Chapter Ten
The snow was falling, again. Lucan laid in Dagonets arms on the ground, sleeping peacefully. "Seize him!" Someone whispered before Dagonet was wrenched from his spot on the ground and thrown aside. Lucan shot up, his eyes red from crying and tiredness.
"No!" Lucan shouted as he watched Dagonet's struggle against the Roman soldiers. Dagonet punched one Roman soldier, knocking him to the ground. He drew his sword as Lucan was being dragged away by Marius. Alecto came out of his tent, a curious look on his face, to see what was going on.
"I have the boy!" Dagonet glanced to the side to see that Marius had a knife to Lucan's throat. The Roman soldiers stood and drew their swords.
"Get him." Marius commanded as he pressed the knife harder against Lucan's throat. Fulcinia rushed forward to try and rescue Lucan, but her husband pushed her aside.
"Kill him now!" Marius shouted. The Roman soldiers moved closer to the Dagonet, and Marius muffled Lucan's cries with his hand.
"Rawr! I am Mufasa!" A loud shrill scream filled the air. "You are the chosen one Hope!"
"Destiny get down right now!" Another voice screamed. Everyone froze, looking around to see what all the screaming was about. A loud shriek filled the air again and everyone looked up to see Destiny standing in the tree. It looked as though she had a rope tied around her waist, and a sword in her hand.
"For Narnia!" She shouted before jumping forward and taking a nose dive. Hope ran out from the bushes and slid across the ground, grabbing Lucan's foot and yanking him away from Marius just as Destiny dropped down and stabbed Marius. An arrow shot out of no where and cut through the rope that was holding up Destiny. She fell to the ground growling.
"Guinevere you bitch!" Destiny shouted as she stood up, still gripping her sword in her hand. "You ruined my matrix moment!"
Hope jumped up and pulled Lucan away from the fighting scene. She was grateful that she was able to pull him from Marius's grasp without him getting hurt. When Destiny had told her about this idea, she at first thought it was ridiculous and it would never work. But it turned out she was wrong.
Destiny kicked Marius over onto his stomach and stood over him. Glaring down at him she began to stab him repeatedly shouting. "This is for killing that damn awesomely cool lion!"
Lucan jumped up and ran towards Dagonet. Guinevere walked up, her bow in hand, Arthur and Lancelot behind her.
"Your hand seems to be better." Lancelot smirked. Guinevere glared at him; as did Hope. Guinevere shot another arrow at the roman soldier's feet.
"ARTORIOUS! Do we have a problem?" Bors shouted as he rode up on his horse.
"You have a choice. You help, or you die." Arthur said to the soldiers. Bors' horse smacked the soldiers in the head with its tail.
"Put down your weapons. Do it, now!" One of the soldiers shouted as he threw his weapon down.
"Yeah!" Dagonet growled as he stood in a fighting stance. The soldiers all dropped their weapons and Jols rushed forward and picked them up. The sound of a horse galloping could be heard as Tristan and Faith rode up.
"How many did you kill?" Asked Bors.
"Four." Tristan responded.
"Five." Faith sneered.
"Not a bad way to start the day." Bors laughed. Tristan stopped in front of Arthur and dropped a crossbow at his feet.
"Armor piercing. They're close, we have no time." Tristan said.
"You ride ahead." Arthur commanded. Tristan nodded his head and turned his attention to Faith.
"You coming?" He asked. Faith shook her head no, and slowly slid off the horse. She was still dirty, and her clothes were nothing but rags now. She really didn't want to go galloping around in the snow. As soon as Faith was off the horse, Tristan took off.
"Die bitch, die!" Destiny was shouting. Hope walked forward and pulled a blood covered Destiny from the ground.
"Destiny, I think he is dead sweetie." Hope snickered. Faith walked up behind them and looked at Marius' dead body.
"Good job Des." Faith said "I don't even recognize him." Growling, Faith kicked his side.
"Maybe we should burn the body just in case." Destiny said. Faith and Hope looked at her funny. "He might come back to life and try to take my oh so smart brain!"
