This is the first story I've written so yeh I'm a bit nervous. I'll ask you to not post on this thread and you'll post here anyway. I'll scream at you and you'll still probably post here anyway. It's very annoying to readers to have to scroll through comments so pleas do everyone a favor and POST FEEDBACK ON THE FEEDBACK THREAD ONLY its called the"feedback thread" because that's where you put feedback. Without further ado I present to you ESCAPE CHAPTER 1 "OK class, as you know today is the last day of your schooling so you'll be assigned jobs based on you're skills" our teacher (Mrs. Tavis) said as she pulled some papers out of her bag. " Sil Bawen" she called out. I watched as he nervously walked up to the front of the room. "palace guard" Mrs. Tavis concluded handing him his diploma he walked back to his seat and sat down not looking too happy, not particularly unhappy but not exactly happy either. Mrs. Tavis called the next student. "Mila Berris" she said I saw Mila get up and walk to the front of the room practically shaking "soldier" was her job, and i could tell she was pretty happy about it . Mrs.tavis continued to announced the jobs the students would keep for the next 10 years in service to the royal family, and because I was last it felt like the 10years would be up by the time my name was called. "Syla nervayu" this finally got my attention seeing as I had a crush on her since well....... forever. "Princess's personal handmaid" Mrs. Tavis said, no surprise the main skill for that is being pretty (and some magic) and she was defiantly pretty. She was a skinny elf around 5'7 with silky black hair and deep blue eyes her skin was palish with a slender look about her. I spaced out for a while till I finally heard my name "webs" she called out I walked to the front of the room hopping my knees didn't give way before I got to her desk. "head soldier" she said. I saw a few of my friends give me jealous looks. It was considered the best fighting job there was. I walked back to my seat hardly able to contain my excitement. ------------------------------------------------"Now is the perfect time to strike"said the figure in the hood. "don't be to hasty fool"hissed the figure sitting by the table. "The new soldiers are having their first few days on the job and are much more vigilant, wait till they get a bit bored then we attack". The hooded figure just nodded and walked out. ------------------------------------------------
CHAPTER 2 "mom" I remembered calling as I burst through the door of our house. It was an o.k. place I guess. Just me my mother and sister lived there. My elvin father had died of a rare disease when I was 6. I'll spare you the details. Anyway, there were 3 bedrooms one for my mother, one for me, and one for my little sister. Who by now was 14 and only two years younger then me,wasn't that much "littler" but still she was my "little" sister. There was also a kitchen with a small wooden table and four matching, broken but nonetheless matching,chairs. We were a bit above average peasants and we almost always had enough food, so it definitely could have been worse. I remember her saying how proud she was that i got the head soldier job, but by now it's all rather boring. Standing watch for two days in a row with no action will make you feel that way. There was the occasional royal family member going through the palace gate,but other then that it was extremely boring. As I was walking out of the palace area at the end of the boring day finally allowed to go home, I heard a voice behind me say "you look bored, is the head soldier job a bit disappointing?". I spun around to see the queen standing there. I ducked my head and went on one knee as is customary when in the presence of a royal. "n.....n....not at all m'lady" I stammered back. "you don't have to lie, you're not very good at it" she replied "either way, tomorrow you will lead some other guards to protect my daughter. She has to get to the southern fort safely. You'll be in charge of the mission, I expect you'll be fine" "thank you m'lady" I answered my voice giddy with excitement. She walked away and I all but ran till my house, that's how pumped I was. I was a bit nervous, screwing this up would probably shake their confidence in me. Nonetheless, I was thrilled to finally have some excitement. Sleeping that night definitely wasn't easy.
CHAPTER 3 I walked towards the palace the next day trying to look all official. It was after all, the day I could finally do something interesting. I saw the queen and a group of guards ,who were all wearing lightweight armor, standing on a large stone path that went through one of the palaces many gardens. Quickly, I jogged over to them. "hello" the queen called to me ,all to politely as I reached them. "hello m'lady" I answered a bit nervously. I dropped to one knee and she signaled for me to stand back up. After I stood up the queen started introducing everyone to each other. "this" she said motioning at a muscular dude with messy black hair and black eyes who had a good 4inches on me and not much color"is Lucian." "next is logan" she said pointing to a tan elf. He was a two inches shorter then me with dirty blond hair and strangely grey eyes. " here is zet" she continued, nodding towards a tall dude around 6'1 an inch or two shorter then Lucian. He had pale skin, long black hair, and green eyes. "there's angie" she said at the skinny elvin girl with Orange eyes and red hair. She had pale skin and was the shortest out of the six of us. "this is Cathy" she continued motioning towards the final person in our group, a girl who had brown eyes and matching brown hair that fall to her shoulders. She was around the same height as Logan and had tan skin."and this is webs"she said pointing to me "he'll be the leader of the mission". It was a bit awkward they were all just looking at me,probably checking out my brown hair with it's blonde streaks, and my blue-green eyes with that hazel part in my rite eye. They probably saw my half elf features and my average height. All summed up it was rather awkward. "there are still more people on this mission who are waiting in the palace, we should be heading there now" the queen said saving me from their prying eyes. We all headed towards the palace gaits to find the remainder of our group.
CHAPTER 4 We got into the palace building and I almost gasped, it was totally stunning. The floors were a greenish garnet that went two feet up on the walls. On that there was an intricate gold molding followed by marble walls that led to the insanely high ceiling that was painted like the sky. We walked towards an archway on the rite side of the room which led to another similar room. In the middle of the room I saw the final three soldiers for our mission. When we got their the queen introduced to the final two guards. "this is Kyla" she said signaling towards a girl with blue eyes and blonde hare tied in a pony. She was around 5'5 and had slightly tan skin. " that's Simon" she said towards a dude around my height(5'9) with brown hair, green eyes, and tan skin. " and the last soldier is Zanter" she said at a guy around 5"11. He had black spiky hair, black eyes and cream skin. "now that we've all met each other" the queen said "we could start getting ready". We followed the queen to a far less fancy room were we got food, tents, some hunting equipment, matches, and whatever else we'd need. I was really starting to get bored just being led around by the queen. I was really hoping for some action. "oh well" I thought we'll get to go sooner or later. After some more annoying preparations we were finally ready to go. We walked to the palace gaits and waiting there for us was the princess and her handmaid, syla. "Hello" princess Veronica said as we approached. She was gorges, she had silvery-blond hair, and sparkly blue eyes. Her skin was pale but had some color to it, it looked soft delicate and perfectly manicured (which it probably was). The only girl I would deem more beautiful would be Syla who was standing rite next to her. "You better start going"the queen said. And we did it was a bit awkward at first but we started our mission. If I would have known what would happen I mite not have been so exited.