Chapter 05: Unaware of Danger

By Jessie/Dory


Author Note: Thanks so much for those of you who are reviewing! Sorry for this taking so long, I've been a little out of it for the past several days.

Majestic Twelve – Thanks so much! I've read a story of your (the Multiverse one) and I really like it – I just need to get around to reviewing (I feel so bad, I'm sorry!). Thanks for reading!

TeenTitansGirl14 – I'm glad someone thinks my characters are in character – I was a bit afraid Jimmy was acting too nice to Cindy. Thanks for reviewing and reading!

Cute But Psycho – Hey Megan! Yep – sadly I didn't get this chapter up as fast as the other ones. Glad someone liked my "Nerd-trin" joke – had to make sure she totally messed up the name. Lol!

Destiny Inevitable – Thanks so much! (Always, always nice to not disappoint people, lol) – I understand why you'd question a llama being pink – they're actually a HUGE group of Jimmy Neutron fans )) who hate Betty Quinlin. I guess when naming it, they loved Carl's obsession for llamas, and I'll assume that Mel or Kitty may have just liked the color pink. Thanks for asking.

Moomoo – You'll find out in this chapter, obviously.

ForbiddonTrance – Hope you didn't mind the wait, and I hope it's worth it!

All right, that's enough of me trying to get more words (innocent laugh) and here's chapter 5.
Cindy smiled innocently, giving a little small flip with her sword, but not being able to catch it, she swiftly picked it up again and gave her opponent, Josh, a horrible glare. But he smiled enchantingly. He was a rather cute guy, Cindy had to admit, but Josh wasn't anyone Victoria could flirt with. He was the son of Miss Jones, and therefore just remained at a friendly level. However, Cindy couldn't resist a challenge, and despite the heaviness of the weird fencing suit she wore, she knew she had the element of surprise on her side.

"Oh, Mr. Jeeves," before putting on her helmet she held up her hand gracefully, "You wouldn't happen to have a Purple Flurp around here, would you?"

Mr. Jeeves nodded and returned shortly, handing Cindy a bottle of Purple Flurp.

"Come on Kingsley! What's the hold up?"

In case you didn't know, Kingsley was Victoria's last name, sort of fitting, don't you think? Cindy smiled at him and gulped down her flurp, she knew plenty of times with Neutron that any time you called someone by his or her last name – you meant business, or were flirting in denial. That is, unless you didn't know his or her last name, like Arnold from Hey Arnold.

Cindy finished the last drop of flurp and tossed her bottle back to Jeeves, who caught it with easy, Cindy put on her helmet, "Just getting my surprise attack all geared up, Jones," she added emphasis to his last name.

"You know you haven't beaten me before," He put his helmet on and held out his sword dangerously, "And I seriously doubt any sort of surprise you have in store is going to take me by surprise. I invented all the moves you know."

Cindy rolled his eyes, though he couldn't see from the helmet/mask she wore. This guy was such a show off – reminded her so much of Jimmy it was eerie. Except Jimmy was obviously smarter, and probably would invent something to make sure he could handle the game with ease if not brilliance. This boy was clearly in love with Victoria, as far as she knew, but Victoria hadn't mentioned him that much.

She stretched her arms and wore a smile that she knew he could feel, despite not seeing it, "Well – I feel a little, different, today – you may know my old moves, but not the ones today." She wasn't sure if he was confused or just smirking, but Mr. Jeeves just rolled his eyes at last and told them to start the game.

Now, Cindy didn't know really much about fencing at all, she knew the other person had to try to tag you with their sword on a sensor thing on your chest, and you tried to do the same to theirs. She knew you could only use one hand and there were certain places you were suppose to step with your foot, and this all occurred while only using the hand you had your sword in. Being basically thrust into this game, she had no time to think about the footwork, but she figured she had Tai Chi on her side – and that was good enough for her.

"Aha!" Barely before she could think, Josh had tagged her, "You're dead – and your new 'moves'."

"Hey!" Cindy gave a grumble, "I wasn't ready, give me a second – start another game!" She signaled to Jeeves and he nodded.

