Okay so I'll be honest this chapter did not come out the way I wanted it to. I can't place what I didn't like about it, but I decided to post it since it has been a while since I updated. Sorry about the wait guys! I still have two midterms but after that the updates should come faster. Also it didn't help that the file that this story was on got corrupted so I had to rewrite the chapter. Alas, here it finally is.
"Guards!" Amare yelled, frantically looking at the doors and where his guards would normally be.
"Yeah, your guards aren't really conscious right now." Zeb answered with a smirk as he gestured towards the crumpled figures behind him.
Amare appeared to be conflicted for a minute, unsure of what to do next until he grabbed Ezra, his arm wrapping around Ezra's neck to hold him there. Ezra felt something press against his lips, and he made an effort to keep his mouth closed so that whatever Amare was trying to give him would not enter his mouth. He knew that this was Amare's last ditch effort.
"You get any closer I'll give him a death stick." Amare snarled, trying to maintain his hold on the struggling teen.
Kanan though, appeared to be in no mood to play around. He merely extended his hand out and used the force to remove the death stick from Amare's hand and into his. Kanan then threw the death stick on the ground where is shattered against the ground.
Amare tightened his grip on Ezra and leaned in so he could whisper into Ezra's ear.
"The necklace I gave you does more than just track you, legend has it that it will curse if you leave this castle." He said. Ezra wanted to respond with where he could shove that curse, however he was interrupted when Amare was suddenly pushed back. Ezra looked at the crew to Kanan's hand extended from force pushing Amare.
Amare body slammed into the wall with a loud thud and he crumpled to the ground and made no move to get up, probably since he had been knocked unconscious. Well that was rather anticlimactic, you'd think that Amare would have more fight in him.
"Zeb, get the kid! We don't have much time before more guards come." Kanan said, moving to cover the door and make sure more guards had not come. Zeb came over and only had to use one hand to carry the young teen, as he saw that Ezra was probably still too make it all the way out the castle without help.
They crew began making their way down the tower, their guns drawn and ready to fire at whatever might be around the corner, Kanan casting glances back towards Zeb as if he expected his Padawan to disappear at any moment.
"Kanan!" Ezra said, trying to get his attention, but was interrupted when more guards appeared and a gun fight ensued.
Ezra began tugging on Zeb's clothes trying to get his attention.
"Kid, we are kind of in the middle of something!" Zeb yelled as he tried to balance Ezra and fire his weapon. Ezra pointed at his necklace and said,
"It's a tracker!" They wouldn't get very far with that thing around Ezra's neck.
"Karabast!" Zeb yelled, they took out the last of this wave guards.
"Kanan, kid's got a tracker." Zeb said
"Then take it off!" Kanan said, peering around the corner to see if there were any more guards.
"You think I haven't tried?" Ezra said rolling his eyes. Kanan came over, telling Sabine and Hera to watch their backs. Kanan examined the necklace around Ezra, it was far too close to his neck to try using his lightsaber or blasting it.
"We'll have to deal with it later, for now we have to get out of here." Kanan said, he glanced over at Hera who nodded.
"They can't track us in hyperspace, if we can get some distance it can at least give us time to think." She said. They couldn't deal with this now, they needed time to think.
Overall the rest of their escape went relatively to plan. They ran into more guards but easily blew through them. Once they made it out the doors Amare's words rang in Ezra's head, something about a curse. He didn't feel any different. In fact he felt great. It was his first time seeing outside of the castle in what felt like forever.
Flowers and bushes lined the courtyard and led into a forest in the front where the Ghost had been overtly landed in their rush.
The crew ran into the Ghost, Hera racing to the cock pit to get the ship off of the ground. However it appeared that Amare was unable to get his ships off the ground yet since there were no other ships in sight.
Zeb had placed Ezra down on one of the chairs in their meeting like room. Ezra's wasn't as tired and weak anymore, but he rubbed his cheeks. Man, he had the worst tooth ache right now. It was a few minutes later when the rest of the crew gathered around, once they had entered hyperspace and danger was behind them for now.
Kanan approached, at first unsure of what gesture to make, then settled on putting a hand of Ezra's shoulder.
"What happened? How did you get there?" He asked. Ezra stopped rubbing his cheeks to answer.
