La Route de la tombe

Part 11

Chapter 11

The next day Adrien Agreste lied still asleep inside a wooden wagon in the middle of the center of a kingdom.

"I want to thank Gabriel Agreste for bringing us this wonderful golden egg and catching the murder of Queen Emilie Agreste," Said a noble-dressed man. 

"Mom?" Adrien called quietly opening his eyes to find out he lied inside of a prison wagon. "What?" Asked Adrien shocked getting up to see, he was back in his native land as he recognized the most of the citizens.

"Luka help!" Shouted Adrien looking at Luka standing with Ivan and Anarka looking sad at him. "I'm innocent, I swear"

"Shut up criminal!" Demanded the brown-haired man. "In order of King David Kurtzberg, you're sentenced to life for the murder of Queen Emilie Agreste."

"I'm innocent I swear" Adrien cried, then saw his father standing beside the man smirking evil at him. "Father?" Asked Adrien and Gabriel walked to the wagon, where Adrien stood. "What have you done?"

"You thought I would forgive you after I lost my kingdom just like that?"

"You.....you did this all, just to put me behind the grids?"

"Sure and the funny thing is, you never realize it. Kim and Chloé were working for me, that's why we never interacted with them during our trip and Kagami...." Gabriel said making Adrien sad, then he saw Kagami standing in the crown looking sad at the arrested blonde. "Even she was working for my seek of revenge"

"I bet you're the one who murdered my mother? Right!?!" Adrien hissed angrily at his father making him laugh.

"I'm not the one, who was gone for years and escaped from guards or citizens, every time they saw me," Gabriel said turning Adrien neutral. Gabriel turned around walking back to Kagami, which felt guilty about Adrien being arrested.

"He doesn't deserve this Gabriel" Said Kagami afterward Gabriel turned his head at the girl.

"After you get paid you won't feel that anymore," Gabriel said cold, then Kagami looked back at a tragic Adrien, then the wagon started to move and a citizen yelled and threw a tomato at Adrien's face. More citizens started to throw eggs and tomatoes at the blonde, then he sank his head to hide his shame as the prison wagon was leaving the place.

Inside the palace the redhead crown Prince Nathaniel stood at the window observing Adrien being carried away, then he sighed and looked into the corridor, where his fiance Aurore sat.

"Are you excited for our wedding this week?" Asked Aurore, which Nathaniel didn't hear. "Hello?!?" Aurore shouted shrieking Nathaniel.

"Oh sorry darling....uhm what did you say?" Asked the redhead.

"If you were excited about our wedding?"

"I don't have anything against you, but I don't feel like marrying you is a good idea"

"Why not?" Asked Aurore. "I'm one of the prettiest Princesses around France, how can you not like the idea?"

"I know, that you're against this too. We just want to do that, because our parents want it"

"The only thing I want is to rule the kingdom in the future and you were the one, who won the rights to marry me. Next time don't win, if you didn't want that"

"I never wanted this in the first place, I just did this, because my parents told me it had to be like that, I had no choice, I had to win"

"From all the competitors I had to get engaged to a boy, who thinks he has feelings"

"Why are you talking like that?"

"And why are you suddenly all worried about the wedding?" Asked Aurore. "Is that the reason, why you were gone last night?"

"I was sick of everyone last night I had to get some fresh air, then got surprised by a bear and I was saved by....."

"By who?" Asked Aurore standing up and Nathaniel sighed.

"An outlaw..." Nathaniel finished and looked out of the window again. "Life is so not fair. Why can't we just marry the person, we actually love?"

"You're in love with somebody else?" Asked Aurore surprised.

"And she does the same to me, but now she must hate me because I was a coward, that preferred listen to my parents and marry some chick I know for like two weeks.

"A month, but I understand you"

"I had the chance to run away with her, but I didn't because I was afraid to become an outlaw just like her" Nathaniel said looking back at Aurore. "I should have done that"

"Nathaniel I have a little tip for you. Man up and go look for that girl"

"What if she hates me?" Asked the Prince looking out again, then he recognized a person in green clothing covered with a hood running away on a horse while being followed by a few musketeers.

"Lila!" Shouted Nathaniel as he observed the rider in green trying to escape from the guards, then Lila's horse got hit on the feet shrieking the horse and Lila fell down on the ground and one musketeer stopped, then held his sword at the covered Lila and the second musketeer took off the hood to realize the Robin Hood they were following was the whole time the missing Princess Lila Rossi.

"You're in love with Robin Hood?" Asked Aurore. "And Robin Hood's a woman?"

"Oh oh, she's going into jail. I gotta stop them" Nathaniel said running the corridor leaving Princess Aurore back.