WARNING: this is a YAOI fic as it maleXmale relationships and if you don't like that then buzz off.
Oh and I don't own Dragon Knights I'm just using them to fulfill my own sick fantasy. Hey, at least I addmit it.
If you have any confusions feel free to e-mail me and I will try to clear it up.
And thank you all for the rewiews, I don't think I could keep going with out the support. So thank you again.
Remember this will wrapp in Chapter 18. If you want me to write to chapter 20 you need to tell me. Okay?
Okay we are nearing it people.
Triangles can be fun
Chapter 17
The Dragon Knight of Earth sat as Rune had instructed. Cross-legged with one knee touching each of the other knight's making a triangle. Their arms extended to lightly grasp each other's hands forming a second triangle. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to be feeling anything yet so as the red head waited for the blond to start the next step he pondered why the other two had turned positively pink at the thought of a faster cure.
"Now," his thoughts paused at Rune's word, "Meditation is about centering yourself and your place in nature by freely sharing your life with everything around you. Group meditation is rather advanced and requires quite a bit of concentration and even more so for what we are trying to accomplish. We need to synchronize ourselves so as to allow our energy to intermingle freely." The blue-eyed knight looked at them each in turn, "Match your breath with mine. Match your beating heart with mine. Clear your thoughts and let me guide you."
Thatz wasn't sure when he had closed his eyes, but now he felt a bone fire to one side and a tranquil spring to the other the waters darker and colder then he was sure they should be. Both seemed to call to him but he could not move to either. He felt like his body was made of stone, heavy and immobile. Suddenly the tranquil pond raged up flooding around him. He couldn't breath, it seeming to pull at him.
Suddenly the green eyed young man was gasping staring at the ceiling of his temporary room. The heaving breaths of those beside him told him he was not the only one.
"Thatz are you okay?" Rune gasped.
"Yea. How about you Rath?" he managed.
"Not bad for a first try, I think," the fire knight said sitting up into the earth knight's field of vision.
"What happened?" Thatz asked glancing to the embers that remained of a once good fire.
"We did not synchronize. Rath was starting to but I pushed a little to much at you and the whole thing blew up in my face," Rune said pulling them both into a hug. Rath fought to a moment but settled down. After all it was warmer this way.
It took a few minutes for Rath to be allowed free of the others' arms, but only to restart the fire. Rune asked them both what they had felt and seen. Rath had seen a majestic dark mountain and a wrongly frozen ocean. He had been able to flow with the ocean a little, but had no idea about what to do about the mountain.
The blond knight had seen a marble statue of Thatz with dark cracks and a flaming black and violet likeness of Rath. To him the flaming likeness took a few steps toward him holding out its arms in invitation but the marble statue didn't so much a blink. Rune reached out to find his arm made of swirling water and instead of going slowly over to the other he found Thatz held tightly in his liquid arms.
"So what went wrong?" Thatz asked after giving Rune a little time to think. Now the red head was brushing Rath's hair very pleased that he had talking the red-eyed youth into it.
"Well the problem is not concentration or we would not all be able to see each other as separate entities. The problem is synchronizing. Unless you are use to wilding magic it will not come easy, but I have another way to do it," he paused to keep from laughing as Thatz showed him a bit of braided black hair, and started on another one, "Are you both up to trying again or in the morning?"
"Count me in it if means leaving this place even a day earlier," Thatz raised his hand excitedly.
Rath looked back at him suspiciously razing hand to run it through his hair. The red head grabbed it and held the hand up, "He's in too, right Rath?"
Rath sighed defeated possibly knowing Thatz had done something to his hair and said, "Yea."
"Okay," Rune said situating himself to kneel in the middle of the nest then motioned the others over, "Rath come behind me Thatz here in front of me." As they came to kneel where he indicated he explained, "In order to synchronize better we need more physical connection, see?" He took Thatz's hand and placed in over his heart.
Thatz got a silly smile but nodded. "Now lay down with me, it will be easier if we are comfortable." As they did Rath's arms came around the elf's waist almost out of reflex. Carefully he pulled his green-eyed lover to him cradling the red head to his chest. Rune was hardly in the middle, and relished it. "Listen to my heart, feel my breath, be one with me," he whispered.
This time Rune found himself in a dark weightless place. He could feel the others just out of his perception. But instead of pushing to meet them he decided to pull. Raising his voice to the temporal plane he sang.
