1 Only if. 2
1.1 First try
Novermber. 26, 2001
2am
Title: Only if. 2/? - (Dunno depends on how I feel)
Author: Chaser
Warnings: Totally Au. Elves, faeries, knights, kingdoms, sorcery and all that good stuff. This was brought to you absolutely beata free. *Ok so that might not be a good thing* ^_^;;
Pairing {s}: none yet. As soon as I think of one I'll tell you.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my fuzzy blue bunny slippers/ song title is an Enya track.
Archive: www.geocities.com/daggersplendens/index.html
Author notes: ok notes. yeah umm.
(----- lalaalaaa---- ) Duo's flashbacks
(-*-*-*-* memeemeee_*-*-*-*- ) Wufei's flashbacks
Pixies- carnivorous, with big sharp teeth and claws hands wen on hunt for food, basically faeries with an attitude and a diet of meat. Quite fond of human flesh.
Before I go I want to thank Zyre and Blackstar among other people but that would take too long. Thanks to all . you know exactly who you are.
Feedback: Would be nice
ONLY IF.
By the time I made my way out of the forest of the silent lake I was missing a patch of hair and had an obnoxious faery tagging along for the ride. If I were to find the sixth Lumin countryside I would have to first find out if there ever was a sixth countryside. For that I would need to find an oracle or a dragon. Neither which I was too fond of.
" Do you even know were you're going? " the faery asked.
" Must you ask? You said it yourself there is no sixth countryside and I am not that old that I would remember if there ever was one."
" You're not a bright one are you?"
Rolling my eyes I asked him.
" If you know so much then where should I be heading then?"
In a matter of fact voice he answered." Well if you were a bright man, which you're not. You would ask someone who would know if there ever was such a place. If I were looking for something that doesn't exist I would ask a dragon. They know about the old days. "
As much as I hated it he was right. The only one who would know for sure would be a dragon. Now how was I going to find a dragon that wouldn't want me as his dinner and answer my question?
Wufei the faery began to speak of a dragon he said he once knew. Taking the little man advice for lack of knowing one myself I headed off to the south toward the devils womb canyons.
It was a 2-day walk from the forest.
I still didn't like the idea of being on sent on a task by that lady Catalonia woman but I had little choice. I had worked hard to disappear. My past life as a thief I left behind for good reason. I was a wanted man. Wanted by the wrong people. That day was the worst day of my life. After many years of roaming the lands I thought I had finally found a home, one where I could hang my hat and lead a real life for once.
---- Humming the melody of my people I walked into the second Lumin countryside. It wasn't much but was well known for its people. The kindest people in the entire country it was said. Their kindness touching the blackest hearts and cleansing them. It was all too perfect. I was to become normal. I was to become a man.
I was to see the king. King Maxwell was a great man. He reached out to me. Trying to help me fight my demons and promised he I would find the love and expectance I longed for. -----
" Are you listening to me? Get your head out of the clouds boy! Are you even listening to me? "
---- " You have finally arrived. Come we will see what we can do to help."
" Are you sure sire. Are you sure you can help me become a man?"
" Why boy we can only give you the means you must have the desire. I can only give you what I have you must find it within yourself. If becoming a man is what you desire. Then that is what you will become."
With a bow of the head." Thank you sire. "
Turning his head to face me as he lead me down what must have once been a grand hallway. " Do not thank me thank the creators. For they are the ones who have brought you to us. Your fate is not in my hands but in your own."
My fate in my hands.I chose what I become.---
" Are you listening to me? I said don't go there. You're going the wrong way!!! " He screaming into his ear.
--- Children ran by playing a game of knights and dragons. King Maxwell just smiled as they nearly ran him down. " You too if you choose to call here home if you like."
" I can?"
" Yes Queen Helen would love it if you would play for her."
" Me? . Play for the queen? "
" Of course the queen would be honored if you would." He said with a smile.
We stopped in front of a door." This will be your room until it is ready. You can come and go as you please. The chamber will be ready within a week's time. I must leave you know. I have business that needs attending to. Enjoy your stay." ----
" Wake up stupid!! " the faery screamed. " Just my luck to get stuck with the boy whose head is permanently lodged in his rear." Wufei mumbled as he grabbed a fist full of hair and ripped it out
" OWWWOWWW why you wretched little.. Why did you do that?" I screamed.
