Cloak*and*Dagger: *Peaks out from behind computer chair* Don't kill me,
please! I'm really sorry! I know it's been just about three months since my
last update, and I'm really sorry, but here I am now with more!
Thanks To:
Dove of Night: How could I resist the chibi eyes? I'm just sorry it took so long.
puddintain: (Hope I spelled that right!) *Smiles* Yes you are good at sucking up, but hey I'm not complaining! Yeah the last chapter was rather short, but I've got all day to work on this one, so it should be longer! Hope you like it!
Madi-chan: IEEEEE!!!! I'm sorry!!!!!!!
mokona: *Smiles* Thanks much, I love when people say that! I can't quite get it out of cute and into romance though.. Oh well, I'll live, if it's cute it's cute! Thanks again!
Rockie: Man, you don't even know the story and still you reviewed!!!!! Call me and I'll explain it to you, or better yet if we could pull time you could come over and watch it. As for whether it's me or not, well every original character is based on it's creator one way or another (And yes I do have that heart problem, except I can't black out from it, and I don't have medication). Hehe so you noticed my little screwed up names, eh? Yeah this story is rather symbolic in that matter.
IMPORTANT!!!! I was re-reading the last chapter, to brush up on what's was happening, when I came across a rather embarrassing mistake. ".until tears started to flow from my ears." It SHOULD say ".until tears started to flow from my *eyes*." Stupid me!!! One more reason that I should find myself a beta reader.
IMPORTANT.AGAIN!!!!! Now probably isn't the best time to tell this to everyone, but it's my fic and I'll do what I want. I was thinking about writing a run off story from this. Basically it would still be about Lakota, but the story line would be different. But then I had this other thought, that I could use that idea for my sequel, since I still don't have Slayers NEXT, but I think you would all get mad at me since I would have to have Zel loose all his memories of Lakota. We'll see, I might actually be able to make this really juicy!
ANOTHER IMPORTANT!!!!!! Sorry, this is the last one, I promise. Now I know I said I was going to re-do the whole Kopi Rezzo thing with Laky-chan, but I really don't want to have to type all of that. So I think I may cut this story a bit shorter than originally thought, and follow the plan I mentioned above.
Disclaimer: I own Lakota. That's it. I do not own Slayers, or any songs I may type up here (which will most likely be by the EELS.) And I still don't have my comic book! It's been four months!!!!!!!!
Chapter7: Zelgadis Gave His Word. (Now I KNOW I'm in Trouble!)
*Re-Cap* Zel looked at me funny for minute, trying to figure out what was wrong, until finally some rather unwanted information reached his brain. I wasn't sure whether to be relieved or worried. On one hand he could give me the help that I needed, on the other hand he would probably over-react and once again I would be in trouble. I didn't have too much time to think about it though, because before I knew it Zelgadis was trying to convince Gourry to let him carry me.
"I don't know," Gourry said slowly, "the whole point of me carrying her was so that she couldn't chase you."
"She's still tied up though," Zel tried to reason, "and if she was still after me, she wouldn't struggle so much if I were the one carrying her."
What was he up to? All he had to do was tell them that I hadn't taken my medicine, and be done with it. This made no sense!
"Well.. ok, I guess," Gourry finally conceded. I was really beginning to feel like a sack of potatoes when Gourry handed me over to Zelgadis. Not that this new arrangement wasn't interesting to say the least, but I was getting frustrated at feeling so helpless, and I really wasn't looking forward to the lecture that I was most like going to get from Zel. A few minutes passed before Zel said anything. I was beginning to get uncomfortable, and it had nothing to do with the way I was being carried.
"You didn't take your medicine, did you?" Zelgadis whispered in my ear. I shivered slightly; this was a rather disconcerting situation.
