"I'm sorry, Princess Rose."
"Sorry, Rose."
The king and Dan apologized to me the next day. We were outside of the castle and ready to leave when Ren decided to burst out and scolded both his father and brother for locking us up in a room.
It turns out no one knew about it until now. The queen and Nate were shocked while Ace seemed expressionless as always.
The queen seemed furious at her husband and son that she asked them to apologize to us - she even pinched their ears when they refused.
"What about me?" Asked Ren when he realized that the king and Dan were only apologizing to me. The king and Dan only looked at Ren with a blanked face.
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I am not that worried about what would happen with me getting lost in his town, but more of what Ace would do to me when they find me. That demon. Surely he notices my sudden disappearance by now and is planning on tying me to his horse and dragging me away."Crap crap crap!" I muttered while biting my nails nervously.I was so engrossed in my future demise that I almost forgot the girl in front of me if she did not grab my wrist with an urgent look on her face. "Miss, you really must come with me."I looked at her as if she had grown another head. "Sorry." I gave her a small smile as I tried to pull my hand back but her grip was too strong. "No offense but I don't know who you are and what you're gonna do to me after I go with you. My mother told me specifically not to talk to strangers."
His voice....his voice sounded so foreign in my ears. It was hard and threatening and I could not understand the feeling that I am having right now; fear or relief?When the man didn't make a move in releasing me, Fred's face hardened and, using his other hand, placed it on top of the man's wrist. I heard him mumble a few words and a second later, the man was screaming in pain and I was freed from his grip.I saw smoke coming from the area where Fred had touched him. My eyes widened when I saw the burned mark on his wrist. The skin on his wrist was red and I could see a few areas spotted in black. It was a sickening sight.Fred must have seen the look of horror on my face because he immediately drew me towards him and shielding me from the sight. He started rubbing my back to calm me down as I gripped on his shirt t
There are a million words for me to describe this moment; A million ways for me to express what I feel and definitely a million ways for me to deal with this situation right now.Unbelievable!After running away from Fred and meeting Ace along the way gave me time to think.As I was thinking, I thought of how nice PRINCE Ace was to me as he carried me to Midnight and made our way to the palace. How considerable, unselfish, sensitive, and respectful he was and he didn't even bother to ask me why I was crying when he found me.He must be a fake. Yes. He must be."Why were you crying?" Ace asked for the hundred nth time.
Once the maid was gone did I head to bed, but not before I changed out of my robe and into my nightgown. I sighed and placed the robe on the side table only for it to vanish. I blink in surprise.I know I am a place filled with magic, but a vanishing robe is still hard to take in.I climbed onto my bed and rested my head on the pillow even though I wasn't that tired. Once I did, the lights seemed to grow dimmer in the room that I am guessing in also one of the works of magic. Is it me or is time room alive? It must have thought that it was bedtime for me as soon as I lay down on the bed – that or it wants me to go to sleep.Either way, I don't mind. Sleep sounds pretty good for me. Only problem is, I can't. Millions of thoughts swirled inside my head that it was impossible for me to sleep.
"I am so gonna kill you when I get out of this." If I get out of this. I started walking blindly in the maze. I kept walking and walking, but I still couldn't find the way out. I always admire Mazes and I was pretty good at it if I wasn't the one in it.Heck, I am a woman with no sense of direction and that jerk just threw me into a maze! That is equivalent to a lifetime of prison for me."Rose?" It was Fred's voice. And it was coming somewhere in the maze too. That's it! Fred! He might know a way out.I was suddenly forgetting all my indifference towards him for the thought of getting out of this maze. I was getting claustrophobic and I am one minute away from screaming in panic."Fred? Where are you?" I asked."Over here!"
"What do you mean the sack is empty!?" Nate growled at the twins, who were each holding a sack in hand where our lunch should be."Like we said, the sack was hanging upside down. Our food must have fallen along the way." Ren deadpanned and leveled Nate's murderous gaze with his own."How could you both not have noticed anything!?""Gee let me think." Dan stepped forward and tapped his chin three times before looking at Nate with a not so happy look."Maybe because we were busy blocking you out and away from Rose because you kept flirting with her!"I patted Cloud as I watched the three of them argue. Cloud and I were getting along pretty well and she seemed to have grown fond of me seeing as I kept feeding her apples. "Here,
I was actually thinking of a fish mutant, but I guess a mermaid is acceptable."Haven't you seen one before?" She said and flipped her hair.I closed my mouth then - not trusting myself to speak - and shook my head.Her eyes cast downward towards the bota bags beside me and her eyebrow raised. "Getting some water?" She asked.I nodded my head as my answer."Well then. Let me help you with that." With one powerful push of her arms, she hauled herself up, scooped the bota bags and swam a semi circle around the lake at an amazing speed before coming back again. "Believe it or not the water is fresher at the center. You're welcome." She said and placed the now filled bota bags beside me. When I didn't speak, she started to frown.
**MEANWHILE**Ace's vision was getting blurry. He was alone in the woods as he hunted for food when he was suddenly attacked by a splitting headache. He grabbed on to a tree trunk and leaned his weight slightly onto it for support.What the hell is wrong with me?! Ace thought.Lately he started having headaches that either makes his nose bleed or blackouts at night. Sometimes the pains are mild and he has trouble sleeping at night. It's also becoming hard to hide it from the others everyday and he would want nothing more to kill them when they find out.Ace felt something cold and tasted something metallic in his mouth. He ran his hand to wipe his lips with the back of his hand only to see blood. "Great." He muttered and pulled out a cloth from