The Sword Thief

By TheOwlAndTheWorm

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Garrett's a master thief. Matilda's your classic tomboy-princess. Garrett craves adventure. Matilda wishes de... More

The Sword Thief
Princess Matilda
Hidden rooms and lonely goodbyes
Let's high jack a horse!
The fight
Great. Were all gonna die
May the quest begin!
matti's memory locket
I threw up biscuits for love?
chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
The End

The king, nightmares, and bears, oh my!

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By TheOwlAndTheWorm

The King's P.O.V. aka Matilda's father

There is knock at the door while I'm having my portrait painted for me. Probably another annoying maid, she would go away in time. There's yet another knock.Still ignoring the noise, I focus  on making my face look intimidating yet not scary. The person was now banging franticly at my door.

“Yes!” I yell breaking my pose, and putting the most frightening scowl on the artist’s face. My daughter’s nurse comes in looking pale and panicked.

 “Y-you-your- Maj-Majesty.” She stutters.

I don’t know why we kept the girl she had the most displeasing stutter, yet my now deceased wife had found something worth keeping in her. I would fire her later, I remind my self.

“Yes, Kira?” I ask trying to be patient with her.

 “Oh! tis hor-horred S-sir!” She stammers immediately breaking into tears. Which made the stuttering far worse than it should have been.

“T-th-the  Princess! Sh-Sh-She is gone! She blubbers.

“She is never here Kira I don’t see the problem.” I say getting ready to pose again.

“N-No sir! Sh-she is gone! On a j-journey! A pr-prisoner to-told us of h-her plans to l-le-leave!”

 “So we wait a month and if she isn’t back by then we send a search party, problem solved. Now leave Kira. Before I decide to not only banish you but, behead you.” I state adjusting my royal attire and  going back to pose.

Her mouth hangs open before she quickly closes it.

“Y-yo-your wife w-wo-would not be p-pr-proud.” She stammers before shutting the door behind her.

Yeah Kira, well your not the first to tell me that.

Matilda's P.O.V.

 I can’t breathe, I think staring at thick smog of smoke. Surely I’m going to die.

“Matilda! Matilda honey!” an all to familiar voice yells for me.

“Mom?” I choke, suffocating on smoke.

 “Honey! where are you?!?!” she screams.

“No moma, no..stay…” I try to tell her. I know if she comes to find me only one of us will make it out alive. But just as I'm  about to black out  I see her hand reach out for me.

Jerking up in my sleep I knock into something hard. I was having that stupid dream again.

“You okay?” a deep groggy voice says hovering over me.

 Wait where was I again? Opening my eyes I see Garrett in front of me rubbing his head. I jerk back as a reflex and bang my head on the floor, since his face is obviously not the first thing I was expecting.

“What were you doing?” I hiss..

 “Chill, you were thrashing around like a rabid animal so I came to check out what was going on.” He says unpleased by my attitude this early in the morning.

 “Well nothing was going on, and now thanks to you, I’ve got wo massive welts on my head.” I say rubbing the spots I now realize are throbbing.

“Hmmph, you ought to learn manners.”

 “Well haven’t you ever heard of personal space!”

 “I thought you were in trouble and I came to help!”

 “I can handle myself just fine thank you.”

“So she says…”

“Hey love birds, quit the chit chat and help us get breakfast going.” Nate says barging in to the tent. I hear snickers from outside and instantly my cheeks redden.

 “Sure thing kid, common sweet cheeks your needed in the kitchen.” Garret says offering me a hand to get up.

Grunting I ignore his hand and head to where Jane stands.

“So what are we eating?” I ask her.

“Were supposed to be having eggs and these dried out biscuits, but it looks like we were robbed last night.” She replies.

“Alrighty then, looks like I’ll have to hunt.” I offer reaching for my bow.

“Why do you get to hunt?” Garrett says walking up to us with Nate on his shoulders. Seems like their getting along just fine.

“Because I said I would, now you stay here and do whatever they need.”

 “Hunting is for men, so leave this to me and Garrett.” Nate replies reaching for my bow.

“Don’t little boys fetch water or something.” I grunt turning on my heels and dismissing  them both.

Walking deeper into the forest I realize they haven't followed me. Good just how I like to hunt. Hiding behind a shrub I squat down and point the bow and arrow towards the ground. Hearing ruffling towards my left I aim in that direction.

Garrett's P.O.V

“Why is your girlfriend so cranky?” Nate asks for the umpteenth time. 

“She’s not my girlfriend.” I bluntly reply.

“She is a girl right?” he inquires.

“Mmhhm.”

“And she’s your friend?”

“I guess”

“So she’s your girlfriend.” He decides.

Sighing I take him off my shoulders and place him on the ground. We were looking for Matilda, his idea not mine. I honestly didn’t want to mess with her till she blew off some steam, plus she was holding a loaded bow and arrow.

“Okay Nate, stick close. You get mauled by a bear, I’m not sticking around for it to decide your not worth devouring thus it goes for me. Got it.” I tell him.

 “You’d let me get eaten by a bear!” he yelps shocked.

 “Course I would.”

 “I’ll put your word to the test then.” He smugly replies.

And with that he takes off running. 

Nate's P.O.V

I take off sprinting destroying everything in my path. I wasn’t breaking things on purpose; I just wasn’t watching where I was going. . .

 “COMMON BEARS!?! COME EAT ME!”  I yell stopping for just a minute.

 “Shhh what if there really was a bear here! You think I’m joking? I swear if I hear even the tiniest growl I’m high tailing out of here!” Garrett hisses.

“COMMON BEARY BEARY BEARY BEAAARRRYY!”

 “Shut up, kid!”

“MR. GRIZZLY!!!” I screech making Garrett squirm and look frantically about.

“Shhh!!!”

I do my best impression of a bear’s growl making him jump a few feet in the air.

“Did you hear that?” Garrett asks looking more like a scared toddler than a teenager.

“No.”

“I thought I heard a…no…never mind.” He says giving me suspicious look.

“Mmkay what ever you say…MR. GRIZZLEY!!!!” I pick up where I left off. 

As I'm about to put my foot down an arrow shoots out form the bush I was next to.

“What in the world?” I murmur.

“Man, Why did you move your foot!” Matilda says randomly popping out of the bush. 

My mouth hangs open in the air while Garrett handles this.

“You can’t just shoot the poor child!” he says.

“And why is that?” she retorts.

“Well because…what purpose would that serve?”

“Thanks to him, he’s probably scared off all the animals in an 80 mile radius of here! The arrow was only going to nick him anyway, he would have been fine.” She says waving her hand, as if it would shoo the problem away.

 “Fine but were going back to camp, you two are getting out of hand.” Garrett says reaching for our wrists. I take that as an opportunity to snag a free piggy back ride, and I climb on his back. I’m not a fan of walking. Matilda snatches her wrist out of his grasp, and walks back uttering nonsense the whole way.

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