Okay…I'm going ALL POINT OF VIEW (POV) from here on out…I just CAN'T do third person…grrrrrrrrrr. O well, the 'I' refers to the hero okay? No more third person.
Sometimes…I have a feeling I would have been better off in bed this day. Something tells me I SHOULD HAVE stayed in bed. No matter where I went, I was haunted by stup…er…'intelligently disobedient' colleagues. Even in my own library I wasn't safe. I walked in thinking it was going to be okay, actually, truth is, it did start okay. I was sitting down minding my own business reading a book when Viktor walked in. It appeared as if he had either one: quit helping Flik, two: they finished or three: Hai-Yo kicked them out of his kitchen. Seeing Flik walk in and having a piece of a broken dish on his head confirmed the last of my suspicions. I looked up.
"Eh, so I see something didn't go right in the kitchen…am I right?" I asked. (that's the hero speaking…just to get your bearings)
"We got kicked out. Hai-Yo sincerely said that he didn't need our extraordinary help in the kitchen." Flik said. He picked the chip of dish out of his hair and cast it aside.
"That's okay. Your help was…" I had a long pause. "More than he expected. He'll call you sometime later," I recovered. Viktor sat down.
"I was reading a book one day in here…and then I never wanted to come back. I wonder why…" he pondered. Just then, Marlowe came out of the study and looked down at Viktor from the second floor.
"VIKTOR!!!!" he shouted. The whole library looked up. I don't believe they thought Marlowe could yell like that, I sure didn't know.
"Uh…Marlowe…" Viktor mumbled. "What is it?"
"YOU…I'VE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR YOU…YOU'RE the one who BORROWED my book and never gave it back yet!!! That was a good book!!! Where is it?" He yelled from the top. He started coming down the stairs. Viktor stood up.
"Come on guys…I need an excuse here…an alibi…" Viktor said nervously.
"What? What exactly did you DO with the book?" I asked.
"Would you believe reading it while eating breakfast and drinking milk and then spilling the milk and then drying the book and it fell in the pond by accident?" Viktor asked quietly. We all backed up.
"You WHAT?" I asked surprised.
"It was an ACCIDENT…" Viktor sighed.
"Well…if you don't have an answer…I'd start running now." Flik said. Viktor got up and ran right into a bookshelf. Marlowe got pretty suspicious and chased after him. Marlowe picked up a book and threw it at Viktor's head. Viktor ducked and the book went flying into Clive instead. Poor Viktor was digging himself deeper and deeper in to trouble. Before he finally ran out the door, he had a trail of people following him. Marlowe who wanted his book back, Clive who got nailed in the head, Luc who was peeved that Viktor was ruining his quiet, Ridley who was studying some strategy guides before Viktor knocked him and his chair over, and finally Sheena who figured out that Viktor owed him money. When the library was returned from chaos to its normal silence I was able to open my book again. Flik was still sitting there with his jaw wide open. I lifted my eyes over the cover of my book to peer at him.
"Flik…you look very intelligent with your mouth open like that," I said.
"Really?" he asked. I sighed.
"Sarcasm is WASTED on you Flik…" I said. He looked at me. "Never mind…"
"Well…so what do you plan to do now? You can't possibly sit here and read all day," he said. As soon as he said that Eillie came marching into the library.
"You're right…I CAN'T…everytime I even TRY to have a NORMAL moment in my life…it's interrupted." I sighed. Eillie came over to our table.
"Hey guys, what are you doing?" she asked.
"What do you do in a library Eillie?" Flik asked smiling. She frowned.
"I know I know, I just figured it's a natural question to ask. I'm not THAT stupid," she replied. Sometimes, I beg to differ.
"Well, what is it that brought you here? Don't tell me you finished the laundry," I said.
"No, actually we didn't. We just finished our fight. Our side won," she said beaming. I nodded. "Sometimes girls have pride in the absolute WEIRDEST things…" I thought.
"So, what are you doing here Eillie?" Flik asked.
"Well…I came here to show Lord Hero what I did. I WASHED his shirt for him," she said proudly. I gasped.
"You…d…i…d…" I said, choking out the words painfully. I was wondering what she could have done. I guess if she accidentally poured hydrochloric acid on it and dissolved it, she wouldn't bring it to show me…would she?
