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AN: Ok, ok, all you peeps. This is the Episode youv'e ALL been waiting for. ~applause~ Thank
you ,Thank you. Now, I'm going to make these author's notes short so you won't have to hear my
babblings ~ loud happy screaming and dacing and some throwing of confetti~ ~ Throws hand
granade. Big explosion follows.~ AND so you can get to the story faster. Thank you.
Alseids: Part Dux
" But Master, you must see it! It-"
" No! Do not anger me longer Dilandau! I have business here and have no time to bother
with a mere necklace! Now go, I do not wish to see you longer."
" But-"
" GO!"
Dilandau gritted his teeth as he punched off the communicator. Why, wouldn't Dornkirk
listen to him? It wasn't every day you find a necklace that deflects swords, especially from the
mystic moon. He sighed. Dornkirk was getting old he must admit. Wasn't is 100? He was pretty
old when he took him in as a worker. Folken was now 25, and he was himself was 15. He
guessed that girl Michiru was about 14 or 15 too. He sighed again. What was he going to do
about her? He obviously couldn't kill her. Right after the necklace lit up, Folken came down and
practically dragged him up to the control room, to contact Dornkirk. Possibly he could train her
as a dragon slayer, he could use some more people. On the other hand, he could risk Dornkirk's
anger and ask to go back to the mystic moon. Then again mabey not he thought grimly as he
remembered his anger before. He wanted something to kill so badly after his retreat from Van.
He could slip her neclace off somehow and then kill her. Yes, he would do that.
"Chestia!" he barked.
"Yes Lord Dilandau?" She said.
"Go and retrieve the prisoner." Chestia went down the long black corridor. Now what
was he going to do? He could question her, possibly why she was there in the first place. He was
definetly going to take the necklace away, but how to do it was the question. Now, back on Gaea
in the day, the necklace didn't seem so intimidating. Why should he be afraid of a cowering girl,
rolled in a ball at his feet? He didn't like to admit it, but he was still terrified.He hated having a
weakness. It enraged him, and the thought of being scared of a mere girl was unthinkable! He
growled and took out his dagger. First he would order her to take off the neclace. Then he would
slice her neck in half, then cut from the side. No, he would stun her, then burn her alive. Yes. He
chuckled. Perhaps his day wouldn't be as bad as he had planed. Before he could do anything else,
Chestia came in with Michiru.
" The prisoner Lord Dilandau." Chestia waved bye to Michiru as she left. The door hissed
close.
* * *
Michiru shivered at the noise of dripping water. Drip drip drip, the constant noise was
driving her insane. The floor was wet and very uncomfortable. Michiru swore that if she stayed
in this horrid cell any longer, it would drive her nuts. She was squatting to avoid sitting on the
wet floor, and squeaked as she lost her balance and toppled to her side. " Yelch!" She exclaimed
trying to dry herself. Her hand closed on her necklace and she closed her eyes. Without this, her
head would probably be rolling on the floor right now. She shuddered. It had probably happed to
other unlucky victims of Dilandau. Why was he trying to kill her in the first place? Was it her
fault that he had captured her? Homesickness swept her as she thought of her home. How she
wished she was there right now, listing to her parents argue. How worried they would be when
they found she was missing. Soon after Dilandau had tried to kill her, the black cloaked figure
Dilandau called Folken had come and dragged Dilandau away. She was left in this cell over
night. Couldn't he just let her go?
The sound of footsteps echoed up the hall. She gulped. Possibly it was Dilandau to come
and try to kill her again. She braced herself. The keys rattled. Dilandau pushed the door open.
She gasped. It wasn't Dilandau, it was a girl of about 14, short beige hair and a long sword
unsheathed on her hip. " Hi, my name's Chestia, what's your name?"
"Um, Michiru." she answered.
"Master Dilandau wishes to see you." As they walked down the hall Chestia asked, "
What was it like on the Mystic Moon?"
" What is the mystic moon?" Michiru demanded. She was very tired of people constantly
saying 'The Mystic Moon'.
" You know, like where you just came from." Suddenly it hit Michiru, and she realized
how stupid she had been.
" Oh, you mean Earth. Well, it wasn't exactly a bed of roses, but it was ok, compared to
this place. " She eyed her metallic and alien surroundings.
" What were the people like? " Chestia asked.
"Nice, but a lot of them argue so much they quit liking each other and split apart."
Chestia was looking sadly into the darkness.
"Your parents?" she asked.
"Yea, how did you know?" Michiru questioned. She had a far away look on her face, and
ignored the question. They walked in silence for a few moments.
Suddenly Chestia said. " When I was two or three I was taken away from my parents in a
kidnaping. The man who did it sold me to a workhouse where I had to work. It was terrible.
They made us work before the sun rose, until way after dark. The owners fed us scraps of food
and sips of stagnant water. One day, I escaped with a friend I had made there. I was about 6 then,
and we went looking for a place were people might take us in. The journey was very difficult,
and my friend died of sickness. I stumbled upon this place, when I was about 10 and Lord
Dilandau took me in and trained me to be a dragon slayer."
Michiru shivered at the name 'Lord Dilandau'. " How sad," was all she could say. Suddenly they came to a door. " Well, Here is Lord Dilandau's room." said Chestia.
"Lord Dilandau?" Michiru questioned.
"Yes, Lord Dilandau, and you'd better call him that if you want to live."
"I'm not calling anybody Lord, especially someone who just tried to kill me." Michiru
said resentfully.
Chestia shrugged. "Oh well. Good luck." Chestia pressed the door's control panel. They
both walked in. " The Prisoner Lord Dilandau." Chestia said formally. Then she waved to
Michiru and left. The room was dark with one window. Dilandau was sitting on a throne draped
with a green cloth, and standing behind it was a statue of a lion. She couldn't see Dilandau very
well, and now she wished so much that she was back in her damp, dirty, horrid cell. Get a grip.
