Chapter 17

At that moment Nino, Alya, and Plagg were being led to the gallows with their hands tied and their heads hanging low with fear. Soon all three of them would die for doing what was right and there seemed to be no hope for them. Prince Xavier smiled maliciously at the prisoners he was about to sentence to death.

"I can accept being hanged." Nino told the prince. "But why hang a woman and a child?! Why not spare them?!"

"They are my enemies as are you and I will not have my enemies living in my kingdom." Xavier said.

"Technically it's not your kingdom." Alya spat.

"It will be in just a moment. Too bad you all shall miss my coronation." 

With a wicked chuckle he left the innocent man, woman, and child to die. The executioner put nooses around their necks and prepared to pull the ropes that would snap their necks, killing them instantly. The three of them looked each other with gazes that they hoped would help them face their death with courage. The executioner moved to pull the ropes but suddenly an arrow was shot right into his leg causing him to fall right off the gallows. All eyes turned in the direction of where the arrow had been fired and to their great amazement, they saw that the arrow had been shot by Adrien who stood on top of the castle. Alive.

"Adrien." Nino whispered in disbelieving shock.

"Foolish peasant how dare you interrupt an execution!" Simon said. "You'll die for this!"

"I don't think so. Now I'm no fortune teller but I can predict three things that are going to happen. Number 1 you're not going to going to hang my friends, number two you're not going to kill me, and number three I'm going to take back the kingdom."

"You and what army?"

"Alright men now! Attack!"

At once peasant men came running in with bows, arrows, swords, axes, and slings which they used to fight against the on coming guards. With help from Friar Fu, Adrien had rallied up all the people of France together to stand up against the prince and assist him in fighting back to save their beloved kingdom. An all out brawl broke out in the castle backgrounds and during all the fighting Adrien hurried on to the gallows and cut his three friends free.

"You all okay?" He asked them.

"We're fine." Nino assured him.

"Do you think you can lead this battle in my place? I'd stay but I have a wedding to crash."

"Not a problem now that the cavalry has arrived."

"Good luck man."

Adrien quickly made his way toward the open palace doors, One pf the guards tried to shoot him but he was stopped by Nino quickly slinging a stone at him. Soon he, Alya, and Plagg joined in the brawl. 

"Hurry you all must flee." Friar Fu said.

"No way!" Nino said. "I'm staying here to lead the fight but you can take Alya and Plagg out of here."

"I'm not going anywhere." Alya said.

"Ma'am I must insist." Fu said. "This is no place for a lady or a child."

"No fair I wanna help!" Plagg said.

"You can't! You're too young!" Nino said.

"Is that so?"

Plagg grabbed a nearby bow and shot four arrows at a guard which had him pinned to the wall.

"Bullseye!" Plagg said beaming with pride.

"I stand corrected." Nino said surprised. "Alright you can help but don't do anything rash! Don't worry Alya I'll protect you."

"Don't worry I don't need protecting."

She then picked up a fallen arrow and rammed a guard right in the caboose with it.

"Ahh!" He shouted in pain.

"Take that you scoundrel!" 

She then slung three stones which knocked out three guards.

"What a woman!" He said impressed. "Will you be joining in the fight too Friar?"

"I'd like to go on record as being opposed to the use of violence for purposes of conflict resolution." Friar Fu said. "However..."

The friar picked up a glass bottle and used it to hit one guard in the back of the head for trying to strangle the miller. 

"Wow even the clergy have a badass side." Nino said. "Now where was I? Oh yeah."

He then went back to fighting the guards. The royal guards expected this fight to be over real soon since they were going up against peasants but they underestimated just how determined these peasants were. For one thing they out numbered them greatly and they had become very angry over Prince Xavier's tyranny. They weren't going to put up with him any longer. 

"Ready, aim, fire!" Jagged said as he and Nathaniel finished loading a catapult with boulders and shot them at various groups of guards. 

"Perfect! Excellent ejaculatory!" Nathaniel said.

"Thank you mate." Jagged said with a smile. 

"What a main event this is." Nino said as he and Simon fought face to face with an axe between them. 

"You're wasting your time!" Simon said. "In the end you and the rest of these filthy peasants will be arrested and hanged!"

"Clearly you don't realize how fed up the people are with you and the prince?" With that said  Nino knocked out Simon with one mighty head butt. "Oh that felt good."

"This is actually kind of fun!" Alya said knocking one guard off his horse with a sling.

"I don't believe in violence. I don't believe in violence. I don't believe in violence." Fu said each time he took down a guard. "May the good lord forgive me but I had good reason to do this.

Eventually the peasants managed to over power the guards in the court yard and force them to admit defeat. 

"But you'll never stop the prince!" Simon said who was now tied up along with the rest of the guards. "He'll defeat you all!"

"Oh shut up Simon!" Said one of the guards. "Listen we were never really keen on following Prince Xavier, we were just doing our jobs and trying not to lose our heads so please don't kill us."

"We shall forgive you just as God will." Fu said.

"Thank you and here's a piece of advice. You all better get out of here before the prince becomes very cross. He's gone completely mad and so has the sheriff! And there's so much more of us inside the castle!"

"We'll take our chances." Nino said. "Alright men-"

"Ahem!" Alya coughed.

"And one woman! Into the castle to help Adrien! Forward march!"




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