Chapter 7

Chapter 7 "Halt! Who goes there?" Princess Pulverizer stopped at the castle gates and looked up at the thirty two guards.

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"Princess Serena. I'm leaving." Princess Pulverizer was surprised how much easier the name Serena came to her lips now. "Leaving?" the guard asked. "Do you have permission? King Harvey doesn't like us opening the gates for just anyone." "Why would I need permission to leave?" Princess Pulverizer asked him. "What threat is someone who isn't going to be here anymore?" The guards looked at one another. The princess got the feeling no one had presented them with that idea before. "Fine." The tallest guard pushed open the gate and looked onto the street. "Where's your carriage?" Uh-oh. "I'm... um... walking," Princess Pulverizer said. "My guards and carriage have still not returned." "Princesses don't walk alone at night," the guard insisted.

"This princess does," Princess Pulverizer replied defiantly. "We're not all alike, you know." With that, the princess shot off like a jackrabbit, only stopping when she found a quiet alleyway, far from the castle walls. Princess Pulverizer took a moment to catch her breath, and finally let out a loud nightingale whistle. Then she waited for Dribble and Lucas to come running to her side. And waited. And waited some more. Clink. Clank. The princess heard the sound of armor coming in her direction. Thud. Thud. Thud. The ground began to shake. Gulp. Had the king's knights figured out Princess Pulverizer was a real threat to their plans? Were they coming to stop her? The

princess's heart pounded so hard she thought it might leap out of her chest. Until... "Sorry it took us a while," Dribble apologized as he, Lucas, and Fortune came racing toward her. What a relief! The ground had been shaking under Dribble's weight. And the clinking armor she'd heard belonged to Lucas. "We had trouble with Fortune," Lucas explained. "He wanted a bite of someone's roses, so he stuck his head between the fence posts." "Then he couldn't get his head out," Dribble added. "You're always getting into trouble, aren't you?" Princess Pulverizer said. She petted the unicorn's head. Yuck! "Why is he greasy?"

"Butter," Dribble said. "We used it to make him slippery so we could slide him loose." Princess Pulverizer wiped her hands on her red-and-white dress. No need for a napkin here. "It's worse than we thought," she said, getting straight down to business. "The knights don't just want to capture the old unicorn. They want to capture all the unicorns."