Here's chapter one for you all. I hope you like it. ^_^ Also I'll apologize for the spelling errors in advance. ^_^` (it's not one of my strong ablities)
It was a bright and sunny day in the Great Demon Kingdom. The maids and soldiers were at their normal routines. The sun was shining and there weren't any 'bad omens' flying in the clear blue sky. It was a perfect day for the people. The forbidden boxes gone and the Originators' defeat, had brought a feeling of tranquility across the land. Now if only a certain desk wasn't overflowing with paperwork.
Yuri heaved a happy sigh as he stared at the six stacks of papers on his desk. He'd gone through the stacks already and graced each of them with his signature. He looked outside to find that the sun had barely risen above the tree tops and he was finally done the day's paperwork and had caught up with the excess paperwork that had piled itself up on his desk in the days that he was absent. Yes he wasn't the type to get something this boring done of his own accord, but something just drove him to get it over with. Maybe it was the fact that he didn't want to waste such a great day or the fact that he didn't want Gwendal on his tail because of it or maybe it was the technique that Murata had shown him the previous day that had him use a tiny bit of magic to make the papers move into place on their own so that he only had to move his hand into the charcter strokes for his name.
But anyway Yuri had to get up before the sun did this morning which was a challenge in it of itself. Greta was given her own bedchambers last week that was right down the hall from the room her papa and daddy shared, so Yuri din't have to worry about waking up his precious little girl. What he did have to worry about was waking up a certain blond fire user that happened to keep sneaking into his chambers and bed no matter what he tried to do to keep him out. Wolfram was quite the wild sleeper and at some point during the night had tangled Yuri and himself up in the sheets and had his head hanging off the side of the king sized bed. Yuri spent a good five minutes trying to untangle himself from the trap of sheets without waking up Wolfram.
"Wolfram," Yuri said to himself as he placed his hand upon this forehead. 'I know that I found out that I can return anytime I want to just yesterday and that I don't have to say goodbye to either world but, does he have to occupy every other thought that goes through my mind! Come on, it's a great day and I, for once don't have any paperwork and I'm pretty sure there are no meetings schedualed for me today either so why am I sitting here thinking about my FIANCE!' Yuri gasped at his last thought and stood up to look out the window that was behind his desk. Yuri pulled the collar of his shirt down to reveal two necklace strings. A black one that bore a blue teardrop pendent and a golden chain that had a locket in the same color. I wasn't a heart shaped locket because Yuri found it way too girly. It was an oval similar to the demon stone that Morgif had only about the size of a thumb print. Engraved on the front in elegant font was Yuri&Wolfram.
Yuri laughed a little at himself. He had gotten it made here in the Great Demon Kingdom secrety after Wolfram had been thinking about it while they were argueing whether to go back to help Adalbert and get the necklace that was once Julia's that he had left with him. Yuri knew he should have just dismissed the thought as anothr crazy idea that came out of the blond's mouth, yet it plagued him untill he got the thing made.
*click* Yuri opened the locket to reveal two photographs that were neatly cut to fit in the locket. His mother one day had instised that her Yu-chan take a camera back with him so that she could see all her little boy's friends and family. He had taken so many pictures of the people he met and of all his companions at Covedant Castle. When he returned to Earth to get the film processed his mother pionted out two pictures that she absolutly loved.
One was a picture of himself and Wolfram standing together facing the same way with Yuri's arms around Wolfram's waist and Wolfram's hands comfrotably resting on Yuri's while both boys had faint blushes on their cheeks. Lady Celi happened to be visiting that day and she herself had arranged the two for this picture. Lucky before she could ask them to do more shots like this one, Greta ran into the courtyard and asked for a picture with her fathers which reulted in many pictures taken with her because Lady Celi would never deny the wishes of her adorable little granddaughter. He had stolen the embarrassing one from his mother before she could make any more copies of the thing and he had taken a picture of Wolfram and himself standing together with Greta in between them all laughing at the falling flower petals that were in the air. Yuri liked the pictures and had them set in the locket he now wore. Yuri turned around to pull a drawer open and pulled out two black velvet boxes with golden lockets like the one he was wearing. Except one was exactly identical and the other was small and had the name Greta engraved on it. The one with the engraving 'Greta' only had the picture of the three of them in it while the other photo frame was left empty. The boxes were left open facing the door as Yuri walked back to the window and spaced out staring at the pictures in his own locket he didn't realize that something was going on.
Meanwhile somewhere else in the now hecktic castle...
"YOUR MAJESTY! YOUR MAJESTY! OH YOUR MAJESTY WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"YURI! YURI! WHERE ARE YOU?! YOU BETTER BE OKAY YOU WIMP! YURI! YURI ANSWER ME! YURI!"
"Gunter, Wolfram enough we are getting no where with your constant yelling," Conrad said. Footsteps where heard running down the hall way and the three turned to see two more people to join the search party.
"Oh Your Eminence it's horrible we cannot find His Majesty anywhere!" Gunter said as he hugged the Great Sage tightly.
"Shibuya?"
"Yes he wasn't in our bed this morning when I awoke and I awaken when the sun does. Yuri is never up before sun rise," Wolfram said.
"Okay, where did you look so far?" asked Murata.
"We have searched the courtyard, the stables, the baths and the maids and guards are looking in the outerwalls and hallways and seeing that he isn't here with you that means he wasn't in the Tomb of the Great One," Conrad reported.
"Then where could he possibly be?" Gwendal asked. Murata stopped for a second and thought about yesterday then he broke out into a wide grin and started to laugh.
"Your Eminence?" Gunter asked now completely confused.
