Chapter 10
The spinning stopped and a bright world was coming into view. Helga opened her eyes as the vortex spit her out, "Damn, vortex." She said dizzily. Helga stopped and looked around. She was standing on a cliff and as she looked out she could see miles of lush green trees and green grass' reminds me of Arnold's eyes' she thought. When she looked a bit further she could see a white castle surrounded by a lake of flowers and it shimmered in the light of the sun. "Wow! This place is beautiful." Helga whispered.
"Helga?" came a familiar voice, "Where are you?"
"Over here, near a cliff!" she yelled back and moments later Arnold emerged from the bushes behind her.
"Have you seen Jake or Tim anywhere?" he asked as he looked over the cliff's edge, "Whoa! This place is."
"Dying." Jake appeared, "that is why we need you here, to stop Sunil."
"What is that over there?" Helga pointed toward the castle
"That is our destination, your home. It's about a two weeks walk from here." Jake said
"Two weeks!" Helga exclaimed, "are you sure there is no faster way?" Helga paused when Jake shook his head, "So we have to sleep out in the wilderness, in the cold air?" the only time Helga had been in anything close to the wilderness was when she and Arnold had a project, and they had to sleep in a greenhouse.
"Nothing can get you when you're with us, so don't worry, M' lady." Jake said with a bow. "Now, where is Tim?"
Elsewhere...
"I don't care who they have with them, I want you to end that girl's life. Kill them all if you have to." Said a dark voice, it was coming from a black stone with a mirror in it.
"Yes, Sunil, I will do as you please." Said another voice as he looked into the mirror, at the face of his master.
"That will be all. Report back when the job is done." And the shadow in the mirror vanished. And the dark man was left alone.
Back-
"I don't know." Arnold answered
"He couldn't have gotten too far." Jake said, "we cannot wait for him all day, we have to get to Rochester, and get you two new clothes. I don't want you to stand out." Jake looked once more for Tim. "Well lets go, he'll catch up." Helga and Arnold followed Jake and were about to leave when a man ran through the trees and fell to the ground.
Helga gasped, "What the..?"
Arnold knelt and began searching for a pulse but he could not fine one. "He's dead." He looked into the trees, "Who did this?"
"I did." It was Tim. He was holding a long knife that was covered in blood.
"But, why" Helga asked sadly.
"He was going to kill you, so I killed him."
"How do you know?" Arnold asked
"I heard him talking to Sunil, so I had to stop him, you understand don't you, of you want to survive here you must learn to fight." He looked only at Arnold, "And you need to learn to kill in order to protect our Princess." Tim ended. "Now lets get to Rochester." And the group continued to walk.
'Arnold, my love what will become of us? Will you learn to take the life of another, for me? I don't not wish that an you. Please don't become a killer' Helga prayed
'You need to learn to kill in order to protect our Princess' these words played over and over in Arnold's head. 'I will if that is what it takes to save the one I love' Arnold thought. And stopped walking "The one I.." He said out loud.
"You say something Arnold?" Helga wondered
"N-no." he said and they kept on walking.
What to you guys think so far? It's hard to get a good story going. Oh well, this is fun for me. Well since school started again it might take more time to write. TTFN. Star.
