"Ty was it?" Kendall asked once he and the young pirate were away from the ship and walked along the shoreline.
"Ay, your majesty." Ty chirped and looked around, happy to get out of some heavy lifting and instead acting as an unnecessary bodyguard for the prince. "Ty's the name." he said and stretched out his arms a bit and let out a groan before bowing clumsily. "At your service, your majesty." He added with a grin. The prince couldn't help but sigh.
"Please don't... call me that." He mumbled. "I do have a name." He said and turned to the pirate. "It is Kendall." He said with a slight smile.
"Alright, Kendall." Ty said and shrugged his shoulders. "Uh... why are we out here again?" he asked and followed the prince who headed away from the water and up the dense forest with quick steps.
The young prince chuckled. "I just want to have a look around. I've never seen anything like this before." He said breathlessly and placed his hand on one of the tall palm trees. The pirate beside him chuckled and shook his head with an amused smile.
"It's just a palm tree." Ty laughed and scoffed. "You'll find them everywhere." He said. Kendall's eyes twinkled and he turned to the pirate.
"Really?" he asked. "I have never seen anything like it before. Though I haven't been to many places..." He mumbled and looked back up at the tree and letting out a small breath. He flinched a bit when he heard rustling in the bushes. A small animal, no larger than a mouse crawled out and shot down towards the waterline.
His pirate company laughed loudly and started to mock him. "Scared?" He teased and nudged the prince. Kendall pouted a bit and shook his head.
"No." He muttered. "I just... got startled that's all." He said. "S-Something doesn't feel right." He said and shook his head again. "Let us go back to the ship, I don't want to stay here anymore." He said and frowned while glancing over his shoulder into the forest. "Let's go." He said and pushed Ty back towards the ship.
Kendall flinched again when the bushes behind him rustled once more and a low giggling was heard. He turned his head and met a pair of icy blue eyes. A young girl had walked out the forest and giggled girlishly.
The young prince stopped and tilted his head in confusion. "Greetings, my prince." The girl said softly and smiled sweetly at him. She was short and had long bone white hair and a pair of pale lips. Her petite body was covered in a blue dress that billowed in the breeze.
Kendall furrowed his eyebrows a bit and turned to her, eying her curiously yet cautiously. The young girl giggled and turned on her heel, looking over her thin shoulder at the blond and wiggling with her fingers, motioning for the prince to follow her.
"Come with me." She whispered and Kendall nodded, mind blank and eyes locked on the short girl. "Come with me, Kendall." She urged and the blond nodded again and stepped closer to her. The girl giggled and held out her hand and Kendall took it and followed her into the forest.
Ty – that had been standing like paralyzed – stared at the girl. He could hear her voice in her head. "Go back to the ship. Go back to the ship, Tyler." He heard her chanting. "Go back to the ship, get Captain Diamond." He heard and it took a moment before he could think on his own again and blinked a few times and shook his head and ran back to the ship.
"C-Captain!" he shouted. "Captain Diamond!" he called and frantically flailed his arms around. The captain of the ship sighed and looked down at him from the rudder deck. "Captain! Help! Black magic! The prince!" Ty shouted and waved his arms around and pointed at the forest where the prince had gone. "It was a sea witch, I tell ya!" he said.
"What?!" James roared and jumped over the railing and landed securely on the soft sand. "What did you just say?" he asked and stepped closer to the young sailor.
"S-Sea witch." Ty stuttered. "I saw it with my own eyes." he said. "She put a spell on him and he followed her right into the forest." He said and pointed again. The tall brunet glared down at him and he gulped. "S-She was in my head..." Ty whined. "I heard her in my head. She used her magic on me. She wanted me to call you."
James furrowed his eyebrows and looked up at the dense forest and drew his sword. "Board the ship." He said. "Be ready to set sail the moment I return." He said and shoved the younger pirate out of his way before stomping after the witch and the prince.
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Kendall stared down at the young girl and she giggled and ran her hands over his shoulders and down his back. "I've never had a royalty in my home before." She murmured softly and smiled up at the blond.
The young prince nodded slowly and gulped. He could hear the girl in his head. But he couldn't make out much. He could just barely move. He knew he shouldn't have followed her but his body just wouldn't obey him. He tried fighting it.
"Oh, you're a feisty one." The girl giggled and let go of him. Instantly, Kendall regained control over himself and he sucked in a harsh breath. "Just what I've been looking for." She said. "You have just what I need."
"What do you mean?" The prince asked. "I have nothing." He said and held his arms out as if to make a point.
"Oh, but you do..." The witch said. "You have something that I want." She purred and eyed the blond with her dark eyes. Kendall furrowed his eyebrows and let his arms drop back down to his sides. "The captain." the girl said.
"Captain Diamond?" Kendall asked. "I cannot give him to you. You cannot own a person." He said and shook his head.
"No." The girl said and smirked. "No, you cannot." She said. "But you've felt him. You've tasted him. You still do." She said and brought her hand up to the blond's lips and nudged them. Kendall shook his head and frowned, like he didn't understand what the young girl was talking about. "I could help you, if you help me." She suggested.
The young prince narrowed his eyes and paused for a moment. "How could you help me?" He asked. The witch laughed softly and smiled innocently up at the blond and wrapped her arms around his neck.
"I can give you what you want the most." She said and grinned. "The one thing you crave." She continued leaned closer to the prince's ear. "Your freedom." She whispered. Kendall tensed up and gulped.