"Yup, I washed it. And it's really pretty too," she said. She held it out infront of her. It was tye-dyed. I let out a giant gasp.
"It…" Flik started.
"Isn't it pretty? We girls thought it looked better this way. We couldn't decide which color would look best on you so we decided to have all of them instead. I think it will look great!" Eillie exclaimed. I gasped in horror. "Oh, I see…you're speechless right?" I nodded. "Well…it is expected of such a great piece of art. Don't worry; we didn't dye all of your clothes if you were wondering. We saved some of those icky red ones," Eillie added. I sighed with relief.
"Icky red ones huh…" I said to myself. "Thank you Eillie." I said.
"You're welcome! How would you like to come down to watch us finish the rest of the laundry?" she asked hopefully. I frantically searched my mind for an answer.
"I…uh…I…"I stuttered.
"He had planned to come with me to the Great Hall meeting. Shu called one in the middle of the day as sort of a check up," Flik said. I sighed with relief. Aside to Flik I said, "Thanks, I owe you one," he said. "And that necklace looks real great on you Eillie," he added. She smiled and sauntered off.
"What was that last comment for?" I asked confused.
"I'm hoping she'll forget a certain pair of underwear in the wash. It's the one Viktor got for my birthday? He thought it'd be funny if he got me one that had clowns all over it. I've been trying to lose it ever since. I gave it to them to wash in hopes that they'll accidentally let it go over the railing someday," Flik sighed.
"So I see…well then. I suppose we should go to the meeting. It is about time isn't it?" I asked.
"Well, sure…" he replied. We walked up to the Great Hall and waited for the others. Slowly they all trickled in, including Viktor (who had some nice bumps on his head from Marlowe) and the laundry troop. I stood at the head of the room quite astounded.
"Well everyone…how was it?" I asked. They all glared at me and each other. I stepped back. "It wasn't THAT bad…was it?"
"If you include serving a table of completely BLOOD THRISTY women, it would be," Miklotov said.
"That's right, we finally had to give them narcotics and send them to South Window on a wagon," Camus added. I cringed.
"It's your fault Shu," I said.
"It's MY fault?" he asked.
"You're the one who gave all the hired help a day off." I retorted.
"Well, don't they deserve it?"
"Sure, but that doesn't mean we don't have the funds to hire a secondary staff," I added.
"That sounds good," Flik said.
"We shouldn't be made to do this. I think we made more damage then they would EVER do," Viktor said. Hai-Yo cringed on that note. I laughed.
"Well…I suppose we all agree on what a horrifying experience this was. But it was a learning one too. I'm sure we all learned SOMETHING from this," I said emphasizing my point.
"I SUPPOSE so…" Hai-Yo scoffed. "I learned not to let monkeys handle dishes."
"Hey, I'm NOT a monkey. I'm a full-fledged bear," Viktor retorted. Flik eyed his friend with a weird look. The rest of the leaders looked rather pale.
"What? What did I say?" Viktor asked.
"Er…nothing…I suppose once a dud, always a dud," I said trying to hold my laughter in. "Since there isn't much to say now, meeting dismissed. I expect to see you all in here for dinner," I added. Viktor still looked confused. They all filed out.
"Er…milord," Klaus said quietly I turned around to face him.
"Yes Klaus?"
"Well…there's a small matter to cover," he replied.
"What is it? It can't be worse than what I've gone through today." I said.
"Well…" he said. "It's the bills for the accessed damage we caused," Klaus said. I took the paper.
"WHAT???? 900,000 potch?! Plus an additional 450,000 for new dishes? ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE ME GO BANKRUPT?" I exclaimed. I passed out on the floor.
"I figured this would happen…get Doctor Huan please," Klaus asked a soldier.
"I'm sorry Director Klaus, but Lord Shu gave him the liberty of the day off," the soldier replied.
"Very well…I will have to take care of him myself. Let me get the medicine." He said. Klaus walks off to go to Doctor Huan's medicine cabinet. "Here, this should be it." He walks away carrying a bottle marked 'narcotics'. "You'll be better in no time in my hands milord," Klaus hummed a happy song as he walked back to give poor me my medicine. Sometimes I wonder how I ever lived through that. But apparently I did, because I'm still here ^_^.