La Route de la tombe

Part 13

Chapter 13

Adrien rode together with Kagami on a horse heading to the urban area of the city.

"Are you okay?" Asked Adrien glancing back at Kagami, that sat behind him looking straight on at the road.

"Yeah I'm good" Responded Kagami, then lifted her arm up pointing to the city, where they saw a crowd of citizens around a wooden platform with a guillotine in the middle of it. "We gotta head faster Adrien, they're about to test it on a melon"

"Sure" Adrien agreed and whipped with the leash on the horse to move faster.

Down at the crowd, Prince Nathaniel stood in the middle of the people trying to make his way through the mass to the stage, then shrieked as he saw the melon being sliced a half, also on the other side of the stage Lila swallowed hard as she had seen the guillotine cutting the fruit in two large pieces.

"Cazzo" Lila empathized then two musketeers accompanied Lila up at the stage to the apparatus and one of the men held Lila's hair up while the other tried to sink Lila by the head down at the hole for her to lie her throat there and she looked in front at the audience tensed to see her getting executed.

"Stop it!" Shouted a voice from the audience and all looked at the redhead pushing the citizens aside.

"Prince Nathaniel!" Lila shouted with teary eyes as she saw he came to see her. The young Prince jumped at the stage walking at the guards.

"Ordered by King David Kurtzberg, set the woman free" Demanded Nathaniel.

"Nathaniel!" Shouted a male voice. "What are you doing up there?"

"Dad you can't execute her. She's the missing Princess from Milan" Nathaniel explained it going down behind Lila to untie the rope from Lila's hands.

"She changed to the bad side. She started to steal people's money"

"But she did it to help the poor people. She's not a mean person" Nathaniel said and Lila got up with Nathaniel's help.

"Nathaniel you get immediately down of the stage and leave the others do their job"

"Dad, I'm sick of you deciding every step of my life. I don't want to marry Aurore or any other Princess. I want somebody I love and that's not Aurore"

"Who do you love then?" Asked the King raising his right eyebrow.

"Lila" Responded Nathaniel grabbing Lila's hands. "Princess Lila Rossi"

"Awww" The citizens empathized at the Prince's decision to fight for his own rights.

"Lila I'm sorry I've hurt you the other day. I was afraid, that our future wouldn't really work out and I would become an outlaw, then been hunted by my own people and other citizens, just because I preferred to follow my heart instead of my parents" Nathaniel said holding his hands closer to himself. "Listen if today I get enthroned and antagonized the same way Kagami did, I won't mind, cause then I'll be together with you and we'll run away together and live our lives together somewhere far away from here"

"You would do that?" Asked Lila looking into the turquoise eyes of the charming Prince. Nathaniel nodded making Lila smile amorously.

"My son...." King David said getting up from his throne. "You're a shame to the family," The King said making Nathaniel frown his face at the comment of the older Kurtzberg.

"Then there's no reason for me to stay here," Nathaniel said, then a few women screamed from the crowd, then from the crowd appeared a black salamander-like creature passing under the legs of the people.