Fairytale Saviors

Chapter 2.

As I armed myself with the usual weapons when dealing with Aurora's juvenile daughter:knife, sword, medieval clothes to blend in with the fairytale crowd, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. My black hair hung over my forehead and reached to my blue eyes. My skin was slightly tan due to training out back with my brothers. We all looked almost the same, the only difference was that all my brothers were an in taller than me making them all 6'1".

After climbing down the ladder back into the living room, I was met by Monty. Monty's hair was lighter than mine and shorter, he had blue eyes like all the rest of us. Monty is twenty one, two years younger than Jeb and also a little slimmer. Jeb is twenty three, Monty is twenty one, Boyd is nineteen, Des is eighteen, and I'm sixteen. The runt of the litter. Jeb has the darkest hair of us all, it's jet black that reaches his chin and his eyes are piercing blue. He would look even more intimidating if it weren't for the few freckles he had on his face. Jeb is the biggest of us all, he's muscly and very strong. Boyd has short black hair that he puts a lot of gel in to make it spike up at the front. His eyes are a paler blue than the rest of us. Boyd is the jokester of the family. He probably doesn't even know what the word serious means. Des and Boyd are the same slim build. People often mistake them from twins since they are only one year apart you can't blame them. Des has wavy black hair and runs his hands through it constantly so it never looks the exact same as it did five minutes ago.

"Tex, come on, hurry up."Monty barked as he walked down the hall.

Monty acts like he's the oldest, always bossing the rest of us around. Jeb doesn't mind though, he says as long as we don't do something crazy just because Monty said so Jeb said it's alright. Jeb is the serious one. He jokes around and stuff but he can really get down to business when he wants to. He also has unlimited patience, even when me and Boyd broke a hole through the porch when we made a zip line and went down it together.

"Tex, we're leaving!"Des shouted from the Portal.

"I'm coming, I'm coming! Geez."I hollered back at Des.

Me and Monty walked down the hall. We stopped at the door and I took a breath, traveling after dinner always made me a little nauseous. Inside was the usual, Des, Jeb, and Boyd were surrounding the podium that held the book open to King Stefan's chapter. Monty and I joined them in the circle. There was nothing else in the dark, windowless room, except for the books and us five. When I closed the door behind me the usual glow brightened around the book.

"Entry,"we all said in unison.

The pages on the book swirled, wiping away the beautiful writing and artwork, it swirled on the page making a bigger and bigger whirlpool of what used to be a book. The hole kept spinning sucking more things into it until it was big enough for a person to fit through. Monty jumped first. Then Des and Boyd close behind. Jeb looked at me, "Your turn baby bro,"

I nodded and jumped into the hole. I was falling for about two seconds before it felt like I was going forward. Then, the familiar feeling of being strapped to a race car going ninety miles an hour washed over me. Then, I stumbled out onto solid ground. Looking around so see where we were, I saw the castle. King Stefan was walking around in the back garden playing with his robe nervously. Jeb came up behind me and the portal closed. We turned to Jeb who started towards the king.

King Stefan didn't notice us until we were only a couple feet from him. He was a tall, thin, older man, with shoulder length black hair streaked with grey, and a mustache and beard also streaked with grey. His eyes lit up when we approached him.

"Thank you for coming, now my granddaughter-"King Stefan started to say.

"Yeah, we know where to look, any new information that would be relevant to this situation?"Boyd interrupted.