"Umm……" Xelloss stared at the mazoku attached to his waist. He looked around for help, he didn't want to walk around like this.
"Xellie remember Dolphin?" The Dark Lord asked looking up to see the silent Xelloss apparently thinking. After about half a minute of no reply, Dolphin suddenly turned into a 2 foot tall chibi and bounced around chanting: "Dolphin happy! Dolphin happy! Dolphin happy!!"
Xelloss watch on with a puzzled look, she was getting stranger and stranger… And then she glomped his leg and snuggled it. "Why me?" Xelloss sighed exasperated looking around for any possible help again.
"So," the chibi Dark Lord was suddenly perched on Xelloss' shoulder before he could blink, metaphorically speaking of course, "how is Xellie?"
"Okay, thanks." The violet haired mazoku automatically replied.
"Anything good happen lately?" (^-^) The chibi swung its feet back and forth from its high perch.
"Not really." Xelloss shook his head, and out of the corner of his eye, noticed the chibi had latched onto his hair, and was intently staring at it. "Eh….." he sweat-dropped, it was as clean, neat, and tidy as it normally was and he wanted it to stay that way.
Dolphin picked the sweat-drop off, looked at it a brief moment, and then proceeded to poke 'Xellie' with it. "Xellie seems all grown up and strong now!"
"…thank you…" Xelloss replied a bit hesitantly. When his sweat-drop was offered back by the smiling chibi, he took it and put it back on. That was a bit better. What was she planning to do by making all this small talk though…?
The chibi Dark Lord continued to swing it's feet. "Xellie up to anything?" Dolphin asked curiously tilted her head to the side, achieving a very high level of cute-ness.
"No."
The chibi's mood did a 180. "Xellie no want to talk to Dolphin." (u_u) she said dejectedly.
"Uh…" What was one supposed to do in this kind of situation?
"Dolphin just go then." The chibi hopped off her perch and in mid fall lost her SD form in favor of her normal human form. She continued to look forlorn until a sudden idea made her change her mood back to its happy state. (^-^) "Go feed wine to sea…" she interrupted her sentence with a shrug "sea like it, sea only company most of the time." (^-^)
"…" Xelloss mentally and physically winced. (.) She couldn't do that! Zelas would have his hide if more wine went to waste. With similar thoughts echoing in his mind, Xelloss checked to make sure no one was watching, he did have a reputation to keep. "Sorry. Dolphin-sama stay?"
"Dolphin go!" Said the third person talking mazoku as she leapt on a nearby tree branch and swung back and forth happily. (^0^)
"Don't go!" Xelloss took one step forward, if Zelas found out… or rather if he did let her go and ruin all that wine after Zelas specifically told him with a 'keep-an-eye-on-her-make-sure-she-doesn't-waste-any-wine-and-get-more' look, he get in biiiig trouble. Last time he had to sweep the whole island with a… small paintbrush, it had been even smaller than his finger.
"Dolphin already went." The insane Dark Lord stopped swinging obviously puzzled. (0.o) "She not there anymore…"
"…what?" Xelloss mentally blinked. She was still here, she hadn't left unless she left an illusion that mimicked her aura but…
"Dolphin not over there," the blue haired mazoku pointed over next the slightly confused violet haired mazoku, "she's over here." Dolphin finished by pointing over at the branch she was hanging on. It wasn't more than twenty five feet away, perhaps only fifteen feet.
"So she is." Xelloss said processing that, it did make sense in an odd sort of way.
Dolphin swung a little more and then hung by her knees. "Xellie remember Dolphin yet?"
Xelloss thought to himself for a moment. He vaguely remembered Zelas yelling at someone with long blue hair, after Zelas had been knocked out for a few days in a most unusual way. Had that been Deep Sea Dolphin? Then another thought popped into his head. Something to do with spinning around. What did that have to do with her or anything? No matter… he knew who she was.