" You were in a daze you fool! You've led us right into the troll country. What is wrong with you? "
" Troll country? I thought you said this was the way to the canyons?"
" Do not blame me. I was not the one with my head stuck where the sun does not shine. I told you several times that you needed to make a turn towards the setting sun. But did you listen.no you walked us straight into this wretched place."
Looking around I could see that we were indeed in troll country. Troll are the only creatures who find rotting trees and the constant stench of death appealing. It did not help that the sun was well on its way of setting. All that was left was to be found by one or many.
How could I get so lost in my memories that I got myself stuck here? I couldn't remember which way I had walked into this place. That means that we would have to find a place to rest for the night. I was not about to go roaming in the dead of night with trolls out hunting.
" Faery boy I have an idea."
" My name is Wufei."
" Yes Wufei listen to me. Since you give off a little light glow. Being a faery as you are. You lead the way. We need to find shelter before the sun finished it's descending.
" Oh now you want to listen to me. Now you need my help. "
" Look little man I do not have the time or patience for your mouth. Either you help find shelter or when we run into the trolls I will offer them you for safe passage."
" You wouldn't dare."
With a quick swipe of my hand I had him by the wings, pinching his wings between my fingers I pulled him to level to my eyes.
" If you haven't noticed I am not the noblest person and I would sell my own flesh and blood for safe passage. If that doesn't blacken my conscience, An annoying faery that has the mouth of a drunkard would not haunt me. Now are you going to help or should I offer you now?"
" Fine fine fine just let go! "
Tossing him forward he buzzed ahead lighting my way. It wasn't long before we found a deserted cave to spend the night in. It wasn't my idea spot to lay me head but it was dry and troll free. Not that I have anything against trolls but they have a tendency to smash first and think after they've eaten.
The night was thankfully uneventful. Even if Wufei complained about being manhandled and threatened like a common pixie.
" If you're not a pixie or a faery then what are you? You complain as if you are a man who has been scorned."
" If you must know I am not a faery."
Raising my brow I tried to repress my laughter.
" Then what would you been little man?"
" I wasn't always a faery and don't you dare laugh you fool. I was once a man. I was a scholar..
-*-*-*-*- " Is there nothing else you can teach me? " he questioned the elder as he threw the great book to the ground in disgust.
" I've already learned this. I have read ever book in this place you call a library. When will you see that I am ready to become a man? "
" Chang clam down. This behavior is unbecoming of you. There is much you still have to learn. "
" Like what? I've learned the history of the fifth Lumin country. I have learned about our ways and traditions. I have mastered the arts. I am the best swordsman in this town. What more is there for me to learn. Is it that you want me to learn woman work. ?
The elder man shook his head as he listened to his young pupil speak. " Chang you will never become the great man you strive to be if you don't learn how to control your emotions and hold your tongue. Until you have learned these things you shall never truly become a man. Until that time you will not leave the village in search of what you desire."
" I WILL leave and I WILL find the book of truth and you will see old man. I will become greater than any one who has ever lived in the fifth country." -*-*-*-*-
" A long time ago when I was a young man. I thought I knew everything there was to be known. I was a little overbearing and pig headed."
" You over bearing and pig headed I would never believe." I said sarcastically.
" SHUT UP!"
" Oh forgive me please do continue."
" As I was saying I was a little over bearing and a know it all. So dispute what I was told I left my village in search of the book of truth."
" Umm. what's the book of truth? "
" It was said to be a great book that held the knowledge of the stars; the stories of the ancient ones who created the lands. It was said that who ever read from its pages who are granted all this knowledge. I wanted this power. So I searched town after town yet no one knew of this book. Finally in the second Lumin country I heard that the book was in the heard to be somewhere in the glass forest. I had read about the forest and the affects it had on a man. I wasn't afraid as many said I should have been. I knew what was in my heart. I knew myself well. There would be no reason for me to fear the forest.
