"Mamoru can you hear me? Hello?" she asked before running into her house and getting her grandfather to come and help her get the young soldier inside. "Sequoia, he's a Dragon Slayer! What are you doing bringing him here!" Iori, her grandpa asked in astonishment after seeing him lying on the cold, clammy ground. "I'll explain soon, but first we must get him inside. He's not used to our air. I'll get Cain to help us carry him." Off she went in search of Cain, her best friend. They had known each other since they were five and had been very good friends since.
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*Uh... Where am I? How did I get in a bed? I think I'm in Sequoia's house. * Mamoru thought through his killer headache by his left temple. Then he heard Sequoia's voice and two men's that he didn't recognize. "What are you doing bringing a Zaibach soldier into this village?" Iori asked, appalled by the fact of having a man from the Black Dragon Clan in his own house. "He saved a dragon." she replied.
"What do you mean? He's supposed to kill them, not save them." Cain chipped in. "I know. The thing is the dragon chose him, this dragon in particular just so happens to be the leader of the Ancient Dragon's. What was I supposed to do? Leave right after he shares blood with a dragon and doesn't have a clue what's going on?" Sequoia had a fairly good point. {1}
"Well I might as well go and make something. He'll probably be hungry when he wakes up and I also have to get that tea ready for him." With that Iori left to go and make an afternoon snack. He had just finished walking down the short hall when Cain spoke up once again, "How could you do this? It wouldn't be quite as bad if he were just a regular soldier, but the son of Folken Fanel? This Mamoru has killed at least fifty dragons! He's a dragon slayer for the gods sake!" He looked very mad about this whole situation. "Look, don't you understand? Cain I..."
"You know, it's not all that nice to talk about people when they can hear you." Mamoru said now standing behind the two with his left hand placed on Cain's right shoulder, and his right hand on Sequoia's left shoulder. Cain instantly shot Mamoru a death glare. "Is something cooking?" Mamoru ignored Cain's rudeness and followed the mouth watering sent. Mamoru looked like a little child staring at a shelf of candy, his mouth was watering just looking at the meal in front of him. There was chicken, rice balls, salad, potatoes, carrots, peas, and corn. *Their ideas of an afternoon snack is much more different then mine. Oh well, I shouldn't be complaining. I mean, I barely get this good of a meal anytime of day back home. * Soon he was sitting at the middle of the table eating everything he could reach, and then some. "Don't they feed you on your floating castle?" Cain asked coldly now sitting across from him. "Well yeah, but not this good, especially lately. It's Dilandau turn to cook for the week; all he does is burn the food until it's not edible food anymore. Lately he's even been putting poison in our food, not really dangerous stuff. Make's yeah very sick though and for quite awhile too." Once he finished speaking he quickly shoved some carrots in his mouth. There was one carrot stuck in his mouth making it look like he was trying to smoke it.
Cain was staring at Mamoru for a few seconds before Mamoru noticed. "Is there something wrong?" He asked, looking down at the tea Iori had just placed in front of him. He had one eyebrow raised at this "tea", it looked like something Dilandau would try and get the soldiers to drink. "Nothing much. You just look like this guy that my friend described to me." he answered, a slight smile starting to find it's way on his face. "And?" Mamoru replied and took a sip of the tea. It looked as though he would throw up.
"Well this man that he described was the man who killed my brother- Eric. He said this man had a sword to Eric's throat and told him to tell him anything and everything he knew about the Red Dragon Clan and he wouldn't kill him. Eric spilled and told him everything and then the man went back on his word and killed him in the most unusual way. There's just one thing you don't have that this man did...black eyes along with red pupils {2}." It seemed as though Cain thought his brother's death was funny. Mamoru started breathing deeper, pushing his chair back and standing up. It all came to him. *I'm standing in front of a man with his arms and legs cut off. He has a rope around his neck hanging him from a branch. His heart is in his mouth; his legs and arms are tied to other branches on the tree. I'm standing there laughing at him. *
Mamoru looked up at Cain with a look of panic. "What do you have to worry about it? It couldn't have been you, you don't have black eyes." Cain knew that it was Mamoru had killed his brother, he just didn't know how come he didn't' have the black eyes. Mamoru laughed letting a half smile come across his tanned features. "How can you be so sure?" Opening his eyes slowly he let his black eyes show. "Bastard!" Cain yelled out drawing his sword, ready to strike.
