Liney yawned and stretched, walking over to rouse Gregory. She felt drops
of wetness fall onto her face and body.
"Eeeeeeek!" Screamed Kate, running over from where she had been practicing archery with her peers. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! We're all going to die!"
"Wha--?" Gregory said, stumbling out of his tent where he had been napping, before Liney had rudely awakened him.
"It's just rain!" Liney said, following Gregory out of the tent.
"Oh." Kate said, slightly embarrassed. She then started to walk back to the practice field, dragging her feet on the ground when she promptly tripped on a rock and fell flat on her face, knocking her out for a few moments.
"Will the injuries never cease?" Neal cried throwing his hands up in despair.
"Will she be okay?" Dom asked running over with Daine, Peter and Rosefyre.
"She'll be fine." Neal said. "I know Kate, and she has an exceptionally hard head."
Kate's eyes fluttered open and she stared up into Neal's bright green eyes. "I heard that."
" O' course you did!" Peter said, tying his oblivious father's bootlaces together, chuckling happily.
Rosefyre saw what Peter was doing and grinned happily. When Peter stood up winking at Rosefyre to signify that he had finished, Rosefyre's grin widened. "Hey, Neal, isn't that your horse trying to get free?"
"What?" Neal asked. "Mages' Whisper?" He took (or tried to) take a step in the direction of the picketed horses and fell flat on his face.
Everybody fell over from laughing. There was even a loud guffaw from Raoul who was over on the opposite side of the clearing. Neal blushed the color of a sun burned radish and began to berate his son.
"Come on, dad!" Peter said. "You must admit it was funny. Even the horses are laughing."
Neal glared at the horses, which swished their tails and decided to go back to munching on grass and other shrubbery.
Raganas walked over with her horse. "I'm tired of just sitting here." She said. "Can we start the spar?"
"Yeah!" Kaitlin said. "I want ta put my skills to use!"
"So do I!" Lady Light, Caprice and Olivia cried at the exact same time.
"Yes!" Krizsta said. "And we have to rescue Madz and Meron!"
"Even if they are a bit weird." Samkin muttered.
"Hey, at least they don't speak their own, weird, made-up language or anything!" Kathryn said.
~*~
"Hikka bikka boo?" Maddy asked.
"Noki fromp." Meron replied with a slight shake of his head.
Nell sighed and let them continue to converse in their own, weird, made-up language. They could do anything they wanted, as long as they were inside the cell, and she was outside.
~*~
"I don't want to fight right now!" Gregory said. "I just woke up." As if on cue he yawned loudly, swallowing a fly. "Aw! Disgusting!" He then proceeded to brush off his tongue with his fingers.
"We have to fight," Liney wheedled. "If you fight I'll cook something for you! I'll catch a fish or something!"
"You certainly know a way to a man's stomach, don't you lassie?" Gregory said. "Or is it his heart? Same thing."
"Let's all get ready!" Maria said, latching her sword over her right shoulder and over her left hip, twisting the sword sheath so it lay flat across her back.
"Let's have to food first!" Gregory said.
"Yes!" Peter cried. "Food!"
"Hey," Gregory said to Peter. "Nobody said anything about food for you. Liney, what are you going to make?"
"Well, look, it doesn't seem like I'll need to run off and catch something after all!" Liney said, grinning broadly. "Here comes Kel with some, well, I can't properly make it out from all the way over here but it looks like hare!"
"You knew she was coming!" Gregory said. "Cad! Bounder! Temptress!"
"All those things I may be..." Liney said slowly. "But I haven't the slightest idea what a bounder is."
"Frankly," Gregory confided in her, "nor do I, but it sounds really cool!"
"Can we start fighting already?" Olivia asked, tapping her foot.
Liney looked up and noticed almost everyone was staring at her and Gregory, that is, with the exception of Cleon who was trying to fit a pebble up his nose without prevail.
"Kiss her already!" Screamed somebody, for it was impossible to tell.
Liney looked up at Gregory, eyes big and sparkly, if that is at all possible. Gregory leaned down an inch or so and kissed her lightly on the nose.
"What a rip off." Muttered Diana.