"I remember Dolphin." The violet haired mazoku agreed, he'd best humor her. He watched Dolphin squeal with delight (Xellie does?!") and forget that her knees were holding her up, but she mainly landed alright because a moment later she was up again and once again hugging him around the waist again twittering happily. That worked well, best keep with it. "I do." he The purple haired mazoku replied, looking at the odd Dark Lord currently doing a good impersonation of a belt.
"Yay!" Dolphin let go of Xelloss to clap her hands, then she noticed his bag (0.o ) "What in here?" For Xelloss, this was just getting weird. He had a Mazoku Dark Lord around his waist a few moments ago and now… "What in here?" …and now, she had her head stuck in his bag, of all the things to happen, but how many other mazoku could say that had happened to them?
"Sore wa himitsu desu." He answered Dolphin, trademark smirk fixed in place. Seeing that she was almost half way in his side bag and he didn't dare pull her out of there.
"Ooooooo look at this."
But she couldn't stay in there, she'd get lost!
"Come out of there please?" He tried.
"Dolphin can't! She's stuck!" The pair of blue shoes that were sticking out from the bag kicked around.
"No!" Xelloss said, hauling the sinking mazoku out. Yes, this was really really weird…
"No?" (0.o) "Know what? What Dolphin don't know? What's in the bag, she was trying to find out…." The Dark Lord rambled on, a bewildered expression on her face.
For what seemed like the first time in centuries, Xelloss really was at a loss on what to do or say. "…"
When she didn't get a reply. she followed up with, "Dolphin go look." And so, a head went back to explore the depths of Xelloss' bag and even he knew this was a bad thing, and removed her from it again.
"Don't go in there." He told her.
The 'not-right-in-the-head' Dark Lord sat down, "Dolphin still can't believe you Xellie…" she said while performing a poking test over and over on the violet haired Mazoku's leg.
"Why not?" Xelloss asked, wondering how the crazy mind actually worked, or was it 'didn't work' in this case?
"You no look like him…" Dolphin stood up and stared nose to nose with Xelloss. The purple haired mazoku didn't move, if Deep Sea Dolphin wanted to stare nose to nose with him, he should let her… you could never guess what kind of implications were attached to getting on the wrong side of someone who was rumoured to be… no, definitely insane. The Dark Lord was obviously thinking about how that mazoku could be the 'lil 'Xellie' she knew.
"Well, I am." He pulled his bag round a bit so it was out of sight just incase she tried to repeat the earlier fiasco. Xelloss was oddly reminded how he had gone nose to nose to many different people. No wonder why they found it a bit odd.
"But you look funny…" She said with a slight pout picking at his clothes a bit.
Xelloss gathered his clothes away from her as best he could, whilst she changed her attention to his hair.
She brightened up a bit then. (^-^) "Though hair familiar!" She concluded as she stepped back away from him to get a better look at his hair, when another idea hit her. (0.o) "Wait Dolphin need to see something!"
Once again Dolphin stepped towards Xelloss, who was wondered what she wanted to do this time. Attach herself to his hand? Explore his pockets? He found out soon enough when she bounded right up to him and attempted to pry one of his eyes open. Hoping she wouldn't getting too upset, he pushed her off gently and opened them himself, which turned out to be much less painful.
"Ooooooo…. It is Xellie." She cooed pointing at his eyes happily.
"How do you know?" he asked with a blink, once again pondering Deep Sea's thought process. "How?
(0.o) "Xellie only one with purple hair and eyes… his eyes are different from others too!" The Dark Lord once more pointed at the 'odd' eyes.
"Oh yeah." What a fun day this was turning out to be…. "That is true."
"Unless…" Dolphin backed away a little and warily stared at Xelloss. "Zelas make a clone… or another one…."
"Nope!" And he was proud of that fact too.
"Oooooo…." Dolphin was staring at the other Mazoku's eyes, who stared back.
"Happy now?" He asked as Dolphin smiled.
"Dolphin likes Xellie's eyes!" She babbled happily, pointing. "They're not normal!"
"I have to go do something now." Xelloss told her, his eyes returning to what was 'normal' for him.
