Mislead

Chapter Two:

Dart growled at himself. With Emperor Doel! Damn! Shana, hold on...

Lavitz had a look of worry cross his face, "It must be something serious... To make so much fuss out of an innocent girl... King Albert will want to hear of this. It will be very important he knows."

"But we need to rescue Shana!"

The knight grabbed Dart's shoulders in order to calm him down.

"We can't. Not alone like this. It would be too dangerous!"

"But... But..."

"I know. We' ll see King Albert, he'll know what to do."

Dart held back a sob. Trying to remind himself he was not a boy any longer. He nodded towards the knight.

"Let's go."

Shana awakened. The brunette had no clue why she was suddenly jolted into consciousness. She listened intently to any noise.

Nothing.

Looking around her room once more Shana noticed there was no window. Frowning to herself, she wondered how she could tell how long she had been in this room...

Curling up to go back to sleep Shana whispered, "He'll come for me..."

Drifting off... A shadow moved in the nearly empty room. Shana was deeply sleeping by then.

"Now who would he be?"

It was driving Dart crazy. They made it through the cave, after almost being killed by that overgrown worm. Now Lavitz and himself had just entered Basil. The kingdom Lavitz guarded and loved. The two hurried up the steps intently, lunging themselves into the castle.

Lavitz made sure it was known that he was back home. They waited for King Albert to see them. Dart was growing past impatient by the time they were brought in.

"Ah! Lavitz! It's so good to see you safely here." His highness greeted as Dart and Lavitz entered the room. The knight conversed with his king as the other man tried to keep from tearing the place apart.

"Lavitz!" Dart called after awhile of the knight and his king's chatting.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, Dart!" Lavitz turned to King Albert, "Your Highness. There was a girl taken from her village for no reason at all. Her name is Shana and Dart is trying to find her. We believe that she was taken directly to Doel."

"Uncle Doel!" The king asked in alarm, retreating into his mind to think of what to do. Dart interupted him.

"I want to rescue her immidately."

"I'm not sure you can do that." Albert replied.

Lavitz spoke up, "I'll go with him. We make a great team."

"No Lavitz. I'm afraid we need you at Hoax. With the dragon... Every goal you have towards rescuing your friend may not happen."

Lavitz tried to interupt his king, but the king cut him off, "Please go to Hoax first. Then go on your way to Doel through the forest. Help as many people of ours as you can on your way, but please first stay the night at Hoax. Avoid the dragon as well."

Dart grinded his teeth and Lavitz thanked King Albert. Shortly after they were ready to leave. Lavitz told him that he needed to stop at his mothers, so Dart himself went to look around the shops for what they might need.

Getting fed up with the vendor at the item shop Dart stomped outside. He saw Lavitz walking up to him. Lavitz stopped a little away from his new friend. "You really need to relax. You're going to be no good to her if you are going to get this upset. She's just fine. The fact that they've taken her proves that she's important. They will not harm her."

"You don't know that!" Dart snapped, but then calmed himself in order to think, "But you are right about that. I just hope nothing happens her before we get to Doel."

Lavitz nodded. "Let's hurry to Hoax."

Dart readily agreed.

The brown haired girl was well taken care of and pampered in the dark castle of Emperor Doel. She thought it was a strange thing, since she was a prisoner and all, but didn't complain. The only actual creepy thing about the place was this man in armor who followed her everywhere.

Shana's fears were dissolving. She felt safer here than in the village, though she was still determined to wait for Dart to rescue her. Shana always knew that if she would get out of here her knight in shining armor would be him.

The creepy armored man walked up to her as the guards dispersed from giving her food.

"Come."

Shana backed up from him, "E-excuse me?"

"I'm here to rescue you! Now let's go!" He grabbed her by the arm hurtfully and made sure she wouldn't scream before pulling her out of her prison.

"What are you going to do to me!" Shana almost screamed.

"I'm going to take you to... Just shut up!" The man replied.

How is Dart going to find me now!

Hoax hadn't taken long. The two men ended up staying up all night and defending the place to the end. The only unique thing to it was meeting a Gigantos and a dark armored woman. The dark armored woman he met before awoke something in Dart's keepsake.

"Now how do I use this?" Dart asked the woman.

"I'll explain. By the way, my name is Rose."

Dart smiled. There was no way he couldn't rescue Shana now.

Lavitz sat back on the sidelines. Thinking of taking on the dragons power with Rose's and Dart's. He kept to himself as the two trained. Everything was moving too fast... Something had to be behind it all. The knight could only wonder.