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Chapter 7 : Trapped

"Ice. We're trapped." Luana said softly, looking over her shoulder to Lancelot and Arthur. Arthur looked at Tristan, wondering how they would solve this problem. The drums in the distance came closer, Luana grabbed the reins in her hands and held them tight.

She closed her eyes and looked down, taking slow breaths to calm herself down. She didn't know what as wrong with her, but her eyes looked up when she felt a hand holding hers. Lancelot smiled at her and winked as she smiled back and nodded, taking a deep breath and discarding the earlier feelings from her mind.

"It's the only way. We need to cross the ice in order to move on."

Luana took another deep breath and nodded, more to herself than to the group. She directed her horse towards the ice but it protested. She followed Lancelot's lead and stepped of, taking the horse by it's reins and guiding it over the ice, careful where she walked.

Luana exchanged glances with Lancelot every few moments, knowing that the Saxons were close. Tristan walked next to her, smiling at her.

"It'll be alright dear sister. Don't worry."

"What's wrong with Arthur?" Luana asked softly while looking worried at her commander, he was more focused on the ground under his feet, then the way he walking to. But instead of waiting for an answer, she looked at the carriages and managed a brave smile towards Lucan, the young boy smiled back at her and then turned his gaze towards Dagonet.

The ice cracked under them.

"Knights."

"I'm tired of running anyway." Luana said confident

"I'm tired of looking over my shoulder anyway." Tristan said, smirking at Luana.

Arthur looked at Lancelot, who had a look of "Well, if you have to" on his face. Arthur nodded and Guinevere quickly stepped out of the carriage, wanting to know what was happening. Arthur commanded the others to move on and Luana gave

Lucan a small kiss on his forehead, promising everything would be alright. She placed some of his long hair behind his ear and winked at the young child, knowing that it would be a dangerous fight, but to afraid to admit it.

"You're eight against two hundred."

"Nine, you can use another bow." Guinevere said behind Arthur. The knights picked up their weapons, knowing that the fights would be dangerous on the ice. The carriages moved on while the knights watched the Saxons arrive.

"You look frightened. There's a large number of lonely men out there."

"Don't worry." Luana smirked

"We won't let them rape you." Guinevere looked at Luana and smiled brightly while holding her bow in her hands. Lancelot laughed a little and shook his head. Luana looked at the knights, knowing they were ready for this. But was she?

Was she ready to face such a large army. Was she able to fight good enough to survive this. She shook the negative thoughts out of her head and squeezed Lancelot's hand. He looked at her and nodded, turning over to her and giving her a small kiss on her forehead to assure her they would come out alright.

"Well, here's goes nothing."

The Saxons shot an arrow towards the knights, Arthur smirked and nodded at Bors and Tristan, who immediately killed two soldiers of the army. Luana looked smugly at Guinevere and raised her own bow, aiming for the wings of the rank, just like Arthur said.

The soldiers fell down on the ice and Luana glanced nervously at the ice, knowing that it couldn't hold such a heavy weight. Luana cursed, seeing that they were coming to close for the ice to break in time. She drew her sword and raised it.

"Dagonet!" She yelled while letting her sword fall on the ice. She ran towards him, pulling him out of the ice as he fell in the ice cold water. Arrows attacked her but Lancelot and the other knights covered her as she grabbed the knights hand, trying to pull him out of the cold water without falling in herself. Lancelot ran towards her, pulling her out of range by her waist.

Suddenly, she fell a sharp pain in her side. She winced in pain for a moment, closing her eyes but blocked the pain out as she and Lancelot pulled Dagonet towards the others knights. Guinevere shot an arrow towards the leader, but barely missed.

The fight was over, they all knew this. Luana walked towards her horse, trying to block out the pain in her waist. She winced and held her hand to the wound, hoping that no one would see it. Dagonet sat on his horse, shivering from the cold water under the ice. Lancelot looked at her as her eyes almost closed.

Luana took a deep breath, not being able to block the pain out completely. She fell down on her knees, still holding her side, the blood covering her hand. She closed her eyes and tried to block out the staining feeling.

"I'm sorry." She softly whispered as Lancelot's face appeared in front of her. She looked at him, managing a smile before closing her eyes and letting her body fall against his.

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"Don't worry Lucan, I'm sure they're both alright." Alecto assured the boy as he heard the horses of the knights coming closer to the carriage. He looked at the knights, holding up his hand as a greeting. His eyes fell on Luana, she was awake, but pale and sweating.

"What happened?" Alecto asked while Luana dismounted her horse, taking deep, troubled breaths. Dagonet helped her a little while she still held her one hand to her side. Lancelot shook his head to Alecto, meaning that it wasn't the right time to ask.

"We'll camp here for a few hours and carry on afterwards. Dagonet, take care of Luana. Tristan, go out to scout."

Tristan shot one last glance at his younger sister being carried away in Lancelot's arms and nodded before mounting his horse again and riding away in a hurry. Lancelot placed Luana down on the cot in the carriage, placing some strays of hair behind her ears and looking at her sleeping form.

She was sweating and pale. Her hand didn't leave the wound on her side and it was completely covered with blood. Dagonet slowly moved her hand away from the wound and removed her outer uniform so he could see the wound better.

Lancelot kissed Luana on her forehead before leaving the carriage, mounting his horse immediately and riding up to meet with Arthur.

"How is she?"

"Sleeping." Lancelot answered shortly.

Arthur looked away and nodded softly, his thoughts were somewhere else. Lancelot frowned at his commander and wondered what was wrong with him.

"Arthur, what is wrong with you?" Lancelot asks while he sat against the tree with the fire warming his face. Arthur didn't answer but rather looked around at the environment. The trees overlapped each other, and in the night, the small piece of wood, was overlapped by shadows and moonlight.

The fire burned happily, taking up all the oxygen around him. Lancelot rolled his eyes before storming of towards the carriage where Luana was sleeping. Tristan sat by her, holding her small hand in his.

"How is she?" He asked softly.

Tristan looked up, worry shined in his eyes as Lancelot sat a little further, leaning against the wall while sitting.

"It's a wonder she hold out until we got here."

"She's strong Tristan."

"Yeah, she is. But somehow, I keep seeing her as the small girl that pleaded with me to take her with me when I turned a knight. I keep, seeing her as the girl that needed protection from the other boys of the tribe, that always followed me wherever I went."

Lancelot smiled and looked at Tristan. He looked at Lancelot and Lancelot nodded in agreement.

"She grew up Tristan. You have to accept that."

"I thought I already did when I let you two date."

Lancelot laughed a little and shook his head at Tristan, looking at a sleeping Luana. She grew up into a beautiful woman, and he had to miss her for at least three years. But she's finally back with them. She was finally back with him and her loving brother.

Then Lancelot noticed how much Tristan had changed since she was back with the group. He was less quiet, his eyes shone with worry and love again and he wasn't sitting in the solitude anymore, at least not until Luana sat next to him, just...in silence.

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A/N : I am SO sorry for the slow update, I'm going to be honest with you...I was to busy with my other fics and forgot about this one I began to write this chapter as soon as I could