The Dark Hour

--------Ty--------

I waited until I heard Ridge was gone to change back into myself. For once I was glad William was an idiot. I sniffled and rubbed my eyes. I couldn't use my shadow magic in here, and as soon as William found out he had me and not Lalna I was as good as dead. I heard someone walking down here and I quickly changed back into Lalna. I didn't want to die, not until I was absolutely sure everyone was safe. The door opened and I looked up at Dean.

"You're coming with me you brat." He said grabbing my arm. I yelped as he dragged me out of the cell and up the stairs.

"Where are we going?" I asked softly.

"To the King." I swallowed nervously. This wasn't going to go well. "Keep up." He took me to the throne room and we stood in front of the throne.

"Look just get me the information I'm tired of playing games!" William yelled.

"Y-Yes sir!" I held my breath for a second and focused on staying as Lalna. I wasn't going to let my fear give myself away this time.

"Dean, after we get done with the call make sure he is in the high security. Then go hunt down Astrid kill her if she refuses to come with you or kill that human she is always around."

"Yes sir." I kept my mouth shut. I gave myself up willingly so Astrid and Lalna could have enough time to hide themselves, I just hoped they did that. William made a calling orb and it was making a static noise.

"What are you doing?" I asked quietly. William glared down at me.

"You were not spoken to so stay quiet." He turned back to the orb till someone with a deep voice answered.

"What do you want William?"

"I have the kid Sabbath, at your wish we can move out the army."

"Do you have Astrid yet?"

"No, I'm sending Dean after her right now she will be taken care of."

"I see you've done well William."

"Anything for the God."

"I must be going soon I will be joining you." William nodded and bowed his head and crushed the calling orb.

"Take care of the kid then take care of Astrid." Dean nodded. He yanked me out of the room and I struggled to focus. Who the fuck was that?

"Take the kid, you know what to do with him. We can't have the Princess showing up trying to save him." Dean said pushing me.

"Wh-What are you going to do to me?" I stuttered.

"Not going to kill you just torture you for information about whatever you know about Astrid."

"I-I don't know that much about her. Nothing useful anyways," I said quickly.

"You never know." Dean said walking away and disappearing. Another guy grabbed my arm and dragged me into a large room. I tried to pull away from him but he was a lot stronger than me. He pulled out a knife and held it to my throat.

"Stop moving you brat or I don't care what William says." He continued pulling me along until we made it over to the far wall. He quickly put a metal cuff on my wrist then shoved me to the ground.

"Now are you going to start answering our questions. I've known her for half a year now I'm sure you have some information that we need."

"And if I don't answer?" I asked nervously.

"Well I'll let Luke answer that."

"We hurt you simple." I shivered.

'Hold it together Ty. Just stay calm,' I thought to myself.

"First who all does she have on her side of this war?"

"I-I don't know exactly. I haven't really talked to her about the war. She doesn't want me getting into it."

"Why?"

"My mom asked her to keep me out of it." I was basing everything off of conversations I've eavesdropped on. Right now it was the only thing I had.

"Who are her friends?"

"Um me, Ridge, Vincent, Ryan, and Axel," I said quickly. Luke nodded and made a calling orb and walked out of the room.

"Which one is she the closest to?"

"Um she spends a lot of time with Vincent and Ryan." I shifted nervously. "Um wh-what is he doing?"

"None of your business who else is she closest to I know that there is more than one."

"I'm not really sure, I have school so I go to bed early and by that time Astrid is still outside with Vincent and Ryan." He sighed and walked out of the room. I sighed and closed my eyes. I was ok, just as long as I kept up this act. I opened my eyes as soon as the door opened.

"Well seems like you lied to us Lalna, our spies says that someone is close to her. We will give you one more chance to change your answer."

"I-I don't know, I just know that she is with Ryan and Vincent most of the time that I see her. I am just usually hanging out with Ridge." They sighed and turned around and started to mumble. I held my breath as my heart started pounding.

'Just hold it together Ty, just hold it together.'

"We can just say that we got the info, I really don't want to hurt the kid."

"Yeah you're right I don't want to either just put a few cuts and like stab him in the arm to make it look like we did something." Luke nodded and grabbed a knife.

"No hard feelings." I quickly scooted back until my back hit the wall.

"Pl-Please don't," I stuttered. I was trying to keep it together but I was starting to loose my grip.

"Stop moving!" He yelled and slapped me across the face. I held my face then I heard someone gasp. I looked up a bit to see my auburn bangs hanging in my eyes.

"Go get the king!" Luke yelled. "Where the hell is Lalna!" He shouted grabbing the collar of my shirt.

"I-I don't know," I said panicked. "He's probably with Astrid."

"Where's Astrid!?"

"I don't know."

"How do you not know!? You little brat!" He yelled and threw me on the ground. "William will have your head." He said walking out of the room. I pressed myself as far into the wall as I could and swallowed nervously. I really hoped they got as far away as possible.