Summary-Kitchel is nowhere to be seen and Tetheus finds himself filling out paperwork. But of course, what's love with out help of friends? Evil 'ness ensues.
Disclaimer: Don't own Dragon Knights. Wish I did
Update: 9/4/06. I have cleaned up the Diolasis story a little. By that I mean less grammatical errors (hopefully) and less confusing (possibly). Plotline is still same!
Enjoy.
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Diolasis chapter three:
Black Ink
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Tetheus awoke in his bed with one of the pillows crushed over his head to block out sound. He didn't awake by simple habit of time, but he was jerked awake by those already up bustling around the castle. Sitting up, he brought a hand to his head and groaned. The loose sheets fell from the position they had around his shoulders to reveal his bare toned chest. Swinging his also bare legs over the side of his bed, Tetheus got up to wash and get dressed.
Rubbing sleep from his eyes, he stumbled into his bathroom. Long day. Somehow Tetheus knew that it was going to be a long, long day. The water pouring from the tap felt cool as slick ice as the Officer splashed it onto his face. The light streaming in from a window to his right spilled out shafts of bright white that illuminated Tetheus' face and the droplets of water that rested there. As he shook his head, the beads of water trickled off and pinged lightly onto the marble counter. Grabbing a soft towel, Tetheus whipped his face and walked out to get fully dressed.
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"Tetheus!" The Officer turned, almond eyes slits as he shielded them from the harsh light of the daytime. "Tetheus!"
"What is it Alfeegi?" With a slight sigh of annoyance, he watched the aqua haired man walk up to him with an unplaced expression.
"You missed breakfast this morning, and-" Alfeegi went slightly pink. "You do have more paperwork to file, about your trip with- umm- Kitchel." Tetheus stared him down without meaning to as Alfeegi ended his sentence in a slight whisper. Tetheus was mildly shocked, but did not show it. Was Alfeegi this intimidated by him? He had never notice and felt slightly abashed by it.
"Don't worry Alfeegi, I'll start the report as soon as I can." Giving a very quick smile, he took the stack of papers that were presented to him. Quickly glancing through them, he saw out of the corner of his eye that Alfeegi was slightly turning away to walk back off down the hall. "Uh- Alfeegi, later on, when I finish my report, lets play chess in the Library." Alfeegi stopped mid walk; turning back to Tetheus he eyed him strangely. Nodding slightly and smiling shyly, he quickly turned and scampered off down the hall.
Good guy Alfeegi. He never spent any time with any of his fellow Officers, but Alfeegi least of all. Maybe a quiet game of chess between friends would be a good thing for him.
Tetheus leaned back in the leather chair of his office. He put down the papers he promised Alfeegi he would fill out. He couldn't bring himself to do it, something was stirring in his brain and he wouldn't let himself settle. "I think I'm out of my mind." A slight movement toward the door made Tetheus look up. "Oh. Hulo' Ruwalk." Ruwalk smiled as he leaned against the doorframe, his hands in his pockets of a loose tunic shirt that was cut so low it hardly covered his upper body. "Looks like the heat doesn't bother you."
Ruwalk grinned. Of course it didn't bother him. "No, not at all. Alfeegi said he gave you paperwork to fill out. He didn't say anything about me not being able to offer my help so, here I am." His eyes closed slightly and his shoulders moved as he laughed richly.
Tetheus raised an eyebrow. "You fill out that much paperwork?"
"You must be kidding me! You don't think Kai-stern fills out his paperwork do you? I don't think Alfeegi even knows what his handwriting looks like. Rath too! I'm just too nice." Flipping around a chair in front of Tetheus' desk, he sat down on it backwards. "Okay, you print, I'll file. What? Don't look at me like that; I would have helped even if you told me not to."
Tetheus slightly have a grunt witch was his attempt at a short laugh.
Ruwalk looked down at one report. His brow furrowed at page 31. Tetheus knew this would come up sooner or later. "You stayed with her when the Dragon Fighters went back to the castle. Oh, that's right, you came a short time after they did." He raised his eyebrow slightly.
"Don't get your hopes up, nothing happened." The Black Dragon Officer lied through his teeth, something he normally discouraged.
"Whatever you say." Ruwalk put the paper in a file but opened his mouth to speak again. "You know, Kitchel hasn't been seen all day." Ruwalk was surprised how tense his fellow Dragon got when her name tumbled out of his mouth.
"She's probably sleeping off the wine you gave her yesterday."
"Oh yes. Your probably right."
"Ruwalk!" A high voice carried down the hall.
"Oh no." Whispered the handsome officer as he got up from his chair. "Its Alfeegi! What should I do?" Tetheus shrugged.
"Ruwalk!" Alfeegi's voice became clearer as he came down the hall towards Tetheus' office.
The Yellow Officer walked over to the door and poked his head out; there was no escape anyway. "Yes Alfeegi?" The aqua haired man pushed Ruwalk out of the way as he made his way into the room. "Watch it." With a glare from Alfeegi, Ruwalk fell silent. For a moment the only noise was Tetheus' annoyed sigh.
"Why is he helping you?" Ruwalk stood behind Alfeegi and mouthed exasperatedly at him, but then howled in pain as Alfeegi leaned back and stepped on his foot.
"He asked." Smirking at the way Ruwalk was waving his hands for Tetheus not to say this. Ruwalk started backing up, so he was almost out of the door before Alfeegi turned on him.
"You-" A vein pulsed. "-volunteered?"
"He needed help!" Ruwalk waved his arms in front of him as if to ward of Demons. "You gave him so much- uh oh." Ruwalk turned and sprinted down the hall, Alfeegi close on his heels.
"You're going to be lucky if I don't tell the Lord! Ruwalk!" Ruwalk's laughing and Alfeegi's maniacal yelling faded as they rounded a corner.
