Fantasy Is My Life 1: yes, I was planning on killing every one off. I started the whole 'kill everybody' thing cause ppl were confused, but I think they all get it now…
Chinow: **bows** Yay for believable plot line!!! Yay for choccy! Cool word by the way.. Pocky?? Lemmie guess, one of those blessed thing you cannot find in America unless you import it off the internet? YAY for giant fireballs of doom jumping off things!!! Lol, and I must admit, Viggo puts up a good fight and in LotR Orlando does win thought, there is a scene in RotK that causes Orlando to win. But Orlando looses in PotC because in that Johnny Depp wins soooo… And Legolas is so NOT a wimpy elf man! *-*
The Goddess of Purple Coats: purple coats eh? Why??? ^-^
Flaming Knight: lol, kkk, as u can see, I uploaded another chappie with out u… I'm very impulsive about this whole uploading thing. I get done, and I upload, sooo…
Serpent of Light: The bridge is good, no worries. And you cannot complain about living in Hawaii, I live in Minnesota, it's friggin cold here, I would be more than pleased to switch any time of the year, well, maybe not summer, then it'd be too friggin Warm but still! Thought I must agree that sunny weather all the time is unnatural.
Galux Pheonix: lol, that's my thought, every good story has a little romance in it!
Nip: you, are my new best friend. Bad cooking, that, is absolutely brilliant! I love you!!!! And yes, I did kind of forget about the whole, sustenance needed thing. ^_~ I only ever do a little romance, I couldn't write a whole romance story I would die of fluff overload. YAY for Pirates of the Caribbean, which, personally I thought was brilliant. Pirates ya know?!?! Ok, I have a Pirate fettish, yes I admit, I have a problem, **goes off to Pirate support group**…
Chapter Five: GemmaDaine gasped as the air was forced from her lungs once again. She glared into the eyes of her abuser. He had killed Numair, killed cloud, killed everyone, thinking that he would force her to join him. Ha! She knew what he'd done to the rest of the women here to try and gain their help. She wouldn't help him either, but she was smarter than them, the only way he would have her was if she were dead. The man twirled his sword idily.
"Now, will you join me?" he asked, in that melodic voice of his. Slowly Daine grinned .She stood shakily to her feet. She walked towards him, step by step. The man watched curiously as she walked towards him with a smile. Standing before him she winked before grabbing his sword and running I through her stomach. He face showed no pain, only blissful release.
Numair felt her die, rooms away. This really is the end. He thought bitterly. He reached for the last remains of his gift, infuriated that his wife and unborn child were dead. The spells that bound his magic collapsed as fury fed his gift. Using all of his strength he exploded the wing of the palace he was is, blowing himself, the guards at the door and anything within fifty feet to dust.
The rode into down in a downpour. Ria signaled to him and rode to the left. Liam followed. She stopped her horse in front of a ratty old building that looked as if it would fall down at any moment. Ria dismounted and waited for him at the door. Together they entered the building. It was empty, the floorboards creaked as they walked across an there were numerous cobwebs on the walls. Liam came to stand next to Saturn. She was silent, he looked at her face wondering what she was thinking when the floor above them creaked.
"Well, what do we have here?" A voice asked from above. Saturn looked up.
"I'm looking for William." She said, meeting the body in the shadows with an equally steely glare.
"Dead, as of to months ago. Now, out, or we will have to hurt you." The voice said and suddenly the rest ot the shadows moved to surround them. Liam looked at Saturn.
"Lets go-" He started to say before deciding that just moving her would work faster. They were walking backwards towards the door when daggers started to fly around them. He slammed the door behind him.
"Well," Staurn gasped. "That worked well."
"Understatement of the year Princess." He said with a smirk.
"Lets just got to the Dove hot-shot."
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The entered into chaos. "What in the name of the gods…" Ria began before seeing Gemma, the rouge's princess. Both had the suspicion that she too was of the old nobility, but weren't about to mention it to a girl who was able to kill them in a moment. At the moment Gemma was glaring at a group of men in a brawl, from her chair on a table she could watch the whole thing with out being in any imminent danger. A boy leapt to the table and whispered something in her ear; Gemma rolled her expressive blue eyes and nodded.
"Now, really boys. Is this any way to act in front of a Princess? I think not. And I'm positive Lexus won't appreciate knowing you tore his Inn apart. Away with you, be gone. I've had enough of your brawling tonight." She said, draping her legs over the armrest. The men stopped their fighting and with a glare from Gemma quickly left. "All of you, I've tired of you." She said, closing her eyes and putting a hand to her forehead as if she was getting a headache.
"Bit of an ego this one huh?" Liam asked sarcastically. Ria smirked.
"Oh it's only a small bit." She said. As the door slammed shut Gemma leapt from her chair and grabbed onto one of the rafters. Swinging her self up onto it she walked across until she stopped above Liam and Ria.
