The guards of the castle, who realized from afar that something strange was happening, did not have time to save Princess Katana. During the carriage ride, Katana was still unconscious and Gustav stripped off the robes that had deceived the castle guards.
They arrived in front of a large building, there a huge iron door opened and the carriage entered. In the patio and from the internal balconies, many colored silk flags were waving.
Katana was beginning to wake up, her eyes as soon as they opened, they saw from the open door of the carriage a set of fluttering colors. He rubbed his eyes with his hands, straightened up and saw Gustav. She was amazed and suspicious, this time she was not so happy to see him … she had already understood everything.
Gustav was a cloth merchant, he was a rascal, he had kidnapped Katana to ask for a good part of the King’s treasure in exchange for her freedom.
He turned his face sharply to the opposite side.
He said, “I’m sorry! “Maybe, after all, he had started to really love her, but in his organized programs even before the prom, he hadn’t calculated her feelings.
Katana was very angry with him, she was very disappointed.
As soon as they got out of the carriage, Katana cunningly took the sword from the side of one of the gendarmes standing nearby, and challenged Gustav to a duel. Katana was a sweet but strong creature.
“Don’t worry…” he said “my father taught me well to use
the sword, and to defend myself from rascals like you. Rather, be on your guard !!! ” Gustav did not believe his eyes, and accepted the challenge. Katana’s heart was beating, after all she still loved him, but she had to necessarily challenge him to defend herself and her family. The duel was long and difficult, the last blow was from Katana: he knocked Gustv to the ground, seriously injured in the arm. She immediately knelt next to Gustav, and with tears in his eyes he asked: “Why did you do it? You betrayed my feelings. “He faintly replied:” No … “and passed out.
“Call a doctor soon, take him to his room,” Katana yelled. His gendarmes took him to his room, meanwhile the doctor arrived and medicated him and he said: “Let him rest.”
Katana stayed close to him for three nights and two days and in the meantime the King and Queen were very worried at the castle.
They summoned Selena who confessed her reservations to the merchant and thought that he could be the architect of Katana’s disappearance, because she had a clue to provide.
He remembered a detail of the scarf that Gustav had given to Katana: a large palace with an enormous iron door was embroidered on it. She immediately thought that Gustav could take her there. The King knew where that palace was, and organized an expedition to free his daughter.
Arriving in front of that great iron gate, six enormous aggressive dogs defended the building, and from the surrounding wall came the barrels of pistols and rifles.
At that point the King thought it would be a massacre for his knights and shouted: “I want my daughter back !!!”
A few minutes later, the large door opened slowly and loudly, and from there came a middle-aged woman with an arrogant air, who said: “Only you, Sir ? “.
The knights in chorus advised him not to go, but he decided he went saying: “Stay here until evening. Then go and inform my spouse “-
The King entered the patio, and he too was attracted and confused by the fluttering of the shiny colors of those flags.
The woman said to him: “Follow me.”
They crossed the entire patio, entered through a long and wide corridor, until they reached Gustav’s room, the lady opened the door and said: “Come in.”
At that point Katana, who was standing next to Gustav’s bed, turned and saw her father.
She got up and without hesitation hugged him.
“Father!” She said.
“Let’s go away,” the King continued.
Katana stepping back said, “I can’t … I love him.”
The King was speechless, blanched in the face and defeated he asked:
“What does it mean? “Gustav, who was listening, intervened with a trembling voice:” Sir, with all respect, it means that I am asking for your daughter in marriage “. Katana didn’t believe her ears, but her eyes glowed with happiness.
The King felt disarmed: “So … it means I have to go ..
I have to inform your mother… “. Strangely, the King remained motionless without reacting, without trying to take his daughter away, because he already knew that he would only get fights and bitterness.
Katana holding out her hand to him said: “Father …” and hugged him.
From that expedition, the King returned home completely defeated!
The Queen tried to encourage him by making him appreciate the positive side of the situation: his daughter would marry the man she loved! After all, in her heart, she was happy to imagine her daughter tied to a man she was in love with … which was rare in that period and especially in those noble families.
Probably, Katana had not taken into consideration the fact that he was still a repentant villain anyway, and she had been too hasty, she had not realized that she had already forgiven for the first time, a very serious thing to Gustav. He would have had his whole life ahead of him, and who knows how many other things, he should have forgiven him, but … this Katana could not have known …
Thus it was that the King’s dream of seeing his daughter next to a royal like him, a man of noble origins with solid and incorruptible values, failed. “But” he thought, “maybe my wife is right …
Getting married is not a game, it is a serious thing that scores.
That’s right … serious that marks over time all the time …
Well… the Princess’s wedding was organized equally in grand style. Gustav recovered and was forgiven by the King and Queen.
He was invited to the castle for a few days, so that he could organize the banquet with Katana, who was very happy!
In fact, she let everything be organized according to her parents’ wishes. After only a month the great event took place. Everything was perfect: the flowers and green arches in the park, the chapel decorated with only white roses, the elegant people and a fabulous location. Katana came down the castle stairs like a ray of sunshine that never tired in the eyes of those who looked at it. As she went down the stairs … (of second part)
