Squirrel POV
I was very scared, because I had gotten separated from my mother and aunt. I hid in the ruins. I was hiding when I heard our phrase. I fell into his trap, there was the one crying, he takes me as bait to kill the other feys of my tribe, I think he will kill me, but he won't kill me. He sets me free, what a strange guy! He kills everyone else and he doesn't kill me, in the attack on my village, he kills everyone he sees in front of him, but he doesn't kill me.
I have to run but I'm lost, dirty and all I want is my mother. I was alone for a few days, before a group of fey hunters came along and with them was the Green Knight, we found a group of fey children and he told us that he has a shrine for feys. He takes us there, when I go down the stairs I see the most important person in my life: my mother.
" Mom!" I screamed and ran to her with my arms stretched out. At that moment I didn't care if I looked like a big baby, all I wanted was my mother.
"Squirrel!" she shouted, running towards me, hugging me and filling me with kisses. "My baby! My Percival! You never leave my side again, understand? I'll chain you close to me!" she says with tears of happiness.
"Mom! Stop! You're embarrassing me!" I say, but not coming out of the embrace.
"My son, I'm so happy you're alive, why didn't you wait for me? Your aunt and I went to the ruins and you were not there!" she says, holding me in her arms and not letting me go. I felt her losen her hold on me a bit.
"I am sorry, mother, I heard a voice calling out from our people and I left the hiding place, but it was not a fey, it was he who cried, the one who was in the attack. He took me, he used me as bait for the feys that survived the attack, he killed them, but he set me free and I ran as fast as I could. I was lost in the forest, but the Green Knight saved me!" I say in her arms.
"I have to thank this knight for saving my son, the joy of my life, my everything!" she says, taking me off her lap and instead opting to hold my hand. We both held hands to approach the knight, when we approached, he took off his helmet.
"Gawain!" My mother knew the Green Knight.
"Nimue!" and he comes towards us, my mother momentarily lets go of my hand, but keeps me very close to her. Gawain hugs her and once again and the tears of happiness fill her eyes. "I can't believe you're alive!" he says.
"What about me? I don't believe you're alive! I have many things to tell you, but first I must introduce you to the most important man in my life!" she says.
"Don't tell me you've found your soulmate, because I'll kill whoever's stealing you from me," says the knight with a glare.
"No, I didn't, but you can have this conversation with Pym, she found hers," she says, pulling me.
"Aunt Pym, found her soulmate, can I meet him, please, Mom!" I exclaim in excitement, grabbing a hold of my mother's hand while giving my best puppy dog expression.
"Mom? Nimue?" asks Gawain, looking at my mother and me.
"Yes, I adopted him. After you left, his mother died in childbirth, so I felt I had to stay with him, Percival!" she says, to Gawain.
"MOTHER! Squirrel, please!" I spat out crossing my arms.
"Okay, Squirrel, that's my brother, in everything but blood, Gawain and Gawain, that's Squirrel, my son, the most important man in my life!" she introduces us. "But we have to find the others and show them something that my mother has kept for me," she says, pulling us onto a small piece of land, and there were three couples snuggling in.
"Pym, darling, I have two wonderful pieces of news!" she says, coming in.
"Aunt Pym!" I ran toward her at my impressive speed and hugged her. "I missed you so much, I heard you found me an uncle. May I please meet him!" I say.
"Squirrel, my little one! How much I missed you, I knew you were alive, that you'd learned everything me and Nimue taught you, know you look so much like your Uncle Gawain." She talks and squeezes me.
"Pym, and the second news is here!" says my mother, pushing Gawain inside.
"Hey, Pym, you've grown a lot since the last time I saw you and who's this soulmate of yours I need to kill," he says in a manner that I can't detect if he is serious or joking.
"Gawain!" She gets up and jumps on him. He returns the hug. They let go and she takes him to the rest of the group and introduces them, while I go back to her side and she takes me away because she realizes that I'm really tired and in a minute I succumb to sleep.
When I wake up, I meet the new members of our family, we leave to meet Merlin, I find out that he is my mother's father and that I will have a brother and that my mother has a soul mate. To be honest it seemed like a whole bunch of information, but at the moment I just went along with had to say goodbye to Grandpa because someone had him followed. We ran away and found ourselves in one of the valleys, entering one of the tunnels. And Mum told our friends and family everything that happened when we met Merlin. We went on, but Mum threw her sword at the bottom of the cave and Auntie Morgana went to get it. We kept talking, my mother slept and I talked to my little brother.