Entering the forest was easy. It was true that the trees have leaves of glass. The leaves shined as the sun hit them and gave the forest an unnatural glow. There were many strange creatures living in there but the worst of them had to be the pixies. I thought them to be fragile little creature, weak even. They didn't bother me until one asked me if I would play with it. Naturally I said no and swatted it away. Sending it smashing into a tree, impaling the small creature on one of the sharp leaves.
Continuing on my way I didn't notice that I had killed the creature. Pixies unlike other small living things do not fret away from bigger things. They attack in hordes. Hundreds nah thousand gathered and began chase. Once cute winged pixies transformed into strange, winged creatures with long sharp teeth and claw like hands.
' You kill sister!! You become dinner!! Meat, flesh.hungry..' I could hear them say in unison.
They chased and bit me. Taking pieces of my flesh with them. If it weren't for the small cottage I came upon I would not be here to talk about it. However. if I would have known what awaited me inside that cottage. I would have let the pixies have me. "
I was engrossed in the tale Wufei was telling me wen I heard the sounds of something sliding or being dragged across the floor. I quickly hushed him. There was something inside the cave with us. Not a good thing being that there was no hiding place within the cave and the fire I had going was a dead give away that we were in here. Grabbing hand fulls of dirt I killed the fire.
" I thought you said there was nothing in here?"
" There wasn't anything in here when I checked it. "
Sighing I grabbed hold on the faery man and against my better judgement I went to see what was making the sounds. Slowly creeping alongside the cave walls I went further in. The cave was bigger than I had thought it to be. There seemed to be a spit in the cave the lead off to the right. I prayed to the gods that we weren't at the back entrance to a troll den. The small dagger I carried would be of no help if there were more than one troll within these walls.
After and short walk we came upon a light of a fire. The fire seemed to be deserted. I wondered where the creature was that has started the fire was. We didn't have to wonder long for I found the creature that had started the fire. Not in the manner I would have preferred. The last thing I heard was the scream of my tiny companion before my world ceased.
End......
~ To aid those from fays
To guard those from the host
To aid thee from the gnome
To shield thee from the spectre ~ (not mine)
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
4:51 AM
1.1 First try
Novermber. 26, 2001
2am
Title: Only if. 2/? - (Dunno depends on how I feel)
Author: Chaser
Warnings: Totally Au. Elves, faeries, knights, kingdoms, sorcery and all that good stuff. This was brought to you absolutely beata free. *Ok so that might not be a good thing* ^_^;;
Pairing {s}: none yet. As soon as I think of one I'll tell you.
Disclaimer: I own nothing but my fuzzy blue bunny slippers/ song title is an Enya track.
Archive: www.geocities.com/daggersplendens/index.html
Author notes: ok notes. yeah umm.
(----- lalaalaaa---- ) Duo's flashbacks
(-*-*-*-* memeemeee_*-*-*-*- ) Wufei's flashbacks
Pixies- carnivorous, with big sharp teeth and claws hands wen on hunt for food, basically faeries with an attitude and a diet of meat. Quite fond of human flesh.
Before I go I want to thank Zyre and Blackstar among other people but that would take too long. Thanks to all . you know exactly who you are.
Feedback: Would be nice
ONLY IF.
By the time I made my way out of the forest of the silent lake I was missing a patch of hair and had an obnoxious faery tagging along for the ride. If I were to find the sixth Lumin countryside I would have to first find out if there ever was a sixth countryside. For that I would need to find an oracle or a dragon. Neither which I was too fond of.
" Do you even know were you're going? " the faery asked.
" Must you ask? You said it yourself there is no sixth countryside and I am not that old that I would remember if there ever was one."
" You're not a bright one are you?"
Rolling my eyes I asked him.
" If you know so much then where should I be heading then?"
In a matter of fact voice he answered." Well if you were a bright man, which you're not. You would ask someone who would know if there ever was such a place. If I were looking for something that doesn't exist I would ask a dragon. They know about the old days. "
As much as I hated it he was right. The only one who would know for sure would be a dragon. Now how was I going to find a dragon that wouldn't want me as his dinner and answer my question?
Wufei the faery began to speak of a dragon he said he once knew. Taking the little man advice for lack of knowing one myself I headed off to the south toward the devils womb canyons.
