BloodyPinkRose - Sorry kinda late right, ah well it's here now, so enjoy yeah. DONT OWN KKM!
Chapter Fourteen: Questions, fun and games
"Why are you here?" Gwendal asked his voice deep and hard. The woman didn't even look up from her bonds but she was awake and she was fully conscious of what was going on. This cell was one of the coldest they had.
One specially designed to break in those that wouldn't provide the information needed, perhaps it was too soon for him to have put the young woman there but he was tired, he was tired of having to sit around and wait for these people to do what was needed of them.
He needed results and they didn't have time to be skirting around because some pathetic fool wouldn't cooperate with him. He sighed and leant against the side of the cell, his eye was hurting, and he was tired and irritable.
"Why won't you speak, you are aware that you could be taken in and killed for treason, all you have to do is state your purpose for being here and then we will release you" he tried to comfort but by the way she stiffened it had the opposite effect.
"My name is Velma …" she started quietly but she didn't give anymore to him, Gwendal clenched his fist tight, he didn't care for her name that wasn't why she was there and besides Yuuri had already provided her name.
"I don't know why I am here, I was back home then I was here, I felt a terrible pain but someone told me that I didn't have to worry and that everything was going to be alright and then nothing. I woke up in here with your looming shadow hanging over me and demanding things that clearly have nothing to do with you" she sniffed glaring up at him her eyes glaring.
"Gwendal why don't you let me try?" Conrad suggested from the door to the cell, his brother didn't so much as look at him, Gwendal just grunted and moved past him. He noticed Yozak in the corner but whatever he was doing there Gwendal didn't care.
"You are the one in company with Keenan and Adalbert aren't you?" Conrad asked and she nodded, Yozak moved closer to the cell so that he could study her, he was usually good at telling if someone was lying or not.
"I just want to go back home, I haven't done anything wrong, I don't even know why I am here, someone just bring me Adalbert and let me home" she told them, she looked confused at best as if she really didn't know what was going on.
"Conrad, she is telling the truth she really doesn't know why we are here and even … why she is here" Yozak frowned and Conrad cocked an eyebrow but wasn't yet ready to leave her, he had three more questions to ask her.
"Do you know of Shinou?" he asked ignoring the slight look he received from Yozak, they had all agreed that no one would know of the Original King being around but if Adalbert was going to be coming that guy would definitely catch on.
"Of course I do, do you really think I could be around Adalbert without him having telling us of his people's beginnings, who do you think I am!" she demanded indignantly and Conrad smiled and held up his hands in surrender.
Looks like she really was a feisty one, she had obviously just been confused to begin with and that along with Gwendal's overpowering manner it was enough to make anyone defensive and scared, it wasn't his fault he seemed to have a soft presence.
"Fine then, did you know that he had a twin?" he asked leading on to the more important of his questions, when he was met with a blank face he just sighed. That was another dead end; she didn't know what he was talking about.
"What do these questions have to do with me?" she demanded, her eyes maddened and harsh, she was sick of all this playing around she wanted them to untie her and let her go home, either that or for them to send call for Adalbert to come get her.
"You attacked Shinou's twin and we don't know why you did so, that is why I am asking these of you" Conrad finally explained and before the woman could attempt to bite his head off Yozak stepped in, it was cold and he wasn't particularly in the mood to be there.
"He is at the moment not in a state of mind to tell us what we need to know; therefore the duty lies to you to help us. Until you decide to cooperate we will leave you here. In the mean time I will have a messenger to scout for Von Grantz" he told her before grabbing Conrad's shoulder and leaving the dungeons.
"I don't think that she is hiding anything, I really do believe that she doesn't understand what is going on and what she is doing there" Conrad pondered and Yozak shrugged, he didn't really care, no one seemed to be in any danger.
She was locked in the dungeon, Shinou was getting a little TLC from his boy and Yuudai was on a one way ticket to a loony bin. Conrad sent him a look of warning but didn't open his mouth, he couldn't help it but this was worrying to him.
Too many secrets were looming around; they weren't going to get anywhere if no one stated what they knew.
Yozak sent Conrad a sideward glance and sighed, stopping in his tracks. "For now there is truly nothing we can do, neither of them are talking even if this wizard doesn't know how she got here surely she could have pulled something up for us" he tried to soothe.
Conrad looked a little beaten but nodded.
He was a little startled when arms wrapped around him but he sighed in appreciation it wasn't often that Yozak came into close intimate contact with him when they could be under public view quite easily. His eyes slid closed and he leaned into the contact.
