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I folded my arms and gave her a long look. "So prove it."
"I don't have to prove it," she huffed, "and I don't want to talk about it anymore."
I laughed my head off, and then we started talking about something else.
But if she thought the subject was closed, she had another thing coming.
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Early that morning, we heard the tremendous sound of marching machinery; guymelefs, for sure.
I was laying on Hitomi's tail, as she stretched out in the cool cave, at that hot summer day. We heard the huge humanoid machines as they crossed the forest, a couple of miles from the cave.
"What the are they doing?" I asked, still half asleep.
"Preparing for battle, dumbass. Don't ya know anything?" She asked annoyingly as she rolled to her feet, in one swift movement, causing me to whack my head against the floor.
I sat and rubbed my head "Ouch, don't do that!" I reclaimed as I saw her peering cautiously at the cave entrance. "Battle? What battle? Are they coming for you?"
"I doubt it. Allen returned to the castle, and he wouldn't admit he's been defeated so many times. So I doubt he'll send another to do his job."
We stared at each other. And soon we were in a laughing sprint, coughing and wiping tears.
"Man, sure he won't!" I claimed, making us laugh a couple minutes more.
It was really Hitomi's fault; she should have keep quiet. Well, there are times when maturity seems to evaporate. When otherwise perfectly responsible, disciplined people get a little silly, maybe, and suddenly everything is hilariously funny. You try- you say, "Okay, lets calm down..." and everybody tries to put a straight face.
You try to keep your mind on what you are doing.
You try not to think about laughing- but then somebody slips and lets out a half-strangled sputter and everything totally falls apart.
I love it when that happens.
I don't know what set us off that particular morning, but it got bad. We were just so funny. I was having a great time until a tremendous earthshaking sound made me plunge face first to the ground.
From where I was, I could see the birds taking flight to the sky as the passing guymelefs approached pulling up east, where we were; hundreds of them, maybe thousands, making their path in the forest, destroying trees and animals in their way.
"They are coming here!!" I screamed as I starting pulling on Hitomi's long claws. "Run! You gotta get away! Fly, dig or swim or something! Go!" I said as I started pulling her tail now.
"Stop, you imbecile! Nobody's would send a thousand guymelefs to kill a little dragon, only pea brain Millerna would, but she's not in charge of deciding that." She said as she went to the back of the cave and fetched a little bundle. "They are going to Seizetsu, surely it claimed war at the border against Asturia."
She checked around and walked out of the cave as I followed behind. "Then why are we going?" I panted back. "If you are right, then they are not looking for you."
"You, idiot! They'll come this way, moron! If you weren't so stupid you'd figured that those friggin guys will see and kill me!" She screamed at me as she fluttered her wings and walked hurriedly towards the north, the little bundle dangling from her tail.
"You know what, Hitomi? You have a swearing problem."
"Shut the fuck up and hurry." She said, not even looking back.
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We sat at top of a hill and Hitomi crouched down over her pack and lowered her head to the ground.
"Get under my wing," she said.
"What? Are you crazy? They'll see us!" I screamed, tugging on her wing thumb.
"Shut up, dope! See those?" she asked, pointing a bunch of white, round stones. "It's called, camouflage, imbecile, so get down there and shut up!"
Now, I couldn't argue against that.
I dove under Hitomi's right wing and peered out as she narrowed her green eyes, making them almost invisible.
Soon people began to stream out from everywhere, carrying their everyday stuff. Kids were climbing trees to look at the huge guymelefs. Every so often somebody would ride by in a horse or cart and yell out a progress report.
They were mighty Asturian guymelefs; Terceiros, Naiades, and some Supirukas- the largests and most powerful guymelefs of Asturia at that time.
I'll never forget how the first tremendous body rose over a hill nearby to the cave, their lances, spears and swords beamed as they walked proudly towards Seizetsu. An escort of armed soldiers walked soberly alongside.
And just as Hitomi told me; just as soon as they reached the cave, the soldier speared the darkness with their spears as they registered the whole cave.
"A two-year-old child could have walked faster," said Hitomi rolling her eyes up.
"And could have done less damage to the forest." I observed.
"At this rate they'll take all morning to cross by, and I'm really hungry" I just scrunched up a little away from her.
"Idiots!" claimed Hitomi as she snorted silently. "They are nothing against Seizetsu. Surely they'll recruit every man in the country to just match half of the Seizetsu army."
A yapping dog had darted too close and been crushed under one of the guymelefs foot.
Hitomi started chuckling and I glared at her, giving her a sick look.
She shut up and redirected her attention, every now and then letting a shy chuckle.
That morning we had a pretty close description of what we would see, but we still caught our breaths when the guymelefs came over the hill.
Everyone edged away from their path as each guymelef's ton of molded steel rattled and clanked and cracked the macadam going by on the way to the job of protecting us, and the Asturian border from Seizetsu.
The war hadn't scared me yet, and it didn't scare me that morning. I was glad to find out. Not because I was a psycho war fan; but because it's better to know what's to happen so you don't accidentally run into it.
I turned to see Hitomi's face, and I caught her stifling chuckles as I glared to her. She saw me and tried to compose herself.
"Sorry, it's that friggin dog thing." She laughed quietly. "Can't get it outta my mind."
I sighed. There are things that you just can't help.
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"Now, Hitomi. We gotta go to Tuonela; they might be worried for you." I said as we walked back to the cave.
"Dunno. It's really far." She said as she waggled the little bundle hanging off her tail. I was dying of curiosity to know what was on there, but I knew better than to pressure her to something.
"Do you think you can take us in an hour or two?" I said. "If it's really far maybe it'll takes us more time."
She stopped and looked at me. "An hour or two??!" she said breathlessly. "You know how far it is? Is almost near the pole!"
"Yes, sure. Well, we gonna go flying, aren't we?" I said, a frown creasing my brow. "You can fly, can't you?"
"Uhhhhh..."
"I don't know if you have noticed; but you have 30 ft long wings at each side of yours; they surely work for something else that decoration. Now, mind ya if I hop on and finish this horrible trip?"
"Heck no! Grow your own wings; I'm not a flying taxi service!"
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"Having any luck trying to figure out a route, 'Tomi?"
"I'm not an owl, Van! Doing good just seeing where the hell I'm standing!"
"Sheesh, been on a great mood lately!"
"Talking idiots don't make dragons happy."
"So what does make you happy?"
"No way I'm telling you; you'd just pester me more."
"Would I?"
"You are doing it right now!!"
"We could be out of this hours ago if you would be willing to let me ride you. It's not that a big deal! Just a couple of days."
"There's some things you don't know about; like pride... for instance."
"Oh, just shut up! Can't you be nice and act like if you actually were my friend?"
"We both know that that's something out of question."
"And all that time we've spent together; it was just faking?"
"Van,"
"Yes?!!"
"We've been only hanging around for two days!"
"Oh."
"..."
"Are we really this lame?"
"No, we're worse."
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Whoa. That was weird! Oh, well. Sorry for the short chapter, just couldn't get really serious crap into my lil brain. So I decided to stop while I was still in my sane mind.
Thank for all the reviews! I'm glad you guyz liked the story so far. N' dun worry, there's more characters to this story!
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