3 Roses
#2 of Cervin
As they laid there, panting and smiling, a knock was heard on the door, Cervin paniced and was able to get off of the bed and grab his shorts, quickly getting them on, 'Fuck...' it could be a guard, what if they returned? he was in the middle of a castle patrolled by hundreds of guards that were ready to take his head off.
"Princess Laura, everything okay in there?" Cervin looked at laura who responded "Y-Yes Everything fine!" then as the doorknob rattled, figuring the door was jammed, the guard began to bang on the door "Let me in!" As laura began to breathe heavily, she looked at cervin, who spoke softly "Get your clothes together, it's time to get out of here..." Laura nodded and got up, fetching some clothes, cervin grabbed his bow and went to the window, he grabbed a line of robe he saw on the corner of the wall and attached it to one of his arrows.
As cervin readied his bow, he aimed and with all of his strength, fired. The arrow flung across the nighttime air and stuck to a tree, getting strongly jammed in it's branches and leaves, Cervin grabbed the other end of the long rope before it could escape and reached out for Laura "Come here, hurry.."
Laura went to him and took ahold of his hand, drawing her in close, he got ready to jump and gripped tightly to laura "Hold...On..." he said tugging on the rope to make sure it would hold, then from behind then the door flung open, in the pathway was a large, bulk rhino, shelled in armor, as cervin leaned foward letting his feet fall, laura wrapped her arms, legs and tail around cervin, buring her head into his side and closing her eyes.
Before the rhino could reach them, cervin & laura whistled through the air, swinging from the bedroom's window into the forest, once they were out of harms way, cervin planted his feet on a supporting branch and sighed with relief. As he let go of the rope, he made his way down from the tree and made it to safe ground.
"Babe, we are safe, everything is alright. You may let go now." he then laughed and kissed her on the forehead, she looked up at him and then softened her grip. He spoke "Come on, we need to make a quick stop first.." she nodded and followed as he walked.
He now had an edge on the king, the love of the king's daughter, all he had to do is make the right moves at the right time and he would have fullfilled his goal. As they walked to the village, cervin looked back at her "Shh be very quiet.." she gripped him "Are you insane... This is where most of the guards will be..."
Cervin kept low and walked, and then responded "The fox willing to get dirty is the one that survives." she rolled her eyes at him, then he went to the center of the village, and leaned down, wiping some dirt away and revealing a tile, muc like the tiles around the village, he looked to the 4th one over and then put the palm of his paw on the lower half and gently pressed down.
The tile then rose and shifted, as cervin grabbed the raised part, he removed the tile. "H-Heavy...." he said, the tile was big enough to shield off a tunnel, it was a mark left for the previous king, Cervin smiled "King Leo, you never fail me.." Then he looked at laura "Trust me, just go down there.." she sighed and then went to him, looking down, she saw his hand go down into the hole and reach to the side, gripping a piece of long rope "Hold onto this and go down." As she was setting herself and slowly going down.
He put dirt on the tile he had wiped off and kept watch, as Laura was down there, cervin grabbed the rope and with the other paw, grabbed the tile As he was making his way down, He heard talking and stamping, it was the guards "Crap it's the guards..." He heard laura whimper. leaning into the hole, he made his way down, and was able to drag the tile somewhat over the hole. As he hit the dirt. Laura sighed "Um, im sure the guards are going to be able to see that!" Cervin looked at her and reached over gripping and lifting a long staff, he raised it and jabbed it into the tile, pressing on it and then dragging it, soon enough, the hole was sealed, having used the staff to drag the tile the rest of the way over.
However, now there was no light, Cervin moved to his right and in memory, was able to light a candle he had. as the space lit up, cervin took a big sniff of air, Laura spoke "Um, how are we getting oxegen down here??"
"I made holes into the ground above, holes that will transport air to here, this is my first hideout, we have food here alcohol and water, anything to sustain us." in the far corner was a neatly made 2 person bed, with a sheet against it for privacy, next to the was a table and a chair, on the table was a feather, a bottle of ink and a piece of paper.
Laura smiled "It's nice and cozy in here.." then Cervin smiled "Yes but this is my old primary hide out, my new one is behind the waterfall, I record I have about 14 hideouts, behind the butcher shop, here, behind the waterfall, mainly everywhere." Laura smiled "So what are we here for?"
"For clothes, and to start that letter, we will be sleeping here tonight and then in the morning we will take a walk." laura sighed and nodded "Okay." with a smile, cervin went to his chair and began to write the letter. Time went by and after some thinking, the letter was complete. Cervin smiled and put it aside, laura then said something that cervin out of anything and everything was least expecting "Remember when we first met? and when you took me as your own.."