Rath stood on the shore and the foot of the mysterious mountain and the shore of the frozen ocean. He knew it was not suppose to be like this, but he didn't know how it was suppose to look. So how could he fix it? Then a voice on the wind caught his attention. It was singing a song he remembered from what seemed like long ago. Sure of the source he headed down the beach.
Thatz looked back and forth between the pond and the fire relived that he could finally move in this strange place. If you could call it that. But now that he could move what was he suppose to do? Then a sound floated over to him. It was singing, but it was the same song Rath had been humming. It was coming from the pond. Had they synchronized? Well that made things easier. Moving as quickly as this place allowed him he headed for the pond.
As Rune sang he felt something lift from him. His heart was lighter, but he was getting tiered and he could feel the exhaustion of the other two. Slowly and carefully he changed the words and pulled them all into a deep sleep.
The next few days progressed similarly. And slowly Rune and Thatz felt their health returning. Thatz brought this up one lunch when Crawford had excused himself early.
"I'm just saying we don't need the creepy guy and his castle. The group meditation is working great, and it can be done anywhere right?" the red head asked pilling cheese and ham on a large roll.
Rune looked down at the table, "But he seems so upset every time we mention it. And he has been trying so hard. It's rude to leave so abruptly."
"Rude or not we are due back at the in Darqueen in 14 days if we stay we might not make it. Right Rath?" the earth knight tried again. Rath shrugged noncommittally so Thatz continued on his own, "You know the Lord. Unless we get at least in contact with him he do something. Hell he might even send Tetheus after us. I don't know about you but that guy scars me sometimes, walkin all stiff and formal then appearin out of know where."
Rune looked torn and Thatz pushed a little more, "We could be free of the zombie like serpents, wired endurance tests and," he leaned close to whisper in the elf's sensitive ear, "just the three of us alone in miles of woodland. Anything could happen." At the resulting blush the green-eyed youth knew he had won. "I'll even tell the tall guy my self okay?" he volunteered.
The blond had put a hand over his cheek so his blush was less obvious. It was just too adorable so Thatz leaned back over and gave a peck to the cheek that was exposed between thin fingers. Suddenly Rune sat up strait a look of unpleasant understanding on his face.
"Rath?" the water knight said strangely quiet and level, "How long have you known Crawford-san?"
The fire knight frowned in thought, "A while I guess. Why?"
Confused Thatz waited a moment before asking, "What difference dose that make?"
"Thatz could you get me my shall I'm a bit chilly," Rune said smiling like everything was normal, but Thatz knew differently.
"Sure," the earth knight nodded understandingly. Rune would tell him what was up when he was ready.
Still as he backtracked to their room he couldn't help but wonder what he had missed. Thatz was so caught up in his thoughts that when he slipped on something all he could do was squeak before his tailbone met the stone. Muttering and rubbing his bruised backside he looked back to the cause. There looking innocent was a pile of ash. Some idiot must have spilled it after cleaning a hearth. Actually thinking back he had seen a few piles over the last few days talk about sloppy workers. Curiosity always being his strong suit the ex-thief took a pinch and rubbed it between his fingers. It was sort of greasy as fluffy at the same time. He had seen this exact type of ash in only one place, with that violent midget Garfakcy. Did that mean?
And suddenly he understood. They were in Kharl's castle and Rune had just figured it out. It took all his self-control to not run back down the hall and demand answers. Rath had put them in the hands and the enemy. Perhaps he didn't know or is under some wired influence. He sure hasn't been acting normal. Standing the red head continued to their room he had to play this cool after all.
~~ A few moments after Thatz had left ~~
Rune knew something was horribly wrong. As the meditations had progressed the vale over his senses had been steadily thinning. But the kiss Thatz had given him allowed the vale to part for the briefest moment. He had seen the trapped soles in the servants and a strange foreboding feeling from the man 'Crawford' whom he was sure now was lying. The question was why had Rath brought then into the hands of a possible mortal enemy?
As soon as the door was closed behind Thatz he looked over to Rath. The dark haired knight had his head down looking positively miserable. Despite his flash of anger the elf reached out and took the other's hand to comfort him. "Rath please. What are you not telling us?"
"A lot," Rath mumbled like a child waiting to be sent to his room without dinner.
The elf sighed. It was no secret that Rath was keeping secrets but this one seemed an immediate problem, so he thought carefully about what to say, "Yea," he smiled, "and I have a lot I haven't told you, but this is different. There is danger in this place. I had only a brief glimpse of it. Is Thatz right? Should we leave now?"