A bell rang and when Josh tried to swing for who he thought was Victoria, she was gone. Cindy was running in the opposite direction towards the wall, he yelled out, "What? You chicken Kingsley?"

Cindy smirked as she suddenly ran up the wall and landed with a spin in numerous feet away from Josh, holding out her sword proudly, "bring it, show off!"

Josh was taken aback, but he wasn't completely shocked, he dashed forward and she jumped in the air and spun over his head, landing on the other side of him. Josh turned around just as Cindy lunged for a place to tag him, but his blade his hers and they were paused there for a moment. His body was half twisted around and his sword was clashed against hers. They were very close and stared for a moment, as if waiting for the other to do something. Suddenly Josh moved his sword to attack, but she blocked it and jumped backwards to get a little further away from him. It didn't work, however, and they started clashing swords and a very brisk pace. Cindy began feeling freaked out as she moved her sword in defense, she watched his feet that seemed to know what to do, but she was practically tripping over her own.

"Miss Kingsley! You should know better, I'm surprised you're still in!" Mr. Jeeves yelled from the sidelines.

She scowled, "I know what I'm doing sir," but she had no time to add on she was just a little out of it, as she was breathless already from the quick pacing. Suddenly, they crossed blades again and he came up close to her, "No – you don't know what you're doing."

Cindy gasped, offended, but had no time to give back a smart comment when he took her shocked moment to tag her – again.

"Got you Kingsley – getting a bit rusty, aren't you?"

Her arms out wide, Cindy dropped her sword onto the ground and her face fell, she took off her mask and sighed, "Whatever, I'm not feeling great tonight anyways. I think after dinner I'll just go to bed," she walked over to the exit, but Mr. Jeeves stopped her.

"Your highness – you don't go to bed until 10, and it's only 6, you have a banquet in two hours," he opened the door for her, "Miss Jones will take you to your etiquette lessons and it'll be off to dressing and styling for you."

Cindy blinked, she thought about it for a moment, this wasn't so bad – it actually sounded sort of fun. Not the bed at 10 thing – she usually stayed up a little later, but she could call Victoria at that time to make sure things are going fine, "Righty-o Mr. Jeeves, thanks for reminding me, I'll be on my way now," she turned to Josh and gave a sarcastic curtsy, despite not even being in a dress, "Thanks for the game, Josh, I'll see you later, goodbye," and with that she left the room, following Miss Jones.

Left in the room was Jeeves and Josh, Josh stared uncertainly at the place that the person he thought was Victoria had just been standing, and then stared at his fencing sword.

"Is anything wrong Mr. Jones?" Jeeves asked as he cleaned up the room and prepared to leave it.

Josh shook his head, but then looked up at Jeeves, "Are – are you sure that was Victoria?"
The real Victoria was with Jimmy Neutron in his hover car. After finally talking to him a bit, the two seemed to hit it off a little bit. Jimmy felt slightly shocked at what was occurring, but simply shrugged it off. He hadn't really talked to Cindy for so long before, and he liked it so much he had purposely taken extra long detours in order to delay getting home.

"Gee – this is kind of taking a long time isn't it, how far are we?" Victoria looked around, realizing they had been traveling an hour – it was actually probably faster to just come here by car, if anyone from the castle had left at the same time they would have gotten to the middle of Retroville ages ago.

Jimmy smiled a somewhat guilty smile, "Sorry – with us talking, I got a little distracted and took some wrong roads."

Goddard snickered in disbelief, but stopped when Jimmy glared at him, "I need to stop by in the middle of town to get some titanium, do you mind?"

Victoria shook her head, "Oh- that's fine with me."

Jimmy sort of arched his eyebrow, but figured Cindy was trying to get through this friendship contract with ease. Though she was acting a little odd. "Ok – so we'll be there in a brief moment, I shouldn't be too long."

"Actually," she paused for a moment and touched her hand to her pocket, realizing she had some American money with her, "I may stop by a nearby food place to get some – sweets," she almost drooled while thinking about it, she rarely was allowed candy, and now she had the chance to have as much as she could by without anyone telling her no.

"Ok, sure," Jimmy shrugged, "Guard the car Goddard," and then parked the hover car and entered the 'Titanium and Greeting Cards Store'.

