Robert sighed looking to the main hall, "then I guess I'll have to fight him princess I won't have a choice but to protect myself from him." He caressed, her face "I'll protect myself the best I can from him if I need help one of these men will jump in and take my place lauralye you've got to trust me that I can protect myself."

Lauralye looked up at him, still worried. She leaned into his hand a little as he caressed her cheek then nodded, "Okay... I trust you... But... I'll come with you. I can use my magic if you or anyone gets in trouble," She took hold on his wrist and smiled, "I protect us too..."

Robert nodded, before looking around the corner. Seeing no guards he made the run, the others behind him. He opened the door to the throne room quietly, slipping in. Just for it to shut close behind him allowing no one else in. David laughs, "now look at you why did you come back you had your freedom and stuff or was it because of my wife that made you come back that she wanted to take the throne."

Robert remained silent, as he looked at the man in front of him. David just shook his head and smirked, before taking out his sword. "To had your going to die here, slave you broke the rules went on the run now your going to die by my blade." Robert unsheathed his, just as David ran at him metal against metal fill the air sounds of metal against metal going through the door.

Lauralye followed Robert to the door only to have it shut before anyone could pass through with him. She hissed, sure she could open the door herself but Robert had agreed to her keeping them safe too and now he was closing doors so that it was just him. What if there were people other than David or her father in there? What if there were guards? Robert was strong and quick but he couldn't fit off a large amount of people at once.

When she heard the fighting she looked at the men and whispered, "You stay here and protect the door. I'll call if I need help... But not all of you can come in... Figure out who does before we need you."

Then she opened the door slightly and slipped in. She was glad to see that it was just David, she was less happy to see him wielding a sword and fighting Robert. Her hand went up in flames, "David. Stop."

David eyes went to lauralye, then he looked back to Robert. "Won't matter if I stop Lucien said he would leave this place alone if I killed him and I don't like him because he stole your heart from me." He did an over head strike just for Robert to roll out of the way. He gripped his sword, tighter looking around. Smelling demons around in the room. "You've teamed up with the demons," he didn't say it as a question it was a fact. "David laughed, "so what if I did?"

Robert rolled out of the way, just as a fire ball hit the floor where he was standing a moment ago. Wings coming out to full height, flying over David just as the demons launched themselves at him. He cut them down, kicking one in the chest before running his sword through it. He cut and dodged, cutting down the demons in front of him. Before he landed on the floor, just for David's sword to meet his.

Lauralye felt her blood turn to ice when he mentioned Lucien. The Demon had so easily seduced her with the thought of power. It hurt a little to think about what she had been willing to give up just to understand the magic that she never even knew that she had. She looked at the two men and pleaded "David, you never had my heart. That was our problem, we weren't in love!"

She yelped when the demons appeared and had to look away as Robert cut them down. She might have been learning how to fight but she had been in one where lives were in danger and taken. She knew from the beginning that she couldn't kill someone... It wasn't in her nature and she most definitely couldn't stomach it. She watched at the two men fought, "David, please. Lucien will kill you once you kill Robert..."

She screamed as a demon grabbed her arm and as if she called the guards came racing it. Some stayed in the hall as she requested but the rest came and fought the demons that were seeming to just flow into the room. A guard cut off the arm of the demon who held her and moved her behind him as she shook and kicked the limp arm away from her.

Robert cursed, kicking David away from him into the arms of one of his men. "Keep an eye on him," he turned just to catch the blade of a demons on his. He let out a word of curses in a tongue he hadn't realized he knew. Sighing as he cut down the demon in front of him, kicking back a demon before slicing the next one. Swallowing he kept moving, getting through demons easily and getting in front of lauralye while his other man kept her behind him.
(Gonna do the gods that had been the real parents to Robert was thinking hades and Persephone)

Hades watched his son, through the mist. This war would not take his sons life he knew, the fates had more in store for his son before he would die. Though, he hurt whenever he saw his sons face he couldn't raise him he knew that because his wife had said so. He still wanted to be the father of his sons life, though he was a full grown men now. Sighing shaking his head, his son deserved to know who his real parents were.

