Sola to Romansu
Sky and Romance
Return of the Legendary Heroes
First Arc: The Heritage of Ancient times
Chapter 10: Pharaoh´s Shopping-mile and Airedale´s rumours.
On the Asmodeus, Elh´s Pov:
Since this morning we were flying through the sky, on the way towards Pharaoh, the whole flight over Chocolat kept asking me questions about my night and awakening with Red.
Of course I was too embarrassed to go into any kind of detail so I just got her the short version.
"Geez I said I need spicy details!" She stated after a while.
"Who in their right mind would just blurt such things out!" I whined as she still didn´t let go of it.
Then I suddenly remembered something, something I wanted to ask her.
"By the way, speaking of blurting out things…., you told me that you had been in love with Red I now know that much…., but you didn´t told me all there was didn´t you?!" I asked and she looked at me in confusion.
"Now what do you mean with that?!" She asked, either feigning ignorance or she really didn´t know what I would mean with that.
"Red told me about your…., well you know…, your love-session…., years ago!" I stated.
"Huh….., what…., wai-wait he told you that…., geez that idiot….., we agreed…., that we would never tell a soul about that!" She stated annoyed, pouting and sighing.
"Well I didn´t really intended to tell it to anyone, logically you wouldn´t have heard about it by me…, but what made Red telling it to you, especially when?!" She asked me.
"I doubted that his sudden lust for me was made of honest love and only due to the Mating-instinct, that´s when he told me that he knew how it feels when lust and carnal-desire clouds your mind.
That he and you would know that very-well…, that something like that happened, years before you got to know me!" I explained.
"Geez…., well he is right…., we did it once…, out of accident during our first mating season, I don´t know why but by Red the mating instinct developed quite late.
It happened two years before we got to know you, I was 12 and he was 15, it was a year after we left the Orphanage and Red began to work as a Hunter.
One night my mating instinct had suddenly awoken and I felt very strange all of a sudden, it was uncomfortably, I was all hot and tingly and my body ached, I had a craving in me which I never knew before, a craving for bodily contact.
No knowing what else to do, I wanted to speak with Red about it, so I went to his room, I barged inside without knocking, interrupting him as he masturbated!" Chocolat stated blushing at the memory.
"So that has been what he told me before!" I thought blushing as well.
"I wanted to apologize and exit…., but one look at his lath and his sweating naked body, one sniff of his pre-cum and my desire suddenly seemed to shift into overdrive.
I felt hotter than before, and before I knew it I stood before his bed, slowly crawling up on him, I tried to stop myself, but I had barely any control about myself.
I-I-I forced myself on him and began to…., you know…, suck on it, touch it, I kissed him and licked his neck, touched his tail, I teased him in every possible way without being able to stop myself, even though I knew it was wrong…!" Chocolat told me with a sad expression and I could only gasp in shock, it was just like myself this morning, in the beginning.
"He tried to resist but after his first ejaculation his moral and resistance began to rapidly break away, before we knew any better we saw only black.
It was a true blackout we didn´t knew anything afterwards anymore, it was so for both of us, all what we felt was pleasure and longing for more of it.
The warmth of Red´s body was comforting, he held me closely and secure and even though his eyes were filled with lust he was extremely gentle to me.
Our love-session continued throughout the entire night…., the next morning we laid in his bed, sweaty and exhausted, as well, in my case, covered in cum, the carnal desire and longing soon faded away.
You can imagine the shock we suffered, as we re-joined with our sanity, Red tried to apologize but I ran away.
That morning I cried the whole time in the douche, trying to wash the cum and the scent of sex and of Red off me but it didn´t worked.
In the meantime Red felt miserable for what happened, after I was done with my douche he went as well, afterwards he went to work like on every other day, he didn´t spoke anything, he avoided me…., or so I thought…., all in all he was barely present in the next few days, always working.
I thought he did it to forget about it, simply going over to normal again, I was angry at him…., but even more I was terrorized, as I found IT out!" Chocolat explained to me.
"IT…., what do you mean?!" I asked but Chocolat didn´t answered, instead she blushed and looked straight at her instruments and ahead, remaining silent about it.
"….It….It…, what does she mean…., what could have happened, which terrorized her so much…, no…., no way…, it can´t be…?" I thought in terror.
"This is impossible…, it could not be…, then again…., it would match him to be so potent….., but what happened afterwards!" I thought in horror.
I gulped as I found my voice back…, after a while of remaining silent.
"You…., you got pregnant…., am I right?!" I asked slowly, but quickly brushed things of as nonsense…., until I saw Chocolat's face, her pained expression.
"No way…., you kidding, am I right?!" I stammered, as I stumbled backwards before I fell with my butt on one of the chairs.
"I wish I was…., shortly after that day I bought a pregnancy test, lying to the pharmacist that it was for my mother ,who told me to get one.
I found out that I had since 5 days long a fertilized egg-cell within me, which would have become his child…, but I knew I could not hold it, sure Red and I, we weren´t blood-related siblings and I loved him….
Maybe we would have become a full-fledged family, from law´s ways at least, we didn´t committed anything wrong, or lawless after all, Red was still not adult, so he would not be charged due to mating with a minor.
However I also didn´t wanted to burden him with a child, neither of us would have been ready to raise a child, nor was I sure to even be a good mother.