It was a 2-day walk from the forest.
I still didn't like the idea of being on sent on a task by that lady Catalonia woman but I had little choice. I had worked hard to disappear. My past life as a thief I left behind for good reason. I was a wanted man. Wanted by the wrong people. That day was the worst day of my life. After many years of roaming the lands I thought I had finally found a home, one where I could hang my hat and lead a real life for once.
---- Humming the melody of my people I walked into the second Lumin countryside. It wasn't much but was well known for its people. The kindest people in the entire country it was said. Their kindness touching the blackest hearts and cleansing them. It was all too perfect. I was to become normal. I was to become a man.
I was to see the king. King Maxwell was a great man. He reached out to me. Trying to help me fight my demons and promised he I would find the love and expectance I longed for. -----
" Are you listening to me? Get your head out of the clouds boy! Are you even listening to me? "
---- " You have finally arrived. Come we will see what we can do to help."
" Are you sure sire. Are you sure you can help me become a man?"
" Why boy we can only give you the means you must have the desire. I can only give you what I have you must find it within yourself. If becoming a man is what you desire. Then that is what you will become."
With a bow of the head." Thank you sire. "
Turning his head to face me as he lead me down what must have once been a grand hallway. " Do not thank me thank the creators. For they are the ones who have brought you to us. Your fate is not in my hands but in your own."
My fate in my hands.I chose what I become.---
" Are you listening to me? I said don't go there. You're going the wrong way!!! " He screaming into his ear.
--- Children ran by playing a game of knights and dragons. King Maxwell just smiled as they nearly ran him down. " You too if you choose to call here home if you like."
" I can?"
" Yes Queen Helen would love it if you would play for her."
" Me? . Play for the queen? "
" Of course the queen would be honored if you would." He said with a smile.
We stopped in front of a door." This will be your room until it is ready. You can come and go as you please. The chamber will be ready within a week's time. I must leave you know. I have business that needs attending to. Enjoy your stay." ----
" Wake up stupid!! " the faery screamed. " Just my luck to get stuck with the boy whose head is permanently lodged in his rear." Wufei mumbled as he grabbed a fist full of hair and ripped it out
" OWWWOWWW why you wretched little.. Why did you do that?" I screamed.
" You were in a daze you fool! You've led us right into the troll country. What is wrong with you? "
" Troll country? I thought you said this was the way to the canyons?"
" Do not blame me. I was not the one with my head stuck where the sun does not shine. I told you several times that you needed to make a turn towards the setting sun. But did you listen.no you walked us straight into this wretched place."
Looking around I could see that we were indeed in troll country. Troll are the only creatures who find rotting trees and the constant stench of death appealing. It did not help that the sun was well on its way of setting. All that was left was to be found by one or many.
How could I get so lost in my memories that I got myself stuck here? I couldn't remember which way I had walked into this place. That means that we would have to find a place to rest for the night. I was not about to go roaming in the dead of night with trolls out hunting.
" Faery boy I have an idea."
" My name is Wufei."
" Yes Wufei listen to me. Since you give off a little light glow. Being a faery as you are. You lead the way. We need to find shelter before the sun finished it's descending.
" Oh now you want to listen to me. Now you need my help. "
" Look little man I do not have the time or patience for your mouth. Either you help find shelter or when we run into the trolls I will offer them you for safe passage."
" You wouldn't dare."
With a quick swipe of my hand I had him by the wings, pinching his wings between my fingers I pulled him to level to my eyes.
" If you haven't noticed I am not the noblest person and I would sell my own flesh and blood for safe passage. If that doesn't blacken my conscience, An annoying faery that has the mouth of a drunkard would not haunt me. Now are you going to help or should I offer you now?"
" Fine fine fine just let go! "
Tossing him forward he buzzed ahead lighting my way. It wasn't long before we found a deserted cave to spend the night in. It wasn't my idea spot to lay me head but it was dry and troll free. Not that I have anything against trolls but they have a tendency to smash first and think after they've eaten.
The night was thankfully uneventful. Even if Wufei complained about being manhandled and threatened like a common pixie.
