Corinne's eyes slowly flickered open then she sat up and suppressed a yawn remembering what had happened. The wedding. The no shows. Then they'd gone back to the cottage. Not a word had been passed between the girls then a few hours later Corinne had fallen asleep leaning on the table.

She looked around the room. Alexa and Viveca were in Alexa's bed, their heads at separate ends. Aramina and Renee were the same way in Liana's bed. Then she saw Liana standing at the small counter quietly jamming some bread "Hey. You alright?"

Liana spun around to face her, a look of determination set on her featured.

Corinne's eyebrows lowered "Liana..."

"Corinne, something must have happened." Liana interrupted "They wouldn't have bailed on their own wedding."

"Unless they think they're pulling a prank." Corinne answered "You and I both know Ian would do that."

"But Jeremy wouldn't." Liana shook her head "I'm sure of it."

"But what if they just got cold feet?" Corinne asked slowly.

"Why would they get cold feet?"

"Why do men do anything they do?" Corinne sighed and leaned back into the chair.

"I think something happened to them." Liana stated "There has to be a reason they didn't show up. We've got to find them, Corinne."

"Liana." Corinne shook her head "I don't think..."

"Corinne." Liana walked over to the table placed her palms flat on the top "Whether it's to save them or kill them, I want to find them." she stared at her twin for a long moment "Are you going to help me?"

Corinne was quiet for a few second before she sighed "You know I will."

Liana let out a relieved breath "Good. Because I have no idea how to start."

"And you think I do?" Corinne laughed.

Liana raised an eyebrow "Don't you do this all the time?"

"Finding normal people, yeah." the other blond responded "Not finding a set of mischievous twin musicians with a habit of getting people mad at them."

"Point for you." Liana dropped into the chair across from her "So... how do we start?"

"Well," Corinne thought for a moment before continuing "The Inn keeper said that they never made it to the hotel that night. So, if something happened, it would have happened between here and there."

Liana nodded in agreement "So let's go." she had just started to raise from her seat when a loud knock sounded on the door.

The other four girls were instantly awake and on their feet, Alexa moving a little slower, but still awake.

When Liana opened the door she frowned at the sight of the older Musketeer "Uh... Corinne. It's your Captain."

Corinne walked over to the door "Captain? What are you doing here?"

"The King is missing."

"What!?" all six girls exclaimed.

"Are you serious?!" Corinne exclaimed "How is it that four girls can keep dibs on him but when they leave one hundred men can't keep track of him?"

"All that matters right now is that we find him." Treville said calmly "Queen Janette is frantic."

Corinne sucked in a deep breath "Queen?" she said quietly.

"Yes." Treville nodded "Now you girls have the biggest success at finding him when he disappears. We really need you."

Liana looked over at the other blond "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

Corinne looked over at her and smiled slightly "If you're thinking that if we find Ian and Jeremy we'll find Louis, no. I was thinking how I'm going to kill a musketeer force when we get back to Paris."

Liana chuckled "I was thinking the first thought."

Corinne shook her head "We'll see what we can do, Captain. Did... Queen... Janette say what may have happened?"

"She mentioned something about heading west." Treville answered as he walked out to his horse and mounted up "Find him quickly. The fate of France is in your hands." then he turned and rode away.

"Why does he have to be so dramatic?" Renee shook her head and then she crossed her arms "Alright Corinne, spill now."

Corinne sighed "Do we have to talk about this now?"

"Now would be a good time." Viveca nodded.

Liana grabbed Alexa's elbow and pulled her out the door "Come on. We need to check our flowers."

Once they were gone Corinne took a deep breath and let it out in one big gush "Louis engaged. Well, married now."

"What!?" the other three gasped.

"That's why I wanted to come so bad." She rubbed her forehead "I walked in on the tail end of the marriage proposal."

"Why didn't you tell us?" Aramina asked gently.

"I... don't know. I just..." Corinne leaned back into the wall "I was trying not to think about it."

"Oh." the three mumbled.

"Well, are we going to find him or let him pay for awhile?" Renee asked angrily.

Corinne raised an eyebrow "We have to find him and the twins." she frowned "I can't help but wonder if they're together."

