Disclaimer: Hello everybody. I'm all ready in my second chapter. This is when the Dragon Knights arrive ^_^ I started working on this fic right at 4:41 AM. That's pretty early. If you think I woke up this early just to write. You are way wrong. I just woke up because I heard too many noises. That includes my. I hope you like the second chapter. Remember. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! The chapters will be updated more if you review. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *
"I hope they have some food," That said. "I 'm so hungry!"
"When are you ever not," Rune commented. He looked at the green haired thief and thought how he could be so hungry after eating so much food. He just ate 2 hours ago. The blonde wondered why the Dragon Lord had asked them to leave for a week. He did say that they needed a vacation. He turned his glance to Rath, whose mood didn't change. He's been like that ever since. What is he thinking about. I guess his majesty noticed his attitude lately.
The red head with a white streak on his hair just continued walking. His thoughts wandered back to Cesia. He couldn't help to shake the feeling. that he'd seen her before. Yes, he'd seen her when she was still under control of the ring, but before that. He knew that she'd seen her somewhere else. It had been troubling him these pass week, and the week vacation didn't really help.
"Hey, were near," Thatz said. It was sundown when they reached Draqueen. They had reached the castle and was now in the garden.
"Yeah, try not to slobber yourself with food," he said. They went inside and walked through the finely decorated hallway.
"Hey, there's Ruwalk," Thatz said pointing out Ruwalk who didn't seem to notice them. "Hey Ruwalk," Thatz said waving his hand.
"Oh. You've arrived," he said pleasingly. "The Dragon Lord had arranged for a feast for you your arrivals," he said.
"A feast. The glorious food. I can't wait!" Thatz said, his eyes twinkling with delight.
"Can't you ever think about anything except for food," Rune said, hitting him on the head.
"Course I do. Why do you think I bought this treasure map for," Thatz said holding up a piece of paper.
"When exactly did you buy that," Rune said, a vein appearing on his head.
"When we were on the vacation," Thatz said.
"Com on you guys," Ruwalk said nervously. "Why don't you guys get ready and take a shower. Your clothes are all ready laid out for you."
"Kay then," Thatz said. He went to his room, while the others went to theirs. On Thatz's bed was an elegant outfit. There was a green sash, a beautifully decorated pants, and a dark green shirt. It had patterns embedded on it. On the other twos bed were similar clothing, but instead, Rune's had different patterns and his clothes were mostly blue. Rath's clothes were black and red. They took a shower and put their clothes on. Rune and Thatz excited out their door and left for the dining hall. Rath went out his room a few minutes after Rune and Thatz had exited theirs.
A yokai! Rath had just noticed that he sensed the aura of a yokai. The aura's coming from the room next to mine! Rath went toward the room that was across him. The demon doesn't seem to be that strong. It'll still be fun to fight a yokai. I couldn't even go demon hunting while we were on vacation. Now what kind of vacation was that! Rath turned the doorknob and entered the room. He stepped inside and took out the Dragon Sword. He stepped closer to the bed that had the girl and cat demon. The blankets were covering the girl's face so Rath couldn't se who it was. He was by the bed and noticed the small catlike demon in front of him.
No! It couldn't be! He looked at the demon closer and saw it stirred. The small demon and saw its eyes open. Ruby! The small cat got up and purred. It leaped on Rath and started to lick him. "Calm down Ruby," Rath said. He laughed a bit, like he did when Crewger did the same. The demon, Ruby, stopped licking and jumped down, landing on the bed. If Ruby's here, then that must mean that she's here also. He took his sword and used it to pull up the blanket that hid the girl's face. Damn, Aya! How the hell did she get in here. I thought she was still trapped in the. . . His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a familiar voice.
"Hey Rath! Were all ready starting on the feast!" Rune's voice trailing to where Rath was.
"Guess, I better go. I'll be sure to bring you some food later," he said to Ruby. He went out the door and closed the door behind him. He walked down the hallway and to the dining room. He took an empty seat next to Alfeegi who was muttering about the bills. Rath looked at the food before him. He got some ham, a piece of chicken, and mashed potatoes.
"Would you stop eating like a pig," yelled Rune. He was looking at Thatz who had just finished his 5th course and was staring on his sixth. Veins were popping up everywhere on Rune. It seemed that he would like nothing else then to clobber him with his sword. He actually was pulling out his sword when the Dragon Lord called his name.
"Rune," Lykouleon said from across the table.
"Yes. my lord," he said. "What is it."
"We might need the help of your healing powers," he said. He took his glass of wine and drank.
"Why, did someone get hurt?"
"Actually, yes. Lady Raseleane found a wounded girl in the garden. She seems to be feeling better, but is still wounded badly. So, would you heal her?"
"Of course, my lord," Rune said.
"So how that girl get wounded," Thatz asked between bites.
"That, we do not know," he answered.
"We also don't know how she got to be in the castle grounds. She couldn't have gotten in here in her weakened state," Tetheus added.
"She also couldn't have been attacked by a demon while she was in here," Ruwalk added in.
"How do you guys know that she's not working for anybody," Thatz asked. When the question was asked, the officers stopped eating their food.
"We didn't think of that," Alfeegi said.
"It didn't seem that she was any harm," Ruwalk said.
"Cesia," Lykouleon said, looking at the black haired girl.
"Ye," she said.
"Could you look in your crystal ball to find out some things about our new guest?"
