The Skeleton Princess

Chapter 9 - Farewells

As Luna is sleeping there is a huge earthquake which causes her to fall out of the bed, Luna who is wide awake now decides to go outside through the old wooden doors of the old barracks.

She sees Maxilla and Lucy looking at a giant black door in the distance with eyes wide open, Luna decides to look as well and notices that the silent black doors from last night are now open.

Luna runs to the two and asks in a scared tone "How long has that been open!?"

Max still fixated on the door says "Not long, the earthquake that happened a few minutes ago was from the door opening."

Luna nods and looks towards the black doors, the doors are completely black with a skull imprint on them.

A white light glows out of the doors and hand like silhouettes reach out from the black door, a thought comes to Luna "If humans can come from the Overworld, then can't the opposite be done?"

Luna realises that she has to go there.

Max and Lucy look at Luna as if they already knew her plan, Luna smiles and says in a confident tone "I have to find out the truth."

Lucy gives Luna a sad look and says "Okay."

Maxilla looks at Lucy in shock but he gives up and lets out a sigh.

Luna takes that as a blessing and hugs the two friends of hers then she jumps over the old stone walls, landing eighteen metres and running toward the black gates with an angelic glow.

When Luna reaches the gate she sees that they are bigger than her palaces ones, with a gaze of awe she looks up at the hands that are reaching out to her.

Luna grabs a hand and it pulls her in, no time passes and suddenly the confused princess is thrown out of a glass mirror with full force.

Luna looks around her, it's a dark dusty room with white covers over multiple types of furniture.

It looked like an old antique shop that she visited with her dad when she was young, but the light beaming in from a small window shows that she is no longer in the Underworld.

Luna gets up and runs towards a wooden door which looked like the exit when she enters her face is hit with a powerful force of sunlight.

The sky wasn't purple like she was used but a light blue and around orange light hung in the sky like the moons, Luna opens her eyes which adjust to the bright foreign light quickly.

Luna's heterochromia eyes brighten up and look more alive, the occasional human who walks past her give her a look of curiosity.

The streets have red brick roads which have the occasional carriage rush past the dazed princess, the buildings are mostly made of wood but houses that are bigger seem to have more grey stone to them.

Luna's first plan is to find a place to sleep, so she decides to find a tavern.

The lost princess walks down an alleyway when suddenly five men approach her with a sleazy walk, one of the men who seemed like the leader says in a tone which matches his thug-like appearance "Hey, you lost little lady?"

The man looks down at her with a tall stature, Luna looks at him in the eyes and says in a tone of purity "Yes, I'm looking for a tavern."

The man smiles and his followers copy him by doing the same thing, the man reaches out his hand which was about to grab Luna's shoulder when suddenly there is a "Crack" sound which echoes throughout the alleyway.

The next sound that follows is the leader's cries of pain, the man's arm is completely bent backwards and blood is pouring out.

The leader's followers look at the princess with a scared look but the silence is broken by the leader's command saying "Get that bitch!"

The four men run towards the standing still princess, the battle cries of the men are instantly silenced.

The only sound is the sound of the leader in pain while all the other men are silent, Luna is standing over him with her scythe in her hand and her red eye glowing in the dark alleyway.

The leader looks up and says with fear in his eyes and voice "Your an Underworld creature aren't ya? Please leave me alone! The tavern is two streets down!"

Luna's scythe and glow disappear, the princess says with a cheerful tone "Thank you!"

She then skips along to the direction the man pointed, meanwhile the man whimpers and cries as his friend's bodies are scattered across the wooden and stone alley walls.

Luna finally reaches a building which has a tavern vibe to its smoke, gossip, bartender, and beds.

Luna walks in and everyone looks towards her, it would make sense because everyone in there is either a big bulky guy or a muscular woman.

Luna though was a five foot one girl in a black skull dress with a skip in her step, but everyone wasn't looking at her figure or the way she walked they are actually looking at the blood spray across her black dress and innocent smile that comes with it.

She sits down and asks one simple question with a serious tone "Who is the leader of this city?"

One of the humans doesn't hesitate and answer instantly "That would be the pope."

Luna looks at him and gives him a smile, she walks to the bartender and drops a bag of gold while saying "One room please."

The bartender just nods and points to a room up the stairs behind him, Luna walks up the stairs while the whole tavern stays quiet.

As soon as she leaves the silence is broken and everyone returns to their normal conversations, it reminded her of the skeletal knights for some reason.

Luna enters her room and looks down to notice the amount of blood on her, she uses a bit of void magic to clean it up and lays on the comfortable wooden bed thinking about how she is going to visit this "Pope."