Pretending To Be Gilead's Prince and Master Wizard

Before I could even utter a single word, Alex had gently kissed me again. I felt warmth in my heart as my thoughts drifted over the returned kiss. His lips were warm and soft, making mine parted in awe. He can slip his tongue in between.

As we slowly unbuttoned one another's clothing, our bodies pressed together against the wall, and our breathing became intense. I could taste our shared breath and feel the thud of our combined heartbeat.

The button of my dress was already halfway to being open in full when Alex stopped for a moment, peeling his face away from me as soon as possible.

"Argh! Those buttons, have I lost my self-control again? Sorry." He says, hitting his right palm against his face. After he helped me straighten up my dress and redo my buttons on the side, he said, "I miss your warmth a bit."

My heart melts whenever I see the captain's proud face when he tries to be sweet around me. And I can't believe how lucky I am to be the girl he loves... when I thought it was a one-sided love between us.

"I got to learn how to control myself when I am around you starting from now on," Alex mumbles more to himself than to me.

To tease him a bit, I asked, "Then what makes you decide to bring me in here? In your room?"

I almost giggled when I saw his face turning beet red in an instant, causing him to turn away immediately. "Actually, there is a reason why I brought you here. But I got a bit… sidetracked, alright?"

"Whatever you say… captain."

"Geez, you're sometimes annoying!"

The latter only clicks his tongue in annoyance before taking a few steps away from me and going towards his black-painted nightstand that matches the gray color of his luxury bed. Afterward, he bends his body a little and opens the second drawer that fully gains my attention now.

"What are you doing?" I curiously asked, my eyes are now fixated on the thing that he tries to grab out of his drawer. Moments later, I turn my attention to the object now in Alex's hand, realizing that it is a small leather-bound notebook with a metal spring on its left side where previously a fountain pen had been placed.

"My diary!" I exclaimed in delight, but then I looked at him curiously after that. "Wait, how come you have that in your possession?"

Alex just gave me a blank look, like I should know better since it was mine. Well, he has a point there. "I don't know. This is yours, right? You should know better why I suddenly found this lurking inside the secret compartment of my office desk."

As I tried my best to recall how my notebook ended there, I had a vision of myself panicking. I struggled to pull myself down while eagerly searching for his desk's secret compartment. 

When everything came to me, I burst out, "I remembered now! I wanted you to know something about the prince's missing case that might help you solve it, and with so little time, I tucked it under your desk instead of giving it to you right away."

"Which is a very smart move, my dear student…" Alex says a bit proudly, smirking in my direction. "Or else it would have ended in the wrong hands."

"So… were you able to read its contents?"

"Apparently, yes. Because of it, I regained my memories a bit earlier than you did back there at Central Town."

My lips immediately parted in astonishment as I heard what he just said. He already did gain his memories back? Is that maybe why he was at Central Town earlier? To look for me?

"As soon as I read the contents of your library, the first thing that I did is to hide it in here where our enemies might not see it. Then, I immediately teleported to Central Town and went to that antique store to see you, but you're not there, so… I roamed around."

"And that's when I happen to see you from the pastry shop where me and my friends have been hanging out earlier!" I finished it off for him. I remembered my friends suddenly and felt a surge of panic knowing that I left off without even saying goodbye to them. But I pushed my worries to the side and concentrated on what was more important at the moment.

"But, wait a minute…."

I folded my arms and darted my eyes suspiciously at the lad standing in front of me. 

When I asked him, "If you already regained your memories before me, then why didn't you introduce yourself directly instead of making me guess earlier like a total idiot?" he chuckled.

As he finally stopped laughing, he immediately cleared his throat before answering my question."Are you kidding me? That would only spoil the fun. And besides, as if you will believe me the moment I did that to you."

"You could have at least… tried!"

"The point here is…" Alex now crosses his arms over his chest and starts to wear that serious expression of his. "I only wanted to test you… to see if you have at least remembered me somehow or have the same visions like what I was having for the past few weeks. And you actually did, eventually."

A smile now crosses over to his lips after saying his last statement, making me smile back towards him. It's like no matter what will happen to the both of us, we would always, always, find our way back together…

Now that we have a full grasp of our memory and after getting a bit… 'sidetracked'... as what Alex would like to call the thing that's happened between us earlier, we soon realized that we need to get into the planning stage on what to do with all the things that are currently happening for the past few weeks that we have both lost our memories.

The thing here is… we already know who is the mastermind behind all of these. We now have the idea on what he is trying to achieve, and we were able to unmask his true identity in just a short period of time. 

This man has graduated Gilead Academy on top of his class as their rank one student… and known to be one of the deadliest dreamwalkers in today's time. One night, he was responsible for trapping the prince in a dream that led to his abduction and becoming an offering to Salazar, a historic leader of the dark wizards known for inflicting terror and misery to people of Gilead in the dark ages.

After graduating, he soon joins his kin in their quest of ending the royal bloodline to seek revenge after what Prince Arthur's parents did to his own family many years ago. He was on that ship and controlling the waves when the prince's parents sank in the depths of the Mediterranean sea along with it. 

After surviving that catastrophe and fulfilling his objective, he then goes to the main city of Gilead to meet with the prince in a small village and make it look like a coincidence just to gain his trust by hiding his identity as a local priest in that particular village. Once he was invited by the prince to be one of his confidants, which immediately made him known today as the archbishop of Citadel.

Yes, I was actually pertaining to the one and only Father Lancelot of Citadel… uncle of Princess Marionette, and brother of King Emmett of Cordova. Their ancestors swore revenge to the royal bloodline and passed it down to the current generation of their family after being defeated by the prince's royal ancestors during their raid in Colossus (now known as Citadel.)

Their family….sad to say, are the loyal servants of Salazar, 

They are now on a quest of resurrecting the said tyrant ruler by bringing all the blood of the known powerful master wizards all over the world and one royal bloodline through Salazar's blood-sucking flying insects known as arthropods, living creatures which were known in history as part of the plague that completely spread worldwide during my father's time as a master wizard. They are believed to be created and controlled by Salazar's brother, Raven, while his brother is still in a deep sleep. Once they have sucked enough blood, it returns to Salazar and replenishes his veins.

I remembered my father dying in what they tagged as a 'terrible illness' but not specifically pointed out what that illness really is. But as I hear these revelations that Alex is now explicitly explaining, all the things that confused me once concerning my father's death made sense to me now.

My father didn't really die a natural death in the process… hence, he was actually murdered by Raven in the past!

Alex later explains that he was able to discover all of these things through the prince's secret diary found at the back of it which he fetches in their secret hideout (that Lancelot still hasn't discovered until now due to the prince's concealing magic encircling around the area), written in invisible ink. 

As it turns out, the prince, even after all this time, already knew who Lancelot was while he was in a hurry to stop Raven from resurrecting his brother (as stated in his last diary entry "I must hurry."). However, he still chose to wait and gave him a chance to redeem himself by showing him kindness.

However, despite all the revelations that I've learned today, there is actually one question that still left me confused.

If Lancelot is seeking to overthrow the prince on his throne, why on Earth would he need someone, like me, to act on the missing prince's behalf?