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Give a Dragon Slayer a Rose: Chapter 3
The Boy is mine
The digimon meandered through the crowed until he found his friend. Skully was jumping up and down trying to see over the crowed what was going on. She stopped and turned to her friends.
"how did a digimon get in my story."
"I don't know. You wrote it." Li said.
"hey where'd Draven go?"
"to get something."
"get what? What's she doing here anyway… I thought I this was for Zaibach and Dragon Slayer fans only."
"do I have to remind you that Draven is your Frister." Li said plainly. Skully blushed at her ignorance.
"heh heh, oh yeah…"
"Skulleeeeeeeeee!!" SkullyCat and Li looked towards the door again. Draven stood there she looked out of breath. "okay! Come here, stand right on the X." the author obeyed.
"um… Draven what am I doing?" Skully looked nervous.
"shhht! Wait!" she backed up. Then smiled and laughed evilly. "okay NOW!"
A pile of red roses dumped from somewhere above onto the author. She squeaked and dug her way to the top.
"ow! Woah! Where'd all these come from?"
"I got them for you! Five-hundred-and twelve red roses for my Frister!" Skully emerged from the pile and hugged her friend fiercely.
"thank you!!!!!" she smiled and looked at Li. "you are lucky to have my Frister for your girlfriend. She's choosy ya know."
"Skully!"
"but a great person!" the author said quickly. Draven smiled that charming smile of hers then stalked off to give roses to all the dragon slayers and Folken. Li stared after her admiringly. Skully watched from her pile of roses, she knew that people were only aloud to give one rose… but stopping Draven was impossible.
A girl walked into the room and first looked at Li then at Skully lounging in a pile of roses then at the other people milling about. She had long straight blonde hair and blue-green eyes. Her pants looked western and a white tank top. She had a cowboy hat and a big gold feather in the brim of it. She was tall and muscular looking. She edged around the crowed until she spotted Dalet. He was talking to Gatti and Migel. A girl with black and wine red hair said something to him then disappeared off into the people. She approached him and smiled shyly.
"hey."
"hello. I'm guessing you know my name seeing everyone here seems too." He laughed kindly. The girl smiled.
"yes, well my name is GoldenEagle I brought you a valentine's gift. After all that's what this is all about." She handed him a beautiful Morning glory. He stared at it.
"it's pretty. Kinda like you."
"you shouldn't flirt with all the girls Dalet." Migel chuckled and lead Gatti off. Dalet offered his hand to the girl.
"would you except my offer to dance?" she blushed.
"with pleasure!" and he lead her onto what had become the dance floor. Everyone moved away, letting them have the floor. Apparently no one had thought of slow dancing yet. They danced and she intertwined their fingers. When the song ended she pulled him aside tracing the lines of his palm.
"thank you for dancing with me."
"you're welcome." She brought his palm up to her mouth and kissed it softly. He looked enchanted. At that moment Meliae pushed her way through the crowed.
"Dal-" she stopped and glared at the new girl her dark eyes narrowing.
The music faded in and out and the lights flickered. People seemed uneasy and searched the darkness with their eyes. blue and black lights snowed down from nowhere pooling together into a white glow. The glow grew and took shape until the form of a young woman appeared. The light burst then disappeared and everything went back to normal. A woman was there, she wore a sliver dress that flowed like water on her form. Her hair was dark brown almost like her eyes, it was long, cascading down her shoulders and back.
A few of the dragon slayers gripped the hilts of their swords ready for an attack. The young woman smiled kindly and stepped forward. They took a step back. Draven pushed her way through the crowed. She looked at the sorceress and raised an eyebrow.
"oh come on you guys! Don't be scared!" she smiled kindly at the stranger. "you here for the valentine's get together?"
"Yes I am!" she laughed softly and folded her hands in front of her.
