The Runaway (A Herobrine Story)

A Good Princess

Herobrine's POV

I visited the next day, hidden in the shadows of the throne room where no one could see.

"Maxine that was extremely reckless and dangerous!" The king shouted but she didn't even flinch, her face showed hardly any emotion.

Maxine's POV

"Yes, sir. I know." I answered without even a stutter or much emotion.

They had betrayed me.

"You could have been killed or worse out there!"

"I know, sir."

"Yet you still ran away from your duties just to go play in some dirt and trees?!"

"Yes, I'm sorry sir."

My father sighed, my brother glared. I bowed me head, not daring to meet the angered look of the people I know as strangers and my family.

"You are dismissed, your a disgrace to this family and of a princess. Get out of my sight." He said.

"Yes....sir." I said and briskly walked back to my room, the click of my heels giving away my every step.

I know he is here.

I opened and closed my door quietly, my big dress swaying as I did so. I sighed and sat down, staring out my window at the people gossiping below.

"I know you saw." I said quietly.

"Wow. Your an actual princess." He laughed. Herobrine did this, I know it. He convinced them. "Honesty, people would kill to live as princess but you-"

"Not to my father."

"What?"

I sighed and straightened my posture, as my father instructed me to act royally at all times.

"I never fit in here. I was never a fitting princess. When I was little I wanted to be a knight or an adventurer and my mother encouraged me to be them. When she left, my dad took over my life completely. My brother hated that I didn't want to live up to my future, my dad wanted a picture perfect princess."

The memories flowed through my head like a bad dream.

"They put me through endless classes night and day, showed me images, told me stories, punished me for wanting to adventure and explore, even going so far as my brother putting me through physical abuse as my father just stood there and lectured me."

"I remembered days where if I acted like myself they would lock me in my room with no food, if I attempted to run my brother would beat me, if I even asked to go out I could only go to the castle gardens but I quickly got bored of it and went back inside."

"No one saved me, no one helped me. I had no friends, other rich or royal families hated me. I finally couldn't take the abuse and ran, actually accomplishing escape."

Herobrine's POV

I listened quietly as she told me her story and the smirk that was originally on my face slowly fell. How could she endure years of abuse and hate?

I know people hate me but I have Creeps, Ender, and Bones who have been here for literal years. None of us can die. She had no one. No friends and hardly a family, one that clearly didn't care about her.

"I met friends, even got a crush. For once in 20 years I had smiled and laughed and played and had fun. Life became bareable and my old life was never known."

I saw streams of tears fall down her face yet her voice didn't even crack. She had a small smile as she said these things. All the victory I had felt previously was disappearing, being overcome by a deep sense of regret.

"I had realized all that I missed and all that I wanted. The dream I wanted was coming true and I felt as if nothing could stop me but that was a childish thought."

She turned to me with a small smile.

"I'm sorry I was such a bother. You don't have to come anymore. Please, just leave." She said and turned back to the window. "You remind me too much of what could have been."

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I sat at my throne, watching pigmen cross the castle floors back and forth, talking, communicating, delivering.

Did I really deliver her to her hell?

It's a question I've been contemplating over since I saw her three months ago.

"What's got you in such deep thought?" Creeps asked. I hadn't even seen the three come in.

"Nothing. It's not important. The evidence burned down?" I asked and creeps frowned but nodded.

We had to burn the house down to keep the Wither or Nether dragon from knowing.

"I'm going to a ball at the Diamond city castle tonight." I stated.

They don't know I visited her, they don't need to know her story and I don't want to have to tell it.