"So you got the stuff?" he whispered to her. They were hiding behind a wall, watching a certain french speaking chef. Her blue eyes lit up with excitement.
"Yeah, did you manage to sneek some extra-"
"Yep! Now, hold open the pouch." The eleven year old girl did as she was told and held out a small brown pouch. The boy held up a small container and poured its continents into the pouch.
"Okay the next one!" The girl exclaimed quietly. The boy smiled and pured more of the warm liquid into another pouch. He tied it with a small string.
"I don't dink dat dis is a good idea. Melody you should stop right now, before it's too late." a little crab piped up at the two kids.
"Oh quiet Sebastian! Louis's not going to know what hit him!" The boy laughed as he tied a fish line to one pouch and did the same to the other. He handed a pouch to the back haired girl next to him. "Okay, Chant, after I throw the first LMB, you follow through right after." Melody nodded. LMB stood for Lucas Milk Bomb.
"One" She started
"Don't do dis" Sebastian cried out again.
"Two" He continued
"We are all going to be in deep trouble!" the crab warned.
"Three!" Lucas threw his pouch, into the air and it found its way to the kitchen and onto Chef Louis's head. Sebastian gasped.
"Ce que le....?" The chef muttered as he tasted the liquid that was all over his clothes. Milk.
"Now Chant!" Melody sent her LMB flying through the air and it hit Louis right in the back of his head.
"Bull's eye!" Lucas threw a fist into the air as he threw another LMB into the kitchen.
"Yeah yeah, now we can leave" Sebastian tried again.
Louis yelled. The little red crab slapped himself with his claw.
"Oy!"
"Fantômes!" He screamed in french and ran out of the kitchen and he turned down the hall. "Fantômes dans le palais!"
Melody and Lucas collapsed in a fit of laughter and bumped their heads together.
"Dat's not funny" The crab yelled out.
"Oww" Melody groaned while Lucas held his own head in his hands. They heard Louis shout again.
"Courez pour sauver votre vie!" He yelled in a high pitched voice and the two children were caught in another fit of giggles.
"Oh Louis! What's wrong now?" The two kids stopped laughing at once when they heard the voice of Carlotta.
"C'est la magie je vous dis! Sorcellerie!" They heard footsteps in the hall again.
"Calm down why don't you? Now calmly tell me, how did you get fresh milk all over you clothes? In English though"
"Now we're going to get it!" The crustacian cried out as he grabbed a hold of Melody's dress.
"Uh oh. Come on Chant, we have to get outta here!" Lucas grabbed the princess's hand and pulled her down the hall with him.
"Lucas I can't run as fast as you!" Melody Exclaimed while tripping over her feet. Her best friend stopped running and looked at her.
"You're right. Come on, get on my back." Melody looked at him like he was crazy. He crouched down and motioned for her to get on his back.
"Boy, you're crazy" Sebastian looked at Lucas with a disbelieving look.
"MELODY!! LUCAS!!" Melody heard King Eric's mighty roar.
"Hurry Chant!" Melody wasted no time in jumping onto the boy's back and once she did, Lucas took off running down the halls. For a thirteen year old, he was pretty strong.
"Lucas the window!" Melody called out to him as she saw that the boy was heading towars a large window.
"I know! Hold on Tight!" Melody shut her eyes tight as she heard Lucas crash through the window.
"AHHHHHH" The crab screamed.
She felt Lucas stop and wondered if he was hurt.
"Lucas?"
"I'm fine Chant. Hey you guys wanna go to the beach?" Melody's eyes lit up at the thought and Sebastian knew that they were going to get in huge trouble. But he followed the two anyways.
"Doesn't the water feel nice Lucas?" Melody asked him as she floated across the water on her back. Lucas was sitting on a rock and was waving his legs back and forth in the water.
"Yeah."
" Melody, Lucus, it is expressly forbidden for you to be swimming beyond-" Sebastian was cut off by the two teens.
"The safety of the wall and any such swimming is a reckless disregard for da rules, don't cha know?" They laughed.
"Stop dat" Sebastian ordered.
"Oh Seba, just give it up! You're never going to get her to stop coming here. Let the girl have some fun" Lucas patted the crab's head.
"Please don't tell mom Sebastian!" Melody pleaded with her blue eyes.
"You know dat I can't resist dat look" Sebastian sighed. "Whatever"
"Relax Seba." Lucas smiled and closed his eyes, enjoying the breeze.
"Luca, are you okay?" Melody suddenly asked. Lucas's eyes snapped open.
"Huh? Oh yeah I'm fine Chant. Why?" Melody climbed up the rock to sit next to the boy.
"You keep spacing out"
"No I don't"
"Mon, yes you do" Sebastian agreed and received a glare from Lucas.
"What's on your mind?" Melody asked concerned. Lucas sighed and tilted his head to the sky, letting his light brown hair fall away from his face.
"They came again" Was his answer. Melody almsost gasped.
"When?"
"Last night."
"Boy, you know dat dem Shadows are nothing to be messing wit." Sebastian warned. He knew that the boy had been visited by he mysterious people before.
"You act like it's voodoo. I was just talking to them" Lucas stated defensively.
"Luca, You know how I feel about you talking to them. They might be telling you lies" Melody explained while putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't think they are, and besides they have really cool adventures, there are even kids that are shadows that are younger than us!. Don't you dream about being a mermaid Chant?" Melody slowly nodded.