Because I was still gagged all I could do was glare at Zel, but I think he got the point nonetheless. Sure enough, just as I had predicted, I got a lovely little lecture that I chose to completely ignore. I hate it when people lecture me, Like they *always* know what's best! It's my life and I'll live however I want. I really didn't need any of this from *any* of them! I was tired of people running my life for me. I suppose that while I was silently fuming Zel must have noticed that I wasn't listening to him. Rather abruptly he stopped talking, which drew my attention back to the present. Timidly I looked up into Zel's face. He had is hood down mask off, and man did he ever look pissed at being ignored.
To make a long story short, after much glaring at each other, I finally lost it and started to shake slightly with the pain (which had steadily become worse.) Well of course Zel noticed, and *finally* chose to do something. Quickly and almost silently he cast a healing spell. And just like that the pain was gone!
For a few fleeting moments I was happy, until a thought struck me. Why the hell hadn't he done that earlier, if he knew that it would help?!? **************************************************************************** ***
It was around noon when we stopped for lunch, and Lina untied me.
"If you promise to be good, I won't have to tie you up again," she said.
I just grumbled angrily, it wasn't my fault that I was attracted to shiny things! But if that was true, then why hadn't I gotten that feeling of overwhelming possessiveness when Zel had carried me? He had had his mask and hood off, so I had definitely been able to see his skin... Nothing made sense anymore! **************************************************************************** ***
To spare you the long tedious monotony of traveling (there were only a few shiny incidences, one which found me up a tree trying to get whatever it was that was sparkling through the leaves) I'll just skip straight to when we finally reached Atlas city.
It was almost dusk, and from the top of the hill that we were standing on you could see the city. It was just one of those rare quiet moments until, "Well I guess this means that we can go our separate ways now," Zelgadis said.
"What?" asked Lina. "Aren't you going to come with us?" She said gesturing at Gourry and me.
"Now that Rezzo is gone I'm going to search for any possible cures for myself," he said simply.
"We'll go with you then," Gourry offered.
"No, but I'll be taking Lakota with me," Zel said as though it were the plainest thing to see.
"What?!?" Lina yelled in surprise. "I don't think so buddy! I found her first! Besides I still don't know if I can trust you, I hardly know anything about you."
'Ditto,' I thought quietly to myself. 'This doesn't look good. I'm either stuck with the Sorceress who'll use my sparkle obsession to find herself treasure, or I'm stuck with the Chimera who'll do god knows what to me.' Ok I admit my thoughts were slightly irrational. None of them had ever shown me any reason to doubt them, but in their argument I had suddenly developed a severe mistrust in all of them. So quietly as I could, while they were still blinded by their fighting, I slipped off into the forest next to the path.
"I think Gourry and I would be a much better influence on her! And besides that you'll be too busy finding a cure for yourself to even think about how to get her home!!"
"I gave her friend James my word that I would watch over her, and I don't intend to go back on that."
"Typical egotistical guy! We'll take good care of her you know!" Lina was yelling at this point.
I, meanwhile, had run a rather good distance away from them, and had climbed up a rather large tree, large enough that I could see them on the path.
Gourry, for the first time since they had started arguing, looked around. "Uh, you guys?"
"Not now Gourry!"
"But Lina-"
"Stay out of this!" Lina and Zelgadis said at the same time.
"Fine I just thought you ought to know that Lakota is gone," he said shrugging his shoulders.
"WHAT?!?" They chorused.
"Where?"
"How long?"
"What direction?"
"That's the same as where!"
I laughed to myself, they were pretty funny when they got all panicky. 'Best get a move on,' I thought, even though I hadn't the slightest idea where I was headed. Moving quickly and quietly I climbed down the tree, (The quick at quiet where with good reason too. I may have been a ways off from any of them, but Zelgadis, with his Chimera abilities, would have easily heard me and then caught up to me.)
