(3rd POV)
It the day of the party that is being held at the palace and a lot of people are getting ready to go, while some are adjusting their clothes so that their weapons are not seen, the girls are in dresses and the boys are in suits and since they did not want to look suspicious Masky decided not to wear his mask, soon they all arrived at palace and the guards and knights showed them to the ballroom as the party started to get going a lot of nobles, lords, and ladies are all talking and dancing around as well as the villagers. Masky was dancing with one of the ladies and saw that Jasmine was dancing a perverted lord so he moved his way with his partner over to her and did a very graceful partner switch and took Jasmine away from that guy.
"Thanks, Masky," Jasmine said to him as they danced
"It was nothing, any sign of Akira yet?" He told her and she shook her head no
"Sadly not yet but I did hear one of the maids saying they were having trouble with the princess's dress," She told him and Masky nodded.
Not long after they stopped dancing and made their way to the others did someone come out and yelled
"Ladies and Gentlemen! His Highness Uno of the supreme court and his brother Tomatsu" the person yelled
As the opened the double doors and two people come through the doors one had short black hair and dark green eyes and was wearing a greyish-black suit and the other had two color hair most of his hair was white as pure white snow and a small section of his hair was black.
"I welcome you all to this event," Uno said as he placed his hands on the railing as he smiled
"As most of you know our beloved princess disappeared 20 years ago, but we have finally found her! Although she lost her memories of when she was our princess, she does remember fragments of her past" Uno said "Now everyone please welcome back lost Princess! Princess Crimson!" Uno said and soon the double doors opened and a girl with two colored eyes walked in wearing a floor-length dark purple strapless dress with a few light purple pearls on it.
Jasmine, Noshi, Hoshi, Lina, Aki, and Masky all looked shocked but masky looked the most shocked out of them all
"She can't be that Crimson," Masky said quietly as his eyes were wide as the could possibly be, Lina did hear him but didn't say anything about it.
The other guest here clapping and cheering for the return of there lost princess.
"This can't be possible," Jasmine said as her eyes started to tear up and she grabbed Noshi's arm which caused him to look at her to see what is wrong and he noticed that she was on the verge of crying so he pulled her into his arms and hugged her
"It's going to be alright, she is still our Akira and will always be," Noshi told her and she just stayed in his arms crying, most of the people around them just thought she was crying in happiness.
"To think she is the lost princess from 25 years ago but now that I look closer at her I can tell that she looks a lot like the late king with the hair and the blue eye," Aki said and they all looked at him
"What do you mean?" Lina asked him
"Well 20 years ago my mother did meet king when I was 5, the king as I could remember had crimson red hair that was always wavy, and he had icy blue eyes at almost looked like crystals, he was the friendliest king you would ever meet he was always resectful of those whos he spoke with, but as nice has he was when you talked disrespectfully infront of him or if someone intrupts the person that is talking to him before they could finish you could see that he goes from friendly to deadly in less then a second" Aki told all of them the story of when his mother and him met the late king, "As we were leaving the throne room I saw a statue of a goddess and back at the king while my mother waited for me at the doors "Excuse me your highness" is what I said to him as he looked over at me he saw the statue I was looking at he got up from his throne and walked over to me and back then having him walk over to me was very terrifing, but he kneeled onto the floor and picked up the statue I was looking at and showed me it and told that the statue was of the goddess Selene Vesta and snice that day I started to worship the goddess Selene Vesta, and as I was leaving with my mother I saw someone run into the throne room calling out "Papa! Papa!" and thing smile grew as he turned around only to get tackled to the floor by the girl who was calling out to him which now I can only assume is Crimson" he finished and everyone looked shocked at his story.
Not long after Aki told us the story of the king did all the lights go out and Lina, Jasmine, Noshi, Hoshi, and Masky, as well as Aki and a few of his bandits, got ready to attack just in case.
"Well, well, it would seem you are back to your ways Uno" a voice called out from the darkness "Do you really believe that no one would find out the real reason the princess went missing all those years ago was because you are corrupted!" the voice yelled with rage in their voice and most of the guest where whispering among each other.
