A/N: I can't believe i actually thought of a way to do chapter two...though i don't think it's that good, if it isn't can you please pm me for what i can approve on, so then i can be satisfied with the second chapter. But if it's just my imagination and me being paranoid, well then enjoy the chapter. Oh and please note, I was half asleep when I wrote this...so...yeah
Chapter two
How would I describe magic? A work of art? No. I think it's something that is beyond imagination, where countless of possibilities lay. In Elrios however, magic was nothing like that, just another part of society.
Walking through the crowded market was a silver haired maid, followed by a white haired boy. Eve was one of the maids of the Sieghart residence, and was currently wearing her normal maids uniform.
Add Kim was the family 'gardener', a hint of insanity in almost everything he did. But at least that was one of his perks. He wore simple white tracksuit like clothes, making him stand out, especially at night.
Both were originally high rankings back in the Glenstid organisation, though they still had their respectful jobs, they worked part time at the Sieghart mansion, because of their mistresses arranged marriage. Right now the two were tracking down their current target.
Together they followed a group of magicians, wanted for smuggling all kinds of goods. Careful not to be noticed, though the maid outfit was a pretty 'screaming out aloud factor', the two followed the shady group through the market alleyways.
Slowing down slightly, Add stayed in front of Eve, raising his hands to make sure he can retaliate if necessary.
Together they peeked around the corner, noticing that all five of the men had entered the door at the end.
"Better hurry," Add said, taking off after the men.
As he did, Eve scanned the building inside.
There was obviously a large mass of a group. But she should be fine, even without the help of Add.
Inside the two gangs faced each other off, careful not to make any movements that would turn them against each other.
"So, are the preparations for the alliance raid finished?" one side's leader asked.
"Yes," answered the other man. "Together, we can take down the Sieghart family."
Both grinning, they shook hands, and the tension died down between the two sides.
There was a cough. Finally catching their attention, the white haired boy stood with the two leaders.
"You know you could have just asked," Add said. "Right?"
Surprised both gangs pulled out their weapons, charging their magic.
"Add you incompetent fool," Eve said, pushing her way past the members, earning a couple of gawking looking's while the rest blushed heavily.
Walking up next to Add, she bowed like any other maid would have done.
"I'm terribly sorry for what will happen," the silver haired girl continued. "But, we must take you all in."
"Prince Seiker!" one of the royal guards called out. "There's a pile of bodies outside the castle."
At the present time, Chung had been eating his dinner at the long gold dining table by himself, giving the room a lonely feel.
'I hope this wasn't Aisha's doing.' He pleaded.
After calming down and recovering his stamina, the guard stood up tall, only just realising that he hadn't saluted to the prince. He did a clumsy salute, to which Chung just rolled his eyes.
"A pile of bodies you say?" the prince asked.
"Yes you majesty."
"Than I shall see for myself."
Leaving his dinner, the royal left the dining room, where his trusted bodyguard was waiting for him, wearing her dark clothing as usual.
"Quite a commotion isn't it," Elesis smirked.
Elesis Sieghart was the daughter of Elscud Sieghart and the older sibiling of Elsword. Showing no interest in the family fortune, she sort to instead enjoy life by fighting as much as possible. So she took up a job as the personal guard of the prince.
Presently she was wearing a long black dress, however on closer inspection, it was made of the finest material, able to stretch to three times it's length, making it easier for combat. On her back was a large great sword, much like how Elsword has one, however Elesis usually never drew it for a specific reason. Though that shall be explained later.
Together, the duo made their way through the palace, and after a few minutes they arrived outside the gates, where the piles of magicians could be seen, all tied and gagged, struggling to break free from their restraints.
"Aisha," Chung sighed, face palming. "Why does she do this? Couldn't she slow down for once?"
Elesis shrugged.
"That's one of her good traits though," the red haired guard replied, smiling. "A great choice as a sister-in-law."
Aisha sneezed loudly, luckily catching in a tissue. But it was strange, she was sure she didn't feel cold.
She was currently eating dinner with the rest of the household, who ironically were eating differently.
