Hello all! Sorry it took so long to post. I actually have a booked summer, which I never do. I had to work on my paces, I went to the beach, did my horse riding lessons, blah blah blah. I might throw a little something unexpected in the middle of my story to help the plot, but we'll see. Alright on with the story!

Chapter 5 (A secrete place, "stay away from MY princess!" And goodnight princess.)

Buttercup's POV:

Butch drags me out of the ballroom and takes me over to the stables.

"Where are we going Butch?"

"I told you, somewhere secrete." He looks back and flashes a grin at me. We went inside the stables and Butch took two black stallions out of the stalls. The one with leaf green eyes is my own personal horse, Jade. The other had chocolate brown eyes, and I haven't seen it before in our stables.

"This one is yours, right?" Butch points at Jade. I nod my head in response.

"Whose horse is that?" I ask pointing at the stallion with brown eyes.

"He's mine, his name is Titan." Butch responds putting a saddle on Titans back. I watch him for a time, the moonlight filtered through the windows to where they hit Butch perfectly. He looks so concentrated. When he gets down he wipes the sweat off his forehead and gives me the "What are you looking at" face.

"Aren't you gonna put your saddle on your horse, or are you to royal to do it." I hate how he put extenuated royal.

"That horse has a name you know." (That is the best you can come up with Buttercup, really.) He grunts as I go over and put my saddle on Jade. I got on Jade and she walked over to where Butch is sitting on Titan.

"It took you long enough." He says and he makes Titan walk out of the stable.

"Just follow me, and try to keep up." Butch calls out to me still looking straight in front of him.

"And try to keep up." I mock Butches voice to Jade.

"I heard that." Butch says annoyed.

The rest of the ride was really uneventful. That is, until we got to an open field. Butch started to pick up the pace. Soon it turned into a race. Now I'm in front, by at least a horse.

"Ha, a little slow are we?" I yelled not looking behind me.

"You sure I'm the slow one?" I heard Butch say and I saw a black blur beside me. Then Butch was in front of me by at least two horses.

"I was going easy on you Sunshine!" He sang as he got even farther in front. Soon he was so far in front I couldn't see him anymore.

"Butch, wait up! Where did you go?" I ask the air. I stop Jade and look around. All I see is trees and bushes.

"Butch..." No response. I hear a rustle in the leaves and my eyes look in that direction. It came from the top of that tree.

(What just happened?) I'm on the ground, Jade is beside another horse, is that Titan? Where's Butch at?

"Hey, you ok? I didn't mean to knock you over that hard." I look directly up, and there's Butch. His hands are on top of my shoulders and he's sitting on me. I feel his breath on my face and suddenly realize how close our faces are. My face starts getting hot. (No, I'm not blushing. Not because of him!)

"Get off of me you perv!" I push him off of me and cover my face with my hair so he couldn't see me blushing. I get on Jade and finally get over my blush.

"You gonna take me to that secrete place or what?" I question as Butch gets off the ground, wipes himself off, and gets back on Titan.

The rest of the ride was boring. We didn't talk any. It was just an awkward silence. Butch slows up and gets off of Titan.

"This is it." He whispers as he helps me off of Jade.

"Why are you whispering?" He puts his index finger over my mouth.

"You'll scare off all the animals."

"You're starting to sound like Bubbles." I laugh, as he takes his hand off of my mouth and goes over to a boulder. He lifts up some ivy for my eyes to see…..paradise.

Brick's POV:

"Hey creep, let the princess go!" I yell and the guy instantly looks over at me shocked.

"Who are you?" He asked. I see his grip around Blossom tighten.

"I'm the princesses' new knight. I'm supposed to protect her. And may I ask who you are?"

"I'm Dash, Duke of Germany, and I was just taking Blossy here on a little walk." He started to walk off before I say,

"Stay away from MY princess!" Before thinking through what I was doing I jump on Dash, making him let go of Blossom. My vision is blurred and red, I can't control what I'm doing, It's like I'm not even myself. I pummel Dash's chest and I hear the sound of something being crushed, but I ignore it and keep punching his chest. Then he let his hands go down from his face. (Big mistake,) I draw back and punch Dash so hard in the face that the lower half of his jaw cracked. It went along perfectly with my fist. It looked like water rippling in his face. Blood started pouring from his mouth and nose. (I also think I broke his nose.) My brain is telling me to stop, but my instinct is making me keep going.

