My heart pounded a little, as she told me run. I quickly stood up, my whole body tensing. "What's going on?" I asked as she stood up besides me.

She didn't answer me, but she just shoved me towards the ladder. "Just go all ready," she said. "Before-"

There was a loud boom and the whole catwalk seemed to move a bit. A couple of wires broke off from the movement, making the catwalk shake, almost falling.

I grabbed hold of a side and held on tight, as the whole structure shook. I closed my eyes and waited, my body tensed. Why did I have to question everything? I groaned as my stomach started to do somersaults.

"-it's too late," Ms. Brooks finished, clinging onto the railing, besides me.

"Well, well, well, look who I caught, after all these years," someone said. His voice was deep and menacing. However, there was a tinge of formality in it.

I opened my eyes, to see that it was my bully. "Matthew," I hissed as the young male stepped, or should I say... floated, onto the catwalk that I was on. I frowned a little wondering how he was doing it, but I didn't question sanity as I wanted to.

"Ah, but it is not," he said. He shivered a little and his body seemed to grow taller and older. His hair turned black and not the blonde of the male he had looked like, before. His brown eyes seemed to turn black as coals, and his nose grew crooked and longer. A few seconds passed and instead of a young teenage boy, stood a man maybe around his thirties, if he was that young.

"Bane," Ms. Brooks hissed, narrowing her eyes, slightly. "I should've known that it was you. Even though she's family."

"Ah, that is the best way to get close to a Holder, now isn't that right, Laura?" he sneered. "Pretend to be someone you're not, just to break them down and rip out their throats."

"Your brother-"

"My brother was a fool," Bane said, interrupting her. "Letting this-" he gestured towards me- "girl live in our midst and not use her power for the good of us."

"You mean for yourself and the whole royal family," she snapped. "You are not talking about the good of the people."

"Royal family?" I muttered, confused. I frowned a little as my head started to ache. I knew that I was trying to remember something, but I didn't know what.

Matthew- or should I now call him Bane?- looked at me with a deep smirk on his face. "Oh right, the Little Princess has amnesia. What a sad, sad story." He mockingly shook his head, a deeper smirk appeared on his face. "This just makes my job a lot easier to handle." He waved his hands, and animals seemed to leap out of the shadows.

Mostly they were wolves or panthers, but there were a few non-creatures of the dark amongst them. They growled and started to take menacing steps towards us.

"Don't worry, Dear," Bane said, mockingly. "Your family won't even know that you're gone, since they'll be having a nice time frozen with your... real parents."

My heart thudded in my chest, as I backed up a step. I looked at him, my eyes narrowing. I could feel my anger starting to get higher, because he was hurting them. "What have you done to them?" I asked. I felt as it was my fault for getting them hurt. I didn't want them to get hurt because of me.

Bane smirked. "Let's just say that... they've been wiped clear from the performance," he replied, innocently.

My heart skipped a beat as I glanced around. "Performance," I whispered, softly to myself, thinking about the show that was going on. "Performance!" I exclaimed, earning an equal crazy look from both Ms. Brooks and Bane.

A smirk danced on my face as I took an advancing step towards the coming tide of wild creatures. "You know, that they say in theatre; 'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances'," I said, quoting Shakespeare.

A frown of uncertainty flickered onto Bane's face. "And what's that supposed to mean?" he asked. "We aren't in a show."

"Ah, but we are, and we are just merely figures," I said, with a deepening smirk. "And our cue has just said that we are to jump." And with that I grabbed hold of the railing and jumped off the catwalk.