Chapter 4/5 of my Dream Story. (Chpt. prologue-3 already posted)

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Alex took back control of Procolus. He went into the light and he was blinded for a small time until the light faded and he found himself lying on the ground, surrounded by his three friends. “Yo, Alex. You okay bud?” Xavier said helping Alex to his feet. Alex just stood there confused. Just a little while ago he saw all his friends die but here they were, huddling over him. Alex nodded that he was okay.

Was it all just a dream? Alex thought. But to him it couldn’t be. All he had to do was call Procolus and he would come. But he couldn’t do it here, not now. “So anyways Alex, we are going to kidnap the Zarnian princess. You in?” John asked Alex. Alex couldn’t say no so once again he nodded in agreement. “Great it’s settled. Let’s go.”

It took them an hour to get to the castle from their current spot. Even though military and medicines have advanced, castles were still used to protect the royals of an empire. It gave the soldiers much needed strategic positions to stop any enemy that tried to get in. But Alex and the two of his friends – Xavier was once again having second thoughts – were determined to accomplish their goal.

The four stood against the main wall in order to avoid being seen and captured. “All right guys let’s do this and get the hell out,” Rory said pulling out his gun and a silencer from his pocket and then attached them together. Alex, John and Xavier followed in his example.

The boys carefully took their plan into action. Armed only with pistols, they had to be very careful not to get into a firefight. They moved along the walls and kept in the dark, hitting the ground whenever a spotlight came near. After what seemed like an hour, they got to the second large gate with two guards standing by.

“Alex,” John whispered. Alex looked at him sending him the signal ‘what?’ “Take this and kill both the guards. Alex took the gun and pointed both towards the guards. He steadied his aim and without missing a beat, took the shot, killing both guards instantly. “Where do you think he shot them?” John asked Rory.

“Temple,” Alex replied, throwing John back his gun. The four friends continued on, stopping by the dead guards to take their guns. Their goal was to enter through a side pathway that would lead them straight to the princess’ room. Now getting to the side was difficult. Since the castle itself is surrounded by a moat, it would be very difficult to get in and out fast so time was of the essence.

They made their way to the side to find two sleeping guards. Rory and John, the two who had the assault rifles from the dead guards, knocked out the two soldiers by hitting them in the back of the neck. John picked up the guns and handed one to Alex and the other to Xavier. Xavier was hesitant to take it but he did so without complaining.  Now it was time for them to get into the castle and to their prize.

Their entrance was blocked by a stone that had been there since the last siege that was held against the castle a hundred years ago. Rory had found this out when he was in school and they took a field trip there. It took all of them to move the giant rock out of the way.

“So we are all going in right? I mean this is a four person job am I correct?” Rory asked John.

“Yeah, but who would keep guard?” John said to Rory in reply. Rory took deep thought into what John had said. “You and Xavier keep guard, me and Alex will go in and nab the princess and get the hell out. Quick and simple.” Xavier and Rory nodded in agreement. John led the way through the small hole in the wall. Alex was a little surprised that John could actually fit inside. It looked as if he was going to get stuck and they would have to call the whole thing off and try to pull him out.

John made it through with Alex following him. When they were through they came to be in a deserted part of the castle. Exactly how they wanted it. John pulled out a map of the layout of the castle. Alex had wondered where he had gotten the map or if he just always carried one around. According to the map, they needed to go up one set of staircases and they would be on the same story as the princess’ room.

They began their small journey to their prize. They turned through the hallways, attempting to find the unused staircase. When they found what they were looking for, it turned out that this part of the castle had indeed not been deserted. The two guards were heavily armed with machine guns. “Wow, two heavily armed guards down here?” John whispered. He was confused along with Alex.

Alex just shrugged in reply. Alex took off the silencer on his pistol and attached it to his stolen gun. Alex aimed and right when he was about to take the shot, both men moved to another corridor. The bullet only sank into the cement. Now the soldiers were alert and ran off, probably for backup.

“Oh shit, let’s move fast!” John yelled, running up the stairs with Alex right behind him. They ran through the corridors of the second floor until the reached the room where the princess slept. Overhead, an alarm began to sound, alerting John and Alex that they were in danger. “Crap, we’re screwed.” The princess’ room was guarded by two more guards, who were playing cards at the time. Alex shot off a couple rounds and killed both of them. Blood spilled over the cards. Alex was the first to move, knocking in the door. When he entered the room he saw all of the room’s brilliance. Fit for a princess all right. The princess appeared from the bed and stood in her buttoned up nightgown, confused.  Alex was stunned that even thought she was obviously having a bad hair day, he was stunned at her overall beauty.

