Chapter 11 - Gunyan
"Moy!"
Then he saw him. He was standing at the border of the forest. Moy had seen him too.
"Mic dangerrrr�. Frot!"
"Is Mical in danger?"
"FROT!"
"Moy, you need to find help� find Laughly Moy."
Moy looks at Brian and it looks like he is hesitating. Then he runs away.
<I NEED to do something. What if Laughly is in trouble too?>
Brian was trying to get desperate. He couldn't escape trough the window and the door was guarded. On that moment he heard a man's voice speaking: "You two can leave now. I need to be alone with that lakeman."
Fear grows in Brian's heard. Are they now going to show him the painful way? He still felt the hand of the Knight on his shoulder and he shivered by the thought of what was going to happen. Slowly the door opened and there stood� Gunyan, son of the Knight. Slowly he walked inside and closed the door behind him.
"When you have brains, you are not going to attack me or anything, 'cause then my father will know and you don't want that."
Brian looked at the man in front of him. He had felt some pity with him, but now he didn't trust him at all.
"What do you want?"
"I don't want you to use my father."
This was a reaction Brian didn't expected. "Using your father? HE is the one I'm afraid off. HE is the one who is keeping me prison. I don't want to use your father� I want back to mine�"
Gunyan sighs deeply and sits down on the bed. "I will help you escape."
<I don't believe this!>
"I will help you, 'cause I believe what you are saying. You don't know where that door is."
Brian said nothing. He was too surprised to even think of words to say.
<This must be some kind of trick�>
"You need to escape tonight, so we need to wait for the dark. I shall get you some food. My father has got a giant dinner tonight so he is not here�"
Gunyan stood up and walked towards the door.
"Please trust me�"
He closed the door behind him.
Brian felt down on his bed and starts to stair at the ceiling. He really didn't know what he must think about it.
Hours went by. The darkness came outside. Then the door slowly opened and Gunyan entered the room, together with a little bag.
"Here is some food," while he gave Brian the bag, "you are alone outside and I can't help you there. But when you are very quiet nobody would notice that you are alone until tomorrow. Come on."
Brian is hesitating. "Why are you doing this?"
Gunyan sighs. "We don't have that much time� I help you because I believe you and you deserve a change against those terrible Eru's. They are my enemy too, although they are not hunting for us� hurry now."
Brian walks over to Gunyan, still not totally convinced.
<Okay this is maybe my only change so I better take it.>
He follows Gunyan. Together the walk toward the gate. Gunyan stands still.
"I'll stay here� you just hurry into the forest and be careful."
Brian turns towards Gunyan. "Thank you VERY much� sorry for not trusting you." He turns and starts to run towards the forest.
<Free!! I need to find Moy and Laugh and then I need to help Mical who is in danger.>
He enters the forest and then hears a familiar voice from the castle.
"THE PRISONER ESCAPES!!! HELP! HELP! THE LAKEMAN ESCAPES!!! HOLD HIM!!!!" screams Gunyan.
Brian's heart starts to pound very hard. Fear is growing in his mind. He needs to escape! He's starts to run as hard as he had never did before.
< It was a trap! Deep in my heart I knew it!! Why did I trust that little�>
Brian heard everywhere voices and the terrible thing was he heard them coming closer and closer.
<How could I be that stupid! Why didn't I think! I should have known better!>
He runs and runs, but he has got no idea to what. The voices are still getting closer. Brian has got the feeling that he's running for hours although it can be only 10 minutes at longest. Then he just runs against a strange looking man, with a long old jacket and a hat.
"Excuse me young man, or you for instance Brian the lakeman."
Brian wants to run away, but on some kind of reason the man's eyes just stop him.
"Yes." Then he hears a familiar sound. "Moy!" Brian turns around to see Moy standing behind the weird man.
"Helpfrrr�" says the Winkle with a waggling tail.
"Nice to meet you sir. I'm Herbert." Herbert shakes Brian's hand. "Your Winkle over here, said you needed my help."
"Those Anslyns are behind me! They tricked me!"
"O yes� Anslyns� Well that's not so good."
Brian stairs bewildered at Herbert. "THAT'S all you can say? Come on, Moy, we better run before they grasp us."
"Wait, wait you hasty young man. You want help you get help. Take this compass and walk always South then you are coming to Dol Guldur again and their you will find that beautiful young girl of yours. I will stop those Anslyns of yours."
