Wow I'm surprised I got so much typed up so fast. It only took a day to work on this. It doesn't help I already knew what I wanted to happen but just didn't want to put it in the last chapter. Well I hope you like it. Don't expect such a fast update often.
It had been three weeks since they had been warned about the three woman attacking kingdoms. Yet no change no word of any other kingdoms getting attacked. Everybody was tired and ready to give up. The knights were trying to convince the king that they weren't coming. He wouldn't budge though afraid of loosing little Lavinia.
"Please sire it has been three weeks and nothing. We're are freezing to the bone out there ready for attack but nothing has happened. They probably went home," Sir Ivon spoke to the King as they walked near the gate in the freezing day of winter.
"You are probably right," the king said stopping and staring at the gate, "Call everyone to the throne room."
Sir Ivon went off to get everyone to the throne room. It only took a matter of minutes to get the small group in there.
"It has been three weeks since we've heard the news and I think it's time that we st-" the king got cut off in mid sentence as three woman barged into the throne room.
The first woman in front she looked the oldest and she had bright blonde hair and menacing magnificent bright blue eyes. She wore a long black coat, black gloves, black pants, and black boots. She had a hold of the charm of her necklace in her right hand. Her eyes scanned the room glaring at everybody.
The next woman had her long brown hair tied back in a ponytail and deep brown eyes. She wore a dark brown coat, tan pants, and brown boots. She had a dagger strapped to each thigh. She had a determined yet uneasy look on her face like she didn't want to be there but knew she had to.
The last girl was young she looked younger than the queen is. Her hair was an unnatural bright red curls her eyes a beautiful sea green. She wore a long white dress with a black coat. She stood behind both of them. She had a bow and quiver on her back
"Hand over the princess and nobody gets hurt," the blonde said.
The knights pulled out their swords ready to attack.
"Ha like we'll surrender to you," Sir Ivon said.
"Suit your selves," she said as they got ready to attack.
The brown haired one grabbed her daggers, the red head grabbed her boy and notched an arrow, and the blonde had the charm in her hand and it was glowing a shadowy black and red. They were about to attack when Dragon's head popped through the door hearing all the commotion wanting to know. The girls panicked.
"A dragon this wasn't planned for retreat," the blonde said sending a red blast towards dragon sending him flying from the door.
The girls ran out of the throne room as fast as the good before Dragon could recover from the blow the knights charged after them. They got closer and closer to the gate.
"Dragon try and hit the chain!" Jane yelled to Dragon.
He used his tail and slammed it into the chain breaking it. The brown haired girl got there first and held the gate straining to keep it open enough so they could get out.
"Amanda you and Emilie go I'll stay and hold open the gate," the brown haired girl yelled staining to hold it open.
" No Lara you and Emilie you can't be trusted," the blonde who's name was obviously Amanda yelled back at her.
Amanda stopped and used the darkness to make a barrier to hold back the knights and another to hold open the gate.
"But Amanda!" Lara yelled.
"GO!" Amanda screamed back at her.
Emilie slid under the gate with Lara. They barely made it under before Amanda collapsed unconscious. Lara and Emilie sprinted into to the forest unseen. The knights gingerly walk over to her seeing she's completely unconscious. In her hand was the charm from her necklace but it was a rock with a skull imprint on it. King Caradoc walked up and took the rock.
"I want her in chains she's dangerous and could do us even more harm. Throw her in the dungeon until she wakes up then bring her to the throne room for questioning," the king said.
The knights nodded then picked up the unconscious woman and carried her off to the dungeon to chain her up. They were all a little freaked out of the incident. Jane ran over to Dragon to see if he had any damage from the blow. He was holding his neck were the blow hit.
"Dragon are you okay? Let me see," Jane said when she got over to him.
He moved his hand revealing a large burned mark on his neck.
"A short life hurt me. She attacked me and hurt me," Dragon said.
"You'll need to but some ice on that for a while. Then we'll spread some herbs on it and bandage that should help the pain and healing process.
They all went off to do they're part to help Dragon and his wound it took a couple hours to get it all taken care of.
