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Yay! I'm updating again! Guess what! Yesterday, I went white water rafting! That's a lot of Ws! Hehe, sorry, I'm a bit on a sugar high, teehee. Well, thx to my reviewer_ (notice the lack of plural there, hint hint) I hope anyone who read the last chap liked it even if they didn't review. I think this chap is a little longer and I finally decided to stick with Googlepusse's title suggestion, thx bud! I'm almost at the exciting part of the beginning of the story! Yay! Huzzah me! Lol, here's your chap, enjoy!
Karma
P.S. Just so everyone knows, there is a swear word in this chap so I'm boosting up the rating, also, there will be romance in future chaps so you better tell me your preferences, I think I have an idea of who I want to put together but it all depends on my reviewers! ~**~ Jump
Dear Father, This message should reach you by nightfall, I and my friends: Alan of Trebond, Prince Jonathan, Raoul of Goldenlake and Alexander of Tirragen will be gone by then. Do not worry, we are safe, do not search for us for we are beyond your reach.
Gary explained about he portal and how they were going through looking for adventure because the Palace was so dull. He ended his letter with a simple sentence before signing his name with a flourish: We have acted alone. This was a code between him and his father, this one meant they really had acted alone but if instead he had written, We are alone, it meant they had been kidnapped or something of the sort. It was a precaution they had taken not only because they were father and son but because they were both so close to the Royal family, if not by being in the line of Royal heritage but bonds of friendship and kin to the Conté family.
Gary sealed his letter with a dab of wax and pressed his ring into it. Then found Stefan the Royal hostler. "Give this to my Father when he goes out for his weekly ride, tonight. Do not give it to him personally or he will punish you, put it in the hay in his horse's stall, somewhere where he will find it. or maybe when he gets here, pretend to be cleaning the stall and just happen to find the letter. I'm sure you'll think of something, you're one of George's cronies-friends!" He corrected himself hastily, looking around to see if anyone had heard, "after all!" He smiled companionably and clapped the rogue on the back, thanking him before leaving the stables to pack.
~**~
. it somehow repels light to make a portal to whomever, whatever or wherever the gifted one wants. Alex repeated Alan's earlier words in his letter to Duke Roger. He told of the boy's exhaustion after the spell, of the creation of the spell itself and the results. He told the evil wizard of his plan to join them so he could bring back a full report of what happened.
The cat like boy sealed the letter and told the servant to deliver it after having banked the fire and making the bed. The man stuttered a protest about having other chores to tend to but Alex merely sneered at the hireling and repeated his previous order. Then he started packing.
~**~
The four knights and single squire communed in their Prince's chambers. They were all packed, they were ready for underwater, freezing cold, melting hot, circumstances. They had various weapons, food, water, clothes and lots of money.
"Shouldn't we bring our horses? I mean what if we have a long way to go to food we desperately need or something?" Asked Raoul rationally.
"No," Alanna answered flatly, "we'll be in the proximity of other people. It was one of my wishes to meet new people and learn new cultures," she told them.
"Well then, are we ready for this?" Jon asked with a grin. The others nodded, Raoul with a look of curiosity, Gary of nervousness Alex of purposeful blankness laced with rock hard determination, and finally Alanna one of pure excitement and anticipation for what was to come. He looked them over and chuckled, they really were ready for anything.
"Alright, I'm not sure if we have to go all at the same time, you know, so you're all with me but I don't think you do because when I put my thoughts in my magic, I also put all of you in so you should be able to get through even though I'm not with you. " Alanna informed them.
"
Pair up, the one who's alone will go second to make sure we don't lose anyone." Alanna ordered, she and Jon were instantly paired not only because they were knight master and squire but because they had the strongest-and only-Gifts. Gary and Raoul paired up because of their resembling body build, so they could protect the backs of the others. Alex was alone but he was content with that, I work better alone anyway, he thought to himself.
Alanna and Jon stood before the black surface of the wall, Faithful sitting eagerly alert on the squire's left shoulder, tail around her neck for support. "Ready?" Jon asked his red headed friend. She nodded and exhaled loudly, her shoulders sagging, relaxing, then squaring with new determination, her eyebrows knitting together slightly.
"Jump!" They cried together, then walked straight into the black expanse of the wall. Jon half expected to hit the hindrance but passed through it with nothing more than a chill up his spine and a second of darkness. When he and Alanna emerged on the other side, he didn't have time to look around because they were immediately hit from behind by Alex, stumbling out of nowhere into them. The quickly backed up as the imposing figures of Raoul and Gary also materialized magically before them. The portal was invisible on this side!
