Chapter 14: Memories and More
A/N: Oh come now Chi-Chi is still our girl be nice to her, she's been having a rough life. Don't worry what has happened to that girl now? I'm back with another update making this my longest DBZ fanfic in terms of words. Hope you guys are enjoying this story, also I don't know who is immediately viewing these chapter updates within 3 minutes of my posting? Are you waiting for me post and clicking refresh hoping for an update in that inbox?
Don't worry Busi I got you this chapter, and DBgochi you as well.
Chi-Chi sat on the side of the stone railing, her hair having grown twice its length since she had arrived as it hung just around her back above her hips all neatly tucked and pinned together by a series of golden circlets. She had become so vain with her appearance in such a short time it was almost criminal but she didn't care everyone else could choke on their envy. She was beyond beautiful now, she was a goddess on par with Mistress Margarita. The two having spent a great deal of time together the last few years as she had been brought personally under her instruction as her own skills had developed rapidly beyond any of her classmates. She was born to be a wielder of magic! While others could recite incantation and strain themselves to create light or move objects Chi-Chi was able to illuminate an entire ballroom and throw open the gates of the castle's twenty-foot steel doors when she put forth her best effort. She was a prodigy and damn proud of herself, oh how she had begun to flaunt her own ability in front of those stuck up girls. They had all cast her down when they met her calling her unfit and servant girl for months. Treating her like dirt in the most sense, well everyone in her class except Felica who had been like a big sister although she and her had tried to be something more. That of course just did not work out.
Sighing as she leaned back just looking down at the veritable flower garden just two stories down from her balcony. Elves were such a beautiful people in her mind and all this work they had done and watch peasant humans run all over their establishments and wonderful cities and turn them into dumps. She drew her hand down to the table resting just alongside her hand, plucking free a grape from the generous fruit bowl she had been brought from the staff. She would be sure to thank them for the fresh food, oh she did like all the maids and servants who were here. They had come to like her as she had been asked in her earlier times by lady Margarita to help in the kitchen the winter had come violently early one year leaving most of the normal workers stranded in the town meaning that most of the sorceresses would be preparing their own food. Not that they were incapable of doing that just most did not have the expertise of those they paid to take care of that job. That and conjuring illusionary food was not allowed on the premises, so as Tissia had demanded her own food a very certain way she had asked Chi-Chi who was someone with cooking experience to help calm her strained headmistress as nothing anyone else could make or herself was good enough! It took a little bit of work but she had the know how to make a grand meal with her own limited abilities but given access to a palace sized kitchen and magically aided utensils it was impressive what she could do. She had managed to curb Tissia's grand array of exact specifications for her meal and even fed most of the other ladies in only a manner of an hour. It was where Margarita had come to appreciate her background and determination, taking the girl aside and sitting her down in private to thank her n o longer having any doubts that her being here was meant to be and once she had passed her exams she would be her internship mage no small honor.
Of course she had spent a great deal of her free time helping the people just down the road, she was the raven queen to many of them when she road into town on Nimbus's in all her glory. How the boys and girls raced up to her as she brought the leftover food from Aretuza personally. She was the town's personal beloved sorceress and was treated with such great reverence that many turned a blind eye to her practice even if they were devout followers of the eternal fire. She had fixed clothing with waves of her hand, cleaned up boils and burns with her knowledge and recipes. Even given a formula to save three newborn calves that had grown sick with dysentery. While many could call her a witch and outside of the castle walls and the short ride to the town she was a witch, a heathen, blasphemer and whore. She was a blemish upon the world for going against religion and its belief that magic was evil and those who wielded it were not less so. It is why she enjoyed going to the town often, she was often corrected by her peers who told her that was beneath her station but she waved them off because she was one of them and she knew what she would have given to have someone like that coming around to brighten their day.
Smiling at her favorite past time of telling stories in the coaching house with dozens of little boys and girls sitting all around her of her glorious exploits and how she had become a sorceress. They looked upon her with such reverence it made her heart melt as she often would see the joy in the elders face as a little brother and sister fell asleep in her lap as she talked well into the night about everything she ever could. Of course they all had their favorite story that she would end up telling every other visit, the tale of the girl and dragon. It was a bittersweet story to tell because she never finished the ending but the children loved it and always asked her to finish it but she would smile and shake her head saying the journey was more important than the end.
