Chapter 12: Breakfast in a Bed
Yamato, Vergil. Two words were only happening to say at his mind. As he sees Ein waking up, he might need to forget about the anxiousness of the Yamato. He decided on another crazy idea. This time, he planned to do a give-someone-a-breakfast-in-a-bed-time.
Perfect idea, this should help Ein and me too. Dante devised a plan to give a good breakfast to the girls.
"Psst, Ein. How about make a breakfast-in-a-bed time to the girls? We should do this sometimes." Dante suggested. Then Ein decided the good idea, problem come over.
"Uuuh, where's a tray when you need one?" Ein asks sarcastically.
"Heh, I got some woods I could use to." Dante walk out and grabbed some chunks of woods around the Grove of Repose. He examines well some wood. Making sure he wasn't picking up a bark one. After he collected all five (the other one is extra. Dante would have a back up.)
Well these are the factors; Excellent, smooth, clean, and sturdy enough. Let's skedaddle! Dante's thought happily. He dashes off back in an instant and meets half-awake Ein.
"Wow, you can run that fast? Well, what we are supposed to make then?" Ein pondered in his mind what he would Fia likes her food.
"Ein, she's a vegetarian. Why not give her some celery? Salads are too light you know." Dante suggested him.
Cierra's is allowable to drink a coffee huh? Guess go with the standards and give her some- Dante pondered over what to give to Cierra.
Ein's thoughts were lightened by a food Fia would eat.
"Tofus! Those will work best." Ein snapped and headed the kitchen.
"Guess we'll go with the scrambled eggs." Dante walks to the kitchen and started to cook. He helped Ein by heating the pan. Soon, Ein chopped down some tofu and heated them at the oven. While Dante had to crack three eggs at once and while to finish his cooking, he decided to make a coffee and a glass of juice to help it. And he decided to cut a loaf of bread to add a touch of his breakfast moves.
"Good idea Dante on the bread. By the way, how did you learn about those culinary stuffs?" Ein was amazed by Dante's cooking. Dante gave him an answer.
"My mum's cookbook is the source. When I was still young, I anticipated her. Boy, talk about the culinary idea!" Dante place his hand on his head.
"Okay, last the flapjacks. I can spare those for you Ein. Need to find a good maple syrup and butter." Dante opened the cupboard to see for any stuff like he mentioned. There he found a bottle of well-preserved maple syrup and a square remaining of butter. He took out a small kitchen knife and prepared back at the table.
"Eggs up!" Dante rushed back and saw his eggs were freshly-cooked like he did. He took another knife and cut the large egg and slices the scrambled egg. Next, he stomped the ground, everything shake gently. What slid down safely are plates, falling spoons and forks. Dante activated his Quicksilver ability to slow them down avoid the deadly impact. Mentally, he focused the plates to land down safely without damage. He stares at the silverwares to go pair together with the plates.
The plates landed slowly, damages weren't made thanks to Dante's slow-motion ability.
I'm not Max Payne without a gun ya know." Dante replied coolly to Ein. Lifting the two plates, he places both of the sliced eggs at each plate giving fair share at each.
Next, he remember how was a flapjacks was made.
Eggs and flour? Forget it. Sunny-side will be. Dante was blanked at the time.
Then he took out four eggs Dante used the knife to slice the shell on the air. Once he juggled them at the air, he swiftly slices fast than an eye's blink. Eggs' content poured down like a liquid in air. Then, a perfect circle made on the sizzling pan. Ein notice that his tofus were ready to be taken. With the mitten on it, he gently places the mitten on the plates. Perfectly making Fia's dish, Ein give himself a smile of appreciation.
"Heh, breakfast is NEARLY ready just as the next batches of eggheads are finish." Dante commented the work.
As he finishes the work, he gave Ein some of the juice. Perking things up, he flipped the sunny-side up on Cierra's plate. He gently cut a piece from a loaf of bread.
"Last one in is a rotten egg!" Dante slammed the pan once more. This time, all of the eggs are freshly-cooked. Now they are falling. Dante and Ein prepared the three plates to catch all the falling side-ups.
Fia's dish consists of two warm tofu, simple celery, cut of bread (thanks to Dante) and water. While Lina's dish in the other hand has side-up, bread of Dante and her favorite, applecot (Dante seems to be baffled to it so, thanks to Ein, he knew this is an apple.).
Cierra's breakfast has a sunny side up, a cut of bread and of course, the coffee. And lastly Serene's dish was the same with the glass of water.
"Boy, having these work made me want to eat my own breakfast." Dante was little exhausted. He notice Ein on the dining table was using a small paper.