Rath refused to look at him so Rune brought up his other hand to pull the other's face to his. "I can't promise not to be mad, but I can promise to listen. Unless you don't trust me." It took a lot for the blond to add the last few words but the possibility was there.
"That's not it. I'm not sure you will understand," the fire knight's voice was a strained whisper, "You'll find me disgusting and you'll take Thatz with you and," his body started to shake, "I'll have nothing again."
"Words don't mean much to you I know," Rune said giving Rath a caste kiss on the cheek, "But we can talk about that later. All I need to know now is should we leave?"
After a few moments Rath finally nodded. The blond stood, "then lets get Thatz and go."
Suddenly a soundless scream ripped though them. Just a glance at the other confirmed it, something had happened to Thatz.
Together they dashed back to their room only to find everything tossed around accept the little nest. There lay 'Crawford' contentedly watching the fire.
"Kharl?" Rath nearly raged leaping forward to confront the taller man.
The water knight on the other hand nearly staggered under the weight of this revelation. Rath had handed them to the tender mercies of a deranged fairy-killing alchemist. Why? And what happened to Thatz?
"Now now little one don't get all upset for nothing," the feather haired man turned to look evenly at them. Quite a feet given he was laying on the floor, "I just can't simply let you three go. Remember we made a deal."
A deal? Rune nearly paled, what had Rath promised for a hope of a cure?
"So what is it?" Rath's voice was venom.
"Nothing too extravagant, or at least it doesn't have to be," Kharl said sounding perfectly reasonable, "Find your little lost sheep before dark. The only clue is that he is on a memorable part of the castle grounds."
Rath was shaking from rage but Rune found his voice, "But what if we don't find him?"
The smile the elf had found so fatherly before now seemed to sinister to be believed, "Then he and you my dear Rune-chan are mine. I could defiantly use a few knew subjects for my experiments." His gaze left Rune and flicked to Rath whom was now baring a sword, "Oh and no cheating or Garfakcy will finish what he started."
The fire knight slammed the three feet of magically reinforced steel home into the chest of the smirking alchemist. Before Rune could shout the body became a pile of ash and blew away in a sudden gust.
Glancing to the small window Rune couldn't help but loose hope. Sunset was only hours away. "What are we going to do?" the elf asked.
~~ TBC ~~
Oh and I don't own Dragon Knights I'm just using them to fulfill my own sick fantasy. Hey, at least I addmit it.
If you have any confusions feel free to e-mail me and I will try to clear it up.
And thank you all for the rewiews, I don't think I could keep going with out the support. So thank you again.
Remember this will wrapp in Chapter 18. If you want me to write to chapter 20 you need to tell me. Okay?
Okay we are nearing it people.
Triangles can be fun
Chapter 17
The Dragon Knight of Earth sat as Rune had instructed. Cross-legged with one knee touching each of the other knight's making a triangle. Their arms extended to lightly grasp each other's hands forming a second triangle. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to be feeling anything yet so as the red head waited for the blond to start the next step he pondered why the other two had turned positively pink at the thought of a faster cure.
"Now," his thoughts paused at Rune's word, "Meditation is about centering yourself and your place in nature by freely sharing your life with everything around you. Group meditation is rather advanced and requires quite a bit of concentration and even more so for what we are trying to accomplish. We need to synchronize ourselves so as to allow our energy to intermingle freely." The blue-eyed knight looked at them each in turn, "Match your breath with mine. Match your beating heart with mine. Clear your thoughts and let me guide you."
Thatz wasn't sure when he had closed his eyes, but now he felt a bone fire to one side and a tranquil spring to the other the waters darker and colder then he was sure they should be. Both seemed to call to him but he could not move to either. He felt like his body was made of stone, heavy and immobile. Suddenly the tranquil pond raged up flooding around him. He couldn't breath, it seeming to pull at him.
Suddenly the green eyed young man was gasping staring at the ceiling of his temporary room. The heaving breaths of those beside him told him he was not the only one.
"Thatz are you okay?" Rune gasped.
"Yea. How about you Rath?" he managed.
"Not bad for a first try, I think," the fire knight said sitting up into the earth knight's field of vision.
"What happened?" Thatz asked glancing to the embers that remained of a once good fire.
"We did not synchronize. Rath was starting to but I pushed a little to much at you and the whole thing blew up in my face," Rune said pulling them both into a hug. Rath fought to a moment but settled down. After all it was warmer this way.
