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A.N.- Thanks for the reviews as always. ANd sorry for the long wait. This chapter was orignally supposed to introduce the couple of Flame Swordsman(Masaki)/Princess of Tsurugi(Diania), but I re-did everything because I'm trying not to do more than one couple. I'm not giving too much away, so read.

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Dragon C. Chan- Yeah... guard duty sucks.



Newly Introduced Duel Monsters Cast:

-Princess of Tsurugi: Diania
-Queen's Doulbe: Samantha
-Flame Manipulator: ???
-Flame Swordsman: Masaki

Formerly Introduced Duel Monsters Cast:

-Celtic Guardian: Berriez
-Mystical Elf: Shannon
-Kojikocy: Koji
-Ancient Elf: Daimeon
-Masaki, the Legendary Swordsman: Masaki
-Neo, the Magic Swordsman: Neo
-Dark Magician Girl: Sabrina
-Protector of the Throne: Aya
-Dark Magician: Chanron -Gaia the Feirce Knight/Gaia the Dragon Champion: Gaia
-Black Luster Soldier/Dragon Master Knight: Ryuujin
-Souls of the Forgotten: Various spirts of dead warriors and nobility
-Swordstalker: Swordstalker
-King of Yamimakai:Kirgen
-Sorceror of the Doomed: Yaji
-Baron of the Feind Sword: Zenow
-Mr. Volcano: King Volcano
-Curse of Dragon: Curse of Dragon
-Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon: Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon



Of Elves and Demons
Chapter 10
By: Joey/Mai fan15



Berriez watched over Shannon's sleeping figure, his bloodshot eyes didn't even blink. He tilted his face towards the window as the sun rose over the distant horison. Dust had filled the room allowing the sun's rays to be visible. Berriez followed the golden line until he reached the blue tinge of her face. Suddenly, she began to stir, awakening from a good night's sleep.

Slowly, her eyes adjusted to the light and she looked over at Berriez, "Morning, Berriez."

He was too tired to respond right away, but after a few seconds he replied, "Morning... I'm sooooo tired."

The door burst open, startling Berriez as Masaki walked in, "Ryuujin says that the three of us are going to have to get to Tsurugi tomorrow. He also said that you can sleep now, Berriez. One of his sevants will keep an eye on Shannon."

Berriez moved to the bed where she still laid and collapsed down onto it, he was asleep before he hit the sheets. Shannon giggled as she put the covers over him. When she was finished, she turned back to Masaki, "Why do we have to go there?"

"Because Ryuujin says that they would be good allies. They have the largest army that exists. You, being a princess of the main country in the war, are the one that should be doing this."

"Okay, but isn't it a little far away?" Shannon looked down at Berriez's face and brushed his hair out of his face."

"We're going to make a stopover at the Pyro city again," he paid no attention at her actions towards Berriez.

Shannon let go of his blonde locks and frowned. She didn't like staying there, "Okay. You can go over this tomorrow with both of us again, I'm going to go back to sleep."

He nodded and walked back out the door as a servant walked in to keep an eye on Shannon. He continued to walk through the castle, heading for his own room. Thought's ran through him about the next day, he was nervous since the danger of traveling had increased imensly from a month ago.

The messanger that brought the news from Ryuujin ran up to him, "Hey, Masaki!"

He stopped and turned to the boy who continued speaking, "Are you excited about getting out of here tomorrow? I would be."

He didn't answer the question, so the boy continued, "I hear that they have some of the best fighters there. I bet even you could find someone that would put up a good fight."

"..."

The young boy started to become frustrated with his lack of response, "I know you won't answer this, but... Has anyone ever told you that you don't talk much?"

"Has anyone ever told you that you talk too much?"

The boy narrowed his eyes and looked over Masaki. Masaki rolled his eyes, "Listen kid, I'm tired. I have to go tomorrow. I think I'll go and sleep until tomorrow morning. Tell one of the castle servants to get me up im the morning."

The boy ran off and Masaki headed back towards his room. Back in Shannon's room, she laid with her eyes open watching Berriez as he slept. She finally knew how much har sister was in love. Before she couldn't imagine how much Danielle had loved Gaia but now she understood through her own experience. She would go through hell and back for Berriez.

Now she worried for the sake of their relationship. The Princess of Tsurugi was supposed to be one of the most beautiful princesses in the world and if Berriez met her he might actually... no he wouldn't do that, after all he was too in love with Shannon.

She touched his face which was a little cold, probably from staying up for so long. He smiled in his sleep and put his arms around her, pulling her close. Her thoughts drifted from romance to worry when she thought of her parents. She had to get to them, but she couldn't since the servant was watching them, "If only I had my spellbook."

"What?"

"Oh, nothing," she turned back to Berriez.

