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[Meko1432]

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Thank you,i think i fixed them all, let me know if you see anything else.

Chapter 4! whoo!! it is a finally going to get funnier from here. If something doesn't make sense let me know so i can ether explain or fix the problem,please. ^_^

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Yosh. Cant wait for more!

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I'm so glad it is liked! ^-^ more should come in a day or 2...maybe less...hehe.

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I noticed I had put red king where it should have been blue king. I soon as I get on my laptop I will fix this mistake,sorry for the confusion. To be clear red is good blue is bad.

Fixed!

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A cold soft tune whispered in my head, a sweet hum. I walked across the bright red leaves of the sanguis trees as I passed by the black silhouettes of the trees, the faint chirping of birds melting with the sound, I heard yelling and turned around, catching a flash of my red cloak before it fluttered into place behind me. I seen a man standing in a silver armor, with a blue cape, his back turned to me as he walked farther away, gripping the arm of a woman, struggling to get away from his cruel hands. He looked down at her and threw her into cage on the back of a carriage with a chained man and three children.

My eyes snapped open, looking down at what woke me I seen my two satchels Falon had given me on my stomach. -Obviously just thrown at me- looking up I seen Avery the only other person awake. I shot him a glare and stood, throwing the satchels putting the satchels over my shoulder and placing my hands on my hip and leaning backward, stretching and popping the joints in my back.

“Where is aurora?” I asked noticing aurora wasn’t even here.

“She went looking for her horse; he got pretty far even though he was hobbled.”

I rubbed my neck hoping to get the crick out; I gave him a nod acknowledging I heard him and walked over to onyx, taking the rope off her legs.

“Don’t hobble my horse again without my knowledge.” I said calmly yet, sternly.

“Why, if we didn’t she would be even farther then Auroras horse.” Avery said arching his brows.

“Because she is mine and she would never go too far from me.” I retorted. “She is my horse, not just some horse I stole.”

“Whatever you say, Pft...Never seen a man so attached to a horse that could be dead any moment.” Avery yawned and kicked dirt there the fire had been.
I ignored him this time and seen Aurora riding toward us on her buckskin, fear and worry plastered on her kind face.

Avery and I took notice and looked at each confused.

“Does she do that often?” I asked inching closer to onyx.

“No…” He said as he gathering a blanket and stuffing it in his own bag.

“The knights are coming!” Aurora yelled over the sound of hooves pounding the ground. She held out her hand, and she wasn’t stopping. “Avery!” she called out.

I turned back around facing my hose I pulled myself up on her and gripped her mane, from the corner of my eye I seen Avery swing up behind Aurora, the sound of hooves beating the ground followed, I dug my heals in Onyx’s flank, urging her forward. The blood roaring in my ears, my heart pounding in my rib cage, it took all my will to stop the nerve twitch begging to take over my left leg.

“What’s going on here?!” I called out, trying to get ahead of Aurora and Avery.
“The knights of Cymatilus have been looking for us, someone tipped them off and they came looking for us!” Aurora explained over roaring in my ears.

I risked a glance back and seen a group of knights in their blue and grey armor, the knight in the front ore white and blue, showing he was the leader. My breath caught in my throat upon seeing his face in the distance.

“Laurence!” Avery called out, forcing me to turn my eyes ahead.


Just as I did, a branch I should have ducked under smacked me in the face, knocking me back off my horse. My vision blurred and the world spun, I desperately tried to refill my empty lugs as I rolled over onto my hands and knees. Sitting back on my heels, blood dripped down my face and blinded my right eye; I touched my head and felt a growing bump and winces as I grazed a gash. I closed my eye tightly and looked around, I could hear the thunderous sound of running horses, but couldn’t see where it was coming from. onyx… I looked around, spotting the silhouette of my black horse walking over to me with her head low. I stood slowly, using the tree next to me to keep myself steady as the world around me spun.

“Get the boy!” I heard someone say and mounted Onyx, ignoring the throbbing pain in my head. The only thing I knew to do was run the opposite way of the voice.