It took a few minutes for Rath to be allowed free of the others' arms, but only to restart the fire. Rune asked them both what they had felt and seen. Rath had seen a majestic dark mountain and a wrongly frozen ocean. He had been able to flow with the ocean a little, but had no idea about what to do about the mountain.
The blond knight had seen a marble statue of Thatz with dark cracks and a flaming black and violet likeness of Rath. To him the flaming likeness took a few steps toward him holding out its arms in invitation but the marble statue didn't so much a blink. Rune reached out to find his arm made of swirling water and instead of going slowly over to the other he found Thatz held tightly in his liquid arms.
"So what went wrong?" Thatz asked after giving Rune a little time to think. Now the red head was brushing Rath's hair very pleased that he had talking the red-eyed youth into it.
"Well the problem is not concentration or we would not all be able to see each other as separate entities. The problem is synchronizing. Unless you are use to wilding magic it will not come easy, but I have another way to do it," he paused to keep from laughing as Thatz showed him a bit of braided black hair, and started on another one, "Are you both up to trying again or in the morning?"
"Count me in it if means leaving this place even a day earlier," Thatz raised his hand excitedly.
Rath looked back at him suspiciously razing hand to run it through his hair. The red head grabbed it and held the hand up, "He's in too, right Rath?"
Rath sighed defeated possibly knowing Thatz had done something to his hair and said, "Yea."
"Okay," Rune said situating himself to kneel in the middle of the nest then motioned the others over, "Rath come behind me Thatz here in front of me." As they came to kneel where he indicated he explained, "In order to synchronize better we need more physical connection, see?" He took Thatz's hand and placed in over his heart.
Thatz got a silly smile but nodded. "Now lay down with me, it will be easier if we are comfortable." As they did Rath's arms came around the elf's waist almost out of reflex. Carefully he pulled his green-eyed lover to him cradling the red head to his chest. Rune was hardly in the middle, and relished it. "Listen to my heart, feel my breath, be one with me," he whispered.
This time Rune found himself in a dark weightless place. He could feel the others just out of his perception. But instead of pushing to meet them he decided to pull. Raising his voice to the temporal plane he sang.
Rath stood on the shore and the foot of the mysterious mountain and the shore of the frozen ocean. He knew it was not suppose to be like this, but he didn't know how it was suppose to look. So how could he fix it? Then a voice on the wind caught his attention. It was singing a song he remembered from what seemed like long ago. Sure of the source he headed down the beach.
Thatz looked back and forth between the pond and the fire relived that he could finally move in this strange place. If you could call it that. But now that he could move what was he suppose to do? Then a sound floated over to him. It was singing, but it was the same song Rath had been humming. It was coming from the pond. Had they synchronized? Well that made things easier. Moving as quickly as this place allowed him he headed for the pond.
As Rune sang he felt something lift from him. His heart was lighter, but he was getting tiered and he could feel the exhaustion of the other two. Slowly and carefully he changed the words and pulled them all into a deep sleep.
The next few days progressed similarly. And slowly Rune and Thatz felt their health returning. Thatz brought this up one lunch when Crawford had excused himself early.
"I'm just saying we don't need the creepy guy and his castle. The group meditation is working great, and it can be done anywhere right?" the red head asked pilling cheese and ham on a large roll.
Rune looked down at the table, "But he seems so upset every time we mention it. And he has been trying so hard. It's rude to leave so abruptly."
"Rude or not we are due back at the in Darqueen in 14 days if we stay we might not make it. Right Rath?" the earth knight tried again. Rath shrugged noncommittally so Thatz continued on his own, "You know the Lord. Unless we get at least in contact with him he do something. Hell he might even send Tetheus after us. I don't know about you but that guy scars me sometimes, walkin all stiff and formal then appearin out of know where."
Rune looked torn and Thatz pushed a little more, "We could be free of the zombie like serpents, wired endurance tests and," he leaned close to whisper in the elf's sensitive ear, "just the three of us alone in miles of woodland. Anything could happen." At the resulting blush the green-eyed youth knew he had won. "I'll even tell the tall guy my self okay?" he volunteered.
The blond had put a hand over his cheek so his blush was less obvious. It was just too adorable so Thatz leaned back over and gave a peck to the cheek that was exposed between thin fingers. Suddenly Rune sat up strait a look of unpleasant understanding on his face.
"Rath?" the water knight said strangely quiet and level, "How long have you known Crawford-san?"
The fire knight frowned in thought, "A while I guess. Why?"
