A/N Isn't life grand, when things just work?
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Hikari Kamiya didn't understand what she was doing as she fled down the stairs, picking up the corners of her gown so that she didn't trip over. All that she knew was that the string had been pulled too tight, and now there was a rebound.
Her soft slippers didn't make a sound across the floors of the still sleeping palace; although dawn itself was nearing the horizon, the young princess had found no rest for herself that night, the words that she had written down three years ago repeated across her head, along with the hopeless look on her angels face as he was taken into the dungeons.
Coming into the dark corridor, she shivered, but didn't let up her place. She had been in here only once, and she despised it, the cruel contraptions, the bars. It reeked of death and pain.
The Guards themselves were extremely surprised to see anyone at this hour in the morning, not to mention the princess herself. Looking at each other in confusion, the slowly shook their heads.
"I'm sorry my lady," The guard said, "But we cannot allow you to enter."
Hikari gave them both a good glare, "Why?" she asked, knowing exactly why, she didn't even know why she had bothered to come here, knowing what had happened the last time she had.
"My Lady, we would but, your brother the prince expressed that you were not allowed in this chamber anymore my lady," The guards obviously did not understand why she was here any more than she did.
The young princess gave an exasperated sigh, "Please," she started, "That was three years ago, and the prisoner had no reason to be locked up thusly, this is our greatest enemy, and I have matured fully; I will not make the same mistake again,"
"But my lady," they started again, "The prince will not be happy with us, if we allow you in."
"Go!" Hikari said in a loud, commanding voice, before lowering it into a deadly whisper, "That is an order, I will accept the consequences of my actions and will lock up before the guards that are going to relieve you come!" She held up keys which she had received from the guard room, and knew they were surprised to see her with them.
The guards, though still apprehensible, could not ignore a direct order from their princess, and so, left the gates of the main cell, looking back at Hikari warily.
Kayel was using a bit of his water to help clean some of Takeru's deeper cuts that were in great danger of being infected when the door clanked open once again.
The young prisoner was startled, and dropped the water to the ground, spilling most of its contents, before quickly moving back away from the prince. It was a concept they had both come up with together, they both knew that if the guards thought Kayel was using some of his water to help Takeru, they would stop getting water, and if they acted like they didn't like each other for racial reasons, then they wouldn't be separated again like last night.
Takeru however was not startled, he seemed to feel her presence, and led confused eyes up to the stairway. He didn't want to see her here, like this.
Hikari moved softly, noticing the other prisoner staring at her warily, she shut the door, and moved across to where Takeru was chained.
He wouldn't meet her eyes, and for some reason, that hurt her heart more than anything else that she would have expected from him.
Fumbling with the keys, she recognised the right one, and clicked it into the chain that was holding him up. Feeling eyes on her, she met his confused blue ones with her own comforting crimson ones.
This may hurt, her eyes told him, and he nodded, "I'm sorry," she whispered, but he looked away, not wanting her pity.
The chain clasp holding both of his hands together clicked open, and with a painful gasp, he fell to the ground. Hikari knelt by him, warily massaging his hands as he regained feeling in them. Once finished her hand grazed across Takeru's own metal cuff, the same as Kayels, and the strange pattern that was engraved upon it.
Putting her hands back in her laps, she waited for him to get over the shock.
Shaking his head, Takeru looked up at her, "Why are you doing this?" he asked, confused, it was positive she still didn't remember a thing.
"I don't like see anyone in chains," she whispered looking deep into his eyes, mesmerised, "and I don't want you to die."
Takeru felt his throat choke up with the familiar feeling of crying, he had been through so much lately, and it finally went into overload, but he pushed the feeling away, "I'm going to die anyway, Ri," he whispered.
She turned away from him with much effort, and without realising it she was talking "There is a secret passageway behind the prison, it leads out into the open forest behind the palace, and into every cell," she whispered, unsure of what she was getting into, "If you can figure out how to use it, then it is yours to use."
Takeru's eyes opened wide, as he looked into her crimson ones, "But… why? How?"
She shook her head, she had done too much already, "I would tell you how, but I don't know myself, all I know is that it is somewhere under the stairs," she said. Takeru cringed, realising now the reasons for guards… the place she was pointing at was underneath the stairs, in sight of where they were positioned.
Hikari tried to ignore his cringe and turned him around to face him, her eyes scanning his worst injuries, bruised ribs, and bloody wrists from holding his whole weight in those chains, and many more scratches and cuts that decorated his body.
