Meaning to Escape
Celeste woke up and noticed that Sarah had left the bedroom. She laid her head back down on the pillow, mm soft pillow. I wonder where Johnathen got these, they are really comfortable. Celeste looked out of the large bay windows, the sun was setting off in the west, it was so beautiful. Celeste thought for a while how little she really noticed the things around her, how they always seemed to disappear so quickly and how she changed herself. Celeste lifted up the large comforter and noticed that it was red underneath but blue on top, I guess its depending on his mood. Celeste stood up and reached as high as she could stretching and making a little meow as she stretched, it felt so good. As she walked towards the white door she heard Sarah and Johnathen talking on the other side.
"Well what do you think we can do, I checked all the borders earlier, they're all blocked. Face it Sarah this is a no win situation, your better off just escaping off on your own, I'm sure Bareth would be willing to help you out." Celeste thought about how Johnathen was sounding, desperate? Could he actually be thinking of giving up? Celeste quickly pressed her ear against the door to hear more.
"Of course I'm not going to give up! What gave you that idea Sarah! I mean I won't leave her to this for any cost, we are going to get out I just want to minimize risk!" Oh he does care for me, happy dance.
"Well what if we escaped by water?" Sarah spoke softly almost too softly Celeste could barely hear her rationalizing out her plan.
"Sarah as much as I'd like that to be the case, it doesn't work, we don't have a boat we don't have the supplies, we need to leave tonight!" Celeste heard Sarah trying to get Johnathen to think of it she could almost imagine her holding him, making him feel better, Celeste started to feel a bit jealous, so she decided to walk out and see just what they were up too. Celeste straightened up and calmed down, she carefully turned the knob on the door and opened it, she looked out into the living room and almost sighed for relief. Sarah was on the other side of the coffee table on the couch talking to Johnathen there were maps sprawled everywhere, there was nothing going on. Thank the lords Celeste thought.
"Hey guys what are you doing?" Celeste spoke normally but both Sarah and Johnathen jumped up like cats drenched in water. They were clearly shocked that Celeste was up and that she was listening to what they were saying.
"Uh evening Celeste, um I was just wondering what you overheard. You know cause maybe you could help, right Johnathen?" Sarah was staring intently at Celeste, I hope she didn't see me reach over and touch Johnathen's hand, I know she likes him and all, but I was just comforting, honest.
"Uh yeah right, we need all the help we can get." Johnathen looked over at Sarah who was blushing profusely Johnathen almost wanted to ask her what the heck was wrong with her, but he didn't she seemed so absolutely engrossed with him, quite honestly he didn't know what to do as he was interested in Celeste, not Sarah, how odd, what did she think she was doing?
"Oh I just overheard that you were trying to escape by water, since all the other exits are blocked off. It sounds like a good idea, and I was thinking about something I heard earlier, I think Dominique has a boat, we can use his. He's already down waiting in the harbour!" Celeste started to get more and more excited at what she had remembered there was a way out the could escape!
"Oh thats absolutely excellent!" Johnathen leapt off the couch away from Sarah's stares and gave Celeste a crushing hug, there was still hope!
"Okay I've got to get all these things packed up, never know what you need, hmm, where did I put that bag, Celeste could you help me look around for a shoulder bag?" Johnathen looked over to where Sarah was still poring over the maps so he didn't bother to ask her, and then back at Celeste who had already nodded in acceptance and started to search for the bag. It had only been a few minutes before she found this odd little light blue satchel. She looked inside and she couldn't even see the bottom. While she was investigating it she looked at the side and read;
To all who need everything they have say
Inside Inside light blue girlie bag
Underneath the little label read;
To remove and place all you need to leave say
Out from out and two for you
"Interesting," Celeste mused for a moment and then decided to try out the little bag, "Inside, Inside light blue girlie bag." A large whizzing and whooshing noise began to spiral about the apartment, Johnathen immediately looked up and saw Celeste holding onto the bag, all the things in his apartment whirled into the bag. The wind was momentous and Sarah stood in disbelief as everything from small nick nacks to the furniture disappeared into the bag, then a curious knocking on the door prompted Sarah to open it. Outside the door was all the things that Celeste owned and they quickly disappeared into the bag as well.
"Celeste, I see you found one of the bags, tell me please what prompted you to say the little charm on the side." Johnathen walked quickly across the apartment to where Celeste was holding onto the blue bag.
"I just saw the little rhyme I thought it didn't mean anything." Celeste clutched onto the bag tightly as she was slightly afraid of what had just happened.
"Well you said the little rhyme, pass the bag over please." Celeste passed the bag over to Johnathen who abruptly opened it up, he slowly looked up to where the girls were waiting. "There is nothing in here..."
Celeste furrowed her brow and promptly looked into the bag, "Of course there is, see look I wanted to have some water and there it is." Johnathen looked quickly again and then he looked at the charm engraved on the side. Of course, he hit his forehead with his palm.
"Here take it back and wear it, guard it with your life, the charms only meant for the original speaker, so only you can see all of the things hidden inside it, so you hold all of our lively hoods and all of our effects personal and otherwise." Johnathen thrust the light blue bag back at Celeste who quickly flung it onto her shoulder. She felt as though she had in someway disappointed Johnathen, but she hadn't she'd only done as she could and that was hold onto and search for what he asked, a bag.