"Galahad, you'll have the best family possible, we have several uncles and aunts. We have Uncle Dof who is a Viking, Aunt Guinevere who is a Viking captain and Uncle Arthur who is human, but is funny. We have Aunts Morgana and Celia, they helped Mum against the paladins and we also have the uncles and aunts of our tribe, Aunt Pym who is a healer, Aunts Layla and Aunt Kaze, who are part of the fey guard and our Uncle Gawain, who is our greatest warrior! He saved me when I was in the forest, we also have Grandpa Merlin, who is the greatest wizard there is, we don't know who his father is, but I know he will love us very much, and the last person who is the most important, is Mommy, she will move the earth and the air if something happens to us!" I whisper to my mother's tummy, and her tummy moves.
"Percival! I think your little brother liked your words, as do I," she says, with tears in her eyes.
"Mom, he said hi to me. Aunt Pym! My little brother kicked." I shouted in joy. My aunt comes running and puts her hand on her belly and recognizing that his aunt is here, he kicks. We kept talking, until we heard a scream and we got up, I hugged my mother fearing what was to come.
"And Morgana?" asks Aunt Pym.
"You guys stay here! Guinevere protects Nimue, it's a Cailleach ambush she's waiting for us, I'll find Morgana, and the sword." says Aunt Kaze and she leaves. We stayed there, Guinevere was circling the room like a tiger. Pym and I were talking about my little brother still in my mother's womb, and out of nowhere the torch goes out, my mother takes some stones and tries to create fire.
"Nimue, what's the matter? You are so pale and shaking!"
"Gawain's in danger and your idiot soulmate and Arthur are with him, let's go to them!" says my mother and we went after the idiots, created a plan that the I would go invisible and ask the idiots to create a distraction and my mother would use the sword, using the story Morgana told us.
As my mother asked, I go to the mill where my uncles are and enter there.
Uncle Gawain is frightened by the noise I make, and takes out his sword.
"Squirrel, shouldn't you be with your mother?" he asks, lowering his sword.
"She told me to come, your exact words, go and warn your foolish uncles that they should have waited and not got into trouble, and now you have to save their lives!" I say. "Aunts Pym and Gwen told me that Uncle Arthur and Dof are grounded for being fools!" I continued reporting the message and they looked at me with their eyes wide open with fear. "She told the three of you to go out and create a distraction for the baboons, that she will show what she has learned from the great wizard." I didn't say it was Grandpa because Mommy wants to tell them that news herself.
"My sister's crazy, she doesn't care about her safety!" he says, it sounded like he hadn't heard me.
"Guys, you're the best fighters here, besides the women out there, who are ready to attack, they need you to do a lot of damage with them because I can see they are setting fire to the top floor and we have to save these other feys, she's learned to make me invisible, I can get past the paladins but the one who cries is pretty scary, right?" I say.
"Little one, she's passed that recklessness of hers on to you!" he says.
"She says it came from you!" I reply.
"Okay, I'll tell you what, Arthur and Dof, you go with me and you, little one, can you get them out of here?" says my uncle.
"Yes, I can! Uncle idiot." I say.
"You deserve a spanking!" he says, with a smile. "Come on, we've got to do some distraction!" and they came out and started the attack, I took the others where I'd arranged with my mother, we met and went to the shelter.
"They came back!" the people spoke.
My mother goes up to the altar and makes a speech.
"Like you, the paladins took everything from me. My mother, friends, my house, everything, everything but this" she says taking the sword, "this is the sword of our people, forged by the fire fey, when the world was new. Kings fought wars to possess it and the church tried to destroy it, for in its forge it possesses the power of all our ancestors." I hear the people crying out the power of their ancestors "And this is our courage, our light in this dark immensity, our hope in all this despair I will be your shield and I promise by the Hiddens, that I will be your sword and I swear that from that day forward, feys will live free. Some call it The Sword of the First Kings, but I call it as the sword of the First Queen."
"Queen Fey!" shouts my uncle and we follow.
I ran to her and gave her a very strong hug.