"One of my ancestors, a great king, built these cells during the first war," she whispered softly as she unconsciously bound his worst injuries, "But he had a great heart and did not like the odds that if anything were to happen to the castle, the prisoners would be unable to do anything to save themselves. He would teach all of them of the escape route, but none were ever able to use it due to the heavy security; they never had enough time to figure out how to open it, though according to legend it is rather simple. After my ancestor died, the secret of the passageway was kept between people of royal Kamiyan lineage, and never told to the prisoners."
Takeru smiled softly at the sound of her voice, it was so easy to listen and talk to her, and the aura was peaceful and happy, "I'm glad," he whispered, his voice sounding harsh next to hers due to lack of water.
She scoffed, "you would be, this history may save your life!"
Slowly he shook his head, "No, I'm glad that you have history" he whispered.
Kari looked confused, and her head pounded in a relentless effort to find information. Before she sobered, whispering, "Not really, I wish I could remember more."
Takeru's eyes sighted on the slight scar on her temple, his hand moving up, softly touching it, "Me too."
Staring into his eyes, she felt as if it were sunset, on a warm day, and she could see his bright blue eyes and his blonde hair sparkling with mirth, and his smile infectious. Hikari just continued to gaze into those hope-filled blue eyes, before she shook her head, getting rid of the dream.
"I have to go," she whispered, "The next guards will come not an hour after dawn. My brother will not hurt your scouts, and I will give them extra water if I am able, you must escape, and quickly."
Takeru nodded, unsure of the notion of leaving the scouts behind, but he trusted Hikari with his life, memory or no memory. She stood up, but his voice stopped her, "Ri?"
She looked back, the nickname making her heart flutter, "Yes,"
"Thankyou"
Kari just smiled, before she walked to the side of the room where the concrete stairs were, and left him to his escape.
When the door clanged, Kayel shuffled over to Takeru, helping him stand up. "What was that all about?"
Takeru shook his head as his legs protested about carrying his weight again, his arms and hands were throbbing, and with Kayels help he stumbled across the large cell floor to where the stairs were.
"I'll explain later," he said, "But now, we need to escape."
"Escape?" Kay questioned.
Takeru nodded, "yes, and then I can report back, and you," his eyes softened on his new closest friend, "You can finally return home,"
Kayel looked out the large cell bar windows that had been his only glimpse of the outside world for the past 6 months. Slowly he shook his head.
Takeru looked completely surprised, "no?" he asked, "but Kay, what about your family?"
Kayels eyes were troubled when he looked back at Takeru, "If I go back to them now, I'll only get them into even more danger than they are already in. I cannot go back to them until the war is over,"
Takeru looked unsurely at him, they had been through so much in such a short time that their friendship was extremely strong, and he was worried for him. "Then…"
Kayel looked at the ground, before he met Takeru's eyes again with new strength, "Takeru, you're fighting for the right thing," he started, "Let me fight for you, I can wield a sword better than any of those Kamiyan sheep."
"Kay, I'm not going to put you into that situation," Takeru whispered softly.
"What? Tk, I'm loyal to you, I promise, you have my word,"
Takeru stopped Kayels speech with a single hand gesture, the first of many that were going to make Kays mind reel with questions about this boys real lineage, "Its not that, Kay, I trust you more than anyone at the moment, but your Kamiyan, and… I just don't want to see you hurt,"
"Hurt?" Kayel laughed, "I don't get hurt!"
Takeru laughed as well, "No, just caught, captured, and put in jail!"
Kayel smiled softly again, "Tk, please, I'm serious, let me do this for my family. For you."
There was a moment of intense silence before Takeru gave in, "Alright, but you stick with me when we're at camp!"
"Deal"
Tk smiled, "Then lets get escaping!"
Half an hour later their escape had not gone far, using their metal cuffs to bang against the wall to check if there was any hollow parts resulted in a lot of loud clanking noise, and not much progress.
Finally, Kayel sat down, holding his cuffed hand gently. It hurt a lot just to touch the sore spot, he had been wearing his cuff for almost 6 months now, and the deep dark bruises were easily seen underneath it. Banging on the wall was deeply aggravating these wounds.
"Tk, stop, we've searched the whole staircase, above, below to the side, each and every step! There is no tunnel underneath,"
"I wont believe that," he whispered, "I feel like I'm missing something."
