Royal Cryptids Robin and John Shenanigans part 2 of the previous one:
When Robin arrived at the hideout he was welcomed with a flying chestnut hitting him right in the face sending him on the floor.
-Shot! Someone said but Robin cant figure out who.
-Great job Tuck your new invention altmost knock out Robin. Said Littel John pissed off.
-Good grief. He mumbled as he went to help his best friend.
-It was an accident ! Tuck shouted back.
-Sorry tho Robin , I didnt expect you to enter the room when I shot the chestnut. Said Tuck rubbing the back of his neck.
Littel John offered his a hand which he accept it , he got up and could see that silence had took over .
Littel John found something on the floor interesting, Tuck stared at his new invention , something was wrong and he probably knows what considering the pain he feels around one of his eyes.
-Did it leave a merk? Asked Robin knowing already the answer.
-Well ... Started Littel John his voice going a few octaves higher.
If Littel John voice goes high something is bad , real bad ,Robin can feel a headache approaching its either from the chestnut or anger , probably the chestnut.
He closes his eyes , noticing pain in his left eye , he takes a deep breath , hand at his temples attempting to massage them , hoping it might help (it doesnt).
-How bad is it througha scale of 1 to 10 ? Robin asks again.
-Weeellll, lets say 5 point black eye . Littel John says , the last part altmost a whisper.
-Say what again. Robin says opening his eyes and turns to Littel John.
-That chestnut might had gave a black eye . He says not looking Robin in the eyes.
Robin takes an other deep breath to calm himself before he might do something he will regret later.
-Just get me a patch or a piece of cloth maybe put it in some cold water so I can go to sleep. He explained then he left for his hammock .
In less then a few minutes he tied a piece of cloth , clean and run through cold water at his black eye and went to sleep.
Prince John was in his bed checking one of the book he brought from those ruins , it wasnt in its great shape , it smelled like a mix of ink and moss .
But the writing inside was still legible , most of it it was a latin language , posible french or pure latin or something else , he might have to check his glossaries that were covering latin to english, the one he might or may not "borrowed" it when he paid a visit to one of the Earls with Richard a few years ago, was it the Earl of Loxley was it , or some other Earl, cant remember.
Considering through what those books been its a surprize you can still understand something from them .
The Prince was delicate with the book a wrong move and the pages might snap or the ink to leave the page and stuck to the Prince's glove.
Sometimes when he gets excited about a book he remembers about his mother , how she was getting excited if she found old books .
-After she would read them she always gave them to me . Thought John as memories from his childhood are slowly returning to him.
All the times his mother would give him a book and he needed to read it and then narrate it to her , she always expect more from him then Richard at academic stuff , he doesnt say Richard wasnt under pressure, their dad put alot on pressure on him .
-Father... always a few words and none of them were good. He murmured the memory of the man he once called father.
He was a stubborn and stuck up person , he hope his stubborness was from the ram used to creat him and not from that man.
-Poor Richard. He thought.
Next to their mother , their father was 10 times worse, atleast to John was verbally worse , Richard has many scars from trying dangerous activities their father put him too.
Broken leg from falling a tree in a hunting expedition somewhere in the Sherwood forest, scars from sword fights and even a dislocated wrist , lost 2 teeth in a boxing match against an other Nobel, thankfully those were milk teeth , Richard finished changing teeth at 11 .
John was irelevant to their father , he wanted Richard to be strong a " Lion King " he would say , he didnt let Richard's education on the hands of some tuttors while he had it in his mother's hand and some tutors she had choose after the last one used to hit his hands with a ruler till his skin was red same was with Richard tho some were afraid once he become King their , they might have to give up teaching forever , the tutors had permision from their father without their mother knowing.
Once she found out when she saw a bruise on John's arm hiden under his glove and then checked Richard's hands to say the least she made their father life hell for a few weeks , what she did is unknown to him but whatever she did , made him keep his mouth shut , they got to play and the tutors were replaced.
-Tho mother wasnt the best mother ever , Im thankful she didnt let me becomes like my father, still that doesnt make her good her emotional negligence for both me and Richard did affect us . He thought rubbing his temples , all this past thing gave him a headache.
-Sigh.... I should stop thinking about that , tomorow will be a long day , I must finish taking the stuff from that destroyed construction and select what can be saved, what can be reconditioned, and what has no hope to be saved.
The Prince tried his best efort to fall asleep early but of course it didnt work so well as he wanted , he wanted at 23 : 00 to be already sleeping he end up sometime around 1 : 00 in the morning but still a good thing considering the night prior he fall asleep around 3 : 00 in the morning.
When light hit his eyes , he knew that the morning came , he wished he could stay more in bed but the Prince had insisted that they finish in the morning what was left to clean from that abandonate place filled with books.
He got up and went with his morning routine, but something was bothering him , the dream from last night was bothering him.
When he went to grab something to eat before leaving he was meet with Littel John and Tuck who were in a argument, it wasnt the first time they argue right in the morning but this one seemed intense .
Usually Robin leaves and let them figure it out themselfs, they are 12 or 13 anymore they can figure their differences alone but Robin knew it was gonna be a long day and he needed some food before leaving and meeting the Prince, it not a good idea to go grumpy and act like a cat who got its tail stepped on , with a guy that can become twice your size and strength who also happens to be royal.
