Escaflowne ~ A Vision Reborn (12)
A Break
By *~A White Rose Petal~*
A/N: Oh man…I have to go to the one Disney thing in Chicago so I won't be able to get the next couple of chapters out for a while and I'm putting this one out early! Be happy! Be very happy…hehe!
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Summary:
The potion master tells Wanda why the potion will work so well on Van…
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Merle and Zatera get closer…hehe Tyler gets Jin together and Jin goes into her room to see a chance of black mail…
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"You called for me again my lady?" The potion master asked.
"Quite, quite. I would like to know how fast this…potion…can be done."
"Aye, my lady, it will be done it one twelfth a rotation, your highness."
"A month!?"
"Aye, your highness."
"Why so long? I want it done sooner!"
"Your highness, allow me to explain!"
"Fine! Sit down there and talk." Wanda said pointing to the chair that he sat in before. He took it and looked at his hands. Wanda was looking out the window, waiting for him to speak. "Well?" She asked him, annoyed that he has not yet spoken.
"Your highness, some of the ingredients need to be mixed with the potion for a certain amount of time. Usually it takes half a rotation to finish the potion!"
"Half a rotation?" She asked starting to turn around.
"Aye, your highness, but I was able to find a way to quicken it up, I have!"
"Good, good…Why will it work so well?"
"What will work so well?" Wanda turned to look at the potion master, anger and annoyance in her eyes.
"The potion, damn it all, the potion!"
"Aye, the potion will work for the lad is young, he could not have found his love for he is so young!" Wanda looked at the man smiling.
"Yes…but if he has? It's slim I know…but if his love left? Never came back?"
"Then I expect that it will work as if he did not find his love for the love that binds them is what can break it."
"Thank you sir. You may go back to you corridors if you wish to do so."
"Aye, I shall. Thank you your highness." The potion master said as he shut the door behind him. Wanda watching him do it.
"Oh no, sir, thank you, I dare say. Thank you." As she started to laugh.
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"Zat, you might want to get out of here along with Merle." Tyler said.
"Why should I?"
"I'm serious Zat?"
"So, why should we get out?" Tyler started cracking his knuckles and Zatera immediately got the picture. "Ugh! You're going to do that when that guy could come in at any second? Yuck!" Merle thought he meant 'something' else but apparently he didn't.
When they were in his room she asked him.
"What is he going to do?"
"You don't wanna know…" Zatera said looking the other way with eyes shut tight. Merle heard an "ARG!" come from the other room.
"She sounds like she's in pain!"
"She probably is."
"How do you know that?"
"Tyler just put her bone back in place." It took a while for Merle to understand what Zatera meant and closed her eyes tight.
"Yuck!" Zatera just laughed.
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Jin started to climb out of the cot a few minutes after Tyler put her shoulder blade and one of the top rib bones back in place. Still a little sore she stood up and went over to her room. She bit her bottom lip and opened up the door silently. Her eyes filled up with ideas for blackmail…between friends of course. Van had his arm around Hitomi's waist and his other arm was under her head, acting as a pillow. Both of them were under the quilt. Jin grinned evilly. 'I HAVE to show Zat and Merle this…' She thought. She lightly left the room and into the kitchen where Zatera and Merle were in deep in conversation.
"I'd hate to take you to out of this…" She said to the two cat teens who looked up at her. "But have either of you ever heard of a picture moment?" Merle looked confused but Zatera jumped right out of his seat.
"Blackmail!" He said. Merle looked up to Jin.
"Wanna see?" Jin asked her. Merle shrugged as Jin led them to where Van and Hitomi were sleeping. When they neared Merle saw it first.
"They look so…so…kawaii!" She said. She couldn't help herself. "These are moments that you wish you could keep still hehe." She giggled. Zatera was laughing lightly by her. Jin left and they followed her.
"I wonder what's going to happen when they wake up…" Zat wondered. Merle laughed lightly by him.
"Hey Zat!" Jin said coming to him with an empty brown cloth bag. "We haven't got any food. Go to town and get some, k?" She asked him. She threw the bag at him not waiting for an answer. Zatera mumbled under his breath but put the sack over his shoulder.
"Wanna come?" He asked Merle. She looked at him with a question on her face but she shook her head no.
"I don't think it's a very good idea that I do. People know that I'm a companion of Van's." She said looking kind of sad.