I feel an arm pull mine back. I jump on whoever it is and draw back and get ready to punch. My vision clears, I get control of myself again, and I realize the person I jumped on is Blossom. She is shaking in fear, her eyes are shut tight, and she is crying. I slowly get off of her and look over at Dash, who looks like he'd been in a long, bloody, battle.

"Blossom, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was you." I turned back to her and she was already getting up. I noticed she wiped her tears and tried to look dignified again. I could see in her eyes, she was terrified….. Of me.

"I'm fine, don't worry." She says, voice wavering.

"Let me escort you back to your room?" I suggest. She slowly nods her head.

We are walking down the hallway to Blossom's room when I hear her ask,

"Brick, I have to ask, why did you say, MY princess, when you were fighting Dash?"

"Uh, just instinct I guess, because you could probably tell that I wasn't really myself."I mumble as I turn to the side because of the slight blush on my face.

The rest of the walk to Blossom's room is full of silence. I just look out at the full moon shining in the sky. Taking in the beauty of the night, I look over at Blossom who seems to be glowing in the moonlight. There is another sort of glow around her too, like a glow of pride and leadership. Her eyes look intelligent yet caring, and even the way she walks shows her dominance. We arrive at room sooner than I thought we would, she bids me goodnight and slowly closes the door leaving a sweet rose scent in her place.(Wait, what am I doing? I can't be thinking like this. This is the PRINCESS, you're just a knight. I'm just supposed to keep her safe, nothing else.)

("Where's a better place to keep her safe than in your arms?") A small voice in my head says.

Boomer's POV:

"Well Bubs I think you should hit the hay for tonight, 'kay?" I ask Bubbles with the new nickname I gave her.

"Sure," She replies with a yawn. She stretches her arms out and rubs her eyes. We walk over to King Henry, who is currently sitting on his throne.

"Bubbles, how was the party?" He boomed in his commanding voice.

"It was delightful. I was just coming to tell you that I'm going to bed now."

"It's nice that one of my daughters still tells me where she's going."

"What do you mean?"

"Buttercup was the first to leave. She left at the beginning of the party, but that's what I was expecting of her. Blossom left half way through with; I think his name is Dash."

"Dash! Oh my gosh, Boomer we need to check on Blossom right now!" Before I have time to reject she grabs my hand and jerks me with her out of the ballroom, down the hallway, up the grand staircase, and down another hallway. (Man this place is huge!)

"Blossom, Blossom! Are you in there?" Bubbles bangs on Blossoms' door.

"Yes Bubbles, I'm in here you don't have to yell." Blossom opens the door to her room. She's wearing a light pink nightgown.

"I heard you saw Dash. How did that go?" Bubbles frets and hugs the mess out of Blossom. I see Blossoms' face and it has the "please help me," look. I remove Bubbles from her sister.

"It was bad, and then it was good. That's all I'm going to say about it." She looks at Bubbles and then looks at me. Bubbles seem to get what she's saying, like they could read each other's mind.

"Boomer, you can leave now. I'll be fine. I'm just going to stay with Blossom for a little bit." I nod and turn to leave.

Bubbles POV:

I shut the door behind me as I walk into Blossom's room.

"Now, tell me what happened?" I command.

"Well, Brick went to go find you and Boomer. Then Dash came and being himself he sort of…"

"He sort of what?"

"He kidnapped me."
"What!?" I pop out of my seat in Blossoms' room.

"He took me and then Brick came and well, saved me." She has a blush on her cheeks. (How cute!)

"I need a hero! A hero to the end of the night, and he's gotta be cool and he's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight…." Gir jumps on Blossoms bed and starts dancing.

"Wow, when did Gir get here?" Blossom laughs and picks up Gir. She turns him over on his belly and tickles him.

"Bell is going somewhere and needs us to keep him." I turn my head to look out the window when I see something fly in through the window. I pick it up without Blossom noticing and read it.