"But dragons are bad! They bureve fire!" A child would always cry out when she spoke at it and she would shake her head and smile.
"Dragon's aren't bad; they just have difficulty being accepted. They are shy and don't like people seeing them, the one in the story didn't like people knowing he was a dragon because he was afraid of what people thought of him. They thought he was bad and a monster even though all he did was try and help people. Even the girl he found didn't accept him because she thought just like all of you. That because he's just a dragon he's a monster but the girl was wrong." She would sigh and look away knowing how little and too late those words of wisdom she needed to tell herself had been.
"Why doesn't she like the dragon? I mean he didn't hurt her. I think the dragon would be cute!" The pigtailed blonde in her lap said enthusiastically throwing her hands up in exasperation making Chi-Chi laugh and pinch her cheek which made the girls smile only swell out further.
"The girl was just unsure of what she felt. She didn't know whether she liked the dragon or not, regardless if he was cute or not. Which for a dragon he very much was!" She exclaimed as the girl's big blue eyes widened looking up at her.
"But I want to know about how he saved her!" A boy yelled from her side as a torrent of other cries of protests about her story rose up from the peanut gallery listening in.
"He saved her the only way he could and it wasn't by him breathing fire or destroying with his massive claws and tail. No he knew how to save her, he called out to her. Yelling her name that only the two of them shared together breaking the spell that had been cast upon her and then carried her away to his lair."
"Then the mermaids came right? Right?" Another little brown haired girl with green eyes chirped in holding her dress just at the hem line. She always loved this part of the story.
"Yes, yes the mermaids came. All of them came to save the dragon and in turn saved the girl. They pulled themselves onto the beach and shouted angrily at the men to let the dragon go free!" She pointed outwards over the crowd which all went silent. "Of course one of the men there was a lord who was smitten with one of the mermaids so he did as she told him to do!"
"What does smitten mean?" The little blonde asked in her lap tugging at the shoulder of her dress.
Before Chi-Chi could respond an older lad piped in, "He was ploughing her! That's what my pah said!"
"You little bastard come here! I never said that!" Raged his old man who shot up from his seat completely embarrassed that his little shithead had said that in front of the sorceress. Of course he had said it but his dumb boy wasn't supposed to be repeating what he said.
Ignoring the side show Chi-Chi waved her hand eliciting a faint light and drawing everyone's attention back towards her. Her magic was still incredible to these young kids though most in a decade or two would grow to despise it but for now it was the best thing since someone made sliced bread. "Smitten means in love with. He loved her even if she didn't know it." She readjusted herself in the seat as the little girl pillowed her head against her bosom making Chi-Chi smile.
"Where was I? Ah yes, so they were saved by mermaids and the girl found out that the boy she had been traveling with was actually a dragon. She couldn't believe it that she had lied to her about that it made her feel as if she had been betrayed by him. Because she had fallen in love with the boy as a boy, she couldn't accept him being a dragon and didn't want to." She drew up her fingers and flicked them forwards making the light emanating from her palms form an image of a yellow dragon and a girl in white. "Because the girl felt that she couldn't love him, as you can see he wasn't a person no matter how much he had pretended before he was at his heart something else." The white light walked away from the dragon who looked away from her. "He cared for her so much that he still tried to love her even after all of that but she didn't want to hear it." The yellow dragon reached out for her but she moved away. "She thought of anyone she had ever known he would be the person to not deceive her, to not betray her like so many others had. It broke her heart so much that she forgot how much she had come to enjoy him." The image of the girl faded away as the dragon turned away and slowly faded back into Chi-Chi's palm. "They we separated forever but who's to say if they will ever be reunited."
Clapping her hands together the lights relit around the inn, having dimmed most of them before now she let them re light brightening the room and signaling to all that she was done with story time until her next visit. The whining and complaining of course started incessantly. They all complained when she was done, begging for one more like always. "Now, you know how it works. If I kept this up, you all would sleep through your morning chores and your parents do not need to be angry with both of us now back and off to your beds." She said shoeing them away save the two still cradled in her lap who held on tightly to their position and post. Leaving only the sorceress to smile and shake her head and stand up with both of them tucked in her arms and walked with a fluid grace towards the children's mother who held out her hands for them uttering an apology for the burden.
