YAY! I'M FINALLY BACK! *hugs & kisses* OH, I MISSED U GUYS LIKE HELL! Sorry, I haven't been around these last few days like I had too. I had an important and exhausting college trip/appointment. And along the way, my phone sadly died on me for good. So, when I got back, I had to wait another 4 days to get a new one & Internet! IT WAS COMPLETE TORTURE! I ALMOST GO INSANE! (Not exaggerating!) Clearly, I was having pretty bad luck that day! WHERE´S A GOOD LUCK CHARM OR LEPRECAUHN WHEN I NEED ONE!? (BREEZY, GET OVER HERE AND NEVER EVER LEAVE MY SIDE, OK?!) All I could thing was of u guys & I tried everything to say in touch. Don't think I was ignoring or ditching you because I LOVE U GUYS TOO MUCH TO DO THAT! (U know that, right?) U guys forgive me? We cool? I LUV U! ;)

Anyways, I'm back now, so I'll be updating like usual. Like now. I hope you like it, I was up all night, finishing it. Go ahead and read it while I catch up on messages and updates from u guys ;)

Like Pitbull always says... DALE! ;)

17. Pelea Conmigo (Fight With Me) Until The End

The next day in the fair town of San Verona, the town were getting dolor de cabeza (headache) of the rampage of Don Rojillo´s anger going on and on about El Zorro managing to escape his dungeons last night. He just couldn't understand how he manages to escape since he had the top army of guards in the country. He even had the suspicions that his own daughter let him out or help him escape but sadly he didn't have proof and when he asked her, she denied it so well that he was convinced it wasn't her fault. One thing Julieta that it was easy and fun trucking her father since he still believes she his inocente and delicada hija. Today, while she walked through the halls of the palace, she overheard her father planning on going tonight up to the gold mines for an important inspection. This was her chance to keep her promise to Gnoméo and find evidencia of his past crimes.

She ran to her room and wrote down a note for him and asked her lady-in-waiting, Sra. Nanette to go deliver it to Padre Featherstone and he will deliver it to him. 2 hours have passed until she got her answer, she reads the note and it says he wants to me her at San Verona's best cafe to talk. She gets a jump for joy and runs out her room and down to the stables to fetch her horse, good thing her father didn't see her. She wonders thru the busy town as the people greeted her & she waved back.

Soon, she arrived at the cafe which was in the corner of the plaza; she hops off her horse and enters, casually. As she enters, she started looking around the area where she saw people eating their lunch or talking with their friends. Soon, she spots Gnoméo in the back corner and walks to him.

"Hola" she says and they share a kiss "You have no idea how much I wanted to see you. I was getting worried about you last night" she says, slightly worried.

He then takes her hands in his "Believe me, I was too for the second but I always find my way" he smirks at her as he drinks his beer.

"Mira, Gnoméo, I've been thinking this a lot and it worried me. I don't know what we're going to do about this. I mean, the demolition is in 3 dias and mi papa has plans for it, even if he doesn't have enough dinero." She explains.

"No, mi diabla, even if he's broke to the core, he will try anything to steal mi familia's mines and even your lands if it takes. That's why I call you. I have un plan and you're going to help me" he says serious

She nods "Ok, anything. Just tell me what I need to do"

"I need to sneak me into la oficina de tu padre so I can steal whatever he has in his caja fuerte" (safe)

"His caja fuerte? No, Gnoméo. That una locura!" she gasps in shock, knowing that was extremely dangerous and imposible.

"I know but un pajarito (a birdie) tells that you know what he hides in there"

"And what do you know about that?"

"I know many things and tell me that you're not going to deny it, right?"

"Well, I do know but I'm not 100% you should go near that thing"

"Mira, Julieta, I have studied how Rojillo thinks and how he acts, especialmente on how he makes his businesses, some discoveries have even lead me to you and you are la arma secreta (secret weapon) I need to make my great steal yet" he smirks at her, making her blush but frown again.

"I still think it una mala idea, Gnoméo"

"That's why you're coming with me to make sure I don't get caught. I need somebody of my entire trust to help me on this"

"And what do I need to do for you to trust me?"

"To lie. Lie like you've never lied before as evil and sinister as tu padre. I need you to get his trust and once he's distracted by that sudden trust and love you have for him, I want you to start looking for anything that's against him and involves him in any crimes of his past or now in this town" he says, with a evil in his tone.

"Gnoméo, do you know what you're asking me? You're asking to find proof that will destroy mi padre"

"Si, I know what I'm asking you is too much but I'm begging you to help me, diabla"

Julieta thinks about it for a second and lets out a sigh "Esta bien. I'll do it. When do you want me to start?" she asks.

