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It's Cooking Time
Part 9
The humming from the kitchen continued as the Sagittarius saint put his finished tzatziki down into the container. After putting it into the refrigerator with his questionable surstromming infused marinated lamb meat, the lad finally going into cutting vegetable for the filling and maybe some salad. He finally put out a lot of potatoes; he scrubbed all of it under the running water and then let it dried before finally cutting it into the shape of fries, all with skin on. He put the already cut potato into large bowl of water just to make sure that the already cut potato stay on its light yellow color and not to turn into the brown color.
Outside, the guys wait in recklessness; the one that had been taking care of the gas was still out there and hadn't come back for their rescue. Aphrodite finally groaned in annoyed, his Cancer friend is still on the ground, passed out. Kanon stared toward the grilling machine.
"You know, we can still wreck that machine." The younger twin said as he gave it another glance.
"Well, you have to give him some time, seriously Kanon, I don't want to save you from his needles." Saga murmured
"Nor would I save you from the other two that will be hunting you down for hurting their beloved." Aiolia grinned lightly.
"Who?" Aphrodite asked while Shura looked at the older twin in question. With that, the gossip of what happen in Asgard began once again and most of them were grinning before looking at the other group who was either meditated or chatting quietly. Mu and Camus on the other hand, both suddenly had a cold shiver running down their back…
"Ugh… What'd happen?" The Andromeda saint finally groaned as he slowly sat up, holding his head. He was finding himself on the grass, outside thankfully, away from the concoction that the witch I mean the 'today chef' brewed inside. The boy next to him finally jerked him, putting both hand on his shoulder.
"Shun?! I thought you will be able to at least control them or at least asked them to behave. I mean, Aiolos is going to serve sewer water for dinner tonight?!" As the words come out from his mouth, couple protests and 'Hey!' of annoyance could be heard from the gold saints. What are they anyway? Kids?
"Ugh, Hyoga?" The green hair saint finally saw who was sitting in front of him. "You are back?"
"Yeah, though I had a feeling that I should be buying another ticket to Russia or teleporting out there."
"Well, it's not that bad…" He said before he heard someone saying: "Said someone who passed out due to the smell." Hades said while he was trying not to gag due to horrible smell memory… and Shun could only glared at the vacant spot where the God was staying who surprisingly waiting patiently for him to wake up without possessing and taking over his body.
"Not that bad!?" Hyoga stated in horror. "You do realize that you faint from it, right?" Yup, the blonde had been informed of what had happen to Shun.
"And Deathmask too…" Aphrodite chipped in.
"Shura also." Aiolia spoke grimly
"And all of us are outside the mansion…" Dohko added.
"And I don't have my book." Camus boredly said which make Mu and Shaka sweat dropped. Incoherent… but as it on cue, Milo finally showed up, teleporting near the grilling machine.
"Ok, the gas is out."
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"My hero!" Kanon shout dramatically with girly voice, which was returned with annoyed look from his Scorpio friend while the other saints either chuckle or grinned lightly. Before the latter could voice his irritation however, the current chef finally out from the kitchen with his huge skewer 'marinated meat' on both his hand.
"Oh, you guys must be really hungry, you all already waiting for this huh?" The smell travelled out from the mansion into their nose as some of them gag and turning blue. "So Milo, how's the machine?" He asked happily.
"Uh… the grilling machine is just fine." He said, one hand on the nose while the other trying to connect the gas hose into the gas cylinder.
"That's good; can I hook this up then?" The older saint asked. Not waiting for any affirmation, the bandana wearer finally put the skewer into the grilling machine and turned it on. As soon as the button was pushed, the baterai powered meat skewer began to rotate slowly but there were no heat.
"Huh? It is not grilling, Milo."
"Let me check." The blue hair saint said as he pretend to check the loosen part with the hand still on his nose. Meanwhile, the entire gold saint/God saints were praying quietly. "Aha!" He said as he pulled the older lad closer toward the gas meter. "It's seemed the gas is empty."
"But I swear I just bought it from the propane gas station."
"Well, the meter say different." Milo felt a little guilty for lying but well, his friends' life stake on his hand so… sacrifice one to save the other then…
"Oh well." He said dejected as some of the gold saint gave other a pat, some even happily dance, few just let out a heavy sigh. But there were pause as soon as Aiolos said. "We change the power source to electricity then."
Unison 'Huh?' could be heard while several people were frozen. "Uh, well…" A miscalculating… though Milo remembered the grilling indeed had other source other than the propane but he just forgot to mention due to the earlier spat.
"I go and get cord extension." Aiolos said and as soon as he stepped in into the mansion, Shura and Aphrodite stole a glance in understanding and broke into a run toward the machine. Milo couldn't react fast enough as Saga and Kanon teleported behind him, pulling the boy away from the machine. Camus glared a little but decided to let them be… The Pisces saint jerked out an electrical cord and as soon as he able to extend it from the machine, the black hair lad slashed it clean into two parts.
"Brother, I don't think you need it." Aiolia shouted. A paused as the walking sound could be heard back toward them second later.
"Huh? What?" Aiolos' face poked out from the mansion. What he saw next was Syura who is whistling innocently near the grilling machine; Aphrodite had hid the cut cord end behind his back while twirling his hair lightly, while the other cord that was attached to the machine was on his brother's hand.
