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Chapter 6: The Battle
The reports came and they weren't pleasant, an army was gathering, and was coming to attack the Palace.
"They say that the General of this army is… not someone we want to face, they say his name is General Alexander" Thalia stated to the Princesses.
Marie gasped at the name and her eyes went wide before filling with tears.
Rose reached over to squeeze Marie's hand. Sarah on the other hand stood up straighter and said "Thalia prepare the soldiers, it seems we are going to war."
Later that night Sarah was leaning against the balcony of the throne room and taking deep breaths when she heard a familiar voice say "can't sleep either?"
Sarah looked over her shoulder and smiled "no, I'm worried about Marie, Alex's betrayal hit her hard. How is she Nico?"
Nico shrugged "I don't know, I think she's talking to Luke at the moment, trying to figure out how she feels."
Sarah smiled "well that's what best friends are for right?"
Marie looked up at Luke "how on earth can he do this to us?! I know he wanted and still wants power, but we were a family, has he forgotten that?" the tears trailing from her eyes showed how broken hearted she was.
Luke sighed "I don't know Mar, I think maybe… he doesn't want to remember what it means to be part of a family." He hugged her around the shoulders "you still have us, and you have Nico now, remember, he's currently the threat to our family."
Marie looked into his eyes "I never stopped hoping that one day he would come home, even if I'm not in love with him anymore I still love him, he is still part of our family in my heart. How do I forget that?"
Luke sighed "I don't know Marie, I just don't know" he hugged her tightly as she sobbed against him.
The scouts they had sent ahead to find out how big the armies were came back with anything but good news, the army was huge and outnumbered the Palace ten to one.
"Well Will it looks as if you'll be getting a chance to prove yourself after all." Nico said to Will in a tone of contempt
Sarah stood up and looked at Nico coldly. "you can't be serious Nico" they had rules about this sort of thing no one was supposed to go to battle before their 18th birthday Will was only 17.
Nico looked at her and said "we need every one princess that includes Will."
Marie spoke softly from her throne "it seems a bit drastic Nico, we've faced worse odds then ten on one without needing to call in the younger warriors."
Luke responded to Marie "but we need to be prepared and for that we need Will"
Nico muttered under his breath "though I don't know why we need him."
Luke gave Nico a look that told him quite firmly to 'Shut Up'. Luke said to his younger sister "Sarah, we need Will, he's one of our best swordsmen and…" Luke stopped talking and everybody turned towards Will.
Will did not say anything but looked Sarah strait in the eyes and she looked back. A few tears came into her eyes and she shook her head, not in refusal but pleading with him. He looked into her eyes even more and then he closed his eyes and turned to Nico and said in a strong voice "when do we start?"
The battle went on and on for months, the palace was doing very good at holding its ground until one day, the day when the whole war went sideways.
Will was fighting a few soldiers with Luke by his side but they were losing to many men, Nico ran over and shouted "we're losing! We need to fall back before we lose to many others!"
Both Luke and Will nodded in agreement, Nico yelled "Retreat!" to their men and as they started to retreat a man dressed in black attacked Will, Nico recognized the man as General Alexander and ran back to help will but was too late as Alexander stabbed Will in the stomach.
If asked later both Nico and Luke would swear that they heard Sarah's heartbroken scream as Will died from the Palace a few miles away. Both Marie and Rose swore that they never wanted to see their baby sister like they did in that moment, a scream escaped her lips in horror and then she collapsed to the floor sobbing saying "no no no!" and "he's dead."
Will's death was not the first, nor would he be the last.
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