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Author's Note: Hope you enjoy. Sorry it's so short, but…well you'll see.

A Fools' Story

Hunter turned and looked at Kelly giving her his full attention, "What? What do I need to know?"

"It's about the story."

Hunter felt himself start breathing again, "The story, it's false isn't it?" He looked away, "I can't believe it. I knew it couldn't be true."

"Hunter." Kelly said in a very clear voice bringing Hunter's attention back to her. "It is true and it isn't."

"What?"

"Well the land west of here is run by…a not so good person. No one is supposed to go over there."

"So Cam hasn't?"

"Are you kidding? Anyone who has gone over there by themselves hasn't come back."

"How do you know they just didn't run away or something?"

"Because there were some groups of soldiers who went over, and the first group there were ten men, only one came back. He was going on and on about the land being dead and the eating people, he did mention that. We just don't know what is the truth and what isn't. We think it is."

"One person?"

"There have been a total of five." Hunter raised an eyebrow as he felt his heart beating fast. "They all came back beaten, barely alive. Two died after they got here."

"I have to stop Blake."

Hunter ran out of his room. He ran a step with every heartbeat. As he rushed towards the stables he felt his heart constricting as if a hand was squeezing it. All he could see was his little brother half dead lying on a bed, not even able to open his eyes. He had to save his brother, he didn't care if it meant he had to die to get his brother out of whatever it was he had gotten into, he was going to do it.

Kelly watched as Hunter took off. She wondered if she should get help, but how was she going to do that. She went through one of the passages in the wall that led to the outside by the stables, it was shorter so she made it as he entered the stables. She ran into the stables, "Hunter."

He turned, at first puzzled but shook it off, "Servants passage?"

"Yes. Do you want me to get some guards, or alert the King or Cam?"

Hunter got on his horse, "Don't worry about it. I plan to stop him before he gets too far." He was about to leave but stopped, "Which way is quicker?"

"Go straight, but when you get to the woods go half a mile to the left and that should give you a pretty clear path. Once you get through the woods you'll have to pass a meadow, a grove of trees and then it's pretty much empty and right there."

"Thanks Kel." And Hunter took off following the path he had been told leaving a very worried Kelly behind.

Tori hurried through the woods, she probably should have taken the path that was further down, but since Blake didn't know about it so odds were he wouldn't have looked for it and instead have gone straight through. He had to be close by. She hadn't been really thinking about the direction she was going in and ended up finding herself in front of a small fenced in area with flowers inside the fence. She hadn't realized how close she was to this place.

She knelt down next to it and touched the flowers. She looked around and realized how still everything seemed at the moment. Even though she loved her Father and Cam very much and she would never trade them for anything in the world, she would still come out here. This was the place where her parents had been found murdered. Another reason she had hated Broteans so much. Anger started to rise and form in her heart and she was half tempted to let Blake go, but then she remembered what her Father had said and calmed herself down.

Blake hadn't been there when it happened. Blake was still young like she had been. And Blake, Blake made a part of her that she didn't know she had feel alive. He made her feel special and she really cared about him. In fact she even contemplated the idea that she loved him. But how could she know that? She couldn't, and yet it seemed to fit so well.

Once more she said good bye to her parents and stood up. It was then that she realized too much time had lapsed and who knew where Blake was at that moment. She took off hoping that she wasn't too late.

Blake looked at the land in front of him, it looked dark and foreboding. Sighing he looked back toward where the castle and forest should be but couldn't really see that much of it. As he stepped closer he saw lightning flash down followed by a loud thunder clap. Shaking his head at getting scared by that, the young man took another step forward. It wasn't that big of a deal, although he was really starting to wish he had brought his horse. Taking another breath he stepped closer. It seemed to be like a wall, looking up the sky he was under was a light blue with a golden sun in it, then he looked at the other sky; it was churning with dark clouds with lightning and thunder.

Hunter continued racing, he had to get to him in time, he just had to. He could only imagine what kind of things were going to happen to Blake if he wasn't there. A cold shiver went up his spine as he that about what was going on and what he would do if he wasn't there. He couldn't loose someone else, he wouldn't.

Tori ran and tripped on her dress again causing a big tear by her feet; this was why dresses weren't a smart idea to have. Ignoring it she ran towards that land hoping Blake hadn't gone in. But even if he had already gone in, she'd go after him.

Blake looked around once more; Tori would be thrilled when he brought the fruit back. He smiled at the thought of handing it to her. Okay, he readied himself and told himself that he would be fine. He would be back in no time. Blake took a breathe and then made the final steps into that dark, stormy land.