I was barely a child myself and we also had no means to even raise a child in the first place, as such a young hunter, Red barely got any good jobs until he would raise in his ranks…..
Our life was not the best to raise a child that was sure for me.
I also didn´t wanted to bind Red on me forever this way, so fully dishonest, Red was not in love with me after all and it all happened unintentionally, it was an accident, even I admit that.
I was sure If Red knew he would have told me to redo it, I was so afraid of Red´s reaction that I worried all this time long.
Years later I asked myself once, if Red maybe would have loved the Child and if I would maybe have become a good mother after all, that I maybe made the wrong choice back then…., maybe Red also would have learned to love me in a romantic way…..
But I was sure he would never love me in any different way, than as his sister, I proved this already years before this accident, for Red I never was anything else than a sister to him and like this it should remain.
In the end all I could do, to not bother Red with forcing any more responsibility on him, was to erase it, before it could become a full-fledged foetus, the beginning to become his Child.
I went to a pharmacy and bought a package of morning-after pills, using the same excuse as last time, but the manual said that it might be already too late, nevertheless I did it…, I took one of the pills.
However I should have known that this was nothing for little girls like me, nothing for Kids.
I tell you, I never felt worse than that day and the day after…., the whole afternoon I had cramps in my stomach and my nether-region itched like crazy, whenever I had to pee, blood came with it.
Red freaked out as he came in the evening of the first day and wanted to go search for a doctor, but I was afraid, that he might this way find out, what was wrong with me, so I told him that I just needed some rest for a few days.
After two days the pain finally subdued and my stomach and nether region went better, after making a new pregnant test I could finally calm down, the egg-cell was gone, the pregnancy was forcefully aborted.
During this time, Red hadn´t left my side since the moment he found me, I was thankful for it, I needed his support, he often asked me but I never told him the truth, until today Red has no idea about my pregnancy!" Chocolat stated and I was in shock.
"You are really insane Chocolat, you could have seriously poison yourself, I mean if the medicament says that it isn´t meant for kids, then that has been said with a good reason.
Geez, even if Red would be angry about your pregnancy, which I cannot imagine to myself, you wouldn´t have to play with your own health just to satisfy him.
You could have died Chocolat!" I stated to reason her.
"I know, in hindsight it was the dumbest idea I ever did.
After I was better Red tried to question me what had happened to me, but I lied to him that I ate something bad, Red, not really the brightest lightbulb, believed it of course.
In return I asked him what he had done the days before, since that particular day and he told me that he had tried to earn enough money and finally earned enough to buy us an Aircraft, the Asmodeus it was the cheapest at the market, but also the only one which suited him, I liked it too and told him to go buy it.
The next day we went together and bought it, as I asked why he suddenly wanted to buy an aircraft, do you can guess what his answers was?!" Chocolat asked me.
"I give up, I learned not to question Red´s motives because I often got betrayed in my expectations!" I replied.
Chocolats reaction was amazing, first she smiled then suddenly tears began to flow, she wiped them away but as they became too many, she shifted into Autopilot and wiped her tears away with both hands, before breaking together.
"Chocolat what happened…, what´s with you…., what has he said to you…., was it so terrible?!" I asked, unable to comprehend her reaction, had Red Hurted her somehow?
"Red…., he told me that after our love-session, he felt that, in case that I would become pregnant with his Child, he didn´t wanted to have me give birth in an dirty, old aircraft-garage full of dust and oil, so he wanted to buy us a real home in order to raise the Child!" Chocolat stated after she cried in my shoulder.
I was shocked beyond everything, I always knew that Red liked Kids but I had no idea just how much.
"You can probably imagine how worse I suddenly felt, while I crazed out about my believe that Red would be furious with me, when he would get to know that I was pregnant, he already planned so far into the future as to get a home, for both of us and the Kid.
He said that he would earn enough money to stay a few years at home to help me raise the Child and that he, if the Child was old enough, he would retake his job as a Hunter!" Chocolat explained sniffing.
"He had it all planned out and I…., I went and killed his Child before it even had the chance to be born…., after I knew how he felt, I told him that I wasn´t pregnant, that I made a test…, the glimmering in his eyes…, it vanished.
He nodded silently and then smiled saying that it was nothing, that we would need a house anyways but that he rather would buy an aircraft than and expensive earth-bound house!" Chocolat explained as she went back to steer the ship after calming down.
"Afterwards I told myself to have no right to ever love Red as I did before anymore, I had no right to ever love him in any romantic way again after killing his Child.
I told myself to only love him how I should love an irresponsible…., no…., that's not right, he´s far more responsible than I ever could be…, all he is to me now is my beloved, rash and boastful older brother.
While these thoughts rushed through my brain, I burst in tears right before him…., while Red thought it was because I was full of joy, in reality it was because of how stupid I had been the whole time!" Chocolat continued.
"I had thought, that Red hated me and that it would also be the reason of why he avoided me after our love-session…., the whole time I thought that I was not enough for him, that he would not be able to love me and this kid, but in the end I had to recognize, that he had always wanted to care about this kid.
And I took him this joy!" Chocolat stated with a grim expression.
"Now you know what happened back then, I made the biggest mistake of my entire live, just because I didn´t knew Red one bit, despite knowing him for so long!" Chocolat stated and I honestly hated myself for even asking.