"As soon as possible"

"How about tonight? Mi papa is leaving for the night to the mines which means I'll be alone with mi niñera"

"And can you trust her?" he asks, concern

"Si, she's loyal to me and she can help us get in his oficina"

"Perfecto. I promise that you won't regret this" he kisses her hand but could see she was still worried about this plan.

"I hope so" she sighs until they made their separate ways to begin their parts in this dangerous plan.

(A Few Hours Later, Rojillo Palacio)

Later in that afternoon, Julieta goes back to her palacio to begin her mission. Don Rojillo has left an hour ago with Teobaldo. And Sra. Nanette was at el mercado (market) shopping. So, she was alone at the palace, the perfect opportunity to act. While holding up her puffy black dress, she goes to her father's office, moving fast on her feet and shutting the door behind her. She was lucky that no guard saw her come in. Julieta wastes no time in searching every drawer, every cabinet, every box that might hold a secret of her father's past or anything that will send him to jail. She then started searching around his desk where there were tasks of documents, she started flipping over them. She then sees a drawer under the desk, she tried to open in but it was lock. She pulls out one of her knives and tried to get to open. Suddenly, the door opens and she jumps in fright, thinking its her father! But thankfully, it wasn't him, it was just Sra. Nanette!

"Nanette, you scared me" she sighs in relief.

"You won't be able to open it like that, Julieta" Nanette says, noticing that Julieta was trying to open the drawer.

"You're going to help me?" Julieta asks, surprised and happy at the same time.

"Si. Even if you didn't asked me yet" Nanette says, waking toward her lady.

"Por que? Why do you want to help me?" la morena asks, curious (morena: brunette)

"Because now mis amigos are your amigos. And I'm going to help you" Nanette smiles, making Julieta smile as well.

"I always knew how badly mi padre treated you all these years but never imagine you would betray him like to, to help destroying his career as governador"

"I could say the same about you and you're his hija!" Nanette asks, shock

"I have other reasons of why. And my reason is not just justice, is venganza" Julieta says in a low evil tone, still trying to get the drawer open with her knife.

"I know, now tell me, what are we looking for, Chiquita?"

"Honestly, no se, I don't know, anything, anything that incriminates mi papa for his crimes in the past, all his bad businesses, anything at all" she grunts, continuing to struggle to open the drawer.

"Don't hurt yourself too much, Julieta. That ingrate is very smart on hiding things like that. But there is something that he didn't do well on hiding" Nanette says, getting Julieta's attention.

"What's that, Nanette?" Julieta asks

"It was when la Sra. Marina died. A detail I didn't tell la policia back then the Chief was one of your father's right hand man"

"And what exactly happen that day with mi mama, Nanette?"

"Do you understand now? The past s coming back to us. Everyone thought she suicide herself but it wasn't like that. I knew she wanted to get her freedom back because she was tired of being mistreated and humiliated by your father. She was sick of her matrimonio but not her vida, she never intended on ending it but somebody ended it for her because felt like he didn't needed her anymore. La Sra. Marina wanted to keep living, especially with you. But when they found her cadaver, she was shot from the left and la Sra. Marina was never..."

"Surda" (left handed) Julieta finished for her.

"Mi mama was never surda" Now it all was clear to her. Julieta always knew that her mom suffer and died under that hands of the men she killed but this small detail was something she didn't notice and the more she thought of it, she had more theories.

"Nanette, I always thought mi mama died by los perros who killed her" she says, remembering the men who killed her that night.

"What if they made you believe that, Julieta. Si, they had intentions on killing her but they only had to order to kill her and make it look like she took out her own life. So you and the people may thing that. So, the real asesino can make it look like that and never be discovered" Nanette explain with sorrow in her tone.

"Si, maybe I was wrong to jump to conclusions when they gave me the wrong idea but I didn't know that they had the order to do it, I just thought they did it because they felt like it" she says with small concern in her tone but not regret, she never regretted on destroy those men.

"Well, that's la verdad, mi niña. Tu madre died in the hands of somebody who loved her so much but ended up hating her so much to killing her. And the same when for you to because, he knew you were the spitting image of her"

"But if neither of those hombres had intention of killing her and me, then who did, Nanette? Who loved her but hated her to kill her? Who?" Julieta asks, desperate

"It was the same person of why mi Marina was una niña triste. I remember all the times she locks herself in her chambers to cry her eyes out. And you were the little strength she had in her but her fear was also for you, knowing that the same persona will come after you"

"Quien, Nanette? Por Favor, dime! Who did it?" she asks, starting to cry.

"Tu padre"

Julieta's heart shatters in pieces as her eyes widen in pure shock "Mi padre? Mi padre killed mi madre?" she hesitates in disbelief.

