The Prince and The Hunter

Chapter 7

*Lucia and Vaira went into the woods to make their way to the Dark King's castle. As the moon comes out Lucia talks to Vaira of all the little things that come to his head.*

" I have a horse name Pip, he's is a pretty color...-" Lucia was cut short by Vaira. " Do you always talk this much in the middle of the night?" Vaira asked. " Well, no. I don't really talk to anyone. My parents are too busy or I am in my room studying. I live in a big place with lots of people, but there is no one I can really talk to." Lucia explained putting his head down.

* Vaira starts to feel bad for the pince. She could understand living as a royal could seem quite lonesome with no one to have a real conversation with.*

" What color was Pip?" Vaira asked.

* Lucia pop his head back up looking at Vaira's smile.

" Right, Pip is a pretty color of white, and brown." Lucia happily explained to Vaira.

* Thier conversation went on and on about thier childhood, and family. Even Vaira shared some stories of her own.*

" We should rest here, we need our energy for tomorrow; it's going to be a very long walk." Vaira took off her bag, and sat on the ground. " How long would it take us to get to the Hidden Forest?" Lucia asked getting an apple from the bag. " If we are fast with no stops then...about a day." Vaira said looking at the map. " Oh.." Lucia said worried as he took a small bite out of his apple.

" But, we need the brakes so it would take us two days. We should be there the day after tomorrow." Vaira said to the prince, putting the map back in her bag. " Oh! Great!" Lucia said happily taking out an apple for Varia. "I only like the green ones." Vaira said refusing the red apple.

" What's the difference?" Lucia asked confused. " There just is." Vaira explained putting her bag down as a pillow.

* Lucia looked at the apple not understanding what she meant. He shrugged it off and looked in his bag for a green apple.*

" Hey! Vaira, I found one-..." Lucia stopped yelling when he noticed Vaira was sleeping. " Oh, sorry." He whispered putting the apple into her hand.

...

*Time had passed and the prince himself had fallen asleep. Soon after Vaira suddenly woke up from her sleep.*

" Oh, it was just a nightmare." Vaira calmed herself down and looked around the dark woods. " What's this?" She told herself looking at the green apple in her hand.

* Vaira smiled and quickly looked at the prince beside her. The moon light shined on the prince dancing on his pale skin and white hair. The wind blowing throw his thin clothes causing Vaira to frowned at Lucia's clothes. He was wearing a thin brown/white long puffy sleeved shirt with gold buttons starting from his chest ending to his neck, a black leather belt with silver design, tight dark blue pants, and with lacy black boots that went above his knees with a bit of heel to it*

" He's going to die if he lays out in the cold like this." Vaira said to herself as she got up from the ground.

* Vaira takes her bag putting it under the prince's head, before putting herself to work. Soon the sun came up waking the prince as it shine's in his face.*

" Good... morning?" The prince said looking at the fire that was cooking a rabbit on a stick. " Good morning sleeping beauty." Varia said walking up to the fire with wood in hand. " What's all this?" Lucia asked picking up Varia's bag.

" Your crying woke me up from my sleep because you were so cold. I was like 'Okay, I can't let him freeze to death' so, I started a fire. But then I thought you would be hungry, and that's why I killed this rabbit. He is now our breakfast." Vaira said with an evil grin. " I was not crying!" Lucia said.

" You don't know that." Vaira laughed at Lucia as she took the rabbit off the fire. "Look, you want this or not?" She asked taking her bag from Lucia. " Well, I guess I'll take some because you took the time to make it for me." Lucia explained. " Okay great. Let me get you some." Vaira took out a knife from her bag, and then starting to cut the rabbit.

" Careful it's hot." Vaira gave Lucia a piece of rabbit. " For sleeping out in the cold all night, this is one of the beat mornings I had in a while." Lucia said happily taking a bite out of his meat. " Oh please don't start singing right now." Vaira begged taking a small bite out of her apple. " What do you mean?" Lucia asked confused by Vaira's words.

" I mean if you start singing all the animals in woods will come here, and see us eating their little friend. I do not feel like fighting the whole woods this early in the morning." Vaira explained throwing her apple core. " I have no words for that." Lucia looked away from Vaira. " Also, what do you mean by this being ' one of the best mornings' you've had in a while?" Vaira asked eating some rabbit.

" Well, at home every morning all we talk about is work and work and work! Sometimes I would fall asleep just hearing my father talk about the Dark King all the time. It's not all bad of course the food is amazing, it's just I wish we would talk as a family, and get a bit closer." Lucia said to Vaira picking at his food.

* Lucia noticed Vaira's face seemed like she was going to comfort him. He could tell that she was feeling bad for him.*

" Don't feel bad because there is no reason for you to pity me. I lived like this my whole life, so it's a normal thing. Tell me, how do you spend your morning?" Lucia asked Varia who was laying on the ground next to him.

"For starters, It really depends on if I get up in the morning. My father always has to fight me to get up since I was little. It's always been a fun battle between us. Don't tell him this but, I over sleep on purpose just to see how far he'll go to wake me up." Vaira laughed at herself.

" You seem to have a very close relationship with your father." Lucia said looking down at the ground. " Yes, he is my best friend. He's all I ever had since-...do you have a close relationship with yours?" Vaira asked sitting up. " Well, I can say that our father and son relationship is normal." Lucia said eating the rest of his food.

* Vaira nodded her head understanding that Lucia was not comfortable talking about his relationship with his father. Vaira gets up from the ground picking up her bag.*

" We should get going if we want to be there on time." Vaira put out the fire, before walking away from Lucia. " Hey, wait up! You can't leave me." Lucia quickly got up, and ran to Varia.

* Little did they knew their trip wouldn't as easy as they thought it would be*