"What would you know about me and my princess?!" Uno yelled back and the voice just laughed
"I would know because before the late king passing I was her personal guard"
When the lights came back on and the princess was gone, from in between Uno and Tomatsu. As the two of them looked around the saw her on the other balcony as the mystery guy gave her something and she gladly took it and drank it
"Thank you!" Crimson said she hugged him,
"UNO!" she yelled at him "This lie ends here! Although I may have lost my memories I can still remember parts of my past and the death of my father!" she said as she looked down at everyone, "Ever since I came back here to protect my friends that you threatened to hurt if I didn't! Then when I tried to escape to go back to my friends you caught me and then you forced me to drink a potion that took away my voice!" a few tears fell from her eyes as walked down the staircase the was next to her and the mystery guy as he walked behind her
"This is not the Uno I knew as a child, same goes for you Tomatsu you both are corr-" She got cut off
"How do we know that the mystery person didn't give her a potion that is making her say all of this?!" Uno yelled,
"Guards seize them and bring the Princess back here safely!" he commanded and the guards started to run at then and the mystery guy took his sword and attacked the guards
"Princess run! I'll hold them back!" he told her and she turned around and ran and soon her friends waved at her
"Akira over here!" Jasmine and Lina yelled over to her and she picked up her dress and ran as her up-do hairstyle fell and her long hair flowed behind her
"Guards don't let the princess get off the castle grounds!" Uno yelled and a few guards started to chase after them.
Once Akira(Crimson), Lina, Hoshi, Noshi, Jasmine, Masky, Aki and his bandits got out of the palace and into the city they ran down and the guards were still chasing them
"My bandits and I will handle this you guys keep running and try to get to our hideout!" Aki said and he and his bandits got ready to fight, and the rest of his bandits showed up to help.
The fight between guard and bandits began. They reached the Inn that they were staying in and Akira took her dagger she had in her bag and cut herself out of that dress she was wearing and went to get her clothes to change and as she was getting dressed she heard the door to her room open and close as she just finished changing outfits, and she grabbed her dagger and turned around to attack whoever was in her room till she saw that it was Masky
"Masky you gave me heart attack" she told him as she put all of her stuff into her bags and got ready to go "is everyone ready to leave?" she asked him but got no response and as she turned around to see why masky wasn't answering she was pulled into a hug by him
"M-Masky?" She asked but he said nothing and pulled back a little and looked down at her and she just started up at him as he started to lean down closer to her face and soon Akira was starting to close her eyes and leaned up but soon the door opened
"Lady Akira are you ready to go," A voice came from the doorway as the door was opened
"Y-Yes Lina I am ready to go," She said as Masky handed her one of her bags and carried the other one for her.
As Akira walked passed Lina and was halfway down the hall Lina stopped Masky
"Don't think I am going to let you have her," Lina said before she ran to catch up to Akira and what Lina said to Masky only made him smirk.
"There she is!" Someone yelled
As Akira, Masky, Lina, Jasmine, Noshi, and Hoshi all got outside the Inn they started to run till one of the guards through a chain at Akira which caused her to fall
"GUYS!" She yelled as he tried to get the chains from her legs as her friends game and helped while Lina, Jasmine, and Noshi held off the guards.
Once Akira's legs were free Masky helped her up
"TAKE HER AND RUN WE WILL HOLD THEM OFF AS LONG AS WE CAN AND MEET UP WITH YOU LATER!" Jasmine and Noshi shouted at the same time as they blocked the guard's attack with their swords.
Hoshi and Masky both grabbed Akira's hands and started to run to get away but only to run into Tomatsu and some of the elite guards
"This way!" Hoshi yelled and they started to follow Hoshi into the forest "You guys keep going I'll handle them" Hoshi said as he turned around and drew his sword
"Hoshi!" Akira yelled as she kept running with Masky as she looked over her shoulder
"Take care of her Masky," Hoshi said as he gave him a faint smile and walked to the intercept the guards and Tomatsu.
It felt like days from how long they were running and soon Akira fell
"I-I can't go on," She said as she looked up at Masky and he kneeled down by her
"We will take a break," He told her as he kept a watch out just in case any of the guards come.
After about an hour or so Akira stood up and they started to walk through the forest till they heard a noise coming from behind a tree and as they both got on guard to see who it was
"Here I thought that I could get you alone, Princess," the person said as they walked out from him hind the tree
"Uno..." Akira said as she narrowed her eyes and tighten her grip on her weapon.
