Felt like updating another chapter so here it is! Please sit and relax but I feel this chapter might be a bit fast moving :P
Annora was so tired. She couldn't believe that she'd arrived at the castle only the night before. She already felt like she belonged with the arrows, and training with the weapons was so educational. After only one lesson she'd already learnt so much.
She had written a letter and had just sent it to her mother when she was walking back to the Arrow's hidey hole.
She was busy wondering if she'd put someone wrong in her letter. She had said she'd run away and got a job at an inn in the city. Would her mother believe her? Would she come and check on her?
These questions danced through her head and he was so busy that she bumped right into a black wall. She was too tired to stop her fall so she fell to the ground hard.
"I'm sorry, are you alright?" The wall she'd hit turned out to be a person. He was in his mid forties and had black hair with a few grey hairs through it. He wore all black and Annora realized he was a black shield.
The man walking with him was Donald, the weapon who had carried her to the hidey hole.
"I'm fine. I wasn't looking where I was going." Annora smiled but it dropped as she looked at him. He was staring at her with such blue, intense eyes it made her legs shake with fear. He stared at her like she was a ghost.
"I_, I've got to go." Annora turned around and fled pretty quickly back to her new room.
"What was that about?" Donald asked Bernard.
"She looked so much like someone I met years ago. Do you know who she is?" Bernard was completely unnerved by that girl.
"Her name is Annora. She's now a black arrow. Only came last night." Donald told his superior officer.
"Oh,"
The two weapons continued on to the meeting room where they found King Zachary in debate with the green rider captain and the captain of the army, as well as the captain of the light cavalry.
"We have to pull Alton back so all the lords can think of solutions to our Mornhavon problem." Zachary was saying. Most of them shook their heads.
"I agree completely." Bernard said as he came in.
The King's face changed into a smile. "Bernard! So glad you could make it."
The two shook hands and the older man smiled broadly.
"I wouldn't miss this for the world. As I was saying, King Zachary is right. You can't expect to lock Mornhavon behind a wall again. You must destroy him and to do that you need all the lords here." Bernard told them.
"And you must be the new weapon adviser." Captain Mapstone said.
"Yep, came out of retirement to join this little council." The weapon smiled and sat down.
No more than two minutes had passed when the door was slammed open.
Bernard sprung to his feet, weapon at the ready.
Standing at the door were two Eletians. Their moon armor was covered in mud. Their hair was messy and had many twigs stuck in it. They looked more human than any Eletian had before.
Lauren recognized one of the Eletians as Telagioth, how could she have forgotten his clear blue eyes? The other Eletian had spines coming from his armor but she'd never met him before.
"We mean you no harm, your majesty." Telagioth held his hands up in surrender. "We are simply in a hurry."
The other Eletian stepped forward.
"My name is Ealdaen. We have found out where Karigan Galadeon is, but she's being watched over by Mornhavon himself."
Lauren had to tell herself to continue breathing. The thought of Karigan being alive and about to come home, made her want to cry with happiness.
"Are you here to request soldiers for a rescue?" Zachary asked a bit too hastily.
"No, we are simple looking for a young woman. Her house had been burned to the ground and her guardian killed. Is Annora here?" Ealdaen asked.
"Annora, how can she help?" Zachary frowned.
"There is no time. We need her." Screams interrupted whatever Telagioth was going to say.
Everyone ran from the room and into the corridor.
They saw Truman dragging a fighting Annora down the corridor. She kicked and bit and head butted but nothing loosened his grip.
Greg was walking backwards behind him. He was fighting with Kyden. Their swordplay was incredible.
Bernard joined the fight but Greg somehow managed to handle them both.
Ealdaen pulled back an arrow aimed at Truman's head. He had reached the end of the corridor and turned back to the wild chaos of the corridor.
"Greg." Truman called as the sword master kicked his opponents back. He ran down the corridor and laid a hand on Truman's shoulder.
Thurman pulled at a knot of string and a spider web appeared in front of the three and they disappeared.
"No!" Telagioth screamed and pounded on the wall.
Black shields appeared and removed all citizens from the corridor.
"We must go." Ealdaen pulled Telagioth away from the wall and they went to leave the castle, but were stopped by a wall of weapons.
"You're not going until you tell us what is so important about my arrow." Zachary's voice was low and threatening.
This was a side of him that Lauren had never seen before. A side of him that was extremely possessive. She assumed that he had a very close relationship with all his Black arrows.
"If we tell you everything she'll be dead. Mornhavon will kill her without hesitation." Ealdaen told them.
"If Annora dies, war will break out in Sacoridia." Telagioth said strongly.
"Sacoridia is already at war." Lauren figured it was time she speak up.
"Not war between humans, but war between immortals. It will be the most disastrous war in the world. The last war which came close was when I was 21." Ealdaen's voice was fast and serious. "And I'm really really old."
"If you're going to get her I'm coming." Kyden told him.
"You won't be able to keep up. We have, at most, until morning to get all the way to Gullid." Telagioth explained.
"That's a two week journey, and you're planning to get there in a few hours?" Lauren asked shocked.
"If you let us pass." Ealdaen said and the weapons moved aside.
The two Eletians nodded at Bernard as they left.
"What was that all about?" Zachary asked.
"I don't know, but I don't like it." Bernard spoke quietly.
"Who is Annora?" Lauren asked as everyone left. Lauren, Zachary and Bernard walked back inside the meeting room.
"I think she is my daughter." Bernard told them.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of your favourite characters :) I own Annora, Kyden, Bernard, Truman and Greg :P
Ohhhhhh :) cliffy! What do you think about Bernard's claim? Please review and we shall find out what has become of Karigan and Annora :D