Hey everyone :)
Sorry about the delay but theres a good reason behind it.
Okay, so I'm getting concerned, and a little ticked off.
When I finished TGA:SG, I had like a heap of reviewers, all begging me to start the sequel.
And now I start, and have hardly any reviews?! Come on guys :|
So, I want EVERYONE who is reading to review. I want to know who's out there.
Oh, and take a look and REVIEW of EPIC, by HILLBILLYHUNTERS XD.
I heard it's a pretty good story…ahahha.
Also, at the moment I am exhausted.
Nothing like legit 2 hours of sleep…
:)
For Gabby, Morgan, and Love-Pink26.
LEGENDSS.
Ruby closed her eyes as she swayed in Christofers arms. He was amazing. Caring, gentle, but still strong at the same time, and nothing like all the other young nobles in the castle. He really cared about Narnia, as did his father.
But then again, so did Dune…
Ruby shook her head and found Christofer looking down at her in concern.
"You alright, Rubes?" he asked, his eyebrows furrowing.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she stuttered, "Just a bit hot, is all."
"Want to go for a walk?" Christofer asked.
"Sure," Ruby replied, and he tugged her off the dancefloor. "But can we get a drink first?"
Christofer nodded and changed direction, heading towards Dune, who was sitting next to the table, staring into his drink as a random girl babbled nonsense beside him.
"Hey Dune," Christofer called, and Dune looked up to the couple in relief.
The random girl stopped talking and looked up at them.
Ruby curtsied to her. "Hello," the readhead added.
And to Ruby's, Dune's, and Christofer's utmost surprise, the girl glared up at Ruby, showing no respect for her at all.
"So, you're Lady Ruby?" she sneered. Dune's eyes widened. Anyone knew that Ruby's red hair also came with an insane temper.
"I am," she replied in a hard voice.
The girl sneered again, and gave her a look up and down, and Ruby's jaw clenched.
"Then the stories musnt be true." The girl said venomously.
"What stories?" Ruby asked, her voice shaking a little in anger. Christofer and Dune glanced at eachother warily.
"That you have countless boys going after your beauty, and you court one of the most eligible men in the kingdom."
"And why wouldn't that be true?" Dune asked, confused.
"Because she isn't pretty at all." The girl replied breezily. She stood up, and strutted away, swinging her hips.
"Ruby don't listen to her." Christofer said instantly, and she smiled at him quickly.
"Are we still going for that walk?"
"Sure." Christofer said, and turned for the door quickly. But not quickly enough. Christofer's father, Lord Edgecroft, swooped down on the couple.
"Christofer, come my boy, people to meet…" he said, guiding Christofer away by the shoulders. "Good evening, Lady Ruby." He added, and Ruby smiled at him.
Christofer groaned at his father, and looked at Ruby regretfully.
"Its alright, I'll get Dune to come for a walk with me," she said, and he smiled and nodded as he was dragged away. Ruby turned back to Dune, who was still sitting and staring at his glass, a new girl seated, once again babbling beside him.
"Dune!" Ruby called. Her best friends head snapped up and he excused himself from the girls company, before making a big show of leading Ruby out.
"Thanks again for saving me, Rubes." Dune said, and Ruby pushed at him.
"Youre welcome. What happened? You always used to love balls."
"I don't know," Dune replied. "I'm just getting a feeling…"
"About?"
"That somethings not right."
"What, like the Braithe and Sera situation?"
"No," Dune said, scrunching up his face as they walked, "Something…else."
"Yeah…" Ruby sighed, and took a deep breath of night air as they crossed the threshold into the gardens.
"It's a beautiful night.." Dune observed, and Ruby nodded, appreciating the company.
They strolled in silence for a while, the nice kind of silence. When they reached a thicker part of the gardens, though, there was a rattling, chokig sound cutting into it. Ruby and Dune stopped and stared at eachother, cautious.
They approached the sound warily, which seemed to come from a clump of bushes close to the ground a few feet away. Dune stepped ahead of Ruby, and leant down, seeing with his hands, as the clouds had just covered the moon. He felt a sticky substance, and kept moving forward, pushing the brush aside…
To reveal Sera, lying on the ground, twitching.
Sera's eyes were going in and out of focus, and she was making coughing, choking noises, mixed with sobs. Dune didn't really understand until he heard Ruby gasp and run forward, moving Sera's hands away from her chest.
Where a large, dark stain was spreading all over her clothes and the ground.
"SERA!" Ruby screeched.
Dune burst into the hall, his had whipping around, searching for Caspian. He found him chatting to Peter in the corner, and he ran as fast as he could towards them, recieiving multiple stares in the process.
"Uncle Caspian, Dad!" he panted as he reached them. Peter satred at him in concern.
"Dune? What is it?"
"Sera-gardens-stabbed-Rubes and-me, found..hurry!" he gasped, and instantly Peter was running for Lucy, who in turn ran from the room, Peter behind her. Caspian ran to Susan, who got Aamee, who whispered something to the children about getting to a room. Dune approached Rowan and Henna, who were sitting at a table, chuckling about something.
"Rowan. Henna." Dune said, and they both looked up at his tone.
"Dune?" Henna said, her eyes wide.
"Sera's been attacked." Dune said, and in a flash Rowan had disappeared from the room. Henna was panting heavily, holding her stomach and wincing.
Dune looked around.
"Belle!" he shouted, and Belle hurried over, followed by Edmund.
"Dune, get upstairs to Belle's chambers. Belle, you too. I'll help Henna up."
