White Roses

Chapter Thirteen: So Much For Prince Charming

YEAH! So many reads and so many votes! Thanks guys! I'm glad you like the story so much! This chapter should be longer so I won't be updating until next month on the 19th because that's when I get home from college for Thanksgiving break! 

Again, I love to hear what you guys think! 

Anyway, I love we finally get to meet Erasmus and we get a better understanding of Matty's life back home. 

I was wondering, does this story feel darker to you guys? It gets darker to me. Or at least it feels that way (shrugs). Well, when I start whipping out the Evanescence songs that should be a pretty good sign that it is getting darker...

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Chapter Thirteen:

So much for Prince Charming 

“What the hell is he?” Cooper whispered to me as he stared at the horse man with the seaweed hair. He tried to inch closer to me, but his body went tense.

I gulped nervously as I tried to keep it out of my voice.“A kelpie, he’s a monster that lures people to ride him then he drowns them before eating the liver.” 

“Great.”

The kelpie walked over to me. “Boy, get the two humans away from each other.” He then grabbed my hair as I gritted my teeth. “And don’t forget to chain them.” I looked up at Unicorn boy who used his fire to tie our wrists together. Some ogre like creature grabbed Cooper by the hair and pulled him along into the moonless forest.

I mentally kicked myself for trusting Unicorn Boy. I should have thought it was suspicious the moment I woke up. Now I was being dragged through mud and thorns to some weird place. I suddenly felt tired and wanted to sleep, but being dragged by my hair wasn’t exactly a good way to sleep. I blame Halloween, Cooper, Drake, and faerie politics for where I was at the moment. It started with Drake and the way he dragged me into his world because I'm this human prince, which I know I'm not, and then I blame Halloween because that was when the wall between faerie and human was to weak to hide anything from even the stupidest of people.

Cooper’s eyes became huge and he bit his lip hard. I saw that some of the faeries carried torches that held Unicorn boy’s fire. The thorns that sliced my foot open when we walked were soon replaced by rough black stones. 

A castle stood before me with high towers and a rushing river below us. It looked like the castle was floating in air. The floating island didn't have any open area like the Lunae Lux court did. Buildings and towers rammed against one another with barely enough room for walkways. The black stones had designs cut into them around the windows. It had a medieval look to it minus the black stone that just gave it an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it and I thought about the story where the man lost his mind because he thought he heard a heart beating in the walls of a house. The place looked enormous and I suspected a small city lived behind that door at the end. The bridge was made of nothing, but stone that ended at a large wooden door. The kelpie pounded his free fists into it and a loud thundering echo surrounded us.  

“Who is it?” A crackly voice echoed around us. It sounded like the voice of the Wicked Witch of the West. 

“It’s the prince’s private guards.” The faeries behind us chuckled with the kelpie smirking. The door made an awful screeching sound before it opened and let us in. Once we were in the dark city of looming towers and small stone huts, he threw me onto the ground. “Boy! Take them to the dungeon.” Unicorn boy nodded as I got up and followed him with Cooper by my side. “And don’t forget to keep them separate!”