However, Dolphin wasn't happy to hear this. (0_o) "Xellie go?" She dived on his foot and hugged it tightly, looking up with big sparkly slightly teary eyes. "Stay?"
Xelloss removed his foot from her grasp. "I go." He said in an apologetic tone.
"Go?" The Dark Lord's eyes began to well up with more tears as the mazoku turned away. "Leave Dolphin alone?"
"Yep!" Xelloss took off. Finally!
Deep Sea Dolphin sat on the shore. "Dolphin alone?" There was no response, so she was alone. "Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" She broke out into fully-fledged tear fountains. Moments later she remembered, she still had a mission.
"Dolphin go feed ocean wine." She sniffled, skipping from the land and on to the sea, not missing a single skip.
Xelloss heard this, winced to himself hearing this and hit his airbrakes. ( . ) He had his orders, so he had to turn back and catch up Dolphin, where he hovered next to the skipping mazoku. "You can come with."
Dolphin didn't notice his return apparently; she was engrossed in humming and pouring a bottle of wine from her position sitting on the sea.
Xelloss was mildly surprised she was wasting such good stuff, but Zelas would be mortified. "Are you coming?" He asked her.
"Dolphin alone again." She said cheerfully (^-^) "So she stay…. Xellie left." Her expression fell when she mentioned 'Xellie'.
Xelloss tugged at her top gently. "You can …" He quickly searched for something that would interest her where he had to go. "Come see my room!" … now that was a feeble thing to say.
(0.o) "Ummm…." She handed the one-third still full bottle to Xelloss.
"Not coming?" He asked, looking at the bottle. He could probably do with a few of these to drink right about now.
"But Xellie left…. You're his twin." She protested.
"I am Xelloss." And idly he wondered if Zelas would let him have any of the wine she was getting from Dolphin. It would be nice as a reward.
"No, Xellie has eyes," Dolphin chided him studying his face. "You have curvy lines! …Like this!" And she mimicked his face perfectly (n.n)
Xelloss mentally sighed resignedly to himself and opened his eyes, only to be tackle glomped by an overjoyed Deep Sea Dolphin. "Xellie back!"
He was surprised. (o.0)
Dolphin was delighted. (^-^)
After a few strange moments off letting the abnormal Mazoku Lord do yet another impression of a waist attachment on him, he decided he must get a move on and do what it was that he had to get done.
"I have to go to my room now, " Xelloss had a 'talking-to-a-child' voice on, "or I will get into trouble."
"Xellie grounded?" She asked.
"No… but I will be if I don't go." He added hurriedly.
The blue haired mazoku let go of Xelloss, much to his relief and skipped around him to attach herself to him from behind.
"Xellie go, Dolphin follow!"
"…" Xelloss decided it would best not to reply. Instead he flew to one of his room's windows back at the mansion, and the 'belt' hung on the entire time. Or it did till he pried her hands off and dropped her to the floor while he hovered for a moment.
And while he left Dolphin to poke the floor's only rug, he picked up a book and flopped onto his bed. When the Dark Lord relocated to a table nearby and looked around, Xelloss decided now would be a good time to ask a question. Of course he was reading as he asked in an offhand manner "How long are you staying?"
(^-^) "Year?" the Dark Lord swung her feet, an obvious pastime she liked to watch.
"You can't" (^^;;) Oh she couldn't stay that long… he was not going to walk around with her following him… or being a belt or whatever she called that.
"Two years?" (^-^) Ooooh, two years would be nice…
"…no." Xelloss mentally shuddered at the thought.
"Five?" (^0^) Oh she was getting warmer! Dolphin could just think of all the fun things she could do in that time…
"Less."
"Four years and three hundred and sixty-four days?"
This was going to take forever is she was going to act like that, Xelloss thought. "Less than a week."
"…" (0.o) Hey… that wasn't long enough for a proper visit, was it?
"You'd have to ask Zelas-sama anyway." Xelloss chirped cheerfully pushing the still somewhat shocked Dark Lord out of his room, "You wait here, I need a shower."
