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
***ROSE***I sat and stared frightfully at the thing that was staring at me. The little brown spirit wolf that has been following me since passing the ruins of Gija is now staring at me."Dude, I don't know why you are following me, but this is starting to get creepy." Not to mention that it's like I am in a real life horror movie!The little brown wolf shifted on its feet and wagged its tail excitedly when I spoke to it and started barking.I let out a little cry of fear when it kept barking at me. I didn't even do anything! "Please go away." I cried and moved farther back into the shell bed. "I don't wanna play with you!" I said.As if it understood me, it started to whimper and it's ears folded in sadly. Looking at it, I kind of started to feel
"Tell me where the heck she is!!" Ace growled at Hira when he pulled her back.Hira threw up water and glared at Ace. She was now wearing her own face and got her mermaid tails back. "Why are you so eager to know where she is?""I'm asking the questions here." Said Ace. "Now you tell me where she is or you're going back into the water until you will forget that you could even breathe underwater.""You are not getting her to make her your slave!!" Hira screamed at him.Ace's brows drew back in anger. "You think I'm doing this to make her a slave? She can barely do anything helpful without causing any problems! If it wasn't for the fact that she was the one who's about to choose the future king of Thalia then I might never have put up with her in the first place!"
We arrived in Tordis quicker - as Nate had planned - by only taking a few breaks and travelling the whole night. Looking at Ace's kingdom, you could really tell that it was truly a magnificent place for the elves. The area itself already looked magical with an alternating jagged tree bark surrounding the whole area as fences. The tallest bark stood at the farthest; near the castle coming smaller and smaller as it surrounds the entire kingdom until it just stops and vanishes into the ground – didn't even make a full circle."This is the place where the once great oak tree stood. It was once inhabited by the whole elven kingdom." Ren spoke behind me as if sensing my wonder regarding the tree barks. The whole way to Tordis, I took a ride with Ren since Ace was too weak to transfer on Midnight. Also, I was too scared to ride on Ace's horse. Trust me, it's like Ace and his horse buddy are one for they sha