"M-My freedom?" he asked and looked down at her.
"Your freedom." She confirmed. "Free from your captors, free to return to your home and your loved ones." She said. "Your freedom." She said silently. Kendall looked away and let his eyes drop and stared at the dirty wooden floor.
The witch chuckled and gently patted him on the cheek and turned around and sat down on a small chair, Kendall followed silently, still refusing to look at her. "I'll be... free?" He asked. "My freedom?" He asked and a tiny amount of hope made his eyes sparkle.
He could hear the girl in his head again. She was singing, lulling him into a dazed state. The prince could feel his control slowly fading and he tried desperately to hold on to it.
"If you help me of course." The young girl said and crossed her slim legs. "Now..." She murmured. "In just a few moments our dear friend will join us in here and that's when I'll need your help." She said. "All you need to do is to take this blade..." She said and pulled out a dagger from what seemed to be nowhere, "and stab him. Right in his heart." She continued and pointed at her own chest.
Kendall took the blade and gulped. "I have to... kill him?" he asked. The girl giggled and smiled happily. "I-" The blond began but was interrupted when he heard footsteps and rattling bushes and branches outside.
"Kendall!" He heard James growl and he turned back to look down at the witch.
"In his heart." She repeated silently and Kendall looked down at the blade in his hand and then turned to the door. His heart was pounding in his chest but his breathing was slow and even though rushed.
"Captain." He called stiffly and it didn't take long for the handsome brunet to come bursting in through the door and let out a breath when he saw the blond. He hurried to Kendall's side and eyed him for injuries.
"We have to go, now." James said sternly.
"Now, now. Why are you in such a hurry?" The girl behind Kendall – who'd gotten back up on her feet and padded over to the blond – said. "Stay a while, captain." She said softly and smiled innocently.
The captain glared at her and pushed the blond out of the way and walked up to the girl that didn't seem bothered by the threatening pirate and simply reached up and grabbed James' wrist. She was so fast that James didn't even had time to react. He froze at the touch, feeling his limbs turn stiff.
James couldn't move and he wanted to yell and curse but neither his voice nor body would obey him. He could hear Kendall shift behind him but he couldn't turn his head to look.
"Do it, my prince." The young girl said lowly. "Pierce his heart and I'll free you." She said.
Kendall was so close James could feel the blond's breath on his neck. James' breath hitched and his eyes darted around trying to sense movement. The prince's breath was hot against his skin and the blond gulped while raising the dagger.
"Do it." The witch urged.
Kendall slowly walked around the brunet and stood in front of him, gripping the dagger tightly and looked up at the pirate captain. Behind him the witch urged him to pierce the brunet's heart and Kendall's breathing quickened.
The captain looked down at the blond. The young prince's eyes were dark and cloudy but behind it there was a spark of something he'd never seen before.
James closed his eyes and waited for the blow. Calmer than he should have been.
The young prince breathed harshly and gulped while shifting the dagger in his hand. "Do it and I shall give you your freedom." The witch whispered and Kendall clenched his fingers around the weapon before swirling around and sinking the blade into the girl's chest. Her voice seemed to get caught in her throat and she gurgled and let go of James' wrist.
The brunet immediately unfroze and gasped for air when his ability to move returned. Kendall furrowed his eyebrows and twisted the blade in the witch's chest and leaned closer to her ear. "Freedom is being a pirate." He hissed before jabbing the dagger deeper into the young girl's chest.
James shut his eyes tight when a blinding light exploded from the already pale girl and she screeched loudly. He could hear Kendall scream and once the bright light disappeared the witch was gone and Kendall fell to his knees while clutching his right wrist, howling in pain.
"Aaarggh!" He groaned and bent over forwards and grasped his wrist to the hand that was sizzling and turning red, just like you had dipped it in boiling oil.
"K-Kendall." James mumbled and knelt beside the blond. Kendall winced and let out a groaning sound. "Here." James said silently and grabbed some of the witch' clothing and ripped it and wrapped it around the prince's wounded hand.
"L-Let's just get out of here." Kendall panted and hung his head a bit, almost dozing off. James furrowed his eyebrows and looped his arm around the blond's waist and pulled him up to his feet. Kendall winced again and found that his legs wouldn't quite cooperate and struggled to stand. James cursed silently and dragged the blond along, out of the hut.
"Stay with me, Blondie." He mumbled and hoisted the blond up a bit. "Come on, let's get out of here. Quick." He said and dragged the blond along. Kendall struggled to keep his eyes open but was soon unconscious and James had to carry him back to the ship.
Once they were back at the ship the crew marveled at the sight of their captain and the prince. "C-Captain!" Ty whimpered. "Y-You made it! W-What happened? What-"
"Not now, Ty." James growled and glared at the young sailor. "Set sail, we're leaving now." James ordered and yanked the blond up again and tried to get a better grip on him before giving up and hoisting him up to hang over his shoulder.
"A-Ay, Captain!" The crew said and immediately went to work.
James carried the blond into his cabin and placed him on the bed. "You're something else." he sighed and looked down at the blond. He let out an amused sound and shook his head. "Pirate." He mumbled and nudged his hat before exiting the cab and leaving the prince to rest.
Update! Yay!
Oh, this story is going slow for me... as everything else. So... sorry :/
In any case I hope you like it anyways and I'm so glad that you took the time to read this :) Thank you!