Robert kept the demons back, away from lauralye. "Little no for good nothing bastards." He cut down any demons that got to close. Gutting one and then taking off an arm on another. He was breathing heavily but kept the demons at bay for the most part.

Lauralye stayed close to Robert as he fought of the demons and felt a little safer now that they were fighting them from all sides of her. She mumbled her and there and cast spells trying to help the knights. None of the spells she cast were lethal but they kept them at bay. Wind blew them back or fire erupted in front of them scaring them as the knights handle those who passed.

Robert knew he was wearing down, the way his muscles ached for rest. Kicking back another demon, before letting his guard drop for a mid second that's all they needed. He grunted when some class grazed his side. Clutching his side with one hand while the other held his sword and fought off any that came to close. Seeing the sun rise, he sighed in relief when he saw them retreat for now. Before collapsing to the floor holding his side and breathing heavily.

Lauralye dropped to the ground a moment after Robert and knelt next to him. She looked at him, "Hey, what's wrong," She saw him clutching his side and noticed his heavy breathing. She looked over her shoulder at the men, "Get one of the doctors from the infirmary. Turn right out the door and then left when you can. It's the room at the end of the hall. Tell them that... uh..." She looked at David who was still being restrained by a guard, "That the Prince is injured."

She looked back at Robert and cupped his face. She smiled down at him before she moved to place his head on her lap, "Everything is going to be okay. I promise."

She then turned her attention to David. She lowered Robert's head to the ground and stood. She stalked up to the restrained Prince, "How dare you allow demons into my castle."

David had a rage filled look upon his face, "because it offered me more power more than I have ever known. I would've ruled this whole country with an iron fist and no one to rise up against me." He looked to Robert in disgust, "why put all your trust in this one thing to save you to keep the demons at bay?"

One of the Knights ran, and did as he was told the same doctor that had taken care of Robert running toward the throne room. He came in and saw the prince restrained seeing the princess a small smile graced his lips. Then he saw Robert, his eyes widening he ran to his side and got to work.

Lauralye was about to answer when she heard someone run into the room. She turned to see the doctor who had saved Robert before but most of all she noticed his smile. She smiled back at him before turning back to David. She glared at the Prince and scoffed, "I trust him because he has proven himself to be trustworthy time and time again.
He never saw me as a way to get more power or a bargaining chip... I was just the Princess who he wanted to protect just like I did him."

She crossed her arms, "I'm a little disappointed that you believed them. When people are suppressed and live their lives in fear or are controlled for their entire lives they rebel," She gestured to herself, "After all, is that not what is happening here?"

She stepped closer to the Prince, "Now, should I throw you to the demons or throw you in the dungeons?"

Robert waved the doctor off, when his side was bandaged. Grabbing his sword, sheathing it before getting to his feet. He walked forward, looking to david he noticed the prince's face paling knowing what Robert had in mind. "He doesn't really deserve to be in the dungeons it's to nice for him."

He stopped walking at lauralye's side, keeping his arms at his side. He hurt, but he could still stand he was alive and that's what counted.

Lauralye looked over her shoulder at Robert when David's face paled. Her eyebrows knitted together when he spoke about how he thought the Prince should be dealt with. She turned to face him and caught his hand with her's. She looked up at him and spoke quietly, "We can't kill him, Robert.... That makes us no better... Besides, he should pay for what he has done... not die for it."

A thought suddenly came to her and she looked at David again, "Where's my father?" she asked, fearful.

David only laughed, "the old man threw him in the dungeons when I took power the guy was to nice on that thing when he was here before and look how that turned out." He nodded his head toward Robert, who just shrugged in response. "On better thought why not throw him into the cell your fathers in it seems more subtle for him than your own father."

He waved his hand toward one of the men, "go to the dungeons down the hall take your first left then a right you should see some stairs that lead down."

Lauralye wasn't sure if Robert had noticed because he was slightly in front of her, trying to keep himself between Lauralye and David, but she turned and ran before David even had a chance to finish his sentence. She didn't care about David's jabs at her or her father. All that she cared about was the fact that her father had been in that dungeon for who knows how long... Too long.