"Now, it's alright. They are sweet little things, they aren't trying to do any harm." She said as the mother plucked both of them off her and into her lap though they looked back at the sorceress briefly they quickly wrapped their arms around their mom and closed their eyes. "Are you doing alright? You look tired?"
"Nothin too it my lady." She said grinning despite the heavy bags under her eyes. "Being a mother is a full time job!" Kissing both her little ones on their heads. "Bless you lady you are always welcome our home. It always a pleasure to have you visit." She bowed her head as Chi-Chi nodded.
"You have my gratitude for the offer but it's getting later into the evening and I should be returning." Chi-Chi said noting the already rising moon outside the walls. I don't want the head mistress to worry." She passed by smiling but heading the inn keeper the flowing nature of her dress almost moved like water. It was such a deep rich purple that it allowed bits of her hair to blend and fade into the backside. "Charles, a bottle of Vinegray please." She stopped as she approached the counter to which the balding innkeeper jumped from his seat and moved quickly to his back shelfs.
Chi-Chi waited patiently as she would always grab a nice drink before leaving, she enjoyed leaving in a pleasant mood and tonight should be that or so she would've hoped this night. She paid no mind to the door opening and clatter of boots, as men and travelers came all around from time after time. Watching slowly as she gently stroked her finely tuned arms noting the subtle buildup of her muscles. Her newest formula allowed for muscle density to be built and grown over a month. Allowing her to sustain a proper fitness figure without having to subject herself to repetitive physical workouts save for once every month. It was almost ready for more testing, just what else could she-
"Now what's a fine piece like you doing all the way out here?" The voice interrupted her thoughts but did not shift her mask in the slightest. She could smell the wreaking alcohol on his breath along with some dried blood on the souls of his feet. The taste and smell of metal very easy for her recognize with her latest works. Shifting herself backwards she leaned back against the railing her arms pressing together against her sides to puff out her chest which strained to be contained by the thin top she was wearing save the thin little leather straps running from her shoulders.
She took in his and several others instantly, ragged bunch but as she looked over them she felt something tick in the back of her mind. She knew these men, but from where? A balding man who had a badly mangled jaw from being struck by something metal as it was never properly reset in his face by a trained surgeon as it seemed to be hanging slightly his lower lip in a droop. Another man having some type of brace around his leg, as if it had been broken at the knee at one point. The other two also had some type of injuries that seemed almost permanent. Clearly bandits but their brush with near death did not dissuade them from further acts it appears.
Smiling seductively, she drew out her leg and crossed it exposing a bit of her uncovered thigs as they flowed out from the bottom of her dress. She was in the mood to play as Charles set down a wine glass with a fine clear white liquid. "Oh me boys?" She said in a sultry tone. "I'm just here to have a good time, why do you ask?" She drew up the wine to her lips slowly letting her tongue dart out and sample the choice slowly and languorously before giving a satisfied moan of approval. "Very nice Charles. Is it a twenty three?"
The balding man blushed under her gaze as she found his apron covering to be more interesting than looking at her. "Correct again my lady, she are always good with your wines."
"Now what would some fine boys like you want with a sweet girl like me?" She drew her hand up slowly and rubbed the top of her chest almost teasing as her finger dipped down between them and smoothed back up. She could feel the gaze she was getting and it was almost humorous, most men here knew she was far off limits to anyone but travelers always fell victim to her when she became an enchantress. Some paid with coin others, paid with something more dear depending on how far they took their actions. She reached back for her wine slowly swirling it in front of her. Oh Chi-Chi was giggling in her head as she was drinking.
"Well, since you ask how about you come up to our room and we'll show you a proper good time. We like pretty working girls like you the best and we've got coin to spend!" One laughed as he held up a small bag of jingling coins. It was a lot of money to them but too Chi-Chi it was barely worth an hour of her time. She made three times that in a month, but she was still feeling playful not that she would ever let them put their hands on her. Only one man had or ever could.
"Such a proposition for just me?" She said in an exasperated voice, "My boys I'm really flattered but I don't think that's enough." She set back down her glass to allow the innkeeper to refill her a second time. "I service only special clients and I don't see that any of you are them so I'll have to turn you down."
She could see the hint of annoyance in their eyes, they thought she was proper whore. A classy one but a whore none the less coin was coin. "Well what are you interested in if yah don't mind me askin darling? We might surprise you with our-" His mouth grinning as he shifted his hand down to rub over the top of a dagger on his waist. "Tastes and encouragement."
