Once Upon a Time: Ever After High (Book 10)

Ch.61 The enemy

Now face to face with their old enemy, the musketeers and everyone else stood there frozen in fear as Becky, or Marie aimed her gun at them.

"You guys know her?" Chase questioned the musketeers surprised.

"Marie de Winter" Antony frowned "Our old enemy from France."

"De Winter?" Courtly's eyes widen "As in Milday de Winter?"

"She was the best spy in France" Maire smirked.

"But how the bloody hell did you survive that explosion?" Arial demanded.

"Well I thought I was gone for good as I drifted away from shore, but thanks to Ms. Hook, here I am now."

"Oh Jane" Porter sighed with frustration.

"And since I'm here-" Marie smirked when she turned her gun to Chase and held her one hand out "I'll take that diamond."

Still frozen with fear, Chase held onto the Never Diamond tightly, not knowing what he should do.

"Are you deaf Redford?" Marie scowled "Give me the diamond!"

At that point, knowing what needed to be done, Courtly pulled out a razor card that she always carried and flung it at Marie as the blades edge sliced through her cheek. When she was distracted by her cut, Courtly kicked the gun out of Marie's hand and kicked her back as she tumbled down.

"Run!" Courtly yelled as everyone ran from Marie.

But as they ran, they suddenly heard gun shots coming behind them when Arial suddenly stopped.

"We're never going to outrun her" she declared.

"Why are you stopping?" Chase demanded.

"We'll hold her back" she pointed to the musketeers "You guys get to Piper."

Another gun shot was heard from behind.

"Go!" Blade ordered them.

Hoping they would hold her off long enough, everyone else took off as the musketeers pulled out their swords just as Marie appeared, now more angry and a bloody slash on her cheek. When she saw the swords they were holding, she gave a mocking laugh.

"You shouldn't being a sword to a gun fight" she smirked.

But at that point Arial used her sword to knock the gun out of Marie's hand and kicked it away as she aimed her sword at her.

"You were saying" she smirked back.

But instead of showing her frustration, Marie gave a chuckle as she pulled out her sword.

"I've been waiting for this a moment for a long time" she said with a sneaky grin.

"You do realize you're all alone right?" Blade put in.

"I know-" she smirked "And that's perfect."

And with that she swung her sword at Blade who quickly blocked her strike with his sword. But when the others tried to go against her, she was too fast and slick that she missed all of their strikes.

"Now you know why I work better alone" she grinned.

Realizing that fighting against Marie was going to be harder than they thought, the musketeers needed to come up with a quick plan to put a stop to their enemy once and for all.

(Flashback) The day after the explosion, the musketeers searched all around their city for the Crown Jewel, but no luck.

"We've searched everywhere" Arial groaned when they met up in front of Blade's shop "Whoever Marie gave the ring to is probably gone by now."

"Maybe not" Antony put in "Let's think about this, Marie gave the ring to someone yesterday after the robbery. Perhaps it's someone who's visiting Paris, and maybe that's why we haven't found it here, we've been searching the people who already live here."

"So that would mean-" Blade started to say, only to stop when he saw Connie coming their way "Uh, hi Connie."

"Hi guys" Connie smiled.

Arial gave a fake smile as she waved at her, and by the time she walked by she gave a look of disgust.

"Um, guys" Blade suddenly spoke while keeping his eyes on Connie "I'll be back."

And with that he followed Connie before they could say anything.

"Great-" Arial grunted "Always getting distracted by Connie."

They looked ahead and could see Blade talking to Connie when the guys turned to Arial.

"I recommend you tell him today" Antony advised her.

"What?" she gasped.

"I mean look at him" he pointed "We know he's into Connie, but he has to know how you feel."

She sighed as she turned back to Blade who had finished speaking to Connie as he headed in the opposite direction.

"Whoa where's he going now?" she wondered as they began to follow him.

After talking to Connie, Blade made his way down the streets while gazing around as he mumbled to himself.

"Gotta find the perfect gift" he mumbled while glancing around "Gotta find the perfect-".

But before he could finish, he suddenly spotted a pirate holding up the Crown Jewel. But not knowing what it was really was, all he could think about was how beautiful it was.

"Gift" he breathed astonished as he watched the pirate go aboard the ship.

Wanting to get the ring, Blade made his way to the ship where after making sure no one was looking, he sneaked onto the ship by hiding behind barrels every once in a while until he made it onto the deck while still hiding behind a barrel. He then peeked from behind and spotted the pirate who was still admiring the ring, but he was so distracted by the ring's beauty that he didn't notice his friends sneaking up next to him.

"What the hell are you doing?" Antony demanded in a whisper that made Blade jump.

"Don't sneak up on me like that" he hissed.

"Do you have any idea who's ship you're on?" Antony hissed back "We need to get out of here."

"But there's something I have to get real quick."

"There's no time for that, we have to-".

But right before he could finish, the barrels were suddenly moved from them as they looked to see the pirates facing down at them as their hearts dropped in fear.

"Well what do we have here?" the captain grinned at them "Stowaways?"

"Um-" Blade started to say "Sorry, wrong ship, we'll be leaving."

But as they got up to leave, the pirates blocked their way as their hearts began to pound faster.

"Just what exactly are ye all here for?" the captain demanded in a growl.

"Um..." they all mumbled while trying to think of an excuse.

"Not talking eh?" he growled "Very well."

He turned to his crew "Show them down there, let's see how these stowaways like it in the dark."