"But This will mean that you're going away. I don't want you to leave and you're not considering your father's feelings."
"Lucas, mon, you should really talk to your fathar about dis"
"Stop nagging me! Look, It's just that, this life gets boring after a while. I want adventure and I want to go places. I can't do that stuck here just being a plain ol' stable boy." Melody was hurt by his words. He wasn't just a stable boy. He was her best friend. Lucas noticed the look on Melody's face and felt guilty. "Sorry, Melody"
"Lucas......" Melody trailed off and slipped back into the water so that he wouldn't see the coming tears. Lucas reached out to her.
"Chant, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it that way." Suddenly Lucas was hit by water.
"Can't catch me!" Melody yelled and dove into the water. Lucas gave a small smile and dove into the water. Sebastian groaned.
"Dat boy. He's gonna get himself in a lot of trouble and Melody too"
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Lucas cringed at the voice of his king. Eric was furious and Lucas's father was staring angrily at him too. Melody sat in the far corner of the room watching with frightful eyes, as Sebastian clung onto the back of her hair.
"I didn't mean to...." Lucas lowered his gaze.
"So you, 'accidently' jumped out of a window while giving the princess a Piggy back ride?" John asked his son sarcastically.
"Yep"
"And the 'milk bombs' that hit Chef Louis, was really a ghost?" Lucas shrugged at Eric's words.
"The man's crazy and if he saw a ghost then he saw a ghost. It doesn't matter what really happened. Maybe he just bumped into a shelf or somethin...."
"And what about earlier today, when you let that dragon escape after it tried to take several of the cattle? It killed four of them!" John yelled angrily. Lucas took a big breath.
"Well.....you see......the thing is.....um...it was a pretty big dragon" Lucas lied. Melody knew. He hated to kill things. it was why he was a vegetarian. Eric sighed.
"Lucas, I'm not really mad about the window thing, or the Chef Louis thing. I'm mad that you put my daughter's life in danger and the fact that you let a babydragon kill all those cows!" Eric stressed the word baby. The smallest baby dragons, were about the size of a greatdane.
"King Eric, I would never put Melody in real danger. She's my friend and I won't risk her life, only mine. Also the dragon.......I just couldn't do it. Like you said it was a baby." Lucas answered looking Eric in the eye.
"Lucas....Baby dragons grow into huge dragons that could terrorize the town" John explained to his hard headed son.
"It takes them at least sixty human years to be a threat dad. Besides, it won't come back. I kind of....."Lucas made a disgusted face. "Cut off one of its wings." the poor boy looked like he was about to throw up. Melody gasped at the thought of her friend cutting off a dragon's wing.
"That's a reassuring thought" Eric muttered. "Okay Lucas, but you're going to have to work twice as hard this week. Come on Melody, you were getting your mother worried." Eric motioned for his daughter to follow him. Melody looked back to Lucas and slightly smiled at him and mouthed 'See you later' When she turned Sebastian looked at he boy with sad eyes. He gave Lucas a look that said 'Don't do anything stupid'
After The king and the princess left, John looked at his son and shook his head.
"That was embarrassing. Lucas, you're thirteen. Shouldn't you know better?" The man asked.
"........." Lucas remained silent.
"Thirteen, and still pulling off childish pranks! You almost gave Chef Louis a heart attack!" Lucas stood up.
"Relax dad, or else you're going to have a heart attack." John sighed. His son was definitely hard headed.
"If you keep acting the way you do, then maybe I will have one. Look, I'm not saying that you have to be serious all the time, but it would be nice if you became serious once in a while. Just grow up a little." He stated softly.
"Sure dad. Good night" Lucas stated and patted his father's shoulder. You've gotten soft pops, he thought to himself as he went up a set of stairs into his room, which was in the attic.
As he sat on his bed he thought about what Chant told him.
I don't want you to leave and you're not considering your father's feelings.
That was the thing. He did consider his father's feelings and he often thought about Melody, herself.
Tap! Lucas looked to his window and saw a glass dragonfly banging against it. He walked over to the window and opened it slightly to let the glass insect in.
The second the insect was in, it bursted, and the glass shards became bubbles and formed a message.
"Yes or no?" It said. Lucus knew the message was from the Shadows and he thought about his answer.
After I sleep I'll have one. And that's exactly what he did.
As Lucas slept, he dreamt about particular things. He saw several images. Some were about dragons, then it showed mermaids and strange looking, mechanical objects. But one image was always constant. It was of a boy around 15 with blood red eyes and in other images he was with Chant and in others, with Lucas's father.
When Lucas awoke he knew what his answer was.
My Special Words ( or not )
Okay so this is what Chef Louis was supposedy saying in french.
Ce que le....? = What the....?
Fantômes! = Ghosts/phantoms!
Fantômes dans le palais = Ghosts in the palace
Courez pour sauver votre vie = Run for your lives!
C'est la magie je vous dis! Sorcellerie = It's witchcraft I tell you! Witchcraft!
Okay so this is only going to be two chpts long......I'm sorry it's just that this story was stuck in my head and I needed to le it out.
It's basically about Melody's friend Lucas leaving and his thoughts about it.
Oh I want you all to do a compare and contrast between Devil and Lucas!
I just want to make sure they weren't too much alike.
