It seems I've took longer than usual to update. Gotta love school eh? Anyway thanks to all who answered may questions at the end of last chapter. I had no idea Glenn/Leena was so loved among people. I got more for them than I did Serge/Kid!
Uhh ok someone e-mailed me the other day about use of my Characters. You can use my created characters if you want, I don't mind, but if you do could you give me the link to the story? Heh Thanks o.O
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Chapter 11 –Psychotic Childs play and a Heart felt thanks~~~
"Wait a minute, you two know each otha?" Both men nodded. "Mind explainin' how?" Kidd said as she crossed her arms, standing slightly within the doorway.
"Yeah that would be nice." Kidd jumped at the gruff voice behind her and glared at Karsh who just looked at Serge and Locke in a way only Karsh could.
Serge, who during this whole time had wandered to stand by the desk, crossed his arms much like Kidd had and looked briefly at the roof as if in deep remembrance.
"Locke was Leena's Brother…"
"Leena has a brother?!" At Kidd and Karsh's yelp in surprise Serge nodded.
"Yeah. But he just seemed to vanish when I was little."
Locke shifted slight, altering his position on Glenn's floor. "Vanish was right. When the panther attacked you Sergey-boy, I went with our dad's to help you. Storm kicked up, we found ourselves in the Dead Sea in this weird place called Chronopolis. Weird voices sprung up, Wazuki ran off with you, Dad followed him, leaving me at the boat. Few minute later monsters just sprung out of nowhere. I remember being overwhelmed and waking up in…someplace I can't describe. Far off…desolate and for years I wandered aimlessly. I didn't eat, sleep, and drink, hell I didn't even have to go to the damn bathroom!" Stopping for a moment the Dragon Rider ran his fingers through his greenish hair. When no one said anything he continued. "Then something weird happened, strike of pain ran through me and I woke up staring at a nice bright light. Thought I was dead. Then the doc flicked off the light and I found myself in Dragon Rider Central."
"Hmm…why didn't you come back after that…"
"I couldn't just come back." Locke stated as though it were common knowledge. "You can't leave Dragon Rider Central unless there's a disturbance which you're called to. And this place had absolutely no disturbances until now. Excluding when the Dragon Rider's were trapped." Standing Locke turned to face Kidd.
"Yer leaving out somethin', mate. I know ya are."
Locke shrugged "No not really. Look I need to go."
Karsh eyed him "Hey you can't go!"
"I'd be better if I went and talk to Leena when I get back. Trust me." On these final words Locke pushed passed Kidd and Karsh before walking out the door.
"Oh man." Karsh stated as his gaze followed the Dragon Rider down the hallway. "Pray for that guy junior. 'Cause If Leena doesn't kill him, Glenn will."
Both Serge and Kidd nodded in agreement. No matter how much Glenn may argue it, it was obvious he had at least some spark of feelings for the outspoken village girl. Then again, everyone suspected the feelings were mutual, even if the two didn't know it yet.
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Glenn trudged along every corridor, went into every room of Viper Manor and could find absolutely no signs of Leena anywhere. He stopped himself in a large hall and crossed his arms before tapping his foot lightly. (Where is she?) He thought (Can someone really disappear so fast?) The Deva strained his mind going over the many places he had visited in search of her. The balcony, the mess hall, the barracks, the jail, the roof…A light flickered in his mind before he strode off once again.
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As Glenn descended a long flight of stairs he could here loud noises resembling that of a psychopath slamming a hammer insanely into wooden and steel walls. He slowly finished his decent before opening a wooden door and stepping through opening to find himself in a rather large area riddled with wooden dummies, sparring mats, racks of wooden and real weapons etc. Thssse training area had been built underground, set up beneath the center of the Manor as not only a place to train but as a last resort strong hold for the dragoon. Within this room several Dragoons were sparring and a few others were practicing cavalier techniques on a stationary dragon dummies. All seem to have stopped their activities and were staring at an angry little lady beating mercilessly on one particular dummy with a frying pan.
Glenn had to admit he was surprised to see Leena here. He thought only the dragoons knew of this place.
The young Deva waited until the village girl had stopped her assault on the dummy then approached her. He soon regretted this actual for when he was within a foot of her, her assault began again and the moment it did her frying pan came back behind her head in an angered arch and smoked poor Glenn right-side the head.
CRONG!
This very loud noise echoed through the otherwise silent room as the Dragoon Deva felt the sharp wide spread pain flood the side of his face. Several seconds passed as his world began to spin. The roof became the floor, the walls jumped to different places, the dummies hopped about before they all blurred together in a whirl of nauseating colors. Glenn stumbled backwards slightly as he brought his right hand up to touch the side of his face. He allowed his lips to twist into a crooked grin as he looked in Leena's general direction. "Nice hit." He croaked before stumbling a bit to the side and shaking his throbbing head.
