Thank you to my dear reviewers that make me fell special and all tingly inside...anyway...I have been grounded for a bit, so it feels good to update again. I was reading my last update and found that it was terrible and i really lacked humor...so hopefully this chapter will be more impressive...hopefully...
I still cannot decide wether to kill off Dag or not...so that will be in the next chapter...as for Natalie and Lancelot being related...your have to wait and see...I have also noticed that I make a lot of spelling mistakes...my computer does not have spell check...so it is very hard for me to make sure all the words are spelled correctly and such...yet I'll try my best. I am trying to make the story work out the best I can.
I also welcome contructive critism...it is highly appreciated. Since it is summer I will also update as often as I can...though it is hard when I have like five book reports to do and a math packet...especially when I suck at math...highschool is going to suck for me. anyway...here is the chapter and I hope it is an appropiate size...I tried to make it as long as I could.
Chapter 11- Threats.
Later that night, Emilee, Kimmerlee, and Selene were working in the Knight's Tavern, when the knights entered, without Arthur. They took a seat at an empty table and ordered themselves some ale. Lancelot spoke to Emilee as she walked by him, with all the knights listening in.
"What happened to your little woad friend?" he asked at first. Emilee looked at him. Anger was the only emotion planted on her face. "Woad? Do you forget I am one too." she replied as she walked away. Kimmerlee came up after her and sat down between Lancelot and Galahad. "He left to go join some woads on a raid." she answered for Emilee.
Gawain looked at her, slightly confused. "Aren't they going to search for Natalie and the other girl...have they even tried to look?" he asked a little anger edged in his voice. Selene came over, "Merlin has told those who have asked that it was their fate that took them there, and now they must get themselves out." Then she walked away again.
"To die." Everyone that was present at the table turned to see Tristan eating an apple. Lancelot looked at him, an eyebrow raised. "Tell me Tristan, how do you know the woads are leaving them there to die?" Tristan shrugged and walked over to a dark corner, yet close enough to listen to the knights and Kimmerlee.
"Don't worry, she will, repeat, will get out." assured Kimmerlee. As she said that Selene walked over, "I thought you didn't like her?" she asked, a smirk playing on her face. Kimmerlee shrugged and answered back, "I don't like the way she blames people for stuff that was her fault and how she looks at people." Selene rose an eyebrow as did Gawain and Lancelot. Selene asked not hiding her curiosity, "What do you mean the way she looks at people?"
Kimmer rolled her eyes and answered, "some she looks at with a devil-like stair, others like she is looking right through them, others like she wants to understand them," as she said this she slightly glanced at Tristan, but continued. "Yet, she always has that one look that everyone can notice if they look closely. That look of a monster."
Galahad let out a light huff and put his hand on Kimmerlee's shoulder, "Dearest Kimmer, maybe a killer, but no monster." Kimmerlee shook his hand off at looked back over at Lancelot and Gawain. "Guys, I call it the look of a monster because her eyes are piercing and behind them are anger, lies, hurt, and vengence. Her look when she is mad, is even worse. No wonder her father tried to keep her away from others."
Emilee shook her head and looked at Kimmerlee, "Her father was a traitor, he was out to destroy lives, and Nilon is no better. She gets those emotions behind her false eyes from her mother. When you looked into her mother's dark brown eyes, you saw what you see in Natalie's. It is quite strange." Lancelot thought about that and decided to ask Emilee about it. "don't woads have bright eyes, such as yours and Arthur's and Selene's?" Emilee looked him in the eye and said not joking, "She wasn't woad."
Selene came over at that point. "Who wasn't woad?" Gawain looked at Selene, "So your not full woad?" Selene gave him a questionable look. "No, I'm sure I'm full woad." Emilee looked at the knights. "She slapped Gawain in the head and looked at the knights. "Her and Natalie were half-sisters. They look alike, but have different mothers." Then Gawain nodded, understanding.
The girls left and the knights split there own ways. Lancelot was playing some kind of betting game...and losing while Galahad and Gawain were throwing daggers. Tristan threw one from behind them. Gawain looked at him and asked, "Tristan, How do you do that?" tristan smirked a little and answered, "I aim for the middle." Gawain shook his head and laughed as he noticed Selene walking with one of the barmaids. At first, he was going to go ask Selene if she could get the barmaid to talk to him, but then something else popped into his mind. Why was Selene talking to a barmaid?