(0o) "Shower?" the Dark Lord echoed staring down the hall, wonder how she got out there. Xelloss meanwhile happily hopped back on his bed after closing the door. (n.n) He sniffed himself. 'Need a shower'… didn't mean he was going to take one. He never said that.
Xellie would come back when he was done with his shower, until then she could… "Dolphin go back to sea!" The Dark Lord twittered leaping out of the window and narrowly missing being skewered in the tree below.
"Phew" Xelloss sighed in relief hearing the Dark Lord retreat, now he could relax until his next mission.
"SEA!!!" Dolphin joyfully shouted after a short run, all the while waving her arms around, they were excited to go back to the sea. But, she had to finish her job… "Dolphin wants to finish giving you WINE!!!"
Xelloss mentally winced and got up to run over to the window, why couldn't she behave like a nice and normal Dark Lord. He was going to get in trouble if she kept on acting like that! Leaning out form the window slight he called out "Dolphin!!!!"
"SEA!!" (^0^) Deep Sea shouted before diving into the salty seawaters.
"Never mind," Xelloss shook his head walking back in his room, "no big deal." It looked like she was just going to splash around. He'd only get in trouble if she were too loud then.
"Now Dolphin finish!" (^-^) Seemingly whipping out a crate from nowhere (actually, her astral dimension space), Dolphin threw it onto a nearby outcropping of rocks.
(.) "Shimatta." Not only was she being noisy, she was also ruining wine. He was going to get in double trouble if she kept that up!
(^-^) Oooo…" With some of her mission accomplished maybe, the blue haired mazoku stepped back from the wreckage of glass. "That sharp." (0.o) Best ask if she was done or not… "Sea happy or want more?"
"Can I have some wine?" Xelloss innocently smiled after teleporting in. Then he traded his smiling face for his best genki one. "Please?"
(0.o) "Xellie to young to drink!" Dolphin gasped shocked by such a thing.
"No I'm not." (-.-;;;) He was over a thousand years old for L-sama's sake!
"Yes you are." The Dark Lord scolded in a lecturing voice, her hands on her hips.
"I am not." Xelloss refrained from growling crossing his arms.
"Are too." Dolphin tsked wagging her finger.
"I am not a kid." The violet haired mazoku whined. Besides, Zelas let him drink.
"No Xellie isn't." (^.^) The blue haired mazoku dropped her lecturing attitude. "He still too young." She patted him on the head as if he were indeed a kid.
I will humor her… I will humor her… Xelloss repeated keeping up his happy happy genki genki act. "Well, then, I'll put it away for when I'm older." (n.n)
"Nope, sea get it." (^-^)
"Why?"
Deep Sea replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. (0.o) "It old enough."
"Then I could give it to Zelas-sama and she'd be happy with me." Xelloss dropped his happy happy genki genki expression for a more pleading look.
(0.o) "Zelas?" The Dark Lord dived under the incoming billow, hiding beneath the waves.
"Please?" A bottle flew out from the sea and landed near his feet. Xelloss picked it up, "…" by his sense of smell, he could tell that there wasn't any wine in it, so he tipped it a little to see sand dribble out of it. He tipped it empty and then threw it over his shoulder.
"Dolphin!" Xelloss looked down in the water where he believed the Dark Lord to be. "You don't want me to get in trouble do you?" Another bottle flew out and landed near his feet. He picked it up and smelled some wine, but mostly seawater was in it. "That one is ruined." He threw that one over his shoulder too after emptying it.
Another bottle was thrown from the sea, landing near the violet haired Mazoku's feet once more. "...okay…" he said throwing that one over his shoulder to meet it's fate with the other empty bottles.
"Zelas gone?" the question bubbled up from below the water.
"Zelas-sama's not here." (^^;;) Xelloss stepped back lest another bottle decided to aim higher than his foot this time.
With the threat of 'Meanie Zelas' not around' Deep Sea Dolphin hopped back to shore holding a swirled spiky shell. With an eager smile (^-^) she held it out to 'Xellie' "Pretty?"