The girl was probably the same age as Alex; with long blonde hair and blue eyes. Alex was to stunned to move from his spot so John pushed him out of the way and headed to the princess. “What’s going on?” She demanded as John grabbed her hand and let her outside the room into the corridor. She stepped in the blood that was spilled causing her to make a slight shout in disgust.

Alex snapped out of it and followed John. All he could do was watch his friend and a girl who he had just kidnapped. They went through the corridors until they reached the large staircase that they had taken before. No guards, Alex thought. Something was wrong. The alarm was still active as they ran down the staircase. The princess was struggling to get away but John’s grip was to strong for her to break. When they reached the bottom of the steps, around twenty soldiers surrounded them, guns drawn and pointed at them. One soldier stepped forward. He was obviously the captain of all the men standing before Alex.

“Freeze and let her go,” he said, taking another step forward holding his hand out for the girl. She tried once more to move from John but he wouldn’t have it.

“You better come put with a damn good idea or we’re dead Alex,” John whispered. Alex was always looked upon as the one to come up with the best get away plan but at this point he only could think of one other way. And he couldn’t let John follow him or it would cause huge problems for himself and his friend Procolus.

Alex took a step back and yelled. “Procolus!” Everyone looked around for something to happen. Nothing. John looked ashamed and took a step forward, almost turning himself in. That was the thing with John; he knew when he was beaten. “Take a step back John,” Alex said. He confused John, but he obeyed, making the princess step back too. Suddenly the earth began to shake.  Now everyone but Alex was panicking. Next thing that happened blew everyone away. Procolus, the great mecha, came crashing into the castle. The rubble killed all of the soldiers, and knocked the captain out.

“Uh, Alex, what is that?” John demanded, a little shaky. Procolus put his hand out and Alex jumped on. He issued for the princess and John picked her up and put her on the giant hand. Then he proceeded to attempt getting on, but Alex motioned him off.

“I can only carry the two of us. I’ll meet you back in Baker’s square all right?” Alex said to John. He nodded and went through the path that they had used to get in. The giant hand moved all the way up to the chest plate, where it opened up and Alex jumped in with the royal girl. “All right Procolus, let’s get out of here.”

“All right, hold on to something, it’s going to get a little bumpy!” The two grabbed onto something, Alex using one hand to hold her in one spot. Alex assumed she was either really confused or completely pissed off. But she really didn’t say a word during the lifting. Procolus shot up into the air and towards their destination.

So,” Alex began, in hopes to cheer her up. “What’s your name?” No response from her. Now Alex was almost certain that she was mad. But in her spot he didn’t blamer her. “You do have a name, don’t you?”

“Don’t even try to be nice,” she said in a snobby voice “My dad warned me about people like you!” She crossed her arms.

“Oh really, then why did I kidnap you then?” Alex said, his patience being pushed over its limit.

“It’s obvious. All you’re going to do is have your way with me and then hold me for ransom. Might as well get this over with,” She began to undo her nightgown, looking away from Alex in the process. She had known her fate, or so she thought so she already gave in. As she moved down to reveal herself, tears dropped from her face onto the ground.

She began to open up her nightgown slowly but Alex grabbed the shirt right below her breast. She stared at him, her eyes teary still. “What are you doing?” Alex asked completely confused.

“A-aren’t you going to have your way with me?” She asked, balling at this point.

“No, no. I wouldn’t harm you like that. I mean don’t get me wrong, your absolutely beautiful but I’m not like my other friends,” Alex reassured her. After his words, he began to rebutton her nightgown. She was now balling more than ever. But she got her wish not to be raped. Alex couldn’t figure out why she was still crying. Alex now began to comfort her by giving her a hug, which she gave in return a few moments after. After a half-hour of crying, she finally came to a stop.

“So I guess your going to make a ransom out of me aren’t you?

“No, I’m not. Would you like to go home? That’s the most I can offer you,” Alex asked, sounding as sincere as possible.

“I would like that very much. Oh and my name is Alice by the way.” She said drying her face off with her nightgown that was now fully buttoned.”

“That’s a beautiful name. My name is Alex,” he said. He gave her a smile which he got once more in return.

“Oh and don’t worry, I’ll tell them that you rescued me so you won’t get into any trouble.” She got up and looked around. “I’m going to look around if that’s okay with you.” Alex nodded and she smiled. Alice took off, not missing a single ounce of space. It wasn’t until she stepped near the platform that he panicked a little. The girl was now eyeballing the red and black suit.