"There is no hope,"
Takeru shook his head, "There is always hope… no matter how dim the light… it is always there," Staring at the middle of the staircase, his fingers absent mindly traced the strange pattern on his metal cuff.
Suddenly it clicked.
Reaching his hand out, he traced the same pattern on the large brick in the bottom half of the stair case, his hands roaming the bricks surrounding he noticed that there were 10 bricks were really one whole brick, the one with the pattern situated in the dead middle.
On instinct he pushed against it, feeling it creak slightly, yet he could not move it.
At the creak Kayel had jumped up next to Takeru, "What?" he questioned?
"I found it," was all Takeru's explanation, "Help me push"
Immediately Kayel forgot of his injury and placed both hands underneath where Takeru had his, and pushed with all his might, the large brick creaked, before with a large clang, it slid behind the other bricks on the staircase, revealing a small, old, dusty, unused passage way.
Kayel was stunned, coming out of his stupor only when Takeru spoke, "Lets go," he said.
Kayel laughed, "You seriously think we'll fit in there?"
Takeru just shook his head, "We don't have a choice, we have to"
With a smirk, full of mirth Kayel exclaimed, "Well then, what are we waiting for?"
Takeru just laughed, squeezing his body into the tight, dusty passageway, Kayel right behind him, "Wait a minute!" he called, sliding the brick across, and pushing back against it to close it off, before crawling into freedom.
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The Guards standing outside the door shared a glance at each other, the morning had been an extremely surprising one, when they had first arrived they were shocked to find no one guarding this cell, although it is a strange task, and no one really understood why, but it was the first time they, or anyone else had seen the Prison unguarded.
That had been only fifteen minutes ago, and they both knew that there should have been some action in the prison by now, but there was nothing, no scuffling, no hoarse whispers, no moans, no sounds of waking. Just a deep stillness that froze them to the core.
Finally one of the guards couldn't take it anymore, he took his large set of keys and unlocked it with a large clank, and slowly creaked the heavy iron door open.
There were no sounds. No surprised scuffles. Just an indescribable silence.
Both Guards walked into the dark room, and looked around the room.
The completely empty room.
Then they both ran out as fast as they could to where they would find a member of the Royal Family.
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The whole family was situated around the table, Taichi once again going over battle strategies with his father, glancing worriedly back at his little sister whenever he had a break. She had been unbelievably quiet and secretive the whole morning.
The Guards rushed in, and at once Tai assessed the situation with unsure eyes, and not the usual amount of confidence.
"Aren't you the guards that are supposed to be on duty?" He pointed out, a strange feeling of dread dropping to the pit of his stomach, he didn't notice Kari's nervous look at the guards.
"Yes, My lord," They said.
"But then what?" Tai was obviously confused.
"When we came to post today, there were no guards, and my lord…" they paused, "The prisoners have gone without a trace."
Taichi was stunned, "What? How?"
He didn't even listen to the guards stuttering, it was obvious they were quite unsure themselves, but for some unknown reason he turned to Hikari, and watched her nervous face, and darting eyes.
He swore his heart stopped beating.
"Hikari?" He whispered.
She met his eyes and he knew from the way she was looking at him that she had done it. He didn't understand why though, why had she abandoned her family? Didn't she know she was destroying them all?
"Go find the guards who were supposed to be on post" he growled at the guards.
"No!" Hikari yelled, "Do not punish them for my actions." She whispered.
Tai turned on her, and she was not ready to receive the brunt of her brothers anger.
His brown eyes flashed dangerously as he spoke, "What were you thinking?" he yelled, "Don't you understand, Hikari? Don't you know what you've done? He was evil, he was a murderer and he was our enemy!"
Hikari was startled, as Tai continued his speech letting his failure, uncertainties and worries about his own little sister out on her, "And you! You just let him walk out of here? How could you? He's our enemy!"
Pulling herself together she glared at her older brother, and to everyone surprise she started screaming "The only thing wrong here is you, Tai, its this family! You were not yourself, you were not right! This war is pointless and he understands that! You don't understand me and you don't understand Keru!"
The last word hang in the air, accompanied by a shocked silence. Tai looked like he'd been slapped in the face, his mouth wide open and his eyes wide. Hikari herself looked completely shocked, she didn't know where that had come from, nor did she understand the nickname she had used.
Doing the only thing plausible to her mind, she turned on her heels, and hurried out of the room and into her own bedroom.