She was feeling a little dirty, she always did with wine and after talking about her lost dragon. God's what she would do if that golden monster poked his head through that door! She hated him, missed him, and oh she had desired to be cradled again by his body and feel the warm heat of his embrace. Felicia had tried to be him but of course that poor girl couldn't have competed with a dragon it would be doubtful if anyone could have. The fantasies she had to spin in her mind to feel any semblance of satisfaction had turned her wild and tonight she would be sure to have more as she would go mad surely if those scaly hands pulled her from her bed and into the air!
She was growing hotter just at that thought shifting her legs trying to avoid the moisture she could feel. "Oh if you must know!" She said setting down her second glass as her face had slightly turned red from her wine. "I only fuck dragons and none of you are one I'll have to say no!" She exclaimed with an astute observation a she covered her mouth as she almost hiccupped. "It's a special and rare cause but I'm an expert." She let her hair sway behind her as she could picture those golden eyes looking at her, it was making her body flare alive like nothing ever could.
Ten years had passed and never could she hope to reconnect with him, he had shown up to pay her bills but never did she get to see him. Get to apologize and say her heart and hear his voice again, it took losing what she had to realize how much she needed him, filling it with other things never was enough. She had gone mad with yearning on summer nights calling out to him for him to descend from the clouds in any form he wished.
"The hell?" One said looking at the one with the wired mouth who mumbled something intangible. "I don't know either Gus perhaps she's some crazy bitch and we don't ever touch crazy." The larger balder man nodded as he took a step back.
"Well a girl's got to have standards and you boy's just can't satisfy a girl like me without being covered in scales and gold." She sighed as she drew her hand across her face as if being stroked by someone blissfully. " A dragon took me to his lair when I was young, you couldn't imagine the things those overgrown lizards can do for a girl." She bit on the edge of her fine fingernails with a wicked grin on her lips. Leaving the men there completely stunned at such a revelation whether they believed it or not they had defiantly crossed into the territory of plane crazy.
"Okay Keen, lets get out of here and find Xhu, the prick owes us some damn money and interest." One of the men said edging the one with the limp who looked back at him with a look with a nod. This bitch was completely off her rocker although if they weren't in town they might have had a change of thoughts about her but they had learned that a beautiful woman often had a man who was a monster. With her looks and mind she was sure to have one crazed son of a bitch to be shacked up with, after their first encounter with one they were never inclined to have a second.
"Agreed, he thinks he can cut our profit and run off here? Hah we'll show him, we owe him for how we got messed up." Looking to the bald one with a loose jaw Gus nodded tapping the club on his hip. Clearly it wasn't for a social gathering but a recollection.
Chi-Chi's eyes went wide with those two names as the memory of her travels down a lone road came back. It was the first time she had ever been wounded properly and she now placed the aged faces far better after so long. "Xhu? Xhu… Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Reminds me of something if you wouldn't mind listening to this little story." She said drawing them back as she slowly walked around them, her hands behind her back a sly grin dancing over her features.
She couldn't forget them, nor would she. It was the first time she had ever seen her blood spilt like that from her shoulder where she worried about dying and the pain tore throughout her as she almost inside cried deeply as she was held in Goku's arms afterwards that she might die here and there. She had never again experienced such a mortality that she could remember since going to Aretuza.
"Listen we don't deal with crazy, all things concerned we've had enough trouble with crazy in our life. We'll be off-" He tried to cut past her but the woman's hand shot out as she curled her nails into palm.
"Oh you will want to hear this one, it's about a group of bandits who traveled the woods looking to make an easy mark on a couple riding atop a yellow horse." She slowly drew her eyes to them which had them all sweating as many exchanged glances and concerns. "You see these bandits tried to play coy and trick the couple but they did not know what they were dealing with. Because in their reckless and stupid nature these men shot the woman in the shoulder in a crossbow." She moved her hand down slowly as she gave them a look that made all of them uneasy as the side of her head tilted to the side. "The girl was spent bleeding all over herself as a man in orange and blue got up from the ground in a rage." She dropped her tone to almost a hush as she gave each one of them a cold stare.
