Meghan's POV

After being told about the septre from Pixel, we all decided to vote whether we should head out straight away or wait to gather any kind of supplies needed, it was unanimous that we were going to wait. This also gave gave Pixel some more time to see if she could find out any other information about where it was being moved to next and who was guarding it.

Later in the day, it seemed both Ash and Puck decided that I needed to learn how to defend myself a little more and took it upon themselves to try and teach me archery, while I kept saying that they needed to teach me other ways to defend myself. However, it seemed the only way they could do that was from a distance, since the only bow and arrows we had were, of course, made of iron.

"Why not just focus on teaching me how to defend myself with knives, swords and such like you two. An arrow won't be any good if it comes down to hand to hand combat, " I had tried explaining this to them a few times in the past couple of hours but it fell on deaf ears and what I was saying was ignored, the only reply I did get was from Puck saying,

"As long as we're around you won't need to learn any of that, this is for just incase one of us looks like we're loosing and needs help," There was a coughed 'Ice boy' after that and Ash gave him a murderous glare.

"If anyone will be needing any help, it'll be you goodfellow." It was spoken in a quiet, angry voice and you could tell it was taking all of his effort not try and start a fight with Puck.

"Keep the arguing to a minimum, as entertaining as it is, I would rather not have to interveine." Drawled Grim, with his eyes almost shut looking lazily at them (which reminded me of a normal cat), the only thing he had done in the past couple of hours was sleep, then disappear, only to reappear on the chair he was resting on again.

"Okay, fine. We'll teach you a bit of sword fighting, then some hand to hand combat. If we do, will you promise to stop complaining?" They both agreed after some more moaning form me, since it appeared that I wouldn't concentrate properly if I kept complaining.

"Yes!" I cheered, finally after all that complaining.

A few hours later

"Ow" I repeated, I had bumps and brusies all over, except from my stomach of course. Apparently, this was much harder than it looked. We had sent Spark, who we had found out was a sort of brother to Pixel, to the Never woods to bring back a couple of sticks that could help me train with, after he had come back I was regreting asking this from them.

"Don't worry princess, you're slowly getting better. And you're not a completely lost case. A couple more days and you'll be able to take on some people." Puck was trying to get me to look on the bright side, which seemed to have dissapeared, well I certainly couldn't see one.

" Don't worry Meghan, you're getting there. You learn quicker than most people, you'll get the hang of it, but you also need to learn how to protect your stomach better. We decided today that we wouldn't aim for your stomach, but tomorrow we need to get you to learn some defensive manuvers, okay?"Ash softly spoke the words to me. Ash had moved behind me to circle his arms around my waist and place his hands protectively on my stomach. I then turned around in his arms, kissed his lips softly and lowerd my head onto his shoulder.

" Maybe I should show you both what I've been practising to do with my glamour." I told them both. I then focused on a piece of Iron and searched for the glamour inside of me. I imagined what I wanted it to do and pushed out the glamour towards the Iron, the flat normal piece of iron had suddenly transformed into a metal replica of a rose. I slowly picked it up, careful of any sharp edges there may be and smiled at it. A gentle smile, that showed how I admired the beauty of it, I then imagined it painted like a rose and wondered the harm I could do to Titania if she ever picked up that rose, my gentle smile then turned into a mischevious smile.

"What are you grinning about?" Puck had seen my grin and asked, looking curious as to what about the rose had turned my facial features so that they were now looking almost identical to what his were when he was plotting some kind of prank back at school.

" I wonder how Titania would react if I ever gave her a rose like this? Or maybe I could just slip it into her hand and sneak out. She can't say it was me if she didn't see me. I could always blame it on an Iron fey." I grinned as I spoke, ideas flowing into my mind, senario after senario of ways to get out of trouble if I were caught.

"Hold on there, mastermind criminal. You might be accused of treason you know if anyone had heard what you were just saying. But I doubt you would even get into Oberon's castle, especially if you're pregnant with Ice boy's kid. I think that he'd rather kill the kid than let you have it. Actually, no. He'd let you have the kid, since technically, the kid will be related to him and he doesn't tend to ignore his family, you should know since he sent me to look after you. Oberon would probably want to see if the kid is any use to him." As Puck explained, my mischevious grin dropped and I scowled at him.

" I was only joking, I wasn't actually going to do it. I know I'd most likely be caught. I thought you of all people would understand a joke." I had unconsiouly been moving my arms about as I was talking and when I had said 'you' I pointed with the rose to him and so he jerked back from it.

"Why don't you go eat, you don't want to use up too much energy." Ash murmmered at my ear.

"Oh! We don't have anything to eat. There isn't any food here. But I guess I can sent out one of the gremlins (they remind me of gremlins) out to the human world to get me something. But what about you two?" I asked them concerned.

"We're fine. You just eat." Replied Ash, leaving no room for argument.

"Okay, let's go in."

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