Disclaimer: I don't own ToS!!! Or the characters! Or the nirvana lyrics im using for titles! Or half of my soul…what?! I sold it for the Sox!
A/N Important notices:
italics entry
plain scene
bold date/flashback
2. I just hate trying to keep track of real dates, so I'm just goin by days in relation to each other or events, where they are etc. I can't think of a month just yet, but if I do, I'll put it in instead. Plus, if you were in a rush, you write nothing for date…at least I think Zelos would… But anyway, here's my fic. RR
20 days till Seles' Birthday
I'm trying hard to find ways to give up this whole Chosen thing, short of killing myself. Thank Martel! I'll be normal! I'll be able to friking be myself for once! People think I'm either stupid, shallow, a pimp, or nothing more than the Chosen! I wanna be treated like a NORMAL person! Seles, my half-sister, is a better choice, and not only because she's a girl. She has the guts and grit and spunk and…want. She'd make a great Chosen. I, on the other hand, hate every second of this job. I mean, since I'm a boy, I'm totally useless, cept to get picked by the Oracle to go find some girl I don't know (they wouldn't pick ANY of my hunnies…so who DOES that leave?) so I have the off-chance of getting a girl chosen. So much fun. Plus the fact that nobody even treats you like anything more than a title. Then there's the fact that the Pope HATES me. Not like I want to be liked by that asshole, but he's made my life a living HELL. Then again, if dad had just left things alone, maybe nothing would have happened after all. Oh of all hell, I hafta go eat breakfast now. Bet it's something fancy like French toast. Don't people ever listen? All I want is bacon and eggs! Oh well.
Zelos quickly combed his long red hair and admired himself in the mirror before he flew down the stairs, pink vest flapping wildly behind him. He sat down at the giant table as his butler brought out a silver platter with breakfast on it. Two pieces of French toast with some sausages and orange juice. Zelos smiled, closing his violet eyes a moment, before he spoke grinned widely.
"French toast! I love French toast!" he said happily as the food was put in front of him. The food looked absolutely perfect and delicious...for three seconds. Until he scarfed every bite down. He inhaled everything in front of him, thanked the butler, and ran back up stairs to a dull red book, lying open on the table.
The butler simply smiled, and walked off to do some more household chores, mainly sorting the presents from the Hunnies in three piles: Burn, Save, Send present back (reserved for Hilda/ Seles).
It WAS French toast! I could smell it from here! I hate French toast. Anyway, in case you didn't realize it yet and you're a spy for that Pope, I'm Zelos Wilder. A long list of titles goes here, but I hate all of them. Honestly. And if I tell people, they'll kill me for treason or something. Not like it's a bad thing, but I hafta give this job to Seles first, cause I owe her. Her life has sucked quite a lot, almost as much as mine! I mean, she's locked in an abbey for the rest of her life and her mom's dead too. She didn't do it, so why does she have to pay for it? But as soon as she is chosen…she'll be happy, like she deserves to be. Although… This whole chosen thing does sucks don't wanna make her suffer by accident…I think I should look into what the girl chosens have to do a little carefully, next time I'm in Sybak. Wouldn't hurt. I'll just say that some hunny sent an awesome present and offered to help her with history homework as a thank you! They'll buy that! Hmm…who do I know in Sybak…
19 days till Seles' Birthday
Still trying to find away to give this to Seles. It's not going well. But I'm going to try to help it. Seles' birthday is in 15 days. I'm going to try as hard as possible to send my Cruxis crystal to her as a present. That way, if I do die, she'll officially be tapped as chosen, and then everything will work out. All I need to do is find a way to ship/visit her 'forbidden abbey' on her birthday and make sure she gets the crystal. Not as easy as it seems, the way things are. I'll probably just send it when I go to Sybak, so they can't track it.
I found out the name of the sole hunny in Sybak. Her name's Chelsea and she works at the inn. She sent me a present a week ago, really. So I'll do her homework as a thank you. That should convince my dad to let me leave for there. Usually, he hates me leaving. He has a pretty good reason, though. He's afraid something bad could happen and I'll die. Good point. Only place he really likes me going to is Altamira, and that's cause he likes gambling too. And the hunnies, of course. Everywhere else and I hafta get his permission. I like my dad, for all his faults.
He's got my hair, only shorter and with a beard. He also has my awesome purple eyes. He's a bit chubby, but no one can tell him that without being really sorry. He has a knack for rambling and boring half the nobles to tears! It's one of the funniest things any of us have ever seen. Also, he's a charmer for sure! He can get any woman to fall in love with him just in one conversation! Course, that isn't always a good thing, but technically, it's the oracle's fault for picking my mom and not Seles'. If it had just picked her…then everyone would have been happy.
I don't remember much of anything about Seles' mom. She was only important for three years. From what I do remember, she had blue eyes and light red hair. She may have even been part elvish, I think. She had ambitions and dreams, like most normal people. Hers however, were more grand and important. And one of them was for Seles to be a chosen. Of course, that didn't work AT ALL and the whole situation just messed up EVERYTHING!
On the subject, I guess I'll talk about my mom now. She had light blonde hair and blue eyes. I know her name was Mylene…I just…feel better calling her mom… She looked nice, according to pictures. She was skinny and beautiful, because you hafta say that, don't you? She loved talking and demanded attention. If I can remember… I don't wanna talk about her death right now…
Zelos sighed as he wrote. He paused for a moment, making sure nobody was in the room that shouldn't be. Seeing no one, he sighed again, then continued to write.
