Kingdom of Hearts, Anonymous [story reading .txt] 📗

ask me. I hurt and ache since she left, I couldn't sleep, but that was because I was nervous she would decide she didn't like me. I didn't start seeing other girls, until I met my new girlfriend.”
“Yep. I have to go to bed, and you should be going there, too.” He smiled at Jakob and left. Jakob stared at Taylor's picture, and then smiled, closed out the page and shut the laptop. He crawled into his bed and tried to get to sleep.

“I can't believe this is coming from her, Emily.”
“Well, can't you? I think I can remember you telling me a tale about you and Elanor sitting and discussing your first born daughter. You told me you only wished she would fall in love with anyone.”
“Well, I regret that. She must! I can't tell you the consequences of choosing some commoner over a magnificent prince. Young, valiant, and already in knowledge of how to run a kingdom.”
“You can find some common boy who knows how to run a kingdom and is valiant.”
“But not the way that she will deserve.”
“Don't you think she deserves to make her own decisions? Let her be.”
“Fine.” He shut off the light and turned around.
“No kiss goodnight? Are you mad at me?”
“No.” He sighed. “I am mad at the situation I put myself in. I prayed to Rakkaus that she fall in love and she fell so easily. It cannot have been, but a month since she even went out of the house without an armed guard by her side. A month!” He paused. “Or maybe not.” He jumped out of bed. Ran out the door into the hall.
“Tyson! Where are you going this time of night?” But he did not answer. Tyson was already down the hall at Jakob's room. He knocked on his door.
“Jakob?” Tyson turned on the light, but Jakob was not there. Tyson went along asking whoever was up at the time if they had seen Jakob and they had all seen him go to the hole in the castle. He had never heard of this hole. He had asked the maid and she said it was just off the cook's station. So when he walked over to the cook's station he intended to find Jakob and he intended to ask him a few questions about his daughter.
“Excuse me?” Tyson tapped on a woman in her early thirty's. She was dark skinned. She turned around and, upon seeing Tyson, bowed down really low. He motioned with his hand for her to stand. “Can you tell me where to find Jacob Tyros?” She stood and immediately looked sheepishly to the ground.
“I am afraid, your highness, I cannot allow you to follow him.”
“Why?”
“It is too dangerous for a man like you.”
“What do you mean?”
“This night the boy you look for is dangerous. I would be tried for murder to allow you.”
“I am your king!” He paused. He never liked getting angry. The woman looked scared. “What's your name?” He composed himself.
“Kina.”
“Kina I have to speak with him. It is very important. Why is he dangerous tonight?”
“My people have legends about boys like him. Some may say he's a man-eating beast, but I have known him his whole life and he has never eaten man, but only because I was a blacksmith's daughter and I was always giving Mira silver for Jacob. Bracelets with silver beads, necklaces, little rings for him to play with. Mira told me my thought was good, but not to do it again. He was having an allergic reaction to the silver, every month he would get super cranky on one day in particular.”
“This day? What about it? Are you telling me he's a female murderer or something?” She chuckled a little.
“No. Jacob is a werwolf. Tonight is the full moon.” He stared at her.
“Where's the hole?”
“Your majesty, I will not save you if it gets out of hand. I cannot risk everyone for you, I am afraid.”
“I would expect no such luxury. I must get out there, please, I don't have much time.”
“This way.” She frowned. She led him straight to a hallway with one door at the end. She grabbed a silver key with a full moon engraved in the end from her pocket and unlocked the door. She opened the door into a small dark room. She grabbed a torch from the wall and had it lit and she walked into the room, showed him the brick, put the torch on the wall and locked the door behind her. Tyson hesitated. After a few minutes he grabbed the brick and pulled each one out. Three bricks wide and ten bricks high. He went through the hole and he saw Jacob, he was cowered against the wall. The place he was in was large and it was a grassy circle, it appeared to be the center of the castle, a tunnel to the top.
“You shouldn't be here.” He gasped. “You have to leave.” He shoved Tyson. He didn't budge.
“Jacob. I need to talk to you about Kaylee.”
“What?! What about her? Did something happen to her? Talk to me!”
“Jake nothing happened to her. I just had to ask you- were you ever going to tell me?”
“Sir, can we talk about this later?” His eyes kept going from bright yellow to his normal color.
“No. I planned this well. Were you ever going to tell me that you covered for Kaylee and your buddy?”
“Sir, if I tell you the answer will you leave until tomorrow?”
“Yeah. Only if you give it to me before the moon fully rises. Or you'll be the one in danger.”
“She wasn't sneaking around with anyone. You let her go off with him. Now leave.”
“I need a name, Jacob.” He paused. His eyes turned blood red and then back. “Fast, you still have time.” He lied.
