So, this is my new story. It is more of an original than a fan fic, but since it is based on the story THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL I will post it here. It is about the descendants of Baroness Orczy (although not truly, this is completely fiction) and their story during World War II that resembles the story of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Anyway, Full credit for the idea of the story goes to whoever owns the copyright to the original Scarlet Pimpernel. Still, I claim all copyright to this story seeing as the characters and story are a bit different from Baroness' Orczy's story. Well, enjoy.

The True Story

By: Harmony - secondstar2theright

Prologue

Recently a new document has been found revealing facts and truth of a long told story in literature. This document has come about by this:

In his adventures as a young boy, Luc would explore his house. The house was a very old one and had been in his family since before the French Revolution. Situated in Paris, France, the house held many unknown secrets of its past. In this case, it was another rainy day in the city of love and so our young adventurer began to go about the house at the time when his parents had left for a business party. In his searching, he would go into rooms he was not normally aloud in. This day he began in his parent's room and worked his way to a door he had never seen before. Opening it, he discovered a long staircase that seemed very old and likely to fall if stepped upon. Luc cared not for this possibility and continued his search. He walked up the rickety stairs and reached the top of them very quickly where he found another door. This door, however, was not in its proper place. Luc could only imagine some high-risk attack taking place there, the soldiers knocked down the door with force and pushing it aside as they walk inside to bash things about inside and search for some secret thing that is hidden there. With these thoughts in his mind, he looked into the dark room. It was very dusty and there were papers all over the floor. What little light there was came from a small window that was almost exactly straight across from him. Between Luc and the window was an old desk and two chairs, one on each side of the desk. In another corner was a very old couch that appeared to have once been a leather couch, but it was now scratched up, dirty, and turned upside down on the floor. Across from that, there was at one time a fireplace. There were a little bit if ashes inside it, some on the floor. He could see where the wood would be placed and the fire lit. In the midst of all this, he saw a paper in the ashes, half burned. Luc picked it up read it aloud.

"My dear Marge, Marie, beauty of my days, I must confide in you a great secret which I trust to you because of my great love I have always had for you, even after your marriage. You must believe me in this. I will need to get this to you before they..." and it ended there, the rest of it could not be read because it had been burned.

Luc laid it on the desk and began to search the other papers among the room. Eventually he began to look through the drawers of the desk. It was then that he found the document I have told you about. This document was a handwritten journal – like account of facts and events that somewhat resemble the events in the classic book, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The boy hid the document for some time until he had read the entire thing. By this time, adventures had become boring to his mind and had grown into a seventeen-year-old teenager. He never forgot the papers that he his in a secret area underneath a broken piece of wood (Under which was a compartment where he could put things) hidden under his bed. Questions soon entered his head and he, being a mature and smart young man, decided to tell his parents about it.

When Luc gave it to his mother, she had shouted for his father and shown it to him; they both seemed very excited about this new discovery. From there the document was shown to the local authorities and the documents of it were told to historians as well as authors and students of literature. A new story evolved, the papers were the talk of all the highest universities and smartest professors and historians.

Luc never saw the document again. He noticed that the attic was not being searched for more secrets, and knew that there must have been more to the story. He, however, would not have a chance to find out more, for soon after all this had occurred it was announced that the family would be moving to the country, away from the city. This news was sad to him, and so Luc took a crazy idea into his head. He took all of his savings and college money out and bought the house from his parents, refusing to move to the country with them.

With great regret and being ashamed, his parents left for the country and would not talk to him. He only saw them again years later. After they left, Luc began searching again, adventures filling his head. He was a detective and his mission was to find out the entire story. He interviewed historians, friends, family, and the police, making a living by writing articles for the local newspaper, which were hardly ever published. In his determination, he found what he wanted and began to write a story, the true story. This story. I am Luc, and I am about to tell you my great grandpa's story, the one that is very similar to the story of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Well, I hope you enjoyed it. More to come soon. I just started it and am excited about it so.... Well you will see. Please read and review!