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Warning: Three OCs in this chapter and more to come in the next one.
Ruwalk dashed through the front doors of the theater. He was late for work!This wasonly his secondday!He hoped beyond hope that he could through some miracle be able to sneak in without the dreaded tech director catching him…
"Hey what's up Ruwalk?" asked a voice.
Ruwalk jumped a foot in the air before turning towards the source of the voice. He breathed a sigh of relief. It was Gil, the assistant director of the theater's technical staff.
"Hi Gil, I'm just running a little late today…" he explained. Gil nodded his head understandingly. Ruwalk breathed a sigh of relief. Ruwalk was the newest employee on the technical staff here at the Draqueen Theatre. So far he had only met two of the three directors. Gil was nice and laidback and the head director was a total mystery to him seeing as he hadn't met them yet, but Ruwalk had long since learned to fear the easily aroused temper of the other one…
"Ruwalk…" someone growled behind them.
Ruwalk didn't even look at the other owner of the voice. He merely flung himself on the floor at the person's feet sobbing and saying "I'm so sorry!" After a while he glanced up at the annoyed man. He gulped. Alfeegi's head was dotted with exploding veins.
"Now, now Alfeegi, you wouldn't want to commit murder with witnesses hanging around would you?" asked a drawled sarcastic voice.
Alfeegi struggled with his anger before he could talk in a voice that was trembling with suppressed rage, "Ruwalk, this is the head tech director and theater manager-"
"You can call me Nanners!" said the girl with shoulder-length dark brown hair pulled back into a messy ponytail with random strands brushing her face or shoulders and blue eyes glazed with sarcasm dressed mostly in black. Over all the affect was slightly creepy, but she was much less threatening than Alfeegi, so Ruwalk gulped and opened his mouth to introduce himself.
"There's no need for that. I all ready know who you are. You're Ruwalk, the new guy. Don't worry about being late, most everybody is today. But I think a few employees are back in the scene shop so you can meet them. Right this-"
But she was cut off by Alfeegi clearing his throat, "Miss Nanners, today is a very important day and all, so how should the late employees be punished?"
"Hmm?" she looked at Alfeegi blankly waiting for him to elaborate.
"Have you looked at a clock within the past hour?" asked Alfeegi his annoyance growing with his superior's languid attitude.
"Oh! It's that late all ready?" she exclaimed looking at Gil's watch, she had unceremoniously grabbed his arm, seeing as she didn't have a watch…
"Yes."
"Ah well, they get here when they get here. This way Ruwalk! Let's introduce you to your fellow techies!" said Nanners leading Ruwalk down a hallway with Gil and an angry Alfeegi who was muttering vaguely threatening things under his breath.
As they approached a plain door off the side of the hallway Nanners stopped short and knocked on the door. Scuffling and mild swearing could be heard behind the door before she opened said door and walked inside, the others trailing behind her. There were three men in the room apparently working diligently.
An albino man was sawing a bench in half, a green-haired man was hammering the wall repeatedly while a man with dark red hair screwed two random pieces of wood together.
"Working hard, eh boys?" asked Nanners raising an eyebrow.
"Yep!" said the green-haired man, smiling widely.
Pop went one vein on Alfeegi's head. Ruwalk whimpered.
"Fedelta, you're the lighting technician. You don't have to be working," Gil reminded the redhead.
"Oh yeah," said Fedelta dropping the wood and screw driver and going to sit on a stack of wooden platforms.
Pop went another vein on Alfeegi's vein. Ruwalk felt like crying, but the urge vanished replaced by surprise as he was patted on the shoulder by a woman with dark blonde hair (a/n: there, happy sk?) held in a ponytail that wasn't nearly as messy as Nanners' and laughing, good-natured blue eyes. "Don't worry Ruwalk? It'll all be over soon!" she said smiling.
"Oh hey Teeny, I didn't hear you come in..." remarked Nanners, her face and voice blank.
"Well the door was open."
"Oh yeah...gotta remember to close that..."
Alfeegi finally exploded. "YOU IDIOTS WERE IN HERE DRINKING WEREN'T YOU!"
Alfeegi grabbed a chair and began chasing the albino, the green-haired man, and Fedelta around with it.
"ALFEEGI! IT TOOK US FOUR HOURS TO BUILD THAT CHAIR!" screamed the green-haired man.
"I DON'T CARE!" screamed Alfeegi as he attempted to bring the chair downon Kai-Stern's head. Kai-Stern dodged and the chair was smashed to pieces on the floor.
"Oh krap..." moaned Gil leaning against the wall as Alfeegi threw a hammer at Fedelta. Blinded by his rage he missed. Barely.
The destruction, unfortunately, was interrupted by a small man with long hair.
"Hello Garfakcy!" said Teeny brightly to the newcomer. Ruwalk was still stunned and frightened by Alfeegi's temper.
"I thought I sensed a mess..." he said, his voice trailing away as he gazed upon what was once a scene shop.
"OUT!" he screamed pushing everyone out onto the stage, letting the overhead door crash down behind them. The revirbarations made Ruwalk flinch terribly.
"It's okay Ruwalk! This is just an average day! You'll get used to it," said Teeny brightly trying to comfort him making the poor man twitch more violently.