"I'm sorry to put off your little smidgeon of entertainment for today but a few seconds ago you were all screeching at me to start fighting." Gregory said. "Let's bally well saved the kisses for after we've won!"
"You're insane." Muttered Peter, winking broadly at Liney.
"If we were in kicking distance," Liney said, "you'd be hopping about on one food, monsieur, so you'd better shut your cake hole!"
"Peter's in trouble!" Amy said in a mocking tone. "You're in for it now, Petey-my-lad."
Peter seriously looked nervous. "You aren't serious?"
"You bet your life, bud." Kate said narrowing her eyes. "I know a lad, who knows a lass who knew a lad who once made fun of Liney."
"Wha-at h-h-happened to-o h-him?" Cleon asked shivering.
"Well, lets just say that they had to tie him together so that they didn't loose part of him in shipping." Kate said smiling triumphantly after spouting out this tangle of horrible lies, which Cleon, and pretty much everybody else with no brain, so never mind, just Cleon, completely believed. Maddy would have believed it completely, had she been present.
Cleon screamed and covered his eyes. "Noo!"
"Yes!" Said Kaytee, grinning and cackling maliciously.
"And they were mad at us because we were prolonging the fight." Liney murmured to Gregory.
Numair cleared his throat loudly. "Ahem!" No result. He tried again, louder. "AHEM!"
Heads swiveled around to stare at Numair. "I say!" Said Rosefyre. "Are you coughing up a hair ball or something?"
"No," Numair said, lowering his voice now that everybody, with the exception of Cleon once again, who was cowering at the fate of the lad who Liney had apparently chopped to bits, was paying attention to him. "I wanted to tell you all that it's about time we start fighting!"
"Yeah!" Said Marc.
"Double yeah!" Kathryn said.
"Triple yeah!" Marc cried.
"Quadruple yeah!" Kathryn yelled.
"Yeah infinity!" Marc said, crossing his arms.
"Yeah infinity plus one!" Kathryn said in retaliation.
"Will you two shut up?" George asked. "We have enough fights without you two bickering over everything that's even remotely bicker-able!
"Well, when you put it that way..." Said Marc. Then he cried, obviously fake, "I'm so sorry Kathryn!" And he pulled her into a tight hug.
Kathryn shoved him with a trick she had learned from George and sent him sprawling. "Sucker," she muttered.
"That wasn't very nice!" Diana said.
"Yeah!" Said Marc, sticking out his tongue childishly.
"You're not being the prince of kindness either, Marc!" Olivia said. "Now apologize so we can continue with out meaningless lives!"
"Sorry." Muttered Kathryn, not sounding sorry in the least.
"I'm so sorry!" Marc cried femininely.
"Marc, you're embarrassing us." Gregory said.
Peter nodded. "Get a grip."
"Sorry," muttered Marc.
"Now that that's over," Daine said, "we can fight! Archers make a row, slings stand behind them. On my command fire and duck, then the next row shoots. That way we can have a steady rain of arrows and stones. They won't know what hit 'em"
"Okay," said Peter, dragging Kate and Rosefyre over to the afore mentioned log. Lady Light, Olivia, Caprice and Amy followed. Kaytee ran around trying to find rocks.
"Raganas, Samkin, Krizsta, grab your mounts and pop on up there." Raoul said.
"And don't forget your spears!" Buri said. "Raganas, you're stirrup is too long, fix it!"
"Sorry marm." Said Raganas, bending over in the saddle to adjust her stirrup while Samkin held her spear for her. She straightened when she had finished. "Can I have my spear back now?" She asked Samkin, hand extended.
"No!" Said Samkin with an evil little chuckle. "Come and get it!"
Raganas gave Samkin a look that would have made Napoleon screech run for cover. Samkin shuddered and handed over the spear.
"Swords! Grab your horse and mount!" Alanna bellowed.
Diana grabbed the horse she had previously tacked and swung up. Maria and Kaitlin followed suit, as did Kel and Alanna.
"That just leaves you two." Said George. "And I have half a mind not to let you fight, after all, all you do is argue."
"Please!" Said Marc. "We'll be good! I promise!"
"We'll be perfect!" Kathryn said.
"Please!" The both said in unison looking up at George sadly.
