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Luckily for Natalie, the roman wasn't some huge ugly, it was a woman. The girl just blinked and had a frown upon her face. What were her knights doing with those things? She thought to herself. Not minding the thoughts going through her head the girl looked up to the knights. They all looked a bit relieved she didn't blow off on the girl, she was happy she didn't too. The women didn't look like the usual ones you would like to get into fights with.
Staring at each of the new-comers she noticed how relieved they were that no roman army had shot them down. Actually the girl wished they would have. Her eyes once again rested on the girl who spitted at her feet. She would give her a piece of her mind. "Excuse me, my lady, you seemed to have sent your spit the wrong way and I do hope you apologize." said the girl with some kind of smile on her face acting like she was higher than Natalie.
"I am no lady, roman," Natalie started out disgusted, " my people do not call their women ladies unless they are of some importance. And I will not be apologizing, my lady, for I sent my spit right where I wanted it to land." Natalie started to get off the horse as the other girls became very uncomfortable and Emilee put her hand to her head and nodded it from side to side. Why does she do this? she thought.
Lancelot came over to them and helped them all of their horses. "Kim's friends...if I were you I wouldn't let little Lancelot there help you. If he gets you off your horse next he'll try getting you in bed!" stated the one Gawain, as the knights laughed all except two. "Yet, watch Gawain too, he might try it also." said the one next to Gawain known as Galahad. Everyone started laughing again. Yet, the girl's didn't.
"How do you find that humorous?" asked Lauren. She didn't quite catch on things often. "And whatever would they be trying to do?" she asked while taking a step back. Kimmerlee started to crack up as did some of the knights.
Emilee looked like she was going to break down, she had no patience and she was tired and wanted to get of her woad clothes for war before arrows went right through their hearts. She started to notice that they were starting to get noticable looks by soldiers. She tapped Natalie in the arm to show her when she noticed that Natalie had already noticed the gazes.
Natalie could remember some of the faces of who they had fought before and she knew some must have remembered theirs. "Arthur, they must change." came a voice from the back of the line of knights. Of course, Natalie noticed it as the knight that had ruined her leg.
Arthur ordered Dagonet to take the girls to Kimmerlee's room to treat their wounds and to send maids to give them dresses. The girls one by one started to follow Dagonet to an inn. Natalie was the last to follow and winced in pain as she started to walk and laid weight on the leg that had been stabbed. She stopped and looked at it. The wound was very deep and hadn't gotten much better. Yet, she knew there was nothing she could do to fix that so she set off after her friends.
Natalie tried to walk but it didn't help much. She had tears in her eyes from the pain. She was about to fall when someone tugged her arm and put it over their shoulder and held her up with the other hand. They started to help her walk and took her all the way to Kimmerlee's room.
Lancelot looked down at the girl. She wanted to know why this man helped her, why he was being so nice when he didn't have to. "Thank you." Natalie was able to get it out. "You should be glad that I said that to you I haven't said it in the last 7 years." Lancelot looked up to her. "Come with me." he said leading her away to a different room. He put her down on the bed and started to clean her wound.
"I am Lancelot, which you might know." he said while cleaning the wound and tying a cloth around it. Natalie looked up at him, confused but not showing it. "Why are you bring so nice?" she asked as he sat next to her.
"I would tell you but you might think I am crazy!" he laughed. He got up and went to a dresser. Quietly he started searching through it. "No body knows what crazy is till they have lived my life." said Natalie, only stating the truth.(in the next few chapters you will learn a bit more on her past life and some in this chapter.)
"You remind me of my best friend from Sarmatia. Her name was Kay, and you remind me so much of her. I look at you and I see her! She was like a sister to me, even though she wasn't my blood. I look at you and I see her. Now that she is dead I look at you and I want you to take her place and for you to be my friend, one of my best, my sister!" yelled Lancelot. Natalie could hear the pain in his voice. Somehow she felt sorry for him.
"That is why I didn't argue with Arthur about you all coming to the wall because I hoped you were her! That is why the others didn't neither, I would always tell them the stories of my best friend back in Sarmatia, my sister, to me you are somehow. Tell me are you really Briton, do you rememeber at all if you were ever there in Sarmatia, with me?" he asked. Natalie looked at him. Yet, she had no memory of that at all.
"I was born in Briton, I have always lived in Briton, I am me, not this girl from Sarmatia that was like a sister to you. I am sorry." whispered Natalie. It hurt her to know that she brought pain to this man. "Yet, I could become that. I would love to be your friend, yet I do not trust the other knights, but by knowing this and seeing that you have been through pain and still open only towards me, I am willing to be you friend." said Natalie actually smiling for once in a long time.
"It is nice to know it, friend." said Lancelot as he handed her a forest green dress. "It once belonged to a barmaid. Don't ask how I got it but you can have it." After that he walked out of the room as she started to get dressed into the dress that he had given her.
