The Save

Chapter Nine

Evil Grandmother

The wolf snarled at them as Prince Endyimon raised his sword a little, "Who are you?" the evidently female wolf hissed as she took a step forward and quickly gave a wary look to her babies.

"I'm Prince Endyimon soon to be king of the Moon, and this is Princess Serenity, soon to be my wife" he said and ignored her gasp of outrage, the woman was driving him crazy with this defiance.

"Were not here to harm you" Princess Serenity quickly assured the wolf, "Are we Endyimon?" she demanded as she took a sidestep and then stepped in front of the prince, who immediately set to putting her back behind him.

"If you're not here to hurt me and my young then why are you holding a sword ready for battle? Don't play me dumb I know that evil old woman sent you to smite me down" the wolf said.

"Evil old woman?" the prince and princess whispered at the same time. "We were sent by Robin hood and his rhyming comrades" he replied.

The wolfs eyes widened, "They want me dead? What have I ever done to them?" she asked conversationally.

"Well apparently you ate their sheep or something like that" Serenity blinked in wonder at what the hell was going on.

"I don't eat sheep or any other creature except maybe those evil pigs, and I wouldn't mind sinking my teeth into that old grandmother" the wolf replied.

"What grandmother?" they both asked again getting a little irritated,

"Little Red's grandmother has been trying to get me to sell her my cottage which you are both in now by the way, she wants my land as well but I refused so she has been trying use other methods to make me leave" the wolf said.

"And how are we to believe that a old woman would do such a thing?" Prince Endyimon asked with a sarcastic voice.

Serenity could not believe how rude he was being to the wolf that only wanted to protect her children, "Where does this grandmother live? Maybe we could talk to her and stop her from doing anything more" Serenity suggested ignoring Endyimon's immediate protests.

The Wolf raised one hairy eyebrow at that, "Why would you do that?" she asked as she pulled herself into a more dignified posture.

"Beats me" Endyimon growled under his breath, but knew that angering his princess would only make worse the headache that he suffered at the moment.

"Because we have nothing else important to do at this time," she told the wolf with a genuine smile.

Endyimon glared at her in disbelief at those words, "Are you forgetting something called a wedding, you cant just keep finding things to do to stall, we are going to be married and sooner rather than later" he told her with his usual arrogance.

Serenity ignored the wolf's startled expression and turned furious, "How many times am I going to have to knock it though your thick pig-headed skull, I'm not marrying you ever, I never agreed to and I never will, I could not imagine living with you for the rest of my life" she yelled harshly trying to get her point across, then after a moment she feared she may have really hurt his feelings.

Prince Endyimon seemed to ponder on what she had just said for a few long seconds before giving her a stern look, "You know…darling" he said the last word with a sickly sweet voice, "You really are going to have to control your mood swings when we are married, I mean queens don't act like that, were you never taught how to compose yourself?" he asked her and ignored the murderous look she gave him.

Serenity was starting to really get annoyed, he just didn't listen to her at all, and she'd be surprised if anyone other than his parents could stand his cockiness for more than a few minutes.

She turned to the wolf that was giving them a rather confused draining look, "Where does this grandmother live?" she asked with a strained tight voice.

The Wolf quickly gave her directions, 'follow the path on till you hit a fork in the road go on the far right path then over a stone bridge and there you'll find her house'.

Serenity marched out the door and took off without looking at Prince Endyimon, who of course followed after her immediately.

Half an hour later…

Endyimon had tried to apologise, even though he did not know what he was apologising for. He had tried to start conversations but he only got silence in return, the only time the princess would talk is when she asked the mirror questions about the grandmother.

He started getting aggravated when she refused to stop for a break even though he could tell she was weary, and after she kept tripping on her feet from tiredness he lost patience, "That's it!" he snapped as he walked up behind her and grabbed her wrist in a tight unrelenting grip that was just short of painful. "You can hate me all you want but I wont have you fainting because of it" he growled as he yanked her around to face him.

Serenity tried to glare at him but could not must enough energy, "Leave me alone" she said as she tried to break free from his grasp.

"Hate me if that is your wish but we are taking a break, so sit down, and relax," he commanded in a voice that she found herself obeying.

She sunk down a fallen tree trunk when he let her go and watched as he searched around for dry wood to make a fire, she didn't really mean what she had said to him earlier, she could imagine being with him, marrying him, falling in love with him, and yet she had only just gained her freedom and to have it ripped away from her now would be to painful.

More worrisome were the feelings she kept on getting as he touched her or spoke to her, especially the tingles she got when he gazed at her as if he was daydreaming about her, she didn't want these feelings surely, she turned her gaze away from him and looked down the darkening path they still had yet to follow, she would have to escape him soon, very soon, she would flee far away and never see him again.

Endyimon looked at the sad expression Serenity was wearing as she looked off into the distance, had he really hurt her that she would be sad? He hadn't realised that when he found his princess he would feel so utterly smitten, he wanted her completely, he never wanted to let her go, but he also didn't want to be the one to make her unhappy, could he let her go?

(Sorry this took forever; anyway I always write humorous chapters so I decided to write a meaningful one here, the next chapter is called 'Who's Walking Over My Bridge?" enjoy)