Author's Note: No, this will not become a full-fledged lemon, but Colubra does use her knowledge to get pretty close. But I'm not like that, so it won't turn out like that. I think I'll have to change the rating…
Dedicated to: Melody
Wish
Chapter nine: New Name
Dilandau had left before I became conscious. I didn't remember anything after the hospital. These sorcerers knew what they were doing; they had both me and Colubra telling all yet not remembering a thing. I knew that Dilandau's visit the night before had to have something to do with them, they were playing with our fates, Dilandau's, and mine but I could no longer do anything. I could only watch.
Colubra was working out; she had adrenaline that couldn't just be sufficed by punching a sack or a dummy.
"Twenty nine, thirty." And set the weights down above her, the eighty-pound bench press helped distract her from her uneasiness. As she sat up, Chesta gingerly approached her from behind.
"S-Sara?" He asked, they had become so/so friends, and the only dragonslayor that she talked too, yet he still felt nervous around her, since she was probably stronger than he was.
"My name is Colubra." She corrected bitterly, tilting her head back to get the last few drops from a water canteen. "Call me Colubra – what do you want?" She spat as she wiped the water from her mouth, impatient with the boy.
"Lord Dilandau wishes to see you." She frowned then proceeded to stand. "Sh-shall I tell him you are coming?" This had to be asked since she often didn't obey commands.
"Yes. I'll go." And she threw the canteen to the floor. 'I'm itching to fight, this better be important.' She thought, ignoring the bitter voice in her head.
***
Colubra got dressed into more fitting attire, basically her red sweatshirt and jeans and proceeded to leave her room to go see him, when the little blond boy popped up again.
"What do you want?" She said, walking quickly, trying to loose the boy unsuccessfully.
"It's just, just," the boy stuttered, "w-why did you change your name?" He looked genuinely concerned. Colubra stopped and turned to the boy, with an indifferent face and said,
"I didn't."
The boy just looked quizzically at her as she continued to walk toward Dilandau' s quarters her hair flowing behind her as she went.
When Colubra got to his room, the door was open, and she walked right in, Dilandau was leaning back in a chair, his feet resting on the table in front of him, which had a small lamp on it, the only illumination to the room. His face looked ghastly pale in it's light, and it lit her figure eerily, sending dancing flames of light throughout the room. It was the mid-afternoon, but there was no light from outside was seen as the heavy curtains were drawn tight.
"Dilandau?" She asked tentatively after a silence that seemed like eternity. He smiled, twirling a sharp dagger in his hand,
"Sara, you came." That dagger, the light on his face that made him look so menacing, just turned her on. His power, the fact that in this closed room, with nobody here except them and a dagger, made her scared, just excited her pulse more. She grinned at his figure, broad shoulders, which held such power and had killed so many, and his obsession with fire, as he stared intently into the flame,
'All that and a bag of chips' I chimed in, her thoughts had distracted her from keeping me quiet, but soon I sunk into the darkness again. I was no longer Sara to them, I was Colubra.
"Call me Colubra," Dilandau frowned, he could've sworn Folken had said her name was Sara.
"Whatever."
"Why did you call me?" She asked, sliding closer to him, the danger of the dagger in his hand just made it more exciting. She placed her hand on his chair, hairs away from his bare shoulders. He was wearing his tight leather pants, but no shirt. She joined his stare at the flame.
"Will you do a favor for me?" He asked, more commanding than a question. Colubra agreed.
"There is a war coming, and since you are under Zaibach's care you are considered on their side." Dilandau stood and turned, grasping the dagger tight in his hand, stared at her menacingly. "Will that be a problem?" Colubra couldn't let him smell her fear so lazily avoided his glance.
"No, I don't know any other country on this god-forsaken excuse for a planet, why not use my services for yours?" She grinned at him, his odd colored eyes glittering as he watched her talk. She noticed the scar on his cheek, even whiter than his pale skin in the light. "Hey, it might be fun." She shook her hair away from her face nervously. He smiled at her response, then laughed, before turning back around and sitting down at the desk, which for the first time I noticed had maps on it.
"Yes…fun."
"What do you want me to do?" Dilandau ignored her question.
"Lord Folken is in charge of tactical maneuvers, we will have a meeting after dinner, the three of us." Colubra took that as a sign to leave and turned toward the door. "Wait," she stopped, her hand on the door, he didn't want her to leave. Dilandau took one last stare at her, she obeyed him, she listened to him, he wanted her. "Never mind. Go." And she left the room.