"That was terrifying that someone can possess that kind of power. It must have tired her a lot because Sir Theodore says she's still asleep and can't be waked. They thought she might have been dead but she's still breathing," Pepper said to them as they ate supper.
"It's been hours and nothing," Gunther said not wanting to leave until she wakes, "I don't know what but something about her seems familiar."
"We'll just have to wait until she wakes up," Smithy said.
"Speaking of sleep I think I'm going to go to bed," Jane said.
"Same here," Jester and Gunther said in unison.
"We can walk together," Jane said.
They got up and walked together. Gunther walked with them to because his temporary room was across from Jane's tower. They didn't really talk but when they reached Jester's room they bid their goodnights to him and him and Jane hugged. Her and Gunther then walked up the stairs and Jane bid him good night then he hugged her.
"Be careful okay," he said letting go and moving a red curl from her face.
He walked off before she said anything. She was shocked Gunther has never shown affection towards anybody especially her. She just shook off the feeling it couldn't have been anything romantic he had that village girl Lara he was courting.
She laid in her bed for hours everything keeps getting weirder and weirder. She finally got out of bed and lit a candle. It was like four o'clock and she hadn't gotten a wink of sleep. She stood up in her nightgown and was going to go talk to Jester about this. She walked out of her room a cold gust of winter wind made her shiver.
She was going to go down the stairs to Jester's room when she noticed that Gunther had a candle lit in his room. She walked over to his room and slightly opened his door. He was sitting on his bed going through a notebook.
"Ever heard of knocking," he said not even looking up.
He was bare chest only dressed in a pair of trousers. Jane wasn't able to speak she didn't think she was loud enough to be heard. She just looked at Gunther and seen how muscled he was obviously from the training and the labor he does for his father. She also saw scars scattered across his body.
"Well don't just sit out in the cold. If you're here then come in, stay a while," He said putting down the notebook on his lap and patting the spot next to him.
Jane walked in out of the cold and closed the door. She walked over and sat on the bed next to Gunther.
"So why are you up so late?" He asked her.
"I couldn't sleep with all this going on. Why are you awake?" She replied.
"I always wake up at 4 o'clock because that's when my mother always woke up so I'd get up with her. Even after she left I still woke up at this time. I never knew why she woke up at this," he replied.
"You're mother sounds like she was a good woman," she said.
"Yeah she was she was always there for me. Whenever I wake up at 4 o'clock I always read her notes, poems, songs, and look at her drawings. She had her friends who my father had found her with they were with her practically the whole time she was with us," he replied
~Meanwhile in the Dungeon at 4 o'clock~
Amanda's eyes fluttered open. She sat up with a massive headache. She looked and seen there was one candle flickering near the red headed knight who was fast asleep. She seen that she was she was in chains. She groaned and a shackled hand up to her necklace where the stone should have been and found it was not there.
"No," she whispered.
They had taken it. Her source of power. She worked so hard for it and gave up so much, and they just took it. She was furious.
She stood up gripping the bars to her cell and yelled to the knight, "Hey fathead wake up!"
Sir Ivon woke up started, "What time is it?" He asked.
"4 o'clock now get up and tell me where the stone is," she demanded.
"How dare you speak to the knight Sir Ivon like that," he said outraged that she'd speak so harsh to him.
"Blah blah cry me a river. Now tell me where the fucking stone is or so help me god," Amanda spoke in outrage, oh how she wanted to just kill him now.
"There is no way you'll ever get that back. You monster."
"Give me back the Wraith Stone, now you little bitch."
"How dare you speak to me that way I could kill you for speaking that way to me," he said pulling out his sword and pointing it towards her neck.
She laughed, "Oh please I hold to much information you wouldn't dare kill me."
He held is sword touching her neck with the tip of it for a few minutes before he finally gave up and sheathed his sword. The king would kill him if he killed her. To think she used to be a sweet little princess. The thought seemed impossible.
"That's what I thought. So fat head when do I get to see Rathbonne?" She asked sitting down in her cell.
It shocked sir Ivon that she knew the king by Rathbonne and not Caradoc but he replied, "Not for a while ye wicked lass. He is asleep you will see him in the morning."
She groaned but sat and played with the chains this was going to be a long night and they both new it.