The thunderous hoof beats died down, but I could still hear them in the distance. I slowed Onyx to a trot and glanced around for Avery and Aurora. In the distance I could see a town, I glanced behind and then looked ahead, deciding if they were running from knights, and they would go where it was busy. I urged my black horse back into a full gallop until we reached the town line; I brought her into a walk as we moved through the crowd of bustling people. I dismounted Onyx and took off my cloak and stuffed it in my satchel. I didn’t need to draw any more attention.

“Come.” I called and onyx followed me like a duckling to their mother.

“Watch it, boy!” The tallest man I had ever seen said as it put his hand on onyx’s hindquarters and pushed.

“Ah, sorry. Come.” I said again, continuing the walk through people, glancing back every now and then making sure onyx was there.

Voices rose in the crowd, I tipped down to see the ruckus and nearly fell over seeing Avery fighting with a guard –more like skillfully avoiding every blow and mocking him, with his hands literally tied behind his back- and Aurora sneaking into a shop while two knights laughed at their friend.

“Stay” I said sternly and onyx obeyed as I stalked closer to Avery and the knight.

I watched as Avery turned and lifted his head.

“Here, I will give you 1 chance to get me while I look away” He said to the knight.

“You bag of cow dung!” The knight fumed and ran at Avery, who dodged second before being caught, plowing into a carriage and falling over.

I stifled a laugh and looked to Aurora who raised a stew pan above her head before bringing it down on the poor unsuspecting knight, who fell to the ground with thud. His buddy turned around just in time to get a stew pan to the face, he spun around once and fell to the ground.

“Hey!” yelled a knight running up, with four more behind him.

I bit my lip and did the only thing that came to mind and ran out of the crowd, back handing Avery across the face, stunning him.

“What are you doing?!” Both Avery and the knight yelled in unison.

I grabbed Avery by the color of his shirt and pulled him down to my level with and expression that said play-along.

“This man is wanted for treason!” The knight walked up with squared shoulders, stepping over his subordinate on the ground.

“This man killed my mother!” I snapped looking at the lead knight my resolve weaken seeing his cold face and mismatched eyes, one golden, the other icy blue with a scare over it.

“I am sorry for your loss, a rebel to, killed my mother.” He said with a softer expression. It made me sick. Something about his face made me want to attack him.

I swallowed. “I just ask for a few minutes alone with him.” I said through gritted teeth. “Surly you understand...” I looked back at Avery glared.

I felt a hand placed on my shoulder and I tried not to tense up.

“I do, take as long as you’d like.” He said with sympathy.

“Go!” I forced Avery around and pushed him forward into a shop Aurora had gone through, hoping it had a back door, as I pushed him out of view. “Run!” I whispered and darted for the back of the shop, Avery right behind me.

Avery and I leaped over tables, knocked over bolts of cloth and nearly tripped over goat, but managed to get out of the shop in time to see Aurora untying her horse. I stopped and turned

“Venit!” I called a few times and Onyx ran around the corner up to me, I grabbed her mane and swung up on her. “You lead the way!” I called to Aurora who was a bit ahead and held my hand out to Avery; he took it and mounted Onyx.

Aurora took off on her Horse and I urged my own horse forward after her, leaving behind the sounds of a town in confusion and knight yelling angrily.

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Avery‘s grip around my waist suddenly tightened as we moved down the steep hill, and it was only then I realized he was holding me around my waist. Heat rose to my cheeks at the discomfort of it. I was glad for the thick bandages and being dressed as a boy, otherwise I’d have already kicked him down.

“When we get down, you can ride with Aurora.”

“Uh, okay?” He said with a shrug.

“It won’t be long now, the town was actually a short cut, and once we get past these hills it will be a short thirty minute ride to the camp.” Aurora said. “It is a good thing you’re a boy.”

“Hm. Yeah. Why is that exactly?” I asked trying not to sound offended or overly concerned.