"Your smart brain? Now that's a laugh." Faith snorted.
"You are simply filthy child!" Fulcinia was fussing over Faith as she dragged her into the bathing carriage. She had ordered one of her maids to bring some hot water so she could bathe Destiny and Faith.
"I'm not a child." Faith growled as Fulcinia ripped her clothes off and shoved her into the steaming hot water.
"Shh girl. You are covered in God knows what!" Fulcinia sighed as she began dumping water over Faith's head. Destiny climbed in through the back of the carriage and began to snicker.
"Ha-ha! You're getting a bath!" Destiny teased in a voice that sounded very much similar to a two year olds voice.
"You are next Lady Destiny." Fulcinia slowly said as she scrubbed at Faith's skin furiously. Faith turned and stuck her tongue out.
"Shove it Simba!" Destiny shouted. Fulcinia turned and smacked Destiny across the face.
"Watch your mouth." She commanded before she turned her attention back to Faith. Destiny growled and made a mimicking face.
"Where are Miracle and Hope?" Faith suddenly asked.
"Hopey dopey is teasing Lancelot, and Miracle is off somewhere with Galahad." Destiny responded as she began to slowly strip the blood covered clothes off her body.
"I don't like Galahad." Faith said through clenched teeth. She looked up and watched Destiny crawl into the bath with her.
"That's just your motherly side speaking, you've always thought of Miracle as a little girl. Besides, she loves him." Destiny said as she grabbed a rag and began to scrub the dried blood off her hands.
"She doesn't know what love is." Faith growled. Fulcinia began pouring water over her head again.
"You have such beautiful hair Lady Faith, it feels like silk." Fulcinia commented as she grabbed a fur blanket and wrapped it around Faith's shoulders.
"I'm not a lady Damnit!" Faith shouted as she stood up and stepped out of the bath. Fulcinia handed her a black silk dress, then smacked her hand.
"Watch what you say." Fulcinia grabbed the fur blanket and began to rub Faith's wet body down. Faith glanced over to Destiny with a disturbed look on her face.
"Don't cha feel violated?" Destiny snickered. Faith nodded her head slowly as the dress was pulled over her head. It fit her rather well, a little snug around her chest, but rather loose around the bottom. It was too low cut for her taste, but she decided she would just deal with it.
"Later Des." Faith said as she climbed out of the carriage.
"Smell ya later stinky!" Destiny shouted from the inside.
Outside the carriage, Faith stood still as she watched Galahad ride by with Miracle in his arms. Miracle was smiling, her arms were wrapped around Galahads neck, and she was placing soft kisses against his cheeks. Faith sighed and trudged forward in the snow. She felt her damp hair soaking the back of her dress and she knew she should probably pull her hair up, but frankly she felt she didn't have the energy to do anything.
After Faith had been walking by herself for five minutes, Destiny emerged from the carriage, clean and decently dressed. Her dress was a deep red and her hair was damp curls.
"Go get Hope and Miracle, Des….The Lake is getting closer." Faith slowly said. Destiny nodded her head and walked off.
Faith walked off the path that the caravan was traveling on, and walked into the woods. She waited for what seemed like an eternity for her sisters to return. Finally they did, and Miracle didn't look too happy about being dragged away from Galahad.
"The Lake is getting closer. I refuse to let Dagonet die." Faith said. The three girls stared at her before nodding there heads.
"I never really did like it when he died…" Miracle mumbled.
"I didn't think it was fair." Hope stated.
"Dagonet died!" Destiny's eyes bulged. "That must of been the scene I was staring at Gawain…"
"Then it is decided. I will stand next to Dagonet; prevent him from running onto the ice. If needed, and if I see fit, I will go out on the ice." Faith looked around at her sisters. "If I do so, if either of you so much as even move one foot to follow me, I'll make sure you never see battle again; I'll pluck your eyes out with a spoon."
"Violent! So violent!" Destiny shrieked "You know when you talk dirty it gets me all wet."
"Oh gross!" Hope exclaimed.
"I'm leaving!" Miracle giggled and walked off.