Tetheus shook his head. It actually didn't matter at all. Ruwalk had helped file most of the forms. Tetheus had finished everything, and therefore was done. After a while, Tetheus could sense someone else standing in the doorway. Without looking up he gritted his teeth and spoke in a low voice. "Someone else here to bother me? I said I-"
"Oh dear. I'm sorry, I thought..." Kitchel looked down slightly as she dug the toe of her boot into the floor.
"No I-! Oh, damn it." In his haste, Tetheus had tipped the edge of the desk, upsetting ink well that he had been using to write out the forms Alfeegi gave him. Turning slightly pink, he up righted the ink and came around his desk. "I didn't mean to snap at you, people have been interrupting me throughout the day."
Kitchel laughed lightly. "Oh. By the way, I heard we both missed breakfast." Her hair was sparkling with water that made her look unearthly in the hot sun that streamed through the windows.
"Yes." Tetheus nodded curtly, formally.
"I also heard from a very reliable person that you have been stuck in this office all day, I've come to get you outside, what say we go for a walk in the garden?" Her laugh sounded like the tinkling of glass china and made Tetheus' head swim slightly. "Well? Oh geez, come on!" She ran over, took his hand and started leading him out of the office.
Murmuring, Tetheus was dragged out of the Castle and onto the grounds. "Ruwalk, I think I'm going to kill you."
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"Ruwalk, I think he's going to kill you." Alfeegi was leaning on his left hand; witch was resting on the stone edge of his office window. His eyes following two figures walking out of the castle, one dragging the other by the hand.
Ruwalk closed his eyes and with a smile,. "Aw, I don't think so." The Yellow Dragon Officer was on Alfeegi's left; leaning on his right hand witch was also resting on the stone window ledge.
"He's not the type for jokes." The aqua haired Officer leaned his head over so he could slightly glance up at the taller man next to him.
"Well, no." Ruwalk still smiled cutely. "But he does need someone in his life to extract that 'something' up his ass. He's so uptight." Alfeegi shook his head exasperatedly.
"Its called being dedicated!" Alfeegi quirked a smile himself. "But you wouldn't know about that now would you?" His voice was casual but panged with a playfully accusing note.
"Me!" Ruwalk put a hand to his chest in mock hurt. "Your calling me not dedicated?" He scoffed and Alfeegi squinted his eyes and laughed, witch made Ruwalk smile.
As Alfeegi gained control of himself again, he smacked Ruwalk's arm. "Oh, shut up." Ruwalk put an arm on Alfeegi's shoulder, still smiling.
After watching Tetheus and Kitchel for while, they sat by the pond, Ruwalk let out a sigh. "Well, I think they can take care of themselves, right?"
Alfeegi also sighed. "Yes, I think your right."
Ruwalk took his arm off Alfeegi's shoulder and ran this thumb down the aqua Officer's jaw line. This made him officer look up in slight surprise. Cupping Alfeegi's chin, Ruwalk winked and with a slightly soft tone-"Come, let's play that chess game you were going to with Tetheus." Lightly taking Alfeegi's hand, he led him out of his office and down to the library.
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Tetheus shielded his eyes against splashes of water with a small chuckle with sounded quite evil no matter how he had tried to make it sound otherwise. Kitchel splashed her feet again in the small pond as Tetheus sat off to the side just slightly to watch her. The humid heat settled around them comfortably and the grass was cool to the touch.
"I never knew you were Secretary of Security. I knew you were an Officer, but not anything more." Kitchel swirled her feet in the cool water, as the shade of the tree they were sitting under, swayed as a light breeze encircled them.
"I'm sorry, but we never found time to inform you about anything but your mission." Tetheus leaned himself up against a tree and looked at her though his black bangs.
He smiled as she kicked more water and, meaning to hit him, it flipped up and caught in her hair. Its Orange tint sparkled gold as she shook her head.
So that's what she had been doing, that's why her hair was wet. She was sitting out here all day, and missed breakfast, for splashing water? Well. Tetheus smiled lazily. It really is quite beautiful out here.
Kitchel's glass like laughing ringed around the 'thicket' as Tetheus himself reached down and splashed her with the cool, clear water. Small fish that had been curiously poking around Kitchel's feet in the water quickly swam away as she reeled from the splash and splashed back.
A long while went by and Tetheus once again settled himself quietly against the tree.
"You alright?" Kitchel looked toward him questionably.
"Yes. I just got very little sleep last night." Tetheus closed his eyes slightly and before he could shake himself out of it, the buzzing on insects and the perfume of flowers and drifted him into a dream.
Kitchel watched silently as Tetheus' head nodded onto his chest. She kept watching him as his breathing slowed She liked the way his mouth was slightly open so his canine tooth, witch was elongated because of his now Dragon blood, slightly poked through his upper lip. She also liked the way his tunic ruffled lightly as he breathed.
Kitchel stopped a moment. She liked the way he breathed? She was loosing it.
Suddenly an evil idea struck the dusty orange haired thief.
Kitchel quickly got up and stole into the bushes, coming back with an armful of pink, yellow, and other pretty flowers.
"He won't mind." She whispered. "Beside, It'll make him look so cute!"
Kitchel sat next to Tetheus and carefully started entwining the flowers with his soft-as-silk hair. Humming along with the bird's songs, Kitchel found herself leaning against his weight more then focusing on the prank she was suppose to be engaging in.
She sighed and took a step back. Very nice! He looked like a little fallen pixy. Fallen pixy. That was it; he was a sweet angelic figure that had fallen from its place.
Summing up that Tetheus wasn't at all that bad, she sat back down next to him, and too dozed off into a nightmare free nap. In fact, her dreams were filled with sweet moments and cool water in a hot summer day.
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