"Hmm." Xelloss answered, stupid question, but he could really offend her by saying no.
"Xellie hold it?" Dolphin asked, offering the shell to the mazoku, who took it from her.
If Xelloss hadn't been so good hiding it, he'd have been wearing a 'why-the-heck-do-I-have-to-do-this?' face.
"The crabbie's name is Tutie." Dolphin informed him, causing the other mazoku to drop the shell.
"Crab?" The violet haired mazoku asked as the said crab pinched his hand and hung on for dear life.
(0.o) "No supposed to do that…." Dolphin said giggling slightly as she watched Xelloss attempt to shake the crab off. Oooh… bad Dolphin for laughing at poor Tutie and Xellie!
"Off… off…" Xelloss told the disobedient sea creature. No land animal would disobey him like that!
(-.-) Dolphin sighed. "That not work…. Be nice to Tutie." Dolphin chided the violet haired mazoku as he plucked 'Tutie' from his hand and dropped the crab on the ground.
That wasn't good. (0_o) "Ooooooh … you gone and done it…. They'll be mad at you Xellie…."
"Who will?" The mazoku sure hoped his dying patience wasn't showing through as he looked downwards when Dolphin pointed at his foot. (0.o) He shook the crabs off his boots.
"Xellie apologize." The blue haired woman said, folding her arms sternly. "Or …" She picked up the crab and held him to poor 'Xellie's' face. "Do you want to kiss and make up instead?
Getting a face-full of crustacean, Xelloss opted to react how most people would. He backed away muttering something that sounded vaguely like 'ugh'.
"Apologize then?" (^^) She re-offered the crab up to the other Mazoku's face.
"Sorry." This time, he visibly winced. (.) Apologizing to a crab! How… how… gah!
"They'll go away now." Dolphin smiled as she shooed the crabs back to the sea.
"…Okay." For the nth time that day, Xelloss concluded he'd never seen any being that had acted quite so strange.
"What this?" (o.o) Deep Sea Dolphin asked, snapping Xelloss out of his thoughts as she swiftly stole his wooden staff away and examined it above her head. "It's not right, needs to be twisty!"
Worried about what the eccentric Dark Lord would do to his beloved staff, he snatched it back, then mentally reprimanded himself for his behaviour. Must keep on humouring her. "It's not a twisty staff." He told her, holding it away from her.
Not deterred by this, Dolphin leapt forward, grabbed Xelloss' current object of concern and ran of into the forest with it. "Dolphin fix!! (^0^) she yelled sprinting away, the precious staff in hand.
"Wait!" Xelloss chased the other mazoku. That was his!
"Dolphin fix!" She exclaimed again, running out of the forest, up the steep slopes of Wolf Pack Island, and across to the cliffs where upon arrival she chucked the staff off the cliffs and into the ocean.
"It's not supposed to be twisty!" Xelloss called after her while flying behind in hot pursuit. He had found out that Dolphin was only crazy, but also very fast.
"It supposed to be." (0.o) "Xellie not know that?"
Xelloss paid little attention if any as he continued on his flight path set to follow his staff, which led to him zooming past Dolphin, down the cliff and almost into the sea as he retrieved his now bobbing in the water staff.
"It's a special staff." (^^) He told Dolphin as he landed next to her and checked staff-sama for scratches and bruises.
"It's not right." Dolphin said pointing at it again.
"Its Different." Xelloss told her defensively.
(0.o) "It should be twisty. It not right." The stubborn mazoku lord continued. "Next you tell Dolphin that Lord Shabby Ruby Eye is a mummy."
"Err… no." The other mazoku replied.
"Or a daddy." She continued on sending a side-glance at Xelloss. (.)
"I don't think so." Xelloss allowed himself a mental sigh.
"Or that Zelas is nice." (.) Like that was ever possible, Meanie Zelas will always be Meanie Zelas!