***
Folken stood at the head of the table, reviewing some papers, Dilandau sat across from me, idly playing with that same dagger again. I just sat in my chair, staring at them both. Folken finally looked up.
"Now, there is a threat of war coming between Zaibach and some of the Gaean countries, specifically Austuria, we need information, actually, we need your help all together." I looked up at Folken disbelieving.
"You need my help? What, to fight?" Folken grinned.
"No, you're knowledge of fighting techniques among other things, we heard that the mystic moon is advanced in that field." Colubra shook inside as she recalled the hideous memories of her education of the many wars of Earth's past. The brutal, vicious wars that rose such a strong opposition from Sara, she knew all too much about them, and had even bragged to the dragonslayors once about her knowledge of the battle of Versailles, on of the many brilliant attacks of the allies during world war one. Why, oh why had she? Now what would Colubra do with this knowledge? For once her in life Sara cursed her advanced grades in history class.
Dilandau and Folken both stared at her, her blank expression hiding the inner turmoil that was coarsing through her. Sara didn't ever want to see this lush green planet to have the same fate of Earth's. The two world wars was what started the major technological advancements in earth's history, if she loaned her knowledge of weaponry and technology to Zaibach, she could well be signing the deed to Gaea's doom.
"No, no, no, no!" Sara screamed from her throat, but Colubra knew that this was how it was supposed to be. With a puzzled look on both Folken and Dilandau's face, she smiled wickedly. "Yes. Yes, I'll help you."
"Good," Folken nodded, "there are some technicians in the hanger at your disposal, but first you will run by your ideas by me, I am a scientist, and can help." Colubra nodded, now to get the most vital information out of Sara, and how to use it.
"What of Dilandau?" She asked, then realized she shouldn't care, so quickly tried to cover her tracks as the boy stared at her for her interest in him. "What part does he play?"
Folken grinned, "He is in charge of the dragonslayors and all the attacks, his orders come from me, but as of now, you are both at equal levels." Dilandau shot Folken a threatening glance, how dare he put that new girl at the same rank as he? Oh well, if she was a scientist like Folken, her brains would be needed more than his for winning this war.
"Colubra, you may join me in my lab, Dilandau dismissed." Dilandau huffed off and Colubra walked out, how did he know to call me that? The same thoughts ran through Dilandau's head, but with some different conclusions.
Is there something between Folken and Colubra?
***
Colubra looked over the detailed design plans for the Alsiedes. It was a beautiful machine, Folken had done some major improvements to it through technology including the stealth cloaks, flight mode and curma claw.
"They don't even have these on earth. Then again, they don't have guymelefs on earth either." Folken glanced up from what he was working on at the other side of the table.
"I guess seeing one for the first time must have been quite a shock then." Colubra nodded, actually, she had only seen the ones in the hanger, never one in real combat, but she didn't want to try one out, which was odd. "Do you have any ideas?" Colubra turned the thirtieth page, which was a diagram of the cockpit, this reminded Sara of a plane's, except it had a renaissance look to it. A flash back of night came in her memory, with her digital camera with night-vision, she could film at night.
"Are there many attacks at night?" She asked, not taking her eyes off the picture, she formulated exactly where it could be put.
Folken furrowed his brow, "At night? Of course not, its too dark unless there is a full moon. Even then cloud cover – " Colubra cut him off.
"It's called a sneak attack. They used to be around dawn or dusk and they would take the enemy by surprise in one of the wars of the Mystic Moon. You do this with stealth cloaks, but what if you wanted to go by night? Catch them even more off guard, using this technology you can literally see as if it was as bright as day with even the smallest amount of light. That's why they dub it night-vision." Folken smiled, he literally smiled. Colubra continued on into the details of the device and how to put it into the guymelefs excitedly, while Sara sat huddled in the corner of her mind, praying that she wouldn't remember anything else considered 'useful'.
Dilandau stood, looking in through the crack of the door, the dim light in the room shining on his eye. Folken was smiling? What could they be talking about that makes them so animated? How was Folken looking at her? Is he interested or was this just a figment of my imagination? Oh…..why do I like her so?!
At the next 'flirtatious' push of hair behind her shoulders, Dilandau stormed off, with Chesta watching him from around the corner, wondering what could possibly make his peeping- tom captain so angry, then realized she was in there.
"Figures." He muttered, before turning back. He had no chance with Colubra if Dilandau had his heart set on her. He'd just have to settle to fantasize about her in his dreams like the rest of the dragonslayors.
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