see three arrows on fire stuck in the Spidren's throat. Five more were stuck in it's chest and they slowly burned the thing alive. Rovin's sack melted around her leg. Once she was free she tiredly crawled over to the unconscious Daniel to move him before he caught on fire himself. Rovin was so tired she barley had the strength to move him.
"Here, let me help" a strong male voice said. Rovin looked up into a face she hadn't seen in years. The light from the burning Spidren was just enough to make out the long grown features of the man. Rovin thought she was seeing a ghost. With the help of the man, she was able to sit Daniel up against a tree. Looking him over she saw the nasty head wound that must have happened when he hit the tree. The man tried to help Rovin the best he could with cleaning up the blood, but there was no stopping it.
"We need to get him back to the Rogue." Rovin told the man hurriedly. "My father's a healer. He can help him."
"then lets go" the man picked Daniel up and slung him over his shoulder. Rovin walked behind him the entire way back to the Rogue witch took longer, because both of them got lost. When they did reach the Rogue, Rovin walked around to the back door and went up the stairs through the kitchen with the man following. She told the cook to get her father and send him to her room, telling him it was an emergency. She had the man lay Daniel on her bed and waited for her father trying to clean the wound as best she could.
A few minutes later her father opened the door and stared at Rovin. Glancing from her he spotted the noble laying on the bed bleeding to death and the man sitting at her table.
"Mithros," he muttered staring at the man sitting there. "Can it be?"
"Father," Rovin interrupted walking up to him and grabbing his hand. "Daniel needs your help. If you don't he'll bleed to death."
Her father looked at the noble on the bed again. With anger in his eyes he walked to the side and placed his hands over Daniel's head. "Leave us," he ordered
Rovin motioned to the man and both of them left. They stood out in the hall staring at each other for a long time until Rovin spoke.
"What are you doing here?" she asked crossing her arms and glaring at Christian who had finally decided to return.
"Excuse me?" Christian asked leaning against the wall and crossing his arms. He knew exactly what Rovin had asked and why she asked it, but he wasn't willing to answer her.
"You heard me. Why have you come back?" she hissed through clenched teeth.
"Because this is my home." he replied hopeing she would buy it.
"Not anymore."
"Rovin listen,"
"Why should I?"
"Because I'm older than you and I say so."
"Your not my father and your not the King, so you can't make me"
"I'll be king when my father dies."
"No you won't"
"Rovin,"
"You left! You can't just come back expecting for everyone to welcome you with open arms."
"I thought you would."
"I've changed."
"Not much. Your still the same little Rovin with the fire in your eyes that I remember" he said indicating the red glow that had come back into Rovin's eyes recently.
"That fire burned out a long time ago" she replied turning from him so she wouldn't have to look at him.
"Not from where I'm standing."
"I quit doing magic a long time ago"
"That's not what I saw tonight?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You didn't think I set those arrows on fire did you?"
"Of course you did"
"Yeah right. The only magic I've ever done is cooking my own meal."
"I don't want to talk about this Christian"
"Your going to have to face it sometime"
"No I'm not. Everything was getting somewhat back to normal and now you show up again"
"If you would just listen to me for a minute"
"You still haven't told me why you came back"
"Yes I did."
"That wasn't a reliable answer"
"No, that just wasn't the answer you wanted to hear. You want to hear that I've made a big mistake leaving and you want me to come back on my knees groveling and begging everyone to forgive me for ever making a choice with my life and leaving the Rogue. Well guess what your not going to get that Rovin. Not from me!" he replied shouting and becoming angered before soon regretting he had yelled like he always had.
Rovin crossed her arms and stared at the ground refusing to say anymore. Christian continued with a new subject.
"So, what's up with you and this noble?"
"That's none of your business."
"Really? From what I heard he's not welcome here. So your obviously doing something wrong if he's not welcome."
"Where did you hear that?"
"I have my sources"
"Well keep your sources and stay out of my private life"
"Are you going to be sour to me like this for the rest of my life?"
"Only until you leave"
"I'm not leaving. I made a mistake, I did what I had to do and now I'm back. For good"
"And what was that? What did you have to do in order to not feel so guilty?"
"I'll tell you when your older kid."
"That's just it! I am older! I'm not a little girl anymore and I wish everyone around here would stop treating me like one!"