Nanette nods, ashamed "I know, it's too much to believe but its true, Julieta. Don Rojillo killed Marina because not only she was from the richest familia in España, he also never accepted the fact that his career was getting to his head when she was telling him. She feared that he wanted fama & fortuna over his familia and the good of el pueblo. Over the years, Don Rojillo became more sinister and ambitious, el amor he had once for his esposa and for you just disappeared"

"Pero Nanette, I always knew how cruel he was to mi madre but never imagine he would kill her"

"After he stole all her fortuna which belong to her by law of tus abuelos De La Vega. That's when he made the decision to eliminate her because he thought she was useless to him, he lost all the love he oncefelt for her, or never did"

"What do you mean by that, Nanette?"

"I always had the thought that Don Rojillo only married Marina for her dinero. Or he only loved her for a little time after you were born"

"I just need to know one more thing. If he wanted to kill mi madre, why did he want to kill me too?"

"Marina and her parents had you as one of her only heir of her fortuna because they never trusted Rojillo with it. And since you were one of her heirs, he figure if he kills you too then all that dinero will go to him"

"He did all of this. He killed mi madre and many other people & tried to kill me too, so he can become the richest hombre in all España?" she growls in anger.

"I'm afraid so, mi niña. That's why I've spend all these years trying to protect you from him since you were una niña until you became Doña Barbara"

"Si, una ladrona. Because of him, I had to live una vida that I never wanted. I knew he was responsible for everything that goes on in this town but I never wanted to be una criminal because of him. He is the reason of why I hide, I risk my life for them, the reason of why I 'm always so close to la muerte. And he even tried to kill me without knowing that Doña Barbara is me" she says with anger and sadness in her eyes.

"Don Rojillo is un monstruo, Julieta. I never trusted him and if I never quit or left his house it was to protect you and the others from him, but I guess I failed mi señora, Marina protect her children from his rage and ambicion"

"Nanette, por favor, excuse me. I need to get some air" she excused herself from the office, with a lot of mixed up thoughts in her head.

Julieta closed the door and locked it; she closed the curtains and the doors of her balcony. She was locked and trapped inside her isolated room where nobody could hear her screams of anger and sorrow! She was crushed, her soul as destroyed by the unexpected and painful confession. She let out hurtful wails like if she was La Llorona at night, but the only difference was that her screams were real and couldn't be heard since the walls were too thick to hear. Out of all the enemigos she had faced in her past, every risk she took, her death she avoid to be loyal and serving to her people, all because of him, el hombre who was suppose to love her, tale care of her like any padre would do for his hija. But Julieta was wrong, very wrong, now she knew la verdad. The truth that has been haunting her her entire life with a false one. The real one that held the real murder. She always knew that her parents never got along when she was younger, but never imagines their relationship would end up in una tragedia, a painful one.

Another thing that Julieta understand is that Nanette said that she was one of her mother's heirs, but she was an only child. She was raised along with her cousin by her father since they were little after her mother died. Maybe she had relative or somebody who was close to her mother as she was to make her one of her heir, along with Julieta. Maybe. Tal vez. La curiosidad was killing her. After her father was in jail, she was going investigate and find out of was this mysterious heir was who held a close relationship to her mother without her knowing.

But for now, she only had one mission in mind. Make her padre pay for all the crime he's committed in the past, and especially for the main one. Since she couldn't kill her father with her own hands or she'll be the one going to jail, she'll have to find another way to avenge her mother's death and get everything back that belongs to her and her people. Julieta replaced all her sadness with furia and odio. She has had many things to hate and anger over, but this time she hate has finally broken her and got the danger zone where nobody wanted to see or find out.

She looks to her left on her desk where she had her little trinkets of witchcraft. An evil idea was forming in her head. She then looks over at her nightstand next to her bed where there was a picture of her father and herself when she was 8. She picks it up and glares at it for a while until she knew what she had to do now. She set the framed picture on the desk, along with an old picture of her mother.

Julieta paints her face with black & red paint, small black dots under her eyes and her cheeks, along with the red pain and they looked as if she was bleeding. She didn't even know if it was real paint or real blood, whichever it was, it works either way for the cruel curse she was planning. After she was done painting her face, she first takes the picture of her father and glares, she dips her 2 fingers into her red paint/blood and traces a bloody circle around his face. She then lights up a cigar and blows the smoke at the picture, all part of the ritual.

She closes her eyes and started to chant. "Espirituds del cielo y el infierno, give me the strength to take down my biggest enemy yet. El hombre who took away everything from me. Pubrete, (rot) Don Rojillo. I cure you for the rest of tu miserable vida. Vete al Diablo (go to hell) & rot there! I hate you, papa! TE ODIO!" She takes the picture and smashes it against the wall, letting all her anger out.

But it was done, she has done her curse, her witch powers never fail her. She sees smoke coming out of the corner as a small red/black fire appears and burns the frame along with the picture until it was nothing but dust. Julieta knew the cure will soon make its results, on the person she cursed. Her father will soon regret messing with her and destroy everything she had. The curse was not to kill him but only destroy him where it hurts him the most and so much more to make his miserable.