Lying down on her bed, her mind pounded. Why did she help him escape? Now that she thought about it, Tai was right… it was their greatest enemy in battle, and they had him captured, and she just…
But she didn't regret it, for some strange reason, it felt like she had been repaying some kind of debt, but not really… it just felt right, the aura that was around when she was just in the same room as him, and she couldn't stand seeing anything happen to him.
Yet it still didn't answer her relentless question.
Why?
The door slowly opened and faced her mother with her tear-streaked face.
"Mother, I'm sorry…" she weeped, "I didn't even know what I was doing, I didn't mean to,"
The queen smiled, "Yes, sweetheart, you did."
Hikari's eyes jumped up, looking into her mothers unsurely, "but… why?" she was shocked.
"You must figure that out for yourself,"
"I've tried… really I have…" Hikari shook her head, her thoughts turning to the male members of her family, "Are they angry?"
"No, not really, more shocked"
"Oh," She sighed, "What must I do?"
The Kamiyan Queen shook her head, "You must follow your heart, for that is the only thing that will ever tell you the truth."
HIkari smiled, "I've been told that before,"
"And you should listen to him,"
him? Hikari thought, but her mother slowly stood up, and left the room.
Lying back down, she went back to her thoughts.
Why?
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It took the two escapees around 15minutes to crawl through the small, dark tunnel. They crawled out into a large patch of rather overgrown grass, the morning dew still clinging to it as the light of dawn made its way into a blue sky.
Both took a moment just to relax in the peace of freedom with their eyes clothes as all the weight of the world just fell of them, especially Kayel, who lay on his back letting the sun kiss his face, and the dew drops fall on his clothes.
Takeru was the first one to realise the danger they were in, and looking forward, he saw the forest. "Come on, we need to get as far away from here as possible."
And not waiting for an answer, he jumped up, and ran deep into the forest, hearing the rustling as Kayel tried to catch up.
Finally he stopped, in the middle of the forest, sure that no one would be able to find them here. They wouldn't stay long, he decided, just enough to get their bearings, before making their way back across familiar territory.
He turned around, looking at Kayel, his dark brown hair seemed to be tinted with maroon, and he moved his hands from his knees and looked up at Takeru with a glare in his forest green eyes.
"What was that?" he asked, he hadn't run or done any sort of vigorous exercise in such a long time, "A little warning next time would be good,"
"I know," Takeru said, "I'm awfully sorry," he laughed and Kayel muttered something under his breath.
"Pardon?"
Kayel shook his head, "I said your looks," He nodded, "You look like a typical Ishidan,"
Takeru smiled, that didn't surprise him at all, "Well you look extremely Kamiyan as well,"
Kayel just smiled, shaking his brown hair, "So, where to now?"
"I need to find the place where I was captured last week, so I can make my way to camp."
"You mean so we can make our way to camp,"
Takeru laughed, "Yes! So, do you know where we are?"
Kayel looked around, "Vaguely, you said you got caught North West of the palace?"
Takeru nodded, and Kayel's expression turned to one of longing, "My house is near there, I used to always take my little sister on walks through the woods before I went into the army."
"You have a little sister?"
Kayel smiled, "Yes, she's eight." He stopped himself, "Well, now she's nine, but she was eight last time I saw her."
Takeru smiled, "You'll see her again, in no time at all."
"Maybe someday," Kayel shrugged his shoulders, feigning carelessness, but it was obvious he loved his little sister very much.
"So, if I explain this area," Takeru changed the subject, "You'll be able to take me there?"
Kayel smiled and nodded, "I'm pretty sure I'll be able to."
"Then lets get going!" Takeru smiled, and they set off in a leisurely stroll, as Takeru explained his surroundings to Kayel. They made sure to cover their passing, so that no one would ever know which direction they departed from.
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The sun was finally setting, painting the sky with gorgeous colours of red and orange as the Ishidan camp finally settled down.
Yamato joined his soldiers, who were quietly sitting by the early campfire, a lethargic atmosphere surrounding them all. Davis walked up, he had been taking Takeru's role as well as doing his own amongst his own part of the Takenouchi soldiers.
"Do you have a toll yet?"
Yamato nodded slightly, "We lost four men, 3 of those attacked are still in critical condition, and many wont be allowed to fight again, not counting the ones unaccounted for"
He turned to face Davis, his blue eyes boring into his little brothers' best friend; filled with accusation: You told me to hope, and look were it has led us.
