Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 52- Another Problem

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

I was pissed, after hearing my sister had gone missing again. I looked at Nashi on the floor. He smelled like liquor and was obviously heartbroken. I looked up at Duke Vernon and at my father.

“Treason?”, I asked, it was fucking ridiculous, I thought to myself.

I watched my mother storm out of the villa and father didn't stop her.

“Rosemary, after we find Sage we're leaving”, father said.

“Please calm down, Prince Moises”, Duke Vernon said.

My father walked over to Duke Vernon and pointed his finger at Nashi who was passed out on the floor.

“Keep him away from my daughter and I'll spare your family, since we have a long history together”, father said.

Duke Vernon nodded his head, “I understand, please still stay until we find your daughter”, he said, while pleading with father.

Father gestured his hand towards me and I followed behind him.

“Aren't you going to stop mother?”, I asked, curiously.

Father shook his head, “Natalie can handle herself. We need to focus on finding your sister” he said.

I followed my father into the hall and saw Yeshiva standing next to the door. We followed my father downstairs and walked outside of the villa. We walked in the garden and father looked very angry.

“Father, why would the queen threaten them with treason?” I asked.

Father sighed, “Because Sage rejected her offer. So she's targeting Nashi and Duke Vernon, technically they're hiding a fugitive so she can use that against us. I'm not going to marry my daughter off just to have my exile rescinded” he answered.

“So what are we going to do now?”, I asked, curiously.

“We need to distance ourselves from Duke Vernon's family”, he said.

“So that's why Nashi's drunk?”, I asked in amusement.

Father looked at me, “ It's because I told him to stay away from Sage because his resolves too weak. He grew up with a noble life and he wouldn't know how to survive in a common world. I asked if he was willing to give up his nobility and he hesitated”, father explained.

I'll punch him when he wakes up, I thought to myself.

After talking with my father and Yeshiva, I went into the villa while they remained outside in the garden. When I walked up the stairs, I saw Nashi holding onto the wall as he was walking up the hall.

I walked up to him and grabbed him by the collar with both of my hands, pulling him close to me.

“You need to get your shit together”, I said, looking him directly in the face.

He looked down at me, “I won't let another man take her away from me” he said.

“If you want to remain by my sister's side, you need to get your shit together or stay away from her” I said, while letting go of his collar.

I left him behind without looking back and walked towards my room. The lights were still off and I just flopped down onto the bed. I closed my eyes for a bit until I heard the knob turning. I opened my eyes and looked at the ceiling. I heard the door open and someone walked into the room. Since it was dark, I grabbed the knife from under the pillow. After mother's crazy attempts to keep us alert, she made us keep knives in the room under our pillows. I silently rose off the bed and went to the other side of the room.

“Those stupid bitches, why do I” I heard a female voice.

I started to tiptoe around as I felt her presence moving further into the room.

“I'll just have to kill her while she's asleep”, she said as she approached the bed.

I rushed over and grabbed her from behind, placing the knife against her neck. Without hesitation I slit her throat and I heard her body hit the floor. I walked over her and cut on the lights.

When I looked over at her I saw one of the new maids, the one who was assigned to me from Nashi.

I felt my vein popping out the side of my head and grabbed her right foot. I dragged her through the hallway all the way to the Duke's office. I heard the maids and butlers gasp as I walked past them. I kicked in the door, and saw my father, Yeshiva and Duke Vernon in the office. They turned their heads in my direction.

“We have a problem”, I said, looking directly at them.

(NATALIE P.O.V)

I stormed out of the villa, after hearing Sage went missing. I got into the car and drove off, I was going to get in the palace one way or another. It seems like me and the queen need to have a little chat before I burn down the palace. I knew Moises wouldn't stop me because I saw the rage on his face. It's been a long time since I've seen that expression.

Deep down I feel like there is more to the reason why the queen wants Sage to get married. I was going to go find out.. Before I do that, I should go break Sylvester out of the dungeon.

I drove for five hours until I made it to the central region. I parked the car on the outskirts of the commoners village and decided to travel the rest of the way on foot. I've used many hidden tunnels during the time I would visit Moises. When I made it to the village, I walked into the local bar where I used to get all my information from during my squad days. I was surprised to see it was still open.

“Did you hear the news?”I heard a woman whispering to the man standing next to her.

“What news?” the man asked.

“There is a rumor that Prince Moises have illegitimate children,” she said.

“Wasn't he exiled?”, the man asked.

“I heard in the hair salon that his oldest daughter was in the palace, Lady Nidia has been spreading rumors”, the other woman responded.

I was trying to eavesdrop some more until I heard a loud siren.

Shit, if there's an attack somewhere, I mumbled.

I hurried and made my way toward the palace. If that siren is going off that means there's an enemy attacking somewhere in the kingdom.

I rushed through the forest and tried to find the hidden tunnel that led inside the palace grounds.

“The safe house”, I mumbled.

I ran until I reached the safe house and went to find the hidden path that we escaped through.

This should lead me to the dungeon, I thought to myself.

I remembered where it was and uncovered it and dropped down inside and started to crawl. About hour later, I placed my hand onto the tunnel door and made my way into the dungeon.

Ah, I hate this place, I mumbled.

I walked down the concrete hallway and saw the guards were asleep. Seriously, these guards are fucking lazy. I snuck passed them and walked down the stairs. I was surprised the lights were on. I walked around looking in the cells for Sylvester. When I found him he was asleep.

“Sylvester”, I whispered but loudly enough for him to hear.

He looked over at me and I saw bruises on his face.

“Lady Natalie”, he said, while getting up.

“What the hell happened to your face?”, I asked.