She ran down the stairs and nearly tumbled down them before she luckily caught herself on the rock wall, scuffing up her hand. She threw open the door to the dungeons and she heard all the yelling of the prisoners. There was more pleading and begging and it broke her heart. Who knew who else David threw own here and what he was doing to them while they were.

"Father!" She called into the dark and she pulled torch of the wall to let herself see better. She walked down the hall and deeper into the cells. She didn't know that there were this many people down here she had rarely been passed the first few.... She was too scared to go further. Finally, tucked in a corner, she found her father. She got to her knees in front of his cell, "Papa..."

The old king look up at her before he scrambled forward and wrapped his arms around her through the bars, "Oh my baby girl!"

Robert mumbled a curse, before he looked at his men holding David. "Don't let him go he needs to be punished for his crimes." With that he ran after lauralye, not caring that he had forgotten the abandoned armor on the floor. Keeping the sprint he was going, he turned nearly letting himself fall down the stairs.

He caught himself though, going down the stairs. He saw the king and lauralye, thinking slightly back to the times he had been thrown down here. He walked down the hall passing the kings cell, not glancing at him. Opening the door to look at the dog guarding the keys.

Letting out a low whistle, the dog responded in a bark. Letting out another whistle higher pitch this time. The dog moved aside, grabbing the keys from the wall before he kneeled down petting the dogs head. "Good boy now go find your true master," he watched the dog sprint out of the room and up the stairs before disappearing out of his sight.

With that, he tossed the keys in his hand up and down. Walking toward the kings cell, unlocking the door. "Your majesty David is being held in the thrown room by two of my grandfathers men and since he has committed these crimes against you you can punish him as you see fit."

Lauralye stood and stepped away from her father's door which allowed Robert to open it. When Robert told her father that he would allow him to chose how to deal with David she spoke up, "No."

Her father looked at her quite surprised. He shook his head in confusion, "What?"

Lauralye took a deep breath, "I'm not going to remove one bad king from the throne to place a slightly less bad king on it...." Her father looked hurt by her words and she could anger welling up in her. She held his gaze, "You stopped caring about the people when mother died. You locked the gates and spent more money than our treasury held... I'm going to take the throne as Queen and I am going to clean up your mess... I only release you from your cell because I cannot stand to see my father here but if you are going to fight me on this decision... You can leave... and" Lauralye voice cracked as she started to cry, "And never come back..."

Robert sighed, as he put his hand on her shoulder. He knew how it felt to lose someone or have that person go. He looked up at the former king, "it is what she wants and she wants to rule right to not have these gates locked to the people outside of these walls it won't help and you'll get volunteer soldiers from the villages to fight off these demons. Though first I am unlocking the people that deserve to be free no more slaves." He started walking toward the other cells.

He stopped for a moment, "you try to stop me your majesty it won't work I'll still free them I'll give them a place under my grandfathers rule as a soldier train them into a royal guard that would protect you and your daughter but I am only doing this for her for the safety of this world and the people that live in it." With that he started walking again.

Stopping to release the slaves within them, he told them of his plan. "You will live free you will fight for this country for the people around you to help whenever you can you can retire whenever you want and my grandfather or my cousin will give you land to start your life on if you do." They nodded, to learn it would be a few rough starting weeks but it would get better.

He walked back to them the men and women behind him, "alright I left the men that deserved to be down here alone though they won't be coming out of her any time soon I promise that."

When Robert left them to release those who her father had imprisoned, her father looked at her, "Lauralye... You can't take the throne. You are too young. You are naive. You have barely seen the kingdom you wish to run."

"And whose fault is that?" She snapped back, "Leave. Now. Before I ask someone to escort you out of my palace and my kingdom."

As Robert returned to them, her father left. She quickly wiped away her tears and smiled at the once slaves that stood behind Robert, "Hello.... Let's get out of here..."

She took Robert's hand and squeezed it tightly as she walked up the stairs. She walked back into the throne room and looked at David, "A few cells have just opened in the dungeon," She tried to keep her voice steady not wanting the man to think that her tears were for or because of him."

She nodded to the knights that held him before she turned her back to him as he was dragged away.