Fun Times with the Rebel

I woke up just a little groggy and just a bit shaken from the day before. So much had happened. I finally had the courage to stand up to the king and his manipulative ways, Ash and I went to go train for hours only to find that she had been hiding some rare legendary bow that she used to basically knock the wind out of me. Oof. That was one interesting day. As I get out of my oversized fluffy bed I walk over to my closet to change into clothes from my fancy looking baggy looking pajama pants and a white tank top that revealed a bit of my chest. But that was fine. My chest is always like that anyways, it never bothered me anyway. I went into my huge shiny bathroom with a folded pair of clean clothes in hand. At first I was going to just change, but maybe I'll get a shower in as well. I look at the oversized clock on my bathroom wall to see what time it was. 10:30am. That's cool. The time I would normally wake up. After around 20ish minutes of showering and getting ready for the day, I walk out of my bathroom wearing Knee length black legging, a off the shoulders short sleeved lilac that turns blue as you go down, dress shirt, black short fingerless gloves, and my usual light brown boots. I am ready for the day now. I looked at myself in the mirror. For a normal day, this outfit seemed to be a bit to formal for my taste. If only I had some clothes around the castle that were more my style. But this was fine though. Its not like I didn't like t wear formal stuff. I just would prefer something more me. But that's what you get when you live in a giant maze of a castle. I leave my room closing the door behind me. I flinched at the distance sound of wood being broken. I listened closely to hear arguing as well. Looks like they are fighting again. I say to myself. Today, I think I'll do something fun with Ashley today. I start to run down the halls in the opposite direction of the arguing and fighting. Leaving the ciaos and the past behind in that part of the castle. Running towards freedom. I run out of the castle to find that some of the newer servants were panicking by me running out of the castle. I kept running through the village as people greet me with a friendly greeting. Of course I say hello back to these nice village people. They knew me well enough to know when I am speeding through town. As I speed through the village I see a giant cart full of all kinds of fruits and berries. An obstacle eh? I accept your challenge cart! I say in my head as I grow closer to the cart. As soon as the cart came in reach I jump high in the air twisting as I put one hand on the top of the cart. as I push off I flip landing on my feet. Nailed that landing! I praised myself in my head as some people watching laughed while others clapped for that wonderful landing. I start to sprint again seeing that Ashley's house was in view. She wasn't poor but she wasn't the richest person in the world either. They were more towards the middle class, like all the citizens in that village were as well. I always make sure the people are taken good care of, even if some think I'm a pain in the ass. My feet slide to a stop, kicking up dust from the dirt road leading to another kingdom nearby. I walk up to the door of Ashley's house completely out of breath. A lovely lady with Dark brown hair answers the door before I even attempt to open the door. She had her hair in a bit messy straight ponytail and was wearing her usual long sleeved dress like shirt with short little brown boots and a knee length skirt.

"Oh! Why hello Crystal!"

"Hi(huff) How did you(huff) Know I was coming(huff)." I say still trying to catch my breath.

"Well I could practically hear you speeding towards our house when your clearly in no hurry from the villages clapping and laughing."

"(huff) Was(huff) it really(Huff) That load?"

"Crystal we've known you ever since you were little. We know how energetic you can be. Would you like me to get you a glass of water at all sweetie?" She asks me gesturing me to come inside. I nod as I am still trying to catch my breath. I started to sweat a little bit as I wipe the sweat from my face. The lovely lady comes to me as I wobbly walk inside their home with a cold glass of water. I drank all of the water in just under a couple of seconds, sighing, feeling refreshed.

"Thank you Mrs. Gold." I say thanking her for the water. That lovely lady is Ashley's mom. Her father is often working whenever I get there so I hardly see him, but my mom and Ashley's mom got along well and we consider them to be close family friends.

"Is Ashley home at all Mrs. Gold?" I ask politely. She walks over to the carpeted stairway that lead to the upstairs calling out,

"Ashley! Crystal is here to see you! Please come down!" Ashley immediately comes down with her fancy new bow that shocked me yesterday in hand, her wavy dark brown hair out wearing her casual light blue skirt, buttoned up no sleeved a bit darker blue colored shirt with her long archery gloves that had only one finger covered halfway that went up to almost her elbows.

"Hey Crystal! Are we doing what I think we are doing?" She says excitedly.

"Hell ya! Lets have some fun Ash!" We both look at her mom with big smiles and babydoll eyes practically begging her to let us go.

"Alright. Its not like you would have listened to me anyways. Stay out of trouble you two." Ashley and I rushed out the door as I tell her,

"Not likely!" Ashley and I start to run towards the mountain near her place giggling like maniacs.

We hid in the scratchy tall bushes as a creature that looked unnatural towards everything else that seemed normal in this forest. With its large size and Jurassic lizard look, it trudges through the forest looking for its next victim. I look at Ashley who already has her bow out ready for the fight. I look back to see that this creature had stopped moving. It spotted a small light creature that was glittery, white, and struggling from its grasp. It looked to be a small rabbit to others, but with glittery fur and longer ears. On Isla, we call those white tails. They may look like just a normal rabbit but, they are a special kind that can blind the predator with their glittering fur in the sun for self defense. Those animals are pretty common in Isla. The lizard like creature are only referred to as monsters, but their actual name is Agamid. They are typically the same as lizards but bigger and more likely to be mistaken as a dinosaur.

"Ready Ash?" I whisper to her as the monster is about to eat the white tail in front of us. She smiles at me with her bow in hand, the string pulled back, and a black looking arrow with no sort of fire or sense of power within it.

"Hell ya." She says to me as she stands straight up from our little hiding place. She lets go of the string as this dark colored arrow launches faster than what I could have expected. It hit the monster on the back of its neck. It screeches in pain as blood starts to poor out of the wound were the arrow was that had now disappeared. It drops the white tail on the ground as is scurries away from the monster who had now drawn its attention toward Ashley and I.

"Hey Ash? What type of arrow was that?" I asked a bit confused to why the monster is reacting to us slower than expected. Ashley grins at me before saying,

"That was a poisonous arrow. Black hole." As soon as Ashely says black hole the wound begins to spill out more blood. It drips onto the dirt road that he happened to be standing on. The monster starts to bleed more as blood starts to ooze out from its eyes and mouth. The creature falls to the ground as a pool of blood pours out around this now bloody dead creature. Just as the creature fell to the ground, more began to pop out of nowhere. one of them came towards us running on all fours. I run towards the creature at full speed. As the creature comes closer to me, I jump up, kicking it in the side of its face. The creature flew towards the edge of a high cliff as the wind blew intensely against my blow to the creature. The creature fell down to the ground at the bottom of the cliff with a splat. I couldn't see that because I was too far away to see that. I landed on my feet as the other creatures looked at me with anger and fury. I punch the palm of my other hand with a smirk on my face.

"Who else wants some of that?" I taunted the Monsters with that grin on my face. Ashley also looks just as pumped as I am as she walks over to me with the next arrow ready for them as they proceed to attack. Ashley and I run towards them at full speed, grinning away like there was no tomorrow. This is what Ashley and I do for fun. It may sound cruel, but the monsters in front of us were actually not supposed to be in Isla. They came from an entirely different universe that thrived with death around every corner. No one knows how they got here but, that's what Ashley and I are still trying to figure out. But in the mean time, its fun to beat the shit out of them and kill them for coming to our world and poison it with there presence. This makes me feel better about the pain in the ass life at the castle.