Julieta takes a deep breath and clear her head. She turns and faces the picture of her Marina, her beloved madre. She takes it in her hands and sighs in sorrow, she missed her so much and now that she knew the truth, she wanted her forgiveness for not doing much for her, for not protecting her for el monster of her father. She takes a pitch of white witch sand in her fingers and sprinkles it over the picture as they started to shine and white glow around her face.

"Mama, if you can hear me, give me una señal" (a sign) she whispers with her eyes closed.

She suddenly, left a small breeze blowing on her face, pushing her hair behind her. The cool breeze was calling for her, the flame of the candles went out and a few of her things were shaking and falling of a place. It was if a small earthquake was happening just in her room, she stood in the center of the room, still in her trance and completely ignoring what was happening around her. Julieta finally opened her eyes and saw a spooky writing on her wall. The message was written with blood and it terrified her a little as she read the message.

"TEN CUIDADO"

"Be careful?" she read in her mind. This was spooky and very confusing. Why would her mother tell her to be careful? Maybe it was a serious warning to her.

"Mama, why do you tell me this? I'm confused. Do you know something I should know?" she asks to thin air as if she was really talking to her.

That's when a stronger breeze nearly blew her away and almost lost her balance. She shuts her eyes puts her hands up to push it away until it finally stopped. She reopens her eyes and finds another spooky message on the wall.

"LO PEOR VIENE!"

"The worst is coming? What can be worst then what is happening now?!" she asks again, slightly afraid.

Then one last message came on her wall, along with another breeze...

"PROTEGE EL PUEBLO, MI NIÑA!"

This message was serious. Marina knew what she meant and knew Julieta will fulfil her duties as the town's heroina. Julieta had a serious look on her face and nods in respect and agreement. She takes her black hat and her weapons as the sun began go down and night

Before she leaves her room, she looks back at the last message as it starts to fade away. The blood does dripping down the wall and disappear once it hit the floor, and leaving without a trance. Another successful curse & blessing spells. Julieta smirks proudly.

"I will, mama. Con mi vida"

She vows with her life as she gave herself the blessing in front of her Jesus Christ and Virgin Maria on her fireplace. And promises to fight until the end, and face whatever comes even if Marina warned her that it will be the worst she has ever faced. She takes off her red dress and changes into something more suitable for tonight.

(Night-time, Rojillo Palacio)

All the way on her balcony, she watched Don Rojillo and his guards ride away and the minute they were out of her sight for good, she heads back inside her room to finish preparing. She was wearing an elegant but casual black dress, unlike her usual red puffy princess dresses, she´d like to call this special dress as her "traje de batalla" (battle dress) The top part was sleeveless on top, so her shoulder were showing, she had a black leather with a silver buckles around her waist where she had her knife and her gun hidden away, unseen by anybody. She also had her sword, sticking out of her back (A/N: Like she had the fishing pole in the movie) and she had her hair with beach waves, beautifully framing her face. She looked like a dangerous killer beauty. (A/N: I have sketches of this dress & others. when I finsh them, I'll post them on my deviantart)

Julieta walks down the empty hallways, with only the fire torches lighting the, up. She could see in every corner a guard at his post, she needed to get rid a few so her plan can succeed. She takes out her trusty rifle and takes out a few tranquilizer darts. She aims at the guard's neck and shoots them out cold. She knocks out at least 10 guards, only the ones that were roaming inside the palace. She takes away their gun and shuts the main doors so the guards outside wouldn't see the unconscious bodies.

Once that was taken care of, Julieta heads to Sra. Nanette's bedroom, which was at the lower story of the palacio. She found her in there, looking a bit nerviosa.

"You know what to do, Nanette?" Julieta asks her

Nanette nods, nervously "Si, the coast is clear, bring him in. I'll stay out a guard" she leaves her room.

Julieta goes over the window that lead to the backyard garden "Ok, you can come in, Gnoméo" she calls out the window.

Gnoméo, in his Zorro mask and clothes, climb thru the window and the first thing he did when he set foot in the room, was kiss Julieta like if it was the last time, making her giggle out loud.

"What he doing here, Julieta?" Nanette asks, coming back in the room.

"It's ok, Nanette. He's helping me, that's all" Julieta says.

"Gracias for letting me in, Sra. Nanette" Gnoméo nods and kisses Nanette's hand like a complete gentleman.

"What are you doing here? You do realize you could get caught, muchacho?" she asks him

"No, no I won't and I appreciate you won't tell on me. But I need a favor. I need you to help me open la caja fuerte of Don Rojillo. And if tonight doesn't go well, I need la ventana of your room to try again mañana" he pleads, seriously.

