Notes from L.O.R: never fear my fans it is time for today's episode of the half heartless chronicles.
Will our heroes escape this mess? Will they defeat the brother hood?
Will lassie ever get timmy out of that dang well?? Read to find out..Except the lassie part…
Ch:38 : a fiery temper
"This can't be good" was the only thought in Sai's head as he watched the altercation below him as he stood motionlessly on a nearby roof top, his umbrella wrapped back up and perched on his shoulder again.
The lord of flames, Attcius, the key blade, and what appeared to be a drunken knight with a sword where in the middle of a very tense standoff. And as much as he would have loved to stay and watch, he had to go and find Riku soon. He could feel that he was close.
His departure was just as ignored as his arrival though as said group on the round below where standing perfectly still, the air thick with anticipation. And the occasional sound of Sora's breakfast deprived stomach.
"this is just too good!!" where the words floating through Harlequin's head as e he watched from a few roofs over, oddly unnoticed in his orange and black outfit with his green and white hair. His excitement was nearly uncontainable as he viewed the fruit if his labors.
"They have no clue!! The poor human fool fell right into my web, and thanks to ol' beelzy showing up like this there's bound to be some damage. So worth the work" with that he kicked back and prepared what promised to be a very interesting event.
No one moved, no one even seemed to breathe. After a whole minute of this silence it occurred to Vladimir that maybe someone should say something.
"I don't know what all this about but I think we need to clarify some things." He never let his sword so much as drop an inch, his gaze moving between Atticus, Sora, and Beelzebub.
"You, Atticus!! I am willing to hear what you have to say on your behalf if you drop your weapon now and come quietly, I promise you fair treatment." Atticus narrowed his eyes and yelled back over at the knight.
"I might be a bit more cooperative if you would tell me what you want to arrest me for."
"I thought I said it earlier when I came to arrest you first. Lewd and lascivious acts."
"And where exactly did you come up with that one Sir Vladimir" Vladimir looked surprised at this statement and stayed silent for a moment, in thought.
"Well I suppose it makes no difference right now, but seeing as you really don't know. I was altered to your crimes by the young lady here. Lily had the courage to come to me last night and tell me everything." The look of success on his face was shattered when both lily and Atticus looked at each other than to Vladimir and at the same time yelled,
"Impossible!" Atticus mused to himself for a moment before returning attention to the knight.
"She couldn't have been to see you. I know because last night we were arguing about something till late. But just to set things straight at what time did she come to see you?" Vlad scratched his head and thought.
"Well about nine in the evening." This time it was sora that spoke up.
"But she couldn't have, I remember, that's was about the point she started throwing things at Atty." Atticus rubbed a slight sore spot on his forehead.
"Don't remind me…" his resolve fading fast Vladimir looked over to Lily hiding behind the cart as if imploring her to help end this confusion. She looked over the edge and yelled over to the distraught man.
"Sorry to say it but it's true. I don't know who you talked too, but I was never there." Vladimir was dumbfounded, his vision was blurring a little, and in than several things happened in that one moment.
The first being that Beelzebub used the moment to try and reduce the number of people in the standoff twisting and throwing a kick in the air that subsequently sent a large jet of purple flames at the knight.
The second thing to happen in that moment was both Atticus and Sora rushing forward as Atticus dove at Vladimir and Sora tossed the key blade at the fire bug.
The next thing to happen thing to happen was several thumping noises as Atticus tackled Vladimir to the ground out of the way of the fire blast, and then the key blade being sent back at Sora in a single flash of fists as Beelzebub turned with lightning reflexes deflecting the weapon of light back at its user. All of this happening in a split second.
By the time it was all over, Beelzebub was gone, Sora was sporting a head ach from the key blade hitting him in the head, and Atticus was helping Sir Vladimir to sit down on a nearby barrel. Lily came out from her hiding place and stood beside the two as they were tending to the shell shocked knight.
"This is really weird, and I don't know what just happened… but now I know that I sure as heck just can't stay here knowing you two are facing something like that." Atticus turned to her, no agitation on his face, but concern.
"No lily, that's the reason you can't come with us. You saw what that guy could do, and there are worse than him out there." Lily wasn't going for it though as she put her hands on her hips and gave Atticus an indignant look.
"No way, you don't have much of a choice. Remember you dragged me this far, and if you leave me behind I will tell everyone about you." Sora was waving his hands in a panic to quite her in front of Vladimir, but he wasn't really paying attention to anything, his face glazed over in a tired daze. Atticus sighed in defeat and just shook his head.
"Fine but if you get killed it's your own fault." He turned to Vladimir and gently placed a hand on the knights shoulder.
"Sir Vladimir? Are you okay?" the knight looked up, pulled from his stupor and nodded his head.
"Good" (WHAP!!-thump) Vladimir went down fast as the blunt end of Atticus's spear made contact with his head.
"Why did you do that!!" both lily and Sora shouted in unison.
"He would have followed us otherwise, besides he'll be fine, I think. Now grab your stuff and lets go, we have a lot of ground to cover." Without another word he turned and bean to leave, and soon Sora and lily were on either side of him as they made their way out of town, and into the wilderness.
………….
"DAMMIT!!" Harlequin stomping up and down on the roof top, his eyes bulging and bloodshot, but his grin still never sinking, as if propped up by staples.
"They were supposed to kill each other. I set it up perfectly and it still went wrong!! This is your fault!" he took up the bundle on his back and shook it till a mask feel out, and one of his puppets assembled itself from out of it in the usual fashion, It was a perfect replica of lily.