"Calm down,"
"You really need to leave. Things have changed around here"
"What things? Maybe I can fix them"
"You're the cause of them! Because of you, everything concerning a child, or better yet a female has changed. I'm not allowed to go anywhere without adult supervision! Hello! I am an adult! Noah follows me around because my father and Heith order him to!"
"They do that because they love you"
"I wish they loved me a little less"
"You don't mean that"
"Christian stop! I mean everything I say!"
Before he could respond Rovin heard someone coming up the stairs. She turned and waited for the person to approach the landing. When Candle emerged from downstairs he was polishing his dagger and whistling. He glanced up at Rovin and the man before going back to his polishing as he walked towards him to his room. He stopped a few feet away from them and looked up at the man again. He let out a low whistle and stared at the man.
"Christian?" he questioned
"Well it's good to know someone around here remembers me other than Dodge here" Christian replied smiling and shaking hands with Candle
"Don't call me that." Rovin replied glaring at Christian
"What's with her?" Candle asked pointing his dagger at Rovin and talking to Christian
"She's just sour because I left and now I'm back" Christian replied smiling his teeth that looked just like his brothers. In fact everything about him reminded her of his two other brothers. They all had dark hair like their fathers and sandy green eyes that match. All of them were tall, tan and muscular, but that didn't amount to much because in the Rogue everyone was muscular. Rovin still didn't see why the middle child of Heith finally decided to return after all this time. He left right after Bobby had without an explanation or a purpose. He just left one day, but now he's back. Rovin didn't like the way things were turning out. Rovin leaned against the wall scowling as she listened to the two boys exchange news.
"Where is my baby brother by the way?" Christian asked Candle not even acknowledging Rovin anymore.
"Oh you know, around." Candle glanced nervously at Rovin. She wasn't an idiot. Rovin looked at the ground hurt. Even though she had no right to she felt jealous of the fact that Noah was sleeping with one of the servant girls right now. She shot a quick glance down the hall towards his closed door. At that moment her door opened and her father walked out. Rovin looked at him waiting for an answer.
"He'll live." her father said quietly not even glancing at Rovin. "He needs to stay here for a while in order to heal properly thought. Moving him could be dangerous."
"I'm going to tell him family" Rovin replied walking towards her room. As she passed her father she squeezed his shoulder and leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you," she whispered before letting him go and continuing into her room. She entered and immediately grabbed her cloak off on of the chairs. Nervous she glanced at Daniel who lay on the bed breathing deeply. She didn't know what she was going to do about him. She walked to the side of the bed and looked down on him wishing for him to get better. In some ways she was glad he wouldn't be around for the next couple of days. She had much bigger fish to fry than trying to keep him alive. Rovin placed her cloak on her shoulders and latched it heading for the door. She could hear her father talking to Christian but she chose not to listen.
Opening the door she walked hurriedly past them and down the stairs, headed for the palace.
Chapter 14
They both stood and stared at the Spidren in fear. Rovin took out some daggers and armed herself. Rovin had never seen a Spidren before and she never really believed the stories that were told about them. Now that she was looking at one she believed all of them, and the rumor that they could tear a man apart. The Spidren was taller than she had heard them to be. This one was at least six feet if not taller. It was very fury and it's spider body was everything she had heard. The one thing that the storytellers had gotten right, was it's head that was human. Her legs started getting weak as she looked at the human head on top of the monster, with razor sharp teeth.
Rovin tried to stay calm as the thing advanced on the two of them. Daniel held his sword out in front of him as they both walked slowly back towards the edge of the pond. The thing had them cornered. The Spidren was huge and toward over them ready to strike.
Daniel ran forward and stabbed the thing in the stomach. Unfortunately that only made it mad. The Spidren reached out with one of its legs and swatted Daniel away like he was a bug. Daniel was able to grab his sword and it flew with him, creating a deep cut in the Spidren's stomach. The Spidren hissed some more and advanced on Daniel, who had hit a tree and lay on the ground moaning. It reared onto its back legs and from its belly it shot a silvery sack, which surrounded Daniel like a spiders web. The Spidren was obviously lazy and decided to pull Daniel to him rather than walk towards it. Rovin knew Daniel wasn't going to wake up anytime soon. She did the only thing she could think to do. Aiming carefully she launched three of her sharpest daggers at the Spidren. All three sank deep into its neck.
