Disclamer: I don't own Ragnarok


Chapter 2 – Holes and all that followed

"There's a hole in the kitchen," Vash commented off handedly during dinner that night (Home made dinner, courtesy of Eve who cooked and Raye who went grocery shopping). Dante hadn't turned up, neither had the wizard.

Eve blushed crimson at the mentioning of this. "I… um…mistook one of the deadly poison bottles for juice."

"Oh," said Vash.

They ate the rest of dinner without further comments on the subject.

Raye offered to clean up after they had eaten, and Vash said he'd go talk to Dante about labeling his bottles.

"Could you take dinner up for Shane?" The champion asked. "That guy forgets to eat when he's working."

The priestess paled slightly as various images of bolts raining down on her acrossed her mind. Though moments later, she found herself balancing a tray in one hand and standing in front of the room with the purple door. She knocked tentatively, thanking God that the door hadn't been anointed with lightning or something scary. There was no reply however. Slowly, Eve turned the door knob, hoping the wizard hadn't rolled over and died when no one was watching.

The room consisted of a bed and a chair against a table, which the wizard was leaning on. A pile of books stacked on the floor almost reaching the ceiling. (Eve wondered briefly why they hadn't toppled down and killed him) She approached the black clad wizard slowly, fearing fast movements would send scary things hurling at her.

To her great surprise, Shane didn't move, in fact, he was asleep. Eve moved a bunch of scrolls to make room for the tray, and miraculously not waking him. He didn't seem so scary when he's not crackling with lightning, Eve noted, his features were incredible pale, a mark of the Geffenian, either that, or because he never left his room. Which gave him a thin frame and possible a lack of vitamin D.

Not wanting to disturb him, Eve went out quietly. Raye was behind her when she was closing the purple door.

"You actually went in," he said, in the casual Raye manner.

Eve clamped a hand on her mouth to prevent herself from screaming, which would wake Shane and therefore shortening her life. She still hasn't managed to accustom herself to Raye's tendency to appear randomly from behind.

"Raye!" she hissed. "Can you not do that?!"

"Do what?"

"That!"

The stalker raised an eyebrow in reply, Eve gave up and headed down the stairs.

"Oh," he added, as a matter of factly. "Dante's down there, Vash's lecturing him on the general topic of bottles."

Eve frowned. "Was Dante mad at me for breaking the bottle?"

"Probably," Raye replied. "He didn't like you to begin with."

"Why?"

Raye shrugged. "It's a Dante thing."


"There's a hole in the roof." Dante appeared over breakfast the next morning, to prove his point; he bore a stain mark from water on his left shoulder. Eve remembered it had rained the night before.

Personally, Vash though an awful lot of holes had appeared in the guild base in the past few days. Apart from the kitchen and Dante's room, there was also one in his own room, left when one of his spirit balls went nuts and half blew the walls off. Creating a portal between his room and Raye's next door.. It seemed fine for Raye thought, but it unnerved Vash a little when Raye's daggers would suddenly fly into his room for no apparent reason.

"We'll get it fixed," he replied, cutting into his pancakes .

"Anyone for seconds?" Eve appeared through the kitchen entrance.

Everyone did, including Dante.

He remembered to return to the topic though, after a second round of food has been passed around.

"When's the repair going to happen?" He asked.

"A couple of days," Vash replied. "Move into the spare room for the time being."

"Spare room?"

"Yeah."

"The one with the door with red and green crosses?"

"Yep."

"Next to the priest's room?"

"un- huh."

"To hell with that."

It seemed that Dante really didn't like her, Eve thought as she was gathering dishes after breakfast. (She left out a plate outside Shane's room, upon finding the plate from last night empty). Or, he just didn't like the red and green crosses.


Dante moved into the room, which had the door with red and green crosses two days later, after a storm broke out the night before. He appeared that morning in one of Vash's champion garb (Eve thought it was rather nice of Vash to lend out his suit, since Dante's soaked up with water from the rain) announcing he needed a room change. Vash smiled cheerfully and Raye laughed in Dante's face.

Dante then swore he would kill the stalker if he didn't shut up, in response, Raye rose to the challenge. Vash interfered as daggers began to fly dangerously across the table.

Overall, it had been a chaotic morning. But the poor priestess had no idea what came that night, would be much worse.


As far as Eve was concerned, being in bed on a rainy night was a wonderful thing, curling with her back against the wall, hugging her blanket as the constant drizzle luring her slowly into sleep.

It was very much warm and fuzzy until something big and heavy plonked next to her in the darkness. It didn't manage to jolt her into wakefulness, though and at first the priestess thought she must be dreaming. To make sure she was, Eve opened a sleepy eye.

To her great dismay, this was no dream.

It was a nightmare.

This very nightmare took form of a person, who was centimeters away from her and mumbling something incoherently. Sleep talking? The curious thought only flashed across her for a fraction of a second though, before the rest of her senses kicked in, hard.

Several things happened at this point.

The sound was screaming which abruptly broke out of the room was probably loud enough to wake half the undeads in Glastheim.

She did this for a second or two before she ran out of breath and realized there was little response from bundle next to her. So it was at this point that Eve did the only sensible thing she could thing of.

She kicked the bundle.

It rolled once, before going over the side of the bed and landing with a heavy thump.

Several other things occurred after that (kind of the aftershock in an earthquake, but not really). A yelp was heard from the bundle on the floor (that seemed to have finally woken up), before the door to her room slammed open so hard that it smashed into the wall behind it and left a dent. A very flustered looking champion stood at the doorway in a set of pyjamas decorated with green and yellow teddy and a look of utter confusion on his face.

Raye appeared at the scene with a lantern moments later, and very calmly, witnessing Dante sitting very dazed on the floor next to the bed, and Eve at the corner hugging sheets around her, a pale blue Ruwach spinning placidly about her.


"I went into the wrong room."

It was the only thing Dante said for the whole night as the four sat in the kitchen, sipping on coffee.

"I thought passing the assassin test required brains." Raye commented acidly.

Vash interfered before more daggers began flying across the room.

"We'll get that roof fixed first thing in the morning."


End of chapter 2 – Holes and all that followed

AN: This little fic's finally on its ways, with much stumbling and bruising. Hopefully I'll get it to flow better in the later chapters.

And of course, thanks for everyone's support on chapter one.

A note on character names (since Rasengan-to-teh-balls commented): I didn't actually make up the names Evelyn and Dante, A friend of mine (Kai) did over a relatively vague conversation on msn ("I need two names!! Girl and guy right now!").