Near's P.O.V.

One of the guys grab a hold of my throat and slam me into a nearby large rock. "You are all ours." He laughs.

I struggle and claw at his hand holding onto my throat. "Help…Me!" I scream.

"No one is coming to save you." The other snickers.

I continue to struggle and feel tears start to roll down my face. Silently pleading anyone to save me…. Anyone I don't care who just save me!

Suddenly there is a flash of light and the two guys are knocked backwards letting go of me.

I fall to my hands and knees on the ground and glance up only see Mother who is starting to look old.

She glares at the two guys. "Don't you dare. He is mine and I will not let you hurt my son!" She sends another blast of light at them. "Now time for you to disappear and get what you deserve!" She sends a cloud of smoke to them and it surrounds them only to teleport them off somewhere else. Mother looks back at me and rushes over to me, she kneels down beside me. "Are you hurt my child?"

I let the tears flow and I hug her, crying on her shoulder. "Im so sorry for running away Mother! You were right! The people of this world are monsters! Take me back! I promise I wont run away again!" I continue to sob.

Mother hugs me back and strokes my hair. "Shhhh. It'll be okay. We will return home and you will be safe."

I nod and sniffle.

Mello… I thought you were my knight in shining armor like in the books but…. I guess I was wrong.

Mello's P.O.V.

I am lead down the jail cell hall and I manage to look out a window to see the gelatine and the two buff guys that tricked me getting their heads cut off. I gulp and lower my head only for a small white flash to catch my eye. I look and its one of the unicorns that the guy had at the bar!

"Keep moving!" The guards push my head down and shove me forward.

I wonder why the unicorn was there on the ledge.

Suddenly the door in front of us is slammed shut and so are any other open doors around us.

"What the?" The leading guard gasps and goes over to the door in front of us. He bangs on the door. "HEY! Open up!"

The small weird always drunk guy opens the sliding window on the upper part of the door. "Whats the password?" He then closes it.

"Huh?" The leading guard flinches in surprise.

The weird guy opens it again and smirks. "Nope." Then he closes it again.

"Open this door!" The lead guard demands.

The weird guy opens the thing again. "Not even close." Only to shut it again.

"You have three seconds!" The lead guard growls. "One!"

Suddenly one of the two guards on either side of me is pulled out the window by a hook. The guard is thrown away as I watch.

"Two!"

The door on the side with the other guard opens and one of the guys from the bar grabs the guards face in his big hands and pulls him into the room, shutting the door.

"Thr…." The lead guard turns around and stands there shocked staring at me as I stand alone, hand cuffed in the middle of the hall.

I just smile innocently and the door the lead guard was yelling opens.

The guy who had the unicorns steps out from the door and smashes the lead guards head with a frying pan.

I shrug with a smile. "I know right! Frying pans. Who knew?"

The other guys enter the hall.

One of the guys from the bar grabs my arm while another breaks the hand cuffs I have been locked in.

The handcuffs fall off in pieces.

"Come on!" The one holding my arm says as he lets go and runs down the hall.

I follow and the other guys spilt up.

I can hear some more guards coming from behind us as we keep running.

I risk a glance back and see a group chasing us, I focus back to where I am going as we turn a corner.

The mime guy is there and we pass him. But he stops the guards by holding out his hand. He reaches behind him and pulls out nothing. Only to do the invisible wall thing that mimes do.

The guards look at him like what the hell!

He glances down another hall beside the guards and the guards look at where he is looking.

The guy who wants to play the piano from the bar is racing down the hall and screams his battle cry.

The guards drop their weapons and scream like little girls, even filching like girls.

The guy bowls them over and in seconds all that's left of where the guards stood is just their weapons and helmets.

The mime guy has his fists on his hips and looks proud of himself. Then he turns around and gives us the 'oh no!' look.

I laugh at that.

We continue running and make it to the inner castle area that has no roof.

I stop running and catch my breath. Only to look up and see a whole swarm of guards running towards us!

