Hey. Back with another update for That's the OZ I Remember. In this chapter the Longcoats and Zero actually abduct the princesses. And Azkadellia tells DG and Andromeda why Zero called Andromeda honey. So without further ado here is the next chapter of That's the OZ I Remember. Enjoy.
Adrian Zero was not a man used to be refused. Especially not by one he had left his wife to marry. He pulled Andromeda close to him.
"My dear," he said, "you will do well to remember your place." He turned to his men. "Make sure my wife and her sisters are quite comfortable. They'll be with us for a while."
"Your what?" screeched DG and Andromeda together.
"Don't you remember Andromeda?" he turned to Azkadellia. "If she doesn't surely the ex-sorceress would remember rewarding her most loyal Longcoat."
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Azkadellia looked down at her shoes. She did remember exactly what this man was talking about. The witch had rewarded Zero for his hard work by marrying her little sister to him.
She had tried to wrest control back from the witch in time to stop the fiasco. But the witch had stopped her at every turn. She regretted it everyday.
"I asked you question Your Highness," came Zero's voice.
"Yes," said Azkadellia. "I do remember. And I have regretted not being able to do anything to stop that from happening everyday since it had."
"Now. Now Azkadellia is that anyway to treat your brother-in-law."
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I jerked away from Zero. What was this loony talking about? I think I would remember being married to someone. If at all.
I glared at him.
"I don't remember what you're talking about," I hissed. "If you touch me again I will rip your arm off and beat you to death with it. Or Wyatt Cain will."
The smug smile slipped off his face. Making one appear automatically on my own. I had struck a nerve with that comment. Hadn't I?
"And what exactly does Wyatt Cain have to do with you?" he asked me anger coming into his voice.
One of the men walked into the room. "Sir," he said. "People are coming this way. We have to go now." He walked back out of the room again.
Zero turned to the men still in the room. "Blindfold our guests and tie their hands behind their backs," he told them. "Then we get out of here." He turned back to me. "And I will deal with Wyatt Cain if he comes after us." With that he left the room.
The Longcoats tied our hands behind our backs before we had time to react. We were then led out of the room and out of the palace.
I fumbled with bow tied in my sash. It finally came undone as we were being led out the front gate of the palace. I hope to God that Wyatt or someone would find it and come after us.
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He stared straight ahead. She hadn't remember them. What they had meant to each other? The nights they had spent together.
He could still feel her lips upon his as if it was yesterday. It might as well have been yesterday.
He looked back at her. She must be lying to spare her sisters. She surely knew how he felt about her and felt the same way about him in return.
But then she had brought up Wyatt Cain. Why had his Andromeda brought up Wyatt Cain? Was she screwing around with Wyatt Cain behind his back? He would have to have a talk with her when they got to camp. He would get to the bottom of this. For now they had to keep walking. And make sure their path was unfollowable.
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Azkadellia was still kicking herself by the time they had reached the Longcoat camp. She had married her little sister to this man. When the witch had been destroyed and Zero had been locked away she had used magic to erase Andromeda's memory of ever being married to Zero. In a way she had hoped to make up for not being able to stop that marriage.
She looked over DG and Andromeda. There was so much that the witch had done that she wished to shelter them from. But she would have to tell them about what had happened.
Andromeda turned to her eyebrow cocked in confusion. "What is that loony bin psycho talking about Az?" she asked me.
"You are married to Adrian Zero," said Azkadellia.
"What?" asked DG.
"I don't remember that," Andromeda said in confusion.
"I erased your memories of him when we locked him and the other Longcoats away."
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Flashback
Azkadellia had sat in the garden with her younger sister Andromeda drinking tea when news of the Longcoats wiping out a pocket of resistance had reached them. She saw the light leave Andromeda's eyes at this news. The witch was gleeful at this.
"Bring the captain of this band of Longcoats to me," the witch had Azkadellia say. "I will have his reward for him upon his arrival."
"A reward?" asked Andromeda. "For harming people of our realm?"
"Yes," said the witch. "You will like this reward as well."
Andromeda doubted that she would.
"Sorceress," came a voice. "You called."
Both women turned around a found a blonde man with cold blue grey eyes standing behind them. He looked very forbidding and cold.
"Yes Captain..."
"Zero ma'am."
"I have called you here to reward you for a job well done."
"No reward is necessary."
"But I must reward you." The witch paused to think about what would hurt her vessel the most. "Your reward my loyal Longcoat is my darling little sister Andromeda's hand in marriage."
"That is most kind of you Sorceress."
The next day Andromeda had been married to Adrian Zero against her will. Azkadellia had been kicking herself ever since.
End of flashback
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"There you have," said Azkadellia. "That is how you ended up married to Adrian Zero."
The sound of clapping came from behind us. The three of us turned around to find Adrian Zero standing at the entrance to our tent.
"Sorry to interrupt story time Princesses," he said. "But I would like a word with the little woman."
He motioned for two of his men to bring me with them.
That is it for this update. I hope you all enjoyed. And please let me know what you think of my love triangle idea. Who do you think she should end up with? Zero? Or Cain? Please let me know.