"Shall I get the ropes?" Faith smirked.
"Oh yes, lets." Destiny grinned.
"Destiny, where are we going?" Gawain whined. Destiny was dragging him through the woods, an evil look on her face.
She stopped and turned to face him. An evil smirk covered her lips as she undid his breeches and yanked them down. Gawain's eyes resembled those of a fish as he was shoved down into a bush.
"Ow!" He whimpered. Something had poked him in the butt.
"Shut up!" Destiny shouted as she got down on her knees.
"What are you doing?" Gawain asked her, an eyebrow quirked.
"You'll see." Destiny smirked, licking her lips. Her head moved down between his legs and Gawain gasped in surprise.
"Destiny!"
"I gotta pee! I gotta pee!" Hope was hopping around the horses with her legs squeezed shut.
"Then go find a damn bush Hope!" Faith shouted.
"Eww! That's nasty! I could get some infection or something!" Hope cringed.
"Would you rather pee in a chamber pot and have someone stare at it as they trudge off to dump it out?" Miracle asked.
"Fine! I'll go find a bloody bush to piss in!" Hope shook her head as she walked into the woods to find a bush. The woods were slightly dark and she couldn't see too well, nor hear anything. She was passing by a thorn bush when she heard moaning.
"Mmmm….Destiny…" Hope cocked her head to the side and crouched down next to the bush. She pushed a few of the branches aside and could make out the reddish blond hair of Gawain. His head was tilted back and his eyes were squeezed shut. "Oh D-Destiny…" Hope choked and jumped up. "DESTINY!" Hope shouted. Destiny shot up from the bush and looked around.
"Huh?" Destiny's eyes laid on Hope and she gasped. "I wasn't doing anything!" Destiny exclaimed as she took off running out of the woods. Gawain stood up, his breeches still down and everything.
"Destiny! Where are you going?" He shouted.
"Ummm…" Hope snickered. Gawain turned around and looked at her. Hope tried to keep contact with his face, but her eyes kept drifting down to his naked torso. "Uhh…I'm going to go now!" Hope snickered and ran off.
Gawain stood there dumbfounded before pulling his breeches half way up and running out of the woods. He stood behind a tree and waited for Galahad to ride by. When Galahad came by, he beckoned him into the woods.
"What is it?" Galahad asked. Gawain bent over, shoving his bare ass into Galahad's face.
"Can you get those thorns out of me ass?"
"Is there any other way?"
"No. We have to cross the ice."
"Get them all out of the carriages. Tell them to spread out."
Everyone dismounted their horses, and people fanned out across the ice. Faith stood with her sister Destiny at her side. They both already had bows in their hands, and Faith had a rather large axe strapped to her back. Hope was walking with Lancelot, a bow in her hand as well. Miracle held Galahad's hand as she cautiously walked across the ice.
The sound of the ice cracking could be heard, and the horses were becoming nervous, but they still pressed onward. The Saxons drums were loud and clear, and the knights looked at one another.
"Knights."
"Well I'm tired of running." Bors began "And the Saxons are so close behind, my arse is hurting."
"Never liked looking over my shoulder anyway." Tristan stated, causing Dagonet to smirk.
"It'll be a pleasure to put an end to this racket." Gawain smiled.
"We'll finally get a look at the bastards." Galahad smirked.
"Here. Now." Dagonet said, already pulling his weapons off his horse. Lancelot looked up at Arthur and shook his head disapprovingly.
"Jols." Arthur said. Jols nodded his head and turned to two men behind him.
"You two, take the horses." The knights began to unload their weapons.
"Ganis, I need you to lead the people. The main Saxon army is inland so if you track the coastline until you're well south of the wall, you'll be safe." Arthur commanded.
"You're seven against two hundred!" Ganis exclaimed.
"Eight. You could use another bow." Guinevere smirked as she walked past Arthur and stood next to Lancelot.
"Twelve against two hundred actually." Faith said as she pushed past Arthur, Miracle, Destiny, and Hope following behind her.
"I don't want you here Miracle, go with the caravan." Galahad begged Miracle.