"No I do not have an ego. Who might you be?" She asked, sounding bored.
"Well uh-" Ria started, completely lost for the first time in her life.
"Well, Gemma, I here am Liam, and this is Ria." He said. Ria looked as if she wanted to throttle him.
"Liam. Huh?" She grinned as she dropped down. "I've heard a little rumor Liam. Perhaps you could help me out with it. Because I've been hearing that the late Prince Liam, is not dead. And that he and a Draconian princess are going to attempt to, hm, how to say this delicately. Oh, I know, attempt to overthrow the new government. You wouldn't happen to be the same Liam would you?" She said, her voice dripping with caustic curiosity.
"I may be, but the question is, why do you want to know?" He asked with a smile. Gemma smiled as well.
"Oh the whole kill the evil mage guy who's in charge of Tortall and all the surrounding evil noble guys just sounds endlessly amusing to me." She said.
"So does that mean that if I was that same Liam you would like to help?" he said with a wink, she smirked.
"But of course." She said, winking back.
"Well then, Lady Gemma, I'm Prince Liam of Conte, and this is my lovely accomplice, Lady Saturn." He said, with a smile that only a prince could pull off.
Saturn was infuriated.
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"You can't do that! " Saturn said in a forced whisper, inches from his face.
"Do what, my dear?" He said, slightly amused at her out burst.
"Tell random people who we are!" She yelled.
"But you see, I can. And will continue to do so."
"What?!"
"This isn't your quest. It's mine. And do you know what I've realized? You've been doing all the work when this is my thing to do. We need help. We cannot kill over one hundred people and rebuild a working government by ourselves. We need more people. We have to come up with an army, a base, and a working inner circle. We need to know people who know people. We need to acquire information, and be able to use that information. And plainly, my dear, we can't do it with only the two of us. Gemma can help us, you don't end up in charge of the rouge easily." He said. Looking her straight in the eyes.
"She doesn't command the rouge. She's only a princess." Saturn said stubbornly.
"She does. She didn't like the title queen, said it made her feel old." He said before leaving.
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"You're sure this will work?" He asked doubtfully. Gemma rolled her eyes.
"Yes. You aren't to actually do anything, just introduce yourself so he knows you still exist." Gemma repeated. Liam nodded.
"Wouldn't it be safer just to keep quiet about this whole thing until we're ready to fight him?" Saturn asked.
"No."
"Why?"
"Because, if he thinks you don't exist he won't be looking for you." She said plainly.
"We don't want him looking for us."
"Yes, you do."
"Why?"
"So he wastes his resources." She said with a smirk.
"I don't understand." Saturn said, highly confused.
"If he knows you're here, he'll look for you. But he won't expect you to stay in the city. The closer you are to danger, the farther you are from harm. He'll look for you outside the city. And I'll put together a little line of rebellions so he thinks you're in the south. Not in the city. Get it?"
"I think so." Saturn said doubtfully
"Good, now we have to get you two proper clothing." The thief said. Running up the stairs to the attic. The two followed her. Not expecting the sight that was the attic. They had never been up there; there really wasn't any reason to go. The room was full of clothing racks. "Just find something you think will work. I've got to put my team together if we're to pull this off." She said, sliding out a window to climb down an ivy-covered trellis.
"Quite the odd duck that one." Liam commented. Saturn didn't respond. "Are you still mad?" He asked plainly, relations with Saturn the past few days had been, strained to say the least. Finally she smiled, Liam sighed, and things were back to normal. For the moment.
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Liam waiting as Saturn tried on a dress behind a partition when Gemma marched two people up the stairs. Both were males, one with brown hair, the other reddish, the hats they wore obscured their faces. "Alec Swiftfinger, and Jack Ladyfoot." Gemma introduced. Liam heard a snort behind the partition and a muttered 'Ladyfoot?'.
"I see. They're trustworthy?" He asked. Gemma nodded.
"Oh yeah. And if they're not, well castration with a spoon always solved that problem, doesn't it boys?" She asked, throwing her arms around their shoulders.
"Right Gemma, right…" Ladyfoot mumbled as he took of his hat.
"And we all know how well Gem here wields her almighty spoon of castration…" Alec said with a smirk.
"C'mon now boys we have a plan to critique." Gemma said as she bounded down the stairs.
Hahaha! I saw RotK! Gandalf so funny, he swings the almighty stick of Gandalf and people die! Mwhahaha! And they screwed the ending! (If you haven't seen it stop reading and skip to next paragraph) Frodo SO does not get on the boat and go to elf-land! Ahh! Evil evil evil stupid directors who change perfectly good endings! GAH!!
Okay, done now. Whoo. And why did you all assume when I said romance it was in reference to Saturn and Liam? So not. Anywho. Review!