"You two look great together. When did you meet him?"

Shannon remembered the time like it was yesterday, "We met when he was coming to take me here, my father sent messangers out to get some escorts before he left."

"Sounds like a fairy tale."

"It took one for him to admit that we could have had a relationship in the first place," she took her eyes off Berriez for the first time, "I'm going to sleep now. I need to rest up for tomorrow."

"Okay."



Masaki stopped over at the edge of a river bank, watching the water flow past. Berriez already had gotten off his own horse and was currently helping Shannon off of her own. The three were stopping for lunch after riding for seven hours. They had left at five in the morning to get good time on the long journey ahead of them.

The other two sat down and Masaki went off for a short walk. The midday sun shone down on his face, a cool breeze swept by occasionally as a break to the heat. After ten minutes he came upon a battered up man who looked years beyond his age due to his condition. Noticing Masaki, he walked over to him, collapsing at his feet, "Money... food... help... please..."

Masaki knelt down and took a biscut from his satchel, "Here, this should hold you over until we get back to our camp. C'mon."

Maskai took the man's right arm and pulled it over his shoulder, carring him back to the camp as the man ate at the piece of stale bread. Once the two came withing seeing distance of the camp, he noiticed the food that was set out and ran the rest of the way by himself.

When he caught up, he saw that no one was there except for the srawny man. Berriez and Shannon obviously saw them and decided that it was safe to go for a walk now that there was someone else there to watch their stuff. He walked over to the man who was finishing up on a peice of fruit, "Hungry, huh."

He nodded and began devouring everything in site. A few minutes later, he sat back against a tree with a satified grin while Masaki wore a look of discontent and bewilderment that the man had finished almost all their food in a matter of minutes, "Thanks."

"I...I... It's alright," Masaki strained to choke out these words.

"I been looking for a place to stay for a long time. I ran out of food a few days ago."

"Oh... there should be a small settlement about a days' walk from here," Maskai wrapped a piece of heavily salted meat, rice balls, and fruit into a package, "Remember, eat this sparingly. Only when you absolutely need to so that you can make it. Once there, they should take care of you."

"Thanks again. You deserve a reward," at that the man pulled a tattered book out of his tunic.

"It's alright, keep your book."

The man laughed, "It's not for you."

He flipped a few pages and started to read, raising his hand and pointed a finger at Masaki. He watched, oblivious of what was happening until flames burst out of his fingers and enveloped him. He cringed in at the pain that never came and looked back up. He looked at his hands, they didn't burn. Then he noticed his arms beginning to change. His green armor was being replaced by purple and orange robes. His sword became bigger and a symbol appeared on the blade. Fire. He looked over at the man who smiled, "You like?"

Masaki looked back up at the man and saw Shannon and Berriez come back over the hill that laid on the other side of the feild. They had seen what happened and were equally amazed at what they saw.

When the two arrived they looked at him in amazement. Then Berriez turned to the young man, "What'd you do to him?"

"He's now able to control the element of fire," the man smiled in pride, "It's the first time I got that spell right."

"What happens when you get it wrong?"

"You would have burst into flames."

Gaia gulped as he thought of himself catching fire, "Okay... Berriez, Shannon, I think we should get going now."

"And leave him here?"

"No worries, he told me where to go. Ta-ta."

Berriez go on his horse and helpd Shannon onto her own, "Stange little man... Hey! he ate all our food!"

The three rode off towards Tsurugi. They had already been riding for a few days, only stopping to sleep at the Pyro Kingdom. In a few hours they would be there.



"Your highness, the princess of Eruhu and her escorts are here to talk about an alliance," the three walked into the throne room of Tsurugi caslte, escorted by thee servants and five guards.

The queen stood up and looked down at them. Her reddish hair fell onto her purple gown, "Bring them into the meeting hall. They can talk to my daughter there until I finish up with another matter."

Two of the servants went to usher Masaki and Berriez away until Shannon spoke up, "Berriez has to stay, he's an advisor."

"Yes princess," the two walked off with Masaki. Leaving the remaining servant and the guards.

The two princesses sat oppisite eachother and Berriez, now unarmed, took a seat next to Shannon. The Princess of Tsurugi spoke up, "First of all, let's get on personal terms. My name is Diania. What's yours?"

"My name's Shannon. His is Berriez," seeing how Diania looked st Berriez, she put a hand over his and made sure it was in plain sight.

Diania smiled, "Hmm... Okay, my mother will join us shortly. Until then we can get started. Let's get down to buisness. What would make us help you, our kingdom has remained uneffected by all this and we can remain neutral and unharmed?"

"Because we don't know the Feind's true motives. We don't know if they're going for world domination, simple games, or what. You might be indeed affected by the war."