He walked over and interupted the conversation. "What are you fine young ladies talking about?" he asked. The barmaid giggled while Selene just glared at her. The bermaid moved closer to Gawain and answered. "Well, Selene here is low on money, so she asked me if I could get her a job." Gawain looked at Selene. "Selene, you haing a job at a tavern? Aren't you quite young for that?" Selene looked at him. "Too young? I'm around nineteen, too bad I've stopped counting! How old do you think she is?" she retorted pointing to the barmaid now next to Gawain. Before he could even answer Selene walked away and sat down next to Bors and his kids.
"Looks like someone is a little jealous." Selene looked at him. She usually was in the mood to joke around with Bors, yet now she wasn't. "Shut your big pir whole or I'll throw number four off the tallest building I can find." Bors mouth hung open. He studdered while saying, "That wasn't funny!" Selene sent him a death glare and said, "It wasn't supposed to be." She then got up and walked out of the tavern.
Bors sat at the table still when he called over number four. "Yes father?" he asked. Bors pointed to the door where Selene was headed. "Make sure you never go near her again." He son nodded and Bors let him go. He let out a sigh as he noticed Arthur walking by. Jols called out his name and Bors followed. The other knights walked over to join them as well. Arthur looked at them and said finally, "We leave at first light." The knights became very quiet. Lancelot shifted from on leg to the other as he said, "Leave?"
Arthur did not look any of them in the eyes as he said, "Our final mission for Rome will lead us far above the wall, where there is a Roman famile in need of rescue." The kngiths stood there, staring at Arthur as if they hadn't quite understood. He was going to repeat it when Gawain spoke, "North is woad territory." Bors threw his mug to the ground where it broke. "I am a free man!" he yelled. Lancelot tried to calm him down.
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Selene walked down the hallway. Why did Gawain always treat her like a kid? She wasn't one. For so long he played with her and had fun, but he never acted like he had other feelings than friendship towards her. Why couldn't he like her more, or maybe it would've been better if he liked her less, yet she was so tired of it all. None of it made sense to her.
She came to her room when she saw Dagonet walking to his room not too far away. She decided to call for him, he looked depressed. "Dagonet?" she asked. He turned toward her and walked slowly towards her. "Have you heard?" he asked her. She looked at him, not quite understanding. "Heard what?" she asked interested. He shook his head no and answered, " I am not the person to tell you. Seek out Gawain or Lancelot, not me. Good night, Selene." Selene nodded and went inside of her room. She always thought of Dagonet as her replacement father. It broke her heart to see him so sad.
She was lookign through a dresser for a dress for when she got out of the bath when her door opened. She turned around to see Gawain. He closed the door, but didn't say anything so Selene went back to looking through her dresser. Sometime later after she stared at the only three dresses she had, she heard Gawain speak. "Why have you only chose those three to wear?" he asked. Selene didn't look at him but threw one to the side. Then she decided to answer, "They are the only three I have." Gawain looked at her. "Vanora made you some a year ago, they do not still fit? You also bought some not too long ago." Selene shook her head and laughed some. "I grew a lot, Lauren says I'm eating too much, than she says that's how I have no money."
Gawain looked at her frame, it wasn't like a barmaids or some that would be called beautiful, but it was quite impressive. "You don't eat that much and what do you mean no money?" Selene shrugged her shoulders and mumbled, "Some Roman brute took it, something about if I didn't do something, he would take it. He wanted me to do something I rather not mention. Plus the money I hid I bought for fabrics." Gawain looked at her. "Who is the guy?" he asked. When Selene didn't respond he went on. "Fabric for what?" Selene went over to the the dresser and pulled out a couple of things she had made with the fabric. She took one and held it up. "It is for Vanora's next child, she thinks she is pregnant again. I most likely will never have a kid, so she might give the baby to me. She said that her and Bors have enough bastards."
Gawain rose an eyebrow at her. "You want babies?" Selene nodded. She looked at the outfit. "i don't think I'll ever have my own though, men don't come up to me everyday and say, 'hey I want to be a father and great husband for you and our future kid.' So Vanora is going to give me one." She pulled out something else and held it up. "And this is for you." Gawain took it from her and checked it out. It looked like an over-large shirt. Selene say is face and answered what he was thinking. "It is to put over your armor. Back when I lived with woads, though I was nine, I remember what they usually put over their armor. Well some nayway, many do not wear armor at all, but it's the thought that counts."