She could feel the beating of their hearts even without special hearing, the beads of sweat from their brow and growing agitation and perspiration glowing in the light. "Many of the men there were beaten and battered hard as the man in orange didn't like his girl shot and left to bleed. Of course this comes to a question to you boys." She chuckled as she walked around them again like a predator. "If I were to call the man in orange inside here right now what would you do? He's off sleeping in one of those houses just outside, do you think he'd be happy to see you or the fact that you decided to accuse of the girl he is with that she is a whore? I mean after all you-" She pointed at Keen, "Told him and I quote, 'leave the bitch behind so that we can rape her and you can run away?' wasn't it?"
"Listen lady we-" He started but Chi-Chi slashed her hand cutting off his voice with the simple gesture.
"No boys, you need to listen to me. You see I'm that little whore and my dear sweet man regrets not doing more damage upon your soft weak bodies. All I need to do is scream his name and he will tear down that door with murder in his eyes. Could you imagine how much angrier he would get if he saw you and after I told him you tried to hit me up as if I were a whore? Oh I can imagine it can't you?" She ground out as she took in a breath as preparing to shout out.
"NO-! No! Please whatever you want lady! Please don't scream!" The four dropped to their knees groveling in absolute terror, they wouldn't dare strike her or touch her. She was the reason they had been so maimed the first time that it had taken over a year to even recover which had been painful.
"Very well then, drop your money, your weapons and leave before I finish my third glass of wine." Which quickly appeared from Charles who placed it in her hand and she slowly drew it up to her lips.
Ah those nights, she couldn't hope to enjoy one for a while and the sweetness of that night had been one she would remember for a long time to come. Her own personal vendetta paid out in full to them as they were practically naked and sent to their horses. But, that wasn't why she enjoyed that night so much. She loved the children, she would rub their hair and smile moving to pick them up and walk them to their parents without a strain. She hadn't given up on her physical prowess either, she did many things that one would consider menial labor but she enjoyed them. It calmed her down, from splitting firewood, to feeding and cleaning Nimbus almost every other day if she wasn't pressed for time and her work. She loved that sweet unicorn that paraded around like a horse, she had marred much of her misbegotten affections onto her. Not that she didn't draw many attentions atop the beautiful mare as the kids ran to her but even then Nimbus would only allow the little girls to ride her, as a Unicorn she was only trusting of virgin maids though with Chi-Chi being the exception as the lover of Nimbus's master and having a trust set up between the two as each cared for each other.
Of course Nimbus was a glorious racing and riding horse as during one of their times off to rest and relax it became a bit of an illegal pastime for betting races around the Aretuza to the town and back to the bridge. The prima donna's all believed their stallions were the best of the breed and could beat each other's horses without so much trying. They had done this for a while having established a humorous betting system of each other having to do the other's required chores for losing the race the following day, sometimes coin and others the lady would have to volunteer to be Tissia's personal aid for a day! A fate almost as equal as death just depending on how frisky the girls were feeling.
Chi-Chi really did not want to partake in the nighttime rides as she was content with progressing in her work but the rumor circles and gossip came forth which could only have been planted to draw out the former Ox Queen from her shell and stand up and be accounted and not looked down as anything less than their equal. She wouldn't take being insulted or mocked by the others especially when it had come after a visit from Goku to pay off her bills and leaving almost as quickly, Chi-Chi had all but thrown herself from the classroom window as he had appeared atop a black nilfguardian stallion which was incredibly powerful and large horse at least another two heads taller than Nimbus and half a foot wider. She had caught him far too late to stop him from riding away before she could've hoped to stop him. She knew it was him, she couldn't mistake that bright orange leather and spiky mane for anyone else!
It was there the girls in her class had found her Achilles heel and the desire to see the top performer knocked down a peg for her station of being born a peasant was a burning desire by many of them. Notes and hushed whispers pulled at her often, the terse comments of her being just a little whore for a mage whom never cared for. The notions that he refused to see the ugly girl he had left behind only to start gracing the bed of lady Margarita. They went on and on for weeks until finally they got what they wanted an enraged Ox Queen who would shut them up.
She saddled Nimbus her unicorn noting her obvious anger and frustrations in her mind did its best to calm her down and sooth her but it could only be startled as it heard the laughter of the other girls as she rode up. They were talking about Nimbus's defacto parent of nearly sixty years something that made the normally peaceful unicorn stomp its hooves and neigh loudly.