"Alright, well since we've cleaned every spot of evidence from here we should head to the harbour at once, I'd send Dominique some warning but we can't do that the Lady is probably waiting for any kind of movement on our part. We'll leave in a moment, one more chance to go over the plan." Johnathen looked at both Sarah and Celeste gravely, Sarah had insisted on coming and there was no excuse for not letting her now, it was up to the two of them to get Celeste to safety.
Dare I rescue?
The trio quickly fled in the deep of the night, if one of them were to look at the time they would see its just a little after 3 am. They weren't tired at all, sleeping all day tends to do that. Celeste looked around the cobbled streets, all the bars were closed, only a few stragglers lingered trying to get a few more drops of their elixir. Celeste looked up at the sky, and saw only stars, thousands upon thousands of them. The moon was new and fresh so there was no light to show the billowing capes, or the lightly trotting foots that darted through the underbelly of the city. Celeste listened for a moment, when she concentrated she could just make out the sounds of waves hitting the docks. Her heat quickened and she began to trot with the others again. They soon rounded a corner and she could see the harbour but just barely.
"Johnathen, its a four person sail boat, does that help in the search." Celeste tugged on Johnathen's shoulder for the moment she needed to tell him the information. She noticed how tall he was again, in comparison, as well how nice and firm his shoulders were, she would have swooned if it wasn't for the immense danger they were are all in.
"Yes it helps a lot Celeste, there it is, see the little boat just off to the side?" Celeste looked to where Johnathen was pointing and quickly started heading towards it. She was walking over to the boat with Johnathen and Sarah following behind her when she heard a high pitch buzzing.
"Johnathen, do you hear that buzzing? It hurts! Please make it stop!" The noise grew louder and louder Celeste couldn't even think anymore she fell to the ground crying in pain it hurt so much. Without even missing a step Johnathen scooped Celeste up in his arms, and picked up Sarah as well who had fallen over only a moment earlier, he ran towards the boat to where Dominique had poked his head out.
"Johnathen? What are you doing with those two women?" Dominique normally would have laughed at the sight of Johnathen carrying the girls over his shoulders but at this time of night and that monstrous buzzing he dared not laugh, seriousness was needed here.
"They complained of a loud noise, the buzzing and then they fell over, the water seems to be reviving them a bit, let me on we need to get away now." Dominique hurried and lowered the plank, with the instant that he had Johnathen scrambled over and unceremoniously dumped Sarah and Celeste onto the floor of the ship. Both Dominique and Johnathen worked quickly to get the boat out onto the sea. Johnathen began to conjure up a wind that would blow them into the deep sea, far away from the shores of their beloved France. Sarah and Celeste began to wake up the further they got from the noise.
"Johnathen, where are we?" Sarah looked around seeing that Celeste was still groggy she collected her up in her arms, holding her close.
"We're out at sea, I had to get us away fast, the noise put both of you to sleep and it was the only thing I could think was to push out as fast as I could." Johnathen kept conjuring what ever the risk it was far less then if the Lady caught them. Sarah looked out towards France and saw that someone had lit up the entire harbour, she could see people scurrying around getting a boat ready as quickly as possible. She kept looking at all the different people and saw what she was dreading Lady Lisa's flaming red hair. The wind whipped it about and tossed the dress she was wearing as well. She watched as she raised her hands into the air and called a still on the harbour, calming the wind. Sarah looked quickly at Johnathen and saw that he had already gotten them out of the harbour the wind was still with us.
"Johnathen she's coming behind us she's going to catch us! We have to get out of here!" Sarah was frantic, and in her own way added to the storm that was brewing, the hail began to fall around them and forced Johnathen to push them hared, he didn't want to be caught anymore then the rest of them.
"We're going to make it we have too! I'm so sorry I dragged you into this, all of you." Johnathen roared over the high winds that were whipping about he could barely be heard. He watched as Celeste slowly woke up, she looked around herself and turned her eyes to him, she was terrified.
"What's happening!" Celeste looked at her hands she wanted it all to be calm she wanted it all to stop, whirl please whirl! She called on everything that was inside her make this chase stop make it all stop! She forced herself to feel the wind to feel the rain, she wasn't paying attention to the danger that was everywhere. Off to the left a Hurricane formed and touched down. For a brief moment of sanity she saw the tapestry again, the one with the little ship swirling towards it. In her wildness she looked behind her and saw Lisa closing in fast, she turned her attention back to the boat imagined the waves below and forced it straight for the hurricane, it was their only chance. Only mere seconds before they were sucked up into the hurricane Sarah tied a rope around Celeste's waist keeping her on the boat, a loose sail pull swung down and whacked her in the back of the head. All Celeste saw was darkness, no sound, no hope, just darkness.
The Calm after the Storm
"Majesty, are you alright? The storms passed." Johnathen looked down at the Princess of France, she'd been hit fairly hard in that wicked storm last night, flung overboard. They'd feared she was dead, but now they'd found her when they were fishing. Amazed that the sharks hadn't eaten her or that she'd drowned. An odd little Satchel had kept her a float, Johnathen had thought for a moment that it was odd that a bag she hadn't had she now did, but was glad she was alive. She'd saved his life and now they had saved hers at the cost of Marissa her Lady in Waiting.
"Oh Johnathen what happened! please tell me all of it!"
Authors note. And thats the beginning of Section two of Celeste, I suppose I'll call it the Adventure in the New World. Hope you've picked up on what I've done in that little portion! Heh, I'll work on the fan fics everyone's been asking me to do alright?