"See? It was cut, maybe by a mouse." He showed the cord but grinned nervously, a droplet of sweat run down his head. Aiolos just let out an 'O' before looked at the trio near the machine. He finally looked at Saga who was giving Milo's hands and body a death lock while Kanon grinned lightly as his hand clamped down on Scorpio's mouth. A question mark appeared above his head due to situation.
"Why do you harass him, Saga? Kanon?" He asked clueless.
"Oh, nothing, we are just err…" The older twin trailed
"Mu needs his attention, that's all." The younger one added while the Aries let out an 'Eh?'
"I do?" The lilac hair saint suddenly slipped out innocently before composed himself as he felt glares shot out toward him, both from the we-will-sabotage-today-dinner-group and Camus. He was more frightened the latter though. "I mean uh I and Camus need him to discuss something?" He uncertainly said looking back and forward between the group/Milo and Camus.
"… We are." The ice master said before he dragged Mu toward the earlier struggling trio which was now standing silently in awe. They never considered that the aquamarine hair lad would be playing along. "Now excuse us." He said as he mention both of the twin to let go his 'best friend' and teleported both Milo and Mu somewhere outside the mansion.
"Uh, well. That's that." Aiolia said sweat dropping
"I see…" Aiolos blinked but finally let out a sigh… "Well, I guess I had to cancel outside dinner then." A shout of 'yes!' occurred after that but once again stopped as soon as the arrow user took the 'skewered meat'.
"Uh, what are you doing?" Dohko asked finally. Shaka also suddenly had a bad feeling about Sagittarius's next action as he murmured "I think I catch up with Mu." He is then teleported out of the mansion. Meanwhile Deathmask finally stirred awake and groaning lightly.
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"Aw! They will miss the dinner." Aiolos said in disappointed but cheerfully added. "I left some leftover for them then." He took both the 'meat' and walked inside. "Oh, to answer, Dohko Sensei. I will just use the grilling inside the mansion, well… though we won't be having a street food scene out of this but we can still have the dinner." He said walking inside.
"WHAT?!" Shun and Hyoga watched the scene in horror as the other either turning blue or gapping. Even after so much trouble, they are still and will be eating that stupid lamb infused surstromming thing! Then as if they remembered something, they all glared at the source of their suffering… Aphrodite. The beauty Goddess name bearer tensed a little before cowered slightly.
"Uh, guys… easy…" He said while trying to find escape route as Shura and Aiolia, the two which were the nearest to him finally creeping toward the lad. Eyes red as demon, the other gold saints followed suit minus Dohko and Shion who were dejectly slump in defeat.
"Shun, you are my sous chef, help me with the grilling." Aiolos yelled as Shun surrender to his fate and trailed slowly inside, but before Shun could go inside, a loud 'Kaboom!' occurred followed by a huge fire coming from the kitchen.
"Nii-san!" Forgetting the desire to chase Aphrodite, Aiolia was scrambling toward the source of the fire.
"Oh, Shit! Hyoga! Put out the fire!" Dohko said.
"Shun! Move!" Shion ordered, and as soon as the Andromeda saint out of the way, Hyoga used his 'Daiyamondo Dasuto' and effectually put out all the fire.
Inside the mansion both of the brothers had freeze on spot. While Aiolia froze in position of running toward his older brother, one hand outspread toward the older lad, Aiolos froze in position of standing in front of the said grilling machine inside the kitchen with charred black skin and only his eyes was visibly white. The poor prized meat was charred to the skewer and most of the place was covered in soot.
As unfortunately as the event goes… Athena + Seiya, Shiryu and Ikki just came back from the 'whatever Kido's group meeting' Saori had. They had just reached the manor's gate second before the explosion. They looked at each other and ran toward the sound (as expected from saints, other people would just run away…).
"What had happen?" The lilac girl asked in horror while her eyes looked at Hades expectedly. The God could only shrug as he too had no idea what had trigger the blast. But anyway all in all the dinner today is cancelled due to no ingredient/ruined kitchen and injured chef… but most of the gold saints/Shun/Hyoga and even Hades sighed in relief. Safe...
On the same time…Not far from the manor, near the shopping street…
"… Do you want to try this tiramizu, Shaka?" Mu said as he offered the food to his friend who decided to tag along after him, Milo and Camus teleported out the way. A good timing that they had an excuse to be out and away from the scene. He believed that he had Kanon to thank for. The four of them had sit inside the Japanese café enjoying some dessert and green tea/coffee. Milo though a little upset, but both Camus and Mu had tried to cheer him up with some apple desert from the famous 'Anywhere Door' café. The Scorpio lad finally shouts in glee as soon as he took a bite of the said dessert.
"Sure, I love to."
"But… you just teleported out like that and no one protested?" The Aries saint asked curiously.
"Go with my gut, I had a bad feeling." Shaka shrugged lightly
"How bad?" Camus said taking a bite on his melt tiramizu. As soon as the question was asked, a loud 'Kaboom!' followed. The four of them paused, looked at each other.
"That's bad, huh…" Milo murmured…
To Be Continued…
Next: Milo finally going into the kitchen as chef…
