I ran my hand through my hair. A battle, already? I wasn't ready for it. There is no reason for there to be a battle. What Patrick said was right: what's done is done. I can't help that. Nobody can. Why can't Ragetti and all them realize that?
I sighed and put my chin on me knees, holding tightly to my legs. I guess they would never see it. There probably will be a battle.
Patrick was up and walking around, talking to everyone about the battle preparations.
I got up and walked to him. "Why do we need to prepare? We don't even know when it is going to occur!" I said to him.
Patrick shook his head. "We have to be prepared, no matter what. So far everyone is with us."
I crossed my arms and looked around. Otaku was standing with Ozzy and Nick Yang, there was Tigerlilly and her friends, Crimson, Lta, and Greenwolf. There was Kid Mental, excitedly throwing his Mithril daggers at a tree, practicing his throw. They were all gathering their weapons and shields. I even noticed Megamickel, who I had not noticed before, was preparing his weapons.
Everyone, was here. Twaksak, Assasin, Shadow, Webbuu, Calladus, Spirit, Silver, Gopher, Jackbmck, Blitzer, Sara… were they all prepared, to go a battle? Maybe even lose their lives?
I wish that they all are, and I also regret them having to go into a battle for a cause some of them didn't even really know about.
Blitzer and Calladus came up beside me, Spirit following them.
"We were with you in the battle against Dav, Aay," Blitzer said. "We will fight with you."
(A/N: Anybody thinking of Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring? 'you have my bow' 'you have my sword' I'm so tempted to put something like that in, but I wont XD)
Calladus nodded. "All of us probably have suffered from a death or two by your parents, sadly, but anyone trying to kill a person who had nothing to do with the killings…"
"We will defend," Spirit finished for Calladus when he wandered off.
I looked at the ground, tears once again welling up in my eyes.
"Aye, Aay, you have all of us," Kid Mental said, offering a small beer to me.
I laughed and refused his offer, and saw that everyone had a small smile on their face and a look of confidence also upon their face.
"Yes, what Kid Mental said here is right," Crimson said. "I hardly even know you, but Anton and his gang has been bothering Patrick and also us around here. It will be good to see him gone."
Behind him, Lta and Greenwolf both nodded, agreeing.
Patrick wrapped one arm about my shoulders. "I see the doubt written on your face; we all see it," he said. He tapped me on the nose. "Let it go, Aay. We'll go to this battle…"
"To the death!" Gopher and Kid Mental screamed.
We all laughed at that, for some odd reason.
Patrick then spoke to all the people standing there. "Let's finish eating, but be prepared. If you even hear a single soul screaming, come with a weapon running toward the scream. We have to be careful."
Everybody nodded and went to go finish their breakfast.
I sat back down, leaning against Patrick's shoulder. "Patrick…?"
"Hmm?"
"Isn't it weird how we all have these friends? I mean, I started out with none, but…" I counted on my fingers slowly. "1, 2, 3, 4… 20, a mixture of really good friends and people I've hardly met… 23 including Pez, Alica, and Calina."
"Wow…"
"Yeah, I'm surprised too."
"No, not that…"
"What then?"
"You can count!"
My mouth dropped open. "You're so inconsiderate!" I shouted and punched him in the arm playfully.
Patrick laughed and cowered while I just sat there punching him lightly over and over again on the arm. "Ok, ok! I'm sorry!"
I laughed but didn't stop punching him.
"You know, Aay, I'm eventually going to get a small bruise if you keep on doing that, and I'm going to get annoyed."
"Wow, that's new. The almighty Patrick; annoyed."
He caught my hand. "Guess I deserved that."
"You bet you did!" Though my remark wasn't as smart alecky as his…
"Its amazing how both of you are still a couple," Webbuu said, who had sat down near us.
"Why?" I asked.
"You two fight all the time," Webbuu said, taking a sip of his drink and lifting his wizard's hat back.
I gave a small laugh. "You wouldn't understand."
Webbuu looked at us with a sparkle in his eye and he just grinned and looked away.
I took a drink of my apple cider that Patrick had passed out before the note. Well, at least I tried to take a drink of my apple cider. I missed my mouth by half an inch and spilt it all down my front.
I gave a little shriek. The apple cider was hot. It wasn't burning, but it surprised me.
"Um, Aay," Patrick started to say.
"What?" I said quickly looking at him.
He pointed to his mouth. "Your mouth is up here."
"Oh, really?" I put a stupid look on my face. "I didn't notice!" I got up and ran toward the small house. "Going to look for a cloth, be right back!"
I found a small kitchen and searched for a cloth, eventually finding one. I was almost about to wipe the front of my shirt, when all the sudden Shadow walked in, a weird look on his face.