"Fine!" George cried, throwing up his hands. "But I don't want you going anywhere near the actual soldiers. You will throw daggers from SAFE DISTANCE! Got it?"
"Yes sir." Marc and Kathryn agreed meekly.
"One, two, three ATTACK!" Yelled Kel.
And the fight began.
~*~
Nell had dozed off when she was aroused by a young lady, probably the same age as Nell, perhaps younger, with shoulder-length black hair, black eyes and a happy expression, especially for one working at the jail cells.
"Huh?" Nell said, being jerked from her slumber. "Oh, hullo Cat."
"Hello to you!" Said the lady, Cat. "Bryan sent me. Jillian wants these two." She jerked her thumb at Maddy and Meron.
"Cat!" Cried Maddy.
Cat jerked around. "What?"
"I like your name."
"Um, Thank you."
Meron and Nell blinked as Maddy and Cat snapped out of their semi- friendship. "That was strange." Meron said softly to Maddy.
Maddy smiled. "I think she's nice. She won't hurt us like Vlad and Holden did. They were dickheads."
Meron laughed loudly. "You're a strange lass, Maddy, that you are."
"If happy hour is over, do you think you could hold still for a minute?" Nell said, fitting a rope around Meron's neck, and another around Maddy's. "I don't want to strangle you before Jillian has the chance."
"Jillian's going to strangle us?" Meron asked.
"I missed happy hour?" Maddy asked.
"In answer to your question, boy, I don't know what Jillian's going to do." Cat said. "She's always different. And in answer to the little insane girl's question: happy hour? What are you, six?"
"Actually, I'm fourteen." Maddy said grinning happily.
Nell sighed. "Don't make friends with them, Cat!"
"Sorry." Said Cat, scuffing her foot.
And together the two young women dragged the lad and the lass to their mistress.
~*~
Huzzo! That was actually fun to write! *Dances around her numerous candles, chanting with Goku and Cleon to the Cry Me A River song by Justin Timberlake* Hm, I don't even like that song. Yet, it is stuck in my head! *Proceeds to whack her head with a mallet* Review, you know the drill.
Luv,
LadyKnight
"Eeeeeeek!" Screamed Kate, running over from where she had been practicing archery with her peers. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling! We're all going to die!"
"Wha--?" Gregory said, stumbling out of his tent where he had been napping, before Liney had rudely awakened him.
"It's just rain!" Liney said, following Gregory out of the tent.
"Oh." Kate said, slightly embarrassed. She then started to walk back to the practice field, dragging her feet on the ground when she promptly tripped on a rock and fell flat on her face, knocking her out for a few moments.
"Will the injuries never cease?" Neal cried throwing his hands up in despair.
"Will she be okay?" Dom asked running over with Daine, Peter and Rosefyre.
"She'll be fine." Neal said. "I know Kate, and she has an exceptionally hard head."
Kate's eyes fluttered open and she stared up into Neal's bright green eyes. "I heard that."
" O' course you did!" Peter said, tying his oblivious father's bootlaces together, chuckling happily.
Rosefyre saw what Peter was doing and grinned happily. When Peter stood up winking at Rosefyre to signify that he had finished, Rosefyre's grin widened. "Hey, Neal, isn't that your horse trying to get free?"
"What?" Neal asked. "Mages' Whisper?" He took (or tried to) take a step in the direction of the picketed horses and fell flat on his face.
Everybody fell over from laughing. There was even a loud guffaw from Raoul who was over on the opposite side of the clearing. Neal blushed the color of a sun burned radish and began to berate his son.
"Come on, dad!" Peter said. "You must admit it was funny. Even the horses are laughing."
Neal glared at the horses, which swished their tails and decided to go back to munching on grass and other shrubbery.
Raganas walked over with her horse. "I'm tired of just sitting here." She said. "Can we start the spar?"
"Yeah!" Kaitlin said. "I want ta put my skills to use!"
"So do I!" Lady Light, Caprice and Olivia cried at the exact same time.
"Yes!" Krizsta said. "And we have to rescue Madz and Meron!"
"Even if they are a bit weird." Samkin muttered.