Nanette crosses her arms "Why don't you ask mi señorita, Julieta? Si, ask her. I know you and her are close. Do you think I'm tonta (dumb) or que?" she glares at him, making him nervous.

"No. Julieta can't" he lowers his head, ashamed.

"He's right, Nanette. My room is high up & yours is in the low story" Julieta adds.

"Dale, Sra. Nanette. Be una frutita and let me climb thru your room. Tranquila, I won't harm you" Gnoméo teases, making Julieta laugh by his silliness.

Nanette gasps and smack him as she was his mother "Don't be un sinvergueza, muchachito! And what are you looking for in Don Rojillo's safe?" she asks, still glaring at him. It was obvious that she didn't trust him as Julieta did.

"We're trying to find serious evidence that proves Rojillo's past crimes" Gnoméo says

"And do you agree you want to do this, Julieta?" she asks the brunette.

Julieta nods "Si, Nanette. Mi padre has to pay for killing mi mama and his other crimes he's done in this town"

Nanette thinks about it for a while "Bueno, esta bien. But you better not cause any trouble, muchacho. Me & mi niña, Julieta are decent mujeres, ok?" she says, serious at him

"No worries, mi señora, I'll only mess around with her" Gnoméo chuckles and goes back to flirting with Julieta, making her giggle again.

"Eh, eh, eh, none of that around here, niños!" she cries, separating them from eachother and making them chuckle

"Ok, Gnoméo, follow me. Nanette, you keep a look out in case a guard or my annoying primo comes back. & gracias for helping us" Julieta says

"I would do anything for you, mi niña" she smiles and they hug

"But I'm still muy nerviosa, Julieta" her lady says, rubbing her hands, nervously.

Julieta holds her hands "Si, I know, Nanette. But you have to trust, Gnoméo. And don't worry about a thing, everything will be fine"

"I hope because if tu padre discovers what we're doing, he'll have all over cabezas!" Nanette says, pretending to cut her neck.

"Just don't think about that & stay calm" Julieta hugs her and leaves with Gnoméo.

As they blend in the shadows and hid from the few guards that were in their spots, Julieta carefully leads El Zorro down the hallways, they hid in every corner as a guard passed them by and they continue until they finally made it to Don Rojillo's office. Gnoméo had his mask on, just in case they get caught. He pulls out his backpack that was filled with specific & special knives, a crowbar, a blowtorch, plenty of DYNAMITE & tools to open safes. Gnoméo take out a stephascope, sticking the ends to his ears and to the safe. He puts on some gloves as he carefully listens to hear the click of the safe to open.

Several minutes have passed or even hours as Gnoméo struggles to open the safe with every skill he has. It wasn't the first time he's opened safes or difficult boxes or anything but this one was the hardest he's encounter but he wasn't going to give up yet. Julieta stood close to the door for look out while Nanette did the same from the other side. But every once and a while, she would have some fun as she chuckles & glimpse over at Gnoméo, who was still struggling to open the safe. He even wanted to blow it up with DYNAMITE but they couldn't get caught. He looks back at his notebook where he wrote down all the tips/notes to open safes during the years. He tried every tip but still no avail to open this extremely difficult safe!

"UGH! I can't open la caja! And I've already tried all the codes I know!" Gnoméo huffs in frustration, trowing his notebook on the desk. "Maybe I'm losing my touch" he sighs, disappointed.

"No, no, no, don't give up now, we've made it this far to quit" she says, encouraging him.

"Are you critizing on how I do my job as ladron?" he scoffs with a smirk

"It's not like you're open a safe of un banco" she teases.

"To be honesto, those are easier to open than this one. And why do you want to know that?" he asks, with a smirk.

"By curiosidad, I don't know. And if you show how, I can help you"

"Well, how about that, la princesa Rojillo who is the heir of one of the biggest fortunas in Spain, wants to apprentice of a dangerous thief" he smirks as he holds her hand.

She blushes "And not only that. I'm still the 1# female outlaw of this town and I don't know any of your tricks yet, that's why I want to learn. Because I'm madly in love with him" she flirts, leaning closer to his face.

"Uh-oh, is he bigger than me?" he jokes and she smacks his arm, playfully and laughs.

"Even if I have been an outlaw all my life, I don't know if I should laugh or cry but that's la historia of mi vida, Gnoméo. To love a man who I know is completely forbidden, like I am forbidden for him. You do what I'm talking about right?" she flirts, sitting down on the desk and playing with her black skirt, showing her legs to him.

Gnoméo couldn't anything but stair and drool at her beautiful peachy legs "Fortunate for you, I do. And I hope that's me, right?" he flirts, slowly wrapping his arms around her.

"You're such a fox, Celeste" she flirts in a whisper, playfully leaning to him on the desk.

"That is my name, Rojillo" he flirts, snaking his arms around her waist and kisses her lips and her neck.

