AN Next chappie^^ Enjoy and please review.
Chapter 3:
In the same afternoon Rosette and Joshua were having tea as well. Because of the nice weather they sat outside on their balcony. There was a small round table and three chairs, everything in light colours. The view from the balcony was beautiful. The two children could see some fields and meadows, a little brook and far away in the distance the forest and the mountains.
Joshua wasn't really hungry today so he decided to eat only a small piece of the apple pie which was brought by a maid. Although it was a convent with lots of nuns, there were nevertheless some maids who lived here and who should take care of Rosette and Joshua.
Rosette on the other hand was hungry… like always. She ate one piece of pie after the other one.
"I think you should bring more to eat for her." Joshua whispered to the maid who bowed and went away.
After the fifth piece the girl finally stopped eating and smiled happily.
"That was a good…" She leaned her head on her two hands and watched the landscape. As mentioned before it was a beautiful weather. It was warm, only a light wind blew and there were almost no clouds. The only clouds covered the mountain tops. They were a little bit darker. Perhaps they would bring a storm or so during the night of the next day.
"You shouldn't eat so much! Or do you want to get fat?" The boy started to tease her.
"I'm not fat!" The blonde snapped back.
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The cake fight was funny and afterwards both, Aion and Chrno, were full of cream. To wash the cream away they jumped with their clothes into the little brook next to the woods. With a loud SPLASH they landed in the water. Their two guards who followed them again – they could be really annoying – didn't want to get wet. So they stayed in a little distance. But that didn't worked like they had planned it and soon they were wet as well. While Chrno distract them by splashing water at them, Aion sneaked behind them and pushed them both into the brook with the head at first. There was a loud sound as they hit the water surface. Immediately they got up again. The brook wasn't very deep, it only reached to the guards' knees, but it was deep enough to get all wet. They wiped the water out of their eyes and… noticed that the kids were gone. Then they started to argue whose fault it was that they had lost Chrno and Aion. The parents wouldn't be very pleased about that. Plus they weren't able to fly. If their wings hadn't been wet, they could have looked for them in the air. That was not possible now. So they argued only more.
Laughing about the two idiots, the brothers were already far away. They were again on the way to their favourite place – the big tree. To their surprise there was the dragon sitting on one of the branches. It was huge, about 20 times bigger than a normal demon. Its scales were a dark green-blue and they sparkled in the light. The long horns on his had were bowed to its back they had the colour of a pearl. Its claws and teeth were of the same colour. Speaking of the teeth, they were huge. On of them was at least one meter long. At the moment the teeth weren't as clean as they would have been normally. They were bloody. And that was obviously caused by the dead half-eaten cow in the dragon's claws.
Chrno shook disgusted his head because of the smell of the dead cow. Aion as well pulled a face. They stood behind a bush so the dragon didn't see them. It was said that dragons could get angry easily and the kids didn't want to disturb its meal. "What shall we do now?" Chrno asked his brother and looked nervously to the big demonic animal in front of them. Then he noticed that Aion wasn't next to him anymore. Chrno scanned the area and found him hiding in the shadow of the trunk of the big tree. "Hey! What are you doing?" He hissed to Aion. The white haired devil sneaked closer to the dragon.
"I wanna have one of these beautiful scales! Just imagine the other's faces if we would come home with a dragon scale!" Aion turned his head to Chrno and whispered back as quietly as he could. He had always been the braver one of the two twins and it was no wonder that he did something which was as dangerous as this. He climbed a little bit up the tree and was close enough to the dragon's tail. With a stretched arm he tried to reach it. Suddenly his left foot slipped away and he landed on the ground. Worried Chrno watched the scene. He thought it would be better not to touch the dragon. But Aion was now too far away to tell him without the dragon noticing it. Suddenly the wind changed its direction and the dragon sniffed the air. Directly Aion looked up to the dragon, afraid that it could have noticed him. But it still enjoyed its cow meal. Relieved Aion sighed and tried again to reach for a scale. "Hu?" He saw Chrno's shocked face and made the hey-what's-wrong-look. It took a second or two until Chrno was able to move. With a shaking hand the purple head pointed behind him. Slowly Aion turned around and looked directly at pearl white teeth with some blood. Shocked Aion stood there with an open mouth for some seconds. The dragon let out a light growl. "Puh! Boah, you have a really bad breath." The dragon bared its fangs more and growled louder. It snapped at Aion's arm. But he was fortunately pulled back by Chrno. In the undergrowth of the woods they weren't able to run fast enough, so they spread their little wings and tried to fly away. Luckily their wings were dry again, with wet wings they would have only more trouble now. Within seconds they were over the trees. With a lot of luck the dragon wouldn't follow them. Under them there was heard a loud noise as the branches and twigs broke under and over the dragon. Now it was airborne as well and in the air it looked bigger than it looked before. Its body raised and sunk with the slow movements of the wings. How could such a heavy monster actually be able to fly?