Robin makes his way towards the two boys who were shouting at eachother.
-Morning. Both boys said at the same time , giving eachother some ugly looks after .
-Sooo what is today's beef between you too? Robin asks as he takes 2 raisin bun from the basket next to Littel John and took a seat .
-Well . Littel John started giving Tuck a glare.
Tuck rolled his eyes while drinking from his mug ,probably tea .
-Tuck thought it was a great idea to try his invention which made a loud noise also pretty close to where I was sharpening and fixing some of your broken arrow tips when the loud sound startled me . He explained.
- I said Im sorry many times and tried to make it up to you! Tuck said annoyed.
- I could had cut my hand or worse cut a finger off! He said .
And they start arguing again .
Robin finishes his food and looks at the two before letting out a strong whistle , a whistle like how farmer do , in special shepherd/goatherd when they inform their dogs to go gather the sheeps/goats.
Both boys went silent and looked at the redhead .
-Enough you two . Said Robin.
-But-! Littel John started but was cut short.
-I understand that you are salty of what Tuck did , you could had lost a finger BUT if he said regrets it and tries to patch it up ,please try to be less salty, you can still be salty but not to the point you two shout every minute and then dont talk . Robin said .
-And you . He said looking at Tuck now.
-You need to be more carefull , sometimes saying sorry and trying to patch things wont work , if Littel John had lost a finger no matter how many times you said your sorry or try to do stuff wont bring his finger back ,and take a good look around you and what others are doing when you want to test something. He said .
-Now , Tuck if you have something to test go somewhere far from the hideout and do the test , alright? He asked the boy , tho he had no choice then to accept the terms.
-I understand. Said Tuck .
-Are you good with this Littel John? He asked the other boy .
-Alright, now if this is solved , I will pick up some stuff and get going . He said as he got up .
-Still to help the Prince clean that shack? Littel John asked.
-Yup. He answered not looking at Littel John.
-Do you want us to come and help you? Littel John asked , hands crossed.
-Would like if the Prince didnt requested to be just me. He said as he stuffed some food into his bag.
-Is he still salty about the time when me and Tuck altmost destroyed his whole book colection and statue? He asked remembering the face of horror the Prince had and the screaming after .
-He says and I quote " Your friends whould do a bad and quick job and I dont trust them to held a book that can is or will be mine considering that they altmost burned the book where I keep the secret room key hidden in . " . Said Robin making a impresion of John's voice.
Littel John rolled his eyes and Tusk refilled his cup.
-Whatever he says , I anyways dont want to spend time with him slaking or complaining. Said Littel John bitterly.
-Actually he didnt complain, to be fair he did alot of work then I expected. Said Robin.
Both boys raised an eyebrow at him.
-How so? Said Tuck putting his cup down.
-He was murmuring something picking book and looking through some then picking more , he filled many boxes. He said still not looking at them.
-He was lost in his world. He added.
-Like you last night. Tusk said .
Robin stopped and look at him with a raised eyebrow but he quickly decided he didnt want to argue now , he was still looking for an item and couldn't find it .
-What you looking for anyways? Asked Littel John.
Before he could add something else Robin says loud ..
Robin found what he was looking for .
It was a leather covered book , the leather looked thorn and old , it was covered in dust .
-What's that ? Tusk asked.
-I promised Scarlet I lend this for a few days . He said.
-But what is it? He asked again.
-Its a notebook from before I came to Nottingham, it has some thing writen here about survival , to identify animals amd vegetation and other stuff. He explained as he stuffed the book in his bag.
-Why does Scarlet want it? Littel John asks.
-Well she and Maryan are going to gather some plants , rocks and feathers and she needs this since some of Maryan's books were sent to be reconditioned by John . He explained.
Robin prepared to leave turn once last time and says .
- Those book were old , the ink was fading from a few pages and a few got ripped as well . He says.
-Byeee! He says and he is gone.
-Byee! The two boys say loud.
Robin walking towards the place but he keept thinking about his dream , he had weird dreams before but this one was just to weird.
He dreamt sheeps , there were many sheeps , they werent eating they were staring at something or someone.
He was at the far end , he walk between them and sees at what were the sheeps staring , it was a ram , it was a beautiful one , thick pure white curls , horns a golden like colour, he couldn't see its eyes , clean hooves for a sheep , a pure and clean skin , it looked like one of those sheeps people used to draw in book related to animal sacrifices.
It was eating grass till a boat like horn blown making a powerfull sound then the ram ran through the forest , he cased it but it was gone .
He walked through the forest trying to find a way out and return to the sheeps but weird thing were happening again , there were gold coins on the ground, in dirt , book pages in tree branches , some were burn , some were thorn , some were stained by ink .
He walked and walked and walked till he heard something he turn and saw something shinning then he woke up .
After he is done with this he might ask Scarlet about the dream , she knows stuff about meaning of dreams , he doesnt belive to much but right now he would like to know the meaning of all that .
(This is getting to long Im going to post a part 3 and make the original part 3 part 4 or 5 considering how big the rest is )