She thought. Her neclace would protect her like it did last time. She was ready. Dilandau got up
and moved into the light.
* * *
Dilandau gulped. He didn't know what to say. He gripped the silk cloth covering his
throne. Finally he got up and walked into the patch of light. He stopped. " Well Michiru, I have a
couple of questions to ask you."
Michiru glared at him and answered in a calm voice, " Shoot."
Dilandau was taken aback at her fearless look. Gone was the timid girl who cowered in
her cell. This was the first time he had a really good look at her, and he had to admit she was
quite pretty. "Well, First of all, I would like to ask you why you were at our landing place so late
after dark?"
Michiru grimly answered. "I was out running," she smiled "People on the mystic moon
do it all the time, Dilandau."
He gritted his teeth. "You will call me LORD Dilandau!" He shouted at her. He drew his
sword and took a couple of steps forward, " LORD Dilandau!" He glared at her. He stopped..
Suddenly he saw two bright emerald eyes, glaring, boring into him, seeing right through him, his
thoughts, his weaknesses, his fears. Golden strands were floating about the face like a golden
mane. The ruby lips were set in a hard grim smile. But the eyes were mocking him, boring into
his very soul. I know how weak you really are inside, I know your fears, they seemed to be
chanting at him. " No, NO!" He heard someone shout. It was his voice, he was shouting. Wait, he
wasn't supposed to be scared, he was the Powerful Lord Dilandau, the Iron Fist. But one look in
those eyes made his weak, unprotected, afraid, soft. Suddenly he was falling through a black
hole. Green eyes were staring at him through the darkness. He gasped. As quickly as it had
happened, the vision left leaving him with the girl. He looked at her eyes. They were emerald
green. The golden mane, the red lips. He shuddered. "CHESTIA!" He yelled.
She walked in the room. " Yes Lord Dilandau?"
"Take away the prisoner to her... Find her a room."
" What?" She asked incredulously.
" I SAID GIVE HER A ROOM DO NOT QUESTION MY ORDERS!" He yelled. Chestia cowered down, " Y- yes L-lord D-D- Dilandau." She stuttered.
"GO!" Before they left, Michiru turned around and glared at him again, neclace glowing
very very faintly. He threw himself on his chair. What was he doing? Those green
eyes...weakened him somehow. Then he relized Michiru had gone without food and water for
two days. " MIGEL!"
" Yes Lord Dilandau?"
"Bring Michir- the prisoner some food."
Migel looked at Dilandau questioningly but responded, " Yes Lord Dilandau."
He musn't start calling her by her name. Prisoner. That was her name. If he said her real
name, it would bring about the weakness. What was he doing? What was happing to him? He
was never kind enough to take a prisoner in to be a dragon slayer, much less give them food or
water. What was this feeling that was turing his brain into mush? He tried to think about
something else, but the eyes always came back to him, haunting him. " RRAAAHHHHAA!!" He
screamed. He was going to explode. This feeling wouldnt leave him, yet, it somehow was
mysteriously a good feeling. His brain was full of questions unanswered. The only thing to calm
him down was to kill. He ran down to the Vione and hopped in his Gymelif.
"Lord Dilandau, what are you going to do with the prisoner?" came a squeeky voice on
the ground. It was one of his anoying slayers.
Dilandau gripped his controls. " LEAVE M-" he started to shout, then changed his mind.
He could not show any weakness to people about him, much less his slayers. He hopped back
down. "Bring her to me." He answered curtly. "Right now."
* * *
Michiru sat in her new room. She hadn't touched the food which that Dragon Slayer,
whatever that was, had given her. What did it mean that she was given a room? What would
happen now? Was he still trying to kill her? She sighed, hoping that Chestia would come in
again, but she was sure she had her own buisness to attend to. It had scared her when Dilandau
had suddenly started shaking and shivering, but at least it had made him seem more human. He
hadn't seemed quite as terrifying as before. She felt sorry for him somehow. She laughed. He
had tried to kill her, and yet she pitied him. Chestia had taken her to this room after all that had
happened, then left. She was amazed that Michiru was still alive. Her thoughts were interupted
by the door hissing open. She was looking at a boy of 14, dressed in a strange outfit. He was
armed with a gun looking thing, and a long sword hanging from his hip.
" Please follow me." He said. As they were walking down the corridor, he burst out,
"You are lucky Lord Dilandau has spared your worthless life. How dare you do a thing like that
to him!"
Michiru gazed at him with a smile twitching at her lips. " Huh?"
He glared at her in hate. " You know what I'm talking about! I should kill you right know
you worthless scum! You think you are so special that you come from the Mystic moon, but you
don't matter at all. " Michiru was about to open her mouth to say something, but The Dragon
Slayer in front stopped abruptly. " Oh, Lord Dilandau!" He said happily.
" I was wondering where you were, Gillian. Do you have Mi- the Prisoner? " He asked.
"Oh yes sir! I have It sir!"
"You are dismissed, Gillian." Michiru gulped. What was she going to do now?
AN: HAHAHAHAHA!! You thought you'd get away with it?!? Not a chance!! Now, I would
like to say thank you to my wonderful big sister Sailor Earth who helped with the paragraphing.
( is that a word? ) ( She wrote a wonerful pokemon fic titled " A new Journey" for those of you
who would like to read it. )Now, no i will not curse this fic, because I trust you THIS time to
review. ( I bet some of you wouldn't have revied if I hadn't put that curse on, and then I wouldn't
have gotted your WONDERFULL feedback! () SNIFF () Thank you so much!! Anywhoo, stay
tuned for part 3!! *^_^* Buh bye now!!
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