The Darkness in My Soul
By: Nixie
Disclaimer: Didn't I already say I don't own it. Like ten other times. Ya think it's enough, then ya learn ya gotta do it again. Oh well
A/N: Sorry it's been so long since my last post. I've been busy with work and everything so I haven't had much time for writing, but I'm on break right now, so I'll be able to get a good deal of work done on the stories. I'm going to go back and re-edit chapters 1-10. Mostly just fixing spelling or grammar mistakes that I might have missed, but I might change the dialog a little too.
Warning: Kharl gets angry. That's about it.
Chapter 11
A crash rang through the castle as a table was upturned, it's contents crashing into the stone wall and shattering into a thousand tiny shards. Garfakcy heard this from his location in one of the gardens and ran to it's source – Kharl's study.
"DAMN THAT MAN!!!" screamed the demon alchemist as he paced around his study.
"What's wrong, Lord Kharl?" asked Garfakcy, a little out of breath from running.
Kharl's eyes locked on the little human, who jumped at the malice in them. Garfakcy jumped even more when his lord's hand crashed through the brick wall mere inches from his head. He winced as a little debris fell on his shoulder.
"I was so close, Garfakcy," hissed the white haired demon. He was so. Very. Close ... and that damned Dragon Lord just had to stop it. HE WILL RUIN EVERYTHING!!! He'll try to tame him; save him, but I won't allow it, Garfakcy."
"I-I'm sorry, Lord Kharl ... I don't understand." Garfakcy was worried about his lord's mood, but that quickly gave way to annoyance as he realized there was no way he could understand. It had never been explained.
"Maybe you could, oh, I don't know, explain it to me?"
Kharl chuckled and grabbed Garfakcy's chin, lifting the face level with his own. "That is so cute and clever, my pet. Tee hee. But I already said I'm not going to tell you."
"A guy can hope, can't he?" retorted Garfakcy glumly.
"Yes, he can and this guy is hoping you'll clean this room. I have to plan my next move. I won't let the Dragon Lord have his way. He will awaken." Kharl began pacing back to his desk a frown setting itself on his face as he became consumed by thought.
"Who?" asked Garfakcy, hoping Kharl would be distracted enough to tell.
"And dear Kuro Aisu will be the key." Kharl sat down at his desk, ignoring Garfakcy in hopes that the human would drop the topic.
"To awakening whoever it is you're talking about?"
"Yes," Kharl measured the little man with annoyance, he could be so persistent sometimes. "Now clean."
Garfakcy bit his bottom lip. It was obvious his lord was getting annoyed, but he really wanted to help; to have fun. Actually, he just wanted a chance to kill someone. "Who is it, Kharl? Isn't there anyway I can help?"
Kharl sighed, completely annoyed now, "I already said ..." his eyes widened as a thought came to him, then they narrowed with delight. "Yes, Garfakcy, you can help me."
Garfakcy blinked in surprise, "How?"
"Kuro Aisu's true nature must be revealed."
Garfakcy thought over for a moment, then smiled. "So ... I jus' gotta trick Tetheus into killing a lot of innocents?"
"Or frame him." said Kharl pleased with his loyal servant. "Target Draqueen. You can clean this up later."
Garfakcy frowned, "Kharl, if I don't get it done now, it'll never get cleaned up." As he finished speaking, Garfakcy materialized a broom and dustpan and began cleaning. His thoughts, however, were on planing how to make the Black Officer destroy the Dragon Capitol. He nearly started glowing with pleasure when a thought hit him.
'Oh yes,' he thought, 'that'll work.'
A/N: This chapter actually got a lot bigger than it originally was. I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I'll likely post several chapters at the same time as this, to make up for not posting for so long, but I'm not going to combine them, I'll post them as separate chapters as they were originally meant to be posted.
