The Rise of the Wolf Child

Chapter 1

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Powell Castle , Lumea, Terra Kingdom

"Princess Rose!"

A distressed voice managed to sneak in Rose's mind, waking her up from her deep sleep. A hand grabbed the still groggy princess by her arms and shook her in the uttermost panic.

"Rose, please! You have to get up!" Rose opened her sleepy eyes and saw the panicked expression on the face of her best friend. Immediately, she sat up.

"Amy? What's wrong?" Rose asked, worry dripping of her face.

But before Amy could answer the door to Rose's chamber busted open. Both women looked at the door, Amy in panic and Rose in confusion. A scruffy looking man stood in the doorway. He was panting heavily, sweat dripping of his face. Rose didn't recognise the man at all and stared at him, noticing his leather armour and the scars that run down on his face and arms.

But the most important thing she noticed was the bloody sword he had in his hands.

As on instinct, Rose jumped out of her warm bed. When her feet touched the cold floor, she barley even noticed it. In one swift move, she grabbed hold of her sword next to her and shoved Amy behind her, trying to get her friend out of harm's way.

"What do you want? Where are all our guards?" Rose angrily gritted her teeth.

She felt a hand on her shoulder, and turned her head slightly to Amy's direction, but keeping her eyes and attention on the man before them.

"Rose, the castle is under attack!" Amy cried out.

Rose heard the tears in her voice and shifted a bit closer to Amy, trying to give her some sort of comfort.

"That's right, chicken. And there's nothing you're going to do about it!" The man said.

He had an evil looking grin on his face and Rose knew immediately they were in serious trouble. Down the hall she heard sword clatter and screaming and she knew she had to act fast in order to come out here alive. She never had killed a man, but she knew she had to do this otherwise they both would end up dead. The guards weren't going to help them, so she had to protect herself and her friend.

She steadied herself, swallowed a lump of fear down her throat and took a good hold of her sword. The man was at least double her size, but that could work in her advance. Since she was smaller, she would move faster and could dodge his slower attacks. He also probably thought she wasn't able to defend herself and those things she could use.

The man was tired of waiting and charged into the room, sword held high. Rose shoved Amy onto her bed, screaming to get behind it. Because the man held his sword up high, there was an opening in his defence. Rose saw the sword coming down, but was fast enough to dodge it. She raised her own sword and stabbed the man in his stomach. The man's eyes became as large as thea cups and blood was starting to gush out of his mouth. Rose drew out her sword as the man fell down beside her. She looked down at him with fear, adrenaline pumping through her body as she heard him choke in his own blood. Rose stumbled and felt sick. She never, ever had killed someone before and it felt horrible. She saw the light in the man's eyes fading but before she could do anything, she felt Amy's arms pulling her into a hug.

"You did what you had to do, Princess. You saved us both."

For a small moment, they both stood still. But hearing all the noises and realizing the situation outside the room, Amy's eyes turned big. She released Rose from the hug, took her hand and started pulling her frantically to the tapestry on the wall.

"Princess, the castle is under attack! I have no idea where your father and mother are, but we have to get out of here! They'll kill everybody! I barely managed to escape through the secret passages."

Amy started pulling away the tapestry, which revealed a small passage way into the secret corridors of the castle. Rose knew they had to leave immediately, but she pulled her hand out of Amy's grasp.

"Hold on, I'm not going anywhere without my belongings."

She quickly started collecting some things in a pouch. She put her still in blood covered sword back in it's sheet, and grabbed her tunic from where she had left it the night before. She ran over to her wooden desk and grabbed a gold necklace and put everything in her pouch carefully. While Rose shifted as quickly as possible through her room, Amy's eyes kept switching between Rose and the door. There could be new men entering the room any moment now.

"Princess..." Amy hissed anxiously.

"Yes, yes, I'm done. Let's go!"

Rose ran across the room, scooped up her boots along the way and followed Amy in to the secret passage.

"Here, hold this." Rose said while they were carefully maneuvering through the dark passages between the walls of the castle. Too bad they didn't had a candle to light the way, but Rose and Amy had played here so many times, they could easily find there way in this maze of tunnels. Amy looked over to Rose, who was holding the pouch and took it. Rose put on her boots quickly and felt the warmth taken over her now ice cold feet.

"That's much better." Rose signed, taking back the pouch and threw it over her shoulder.

"Let's hurry and find my mother and father. I really hope they are okay."

Together they ran across the castle to her parents room as fast as they could, but when they arrived, there was no one to be found. The room was turned upside down and looked ravaged. Luckily she saw no blood anywhere and a pang of relief shot through her.

"They must have been taken somewhere else." Rose said.

But before they could move, they heard an agonizing scream, coming from downstairs. A terrifying feeling filled her stomach. That was her mother's voice.

Without a second thought Rose ran through the corridors trying to pinpoint her mother's location, Amy in her pursuit. When they came down, luckily  and somehow alarming, without encountering any soldiers, and ran towards the throne room, she could hear her mother crying. It wasn't a soft sob, it was a heartbreaking cry. Rose stopped right in front of the entrance of the room and she froze on spot.

Before her, on the other side of the room, a large group of men stood around her mother, who was crying and holding a body close that lay on the ground. She could see blood pooling on the ground.

Rose's heart turned stone cold. Her mother's hands and clothes were covered in blood too. Next to her mother stood a man, with a vile grin on his face. He was laughing at the scene at his feet. He held a bloody sword in his hands and Rose knew he was the one that had killed the man on the ground. She heard Amy gasp for air and Rose changed position to see past the men blocking her view. Instantly, Rose's heart was ripped out of her chest.

The man laying dead on the ground was her father.

Editors' notes:
 * Terra: Other word for earth
* Lumea: Planet the Tenth Doctor visited once