"I´m sorry Chocolat I shouldn´t have asked you about such a private matter!" I stated.
"You are the girl my Brother fell I love with, Elh, of course you have every right to know this…, and I hope you don´t make the same stupid mistake as I did!" Chocolat explained to me.
"All I can ask of you is to be silent about this, Red don´t has to know this, it will only bring him pain!" She stated and I nodded.
"I Know…., but deep down I think he should know, but I will not tell him, this is not my duty to tell him but yours, whether you do it or not!" I replied.
"I thank you for your silence and you concern Elh, but I long had decided to take this secret with me in my grave!" Chocolat explained and I was buff about her determination.
"Suit yourself…., uuuuwaaaaahh…., I´m kinda tired…., I think I will take a short nap, wake me when you need something!" I stated and she only nodded silently.
"You should consider to take a pregnancy test in the next days, as I told you, Red is really Potent!" Chocolat stated as I almost was gone.
"I will take on that advice I guess!" I replied.
I went to my room, closed my door and sat myself on my bed.
Of course I could not truly sleep after the just heard, but I still was tired, mostly from mine and Red´s morning exercise as Chocolat called it.
"A Kid huh…., I hope I can get pregnant by Red…., believe me Chocolat I definitely won´t abort a child from Red, even if all odds are against me, I would happily give birth to that child, because it would be his child!" I thought, as I laid down and closed my eyes, embracing the sleepiness, dreaming from Red and Babies.
My dreams tried to imagine myself as a Housewife, with five children, two silver-furred Caninu boys and three rust-red-furred Felineko girls.
Red and me older and a happily married couple.
But I couldn´t see Chocolat…, where was she…., why wasn´t she there…, I couldn´t imagine Red and Chocolat to ever part and go separate ways.
At least not so easy, something must have happened in my dream…., I just hope she´s alright.
If I could I would wish to always remain together with them two this way, but this was a really selfish wish, Chocolat had her life to live, just as I had mine to live.
I just hopped that Chocolat has a happy future, that's my biggest wish for her.
Meanwhile on Airedale, Red´s Pov:
While the girls were out shopping I made my way towards Airedale´s centre, to get a look at the Quest-board at Flo´s stand.
"Hi Red, how´s it going today!" Flo Financier, Quest-broker and Pseudo-maid in personal unit, asked me.
"Better than yesterday, how´s it hanging any jobs suited for a man of my Calibre?" I asked.
"Oh we got a new request of Alman, it got just in a half hour ago, we have some Quests at Spinon and Pharaoh, a new Race-engine-test-quest at the Darven Islands by Suzette, a few Escort Quests of several Airships and a Few Duel-offers at the Duel-ship!" Flo stated.
"Anything here on Airedale which has nothing to do with Alman?!" I asked sweat dropping.
"For the moment we have only 2 more quests here at Airedale, defeating of some nasty monster-fishes in the sewers and some escort-work for the Jeweller!" Flo Replied.
"How well are they paid?!" I asked.
"Alman´s Job is paid with 5.000 Rings and a level raise of 2, the sewer-fish-extermination Job is paid with 12.000 Rings.
However according to the workers, a real nest of them is lurking down there, that's why no-one wanted to do it until now even though it´s been up for a week now, but you told me the last time not to ever ask you for such a quest again.
The Job for the Jeweler is paid with 3.000 Rings, I guess it´s just to staple some Crates again!" Flo explained.
"Well today Chocolat, together with the Asmodeus is absent, so I cannot go to another island with a transport-ferry, without maybe running late for the Festival tonight!" I stated.
"Oh you and your friends are coming too, I go as well, my Sister finally comes back home after years and we wanted to celebrate it at the Festival!" Flo explained.
"Wait…, you have a sister?!" I asked dumbfounded.
"Yeah although she is only rarely near Airedale or any other of the great Islands in the Shepherd Republic, she´s an Adventurer and Archaeologist, maybe you have heard of her, Shalua Financier, she´s my older twin-sister!" Flo stated.
"I see…, but i´m sorry I never heard of her or at least I cannot remember!" I stated honest.
"Oh…, I see…, well it´s nothing, she´s not that famous anyways, nor does she really cares to become famous, she just loves to travel, read ancient books and learn ancient languages, to her it´s more of a mission than just a simple hobby.
Anyways shall I write the three Jobs on your name?!" She asked.
"Geez…., yeah I need the money anyways…., so I might as well do these jobs!" I stated with an annoyed Expression.
I would start with Alman´s jo, this way I don't have to cope with him for so long, if I can get this done by noon I have enough time to do the Jewelers job before meeting up with Quebec.
Afterwards I might still have enough time to exterminate the fishes in the sewers, without having to rush things, and later I can take a long nice Bath before the Festival!" I mumbled, as I planned the whole day.
"Alright, is noted, I bet Alman´s gonna be happy to see you again, his sweet little Dumpling!" Flo chuckled evilly.
"Just don´t mention it….., it´s easier if I just get it done as quick as possible, without thinking all too much about it!" I sighed in annoyance as I climbed back into Dahak and made my way over to the west-side of Airedale.
I lasted some time before I finally arrived at Alman´s.