"Whatcha writing Ein?" Dante was looking on Ein's writing.
"I'm writing notes, Dante. You can leave those to the girls." Ein replied
"Don't forget to include CoCo too." Dante suggested. He took two papers. Using a spare writing pencil, he wrote down this memo.
Cierra
Made you a breakfast. Enjoy.
Dante S.
Dante's handwriting seems to be clear enough for Ein to understand. He notice Dante taking another small paper and wrote down another memento;
Serene,
I made the breakfast. Enjoy.
Dante S.
"Making it fun for you?" Ein asks Dante about his handwriting.
"No, I'll need a tape to do so." Dante asks back Ein.
"Don't worry; it'll stick well on the tray. Let's get moving on." Ein placed the notes at each tray. Dante placed some too well. A loud rumbling sound both coming from them.
"We'd hurry up then. I'm hungry and I can't wait for that canned food of mine." Dante sounded like he was on a rush.
And he used his Doppelganger ability to replicate himself. But to him, the idea was bad. So he returned his shadow back to him. Instead, he'll do a confrontation movement.
"I'll confront those two then." Dante turned around and carried both of the trays and walks upstairs. Quietly, he snuck using his transparency move again. At Cierra's room, he gently nudged her to wake up.
"Cierra, wake up its morning already." Dante tried to wake her up.
"If Dante follows the lead, then I would follow the suit too." Ein walk up just what Dante does. He placed down Lina's wooden tray and opened Fia's room. But as he about to get Lina's food, someone bumped at his back.
"Ow, what the?" A squeaking voice sounded.
"Sorry CoCo, I was going to carry something." Ein replied.
"Those? It's rare for me. Who should I bring that one, Ein?" CoCo was curious who Ein cooked for.
"Which one?" Ein asks.
"The tray you're holding now." CoCo asks more.
Ein blushed as she asks that question.
"Fia, I'm giving this to Fia." Ein responded.
"Okay, I'll wake Lina up and say 'This breakfast was made by Ein'" CoCo was getting excited.
"Tag along then." Ein shrugged. As he enters the room of Fia, he saw Fia fast asleep at her bed.
Beautiful she is. Ack! What am I thinking?! Don't think anything stupid! Ein tried to snap himself as he urge himself to control his pervert self.
"Fia, wake up, I got something for you." He nudged her by the arm. As he nudges her, Fia hold his nudging hand. Ein felt entire body turned boiled egg to him.
Please be a dream, PLEASE BE A DREAM!!!! Ein's thoughts were running very fast enough. He felt his veins and his entire heart was going to blow up at any moment. He gently removes his hand and tried to wake Fia once more.
"Oh, what is Ein?" Fia asks Ein as she rubbed her eyes. What she sees wasn't telling her something true. Ein was giving her a breakfast in a bed.
"Ein, did you made one for me?" Fia was surprised to see it. Her heartbeat became faster as she remains silent after she asks the question. Ein scratched his head in his awkwardness.
"I did so, why?" Ein asks back. As he sees Fia taking his tray of foods without caring the environment around both of them, Fia took a bite from his tofu main dish.
Dante's Time
As he quietly wakes Cierra up, he gave her a mug of her favorite coffee which she uses to drink always. Cierra smells her favorite coffee in her nose. As she smells all of it, she immediately swiped it from Dante's hand.
Man, is she addicted to coffees? Dante was seemed to be out of his mind. As she finishes half of the coffee, Dante helped her in serving the eggs. Cierra was amazed that Dante was halfway skilled in culinary.
"You cooked the eggs the way I do. But, they seem to taste better!" Cierra complemented Dante culinary work. Dante turned his head around her room avoiding her pretty face again.
She took the loaf of bread and placed some of the eggs in the bread making an egg-sandwich.
"Witch is which?" Dante laughed himself with a joke.
"You mean a tongue twister?" Cierra asks while she was eating. Dante placed his fingers at her lips.
"Don't talk when your mouth is full. Its bad manners you know." Dante wiped some of the bits at her mouth. Cierra swallowed down her food in her mouth. She was impressed by his proper (gentleman) behavior.
Did he was taught gentleman manners? She was curious how Dante grew up.
As she heard Dante's stomach was rumbling, Dante forgot about his hunger strike.
"I'd go then. I'm starving." Dante tried to leave her room. But, he was stopped by his tracks when Cierra offered him the remains of the bread. Dante was quite thought happy about it. He reluctantly takes the bread and eats it.
"Gee, thanks for the bread, Cierra." Dante leaves the room quietly and tossed the last chunks at the air and catch it by his mouth.