Edmund assisted the heavily pregnant woman to stand up, and escorted them to where the other teenagers were standing in a huddle in a corner of the ballroom.
"Alright, guys, stay here, pretend nothings happening, alright?" Edmund whispered to them.
"Whats going on?" asked Lorian.
"Later." Edmund hissed, and scooted from the room.
Ruby whipped her head around, staring into the darkness. Ever since Dune had ran to get help, simply because he wasn't covered in blood, the night had seemed to get colder, and darker, and strange noises broke the silence frequently. Ruby was terrified, shaking almost as much as the dying Sera.
She glanced back down at the delirious girl, who seemed to be slipping in and out od conciousness. Sera's eyes were rolling as she choked on her own blood. And then suddenly, she slumped in Ruby's arms, and the redhead let out a shriek.
"NO! Sera! No, come back! Wake up!" Ruby screamed as she shook her friend, tears pouring down her cheeks. There were another creaks and snaps of twigs around the pair, but Ruby, through her sobbing and calling, didn't notice them.
She did, however notice the large dark figure that leapt out of the bushes towards them, and she let out a scream of horror.
"Ruby, calm down!" Peter cried over her screams. He grabbed her arm, and two more dark figures appeared.
"Lucy, quick!" Peter shouted, and Ruby felt herself being shifted from her position by Caspian.
Lucy took her place, and she and Peter huddled around Sera as Lucy pulled out her cordial, letting a drop fall into Sera's bloody mouth.
Ruby still shook, terrified that they were too late.
There was a rattling cough, and Sera's breaths started again.
"She's breathing!" Peter cried, and he and Lucy started checking her wounds further.
"It wont cure her completely," Lucy said, "Its been left too long. We need to get her to Trufflehunter and the Professor."
"We can't move her," Peter was saying, "She'll lose too much blood. They'll need to come to us."
"I'll go," Caspian said, taking Ruby's shoulders in his large hands, "Come, Ruby, we'll take you to the others."
Ruby didn't even nod, she just stared at the punctured shell of her friend.
Caspian steered her back to the ballroom, where Susan met her.
"I'll get Dune." She said immediately, and disappeared inside. Dune came out a moment later and gasped at the blood all over Ruby.
"Rubes, you look like a ghost," he noted, taking in her pale face.
Her face puckered and she fell into Dune's arms.
'She...just got here…attacked," she sobbed into his chest. Dune hugged her tighter, and she calmed down enough to stop crying.
"Come on, we have to get up to Belle's chambers." Dune said, squeezing his best friends hand.
He leant back through the ballroom door, where he nodded at the group of teenagers, who nodded back, and all mad their way out of the room.
Belle was first.
"Ruby! What's going-" the Princess froze when she took in Ruby's blood and tearstained form.
The rest of the group filed out after Belle, all gasping and staring as they saw Ruby.
"What is going on?" Lorian asked, stepping forward.
Dune looked at his feet.
"Sera's been attacked."
"What?" they all said in unison.
"She was stabbed by someone," Ruby said, "And Dune and I found her just in time…"
Belle and Rhui covered their mouths with their hands.
Suddenly Susan bustled from the door.
"Please," she said, taking in the sight of the group outside the door. "Get up to Belle's chambers."
The group nodded, and made their way along the corridor, and up a level in silence.
The silence was broken soon, however, by a series of footsteps and girlish giggles. Ruby ducked behind Dune to hide her bloody clothes. The owners were revealed soon when Braithe and Amelia rounded the corner, Amelia clinging gleefully to Braithe's arm. And he didn't look too upset by it.
"Where have you been?" Lorian asked, as the group stared at the obvious couple in horror.
"In the courtyard," Amelia giggled and blushed.
Suddenly, Ruby seemed to get over her shock of the past hour.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" she shouted at Braithe. The smile slipped from his face quickly. "You cheating scumbag!"
"Excuse me?" Amelia replied.
"What about Sera?" Ruby shrieked, her voice breaking on Sera's name.
"She.." Braithe answered, looking at his feet. "She saw us."
"WHAT?!" Belle cried.
"You didn't know?" Amelia asked sweetly. "Would've thought she'd have come whining to you immediately Belle."
Ruby was shaking in anger.
"How dare you!" she cried. "Sera is our friend!"
"Look," Amelia said, annoyed, "She should have realised Braithe was busy when she came. Things don't last forever. She was young, I suppose."
"Only a year younger than me!" Belle cried.
"Where is she now?" Amelia asked, still clinging to Braithe, who was still staring at the ground.
They all looked at eachother.
"Let me gues," Amelia said, flinging her hair over her shoulder as she raised her perfectly shaped eyebrow, "You found her crying somewhere, didn't you?"
"No," Ruby said, her voice shaking as she stepped out from behind Dune, revealing the blood covering her. Amelia's and Braithe's eyes widened. "Dune and I found her, lying on the ground hidden behind a bush."
"What was she doing there?" Braithe said hollowly.
"Something along the lines of choking on her own blood as she was dying." Ruby replied, and swept off down the corridor, the others following her. Dune grabbed Amelia's arm, and tugged her along too, leaving Prince Braithe standing alone in the corridor, his mouth open, struggling to string his thoughts together, to figure out what to do.
*wipes sweat off forehead*
Okay, so I'm starving. I need some food.
As you all know, I'm from Australia, and tomorrow is Australia day!!
So, happy Australia day, everyone!
**PLEASE EVERYONE WHO IS READING THIS STORY, REVIEW. I NEED SOME NUMBERS.