The Missing Piece

Chapter 11

Trapped back into his cage, the heartbroken prince couldn't stop the tears from rolling down his face. That last memory of his tea knight damaged his soul, his heart, his everything. Feeling more alone than ever before, the prince stared down at the floor where he was kneeling on, blurred by his wet eyes. Once the touch of her nails dug into his shoulder, the prince gasped quietly but stayed down.

"My sweet dear prince, surely you're still not upset about what happened? You knew the consequences, yet you chose the wrong choice, which makes everything so much more difficult." the witch explained to Jake, who was trying to block her out.

"I hope you understand now why that you have to stay here with me. Because you're dangerous, no one will understand." she continued sternly.

'He understood. Not at first, but he still stayed with me.' Jake thought as he remembered the encounter with Nick when he first saw what happened.

Thinking about his lover hurt him even more as he closed his eyes to let more tears out. For once in his life, as long as he could remember, he actually felt something more when he was on the adventure with his new friends. He was actually free, to experience what was out there, even if it was terrifying at first. But his knight was always close to him, always there to protect him.

Now he was gone, with everyone else in a flash. He didn't know if Mason was still around, but he didn't want to think too much into it since it brought him so much sorrow.

As Sofie continued to sustain her prize possession, she looked up from the depressed prince and towards her crystal ball where she had eyes on her other prisoner. The other knight was effortlessly trying to get out of his cell.

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Already trying once more, Mason ran towards the metal bars of his prison to hopefully break them but to no avail, not even a dent as he got knocked out by hitting his head and landing hard on the ground. Feeling a major headache already, he glanced up seeing everything completely blurry. He shook his head a couple of times to try to clear it but even that didn't work. Frustrated, the knight pouted as he sat up, arms crossed over his chest.

'Damn, this blows...' he thought to himself before hatching an idea.

Stumbling to get up from the dizziness that he still had in his head, Mason noticed some dust particles that formed when he sat down. Curiously looking around, he slowly walked over towards one of the walls and rubbed his finger along it, seeing it get dirty instantly.

A smile formed on the knight's face once he figured out what to do. Without a moment to lose, he rubbed his hand against the wall again to collect more dust. Even though his hands were turning black, he was excited about his idea that will hopefully work in the end. After cleaning his cell room to be spotless, a media pile of dirt was gathered by the bars that were keeping him from escaping. Getting a little too excited, Mason rested down in his pocket, remembering the equipment that he always kept in a case. just like this one and took out a couple of small pieces of wood. As he quickly rubbed the pieces of wood together a couple of times, a flame formed, burning the wood to its core. Not paying too much attention, the flame burnt on the "genius's' finger as he held it, dropping it suddenly and made contact with the dust below. The reaction happened just a bit too fast before Mason could take for cover and exploded the small room, filling it with smoke. Coughing the dust and saying it away, Mason squinted his eyes to see that his plan did work successfully to make a bigger intended hole out of the bars that were trapping him.

"Nice!" Mason commented on his accomplishment before coughing out more dust that was in the atmosphere.

After dusting himself off, the knight glanced around to find his weapons. Grabbing them quickly, he prepared himself find the prince and escape from this crazy place.