"Yes?" I asked him.
He grabbed the hilt of his handle. "Give me the cloth."
I looked at him confusedly. "What?"
Shadow finally grinned. An evil one. "You're going to regret being the child of Sir Dark and Lady Scarlet. I've been requested by Ragetti to bring you to escort you to him."
I looked at him, dumbfounded, then it began to sink in. "How can you do this?" I asked him, my voice barely a whisper.
He ignored me and motioned for me to come closer. "Give me the cloth."
I realized I had left my weapons in Patrick's clan house, which I hadn't had time to see if they had survived the fire. I reached behind me, my hand searching for a weapon of some kind. I came across a cutting knife. I gripped it tightly.
"Sure, I'll give you the cloth," I said, coming closer, holding the cloth out.
I knew where he was trying to get out; he was trying to gag me with the cloth.
As I got in arm's length of him, I handed him the cloth and then I had thrust my hand with the knife with all my might at Shadow's head. The point of the knife was headed for his eyes.
He was fast. He had a addy arm guard on, and he was able to parry my attack. He had blocked it.
"Oh dear," I whispered and tried to jump away, but he had already swung his sword and had created a thin long line across my stomach, blood already seeping out a little.
I don't know why haven't I haven't screamed yet. I opened my mouth to shout for Patrick, and I felt someone appear beside me and place a hand around my mouth.
"Don't you even think of screaming, Miss Aay." It was Li. She had teleported just in the knick of time. She had a dagger at my side.
Li looked at Shadow. "I thought you said you could handle this?"
"I could've."
"Luckily I came up to check on you," Li said, shaking her head. "You walk back out like nothing happened, I'll take Miss Aay to Anton."
Shadow nodded. "Good, because they must be wondering where she is."
I began thinking, I won't get caught again, I won't get caught again… I clenched my fist and looked down angrily, shook my head to rid of the hand covering my mouth, saying, "I won't be caught again!"
Li smirked. "Wanna bet?"
I grinned and looked at her. I gave her my 'dangerous' grin. "Yah," I said. I grabbed her hand that was holding the dagger, as fast as I could go. I was able to grab it and was able to yank away from her, but she still had a good grip on the dagger.
"Dammit," Li had cursed and looked angrily at me. She took a free hand, and grabbed her wizards staff that was attached to a string on her back. She pointed it at me. "Let go."
"No," I said. I had both hands on the knife, and she only had one. She was pretty strong.
"Then you asked for it," she yelled and I saw power collecting at the end of the staff.
Right then I knew I had to let go, so I did and ducked.
The attack went right above my head, crashing into the wall behind me. The wall crashed down, and I grinned and stood up.
"Hmph," Li smirked then gave a snarl. "I suppose you can't be taken captive." With that, a purple light swelled around her and she disappeared.
I heard my name being shouted and I turned to see Patrick, Blitzer, and more people trying to crowd in.
I guess the sight of me with a cut on my stomach and the wall destroyed wasn't that good of a sight. "Patrick…" I whispered and gave him a hug, not so far as to leave a trace of blood on his shirt.
He kissed my on my forehead. "E gads, Aay, what happened?"
I shook my head and sighed, a tear escaping my eye. Finally I spoke. "We had a betrayer among us."
Patrick took a harsh intake of breath in. "Who was it?"
I looked around gravely at everyone. "Shadow."
Assasin looked surprised and ran out with Otaku following him. With a fellow white knight becoming a betrayer, it was a big thing. They ran back in after a few minutes.
"Shadow's gone. We can't find him."
Ok, so I made Shadow evil…
Oo! My favorite song is on!
Ignore that. Anyways, yah, I made him evil, I had sort of planned on that once I did it.
There will definitely be a 12th chapter, then an epilogue, then a loooonnnnggg author's notes and thank you's to all you wonderful people out there, but that might not be up till another 15-16 days, for I don't know if I'm going to finish the story by June 15, when I'm leaving for 5 days. (Washington D.C. yaya!)
I don't know if I'm going to make it a tragedy… how can I make it into a happy tragedy? Is that possible?
Ah man, the song is over. Almost.
:cough: ignore that too.
And if you do have any questions, complaints, state them, just NO character complaints anymore about not being in the story much. It is just about how the story flows, live with it, sorry to be blunt.
Asante sana squashed bananas… I forgot to add that into the story XD but I had it stuck in my head for awhile! I haven't seen that movie in a long while, it makes me tear :( (XD don't make fun of me, I get sad when Mufasa dies, ok?)
This author's chatting time got a little longer than intended, but I felt like talking.
And wish me luck! Finals tomorrow! (when I post this it'll be today, Thursday)
I'll leave now!