What if I wanted to fight
Beg for the rest of my life
What would you do?
You say you wanted more
What are you waiting for
I'm not running from you- The Kill by Thirty Seconds from Mars
Review Responses:
DreamlndxFantasy- yeah that character is one that Missled Nymph made up.. pretty nifty huh? well I hope you like this chapter.. and remember a review makes me happy.. haha.. thanxs for the R&R
On top of cloud 9- I know I love long chapters.. more to read.. and more to love...yeah in her dream she was in a different room.. and she decided to get closer to see who was talking.. but she didn't look in the mirror.. because that would throw off all that suspense stuff I have been building up.. lol... read and you shall see.. hopefully... mucho gracias for the review..
Paksennarion- wowI am impressed.. thats like the longest review in the history of the universe.. amazing... lol... Okay your answers to your wonderful questions: yeah she holds back in her fights with Luke and his friends.. because she doesn't want them to know that she is shang and stuff.. and she doesn't probably want to hurt them too bad that Lord haMinich will be pissed... Question 2: Rae will come back into this story.. but not until Jzet's squire years... which will be my next story.. Question 3: he did not tell them about her gift.. because he really wants to forget about her right now.. but when they meet again... something will happen... but I cant say right now.. I need to keep my lips sealed... Question 4: Kearney is fine... he'll live.. haha... Question 5 (this one really isn't one of your questions.. actually an idea of yours): gosha is and will not bea demi god... because she would be a pain in the ass even more.. haha... Question 6: Jonathan is not king.. roald is... thanks for the extra long super dooper review... I hope you r&r in the future.. I would really appreciate it.. I am glad you liked it for the most part..
Misled Nymph- aww your welcome for the dedication.. I do it for good reviewers like yourself.. I hope you liked Lee... thanks for the sweet review... mucho gracias!
shamrockgirl07- yeah Lee is pretty cool... she's like one of my favorite characters now... thank you ever so much for that great review.. I hope you plan to review in the future... I would love to hear from you!THANKS!
nativewildmage- yah I can use her for a lot of things.. haha.. that sounds weird.. lol... YAY go Italy.. I'm Italian and have an italian last name.. so I am glad Italy won.. better than France.. cough cough evil... yeah i want to set jzet and jonny boy... but i got to ask everyone else in a little poll... hhaha... thanks for the review.. I left you an email so when you get the chance... read it...
juliette- yeah I am mad skilled.. my english has improved drastically over the last few months.. lol.. It only took me a few months of fanfiction.. even though i have been inschool like ten frickin years... KEARNEY IS NOT BRAIN WASHED.. moron.. haha.. jk... thanks for editing and such.. seee you on thursday... patrick is scared already
emeraldi- thanks for the two cool super reviews.. I thought you forgot about me.. wahh.. but I guess not.. its k.. your cool anyway.. thanks for the reviews.. because your awesome.. period
Jenny- thank you ever so much.. I will finish as fast as my little tiny hands can type six or seven pages.. lol.. thanks for the review...
authorgirl87- hey that rhymes tobe with a twist.. not really rhymes.. but its catchy.. lol.. sorry really spaztastic right now.. yeah I'll have them in this merry story soon enough.. maybe not this chapter or the next.. but they'll be there.. lol... thanks for the review
Erytha- I love Italy too... 25 italian.. oh yeah.. ahh Ilove the word wicked.. so I decided to use it in this chapter.. well a form of it .. haha... because I have mad skills.. hate to break it to you.. but jonathans away in a fort with his knight master.. sad I know.. so no fluffy greeting.. I'll get around to fluff soon.. promise.. you'll see who the maybe spy is soon enough.. just read.. thanks for the review
Whisperwings- over time is always exciting.. it keeps me on the edge of my seat.. haha.. yeah I especially loved how zidane blew the game for the french by head butting that Italian guy.. haha... go italy! thanks for the review.. and all I have to say is read on..
To become one of those cool people in bold all you have to do is review! So get to it... haha..
O yea, special thanks goes to Juliette! She is the one who originally came up with the idea of Jzet… She is the one who edited and proceeded to improve this chapter overall. Without her this chapter probably would've sounded as if "I wrote this when I was drunk." Just Kidding- Caiti
Enjoy the chapter! Don't worry more action will come soon… That is, if you leave a review that portrays your gratitude for a talented writer like Caiti. (I am not really)-Juliette
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Tamoras.. absolutely nothing
Dedication: Juliette who edited and Meghan (nativewildmage) because she's finally back on fanfiction yay! Welcome home Meghan! LoL
Previously:
"Well let's hope the palace life doesn't kill me." said Lee. Her gaze fixed upon the palace.