They were so lost in the moment that they didn´t hear the door opening. Nanette huffs, frustrated by their little affection, she just hoped they didn´t lose their focus on the mission and take things too far.

"Ahem!" she clears her throat, making them pull away. "Will you 2 stop messing around and focus!?" she cries.

"Right, I'll get back to work!" Gnoméo lets go of Julieta and goes back to the safe.

"I better not catch you 2 goofing off again!" Nanette says serious and they nod as she leaves the room.

As the minutes passed, turning into eternal boring hours as Gnoméo continue to struggle to open the safe, he looks thru his backpack to find more tools and anything that might help but nothing seems to help right now.

"Ok, that's it! I can't do it!" he huffs, frustrated.

"No, don't give up yet. You made it this far"

"Si, pero there's no more I can do since Rojillo has secrets that he surely doesn't want anyone to find out" he hits the wall, frustrated.

"Espera, you said that he has it in total lock down by un codigo?" she asks, in thought.

That's when she got an idea "Si. It's a 6 letter codigo. It can be a name of anything"

"Hold on, let me try something" Julieta steps in front of the safe and punched it a specific name into the code. & it worked! The red light turn into a green and the safe finally opened!

"ABRIO! IT FINALLY OPENED!" she squeals, excited.

"You did it! Te Amo, mi diabla Hermosa!" he picks her up and twirls her around in his arms and kisses her as she giggles.

"Ok, but put me down before I injure you" she teases as he puts her back down with a small kiss on her lips.

They draw their attention back to the safe, which was loaded with folders legal & illegal documents, stacks of money$, and valuable gems and jewels inside. But they only wanted & stole the documents.

"Oh, after all these years, I finally got what I needed to get that desgraciado behind bars, no offense by the way" he snickers. But then gets a glare from Julieta.

She laughs "None taken. I want him in prison tambien. I have my own reasons"

"Is it too personal for me to know?" he asks, concern

"No, I can't right now. I'll tell you when the time comes but if it helps you sleep, I will tell you that, in my opinion, it's his worst crime ever" she says, with a low tone.

"And do you have proof of it?" he asks

"Of course I do. And along with these documentos, I'll be able to prove it at la corte (court) We should get out of here before he gets back, and by we, I mean you" she winks and he chuckles.

Gnoméo puts his stuff back in his backpack, along with all the documents and starts to follow Julieta out the office. But Gnoméo starts to flirt with her by pulling her back into his arms as she giggles and they kiss for a while like the first time and like every kiss they have, filled with amor & pasion. With a giggle, Julieta playfully pulls away, even though she wanted to continue, she was concern of getting caught with the sneakiest & mischief Zorro, her father's biggest enemigo/outlaw. She continues to giggle by his playfully kissing her cheek and neck as they walk away.

But suddenly, their luck ran out once the door of the office burst open, making them pull away. It was Capitan Teobaldo! He stood in front of them as he pointed his gun at them. Julieta gulps in horror, only imagining what her primo might to her Gnoméo/Zorro. She stood in front of him to prevent a disgrace between he and her cousin. He noticed Gnoméo beginning to take out his sword just in case things get ugly, and it will. If she had to confess her amor for El Zorro to save him, & she will.

"Teobaldo!? Que haces aqui?" she asks, super nervous and scared.

"Shh, this doesn't concern you, primita. I'm only here for him, to lock him back in his cell so mi tio will finally be proud of me. So, if you could just step aside, Julietita" he asks in a kindly evil tone but she refuses.

She had to come up with something and rapido! Until she did, it wasn't her best plan but it was the best she got at short notice.

She nods "Esta bien, Teobaldo, you can have him but just don't do anything to me because..." she stops talking and with a swift move, she kicks Teobaldo's gun out of his hand and jumps onto his back, getting him off guard and giving Gnoméo a chance to escape.

"CORRE, ZORRO, CORRE!" She yells to Gnoméo as she struggles to prevent Teobaldo to throw her off his back.

Gnoméo didn't want to leave Julieta with her monster cousin but if didn't escape right now; he would get arrested and killed. Plus, he knew Julieta can handle herself just fine with tougher enemies and bullies like Teobaldo. He grabbed his stuff and made a run thru the door but he saw the few guards that were guarding running after him. He pulls out his sword and quickly ends up winning since most of the guards were big, fat and dull and weren't very skill like others he has faced. He looks back into the office room, where Teobaldo was still struggling to get Julieta off his back until he finally did. Julieta stood there, looking at him with fear as he looked at her with anger. Without a warning, Teobaldo punched Julieta across the face, making her go backwards and go unconscious to the floor.

"JULIETA!" Gnoméo screamed.

Gnomeo picked up Julieta's body in his arms and makes a run for it. But Teobaldo blocks his path by pointing his gun back at him "So, I was right! You do have feeling for her!" he scoffs with a sour laugh.