The Spidren hissed and turned on her. It was twenty feet away from her, but the stare from its cold, dark eyes made it seem like two. Still holding onto Daniel with one sack, it sent another stream of it towards Rovin. She leaped out of the way, but not in time. The sack caught onto one of her legs and the Spidren started pulling her towards it. Rovin reached into her chest with fear and brought out her favorite dagger. Without thinking she sat up as the thing slowly pulled her towards it and started sawing away at the web. The thing was like stone, but bit by bit it started breaking.
She sawed as hard as she could and as fast. Nothing did any good. She sat in front of the Spidren in less than ten minutes. Rovin reached up to stab the Spidren with her dagger but the thing knocked it from her hand. Rovin tried to call to life her magic that she had long ago forgotten about, believing it to be deadly. When she had buried it inside of her the only thing that wouldn't go away was her hearing, and every once in a while her power would become so strong inside of her it came out on its own. Now when she needs the power to burn the most its lost to her.
Rovin squeezed her eyes and was ready to accept her death, waiting for the Spidren to strike. She waited. And waited. Nothing happened. Nothing was heard but the sound of the Spidren screaming in pain. Rovin opened her eyes to see three arrows on fire stuck in the Spidren's throat. Five more were stuck in it's chest and they slowly burned the thing alive. Rovin's sack melted around her leg. Once she was free she tiredly crawled over to the unconscious Daniel to move him before he caught on fire himself. Rovin was so tired she barley had the strength to move him.
"Here, let me help" a strong male voice said. Rovin looked up into a face she hadn't seen in years. The light from the burning Spidren was just enough to make out the long grown features of the man. Rovin thought she was seeing a ghost. With the help of the man, she was able to sit Daniel up against a tree. Looking him over she saw the nasty head wound that must have happened when he hit the tree. The man tried to help Rovin the best he could with cleaning up the blood, but there was no stopping it.
"We need to get him back to the Rogue." Rovin told the man hurriedly. "My father's a healer. He can help him."
"then lets go" the man picked Daniel up and slung him over his shoulder. Rovin walked behind him the entire way back to the Rogue witch took longer, because both of them got lost. When they did reach the Rogue, Rovin walked around to the back door and went up the stairs through the kitchen with the man following. She told the cook to get her father and send him to her room, telling him it was an emergency. She had the man lay Daniel on her bed and waited for her father trying to clean the wound as best she could.
A few minutes later her father opened the door and stared at Rovin. Glancing from her he spotted the noble laying on the bed bleeding to death and the man sitting at her table.
"Mithros," he muttered staring at the man sitting there. "Can it be?"
"Father," Rovin interrupted walking up to him and grabbing his hand. "Daniel needs your help. If you don't he'll bleed to death."
Her father looked at the noble on the bed again. With anger in his eyes he walked to the side and placed his hands over Daniel's head. "Leave us," he ordered
Rovin motioned to the man and both of them left. They stood out in the hall staring at each other for a long time until Rovin spoke.
"What are you doing here?" she asked crossing her arms and glaring at Christian who had finally decided to return.
"Excuse me?" Christian asked leaning against the wall and crossing his arms. He knew exactly what Rovin had asked and why she asked it, but he wasn't willing to answer her.
"You heard me. Why have you come back?" she hissed through clenched teeth.
"Because this is my home." he replied hopeing she would buy it.
"Not anymore."
"Rovin listen,"
"Why should I?"
"Because I'm older than you and I say so."
"Your not my father and your not the King, so you can't make me"
"I'll be king when my father dies."
"No you won't"
"Rovin,"
"You left! You can't just come back expecting for everyone to welcome you with open arms."
"I thought you would."
"I've changed."
"Not much. Your still the same little Rovin with the fire in your eyes that I remember" he said indicating the red glow that had come back into Rovin's eyes recently.
"That fire burned out a long time ago" she replied turning from him so she wouldn't have to look at him.
"Not from where I'm standing."
"I quit doing magic a long time ago"
"That's not what I saw tonight?"
"What are you talking about?"
"You didn't think I set those arrows on fire did you?"
