Attacked!

He smiled, "You're welcome. You can keep your secrets with me."

"Okay. Thank you."

Charlotte started to walk back to her room. When she was back, Elton immediately came to see her. "Luna!" she has almost had a heart attack at what he did.

"What? I almost got a heart attack because of you."

"I'm sorry, but you need to know about this. This is an emergency," she frowned while looking at him.

"What is it? What happened?" she asked.

"Master had announced that we will attack the royals tomorrow. Have you heard it, right?" her eyes widened while hearing those from Elton.

"W-What? Why?" she asked.

"We don't know what is his reason was. But, other assassins are getting ready to attack," Elton uttered.

She frowned while looking at him, "There must be something he knew. We had to figure it out. Elton, will you help me?" he nodded his head.

Charlotte started to get ready and wears her mask when she went out of her room. She knocked three times on the master's door and went inside.

"Master," she bowed her head while greeting him.

"Luna? What is it? Why are you here?" he asked.

"Master, I heard about the attack. Why so sudden?" she asked.

"You can't kill the princess, so there will be an attack for you to have the best opportunity to kill her, isn't that great?" her eyes widened while looking at him.

"Luna, you need to take this great opportunity to kill her. She's going to kill the King real soon," he added.

"Master,"

"Yes?"

"Why did you want to kill the princess and protect the king?" she asked him, which caused him to stop and averted his gaze at her.

"Master, I may know your reason, but I'll take this opportunity to kill the Princess." Charlotte bowed her head before walking out to the room.

When she was outside, she then saw Elton. "How was it?" he asked in a whispered tone.

"He wanted me to kill the Princess during the attack," she answered.

"Ah, I see."

"I need to get ready. We need to," Elton nodded his head and started to walk away from her.

Charlotte was inside her room and looked at her face in the mirror in front of her. "I have to kill the Princess. I'm not a killer, but the character I'm portraying is a villain. I need to do this," she said to herself.

The days had passed, the attack will be later. Charlotte wasn't and unable to see Duke again, because she was busy getting ready for their attack. She was inside her room when Elton knocked.

"Come in," he went inside and looked at her. "Are you ready?" he asked, and Charlotte nodded her head.

The night has come, Charlotte and the other assassins were getting ready. Jackson looks at them with a smirk.

"Attention!" they all looked at him and bowed their head. Charlotte looked at him, and she could feel he was hiding something from them.

"Are you all ready everyone?" Jackson asked.

"Yes!"

"Alright. Everyone get ready for attack."

They all started to run towards the palace secretly. Charlotte looked around, the palace seemed to be silent as it was nighttime. Everyone in the palace might be asleep. Charlotte looked at Elton with a nod and she started to walk inside the palace.

All other assassins started to fight with the guards of the palace. A man saw it and started to ring the bell on the palace, causing everyone to wake up, especially Celine and Duke.

Charlotte shook her head, but she continue to walk inside.

"Assassins!" a man shouted before he got shot from the bow. The man fell to the ground after getting shot.

Duke and other people inside started to evacuate to the basement. Celine's eyes roamed around the room and smirked. She was hiding some knife behind her as she planned to kill the King tonight.

Duke saw her, "Princess. Let's go, you have to go to the basement," he said to her.

"Brother, I wanted to help. I wanted to fight," she said.

"W-What?"

"I wanted to fight."

"You can't. So, go back inside," she pouted and nodded her head.

Duke started to get ready to fight with the assassins, and he was hoping to see that woman again, who wanted to kill Princess Celine so bad.

Duke went out to the roof, and he was right. The assassin who wanted to kill Celine was there. Charlotte's eyes widened when she saw Duke in front of her. He's not healed yet. She feels so worried about him.

"You're here again."

"Why are you here?" she asked her, and the worriedness was dominant on her.

"What? You're going to kill my sister, don't you?" he asked.

"It's none of your business. Let me kill her, please..." she said.

"How could I? She's my sister. How can I let her die?" he asked her.

"Your highness... I don't want to hurt you. So, better back off."

"Why do you want to kill her so badly?" he asked, and Charlotte could see his pale lips and weak body.

"I already told you, Your highness. She's going to kill your father," she said to him, but he scoffed, shaking his head unbelievably.

"I won't believe that. Assassins like you are villains of this village. So, why would I trust someone like you?"

"Your Highness. I don't want you to trust me, but... Let me kill her," she said.

"I won't let you go near her," he said and started to raised his swords to her.

Charlotte sighed as she didn't want to hurt the Prince. He was still not recovered yet. She sighed and she have no choice, but to fight with him regardless, it was against her will to do so.

Their sword met each other, causing them to create some noises. It was a click and high pitch of tone when the metal of their sword met each other.

Charlotte was about to hit the sword at him, but the moment she saw the blood on him, she stopped and dropped her sword. She was getting affected by what she was seeing.

Duke smirked, and he raised his sword and wanted to hit her when he suddenly feel weakened and he was about to fall to the ground, but Charlotte saved him. Her eyes met his.

She was holding his wrists while looking at him. "Your Highness..." Duke was just pretending, and he had a smirked on his lips and opened his eyes, and stabbed the sword at her. Blood immediately dripped from her mouth after he stabbed her.

Duke was smiling while looking at her. "You can't hurt her, Assassin. Until I'm here, you can't hurt the Princess. You'll always be the villain who will always lose in the story," he said to her.

Charlotte was gasping for breath while holding her stomach. She was having difficulty breathing while looking at him.

"You see? You're too easy to fool around. You even fall from my trap," he said.

"You didn't know... I'm just so worried about you," she said to herself while staring at him.

Charlotte smirked, "Your Highness. This may not be the opportunity to kill her, but I know I can kill her someday, and you'll regret stopping me," she said.

"I won't regret it, villain. You're the one who will regret doing this."

"You're wounded, villain. You should get back, or I'll continue to stab you."

"Go on. Stab me," she uttered and dropped her sword in front of him. Duke frowned while looking at her. His eyes narrowed, and he was confused why she wanted him to stab her, willingly.

"Your Highness. I may be the villain you always think, but I have my reasons too. Every villain has a back story," she said.

"So, what's your back story?"

She smirked, "Your Highness. I'll see you around then. It's my pleasure to meet you again."

Duke was so surprised and confused why he got worried about that villain. She started to run away, and the blood dripped from her at the same time. Duke saw the blood drop from her on the roof where she was standing earlier.

"What was that? What's with that woman?" he asked in confusion.

Meanwhile, Charlotte went back to her room, and the blood on her stomach got worst. She was losing her strength as she had lost a lot of blood earlier. "I think I'm going to be erased from the story. I think this is my end," she said to herself while having difficulty in breathing.

Jackson saw and knew everything that Luna had done. He was clenching his fists after he knew and heard about what happened to her. "Let's go to her room," he said, and they started to walk towards Charlotte's room.

When the door opened, he saw how weak she was. "Get her, and bring her to the doctor," Jackson said to one of the guards he was with. He nods his head and started to carry the unconscious Luna to the doctor. She was wounded so bad.

Jackson had no other choice, but to stop the attack. All other assassins go back to the temple.

"What happened, Master?" someone asked Jackson.

"Luna is wounded so bad," Elton's eyes widened after hearing it.

"What?"

"Stop the attack, and rest."

To be continued...