Gnoméo sends him a deadly glare "Si, and I will do whatever it takes to get her away from you, bestias!" he snaps with pure anger, looking at him and then back down at his Julieta.

"Drop la chica, and nobody gets hurts. Maybe expect for you!" Teobaldo clicks his gun, ready to shoot.

"Not going to happen. She's going with me" he growls, holding Julieta tighter in his arms, protectively.

"I'm going to enjoy watching you die, maldito perro" Teobaldo snickers as he was ready to pull the trigger.

"Buena Suerte with that because I don't think you can shoot if you're tied up!" Gnoméo smirks, evilly.

Before Teobaldo could respond by his confused comment, Gnoméo pulls out ones of his daggers form his back pocket and throws high over Teobaldo's head as it goes flying into the air and stick into the wall, making it cut a rope that was hanging one of the hallway's chandeliers. The candle chandelier goes falling down. Teobaldo looks up and sees it falling toward him but he was too late to get out of the way as the chandelier traps him inside it and since Teobaldo was a BIG GORDO (fat guy), he was stuck in it and couldn't get out.

Gnoméo wasted no time in picking up Julieta in his arms and throwing her over his shoulder to get her out of her. He notices blood coming out of the back of her head; she must have hit her cabeza harder than he thought, all gracias to Teobaldo. Suddenly, the candles of the chandelier fell off their holders and the fire started rise and spread down the halls, setting anything and everything that was in its way. Gnoméo started running down the halls and the staircase that lead to the center garden, trying to avoid the rising fuego (fire) and every guard that was running his way.

With his free hand, El Zorro sticks his fingers in his mouth and whistles loudly. That's when his trusty caballo, Tornado burst thru the front gate doors, running toward his master. Gnoméo sets Julieta on the saddle but before he could hop on, he takes out his gun and shoots the pipes of the fountain, making them burst as the water shoots directly at the guards, nearly drowning them and putting out the fire. Gnoméo hops on Tornado and goes around the fountain, which continues to burst. He goes around it, without getting Julieta or himself wet.

Gnoméo made Tornado slow down the pace once they reached the shore to his cave. It was still night-time, so it was easy to blend in with the darkness by their clothes. Tornado stopped at his small stable

"Benvolio! Benvolio, get down here! AHORA!" He calls as he carried Julieta to his bed.

As he sets her down gently, Benvolio came down the long swirly steps to the lair. He gasps in horror once he noticed his cousin carrying a dead body.

"Gnoméo, que paso?! What happened?!" he exclaims, walking toward him.

"It's una larga historia (long story). I need to call my family doctor pronto!" he orders as he examines Julieta's head injury.

Then Benvolio eyed the half-dead girl and knew where he has seen her before "You kidnapped Doña Barbara?!" he freaks out.

"Si & No, primo. I actually kidnapped la princesa, Don Rojillo's hija" Gnoméo chuckles, nervously.

"Que?!" It was super clear that he was confused.

"I'll explain later. Just get me the first aid kit and get Dr. Suarez on the phone to get over here" he orders and Benvolio nods to do as he was told.

It's been a few horas, for a doctor of Gnoméo's total trust and loyalty to come and examine Julieta. After her cure the wound of her cabeza. She may have lost a lot of blood but, luckily, it was nothing serious. People can die by a hit in the head but Julieta was pretty lucky to survive. After the doctor was finished, he gave Gnoméo a vial of medicine to calm her down when she wakes up. Gnoméo thanks him and walks him out his lair up that stairs.

Gnoméo comes back down and got to work but at the same time watch over his diabla. Despite Julieta's head injury, which he knew he could cure her in no time, tonight was a success after all his fail attempts to steal Rojillo's beloved illegal documents. The evidence in them were very specific

Suddenly, he heard moan behind him. He turns around and sees Julieta moan in her sleep, starting to wake up. He quickly goes to her, kneeling down next the bed, holding her hand.

"How you feeling, mi diabla?" he asks, worried in his tone.

She tried to speak "Que...? Que paso? I feel like I got shoot in the head" she groans in pain, placing a hand on her head, realizing it was bandaged.

"You got hit while trying to protect me from Teobaldo when we were escaping" he explains. "But I'm so glad you're fine" he kisses her hand.

She struggles to smile "I would let nada happen to you. But I'm afraid I can't stay long. If they find me here..." she panics.

He cuts her off "No, you can't leave. You need to stay and rest, doctor's orders, Julieta. And even if they find me, I will protect you con mi vida. Now I know that it's muy peligroso for you to be there right now"

"No me importa, (I don't care), Gnoméo. I've faced things worse than this. And I have the feeling that the real bomba (bomb) is coming and will explode when people hear about it. And when it does, we will have to fight like never before" she said, serious and frowns.

