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Chapter 1: Kharl wins something.

"You did WHAT?!" Alfeegi (quite literally) screamed as Thatz told him some unusual news.

"Heh heh, calm down…" Thatz said defensively as Alfeegi glared at everything that moved.

"You bet your Dragon…in a game of poker…with who?"

"Uh, well," Thatz said. "The important thing is, he's not in Nadil's army, right??"

"WHO IS IT!?"

"Uh, it's Kharl," Thatz said quietly.

"KHARL!?" Rune and Rath yelled accidently. Alfeegi opened the door, causing the two to fall into the room.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING EAVESDROPPING!?"

"Uh, nothing," they said together. They weren't just going to admit they had their ears plastered to the door in order to hear what Thatz did… Alfeegi would (quite literally) kill them. Even a Dragon can't stop Alfeegi's wrath.

"I can get him back!!" Thatz said, nervously smiling. "All I have to do is play poker again-"

"No-More-Poker-" Alfeegi said in between breaths (screaming really takes a lot of energy)

"What's the problem?" Lord Lykouleon asked, peering through the doorway cautiously (even a lord is afraid of an angry Alfeegi).

"This blockhead just made the Renkin wizard Kharl a Dragon Knight!!" Alfeegi said (he had no more energy to scream).

"I'm not a blockhead!" Thatz said. "Right, Rune and Rath?"

They chose to ignore his question. "Kharl's really a Dragon Knight now?" Rath asked. "I thought there were rules on who a Dragon Knight," Rune said.

"Since Earth is now in Kharl's control, and since it is made to obey him, Kharl can indeed be considered a Knight," Tetheus said calmly, apparently oblivious to what danger they were in now that Kharl had a dragon.

"He'll take over my kingdom!" Lykouleon said. Ruwalk and Kai-stern, deciding to peek inside the room too, nodded in agreement.

"I've got a plan!" Thatz said. Everyone turned to look at him. "It requires another valuable object and a deck of cards…"

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"Isn't this wonderful!" Kharl said, scarily cheerful as usual. "Now I'll be a Dragon Knight! Then I can move to the castle and move out of this stuffy place!" He looked around the room, which was now a swamp of books and dust (a result of him trying to find a cooking book for deserts). Garfakcy sighed heavily, still surprised that Kharl won a game by himself.

"Go into the kitchen while I clean up *again*," he said, a mop, sponge, and 409 bottles in his arms.

"Should I help you?" Kharl asked happily.

"NO!" Garfakcy said quickly. He should be fine in the kitchen, right?

Wrong. Five minutes later he heard a loud clatter. He ran into the kitchen to see Kharl bent over the stove, a pot over the fire. Yet the thing that stood out was the fact that he was pouring baking soda and vinegar into this heated pot.

"No Kharl! Don't do that!" Garfakcy said, yanking the baking soda and vinegar from Kharl and turning off the stove.

"But it made this cool fizzing noise and all of that white foam!" Kharl said, disappointed. He picked up something, and drank it to Garfakcy's horror.

"Lord Kharl," he said slowly, "what did you just drink?"

"Something called 'Vegetable Oil'."

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Rune mumbled angrily as everyone got the castle ready for Kharl's expected arrival. When Thatz had explained his plan, they all had to draw straws to see who would give up- I mean, lend a valuable item. Guess who got the shortest straw.

He heard yelling outside. He looked out the window to see a Garfakcy crushed by a suitcase, and Kharl. "Guess who's here," Rune yelled so all could hear. Ruwalk (the poor soul) decided to let Kharl in. Kharl was going to sleep in Thatz's old room (since Thatz wasn't really a dragon knight anymore).

"Heellllooo!" Kharl said in his scarily cheerful voice. "I need help with my suitcases…" He (accidently) shoved a suitcase into Ruwalk, causing him to fall over. Kharl giggled. "These officers aren't very coordinated, are they?" He stepped over the crippled Ruwalk and entered the castle. Earth was perched on his shoulders, glaring at anything that reminded him of Thatz. Thatz the Betrayer, Thatz the "Don't-worry-I've-got-this-game-In-the-bag". What was he thinking, betting his dragon off like that??

Kharl was obviously the better master. He gave Earth real chicken yesterday for dinner! (Thatz usually just gave him some bread to shut him up). Lazy thief… anyway, Kharl reads to him (so what if it's only Dr. Seuss?), and he doesn't keep him in a sword (mainly because he doesn't have a sword, but so what, right?).

Kharl got to his bedroom. "This is so…boring," He thought as he looked at all the treasure maps taped to the wall. "Oh well, better start unpacking…"

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"Do you need any- what the he-" Alfeegi exclaimed as he opened Kharl's door. It was already…decorated in Kharl's signature way: books and papers lying on the floor, dust that seemed to come from nowhere covering the tables and walls.

"It seems I made a mess again…" Kharl said absent-mindedly. He smiled as he waded through the books. "Oh well, when are we having dinner?"

Alfeegi stood, mesmerized by the mess, before he snapped out of his…daydream. "D-diner's ready," he said as he led Kharl to the Dining Room (fancy fancy…). Oddly enough as soon as Kharl left the hallway to go into the Dining Room (fancy fancy), the hallway walls and floor were covered in dust and tiny pieces of paper.

Meanwhile, Thatz's plan to get back Earth was going underway…

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End of chapter one

Will Thatz's plan work? What did Rune have to give up-I mean, lend? Will Garfakcy be forced to clean every room in the castle due to his master's weird connection to dust and paper? And will Earth be willing to go back to Thatz? Find out this and more in the next chapter of Ex-Dragon Knight!

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