"Yes, my Lord," Cesia said. She got out her crystal and used her right hand to move her plate of food aside. She placed the crystal in place of the plate. She looked into the crystal and saw some of the officers in it. She calmed her mind and focused it on the girl who she had seen earlier. No, why is this happening. Cesia was looking at the crystal ball, but saw only a fog surrounding it. She tried harder, but it only got darker.
"What's happening," Thatz said, stopping his eating.
Cesia focused harder. This is what always happens when I try to look at Rath in my crystal! The fog got darker and darker and turned pitch black. Black and white energies formed around the crystal ball. It surrounded it and looked like the crackling of thunder. Then suddenly, the crystal ball just broke into pieces. Shards went flying and fell to the ground. except for one which landed by Thatz's plate.
"Was that suppose to happen," Thatz asked between bites. Rune just glared at him, which meant that it wasn't. I guess that wasn't suppose to happen. Wonder why that happened.
"Are you all right," Ruwalk asked in concern.
"Yes, I'm fine," Cesia said. She placed her hand on her forehead.
"I'm pretty sure that doesn't mean good," Ruwalk said.
"We better go back to see how she is," Tetheus said getting up.
"Your right," Alfeegi said agreeing. He followed Tetheus out of the dining room and to the place the girl was at. Lykouleon, Raseleane, Rath, and Rune followed.
"Well see you guys later," Thatz said waving his hand. Rune turned around and glared at him.
"Your coming along too," he said. He went up to Thatz and pulled him by the collar.
"Hey, I'm still eating," Thatz said. He was being dragged on the floor. Rune with Thatz behind him reached the room where the girl was suppose to be. He went inside with Thatz trailing right behind him. He stood by Tetheus who didn't walk up to the girl. Thatz had gotten up and was now standing by Rune.
"Why aren't you guys going up to the girl," Thatz said. He walked a few steps to the girl when Ruby appeared in front of him.
"What's that," Rune asked.
"Oh, that's just the demon that seems to be her pet," Alfeegi said.
"Well who cares," Thatz said. Thatz jumped up and tried to jump over Ruby, but Ruby jumped and hit him in midair. Thatz landed on the ground on his feet and ran towards the bed, but was then thrown back when Ruby appeared in front of him and pushed him back. He was right on top of Thatz, her paw on Thatz's neck.
"Ruby, stand back," Rath said. To everybody's surprise the demon backed down and went back to the girl, Aya.
"I didn't know that you guys knew the demon's name all ready," Thatz said while getting up.
"We didn't," Tetheus said looking at Rath. "How did you know the demon's name?"
"Hey, where you going," Alfeegi asked. Rath was going out the door, but was stopped by Rune. His sword was a few inches from him and was blocking the door.
"Sorry Rath, but I won't let you leave until you answer the question," Rune said.
"If I do, will you lay off me?"
"Sure," Rune said.
"Okay then. I saw that small demon," he said pointing at Ruby," before , while I was demon hunting. Somebody was looking for a small demon named Ruby," Rath said.
Surprised that Rath answered the question, Rune put down his sword. Rath took a few steps out the door and turned around and looked at them.
"Why did you guys take her in the castle? She is a yokai after all, and I'm not talking about Ruby," Rath said. He turned around again. The others looked at Rath as he went to his room.
"Did he just say that that girl is a. . . a . . . yokai," Thatz said bewildered.
"Yeah, he did. Didn't he," Rune said looking at the others. He found that they were all speechless. Their speechless. I can see why. I can't believe that Rath just said that the girl is a yokai. I can't even sense a dark aura from her!
"Do you think he was kidding," Cesia said, breaking the awkward silence between the group.
"Considering that its Rath, probably not. I don't think that he'd joke about yokais."
Everybody turned around to see a man with glasses leaning by the doorway. He had short spiky hair and was wearing a gold shirt and pants. There were circle patterns on the outfit and a light golden sash.
"KAI-STERN! Alfeegi yelled. Alfeegi had barely finished his words when he was all ready by Kai-Stern. He was holding pieces of paper in his hands and was waving them in front of Kai-Stern yelling, "Do you know how much money you've spent! How could you allow him to spend so much money," he said turning his look on Lykouleon who was sweatdropping.
"Would you stop bickering and focus on the girl," Tetheus said looking at them. Alfeegi stopped his yelling, but still glared at Kai-Stern
"If I may, my Lord" Raseleane said looking up at Lykouleon
"Yes, Raseleane," Lykouleon said looking at his queen.
"Why doesn't someone go to Rath's room and ask him about it," Raseleane said. Raseleane looked around to see who would volunteer.
"He'll probably tell us to leave and then he'll aim his sword at us," Alfeegi said nodding.
"I have to agree with Alfeegi. Rath's not really a person for talking. Whenever he really talk about demons is when he wants to go demon hunting," Ruwalk said.
"We need someone to go ask Rath some questions. We need to know how a yokai could have gotten in the castle without dying," Lykouleon said.
"I almost forgot about that," Thatz said munching on a piece of ham that he had with him when Rune was dragging him.
"I'll go ask him," Cesia said. "I want to help. I couldn't even see her(pointed at Aya) in my crystal ball. You guys all play a part and I want to help," Cesia said walking to Rath's door. No one objected so Cesia just walked to the door. She turned the knob, surprised that the door wasn't locked. She went inside and closed the door behind her. * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ I hope you like that chapter and review ^_^ This chapter didn't actually take me that long. I finished it in one day! I guess that's kinna slow to some of you people =_=;; I finished it right after the first chapter, but I still made you guys wait. Well, the few who are actually reading it and are not sleeping+_+ Remember to review, you'll see me update more if you do :)