"You are hired as a butler not a watchman!Eleanor,let's go."
And she brushed past Eleanor hitting her by the shoulder.
Eleanor staggered back but quickly regain her balance.
"Milady?" Erik calls with a hint of pity."Lord Dimitrix would punish them severely." He assured her.
She gave him a simple smile and said. "I know but by then I would be in my kingdom and see my Father, don't worry about me,Erik and thank Sir Dimitrix for me." With that she follows Aurora.
^^IN THE WOODS^^.
Since they started the journey to Esmeralda no one decided to strike a conversation with the other but out of the blue Eleanor heard Aurora ask
"H...How is your father?" She brought herself to ask.
Even after she moved herself into Aurora's body she still misses her father King Edward every single day that goes by yet she has no regret of what she had done.
Eleanor wondered why she asked regardless she refuses to give her the satisfying answer she wants."Do you possibly think I would answer your question after all you've done to me,huh?"
"Don't know you're the type to keep grudge." She joked and laughed all by herself. "You should be happy that I grant you your wish to go back to Esmeralda Kingdom, is better to be free then to be held captive....don't you agree-"
Aurora voice trailed off by the sudden halt of the carriage."What happened?"
She came down while making her way to the coachman.
"Princess Aurora, the carriage broke down, it will take a long time before we see some one who would assist us," He informs her. "What is to be done now?"
Meanwhile in the carriage,
Eleanor no longer heard any murmur from Aurora and the coachman.
Wondering what was going on, she step out of the carriage only to find out they were long gone.
She clenched her trembling hands on the hem of her dress as tears dares to flow from her eyes.
"H..how dare you leave me in the middle of nowhere....in the woods at that?" She cries out.
'She needed to find a way out from here before anything or anyone get holds of her'.
Going inside the carriage, she picks up a lantern and started making her way out of the dark woods.
The sudden ruffling of the bushes broke the silence, she suddenly went rigid unable to move.
Without being told twice, her instincts kicked in and she made a run for it as she caught sight of a shadow following every of her steps.
Her heart thrum furiously beneath her dress as she hoped for Dimitrix to come to her rescue.
But today was not just her day cause the shadow finally caught up with her and pulled her back as she received an unexpected blow and she black out.
Once Aurora step into the palace, Erik rushed at her.
"Princess, did you return Eleanor safely to her Kingdom?"
"Do you doubt my ability!!" She snapped and brush past him leaving no room for argument.
Aurelia bumps into Aurora."You're quite early, did you really return her back?" She questioned.
"No," She half whispered. "Our carriage broke down and I had no other choice but to leave her there, I don't want her here no matter what!"She gave her a firm answer.
"All I know don't involve me in this, if Eleanor comes out dead--"
Aurora cut in with her sardonic laugh."You my dear is already involved." With that she walked away.
Aurelia snorts and was about to go after her but stops when Hiro speaks.
"So no one actually returned her back to her Esmeralda?"
"How much did you hear?"
"Enough to know that poor Eleanor is in a terrible state now."
With that he walked away.
Aurelia let out a deep breath she didn't realize she has been holding.
A simple smile appeared on her face.
'He didn't judge her'.
She was glad.
"Hiro,wait up," She picks up her skirt and hurried her pace to catch up with him."Y...Y...You didn't say anything, i.....i...mean you didn't criticize me," She paused. "For a while I thought you would." She confessed.
Hiro shrugs."Why would I?" Aurelia smile widen."When I already know how cruel and wicked you are."
As soon as those words left his lips, her smile slowly fades off.
"I already expected this from you, Aurora and Emperor Dimitrix but it looks like only the Emperor changed." And he walked off.
Aurelia gasp in disbelief as she ball her fist in anger.
MEANWHILE....
In a faraway land in Arystarr, inside an underground dim dirty room Eleanor unconsciously lay there.
Not too long her eyes opens as she adjusted to the darkness around her.