The twins tried to fly away, but the dragon blocked their way home. The animal pushed them backwards - directly in the direction of the mountains. "I will never ever come closer to a dragon!!! I swear!" Aion screamed and flew faster. "And where are the stupid guards when you need them?!" Chrno commented.
At home Lilith jumped out of her seat. "Was that a dragon?! I heard a dragon roar! Where are my children?" Embarrassed the two guards entered her room. "And?" – "We lost them, Lady Lilith." "WHAT?" For the first time in a lot of years Lilith switched into her full demon form and hurried out of the house to search for her kids. She heard the dragon roar one more time and followed the sound. The animal seemed to be angry and she only hoped that that had nothing to do with her children.
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After tea Joshua and Rosette asked if they were allowed to have a little ride on horseback. They took two ponies from the stable and decided to ride over the meadow and a little bit in the woods. Rosette pony was a little mare with a light brown fur, a light blonde mane and tail and white marks on all its legs. Joshua's pony was as well a little mare, but this one had darker brown fur and a black mane and tail. It had only one white mark at the left front leg.
After they had let the ponies go slowly in the first quarter an hour, they galloped over a field and trotted over a path which lead into the forest. There was heard a loud noise from the mountains. Perhaps there was a thunder storm coming or something like that. Because of the echo, the sounds were always distorted. So a simple thunder could sound like a dragon's growl. (AN: lol)
The siblings arrived at a little clearing. "Hey, let's have a little break here." Rosette suggested and jumped down of her pony.
"No, I don't have so much time. I promised Claire to help her with the cookies today in the afternoon. I've to be back in half an hour." Joshua explained, but he knew that his sister could be stubborn. If she wanted to have a break now, she would have a break now and not sometime else. "I'm riding home again." He said goodbye and was on his way back.
"So what shall we do now?" Rosette sat down on a trunk and watched her mare. As it heard her voice the pony looked up and watched at her with big eyes. It snorted and began to eat the grass on the clearing. Meanwhile Rosette examined the clearing. She found bird's nest, a funny squirrel that sat in a tree and an interesting spider net with a red spider in it. The spider was just eating a fly. Suddenly Rosette felt something stub at her back. It was the pony and it obviously wanted something to eat.
"Go and eat your grass." Like on command the pony shook its head and snorted again. Then it pricked up and looked to the left. Apparently there was something really interesting behind a stupid bush. The animal took some steps back as the bush rustled. It sounded like an animal, a big animal. Nervously Rosette took one step back as well and called "Hello?"
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Lilith had found the dragon. It was very close to the mountains. Plus she saw Aion close to it. She didn't saw Chrno, but he was surely not far away. The woman screamed loudly and got the dragons attention. Taking the chance Aion escaped and flew home. After a while Lilith as well came home. The dragon was lying in the mountains, pierced of a pointed rock. Do never anger a worried mother. She hurried home. Aion directly came crying to her. She lifted her son up in her arms and held him tight. "Do never do that again. You could have died!" She put him down again to hug her other child. "Wait. Where's Chrno?" She asked worried. Aion began to cry more. The mother knelt down in front of him and took him at his shoulders. "Where is he?" She asked again.
"I-I don't know!" He wept. "The dragon thing chased us and there was so much wind. I saw the dragon hit him with its wing, then the wind blew to strong and I made some somersaults. When I flew normal again Chrno had disappeared and you came." Lilith's gaze turned empty. But she pulled herself together and got up again. "Go and look everywhere for him. Everywhere, understand? And where's my husband?" She yelled at the employees.
"Your husband, the southern Lord, hasn't returned yet. He went to visited count Kalw in the morning. He will be back this evening." A maid bowed and winced as Lilith screamed at her as well. "THEN GO AND TAKE HIM BACK, DAMN!!! OR I'LL DO IT BY MYSELF!"
"Yes, yes, Ma'am." The poor maid stuttered and fled away from the angry mother.
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The bush still rustled and the leaves moved. Rosette's pony minced and neighed. "Calm down!" The girl petted the neck of the little horse.
Then the leaves in the front of the bush were pushed away. Rosette gasped. A boy about her age stood in front of her. Except for his long purple hair and the sparkling red eyes he looked like every other normal child. His hair was put back in a low ponytail, but it was nevertheless messy. His clothes were dirty and some parts were ripped. Startled he looked at her and took one step backwards. Rosette wondered why he looked so scarred. Did she look so scarring? She looked down on herself, but everything was normal with her. "Uhm… hello. My name is Rosette." She started to speak. "What's your name?" A light wind came from the back and brushed her blonde hair into her face.
AN: So uhm, how was this chapter? I have no idea what I am writing. I'm just trying to get the chapter over 2100 words XD Oh, and please review^^