"She can be!" the purple haired mazoku exclaimed, kicking one of his the feet against the other, adopting a more formal, but defensive pose. Where had all his patience gone?
Dolphin was mildly shocked. (0.o) That wasn't right, it wasn't true! Oooo… bad Xellie for lying… Dolphin resolved to break him of that habit… Meanie Zelas was a bad influence on lil Xellie…
"What?" Xelloss asked, quickly regaining his composure… which would be easier when Dolphin dropped that expression. "What?" He asked again after the blue haired mazoku stayed silent.
"Xellie talk about something? Anything?" Dolphin suggested, she'd have to poke him to talk about something besides 'what'.
"What like?" the violet haired mazoku replied, a question for a question. A fair trade off.
"What Xellie do here?" (^-^) Dolphin said after a moment, she was curious now… and he had to say something besides 'what'!
Ah, this question he could handle with out a problem, the answer: "Sore wa himitsu desu!" (n.n) Ah, he loved his phrase.
"What Xellie do here?" She asked again, that wasn't an answer! Dolphin wants to know what Xellie does!
"I just told you that." Xelloss replied.
"What does Xellie do here?" Dolphin tilted her head a bit, he wasn't giving in yet...
"I have to talk to you. That's what." Strange, fast, and persistent, Xelloss concluded about the odd mazoku.
"But what does Xellie do when Dolphin not here?" She pressed, he would tell… most people told her things after awhile. She had a gift like that.
"Work." He replied simply.
"What kind of work does Xellie do here?" She was getting somewhere, she could do this all year if she had too… and she would too.
Very persistent, but two could play at that… Xelloss thought donning the best kawaii-super-genki expression he could muster in the situation he replied a little (or a lot) over cheerfully. "Secret stuff!" (n.n)
"What kind of secret stuff does Xellie do?" Dolphin asked, transplanting herself to sit right next to Xelloss' feet and look up at him. Secret, secret, Metalliums loved secrets… way too much for their own good.
"Secret secret stuff." (^-^) A simple answer, and it still gave nothing away.
"What kind of secret secret stuff does Xellie do then?" (^-^) She was obviously having fun with this 'game'. Oooo, would this turn out to be a year-long match? There was that time that she had… never mind, she wasn't supposed to talk about that.
Xelloss had only time to release half a sigh before his savior (hopefully she would, oh please, oh please!) arrived promptly on scene.
"Visit over Oneesan." Zelas declared, much to Xelloss' relief as she phased in a small distance away from them.
(0_o) "Zelas!" Dolphin exclaimed, diving behind the weakest mazoku present and hiding under his cape. "Can't Dolphin stay longer? Xellie's not doing anything… he said so himself." She didn't see him shake his head anxiously wearing a 'it-wasn't-me!' genki expression.
"Well he's going to be busy now." Zelas wagged a finger at the hiding mazoku.
Xelloss nodded eagerly, busy, but away from the odd Dark Lord. That was a good thing!
"With what?" Dolphin's blue head peeked out from under Xelloss' cape. "Hasn't Xellie worked a lot? Dolphin didn't see him for a long time before because he was never around..." Oh, look. Xellie had his shirt tucked out… wasn't it supposed to be tucked in?
Zelas tapped a sandaled foot irritably. "Oh for.... Will you go already?"
"Xellie need a break though!" Dolphin exclaimed forgetting about her hiding place's shirt, and instead glomping Xelloss from behind, much to his surprise.
(o.o) "…" Ooookay… back to glomping was it?
" ..... no." Zelas said firmly, she had to put her foot down. And if she had to conjure up another foot, so be it.
"But when was last time Xellie got vacation?" Dolphin asked, peeking at Zelas again, and most certainly not letting her grip on Xelloss' waist loosen any. Hey… it was squishy sorta… Ooooo… squishy things were nice… but there was something even better than squishy…
"Yesterday now leave." Zelas told her hurriedly, the sooner her... non-related sister left, the better.