I began to walk through the forest, my hand on the hilt of my sword, even though I hadn't the slightest idea how to use it (None of them had taught me any form of defense.) To my left the undergrowth rustled. Tensing a bit I looked to my left. Nothing. I didn't feel like taking a chance and asking if anyone was there, so I walked on tensing up once again when there came another rustling sound, this time to my right. Beyond reason at this point, I began to run. **************************************************************************** ***
I ran for what seemed like hours, and didn't stop until I reached a small clearing. It was beautiful, bordered by large oak trees, a hot spring not far in the distance, and most importantly sheltered. Even if they were looking for me it would take them forever to find the clearing that I had decided to set up camp in (it was just about dark by then.) Silently, as there wasn't anyone to talk to, I began to gather some wood, and built a fire, carefully making sure that it was small enough to not make me run straight into it.
After that I took off my cloak (the sheaths of my daggers where actually attacked to the back of my clothing, in a criss-crossed manner) and began to look through my pockets to see if there was any food to eat. As my luck would have it there wasn't anything, but a small piece of bread. Figuring that I wouldn't last long hunting, and would most likely get lost or caught, I didn't bother complaining about my sad and pathetic dinner.
Instead I tried to use this time to think. Something Lina had said when she was fight was starting to bother me. She had said that she and Gourry were going to try and figure out a way for me to get home (I was starting to get really home sick. Sure this would probably never happen again, but then at the rate things were going *normal life* was probably never going to happen again.) and if that were true, then why did I run? I couldn't figure out exactly what was going through my head at the time of my fleeing, because now that I thought about all of this, none of my reasons made sense anymore.
I had decided to run away for one reason; they hadn't asked me what I thought. Childish, no? And now, because of my sudden immaturity, I was lost and alone in the woods. Not a clue where I came from, not a clue where I was going, and not a clue as to how to get back home. My future was not looking bright. In an effort to make myself relax I decided to take a nice long soak in the hot spring. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cloak*and*Dagger: So what do you think? Bet you never expected dear little Lakota to run away, huh? Oh and just as a side note, if you listen to the song Ai Wo Koete from Suikoden III right at the part where Lina and Zelgadis start fighting, straight to the end of the chapter, it makes it a lot cooler! I'm feeling generous, so I think that I'm going to post this and then start chapter8. Well, REVIEW!!!!!!!! Just click and type, it's that easy!!!
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Thanks To:
Dove of Night: How could I resist the chibi eyes? I'm just sorry it took so long.
puddintain: (Hope I spelled that right!) *Smiles* Yes you are good at sucking up, but hey I'm not complaining! Yeah the last chapter was rather short, but I've got all day to work on this one, so it should be longer! Hope you like it!
Madi-chan: IEEEEE!!!! I'm sorry!!!!!!!
mokona: *Smiles* Thanks much, I love when people say that! I can't quite get it out of cute and into romance though.. Oh well, I'll live, if it's cute it's cute! Thanks again!
Rockie: Man, you don't even know the story and still you reviewed!!!!! Call me and I'll explain it to you, or better yet if we could pull time you could come over and watch it. As for whether it's me or not, well every original character is based on it's creator one way or another (And yes I do have that heart problem, except I can't black out from it, and I don't have medication). Hehe so you noticed my little screwed up names, eh? Yeah this story is rather symbolic in that matter.
IMPORTANT!!!! I was re-reading the last chapter, to brush up on what's was happening, when I came across a rather embarrassing mistake. ".until tears started to flow from my ears." It SHOULD say ".until tears started to flow from my *eyes*." Stupid me!!! One more reason that I should find myself a beta reader.
IMPORTANT.AGAIN!!!!! Now probably isn't the best time to tell this to everyone, but it's my fic and I'll do what I want. I was thinking about writing a run off story from this. Basically it would still be about Lakota, but the story line would be different. But then I had this other thought, that I could use that idea for my sequel, since I still don't have Slayers NEXT, but I think you would all get mad at me since I would have to have Zel loose all his memories of Lakota. We'll see, I might actually be able to make this really juicy!
ANOTHER IMPORTANT!!!!!! Sorry, this is the last one, I promise. Now I know I said I was going to re-do the whole Kopi Rezzo thing with Laky-chan, but I really don't want to have to type all of that. So I think I may cut this story a bit shorter than originally thought, and follow the plan I mentioned above.
