Tuesday, June 3, 2008

   Royal Delivery!
Royal Delivery!

Zadien held a simple, small brown box in the palm of his glove-cloaked hands, “So—you’re saying, all I have to do is hand this to the princess of Ceseru? That sounds easy enough!” Zadien smiled, and stuffed the box in his pocket. “I’ll take the job!”
“Do you even know where Ceseru is?” Günter queried.
“Honestly?” He paused, “—Nope!” Zadien laughed, as Günter glared at him, “No worries! I was going to grab a map along the way!”
“Why do that, “Günter sighed. “When I have one right here?!” Gunter flailed the map just to emphasize his point.
“Gees! Calm down.” Zadien jumped on his feet, and grabbed the map swiftly. “I’ll be on my way!”
“Please don’t loose the jewel (or our princess)! If you weren’t the fastest guard we had, I wouldn’t even consider you, so please do not make our kingdom look foolish!” Günter was obviously having a very bad day. “Remember, do not lose the jewel! It is a symbol of peace between our countries—not to mention that if it falls into the wrong hands—“
“Doomsday?” Zadien grimaced.
“Not quite, but close enough.” Günter sighed, and turned around. “Really though Zadien, good luck, tell that to the other two as well.” Günter turned around, and saluted,” Bring honor to Vereveris!”
“Right!” Zadien saluted in return. “Well, I’m off!” The two said their good byes, and Zadien closed the door of the meeting room behind him.
“Well Zaku, we’re off!” Zadien smiled to his friend, the second fastest guard, waiting just outside the room.
“About time! It took forever! Longer then the trip there, I bet!” Zaku laughed. “Alright, enough joking around. You have the map, and I’ve got the rations, what are we standing around here for?”
“You mean ‘who’”. Zadien corrected.
“What are you—Ohhh.”
“You forgot about her… didn’t you?” He smiled. “You seriously forgot she was coming with us! I’m not the only air-headed one here! Yay!”
“Oh, shut-it, or I’ll throw you into the first river we try to cross.”
“Yikes! Meany!” Zadien sulked playfully for a moment.
“Hey Boys! I’m here! Thanks for waiting!” A girl with a long pink braid, and a tiara appeared from, what seemed to be nowhere. “Isn’t it nice to know all the secret passageways in this castle?”
“That’s only because you’ve lived here your whole life, Rina.” Zaku playfully, and lightly punched her shoulder.
“Hehe, I suppose that helped a little.” She laughed. Rina, princess of Vereveris, although not a guard was also very fast, and strong. “Alright! Let’s get this mission on the road!” She shouted.
“Aye Aye ma’am!” Zadien cried, happily in return. BONK. Zaku hit Zadien upside the head.
“Stop looking so stupid.” Zaku spit-out.
“Fun ruiner.” Zadien sniffled.
“As long as you start looking more like a guard, and less like a civilian, then maybe I won’t pick on you.”
“You’re too creul Zaku-puu!”
TWITCH “D-Don’t call me that! I’ll really knock you off the next bridge we cross!”
“Yikes!” Zadien began to run out of the castle, “You’ll have to catch me first!!”
“AH! After him! We can’t let that Nitwit run off with the jewel alone! Come-on Princess Rina!” Zaku looked behind him to see no one there. “Princess… Rina…?” He then righted his head in front of him, to see Princess Rina running a few feet behind Zadien. “WAIT!” Zaku shouted, and ran at top speed to catch-up to the pair.

The three of them appeared at Ceseru after one month of traveling. They all appeared to be soaking when they arrived.
“What took you so long?” The Princess of Ceseru, Ruto, asked. “Did you lose it in the river or something?”
The three looked at each other, then all in different directions, whistling.
“You… did?”
“Well, HE kept call-in` me funny names! I told him a million times that I’d push `em off the bridge if he called me something like that again!”
“Couldn’t you have taken the jewel away from him first?” Ruto queried.
“Well, then he would have known I was goanna push him off, then he would have run away!” Zaku said, defending himself.
“Heeeey! We got it here, right?” Rina interrupted, appearing quite fed-up with the two boys.
“Yes, you are right… here, a token of our peace agreement.” Ruto called for a servant to bring a big blue jewel to her. “It is a stone of equal power. May our countries never have any other use for them, then to look pretty on our walls.”
“Well said Ruto!” Rina smiled, “Now let’s go home already!” Rina growled at the two boys, who cowered behind the servant who brought the stone. “Not that I don’t like your country,” Rina hastily added, “It’s just that I’m home-sick, and this journey took longer then expected.”
“No offence taken.” Ruto Smiled.
The four of them bowed, as our three heroes were escorted out of the castle.

Aurora Silverwood
Assignment 17
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