"I've got a pretty good idea where Shibuya is," Murata saw Dakoskos and Gisela out of the corner of his eye,"Hey Gisela, Dakoskos."
"Yes Your Eminance?" answered Dakoskos
Call off the search for me. I know where our missing king is."
"Of course Your Eminance, right away. Move it soldier!"
"Yes sargent!"
"The rest of you follow me," Murata said as he began to walk and also began to explain,
"Yesterday Shibuya and myself were talking about using magic to make things more convenient so things could get done faster. We ended up discussing how to make things move and float just by willing it like crates, rocks, wood, books and pieces of paper."
"Paper?"
"Yes Lord von Voltaire, paper. As in the paper that happens to be sitting in various piles on his desk," Murata said while the group approached the king's study where Murata knocked the opened the door.
Just then Yuri heard a knock on the double doors of his study and closed his locket and shoved it back in his shirt then turned around to see a smiling Murata and a bunch of releaved faces with a somewhat angry face.
Just as the cloud of silence was setting Lady Celi and Lady Anissina along with the three maids ran into the room.
"You found His Majesty,...oh," Lady Celi said as she spotted the necklaces on the desk and turned to Anissina and smiled. Lady Anissina smiled back and the ladies turned to look at the king and the third prince as the three maids stood to the side after they gasped and began to giggle excitedly as they saw the necklaces.
Yuri sighed in defeat and knew he couldn't cover this one up.
'I'm such an idiot! Why would I leave the lockets conveniently in sight of of anyone who walked in through the door! I shouldn't have even got the things made, let alone out of the drawer that I've been hiding them in! Oh well, this solves the problem of whether getting rid of them or acctually givng them to Wolfram and Greta. I'm sure Murata and my mom would call this Fate's helping hand. Ugh, last time I checked I didn't ask for your help Fate! Not that you ever listen anyway like a certain Great Wise Man,' thought Yuri.
"Good morning," Yuri said casually.
"Good morning Shibuya. Looks like you took care of your paperwork, huh?"
"Yeah, that little trick I practiced yesterday worked wonders. Now I'm all caught up."
"Oh, really? It's about time Your Majesty," Gwendal said secretly happy that he didn't have to play 'find the king' later to get His Highness to try to finish his work.
"Um, should I be asking why you're all here? Don't you have other things to do?"
"I thought so."
"Murata?"
"Shibuya you didn't have any idea that they were all looking for you since sunrise. You went missing and there is nothing more important to them than knowing you are safe. I'm sure Lord von Bielefelt here would have appreciated at least a note if you were going to leave before dawn. We might've thought that you were kidnapped you know."
Yuri rubbed the back of his neck and appoligized to everyone,
"Sorry I made you all worry about me so early in the morning."
"It's quite alright Your Majesty. It's our job to worry for your well being," Conrad said smiling.
"Conrad your my godfather. Don't call me Your Majesty."
"Nevermind that! Yuri just what were you doing just now, huh!? Looking for a necklace for your girlfriend? You cheater!" Wolfram yelled as he walked up to Yuri and pulled at his collar which made the locket that Yuri was wearing fall out of his shirt. Murata walked up to the desk and looked at the necklaces and smiled. Then said,
"Lord von Bielefelt you might want to take a closer look at the necklace engraving."
Wolfram's grip on Yuri loosened as he removed one hand to hold the locket that was now revealed on Yuri's neck. Wolframs eyes widened as he gasped and said,
"Yuri."
Yuri sighed and said,
"You know you have a bad habbit of jumping to conclusions Wolfram," Yuri said then smiled. Yuri pryed off Wolfram's hand from the collar of his shirt and opened the locket revealing the two hidden photographs.
"This type of necklace is called a locket. It holds two pictures of the people most important to you. Remember the time I brought a camera here from Earth and we all took pictures together?" All Wolfram did to answer was nod with wide shocked eyes. "Well I had these made shortly after."
Yuri took out the locket that was identical to his own out of the box on his desk and unclasped it. He walked so that he was now standing behind Wolfram and said as he was reclasping the lock,
"I had intened to give this to you at the right moment and now is as good a time as ever. I had these custom made. Didn't you say that I'd be nice to have pendant with our names engraved on it?" Yuri finished locking it and smiled at Wolfram,"There now we match."
Gunter fainted in shock.
"Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" all the ladies in the room squealed in unison. That broke Wolfram out of his shock and was at the moment a shade of red that would put the roses in the garden to shame.
"That was so romantic Your Majesty! And my Wolfie dear your so adorable together!" Lady Celi said in her 'this is going to be the height of gossip very soon' voice.
"Mother!" Wolfram cried in embarrassment and turned an even deeper shade of red. (if that's even possible) Yuri on the other hand only had a dusting of red on his cheeks at the comment. He looked to Conrad who was chuckling with Gwendal and Murata off to the side. Conrad understood the look that Yuri gave him, it was a message, 'help' Conrad smiled and said,
"Your Majesty I do believe it it time for the morning meal. Shall we continue this in the dining hall?"
"That's a good idea Conrart darling," Lady Celi said as she hurried with the rest of the ladies to push her two elder sons and the Great Wise Man out of the room leaving Yuri and Wolfram to follow at their own pace.
Yuri took a step to follow them when Wolfram grabbed his arm and picked up the other velvet box with Greta's locket in it and said without looking into Yuri's eyes,
"Yuri, we should give Greta hers at breakfast."
Yuri smiled and said,
"That's a great idea Wolfram. come on let's go," while he entwined his fingers with his fiance's.
'Fate's helping hand, is it?' though Yuri as they walked down the hall.
There you go I can only update on weekends so please be patient with me. Also please tell me what you think! Bye!