"Huh, Oooh…., it´s the Dumpling, how are you, I knew you would be the one to take my Request…, I had such a good feeling you would!" Alman, who just walked out of his warehouse stated as he saw and heard me coming, he was as crazy looking as always.
"Maybe because no one in their right mind would work for you, and I just came for the money anyways!" I thought as I fake-smiled.
"Well yeah…, so here I am…., what can I do for you today?!" I asked curtly, to get this thing on the roll, as fast as possible.
"Oh, quickly to business as always, you really stress yourself out, it would be good for you to relax and take a nice long break from time to time….
Anyways my dear little Dumpling, I got these Crates here, they have to be transported towards the other side of the Island, towards the Harbour, since our is currently under renovation-constructions, new machines and more modern and larger dock-stations and etcetera, they from the Government meant it would be good to have a separate Harbour for transport-Airships.
I just said myself, Alman, I said…., just let them talk and do as they like, as long as it does not costs you any money, you can be fine with it.
Well now, as our harbour is still under construction, we have to go all the way down to the main Harbour to load and unload the ships.
Unfortunately has our Robot been broken since yesterday evening, the Ship who transports them comes at 2 o'clock pm.
Until then they have to be all there for them to load the up, so you have 2 more hours, but you got to handle them with care, there are some expensive Airship parts within…., do you think you can make this?!" Alman asked me with blinking eyes, it crept me out …, so much.
"No problem, I will get this done in no time, just trust me!" I Stated.
"Oooh my dumpling I do trust you… and I knew I could count on you, well then I still have a lot of work here, so I leave it to you okay…, see you later then, cia-o!" Alman stated, wonk girlish, before walking back in the warehouse after showing me the crates.
"Seriously that guy´s really creeping me out…, I seriously begin to believe that he´s indeed gay, rather than just playing that as an act!" I thought as chills ran down my spine.
"Geez what a Drag….!" I sighed…., speaking of Drags...
I always asked myself if Alman dresses up like a Drag-queen at weekends, or if the massive amount of Makeup he constantly wears, is to keep the mosquito and fleas at bay.
"No need and no interest to get to know it by detail…, anyways, let´s get going, I have a lot of work for today…., I just hope that Quebec has something important to tell me!" I thought as I picked up the first Crate and made my way down towards the Harbour.
"I hope Elh and Chocolat have more luck today, man I really would love to see Elh in a dress already yet….., or maybe even without dress…., and without underwear…., sweating ad panting, naked on bed sheets!" I thought as I began to daydream, but quickly shook my head to clear my mind of these dirty and displaced thoughts, however my pants were not so easy to clear.
"Great now I have to run around with that thing!" I stated at the uncomfortable feeling between my legs.
"Still.., Elh really looks beautiful when she does wear dresses, unfortunately she rarely gives me the opportunity to see that.
Oh well, we will see, anyways I really look forward to tonight!" I thought as I made my way, with the first crate towards the Harbor.
At Pharaoh, early afternoon, Elh´s Pov:
It was early afternoon as we arrived in Pharaoh, where we would look for some dresses for me and Chocolat, to stock up our wardrobe.
On the way I had much time to think about Chocolat´s and Red´s current relationship.
It was clear as day that both loved each other much, as siblings and family and that this one clanger back then was something, which both wanted to forget, but probably never would be able to, especially not Chocolat.
I said to her that I would treat it as a secret, it was a big step for her to tell me all these things…., and still I hold also as much in secret before both of them…
To be honest, just now I recognized that I never really told them much about myself, but only superficial things.
"Still…, if they would hear about HIM and what I did back then…, wouldn´t they rather judge and avoid me then…., I guess not…, still I don´t know what they would think of me afterwards and that makes me ever so afraid of telling them about my past.
I love the current status quo and I don´t want to set this on a lost game!" I thought, while I followed Chocolat through the streets of the giant Metropolitan town.
We went past many shops and even entered some shopping malls, which had reopened after the disaster 2 years ago, during Baion´s attack.
In one of these shops we were also buying Red´s favourite bones, I knew a Caninu boy who´s going to be crazily happy tonight.
Speaking of tonight….
"Anyways I think you should be glad, tonight things can only getting better, he might be brash and straightforward and a bit dumb, but Red´s quite the gentlemen too, if he wants to at least!" Chocolat said with a thumb up.
"Huh…, you said something?!" I asked, not having noticed that she spoke with me.
"Hello earth to Elh, why are you spacing out again, hasn´t the last lamppost you kissed before been enough for you, do you have to crash head-first in a wall to finally wake up.
Geez, Red´s right when he´s worried about you someday getting a concussion, because of your latest behaviour to ram into anything you can find…, seriously what are you worrying your pretty head about lately, you constantly space out!" Chocolat asked me annoyed.
"It´s just…., I still can´t believe that I will go on a Date with Red tonight, less that we are going to dance!" I said blushing deeply, out of both happiness about the prospect of tonight and embarrassment of being caught daydreaming again.
And also about the thought of dancing, I haven´t danced since 302 years, maybe even longer.
"Well I still cannot really believe that you let Red sleeping, half naked and right next to you, in your bed, even fooling around with him, first thing in the morning.
Even before your first date, having done this and that with him, even though you had such a fight yesterday…, over nothing honestly!" Chocolat said nonchalantly.
