Crowns of Heritage

Chapter 34- Count Livens

(PEYTON'S P.O.V)

After watching Prince Marshall storm out of the villa shouting at his guards. Yeshiva and I hurried over and hid under the cars. We held onto the bottom of the car, and waited for them to leave.

"How long are we going to hang on for?"Yeshiva mouthed to me from under the other car.

"At least until the next stop, Natalie and Masiro are going to follow behind through the woods.", I mouthed back.

We continued to hold onto the bottom of the vehicles for 30 minutes until we felt the cars had stopped. I heard someone get out of the car and closed the door.

"I'm so sick of this bastard", I heard the person say.

"Seriously, how did he become the Crown Prince.", the person continued to complain, and walked away from the car.

A few minutes later, I heard him entering back into the car.

"What took you so long to get medicine!", Prince Marshall shouted.

I heard the person apologizing, and suddenly the car started backing up and continued down the road. Since the cars were behind each other I couldn't communicate with Yeshiva. As time passed, I felt the car had stopped once again. This time they all exited out of the vehicles. Since they were parked next to each other, I gestured to Yeshiva to wait for a second.

After we didn't hear anything else, we climbed from under the cars, and saw that we were at another villa.

Yeshiva and I rushed into the forest that surrounded the estate. A few minutes later, we saw Natalie and Rosemary dropping down from one of the trees. They walked up to us and I was a little surprised.

"Where's Masiro?, I didn't expect Rosemary to come along,"I asked.

"Since Rosemary has been training to be a mercenary, my father thought it would be better if she came along, plus Rosemary is the fastest runner out of them two.", Natalie said.

"What about Sage?", I asked.

"My father and Moises decided to train her while we finish this mission.", she stated.

I nodded my head. "It's your call", I said.

Natalie and Yeshiva nodded their heads and Rosemary looked way too eager to start.

(ROSEMARY P.O.V)

While we were at the villa mother told me to follow behind her. We quickly changed into some clothes and left out one of the side doors. After watching the cars pull off, mother gestured to me to follow her into the woods.

"Do you know how to jump from tree to tree ?", she asked.

I nodded my head.

Mother climbed the tree and I followed behind her.

"He mentioned something about stopping at another estate while he was in his room talking to the guards.", she said.

After following them through the woods for two hours. We finally stopped at the estate mother mentioned. We dropped down to the ground once we saw Peyton and Yeshiva coming into the woods.

"We need to find out who's estate this is?", my mother said.

"It seems like one of the Prince's guards hates him.", Peyton mentioned.

Mother nodded her head, "We need to find that guard.", she said.

Mother looked up and saw that it was about to rain.

"Let's find a way in there.", she said.

We started to run towards the back of the estate where the garden sat. While Yeshiva incapacitated one of the guards, undressing him and putting on the guards uniform.

Once we made it to the back and climbed over the wall. Mother noticed some of the gardeners were still working, she dropped down and hit one of them in the back of the neck.

"Hurry", she said, gesturing for us to come over.

Suddenly two maids came outside, and was about to walk in our direction. Peyton and mother rushed and hit the maids in the back of their necks as well. We moved their bodies close to the wall and changed into their uniforms. We hurried over and entered through the door.

"Where have you two been?", I heard a woman shout.

I turned around and saw that woman that came to the Duke's villa. I saw one of the maids bowing her head to her.

"I'm sorry my lady", she said, while looking down at the ground.

The woman lifted up the maids face and slapped her.

"How dare you spill something on my dress, you worthless piece of shit.", she shouted, and looked towards our direction.

"You two maids take her to the punishment room.", she said.

"What the..", I thought to myself.

Mother walked up and grabbed the maid while another maid joined in. They picked the maid who was kneeling down on the floor by her arms and started to drag her.

Mother looked at me and I followed behind.

Peyton returned outside with another gardener.

Mother and I followed behind the maid, and she walked into a room. The room had belts and other metal tools in them.

"That bitch is crazy.", mother mumbled.

The maid started crying while the other one tried to comfort her. Mother bent down lifting the maid face up.

"Tell me, what should I do to that woman?", mother asked.

"Who are you?", the maid asked, "I've never seen your face here before", she said.

"Don't worry about that if you see the two of us pretend like you know us." mother said.

Both of the maids nodd their heads.

"Do you two know where Prince Marshall is?", mother asked.

"Count Livens office.", the maid said, the one who was slapped.

"Stay with them for a bit", mother said.

She leaned over and whispered in my ear. "Leave out before she comes.", mother said.

I nodded my head and mother left the room.

(NATALIE P.O.V)

When I left the room, I could hear that psycho woman still shouting at some of the maids. She stomped up the stairs and I noticed a maid holding a tray filled with desserts.

"Where are you taking that?", I asked.

"Count Livens office.", she said.

"Do you need help?", I asked.

She nodded her, "Can you grab the teapot, I'm new so I'm a bit clumsy.", she said.

I grabbed the teapot and followed behind her to the third floor. We walked until we reached the door to the office. I saw two of the prince guards standing outside of the door. When they opened the door I saw the prince sitting on one of the couches and another man with a bald head and mustache sitting behind the desk. He looked familiar but I couldn't remember where I knew him from.