" If you're not a pixie or a faery then what are you? You complain as if you are a man who has been scorned."
" If you must know I am not a faery."
Raising my brow I tried to repress my laughter.
" Then what would you been little man?"
" I wasn't always a faery and don't you dare laugh you fool. I was once a man. I was a scholar..
-*-*-*-*- " Is there nothing else you can teach me? " he questioned the elder as he threw the great book to the ground in disgust.
" I've already learned this. I have read ever book in this place you call a library. When will you see that I am ready to become a man? "
" Chang clam down. This behavior is unbecoming of you. There is much you still have to learn. "
" Like what? I've learned the history of the fifth Lumin country. I have learned about our ways and traditions. I have mastered the arts. I am the best swordsman in this town. What more is there for me to learn. Is it that you want me to learn woman work. ?
The elder man shook his head as he listened to his young pupil speak. " Chang you will never become the great man you strive to be if you don't learn how to control your emotions and hold your tongue. Until you have learned these things you shall never truly become a man. Until that time you will not leave the village in search of what you desire."
" I WILL leave and I WILL find the book of truth and you will see old man. I will become greater than any one who has ever lived in the fifth country." -*-*-*-*-
" A long time ago when I was a young man. I thought I knew everything there was to be known. I was a little overbearing and pig headed."
" You over bearing and pig headed I would never believe." I said sarcastically.
" SHUT UP!"
" Oh forgive me please do continue."
" As I was saying I was a little over bearing and a know it all. So dispute what I was told I left my village in search of the book of truth."
" Umm. what's the book of truth? "
" It was said to be a great book that held the knowledge of the stars; the stories of the ancient ones who created the lands. It was said that who ever read from its pages who are granted all this knowledge. I wanted this power. So I searched town after town yet no one knew of this book. Finally in the second Lumin country I heard that the book was in the heard to be somewhere in the glass forest. I had read about the forest and the affects it had on a man. I wasn't afraid as many said I should have been. I knew what was in my heart. I knew myself well. There would be no reason for me to fear the forest.
Entering the forest was easy. It was true that the trees have leaves of glass. The leaves shined as the sun hit them and gave the forest an unnatural glow. There were many strange creatures living in there but the worst of them had to be the pixies. I thought them to be fragile little creature, weak even. They didn't bother me until one asked me if I would play with it. Naturally I said no and swatted it away. Sending it smashing into a tree, impaling the small creature on one of the sharp leaves.
Continuing on my way I didn't notice that I had killed the creature. Pixies unlike other small living things do not fret away from bigger things. They attack in hordes. Hundreds nah thousand gathered and began chase. Once cute winged pixies transformed into strange, winged creatures with long sharp teeth and claw like hands.
' You kill sister!! You become dinner!! Meat, flesh.hungry..' I could hear them say in unison.
They chased and bit me. Taking pieces of my flesh with them. If it weren't for the small cottage I came upon I would not be here to talk about it. However. if I would have known what awaited me inside that cottage. I would have let the pixies have me. "
I was engrossed in the tale Wufei was telling me wen I heard the sounds of something sliding or being dragged across the floor. I quickly hushed him. There was something inside the cave with us. Not a good thing being that there was no hiding place within the cave and the fire I had going was a dead give away that we were in here. Grabbing hand fulls of dirt I killed the fire.
" I thought you said there was nothing in here?"
" There wasn't anything in here when I checked it. "
Sighing I grabbed hold on the faery man and against my better judgement I went to see what was making the sounds. Slowly creeping alongside the cave walls I went further in. The cave was bigger than I had thought it to be. There seemed to be a spit in the cave the lead off to the right. I prayed to the gods that we weren't at the back entrance to a troll den. The small dagger I carried would be of no help if there were more than one troll within these walls.
After and short walk we came upon a light of a fire. The fire seemed to be deserted. I wondered where the creature was that has started the fire was. We didn't have to wonder long for I found the creature that had started the fire. Not in the manner I would have preferred. The last thing I heard was the scream of my tiny companion before my world ceased.
End......
~ To aid those from fays
To guard those from the host
To aid thee from the gnome
To shield thee from the spectre ~ (not mine)
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
4:51 AM