Chapter 9

By now I think we have become more than just friends. You now know more about me and my life. However, things are just getting started. We have not gotten to the exciting part yet.

Announcement, a night in the hotel, a bomb, the girl I love disappearing, orange juice, what more could I ask for. It has easily been the most action packed day of my life, anyways.

Before we are back to what happened that day, let me introduce you to my world.the land I live in. You already know the town.

Let us zoom out a little bit on the map. My town is located in the state “The New Hanover” a state packed with oak forests, which are so beautiful, I love them, but every pretty has downsides.

These forest are home to the most dangerous creatures I have ever known in my life.

Bears, especially giant brown ones. They can easily scare the heck out of the most tough men. Most tourist hunters who go hunting in these lands do not respect the law of the forest, and the ones who do not. Once in, never come back out.

On top of these forests, lies the great lands of “Forest of Galeed”. if Hanover’s bears freaked you out. Just spend a night in Galeed without a fire and no sun will rise on you. With a temperature that easily freezes water into ice in ten seconds, no creatures can withstand it there. So it is basically a dead land.

Only plants live there. Though its called a forest, the tallest plant there is half a meter.

Imagine with me you are standing in the middle of the dark night under the light of the red moon in a land with no living creature moving.

Lands and lands of nothing. It creeps me out each time I think about how evil these lands are.

Mountain of Galeed is the only thing taller than that. Legends tell about an old creature that lives there and feeds on the souls of those who dare challenge the nature of Galeed but to be honest with you I do not believe these legends. However, I am not interested in going there and finding out for myself.

South of Hanover, there is the State of London. As if it needs explanation, it is basically the biggest and the most important place in our country.

It is the center of trades where merchants from around the country and around the world gather and show off their goods. Anything can be sold in these markets. From little birds and food, all the way to great brown bears, dead or alive. If for some reason you need to buy one, now you know where to find it.

West of London state, there is the royal port, I think it’s obvious, a place for ships to stop and throw anchors in the sea. But it is not any ordinary port, its royal. Only army ships and royal ships stop there.

The port lies in the “Iron lake” it is called iron lake because under these waters and fishes, lies the most pure and precious ore of iron metal.

Enough rubbish talk, lets get back into action.

After the colonel ordered us ‘the soldiers’, yes sadly I am one of them now, that we have to save the king in two days. I thought that he was kidding or something. First of all we have no idea where the king is. Second, the king can be absolutely hidden anywhere in the forest.

These thieves have places in the forest that no one except for them know about.

But I can recall seeing some black horses tied to a modern and luxurious looking car yesterday. But I do not remember seeing no one in it.

“You dropped your sword pal!” said a solider that I have absolutely no idea who he was, but he seemed like a nice guy.

“I did not!” I replied to him.

“say it again and the colonel will hear you, you know what he can he do.” he said.

“What!” I said.

“Just take the bloody sword pal!” he said whispering loudly.

I took the sword.

It was so shiny I could see myself in it, I was staring at myself in the reflection of the sword like an idiot.

“Get out of here!” a slider said while pushing me out of the main hotel door.

I almost fell on my knees. But I quickly got back up.

“easy pal!” I said to him.

We were standing in front of the hotel in the middle of the street. It was nearly five hundred soldiers, I have no idea how the king got kidnapped to be honest with all this protection. Something must be off.

The colonel was on his horse in the middle of the crowd shouting at us, I could understand only a few of what he said.

“My men! Our king was kidnapped today by some rats of men that we must catch and cut their heads off theirs necks! It is a shame on all of us, we must make good men of ourselves and find him before they do any harm to his highness!”

“I hate this man” that solider who handed me the sword whispering into my ears.

“Smith!” he said while grabbing my hand and shaking it.

“Off we go to Annesberg then I will tell you what we will do!” the colonel shouting.

Being a horse enthusiast, I couldn’t help but looking at his big black horse with a white dot in his forehead and long black hair, long black tail and..

“Pal! It’s Smith, got a name?” he said to me .

“oh yeah, I aaaa, I’m Trevor.” I sail to him.

“nice to meet you pal” he said.

“listen, I am no solider. Get me out of here” I said to him.

“welcome to the army Trevor!” he said while smiling.

Honestly I got a bit, not a bit, I got so pissed off.

“are you deaf! Why did you hand me th..” I hardly finished my sentence and I got pushed.

“Move!” I got shouted at.