"How about if you can catch me, you can try and kill me." he offered, now he was a completely different man. "Mamoru don't do this!" Sequoia called out to him. "Why not, I love playing games." His black eyes were gazing into Cain's dark blue eyes. "Come on, it'll be like playing hide-and-go-seek, yes, let's play." He chuckled before jumping out of the picture window that was behind him, sending glass showering everywhere. Cain quickly ran around the table and also jumped out the window, looking frantically around for Mamoru. "Your no good at playing hide-and-go-seek, how depressing. Oh well." Cain looked up and saw him sitting on the roof with a disappointed look on his face. "Come down here and fight!" he yelled back up, furious.
"Oh fine, if you insist. I guess I could kill you today, I was planning on doing it another day but this will have to do." he jumped down landing on his right foot, very gracefully. "Well let's get this over with, I have a banquet to go to tonight. If I'm late I'll be in big trouble with my father." Mamoru had not yet drawn his sword, but when he was about to reach it with his right hand, everything went into darkness. *What's happening? * Soon he opened his eyes. He was now back to normal, no longer a psychotic killer. "Well, let's fight already!" Cain was becoming very impatient.
"Fight? What do you mean? My head..." he was rubbing his left temple gently. "Don't play stupid, you know exactly what I mean." Cain ran forward trying to attack Mamoru. His attempt failed as Mamoru was able to dodge the pathetic attempt. "I don't want to fight you..." *"Come on, it'll be like playing hide-and-go-seek, yes, let's play."{3}* He slowly bent down and pulled a small hunting knife out of the inside of his right boot, and stood up once again. "I'm sorry."
"For what? For the god's sake take out your sword and fight!" Furry and angry filled Cain. "For this."
"Uh..." Cain looked down to his upper left leg, only to find that same small hunting knife stuck in it, letting blood slowly find it's way out. Mamoru then walked to the edge of the cliff and turned so he was facing the small village he was in. Sequoia ran over to Mamoru, she had watched the whole ordeal and was shocked at his sudden personality changes. "What are you doing?" she asked seeing him slowly back up closer and closer to the edge of the cliff. "Meet me tonight, in the forest, that we met in this morning. I'll explain things to you there." She didn't say anything; she just nodded and then watched him fall backwards off the mountain and down to his death. He would die, unless of course he could get his wings out soon enough.
As the rocks at the base of the mountain became larger he started fumbling with his jacket once again. Typically enough he was able to get his armored jacket and cotton tee shirt off in time so that he was able to let his wings emanate and fly up into the sun that was about to set. *Great, the banquet will be starting soon and I'm going to be late. On top of that I'm going to have to hide my tattoo and put something on my hand to cover up that symbol. Fun. *
It took about half an hour for Mamoru to reach the floating castle. He landed gracefully on his balcony and quickly ran to the doors, which would let him enter his bedroom. He tried to open them. "Locked!? Why the hell are they locked? Damnit, Folken!" Mamoru kicked the glass door, the fine glass shattering and spreading all across his floor. He jumped through the hole and slipped on his shirt and armored jacket. "Shit, my jacket and boots were supposed to be polished!" Ignoring that for the moment, he ripped a piece of his sheet off and wrapped his left hand. It would have to work for now. It was a fairly long walk to get down to the banquet room.
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Mamoru went to place his hands on the silver handles, when the both swung open, making him step back quickly. Looking straight at him was his father. "Mind if we have a little chat before you go in for supper?"
TO BE CONTINUED…
{1} There are a lot of things that I've made up on my own, this is one of them. Pretty sure anyway.
{2} I put the wrong thing in the little prolougey thing, it was supposed to be black with red pupils. I'm pretty sure that I put them just red. Sorry bout that.
{3} Sound familiar? Think about the fighting scene with Dilandau and Van.
There it is! Left off at a bit of a cliffhanger, you won't mind though, will ya'? Please review ^_^
I only got 1 review for the first chapter, even after I emailed everyone (who reviewed I don't Know anymore) the link. O wellies. I hope you liked this chapter.
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