We found out that the paladins had managed to track us down, so we came up with a plan to conquer Grammaire and used our best weapon on my mother. She terrorized all the paladins and they ran back to their leader, I stayed with Uncle Gawain during the commotion and I saw that my mother was fainted. I ran to her and asked my uncles to take her to the castle medical wing. After that, Uncle Gawain took me with him to talk to the lord of the castle, but the lord only wanted to meet my mother, but we stayed in the hall of the throne waiting for Mama to arrive. Out of nowhere the doors opened and a round figure of my mother entered.
"Queen of the feys, what an honour to meet you!" says lord of the castle.
"My Queen!" says the gang, bowing. "This man demands to speak to the lady!" says uncle, with a smile on his face, almost breaking his serious face.
"Demanded?" she asks my uncle, he settles.
"Lord Ector, I'm sorry I didn't come to talk to you earlier, I appreciate the welcome!" Mama speaks politely.
"You didn't gladly take my city!" he says with a not so happy expression.
"It was not finished, yes it was taken, but I assure you we will even leave a guest in Grammaire. Until we leave safe and sound, after the city is yours again, but until then, you are sitting in my place!" says our queen.
"Are you the ones who prepare this humiliation, Arthur, Morgana?" says the uncle, fighting as if they were children.
"You will address our queen!" says Dof, with your serious face.
"You're just children!" he says, coming off the throne "I won't talk to your people, I don't like the red paladins either, but does my child think he'll be safe here? Indeed, you would be safer in your trees and caves," he leaves the hall. I smile.
"Mother, may I sit on the throne?" I ask.
"Have manners, boy! She's not only your mother, she's our queen!" he says, slapping me in the back of the head.
"Urgh" I snitch, but my mother nods yes and I run and sit on her lap.
"What were the results? Are our people all right?" Mama asks.
"The light of the new day we've lost some," says Aunt Kaze.
"A dozen, maybe more, elderly, sick and children, some refugees who should have arrived more than a few hours ago." Uncle Arthur answers.
"Alone, they are the targets of the paladins. We have some lost in the forest, if you let me take some of the hunters to find the missing ones," says Uncle Gawain.
"Go ahead!" She talks to my uncle.
"Mother, may I go?" I ask, rising from her lap with a frown.
"Only if Gawain says you can," she says and I look in Gawain's direction. He agrees and I celebrate.
"I'll go with them, Nimue! Gawain needs someone to keep in line," says Aunt Layla in her mother's tone, we laugh at her tone.
"Come back soon!" says going towards the group it contained, me, Gawain, Layla and Kaze, and filled us with hugs and kisses and tells me that if there's anything I should run and come back here, we headed towards the entrance to town when we left, my Aunt Laya asked me to stay close to her throughout the tour. We went to the woods, there we not only found them but we could not save them.
"Aunt Layla, why are they doing this to our people?" I ask her, after seeing more lost feys.
"I don't know, but I believe we'll have our answers when your mother, our queen, ends this bloody war, but now she's got a lot on her mind, your new baby brother on the way is her main concern," she answers, hugging me.
"My love, you and the little one run the fastest, I think there's someone here and they're looking for me!" whispers my uncle.
"I won't leave you, I've lost everything in my life, my family, people and I don't want to lose my soul mate," she says, taking her cheek in a tender kiss, I turned my cheek in disgust, not wanting to see adults showing affections. But quickly it ends, a shadowy figure attacks my uncle and he pushes his soul mate out of the scene, against the monk. My aunt pulls me and hides us behind one of the bushes. We watch the fight and my uncle makes the monk lose his balance, to balance he puts his hand on the ground, right in front of us, his hand becomes camouflaged in the leaves.
"How could You?" My uncle asks in shock and the monk uses the shock to attack him, hitting him in the belly with a blade. He falls to his knees and I closes my eyes on my aunt's lap.
"Born at dawn..." Gawaine begins and the monk elbows his head. "There are people who want you alive!" he says.
I feel my aunt is furious and prepares to attack, she finds and looks at the stare at each other for a while and none have the courage to break contact.
"Lancelot!" she says, and pulls me to run away.
"Aunt, how do you know the monk?" I ask her, while we hide.
"He's someone I thought was dead, but he's alive even after those ten years. I do not believe that he is killing his own people, he is my brother", she said with tears.