"Glenn! Are you ok?!" The words were a distorted mumble to him, losing and gaining pitch while slurring together. He could discern who had said it, though it isn't like he really tried…
"I luv sum cake." He replied in a disoriented tone before stumbling back the way he had before. "Bu' first, cou'd I git sum ice? M' hed real hurts…bleh…" He felt himself ushered clumsily across the floor to be placed down on something comfortable. A chair maybe?
Glenn watched as the room slowly began to slow it's spin and things began to cease hopping around. He shook his head and rubbed his eyes with a dull 'urgh' escaping his throat. He opened his eyes once again to see nice little dots fluctuating in size as they danced sporadically across his vision. Grasping his head again he groaned loudly as it throbbed uncontrollably. "Oh goddess…someone kill me now…ugggh."
"I nearly did. What were you doing behind me anyway?" Glenn recognized the voice as that of Leena's who he had followed through worry and now wanted to throttle with an almost rageful lust.
"I was worried."
"Worried?"
"Yes worried!" He said through a mix of a friendly tone, a pained tone and an angered one creating a quiet snapping yelp. He realized his little out burst had caused her to shrink back slightly and look at him with semi wide eyes. Feeling bad the Deva frowned and looked at her. "Sorry…" Leena was silent causing Glenn's frown to deepen. Through the quiet he noticed the other Dragoons had left. Glenn made a small noise as a serge of pain flooded his head which he held tightly, as though applying pressure would stop the pain.
Of course, it didn't.
Relief swelled his head as a nice cooling feeling swarmed the right side of his head. He leaned into the identified bag of ice, a content look covering his face. He vaguely heard a giggled and looked up at it's source while raising a questioning eyebrow. "What's so funny."
Leena smiled at him "You remind me of Poshul when someone scratches her belly or behind her ears." The look this generated on Glenn's face cause Leena to double over laughing. Never had she seen someone look so offended! Of course Glenn and Poshul hadn't always gotten along. (Glenn hadn't forgiven Poshul for burying his Einlanzers and biting off the seat of his pants. Poshul hadn't forgiven Glenn for telling Termina's Dogcatcher she was a rabid stray mutt who had bit Korcha resulting in his odd behavior. That had gotten Korcha mad at Glenn as well but that isn't really relevant right now) And the fact Glenn was Green innate and Poshul was yellow didn't help much either, though the village girl was never really sure if that mattered.
The result of her fit of laughter was for her to roll on her back in hysterics while sending Glenn half flipping to the side for he had been leaning on her hand and the ice bag it held. With a loud groan he snatched the bag from Leena's hand and shoved it under his head before nuzzling the right side of his face into its coolness. Unfortunately Leena saw this and broke into a whole new bout of hysterics spouting something else about Glenn looking like Poshul. Not amused, the Dragoon Deva covered his head with his arms trying to block out the laughter.
"I'm sorry Glenn." Came the voice of Leena, still slightly racked with giggles but trying to be serious. Glenn didn't reply, still miffed about the entire thing. "Oh come on you big baby get up." Eventually he slowly sat up, holding the bag of ice lightly to his head, giving her a neutral look.
"All I have to say to you is, ow."
Leena shifted from her half lying position to sit on her knees. "You shouldn't have been behind me."
"You shouldn't have swung."
"How was I supposed to know you were there!? If you didn't follow me you wouldn't have gotten panned!"
He crossed his arms stubbornly. Removing the ice from his head. "Well maybe if you hadn't run off like that I wouldn't have followed you."
"Why did you follow me!"
"You seemed upset," He countered. Glenn's look switched from neutral to justified and his voice remained calm and to the point. "Besides the situation looked tense and from the looks of it he had hurt you." Rubbing the side of his face he added quietly "Though I don't know how in goddess's name he got close enough with the frying pan of yours."
"Would you like to know what happened?" The Deva noticed the rueful yet biting tone in her voice before slowly nodding.
"Yes, If you wouldn't mind."
"Oh ok. Well let's see." She said quickly before placing a finger on her chin as though thinking about something before looking directly at Glenn. "I was sad. My best friend died. I was crying. Locke comes in. asks if I'm ok. We talk briefly. He says something suspicious. I let it go. We talk more. He says something else suspicious. I don't let it go. Heated argument ensues he gives me this." She shoved the half dead piece of paper with the sketch of a younger her on Leo's back into Glenn's hands and continues one. "And lone behold I found my brother that's been gone for 15 years!!!"
Glenn looked at the picture a moment before looking wide eyed at Leena. At a complete loss of words all he could manage was. "Oh…"
"It gets better!" She said with an eerie enthusiasm as she jumped to her feet and looked down at him. "I have to tell a 5 year old her older sister is dead! Dead Glenn!" The village girl gave the shocked Deva one more look before snatching up her frying pan and storming over to one of the dummies in red fury.