He sits up straight and kisses her "Well then, Julieta, will you make stay here and fight like you've never fought before with me?" he kneels, with that smile and sparkle in his ojos azules.

"Me encantaria" (I'd love to. A/N: Like u didn't know) "It will be mi gran honor to fight side by side with El Legendario Zorro" she kisses him & stroke his cheek.

"But first, just rest and get better, ok?" he places a soft kiss on her forehead, making her groan a little but smile at him.

They held hands until they finally let go as Gnoméo slowly walks away upstairs to his home, leaving her alone in his lair. Julieta stretches her arm to the nightstand next to her, reaching for a hand mirror. She uses it to look at the back at her head and finds a big white bandage, stained with blood. Her injury was serious but was now healing. By seeing this, she understood that the war against her own kidn has began. Her familia was now destroyed by secretos of the past, secretos that were oscuros (dark) & sucios (filthy) Her odio was making her stronger. And if she didn't die now, it was because of her mission to find justicia and venganza (revenge) To avenge her mother's memoria and make her father pay for his crimes. Now that she had her Zorro by her side to help and protect her, even though, in her mind and stubbornness, she didn't need his protection. She's Doña Barbara, men and bandits fear her! But she was still concern about his safety, this was her fight, not his and she shouldn't involve him in it. He might get killed because of her! If that happens, she would never forgive herself. She rather go and leave him out of it.

The next morning, as the sun was starting to rise up over the shores with the sky shinning pink and orange. The lair was quiet, too quiet. Soon, some footsteps were heard as they were coming down the staircase. Gnoméo came down with a breakfast tray for Julieta.

"Julieta, mi amor, I brought you some desayuno..." he stops his pace, noticing the bed was empty. Julieta was gone!

"Julieta? JULIETA? Donde estas, mi amor?! Where are you?!" he searches every room, every corner but no sign of her.

It extremely worried him by her health and injury. Gnoméo was confused and angry at her; he told her to stay here He sets down the tray on the bed and finds a small note on the pillow. He frowns as he sits down as he reads it since it was from her.

-Mi amor

"I couldn't stay here any longer; I didn't want to cause any more trouble for you. I appreciate your care and eternal amor for me, it's the same way I feel for you. Gracias for saving me last night. I hope I was enough help for you. Don't worry about me, estoy bien. I'm fuerte than I look, you know that. I have my own business to take care off. Por favor, don't hate me. If I left, it was for your own protection y porque te amo, if anything happens to you, I don't know what I'd do. Don't come looking for me, it's too risky. I'll come for you when the time is right. And I'm still going to keep esa promesa to you to fight by your side ahora & siempre. TE AMO CON TODA MI ALMA, Mi Zorro.
-Tu Diabla XOXOX

He sets down the note and sighs "Ay, Julieta. Why do you have to be so terca & irrestible?" he shakes his head, disappointed but then he smirks.

"Too bad, I'm just as terco as you are" he chuckles, taking his hat and getting on his horse. (Terca/Terco: stubborn)

He headed out into the fresh morning breeze on his face; the coast was clear and peaceful. He stops for a moment, finding a long path of footprints on the sand, heading directly to the swamp. It was clear to him that it was Julieta's prints. At least he could follow where she went. As he followed, he prayed and hopes that nothing happen to her or he'll never forgive himself. He even believed that her escape was pretty estupido, (stupid) but he understood why she did it. But he didn't care, he needed to find her and protect her like he promised. Despite her hard core character and stubbornness. No matter what comes their way, they will prepare for the worst which from that last night on will begin.

OOOH, SPOOKY! WHERE'D SHE GO?! I AM SO LOVING WHERE THIS IS HEADING CAUSE THE BEST IS COMING! MORE ACTION AND DRAMA THEN BEFORE! THE BEST IS STARTING RIGHT NOW! *evil smirk & laugh* MAN, DO I LOVE MYSELF RIGHT NOW FOR DOING THIS! & I HOPE U GUYS LOVE IT & ME TOO! BECAUSE I LOVE U, GUYS!

Well, I gotta go now. I'm seeing the grand finale of one of my soap operas (La Impostora) and like most of them. It will have drama, action, an evil villainess & GUNS! CAN'T BE AWESOME WITHOUT GUNS! I see blood coming and then Happily Ever After (I hope) OOOH, I'M EXCITED! AAAAHH! I NEED POPCORN & VANILLA YOGURT!

Anyways, HAPPY 4TH OF JULY! If you guys need me, I'll be outside my house, blowing up fireworks (Yes, I do that all the time) I have my own, locked away where not even my parents know about them *evil snicker*Anyone want to join me? Breezy? Jazzy? (I deserve to be bad once & a while too!) Plus, to let you guys know, I'll be updating my next sequel chapter on a special day which is next week, can you guys guess what it is? ;)

ADIOS FOR NOW! ;)
-MICKEY!* :D