Elsword and Aisha were sitting at either end of the long wooden table, seeing as they were the masters of the house. The red haired boy was eating quickly, but not barbarically, he had too many traumatic memories with Rena. Aisha on the other hand was eating very slowly, seeing she had nothing to do after dinner. Raven, being the head butler sat on the right hand side of Elsword, eating as elegantly as one would. On Aisha's right was Ara, eating in an animalistic way.
That left two other households members that I haven't introduced yet.
The chef, Ciel, was sitting on the left of Elsword. He was a tall man, almost as tall as Raven, his blue tinted black hair was neatly combed to one side. He wore pure white classic chef clothing, minus the hat (complained that it ruined his hair). A pair of silver cross ear rings on his right ear shone brightly against the light.
Lu on the other hand was well…look like a small child, no older than ten. She sat next to Ciel. If one wasn't paying attention, they would most likely have mistaken her as an English doll, except with hints of fangs, and black maid like clothing that would have made Kirigaya Kazuto jealous.
Anyway, everyone was eating peacefully. That was until Ara had taken the last meat of Phoru from the dish, leaving an annoyed little demon (literally).
"Ara!" Lu complained. "I hadn't had any yet!"
Ara playfully stuck out her tongue childishly, shoving the whole piece into her mouth, mocking the little girl.
Pouting, Lu grabbed the cake that was for dessert about to throw it at Ara. Seeing her movements, the black haired maid leapt behind Aisha, just as the demon had thrown the cake, splaying…into Aisha's face.
"Whoops," both maids muttered.
Elsword, Ciel and Raven stopped and stared at the cake that was coming off Aisha's face. The purplette angrily peeled the cake from her now red face.
"Lu," she said in a deadly tone.
Angrily, she grabbed a greasy chicken and chucked it at Lu…or least tried to. She missed, hitting Ciel, who accidentally, flipped the salad into the air, which landed on Elsword.
Elsword, stood up and grabbed his weapon of choice. The pork dumplings.
"This means war," he stated.
That's when all hell broke lose. Food flew everywhere, striking the walls, dirtying the expensive red rug covering the majority of the dining room.
As the food fight continued, Raven casually continued to eat his dinner, not bothering to try to break up the fight.
Before long, magic was introduced.
Using the air, Aisha lifted the food off the table, before swinging her hand and sending the rich food flying through the room. Elsword, made a red rune from his hand, touching the food, reproducing his 'ammunition', before throwing again.
Ara's fists started glowing with white light, as she leapt around the room, bashing the food out her way, deflecting them towards her 'enemies'.
Lu on the other hand, was shooting black balls of energy around her, lashing out at whatever food nearby, making them explode everywhere.
Ciel had summoned a sword, murdering the poor food around the room.
As the fight progressed, both Add and Eve chose that perfect time to enter the dining room.
"Yo," Add muttered, pushing the doors open. "We're back."
Watching the scene, a smile appeared on the white haired magician's face, as he splayed out his hands at the metal cutlery on the table, making them fly towards him.
"I'm joining!" he cheered gleefully, swing his hand down, the knives, forks and spoons flying everywhere.
Eve and Raven both sighed simultaneously.
'This ends now,' Raven thought, standing from his seat, a small trail of smoke emitting from his body.
'This must stop before Mistress Rena arrives home,' Eve thought, closing her eyes as her whole body turned to metal.
Everyone in the room must have sensed what was about to happen.
Grinning, the white light around Ara intensified until it surrounded her like an aura.
Add placed his headphones over his ears, his fingers cackled with sparks of electricity.
Lu roared and threw her hands into the air, her entire body covered with black flames.
Ciel chanted a summoning, a glowing weapon started to form into his hands.
Elsword closed his eyes for a split second, before opening them, both his eyes now had red runes instead of irises.
Aisha crossed her arms, bringing them to her shoulders, she started to hover from her spot, her magic steadily increasing.
But before any of the magicians could start, there was a loud bang as Rena walked in, glaring at everyone.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE ALL DOING!" she shouted.
All those present, immediately dropped their spells, everything returning to normal…well except for the food everywhere in the room. No one in the room said anything, no one dared in front of Rena.