"You said he would be back by now,"
Davis shook his head, "Yamato, I have no idea when he'll be back, but I'm just sure that he will be back!"
Yamato glared at him, "and what? How do you expect that to happen, that they'll just let him walk out of the castle? Its been a week! Davis! A week!"
Davis turned around, "I know its been a week, but, he's got Hikari there, she wont let anything happen to him."
The older boy stared, "Hikari? If she was going to do anything she would have done it long ago. She's Kamayin now, shes not going to be the same when you see her next."
"You talk like they are a different species! They don't want this war just as much as we don't want it!"
"So why don't they stop it?"
"Why don't we stop it?"
Yamato scoffed, "Because-"
There was silence.
Yamato sighed, standing up, "I just need to be alone for a bit."
Davis watched as Matt slowly walked away, realisation and bitter worry upon his brow. There were some days when it really didn't pay to be a prince.
The sun was low in the sky when at last the first noise of campfire activity could be heard by Kayel and Takerus ears. Takeru smiled brilliantly at Kayel, "We made it!" he said, rushing forward through the bushes, Kayel not far behind.
All eyes were immediately upon Takeru, and he was instantly recognised. It was with unease that he noticed some of them were bowing their heads, he had never been treated like that before, and it was very unsettling.
"Tk?" Davis stood up, his eyes questioning.
Takeru smiled, nodding, "Davis"
His best friend pulled him into a tight hug, "You had us worried, well," He changed his mind, "Not me, but you had Yamato worried!"
Takeru laughed, patting Davis on the back.
Davis laughed along with him, worry disappearing into the atmosphere, "Go get the Prince," Davis ordered one of his soldiers, and Kayel, hearing that statement, couldn't help feeling a little bit apprehensive.
"My Lord Takeru" A soldier said, bowing his head a little, "We are much relieved that you are safe."
Takeru looked back at the unnoticed Kayel, trying to ignore all the stares, giving his new close friend a comforting look.
Kayel was startled by the way the soldiers had been treating Takeru, he never gave his new friends status a second thought, yet now, it seemed clear that the young boy was of a very high status. When he thought about it, he had seen some of it come out in their short time together. The statement of getting the prince made him more than a little nervous, he was Kamiyan, and had been in the Kamiyan army, hearing stories about the enemies princes, yet so far all of that had been wrong, and he was unsure about what to expect.
The soldier ran as fast as he could into Yamato's tent, and the older blonde boy looked up irritably.
"Its.." he was breathing heavily from running so fast, "It's the younger prince, my lord."
The expression on the older prince turned to one of shock and joy, and he pushed the Takenouchi soldier out of the way as he ran out of the tent flap.
Kayel, to say the least, was quite surprised when an older version of Takeru ran up and enveloped him in a hug. He seemed to remember Takeru mentioning something about a brother, but it had all but slipped his mind.
Takeru smiled up at Yamato, "Sorry I'm late."
Matt just smiled, "Better late than never,"
"Yeah," TK nodded, "I figured that as well"
His eyes turned confused as he indicated to the soldiers, some whose heads were bowed.
It was Davis who answered the unspoken question, "No more hiding from your title now!" he laughed, and Takeru looked at his brother for assurance.
"The need arose that we needed to tell the soldiers your identity." Yamato confirmed.
"Tk?" Kayel questioned, "What?"
Yamato's eyes switched up onto Kayel, he had not noticed the Kamiyan standing there.
He held out his hand, "Prince Yamato Ishida,"
"Kayel Miyoto," he said before stopping, as the title Yamato used came into his head, "I mean… huh?"
His eyes were wide as he looked at Takeru in obvious shock and utter confusion, and Yamato looked at Takeru in confusion as well.
Takeru just gave Kayel an uneasy smile. Understanding came over Kayel and he could only get out a few syllables, "Ah-" he said, and suddenly everything made sense.
Yamato gave him a look of utter amusement.
Kayel just laughed, "I'm sorry but… ah" he shook his head in disbelievement that it had taken him so long to work out, "Everything makes so much sense now."
Yamato laughed, "Takeru! Were you keeping secrets again?"
Takeru just stuttered, "Onii-chan, we were in prison! And when have I really ever told anyone?"
Yamato laughed, "Come, I would talk to the both of you," he said, and Takeru sent Kayel a reassuring glance as they followed the older prince into the tent.
