35 Kidnapped (1)

Her dream is the same one as she's been having since I left Malum. The same one which helps keep Diana up at night. The one which feels like it hides a truth about her past that she is yet to know but she always wake up to early to know what it could be.

Slowly my conscious begins to return and my eyes flutter open only to find myself lieing on Alex' chest. I'm guessing without even having to look at my surroundings we're in a carriage of some sort. It's easy to tell from all the bumps. As I try to move I feel how restricted my body is I looked down and found both Alex and I are tied up with are hands behind our backs, rope around are chest and arms, our ankles are also bouned as well as our knees.

'Dammit, how long were we out?' I wondered as I felt Alex begin to move beneath my head.

"Finally your both awake," the man with a ponytail declared.

"Oh shut up they weren't even out for three hours stop your whining already," the man with a plat groaned as I looked outside I can tell they're telling the truth the moon is still bright in the sky and theres no sign of sunlight trying to seep through the horizon.

I tried to move again and after a few attempts finally managed to sit up Alex soon did the same. I can feel a sharp pain in my right thigh as I look down I can see my trousers are covered in my dried blood and it seems its still bleeding slightly. 'It seems they didnt bother to bandage either of our wounds,' I thought to myself as I look over at Alex's left leg 'but they did pull out both the arrows. I guess this is there way of ensuring that if we do escape then we won't get far but Alex and I can persevere through a injury like this.'

"Are you alright?" Alex asked in a low voice as we sat next to each other and our three captives laughed at each other as they hall us back to Malum.

"I'm fine, how about you?" I asked quietly.

"Yes, I'm alright, but how are we suppose to get back to Fortis? I doubt that anyone else knows where we are and we dont have any weapons." He asked in a hushed tone.

"True and they're most likely taking back roads to avoid any soldiers."

"Your right and it's not out of character for us to disappear, however, we're not completely out of options and we can get our weapons back."

"How? There right beside our captives," Alex pointed out as if I hadn't noticed that our weapons our sitting between the guy with a ponytail and the guy short haired guy.

"True but it's not impossible,"

"That's true but we have no way of cutting the ropes,"

"Actually we do have a way to cut them," I pointed out.

"You can stop whatever it is your conspiring about your not getting out of here," the man with a ponytail said in a cocky manner before they went back to their previous conversation.

We waited a few minutes before continuing our schemes in a hushed tone. "Can you get my hair piece?"

"I'm not sure, why?" Alex asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You'll see," I said before waiting for the next hard bump in the rode before acting like it caused me to fall over. As I pretend to struggle Alex understood immediately what I meant he moved cautiously before pulling out my plain hair clip which caused my long silver hair to fall down and cover my face as I sat back up. Alex discreetly passed me the hair clip and I pointed the sharp end towards the rope binding my hands and began to cut it. Eventually the rope binding my hands snapped.

I then began cutting at the ropes binding my arms behind my back which fell off I caught them before they could fall to the ground. I played them down before cutting my legs and feet free then I quickly helped Alex out of his restraints as well. We waited until they were distracted before taking our swords luckily there to idiotic to notice.

I quickly handed Alex his, we both put them back on but before Alex could crawl over to the back of the carriage to jump out I grabbed his arm.

He looked back at me questionably implying to why I stopped him silently I pointed to his leg before as quietly as possible ripping of four strands of my top.

I folded one up and pressed it against his left leg over his wound and grabbed the other toeing it around his leg. Then I grabbed the other one and folded it up and pressed it to my right thigh before grabbing the last one and rapping it around my thigh.

Then we both headed over to the back of the carriage and jumped out. My mind feels a little hazy still because of whatever it was on those arrows and both our legs still hurt but we have to get back to the palace and we cant kill them now we cant risk it failing.

Right now all I care about is getting Alex back safely so be it if they find out who I am I'll deal with it when it comes to it. I wont let anyone, hurt my.....friends.

We ran through the forest in the opposite direction to the carriage we were in and ran as fast as possible.

"HEY, GET BACK HERE!!!!" I heard the the men yell as soon as they realised we were gone. arrows began to rain down on us as the sound of the running horses along the dirt rode echoed through the night towards us.

I pushed Alex out the way two arrows berrying themselves in my back.

"Are you alright?" I asked as I pulled Alex up and we continued to dodge arrows running further into the forest.

"I'm fine what about you?"

"I'm fine," I replied.

"Those arrows say otherwise," Alex pointed out while pointing to the two arrows lodged into my back as we kept running.

"There only arrows," I pointed out.

"Only you would say something like that,"

Instead of answering I focused on coming up with a plan to get out of here. We have our weapons but still we've not got a tactical advantage and we're both injured. No enough is enough we need to fight them.

Alex and I exchanged a glance and immediately skidded to a hult. We drew our swords and blocked the countless arrows that hailed down on us.