Diania turned to Berriez, "What do you think about this?"

"Umm... you should join us so that we can get this war over with."

Diania signaled for everyone to leave, "You arent much of a politician. You make up for it with looks though."

Berriez turned red. Shannon tried to hide her disgust and continued on, "He's just trying to get to the point. Are you joining us or not?"

Diania looked back at Berriez and smiled. She stood up, "Sure, we'll join. But I still have to ask my mom. Don't worry there's no need to discuss this further."

She walked out of the room, followed by Shannon and Berriez. A servant walked up to the two of them, "I'll escort you two to your rooms now."

As the two walked together, Shannon kept glancing up at Berriez. He took notice of this, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing," Berriez didn't look back ahead, he knew something was wrong, "I don't want to talk about it."

"I..."

Shannon stopped him, "I don't want to talk about it."

Berriez backed off and they soon arrived at the first room, "This is your room, princess. Now, sir, if you'll follow me..."

Berriez kissed Shannon goodnight and followed the servant to his own room. Once there the servant opened the door for him, "Princess Diania wants to see you early tomorrow morning. We'll get you up."

Berriez nodded. She probably wanted to talk politics, test him to see if he was really an ambassador. Putting no further thought into it he headed for the door to talk to Shannon but found it locked.

There must have been a guard outside the door because he explained the reason to Berriez, "Security reasons, kid. Nothing to worry about. Wartime is all."

Berriez went back to his bed. It was the first night in a long time that he had spent the night alone. He went back to the door, "Can I go talk to Shannon?"

The door creaked opene and Berriez came out. He was escorted by the guards to her room. When Berriez walked through the door she shot up, startled by the sudden entrance, "Oh... Berriez... it's just you..."

"Who'd you think it was?" he walked over and sat on the bed. The soft matress sunk under his weight.

"Diania."

Berriez laid down next to her, "Huh?"

"Nothing."

"Something's wrong, Shannon. You should tell me, maybe I can help," Berriez pulled her back so that she was leaning into his chest.

"I told you, nothing."

Berriez let go of her, dropping his hands at her side, "Fine."

Berriez let out a frustrated sigh. Shannon looked up at him and saw the dissapointed look on his face, then she looked back at her own hands that were seated in her lap, "Berriez, would you ever leave me? Even for Sabrina?"

"I'd never leave you. Expecially not for someone like her. I love you, Shannon. Nothing will ever change that," He took her hands again, "I'll always love you."

She smiled, "Good."

A soft knock was heard on the door, it opened and princess Diania walked in, closing the door behind her, "My mother has to finish up at another meeting tonight so we're going to have the rest of the meeting tomorrow morning."

Diania eyed Berriez. He seemed oblivious to all of this, "What?"

"Berriez, I'm sorry, but you can't be there tomorrow. I know that you arent a politician. What politician would be so muscular?"

Shannon turned red with anger. Thanks to the lack of light, it didn't show, "Diania, I need to get to sleep for tomorrow morning."

"Okay then, the guards and I will take Berriez back to his room now."

"He was going to stay with me for a while. Until I fall asleep," Shannon pulled Berriez's arms around herself further.

"Do you mind if I stay with you guys for a little while. It's been a long time since I've seen anyone even near my age, you guys are only a year older. My parents don't let me leave the castle."

Not wanting to seem unsensitive, she agreed, "Okay. I guess it'l be alright."

Diania sat down at the edge of the bed, "Your friend, Ma... something. I saw him in the dining room a few minutes ago. He's not an elf like you two? What's he doing with you guys. He's a Pyro, right?"

"He's Masaki. He's human, not pyro. We met him around a month ago when he, a few others, and I came to Eruhu to take Shannon to the Dragon Kingdom," said Berriez, leaving out the part where Neo died to save him.

Shannon got off of Berriez's lap, "Some magician turned him into an elemental warrior. Even I don't know how he did that."

"You're a spellcaster? I'm more of a warrior. I use small, crystal knives. Can you teach me some magic?"

Shannon was surprised to see this side of Diania, "Uhh... sure I guess."

Shannon got off the bed to get the Book of Secret Arts. When she found it, she went back to the bed and sat on Berriez's lap, "Okay, this will allow you to materialize small objects. Like those knives you were talking about. Just go get some and we'll start."

Diania got up and happily walked out the room to get them. Shannon got off of Berriez, "If you want, you can go to sleep. It's going to take a while for me to teach her this spell."

Berriez, exhausted, kissed her and laid back onto the bed just as Diania came back in. Shannon lit a candle so she could read, "Okay, let's get started."



A.N.- Sorry for the long wait and the lack of good writing in this chapter. I'm trying to start a website, I'm finishing a fan fiction, and I'm working on a new one. So r/r.