Disclaimer: I own Lakota. That's it. I do not own Slayers, or any songs I may type up here (which will most likely be by the EELS.) And I still don't have my comic book! It's been four months!!!!!!!!
Chapter7: Zelgadis Gave His Word. (Now I KNOW I'm in Trouble!)
*Re-Cap* Zel looked at me funny for minute, trying to figure out what was wrong, until finally some rather unwanted information reached his brain. I wasn't sure whether to be relieved or worried. On one hand he could give me the help that I needed, on the other hand he would probably over-react and once again I would be in trouble. I didn't have too much time to think about it though, because before I knew it Zelgadis was trying to convince Gourry to let him carry me.
"I don't know," Gourry said slowly, "the whole point of me carrying her was so that she couldn't chase you."
"She's still tied up though," Zel tried to reason, "and if she was still after me, she wouldn't struggle so much if I were the one carrying her."
What was he up to? All he had to do was tell them that I hadn't taken my medicine, and be done with it. This made no sense!
"Well.. ok, I guess," Gourry finally conceded. I was really beginning to feel like a sack of potatoes when Gourry handed me over to Zelgadis. Not that this new arrangement wasn't interesting to say the least, but I was getting frustrated at feeling so helpless, and I really wasn't looking forward to the lecture that I was most like going to get from Zel. A few minutes passed before Zel said anything. I was beginning to get uncomfortable, and it had nothing to do with the way I was being carried.
"You didn't take your medicine, did you?" Zelgadis whispered in my ear. I shivered slightly; this was a rather disconcerting situation.
Because I was still gagged all I could do was glare at Zel, but I think he got the point nonetheless. Sure enough, just as I had predicted, I got a lovely little lecture that I chose to completely ignore. I hate it when people lecture me, Like they *always* know what's best! It's my life and I'll live however I want. I really didn't need any of this from *any* of them! I was tired of people running my life for me. I suppose that while I was silently fuming Zel must have noticed that I wasn't listening to him. Rather abruptly he stopped talking, which drew my attention back to the present. Timidly I looked up into Zel's face. He had is hood down mask off, and man did he ever look pissed at being ignored.
To make a long story short, after much glaring at each other, I finally lost it and started to shake slightly with the pain (which had steadily become worse.) Well of course Zel noticed, and *finally* chose to do something. Quickly and almost silently he cast a healing spell. And just like that the pain was gone!
For a few fleeting moments I was happy, until a thought struck me. Why the hell hadn't he done that earlier, if he knew that it would help?!? **************************************************************************** ***
It was around noon when we stopped for lunch, and Lina untied me.
"If you promise to be good, I won't have to tie you up again," she said.
I just grumbled angrily, it wasn't my fault that I was attracted to shiny things! But if that was true, then why hadn't I gotten that feeling of overwhelming possessiveness when Zel had carried me? He had had his mask and hood off, so I had definitely been able to see his skin... Nothing made sense anymore! **************************************************************************** ***
To spare you the long tedious monotony of traveling (there were only a few shiny incidences, one which found me up a tree trying to get whatever it was that was sparkling through the leaves) I'll just skip straight to when we finally reached Atlas city.
It was almost dusk, and from the top of the hill that we were standing on you could see the city. It was just one of those rare quiet moments until, "Well I guess this means that we can go our separate ways now," Zelgadis said.
"What?" asked Lina. "Aren't you going to come with us?" She said gesturing at Gourry and me.
"Now that Rezzo is gone I'm going to search for any possible cures for myself," he said simply.
"We'll go with you then," Gourry offered.
"No, but I'll be taking Lakota with me," Zel said as though it were the plainest thing to see.
"What?!?" Lina yelled in surprise. "I don't think so buddy! I found her first! Besides I still don't know if I can trust you, I hardly know anything about you."