I give her a hug, "I have an idea, let's go save Uncle Gawain and then you can fight your brother," I said to her.
We go through the woods, Aunt Layla camouflaging herself in the trees and I next to her. We saw a group of paladins and we noticed that they were going towards Grammaire, where the rest of our people were. They have a giant army compared to ours.
"Aunt Layla, how will we help Uncle Gawain with all these paladins?" I ask her.
"Here's the plan, we have to disguise ourselves, we'll go into their camp, you follow Gawain and try to get him out of wherever he is, I'll go to my traitorous brother, and I'll get satisfaction from fighting him, I don't believe he's alive!" she says our plan, but goes on "Is that really what I'm thinking? The connection with your little brother. Squirrel, do you remember if the Weeping Monk was in the attack?" she asks.
"I remember that, yes, he was, after I separated from my mother I met him and he used me as bait for the other feys of my tribe." I answer her, without understanding anything.
"Honey, your mother was right to think that me and the baby were connected by blood and I think I just found out who your mother's soulmate and the baby's father. And that's why the Hiddens took away her memories, when your uncle finds out, he's going to kill him," she says, placing her hand on her head in an attempt to soothe an incoming heachache, but I don't understand it right. "We follow them and if they split up, you follow Gawain and try to get him out of the paladins and I'll follow my brother."
We followed them from afar, he was being taken to one of the huts, aunt layla's brother was waiting outside, but when the paladins came out he entered the hut.
"Come on, Aunt Layla, we have our moment!" I tell her.
"No, could have more paladins with him when my brother comes out I'll follow him and then you go and save your uncle, you understand," she says and I nodded yes. We waited for the Crying Monk to come out and when he came out, my aunt followed him and I went there to save him.
I tore the tent and saw my beloved uncle, weak tortured, trembling, and that frightened me. I never saw him like that, all the stories my mother told me about my uncle, that he was the bravest of our tribe and even more all the deeds he had done as the green knight, that he was my saviour, he saved me when I was lost and didn't know where my mother was, he who was the one who brought my mother's reunion with me.
"Uncle Gawain!" I drew his attention.
"Squirrel, nephew, no, no!" he says, I go up to him and start trying to get the chains off that hold him in that chair.
"I need to let you go, Aunt Layla's waiting for us!" I tell him.
"Get out of here, now!" he says. "Go Squirrel."
"No uncle, I can't leave you here!" I say with tears in my eyes.
"Percival, my nephew!" he calls me by my birth name. "I can't, my legs can't move, I can't run, leave me, little one." and my tears are like a waterfall, but I can't give up.
"No, Uncle Gawain! I won't leave you!'' I keep cutting your ropes.
"Your mother needs you," he says.
"Aunt Layla and my cousin need you, I need you." I tell him.
"Percival, I wish I had soldiers with your courage, my nephew. Now I ask you to kneel down, quick!" he says, and I do what he asks, both of us dropping our tears. "A knight Fey is like the land, as stable as the Great River!" I cry, seeing this male figure of mine who has always saved me, who is my uncle, in everything but blood, speaking how much he admires me. "It's as true as Arawn's bow. Born at dawn..." I still don't want to say goodbye.
"To pass in the twilight!" I say and go to him and embrace him and he whispers in my ear. "Percival, I've known you so little but, nephew, I love you so much!"
"Me too, Uncle Gawain."
"Be brave, go! Your mother awaits you, before they return, the green knight commands!" I let go of him, to be caught by arms that touch all my face.
"What have we here?" says a man.
"No! Leave my nephew alone, he's just a boy!" shouts my uncle to the man, turns me towards him and takes my knife and breaks it to him.
"I'll gouge out your eyes!" he takes my face and makes me look into his eyes.
"Later!" and I see that his eyes were already torn out. He took me to their leader.
"What is it!" the leader asked.
"He's an informant Fey, he was trying to release the prisoner Fey, he's the Green Knight's nephew." answers his brother.
"How many are with you?" asks the priest. "How many?
"Enough to kill you, you bastard, I'll gouge out your eyes... "and I spit at him and start cursing you with all the curses I know.
"Ask Brother Salt to interrogate him, and ask him to start with that brat's dirty tongue," says the priest. The brother begins to walk, but another stops and with a voice he knew speaks.