"Hey, at least they don't speak their own, weird, made-up language or anything!" Kathryn said.
~*~
"Hikka bikka boo?" Maddy asked.
"Noki fromp." Meron replied with a slight shake of his head.
Nell sighed and let them continue to converse in their own, weird, made-up language. They could do anything they wanted, as long as they were inside the cell, and she was outside.
~*~
"I don't want to fight right now!" Gregory said. "I just woke up." As if on cue he yawned loudly, swallowing a fly. "Aw! Disgusting!" He then proceeded to brush off his tongue with his fingers.
"We have to fight," Liney wheedled. "If you fight I'll cook something for you! I'll catch a fish or something!"
"You certainly know a way to a man's stomach, don't you lassie?" Gregory said. "Or is it his heart? Same thing."
"Let's all get ready!" Maria said, latching her sword over her right shoulder and over her left hip, twisting the sword sheath so it lay flat across her back.
"Let's have to food first!" Gregory said.
"Yes!" Peter cried. "Food!"
"Hey," Gregory said to Peter. "Nobody said anything about food for you. Liney, what are you going to make?"
"Well, look, it doesn't seem like I'll need to run off and catch something after all!" Liney said, grinning broadly. "Here comes Kel with some, well, I can't properly make it out from all the way over here but it looks like hare!"
"You knew she was coming!" Gregory said. "Cad! Bounder! Temptress!"
"All those things I may be..." Liney said slowly. "But I haven't the slightest idea what a bounder is."
"Frankly," Gregory confided in her, "nor do I, but it sounds really cool!"
"Can we start fighting already?" Olivia asked, tapping her foot.
Liney looked up and noticed almost everyone was staring at her and Gregory, that is, with the exception of Cleon who was trying to fit a pebble up his nose without prevail.
"Kiss her already!" Screamed somebody, for it was impossible to tell.
Liney looked up at Gregory, eyes big and sparkly, if that is at all possible. Gregory leaned down an inch or so and kissed her lightly on the nose.
"What a rip off." Muttered Diana.
"I'm sorry to put off your little smidgeon of entertainment for today but a few seconds ago you were all screeching at me to start fighting." Gregory said. "Let's bally well saved the kisses for after we've won!"
"You're insane." Muttered Peter, winking broadly at Liney.
"If we were in kicking distance," Liney said, "you'd be hopping about on one food, monsieur, so you'd better shut your cake hole!"
"Peter's in trouble!" Amy said in a mocking tone. "You're in for it now, Petey-my-lad."
Peter seriously looked nervous. "You aren't serious?"
"You bet your life, bud." Kate said narrowing her eyes. "I know a lad, who knows a lass who knew a lad who once made fun of Liney."
"Wha-at h-h-happened to-o h-him?" Cleon asked shivering.
"Well, lets just say that they had to tie him together so that they didn't loose part of him in shipping." Kate said smiling triumphantly after spouting out this tangle of horrible lies, which Cleon, and pretty much everybody else with no brain, so never mind, just Cleon, completely believed. Maddy would have believed it completely, had she been present.
Cleon screamed and covered his eyes. "Noo!"
"Yes!" Said Kaytee, grinning and cackling maliciously.
"And they were mad at us because we were prolonging the fight." Liney murmured to Gregory.
Numair cleared his throat loudly. "Ahem!" No result. He tried again, louder. "AHEM!"
Heads swiveled around to stare at Numair. "I say!" Said Rosefyre. "Are you coughing up a hair ball or something?"
"No," Numair said, lowering his voice now that everybody, with the exception of Cleon once again, who was cowering at the fate of the lad who Liney had apparently chopped to bits, was paying attention to him. "I wanted to tell you all that it's about time we start fighting!"
"Yeah!" Said Marc.
"Double yeah!" Kathryn said.
"Triple yeah!" Marc cried.
"Quadruple yeah!" Kathryn yelled.
"Yeah infinity!" Marc said, crossing his arms.
"Yeah infinity plus one!" Kathryn said in retaliation.
"Will you two shut up?" George asked. "We have enough fights without you two bickering over everything that's even remotely bicker-able!
"Well, when you put it that way..." Said Marc. Then he cried, obviously fake, "I'm so sorry Kathryn!" And he pulled her into a tight hug.