'Ditto,' I thought quietly to myself. 'This doesn't look good. I'm either stuck with the Sorceress who'll use my sparkle obsession to find herself treasure, or I'm stuck with the Chimera who'll do god knows what to me.' Ok I admit my thoughts were slightly irrational. None of them had ever shown me any reason to doubt them, but in their argument I had suddenly developed a severe mistrust in all of them. So quietly as I could, while they were still blinded by their fighting, I slipped off into the forest next to the path.
"I think Gourry and I would be a much better influence on her! And besides that you'll be too busy finding a cure for yourself to even think about how to get her home!!"
"I gave her friend James my word that I would watch over her, and I don't intend to go back on that."
"Typical egotistical guy! We'll take good care of her you know!" Lina was yelling at this point.
I, meanwhile, had run a rather good distance away from them, and had climbed up a rather large tree, large enough that I could see them on the path.
Gourry, for the first time since they had started arguing, looked around. "Uh, you guys?"
"Not now Gourry!"
"But Lina-"
"Stay out of this!" Lina and Zelgadis said at the same time.
"Fine I just thought you ought to know that Lakota is gone," he said shrugging his shoulders.
"WHAT?!?" They chorused.
"Where?"
"How long?"
"What direction?"
"That's the same as where!"
I laughed to myself, they were pretty funny when they got all panicky. 'Best get a move on,' I thought, even though I hadn't the slightest idea where I was headed. Moving quickly and quietly I climbed down the tree, (The quick at quiet where with good reason too. I may have been a ways off from any of them, but Zelgadis, with his Chimera abilities, would have easily heard me and then caught up to me.)
I began to walk through the forest, my hand on the hilt of my sword, even though I hadn't the slightest idea how to use it (None of them had taught me any form of defense.) To my left the undergrowth rustled. Tensing a bit I looked to my left. Nothing. I didn't feel like taking a chance and asking if anyone was there, so I walked on tensing up once again when there came another rustling sound, this time to my right. Beyond reason at this point, I began to run. **************************************************************************** ***
I ran for what seemed like hours, and didn't stop until I reached a small clearing. It was beautiful, bordered by large oak trees, a hot spring not far in the distance, and most importantly sheltered. Even if they were looking for me it would take them forever to find the clearing that I had decided to set up camp in (it was just about dark by then.) Silently, as there wasn't anyone to talk to, I began to gather some wood, and built a fire, carefully making sure that it was small enough to not make me run straight into it.
After that I took off my cloak (the sheaths of my daggers where actually attacked to the back of my clothing, in a criss-crossed manner) and began to look through my pockets to see if there was any food to eat. As my luck would have it there wasn't anything, but a small piece of bread. Figuring that I wouldn't last long hunting, and would most likely get lost or caught, I didn't bother complaining about my sad and pathetic dinner.
Instead I tried to use this time to think. Something Lina had said when she was fight was starting to bother me. She had said that she and Gourry were going to try and figure out a way for me to get home (I was starting to get really home sick. Sure this would probably never happen again, but then at the rate things were going *normal life* was probably never going to happen again.) and if that were true, then why did I run? I couldn't figure out exactly what was going through my head at the time of my fleeing, because now that I thought about all of this, none of my reasons made sense anymore.
I had decided to run away for one reason; they hadn't asked me what I thought. Childish, no? And now, because of my sudden immaturity, I was lost and alone in the woods. Not a clue where I came from, not a clue where I was going, and not a clue as to how to get back home. My future was not looking bright. In an effort to make myself relax I decided to take a nice long soak in the hot spring. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Cloak*and*Dagger: So what do you think? Bet you never expected dear little Lakota to run away, huh? Oh and just as a side note, if you listen to the song Ai Wo Koete from Suikoden III right at the part where Lina and Zelgadis start fighting, straight to the end of the chapter, it makes it a lot cooler! I'm feeling generous, so I think that I'm going to post this and then start chapter8. Well, REVIEW!!!!!!!! Just click and type, it's that easy!!!
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