When I woke up I notice that I was being carried and the sound of metal clanking together when I realized it was armor and freaked out and pushed the person away from me and fell from their grasp and as I was trying to figure out where I was I almost fell over but the person who was carrying me caught me
"Please calm down miss," they said before I could say anything and let me sit down on the ground "Are you alright?" I could tell by their voice it was a girl.
'A female guard?' I thought and looked over at what I could see from the armor
"Y-Your a guard?" I said as my vision was still blurry like it was from the night when I went to the Lord's house to find the name of the village.
"Yes, I am Miss," The guard told me and I nodded
"watch your ears please," I said and she looked confused at me "LINA!" I yelled but it wasn't as loud as I thought it was but Lina was able to hear it since it didn't take long for Lina to show up.
"Mi'lady! What happened!" Lina said as she kneeled down and the female guard spoke
"I'm not sure I just found her laying on a bench to me it looked like she was knocked out," the guard told us
"Lina go and get Jasmine and Noshi," I told her and she ran off to go and get Noshi and Jasmine not long after she left the guard helped me to a bench "Masky you can come out now," I said a little annoyed that he disappeared when the music started to play again.
Soon I heard him walk over to us.
"H-How did you know he was there?" the guard asked me with shock in her voice and I shrugged
"I'm not even sure I just he is near," I told her and spoke once more
"Akira!" Jasmine and Noshi both said as the ran down the hall to us.
"What happened?" Jasmine asked as she glanced at the guard that was next to me
"Jasmine remember when I came back to the village and my vision was messed up before a few days before I left to the other villages?" I asked her and Jasmine looked at me and finally spoke when she remembered that night.
"The day you went to the old lord's house and said that you were attacked but you couldn't see who it was since whoever knocked you out that day did something to your vision" She started and I nodded
"Don't tell me that it happened again?" she said in shock
"Indeed it did my vision was messed up again but much worse than normal," I told her and before she could say anything else
"We might have to leave this event early since four days ago I got a letter from Hoshi saying that both Yumi and Tomatsu both went missing from the village," I said
"Tell me what happened before you got knocked out," Noshi said and I nodded
"So after Masky left me on the dance floor to go and do what ever he was doing, I went out onto the balcony to get some fresh air and to get away from most of the male Lords" I started "His Highness Lord Uno came out and asked if he could join me and I let him but someone came up from behind me and spoke saying that he wasn't suposed to come in contact with me yet, that person had the same voice as Tomatsu, but right before I could fully turn around to see who they were they knocked me out but the only thing I could see from that person was their eyes that looked like Tomatsu's but darker and full of hate" I told him and he nodded
"What I am starting to think that both Kard and this mystery person who is messing with your vision are both working for the same person who is after you" Noshi said and soon I started to piece together things that have happened up to this day and soon Rage filled me and I slapped my fist into the bench
"Tomatsu is behind all of this," I said and everyone looked shocked "Isn't strange that almost right after the attack from Kard, Tomatsu shows up knowing almost everything about me," I said before I took a deep breath.
"I didn't bring this up since I just thought it was a dream but the day we arrived at the capital when you couldn't wake me up I was having what I thought was a dream up soon it seemed more like a memory that was sealed away in my head" I told them " I kept having dreams similar to the first one. The dreams I had were different from what Tomatsu had said about my past" after I said that a felt a pain in my head and soon we all heard clapping and footsteps walking our way
"I honestly didn't think you would figure out everything so fast..., Princess," the voice said,
Lina got into a fighting stance, I could hear Lina let out a low growl. The guard that was with us along with Noshi, Jasmine did the same while Masky stayed by my side as I stood up
"You may have messed with my vision but don't think I will let you get away with this..., Kard," I said and soon someone was laughing
"You didn't think High Priest Kard would come here alone, did you? Lord Akira" the other person said and soon I realized who it was
"Yumi..." I said as I narrowed my eyes to try and see but it didn't help 'I should have seen that she was also behind this from the day that she told me about the flower field where I first was being tracked' I thought to myself
"So you finally realized it huh?" She said, "That the flower field was just a set up so you would come face to face with the nightwalker"
"Yumi enough!" Kard told her and she quiets down.
Everything was quiet but soon I heard screaming and I felt Masky fall to the ground with a thud and then it was Noshi
"STOP THIS! "I yelled as I heard Jasmine yelled out in pain
"A-Akira run!" she told me but I kneeled down to her and held her in my arms "Lina go and find your siblings and get them to Dragon's claw" I whispered just loud enough for her to hear
"But!" she said as she was fighting whatever it was that was attacking
"Its an order!" I yelled at her as I felt Jasmine bleeding and
"Fine but I will come back as soon as I can!" she yelled as she jumped through the window
"Female guard take care of my friends please," I said to the guard
"Alright," she said as she held Jasmine's wound and I stood up
"What do you want," I asked as moved away from my friends with tears rolling down my face
"I want you to come with me," Kard said as he walked closer
"Fine," I said and turned to my friends and the guard with them and gave her a smile "Tell them I am sorry," I told her as the pain in my head started to hurt more before I heard something like chains shattering and I became to blackout.