"But how would they be?" Viveca asked "I mean, who would associate them together."

Corinne thought for a moment then her eyes widened "Heinrich and Drake."

"Who?" the other three echoed.

"Remember when I first met Liana? The two men that kidnapped me were Heinrich and Drake." she searched her mind for the memory "After their king fell down the cliff, they escaped. They may be back for revenge!"

"That does make sense." Renee said slowly "And it has only been a year and a half."

"Well," Aramina said "I say we head to Malice's kingdom." then she was quiet for a moment "Do you happen to know where it is?"

Corinne smiled slowly "Yep. I wonder if they still have my boots."

~*~*~*Trials of Love*~*~*

"I can't believe we're doing this." Alexa sighed "Heading to a place that may want to kill us."

"I just hope the boys are there." Liana added "What do we do if they're not?"

Corinne grinned "Run?"

"I thought we did that if they were there."

"It works in both scenarios."

"Oh, and there's no 'may' to this." Renee teased "They do want to kill us."

"We're going to need a couple more horses." Corinne added "Because our horses are going to need all the strength they can get."

Viveca sighed "And more sleeping on the ground."

"I thought you'd be used to it by now." Aramina said innocently "I mean it's only been... three years."

"I know. But..."

Viveca was cut off as Alexa suddenly gasped and pointed into the woods "Look! It's their horses!"

Sure enough, standing together not far off the path were Ian and Jeremy's black and white stallions.

Liana slid off the back of Corinne's horse "Treble, Bass, come here boys!"

"Treble and Bass?" Renee repeated "Really?"

Liana shrugged "They love music." when the horses reached her she patted the white one's muzzle and looked up at Corinne "Do you think they could lead us to the boys?"

"It's possible." Corinne answered "And the best shot we've got."

Alexa slid off the back of Viveca's horse and walked over to the black stallion "I'll take Ian's."

"No problem there." Liana responded as she quickly mounted Jeremy's white horse "Which way?"

Corinne frowned "Yeah, I was thinking about that. How to get there from here."

"Oh, right. We were in Marabella when they caught up with us, weren't we?"

"Yup."

"Well, back to plan A." Aramina said "Follow the horses."

Alexa nodded, leaned forward and patted Bass's neck "Go on boy. Find Ian."

The horse snorted the slowly started walking.

Renee sighed as she kicked her horse into a walk "This could take awhile."

~*~*~*Trials of Love*~*~*

Louis stumbled to grab his footing as he was shoved into a dark room "Hey! Watch it!"

The soldier chuckled deeply "Enjoy, Your Highness." then he slammed the door and left.

"Oh boy." Louis shook his head "I can only imagine the lecture that's going to come out of this."

"Louis?" A familiar accented voice said "Is that you?"

Louis frowned "Jeremy?"

"Bingo."

Slowly Louis eyes began to adjust to the dark and he was able to make out the two others in the room "Wait a minute... there's two of you?"

"Mm-hm." Ian answered "I'm the better half."

"Yeah, sure." Jeremy snorted.

Louis was quiet for a second "Um... Jeremy. Aren't you supposed to be getting married?"

"We were." Jeremy nodded "But these goons popped out and grabbed us the night before the wedding." he raked a hand through his hair "I can only imagine what's going through Liana's brain right now... hey wait." he snapped his fingers and turned to face the young king "Corinne was there too! And so were her friends." then he ran his hands down his face "When they find us we are doomed!"

"But they will find us." Louis said definitely "I haven't been trapped in a place where Corinne couldn't find me yet."

Ian shook his head "I'm afraid that's what they're counting on." he walked over to join his brother and the king "This is all a set up for revenge on, as they put it, the twin musketeers."

Louis frowned "The Twin Musketeers? Malice is the only man who would call them that and he's dead."

"But his son isn't." Jeremy added "If the girls find us they'll be walking straight into a trap."

"But on the bright side." Ian said "It's one army against six angry women. We've still got a chance."

Jeremy and Louis looked at each other "Oh, completely." but they didn't sound convinced.

(Sorry it's been so long since this was updated, but I was stuck. Not to mention EVERYTHING that is going on right now. But hey, here's an update! Laterz!)