"Of course you did"
"Yeah right. The only magic I've ever done is cooking my own meal."
"I don't want to talk about this Christian"
"Your going to have to face it sometime"
"No I'm not. Everything was getting somewhat back to normal and now you show up again"
"If you would just listen to me for a minute"
"You still haven't told me why you came back"
"Yes I did."
"That wasn't a reliable answer"
"No, that just wasn't the answer you wanted to hear. You want to hear that I've made a big mistake leaving and you want me to come back on my knees groveling and begging everyone to forgive me for ever making a choice with my life and leaving the Rogue. Well guess what your not going to get that Rovin. Not from me!" he replied shouting and becoming angered before soon regretting he had yelled like he always had.
Rovin crossed her arms and stared at the ground refusing to say anymore. Christian continued with a new subject.
"So, what's up with you and this noble?"
"That's none of your business."
"Really? From what I heard he's not welcome here. So your obviously doing something wrong if he's not welcome."
"Where did you hear that?"
"I have my sources"
"Well keep your sources and stay out of my private life"
"Are you going to be sour to me like this for the rest of my life?"
"Only until you leave"
"I'm not leaving. I made a mistake, I did what I had to do and now I'm back. For good"
"And what was that? What did you have to do in order to not feel so guilty?"
"I'll tell you when your older kid."
"That's just it! I am older! I'm not a little girl anymore and I wish everyone around here would stop treating me like one!"
"Calm down,"
"You really need to leave. Things have changed around here"
"What things? Maybe I can fix them"
"You're the cause of them! Because of you, everything concerning a child, or better yet a female has changed. I'm not allowed to go anywhere without adult supervision! Hello! I am an adult! Noah follows me around because my father and Heith order him to!"
"They do that because they love you"
"I wish they loved me a little less"
"You don't mean that"
"Christian stop! I mean everything I say!"
Before he could respond Rovin heard someone coming up the stairs. She turned and waited for the person to approach the landing. When Candle emerged from downstairs he was polishing his dagger and whistling. He glanced up at Rovin and the man before going back to his polishing as he walked towards him to his room. He stopped a few feet away from them and looked up at the man again. He let out a low whistle and stared at the man.
"Christian?" he questioned
"Well it's good to know someone around here remembers me other than Dodge here" Christian replied smiling and shaking hands with Candle
"Don't call me that." Rovin replied glaring at Christian
"What's with her?" Candle asked pointing his dagger at Rovin and talking to Christian
"She's just sour because I left and now I'm back" Christian replied smiling his teeth that looked just like his brothers. In fact everything about him reminded her of his two other brothers. They all had dark hair like their fathers and sandy green eyes that match. All of them were tall, tan and muscular, but that didn't amount to much because in the Rogue everyone was muscular. Rovin still didn't see why the middle child of Heith finally decided to return after all this time. He left right after Bobby had without an explanation or a purpose. He just left one day, but now he's back. Rovin didn't like the way things were turning out. Rovin leaned against the wall scowling as she listened to the two boys exchange news.
"Where is my baby brother by the way?" Christian asked Candle not even acknowledging Rovin anymore.
"Oh you know, around." Candle glanced nervously at Rovin. She wasn't an idiot. Rovin looked at the ground hurt. Even though she had no right to she felt jealous of the fact that Noah was sleeping with one of the servant girls right now. She shot a quick glance down the hall towards his closed door. At that moment her door opened and her father walked out. Rovin looked at him waiting for an answer.
"He'll live." her father said quietly not even glancing at Rovin. "He needs to stay here for a while in order to heal properly thought. Moving him could be dangerous."
"I'm going to tell him family" Rovin replied walking towards her room. As she passed her father she squeezed his shoulder and leaned up to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you," she whispered before letting him go and continuing into her room. She entered and immediately grabbed her cloak off on of the chairs. Nervous she glanced at Daniel who lay on the bed breathing deeply. She didn't know what she was going to do about him. She walked to the side of the bed and looked down on him wishing for him to get better. In some ways she was glad he wouldn't be around for the next couple of days. She had much bigger fish to fry than trying to keep him alive. Rovin placed her cloak on her shoulders and latched it heading for the door. She could hear her father talking to Christian but she chose not to listen.
Opening the door she walked hurriedly past them and down the stairs, headed for the palace.