"Just like you Chi-chi!" Mocked Serona the arrogant redheaded bastard child of a lesser monarch. Her snobbish attitude intent on drawing out her ire even further. "A stomping little child that doesn't even deserve to be here." She would laugh and the other girls would laugh as she sat atop her walnut stallion one of the fastest bred racing horses which her family was proud of. Racing was in their blood and a little magic, having never lost a race she was more than grinning with delight to see Chi-Chi atop her white mare which for its size wasn't anything impressive to her eyes. A good looking horse but nothing else!
"You will bite your tongue after tonight, if you want me to embarrass you out here like I do in the classroom then fine by me!" She snorted as she pulled on Nimbus's reins the blue eyed unicorn in disguise looked back at her and bobbed its head.
"What'll be the wager then? A month's work of chores or perhaps sleeping the barn for a week? We can't ask for your coin because you clearly have none-!" She laughed in her high pitched tone drawing up her hand to her face as she mocked her.
"A month as Tissia's aid!" Chi-Chi spat venomously glaring daggers at her, "In fact since all of you are here at my expense I'll wager the same with you except if I lose I'll do it for a year!" she snarled as she saw many eyes widen in astonishment, Tissia's demands were paramount to a death sentence and year in her service would drive mortal to insanity. If she were too shut them up again then this would be the time and her own confidence in Nimbus was more than a reason enough.
"Oh ho You talk so big but I'll agree to your wager, I've never lost and you've never even raced before how do you pretend that you'll win over me since we can't use any magic!" She joked as she had her own inhibitor amulet around her neck. "Come on girl's accept her wager you know she can't beat me no one has ever come close!" She touted as if beating girls on horseback from a magic school was something to be touted with pride.
Half agreed on the spot, the others having spent a day as Tissia's aid shook with fear of a month of such a stunt. They couldn't bare another day like that.
"Well that's settled ready to loose peasant girl?" Serona assured of her own self victory as Chi-Chi pushed down in the stirrups of Nimbus and looked ahead with deadly intent. "Eager then let's Begin!" She yelled as her stallion kicked off getting a jump on Nimbus who reared back as the horse all but kicked Nimbus in the leg.
"Oh you bitch." Chi-Chi growled as she got Nimbus back down from its surprise.
"Better hurry you're losing!" A girl mocked behind her noting Serona nearly twenty lengths ahead of her.
"You'll learn why she was called the golden cloud. A parting gift from the mage you love to openly mock behind my back!" She snapped the reins as Nimbus all but fired like a bolt from a ballista, it wasn't a horse after all but a Unicorn and capable of moving faster than any simple horse. It galloped in full long strides its hair flowing as Chi-Chi tucked herself down into the saddle her legs shoving down and just holding on as she let Nimbus do most of the work.
The trail of dust fired backwards as Nimbus's hooves pounded the ground with a flurry that it was being chased by a vicious animal hunting it, the pace never slowing as it gained up the ground in lengths quickly as the town became a crest on the hill. Chi-Chi on the saddle looking daggers at the redheaded girl whose stunned expression was one of growing mortification as Nimbus pulled ahead further and further.
Hitting the town square in night startled the people of the town as a sheen of white flew around the well in the center and rounded back as another brown horse came in just as the first left. "Damn girls! Stop ruining the road!" One would shout but the riders were too engulfed in the whipping of the wind through their hair to hear.
"You're not going to beat me!" Serona screamed as she tore off the amulet around her neck and threw it behind her. She yelled out a hasty incantation at a large tree that was just ahead of Chi-Chi, her work sparked as the tree shattered at the base, the large trunk falling down in the middle of the road just ten feet ahead of Chi-Chi!
"No-!" She screamed as Nimbus was going too fast to stop." She wanted to jump but her feet locked up in place saving her life as Nimbus's blue eyes flared and the body became nearly celestial, leaving only its outline like a map of the stars, and Chi-Chi's as well as it shifted both Chi-Chi and its own plane of existence on instinct. Riding through the tree that could not touch it, before eliciting a crack of thunder as it snapped back into the material plane along with Chi-Chi whose voice was caught and she couldn't breathe.
The cursing spit from behind grew faint as the other rider had to round the tree slowing them down greatly as Chi-Chi crossed the bridge in record speed before slamming to a stop in the courtyard. Rearing up on its hind legs it neighed loudly stomping them down making the other girls scatter as it all but declared victory!
