"Lights"

I got this story from the song "Lights"

I woke up and looked at my alarm that was sat restlessly on the nightstand. It was eight; I was supposed to be downstairs to eat at eight thirty. I sat up slowly and examined the room from inside my canopy curtain. The normal for a princess; a huge bed, a fireplace, a giant dresser, and floral arrangements. I parted the curtain and stepped out. The cold of the floor quickly found it’s way to my feet. I rushed to my dresser and put on my usual shorts and shirt that I practiced archery with my dad in. I put on my shoes and hurried down the stairs.

When I got in the kitchen my dad wasn’t there. I looked puzzled; it was just my mom sitting there crying. I walked over to her, pulled a chair up, and then sat down. “What’s wrong mother?” I asked, looking puzzled. “Amirah, your dad had to go to war.. There is no telling when he will be back.” I looked at her; realizing how old she really was. She looked frail right now. At the age of seventeen, almost eighteen I was the heir of the thrown, if something was to happen to father, mother would resign and leave me queen. I heard running down the stairs and familiar yelps of happiness “Father, father!” It was Zara, my younger sister at the age of ten. She came around the corner with Vlad. He was sixteen and very handsome, all of my friends liked him. He didn’t seem to give any thought to them because he never answered. I examined him; he was looking around with his usual stern face. His eyes rested on mother and he frowned. “Where’s father?” Zara said, looking at mother then me. “Don’t you get it? He’s not here, he went somewhere,” Vlad said, taking his breakfast from the table and running up the stairs. Zara stared at mother; she looked like she was about to cry. Before she had the chance to do anything I ran to her and hugged her. “He will back,” I said, trying to reassure myself a little more than her. I let go of her and turned around; mother was gone, it seemed like she had no faith that he would be back. “Zara, go ahead and eat, I will be back in a minute, I have to talk to Vlad,” I said, hurrying up the stairs to Vlad’s room. I reach his room in a mater of seconds and fling his door open. “What do you think you’re doing?! You are going to make Zara cry. You need to stop and think about your family before you do things from now on! No, I don’t personally know if father will be home, but I will believe he will until I am told he will not.” I said, bursting into the room. Vlad stared at me with his cold gaze then he looked shocked. “We should be expecting someone about father.” He said, getting up just as the doorbell rang. We both rushed down the stairs to the door and opened it. There is someone there holding a soldier’s uniform. “He’s… dead?” I mutter and collapsed to the ground. Vlad slowly took the uniform and shut the door. He crouched down by me just as mother came around the corner. “What was that…” She broke off as her eyes landed on the uniform. When she saw it she ran off to who knows where. Vlad slowly got up and he held out a hand to me, I took his hand and got up. “You don’t have to go tell Zara, she’s in her room now, I will go tell her. Find Mother and calm her down,” he said, nodding in the direction of Zara’s room then to where Mother went. I nodded and hurried off to Mother’s room. Just as I got to her door and was about to knock I heard a huge crash. It sounded like it came from Zara’s room. I ran up the stairs and into her room to find her window smashed and no sign of Zara or Vlad. “Zara! Vlad!” I screamed, rushing to the window. There they were, being drug by someone unknown. It looked like Vlad was knocked out and Zara was struggling to get out of their grip. Vlad had fighting lessons, someone must of broke in to get Zara but Vlad was there and he tried fighting them but they knocked him out. My dad had taught me how to descend the castle wall with ease so I grabbed a rope and tied it around the door then jumped out the window. When I jumped out my side hit the wall with a thud and the air was knocked out of me but I continued going down.

When I got to the ground I took off after the people and grabbed my bow and arrows from the tree where my father kept it, and I pulled my hood over my head. While I was following the people I was careful to be unseen, keeping an arrow notched on the bow. After a while of following them they went into a cave. I stayed at the entrance of the cave and peeked in. They had thrown Vlad in a cave and they were examining Zara. “This is the wrong one you idiot,” someone hissed, coming out from the shadows. “I said bring Amirah, not her younger sister and brother.” Someone grabbed me from behind and almost made me drop my bow. “Look who we have here,” the person holding me said. “Let me go,” I hissed at the man. “Let her go, she won’t dare run and leave her siblings,” The man said and the person let me go. I looked at Vlad, he was stirring and I ran over to him but someone shoved me back, causing me to fall backwards. “You want your siblings do you?” The man said, smirking and yanking Vlad out of the cage. “Well, you can have them if you agree to something,” the man said, pulling a knife to Vlad’s neck and the person holding Zara put a knife to her neck. “What do you want from me?” I asked looking from Vlad to Zara, keeping an arrow notched.  “If you marry me their lives will be spared,” he said, pressing the knife into Vlad’s skin. You pulled up the bow quickly and shot the person holding Zara, then the one holding Vlad. They both fell over dead, but the man behind me ran at me. Vlad shoved him out of the way and I shot the man. Zara ran to Vlad, so did I; he had a cut arm. Zara cut off part of her shirt and wrapped it around his arm. “It will be fine, Vlad. Father’s watching over us,” she said, hugging him and attempting to help him up. Vlad got up and slowly began following me home. When we arrived home mother hugged us all and began sobbing. “I thought I lost you all,” she said between sobs.

Now I am queen, I rule this land by myself. My brother is the prince and my sister is the princess. I am now twenty, Vlad is eighteen, and Zara is twelve.