"Yeah I know…, I somehow also ask myself, what rode me that time, or this morning…., but it all worked out in the end, that´s the only thing that really matters, I would say!" I said blushing weakly.
"Oh I am sure about what rode you this morning…, clearly a hot and hard Caninu-package, after all Red´s big…, I know what i´m talking about!" Chocolat said smirking evilly, before laughing out loud making the people turn their heads after us.
"Oh stop it, will you!" I whined embarrassed.
"Even though you are quite right…., he´s really huge!" I mumbled blushing, while she continued with grinning.
"But you still have to tell me your hot activity from this morning in all and every single, dirty, little detail!" Chocolat said, approaching me with a creepy grin.
"Seriously, you sound like some old geezer, Chocolat!" I shuddered.
And still, after she pressured me a little bit more I simply surrendered and told her so many details, until she had enough and was near nose-bleeding from blushing
While doing this, I thought about the most important event of the day so far…, that Red and I had feelings for each other, mutual feelings of love, and that we both, finally after 2 years of longing, became a pair of lovebirds ourselves.
Even though the confession we both made was not in the same way as I had imagined, it was not with a starlit night sky, kissing in the moonlight, or on a balcony with fireworks in the background and etcetera.
Still we swore to protect each other, to be faithful to each other and to treasure each moment we will encounter together, I guess that was as much as I could imagine from Red.
As he said himself, he had no real sense for romantic.
Little I knew that our relationship will not always be easy, and that there had a lot of important confessions to be made, I had to learn more about Red and vise-versa.
Little I knew that it soon all would be put to the test, showing us if we can stick together, count on each other, create compromises and never give up loving each other, no matter how dire the situation is.
However I had no idea how close this time was and that it began to approach us head on.
"Well anyways I am glad that you and Red have finally found together, i´m really glad for you that you managed to find the one, your heart´s beating for, the one who makes you happy and managed to bind him on you.
Somehow this makes me happy and sorrowful at the same time!" Chocolat said, before she suddenly started to cry.
"Chocolat, what´s with you, what´s the matter?" I asked concerned, it was highly unusual for a grown girl to cry right in the middle of a shopping street, so I pulled her in a side-street.
"It´s nothing, really!" She said trying to smile, but only had to cry more.
"Please tell me Chocolat, what´s hurting you, was it something I said?!" I asked and she finally spoke.
"I am afraid, that someday you guys will settle down and leave me, and then I am all alone, I mean I would be the 3rd wheel, wouldn´t I?
But what am I supposed to do, it´s not like I know much about boys, I only know Red and he´s most likely the only boy, beside of Beluga perhaps, who I know I can fully trust.
It´s not as if cute and trustful boys are falling from the sky, am I right?!" Chocolat cried and all I could do was to hold her in my arms and comfort her.
I had to remember, that behind all of Chocolats adult like attitude and her braveness, still is only a 15 year old Caninu Girl, whose greatest love, idol and friend is her adoptive brother, she has no one else, no Parents or other siblings to hold onto.
If I had a big brother, similiar like Red, I would feel the exact same, I guess.
"But Chocolat, even when we would settle down, doesn´t that mean that we would leave you behind, never will such a thing happen, we three, we are a family after all, aren´t we?!" I assured her and after a while of crying she nodded, drying her tears.
"I just don´t want to be alone anymore, back then as Red wasn´t in the orphanage already, I always felt alone and Isolated, I didn´t felt myself as someone who belongs there, I always felt as if I had lost something, but I had no memories of my life before I woke up in the Orphanage.
Ever since Red arrived I felt like I had a soul-mate, someone who went through the same as I, who also had no memories before our time in the Orphanage.
That was foremost the first reason, why I decided to befriend Red!" Chocolat explained to me and it was quite new to me, I never knew that Chocolat too had no memories of her former life.
"So the Director of the Orphanage gave you your name then?!" I asked but she shook her head.
"My name was one of the two sole memories which I still had, I knew my name was Chocolat and I remembered the word Gelato, which most likely was my family name and even if not, it is now since so long.
The other memory was of someone called White, but all I can remember by thinking of this name is the silhouette of a person, too unclear to make out if it´s a boy or a girl and how he/she actually looks, or which race it is.
However thinking about this name puts my heart at ease somehow, as if I remember someone I love, in another way than Red!" Chocolat explained.
"So…., since when have you been in the orphanage, if I may ask?!" I asked.
"Since I was 4 years old, apparently I had a photo with me in a burnt Medallion, this one….., as you can see has the fire broken the glass right above the Family name…., but it is clearly of me and a birthday Cake, where my name was noted on.
On the back-side stood `For my beloved daughter Choco..., may you earn all the Fortune of the world and of your home..., congratulation to your 2nd Birthday´ , but the birth-date has been vanished under burnt metal, due to whatever fire the medallion was set out to, that's all I know about my past!" Chocolat explained.
"I see…, that's quite less if I may say so…., it's funny, those who have no memories, logically always wish to remember and those who have too many memories, wish to forget certain things!" I mumbled, as I thought about my own past, which I would most freely love to forget, besides knowing that I never can nor should.
"Anyways, I promise you, you won´t ever be alone, you´re like a sister to me, and to keep you away from Red would be the last thing I would do!" I said and took her in an embrace.