We placed the trays down onto the table and I felt Prince Marshall staring at me. I looked up and the swelling on his face finally went down.

"You may leave now", Count Livens said.

We bowed and left the room.

"Do you happen to know where the ventilation system is?", I asked the maid.

She place her hand on her chin

"I believe the basement.", she said.

I nodded my head and left her behind. I found my way to the basement and looked for a ventilation passage. When I found one my body could fit into, I climbed through passage and counted the floors as I crawled through. I looked through the vents as I was passing up some rooms. When I heard voices, I stopped crawling and realized it was Prince Marshall's voice.

"Any news on where my brother is?", I heard Prince Marshall say.

"No signs of him yet", the count said.

"We need to finally get rid of him once and for all, before I take the throne", Prince Marshall said.

"We still haven't found the woman and her children", the count said.

"I didn't get to taste her all these years, because she always threatened to bite her tongue. I want my brother to see me take his woman, while he's being held down on his knees.", Prince Marshall said.

Son of a bitch, I thought to myself.

"What about his daughters?", the count asked.

"We can sell them off to another kingdom", Prince Marshall said.

I saw the count hand something to Prince Marshall.

"Is this the potion?", Prince Marshall asked.

"Yes, it's enough to keep her sleep but not enough to kill her.", the count said.

I wondered to myself, who the potion was for, and then my heart dropped when he said who it was for.

"Queen Malaysia has been grieving for her son, I should helped her sleep for a while. I'll wait until after the event.", Prince Marshall said, "Now I should head back to the palace.

I immediately started to crawl down the passage. When I made it back to the basement. I went to find Rosemary and thankfully she was still in the room with the maids.

"We need to hurry back to the villa now!", I said.

I pulled her out of the room and went to find Peyton. She was still in the garden.We hurried and changed back into our clothes.

When we climbed over the wall, Yeshiva was standing on the outside.

"We need to go now," I said, facing Yeshiva's direction.

They nodded their heads, "Yeshiva", I called out to him.

I jumped down from the wall and looked up at him.

"Cut the brakes", I said.

Yeshiva nodded and ran in the direction of the vehicles.

I looked over to Rosemary and Peyton.

"Let's head back, it's getting dark.", I said.

Two hours later, after we traveled through the woods. We finally returned back to the villa. When we walked inside, Rosemary and I ran up the stairs and went to find Sage and Moises. Peyton followed behind, and we ran into some of the maids. They told us everyone else was inside the Duke's office.

When we entered the office, Duke Vernon was behind the desk, and everyone else except Sylvester were sitting on the couches. They turned their heads in our direction.

"Honey, what's going on? Moises asked, getting up out of his seat.

"When we were following behind Prince Marshall, he stopped at Count Livens' estate. After we entered into the estate, I crawled through the ventilation passage and overheard their conversation.", I said and looked at Moises.

"Prince Marshall is trying to poison your mother, not enough to kill her but enough to make her sleep for a while.", I said.

Moises facial expression changed, and he became very angry.

"I'm going to kill that bastard", he said.

I placed my hand on his chest to calm him down.

"I told Yeshiva to cut the brakes to the cars.", I said.

Nashi rose out of his seat.

"What?","What if he dies?" he said looking like he was panicking.

"Did you forget I'm from a mercenary clan, I don't care if he dies, but if it doesn't kill him, it'll at least injure him.", I said, in a serious tone.

Moises placed his hand on my shoulders.

"Girls", he said looking at Sage and Rosemary.

"When you go to the ball, I need you two to do something for me.", he said.

Sage and Rosemary walked over to their father.

"What is it?", they asked at the same time.

" When you get to the ball, I want you to try to meet my mother while she's alone. I'll tell you how to get to her side of the palace.", " he said.

Sage and Rosemary nodded their heads.

(SAGE P.O.V)

While listening to mother and father go back and forth about a plan. I suddenly remembered something I heard from one of the maids.

"Mother", I called out to her.

"Have you heard any of the rumors that's been going around the villa from the staff?", I asked.

She nodded her head.

"Are you talking about the rebel groups thats been forming for the past two months?", she asked.

Father turned his head looking at me and mother walked over and stood in front of me.

"Do you have a plan?", she asked.

"How about we start a rebellion", I said, while smirking.

Father's eyes widened, and he bent down looking me directly in the face.

"Do you know after a rebellion, if the king loses, the kingdom can suffer losses.", he said and kissed me on the forehead.

I grabbed my father's hand and kissed him on the cheek.

After kissing his cheek, I looked at my mother and then looked at Rosie who was standing beside me nodding her head. I thought to myself for a moment, then I looked up at my father and stared him directly in the eyes.

"Dad, you should become the King.", I said, with a serious expression.

All of sudden, Sylvester came rushing into the room panting. Nashi walked around the desk and ran to Sylvester.

"What's wrong?", Nashi asked while checking on his brother.

Sylvester kept panting and finally managed to catch his breath.

"Prince...", he said still panting a little "We just received some information.". He paused for a moment and got a hold of himself.

My father walked over to where they were standing.

"Information about what?", Father asked.

Sylvester looked at us with an serious expression.

"Prince Marshall... Prince Marshall's car flipped over the bridge.", he stated.