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In the hall where the round table was located the knights sat ready for an usual meeting. Once Lancelot entered the meeting started. "So Lancelot, was she your friend that was like a sister? You discribed her exactly how that girl looks. Is she her?" asked Gawain wanting to know.
Lancelot looked at him sadly, "That is not her, Kay had a tattoo on her hand that was red and had circles inside cirlces. She doesn't have it and she is pure woad. So no, but we are friends and I have a feeling that she will replace Kay. Again I will have a sister." Lancelot than took his seat and looked up to Arthur.
"These are Kimmerlee's friends and she does trust them, but do we? I believe they can help all of Briton and lead us to the end of all battles with woads, but then they could bring us into a major war. Should be trust them?" asked Arthur as he stared around the table at his knights.
"No" said a voice. Arthur set his gaze on Tristan. "Why not Tristan?" wondered Arthur as the knight shook his head. "I do not trust the one." piped up Tristan as he looked at Lancelot.
Lancelot stood up. "I disagree, I trust her!" he yelled at Tristan. Tristan suddenly stood up but didn't yell back he just gave Lancelot a death glare, but Lanelot did not sit down or back away. Suddenly the hall doors opened and Jols came in.
"Should I allow the girls in Arthur?" asked Jols as he stared at Tristan and Lancelot questioningly. "Yes please Jols." nodded Arthur as he noticed Tristan's hand head down to where his dagger was.
Moments later the woad girls came in and stood in front of the table. Lauren looked at the table amazed not paying attention to the two knights standing up glaring at eachother. "Wow...what is that thing?" she asked mouth wide open. Galahad chuckled and looked at her. "You've never seen a table?" he asked quite suprised. Lauren nodded her head no.
"I have heard of them but I have never seen one. Only high woads get to actually use them." She said as she looked at it still. The knights shook their heads. Were the woads at all civilized in anyway?
"Welome Ladies." said Arthur. Natalie gave him a evil glance and then went back to looking at the wall. "The knights and I have all decided that if you wish you can stay at the wall." Arthur finished and looked at them. All the girls but one looked happy, Kimmerlee looked at Arhtur and smiled the biggest smile she ever could.
"Why? Why do you trust us? Aren't we enemies?" said Natalie in a louder and harsher tone. Everyone looked her, even the girls gave her a glare that said, Just shut up! "We never said we trusted you." everyone looked to the dark figure that was Tristan. Him and Natalie just stared at eachother for what seemed like a very long time.
"You shouldn't use we. One of you I trust, as he does me." scowled Natalie. Never did she let anyone tell her off and in a arguement she was always the last one to say something.
Tristan looked at her. "He was a coward." Natalie felt something rush up inside her. Never did anyone insult a person that just treated her like an ally and insult them. Not knowing what she was saying she spoke up. "Never talk about my brother like that" she said anger showing in her voice.
"He is no more of your brother than he is mine." said Tristan stating the truth. Natalie pulled her hands into a fist. "He may not be my brother by blood, but I beleive that someday the gods will call him my brother." Snorted Natalie staring at Tristan then looking away and then putting her eyes on him to meet his.
"He is the first man to ever treat me right, the first man to ever say, 'you are my friend, you make it feel like I have a sister again. You have my trust.' That is somehting to me and say what you want just go burn in hell!" yelled Natalie as she headed for the door and opened it.
"No, you go" said Tristan still trying to stay calm. Natalie turned to look at him. "Well I have already been there!" and with that she headed out the door and slammed it shut.
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"That had to be the first time in awhile that you have lost your cool Tristan." said Gawain as he drank from his cup. Lancelot looked at Tristan one last time and also headed out of the door.
Emilee looked around at the rest of the knights. "I'm sorry for her behavior, she hasn't always been like that. I mean she use to be afraid to talk, it must be the pressure of seeing Kimmerlee after she thought she was dead." with that Emilee headed out the door followed by Lauren.
KImmerlee looked at her friends. The knights have always been loyal to her. "Tristan, my friends are able to be trusted, they just need time to prove it." she said smiling slightly. "You started to trust me over time and they are no diiferent from me."
"We did not know you were woad." he said and with that he walked out of the room. Pelej got up and walked up to KImmerlee. "He's right you never told us and it wasn't easy to assume when you look nothing like them." Kimmerlee looked at him and she felt hurt. To her it felt like he couldn't talk about her people, like her kind were under him. This got her mad and she walked away.
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Well yeah thats chapter 4 and its up very late. I know it may suck but you can review and tell me how i can make it better! Chapter 5 should be up by the end of the week. I'm gonna update more often!
Also you might find the first 5 chapters confusing but once Natalie's past is revealed you will know why she acts the way she does and why Lancelot is the first guy to ever trust her. It has alot to do with her childhood and father. Yet she doesn't end up with Lancelot in the end. I have the couples sorted out!
karissa