"Palace life won't kill you Lee." said Jzet. "But, the people there might get me." She added, mumbling under her breath.
Jzet dismounted from her horse, Tonisha, and handed her off to the hostler, who was waiting nearby. Lee did the same, giving over her horse, Aira, to the hostler, almost reluctantly. The horse and girl had bonded during their week long journey to Corus.
Lee picked up both her own and her mistress' baggage. Jzet could see she was struggling slightly, but Lee hid it really well. Jzet smiled at her new maid.
"My rooms are on the first floor, Lee." Jzet told her maid. "So, you won't have to worry about carrying your load up a flight of stairs."
"You could at least help me." Lee responded, panting slightly.
Jzet smirked, before answering in a mocking tone, "No, that's servants work, remember I am the stuck up, bossy noble girl."
Lee stuck her tongue out at Jzet, as they rounded the corner that led to wing where the pages resided. It wasn't deserted, to Jzet's surprise. In fact, Jzet's two best friends at the palace, Audrey of King's Reach and Kearney of Mandash, along with Kate of Malorie's Peak, Brandon of Tarside, and a tall blonde haired girl, who was dressed in a pages' uniform, stood in the hallway, chattering away.
"Jzet!" Audrey shouted.
She had been the first one to notice her. She ran to Jzet and engulfed her in a bone breaking hug. Jzet gaped at her younger friend. She surprisingly now, stood even taller than Jzet.
"Audrey," Jzet breathed. "You grew so much!"
"Yep, I shot up like a weed," said the thirteen year old proudly, giggling in spite of herself.
Jzet laughed, along with the others.
Someone cleared there throat behind her. Jzet turned on her heel and saw Lee standing there, impatiently, with their bags in her hands.
"I grow tired of standing here, like a tree stump, noble girl!" she snapped. She glared at her with those hard brown eyes. "Where are your rooms, so I can place these heavy, bags down, for Mithros' sake!"
Jzet shook her head and frowned deeply at her maid.
"Sorry Lee," She murmured, blushing. She then turned to her friends and year mates. "I'll be right back. I need to help my servant settle in."
Jzet, embarrassed, could feel the eyes of her fellow pages on her, as she and Lee walked to their new quarters.
"Lee," Jzet hissed, as she unlocked the door. "Most servants don't to speak to nobles that way. They aren't supposed to."
Lee replied with a grin. "I am not most servants," She then added wickedly," milady."
"Just unpack my clothing and I'll be back in a few minutes, hopefully." Jzet snapped, growing tired of Lee's antics.
Lee, not even looking up replied, "Yes, milady,"
Jzet threw her hands up in the air in frustration and mumbled curses, most of which concerned her sassy maid.
Chuck was right, Jzet thought reluctantly, She is trouble.
She reentered the hallway and spotted her friends, who were engaged in deep conversation, again. She strode over to them, still quite embarrassed about Lee's sharp tongue and bad behavior.
"Hi Jzet," Kearney said enthusiastically. He was a head taller than Jzet now, also topping Audrey by an inch. Jzet sighed. She hated being short. According to her father and his measuring stick, which she greatly disliked, she stood at only five feet and four inches. Jzet blamed her Yamani heritage, which came from her mother. Yamani women were never tall.
"Hello Kearney." Jzet hugged her younger friend. She sighed wistfully. It seemed like only yesterday, that Kearney was a small, bumbling second year. Now, a fourth year, he had grown up considerably. "Did you have an enjoyable summer holiday?"
"Of course," He said and then went into the details of his holiday. He had stayed at the palace during the summer. His parents were busy caring for their new set of twin girls. Nora and Lilia, who had been born that spring. Kearney's parents hadn't wanted their son to get in the way. Jzet could not blame them. Kearney could be very bothersome, especially when he wanted to.
Jzet caught the hazel eyes of the tall blonde haired girl, who stood motionless, while Kearney rambled on about his summer. The girl did not smile at Jzet, but she did not frown either. She looked to be about the same height as Audrey and the two girls could have been identical twins, if it weren't for the difference in their eye color.
Kearney finally noticed Jzet looking curiously at the blonde haired girl and decided to introduce her.
"Jzet, this is Jacqueline of Blue Harbor, she's a new page, who is starting late, like you did."
Jzet was quite shocked. Blue Harbor was known for being fairly conservative. But, here was a girl from Blue Harbor. It didn't make sense.
"And Jacqueline, this is Jzeliette of Queenscove or Jzet for short. She's really old and knows how to hurt people in a lot of different ways. I have the bruises to prove it." He added. His eyes widened considerably, to show his seriousness.
Everyone laughed at Kearney's last remark, including Jacqueline. Jzet smiled slightly at him. He never knew when to be quiet.