Leena began to hit, smack, whap, kill and crong the poor dummy to death, ignoring the fact she had snapped off an arm and half tore the head from its rightful place. Pulling her weapon over her head in an angry arch she slammed it down on top of the dummy. The resounding sound of to metal objects clashing filled her ears then she realized her frying pan hadn't hit the dummy it had hit a sword, more correctly one of Glenn's Einlanzers. Spinning her head to look to her side she glared at the Deva. "What are you doing!?!" Glenn gave her a smirk before flicking her weapon off to the side, sending the unprepared village girl stumbling along with it. This caused her to fume. "Why you!"
Fueled by built up rage and sorrow she charged at Glenn and swung her weapon furiously in quick but powerful blows, every single one blocked by an Einlanzer or his shield. Every block or parry only seemed to tick her off more, and the grin on his face didn't help her either. Her mood caused more and more hits to come in steady streams at Glenn, slowly pushing the young soldier back towards the wall.
Glenn watched Leena carefully he hadn't expected her to be this angry and he hoped to goddess he didn't end up with the worlds worst concussion. Deflecting the frying pan, he jumped back and took on an offensive stance before looking at her with a wide smirk. "Come on Leena." He made his voice sound slightly mocking to rile her up that small bit more. To his joy and horror it worked.
Leena clasped her frying pan tightly and came flying at Glenn, a loud yell of pure rage emerging from her throat. He was quick, tossing the Einlanzers off to the side spinning his right shoulder into the blow causing a very loud sound to echo through the room. Not waiting for the sound to decease and definitely not waiting for Leena to move, the Deva jumped behind the village girl and wrapped both arms around her mid-section before lifting her feet from the ground, pinning her arms to her side in the process.
"Calm Down."
"Let me go Glenn!" She snapped vehemently while struggling and kicking at him the best she could.
"I'll let go when you calm down." He would have said more but her head snapped back and caught him in the face. Not sure whether to yelp in pain of growl in annoyance the Deva pushed the side of his head against hers, stopping its jerked movements. "Why must you be so stubborn?!"
"ME!?!?!!!"
"YES YOU!" Both growled at each other as Leena continued to struggle furiously while Glenn managed to hold on.
In a particularly large burst of anger Leena brought her foot back to meet Glenn's leg in such a way that he stumbled then tumbled over backwards, emitting a loud 'ooof' as his back met the floor and her weight, as little as it may have been, came down on top of him. Though much to Leena's annoyance he still wouldn't let go.
"And you call me stubborn!?"
"Yes!"
"Let go!"
"Calm down!"
"I'll calm down when you let go!"
"Calm down and I'll let you go!"
"You first!" They both exclaimed in unison causing them to stop everything. Long moments passed then suddenly Glenn released a small chuckle. The chuckle burst into laughter and he let Leena go before pushing her off of him, noticing she was laughing as hard as he. They continued for a moment, rolling on the ground with loud laughs before looking at each other. The second their eyes met they stopped and just stared. A small grin from Glenn a bit later sent them both into a fit again.
"Yer both crazy."
The two nearly jumped out of their skin at the sound of another voice. After recovering enough they looked at the doorway to be met with the face of a Demi human resembling a dog to more detail than a human. "T'is a place fer training not child's play. Psychotic child's play at dat."
"It's a long story Strider."
Leena eyed Glenn a moment then realized it may as well be the same Strider as before. Both other times he had had his uniform on so she would have no idea if he were a Demi Human or not.
"I bet t'is. Dun't be gittin' to carried 'way Sir Gleen. Karsh is lookin' fer ya. Be embarassin' if he found ya in here 'mongst a lovers quarrel wouldn't it." Striders words caused both Glenn and Leena to blush a bright red.
"N-no it isn't like that."
The demi-human shrugged and fiddled with the dual belts of throwing knifes strapped criss-cross across his chest. "Wutever ya say Sir." He then retreated to a back room, his claws ticking across the floor as he did.
Glenn cleared his throat, trying to break the awkward silence. "Yes…well, are you feeling better."
Leena nodded. "Yes."
"Good." He looked at his dented shoulder pad. "Good thing Riddel healed my arm this morning or I doubt I'd have on left after that."
"Hey Glenn…Thank you."
"Hmm?" He replied before looking at her.
"Thank you." She repeated. "For helping me last night and today."
He gave her a smile as he stood and held his hand out to help her up. "Anytime Leena. Anytime."
She returned his smile and took his hand, allowing him to pull her to her feet. They looked at one another for a moment before exiting the room; neither caring their hand had never left that of their companions.
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