Chapter 28

Disclaimer: see chappies 1-8

A/N: sorry 4 da delay in getting these chapters up. All of my teachers hav been givin me tons and tons of work. Bleh…stupid school. Stupid writer's block. L

Here's a summary of the last chapter:

Kally fights all of Chris's friends. When she fights against Jordan he goes all sneaky and tries 2 hit her when her back is turned. Chris gets pissed and thoroughly beats Jordan and then Chris falls asleep and a cheesy flashback thingy thing occurs. Kally makes Chris go and apologize to his former best friend, Jordan. Kally decides 2 confront Alfredo bout his liddle secret.

Kally made her way over to Alfredo's tent. She could hear hushed voices coming from inside. She knew both voices, they belonged to Jennifer and Alfredo. Kally took a deep breath and boldly walked into the tent. Alfredo's face paled visibly when Kally walked in and Jennifer glanced nervously at him.

"Hey guys. Watcha doing?" Kally asked.

"Nothing," Alfredo answered cautiously.

"Oh. Alfredo, could I ask you something?"

"Um, ok," Little beams of sweat began to form on his forehead.

"Are you a woman in disguise?"

"HOW'D YOU FIND OUT?!" He shouted. Then he coughed and said, "Uh, I mean what makes you think that?"

"I'm not going to say anything if that's what you're worried about. I can keep a secret. I've been keeping one for years."

"What's that?" Alfredo asked.

"I'm the princess of Tortall." She replied, watching Alfredo's face carefully. Surprise flickered on the face and Alfredo's mouth formed a small 'o'.

"So, what's your real name? Tell me everything." Kally said, and then Alfredo began her story.

"My name is Amy of Kraft. When I was younger my hero was the Lioness. Whenever a minstrel visited my father's fief I would beg him to tell me stories of all the Lioness's adventures. I memorized them and dreamed of becoming a knight and having a few adventures of my own. When I was ten I begged my father to let me go to the palace to train as a knight but he said no and lectured me on how it wasn't proper. He sent me to a convent and I HATED it. All the sewing and dancing and dress-wearing were making me insane, so I ran away. About a month after I escaped I arrived at the palace, in disguise, to train to be a knight. I couldn't say I was from Kraft because my brother was a squire at the palace. My mother was from Cheeseburger, she died when I was five. Her only relative was a crazy sister up in the mountains who hadn't even written to me or my father since mother died. I dyed my hair brown and found a way to change my eye color so that not even my own brother recognized me. Jennifer has been my best friend since I was three and she was the only person I told, until now. And I want you to swear that you will never tell anyone. Not even Chris."

Kally took a deep breath. "Of course I'm not gonna tell anyone. I may be a lady, but I do have more than air in my head." She sighed. "" I always dreamed about becoming a lady knight too. The Lioness was my godmother and my father's best friend. My mother was always off fighting or training the Queen's Ladies or the Riders. I grew up around strong women who were willing to fight for their country and their families and I wanted to be just like them.

"I told my father about my dream when I was seven. He was furious. He lectured me and told me that no prince, king, or duke would want to marry a lady who could fight.  I pointed out that he had married my mother and that the Lioness was also happily married to the Baron, but he just shook his head and told me that if I ever became a knight or a Rider, he would disown me. I ran to my room crying." Tears started forming in Kally's eyes as she told Amy and Jen all there was to tell about her broken dream of becoming a knight.

"My mother was away and the Lioness was on one of her adventures, neither of them was around to yell at my father so he won that battle. Buri, my mother's second-in-command, didn't have enough of a temper to scream and shout at my father, so she wasn't much of a help either. But when my mother came back and I told her about what had happened," Kally grinned. "She gave him hell. And then, somehow, Alanna found out also, and she rushed back to Corus, marched into my father's study, with her eyes blazing like purple fire, and she yelled at him and threatened him. He looked so scared and I couldn't help but laugh, and of course when he heard me laughing at him he became extremely pissed and that pretty much destroy all hopes I still had about becoming a fighter."

"But then my mother came to my rescue and came up with a plan. She sent me to Shang with the Wildcat. I managed to convince the Elders to let me start training. The next day I met Chris, Bobbie, Robbie, and a few other people. I trained hard day and night, striving to be the best, trying to make my mother proud, and then after years of work, I became the Tigress."

"What did your father do?" Jen asked.

Kally smiled, "Absolutely nothing. Well, actually, he arranged a marriage between me and this really ugly conservative dude named Sir William of Turtle. But then Chris asked me to help rescue Izzy. Father made me bring Sir Ugly with me, but I told him that if William didn't cooperate I'd send him back to Tortall and the marriage would not happen. And of course, Willy tried to stop me from fighting so I sent him back home in disgrace. Hehe."

"I'm betrothed to someone, but I highly doubt my father would ever cancel it," Amy said sadly. "You know him. It's Greg. But I don't wanna marry him, I'm in love with some one else."

"Does that someone else have a name?" Kally asked.

"Scott of Macaroni. He's like my best friend, but he doesn't know that I'm a girl, so if I told him that I was in love with him, he'd think I was gay. And that would be bad, cause I am not gay."

"Well, we can find a way out of the betrothal. Greg doesn't like women that can fight right?" Kally asked.

"Ya, that's right. So?"

"Maybe he won't want to marry a lady knight and he'll call off the wedding." Kally said hopefully.

Before they could say anymore, Chris rushed in and shouted, "ALFREDO!!!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY COUSIN AND MY WOMAN?!"

Froggy: It's a ball-point banana! Dude if ur gonna use da convict speech, ya gotta say it rite. Ew. Batman, definitely NOT innocent. Lol. YAY!!! SPRING BREAK!!!!!!   :D

Aria Rhea: thank u 4 da review, hope u like this chapter.

Songelf88 and G.H.S. the warg: lol! I luv da name! my muse is da deadly ninja duck, but he's been on vacation 4 da past month. *rolls eyes and mutters bout stupid duck* *duck cums and bops Kristen on the head wit a tree*

Loopeeee: YAY!!! Ur bak! Lol…u scare me but not as much as I scare myself. Lol. K, so now ur in da story and Scott was mentioned, u like it? Or is it completely horrible? B HONEST!!! Hope ya like da names macaroni and kraft, cuz they aint changing. :P so theeeere! Hehe.

Hawaiikel: I can b a bloodthirsty bitch 4eva. Lol. But ur rite, Kally can't. btw. The beer Chris drank was a mix between Coors, hard liquor, and sum finely diced shrooms which caused him 2 hallucinate and hav dat cheesy flashback.

Kero7590: k, I like getting sugar hi @ skool 2. ppl get very scared wen I hav sugar. Hehe. Thanx 4 addin me 2 ur fave author's list. *hands over sum oreos, candy, and dr. pepper*

Kali: glad u like da story.

Rosie Lady: now, now, don't get mad cuz ur dumb. I'm dumb 2, many brilliant ppl r dumb. Pplz who rn't dumb shud b pitied. And now u kno the secret.

Hyacinth: lol. U can c tortured people very soon. Like, next chappie. So don't worry, b happy!!! Lol. Izzy can rot in Heav'n.

Felsong: tell me wat u'd like in a chappie so that I can improve my writing skills.

A/N: so now y'all kno Alfredo's secret. How many of u guessed correctly?I kno 1 person did. I kno it sorta copied alanna and stuff, but o well. Plz don't hate me 4 not updating. Blame the duck, he went on vacation and I cant write without him cuz he's my muse. But he's bak now and ready to work and if u don't review the Deadly Ninja Duck WILL hunt u down and make u! so THERE!!! :P