This warmth soothed him greatly.
"It surprises me that the others haven't yet caught on to the fact that we are together and have been for a little while" Yozak chuckled huskily and Conrad made a small noise of affirmative, it had surprised him especially considering Gwendal was normally so sharp he saw through things like that.
"You would actually be pretty surprised" came a giggle from the side, it was almost comical how quickly the two sprung apart and whipped their heads to see who had spoken when they saw the blue eyed blonde they relaxed slightly.
The most he would do was tease them.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Yozak questioned and Shinou shrugged and took another bite of his apple before pushing off the wall he was leaning on, he truly did love pushing people together and messing with their heads.
"Whatever you take it to mean, I'm guessing that the wizard didn't talk?" he asked and Conrad shook his head but indicated that what she had told them wasn't very helpful, Shinou nodded; well at least he had a name to help.
"Well all I got from Yuudai was the name Winny apart from that he has been pretty vacant, if Daikenja happens to come along this way tell him I said he hasn't had enough rest yet" the mysterious first king grinned before he continued to walk past them throwing his half eaten apple into the air and catching it again.
"Wait! How do you know he will even come back this way?" Conrad called after him and he was gifted with another mischievous giggle, Yozak and Conrad exchanged confused looks.
"He will" was the vague reply before he was gone.
"What goes on in that guy's head?" Yozak complained and Conrad smiled at him and shook his head, he didn't even think that Murata could answer that and they had known each other for such a long time.
"Let's just go and ask if she knows who Winny is"
"So you're back so soon, how lucky for me to be in a room with such gentlemen that can't get enough of me" the woman spoke sarcastically and Yozak refrained himself from grabbing Conrad and kissing the life out of him just to show her how much they 'couldn't get enough of her'
"I have one more question" Conrad stated and she rolled her eyes,
"One more question, one more question. It is always one more question with you people, why don't you just let me go!" she demanded eyes blazing and Conrad narrowed his eyes, she was actually starting to get on his nerves too.
"If you want to get out of here then I suggest you answer all the 'one more questions' we have. If you don't you may wish that you did when you are killed along with the rest of us" he snapped. Yozak sent him a worried look and Velma refused to look at him.
"What do you want of me?" she asked, her voice oddly subdued as if she had realised that the only way she was going to gain freedom was to help them out. They hadn't hurt her so she didn't really have any reason to be giving them lip.
"Who is Winny to you?" as soon as the name left Conrad's lips, Velma's eyes widened and she looked at him in shock. Almost as if she couldn't believe that he had just spoken the word, almost as if it were taboo.
"I don't know any Winny" she muttered her eyes darting to the corner of the room before looking between the two again. Conrad and Yozak didn't even need one of Anissina's truth machines to know she was lying.
"Winny is Velma's ancestor, a great grandmother or such and she is a taboo in their family" the three all looked behind to see Gunter and Murata standing at the door. Yozak whistled, Shinou hadn't been joking; the sage definitely didn't look rested.
"How did you-" Velma began,
"She also happened to be a real Witch and she wasn't human, her power came from within like Yuudai, she didn't use the Esoteric stones. She was a friend of Yuudai's but she betrayed him for the humans because she began to lack trust in his methods" the sage told them.
"I just wanted to let you know that a scout has left to find Adalbert for you" Gunter explained before he left them all to it, he still had to find Gwendal and find out what was eating him, he was acting pretty strange.
"When she died she handed down her soul, preserved in a necklace. She was so powerful that she was able to take over the body of those in possession of her necklace until now, she is really finally gone. Gunter examined Velma's necklace and her soul has been released. Yuudai killed her" Murata almost looked pained to say it
Velma's eyes widened as if she didn't know what to say, of course she had known that her ancestor was with her at all times. The two of them could communicate and now she was gone. The wizard hung her head not wanting them to see her tears.
"I guess we should leave" Conrad suggested seeing the tiny tear droplets hit the concrete floor with a resounding dripping sound. The other two nodded and they stepped outside the cell and locked it before moving towards the stairs moving up into the castle.
"What were you doing down here anyways your eminence?" Yozak asked curiously.
Murata snapped his fingers, that was the other reason for him going down there, "I was looking for Shinou it is time for his afternoon nap" the sage smiled a little embarrassed when he realised how ridiculous it might have sounded.
Conrad smiled softly at the shorter male whilst Yozak snorted.
"Well that answers how he would know to come to the dungeon" Yozak stated dryly and Murata looked confused.
"What do you mean?"