Confused Thatz waited a moment before asking, "What difference dose that make?"
"Thatz could you get me my shall I'm a bit chilly," Rune said smiling like everything was normal, but Thatz knew differently.
"Sure," the earth knight nodded understandingly. Rune would tell him what was up when he was ready.
Still as he backtracked to their room he couldn't help but wonder what he had missed. Thatz was so caught up in his thoughts that when he slipped on something all he could do was squeak before his tailbone met the stone. Muttering and rubbing his bruised backside he looked back to the cause. There looking innocent was a pile of ash. Some idiot must have spilled it after cleaning a hearth. Actually thinking back he had seen a few piles over the last few days talk about sloppy workers. Curiosity always being his strong suit the ex-thief took a pinch and rubbed it between his fingers. It was sort of greasy as fluffy at the same time. He had seen this exact type of ash in only one place, with that violent midget Garfakcy. Did that mean?
And suddenly he understood. They were in Kharl's castle and Rune had just figured it out. It took all his self-control to not run back down the hall and demand answers. Rath had put them in the hands and the enemy. Perhaps he didn't know or is under some wired influence. He sure hasn't been acting normal. Standing the red head continued to their room he had to play this cool after all.
~~ A few moments after Thatz had left ~~
Rune knew something was horribly wrong. As the meditations had progressed the vale over his senses had been steadily thinning. But the kiss Thatz had given him allowed the vale to part for the briefest moment. He had seen the trapped soles in the servants and a strange foreboding feeling from the man 'Crawford' whom he was sure now was lying. The question was why had Rath brought then into the hands of a possible mortal enemy?
As soon as the door was closed behind Thatz he looked over to Rath. The dark haired knight had his head down looking positively miserable. Despite his flash of anger the elf reached out and took the other's hand to comfort him. "Rath please. What are you not telling us?"
"A lot," Rath mumbled like a child waiting to be sent to his room without dinner.
The elf sighed. It was no secret that Rath was keeping secrets but this one seemed an immediate problem, so he thought carefully about what to say, "Yea," he smiled, "and I have a lot I haven't told you, but this is different. There is danger in this place. I had only a brief glimpse of it. Is Thatz right? Should we leave now?"
Rath refused to look at him so Rune brought up his other hand to pull the other's face to his. "I can't promise not to be mad, but I can promise to listen. Unless you don't trust me." It took a lot for the blond to add the last few words but the possibility was there.
"That's not it. I'm not sure you will understand," the fire knight's voice was a strained whisper, "You'll find me disgusting and you'll take Thatz with you and," his body started to shake, "I'll have nothing again."
"Words don't mean much to you I know," Rune said giving Rath a caste kiss on the cheek, "But we can talk about that later. All I need to know now is should we leave?"
After a few moments Rath finally nodded. The blond stood, "then lets get Thatz and go."
Suddenly a soundless scream ripped though them. Just a glance at the other confirmed it, something had happened to Thatz.
Together they dashed back to their room only to find everything tossed around accept the little nest. There lay 'Crawford' contentedly watching the fire.
"Kharl?" Rath nearly raged leaping forward to confront the taller man.
The water knight on the other hand nearly staggered under the weight of this revelation. Rath had handed them to the tender mercies of a deranged fairy-killing alchemist. Why? And what happened to Thatz?
"Now now little one don't get all upset for nothing," the feather haired man turned to look evenly at them. Quite a feet given he was laying on the floor, "I just can't simply let you three go. Remember we made a deal."
A deal? Rune nearly paled, what had Rath promised for a hope of a cure?
"So what is it?" Rath's voice was venom.
"Nothing too extravagant, or at least it doesn't have to be," Kharl said sounding perfectly reasonable, "Find your little lost sheep before dark. The only clue is that he is on a memorable part of the castle grounds."
Rath was shaking from rage but Rune found his voice, "But what if we don't find him?"
The smile the elf had found so fatherly before now seemed to sinister to be believed, "Then he and you my dear Rune-chan are mine. I could defiantly use a few knew subjects for my experiments." His gaze left Rune and flicked to Rath whom was now baring a sword, "Oh and no cheating or Garfakcy will finish what he started."
The fire knight slammed the three feet of magically reinforced steel home into the chest of the smirking alchemist. Before Rune could shout the body became a pile of ash and blew away in a sudden gust.
Glancing to the small window Rune couldn't help but loose hope. Sunset was only hours away. "What are we going to do?" the elf asked.
~~ TBC ~~