Alright kiddies, I know I originally posted this story a few days ago but I was so inspired so here is my second chapter for you kids. As always please enjoy and let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters

On the bed next to me was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. There curled up in my shirt was a beautiful woman with strawberry blonde hair that looked almost pink in this light. Her eyes were closed but I already knew that they were the most beautiful shade of blue, she had a light spattering of freckles over her cheeks. Her features were sharp and looked as if they had been chiseled out of the finest marble. I couldn't help but stare at her as her name tumbled off my lips in astonishment.

At the sound of her name Ahiru's eyes snapped open, she rolled over and her eyes grew wide as she saw him. She bolted out of the bed and away from him desperately pulling her shirt down to cover as much of her as possible. "No, no, no. You just had to wait a few more months that's all."

Her words snapped him back into reality, "Wait what's going on?"

"He's coming for me, you have to go. Please he will hurt you," She said desperately as she tried to back out of the room.

"I'm not leaving you, you are finally back. I don't care who he is but I will stop him," I said desperately as I grabbed my sword in one hand and her with the other. She fought against me but I held her close, "I will not let you go this time."

Seeing that she wasn't going to win Ahiru turned and buried herself against my chest, "Please just remember that he is taking me to a land before the beginning and after the end. It's there where you will find me."

I looked down at her, "what are you talking about?"

She said nothing but a moment later the window shattered and a figured dressed in black stood and faced the pair, "I'm here to collect my reward."

I tightened my grip on Ahiru and drew my sword, "you will take nothing, back down or I will take your life."

The figure said nothing but launched at me forcing me into a defensive position, I wasn't even able to attack as I tried to keep Ahiru safe. I managed to deflect a few more blows but I had to risk myself as the figure aimed for Ahiru, the sword cut painfully across my shoulder and back.

"Stop," Ahiru shouted as she pushed out of my arms and placed herself between me and the figure. "If I go with you will you not hurt him?"

The figure nodded to her and Ahiru turned to face me with an unspeakable sadness before she followed the figure out the window and out of my life once more. I rushed to the window and watched as they galloped off, I turned and ran back through the house only to be stopped by Karon.

"I heard a bunch of noise… and what happened to you?" He asked as he hurriedly checked over my injury in a frenzied manner.

"I'm fine Karon, but they have her." I said as I tried to fight out of his grasp and after Ahiru.

"No you're not, you're not even making sense." Karon said as he steered me over to the kitchen table where he could take care of my injury. "Who are they and who have they taken?"

"Ahiru," I said as I let him sit me down, "I managed to write her back into this world but I blew it and they took her away, I tried to save her but she sacrificed herself to keep me safe - just like she always has."

Karon frowned as he wrapped my shoulder, "That's the girl you are always telling me about, right?" He asked though it was clear that he was still confused.

"Yes, that's her and now I need to go save her." I said flatly, I didn't want to go through explaining this all right now.

"Seeing that I can't talk you out of this at least take this with you and try to be safe." Karon said as he handed me a pack that was set up for camping, I thanked him and rushed out of the house.

I grabbed one of the horses and as a made it to the edge of the town and prepared to take off I heard another voice behind me, "where are you going, Fakir?"

"I don't have time for this Autor, go back the library."

"I don't think so, you have been writing again haven't you?" Autor said as he stepped in front of my horse to stop me. "So where are you going? Are you leaving before your story plagues this town again?"

"No, the repercussions of this story are for me to deal with. Now if you don't mind I have to a place before the beginning and after the end."

"There is no such place, you are going on a fools quest." Autor spit out, "how do you hope to find a place that doesn't exist?"

"By figuring out the riddle," I said slowly before I realized something, that story that I had started all those months ago was so similar. I abruptly turned my horse and galloped back to the house to find the papers and find the answer to this ridiculous riddle. Finding nothing immediately in the story I turned and traveled West in the direction that I remembered seeing the black figure take Ahiru in.