“It was...” He sucked in a breath. The veins in his head were bulging out. “Me.” Tyson lost it. His veins bulged and he exploded into a furry dog with deep red eyes. “Now we're talking.” Jake smiled. The red dog that was once Tyson growled. “I love her and I hope you can look past this.” Tyson showed his teeth. “Fine. You will only hurt her. If you kill me, she hates you. If I kill you, she lives without a father. Not to mention what will happen to the kingdom. Soturin, nothing against him, will run it in your place.” He seemed just to growl. Jacob suddenly burst into a black timber wolf. He let out a heart racing howl. Up above them another howl pierced the night. All they saw was a white blur racing down the tube. The wolf landed with a soft thud and growled at both of the wolves. Jacob was too weak and he went back to human. He laid on the ground sweat covering his face and he was breathing heavily. The white wolf walked over and softly nudged Jacob. “Taylor?” He was too weak to hold his eyes open, and he closed them. He felt Tyson and the other wolf change back. “He will be fine! Leave!” Jacob wondered what Tyson was so upset about. Tyson stayed by his side, the light from the sun hitting Jake's face. He must have passed out, because before he knew it he woke up in his bed.
“Tyson!” Jake screamed.
“Jacob?” Tyson frowned.
“What did you do to me?”
“Nothing. You collapsed. What did you do within the last forty eight hours of the moon?”
“I went swimming, watched Kaylee on a date, fought with Soturin.”
“Where did you go swimming?”
“A lake, pure, just up the cliff face.”
“Almost Moed territory, what were you doing there in the first place?”
“A stake out in case of an unsuccessful attempt in union.”
“The Moed's are vampires. That's why our countries fight.”
“And?”
“They place silver in the waters.”
“No. It cannot have been. It would have burned me.”
“Yes. But you see, a small amount through the digestive system, it takes an increase in adrenaline to set it off. You were burning inside. Doctor!” He called.
“Adrenaline? I haven't done anything to have a major increase.”
“You said you went to watch Kaylee on a date. How did that go?”
“She has friends who don't know who she is, she hasn't made many public appearances. They set her up on a blind date. I went along with her and stood outside of the restaurant until he grabbed her hand and it was looking intimate, I went in, called her by her fake name and she acted like we were old friends. Then the guy just kept explaining all these really interesting things about himself and she...liked it.” He lifted his head and put it down on the pillow again and again, shifted his shoulders and perched his head up to look at the ceiling. “He suggested they leave and she went.”
“You didn't leave her alone, did you?!”
“No! I wouldn't do that! I raced after her and...I kissed her. After it was over he asked to speak with her and she did, they said some things, and after a little it looked like I had won. He looked like he was leaving and then she said something, he replied to it. She considered something, and he grabbed her face and she kissed him. I was furious. On our way back I threatened her.”
“You threatened my daughter?”
“Not like that. I told her that I had it in my right mind to tell you about him and have him thrown in prison.” He smiled. This, to him, was an intriguing idea.
“You wouldn't have though, would you? For you to explain it you would have had to implicate yourself.”
“I could have lied. Before this all happened you would have believed me over your beloved princess. You of all people would understand lying for love.”
“Lying? I never lied.” Tyson grew red in the face.
“Before you married Emily, you had an affair,” Tyson opened his mouth to say something, “But you did not lie to either one, you lied to the public. You went to Soturin's feast with Elanor so the public could not see flaw in the royal couple.”
“Would you have it any other way? Would you have me be hurt with Elanor? I, the man who saved you from the streets?”
“I would not have it any other way, but not because you saved me, but because I know the feeling of losing someone you love. I would never wish that on you.”
“I have already went through it. When my own brother sent me away so he could steal the one I loved, I lost everything. When my son, Soturin, came to find me I almost completely refused to come back, but in those moments I realized that I had not lost my oldest son. Or my youngest son.”
“You came back because of Soturin?”
“Not just. I came back because I saw that not everyone was corrupt. I owe everything to Soturin.”
“Everything? I mean even Trinity? Or Felton?”
“Yes, especially Trinity and Felton. I wouldn't be with Emily to have Trinity and Felton.”
“Yes?” The doctor came in, he was shaking with fear.
“Doctor Prevton is it?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Doctor Prevton I need you to get the...are you the apprentice to Doctor Thayer?”
“One...of many, sir.” His breath grew faster.
“Did he entrust you with...royal saladus meditsiin.”
“Yes, of course, sir.” He cringed at some memory.
“Well I need you to use that on my...my...him.” He pointed at me.
“Yes, sir, but I do not have the ingredients.”
“Juniper!” A young lady with short red hair came in.