I'm sorry for tonight Princess. I wish it would've gone better.

I'm sorry also if I scared you when I beat the crap out of Dash. I hope you'll forgive me.

On a good note, I had fun at the dance. I hope you did too.

I still don't know you that well, but I think we'll have enough time to get to know each other better.

If you can I'd like to talk to you at the fountain in the garden beside the roses.

I'll wait there until midnight. I just want to have a walk with you where no one can interrupt.

Until we meet again,

Brick…..

(Oh my goodness! That is so cute!) I look behind me and see Blossom playing with Gir. I slowly walk over to Blossom's bed and I place the note on her pillow.

"Hey Bubbles have you seen Buttercup?" Blossom turns to look at me.

"No I haven't." I try to sound normal as I respond.

"I need to go put Gir to bed. I'll see you tomorrow Blossom." I quickly pick up Gir and walk out the door.

"I really hope Blossom goes to the garden to see Brick." I tell Gir. He looks up at me curiously because he has no idea what I'm talking about.

Butch's POV:

I follow a wide-eyed Buttercup into my secret little garden. I watch her eyes as they travel around the area. It looks like a cave except the top was open sky. It looks like a wall of privacy around my garden. There is an apple tree in the middle of the garden. There is a creek that goes around the tree that leads to a pond. There's a waterfall that goes into the pond. Behind the pond there's a maze of white and red rose bushes. Beside the entrance is a patch of tiger lilies. The moonlight covers all of it turning almost everything in a glowing white.

"Why did you bring me here?" I heard Buttercup whisper.

"I just thought you might like it."

"This place is amazing. How did you find it?"

"I found it after my dad disappeared. I was so angry and confused at the world so I just hoped on Titan and rode. That's when I found this place. Ever since then I come here when I need to calm down or just relax." I walk over to the stepping stones that go over the creek to the island that has the apple tree on it. Buttercup follows me. I was on the last stone when I heard a scream come from behind me.

I turn just in time to see Buttercup fall in to the water. She thrashes wildly in the water.

"Help, I can't swim!" She shrieks loudly and goes back under the water. I immediately jump in after her. I open my eyes in the dim light of the water. I see Buttercup floating a couple feet below me. Her hair flowed everywhere in the water. I grab her by her waist and swim up the surface. Next thing I know I feel a pressure on my head and I go back under the water. When I get back to the surface I see Buttercup already on the shore laughing her head off.

"I got you!" She says between laughs that sound like bells.

"Ha ha ha…" I mutter as I swim closer to her. I slowly go under the water careful not to be seen by my target. I see her look around for me. I slowly go right in front of where she is. She leans down. (Big mistake,) I lurch forward and drag her back into the water with me.

"You're a butt hole." She mutters when she resurfaces. I just laugh and get out of the water. I go and lay down on the shore of the small island facing the stars. I feel Buttercup lay down beside me.

"You're lucky, you know that?" I hear her whisper. I'm about to say something when she interrupts me.

"You're lucky because you don't have to live the life of schedules. That's all my life is. Tutoring sessions, manners class, fitting for my dresses, which I never wear, the only free time I have is either this time at night or early in the morning. The only reason I haven't looked busy the past few days is because of you and your brothers coming in. I wish I could just be…me."Her voice barley even whispers the last word. I take my gaze off the stars to look at her. Her face still locked on the stars. A distant look in her eyes is telling me she's daydreaming of some far off place in the distance.

"My father just doesn't get me. I mean I still love him to death but… he thinks I'm like a princess in a fairytale. I'm not; I can kill my own dragons, take down giants, I've even beaten all of the knights I've fought except you! And still, that was a tie! I'm not some princess who needs to be rescued by some "Knight in shining armor," no offense, but I'd rather rescue myself." She looks down from the stars straight at me.

"I haven't ever told anyone this. If you do, I WILL hunt you down and rip you to shreds." She gives me a death glare that would make Boomer break down in tears.

"I believe you." I say putting my hands up in the back off gesture. I see her turn to gaze back up to the stars. I hear her yawn and see her eyes slowly flutter closed. I realize how tired I am and I close my eyes and sleep takes me.