Gawain gave her a warm smile and Selene felt her heart skip a beat. Quickly she asked a question that suddenly popped in her head. "Why was Dagonet so depressed when he went to his room?" Gawain looked up at her from the bed and his features darkened. Anger was now in his eyes instead of sorrow and happiness together. "Selene, Rome has yet another mission for us. We are to go above the wall to save a family. We are headed where the main dnager is. We have saxons and woads up there. We might not return..." he didn't get to finish because Selene interrupted him. "North," she started, "I will go with you, I must, north is where Natalie lies. I have to go with you to protect you and find her." she said.
Gawain got up and walked up to her. "No I will not allow you to go." he said forcefully. Selene looked him in the eye. "I am not a child Gawain, I am free, I can chose what I want. I am going and your not stoping me!" she raised her voice slightly. Gawain grabbed her by the shoulders and threw her against the wall. He held her against the wall as he yelled at her. "You are not going! If you do I'll forget about you and our friendship will be over!" Selene felt tears run down her face. Gawain saw them and suddenly felt guilty. He let himslef rest up against her and put his forhead to hers. "Selene." he moaned. He put his hands on her waist. "Don't cry." he whispered.he kissed her slighty wet cheek and and kept his lips there and moved his hands up to her hair. He pulled it slightly so her head went back and exposed her neck. He moved his lips to her neck and started to slightly bite it. He heard Selene moan and pulled away. He turned around and before closing the door ordered. "don't go"
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Galahad sat at a table in the tavern ignoring everything but the wood object in front of him. Lauren came up behind him and sat down. "So it is true, you have not gotten your freedom?" she asked. He shook his head no. Then turned to look at her. "We are seven against too many, someone will die, we might all die." he said sadly. Lauren sighed. "There might still be hope. Emilee will go along, I will go along, and Selene will go along. That makes it ten against not that many. Plus, with us you do not have to fight the woads." she mentioned.
Galahad chuckled, "You always look for the happier things in life don't you. The one that aims for hope. Is that why it takes you so long to catch on to stuff?" Lauren sent him a death glare and Galahad put her in a headlock. "Atleaat when I'm killed, I have you to make the others happy." Lauren smiled and punched him in the gut.
"Anyway, have you seen Kimmerlee?" she asked while releasing herself from Galahad's hold. Galahad shrugged. Just then Lena came over. "I saw her in the graveyard with Tristan at Pelej's grave." Lauren nodded a thanks and headed off. Lena sent Galahad a creeped out look, (no idea why) and walked away to serve romans some ale.
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Kimmerlee sat across from Tristan and they both were by Pelej's grave. Kimmerlee decided that it was too quiet and broke the silence. "Have you ever gotten attached to someone to the point where you tend to think about them too much, then lose them?" Tristan looked at her and thought about Natalie. He nodded to Kimmerlee's question. He looked at the grave next to him. "Did you love Pelej?" Kimmerlee looked down and sai a low "yes." Yet Tristan still heard it.
Lauren came walking up the small hill to where Pelej's grave stood. She saw the two and went to saw hello but a hawk above screeched. Tristan looked up and got up to head for the woods. Within seconds he was gone.
Lauren looked at Kimmerlee and motioned for her to get up. "We must sleep. They leave in the morning and I leave too. You want to be awake to say good-bye." Kimmerlee got up and followed Lauren to bed.
When they got there they saw woad clothing on their beds. (They share a room) Just then Emilee popped out of their wash room. "I got some woad war clothes off of Estel earlier. We are going to wear them when we go with the knights. Kimmerlee's mouth dropped. "Me? Battle? Death? No way!" Emilee rolled her eyes. "Fine we can give them to Selene. She is probably tagging along anyway." Selene walked in hearing her name.
She looked towards Emilee, "Emz, I'm not going and why are you so happy that the knights are going to get killed on this mission." Emilee looked at Selene shocked. "What have they done with my Selene?" she screamed, trying to be funny. Yet, no laughed. She looked at the girls. "Selene, you out of all people are going to stay here with Kimmerlee and Lena?" Selene nodded. "I can trust them Emz, I've actually known them longer than I've known you." Emilee looked at the girl in front of her. Something was wrong. The real Selene would've been more hyper than herself about this. Emilee suddenly lost all of her excitement and pleasure out of fighting again and walked sullenly out of the room to her and Selene's own room.