Kayel waited a few moments before following them in, he was both surprised and unsure of how relaxed these Ishidan Princes were, and nothing was really making much sense. He was nervous, yet knew one thing, if he had to fight at all, this was the army that would save his family, and help him return to them.
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Sora Takenouchi sat at her window, her heart clenched painfully as she looked across the empty battle plains, remembering something Yamato had told her at their last visit together. She couldn't stop the thoughts that that may be the last time she would ever see him.
"Listen Sor," He whispered, and she looked up into his bright blue eyes, "I don't know what my future asks of me, I don't know whats to come, but I do know we have a long journey ahead of us, both in battle and out… I just want you to know, that no matter what the next few months bring, I will always love you."
By this part, she had looped her arms around his neck, and buried her face within his chest, his hands absentmindly playing with her perfect orange hair.
"I love you too," she had whispered, "And wherever you are, you won't be alone… I'll always be with you, I promise."
He rested his cheek upon hers, "I know, Sor, I know"
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She was brought out of her reminiscing by a loud shout, and she could hear her parents arguing. This was a usual occurrence, and she knew deep in her heart that they didn't love each other. She didn't even know if they liked each other anymore. The marriage had been completely arranged.
They were coming closer to her room and she could understand some of the shouting now.
Her mothers voice was retorting something earlier said, "Well if you're so sure it's the wrong decision, how come you allowed them to be sent there in the first place?"
"Because, I thought the princess should have some ability in making her own decisions!"
"A war decision? I'm sorry, my lord but you have a daughter, and not a warrior son!"
Sora could practically feel the glare, "And whose fault is that?"
Her mother stormed away, flinging open the door to Sora's bedroom, "Here she is," She stated, "Tell her,"
The King took on a regal stance, "Princess Sora,"
"Yes Father"
"I have some worries about your decision regarding our soldiers,"
Sora looked at her mother, confused, but curtsied and answered, "and I will hear it"
"The Ishida Army has already lost many of its scouting party, including some of our soldiers, and I am regretting your decision, I do not think it was wise. Tell me, Daughter, Why did you send our soldiers to the Ishida realm?"
Sora averted her eyes, "I deemed it the right choice, Father,"
heknew that that was not the whole truth, "And you believe that continuing our alliance with such a weak army is acceptable?"
"They are NOT weak" She answered, her eyes flashing dangerously, before she bit her tongue and continued, "I mean, My Lord, I believe that they will prevail."
The Kings nerves were at an end, "But Why? Why Sora, Why did you send our troops to the Ishidas, when our main alliance has always been with the Kamiyans? What have the Ishidas done for our help, what has King done for us? What have the princes done? Why in the world would you ever deem it the right choice when we know-?"
Sora was standing back in the corner, her nerves alert, and tears threatening to fall as she screamed the only thing that was sticking in her mind, not wanting to here the rest of her fathers speech.
"Because I love him!"
Then there was silence, a deadly silence only wavered with Soras sharp intake of breath as she wiped her eyes, and looked uneasily around her room, and took one look at her shocked parents, and knew that they understood.
"I mean… I" she gulped, "I have to go."
And so without delay, she briskly walked out of her room, leaving her parents in a dead shock.
And the silence continued, stopped only by the shocked king falling wearily onto his daughters' bed, staring into space, and her mother putting her head in her hands.
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to be continued
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A/N: ha ha ha ha. I finished this in less than a month! Hope you enjoyed!
A/N2:
An apology is in order, as this chapter has been finished for 2 months, and you guys have been waiting for the chapter for two months. Lets say a month ago, 2 days before I was leaving to go to Europe (my first time!) for 18days, fanfiction was being stupid and wouldn't let me update, so I'm sincerely sorry, and will try to be quicker next time, but don't count on it, cause this months extremely busy, along with Assessments, I have my Music Theory, my S+D Theory, and my Saxophone Exam (7) coming up. Once that's over things will be back to normal and updates will return for the next 2 or 3 chapters (the last chapters).
… you know, now I know whats happening with this story my imagination is set loose and I want to write other things, so I've been writing Paris, and Keeping Faith, and 4 LoTR fics instead of this one… I know… bad…
Stupid School Certificate.
HAHAHAHA! WE GOT A NEW COMPUTER AND NOW ISN'T BLOCKED! I think I might go downstairs and update this now instead of waiting until tomorrow at school!
C u in a month….
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Tuesday 22nd February 2005