How will we escape!?

The guy I am with suddenly grabs me and places me next to him. "Head down." He instructs.

"Head down." I do as told.

"Arms in." He does his commands with me.

"Arms in." I pull my arms close to my body.

"Knees apart." He gives the last command.

"Knees apart." I do as told then look confused. "Knees apart?" I turn to him. "Why? Why do I need my knees-"

Suddenly I am flying through the air.

"Ahhhhhhh!" I scream in surprise as I fly through the air, my body frozen in the position I was launched in. I shut my eyes tightly as I prepare for crash landing.

But I find myself landing on somones or somethings back with my legs on either side of it.

I open my eyes to see Matt! "Matt…."

He neighs softly.

"You brought them here?" I ask softly.

He just smiles at me.

"Thank you." I gently pat his neck. "Dunno whatd id do without you."

He nods as if to say lets get going and turns to face forward.

"Right. Lets go." I grab the reigns and Matt takes off running.

Three guards come out the door behind us and they start shooting arrows at us but Matt is skillfully dodging them.

I look around the corner of the castle wall to see the swarm of guards then I look straight ahead and see a dead end. "Matt." I warn him and stare at the dead end. "Matt!" I shout as he keeps running towards the dead end.

He suddenly jumps and I hold the reigns tightly. Matt makes it to a nearby house roof and slides down it then jumps at the last second before falling off the edge.

We land hard on the ground and Matt takes off running.

I think about Near and put on my determined face. "Okay Matt. Show me how fast you can run."

He neighs and runs as fast as he can. He runs across the bridge and heads towards the forest where Nates tower is.

We continue until I can see Nates tower up ahead.

Nears P.O.V.

After helping out mother I go to my room and sit there to think.

I look down and open up my hands to see a cloth that I had gotten at the festival, someone had given it to me while the kids were putting my hair together with flowers that mother took out. I open it up and look at the sun symbol on it.

Sweetie whines and makes me look at her. She looks at me as if trying to comfort me. Then she leans against my hip and changes the color of my clothes.

I sigh sadly and flop down onto my bed holding the cloth to my chest. I open my eyes fully instead of their half way sad look and look up.

There I see the painting of the dream I constantly have and the symbol…

I hold the cloth up in front of me then lower it to look at my painting. Doing this a few times before I stop and look at all of it sitting up. My eyes widen when I notice the symbols more and look around my room.

The sun symbol from the cloth is all over my room!

I stand and gasp staring up at my room as I begin to remember.

I remember seeing the symbol above my head when I was really young then I looked over and saw blurry people, two of them. Then my mind flashes to the picture of the king and queen on the wall who look exactly like the two blurry people in my dream! I remember the baby prince in their arms in the picture that looks a lot like me! I flash back to the time I tried on the crown.

The flashbacks stop and my hands come to my mouth as I drop the cloth. Now staring at the wall in front of me.

I gasp and my eyes widen. I fall to my knees on the floor.

"Nate?" 'Mothers' voice calls up to me as she walks towards my room. "Nate is everything alright? What are you doing up there!?"

I pant and slowly drop my hands to my lap.

"Are you alright?" 'Mother' asks.

I get up and walk to my door frame. I hold onto either side of it with my hands and slowly let my eyes meet the woman who I thought was my mother. "I'm the lost prince." I mumble.

The woman sighs and rolls her eyes. "You know I hate mumbling now speak up!" The woman snaps at me.

I glare at her and stand up proudly, arms to my sides and hands into fists. "I am the lost prince! Right?"

The womans eyes go wide and that confirms my suspicions.

My glare hardens. "Did I mumble loud enough for you mother? Or should I even call you mother?"

The woman smiles and laughs but I can tell shes panicking. "Nate honestly! Listen to yourself. Asking those ridicules questions." She comes towards me trying to hug me.

I push her away and she gives a fake look of hurt. "You were the one who stole me. Werent you?"

Her eyes narrow. "Everything I did was to protect you."