"I can't, I'm sorry. I'm remaining here with my sister." Miracle looked away from Galahad and took her position between him and Arthur. Faith stood between Hope and Dagonet, while Destiny stood between Bors and Gawain.
The wind was blowing hard when the Saxons walked out onto the ice. The knights, and the girls, stood on the ice with their bows in hands.
"Hold until I give the command" Arthur commanded. Lancelot glanced to Guinevere and smiled.
"You look frightened." He sighed "There's a large number of lonely men out there."
"Don't worry, we won't let them rape you!" Faith, Miracle, and Hope chimed together.
"What?" Destiny looked up confused "I thought we were going to let them rape him…" A Saxon archer shot an arrow into the air, and it skidded across the ice.
"I believe they're waiting for an invitation. Bors, Tristan." Arthur said.
"We're far out of range." Guinevere complained. Arthur smiled at her as Bors and Tristan notched arrows back and launched them into the air. The arrows hit and killed a few Saxon soldiers.
The Saxons began to march forward, obviously angry that Bors and Tristan had killed some of their soldiers.
"Aim for the wings of the ranks. Make them cluster." Arthur commanded as everyone began to shoot arrows. Miracle was having a rather difficult time considering she had never shot a bow before.
Faith on the other hand was firing about four arrows at a time, earning funny glances from Dagonet. Hope had stopped shooting when she broke a nail while notching an arrow back and instead was standing there cheering everyone else on.
The ice was beginning to crack, but the Saxon leader forced his men to hold their ranks. The knights and girls continued to shoot their bows, knocking as many Saxons out as they possibly could. But the ice was not cracking.
"It's not going to crack. Fall back, fall back!" Arthur shouted as he drew Excalibur "Prepare for combat!"
The knights dropped their bows and began picking up their weapons. Faith dropped her bow and grabbed Dagonet's axe before he could even turn around. She rushed forward, but was yanked back. She fell to the ground, hitting the ice pretty hard. She felt the axe being pried from her hands and she looked up to see Hope.
"I had my chance at love, now here's yours." Hope whispered before she charged across the ice, axe in hand, in a yelling fury.
"HOPE!" Faith could hear Miracle shouting.
"Cover her!" Arthur shouted as Faith pulled herself up off the ground and grabbed her bow. She notched back as many arrows as possible and began shooting them as fast as she could.
Hope was hacking away at the ice, but she wasn't as strong as Dagonet, so the ice wasn't breaking as fast. Hope was breathing heavily as she raised the axe over and over again, slamming it into the ice. She could hear the Saxon leader yelling at his archers, and she just prayed that her sisters would cover her.
Arrows were whizzing past her head, and suddenly she felt cold steel impose her shoulder. She stumbled backwards a little, and looked down. Blood was seeping through her dress. The arrow had gone completely through her.
"Hope!" She could hear her sister Miracle shouting. A few more arrows were shot into her side, but she would not let this stop her. As the oldest, she had to protect her little sisters. She raised the axe once more, and began to hack away at the ice again.
Miracle dropped her bow and took off across the ice before Galahad could stop her. She could hear Arthur running behind her as she slid across the ice. She watched in horror as the ice finally broke and Hope dropped to the ground. She watched in agonizing pain as her older sister, her best friend, fell into the icy water.
Without thinking, she dove into the water after her sister. The water hit her like a thousand knives, and she felt the wind get knocked out of her. She reached out, and grabbed Hope's hand. Someone was pulling on her hair, and she felt herself being lifted out of the water.
Arthur pulled Miracle out, followed by Hope's dead body. The ice was breaking faster, and Arthur couldn't drag both bodies by himself. He turned to his knights and saw that Gawain and Bors were holding Destiny back, while Tristan and Dagonet held Faith back.
"Help!" Arthur cried out. Galahad dropped his bow and rushed forward, and picked up Miracle's frozen form and ran across the ice as fast as he could. Arthur was half carrying, half dragging Hope behind him.