"Well that is no way to treat your fiance," Uno said and Akira froze in place for a short while, but through her dagger at him and he blocked it with his sword,
"No, that day I never agreed to it since you were corrupted if you never became corrupted then I might have still loved you but my feeling for you are long gone now," Akira said as she drew another dagger out
"But you still agreed to it," Uno said with a smirk as he walked closer to them
"I never had a choice!" Akira yelled as her anger at Uno got the best of her as she attacked him with her daggers
"Akira!" Masky yelled at her as she started to attack Uno which only made him smirk as he avoided her attacks, only Masky saw his smirk once she attacked
"What would your father say if he saw you trying to hurt someone" Uno said he let one of her daggers come near his face but it stopped right before it could touch his face and Masky quickly moved and knocked Uno away from her and took her hand and started to run away and they neared a waterfall
"You can't run forever sweetheart" Uno called out from a distance, Masky knew that they couldn't run much further since they both are tired and he looked down at the waterfall and knew the only way they could get away is if they jumped, soon Uno came into sight
"Found you," Uno said as he took out his sword from its sheath and pointed it at Masky.
Masky pulled Akira so she is facing him
"Do you trust me?" he asked her looking her dead in the eyes to her surprise they turned red and everything started to click on how he knew where to run to avoid the guards and soon Akira nodded her head
"I trust you," she told him
He gave her a faint smile and brought them both close to the edge near the waterfall as Masky's hand wrapped around her waist and he drew his sword out and smirked at Uno as soon as he knew what Masky was planning
"You're mad!" Uno yelled as he tried to get to them
Masky stabbed his sword into the ground just deep enough to make it crumble under the two of them, once it was crumbling Akira held onto Masky as he took his sword and put it back on his back and held Akira tight in his arms as the hit the water. After a couple of minutes, they finally resurfaced to get air and made their way to the shoreline and get out of the water.
"Sh-" Akira started but couldn't finish it due to her coughing from the water
"The boy from the forest" a voice spoke in her head.
Akira turned to find Masky on his back as his eyes were closed.
"Akira," he said softly and she moved over to him
"Yes?" she said and he shook his head
"I should have realized it sooner," he said as he reached his hand to touch her face and she looked at him
"The princess who got kidnapped saved by a boy in the forest," he said
She gave a slight smile and leaned into his hand, soon he sat up and pulled her into a hug but didn't say anything and she just hugged him back till they heard a noise and Masky moved Akira behind him as he drew his sword just in case then we see someone come out
"Chill, its just me," the person said as I could see that he had golden eyes and purple hair and he put his hands up in defense
"Now you show up Dante," Masky said and the one called Dante scratched the back of his head
"Yeah, sorry I got lost," Dante told him and soon he saw Akira "So this is the girl you-" Dante started but got cut off then Masky hit him in the gut
"Enough talking we have to move it's only a matter of time before they will soon find out that we survived the fall," Masky said as he picked up Akira in his arms and carried her so they can meet up with the others.
After a few hours, Akira was asleep in Masky's arm since she been through a lot as they started to get near Aki's bandit hideout and the sun was already rising when both Masky and Dante heard a noise which caused them to go on high alert and soon a person dropped down from the trees and Dante took out his sword and was ready to attack
"Calm yourself" the person spoke with a semi-deep voice as he then lowered his hood and they could see that he had a blue-indigo colored hair that was in a high ponytail and had dark blue eyes as he walked over to Masky and kneeled as he looked at Akira
"You the one that saved her at the party aren't you," Masky said
"Yes, as I said back there I was once her personal guard assigned by her father Ryuu," he told Masky "My name is Ronan," said Ronan told Masky and he nodded. Soon Ronan was carrying Akira in his arm
"You're his friend?" Ronan asked as he looked at Dante
"Yeah," Dante said "Then carry your friend he is injured in his right leg," Ronan told Dante and Dante looked over at Masky
"Dude what happened," Dante asked
"It's not a big deal, it happened when Akira and I fell off the waterfall to get away from Uno," Masky said with a shrug even though he is limping since the waterfall.
"Just get on my back or I'm going to carry you in my arms," Dante said with a goofy look on his face and Ronan just rolled his eyes
"Hell no," Masky said as he backed away from Dante
"Come on dude your injured and its the least I can do to help for being late," Dante said
Ronan kicked Masky in the back of his injured leg causing him to fall and Dante carried him the rest of the way to Aki's bandit hideout.