Prince Hayden's Heroine

Differences

Prince Hayden's POV

"ALORA!!!" an older gentleman yells as he sees me cradling her in my arms. "Y... Your highness, please, help me set her down on the ground. What happened to her?" The man tries to ask as calmly as possible, but his concern is almost that of a father's. I take a deep breath and try to focus amidst all the chaos surrounding us and explain as best as I possibly can "sir, she's my fiancé; I've been searching for her for so long and she suddenly showed up today... but she, she couldn't remember me and after I kissed her she had a strong pain surge through her head and fainted... I... did I do something to hurt her? Please, please help her."

I feel as if the world around me is crumbling once again; I just found her, I don't want to lose her. "Your highness, please calm down, she'll be alright. The kiss might have triggered some memories to return and the sudden resurgence brought on some pain. I hate to do this, but we must wake her, we must leave this area immediately. Your soldiers sire, a few seem as if they have been bought and the insurgents are taking over slowly... My name is Dr. Arman de Altamira, Alora is now my adopted daughter, I'll explain all that later..." The doctor takes out smelling salts and waves them under Alora's nose. She wakes up quickly and holds her head. "Dr. Arman?!" She tries hard to refocus and shifts her gaze to me. "Prin... prince Hayden, I mean nggghhh... father, my head, it's killing me." Dr. Arman hugs Alora and pulls her back to check her eyes. "Mija, we need to get out of here safely. You and the prince must follow me." Dr. Arman helps Alora up and she retakes my arm and puts it around her shoulders. "We can do this. I apologize your highness, but we'll talk later, I promise...ngghhh... I'm slowly starting to feel better, let's go!'

Alora, she's so strong; even after everything that has happened to her, she's still helping me. "Alora, I'm sorry that you have to help me, but I'm so incredibly happy to have found you once again." She smiles sadly at me "I feel so bad for not remembering everything, but I know deep down inside that I know you. Every time I catch a glimpse of you, my heart beats faster than it ever has; but Hayden, I mean, your highness, we will talk again soon, we need to get out of here in one piece. Father, if we go through the ballroom again, we can sneak around to get to the other side of the palace. Plus, we have to find the others..." The doctor turns and smiles at Alora and I "mija, good plan! It's the only way we can get to our vehicles. Let's hurry."

We near the ballroom and hide behind a couple of pillars to try and see what is going on. Three men are holding a few soldiers and other men at gun point; everyone else has either been injured or they have left. "Father, there's uncle and Emilio and my brothers. We have to do something!" Alora's shoulders tremble underneath my arm, not in fear, but in anger. I haven't seen this much fire in her before; by the gods, she's beautiful."Mija, we have to sneak up on them; do you think you are well enough?" Panic runs through me suddenly at Dr. Arman's question and I hug Alora closer to me. "Dr. Arman, please, I can't lose her. Alora, please don't do this!" Alora gently removes my arm from her supporting shoulders and holds both of my hands with hers. "I promise you I will be safe; you see, they are my new family and I can't lose them." She looks at me pleadingly. "But, Alora, I just..." before I can finish my sentence she quickly plants a kiss on my lips and seconds later pulls away. I sit there dumbfounded without realizing she has already left and is headed towards danger. Gods, please protect her and Dr, Arman.

ALORA'S POV

My head feels foggy and confusion is running rampant. Prince Hayden, the more I look at him, the more my heart races and longs for him; but, right now, I must save my family. I kissed him to buy some time for my father and I to be able to sneak up on the guards, but I didn't want to let him go. Was he really my fiancé? Ugh... not now, I need to focus. My dad hands me a sword that was left on the floor and we make our way behind a couple of the guards. We give each other a signal and I knock out one while he takes down the other and I face the last guard and we fight after I knock down his weapon with my saber sword. We continue to fight as he tries to deal heavy blows to my face, but I take advantage and slam his back with multiple hits to the kidneys. After a minute, he succumbs to my attack and collapses. I take a deep breath as my father unties our family. "I wouldn't get so comfy just yet young lady." A man calls out to me. I turn around to see the man behind Prince Hayden holding a gun to the prince's head. Oh gods no! I quickly turn to face the man and grip my saber in my hands. "Nuh uh uh... you can't do that unless you want his pretty little brains splattered across the ground." I throw the saber to the ground as my father retreats as well.

"Now, now young lady; it seems like I finally have your attention. You see, all we ever wanted was for our needs to be met, you hear that you bratty prince? We don't care much for your take on accepting differences, especially when it comes to classes. We are rich people and we deserve distinction. You, young lady, you carry yourself as a noble, you would understand. Then, you invite these foreigners here and further insult our kind. All we had to do was buy a few of your soldiers and incapacitate a few people within the castle and we took over. It doesn't matter that many of our men are gone, we will fight to get our way." The man continues to talk, but it is then I notice a man come up behind him, someone familiar. He signals to me to keep the rebel's attention so that he can sneak up behind him.

"So, you think that being rich and noble is everything in this world do you?" I ask the man. He laughs heartily and responds, "you're just a part of that Spaniard clan young lady, you wouldn't know." I feel anger rise within me, but the other man comes up behind him and slams a silver tray on the rebel's head. He falls forward as prince Hayden quickly moves out of the way and his gun falls to the ground accidentally discharging; suddenly I feel an all familiar burning sensation on my shoulder, I've been shot. "ALORA, NOOOOOO!" I hear Prince Hayden cry out as he tries to run towards me. I hold my shoulder and my father rushes to my side. "Dr. Arman, Prince Hayden, it's fine, it's just my shoulder...nghh... I'll be fine!" Father helps me sit down on a chair as the prince rushes to my side and puts pressure on my wound. I wince and smile "this feels a little too familiar... I..." I try to finish my sentence, but I can't seem to utter another word as my head begins to hurt again. "Alora?" father calls to me, but I can't seem to focus and my vision fades to black.

To be continued...Sorry it's taking long... last week of school and being a teacher sucks at this point, way too busy!