Brian looks at Herbert and then at Moy.
"Frrrrot� trrrrrust!" says Moy.
"Okay�, but I'm going to run." Brian takes the compass and starts to run in the South direction, followed by Moy.
"Those hasty young-ones," says Herbert while shaking his head. He turns around to face the Anslyns who are not far away anymore. "Should they prefer some tea with biscuits?"
Chapter 12 - Together
Brian keeps running in the South direction, close behind him follows Moy. It is already a long time ago, since he heard anything from the Anslyn's, so Herbert probably stopped them with his stupidity. He had known all the time that Laughly was still alive, but he didn't knew where she was. He hoped that he could find her easily, without too much trouble.
<I still can't believe that I just simply believed that Gunyan� Am I really that naiv?>
Brian couldn't stop thinking about that. What if he hadn't escaped? Then he would no in much deeper trouble. Suddenly he heard Moy behind him.
"Frot, frot�. Laugh�y�"
"Laughly? Where?"
Moy runs away and Brian tries to follow him, but then he looses him.
"Moy? Moy! Where are you?"
<No, this is just great. Now I didn't only loose Laughly and Mical, but also Moy� this is REALLY brilliant.>
"Moy! Come on, boy, come back to me!"
Suddenly he hears another voice.
"Brian! Are you here somewhere?"
"Laugh!"
"Brian! Wait, stay where you are� I'm coming to you!"
A couple of seconds later the three are again reunited.
"Brian� I was so worried about you�.," Laughly gives Brian a big hug, "How did you escaped?"
"I first got help from that same man as who saved us, Gunyan�" Laughly's eyes grow bigger
"The son of the Knight?" she whispers.
"Yeah, and I met that bloke too� anyway Gunyan helped me first, but later he betrayed me again� I suppose that the only reason that I escaped is by the help of that Herbert fellow."
"Herbert? You MET Herbert?"
"You seem to know everyone don't you. Who is that weirdo?"
Laughly is deep in thoughts. "Laughly? Everything okay?"
"Hmmm� what did you just say?"
"I asked if everything was okay."
"Yeah, I'm just� worried about Mical. The Eru's have him�"
Brian had the feeling that it wasn't the real reason why she was so deep in thoughts, but he decided to let it go for a while.
"When the Eru's have him� we need to save him."
Laughly looked with a painful look at him. "Brian that is very VERY sweet of you, but� it's too dangerous for you. When the Eru's get you then you are already dead and in a very awful way. I don't want that� and I'm sure that Mical will agree with me. We need to continue searching for that door."
"I'm sure that Mical will agree with you, but I don't. And I think that Moy also don't agree, so� I'm going to save Mical�"
Brian stands up, and gives Laughly a kiss on the hand. "My beautiful young lady, will you please excuse me� I need to save somebody from the Eru's. Come on Moy."
Laughly stands perplexed and watches how Brian and Moy disappear in the woods.
"Wait a second, superman! How are you think you are going to do that?"
Brian turns around and looks right in the eyes of Laughly. "Well� uhm� I haven't really thought about that� yet."
Laughly smiles. "Alright Einstein, we are gonna save Mical, BUT� we need to be very carefully and I think we better work together."
Brian starts to smile also. "I think you've got a point."
"Alright then, let's make a plan first then."
"Another good idea," says Brian smiling, "let's sit down again."
They sit down again with Moy between them.
"Is there any place where those Eru's could have brought him?"
"Uhmm� well I guess they will keep him first here, 'cause they want us too�. I have got no idea where they should have brought him."
Suddenly they hear a noise and Moy jumps on his little feet and runs into the forest.
"MOY! Come back!"
Brian and Laughly run after Moy, but they find no clue in which direction he had run. Brian is starting to get a little bit frustrated.
"No, not this also� haven't I had enough for one day please�. I really start loving that little fellow."
Laughly tries to comfort him. "Bri�don't worry. Winkles always come back when they like their chosen master and Moy has got no reason to leave you totally alone."
Then they here Moy again.
"MOY!" they shout together.
"Frrrrooot�frot!" Moy looks at them with a waggling tail on his neck he wears a little robe with a note on it.
"Moy, what is that? How do you get it?"
"Frot?" Moy looks at them with two big innocent eyes.
Laughly reads the note and then gives the note to Brian, without a word. And Brian reads:
You will find your friend Mical in the Huntling Building in the middle of Dol Guldur.
A Friend.
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