Fantasy Legend

The Widow's Fortress

Narrator's P.O.V

  In the meaning time of the kids finding their way through Rocky's mischievous temple, the widow returns to her fortress for her daily rest. It seems putting shadow guardian into action was tiresome for her. Even when having to carry him for such long distance and back. If only there were some kind of way to truly understand how far we have to go for them to reach her fort... But why don't we just see what the witch is doing.

  After dropping off the guardian, she proceeds to checking on the fortress, most likely keeping watch of her captured victims. Their endless slumber in the mirror is most enjoyable to watch. As many of them as there are, her eyes were in the wondering of Amber's only sibling, Jaguar. The widow, Alexandria, feels she needs a king to help rule the world with her. So that when the time comes for her one hundred year slumber, she won't rest alone. She has always dreamed of having someone she could call her one true love. But why Jaguar? What is it about Jaguar that she wants? Maybe it could be that he isn't dating, or married. No one really knows...

Alexandria proceeds to the main ward of her fortress to check on her hostages. All six of the mirrors remained untouched and still with the restful bodies. 

"Time to get to know him better." said she.

She stands in front of the mirror and removes him from it.

Jaguar's P.O.V

"W-what happened? Where am I? What is this place and who is she? I can only remember me stepping outside to take a call, saw Amber and some group of teenagers talking to her. But really, that's all I can remember? I glance around not only to see that we were in a really weird place, but seeing my parents and other sleeping in mirrors. This woman standing in front of me has a gentle smile on her face. 

"Who are you and where are we?" I ask her.

She giggles at me a bit and tells me "I'm Alexandria the widow, and you're inside my fortress."

"Why are you holding us prisoners?"

She stares at the ceiling seeming to think of an answer and sits down right next me.

"You see, those kids and I have a purpose for doing this. Four out of the five boys with your sister and the rest are the owners of these certain swords. The ruby sword with fire and flames belong to the one of "Power", the sapphire sword belongs to the one of "Wisdom", the emerald sword goes to the one of "Courage", and lastly the alexandrite sword goes to the one of "Reliability" she stated. 

 "So what's your purpose?"

"Those swords are meant to destroy me eternally, meaning I may never be resurrected again. So there for they shall never get to those swords, not if I can stop them."

  Meanwhile as she was distracted in her thoughts, I slowly search the room for any exits. There seems to be a window with loose nails on it, and rope placed on a nail on the far right end from the window.

   "And everyone sleeping in the mirrors here?"

"The women here I actually grabbed by mistake. I planned on taking the the men so I can have a handsome king rule the world with me." she says gently "And you might just be what I'm looking for."

  She points to my shoulder and slowly caresses her finger down my shoulder blade. Uncomfortable, I kindly took her hand away from my shoulder.

"Hehe I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself. Oh wait I almost forgot! You must be really hungry, I should probably go cook you something, and maybe everyone should join you."

She walks over to a switch on one of the mirror frames and flips the switch. Almost releasing the others, she flips the switch a second time.

"Nah, they don't really matter... I'll be right back love!" Alexandria says moving to the kitchen.

  Finally, now I can see what I can do... 

  This rope is pretty long, hope it can reach the ground. Now let's see about this window. There are two nails that keep the window from flipping up, and I can't seem to be able to pull them out, dang it! As I am trying to pull the nails out of the window, a faint sound of footsteps came towards the room. I sat back down to where I was. 

"Here, I made tea earlier. The food should be done soon, so just sit tight until I get back."

  She hands me the cup of tea and gets to the kitchen. Maybe I could create something that can help pull the nails. And to my luck I can see a hammer hanging beside the door, but that of the kitchen door frame. Hhm, how can I can I distract her? There are so many rooms on this floor. Maybe I can sneak past to find something in a few of these rooms...

  Just when she was about to come back, a slight sound of howling appeared. I quickly walk back to where I was seated and drank the tea.

"Oh for the love of darkness, WHY aren't you asleep!" she complained. Alexandria came rushing into the ward to remove a self portrait painting from the wall, and exposed a lever behind it.

"I'm only going to give you a little." she states.

  Once she pulls the lever, glowing green liquid ran through some pipes along the ceiling and through a tiny window above the fourth door on the left. Now it seems as though she turned it off, and is now going to check on whatever that was.

  "Stupid mutt, you really don't seem to realize that you can't have so much of this stuff or you could go insane!" she says storming off into that room.

My goodness she's a nightmare...

  I check to see if the coast was clear and runs to grab the hammer. I go to the window and remove a nail before she would come back, and left the other one to tie the rope on it. 

"Oh darling..." she says walking down the hallway. 

I place the hammer behind me to where I was sitting and pretended to drink the rest of my tea.

"Have you finished your tea?"

"Oh yes, thank you."

  She gives me a warm smile and proceeds to the kitchen again. I may have a plan, but I hope it works. I step over to the portrait and pull the lever. I need to give this thing as much as I can before she shows up. I wait til' about five minutes to pull the lever up, and goes to tie the rope on the nail. But to be absolutely certain that the rope will stay on properly, I try to quietly hammer in both nails to hold the rope better.

 Whatever howled earlier began growling unpleasantly. It seems so angry, it tries to tear the door down! Frustrated, Alexandria rushed in to stop the creature. Now I might not have much time, but I'm going to try. I flip the switch on the mirrors to release everyone. They all seem to want to ask what was going on. 

"Look, I know you have questions but it needs to wait. I need you guys to hurry down the rope!"

  Without hesitation, they went sliding down the rope one by one. I could hear the monster slowly calming down. I panic a bit, and decided to push a dresser onto the entrance to help. Mom then finally dad slid down the rope and I go down afterwards and regroup with the others. 

"Hurry through the woods over here! I say pointing to the field behind us.

Narrator's P.O.V

Alexandria finally puts the beast to sleep and heads toward the ward one last time only to find a dresser blocking the entrance. 

"Stupid mutt! Must've knocked this over!"

She kicks the dresser and sent it flying to a wall across the room. What she found was utterly shocking to her. Not only was the man she fell for gone, but he rescued the others and descended out the window. The situation made her feel very unsatisfied.

"Fine, I hope you know that two can play at this game." she says angrily.

  The monster she calmed down came running into the ward and sat down next to her.

"I have a mission for you..." she say while giving the creature the objective. 

  With everyone trying to get as far away from the fortress, and with the beast now on a hunting mission, I wonder how things will turn out in the future...