Kookaburra's Juliet

by mrs.kookaburra.splatalot

Kookaburra is fed up with being on lookout at the Splatalot castle, so some new defenders are hired to keep things going smoothly around the castle, but when late applying Nightingale (made up) comes for an interview and gets given the job, how can Kookaburra keep his feelings for her to himself, especially when the king tells him that defenders can't be in relationships.

2. Chapter 2 Ballista

Chapter 2 Ballista

Just before our break was over I went to speak to the king, personally I think that Kookaburra should be telling the king, it was him who was complaining in the first place, as I approached the kings quarters, I told the guard outside what my business was.

"Could I speak to the king please?" I asked.

"Well, his majesty is rather busy at the moment but I'm sure that he could spare a bit of time, I'll go and let him know that you're here."

He then knocked on the door and opened it slightly.

"Your highness, Ballista's here, she wishes to have a word with you."

"Okay, send her in." said the king.

The guard stepped aside and allowed me to go past, as I entered the room, the door closed behind me.

"Your highness." I said curtsying, the king was sat at his desk with a piece of parchment in front of him and a quill pen in his right hand, putting the quill down he looked up at me.

"So Ballista, what can I help you with?" he asked.

"Well sire, me and the other defenders were talking just now and we think that it would be a good idea if we got some new defenders into the castle as Kook thinks that seeing as how things aren't really changing much, that we're starting to become a bit predictable making us much more vulnerable to attacks."

"Yes, I see what you mean, do all of you agree with this?"

"Yes."

"Okay, I'll have a think about it and I'll let you all know tomorrow, thank you Ballista."

"You're welcome sire."

Curtsying again, I left the room, at least that he was going to think about it and let us know tomorrow, as I walked down the corridor, the others were just on their way back to their duties.

"So what did the king say?" Asked Knightriss.

"He said that he's going to think about it and let us know tomorrow."

"Hallelujah." said Kook.

I think that it's easy to say that we're all happy with the thought of some new defenders helping around the castle keeping our defences strong and powerful.

The next day I was up bright and early, I have to with the amount of time it takes me to get ready, I washed my face, quickly brushed my hair, applied my makeup, got dressed and left the room for the kings quarters, Shaiden, Gildar, Crocness and Kookaburra were already there and others weren't that far behind me, so we were could now enter and see what the king thought about our suggestion, this time he wasn't stood by the table as usual, intead he was over by the window looking out over the kingdom, I noticed that Kook had his fingers crossed.

"Your highness." We said together.

"Morning everyone." The king replied turning back towards us. "I'm sure that you're all aware about the message that Ballista gave me yesterday from you all, well I've come to a decision on what we're going to do."

We held our breath.

"I've been looking into how things have been going for you all, and I've noticed that some of you are struggling with the lack of assistance, so I've sent out a message letting people know that we're looking for some new defenders for the kingdom."

I heard Kookaburra let out a small sigh of relief.

"Thank you sire." said Knightriss. "But could I just suggest someone for the job?"

"Of course."

"Well my younger sister Madeva is also a knight like me and I'm sure that she'll be happy to defend here, she can be a bit crazy at some times, but she's also very determined."

"Well thank you for the suggestion Knightriss, if you could ask her to come for an interview then that would be superb."

The king told us that we would have to do the interviews for we know the best about what we need the new defenders to be like, there was going to be three of us doing the interviewing, we decided amongst us that me, Thorne and Kookaburra were going to do the interviews, the first was is 3 days.

3 days later and we got everything ready for the interviews, our first wannabe defender was called Vane, his interview seemed to go rather well, he seemed like a determined kind of guy and would happily take on anything, we were going to see how he'd do in the second half of the interview which was going to test him on how he'd cope within the castle and things that some of our enemies would try to throw at us, such as trying to get into the castle and attempting to attack, we were going to do all this on the same day, but we were pushed for time so we were going to have to do this tomorrow as a call-back.

We had 10 people to interview in total and had now interviewed 9 including Knightriss's younger sister Madeva, and she was right, she is a very determined person, and the fact that she can be a bit crazy, our last defender to interview was all the way from Britain and went by the name of Nightengale.