Goddard went into full alert, and Victoria hopped out and stood in amazement at the scene before her. Normal people were everywhere, doing normal things that they never thought about before. Walking down the street, not worrying about posture; eating candy until they were sick, it was all completely fabulous to Victoria, and you'd think she had just entered Las Vegas with all the lights she saw.

She started to skip towards a place called The Candy Bar when she heard a commotion in the middle of the street; she turned her head and followed it.

"But my dear lady, this food is just simply the only way we can help the dying king, you don't want us to attack your country the moment we leave, do you?" Victoria overheard, almost making her trip over her own feet.

What was this voice talking about? The king had plenty of food.

There was a large group of people and Victoria pushed pass most of them, "Excuse me – pardon me sir, sorry ma'am," she finally got to the front of the crowd and saw a huge wagon of food with at least ten to fifteen guardsmen she recognized from the castle. They were trying to get a turkey out of the hands of a girl who looked a lot like Victoria's age.

"You have plenty of food don't you? I understand the king is sick, but there's no need to steal from us," the young girl practically cried as it was hard enough getting food for her family, they weren't poor, but times weren't quite as nice to them as they happened to be for most people, "- but, but there's no reason to start a war on America over a turkey," she added hesitantly.

"Exactly Miss, there's no reason for there to be a war against anyone over a turkey – which is why you should give – it – HERE!" he yanked the turkey out of her hands and tossed it to another guardsmen who tossed it into the wagon.

Victoria narrowed her eyes; she certainly wished no one would think so poorly over her country, especially if her father and herself had nothing to do with it. She patted the ring in her pocket, 'it's my duty,' she reminded herself, and with her head high, she marched towards the guardsmen.

"Excuse me sir! I demand you give that girl back her turkey instantly, and all the other food you've stolen." Victoria put her hands on her hips, not realizing how foolish she looked.

One guardsman looked at her like she was a pesky little fly, chewing a cigarette, "says who?"
"Whom," she muttered, "and by order – of the Princess," she narrowed her eyes, standing her ground.

There was sudden laugher, and Victoria was slightly taken aback. The laughter wasn't just from the guardsmen; it was also from the crowd. She felt slightly foolish, except for the fact she really was the princess.

"Oh of course," the same guard laughed, "and here's your royal crown," he grabbed a small pumpkin, "your majesty!" and he tossed the pumpkin at her. She dodged it quickly and pumpkin splattered on the ground, getting a little on her clothing and face. Everyone continued to laugh hysterically.

Jimmy whistled as he left the store with a plastic bag in his hand and he tossed it into the hover car, "Which way did Cindy go, Goddard?" he looked around, and Goddard's nose pointed to the direction Victoria had gone, where a large crowd had formed and many people were laughing. Goddard would have gone to help her, but he had to stay by Jimmy's direct orders of not leaving.

"What in the name of Albert Einstein -," he arched an eyebrow and looked at Goddard, "Come on boy – lets check this out," Goddard barked and the started walking to the crowd.

"If you don't give these people back their food, I'll see to it your locked tightly in the dungeon until your dying day!"

"Why should we believe you're the princess," the guard said mockingly.

There was some laughter still, but Victoria smiled sweetly, "Because I have this," she took out her hand which now had the ring on it. There was a sudden gasp, and there was sudden stillness. Everyone knew that ring, and it glowed proudly on her finger, and suddenly everyone around her was either kneeling or bowing to her.

The guard was shuddering, "But – but – what are you doing this far from the castle Princess?"

Victoria put her ring in her pocket, "That's none of your business, and if you say any of it no one will believe you. If you do anyways, you'll be in the dungeon the moment I breathe word of what your men have been doing. Now- you may give all these people their food back."

Jimmy saw what was going on, but couldn't hear a thing, he simply stopped at the point where everyone was bowing over and Victoria was showing her hand to a guard who seemed to be quivering. There were sudden cheers as the men were forced to start giving them all food in a large wagon, and instantly Victoria was rushing past him, "lets go Jimmy!"

