The King of Coal (A Dartron Fan Fiction)

Chapter Ten- The Arrow

Dar pinned himself against a tree, gasping for breath. His heart pounded out of his chest, each beat a hammering blow to his ears. Sweat dripped from his forehead, his pulse rising by the second. 

Dar had never run so fast in his life.

Still invisible, Dar peeked his head out from behind the tree.

"He... Hello?" Lily croaked, shaking with chills. A lump rose up in the back of her throat. She looked around the clearing, stunned by what had just taken place.

Someone's here with her, and it isn't a creeper.

Dar stared with wide eyes as Lily walked away from the pool and approached the trees.

Don't come here don't come here don't come here...

Dar backed away from his tree and sunk deeper into the shadows of the forest.

Lily was only feet away from stepping into the trees when she stopped.

She grimaced, reaching up to touch the forming bruise on her head. 

Lily looked over her shoulder, back at the pool.

The iron ingot still rested on the log.

"What?" Lily turned around and marched away, completely forgetting about the someone hiding in the trees. 

In seconds Lily was standing over the log again. She picked up the iron ingot, her entire hand not able to fully wrap around it. 

The cool metal rested in the sweaty palm of her hand as she stroked its smooth surface with her fingers.

She rubbed her head again, then looked down at her feet. 

There lied the lump of coal. She leaned down and plucked the ore from its resting place, leaving an abnormally shaped dimple in the wet sand.

Holding both precious metals in her hands, her curiosity grew to excitement, as she realized what she could do now.

"Tiara?" She looked up at the forest, then back down at her hands, then back up at the forest.

Dar watched as Lily turned from the log and ran out of the clearing, into the forest, and back down the mountain to the village.

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"Where in the nether were you?!" Tyler exclaimed. Dar had been gone for a full hour. It didn't help that he had taken his own sweet time walking back to camp after making sure Lily had arrived back to the village safely.

"I, um... Nature called."

"Nature screamed." Tyler rolled his eyes. He turned to the rest of the invisible group. All of them were sitting under the trees with floating food in their hands, and ghostly armor covering their bodies. 

"Alright! We've waited long enough. The sun sets in a couple hours. We do this now or we do this never."

The plan went as accordingly. In the beginning. Ross was under the lamppost, Heather and Hayley were standing by the church, Shelby and Kyle entered by the blacksmith shop, and Tyler and Dar entered the village from the main entrance.

But as Dar and Tyler got into position, who to come from her tiny house and skip down the bustling street of villagers but Lily.

"Mr. Blacksmith! Could you make me a tiara?" Her voice echoed through the busy village as she ran up the stairs of the blacksmith shop. Dar homed in on the conversation.

"Lily, I told you, you need iron and another type of ore for the center if you want a tiara like the other girls." The blacksmith replied, wiping his hands on his black leather apron. He stood on the front porch of his shop in front of Lily.