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On with the story!

Chapter seven :

Casta and Wolf lunged for one another, no more insults being thrown. The mood of the fight changing completely. Casta's fighting style had changed drastically. Wolf was having trouble following her movements now, and could do little more then block the blows being dealt to her.

"What's the matter little Wolf? I thought you were serious about taking me down this time..." Castalia mocked, just before grasping the younger woman by the throat, her eyes now completely black. Tightening her grip, she smile when Wolf started clawing at her hands.

Reaching into the pouch at her side, Wolf withdrew a dagger and shoved it into Casta's shoulder. When the older woman's grasp loosened, she quickly jumped away from her and formed another energy sword, her eyes having problems following Casta's movements

"Damn you Castalia! Stop moving around like that and fight me like a woman!" Wolf growled, looking from one direction to the next, trying to figure out where her enemy was. A shadow from above her was the only clue that gave Castalia away as she can crashing down to the ground, energy balls flying from her hands.

"One problem with that Wolf," the red-head mocked, slowly stalking the younger woman, a crooked smile curving her lips. "I'm a demon, not a woman...and everyone knows demons don't have to fight fair!"

She made to lung at Wolf, two energy balls forming into swords, when an arm shot out and wrapped it's self around her neck. Before she could react, another snaked around her waist and pulled her close to a very large, very solid, male chest. "Enough...that's enough..."

Castalia's eyes flashed between midnight blue and black as she tried to pull out of the strong hold she was in, growing the whole time. "It's not enough until one of us is dead!" she shouted, still trying to pull away, her arms reaching toward Wolf, who was still on the ground, dazed from Castalia's last attack.

"It's enough because I say it is." Bryn bit out, tightening his hold on her, almost crushing her windpipe. It had been hell getting back into the main building, and his mood was quickly turning blacker and blacker. "Now stop struggling before you make me hurt you..."

Slowly but surly, Castalia's eyes turned back to their normal color. Though most of her energy left with the blackness of her eyes, leaving her weak and more vulnerable then she ever liked to be. "Do you always have to be so damned bossy?" was the only insult she was able to give before she closed her eyes and leaned into him.

Smiling slightly, he lifted her into his arms and cradled her lightly against his chest. As Wolf stood up, his eyes hardened once again and his grasp on the woman in his arms tightened. "Take that woman away and make sure --"

"No...let her go." Castalia stated sleepily. "Not her fault...made it easy for her to get in..."

Wolf's eyes narrowed at that and her jaw tightened. "Damn you Casta, you were just toying with me, weren't you!"

"Naw kid, I intended to let you kill me...my demon side just got a little too excited is all..."

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"What a lovely wedding..." Ryoko murmured, latching herself onto Tenchi once again, her eyes glittering as she smiled up at him. The people where still putting out the fire from the fight, Castalia was still out of it when Bryn had demanded the priest finish the ceremony, and had ended up yelling 'monkey-topia be free!'. Which Bryn had told the priest meant 'I do' in her culture. All in all, Tenchi wasn't sure if any of it was really legal...

Trying to push the clinging, groping woman off him, he looked around the reception room for the 'happy couple'. He found them arguing in a corner of the room. He could have sworn he heard the words 'sham wedding' and 'pig in a can' even from over where he sat as Castalia tried to walk away from Bryn.

Tenchi inwardly cringed. You did not walk away from Bryn when he still wanted to yell...

"I was not done talking to you women."

Those words shook the whole establishment as Bryn marched after his 'wife', who was currently trying to get Drake's attention. Grasping her writs wright, he pulled her back to him, his eyes flashing angrily. She shoved at his chest angrily and stuck up her middle fingers. "Shove off. When you actually want to talk to me, and not yell, then you know where to find me. Come on Drake, you promised to spend tonight with me."

Bryn's head jerked over to his brother. "What, exactly, is she talking about Drake?" his voice was so cold, it could have frozen both suns in the sky. Looking from his wife to his brother, he clenched his jaw tightly, waiting for one of them to explain what he didn't think he wanted to hear.

Clearing his throat loudly, Drake smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head lightly. "Well, you see, when you told Tenchi and I that you had no intention of spending your wedding night with Casta...that you had other planes, well, I got to thinking..."

"A dangerous pass time..." Bryn drawled, knowing for a fact now, that he wasn't going to like where this was going. "But please, continue."

"Yes, well. As I was saying, I was thinking that she might feel lonely all by her lonesome. So I invited her to spend the evening with me..."

"How considerate of you..."

"Isn't it just?"

"Too bad it's not happening."

Castalia narrowed her blue eyes into slits and pocked him in the side hard. "Says who? If you're going to be off 'working' – which I don't buy for one second – then why can't I spend the evening with my new brother?"

"This is not up for discussion."

"The hell it's not!

"Have you already forgotten the vows that you took not two --"

"What vows! I was completely out of it when we said 'our vows'. Of course I don't remember. I don't remember what they were, and I sure as hell don't recall saying 'I do'...though I do have a strange recollection of being queen of the monkeys...mmmm, nice dream. I had been one step closer to universal domination..."

And with that, she went off into her own little world, her eyes glazed over as she tried to recall all the details of it. Bryn rolled his eyes toward the sky and pressed his fingers into his forehead. "Drake, I will be spending the evening with my wife. You presence will not only be unneeded, but also unwanted."

"...Why?"

At Castalia's simple question, both men's eyes nearly bugged out of there heads. "What do you mean'why'? I don't know what your people do when they wed, but mine don't do it with witnesses!"

"...Do...what, exactly?"

"Please," gasped out, his eyes wide as he prayed this was just Castalia being, well, Castalia. "Tell me your joking. Didn't your mother ever --"

Before he could finish the sentence, Ryoko phased in and covered his mouth with her hand. "Asta, you remember the conversation we had last night?"

"Which one?"

"The one about men."

"...About how all men, other then your Tenchi are pigs and only want one thing?"

"That's the one!" Ryoko cheered, as if Castalia was a child who had finally said her first word. Patting her on the head slightly, an evil smile slowly forming on her lips as she looked over at Bryn. "He wants to do some of those hentai things I was telling you about..."

Blinking twice, Castalia blushed a pretty pink and...giggled. Leaning up, she whispered something into Ryoko's ear and giggled again at her friend's response. Turning back to Bryn, she smiled dreamily and held out her hand. "I'll take half now."

"..take...half of what?"

"You mean you don't know!" turning angry, and slightly amused eyes to Ryoko, she gave her a smile only she could see. "Ryoko, he doesn't know about the Hentai things!"

"Oh dear, that is a problem isn't it?" turning to Drake, she winked, her smile growing wider. "Drake dear, will you please explain it to him? You were, after all, part of this discussion."

"I was?"

"He was!"

Both questions were asked at the same time, both people who spoke pointing at Drake, bewildered looks on their faces. After thinking about it for a second or two more, Drake burst out laughing, slapping his leg with his hand as he doubled over.

"Oh! You don't mean --"

"Sure do."

"Well, I guess I could..."

"Would you dear?"

"I might...but I will need --"

Ryoko waved his words off with her hand, a seductive grin curling her lips. "Of course darling. I'm sure Casta would love to help you out with that little problem you have if you helped her out now..."

Bryn had the distinct feeling that he really, really didn't want to know...