She grabbed an apple from the bowl, her finely decorated jewelry on her fingers glittered with three emeralds and sapphire ring adjoining on each hand. It was almost trivial the gifts she had been given and their value by lust driven princes and merchant, they of course could never have her. She would never find herself in another's bed for personal gain she would not lower herself to that, she was destined for great things and a little coin and gifts would never turn her from that path. Well at least one person anyway, she looked away as a knock came on her door. She didn't have to know who it was she could sense them. "Yes Mistress please come in." She did not move herself as the door opened and Tissia walked inside wearing a light green dress with a yellow top, almost gaudy in a way but it was Tissia's way or no other at times.
"Musing again our little prodigy? You've been quite distant are you sleeping alright?" Her concern was there even if her tone was not. She walked to the edge of the balcony and looked down and grimaced. The flowers were not how they should be! She would have one the girls correct that mistake before supper.
Tapping her fingers against the stone railing as she recollected her thoughts, those flowers are all wrong. She had to stop herself as she remembered why she was in Chi-Chi's room. "Ah yes Lady Margarita has a personal errand for you to run it is a simple one but needing… one of many of your great assets to help with." Meaning Chi-Chi's power, patience, charisma, and body. It wasn't something she liked to think about but it was the way of men's thinking and law no matter how wrong it was.
She smiled but really had no enjoyment from these assignments, she just wanted to go find her dragon. She wanted to, no needed to. But the limit of her internship on lady Margarita was still in effect for another two years, so denying any request of hers was impossible and disrespectful. "Of course Mistress, you can rely on me to handle any problems as always." She stood up and curtseyed in almost flawless form demonstrate her ability to be proper and formal on impulse. Her hair held back behind her back as the top of her dress exposed her chest as to be enticing but not a courtesan or a whore. Her eyes looking low until she came back up as Chi-Chi drew her hands to her lap behaving like a proper girl of the court.
Oh she had learned edification very quickly, Madam Yennefer had taught Chi-Chi her place very quickly as she had been sent to aid her at Lady Margarita's request during her schooling. Apparently she was in need of an underclassmen student for her proper spell work and a chance at her own private instruction habits. To be put mildly, Yennefer made Tissia tame by comparison of her demands and exact tone and demands of Chi-Chi while she worked for several weeks.
"We know we can Chi-Chi, you are going to Novigrad. Apparently the plague is hitting the populace hard and we need to show that we are here to help even if they don't want it. So you are going to be in the court and in the hospitals doing what we know you can do. We want to make sure that there are only better relationships between our college and Redaina by sending one of our best and brightest." Tissia said proudly smiling as Chi-Chi bowed her head in thanks of the compliment before setting about explaining the details of the rest of her instructions and informing her that really this was a vacation for her. They wanted Chi-Chi no longer cooped up and moping about like a girl in love, she needed to revitalize herself and come back ready to go but also help the poor people in the process something she was clearly an expert at with how much praises they received from the town just over the ridge about the raven queen.
He awoke with a start his hands bound tightly to the rock above him. Just what had happened, they had all been sitting there waiting for their mark to arrive. Seven lads all together should've handled on man, they had the dimertium cuffs to seal off his magic when they surprised him. In addition numbing agents applied to their weapons, it was to be a simple job but clearly it had all gone horribly wrong. Now here he was stuck in a cave, moonlight pouring from a hole in the roof and from the mouth which was nearly fifty yards away, a long sprint if he got his hands free from whatever had his hands bound tight above him but he couldn't see as they were stuck above the rock as if someone had molded it to act like a rack horizontally instead of the normal way. The fuck was going on? Where was everyone else?
"Let me go! God's let me go you fucking monster!" Screamed the voice of a man who clawed out from the darkness around him, looking to the man bound to the wall she screamed out the whites of his eyes one of pure terror for a man who was used to seeing it in those he had hunted down. "Dammit Leaks save me!" He screamed his neck straining and pleading with such an intensity that it made Leaks unnerved.
What the hell was going on? "Victor what is-!" His voice turned into a scream as well as a massive clawed hand slammed into Victor's back dragging out a horrible scream as the massive talons were bigger than a man's arm as blood shot freely from his back and then exploded from the impaled man's mouth.
