Royal Secret

The Bandits

"So let me get this straight" a tall man with Grey hair and deep green eyes said "You went to get some fruit, met some jungle girl, she understood that liowba, and now you want us to go look for her and help her out?"

The boy nodded as he sat down on a stump. The man burst out laughing and said, "Asher you do have quite an imagination, you really think a girl could survive in a jungle and understand creatures?"

"I'm not making this up!" Asher cried "She said her name was Crystal"
The man who seemed to be about 21 years of age, who was named Scoth,laughed and sat down next to Shade, a tall, lean dark hair man with 20 years of age.
"Seriously Asher you should go write a fantasy book or something" Shade grinned.
The two men continued laughing as Asher thought to himself, Why don't they believe me? I'll show them. I'll show that she wasn't just my imagination. I'll bring her here and make the-- Asher was snapped out of his thoughts as Scoth stood up and said, "Wait until we tell Ezra and Raven about this"

*in the jungle*

"Never! I never want to see you with a human!" Zakir snarled.
Crystal sat on a branch on overlooked the jungle with awe as she thought back to what had previously happened.

"You could have been seriously hurt, or worse captured."
"Oh spare me the details, he didn't mean any harm." Crystal said getting annoyed with Zakir.

"If Zar found out about this, we both would never hear the end of it."
Crystal groans and jumps down from the tree. "You really need to just take a break and relax."
Zakir sighs and looks at the sky.
"It's getting dark. We should get some shut eye."

*At the camp*

"Where do you think you're going?" Scoth says looking up and Asher with a raised eyebrow.
Damn. Asher thinks as he turns towards Scoth. "I- uh was.. Going to get fruit for breakfast." he says hopefully to trick Scoth.

Scoth raises an eyebrow in disbelief. "Don't tell me you are going to look for that jungle girl"

"What? No! I-uh just want some fruit." Asher says as his full intention of going was to look for the girl.

"Hm okay then, take Ezra with you, you could use the help."

Asher groans slightly because he could never look for the girl with Ezra there.

He walks over to Ezra's tent. "Hey Ezra, Scott wants you to come with me to collect fruit."

A tall man with dark brown hair covering one eye, an earring in one ear, and about 18 years of age.
"Uh- yea sure" he said with his deep voice.

Asher and Ezra head out to the jungle, Asher with his eyes peeled to see the girl,and Ezra with a look of disbelief as he had heard of the jungle girl the night before.
"She isn't real, so just drop it"
"She is! I saw her yesterday! And you of all people I thought you would come and help me out take my side" Asher said angrily.

"Well if you think about it, it does sound pretty dumb. Plus who's ever heard of a jungle girl?" Ezra pointed out.

They get to the mango tree and Ezra begins picking it's fruit while Asher scans the area. Little did both of them know Crystal was right above them on a branch.

" He's back.. With another one.." she said to herself.

" huh? " Ezra said, "You say something Asher?"

The branch on which Crystal was sitting on was breaking because it was an old branch and couldn't support Crystal's weight.
Oh no! It's breaking!

Suddenly out of nowhere Zakir jumps and catches Crystal just before she fell.
Ezra who has seemed to be stuck in shock looks at the liowba and girl. He-- wa--sn't kidding...

"Crystal!" Asher says running towards her happy to see he again. "I knew you were real they didn't believe me, I'm not so--"

Zakir growls to let Asher know not to take another step towards Crystal.

"See Ezra!" Asher says backing up slowly.

"Zakir, it's fine. They mean no harm" Crystal says as she walks slowly towards Asher.

"uh.." Ezra says confused.
"Crystal, this is Ezra, Ezra this is Crystal" Asher says trying to unfreeze Ezra's cold state.

"I told you she wasn't my imagination" Asher says leaning towards Ezra.

Zakir nudges Crystal to get a move on away from the two men.

"Wait! Before you go" Asher says, "I want you to come with me and Ezra to our camp to prove I'm not a crazy psycho."

"No! This is exactly what I was afraid of, them to take you away" Zakir exclaims.

After much debate and talking Crystal decides to go with the two men but only for a day. Zakir decided to come along to protect Crystal. When they got to the camp, the bandits were shocked to see Crystal and felt guilty for not believing Asher.

"Where does she come from? Who is she? Why did you bring her here?" Scoth pressed firmly.

Unable to answer most of the questions Asher introduced everyone to her.

Raven, a shorter guy than the others, with coal black hair and ocean blue eyes, took an instant liking into Zakir.

" Hey there," Raven said extending his hand to stroke Zakir.

"Before any of this continues, we need to figure out who this girl is, where she came from" Scoth said.

"But I know, I'm from the jungle, my family is right here" She said pointing to Zakir.

"My dear, I don't know how to say this, but you aren't a creature of the jungle." Scoth said slowly trying to break the ice.

"Of course I am"

"No, ever wonder why you felt different? Out of place?" Scoth said truthfully.

Crystal thought about that for a second and gasped. "So.. You're saying.. I'm..

"A human" Scoth finished.