That night when Selene walked in. Emilee ignored her and didn't even say good-night.
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The next morning a little before dawn, Emilee got up and got dressed. She painted her body with blue designs and was about to leave when she saw Selene get up from bed. Emilee took the war clothes she offered to Selene the night before and put them on Selene's bed. Selene looked at her curiosly. Emilee walked away and smugly stated, "If you change your mind, just tack us down. it won't be that hard." With that she left to the stables.
There she found Lauren also painted blue. The knights were washing their weapons while Emilee looked around. She noticed that Selene, Kimmerlee, and Lena entered. Yet she tried to ignore them.
The bishop soon entered with Horton, his aid. She ignored everything around her as the bishop spoke of something with the church and Horton also coming along and about why women were coming. Dumb bishop she thought. Jols brought her a horse and she stared at the animal. Lauren got onto her horse and eyed Emilee. "You can't still be afraid of riding. Are you?" Emilee showed a sweet smile and went up to Lauren. "You know that I do love you Lauren..." Lauren sighed and told Emilee to get on. Gladly, she did.
Not too far away, actually a couple feet away, Gawain looked Selene in the eye and said, "Stay here, threats do come true." As of that, the knights and the two woad women, rode away.
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Minutes after they left Selene threw off her dress showing woad war graments. Kimmerlee and Jols got her horse ready as she prepared to follow the knights. She got on her horse and Jols jumped on another one. Selene rose an eyebrow. Jols shrugged his shoulders and said, "I can't let you go alone and I want to kepp Lauren safe. It's more fun to talk to her than the horses." Selene chuckled and headed off into the wild land of Briton.
They rode well into the night staying far from the kngiths and where Tristan might scout. They rose through the forest when they got too close to the knights. The woads shot arrows with strings attached traping the knights making them ride in sudden directions. When a horn blew is when they noticed eachother. The knights were on one side of some ropes and Selene and Jols on the other side.
Tristan was the first to notice them. He called for Arthur. "Arthur, we have guests." Arthur looked to where Tristan was pointing to see two figures from the other side of tangled rope stretching from tree to tree. Emilee noticed them as Jols and Selene. "Selene?" she yelled. Hoping she was seeing correctly. She heard a frightened voice from the other side say a loud, "Yeah." Emilee screamed, "You came!" and threw her hands in the air making her nearly fall off of the horse she was on with Lauren.
"Come around the ropes, girl!" yelled Bors. She did as she was told and Jols followed. When they got together they rode and stopped after a bit to get some sleep. They were sitting around the fire when Gawain sat next to Selene. He looked at her and stated. "I told you to stay at the wall." Selene didn't look at him but said what she thought, "I didn't give you my word." Gawain looked towards the fire. "I trusted you though and thought you would stay there." he said.
Selene looked at him, "If I was a kid, I would've told you that I wouldn't listen from the start. yet, since I'm older I can do what I want when I want. Like this..." she said and slapped Gawain. Everyone turned towards them. Gawain's frown now grew bigger, if it was possible. "Know what Selene, you are nothing more than an immature teenager that thinks she's all grown up. But your not...you put so much stress on me because of the way you act and treat me. Maybe we weren't cut out to be friends. I'm going to do what I warned you about in the beginning, forget aboiut you and our friendship." With that Gawain got up and walked over to sit on a log between Lauren and Galahad.
Selene looked towards the fire and soon got up to leave. After walking a bit she ran into Bors who just took a piss. "Where you going kiddo?" he asked. Yet, she ignored him and kept walking.
She kept walking until she found a small village. Needing a safe place to stay she went to the village and slept behind a hut.
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The next morning at dawn the knights, Jols, Horton, Emilee, and Lauren set off towards the roman estate. By noon they got there... (dun, dun, dun)
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I wanted to add more, but I have to get off and yeah...maybe I'll update tomorrow. This is my longest chapter I believe!
I tried to catch all the mistakes I could. I think each chapter is getting better and better. I decided to split this chapter in half anyway...so I'm not going to exactly blame my mom.
Please review and tell me how it was. The next chapter should be up soon. I have it written, I just need to type it!
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