When I jump back up I notice the king is running towards the doors. I run toward him knives in tow when I get tackled from my left. I jab the knife into his thigh making him lose his grip. I throw my other knives directly toward the door jamming them shut giving me time to get to the king. I take my elbow and ram it right into the man thats still on top of me into his neck, He goes limp. The king is frantically pulling on the door. I grab my sword attached to my back and go for the kill. Running toward the king and I swing my sword till it slices his neck and his head rolls across the floor.
Where did the other guy go?
No time to think, I have to go right now, pulled my knife out the door and took off. I run back to the balcony and jump on the roof nearest to the castle. Then the alarms start going off. 'Oh great' I think to myself. I must get out of here fast before they unleash the gargoyle's.
As I jump from one roof to the next, I feel a presence looming behind me but if I look behind me it will slow me down. I run as fast as I possibly can, feeling an unending doom in the pit of my stomache.
I see the clearing to the forest line. Im so close, if only I can get into the woods I can lose them. I know those woods like the back of my hand. One last sprint and then... Bam.
There's a freaking invisible barrier, I hit it head on and fall on the ground hard. I feel that my shoulder is dislocated and my face hurts like hell not to mention my ankle is still sore from when that guy grabbed it earlier. I scramble behind a building. I need to push my shoulder back, then find a way out. I would normally take off my belt so I have something to bite on while I push it back... but I dont have time. I grab my elbow and push it back and to the left hearing a popping sound as it get back into socket. It hurt like hell. I jump up to turn the opposite way when I am scooped up by several guards. I hit, punch, kick but there's to many of them and I just end up exhausting myself.
Then the air around us changes. I feel his presence before I see him. Then the crowd move out the way for him to come forward. Prince Vanderbilt of CroxI. Im freaking dead. Dead, dead, dead.
I lay my head down waiting for the inevitable, instead he shocks me when he speaks.
"Well, I must say, you did me a favor. With my father out of the picture... now I can be king." He whispers so only I can hear him. He smiles big showing his teeth with his hands open wide around him. He looks around the crowd. "People of CroxI, what do you think we should do to repay this treasonous act?" He looks back at me and my face drains of all blood. He walks up to me, pulling my chin up so I will look him in his eyes. "Death by gargoyle? Death by 10,000 cuts? Orrrr she is quite pretty maybe we can make her an obedient blood harvest and sex slave" he smiles wider " I do love it when they are feisty, the harder they are to break the more fun I have" he licks his lips and the guards holding me start to laugh. I take all the strength I can muster and I spit right in his face. "You will never have me. Id rather die then lay with the likes of you! Fucking blood suckers." I try to scream but I'm so out of breathe it sounds like an exasperated whisper. The crowd gets quite.
He takes his finger and the spit mixed with blood on his face he wipes it off and sticks his finger into his mouth. "What delectable blood you have, my little vixen. Just the right amount of spicy we've been missing around here." He says while his aura darkens, and he drops his smile "take her to the dungeons, only the best accommodation for the accused vixen ." He laughs hearty as they pull me back into the direction of the castle.
I look around to the crowd of people, thinking how I got myself into this predicament. My sister... I have to get back to her. In training we were taught if we ever get caught dont do anything dumb. Wait until you get to the next destination and then scan your surroundings because everything has a weak point. I just have to find out where it is. At the compounds we were put through just about anything so that even if we were tortured we would never speak of the compounds or our master. I have grown accustomed to situations that make you uncomfortable. This isn't the worst that could happen. Yes I was caught but I will claw, kick, fight and even flirt to get out of this. Although I'm not much of a flirt honestly. Back at the compounds my sister would tell me that Zane was flirting with me. I never saw it. Besides we grew up together. We even came from the same village, he was a good fighter and he made it to sector 1, five months earlier but I didnt have time to be with anyone. I was just trying to survive and also I am not someone anyone should even look at. I was more likely to beak your heart and your bones than to fall inlove. It just wasn't in the cards for me, and I came to terms with it a long time ago. Maybe if I grew up in the village with both my parents and met someone who made me laugh, who knows. But not now, not ever. Anyways what am I supposed to do when someone brings me to their family... 'Oh hey, I'm Lanora and I kill people' ha yeah right.
As we make it further into the castle I start to notice the walls are less kept, there's spider webs everywhere and it looks like it hasn't ever been dusted down here ever. Then there's the smell, a putrid oder that makes me sick to my stomache. I had to stay awake to count our steps. 134 steps, two lefts down different corridors and a right all the way down to the dungeons.
They are not smart, they should have put a bag over my head. Now I know the basic layout of the corridors. Not the smartest vamps I've met thats for sure. I feel my body start to get weaker and weaker.
Each step the smell goes from faint to a strong stench.
No matter how many times I've been prepared for this, I will never get over the rancid smell of death and fear. If I can take a small nap and then I can figure out a way out of here.
My eyes become heavy and I feel myself going in and out of consciousness. My body felt heavy, until darkness completely consumed me.