"No…" The other Dark Lord whined detaching herself from Xelloss, who was happy to be released. Dolphin snapped her fingers and her thumb glowed blue, soon after then she pressed it into Xelloss' forehead. (^^)
"There! Hope Xellie have fun with spell… Dolphin will go home and feed wine to sea before cleaning palace since no one visits. Dolphin wishes Xellie could come and get a vacation too…" Mission complete, now Xellie would be even better than squishy! What would he be, why Dolphin no tell!
"…What?" Zelas asked in the most 'you-are-completely-nuts-and-I-don't-really-care-what-you-say' tone she could.
(^^) "Dolphin go feed wine to the sea and clean!" She chirped, turning to skip back to the sea, leaving Zelas staring Xelloss, who had suddenly sprouted cat ears, tail and even got odd paws too. It also seems Xelloss hadn't noticed the sudden appearance of his new appendages and 'look'; he was far too busy looking between the other two with a bemused expression.
"Take that spell off now." An irate Zelas told Dolphin, staring at the oversized, and over cute ears on her servant's head.
"Aww… but he cuter now." Dolphin cooed. "And not get stressed as much."
(n.n) Awww… Xellie now a kawaii squishy furry kitty thing! That would be good for him.
"Take it off." Zelas repeated sternly, she refused to have a… whatever Xelloss was. That and most certainly the wolves would bother the feline mazoku…
That wasn't right though, it was good. Have to keep it! (0.o) "Umm… no, Dolphin can't…" That and she couldn't take it off either… it was a special spell…
"Yes Dolphin can!" Zelas exclaimed, stamping one of her feet. Her 'sister' could really try her patience.
"It spell that has a minimum time." (^-^) Dolphin informed the Meanie Zelas, "Dolphin would take Xellie with… But Zelas said he has to work." With that, her expression fell as she tugged gently on Xelloss' new furry orchid tail.
(o.0!) Xelloss hadn't expected that (he didn't even know he had a tail up to that point) and let out a surprised yelp. "Mrow?!" He then pondered why he had 'meowed' instead of well, whatever sound he normally made.
"Just undo it!" Zelas demanded. Though, wolf chase cat would be… never mind. She could do that whenever. She didn't want a cat minion!
(n.n) "But… "Dolphin can't. Not for a week at least." It was true, it was a special spell… Oooo… look at Xellie's tail puff up… it fluffy furry now!
"Then come back in a week and take it off." Zelas told Dolphin whilst watching Xelloss inspect his hands-now-not-quite-a-normal-paw. He couldn't carry wine like that!
(0.o) "Xellie get to visit?" Ooo… she'd give him a proper vacation! Not a Meanie Zelas one!
"No." Zelas replied firmly, hoping 'Dipsy Dolphin' would get the point this time around.
"Xellie get vacation?" Dolphin fiddled with a big fuzzy purple ear! Kawaii!
The owner of the ear wore an expression that simply said 'save-me- Juu-ou sama! -Please!'.
"He gets a vacation soon. Will you go already?" What would she have to do, sic wolves on her to get the desired reaction?
( ^0^ ) "Dolphin share some wine then!" Dolphin chirped, picking up the semi-neko-kitty-Xellie. Ooo, he was a big kitty!
"You'll give me some wine if I let him go visit you?" Zelas asked slyly, ignoring the sudden barrage of mental '~Nononononononono!~' she could hear from her… partial cat minion.
( 0.o ) "Ummm… Dolphin has wine, but it really special…"
"Hm?" Zelas knew Deep Sea Dolphin picked some interesting stuff up, half the time, she was sure Dolphin didn't know half value of the items had. So she could have something worthwhile.
Meanwhile Dolphin didn't reply, but shrugged and sat down happily glomping and nuzzling the unfortunate Xelloss, who sat there lest he offend the Dark Lord.
"What have you got?" Zelas asked making up her mind ignoring the 'please-don't-do-this-to-me Juu-ou sama' look she was receiving. .
"Umm…" Dolphin conjured up a bottle and held it out for Zelas to see. "This kind good."