"You're finally awake." The broken voice startled Eleanor and she whirl around to find a lady covered in dirt sitting across her.
"W....Who are you and what do you want from me-"
"No!The question is what are they going to do to you or perhaps US," Panicky, the strange girl began to cry out banging on the locked steel bar. "Let me out, i don't want to die, Let me out!!!!!!" She screams.
"W...what do you mean by US and where are we??" Eleanor could feel her body trembling in fear.
"You are in The Establishment.It's a place for torturing and making us women into possessed bloody monster they can control at anytime they want,"
"And??"
"The 'MEN' makes us undergo a test about our extraordinary World in and outside Ayrshire," She said with trembling lips as she looked forth and back in fright. "And if you fail they take you,"
"H...How do they make us monster-"
"Don't know, all I can hear in the confinement room is their painful scream, some dies through the process.Y....You need to read for the test." She said panting heavily. "Five lands Ayrshire, Hathaway...."
Eleanor watch in horror as the strange lady kept on mumbling.
Eleanor crawl into a corner, her entire body tremble in great fright as she sobs. "I don't want to die, i want to go back home. ....I want to go back to my past life, pleasssssssse." She cried harder as the strange girl kept on mumbling.
The Next day.
Aurora watched through her window as Dimitrix carriage came to halt before the palace.
"Did you find that dreadful girl?" She asked Lucian who just appeared before her.
"I can't find her....what if she's dead, POOF'?"
"Then I wish she is, I wonder how i will face Dimitrix-"
"What are you scared?" He scoffed."Isn't this what you wanted?"
She nods."But not for her to go missing, I wanted to take her to Edward so Dimitrix won't be able to get her back again-"
"Then you should have brought her along."
"THAT WILL BE THE LAST THING I'LL EVER DO!!!!!" She scowl. "Now, get lost!" She picked up her skirt and hurried outside.
"My dear darling enjoy getting Dimitrix while you can but there will come a time when I will take back what you owe me".He laughs.
Aurora rushed towards Dimitrix and threw her hand round him."Welcome-"
"Get off me!" He gently pushed her away.
"Ow!!i forget you hate being touched.Let's go out just as you promised me heh?"
"I promised nothing!" He snort. "And as you can see, i just arrived from a journey and need to rest." And he brush past her.
"Geez,I hope that stupid butler keeps his mouth shut!"
^^In Lord Dimitrix's Study Room ^^.
Dimitrix rub his temple, looking tired.
He force himself to go through the pile of paper on his table.
'Just gone for a day and a lot of things had already pile up for him'.
With a groan, he sip his hot black tea to get back his lost energy.
'Knock Knock'
"Come in!" He ordered as Erik walks in with another pile of papers.
"My Lord," He bow."I didn't expect you to arrive this early." And he drops the papers before him.
"Agh!!!Why are there too much things to do?" Dimitrix grumbles.
"Remember you killed the Village heads of Village one, two and three and now a lot of things is out of control and to top it all, a lot of candidates are registering their names.You have a lot in your hands, My Lord--"
"Aurora!" Her name suddenly popped out."What is that dimwit doing, isn't she one of the appointed heads of Village four?"
"She is," Erik quickly answered.
He sigh."That woman is helpless, arrange a meeting with her and the registering Candidates.And bring me my breakfast and don't make it light." He warns.
For the first time, Erik was left perplexed by hearing that his master was actually hungry.
Since he was a child, he was always forced to eat or perhaps it was when the Late Empress locked him up for days without eating to the point he had gotten used to it.
"Don't look at me as if I just spoke a foreign language!" Dimitrix scowl, bringing him back to reality."I feel hungry as normal people do, duh?Now hurry and get me my breakfast!"
"Yes Emperor."
Dimitrix urged him out of the room but quickly requested for his presence. "Er...Em Erik, where is Eleanor?Have not seen her since i arrived."
'O Boy!'. Erik thought.
He clears his dry throat. "My Lord." He calls as Dimitrix rose a brow at him.