“Well, we need more people on the front lines, but bill won’t let the women fight in the front.” Avery said before Aurora could.

“So wait, even in this rebellion the girls just cook and clean up after them?” I asked with a calmness I hadn’t expected from my voice, maybe it was the new identity kicking in.

“No, of course not I mean, they do the majority of the cleaning and cooking, sure but it is in our nature” Aurora said with a shrug. “But we know how to fight, and we use are skill for it, but mainly on smaller missions, protecting camp, “A sly grin tugged at her lips from the corner of my eyes. “And gathering resources, of course.”

“She means stealing from knights” Avery clarified.

“No...Really? “I said, sarcasm dripping in my voice. Yet they told a thief he was too lazy to make a living? Then again, he wasn’t in the rebellion against a bad king.

“Oh yeah, another good thing about being a boy...” Aurora said out of the blue. “There aren’t many trees for cover, and boy can just go behind one to let out the water, girls can’t do that…easily and modestly, anyway” She said with a thoughtful look.

It hit me like horse full gallop. I would have to stay a boy to fight where I want, and if I had to relieve myself, Avery wouldn’t care much for privacy being a man. I should have thought more about this. I avoided drinking much water the rest of the journey.


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We rode up and down the hills, and once again came to a forest, only this particular forest was forbidden entirely, in all the kingdoms due to rumors of mysterious disappearances and strange sounds, some even said the only fortian wolf alive lives in this forest, alongside with the iridis dragon, but those have been extinct, there was no way ether possible lived the great decades back.

As if reading my thoughts, Avery arched a brow and said “You never know until you find real proof.” At that, Aurora failed at holding back a knowing smile that made me look ahead as the shadows swallowed us.

The trees were black, like the sanguis, but the leaves, most such a deep indigo it was near black, some thin and light blue, any sun light that past trough, making any light that broke through the canopy of leaves, a soft blue tone. I was glad it was still daylight or this would have been too creepy to follow to strangers into. But now, it was beautiful in an eerie way.

“So the red kings supporters take up take in the shadow forest of blue light?” I asked, not even hiding the amusement at the irony.

“Exactly, who would think to look?” Avery said.

“Avery, your breath stinks.” Aurora stated.
Avery rolled his eyes. “The wind is pushing my breath back, you can’t smell a thing.”

“So? I just know your breath stinks, like rotten fish and molded bread.”

“That’s because of how your cooking turns out.” Avery grinned.

“You little, who changed your nappy?!” Aurora snapped jokingly.

“Not you! You were too busy chasing that ferret boy around for his sugar cubes.”

“His name is Serret, and he is your brother-in-law” she said as she elbowed him.

“Well-“Avery started and I cut him off with a giggle that I quickly covered up with a deeper laugh and a cough.

“Here we are” Aurora said, stopping her buckskin I now know is named Handsome.

I pulled back on Onyx’s mane and we to, stopped. I looked up at the cliff face, most covered in a thick curtain of vines.

“Are we supposed to climb?” I asked with disbelief. “Oh, or are we going to go…” Avery pulled back a large section of the vines, revealing a cave. “Go through…” I finished, feeling a bit embarrassed.

Avery and Aurora chuckled as they dismounted and I followed their lead. Aurora took Handsome’s reins and led him into the cave. I followed behind.

“Come, onyx.” I said and she followed me in the dark cave. “No torches?” I asked.

“Hold on, I’m trying to find –ah! Here it is.” Avery said and the cave lit, along with a pathway ahead, showing the cave was much deeper then it looked.

Soon after we passed, the torches behind went out, I didn’t bother asking how. I could see a light at the end of the cave and curiosity pulling me forward. When we finally stepped into the light I gasped. We just entered a large cave, sun light leaking though a wide whole at the top with a waterfall on one side of it, falling directly into a round crystal clear pong below. Larges tents were set up here and there, barrels and crates stacked around them. I looked around, seeing the larges mirrors I had ever seen placed in places around the caves, held by bars and gears. I could help but let a small smile tug at my lips thinking of the gala, then frowned remembering how things went that night. Out of the corner of my eye I seen Aurora elbowed Avery before he walked over to me. She must have seen my frown.

