The Lovenina Princesses: NEW Beginnings (Book 1)

~ Part 3: Welcome Darkness ~

"Hey, isn't that Princess Lucy?" Marcus asked as he pulled his's binoculars away after seeing red out of the corner of his eye.

"Where!?" Jackie demanded, ripping the binoculars out of his hands.

"Over there, don't you see the red between the path?" Marcus asked, pointing.

"Over where? The only view here is trees. Ugh, I hate being on lookout duty."

"I swear I saw her," He said stealing back the binoculars and searching the forest for the pop of color.

"I don't care I'm ditching; you do whatever you want," Jackie said climbing down the ladder connected to the lookout point Raven created in the center of the forest so almost every corner of the forest could be seen from above.

"Fine, I will just figure it out myself, thanks for nothing!" He shouted after her.

Jackie shot him two middle fingers as she jumped halfway off the ladder.

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SNAP—

"Who's there?" Lucy asked turning around, hearing a twig break.

She heard the person getting closer as she apprehends footsteps crushing leaves.

"Whoever you are come out and show yourself I don't bite!"

The forest became uncomfortably silent as all the shining stars burnt out.

Well, that isn't supposed to happen, She thought pulling out a flashlight from her bag.

She quickly ducked as she saw a flash of silver when she flicks the light on.

"Well, apparently you do..."

Lucy stared in horror shining the light behind her; seeing a dagger stuck in the tree bark where her head used to be.

"Not hard," A familiar voice answered, forming a flame, and shooting it up in the sky turning the once beautiful forest to a sickly orange.

"Welcome, Princess care to take a pit stop," Marcus snarled, appearing in front of her. In a brown cloak, his whole outfit was a different shade of brown. Making him camouflage against the tree barks. Only his blue eyes and a loose strand of his platinum blonde hair made him stand out against the light of the flames.

"Um, I am already running late, so no time to chat," She spits out, backing away.

Nearly tripping over her own feet, she and the boy makes eye contact; before her senses came back and she bolted.

Out of breath, but also trying not to breathe she scans the area for a hiding place.

"Damn it!"

Gasping Lucy notices the blood trail marking the diamond path, while she heard the heavy boots getting closer.

No, come on not now, we are not going to get queasy because of the sight of my own damn blood!

"UGH!" She groaned ripping the sleeves of her trench coat, tying it tightly around her wound.

"Well, fuck these are probably now broken rips," She winces, biting down on her tongue to hold in a scream as she applies pressure against her wound.

"Come on stop bleeding." She plead, fighting to keep her vision from blurring.

Wiping with her ripped coat she hopes by some miracle the blood will vanish from the path.

"UGH! This isn't working!" She shouts into her ruined coat.