Note - To everyone who's reading this, thank you for your patience, now that I have redo my notes for this story it should go a bit faster.
"Daddy! Where are you?"
"Come out, come out!"
"Daddy! Mom found out that you've left us alone in the house and she's very mad at you!"
"Allinallinallisinfree."
"Len! That won't work," Lacy hissed at her twin.
"Well you never knew until you try!"
The twins were looking for their father, he disappeared halfway during their story, so all they have to do now is haunt him down, tie him up and force him to tell them their story. Really, they weren't little monsters, its just that mom wasn't home and they were hoping to stay up late, which wouldn't happen if they get board and fall asleep. They need-
Clunk.
The twins stopped in their tracks. "I think it came from this way," Len said pointing down the hall to the kitchen.
"No, it came from this way," his twin insisted pointing toward the other end of the hall.
Clunk. Clunk.
"This way," Lacy said dragging her poor brother behind her toward the kitchen, while Len tried very hard to snicker as loudly as possible when being dragged by the hair. The twins opened the door to the massive dimly lit kitchen, but as far as two pairs of amethyst eyes can see, the kitchen was empty
"Light," Len called, and a globe of green light flooded the kitchen.
Clink.
"Eeep!" a voice squeaked just before Len's green globe winked out.
"What did you do to my light?" Len asked in a tiny whisper.
"Nothing, it was you who got scared and lost your concentration on the spell" his twin replied, then called out a tiny light in the shape of a star because a certain brother let his spell go out.
"Did not," Len muttered under his breath as he watched his sister manoeuvred the tiny star shaped light toward the noise, "show off."
Two cookie jars were on the counter, one on it side, the source of the clinking noise. Clink. Clunk. "Help! Let us out!" Clunk. Clunk. Rattle rattle. The twins exchanged evil grins and slowly walked over toward the jars, some things in life just has to be savoured.
Lacy tapped the side of one of the jars. "Need help getting you two out?" She asked in a singsong voice.
"No! Go away you brats!" One of the jars screamed back.
"Yeah! We don't need you two little hell spawn's help getting out of these jars, we're doing just fine on our own," the other jar added.
"I...don't think so," Len replied getting on his tiptoe to get one of the jars down, as their father said, don't use magic if you can do without; that and mother caste a spell to prevent the twins using magic to steal baked goods from the kitchen.
"Lina, help!" The jars screamed simultaneously as the twins pattered back to their trans-dimensional bedroom. "We're being Guardian-napped!(tm)"
Back in the little pocket dimension that the twins called their bedroom, the two settled back in the beds and opened their Guardian Jars(tm). They shot out of their respective jars and dove for the nearest exit... and meet up with the wall. Two little Guardian Pancakes(tm) gently floated to the floor before they unflattened themselves with audible 'pops.'
"Help! Somebody come and save us! We'll even settle for that Mazoku!" They screamed in panic, much to the delight of the two children.
Then they hit themselves against the wall again and again as if the wall would give way before them if they smack themselves against it hard enough or often enough. This went on for some minutes before the twins, bored with the Guardians' imitation as houseflies on window and fired two well-aimed fire arrows turning them into Guardian Crisps(tm).
"What did you do that for?"
"You're going to release us right away!" Flame-kun wailed and Ruby-chan demanded simultaneously.
"No," Lacy replied.
"What do you mean no?!" The Guardians screamed, hitting the roof.
"Because we want you to tell us a story," the twins grinned mercilessly. "We'll let you go once you're done, and we won't bother you for another week," they added to sweeten the deal.
"Once we're done?" Flamed raved, his pride taken a serious blow by first being stuffed into a cookie jar and now taken 'prisoner' by two little six years old.
"Almost seven," Len corrected.
"..." Conversation stilled for a moment before resuming.
Right, so it's not surprising that Flame started on his mindless raving of Mazoku, children, Ruby-chan, Lina-chan and stupid-dragon-who-never-listened-to-him.
"Stop it," Ruby ordered, smacking him on the head with a large mallet and effectively turned him into a Guardian Splat(tm), she then put the swirly eyed Dragon Guardian in a headlock. "Flame-kun, we're going to tell the brats a story so we can get out of here so we can be with Lina as soon as possible. Remember what happened the last time we weren't with Lina? For all we know, she might end up having another brat."
"Cool! Another little brother or sister?" Len piped up.
"No, its not cool," Ruby said, turning her attention to the bright eyed Len. "So what kind of story do you two want anyway? Something short? My thought exactly. How does the usual 'Hansel and Gretel' sound? Good? Perfect. Onceuponatime-"
"Stop!" Lacy yelled. "We don't want to hear your story about some dumb children who got eaten. Continue daddy's story of how daddy met mommy."
"YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO WHAT!!" The usually composed (or so she would like to think of herself) Guardian hit the roof, literally; before she started having a screaming, kicking temper tantrum. "I WILL NOT FOR ANY REASON GOING TO THINK BACK TO THOSE DARKER TIMES! THE PAST SHOULD STAY IN THE PAST! SAFELY BURIED THROUGH SELECTIVE MEMORY!" SHE- pardon, she more or less screamed at the two wide eyed children who were secretly taking notes. She's such a bad influence on the kids, ne?
"So what's that about telling the brats their story so we can get out of here?" Flame asked, sliding up beside Ruby.
WHACK!
Poor Flame sailed onto the far wall and slid down trailing Guardian Goo(tm) on the wall like some sort of a Guardian Slug(tm).
WHACK! WHACK!
"And you stop TM-ing everything!" Ruby screamed, her red eyes glowed in a... well... demonic way. Saying she was scary would have been like saying the Great Wall of China was just a wall, or something like that.
Ruby huffed, and puffed, around the tiny transdimensional room before she finally agreed to tell the kids their story. "But only till this water clock runs out, then you have to go to sleep," she added, pointing to the children's fancy mechanical clock that Mazoku got them for their last birthday.
"Okay okay, start telling the story already," Lacy said impatiently.
"All right all right, where did tha- your daddy left the story off at?" Ruby asked.
"Daddy was looking for mommy-" Len began.
"Ha! I knew that good for- mrph murr," Ruby cried out in triumph before Flame stuffed a rolled up sock into her mouth.
"Please go on," Flame told Len before he shot Ruby a dirty look, which she returned in quadruple proportion.
"Well...." Len began again, "and then you two were screaming very loudly on who told mommy's secret..."
"If it wasn't your big mouth," Ruby screamed at Flame while holding him in a chokehold. "That smiling weasel wouldn't have known that Lina-chan is capable of blowing up the world!"
"Itai Ruby-chan, I'm sorry," Flame wailed, "I promised I wouldn't do it again."
"Hold it," Ruby interrupted, "that wasn't how it went. We don't fight like children; it was a very sophisticated and adult like argument."
"But I say Flame-kun," Ruby said, but somehow managed to acquire a British accent and a cup of tea. "You shouldn't have told that despicable Mazoku Lina-chan has the power to destroy this world."
"You're right Ruby-chan," Flame replied, also with a British accent and cup of tea. "I've spoken out of anger and now I shall perform seppuku to rectify my mistake," he pulled out two swords from behind his back. "Ruby-chan, as a fellow Guardian and my closest friend, please do me the honour and be my kaishaku," he continued offering one of the swords to Ruby who sniffingly took it.
"Hey!" A very much alive Flame protested, and two pairs of amethyst eyes narrowed.
"Fine, we were fighting like little kids," Ruby grumbled, "but we stopped and went looking for Lina-chan."
Two pair of little hands did the accompany hand movements for a fire arrows spell.
"Xelloss swatted us out of the air like fly and told us he's going to look for a human without her Guardian instead." Ruby finally said in defeat and no delicious cooked Guardians smell wafted through the air.
Two swirly eyed Guardians jumped off the ground and flew after Xelloss with screams of, "you will do no such thing," and "we won't let you."
"My, my, where should I start looking?" Xelloss asked aloud, keeping one eye on the Guardians who were quickly catching up.
A loud explosion accompany by a cloud of smoke and fire erupted from the nearest town; which was at least three hours away and that's after riding your horse to exhaustion.
"I think I should begin there," Xelloss said with a smile and teleported away, quickly followed by the two Guardians with cries of dismay. Of course distance measured by humans were nothing to the three magical begins who reappeared at the town -which was surprisingly still intact- to the screams of a red haired sorceress.
"Let go of me," yelled the irritated sorceress as she was being carted out of the inn by two big men. "What are you people just standing around for?" She screamed at the townspeople who were watching the scene, "I'm being kidnapped in broad daylight with the whole town as witness; and where in the world is Gourry?"
"Lina-chan!" The two Guardians screamed in union and darted off toward the sorceress, or would have if they weren't being pulled back by one Mazoku. "Let go of us you- you Mazoku."
"Please come with us quietly," a young girl with light brown hair, wearing a white dress and gold bracelets said to wild cat Lina.
"What?!" Lina screamed back, and gave a swift kick to one of her captors; the man went down quicker than a rock in water. "You dragged me out of the inn without a 'by your leave' and now you're asking me to 'please go with you?' I not going anywhere with you little girl."
The child gave a small sigh, her green eyes meet Lina's red ones. "I don't really want to do this to you Miss Andra but you really left me with no choice; drug her," she said quietly and turned to walk toward a waiting carriage.
A man behind Lina clamped a white handkerchief on her, Lina only had time to give a small shrike before she collapsed into a drugged slumber.