Faith desperately tried to push Tristan and Dagonet off her, but they were both twice her size and stronger then her. "Let me go! I can't lose both of them! Let me go now!" Faith was shouting as she jerked around hysterically. Dagonet pulled her into his arms and held her tightly as he dragged her off the ice and onto the shore. Tristan picked up his bow and resumed shooting Saxons.
Gawain picked up Destiny and carried her off the ice. She was screaming and kicking, trying to pull away from him. He reached the shore and threw her down on the ground. She sat there, staring at Arthur and Galahad who were carrying her sisters. Destiny watched as Arthur laid her dead sister on the ground.
Faith jerked free from Dagonet and dropped to her knees next to Hope. She reached down and began to caress her stone cold face. "Hope…Hope open your eyes, please just open your eyes." Faith was mumbling. Destiny crawled over to her and started smacking her chest.
"Wake up you bitch! You can't die! I won't let you die!" Destiny smacked her chest harder then leaned down and pressed her lips against Hopes cold one. She continued to do this five more times, smacking Hope's chest then blowing air into her mouth. Destiny had hoped CPR would have worked, but it seemed to only be false hope.
Faith watched numbly, as Destiny collapsed on Hope's body sobbing hysterically. She looked up at the knights that were standing around them. Galahad was holding Miracle in his arms, trying to keep her warm. Dagonet and Tristan were collecting the horses; Arthur looked sadly at the girls.
"Destiny…" Faith began as she stood up. She reached down and grabbed her little sister's hand "Get up." She commanded as she yanked Destiny up. Destiny glared at her and pushed her away.
"It's your fault! You were supposed to go onto the ice! You were supposed to break the ice without getting hurt! If you would have just done what you were supposed to do, Hope would be alive! Now Hope is dead and Miracle could be dying!" Destiny's cheeks were wet from the tears that streamed down her cheeks "You're always yelling at us to stick to the plan, but now, of all moments you choose to just stand back and not do anything, you let her die!"
Tristan and Dagonet froze where they stood and listened to the conversation. The corners of Tristan's mouth twitched when he heard Destiny say Faith was going to run out onto the ice.
"Hope is dead and there is nothing I can do Destiny." Faith replied calmly. Her face was expressionless, but her eyes were swirling with emotion.
"Shut up! Just shut up!" Destiny screamed as she dropped to her knees and covered her ears. Faith stared down at her sister, anger clearly written across her face now.
Faith turned and walked to Galahad, took Miracle from him, then turned back to Destiny. "Get up." She commanded. Destiny just sat there. "Get your fat ass up now!" Gawain moved forward to help Destiny, but she pushed him away. Destiny stood and glared at Faith.
"Take Miracle, get on a horse, and ride ahead. First strip her wet clothes off and wrap her in your cloak. If you're quick enough, you will be able to get her to Fulcinia." Destiny glared as she took Miracle in her arms. She turned to Galahad and Gawain.
"Were coming with you." Galahad said. The three of them walked off towards the horses, Galahad now carrying Miracle.
Faith knelt down next to Hope and picked her up. Faith staggered backwards as she stood, not expecting Hope to weigh so much. Arthur came forward to help her but she shrugged him away. "Don't touch me!" She trudged forward and slung Hope's body over one of the horses.
Faith stood still leaning against the horse for a few minutes. Her mind was spinning in circles, and she didn't know what to do. Hope was dead, Miracle could be dying. All of this could have been prevented if Hope would have just stuck to the plan. 'No, its not Hope's fault, its yours for being so stupid…' Faith thought to herself.
"We need to leave Arthur." Dagonet said. Arthur nodded his and mounted his horse, pulling Guinevere up in front of him.
"Tristan, take Faith and ride ahead. Dagonet, get Hope's body and stay as far away as possible from Destiny." Arthur commanded. Both knights nodded their heads. Tristan climbed on top of his horse and galloped over to Faith. He reached down and pulled her into the saddle before she could say anything.
A/N: God! It was like dragging out because I could figure out how to end it! Lol. Sorry if the ending sucks. Sorry to all my hopey luvers! But, there are so many stories similar to this one and I wanted mine to be really different. I hope you guys liked it!
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