A/n g whiz, thank you so much Niffer, naria, BlackMoonEmpress, Sailor Centauri, Candyfloss, Time Whoadie and GlgdragnSr.
And to Sailor Centauri, you enjoy these lil convos really ^_^' yes Kalista was crying as well. If I saw my friend in that state I couldn't help myself but cry as well for them. The feelings expressed in this fic all come from personal experience so you guys can easily relate to it. Thank you, I do enjoy it when people need something explained or what not. Feel free to do so again anytime, anyone.
Also thank you for commenting on my writing skills, I have definitely put more heart into this fic and I have really thought about this more maturely. Btw tis my bday to day, so enjoy and read!
Betrayal of Hearts
Chapter 3
'To trust a disguise'
Dedicated to a friend who doesn't have to be alone
they ask where the hell I'm going?? at 1000 feet a second.
hey man slowdown. idiot slow down- Radiohead
Throwing herself back on her bed, Kalise shut her eyes. Her mind seemed a mess and she had no one to help her put it back in to order. Weaving her hands through her long brown hair, Kalise watched her mind trace out a picture of Hitomi running forever, never wanting to return. Her eyes immediately opened in fear and panic. Grabbing a nearby knee length, tight fitting leather coat and her sword, Kalise made her way out of her room to the palace gates.
'Kalise, where are you going?' cried a voice from behind as she met the gates. She paused and turned to face the little cat girl that waited patiently for her reply.
'Don't give me that cute act Merle,' Kalise said annoyed, pointing a finger at the innocent faced cat.
'What do you mean? I only asked you where you were going,' Merle replied, apparently confused by Kalise's flickering anger.
'Because of your jealousy little kitty, Hitomi has now run off somewhere,' Kalise answered, her forest eyes ablaze.
'I've said nothing to upset her-'
'Don't give me that rubbish Merle! You and I are friends, don't make me the middleman in your bickering with Hitomi because it's hurting me. I care about you Merle, but I care about Hitomi. And because of you, I don't know where she is,' Kalise spoke, her voice reduced to a whisper as the fire in her eyes was quenched.
Merle looked down at the floor ashamed. 'I'm sorry Kalise, I didn't mean to get you involved, it's only Hitomi I've got a few disagreements with,' she replied, tears standing in her eyes.
'Can't you just try to be nice to Hitomi? She's going through a very hard time at the moment and you're just adding to her problems,' Kalise asked, pleading with what energy she had left.
'I'll try Kalise,' Merle answered, walking up to Kalise and hugging the by far taller girl.
Kalise bent down lifting the small cat girl up to embrace her at her own level. 'I'm going to find Hitomi now, do you want to come with me?' Kalise whispered in her furry cat ears.
Kalise felt a slight shake of the head and she sighed in disappointment. 'I suppose I'll give you some time before I ask you to be the best of friends with Hitomi,' she muttered, faintly smiling as she put Merle back down to Earth.
'Thanks Kalista. Good luck,' Merle beamed back as she waved her paw before running off on all fours back into the depths of the palace.
Watching the cat girl run away, Kalise turned heel on her and walked out of the palace gates, at last beginning her search for Hitomi.
Two hours later, the brown haired youth was still walking about Fanelia, looking for her friend. Despite the intense heat, Kalise refused to take off her leather coat. Looking around she could feel the lustful stare from the surrounding men and she felt uncomfortable. Putting her hand on the hilt of her sword however soon averted their gaze. Her hand tightened around the handle as she heard what seemed to be a fight around the corner.
Turning down the high street, there was already a crowd gathered watching the spectacle. Weaving through the audience, Kalise made her way to the front hoping that Hitomi was in no way involved.
'Ziabach scum, why don't you just get out of Fanelia and return to the dark cave that you crawled out of!' A teenager shouted tauntingly.
Moving closer, Kalise could see two divisions of men standing opposite each other. On the left stood a group of juveniles brandishing their swords menacingly. Yet on the other side stood three Ziabach armour clad warriors. Kalise breathed out a sigh of relief, glad that Hitomi was no where to be seen amongst the dispute, but her breathing paused as she heard a vaguely familiar sarcastic laugh.