"great! Who ya looking for?" Draven stopped and blushed. She laughed and said, "Oh silly me! How rude, my name is Draven. I'm SkullyCat's, she's the author, anyway I'm her Frister, ya know friend-sister? So yeah, I'm just helping out here!" she smiled again.
"I'm Empress Kitanane, but please call me Katy!"
"well then who are you looking for-" Draven stopped and turned to glare at everyone. "what!? Haven't you ever seen someone materialize out of no where! Come on its rude stare! Get back to dancing and enjoying yourselves!" the slayers and fans looked sheepishly around then continued doing what then had been doing.
"I'm looking for Dilandau-sama!" Katy said. She followed as Draven led her through the crowed to the raised throne. Dilandau was leaning back listening to the music. He acknowledged her with a nod of his head.
"who are you? Are you the one who caused the music and lights to waver?
"yes, I apologize for that! Sometimes I forget to hold all of my power in and a little get loose and messes with the surrounding objects." She curtsied politely and smiled up at him. "as it is a day for love, flowers and gifts I brought you a rose." She stepped up to him and handed him a black rose with a blue rim. He fingered it sliding his fingers down the stem and over the black thorns. One of the cut him and he grinned.
"why thank you, what did you say your name was."
"I didn't, it's Kitanane. But my friends call me Katy."
"thank you Kitanane…hmmm." He licked his lips. "your name feels nice on my tongue." He laughed and she blushed scarlet. Dilandau's black gloved hand swept under the girl's chin and tilted up her face. He leaned close and kissed her cheek with feather softness. She blushed and averted her eyes. He enjoyed making her uncomfortable, watching her blush under his gaze. He finally released her from his grasp and sat back down.
"go now beautiful lady. Dance and enjoy this festive occasion." She smiled and nodded to him walking off into the crowd.
"hmmm… this looks like the right place! Yep this is it!" the girl that walked in smiled happily as she entered the throne room, rose in hand. She wore her dark brown hair up in a loose bun with a tail of dark hair down in a ponytail. Her dark blue eyes were laughing. She was dressed in flared jeans and an elbow length white blouse, there was a blue flower imprinted on it. Over that she wore a sky blue vest.
As she walked she nearly tripped over SkullyCat who was lying on the floor pulling thorns from her tail. Luckily Li had been there to warn the girl.
"thanks so much!" she said to the dark haired boy. To the author she said. "sorry 'bout that I didn't see you. The cat girl looked annoyed.
"I know… busy staring at the beautiful Dilly-sama." She sighed. "why? Why do I write such things…" the girl looked around nervously a drip forming on the back of her head.
"uh, yeah… I was looking for Dilandau." She smiled trying to change the subject. "I'm Lady Destiny! But you guys can call me Lady Dee!"
"*sigh* …sure, go on now." Skully opened one eye and watched her leave then continued to pick thorns from her tail.
"Lord Dilandau!" Lady Destiny bowed her head as she ran up to him. She grinned and handed him a blue rose with silver and white streaks. He inspected it and smiled.
"I love these flowers, no other flower is so beautiful and painful all in one…" the girl watched him fidgeting for a moment. Then she flung her arms around him and kissed his cheek. Dilandau blinked then managed to focus again and half-heartedly pushed her off of him. He chuckled to himself then laughed outright.
"You woman are so odd! I suppose I should thank you." He laughed again. "enjoy the dance and music while you can." Dee giggled and skipped down to check out the rest of the dragon slayers.
"What are you doing?" Meliae narrowed her eyes and glared at GoldenEagle.
"I'm was dancing with Dalet that's what." Golden was irritated by this girl's rude interruption.
"You kissed him!"
"So! he's not yours!" Meliae looked surprised her wine red streaks caught the light as her black hair jerked with her sudden movement.
"Well he's not yours either…" she said quietly. The two girls glared at each other angrily. Dalet looked at both of them of them and Migel came up behind the handsome slayer.
"Whatcha going to do now big shot?" he chuckled and danced off.