“If you miss home-“He started but a large man I recognized as bill walked up.

“Hello, I am bill and you are…familiar.” Bills said holding out his hand, which I took and squeezed as tightly as I could.

“Nice to meet’cha bill, and no, my name is Laurence.” I said, second guessing a name so similar to mine, though if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have answered to it.

“Even the name sound familiar” Bill chuckled. “I am sure you get that a lot, you must be Avery’s recruit.”

I nodded and looked back at Avery, “More like his escaped prisoner that was talked into coming.” I said as I looked to Aurora.

“Ah well that makes sense too, sorry about that lad, how old did you say you are?” Bills brows furrowed slightly.

“I never told you, I am fourteen, sometimes I have been told I look younger and act older.” I said. “I take after my mother in looks, and father in skill.” I said pushing my thick bangs from my face and flat against my head.

“I see… well we can add some muscle to you, I only have one thing to say for now. If you betray us, I will not hesitate to hang you upside down by your toes under till the blood rushing to your brain makes it pop.” He smirked and walked away, leaving me inwardly terrified and amused all at once.

“Why don’t we introduce you to my husband?” Aurora said, removing her cloak and tugging at the belt around her waist. “I need a bigger belt…” She grumbled.

“You need to slow down on the biscuits.” Avery said, earning a scoff and light whack on the back of his head from Aurora.

“You need to watch your mouth! That is no way to speak to a lady.” She glared, making me titter, in the manliest way I could, they both ignored.

“Lady? You may have the skirt and face, but you’re about as ladylike as a pirate.” Avery laughed. “I mean Laurence here is more of a lady then you-“I punched him hard in the gut, crossed my arms and glowered.


“Point taken.” He gasped out.

“Husband, yes, follow me Laurence” Aurora said walking away, and I obeyed.



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I stood in front of two young twin children about three, a girl with wavy hair so dark brown it was near black, with grey blue eyes speckled with green and light freckles across her cheeks and a boy, golden eyes, and chestnut hair that spiked in an impossible way, while Aurora found her husband in a tent. I stooped down on one knee and smiled at the twins.

“I am Laurence, who are you?” I cooed.

“I- I am Ari!” The boy said grinning.

“And I’m!”-

“Dis is scawe-scar-let!” Ari butted.

“Hey! Dat is my name, I wan’ta say it!” She pulled his hair.

“Children…” said a deep, weary voice between a man I assume was the father and Aurora’s husband –Serret- said, scooping the twins up in his arms. “Scarlet, Ari, what did I say about interrupting?” He looked to Ari.

“To not do it…” The boy mumbled, keeping his eyes downcast. A little titter came from his sister and the man turned to her.

“And what about hair pulling?” He asked and the little girl gasped, frowned and lowered her eyes.

“Also to not do it…” She replied in a mumbled.

“Where have you been hiding, Serret I have been looking for you” Aurora said, stepping up.

“Watching the twins.” Serret answered. “Not at all an easy task when training recruits.” He sighed and gave a weary smile before turning to me. “And you must be the rumored Avery recruit.”

“I keep hearing that, but I don’t know what it means. “ I shrugged.

“It means Avery picked you, and Avery rarely picks people to recruit, meaning your special.” He explained.

oh I’m special all right, in a cross dressing kind of way. “Oh well, that sounds nice.” I said and began to chew on my lower lip. “So what now?”

Serret put a heavy hand on my shoulder and grinned, somehow balancing the twins in his arms. “We see what you’re made out of.” I suddenly feared for my muscles.

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I like it, I cant wait to see what happens next!:D

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Alright, adding more soon. may fix up the prologue now I that i have thought of 1,i an see where a lot of people might have stopped because no one wants to read a prologue that is really part of the story,am I right?

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The proluge is good. -awaiting more- =3=