"Hey! What if we got something to cover you up with?"
"I suppose…what do you have?" She asked.
"HEY JIN! CAN MERLE USE SOME OF YOUR OLD CLOAKS YOU WORE FOR HIDING AT THE ONE THINGS?"
"YEAH, I SUPPOSE, WHY?"
"SHE'S GOING WITH ME!"
"KAY!"
"She said you can use some of her cloaks."
"I heard."
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Zatera led Merle into the room that was between his and Jin 's. He went over to a trunk and started picking clothes out of it.
"She only has two cloaks that are to small for her, but they might fit you!" He said. He put a blue one up to her.
"It doesn't look to good on you…but…what do you think?" He asked. Merle went over to the long mirror and held the dress up in front of her. The cloak looked so…nice! It was light green with a dark green color hems, it even had emerald like beads around the neck area. Now if only she looked good in it. She shook her head no.
"I thought so." He said. He dived back into the trunk and finally came to the very bottom of it. "Ah hah!" He said as he picked it up. "I think you'll look better in this, what do you think?" Zatera asked. Merle put it up in front of her and smiled at her reflection. The cloak was a light peach color, with a darker peach hems. She shook her head yes.
"I'll wear this one!" She put it over her head and over her clothes. When her head poked through the top, both saw that it was just a wee bit bigger than her but just barely. Nobody would barely notice it. Zatera handed her a golden like rope.
"It's a rope or sash, whatever you want to call it." He said. Merle tied it around her hips. She smiled and put the hood over her head.
"Let's go!" She said, and they were out the door."
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"Oh my…I didn't see as much when I came here with Van and Allen…" Merle whispered to Zatera. "And- why are we going behind that building?" Merle asked as Zatera pulled her behind a bakery.
"For cover." He whispered back.
"From wh-"
"ZATTY? Where are you?" Katy yelled into the dead end street that was also the back of the shop. Merle could barely hold in her laughter.
"Zatty?" She whispered to him. He scowled.
"Shut up!" He whispered back to her.
"ZATTY, STOP HIDING!" Katy yelled, again into the street. Merle stopped giggling.
"What does she want from you?" Merle whispered to him.
"A date!" Merle giggled again, she couldn't stop herself.
"Why don't you just give her one?"
"'Cuz I don't want one!"
"I suppose that's a reason…"
"A very good one!…hide!" He said. He pushed Merle behind one of the crates as Katy walked over and saw him.
"Knew you couldn't hide forever Zat." Katy said smiling sweetly. Zatera rolled his eyes.
"Do you mind? I just ate!" Merle giggled but Katy didn't hear it.
"Zatera! You need to learn your manners! You're not acting as you should when a lady is around!" Zatera looked like he was being shot and fell to the ground. He stuck his tongue out and made his head go sideways to give him that country dead look. "Zatera! All I want is a date! Why won't you give it to me?" Zatera was about to speak up when a metal cage fell off of the crate.
"Shit." Merle and Zatera cursed together.
"Who's there? Show yourself!" Merle groaned but got out of her crouch. She went behind Zatera who was looking at her. "Who are you?" Katy didn't give Merle any time to reply. She slapped her hard across the face. "That's for spying on us! You shouldn't spy, it's not what ladies do! Do you know nothing on how to be one? You should be happy that I'm not sending you to the police!" She practically yelled. A few tears escaped Merle's eyes. She looked up to Katy with anger in her eyes. Katy backed up a bit.
"Have I seen you before?" She asked. She watched Zatera go over and touch lightly where she slapped her. "Zatera, why are you helping her?"
"Because she needs it, not to much from what I can see though."
"You should be helping me teach her how to be a lady!"
"I know who she is Katy."
"Oh really and who is she?"
"Somebody you aren't going to see again!" He yelled at her. He pointed to the sky and Merle started jumping on the crates to get over the wall. Zatera picked up his bag and followed her.
"Be careful what you do Katy." He whispered to her acidly, just enough for her to hear though, "You sometimes may get what you want but not the way you want it." He jumped over the wall, following Merle into the forest.
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A/N: UGH! I now officially truly hate Katy (my character!). I only wanted her to be somebody annoying in the beginning but now…I transformed her…Did I write fluff for those two or did I write fluff? Hehe. Please Review!
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