Ein's Time
Fia eats the tofu. As her vegetarian's tongue was responding, she seems to like Ein's culinary awareness.
"Thanks Ein for the tofu. They seem to taste better than those days." Fia replied. Ein was asking her a question.
"Fia, why were you holding my hand?" Ein asks. Fia became lost when he asks that question.
"Umm, it was in dream?" Fia was answering the portion of the question of Ein. He decided that answer without much further statement.
"It's okay Fia." Ein tried to assure her. He gently holds her soft hand. Fia seem to be expressionless on Ein affection towards to her.
Before the romance starts, a huge rumbling sound coming from Ein's stomach have heard. Spilling his bliss moments with Fia, now, he DEFINETLY needs to eat a breakfast.
"It's okay, I can still hold on." Ein tried not to spoil her breakfast. But Fia did gave Ein too a bread (which she ate half of it), Ein did take the bread and eat it.
In-Between
Dante and Ein were starving, thanks to the bread that the girls spared; they had few shots of energies left at their system.
"Let's eat. I was wondering my packed food." Dante decided to open his bag and saw one of his supplies.
Thought I wasn't gonna eat chili again. Dante thought as he sees his old can full of fire.
"We'll be eating this." Dante announced. Ein did follow what Dante had said. Ein prepared the pan again and heated up. Dante uses the kitchen knife and dabbed the cover. After a while, the can was fully opened. Dante gives a warning on Ein.
"Don't touch the can. It has a razor sharp edges that will cut your fingers." He raised his fingers. He carried the can and pour out the contents out of an opened can. Sizzling sounds were producing. The light smoke was wafting around lazily around them.
Few minutes were passed. Dante takes out his packed rice which Ein didn't know. He still stares at Dante's food. He was longing at it. As Dante takes out a plate, a partner of spoon and fork, and a glass, he takes his own set. He saw Dante serving the food up. At the rate, he followed Dante as he eats his own food. As Ein joined in to partake together with Dante, he takes some few chili food stuffs into his mouth. Right after his bite, he suddenly turned over-ripe tomato on fire.
"AGGGGGGGH! WATER! WATER!" Ein's shouts filled the entire room. Dante quietly enjoys the fill. Soon, as he bites the chili, nothing seems to happen to Dante except a smirk formed his face. He grabbed Ein and prepared a glass of milk to cool down the fire on Ein.
"Yes, oh gods, why?" Ein was exhausted from the panic of the chili. Ein seems to watch Dante as he was unaffected with the chili food.
"How come you're not burned up?" Ein asks as he helps himself another glass of milk to cool down the fire in his mouth.
"Fire, makes sense does it?" Dante replied as he continues to chew some more chili foods. Then, Ein remembers something what Ledah had said.
Anyone is highly immune to fire is also immune to the spiciness of a chili food. Ein recognized why Dante wasn't affected by the chili's spiciness effect at all. At the factor that Ein compares that Dante is halfway Ledah-like, Dante seem to be fazed by his thoughts.
As they finish their own breakfast. Dante went up and see upstairs to see Serene. Ein followed the pursuit by looking over at Lina too.
"Hmm, our plans need to be finish." Dante murmured to himself. As he knocks the door of Serene, he slowly opens it and saw Serene eating his creation happily. Serene sees Dante, she blushed profusely on his face.
"Thanks, Dante, you're kind of a good chef, I say." Serene said it raspy. Dante left her room. But he said something;
"Don't forget, I'll be getting those trays. I'll be cleaning them." Dante replied. But Serene was reluctant. She throws back Dante.
"Don't worry, I can do it by myself!" she shouted. Dante sighed as she was too cocky like him. Leaving the room, he saw Ein waltzing to Lina's room.
Ein saw Lina ate first the Applecot that Ein made and eaten all the rest of his preparations fast. He asks Lina.
"Lina, did you like it?" Ein nervously asks.
Lina's bright smile never faded as he said the question.
"Ein, your food made Lina happy!" she was full of energy when she replied it. Ein takes the answer 'yes' to that question. He quietly leaves her room and he saw Dante with a simple look. Then Ein saw his face with seriousness. He decided to ask him.
"What's the matter?" Ein asks. Dante to the response, he walked downstairs and Ein follows him. He went to his seat. He calmly waits on Ein's arrival. Soon, Dante started the topic with the serious monotone.
"Ein, does it have a rare chance to talk by the gods?" Dante asks as his voice sounded like a mafia leader.
"Worth a shot, if the gods have interest in you. They do it such various ways." Ein replied. He knows it earlier at hand that Dante.
"That my friend, I was being talk by them; they told me that, me and you, we have a bigger fish to fry on." He sternly replied.
