"A Little More Than Kin..."
By: Crystalis Blade
Chapter 5
Edgar was asleep on his back still in his clothes on his bed with a mass of cape next to him when the chancellor rushed in.
"Edgar! Wake up! Do you have any idea what time it is?!?" Edgar shot his eyes open and sat straight up,
"Huh? Whawhat?" The chancellor continued.
"You must get up and ready, the Imperial ambassador has been spotted on the horizon!" Edgar closed and rubbed his eyes and flopped back on his bed,
"So"
"And to make matters worse, I can't find your brother. So get up!" Edgar finally opened his eyes and said,
"What are you talking about?"
"No one can find Sabin!" Edgar rolled his head to the left and laughed as the chancellor became angry. "I'm glad someone finds this funny." Edgar grabbed part of his cape that was next to him and flipped it off to reveal his brother asleep on his side with his back to Edgar.
"Hey, Sab. Get up. We gotta go," Edgar said shaking Sabin who moaned and slapped Edgar away. "Nowthose Imperial guys are just about here."
"So," Sabin mumbled grabbing for Edgar's cape. "I'm cold."
"Sabin Rene and Edgar Roni Figaro, get out of that bed this instant," the chancellor snapped and the two brothers sat up at attention and together yelled,
"Hey! Don't use my middle name!!"
The chancellor laughed at the brothers and said, "then get up," and he left. The two rolled their eyes and then realized,
"Shit! We gotta go! Dad'll kill us," Edgar yelled flying off the bed as his brother followed. Sabin bolted to the door and Edgar asked, "where are you going!?!"
"Clothes are a good thing," he yelled back as he ran across the sand to his room.
Liam was on watch on the battlements again and saw Sabin briskly haul to his room. He yelled,
"Run Sab, run!!!" He laughed to himself as Sabin smiled and waved back, "guess the chancellor found you twoagain."
Sabin was weaving and dodging through the crowds. He made it to his room and ripped off his shirt and began to dig through his closet.
"Come on, come on Dammit! Where is it," Sabin yelled. "Ah!" He pulled out a nice pair of slacks, a white collared shirt, vest and cape; he noticed his dress boots in the corner. He quickly changed but found a problem; the shirt was too small.
"Greatjust great," he said throwing up his arms and rolling his eyes. He was totally dressed and ready to go, hair and all, except for the shirt. So, he decided to haul back to Edgar's room. He grabbed his cape and vest and went out the door. Liam saw him running again,
"Man, he must be in shape."
Sabin burst through the door to find his brother doing the same thing: frantically dressing. Edgar was standing by the mirror buttoning his shirt down when he asked,
"What is it?"
"I need a shirt," Sabin said holding up his old one.
"Why?"
"This one's too small, I need one of yours."
Edgar turned around with a puzzled look in his face.
"Well," Sabin asked in a rush. Edgar walked over to him and looked him up and down and posed,
"Are you really that big? I mean," he circled his brother and then flipped him around and stood back to back with him. Sabin all the while stood in amazement and wonder at what his brother was trying to do. Edgar, standing with his back to his brother smiled, "well, I'll be"
"Just gimmie the shirt, Eddy." Edgar stepped away to his closet and yanked out a white shirt for his counterpart.
"Thank you," Sabin said putting the shirt on; it fit perfectly and Edgar smiled.
Both Sabin and Edgar finished dressing; tossing on their capes, Edgar, his boots, Sabin his vest. Then Edgar checked his clock,
"Sab! We're late!"
Sabin glanced at the clock, too. "Ahhh!!! Let's go!" The two flew out the room and across the sands. The bolted through the crowds of people. Edgar of course, stopped a couple times.
"Hello, ladies," he smiled at them as Sabin ran past. After a few feet he realized that his brother was behind him and turned around to see Edgar conversing with two girls who shyly spoke to him. He rolled his eyes and ran back. He grabbed his brother's arm and said with the most amiable smile he could conjure up,
"Sorry." Edgar cocked his head smiled as his brother dragged him off. In the mean time, on watch Liam gave call down to the gate keepers,
"Imperial escorts approaching northern front." He laughed to himself because knew that his friends weren't ready to present themselves and the ambassadors were entering the castle.
The two brothers continued to haul to the throne room. The slammed through the side door and rushed in to find their father in his throne chair and the chancellor pacing the room. The two took position; Edgar in the chair left of his father and Sabin standing to the right of the king. The king cleared his throat and smiled,
"Crowns?" Edgar hit his forehead with the heel of his hand and ran down the stairs to the chancellor who stood holding the two thin silver head bands. Edgar grabbed both of them and tossed on to Sabin who had stepped down a little. They each put on their "collars" (as they so enjoyed calling them) and Edgar then ran back and stood next to his father with his left arm on the top of the chair as his brother stood next to him with his arms behind his back. They both stood at attention, straight facedand panting. The kings grin got even wider as he looked at the two.
"Are you two quite finished?"
The guards looked around the pillars and began to laugh at them. Even the king and chancellor joined in. Sabin looked as his brother and laughed,
"I think that's a new record for us."
Edgar laughed back, "yeah. I think it was seven minutes." Suddenly the sound of the throne room's door hinges broke the mirth. Everyone reassumed their positions and looked dead on to the door.
Three men walked in.
Author's Note: Sabin and Edgar and other characters belong to Squaresoft, except Liam and so forth, they belong to me, btw, what do you think?
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