The albino and green-haired man took the opportunity to hide from the stunned Alfeegi. The green-haired guy behind Gil and the albino behind Nanners. Fedelta managed to maintain his cool.
"Earth to Ruwalk!" said Nanners, getting Ruwalk's attention, "This is Kai-Stern," she said shoving the albino in front of her so he could shake hands with Ruwalk.
"Hi," said Kai-Stern shaking Ruwalk's hand.
"And this is Thatz," said Gil, pushing Thatz from behind him, "They're both techies too,"
"And that's Fedelta, the light technician," said Teeny pointing to Fedelta, "And I'm Teeny, the sound technician! Or whatever else needs to be done. Like putting chairs back together..." she finished, all happiness gone. Her eyebrow twitched as she stared pointedly at Alfeegi.
Alfeegi tried his best to resist the urge to cower in fear.
"That's right," said Thatz feigning sadness, "You just destroyed all ourx! hard work!"
"I'd hardly call building one chair in four hours hard work!" hissed Alfeegi.
Any more discussion on that matter was cut off by a paper airplane that lodged itself in Alfeegi's ear. Nanners reached over and plucked it out.
"It's called a cutip. It's a good thing," said Nanners sarcastically as she gingerly handled the paper airplane.
"ew ew EW EW! Ear wax!" squealed Teeny as Kai-Stern, Ruwalk, Alfeegi, and Thatz stared amazed at her outburst.
"What? It's gross!" she said defensively, "STOP STARING AT ME!"
Meanwhile Nanners read the letter.
"Ruwalk, this is from Chaos. She's a hermit that lives in the catwalks. She's rather shy, so she sends these letters from time to time," said Nanners gesturing to the paper airplane, "She'll probably come down as soon as she gets used to ya. She likes to play with fire, so don't be alarmed if a match or a flaming torch falls from above, she's just messing around. Now falling stage lights mean she's mad..."
Everyone but Teeny sweatdropped.
"You should have her evicted!" said Alfeegi.
"Why? Mr. Lykouleon doesn't mind that she stays here," said Gil.
Alfeegi was about to retort when a girl's voice called from one of the doors to the stage, "Are you guys on the stage?"
"Yeah!" yelled Thatz back. A girl with pink hair, aguy with black and white hair, and a girl with short light brown hair approached them.
"Ruwalk, this is Kitchel, Rath, and Lim Kaana. Limis the costume designer and Kitchel and Rath are techies," said Teeny introducing them.
"And that makes everyone," said Nanners, "except for Saabel and Delte, they're the ticket-takers, and Tetheus who's the usher..."
"Has he met Nadil yet?" asked Lim Kaana with feigned innocence.
"No, he's still in the hospital. The doctors were really stumped by his condition. If it wasn't bad enough that that rather large facade fell on him," Nanners said staring off into the distance.
Thatz and Gil looked away innocently.
"He had to be caught in that hail of miscellaneous objects," she continued.
Kitchel covered her mouth in fake astonishment.
"Not to mention how he got on stage in the first place..."
Teeny smiled sweetly.
"And who knows where he got all those bruises from..."
Rath hummed wedding music (a/n: guess he couldn't think of anything else...) under his breath.
"Or why he was dressed in a pretty pink princess dress..."
Lim Kaana traced pictures on the dusty floor with her toe.
"Or why he was so extremely intoxicated at the time..."
Kai-Stern whistled off-tune to here comes to "Here Comes the Bride". He and Rath were quite the duet.
"And then that scare he got when that stage light fell on him..."
Fedelta pretended to be very, very interested in his fingernails.
A paper airplane landed in Nanners' hands and she read it aloud.
"'I know nothing! Signed Chaos a.k.a. The Mad Stage Light Murderer' "
"That's very self-accusatory..." said Teeny but was caught off by a flaming paper airplane landing in her mouth.
"Guess she's angry..." said Kitchel and everyone sweatdropped, except for Nanners and Teeny who was coughing up ash as Gil pat her on the back.
"Oh well!" said Nanners brightly, clapping her hands, "Chaos! You better get down here in person! The new acting troupe will be arriving soon and we all have to greet them!"
A black caped figure jumped from the catwalks above and landed on the stage. The figure lifted their hood to reveal a girl with short blonde hair and mischievous blue eyes. "Nanners!" she whined, "You spoiled my fun!"
"Well, you spoiled Teeny's taste buds. An eye for an eye as they say..."
The blonde/Chaos stuckher tongue out. Teeny just choked again.
"Umm...excuse me...is this the Draqueen Theatre..." asked a small, yet clear voice from the entrance to the stage from the lobby.
"I guess the actors are here then," said Gil.
"THEY'RE HERE AND WE DIDN'T WELCOME THEM! THIS DAY IS GOING TO HELL!" screamed Alfeegi.
"There are demons in hell right?" asked guess-who (a/n: Rath for those of you without brains or for those that just have unusual thick skulls)
The speaker from the doorway sweatdropped. What was their troupe in for?
And that's where I shall end it! Mwahahahahaha!
In the next chapter there will be several more OCs. Don't hate me!
But don't worry, it will mostly be action between the Dragon Knights cast. Read and review please!
