SUMMER'S RAIN

CHAPTER 67

CHAPTER 67

Case walks over to me and asks if I am ready to go. I tell him I’d never been so ready to leave a place in my life. He bends down and picks me up. I put my arms around his neck wishing it was Dominick’s neck my arms were going around instead. Looking around I search for Dominick, I locate him standing a few feet away putting the polls back in Case’s satchel. He looks at me and mouthed the words “it’s alright princess.”

Turning away I looked straight ahead as we left the cave that had been our home for the last two days. No one speaks after we leave the cave. Case holds me tight against his chest as he walks. After about an hour we make it to the clearing. Case sits me down on the ground and asked if I will be alright. I tell him not to worry about me, for him to just get us home. He leaves me sitting there while he and Dominick go to work sitting up the poles. Dominick has the last pole in his hand when the tree people come running from everywhere.

I watch as Case, Dominick, Rachel and Adam are fighting. For every tree person, they take down it’s like ten more show up to take their place. It is never ending. I know I have to do something. I’m just not sure what in my weaken state. I am trying to stand up when I am grabbed from behind and hear Prince Osier voice in my ear telling me he is very disappointed in me. The prince let out a huge yell telling the tree people to stop. It is like watching everything in slow motion as at least a hundred tree people stop moving at the same time along with Dominick, Case, Rachel and Adam. The prince picks me up in his arms. I tried to fight him. He is simply too strong for me.

“Do you see what you have done princess?” Prince Osier asked. “I was willing to let your friends go, but now you have sentenced them all to death, and I’ll still have you.”

“You can’t have me if I don’t agree to marry you.”

“Yes there is that little matter, but I will hold you hostage here and make your life unbearable until you either come around to my way of thinking, or you’ll die just like your friends will.”

“LET HER GO!” Case screams in a mincing tone. One of the tree people knocks him to the ground.

I scream “leave him alone! What if I agree to do as you want? Will you let my friends go then?”

“Aw…maybe this can still work out for the best.” Prince Osier said.
I heard Dominick, and Case both yelling at me not to say another word.

“Princess this will be your last chance. You say the words I want to hear, and I will let your friends go” Prince Osier said.

“First you open the door and let them go through then I’ll do as you want.”

“You’re still the most stubborn woman; I've ever met princess. I see why you have these two young men fighting over you. It seems like you collect hearts the way I collect beautiful things. You will be my prized collection. The most beautiful thing I’ve ever collected.”

Before I know what was happening, I see Case, and Dominick sling two of the tree people over their heads. Rachel and Adam have somehow managed to break free, and they are all fighting. Finding strength I didn’t know I had I elbow the prince and brake free. Running with what energy I have left toward Dominick, I grab the pole he dropped. With the pole in hand, I run to the place the pole needed to be placed and start pushing it in the ground. When I have it in as far as I can. I squeal to Case that all the poles are in place. He continues fighting as he bellowing out the words that will open the door to our way back home.

I ogled the light when is appeared and started to growing in size until it finally formed the door. Case killed the three tree people he had been fighting plus he managed to get Rachel and Adam free as well. Rachel, and Adam, runs to me, and I tell them to go through the door, and we will be right behind them. Case and Dominick are running towards the door by this time. Breaking the necks of any tree people in their way I am yelling for them to hurry I wasn’t sure how long the door would stay open. Case makes it to the door before Dominick. I watch in horror as more tree people than I can count surround Dominick. It is like they all jump him at once. Dominick is fighting with everything he has in him. I yell “Case; we have to help him.”

“You stay here I’ll help him.” Case yells already running. I watched Case run towards Dominick. But he doesn’t make it far when Dominick sees him and yells for him to stop.

“CASE DON'T THERES TOO MANY TO FIGHT. GET LANA OUT OF HERE MAKE SURE SHE’S SAFE!”

 “NO”I scream and start running. Case grabs me around the waist; I fight him kicking and screaming. Yelling for him to let me go that we need to help Dominick! Case starts dragging me toward the door; I fight him the whole way. Watching as the tree people beat Dominick. I scream Dominick’s name over, and over again. I see the light from the door and know Case is fixing to pull me through. I scream the one thing I wanted Dominick to know more than anything in the world. “Dominick I LOVE YOU!”

He turns his head toward me his eyes hold mine. “I LOVE YOU!” I yell again. Right before Case pulls me through the door, I see the tree people holding Dominick down while another one stabs him in the chest with a huge stick. I see Dominick’s arms fall to his side. I realize I had seen this happen before, while I had been in the comma. I scream I know I am hysterical, but I can’t help it. I just watched the man I love die. My heart felt as if it has been ripped from my chest. My energy spent I pasted out wishing I had died back on the fairy realm with Dominick.