I stand there thinking of ways to escape and go find Maria. I need to warn her she is in danger. I'm struggling against the two guards yelling and screaming, trying to get free with all my might. They knock off my hat, I hear a gunshot sound not long after. "MARIA!" I scream. Wrolf jumps once more, this time making it out of the whole that entrapped him. He starts barking viciously at the guards holding me down until they slowly back away from me. I grab my dagger that one of them happened to drop in fright and ran ahead of Wrolf.
"C'mon Wrolf! We have to find Maria!" I yell at him and we run off. I hear another gunshot and my mind immediatly thinks Maria. As I cower down, because of reflex, I hear a howl coming from behind me. I turn around, "Wrolf" I yell back. I am worried now, but even more so when I hear Maria scream shrilly. I race off toward her the only thing on my mind is that I need to save her. I run down a hill towards where I thought I heard her scream and bump into a frail body and stumble. It's Maria. She turns around, anger evident in her eyes and yells at me.
"YOU! How could you betray me like that?!" she yells and trys to swing a punch, but I catch her arm before she can touch me and spin her behind me as I hear my father say my name.
"Maria, wait." I say softly but forcefully. She looks at me with surprise in her eyes and I turn around and put my blade to my father's throat. I look him in the eye. "I will not let you take her father." I tell him.
"Put the knife down boy." is his response.
"Father please." I tell him fiercly, "You have to listen to what Maria has to say!" I scream at him still holding my gaze.
"TRAITOR" he spat out in my face, "You are nothing to me now." Ouch. That hurt a lot more than I thought it would. My own father rejects me as a son. Oh well, Maria means more to me now, and she is going to save everyone. I come out of my thought, push forcefully away from the Couer and grab Maria's hand.
"Let's go!" I yell at her.
"I'll know where to find you!" The Couer yelled at us. I put away my dagger and let Maria get in front of me, shielding her from my father. "Back where it all began." he growled.
Whatever that meant.
We ran through the forest quickly, the other Denoir's on our trail. "Hurry! They're right behind us!" I told Maria. I looked back, still running.
"COME ON!" one of them yelled. Maria slowed to a stop in front of a tree. "In here" she said out of breath as she ducked into the gnarled roots of a tree. I looked back and quickly followed. We crawled through the tree's roots until we came to a door. "Robin look at this!" She whispered excitedly running her fingers over the door, her eyes sparkling with happiness. She opened the creaky door slowly and we went inside. It was amazing! There was a large bed and a fireplace, plus statues and the way the light was coming in through the roots was beautiful. Marveled, I looked around. "Where are they?" Maria mumbled to herself and we started searching. She looked through the trunk and came out with an old, but beautiful white dress and she held it up to herself. "It's hers. It must be." she stated and gave me the dress. I looked at it and neatly folded it and put it back while she looked around with wonder on her perfect face. "Where? Where did you put them?" she asked the air as she made her way to the fireplace. She pulled down on a horses head and a secret passageway opened up. I rushed over and looked up at her. Wondering how on earth she knew to do that. We both quietly laughed and I ducked into it.
I moved the branches away and saw it was like a long corridor, but I couldn't see a light coming from the end. I went back into the room and looked back at Maria. She had a smirk on her face as she reached out to a statue and grabbed the necklace off of it. They shimmered and glowed with her touch. She turned back to me, the pearls in her outstreched hand and I grinned widely. The Moonpearls! We found them at last! "The Pearls!" I said excitedly to her.
"Arghhhhhh" We both turned our heads at the sound coming from the opening. I ran to the door, closed it and sealed it off with a piece of wood I hoped was strong enough. We then both raced to the passageway as it was now our only way out. "Robin! Let's go!" she told me. I closed the stone door behind me as I heard a crash of the door. "Argh! WITCHCRAFT! I DON"T BELIEVE THIS" we heard him yell.
We turned around toward the passageway and started our way toward saving Moonacre.