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Chapter three

Across the universe

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" Where are we going?" he asked

" home" i said smiling

"my only goal is to find the golden army. i can not go running of with you to a deserted kingdom!" he said looking away from me. "fine i'll go by my self" i said standing up and walking to leave. he grabbed my arm and pulled me roughly down onto his lap" no you will not...you are going to help me find the golden army" he said "why should i already said it dont want it awakened" i didnt bother looking at him cause i know i would melt and not be able to defend my plan. "mm i wasn't really paying attention" he said i could feel his lips on the top of my head. "come with me....please" i asked putting my hand on the side of his face. he kissed the palm of my hand and grasped it in his own. "after will you help me find the golden army?" he asked

"yes i will..." i said how i hated to say those words yet i had a plan. feelingsomething cold and metalic in my coat pocket i knew what had to be done... and so did the princess " let me go back to my home and get everything i need for the trip " i said. he kissed my forehead oh how his lips felt so warm against my skin. i wished that i could kiss him back but there was work to be done. i stood up and went back to my home packing the tools i needed to. i reached into my pocket and withdrew the last crown piece of Bethmora. oh how Nuala would hate me. i had replaced the origional with a fake inscribing words on the back of it as a message to the Princess. i did not know when she would discover it... or if she even would...i knew though that this had to be destroyed something that they should have done centuries ago. i could hear some one coming i hid the piece quickly in the front part of the dress i was wearing bresed against my breast. no one would noticed unless they decided to strip search me.

i smiled to my self and thought of ways to destroy the crown piece. " melt it.... " i said thinking of the strong acids of the forest sprites. Nuada came into my room a had some items with me that made him roll his eyes. all of my rock candy, and some dried fruits and bubble bath. " what?" i asked " i can see why you do not wish for the humans to be destroyed" he said " i like rock candy...." i said my cheeks tinting a slight purple." are you ready?" he asked i nodded. and we left.

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three weeks

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it took us longer then i had thought to get here and even longer for me to understand the damn map the map maker had given me. the golden piece in my chest got heavier every minute begging to be found. as soon as we got to the Castle my breathing stopped. the dense foreset untouched by humans... and this place you would have thought that they would have destroyed it by now. " Princess Demine!" the sprites said and half of them hissed at Nuada " be nice" i said.

" so this is my home..." i said flashes of the golden army beating down the main gate ran through my mind. i looked at the gate now vines had grown over the walls and the ruins of the Gate. " i can rebuild that..." i said " we are not staying here" he said " oh hush and enjoy this..." i said walking over the large stones. " what are you expecting to gain the forest sprites are the only creatures that have touched this place in centuries" he said "look at this place... this forest the human have not settled here! this isle is cut off from humanity..." i said smiling " but they will come here" he said. " no they wont" i smiled. " if they we're going to they would have done it already" the forest smelled of wet grass and earth like it had just rained not to long ago. " Princess " more sprites and little Faeries came to greet me. " we have prepared your room for you" one of the Sprites said. " thank you" i said smiling. " we're not " i cut him off " we're staying " i said smiling he just mumbled something about finding the golden army but i ignored him as we walked into the castle " wow" i said looking around images of playing in here as a child spun through my skull. this place had not aged a day since i was young.

we walked up a large winding staircase and came to two large doors. the sprites opened them. it was a large bedroom with hand made dolls and toys in one corner. a swing that hung from the roof and had golden vines winding down the ropes." thank you" i said to the sprites " we've kept it the same since you left...incase you ever decided to return...altho your a bit old for the toys..." the one sprtie said i smiled " its perfect thank you" i said. the large bed made out of Marble stone and the silken sheets spun from the finest thread." i'm going to bathe" Nuada said to me leaving me. i could tell he was angry with me for wishing to stay. it gave me time to ask a favor of one of the sprites.

to my luck there was one fairly close. " can you melt down a peice of metal for me?" i asked her. she nodded and i took her some where private. " what would you like me to meltdown my'lady?" i took the small golden peice out of the top of my dress giving it to her. she Gasped and hid behind something " please...i know this is alot fro me to ask...but he can not get it" i said to her quietly " put it on the ground" she said i did so. she turned into a reptile like creature and spit at it. the gold peice began to melt down. and soon only half of it was left. the little sprite was exhaughsted " thank you my friend" i said to her taking the half of the piece and putting it into one of the planters. " have some one come get that and dispose of the rest if you would " i said smiling going back up to my room.

"where have you hidden it?" he asked calmly searching the room " Wheres is the crown piece i know you stole it from my sister....i knew you would see my side of thing" he smiled" its gone" I said. He growled and tackled me down to the ground his hands around my neck. " its destroyed… you can't…..awaken….the army..." I said he was choking me and I knew that I was probably going to die because of this. " why would you do this!" he asked letting his hold on me go. He was still on top of me his hands around my wrists now. " because… look at this place Nuada…. It has been untouched by humans… you would have thought that they would have taken control of this place by now…and they have not" I said he didn't look at me but stood up "….you have picked your side then" he said " like you said when you asked for my verdict in the throne room….I hold allegiances to none" I said " consider me Neutral " I said to him " I just do not want you to destroy your self any further… Stay here with me please….we can make our selves known to the humans…we can make this work… no more violence if you use violence you are no better then they are." he turned on me and glared I could tell I said something that did not help my case. " you do not know anything…they will not listen to peace!" he said as he turned to leave the room" so now your running away from me …you have changed Nuada…more then I thought you did…you we're never this way with me….you never turned your back on me and you would never do anything to put me in harms way. yet you ask me to decide the death of thousands. Half of them innocents!" I shook my head in disgust. " what has happened to you....you are not the Nuada of my memory!…" i tried to calm down i was yelling now something i was not used to doing but i had to admit i hated him for doing this to me i hated him for making me remember him".....I hope you make the right decision… before you lose the people who you hold most dear " I said going to the window and jumping out of it. I went into the dense forest in hopes that I would find a place to clear my head. " do you know why the humans have not tried to take our land from us?" one of the forest sprites said obviously hearing mine and Nuada's argument." forgive me…I should have kept my temper under control" I said to her

" child you have every right to be angry at him…" she said to me " yes I do…but for everything that I Hate about him ….I can't bring my self to despise him for it…I love him " I said sparkling tears running down my face. " This Isle has no humans on it. And the ones who tried to come and take over found that we we're here… we made our selves known to the humans around us that we we're still around…and they haven't set foot on our land. " she said " my idea would work… he's just to stubborn to see it" I said to her. " ah but child you are also as stubborn you are almost as stubborn as he….you don't see what he believes…to some humans Violence is the only rational approach…some will never learn" she said. " I understand that but…" she cut me off "Dear I don't think you do…" she said flying off and leaving me to think by my self.

I could not stop the tears from coming now. was i so wrong to have that crown piece destroyed, i just hoped that i did not ruin anything. Nuada was probably furious with me and i did not want to face him. i could hear someone calling to me i looked for the voice. there was no one around. " Demine" the voice said again. i now recognized that voice as Nuala's

" run " her voice said. i looked behind me and there was a large bearlike creature lit porcupine spikes across its back. and large teeth it let out a loud roar

it was to close for me to run from it...

i just braced my self for the impact of its sharp claws.

and then something that i didn't expect happened

a gun shot behind me.

i turned around to look at who had shot this creature.

And to my surprise

it was......

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