Then they looked around themselves, they were standing near a road, obviously, and this one was paved, but it was different from the roads in Corus, they weren't paved with cobblestones, the street was seamless. Completely covered.
Alanna looked up at the buildings that lined the route, they were not of wood or even of stone, they were of brick, these houses were evidently not those of nobles but they couldn't be those of commoners could they? They wee much too well adorned, each with it's own garden of flowers. This was what surprised Alanna the most, everyone in Tortall who could afford it had a garden but it was for the sole purpose of growing herbs and vegetables. Flowers were a great luxury, their upkeep affordable only by a King and his Royal family! Yet all these abodes had them! How could this be?! Then Alanna realized; Of course! Different cultures! I shall have to discover what this means!
So enraptured was she in observing the houses, she stepped into the street, a few feet only. Well at least we're prepared for whatever may come our way! Alanna thought cheerfully. By then she heard a deep rumbling noise emanating from down the street, it was becoming increasingly loud. Faithful yowled and jumped off her shoulders as a great, metal, monster rolled amazingly fast towards her. The squire was so shocked she didn't move until Jon's shout of: "Alan! Move!" and the clonking sound the beast was making, jolted her out of her trauma induced state. But by then it was too late, even as she flung herself out of the way, the thing clipped her leg and she thought she heard it snap.
Then a deep, melodic voice yelled after it: "Watch where you're going you bastard!" Then the young man looked at her and hurried over next he. "Are you hurt, do you need some help?" He asked swiftly and with a tone of worry.
"No, I'm fine, I think I may have broken my leg but it's ok. What was that anyway?" She asked with a frown as her friends came running with their bags of gear. And I thought we were ready for anything! Alanna laughed inwardly at herself.
You can never be ready for anything. Faithful answered with a chuckle.
The boy answered her question with a look that said her question was ridiculous and a tone that said he was stating the obvious, but he was still friendly about it, just a little disconcerted. "A car."
All right, to anyone who's got any questions about anything in this chapter, plz feel free to ask them in a review and thx again to dragon defender. By the way, I know, there's a language conflict, I already covered that in the next chap, which is already half written, so plz review and make me happy cuz, you know, you like making people happy right? Oh yeah! Also, I'm really sorry I misspelled Raoul's fief in the last chap, I'm so sorry! :D Ciao!
Yay! I'm updating again! Guess what! Yesterday, I went white water rafting! That's a lot of Ws! Hehe, sorry, I'm a bit on a sugar high, teehee. Well, thx to my reviewer_ (notice the lack of plural there, hint hint) I hope anyone who read the last chap liked it even if they didn't review. I think this chap is a little longer and I finally decided to stick with Googlepusse's title suggestion, thx bud! I'm almost at the exciting part of the beginning of the story! Yay! Huzzah me! Lol, here's your chap, enjoy!
Karma
P.S. Just so everyone knows, there is a swear word in this chap so I'm boosting up the rating, also, there will be romance in future chaps so you better tell me your preferences, I think I have an idea of who I want to put together but it all depends on my reviewers! ~**~ Jump
Dear Father, This message should reach you by nightfall, I and my friends: Alan of Trebond, Prince Jonathan, Raoul of Goldenlake and Alexander of Tirragen will be gone by then. Do not worry, we are safe, do not search for us for we are beyond your reach.
Gary explained about he portal and how they were going through looking for adventure because the Palace was so dull. He ended his letter with a simple sentence before signing his name with a flourish: We have acted alone. This was a code between him and his father, this one meant they really had acted alone but if instead he had written, We are alone, it meant they had been kidnapped or something of the sort. It was a precaution they had taken not only because they were father and son but because they were both so close to the Royal family, if not by being in the line of Royal heritage but bonds of friendship and kin to the Conté family.
Gary sealed his letter with a dab of wax and pressed his ring into it. Then found Stefan the Royal hostler. "Give this to my Father when he goes out for his weekly ride, tonight. Do not give it to him personally or he will punish you, put it in the hay in his horse's stall, somewhere where he will find it. or maybe when he gets here, pretend to be cleaning the stall and just happen to find the letter. I'm sure you'll think of something, you're one of George's cronies-friends!" He corrected himself hastily, looking around to see if anyone had heard, "after all!" He smiled companionably and clapped the rogue on the back, thanking him before leaving the stables to pack.
~**~
. it somehow repels light to make a portal to whomever, whatever or wherever the gifted one wants. Alex repeated Alan's earlier words in his letter to Duke Roger. He told of the boy's exhaustion after the spell, of the creation of the spell itself and the results. He told the evil wizard of his plan to join them so he could bring back a full report of what happened.