“Just don’t touch the suit,” Alex said as Alice put her hand near it. She turned to him and back to the suit. She then bypassed it and continued her search for something unusual. As if the mecha wasn’t unusual as it is.

“Ha ha, Procolus was laughing. “Someone’s in love. Not hard to see.” Procolus laughed again.

“Shhh, she’ll hear you Procolus.” Alex said hoping Alice had not heard what Procolus was saying.

“Oh about that. I forgot to tell you that I can only be heard by you; and you talk through your thoughts to me even though you might think your talking aloud.” Alex sighed in relief but he was curious as to why that was true. To him he couldn’t believe that he was in love. He didn’t ever believe in the bullshit love at first sight. But he knew he liked her. After all, what teenager could resist a beautiful princess? Obviously Alex could not.

“Hey Procolus, head back to castle, we’re not going to Baker’s square, we are going to take her back. And is it possible to speed it up?”

“Yeah. But you really trust her word?” Procolus asked Alex.

“Yeah I do. I think you two will be the only ones I trust. And let’s leave it at that.” Procolus agreed, turned around and headed back to the Zarnian castle.

 

 

5

Alex and Alice sat in front of the screen, awaiting their arrival to the castle. It took them about fifteen minutes to get back due to the increased speed. The castle finally came into view and Procolus slowed down. “Sorry for kidnapping you in the first place,” Alex said. Alice just looked at him. Another tear fell from her eyes. “What’s wrong?

“Your nice. No one really has time to be nice to me; they’re always too busy. But you’re not busy right?” She sounded desperate now.

“I’ve got nothing better to do.” Alex said, smiling and getting the same reply. She jumped towards him and hugged him. Alex hugged her back after a moment pause.

“Stay with me please.” Alex could feel his shirt getting wet from her man fallen tears. At this point Alex couldn’t say no.

“Alright then, I’ll stay,” Alex replied, now hugging Alice harder but not hard enough to hurt her. They finally reached the castle, which had more military than any other place in the country. There was everything from guard dogs to tanks. But what they didn’t have was a single mecha unit and this confused Alex. “Procolus why aren’t there any mechas anywhere I’ve been?” Procolus didn’t answer. Maybe he’s the only one, Alex thought, knowing Procolus could hear what he was thinking. Still no answer. Alex thought it was a topic for another time.

The troops noticed they flying object and began to panic, firing uncontrollably at them. Alex as well began to panic as he heard the bullets bounce off the mecha. But something reassured him that regular bullets couldn’t damage the mecha. Alex calmed down except for the fact he was hearing voices again. Luckily they weren’t commanding him to do anything horrible to himself or anyone else.

Procolus landed in the middle courtyard. The soldiers instantly surrounded them an readied to fire. “Here, talk to them through this,” Procolus said, lowering a mike down to Alex. Alex began to speak.

“Please do not fire, we come in peace.”  Alex looked at the screen. They didn’t lower their guns. He thought of a new approach almost instantly. “Throw your weapons down; the princess Alice is onboard.” The soldiers looked at each other trying to figure out if it was faked or not. One soldier came forth and threw down his gun and the re-formed with the line. Another soldier did the same and then another, until all the weapons were on the ground. “Alright Alice let’s go.”

The mecha’s hand moved towards the center chest plate where Alex and Alice were. It opened up and revealed the two to the world. News helicopters and vans, along with all the military units. Alice held Alex’s hand as they stepped out onto the hand and was lowered down. Right when they hit the ground, four soldiers came up and seized Alice and Alex. They were separated and Alex was put in cuffs.

Alice tried to get back to Alex but the soldiers pulled her away. “Alex!” She yelled, trying to get to him. She kicked and screamed and Alex, for once, grew a tear. Alice managed to get away by kicking one man in his family jewels and ripping away from the other one. She ran straight to Alex and whispered in his ear. “Don’t worry, I’ll set this all straight.” Alex was confident she would. The soldiers regained control of Alice as she kept looking back for Alex.

Alex was torn to one side. Procolus stood up and closed off his entrances and shut down so that they couldn’t tear him apart. The captain that was knocked out came up to Alex, giving him a dirty look as he read a piece of paper. “You are herby under arrest,” He read. “By kidnapping the princess of Zarnia, you are convicted of high treason and are sentenced to death. Do you understand?” Alex nodded and was taken into the castle dungeons where he would be kept for a week until his death sentence. Alice on the other hand was reunited with her parents, where she explained Alex’s situation to them.