Cervin looked at her and then got up, going to a dresser, he pulled out a few clothes, both for him and her. He answered with "Yes, I do. I still have the stab wound." laura snickered "Well im sorry."
Then cervin smiled and handed her the clothes "You'll be wearing those tomorrow.. and yes I remember it like it was yesterday, I was just lurking around and saw you, you were being charmed by 4 or was it 5, ah I forget but anyway, you were being charmed by a few guys of real stature.." he had said 'stature' with a mocking fancy tone to his voice.
"Princes, son's of kings and born to the way of the sword, even though whenever they were faced with a man with a sword or saw blood they ran away crying like cowards.. And then I come in, a depicted big bad bandit, and in a form of proving themselves, they take out their fancy polished little swords and begin to attack, and even with one sword I am able to hold them off. I didn't even kill them.. Having the blood of pampered cowards on my blade I see as an insult, and then I see you a nice, beautiful young women and introduce myself and I am greeted by you stabbing me in the arm with a little pointy knife, a knife I would have used to either cut butter with or carved an apple. Then I escape and in a form of curiousity you search for me, I meet you face to face and next thing I know im ontop of you, claiming you as my own." He smiled.
"Yes, that old charm of yours just gets better and better, the guards are getting smarter and someday that big ego of yours is going to cost you." Laura said in response.
"Yes well for now, let us get some sleep.."
As the night continued, they retired to their sleep, and slumbered throughout the night without a worry, as the guards wandered and searched endlessly for the princess but to no avial.
Morning soon rose and light was able to shimmer into the hideout. As laura slowly opened her eyes, she saw cervin already wide awake and dressed, cervin looked at her, he looked like some elder, a cane and everything. "Well well, your awake, come on, get your clothes on hurry babe."
Laura sighed and yawned as she stretched. As she get her own clothes on, she to looked like an elder, she looked at him "Whats this for?" he laughed "Disguise." Then as he grabbed the staff from earlier and used it to slide the tile away from the hole, he gripped the rope and climbed up. Scouting the area and sensing no danger, he got up and then helped her up.
Moving the tile back in place, he spoke "Act like an elder, and let me do the talking." She nodded and then as he put an arm around her, using the cane to imitate an elder, his arm with the cane shaking abit. A guard could be seen uphead, laura began to panic and then cervin whispered.
"Let me do the talking." Then laura calmed herslef and approached the guard, a deep voice was heard "What are you doing?" authority clear in the tone, cervin looked up abit and as he changed his voice to that of an elder, he spoke "Why, we are just making our way to the m-m-market good sir.."
Then the guard responded "Why does the dame not speak?" Cervin looked up at him "She's in depression since the princess went missing, p-please forgive her.." Then the guard huffed "The news of the missing princess has not yet been told...how do you know?"
Cervin thought of something "W-Well see sir, w-we live close to here and all night, we could hear ranting and yelling of how the dumb and scum they call Cervin had kidnapped the princess... a-and we were just astonished, w-when will the fool learn, but w-we have faith, y-yes we do that the strong, young and great guards of the glorious king will capture him.." Inside, he was kicking himself for saying that, but he had to.
The guard smiled and then moved aside "Thank you, you may pass." Cervin nodded and continued to walk "T-Thank you kind sir..." As they continued they soon reached the waterfall and then losing the cane, cervin stood up "Stay here, I'll be right out.." she nodded and then looked abit worried, looking at her stomach. When he came out, he held three red roses.
"What are those for hun?" she said with curiousity, then he answered "You'll see, just come with me babe.." She followed him again, this time into the graveyard, stones and the fallen miles and miles, Cervin stopped at one of the largest ones and smiled, on the grave stone could be seen the name 'King Leo'
Cervin sighed and then put one of the roses on the grave stone, many others like it there, all left by cervin "Exacly 5 years since his death... He was the most promising.. when he ruled even for such a short time, the village prospered, experienced such wealth.. so peaceful... and then he was posioned and murdered and his brother, your father took over, and everything changed..." Then cervin went to another site, this time two small grave stones
This time one of them read 'Mary Malik' and the one next to that one, read 'Mark Malik' Cervin sighed and put the one on one of them and the last on the other..
"Mother, father...god I miss you... you didn't even do anything wrong, protested and didn't have enough to pay your taxes and then you and many others were publically decapitated..." as laura hugged cervin, he turned and hugged her. With a kiss, he held her close.
"Thanks love." and then laura sighed and looked up at him "Um, cervin..." Cervin looked at her "Yes?" Then two words that would make any man faint and would drag cervin into something he never saw coming.
"I think Im pregnant..."
~L.C