"How old are you Jacqueline?" Jzet asked, trying to be friendly towards the shy looking, new girl.
The girl hesitated slightly, before answering, "Thirteen," she said. Jzet expected the girl to be quiet after uttering that one word, but she was mistaken. "I am the Lady of Blue Harbor, after my Uncle Thomas passed away last year, due to a heart attack."
That explains a lot. Her uncle must have been the conservative one in her family. Jzet thought, before politely saying, "I am sorry to hear of your loss."
"Thank you, Jzeliette," Jacqueline replied pleasantly. Jzet was surprised for a second to hear her birth name, but quickly recovered. "I decided to become a knight, using my inheritance money. I left my fief in the care of a trusted official for now."
"What happened to your parents, Jacqueline?" Kearney asked, the words tumbling out of his mouth. Jzet glared at him. But, the girl did not appear to mind. She seemed to like to talk, at least Jzet thought so. But, Kearney saw Jzet's glare and quickly added, "Begging your pardon of course,"
"No, it's fine Kearney," She said, smiling at him. Jzet noticed Kearney blush at Jacqueline's smile, causing her to inwardly groan. Kearney must fancy the new page, Jzet thought.
"Well if you say so," He mumbled bashfully, looking at the floor. The color was still on his cheeks, causing Jzet to smirk.
Jacqueline continued to smile. Her blue eyes, also glistened, as she spoke to them. "My parents were killed when I was seven."
Jzet became confused. Why was did this girl keep a grin on her face, even when talking about her parents deaths? She thought.
"My home burned down, leaving me an orphan. I lived on the streets of Blue Harbor until I was eleven. My uncle found me, took me into his home, and made me his heiress."
The story was quite odd. Why weren't Jacqueline's parents living in the castle with her uncle? Jzet thought. She didn't understand, how a girl with a troubled past like Jacqueline, could look constantly cheerful.
"Don't be offended when I ask, but why weren't you living in the castle at Blue Harbor, before your parent's deaths?" Jzet inquired, trying to use her words carefully. She did not want to upset the girl, during their first meeting.
Audrey glanced over at Jzet and caught her eye, as to say, 'Why are you prying into that poor girl's life? It's bad enough Kearney's doing it.' Jzet ignored her and looked back at Jacqueline.
"My mother was a noble from Blue Harbor, but was disowned by her parents after marrying a Yamani merchant man, my father." She explained. Her smile had stopped when she mentioned her father, Jzet observed.
A door creaked open, causing the six pages to turn on their heels. It was Robert of Seajen, a fourth year page. He was not in their group, but rather friendly, so they chose to include him for the time being.
"Hello, Robert," Brandon greeted.
"Hey," He responded, adding a quick wave. "When is the Rattler coming to give the new pages sponsors? I need to get some work done in the library."
Jzet smirked. All the pages in the palace used Kearney's nickname for the aging training master, Lord Padarig of haMinich. She prayed to Mithros, that the training master wouldn't catch any of the pages using the nickname. She would hate to see Kearney get in trouble. She shuddered to think of how much punishment work he would probably receive, if Lord haMinich ever found out.
Kearney checked his watch.
"Eh, you have a good thirty minutes." h said, still looking down at his watch. "I wouldn't go through the trouble, unless, the work needs to be done by tomorrow morning."
"Thanks Mandash," Robert nodded his head in acknowledgement of the others and then headed towards the library.
"Well, I need to help my maid unpack." Jzet announced, cutting silence that followed Robert's departure. "I'll see you guys in a bit."
Farewells were exchanged and Jzet left them to their own devices. She soon entered her room, exhausted. She looked around to see where Lee was, and spotted her in the changing room, folding clothes.
"Lee, fetch me my page uniform," Jzet ordered, as she flopped down onto her bed. "I need to prepare for the arrival of the Rattler."
"Right away master," Lee replied pertly.
Jzet was too tired to snap back.
Jzet sighed deeply as she reread another letter from Cole. In his letter he told her, he had arrived at Port Cayann, a week after his last letter. In his letter, Cole explained how he was upset about the King's Own, which his knight master, Lord Raoul of Golden Lake and Malorie's Peak, commanded. He wrote that the men constantly played tricks on him and made his job as Lord Raoul's squire ten times harder, than it was supposed to be.
Jzet laughed wholeheartedly at her cousin's letter and after reading it, immediately went to look for her friends, Audrey and Kearney, who wanted to read Cole's letter too. They laughed at Cole's situation with the King's Own. Audrey tried to defend him, which only extracted more laughter from Kearney and Jzet.
Jzet then walked back to her room still laughing hysterically.
"Jzet," Lee called from the dressing room. "I laid out your tunic for dinner and put warm water in the tub for your bath. Do you need anything else?"
