La Route de la tombe

Part 3

Chapter 3

Adrien, Gabriel and Kagami left the next morning Paris with a carriage guided by a pair of horses, which they managed to borrow from somebody for their trip to find the miraculous book. The carriage was made to look like a small cabin with short, square-formed openings on the front and one on each side of the cabin. On the side next to the open window was a wooden door with two steps under it to be able to get into the cabin. On the front was the seat for the person to guide the horses, which in this case was Adrien. The roof had a small door to open, which was now opened by Kagami to look around them for anything. Kagami took out a binocular to watch the landscape better.

"Nothing to see," Kagami told Gabriel, who sat inside the cabin with three different maps studying them. Kagami landed inside the cabin on her brown-reddish boots looking at Adrien's father busy with the analyzing of the maps.

"Okay," Gabriel said keeping to check the maps, while Kagami stood there in front of him in the quiet atmosphere inside the carriage.

"Should Adrien or I take the map for our tour for a while?" Suggested Kagami. "So you can focus more on the location of the cave?"

"Technically we're supposed to look for Kim and Chloé's Berline to take them the miraculouses away"

"Yes, but I believe they're looking for the safest or quickest way to get to the forest. Same we have to do. There's a bounty set one each one of us, if people see us, it can get more complicated, than it is"

"Sure you're right" Gabriel agreed. "We can't take any risk to let us get caught "Look uhm....the next city is Chartres, we have to avoid to enter there. The best would be before we are near it, we move directions and walk around it." Kagami explained Gabriel showing him the map.

"Yes, and if we go towards Fontaine-la-Guyon, we can directly go through the woods all up to the Normandie, then start to look for the cave inside the forest."

"Correct"

"Good now see, that you and Adrien manage to get us there without any problem"

"Sure and if we see Kim and Chloé on the way?" Questioned the blue-haired woman, then Gabriel moved his index finger to Kagami to come down to him, then he whispered into her ear. "But we're not gonna hurt them, right?"

"Of course not, that's not how it was planned"

"Sure I know," Kagami said taking the map from Gabriel's hands."I'll be there with Adrien, if you need something" Said Kagami jumping up at the open roof, then pulled herself out of the roof's hole by clawing herself with her fingers on the wood to leave the cabin, then closed the door behind her and sat behind Adrien on the roof.

"Adrien, there was a change of plans" Announced the brown-eyed woman, making the blonde man turn his head around to glance up at her.

"What chance?" Asked Adrien, then Kagami looked down at Adrien's sit place and he moved aside for her to sit down next to him.

"When you see a place named Chartres, avoid going in there. That's a city and since we're all wanted it's a bad idea to go there. We take this way here on the map, which goes to the Fontaine-la-Guyon and enter there in the forest. We will also land near our destination, then we only have to look for the cave, where the miraculous book is hidden"

"That is great and what about the other map father talked about?"

"He's deciphering it....or trying"

"Okay, we got time until there. We got....10-12 hours maybe?" Adrien guessed earning a nod from the blue-haired woman. "Any ideas, how we're now going to take the miraculouses from the two?"

"Well Gabriel thought on we two fighting against them, while one of us steals the miraculouses"

"And what about him?"

"Someone has to keep the horses near us when we succeed?"

"Oh right," Adrien said then looked at the map Kagami opened over her lap. "The X tags our destination"

"Uh hum" The blue-haired hummed to the green-eyed guy.

Kagami looked at the passage while Adrien kept guiding the two brown horses, which walked in their normal tempo on the road. Adrien rolled his eyes at Kagami, which kept holding her eyes out to the passage, then thought on trying to start a conversation with the girl.

"Kagami?" Called Adrien and the blue-haired woman looked at him.

"Yeah?"

"For what reason are you wanted?" Questioned the blonde. "If I may ask"

"I had opposed myself against my own family. I have been my whole life long against them arranging a wedding with me and one of the chosen men, that would beat one of our Kingdom's Musketeers at sword fighting"

"Wait....you were a princess before?"

"Was, but I got dethroned"

"Just now because you didn't want to marry any of these men?"

"I went a little far on that day" Confessed Kagami. "I tricked the last guy and stole his clothes to fight the musketeer and in the end after I beat this guy, the guards had found the last candidate tied up, then I had unmasked myself in front of my parents telling them I was against the wedding and with that my parents got mad at me and rushed the guards at me and I ran off"

"Oh and what happened next?" Asked Adrien. "How did you land here? How did you meet my father?"

"I had met him in a pub, I don't know, we quickly got along well....he had told me about this with you and your mother and....yeah"

"I still don't understand why he did that, for me it sounds like he has something to do with my mother's disappearance"

"I don't think so, why would he want to help you to get your mother back?"

"I don't know, I just find it strange"

"You can talk with him later about it. But I think he hasn't done anything bad to her"

"Who knows" Said Adrien sad. Kagami gazed neutrally at the blonde, then patted him on his back. "You will have her back don't worry"

"And sorry I didn't want to focus on me, we were talking about you after all"

"No problem"

"Uhm about the sword fight from before....where did you learn to fight like that?"

"My grandfather had gifted me an own sword when I was like five and taught me how to use it and with the time I practiced I got always better and smarter. Grandfather said it lies in my blood, that I'm good at combats"

"Well before you were good, really. I have never failed with my spin to hit people"

"Well I had expected you were about to hit me after that spin, that's why it ended the way it did"

"If we have a stop or two and if you don't mind, I'd like to practice with you. I'd like to gain more experience in sword fighting"

"Sure if we're able to, why not" Answered Kagami smiling at the blonde.

"How long do you think we will be riding until we approach Chartres?" Questioned the blonde making the woman shrug her shoulders.