"It was when I went to the market. There was this woman and I helped her carry her things and then she gave me an apple. I think it was poisoned or something since the next thing I knew I was waking up in that tower a week later. Amare told me I was going to marry someone and after a few days we had that ball where you guys showed up." He answered. He chose to leave out some of the other things Amare had done, maybe some things were better left unsaid, that and Ezra knew that telling Kanan everything that happened would probably anger Kanan further. Not at him, but it made Ezra uncomfortable to feel his master's anger. Ezra ran his tongue over his teeth, trying to find some way to give them comfort from the toothache he had.
"Well we should figure out how to get this necklace off." Kanan said. He got down on one knee to better examine the necklace. He traced his hands over the tracker, but was unable to find a place where it would even come apart.
"Sabine, any ideas?" Sabine looked at Ezra, trying to think.
"It could need some kind of key with a certain signature." She answered.
"So then Amare probably has it." Ezra said, casting his eyes down.
"He will never get you again, not if we can help it." Kanan said.
Ezra nodded numbly, he stopped himself from answering as his tooth ache was getting worse. Maybe they had pain meds around here. A thought seemed to occur to Kanan as he turned his attention back to Ezra.
"What did Amare say to you?" He asked.
"What?" Ezra said, confused by the random question.
"When we got there. He whispered something to you." Kanan clarified.
"He mentioned something about this necklace and a curse. He was just trying to scare me I bet." Ezra said. Just thinking about that man was enough to get his blood boiling.
Kanan appeared to think this over for a minute before nodding, but keep a close eye on Ezra as if he expected the kid to combust any second.
"Well I'm sure you're tired, maybe you should catch some sleep," Hera said, but continued when she saw Ezra's worried expression, "don't worry. He can't track us in hyperspace, and even when we get out it will take him time to even get to where we are and by then we can jump somewhere else."
Ezra nodded in confirmation, but was still obviously concerned about the tracker around his neck.
As he made his way to his room he started rubbing his cheek again. He climbed into his bunk but quickly found that no matter he did the pain in his mouth kept him awake. He kept squirming in his bunk as the he felt like he almost wanted to chew on something to ease the pain. He finally gave up and jumped down right as Zeb walked in.
"Shouldn't you be asleep?" he asked, holding a bottle of water in his hand. When Ezra didn't answer with some snarky remark Zeb picked up that something was wrong.
"You okay kid?" he asked. He was started when Ezra made a grab at the bottle he was holding, and immediately started biting it.
"Kid!?" Zeb yelled, visibly angry. Ezra desperately chewed on the bottle, trying to relieve the pain in his teeth.
"My Teeth," Ezra said though it was hard to understand since he was viscously biting the bottle, "they hurt!"
Zeb at first seemed confused by the statement then grabbed Ezra's shoulder.
"Let me see." Zeb said, but found that Ezra was too wrapped in his pain. He would bite down on the bottle as hard as he could and then repeat. The teenager was obviously extremely uncomfortable.
"Kid! Let me see!" Zeb said louder this time. Reluctantly Ezra stopped chewing on the bottle of water and looked back at Zeb.
Carefully Zeb pulled away his lip, and tried to hide his expression from Ezra, but with the force Ezra was able to pick on Zeb's surprise and apprehension.
"Just seems like a regular toothache, try and get some sleep." He said, gently patting Ezra on the head. He never gently patted Ezra on the head. That was Ezra's first clue in that there was more what Zeb saw.
However He was wrapped in his discomfort that he just nodded and started biting the bottle again. He would worry about it once he got the pain under control.
Zeb left his room and made his way towards Kanan's room. He knocked on the door and waited a moment as Kanan answered the door.
"Zeb?" He asked, blinking the sleep from his eyes.
"Uh Kanan." he said, scratching the back of his neck.
"What is it?" Kanan said, slightly annoyed that Zeb had woken him up as he stretched his arms in an attempt to raise his alertness and wake himself a bit more.
"It's about the kid." Zeb said, well that got Kanan's attention as he perked up.
"Is something wrong?" Kanan asked, worry in his voice.
"Kid was complaining about a toothache, and when I looked…" Zeb trailed off.
"What? Zeb what's wrong?" Kanan asked.
"Fangs. The kid's canines are fangs."
Oh snap! What kind of curse do you guys think it is? I'll give you guys a hint, this next part is based off of Beauty and the Beast, except in our case the Beauty is the Beast. Welp that pretty much gave it away huh? Also planning on introducing the Huntsman as well in the next chapter. Don't worry guys, we still got a lot of twists left in this story! Haha well anyways I will try and get the next chapter out soon! Love all of you guys! Sorry this chapter is a bit on the short side, the next one will hopefully be longer