Hershel attempted to tackle the guard, on hit the guard would collapse and he would be straddling and choking the guard.

The guard clawed at Hershel while the other went to stab Hershel's leg with his spear.

---

Naieves came to the gate and saw Hershel choking the guard. "Hershel!" she cried out, shocked.

Hershel reached for his sheaths but then he realized he had left them in his bag, the spear pierced his right thigh. He cursed and saw Naieves, he quickly turned his head and saw her "Nai!" he finished choking out the guard and he passed out. Hershel jumped off the unconscious guard and almost screamed in pain, his right thigh continued to bleed out.
He limped and stared at the other guard "LET ME PASS THROUGH." he yelled.

Naieves rushed up to Hershel and started to pull him back a bit but then she noticed the guard.
"Oh my fey, Ayre!" She walked over to the guard, Ayre. She took his pulse; still alive.
She got up, turned to Hershel and attempted to slap him.

---

The other guard had backed up a bit in fear and blown into a horn made of wood.

Hershel felt her hand go across his face, "I deserved that." he muttered and then started breathing heavily, trying not to start crying "I need to.. I need to destroy that lab.. .Destroy..."

"No, no you don't. What good will that do you, revenge?" she said calmly.

---

Eleven more guards came out of the front gates, some equipped with spears, others with bows, and surrounded them. A twelfth guard came into the circle.
"You will come with us, or die here" he said. Then he noticed Naieves and his face went a bit pale.
"It-It's you. The princess. Step away from this human, he is a threat to our kingdom!" he spat out.
"No. He is as much as a threat as a tiny leaf is, no offense Hershel."
"That's not what I have seen!" the captain guard said. He grabbed her arm and pulled her away from Hershel. "Take him away!" he commanded.
"No!" yelled Naieves in Elvish, getting away from his grasp. "I command you to let him go!"
The captain guard laughed. "You are not the highest ranking of this kingdom."
"It is certainly higher than yours!" she said.
"Enough! You can speak to your father about this!" Four of the guards went on each side of Hershel, and two went in the front and one in the back leaving room for the captain in the back.
"I will speak to you later, Cherry Blossom." the captain said in English.
"It's Naieves. And I shall walk with him." she replied, walking into the middle through the guards.
"Fine, now walk!" he commanded.

Hershel didn't struggle, he just sighed and said "Yeah yeah be the most cliche you can be, fuck off okay?" Hershel just kind of stood while he was being dragged along by the guards.
He looked at Nai and flinched, his right thigh still bleeding. "Sorry."

"It's fine. This isn't exactly how I expect to be treated when I got back though, I'll admit." Naieves slightly laughed. She saw his right thigh bleeding and said some weird words and magic flowed out of her hands and healed his cut.

---

The guards led them into the kingdom and to the giant tree in the center.

"Wooow. What just happened?" Aurora inquired, still in the same spot where she arrived. She sighed heavily, that she was left behind, so why not and just explore the city? It'll be wasting her time just doing something which is not her target object, but it'll be fun. Smirking widely, the black haired-girl stepped through, following the guards until she saw a crowd of people.

//i don't know if i'm allowed to do this, haah.//

Hershel just sat there being pulled along, oblivious to what was going on around him.

((Um, I wouldn't normally allow you to do that, but I'll have a guard inside the city see you.))
When they got to the tree, Naieves parted from the group of guards. "I'll see you later, and I'll get you out of this." she said to Hershel. She kissed him on the cheek, then went inside the tree.


Naieves climbed all the way to the top where there was a throne room and her father sitting in one of the three chairs in the middle.

Her father was talking to some guards. When they departed he looked up and saw Naieves and a smile appeared on his face. He got up and started walking towards her, and Naieves did the same. She hugged him before remembering what had just happened.
"Father, an innocent boy I know has been taken to our prisons. You must let him go! I tried to reason with Aeson but he just wouldn't listen to me!" she exclaimed.
"I heard what has happened and it looks like he isn't innocent. He choked one of our guards. If I let him go, how do you know he won't just attack us again?"
"I know him though..."
"Oh? How so?"
"He is melamin!"
Her father's expression became a little angry. "Yet he attacked us? Doesn't seem like a very good boy to be with..."
"He's nice when you get to know him, trust me. Look, I can introduce you guys to each other and then you'll be good mellonea!"
Her father sighed. "Fine. By fey my daughter, you have grown up so much..."
They started to head back down the tree together.

---

They went into some caverns where roots from the giant tree were and waterfalls from the river were. They threw him into a cell and locked him in.
"'Ksher!" spat out Aeson, the captain guard.
((Okay. I'm gonna be using a lot of elven language.
'Ksher=Evil One
melamin= my love
mellonea=friends))

//That's alright. Aurora wasn't planning to do mischievous things.//

Aurora sat herself down on a short, brick wall. She admired this forest, by the looks of it. She still believes it's the town where the pickles had originated from, so in a sense, she loathes it with passion. "I can't believe they didn't notice me..." the black haired-girl muttered, looking down at a wet patch on the ground.

Hershel grinned "Yep that's me. I am the fuck that decides to defend his honor. A Ksher, or whatever you said." His right thigh was still sore from earlier, so the hit against the wall didn't feel too pleasing.

Just as Aeson and his guards came out of the prison, Naieves and her father arrived.
"Aeson, hand over the keys." her father commanded.
Aeson looked like he wanted to argue, but then stopped himself and handed over the ring of keys. The guards and he walked away.
Naieves and her father walked into the prison and over to Hershel's cell.
"So, you are the boy who attacked one of my guards and loves my daughter." He turned to Naieves. "Lle uma nae kwentra amin tanya ro naa a Edan!"
"Mani ner nae saian!" she said back to her father. "Amin ol astal ele mela ror' 'quel"
He sighed. "That is quite true. Anyways, back to the matter. I will let him go and let him roam the kingdom freely as long as you are with him."
"Alright." Naieves agreed. Her father unlocked the cell.
((Lle uma nae kwentra amin tanya ro naa a Edan=You did not tell me he is a human
Mani ner nae saian=What does is matter
Amin ol astal ele mela ror' 'quel=I am allowed to love another kind))

Hershel stood up and stuck his hands in his pocket, he walked out and stood in front of Naieves and her father. "Well." He grinned, "Nice kingdom you have here."

"Thank you. Now, you stay with her and I swear if you hurt her physically or mentally I will hunt you down myself..." he said.
Naieves sighed in embarrassment. "Lle naa ir luu varatenenn..." she muttered under her breath.
"Now that we've gotten that out of the way, you are free to roam or leave the kingdom as you please." her father concluded. He walked out of the prison and back up to his throne room.
((Lle naa ir luu varatenenn=You are so overprotective sometimes))

Hershel laughed "The only way I could hurt her is if I went insane, sir." he said as he walked off, he turned to Naieves. "So.. Um. What now?"

Naieves shook her head. "Why did you have to attack that guard? What has gotten over you? I mean, what good will revenge do you?"

Hershel frowned, and stuttered out "H-He wouldn't let me through.. I-I just don't want the Lab to hurt anyone else.."

"True. But I don't think there's a way out of here, which is strange. Moving on from that matter, you wanna explore the kingdom?" She smiled at him.