"Well who told you to look down here?" Conrad asked and Daikenja furrowed his eyebrows,
"Shinou did, I woke up and he was gone all I had was a note sending me to Doria to ask a sheet change, she told me to go to Sangria, to get a new fruit bowl, she told me to go to Gunter where we pieced together some things then he told me to go to the dungeons so what's the catch this time?" he asked.
Conrad sweat dropped and smiled, scratching the back of his head.
"He said 'tell him he hasn't had enough rest yet' does that mean something?" he asked and the Sages eyes glowed in anger, he could just imagine Shinou giggling like a little boy having set up this little trick. The idiot was back in their room.
Nevertheless he smiled sweetly at the duo, a vein popping out of his head before he walked, fairly quickly in the direction of their bedroom. The two could only guess as soon as he was out of their sights he would be charging down corridors.
"You wouldn't think that those two would be such a perfect couple with the way they act, would you?" Yozak asked swinging an arm around Conrad's shoulders and the brunette only smiled at him as they made their way to Conrad's room.
"How about this dress?" Cheri grinned handing another dress to Wolfram as he came out in an overly puffy white dress. Yuuri didn't envy him as he sat in a nearby chair and quietly chortled to himself, he knew the blonde would get him back later.
"No more white dresses mother!" the blonde bit out his emerald eyes burning and Cheri only waved an arm in dismissal, white was just too good a colour for him not to wear one. Besides what other colour would he wear?
Cream made him look so sickly and blues, reds and greens were just too bold. Peaches, lavenders and periwinkles just weren't right. blacks, slivers and golds were just too wrong to mention. It had to be white; she wouldn't allow any other colour.
"But Wolfie no other colour is special enough for you, I want your day to be perfect, right Yuuri. You know what I mean, after all a mother only wants happiness for her son doesn't she?" Cheri argued looking back at Yuuri to back her up.
Yuuri looked between Cheri's puppy face and Wolfram's 'I'm going to eat your face' look and just gulped, he didn't want to even say a word fearing what the other would do to him if he said something they didn't like.
"Well why don't you go with ivory? It isn't quite white but it is as close to white as you can get without being white" Shinou smiled poking his head around the door. The three inhabitants of the room blinked at him but made no comment.
He shrugged and winked before he continued on his way to his and Murata's room.
Cheri thought about it for a while, ivory, ivory ivory. Not quite white yet not cream to make him sickly. She squealed and her eyes turned to love hearts. She officially loved the Original king, he was sooo smart!
"Ivory it is!" she grinned.
Wolfram and Yuuri both let out a big sigh of relief, they didn't even want to know what would have happened had she decided that she hated it.
"Doria, Sangria, Lasagna, we need ivory dresses! PRONTO!!" Cheri yelled at the top of her voice causing both boys to wince and cover their ears. She grinned gleefully; this would be one of the finest weddings that Shin Makoku had ever seen.
Shinou whistled as he walked into the room, the curtains were drawn and the lights were off, he smiled to himself as he saw a shadow move on the floor but pretended he hadn't seen it as he closed the door and walked more into the room.
"You little snake!"
Shinou made a little noise when he was pounced on and knocked face down to the bed, "May I ask why you are calling me a snake Azalea?" he asked but it was muffled against the covers he was face down against.
"How could you? Why did you lead me on such a hunt just to make me come back here?" Murata asked a little hurt as he continued to straddle the blonde's chest but allowed him to turn around so he could actually hear him.
"I was bored" Shinou shrugged and when he saw Murata raise his hand to hit him he quickly changed his tune, "You keep telling me that I need to slow down so I did, I was simply getting you to do everything I had to do today while getting some fun out of it"
Murata sighed and leaned forward to hug Shinou, sometimes he didn't know whether he wanted to laugh or kill the guy. He snuggled closer when he felt the blonde wrap his arms around him, he felt safe when they were like this.
"Shin you need to rest and stop playing around" Murata ordered but it was weak.
Shinou rolled his eyes; the other was so much of a worry wart. He was acting like he was going to kneel over and die any second. Shinou may not have years left to go but he certainly had months and it wasn't like he was throwing Majutsu around yet.
"Azalea, I am truthfully fine, when I am not well I promise you I will rest. All you are doing is chasing me around and making yourself tired. I promise you that I am well as of present", Murata looked up at him and smiled with a nod.
"Well that is certainly a large relief, the next thing I was going to take away was our coupling, can't have you dying in the middle of an orgasm now can I?" he chirped.
"Daikenja!"