(Masky's POV)
When I came too I notice that I was in a bed and I looked around the room to see Noshi and Jasmine in the room in beds across from mine as I sat up I looked around some more and saw that it was an infirmary soon everything came back to me and I jolted out of the bed and walked to the door and slammed it open only to see a doctor and the guard that was with us when we were attacked
"Please Sir you need to rest," the doctor told me
"Where is Akira," I asked ignoring the doctor and no one answered, "Where is Akira!" I started to lose my temper a bit
"Masky! CALM DOWN!" A voice yelled from behind me and I saw that it was Jasmine
"She is probably with Lina somewhere safe," Jasmine said and I started to calm down till the guard spoke
"She's not" she told us and my temper spiked again "After Lady Jasmine got injured she told Lina to go and get her siblings to her village and Miss Lina tried to protest but Lord Akira didn't let her and gave her it as an order but Lina said that she will be back," The guard took a deep breath before she spoke again "After that she told me to watch over you three and went with High Priest Kard and the girl known as Yumi who was with him along with the nightwalkers that he used to injure you, she told me to tell you that she is sorry" she said as she hung her head
"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry I couldn't do anything to stop her, I failed as a guard," she said as a few tears fell from her eyes soon she fell to the floor crying.
Jasmine got out of her bed and walked over to her and I could see her wound and understood why Akira left with them and I slammed my fist into the wall
"Damn it!" I thought to myself.
Once I finally calmed down I notice that my injuries aren't healing like they normally do but are taking a long time like a normal person's wound would.
"You know Masky, I think that this is the first time I've seen you without your mask," Noshi said and I looked in a mirror and saw that my mask was gonna and looked for it
"I don't know why you wear it but you look good without it," Jasmine said to me and I just looked at her
"I prefer to wear it for personal reasons," I told her, since the only person who has seen me without as Akira.
'Akira...I need to get her back' I thought to myself as I rewrap my wounds and got up
"I'm going for a walk," I told them and they nodded
"Alright but be careful we still don't know why Tomatsu wanted Akira and what this has to do with Uno" Noshi said and I nodded as I left the room and went back to the inn we were staying in and went to Akira's room and looked around and saw that there was a note on the bed
"If you are reading this then my theory was right and my dreams are indeed memories of the past that was probably sealed away by Tomatsu, if they do make a move at the ball on the third night then I am going to go with them to see what is the true reason to why I'm the one they want. I am sorry you had to find out this way but I remembered that I always put others safety before my own. Love Akira" I read the note out loud and saw a purple ribbon that she used to tie her hair up in and picked it up before I put my hair up with the ribbon
"I will get you back Akira" I vowed as I went to my room and grabbed my mask before trying to track where she went and since I have her ribbon I can catch her sent with ease and started to follow it.
Soon I found out that it leads to the Palace that is at the center of the capital. Since my wounds are still healing I head back to the others.
"So you came back," Noshi said, "I thought you would have gone after Akira" he finished
"I was but with my wounds taking longer than they normally should heal I didn't," I told him "It seems like she already knew this was going to happen I found a note in her room," I said to him as I gave him the note and he let out a sigh
"Now we have to found where she was taken too," a voice said as somone entered and to our surprise, it was Hoshi and Lina
"What about the village?" Jasmine asked as she sat up in her bed "The people of Beast Bloom village are watching over it" Hoshi said
"Akira was taken to the Palace in the center of the capital," I told them
"And how would you know?" Hoshi asked and I just pointed to the Akira's ribbon in my hair
"I used her scent on the ribbon to find her" was the last thing I said and they nodded not question me thankfully but Lina was eyeing me
"How did you guys get here so fast?" Noshi asked
"Lina told me what happened and changed into her wolf form and ran as fast as she could with me on her back here knowing that you guys are going to need my help," Hoshi said as he lifted a bag of weapons from Jasmine's shop
"Are those the custom weapons?" she asked him and he nodded
"Yes" was the only reply and Jasmine nodded
"I'll need to finish them then, tomorrow I'm going to go to the blacksmith shop here and see if they will let me use their shop to finish them" she said and we all nodded and I just walked to the window as almost everyone but Noshi left to go and get some things for the rescue mission.
"You have feelings for her don't you?" Noshi asked me and I glanced at him not saying anything "I have seen the way you look at her and you don't really talk to anyone as much unlike you do with her" he continues "Im just as worried as you are but I guess I can stop trying to gain her love since I'm sure she likes you better" Noshi said which suprised me but I didn't let it show "Well im going to go and write a letter to some people" Noshi said as he left and I just stared out the window.
"Love? As if, she is human and what am I? A monster" I said to myself as I looked at my reflection in the window and watch my eyes go from purple to red and back to purple before I left to go and do something.