He smirked. “Prince Marshall”, ” he said.

“I thought the Queen arrested you?” I asked, feeling confused.

He tightened his grip onto the iron bar.

“Prince Marshall is the one who arrested me. He found out Sage was in the palace after the Queen introduced her to the other women”, he said.

Shit, I thought to myself.

“I think he has spies in our villa”, Sylvester said.

“How do I open the gate?” I asked.

“The guards have the key,” he said.

Without a second thought, I ran towards the stairs and hurried back to where the guards were asleep. I put my arm around the guard's neck and snapped it one at a time while they slept. I grabbed the keys and hurried back down the stairs. I unlocked the gate and slid It back and Sylvester came out and we started to walk until I heard a voice.

“Who's there?”, she asked, softly.

I walked back and Sylvester followed behind. When I walked in front of the cell. I saw a young pregnant woman, she had pale skin and blonde auburn hair with light pink eyes.

“Who are you?Why are you in a cell? Sylvester and I asked at the same time.

The woman tightened her hand around the iron bars.

“I'm Serbia”, she answered.

I looked over at Sylvester, “unlock the gate”, I said.

He nodded this and started to put the key into the lock. When it opened the woman took slow steps.

“How many months are you?”, I asked.

“Seven” she answered, while taking my hand.

She gripped my hand and had a desperate look in her eyes.

“Please get me out of here before he returns”, she said.

“Why are you locked up in the dungeon?” Sylvester asked.

“I'm pregnant with Prince Marshall's baby,” she said.

Sylvester and I looked at each other appalled.

“He's trying to take my baby after he's born,” she said.

She grabbed Sylvester by the shirt, “Get me out of here” she begged.

Shit, now we have to find a bigger tunnel, I sighed.

“Please take me back to the western region” she begged.

We helped her up the stairs and quickly made it to another tunnel. Suddenly, the sirens went off again.

“Looks like one of the regions is under attack” Sylvester mumbled.

“Yeah but which one”, I thought to myself.

(SAGE P.O.V)

After we walked out of the room, Nathan handed me a pair of clothes. It was black and blue and looked to be a uniform. I changed into the clothes and he handed me another dagger and a sword. I placed the sword into the scabbard that Chena handed me.

“Sage”, he said, looking down at me.

I looked up at him, “Whatever happens make sure you stay by Chena and Destiny's side. Do you think you can keep up?” He asked.

“Are you joining the battlefield?”, I asked.

He nodded his head, “We have to protect the people near the border until Duke Winter arrives. This is his region that is under his control”, he explained.

I nodded my head, and then he placed his right hand on the top of my head and roughly rubbed my hair.

“I hate when you do that”, I complained.

He started to laugh, “I missed you girls” he said.

He turned around and started walking ahead of us.

“Now, let's begin”, he said.

We nodded our heads.

When he left the villa, Nathan had someone bring him four horses.

“Do you know how to ride a horse?”, he asked.

I shook my head.

“Well you're going to learn today”, he said and smirked.

Seriously, now I understand why Rosie and I always thought he was reckless and crazy. He always made us do stuff we had no clue on how to do. He picked me up and placed me on top of the horse. He jumped on the one next to me. Chena and Destiny jumped on the ones behind us. He showed me how to move around and what commands I'm supposed to say. After I got the hang of it, we started to follow behind him into the forest. We rode through the forest to the western border. While riding my horse, I saw village people running towards us.

“Don't stop, keep going,” Nathan said, riding in front of us.

We continued to ride until we made it to the border. When we got there, I saw knights attacking one of the villages.

“They already made it past the border, it looks like the Knights from the Kingdom of Kalpana,” Nathan said.

“Prepare for battle, and Sage make sure you stay next to Chena” he said.

I nodded my head.

He gestured his hand for us to follow. We rode behind him once again and the horses ran down the hill into the village. We entered the village, the people were running and screaming as the knights were attacking people. I saw other Knight's fighting against the Kalpana knights. As we got closer, Nathan shouted for us to take the swords out.

“We'll take care of the ones that's further in the village”, Nathan said.

As soon as he said that, we saw some knights approaching on horses. I thought I was going to be afraid but I felt my heart racing, I was excited instead. The knights noticed us and started riding in our direction. We rode forward towards them, and one of the knights pointed his sword in our direction. They rode faster towards us, I saw Nathan raise his sword up and Chena and Destiny raised theirs. I raised mines as well and instantly we were clashing swords with the other knights.

I felt my adrenaline rushing and the excitement running through my veins as we continued to clash swords with the other knights. One of the knights raised up his sword as he was riding towards me. I raised my sword and slashed across his chest as I rode past him. I heard him fall off the horse and didn't look back. I kept following behind Chena and Destiny as they were cutting down knights left and right. All of a sudden, I heard a horse neighing loudly coming from the side of me. When I looked over and I saw a knight approaching and he raised his sword.

When the other knight and I clashed swords, I saw a young man with long silver hair that was tied up in a ponytail and had dark red eyes. He backed up and raised his sword again.

“Woman”, he said in a deep voice and had a strong accent. It made my body shiver a bit.

Before I could react another knight came on the side of me and Nathan came over, slashing the knight down. Nathan stood in-between the other knight and I.

Unexpectedly, the other knight lowered his sword.

“This is just the beginning”, he said.

He turned around and yelled to the other knights. They all turned around and started riding in the other direction. Nathan turned around facing my direction as he stood in front of me.

“If you could see your expression right now”, he said and smirked.

“What about my expression?”, I asked, confused a little.

“You're making the same expression as your father when he's on the battlefield. You're smiling while covered in blood,” he said.