Disclaimer: Today's brought to you by...The Monster Allen Schezar! (Go Read Dragon Clan, everyone!)
ACG: "Scary monster...do I own Escaflowne?"
Allen: *meow*
ACG: *frowns* "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
Allen: *glances down at her through the tremendous fat folds around its eyes* "Meep-meep?"
ACG: "Yes, that's right, Allen. I don't own Escaflowne!"
Second Destiny By Another Cat Girl
Chapter 5
(((The assistant seemed to steel himself for a blow and looked up at Celena.
"The man looked like you with red eyes.")))
Celena's eyes widened. "He...he looks like me?"
The assistant nodded. Celena shook her head. "That is very strange...anyway, tell the palace guard to look out for a mad-man like that on the loose."
The man nodded and strode toward the barracks. Celena went to the table to finish breakfast.
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Jajuka knocked at the door of the king's chambers and it was answered by a female servant, who looked up questioningly. "Allen wanted to see me?" The woman nodded and opened the door for him.
Allen Schezar, King of Asturia, was lounging drunkenly on a pile of pillows and eating grapes held by a beautiful maiden. His eyes were glazed over from the contents of the empty wine glass in one hand and his normally well-groomed hair was disheveled and dirty. He was leering at the young grape-girl and was probably about to make a lewd comment when the beast-man entered.
"Your majesty!" Jajuka said in surprise. He had heard rumors, but... "You asked to see me."
Allen looked distractedly up at him and squinted. He seemed to recognize Jajuka after a moment and hissed, "Did you give her the ring?"
Jajuka nodded at the slovenly king. "Yes. I told her that it belonged to her mother."
Allen looked pleased. "Well, that aught to keep her in line for a while...good, good." He squinted at the empty wine glass, and absently accepted a grape from the woman.
"What...what do you plan to do to her, majesty?" Jajuka tried not to sound as desperate as he felt. His beloved charge in the hands of this...monster?
"Oh, I have to get rid of her, beastie-man." Allen hiccoughed.
"Get rid of-" Jajuka was interrupted.
"If she has that ring on, I might just be able to dump the whole mess on some lucky idiot's shoulders. Imagine the moron we'll trick into marrying her."
He looked up at Jajuka, actually seeing him for the first time. "I am tired of having to take care of her. Having a freakish science experiment for your only family is too much of a burden. Knowing that my little sister could turn into that monster Dilandau...he would kill me, if he saw me again. Do you know that? And look at me. I'm not prepared to fight anyone, let alone him. Not to mention how people will talk if they find out who she truly is. If I'm not mistaken, they already think she's cursed, do they not?"
"They do."
Allen absently twisted the glass. "Then we'll have to move quickly, won't we?"
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ACG: Sorry for the short chapters...at least they come out quickly, ne? Just for Rina, I'm going to introduce a few new characters in the next few chapters, and explained just what I changed about Escaflowne's ending to make it the way I want it. Oh, and tell me if I should make Van Evil or not!
Beloved Reviewers:
Nihongo: "Have I suddenly gone blind? 'Cause you're outta sight!" - The Elusive Allen Schezar And, no. You don't get a hug from Shesta because you haven't reviewed it in yet. *Pulls eyelid down, sticks out tongue* Nyah nyah! Hurry, up my cousin. And stop following me around! *frowns* We didn't go to kendo today, did we?..how sad. ;_;
RainStorm: O_o I...feel...so...much...love! *gives RainStorm a big, friendly hug* 3/5ths of my reviews today were from this wonderful reader! You just follow her wonderful example! She even went and reviewed my Dragon Clan story! Yay! Oh, and thanks for the lovely ideas! She reviews more than even my blood relations. *frowns pointedly at Nihongo*
Issa: You guessed rightly, my friend! I'm not sure how I'm gonna' do it yet, though... ;_;
Ana: ^_^ Thank you very much! I hope you like chapter 5!
Okay, for Issa and RainStorm:
They were both walking along the city streets when suddenly, two Gundam thingies appeared from the sky and landed right in front of them. Two gorgeous pilots appeared from the cockpits, and walked up to the two girls. Gatti and Shesta looked nervously at each other, and Gatti said, "Do we really have to do this?" Shesta replied, "Dilandau told us to do whatever ACG says." They turned slowly and gave Issa and RainStorm tentative hugs. All four lived happily ever after, after the girls forced the 'slayers to propose. ^_^
(They are a little uncomfortable around girls! How Sweet!)