'Don't you have anything better to do you amateurs?' The silver haired man answered, brushing their intimidation off.
'No way are we amateurs so I suggest you beat it before it turns nasty you lowlife,' the leading Fanelian youth threatened, grimacing as his small group of friends patted him on the back in congratulation.
Kalise watched in fear as the albino's eyes flickered into a deeper red, reflecting the fire and blood thirst that he felt inside. She recognised those eyes; the night before. She furrowed her eyebrows in concentration, but quickly relaxed as she realised he had been the general she had been flirting with at the party, Lord Dilandau. Kalise felt her body waver. She had flirted with the monster that had killed so many innocents. She wanted to get away, run far away from the monster of a general.
Turning from the spectacle of menacing threats, Kalise tried to leave but it became much more laborious than she had thought. Her head felt light as her vision began to twist unreadable in front of her. Her legs wouldn't move as her knees began to buckle underneath her limp lifeless body. Falling backwards away from the crowd, her lush green eyes fluttered shut as she fell in to what seemed the soft ground.
'Get your hands off her!' The Fanelian youth shouted out, forcing his sword against Dilandau's neck.
Dilandau pulled Kalise up, cradling her in his arms. He had managed to catch her before she fell to the floor, aware that she had fainted. 'Remove your sword,' he ordered to the boy who held the offending weapon, pointing at his neck. Dilandau received no verbal reply as the tip pushed into his neck indicating the Fanelian's answer.
'I'm not going to hurt her, but if you want to do things your way, so be it,' Dilandau answered calmly. 'Chesta take her,' he commanded to his Dragonslayer, shifting Kalise from his arms to Chesta's. Turning back to the boy, Dilandau continued. 'This is your last warning,' he warned with the same persistent calm tone.
'No, I think this your last warning,' the youth shouted back, lunging at the presently unarmed
Ziabach general.
Dilandau's eyes shone brighter than ever; his hunger for blood had become unbearable since the beginning of peace negotiations. With what appeared a natural agility, Dilandau grabbed the handle of his sword and unsheathed it. As the youth continued to lunge, Dilandau swung his sword upwards from its sheath with a powerful uppercut that brutally forced the sword from the opposing Fanelian's hand. The boy paused in mid stride, gazing at his empty hand and then at the smirking albino.
'Amateur,' Dilandau commented, his sarcastic smile reflecting in his menacing eyes.
The youth moved quickly back two steps before gesturing for his friends to move forward and avenge his failure.
Feeling a new tension sweep over the crowd and the refreshed threat, Dilandau picked up the failed youth's sword. 'Stay there Gatti and Chesta,' Dilandau ordered, hearing them grow uneasy as the small group of Fanelian's charged at him.
'Yes Lord Dilandau,' they answered instinctively, in disappointment however.
'They're mine,' Dilandau muttered, hungry for battle. 'The fools.'
Kalise shifted slightly, raising her hand to her forehead. Her vision was still blurred at the edges but she managed to look upwards to see a boy, not yet a man, holding her in his arms. However, he didn't seem to notice her wake up from her daze as he smiled at the scuffle that could be heard nearby. Gazing to her right, Kalise watched as the Fanelian youths fell as they were being chopped down with the greatest of ease by the albino warrior. She felt ill as the slaughter continued with every double swing and lunge that Dilandau threw at them with the two swords he used with remarkable skill.
Within a few minutes, only the leader of the slaughtered group of juveniles was left. Tears streamed down his eyes as his sight fell over the massacre of his friends. Feeling no pity, the albino swung the two swords in front of him as a show of skill, threatening the trembling boy.
'Please, don't hurt me,' he pleaded, choking on his tears as he stumbled back through the parting crowd.
Dilandau didn't reply. His eyes were fixed on the youth, and he wouldn't stop to all the blood had been shed; no one challenged Dilandau and lived. Throwing down one of the swords, Dilandau swung the sword with a fluency that would inevitably conclude with death. Just as the sword moved closer to the shaking youth, Dilandau was thrown off balance and rolled on to the floor.
'Get out of here,' Kalise shouted at the crowd as well as the boy. They stared back at her, unmoved. 'Now!' she yelled and as commanded they ran, leaving her holding down the struggling albino.