Kathryn shoved him with a trick she had learned from George and sent him sprawling. "Sucker," she muttered.
"That wasn't very nice!" Diana said.
"Yeah!" Said Marc, sticking out his tongue childishly.
"You're not being the prince of kindness either, Marc!" Olivia said. "Now apologize so we can continue with out meaningless lives!"
"Sorry." Muttered Kathryn, not sounding sorry in the least.
"I'm so sorry!" Marc cried femininely.
"Marc, you're embarrassing us." Gregory said.
Peter nodded. "Get a grip."
"Sorry," muttered Marc.
"Now that that's over," Daine said, "we can fight! Archers make a row, slings stand behind them. On my command fire and duck, then the next row shoots. That way we can have a steady rain of arrows and stones. They won't know what hit 'em"
"Okay," said Peter, dragging Kate and Rosefyre over to the afore mentioned log. Lady Light, Olivia, Caprice and Amy followed. Kaytee ran around trying to find rocks.
"Raganas, Samkin, Krizsta, grab your mounts and pop on up there." Raoul said.
"And don't forget your spears!" Buri said. "Raganas, you're stirrup is too long, fix it!"
"Sorry marm." Said Raganas, bending over in the saddle to adjust her stirrup while Samkin held her spear for her. She straightened when she had finished. "Can I have my spear back now?" She asked Samkin, hand extended.
"No!" Said Samkin with an evil little chuckle. "Come and get it!"
Raganas gave Samkin a look that would have made Napoleon screech run for cover. Samkin shuddered and handed over the spear.
"Swords! Grab your horse and mount!" Alanna bellowed.
Diana grabbed the horse she had previously tacked and swung up. Maria and Kaitlin followed suit, as did Kel and Alanna.
"That just leaves you two." Said George. "And I have half a mind not to let you fight, after all, all you do is argue."
"Please!" Said Marc. "We'll be good! I promise!"
"We'll be perfect!" Kathryn said.
"Please!" The both said in unison looking up at George sadly.
"Fine!" George cried, throwing up his hands. "But I don't want you going anywhere near the actual soldiers. You will throw daggers from SAFE DISTANCE! Got it?"
"Yes sir." Marc and Kathryn agreed meekly.
"One, two, three ATTACK!" Yelled Kel.
And the fight began.
~*~
Nell had dozed off when she was aroused by a young lady, probably the same age as Nell, perhaps younger, with shoulder-length black hair, black eyes and a happy expression, especially for one working at the jail cells.
"Huh?" Nell said, being jerked from her slumber. "Oh, hullo Cat."
"Hello to you!" Said the lady, Cat. "Bryan sent me. Jillian wants these two." She jerked her thumb at Maddy and Meron.
"Cat!" Cried Maddy.
Cat jerked around. "What?"
"I like your name."
"Um, Thank you."
Meron and Nell blinked as Maddy and Cat snapped out of their semi- friendship. "That was strange." Meron said softly to Maddy.
Maddy smiled. "I think she's nice. She won't hurt us like Vlad and Holden did. They were dickheads."
Meron laughed loudly. "You're a strange lass, Maddy, that you are."
"If happy hour is over, do you think you could hold still for a minute?" Nell said, fitting a rope around Meron's neck, and another around Maddy's. "I don't want to strangle you before Jillian has the chance."
"Jillian's going to strangle us?" Meron asked.
"I missed happy hour?" Maddy asked.
"In answer to your question, boy, I don't know what Jillian's going to do." Cat said. "She's always different. And in answer to the little insane girl's question: happy hour? What are you, six?"
"Actually, I'm fourteen." Maddy said grinning happily.
Nell sighed. "Don't make friends with them, Cat!"
"Sorry." Said Cat, scuffing her foot.
And together the two young women dragged the lad and the lass to their mistress.
~*~
Huzzo! That was actually fun to write! *Dances around her numerous candles, chanting with Goku and Cleon to the Cry Me A River song by Justin Timberlake* Hm, I don't even like that song. Yet, it is stuck in my head! *Proceeds to whack her head with a mallet* Review, you know the drill.
Luv,
LadyKnight