"You are all cleaning this mess up," she said, a hint of anger still in her voice. "As for punishment after, Elsword you are banned from writing for a week. Aisha double your study times. Ara, you are having a normal amount of food per meal. Lu don't forget that you blew up the second kitchen only a couple of hours ago, so no sweets for two weeks. Ciel, no weapons. Add, no flirting or seducing random girls. Raven and Eve, you didn't do anything wrong, no punishments for you two."
The room was silent as the punishments took time to sink in. Then there was a chuckle. Add couldn't contain it, but just doubled over in laughter.
"Old hag, first you interrupt my fun, than you have the nerve to give me punishment like I'm a child," the white haired boy continued, slapping his forehead in laughter.
Suddenly he charged at Rena, smiling victoriously, as he sent the metal knives flying towards her.
When they were barely a metre away, Add saw the woman smirk, and click her fingers.
All the knives dropped out of midair. Add was pinned on the floor by an invisible force. He squirmed painfully, but couldn't break free.
"Very strong magic," Rena complimented, suddenly phasing, appearing in front of the boy's face, grabbing his chin and forcing him to look into her eyes.
"You're not a child. You're a brat that doesn't know when he is outclassed," Rena spat out. "Do not forget, this 'old hag' is one of the Three Sages. Not only am I one of the most powerful mages of the empire, but I am your employer. Get your priorities straight…though now that you mention that, maybe I shall add an extra punishment for you."
Standing, her clicked her fingers again, and Add scrambled to his feet, dusting himself off. And without a word, Rena stormed out of the dining hall.
"I want this place spotless within half an hour!"
The bell rung, indicating the start of first period at Velder high. Sighing, Elsword sunk into his seat, trying to ignore the stares at the couple of bandages on his face where one of Add's knives struck him.
"Elsword?" asked one of the boys, catching the rune slayers attention.
It was Allegro, one of Elsword's friends. The smaller boy wore the school uniform, black tux with a red tie. He had a pair of black rimmed glasses situated on his face.
"Yeah?" Elsword answered, leaning over his desk.
"Where did you get those?"
The red haired boy pondered for a while. He had to come up with a reasonable lie.
"Training," he lied.
Satisfied with that answer, Allegro went back to his studies, while the popular boys around Elsword started chatting with the rune slayer.
"Man you look awesome with those man, way to attract the ladies," one said.
"Speaking of which, dude you don't have a girlfriend, you should totally get one," another said.
Elsword sighed.
'Not this topic again."
"Hey, did you know there are some rumours about you already being married?"
That snapped him from his thoughts. Elsword sat up, a panic expression on his face. That earned him the attention of the whole class, especially the girls.
"Where did you hear that?" he asked.
The sudden question sent some boys speechless, surprised by his reaction.
"Don't worry," the other boy continued. "Their just baseless rumours. Who would believe that the number one bachelor of Velder would already be married. Think about it, your father is a strict man, he probably wouldn't want a girl coming close to you or he'll turned them to ash."
As the boy said that, the interested girls suddenly backed away from the red haired boy.
Elsword nervously laughed.
'If only that were true…from what I remembered he locked me in the bathroom with Aisha…twice.'
"Y-yeah," Elsword said, playing along. "If it weren't for him I would have already found a girlfriend by now."
'I have to find whoever started that rumour before it's too late…'
At that precise moment, the door suddenly burst open as Mr Adams, their homeroom teacher walked in, clearing his throat.
"Morning class, as you know, next week is our annual field trip to the Princes castle,"
Elsword smiled, thankful that he would be away from Aisha for the time being. He had to hunt down the root of that rumour before it's too late.
A couple of hours away, Hamel high was having a similar discussion. Aisha was in the back right hand corner of the room, all alone with no one to talk to. Her big framed glasses were slightly crooked, but that didn't bother her. She was trying to sleep. Throughout the whole of last night there were lots of screaming from Add. Probably because of Rena.
Sighing, Aisha continued to half listen to some talk about an excursion to the Princes castle.
'Well, at least nothing bad could happen…'
A/N Yes...nothing bad could happen...nothing...bad