"He's just a boy. He's no threat to us."
I look up and see the one who used me as bait to kill other Feys from my tribe.
"You!" I say and it seems I'm not the only one who remembers our meeting.
"Take him!" says the priest. And I went to the place I knew I'd never see my mother and my little brother again. I was taken to a tent, similar to the one my uncle was in, and the brother who had found me in the tent came with a huge collection of utensils, which I see and I am very afraid of what he takes out like a knife.
"Is it time to play?" he says.
"He's the ugliest man in the world, inside and out, he can kill! But he's going to stay who he is forever and that's the worst thing I can imagine!" I say, pissing him off like I learned from my aunt. But everything went dark, I heard a shrieking scream from my mother. No, this can't be happening, she can't be here.
"We need to light the torches!" says a paladin entering the place.
"I don't need them!" says Brother Salt.
"You don't need a fire to..." says one of them.
"No, I can do other things!" says Brother Salt, "Let's start with the tongue."
"Go ahead, cut, I'll keep talking, I'll tell you how ugly it is, I'll come back, to haunt you in your nightmares, that even when you try to wake up, you won't be able to tell the difference from dream to reality," I tell him.
"Who's here?" he asks. "Have you come to watch? Weeping Monk."
What's he doing here? He came to kill me, but he would have killed me a few weeks ago.
"No!" he says, taking the knife and cutting Brother Salt's neck and dropping the body on the ground and coming towards me.
"Percival, can you walk?" he asks me, cutting the ties of my arms and legs. Since when he knew my name, I never told him.
"I think so!" I told him.
"Layla's going to get your uncle from King Uther's camp, come and stay close to me!" he says, covering me with his cloak and we leave the tent.
We walked for a while, the monk leading me through a multitude of tents until we heard metal sounds. And there was the idiot in black who was talking to the leader of the paladins, he was with several guards, so I saw 10 men, who seemed to be the leader coming towards us.
"Long ago we suspected that his affinity was not with the church," says the man.
"Who stole me from my family and made me a murderer?" says the monk.
"But I would like to know why?" asks the man.
"He's just a boy!" answers the monk.
"Yes, a Fey boy, nephew of the Green Knight, but here he is alone, maybe he reminds you of someone!" says the guy in black.
"You don't need him," says the monk.
"Why can't he smell his own kind like an animal? Or can only you do that?" mocks the man.
"Behind the barrel." The monk pushes me, and I run and hide.
"The church has regained supremacy over this embarrassing episode. The famous witch will be burned, as you all deserve. While we are talking, her abominations are being slaughtered by the pirate Vikings on the beggar coast. And finally, the corrupting weakness of Father Carden will be purged. Surrender, I know you have a reputation, but this is the Trinity Guard. You must know their reputation." the man speaks. My mother surrendered, I can't believe this is happening. Aunt Pym, not once again have I lost my family.
Meanwhile, I see the guards preparing to fight the monk, he pulls two swords from his belt and as soon as the fight begins, five of them attack him at once, but the monk was very skilled, so he killed them. But the battle wasn't won yet,the guy in black sends the five who were next to him to attack,they surrounded the monk,who was still standing pointing his two swords at the others who took advantage and took out their swords,rolling up one of the mangroves and pulling them to the ground. One of them attacks him in his chest with the sword, the three cut him deeper and deeper and the other two whip him with the mango until he fell on his belly and a lot of blood came out of him. When a guard grabs him by the neck, I know I have to do something, I take a stone that was beside me, and throw it at the head of the golden mask that I was holding, I hit him hard, he releases the monk. I go and look for something that can help me distract the guards from the monk. In front of me I had a sword in my hand and I was talking.
"Who's first?" I say loud and brave, they come towards me, but I see that the monk ends up with a force that makes him stand up and attack all the guards and kill them at a speed that is animally impossible for any human to move. One by one they were falling to the ground like ants on an anteater devouring them. After the monk kills the last one by twisting his head, he shows the sword towards the leader of the masks, but the coward runs and runs as fast as possible, but the monk is weak and collapses on the ground, I run to him and with some feeling of familiarity.
"Daddy, come on, we've got to go!" lifting him up and helping him "Get up!" and he gets up and I take him to his horse and I help him to ride and with the last forces he's got he pulls me onto the horse.
We leave for our future.
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