Zakara: Fire Within (An Allanon Fanfic)

Chapter Six - Captured

Alyster got his horse in front of mine. "Stay back," he told me. "I'll protect you!"

Levi pulled out a small knife he had hidden in his boot. Allanon was on foot, but he sure was fast. He was right in front of us in seconds. His sword was drawn, and he was about to swing it at Alyster and Levi, but I jumped off of Allanon's horse and got in front of him.

"No, stop!" I screeched.

Allanon stopped, but kept his sword ready.

"You know this lunatic?" Alyster glared down at me.

"He's not a lunatic," I glared back. "If there are any lunatics here it's you."

"It is not wise to insult the future king of Arborlon," Alyster warned.

"You? The king of Arborlon?" Allanon said mockingly. "You're nothing but a boy. You don't even know how to fight."

Alyster got off his horse. "Try me old man, hand to hand combat!"

Allanon pushed me out of the way, sheathing his sword, making me land on my back as I heard their fists hit each other. Knowing Allanon, I knew Alyster would either die, get knocked out, or give up. I had to stop this. I jumped onto my feet, and found them still punching, kicking and dodging each other. Levi looked as though he wanted to help fight Allanon, but something was holding him back.

I carefully made my way to Levi. "You need to do something!" I shouted at him.

"What can I do?" Levi glared. "Look at that guy, he's HUGE! I don't think he'll get hurt."

"No!" I yelled. "I'm not worried about Allanon! I'm worried about Alyster! He might get killed!"

With that, Levi jumped off of his horse, but then stopped. "What do we do?"

I looked at the two guys fighting. Alsyter was losing fast, and I was surprised that he was even lasting this long. I knew Allanon most likely didn't want to kill him, and he was probably just doing this for fun... hopefully... maybe... not...

All of the sudden, I knew what to do. I lifted my hand into the air, and with all my strength, I shot a huge fire blast right between Alyster and Allanon when they were far enough away from each other. That definitely stopped them. Levi took a step back. "She's cursed!" Alyster shouted and started to run.

"We can't let them tell anyone about you," Allanon glared at me, and ran after him, catching him in a matter of seconds.

Levi tried to climb onto his horse, but I grabbed his shirt and pulled him to the ground, pointing my hand at his chest. "Don't even try it."

He nodded slightly, and held very still.

Allanon came back with Alyster, grabbed rope from his horse's saddlebag and tied his hands in front of him, then, using the other end of that rope, tied it to his horse's saddle horn. Once Alyster couldn't get away, Allanon came to get Levi.

Once that was done, Allanon took his black horse, and made me ride the white horse, leading the brown one next to me.

"This is going very badly," I heard Allanon say under his breath.

Sorry this took so long. I had writer's block for a long time. I'll try to update soon, but it could be a while again.

-Becketha Rowndy