Fallen Kingdom

...Seth...

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"Wake up! There are troops everywhere!" I heard Demetria's voice over loud stomps of hundreds of soldiers. My eyes opened to see shadows marching arcoss the walls of the secret ally and I shoot up to my feet immediatey knocking the girl into the wall,"Ouch! Cool it!"

"Hey! I think I heard something!" Shouted a man.

"Over there!" Shouted another.

I curse to myself and start climbing the walls. I hear the girl's voice behind me,"Hey wait up! Dont let them take me." I turn and pull her onto the roof and push her forward.

"Why cant you just go with them?!" I asked furious. I leap onto another roof and she kept up. 

"Because I don't want to hear it from my dad. Where to now?" she asked breathing heavily.

I stopped and felt for my thing's. I had my dagger, my leather pouch, the necklace...oh no, I say under my breath. "Bandit!" I start frantically sprinting back to my hiding place, now crawling with soldiers. I look back at the princess and mouth, Stay. Put. I look over the edge but cant see my mouse. Then i hear one hefty bearded guard chuckle,"Look its a little rodent!" In his hand was Bandit trembling,"We could feed this one to my serpant. Free food!" 

Anger rushed through me. I sat down criss crossed and searched through my pouch. I take out a reed pipe and a poisonous flower I had found in the woods before i came into town. I knew theyd be useful someday. I pull and thorn from the stem of the blue-violet flower and place in gingerly at the mouth of the reed. Then I puffed and it shot out the other end and precisly hit the neck of a guard next to the man with my mouse. 

Now what this potion does is actually quite amusing. The guard winces with the sharp pain at the back of his neck then suddenly his mouth began to foam. His eyes turned blood red and his skin became discolored. All the guards cleared out of the ally but some were too late. The rabid man charged and bit their necks, arms, and basically anything that he could get his teeth on. Then in a few seconds the guards that were bitten transformed into the same creature. The hefty guard huffs his way out of the ally with the mouse in hand. I grab my dagger and tackle him into the hay stack . 

This man smelled like horse butt and sweated like a stunned pig. He's eyes were trapped in my cold glare and I smiled,"Sir, you have my friend." I take Bandit and he trots back into my pocket. The man hadnt breathed once since I got him and his chubby, shapeless face was turning purple. I felt bad so I konked him in the head with the wolfhide handle of my dagger and he was out like a light. 

In the confusion of the rabid soldiers attacking people, I leaped out and without a sound jumped to the roof again. I start running back and Demi's face was priceless. 

"What was that?!" she asked in a panicked toned. 

I helped her up and pushed on, leaping from house to house. She followed now that she caught her breath and probaby has some adrenaline coarsing through her. Surprisingly with the speed I was sprinting at, she kept up pretty well. First the incredible intellect and now her athletic ability? 

"Hey!! Youre not answering me again!" she screamed out,"What was that?!" 

I slow down and she catches up and grabs my shoulder. I turn to face her,"They'll be fine. Most of them at least." I over hear gun shots and I think all the rabid men were killed,"See? totally okay." 

She gives me a stern look," How did you do that? What did you need so desperately that you had to go and cause huge confusion for?" I hop down and start walking along a familiar path I used to take before my arrest.,"Where are we going now?"

I stick my hands in my trousers and whistle,"Daaamn you ask a lot of questions!" She catches up to me and walks beside me.

"I ask a lot of questions because this in concerning me. Now answer them." she commands with a firm voice.

"Well it wouldn't concerm you if you'd stop following me." I say sarcastically.

She folds her arms,"Oh yeah. You want me to follow you." 

"What? Your crazy!" I retort.

"Don't you think for one second I didn't notice you blushing when I layed my head on your lap!"

My face got red hot,"I did NOT!" I shout back.

"Oh yes you DID. Your skin may be dark but i can still see you blush." she argued as if she won.

"Gods, why did I even get stuck with you!? You're so annoying!" I throw my arms in the air. 

"'Oooh why ohh why did I get stuck with a pretty princess?!' Is probably what youre thinking." she mimicks and laughs.

I walk up to a tree and climb up onto the highest branch and sit there without a word.

Demi puts her hands on her hips and looks up smiling,"Why are you up there?"

"So you can leave." I shout back down,"Go away."

"Oh stop being a child and get down from there!" she says in a motherly tone.

"No. Leave. You are annoying me." 

"I'm going to come there if you dont come down." she warned. I throw an acorn at her and it hits and bounces off her head,"Ow! Youre not suppose to do that to a princess!" she starts to climb up and I keep throwing the acorns at her. When she gets the my branch I sit there taking up as much room as possible so she couldn't sit there. Instead she shrugs and sits on my lap. 

"Get..OFF.." I roar in frustration. 

"You're not the boss of me, peasant." she says folding her arms. 

I fold my arms and look away. 

She grins and pokes my nose,"Aw poor baby got mad. Now answer my questions. What did you need to retrieve that was so valuble?" 

I small smile appeared on my face and I went into my pocket. She came closer to get a better look. 


 

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