I shake my head and push past her walking down the stairs. "I have spent my entire life hiding from people who would want to use me for my powers!?"

"NATE!" The woman snaps.

I stop at the bottom of the stairs and turn to face her. "When the one I should have been hiding from was you all along!"

"Where will you go?" She growls. "He wont be there for you."

"What happened to him?"

The woman smirks. "That criminal is to have his head chopped off as punishment."

I gasp and look down. "No."

"Now now." The woman soothes with fake concern. "Now you listen. This is how it should be. All of it." She is about to place a hand on my head.

I grab her arm stopping her and I glare at her. "No! You were wrong about the people outside of this tower! Not to mention wrong about me!"

She tries to get out of my grip but I refuse to let go.

"I will never let you use my hair again!"

The woman breaks free from my gasp and slaps me. Hard. She also knocks over a stand up mirror and it falls, breaking. She pants and looks to me as I glare at her.

I turn to leave out the window.

"You want me to be the bad guy?" The womans voice turns dark.

I stop and glance back at her.

"Fine. I'll be the bad guy." She walks towards me much faster than I can escape.

Mellos P.O.V.

Matt stops next to the tower and I hope off of him.

I rush towards the tower and look up. "Nate!" I call up.

No answer.

"Nate! Let down your hair!" I call up again, hoping he will answer.

When nothing happens I use the vines growing on the side of the tower to climb up.

But I only get a small ways off the ground before Nates hair is thrown down so I can climb it. So I do just that. I make it to the window and climb through. "Nate! I thought id never see you again!" I look up to see Nate gagged and tied up on the floor.

Nate struggles on his binds and it sounds like hes trying to tell me something.

Suddenly I feel this sharp pain in my back and I fall to the floor on my hands and knees. Only to fall to my side.

Nate is panicking and trying to yell something plus break free of his binds.

"Nate. Look what you have done." A womans voice reaches my ears. "Don't worry my dear." She steps over me as I hold my stomach, the area where the knife went through my body, gasping in pain. "Our secret will die along with him." She chuckles.

Nears P.O.V.

I struggle and try to scream Mellos name as the woman tries to pull me away from him.

"As for you. You will be taken to where no one will see you again!"

Sweetie bites on her cloak and the woman kicks Sweetie away.

"Rotten pest." The woman spits in anger.

I continue to struggle.

"Nate this is enough! Stop fighting me now!" The woman strictly demands.

I manage to slide the gag to around my mouth to around my neck and I sit on the floor facing the woman. "No forget it! I wont stop! For the rest of my life I will fight against you! I will never ever stop trying to get away from you! You low life!" I suddenly get an idea, Mello came to save me…. I must return the favor. "However. Let me save him and I will obey and follow you." I look pleadingly into her eyes.

Her grip on my binds loosens.

"No!" Mellos weak voice is heard behind me and I can feel Mellos, Sweeties and the womans eyes on me.

"I'll never run again. You can have me. Just let me save Mello." I beg.

She looks like she is contemplating this before she nods and unwraps me from my binds. Only to attach it to Mellos wrist. "This is so you don't follow us."

I crawl over to Mello and roll him onto his back in my arms. "Mello!"

"Nate….." He opens his eyes to look at me. "My name is Mihael….. Mihael Keehl." He reaches up under my hair towards the back of my neck. "No. You cant do this."

"Yes I can!" I grab my hair but his other hand pushes it away from him.

"I cant let you do this!" He painfully shifts away from me.

Tears start to form in my eyes. "And I cant let you die." I plead him.

He looks into my eyes and groans. "But if you do this. Wont you die."

I put a hand to his cheek. "It'll be alright." I promise him. I am about to start healing him when….

"Nate wait!" Miahel reaches up as if to wrap his arms around my neck and grips my hair. He slices it off to a shorter length that goes to the bottom of ears. After that his hand limply falls to the floor, dropping a sharp shard of the mirror.

"Mihael!" I cry.