Reaching down to her waist, Kalise pulled out her sword and held it against Dilandau's neck. He immediately stopped his struggling and then began to seemingly tremble instead. The shaking soon grew into maniacal laughter. Kalise sat up slightly, allowing the general to turn over. Sitting on his chest, she raised an eyebrow in confusion at the now calming albino.
'Well if you aren't the little heroine. I could even kill you now if I pleased,' Dilandau spoke sarcastically, looking up at the girl sitting on his chest.
'You do know that I have to report this to Lord Van,' Kalise replied calmly, trying to disguise her deepest fear for the general.
'If you think that I violated the peace negotiations, then you're sadly mistaken. Everything I did was in self defence-'
'Self-defence! You killed them Dilandau!' Kalise yelled.
'But they started it,' Chesta interrupted.
'They even threatened to fight us when Lord Dilandau caught you,' Gatti added.
'Caught me?' Kalise questioned bewildered. 'Wait a minute, you mean you caught me when I fainted?' She asked Dilandau, remembering no other time when it may have been possible.
'Yes I did indeed save you from a nasty encounter with the hard stone street, and in turn you threw me onto the floor,' Dilandau replied in an annoyed tone.
Blushing, Kalise apologised. She couldn't believe that a monster like Dilandau could do something so gentleman-like.
'Well, if you don't mind, get off me,' Dilandau ordered rather than asked.
'Sorry…again,' Kalise answered, turning a deeper shade of red.
Standing up, Kalise sheathed her sword as Dilandau gestured the two Dragonslayers to leave. Kalise froze; they were alone. Despite his kindness, she could never get past his blood red eyes, the eyes that showed his true nature to kill.
'You know Lord Van is going to be pissed about this,' Kalise said, filling in the silence with general conversation.
'Screw Lord Van. It was his peasants that attacked us first,' Dilandau answered, his hatred for Van evident in his voice.
Kalise glared at him with all the anger in her heart. 'Well, I used to be-' she paused. If anyone else, apart from the select few that already knew, found out that used to be a so called 'peasant,' she would be humiliated. The title of 'Lady' would be stripped from her and she would become an embarrassment to Van and Hitomi.
'You used to be what Lady Kalista?' Dilandau inquired, raising an eyebrow.
'Nothing,' she retorted, dismissing Dilandau's question. 'Have you seen Lady Hitomi?' She asked returning to formalities and remembering why she had left the palace in the first place.
'For a matter of fact, I have,' he responded, a smirk staining his face.
'But you're not going to tell me are you?' Kalise asked, realising the need for the albino's sarcastic smile.
'You're catching on quickly girl. Shame you can't learn how to use a sword just as fast,' he replied, his tone teasing her sword skills.
'It's a safety precaution,' she stated confidently.
'I doubt it will ever save you with your bad skills.'
'Look Lord Dilandau, if you're not going to tell me where Lady Hitomi is, I will be leaving you now,' she said irritated, her patience tested.
'Ok then Lady Kalista,' he replied with a slight bow. 'I take it you'll be present for the dinner tonight?' Dilandau asked as Kalise turned to leave.
'Seeing as it's the final declaration of peace, I suppose it would only be polite of me to make myself present,' she replied sarcastically.
'Yes we all must keep up our formalities and disguises Lady Kalista,' he muttered beneath his breath. 'Well, it has been interesting talking to you, good day.'
'Good day Lord Dilandau,' she replied with a quick curtsy, slightly lost with his mumbled words.
Exchanging the high street for an alleyway, Kalise breathed in heavily.
'God he gives me the creeps,' she sighed as she leaned against the alley wall. 'And if these peace negotiations work out tonight, I'll have to see him more often on friendly terms,' she continued, worry etching across her face.
Pushing herself off the wall, she made her way into a tavern when she realised how desperately that she needed a strong drink. Standing in the entrance, Kalise noticed her friend face down on the bar, her nearby glasses empty.
A/n oh that isn't clever is it? Getting yourself drunk before some peace thingy meeting later in the evening, tut tut. Her bad. Well, that took me ages and I stopped there because there is loads of action in the next chapter and well there's no space in this chapter to add it. I don't think the word 'peace' means anything to Dilly sama ^_^' oh well.
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