Chapter 2-Discovered
I own Ceres. That's all I need to say, no not Ceres from Ayashi no Ceres, MY Ceres. The one I created. Anywayz, I own her. Everything else is property of Akira Toriyama!
She had been waiting on the rooftop for hours, waiting for the lights to go out. Instead of hour, it felt like ages... Ages... That's how long her search for the golden crystal was taking.
Ceres's name was famous all over Japan and, just maybe, the other side of the world. Though she didn't hold a clean record. She knew everyone considered her a theif and she didn't deny it. Sure, she was usually forced to break into some manor or jewellery store to steal one or two valuable things, but she didn't know that they were the most valuable things in the room. Hell, she didn't even steal because she liked it. Truth be told, she hated stealing, but she had no other choice. She needed money, mainly for food and shelter. Sometimes she wished she could get a job, but, if she did that, then she'd never had time to look for the crystal.
She could live with the thought of all these humans calling her a criminal, it was the assasin part which she hated. She hadn't been responsible for any of the mysterious deaths the police and half of the globe were acusing her for, well, the first one really was done by her, but with a good reaason. The first victim wasn't human. He was a Metamorphmagus, a wizard who could change it's appearance at will without the aid of potions or spells. The majority of the surviving Metamorphmagi were dark wizards, the good ones seemed to have dissappeared centuries ago. That one had been following her one cold tuesday night and nearly succeeded in killing her with one of it's spells, she had been lucky enough to notice him just in time and deflect his attack with a sheild charm, causing the spell to bounce off her and hit her opponent with twice the power his old spell had. Unfortunatley for her, a couple had seen her attacking the wizard and called the police. She had managed to flee the scene before they arrivd, but they found the dead creature's body with the name CERES written across his chest. Ceres, however, had not been stupid enough to write her own name on her killer. If a Metamorphmagus was slain, the name of it's killer would appear on it's body before it was consummed in flames.
Great, first everyone thinks I'm a theif, now the whole world thinks I'm some kind of freak assasin, she thought bitterly.
She gazed down and saw a young boy rush out with two of the castle guards towards some nearby field. Ceres knew the boy must've seen her pass by and had alerted the castle. This wasn't a good sign. It would probably muck up her plans for searching for the crystal. She wouldn't be surprised if there was extra security in the treasure rooms...
She decided she would risk it and jumped down, clinging on to the edge of a window on the third floor. She peered in. It was dark inside. Perfect.
She pushed the window open and tiptoed inside the room, not making a sound. She was near the door when she heard a sound. A soun coming from the corner of the room. She turned and held her breath, hoping whoever it was making the sound wouldn't notice her or cry for help.
"But daddy, it was Chichi who ate all the icream sandwiches..." G-Chan mumbled, then she yawned and snored. She had gone back to sleep.
Ceres sighed in relief. The brat had only been sleep talking. She smiled to herself and tiptoed to the door, she opened it, tiptoed out and shut it quietly behind her. The hallway was so dark she could bearly see her own nose in front of her. Well, at least this proved that everyone in the castle was asleep.
"Lumos", she whispered and her hand started to glow. It wasn't much light, but it was better that way because then she wouldn't wake up the castle by turning on the lights just to see better.
She ran down the hallway until she finally found the stairs. She ran down and found herself in yet another hallway. She was on the second floor. The treasure room could be anywhere!
Something tells me this is gonna be a long ass night, she thought while she ran through the hall.
After taking five wrong turns and mysteriously ending up in the kitchen two times (how the heck did that happen?) Ceres had finally found what she was looking for. The treasure room. It just had to be it. It was the biggest door in the whole castle AND it's entrance was beign guarded by two bored looking guards who looked like they hadn't slept for over a week.
This should be like taking candy from a baby! she thought smirking.
Ceres plunged one of her hands inside her peach dress and pulled out a long, handcarved, wooden flute. She put the instrument close to her lips and blew a couple of notes, then a couple more until she was playing a very strange, sweet melody that would probably make you want to play, laugh, cry and go to sleep all at once.
The guards had obviously heard her melody and she could see them start moving towards her hiding place behind the wall, but, just as they were getting closer, they stopped in there tracks and started to yawn widely. Soon enough, both men had collapsed to the floor and fell into a deep sleep.
Ceres smiled at the sleeping men and walked right up to the door. She pushed it open and entered the room. It was filled with gold and jewels all over the place. She had never seen anything like it. It was actually true what the rumors said about all these treasures coming from around different parts of the world. She recognised some coins from france or a couple of jewels all the way from India, but, at least at first glance, there didn't seem to be any sign of the golden crystal.
She spotted a pile of gold coins nearby and decided that it wouldn't hurt to take a few. They could actually buy her some lunch tomorrow. She grabbed a good fistful and pocketed it for safe keeping inside her dress.
"Stealing again, Ceres? How much are you planning on taking this time?" asked a deep, husky male voice.
Ceres turned and found herself face to face with a boy who looked like he was in his early teens. His black hair seemed to stick out at every angle and his raven eyes were full of anger and challenge. His pale white skin shone in the gleam of the few rays of moonlight that streamed into the room.
But none of these things was actually important to Ceres right now, she had her eyes on something else. A long brown, wooden pole was beign held firmly in the boy's two hands. And it was pretty obvious what he was going to do...or better said, wanted to do to her...
He didn't want to capture her and turn her into the guards, he wanted to KILL her himself!
Crappy chapter, eh? I know. I couldn't sleep last night because of the heat, so I stayed up and wrote this next chapter. Now Ceres has been discovered by Goku! What's gonna happen to her now? And what the hell is the golden crystal? All in time my friends! Don't worry! Next chapter shall hopefully be up soon and Chobit Z shall be updated too, but please read my other fics too! "Fugitives" hasn't got any reviews either and I want it reviewed! Ciao for now (hey, that rimes!)!