"Now girls there's plenty of-"
"SHUT UP DALET!" the girls said in union. Lightning crackled between the two girls and they continued to glare at each other. SkullyCat approached carefully.
"umm… please… fighting is baaaad! Violence is baaaad!!" both girls turned their icy glares at the author. She froze and fell over. "owie."
"GRRRRRR!!" They continued to glare, people backed away from them. Finally Meliae stopped, Golden blinked puzzled. The dark hair girl smiled evilly and ran over throwing her arms around Dalet and kissing his lips. Dalet didn't know what to do, he could feel the Texan girl burning a hole through him with her eyes. Meliae turned and smiled winsomely at Golden. The taller girl tackled Meliae.
"CAT FIGHT!" Someone called. Skully crawled out from under everyone. She got to the doorway and lay there.
"What's going on over there?" Dilandau asked Jajuka.
"It appears that two of the girls have gotten into a fight over Dalet."
"Is someone stopping them?"
"No Dilandau."
"Good!" he laughed and poured himself some wine.
Draven sighed she was wrapped in Li's arms. She giggled and leaned against him looking down at Skully. Skully looked half-tramped and half-frozen, with thorns in her tail and leaves in her hair. Draven giggled again.
"Skully you're so silly!" she inhaled deeply. "Li you smell soooo good. Like cinnamon…"
a smiling face appeared in front of Skully. Her pale blue eyes widened. The face she was staring at had two brown braids and green eyes. She grinned at Skully showing little fangs.
"T'Chebbi!" Skully somehow managed to jump up and hug her other Frister. "What are you doing here!!!" T'chebbi another cat girl managed to peel away SkullyCat.
"I came to say hi! Look who I brought," she stepped aside and reviled a tall guy. Skully didn't know how she hadn't noticed him before, he was taller than six feet and looked very kind and gentle. He had wild brown hair and soft light brown eyes. He was wearing a dark blue school uniform.
"Makoto-chan!!" she hugged him and jumped up and down. "wow what are you guys doing here!" she smiled happily. T'chebbi stood by her best friend, she looked so small beside him.
"We brought you something!"
"More roses?" Skully looked at the pile that Draven had given her. T'chebbi was looking at Draven and Li fawning over each other with little kisses and smiles, she looked sick. She looked back at Skully.
"No, this!" she held out a solid black, shining, gloss coated – frying pan!!
"Eeeeeek!! My frying pan!! Oh where have you been!!!" she hugged it fiercely. "No one can defeat me now!!
Dilandau was trying to act like he didn't know who the cat-girl striking poses with a frying pan was. He shook his head.
Skully turned to look at the crowd around the fight. She narrowed her eyes.
"This game is over!" with that Skully leap into the air stepping across people's heads to reach the center where Meliae and Golden were fighting. She jumped down on them frying pan in hand. "checkmate!" she twirled and bashed them both with the pan. They stopped and stared at her rubbing their heads.
"What was that for?" Golden asked.
"Ouch, that hurt…" Meliae said.
"You two were fighting over Dalet! He's not a possession. You can share him! Besides you're being loud." She slung the pan over her shoulder and strode away. The two girls looked at each other and Golden make crazy signals towards Skully's back. Meliae laughed.
"Well I'm over being mad." Meliae said. "Wow. That got rid of all my stress."
"Yeah! You have a strong punch." Golden said touching her cheek. Dalet looked from one to the other. Migel came up behind him with Pizazz beside him. Gatti and Sabby came up on his other side. Dalet looked at them.
"Don't say anything!" he walked over to them. "Would you girls like a drink?" they nodded and he disappeared off to get them something. The crowd once again dispersed and continued dancing and talking. Skully went to chat with her Fristers and their friends. Folken and Aiko were talking, Lady Dee and Katy were talking about Dilandau with Refina, Reb was watching Sakuli sing more songs. Shakaku had disappeared somewhere and Chesta was trying to find her.