The Legend Of The Five Queens : Arabella's tale

Chapter 7: The Assassin

The sun rises over the horizon, the suns light is giving off a multitude of colors. It's now morning and the world is becoming bright once again. Arabella is sleeping next to Equidor in the shadow of many trees. The suns heat was beggining to touch her body, the warmth from the sun has awaken the princess. She moves her arms and legs slowly as her body wakes up. Arabella groans as she slowly sits up breathing in the fresh morning air.
The air is so clean and pure the princess almost thought that she is still dreaming. But she wasn't dreaming, she had awoken from her long slumber. Equidor is still sleeping next to Arabella comfortibly. He is breathing ever so softly, one would have to get close to him to hear him breath. The sun reflects off his fur.

Suddenly Arabella begins to sense some kind of strange energy, an energy that can only be described something simmilar to the fire stone.Is it possible that this stone is linked to the other stones? Maybe as she becomes more familiar with her stone she will be able to sense the other stones. It appears as those as time progresses the stone revels more secrets about itself and and maybe the other stones. She takes a deep breath in and exhales, it's time for her mission to begin. Arabella takes her hand and pets Equidors head, "Equidor wake up. it is time," she tells him. Equidor then moves his head and starts to stand up. Arabella picks up her old red robe and puts it on her pulling the hood over her head. Equidor starts rubbing his head against her arm, she pets him and says "I'm sorry Equidor, I forgot to bring you food. Do not worry I am certain that there will be food in the village," Equidor nods his head as if he understands her. She laughs and kisses his head then she goes over and grabs the bit and lead to put on Equidor.
After she puts it on him she climbs on top of his back and grabs the ropes. "Alright Equidor let's head to the village now, we aren't far from it,"

Equidor runs onto the dirt path and begins to finish their journey. The princess shifts uncomfortibly on top of Equidor's back as she begins to feel uncomfortible about doing this. What if this doesn't go the way she wants it to go? What if he turns down the deal? She doesn't want to have to look for another assasin since some of the assassins out in the world are a bit sketchy.

In the distance a small village can be seen, people are walking through the town and into the shops talking to friends and buying items. The village isn't very crowed but there is still enough people there who could see the princess. She pulls the hood over her head and looks down to try to hide her identity, I would of been a good idea to have Cassandra put a spell on her but she didn't think about that when she was at her kingdom. Unfortunetly, she is now stuck in front of the village of her destination and it would be a wast of time for her to turn back now.

She rides up to the village and passes up the first three stores and goes to the first bar she sees. Arabella jumps off of Eqiudors' back and ties him to a rail outside of the bar. She adjusts her hood so that it covers the top half of her face and walks into the bar. The bar is a rather small one with wooden tables set up throughout the bar and a place in the back for people to buy alcohol. There is two large men sitting in one of the front tables on the right side of the bar. On the left side there are three people sitting at a table, two skinny guys and a large man. Arabella looks around the room unable to find her target, until she spots him. The assassin she  hired  is sitting in the far back of the bar with his back facing the front of the bar, he is wearing a black rob with his hood covering his head. Arabells' smiles devishly and thinks "There he is" She takes a deep breathe as her stomach forms a knot. Arabella walks over to his table and sits down in the chair across from him. This makes him jump a little bit. "My my this is unexpected,"

Savidor is a built man. His face is pointy, his small beard has been cut to form a sharp point. His eyes are big and his pupils are a dark brown almost black. Salvidors has black curly long hair that goes down to his shoulders. There is a small cut under his left eye from a recent fight he was in. The robe he is wearing is an made out old wool and is beat up from his previous battles.

   "Yes and somehow I was able to find you. I need your help," she says. Salvador shifts in his seat and leans closer to Arabella and asks,
   "You do know who I am?"

   "Yes I do," she replies. Severus shifts in his seat and focuses on her.

   "So what do I owe the pleasure to lady?" He asks her.

  "I want you to kill my mother," This shocks Salvidor, how could someone like Arabella wanting to have her mother killed.
  "So why don't you do it yourself, I'm sure you have the resources to get it done,"
"Yeah I do but I don't want there to be blood on my hands when it's done,"
"I see, so why don't you have your body guard do it?"
"If my body guard kills my mother than there will be evidence that points to me. If you kill her than all the evidence points to you,"
  "Why should I agree to this? What's in it for me?" She hesitated for a moment unsure of how to answer him for she had not prepared herself for this question. There isn't much in this for him after all once he kills her mother he will be on the run for the rest of his life. There would be no kingdom in the world that he could hide in.
  She thought long and hard about what reward he should get. Then the idea hit her hard - freedom. That's it! When it's all done and she is in control of this world- imagination world she would of free him from the burden he'd have to carry. Yes that's a good plan.
   "Well? What is your answer?" He says suddenly. She didn't realize that she has been starting at him the whole time.  Finally she answers him with
   "When I'm in control of this world I'll grant you freedom. You'll be freed from the burden you'll end up getting if you agree to kill my mother. You can even control your own country it you desire," he pauses for a moment and the furrows his eyebrows. Lady Arabella's body beings to tense up, sweat forms on her forehead. She needs him to take her offer.
   After a small pause he sighs and answers, "alright" he puts his hand up to her ready to shake her hand. "I accept your offer," Arabella smiles and shakes his hand proudly. Yes! He agrees now this will be much easier, it didn't take much convincing either.
   With that said she lets go of his hand and stands up "pleasure doing business with you when I'm ready for you to complete our deal I'll send my assistant to seek you out,"
   "That's fine, I'm staying at an inn down the road from here," She nods and walks away from the table towards the front door. The bar tender who was cleaning a glass glances at her with suspicion on his face. Arabella slowly walks to the door way with an evil grin plastered across her face. Everything is falling into play.