Return to the Underland

Chapter 19

She looks quite nervous.

"What is it?" I ask her grasping both her hands in mine.

"Well, you said you didn't want to live in the Overland anymore," she pauses, "Then would you-," Nene runs in, panting.

"Warrior, Your highness, come it is urgent," she says, "The prisoner has escaped," Luxa bolts up into a standing position. I stand up too.

"Okay, thank you. You may sit down, I will tell someone to get you water, Nene,"

"Thank you, your highness, they are at the dock," she says sitting down. Luxa and I quickly run out.

"Nene is in there, get her a glass of water," she says to another maid. We run down corridors, all too familiar. We walk through a grand arch and arrive at the dock.

"Your highness, Captain William escaped into the river," the sergeant says

"He won't survive, the current is too strong, but send some soldiers in there to find him," She says, stalking off into the palace.

"You heard the queen, get your bonds, and find him!" I hear the sergeant say, faintly in the background, "The Nameless also came and harmed a ton of Regalians, no one in the palace noticed,"

"What are we doing?"

"Preparing for war," she says grimly, "Go to Ares, make sure he's okay and tell him whats going on and help the doctors with the Regalians," I grab her arm and turn her towards me. Rage burns in her eyes.

"Please don't do anything stupid," I pull her into an embrace. She wraps her arms around me.

"I won't," She quickly kisses me before she pulls out of my arms, out of my grasp as she had 6 years previously. I remember how to get to the hospital from here. I jog down the corridor to the nearest flight of stairs. I descended the stairs until I was in the lowest part of the castle. I run to the very last hall and to the last room, Ares wasn't there. I go up to a nurse.

"The bat in the very last room. Where is he?"

"Oh, he was moved to a different part of the hospital, I will take you to him," She leads me to the other side of the hospital, "He is right down there," she says pointing to a door in the middle on the left.

"Thank you," I say. I walk towards the door she was pointing to. I quickly open the door, Ares lie there, awake. He was on a blanket, probably to protect him from the cold stone floors.

"Ares?" I ask

"Gregor?"

"Ares, there's a war,"