"Monster." A voice laughed hauntingly as it bounced off the walls, "I'm far worse than a monster." It sneered as Victor was dragged back screaming the bloody trail left from where his body once was and where his fingers did their best to hold on but could not. "Who sent you after me! Speak human!" The voice growled as something was slammed on the ground with a wet sloshing noise as something spilled all over the floor and the screaming died down. "Hm, such a weak pile of meat he tore in half." The voice said bitterly and the ground shook slightly as something heavy moved.
Plough me! Fuckin eternal fire save my sorry arse! Leaks yanked and tore at his hands but the rock didn't even so much as budge as he could feel the skin on his wrists beginning to bleed as he twisted and pulled. His heartbeat was pounding in his ears as a he felt the moonlight that was covering him fade as a large head blocked it entirely leaving only a pair of yellow eyes looking down at him. "Oh fuck! Fuck Fuck Fuck me!" he screamed as he saw the huge hand sized teeth and longue tongue coming sliding out from the mouth. He strained hard against the bindings but stopped as a large black claw shoved into his chest painfully going in maybe an inch into his flesh.
"Stop your complaining you disgusting human, who sent you after me and I might be merciful." The large head of a dragon spoke in fluent tongue as the man bound to the wall shit himself making the dragon pull back at the stench. "Always disgusting meat bags all of you!" it snapped its jaws coming within a foot of his head. "Talk!" He roared pushing his claw into him harder and he cried out as blood began to leak from his stomach.
"I'll die if I talk!" Leaks cried out as he was being pressed over the large claw.
"He said the same thing, but who will kill you first right now?" The voice mocked him as a dragging sound came along with Victors severed corpse in half, his organs spilled over the ground in a grotesque sign of savagery. "I merely shoved a claw in and threw him, can you imagine how much worse I can make your pathetic life with fire and my teeth?"
The gruesome sight of his partner's corpse made his already worsening state of now pissing himself less notable. As the large rows of teeth and possible being burned alive by a fucking mythical dragon were not at the top of his list. He hadn't ever experienced this on this end of the interrogations but even if he talked he would end up dead but, there were always the rare chances of living…
"Dijkstra! He sent us!" Leaks croaked out and the claw pulled out of his stomach making him all but throw up as he saw the small hole exposing some of his muscle and organs. "Gods I'm going to die!" He cried as he saw the bloody mess of himself then back to his partner. Never was this the way he should die!
"If you talk you won't die. Where is he? How many others did he send after me?" His talon drew back up to underneath Leaks neck like a razor.
"Three teams, we were the second! The rest will disperse after you killed our team you are too dangerous before tomorrow morning! They don't know any more than I do, they are just orders by messenger." Leaks threw everything he knew at the large dragon who smirked and pulled his claw back.
"Who is your contact for messages, what are the code words and commands for your orders?"
Why did a Dragon need them? Why was it talking to him about them? "Owl is the call sign, with Silver tresses being the password at Crippled Kate's a whore house. In Novigrad along the docks!"
"Very good, Owls with silver tresses." Spoke a new voice as Leaks looked up and his eyes went wide and his voice stopped as he looked at himself. The black hair flatted around in a bowl cut with his heavy five o'clock shadow and grey tunic, everything except yellow eyes was him there.
"God's what are you!?" Leaks said in mortified shock as he blinked and the Dragon's grinning visage came back in sight.
"An extinct myth… just like you!"
"Please no-!"
Blood lined the underside of his jaw as he spat out the human his arms still hanging from the prison he had placed them in the rocks. Again he had nothing! No matter how many men he had killed there was no increase in information, he could only hope with meeting the contact might provide him with some much needed information. How this fool kept finding him and where he would be located at so he could tear him in half, so many years and he had gotten no further in finding Chi-Chi's pursuer's though none had found her in Aretuza or suspected she was there. "Oh well, to Novigrad it is then." He said as his massive body clawed back to the entrance of the save nearly fifty feet up a sheer cliff face and exposed over the water he would be off and in Novigrad soon, Kakarot had little time to waste but as of late that's all he had been doing.
A/N: Awww Yea-! Nope not gonna do it! You can't make me! Okay i'll do it, Yep its gonna happen soon! Don't worry you'll see how much stronger dear Chi-Chi is soon. This is more of an appetizer for the main course. Could be lemony? Could not be? Could be one poor woman ravaging a golden dragon we don't know? Or maybe them performing in a play together? Or mabye yeah i'm rambling SUE ME! please dont!
R&R MB