It was good, Zelas deduced from what she could see of the label. "How much have you got?"
"Some?" (^-^) Xellie's hair needed to be brushed, she could do that! And suddenly there was a brush in her hand, much to Xelloss' dismay.
"How much some?" Zelas asked, watching Dolphin brushing Xelloss' hair.
"Some some. Not as much as others." She took one Xelloss' boots off before he could complain. "Kitties don't wear shoes…" she threw the offending shoe to the side, heeey, Xellie still had kitty feet!
Zelas tilted her head thoughtfully. "How much do you want to give me?"
"But" (0.o) "Dolphin not get anything in return though…" She rearranged 'Xellie' and sat on his back so she could brush his tail.
Xelloss lay there, 'why-me' face on and drummed his what would normally have been his fingers on the ground.
"I'll let Xelloss visit." Zelas announced suddenly. An idea was forming in her mind now….
"!!!" Xelloss decided he was doomed.
(0.o) "How long?!" Dolphin ceased brushing and threw her arms around the cat-mazoku's neck as she sat on him.
Yep, he was doomed, the semi-neko mazoku mentally sighed.
"Week?" Zelas suggested, small amount of time, lots of wine… she could deal with that.
"For how much?" Dolphin had the biggest, sparkliest eyes imaginable now.
"A lot." Zelas replied, a plan and wine. Could it get any better?
"Aww… but… Dolphin don't have lots."
"How much then?" Zelas queried.
"Half crate for one week?" Was Dolphin's offer, that was fair, right?
"Half crate per DAY!" Zelas countered the cheapskate offer.
"That too much!" Dolphin exclaimed, letting go of Xelloss, but not getting off him, he was a squishy comfy place to sit! "Dolphin give it to sea then."
Xelloss stealthily re-acquired his boot back.
"Okay then…." Zelas tried another yet same offer. "One crate every two days?"
"No, Dolphin go give wine to sea." (^-^) The insane mazoku pulled off Xelloss other boot, just as he began lacing up the first one she'd removed.
"One for a week." Zelas said, not giving a clue as to whether she'd be bothered to get less than that.
Dolphin shook her head and removed the boot Xelloss had just put on and hurled them both out and into the forest. "One a week sounds good… Dolphin give ten crates then?"
Zelas was thoughtfully quiet for a moment as Xelloss watched both his boots fly away (o.o), along with any chance of getting out of this no matter how much he whined. (-.-;;)
"I don't see why not." Zelas told her sister with a smile. (^-^) She could work with that.
"Really? Dolphin get Xellie a whole ten weeks!?" Dolphin cried happily bouncing just a little.
"…" Xelloss did not like being used a trampoline, nor being bargained like this.
"Really." Zelas said, smile still in place (^-^) She would chuckle later, she could resist it right now though…
"I teach Xellie things!" Dolphin said, issuing Xelloss a bone-crushing hug, much to his displeasure.
"Hm… yeah." Zelas nodded to herself, her smile widening. "You give me wine first though, and I need to talk to him first!" (^-^)
(^-^) "Dolphin get wine and Xellie stay as half kitty til spell kicks in more and makes him more of a kitty." Dolphin gushed happily. She'd give him a bath, and brush him, and cuddle him, and give him a mousie to chase, and a bow!
Xelloss' expression dropped as he fully resigned himself to his new fate of being Deep Sea Dolphin's pet cat for the next ten weeks. Oh joy.
"You go now then." Zelas prodded her sister, still smiling.
"…or if Dolphin wants him to stay as a half kitty…." Dolphin was still merrily warbling on as she teleported out.
Zelas stood there apparently contemplating something before she gave a sharp whistle in Xelloss' direction. "Go get your boots and come." She said simply as she phased away herself.
Xelloss hovered to the forest with drooping kitty ears, retrieved his boots and sat on a fallen tree to tie them firmly back on. Then he began to follow his master's trail back.
There had to be more to this than just wine, surely? Or at least he hoped so for being traded off like that. Well, he'd find out if that was the case soon enough.