"I might have stolen Red´s heart, but never will I, nor do I intend, to steal his love for you!" I said to her, hugging her tight.
"Th-thanks!" Chocolat said.
"I´m sure someday you will find a boy worth your love and your heart, a boy you will learn to love, his good, same as his bad sides.
Who knows, perhaps he´s waiting just around the corner and I wouldn´t be so sure about good boys never falling from the sky, after all Red managed that to me quite perfectly, I would say!
A crass entry for sure, even though he set the ship ablaze, on which we both were at that moment!" I said, joking to cheer her up.
She chuckled at the memory of the day it all began, the end of the Hindenburg, the arrival of Lares and the meeting with Red.
"I guess you are right, thanks for cheering me back up, but now we better get on to find a dress for you!" Chocolat said, as she smiled.
"That can wait, right now you are more important to me, so where is that Ice Bar I saw earlier, the best to console a crying girl is a nice port of ice-cream!" I said, as I dragged her down the street for a delicious break.
Finding a small Coffee shop at the market place we settle down and ordered the wished ice cream, we talked about this and that, simply Girl-stuff.
Meanwhile in Airedale in the Nexus-Hotel´s Restaurant, Red´s Pov:
After my Job for Alman and the Jeweler, I finally arrived at Quebec's place.
"Fancy, Fancy I would say!" I mumbled as I whistled in wonderment, it was one of these Hotels for the higher-ups.
"Red, over here!" I heard Quebec´s voice.
"Ah there you are…, geez never though that such a Roughneck like you, of all people, could afford to reside in such a noble building!" I stated, as I looked around.
"Those years of duty in the Kurvaz as Special Officer were well paid, my son, and if you know on how to save money, then I swear that even you would soon swim in Rings….
But we are not here to speak about my life-style or my earned fortune.
I´ve got some new Informations for you about that supposed to be Lycanian airship…, no fear I give them to you for free as I said, if the Lycanians have survived and are willing to conquer the Shepherd republic then you soon will be a wanted man with no rights anyways.
So a good grip in your pockets while you in such a situation…, I couldn´t live with that then.
Anyways, I was observing the current news-cast about the Ship this early morning and now guess what happened?!" Quebec asked me.
"Quebec I sleep in the morning and today I slept extra-good, so I have no idea what happens during these godless hours!" I explained sweat-dropping.
"The Airship awoke…, it suddenly began to move, and that faster than anybody ever has seen, as if it had bidden it´s time and just waited to be ordered to move.
According to many eye-witnesses the Ship suddenly began to vibrate, then it came to live, somehow changed some parts which looked like cannons and the next what they know, or better said, what the few who had survived could tell, was that the Ship send out a massive wave!" Quebec stated.
"A Wave…., what exactly are you talking about here?!" I asked confused as well as interested.
"What would I mean, an E.M.P. of course….., an Electromagnetic Pulse, which disturbed every electric in the surrounding ships and let most of them falling down towards the Plasma-sea.
From nearly 100 or more spectators and 20 Airships from all sizes and engines, have only 5 ships and 20 persons survived without damage and also only because they just were about to arrive at that place, being approximately a half mile away.
I tell you Red, an E.M.P., that's a weapon that hasn´t been used ever since the last war and there are no ships which I know, who even have the capability to use such a weapon.
There has to be a Hell of an Engine be needed to create enough energy for such a powerfull E.M.P. and believe me Red, I know much more about weapons and airships than you might think!" Quebec stated and I knew not to question his knowledge, this old Hunter had seen too many things he wouldn´t dare to speak about, that I was sure of.
"Afterwards the ship rose up in the sky and vanished in thin air…., it was gone…, completely invisible from one second to another….., I tell you Red this is L.S.T., Lycanian-Stealth-Technology, the best which ever had been invented, and where one of these things is, there are also others…, many, many others, I bet my tail on that!" Quebec stated with eagerness.
"So you saying that they began to make their move?!" I asked.
"Indeed, just an hour before I listened to the special- news-broadcast and they told about the sounds of Explosions and Gun-shots, as well as the raining of burning metal pieces, which fell from the sky, coming from nowhere.
Some even said that the Golden Roar and the Royal Envy shall have engaged in an aerial battle as well, a few hours ago.
However they are momentarily neither near Pharaoh nor any other big Harbor, I tried to reach them, to ask about the opponent they defeated, but I just could not reach any of them, which is kinda strange you know, but maybe they just had a bad connection, I will try it later again.
Anyways, after the damage was documented and after the dead bodies were gathered, several Labs began to gather some pieces of the metal and interrogated them, and every one of these labs came out with the same Result, but only a handful managed to tell about it, since the government almost instantly restricted their communication, faster than they gathered the pieces together.
The Metal which has been caught there, is a certain type of Metal, which hasn´t been used since the Great War, 1500 years ago, Plasmantium.
If this isn´t evidence enough, for a battle between the Felidions and the Lupycans and that the very same bastards have already began to invade the Shepherd Republic, then I don´t want to be called Quebec Maximoff anymore!" Quebec stated as he hammered his fist on the table, I looked around but strangely enough the restaurant was empty.
"However something isn´t quite right here in Airedale!" He stated.
"What do you mean?!" I asked confused.