He held up his hand as he looked back and forth from the crowd to Victoria, with his mouth gaping open. Goddard's was on the ground too, neither was quite sure of what just happened, but Jimmy decided to shrug it off and ran back to the hover car as soon as Victoria hopped back in. Goddard followed him, but he knew something was up – this girl wasn't Cindy, he just didn't know if he should tell Jimmy, nor whether who he thought Cindy actually was.

Jimmy hopped in and soon Goddard did as well, he started it up and gave the calm looking girl he thought was Cindy a look, "What was all that?"

"Hmm?" she turned her head, pretending nothing big had just occurred, "Oh – nothing, nothing at all."

By the time they got home it was around 6:20, and Jimmy dropped her off in front of Cindy's house.

"Thanks Jimmy, we should do it again sometime," Victoria smiled.

Jimmy nodded unsurely, "Yeah, yeah that'd be nice."

"I might need to stop by the castle again tomorrow – the Princess will want another word with me," Victoria looked at her watch.

"Uh – well, maybe, I don't know for sure, but I'll try," Jimmy smiled.

"Thanks Jimmy, goodnight!"

"Goodnight!" he waved at her as she entered the unlocked house.
"Miss Cynthia Vortex!"

Even if that wasn't her actual name, she grimaced, "mother?" she hopped she had guessed right – and she had a bad feeling she did. Moments after entering the house, Cindy's mother stood right in front of her, arms crossed and foot tapping.

"Hello mother -."

But Mrs. Vortex snapped back in her funny little accent, "Don't you 'hello mother' me, you know you were suppose to be back twenty minutes ago – who was that boy you were with? It wasn't that Jimmy kid was it? You know we can't stand the Neutrons," she said the word Neutron like it was some horrible sort of food she hated to even see.

"We do? Why?" Victoria cocked her head to the side innocently, and Mrs. Vortex's mouth sort of gaped open and she stared at her daughter for a moment. However, she ignored the question.

She pointed to the kitchen, "Finish your chores young lady, wash the dishes and clean your room."

Victoria nodded sadly and began heading towards the kitchen. Unfortunately, never washing anything in her life before, she had no idea how to clean anything.

"It – can't be too hard – right?" she asked herself while walking into the kitchen and seeing a abundant number of dishes, forks, spoons, knives, and cups all stacked randomly on the counter near the sink.

She sighed, "I can handle this – I can handle this," she repeated to herself, though she was starting to doubt, this was only the first of her challenges to come.

And little did she, nor Cindy knew, at that moment there were two separate locations discussing the events in the town that had just occurred.

Libby Folfax, often known as Cindy Vortex's best friend was sitting in her room pondering – was that her best friend Cindy who had forced the guardsmen to give her back her family turkey?

"But – if it was, why did she have that ring?"

And in the castle a guard was describing the events to the Captain.

"And then we were FORCED to give the food back sir," the same guardsman trembled.

Captain drank from his large mug and paused, "Why would you do that!"

The guard trembled again, "the girl – the girl had the precious – I mean – the RING!"

At the word ring, liquid spat out of the Captain's mouth and flew everywhere – mainly on other guards who pretended it didn't bother them so they wouldn't get in trouble. The Captain ignored the Lord of The Rings joke and mumbled, "So – I DID throw at the Princess -."

Laughter erupted from the guardsman, "YOU kicked the princess out of the castle? Oooh you're in trouble! You're gonna be locked in the dungeon!" he said tauntingly, until the Captain grabbed him by the shirt.

"No – this works perfectly with the plan," he smiled evilly, "our current Princess is a fraud – and she'll have to do everything I say once the King is gone – or I'll show her for who she really is and it'll be off with her head for impersonating a royal family member!"

They all started laughing evilly, well, as evilly as they could.

Despite what Cindy knew at the time, preparing for the evening banquet, but by noon the next day – her life, and the lives of Victoria's country would be in incredibly horrible real danger.

TO BE CONTINUED –
Author Message: I'll be going on vacation soon – so hopefully I'll have more chapters out soon, but there should be a delay at some point soon. Hope you all enjoyed! ALSO - I have never played any sort of fencing before and therefore only know basically what I wrote in the story - if I'm wrong, well, whatever - don't bug me about it. Thanks.

3 Jess