"Why didn't it work? I did it all right" he began angrily kicking the puppet till its face shattered and crumpled into a pile at his feet. His eyes still angry and red, while the rest of his panted face didn't move, as if it was as fake as the makeup he wore.
And still as he yelled and swore, his smile never faltered.
Not once.
(in the forests)
"So you found him like this? Unconscious on the ground?" Jade was finally more composed, his/her makeup cleaned and redone.
Sai simply nodded and lay the sleeping form of Riku down on the ground. He had found him with no incident and brought him back at lightning speed, unnoticed.
"So now what jade?" as if in answer Tao suddenly perked up from his usual spot on the ground and with drew a tiny crystal from his pocket, it was vibrating and soon a faint light emanated from it till the image if their boss, father fang came to life in front of them.
"Report the status of the mission, I am getting restless with all the silence from your end." He stared at he group with cold eyes in expectation. Both Sai and Tao pushed Jade forward at the same time and quickly looked away as they left their brother to face the cold gaze of fang.
"Well…… some stuff happened….and the weather has been good….no to mention we almost caught Beelzebub, and are preparing to pursue just when you called sir….and" the transparent image of fang put his hand up to silence him.
"Shut up. I know that you failed in the capture. And I also know that you had to fetch my little prince back. I told you to keep him close." Even though it was just a faint image they could tell he was mad. Very mad.
"Abort the mission, I had allowed him to go out of pity for his impatiens but it seems that was a mistake, I need to keep him where I can watch him myself. I am sending a ship for you immediately." The image faded and the three of them stood shivering slightly.
"Well….that wasn't so bad."
"Shut up Sai"
"Sorry jade"
(back at the halfheart headquarters )
Fang slammed his fist down on his desk, disrupting an hour glass and sending it to the ground where it shattered, sending sand and glass everywhere. He ignored it and went to a small mirror he kept in his bedroom, he looked himself over carefully. From every golden hair to his flawless skin and eyes.
How ugly he looked to himself.
His straight shining teeth, his full ruby lips that made both men and woman want to kiss him. The silky hand that could caress with gentleness unknown to humans.
How rough and jagged he felt to himself.
The perfect figure of his body in its lace and frills, the body that could fit perfectly against any one else in a sensual dance or loving embrace.
How he wanted to rip it in two and reveal the beast that he was inside, just once too look in the mirror and see what he really looked like. His own body felt like a second skin over him, a heavy coat he was being forced to wear, while his real face was hidden within.
"Soon….. very soon, I will have my real face, the face of a god. No more of this human mockery. Yes soon I will be free, I just need to complete the puzzle, and bring all my precious, children to me. Soon…. So very, very soon."
(back with our heroes…and lily)
"So where are we going again?" this was the tenth time lily had asked and it was begging to burn at Atticus.
"North, just north. That's all she wrote. No more, so stop asking."
"fine…(sigh) so what are we looking for?"
"A heart."
"this really doesn't tell me anything"
"I Know" Sora was starting to get bored with them arguing and had gone to looking at everything around him, the whole open space of the fields was pretty, but it felt to...exposed. he was so used to closed spaces lately, and with the whole trying to survive, things that would have been beautiful where dangerous, open fields, the comforts of a town, even a camp fire to warm the night, could bring danger upon them from heartless and halfhearts alike.
"Wow, I'm getting paranoid. I really need to clear my head or I won't be able to focus. Today has to be the suckest day ever. But..at least where getting somewhere now." Suddenly a thought hit him.
"hey guys, umm I just thought of something. How are we gonna get past the north border if it's all guarded and stuff if we can't even go into a town considering we are pretty much criminals now. What with knocking out sir Vladimir and "kidnapping" lily."
Both lily and Atticus looked at each other for a moment and then to Soras surprise began to laugh.
"we have been thinking the same thing, but me and lily figured it out while ago. I guess we forgot to tell You. the north border is still some ways off. So we have time to think ion that one. But as for towns and such…" the odd light that filled both lily's and Atticus's eyes was almost spooky in the fact at how similar they seemed at that moment.
With out knowing why Sora stepped back from the both of them.
"Ummm, Guys? What are you thinking…?" slowly atticus withdrew a small scroll from his pockets and lily just smiled al the brighter
"I already think seeing as lily knows I can do magic, that we don't have to be quite so discreet, so her and me had an idea."
"Okay…say isn't that the thing you used to disguise us."
"Yep, sure is"
"what are you going to do Atticus?" there was a slight tremor in Soras voice.
"Well…. We are probably wanted now, or that is to say one man, a boy and a young girl, are wanted. We just have to make sure they don't find, a man , a boy, and a young girl. Heheheheh"
"wait…a minute…ATTICUS!! No way I don't know what you're thinking but no!!"
In an instant both lily and atticus had grabbed him, and before he could argue the scroll was in the air and light shrouded them. When the smoke cleared All Sora could do was stare, this was so not right.
"Atticus..lily"
"Yes Sora?"
"I hate you both for this" Soar angrily tugged at the edge of his new disguise, as both lily and Atticus blushed at the scene in front of them.
Sora's hair was down again, but not straight like before, it was slightly fluffed, and the rest of him was in a red skirt that went to his ankles, and his boots where now replaced with a pair of buckled shoes
"I….really….hate you…both…for this"
End chapter 38
Notes from loss: HAHHAHAHAHAHHAH!! That's right, I went there. I went there bought a t-shirt and brought it back. We knew it was coming. The power to change clothes and two people that have all the reason in the world to see sora in a dress, yea…we knew it was coming.