"Well not just on Airedale, I guess it´s so also on the other islands, I tried on every frequency of the Radio-stations around the Republic, only on the free Pirate-broadcast, FLNB (Freelance-Newsburst), has been made a complete announcement about this incident.
All the others only said that it was an unfortunate accident, they claimed that the Ancient Airship suddenly caught fire and exploded and the pieces were shot in every directions like projectiles, and that this caused the Airships of the Spectators to fall.
The Airship has been found a week ago for the first time, and although that should have been a major sensation and every newspaper or Radio-program should normally have reported about it, was this not the case.
They all kept shut and most of the Populace had no idea about its existence, until it killed all these people.
During the entire week, was FLNB the only one who ever announced anything about it since then..., it feels as if the other radio-programs were forced to remain silent about it and they all followed the governments orders.
FLNB has also made many valuable and truthful announcements in the past, either of the Shepherd Republic or about the Kingdom of Prairie.
Mostly about such things which were never reported on any other radio-program and still proved to be truthful, I could confirm that upon investigating myself, so I can state with every right that this announcement earlier was also truthful.
They were the only ones who didn´t were silent about the truth of the Bruno Dondurma and the Tartaros Incident, 2 years ago,.
You remember, they only said that it was a conspiracy which was uncovered and stopped by the joint forces of You, the Hunter association and the Kurvaz executive Council, who had already suspected Bruno´s madness but had no evidences against them, that the Kurvaz was majorly involved in the first case no one announced.
Even about the case of the Iron Giant Incident in the kingdom of Prairie, 4 years ago, no one but them had reported, that's why I can tell that they are way more accurate and near the truth, than most of the normal Licensed Radio-programs, who always hide the truth!" Quebec explained.
I listened to him closely, I knew for a fact that many things about the incidents 2 years ago were indeed kept under the wraps, but I just deemed it necessary as not to cause a massive panic to arise.
"As I said, several islands were attacked last night, some minor islands though, none of the bigger ones and Opera and Merveille as well as Beluga had already resolved it by the time I heard about it.
And recently there were news about people who went missing from all over the sky, I told Opera and Merveille about it and they said they would investigate it for me.
I´m not exaggerating Red, but if things begin to go downhill like that, then I at least want to know about it and try a little to help!" he stated and I saw the worry in his eyes, it was honest.
"I see, but why are you telling me this, sure thing, you are right, if they come they might target me and my family, but what am I supposed to do then.
It´s not like anybody is going to believe us, I mean look, Chocolat and I, we even struggle with getting the permission to build Cannons on the Asmodeus, those idiots from the Harbor security just won´t believe us, when we tell them how often we have to deal with Sky-Pirates, because they never saw us in action.
As long as we don´t have concrete evidences, no one´s gonna believe us anyways, until it is too late again, I still remember as we tried to warn someone about Bruno, no one believed us until everything went downhill.
You said it yourself, most of the truth is hidden in silence by the government, believe me, there aren´t many normal citizens who would believe the talk of a Pirate-broadcast, which they have never ever heard about before!" I stated.
"I´m not trying to convince you to anything Red…, I merely warning you, what you make of it is up to you.
I think i´m gonna get myself one of these lobsters, afterwards I gonna try to contact Opera and Merveille again..., got to hear what they have found out.
I contact you if I got some more info, whether you like them or not!" Quebec stated as he grinned and walked over to the fish bar.
"Geez and once again you tell me things I cannot really make anything useful of, what does it brings me to know the danger, when I have no means to fight them, shall I get the Kurvaz to fight against an invisible enemy or what…. Geeez." I mumbled as I got all of my things together.
"See you later, ol´Aligator!" I stated chuckling.
"Get going Red, or this ol`Aligator is going to bite your butt, extra hard!" Quebec replied laughing as he wonk me goodbye.
I made my way out of this Noble-house and back into Dahak, it was deep in the afternoon, but if I hurry I can get the last job done before evening.
"I just hope Chocolat is soon back, I need some normality after this crazy day!" I mumbled as I made my way over to the sewers.
Back in Pharaoh in the Skycream Ice-shop:
Elh´s Pov:
We talked for hours, so it seemed and we really did, before we knew it, it was late afternoon without us recognizing it.
Suddenly Chocolat´s satellite phone, which was connected towards the Asmodeus via Radio-frequency, rung, breaking us out of our Girl-talk-trance.
"Dudelu, dudelu!"
"That got to be Red, why is he calling so early, it´s not that late isn´t it!" I wondered, as Chocolat picked the call up, I looked around only to see less people than before walking through the shopping street, much less.
"What time is it?!" I wondered even more.
"Red, how are you, everything alright?" Chocolat asked curious and a bit concerned.
"Sure thing Chocolat, I just finished the last job and want to head home for a douche, so how about you, are you already finished…, did you managed to get the dress and are you already near Airedale?" Reds voice asked.
"Dress…, what dre-ss….., oh shit, we totally forgot about that!?" Chocolat suddenly shouted, as she looked at the clock on the market place.
I did too and my heart nearly stopped for a second, it was 17:30, already past the closing time for most of the shops.
"Whaaaaattttt, seriously…, what the hell were you two doing all the time!?" Red asked quite shocked, before sounding even more annoyed.