"Yeah, a new body," She joked.
The training master had worked the senior pages extremely hard for the first week. He had added extra weights to their practice equipment and weapons. This was expected, but the added weight still caused Jzet's whole body to become very sore and stiff.
After taking her bath, Jzet changed into her tunic and dried her wet hair with a fluffy towel.
Her hair was only half dry, when someone pounded on her door. Jzet groaned, knowing full well it was Kearney. He was always interrupting at the wrong moment.
"Answer the door, Lee!" Jzet shouted from her changing room.
Lee did not respond, but Jzet heard the clicking open of the door and Kearney's voice.
"Be there in a second, Kearney," said Jzet, pulling her dark brown curly hair into a horse tail. She smoothed out her tan tunic and then came out of the dressing room to greet Kearney.
"Are you ready, Sir Knight?" Jzet teased.
"Whenever you are, milady," He bantered.
Jzet grinned. "Then let's go. We don't want to miss the Rattler's inspirational prayers."
"Oh, I wouldn't miss it for the world." he replied sarcastically.
"Get going you two," said Lee, pushing them out the door. "You don't want to be late."
"That would be tragic if we were." Kearney mumbled sardonically.
Jzet muffled her laughter, by sticking her fist in her mouth.
They soon reached the mess hall, which was packed with hungry pages and squires. After they got their meals, Jzet and Kearney took a seat across from Audrey and Jacqueline, who were giggling uncontrollably.
Jzet frowned. Ever since Audrey sponsored Jacqueline, the two were inseparable. Jzet could not help but not be jealous. Audrey was one of her best friends and the new girl was constantly in Audrey's presence. Kearney was not much help either. He sneaked glances at Jacqueline every time he had the chance. Kearney reminded Jzet of a love sick puppy dog.
Silence filled the mess hall, as the entire congregation stood in unison with the training master. The Rattler made a quick prayer, evidence that he was hungry after a long day. Smirks were evident on both Kearney and Jzet's faces from their jokes before. Audrey shot them quizzical looks from across the table. They ignored her and sat back down, as soon as the prayer ceased, to dig into their meals.
"If Sergeant Torin tells me to watch my grip on that staff one more time, I will scream," Jacqueline announced, even before she raised her fork.
Audrey and Kearney nodded sympathetically, while Jzet rolled her eyes.
"He's trying to help you Jacqueline, so you don't get killed." Jzet remarked sharply. She was fed up with Jacqueline.
Audrey raised her eyebrows in question at Jzet's harsh statement and glanced over at Jacqueline, to see her response.
Jacqueline's eyes narrowed slightly, as she looked over at Jzet from across the table. Jzet could feel the tension between them slightly rise.
"I didn't ask your opinion, Queenscove." she replied coldly. "I asked my friends, people that support me, unlike you. I'm the new page here. I thought you would understand," She motioned to Kearney and Audrey, "Like they do."
Jzet did not lose her temper. She was beyond anger and plus, she was above that. She just hoped Audrey and Kearney would back her up. Jzet looked to her right and across the table for reassurance that her friends were going to defend her. She found none.
"Well, I'm sorry you feel that way, Jacqueline." Jzet shot back, just as coldly, as Jacqueline's previous statement. "I was just trying to give you advice."
Jacqueline eyebrows rose slightly.
"I know you're jealous of me, Queenscove," snapped Jacqueline bitterly. "You embarrass me, just to spite me. I am not blind to your rash behavior and neither are Audrey and Kearney."
"Fine, I am leaving," Jzet announced, getting up quickly. "I don't need to sit here and be insulted by a first year."
She walked abruptly out of the mess hall, causing numerous heads to turn as she left. She received many stares from the other pages and squires. She didn't care. She was furious.
Jzet opened her door quickly and slammed it behind her.
"Back so soon?" Lee drawled.
"Shut it, Lee," Jzet snapped. "I want you to tail Page Jacqueline of Blue Harbor, every chance you get. I don't even care if you break into her rooms. Try to get every piece of information out of that girl."
"I see you have suspicions." Lee remarked.
"That girl is out to get me." Jzet said, as she pulled out her algebra book, to work on a few problems assigned by Master Tyrone. "I have a hunch that she might be that agent."
"A hunch?" Lee repeated.
"Yes, a hunch," snapped Jzet. "But, that's enough to make me suspicious."
yeah so lets not jump to conclusions people... you never know what could happen... haha... I am too good...
Pairing Poll:
Jzet/Jonathan
Jzet/Rae
Jzet/Kearney (eww god no)
Jzet/other character (beside the ones I just mentioned)
Jzet/New character
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Caiti and Juliette
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