The Dream Journal

Chapter 2

"You dare talk back to the princess?", a guard growls as he approaches Jade, only to be stopped by Perrie's outstretched arm. Jade sighed in relief, knowing that Perrie was going to get her out of this and clear everything up.

Perrie brought her arm back to her side when she successfully stopped the guard, and she cleared her throat before she spoke. Her hostile and ordering voice came as a shock to Jade.

"Take her to the dungeon, where she will not be able to escape. And make sure she doesn't bother me.", she demands with a stern voice, and Jade's eyes widen in panick when she feels guards swoop in to lead her off somewhere.

"Wha-NO! NO! Perrie! PERRIE WHAT THE HELL!?", she shouts as she tries to break away from the mass of guards, Perrie already turning to walk away with knight Jade following close behind her. "This is all a big mistake, just let me talk to her-OW!", she yells, yelping in pain when one of the guards twisted her arms roughly. "PERRIE!", she yells one last time before one of the guards puts a cloth over her mouth to make it impossible for anyone to hear her.

She obediently ends up following the guards, the same two pushing her roughly from behind. She takes one last glance towards Perrie, shaking her head when she sees two crystal blue orbs staring back at her with guilt and worry mixed within them.

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"GET IN THERE!"

Jade is roughly pushed into a cell, falling onto her back with her bound arms beneath her, her cry of pain blocked by the cloth that was still wrapped around her face.

The guards close the cell door, locking it just as Jade runs up to the bars angrily, yelling at them as best she can through the cloth. One guard steps forward and rips if off her face, finally allowing her to speak.

"LET ME OUT!", she shouts, kicking the bars of the cell door as hard as she can. "You need to let me talk to the princess-"

"The princess won't be talking to you. She gave strict orders not to let you bother her." Jade rolled her eyes at the voice as the sea of guards parted for knight Jade to step forward.

"Great, you again.", she muttered sarcastically.

"Watch your tone!"

"Make me!", Jade challenged, smirking when she sees the other Jade's eyes widen. "Yeah, that's right. I'm not gonna get intimidated by myself." Knight Jade takes a deep breath, then lunges forward to grab the collar of Jade's shirt once again, pulling her up against the bars so that Jade's chest rams into them forcefully, causing her to whimper out in pain.

"You sure about that?" When Jade only whimpers again in response, knight Jade throws her back against the floor of the dungeon. "Let's go.", she then orders, starting to lead the other guards away from Jade's cell.

"WAIT! What about the handcuffs!?", Jade shouts after them, desperately wanting her arms to be free.

"When you learn to respect me, you'll get them off.", the other version of herself answers, and Jade plops onto the ground in defeat, wanting to cry at how unfair this was. She stretched out her leg so she could kick the bars one last time.

"Well this is shitty.", she says to herself, twitching her arms behind her back and thinking about how long she's going to be stuck in here.

"I'll say.", a voice behind her says, and she jumps in fright, not knowing she had a cellmate. "You need help with these?", the person says as they mess with the handcuffs for a while, then Jade feels them release and fall to the ground. She immediately brings her arms to her front, stretching them and massaging her wrists.

"Thanks.", she mutters.

"No problem." Jade realizes that the voice is familiar and female. "I stole the keys off some guard when he walked past one night, thinking it was the key to the cell. Sadly, it wasn't, though I'm glad I kept them."