"Don´t tell me you flew all the way back towards Airedale and forgot to take that dress, of why you flew towards Pharaoh in the first place, with you?!" Red asked with a growl.
"To be honest…., we haven´t even departed from the Harbour yet!" Chocolat stated sweat-dropping.
"…You´re kidding right….., what was all that talk from before about, telling me to not be too late with work…, who´s gonna be the one to be late no?!" Red shouted in the phone.
"I know, I know…, i´m sorry, okay, believe me I truly am!" Chocolat stated in embarrassment, pulling the phone of her ear, as Reds rant increased in its volume.
"The dance starts in 5 hours, no way you gonna make it in time, there is a storm coming ahead anyways, it would be madness to depart now….!
Grrrr, Choco I could strangle you, seriously….., you got to make that up to us, especially to Elh, we really looked forward to this festival!" Red shouted, while we crept our stuff together.
"Sorry, we got to go, call you later!" Chocolat stated, before Red could reply, she ended the call and hurried to the counter, to pay our food and the coffee´s.
We ran out together but had to witness that we were massively too late, nearly all the shops were closed.
"Argh I don´t believe it, there is just no shop open anymore!" Chocolat said as she looked around to see any open clothes-shop.
"Now we really messed up, how we could be so dumb, Red looked so forward to see me in a dress and I wanted to go on that Festival with him!" I said, as I was at the verge of crying.
"You going to get towards that Festival Elh, I swear, and you will wear the most spectacular dress ever, somehow I will make this, I swear to you!" Chocolat stated as she pulled me in a hug.
"Some tailor has got to still be open!" She stated, as she let go and dragged me through the streets.
I truly wanted to look the best for Red today and make him proud of having me as girlfriend, but the way it looks now, I even struggle with such simple tasks, as to getting an evening dress.
With hanging ears and tails, we slumped through the town.
Against our expectation was every shop closed, even those who were about to close wouldn´t let us in anymore since the checkout was already counted, in a way I could understand them, everybody wanted to get home before the storm hits Pharaoh.
"I cannot believe it, why isn´t there one single shop who still has open, are we really that late?!" Chocolat whined.
We went just past a dark alley, as suddenly a voice screamed from within.
"Let go of me, Help, someone please help me!" A raspy old-sounding voice, maybe of a senior, atoned and catched our ears immediately.
"Elh, there someone in danger, we got to hurry!" Chocolat said and I nodded.
We entered the dark lit Ally, only to see three Caninu thugs trying to rob an elderly Felineko woman of her handbag.
The woman was sitting in a puddle of dirt-water, all muddy a dirty, while holding onto her handbag with her bare life.
"Stop it you thieves!" She shouted, in fear and anger alike.
"Come on, granny, now give us obediently your handbag and nothing nasty has to happen to you!" one of them said, as he pushed the poor woman to the ground, as he tried to rip her handbag out of her grasp.
"Hey, how about you guys pick on someone in your size!" We said as we arrived at the scene.
"Hahaha, and you want to stop us…, huh…, kittens and puppies should better be sleeping at times like this, your bad that you aren´t!" The biggest of them, definitely the boss, exclaimed.
"Get them, men!" He said to his two accomplices, before going back to threaten the poor lady.
"Leave her alone you miserable pricks!" We shouted and ran against them.
I used my Nono to strengthen the beat of my fist.
"Nari, asith Naro Asur, orith!" (Strengthen, my fist of the tiger, fight!) I shouted, while my forehead glowed.
With a giant fist, made of white energy from the Nono, I beated one of the thugs down, while Chocolat used a iron-pipe, which she found, to beat the other one unconscious, which left only the boss standing.
"What the hell…, who the hell are you freaks?" he asked backing away, before packing a knife and making a jump forward in our direction, only to be taken down by a massive white flash to his back.
"Arrrrghhh!" He shouted before he too was unconscious.
"How?" We asked, before we looked to the old lady, which held up her umbrella.
I couldn´t believe my eyes.
"I thought Beluga and I were the last ones!" I said, as tears welled up.
Before us stood the old lady, who´s forehead glowed similar to mine, same as her eyes, she was a paladin there was no doubt about it…, her look now was that of a warrior rather than that of an old lady.
"Likewise, I too thought that not one of Ragdoll had survived that awful Massacre, guess we both were wrong!" The Old lady said, as she went back to normal, supporting herself on the wall, before we helped her to stand.
"It´s nice to see that I was wrong, thank you very much for your help, my dear girls!" The Lady said and gave us a warm smile.
"Do you live here somewhere…, if you want we can accompany you, so you might feel a bit safer!" We said and she nodded.
"I guess that wouldn´t be so much of a bad idea, thank you very much girls!" She said.
"It´s rare to meet such polite youngsters like you girls, politesse towards us older semesters, isn´t as self-evident as it has been around 100 years ago!" The Old Paladin-lady stated.
"You are right and the attacks at Felinekos are increasing in the last time…, unfortunately it are mostly Caninu-rowdies, who think they have to cause trouble…, that surely taints the reputation of us normal Caninus very much!" Chocolate explained sighing, as she looked at the unconscious thugs.
"By the way my name is Chocolat and this is my friend Elh, nice to meet you miss…?" Chocolat introduced us.
"Cassandra my dear, simply Cassandra!" the woman, Cassandra, said to us.
To be continued...