Life is Never Fair

The Duel

A couple of days ago

I wake up and I see an outfit placed on the chair in front of my bed. I look out the window and I see the sunrise. That's when I remembered that the stupid duel was today. I get the outfit and it's the same one I've been wearing except it's red and black. I walk out and everyone is gathered in the eating grounds. I see Shane standing there and across from him is Gregg. My father in law gets in the middle of them and starts to talk to them.

"This is a clean fight, no spears, no weapons, just your fists." They both nod. I walk over to Shane and I kiss him on the cheek. "You'll do great, finish him off." He smiles and nods his head. As I'm walking back to where the crowd was gathered, I start to remember what Robin said about me becoming violent and sort of dark. I just wished Shane good luck so he could finish off a person. I kept getting all these weird thoughts and I shake off the feeling and concentrated on the duel.

"Time to fight!" Brennan screams. He walks out and they both start to fight. Every punch that hits Shane's face and body kills me inside. He's actually cared about me ever since I landed on the island and now he has to fight to keep his title because of me. 30 minutes pass by and they are both all bloodied and bruised up. In one of those punches Gregg hits Shane really hard in the stomach and he gasps.

Shane falls to the ground and that's when Gregg kicks him in the ribs and he groans. I scream. Shane looks up at me and he smiles. I smile and that's when Gregg comes and just as he's about to kick Shane one last time, Shane gets up and kicks him in the face and knocks him to the ground. Shane keeps his foot on Gregg's neck and is choking him. I could see that Gregg was loosing consciousness and that's when Brennan stops the duel.

"That's it, our king has won once again," he says and raises Shane's hand. Gregg is still lying on the floor and I see Shane all bloody and bruised up, it killed me to see him like that. Everyone cheers and claps. I walk over to him and I take his arm and I walk him back to his home. I laid him down and I could see that he was in so much pain but he was trying to be all tough and not show it because I was there.

Some ladies came and brought me some herbs and remedies to put on his open wounds. I get a wet a cloth and I start to clean his face. He had his eyes closed as I was doing this I couldn't help but feel guilty. He opens his eyes and I couldn't help but think that it was Killian who I was looking at. He smiled, "I won." I nodded. He tried to get up and he groaned.

"No sir you have to stay down; you are all hurt you need to rest." "There's no rest for the king," he says. I scoff. "Well your queen is telling you to rest so you need to rest," I say as I force him to stay down. He laughs, "as my queen desires." I start to put the herbs on his wounds and I could see that they were soothing the pain. In a matter of minutes Shane knocks out and goes to sleep. I smile as I'm looking at him.

I walk outside and that's when Zelena comes up to me, "my queen it is your turn now." "My turn for what?" I look over and I see that everyone is at the eating grounds and Tamara, Gregg's wife was there. "To fight for your right to be queen," she says. I look at her confused. "I can't fight her." "Then you can't be with Shane and you will be banished," Tamara says.

I look at Zelena and gave her a baffled look, "my queen when the King has to fight for his title so does his queen, that's the law here." I scoff. Are you kidding me? Shane knew and didn't tell me anything, punk! Brennan walks over to me and nods, "you're going to have to do it Emma if not you will be banished." I scoff. "Fine." Brennan walks in between us and nods.

"Same rules as the fight between Shane and Gregg but no hits to the stomach or below." We both nod. "Ready fight!" He screams. Tamara throws the first punch and misses me. I kick her in the chest and she fell on the floor. She comes back up and I punch her and man my hand hurt after that punch. She then punched me and we went at it.

15 minutes passed by and I felt like every bone in my body was broken and bruised and I looked at Tamara and she looked the same as me. She then kicked me in my chest and pinned me to the floor and started to choke me. As she was choking me I felt like I had failed Killian and Aqua. That's when I see both of them smile at me and I get one last burst of strength and I push her off and I pinned her on the floor.

I sat on top of her and kept punching her face like crazy. There was just something that clicked in me and I couldn't stop punching her. Everyone kept gasping as I continued to punch Tamara's face. Brennan pulls me off her, "it's over, you're done Emma." I start to panic and I look at Tamara and she looks dead. This isn't me? I would never hurt a person like that. Brennan raises my hand and smiles, "the Queen has won." Everyone cheered and screamed.

Brennan grabs me and sighs, "let me take you to the King's home." As I'm in his arms, I sigh, "you were so different back in our land." He laughs, "you have no idea." I go inside and there's already a bed in there for me that wasn't in there before. Shane looks up and smiles, "you won." "You knew?" He nodded.

"A little warning might have been nice." He laughs, "well now we can rule and share the same pain together." We both laugh then groan. "You shall be beside me until my brother arrives." I nod and smile. He caresses my cheek and smiles.