She loved being rich and had huge plans set up for herself. Not that they included me. Or anyone cept HER. She absolutely hated me. Hell everyone did. And she KNEW I wasn't supposed to be there. She knew I wasn't supposed to even EXIST! And that's not all! She hated Seles' mom, because dad cheated on her for the other girl. Of course, if she actually KNEW my dad, instead of shacking up with him because he was the chosen, she'd of known that he'd cheat on her eventually! In fact, he'd been cheating on her the WHOLE time, from day one! Honest to Martel! She should have seen this entire mess coming!
Zelos shook with anger as he wrote the sentences down. He just sat frozen for a moment, maybe two. Then he went downstairs for a drink of some iced tea, to calm him down. He sat on the couch for quite a while. He looked up at the clock, which read 11:00. He looked outside, and saw nothing but night. He finished his tea, left it in the sink, and crawled back upstairs. He saw the words he had written on the page, and stared at them a moment. He decided to write just one more sentence.
She was right.
17 days till Seles' Birthday
Well that was fun. I hadta convince my dad so I could go to Sybak. Took a LOT of work! Plus the old man wouldn't stop talking about his new slut…I hafta say goodbye to Hilda, Princess of Meltokio, and founder of the Zelos Hunny Association (ZHA). Otherwise, she'd probably start complaining to me about me cheating on her. How can I? I'm not her boyfriend anyway! And she founded an association of groupies anyway so it's her fault. Oh but whatever. Wish me luck! How can you? You're a freaking piece of paper! Whatever…
Zelos marched out of his giant yellow mansion. He passed by a few members of ZHA and gave them a wink, hearts in eyes and all. The girls giggled, blushed, and then went back to talking about Zelos. Zelos shook his head and laughed, continuing his morning walk.
Hilda showed up before he got to the castle, however. He smiled a bit, and she just sighed happily as she walked over, fanning herself.
"Hello, my dear Royal Hunny. You look awesome today! Not that you ever don't...but whatever!" Zelos said, hearts in his eyes, which cause Hilda to laugh awkwardly.
"You say the same thing everyday, Master Zeloos!" She smiled back, elongated os and all. She sounded like a valley girl, but she didn't care. She just stood there smiling for maybe five minutes before he started talking again.
"Hilda I gotta go to stuffy Sybak for Chosen business... sucks horribly. My dad's making me! Honest to Martel! I'll be back in like two weeks or something. Don't find another hottie while I'm gone or anything!" He smirked. She laughed. They talked a bit longer, about only they know what, until Hilda walked off because of a maid. She look positively pissed, but walked away anyway.
"See ya in a week, Zelos!" She said as she ran off. Zelos waited ten seconds before he ran back to his mansion and then to his room.
It worked! I'm goin to Sybak guilt free! Thank MARTEL for Hilda's obsession with me. I bet she has posters of me in her room now. Oh well. Doesn't matter. I'll write more when I get there. Now, I gotta long ass walk ahead, so ciao.
15 days till Seles' Birthday
Made it to Sybak! I'm in the inn right now. The guard is downstairs. I'm making that asshole stay there until I need to leave. If he reads what I've written about mom and dad. Well it won't end well, that's for sure! Anyway, tommorrow I'm going to the giant library to see the materials about the chosen and such.
I'm telling you that bridge is a pain in the ass! It just seems to go on forever. A neverending bridge. That'd be something, wouldn't it?! Man that thing takes HOURS to cross! And it's made with 3,000 exspheres, too! I mean, those could be better used to protect PEOPLE or guards or something, but we used em for a bridge. There hasta be other ways to power things! And they don't even LOOK that great either. I'm sure there's more reasons…ehh.
But anyway, this is Sybak! Home to almost all the unlucky half elves not in Exire. They're locked in their labs forever. Maybe since the day they were born. It's absolutely horrible what they put half elves through around here. Specailly the way the Pope treats them. He drags them like freaking cattle. He's come up with all these strict caste laws and arrests, possibly executes half elves for minor offences. Although...the way the world is nowadays, maybe it's better for the half elves that they're not allowed out. True it's harsh! But it's much better than the crap that NORMAL people have to go through…or maybe not…but it is unfair that they are stuck here by law, I'll give that much.
Zelos stopped writing and looked outside. He was very bored. It is true that Sybak has a certain knack for putting people to sleep, but certainly not that boring, right? Anyway, Zelos was hungry after two days of eating nothing but crappy sandwiches the guard made. So he walked out of the inn and entered the University, looking for the Café. Eventually, after entering five labs and helping a student with his math homework by accident, he found the wonderous café.
A few students were already drinking coffee. They were all talking about their lessons and teachers. One of them was doodling a skeleton on his homework. A girl sitting near the door recognized the Chosen. She gave him a wink and a grin. He smiled a bit and waved. After a brief schmoozing moment, Zelos remembered he was hungry and walked over to the clerk.
"Hiya! Get me…two fried shrimp please! Thank you!" He smiled as he waited for his beloved shrimp. When they arrived, he paid the clerk 3 gald too much, but he didn't notice as he sat down at another table. He wolfed down the shrimp in what must have been a Tethe'allan record. He smiled to himself, sadated for a moment. After about a half hour of lying there and thinking about the wonders of shrimp, he smiled again and walked back to the inn.
Had some Fried shrimp. This place has the best I've ever tasted some! Honest! It was absolutely…well…delicious is an understatement. Why can't the chefs at Meltokio make some like this?! Zelos sighed as he closed his notebook and waited for this boring night to end.
A/N Quick pre-next chapter thanks to Quirkjuice for the details about Zelos' mom! Thank you very much! I doubt I would have looked for that myself!
Btw, this is my first pairing fic ever! I'm a bit worried I'll screw it up! But it'll be fun. Btw, Seles' birthday will just happen to be two days before meeting Lloyd et al. (why two, you'll see) PLEASE RR! Even if it's criticism! Or flames! I need something to tell ghost stories by!