The cat like boy sealed the letter and told the servant to deliver it after having banked the fire and making the bed. The man stuttered a protest about having other chores to tend to but Alex merely sneered at the hireling and repeated his previous order. Then he started packing.
~**~
The four knights and single squire communed in their Prince's chambers. They were all packed, they were ready for underwater, freezing cold, melting hot, circumstances. They had various weapons, food, water, clothes and lots of money.
"Shouldn't we bring our horses? I mean what if we have a long way to go to food we desperately need or something?" Asked Raoul rationally.
"No," Alanna answered flatly, "we'll be in the proximity of other people. It was one of my wishes to meet new people and learn new cultures," she told them.
"Well then, are we ready for this?" Jon asked with a grin. The others nodded, Raoul with a look of curiosity, Gary of nervousness Alex of purposeful blankness laced with rock hard determination, and finally Alanna one of pure excitement and anticipation for what was to come. He looked them over and chuckled, they really were ready for anything.
"Alright, I'm not sure if we have to go all at the same time, you know, so you're all with me but I don't think you do because when I put my thoughts in my magic, I also put all of you in so you should be able to get through even though I'm not with you. " Alanna informed them.
"
Pair up, the one who's alone will go second to make sure we don't lose anyone." Alanna ordered, she and Jon were instantly paired not only because they were knight master and squire but because they had the strongest-and only-Gifts. Gary and Raoul paired up because of their resembling body build, so they could protect the backs of the others. Alex was alone but he was content with that, I work better alone anyway, he thought to himself.
Alanna and Jon stood before the black surface of the wall, Faithful sitting eagerly alert on the squire's left shoulder, tail around her neck for support. "Ready?" Jon asked his red headed friend. She nodded and exhaled loudly, her shoulders sagging, relaxing, then squaring with new determination, her eyebrows knitting together slightly.
"Jump!" They cried together, then walked straight into the black expanse of the wall. Jon half expected to hit the hindrance but passed through it with nothing more than a chill up his spine and a second of darkness. When he and Alanna emerged on the other side, he didn't have time to look around because they were immediately hit from behind by Alex, stumbling out of nowhere into them. The quickly backed up as the imposing figures of Raoul and Gary also materialized magically before them. The portal was invisible on this side!
Then they looked around themselves, they were standing near a road, obviously, and this one was paved, but it was different from the roads in Corus, they weren't paved with cobblestones, the street was seamless. Completely covered.
Alanna looked up at the buildings that lined the route, they were not of wood or even of stone, they were of brick, these houses were evidently not those of nobles but they couldn't be those of commoners could they? They wee much too well adorned, each with it's own garden of flowers. This was what surprised Alanna the most, everyone in Tortall who could afford it had a garden but it was for the sole purpose of growing herbs and vegetables. Flowers were a great luxury, their upkeep affordable only by a King and his Royal family! Yet all these abodes had them! How could this be?! Then Alanna realized; Of course! Different cultures! I shall have to discover what this means!
So enraptured was she in observing the houses, she stepped into the street, a few feet only. Well at least we're prepared for whatever may come our way! Alanna thought cheerfully. By then she heard a deep rumbling noise emanating from down the street, it was becoming increasingly loud. Faithful yowled and jumped off her shoulders as a great, metal, monster rolled amazingly fast towards her. The squire was so shocked she didn't move until Jon's shout of: "Alan! Move!" and the clonking sound the beast was making, jolted her out of her trauma induced state. But by then it was too late, even as she flung herself out of the way, the thing clipped her leg and she thought she heard it snap.
Then a deep, melodic voice yelled after it: "Watch where you're going you bastard!" Then the young man looked at her and hurried over next he. "Are you hurt, do you need some help?" He asked swiftly and with a tone of worry.
"No, I'm fine, I think I may have broken my leg but it's ok. What was that anyway?" She asked with a frown as her friends came running with their bags of gear. And I thought we were ready for anything! Alanna laughed inwardly at herself.
You can never be ready for anything. Faithful answered with a chuckle.
The boy answered her question with a look that said her question was ridiculous and a tone that said he was stating the obvious, but he was still friendly about it, just a little disconcerted. "A car."
All right, to anyone who's got any questions about anything in this chapter, plz feel free to ask them in a review and thx again to dragon defender. By the way, I know, there's a language conflict, I already covered that in the next chap, which is already half written, so plz review and make me happy cuz, you know, you like making people happy right? Oh yeah! Also, I'm really sorry I misspelled Raoul's fief in the last chap, I'm so sorry! :D Ciao!