Keetra:
Your review was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny. As my friend Paul says, I haven't gut laughed like that in a long time. I laughed and then I laughed some more, and then some more, and more and more and more! That was earlier. I just read your new review! Namaste!
Sure, go ahead and stalk me. Good authors should ALWAYS be stalked by other good authors. That's just the way that America works. LOL.
Anyways, this particular chapter goes out to you, because I want it to, and because there will be some fun action stuff in it.
And by the way, YES, Haku has been feeling slight misgivings. I mean, come on. Wouldn't you? You're about to sign your life away! Once finished, there's no going back, mainly because I HATE divorce. The song was Hero by Enrique Iglesias.
The reason that there was no action in the past like, two chapters was because I needed to develop certain characters. It's called character development! :D
Anyways, yet again, this chapter goes out to Keetra, thank you so much for reviewing! I assure you, writing this would be MUCH harder without you there to help me.
Writing for HIS glory ALWAYS
Dante/TME/Brian/Isildri
*~*
Knoma proceeded to Jumari's quarters, grumbling to himself all the way. Had you been a fly on the walls, you might have heard words like: Sky, bastard, bitch, idiots, stupid, destiny, torture, suicide, insanity, murder, kill, and many other fun things. Suffice it to say he was NOT in a good mood.
Things were not looking good for Jumari's little dinner party.
I certainly don't have to tell you what he intended to do when he got there.
He walked down the corridors, elaborately plotting a strategy to make Jumari hate Sky, and a plot to go with that one, this one to get Jumari to notice HIM again. He passed several carts laden with some of the best food available, delicacies such as basilisk, phoenix, unicorn, and dragon. Haku would be furious if he saw them. The carts seemed to be pushing themselves down the halls, but he knew all to well that there were invisible servants pushing them, so he stopped his quiet ranting and passed by without them suspecting a thing. He proceeded to the elevator, which he shared with a tray floating about shoulder high. He ignored it, and rode up to the correct floor, getting off without so much as acknowledging the tray's presence.
He walked swiftly down the hallway, empty with only one door, and that at the far end. The hall itself was totally void of furnishings, except for a single tapestry that covered one wall. The tapestry depicted a long forgotten legend, one in which a spirit and a dragon had battled for three days for the fate of the human world. The scene that was depicted in the tapestry showed the spirit thrusting his shining sword into the breast of the dragon as it thrashed above him, blasting fire from its mouth.
He walked to the door at the far end and entered without knocking. Inside was a long table, at which sat Jumari, being at the head, and next to her, Sky. Knoma released a glare that would have frozen anyone weaker into stone. Sky merely smiled and asked him to bring him some more sake.
With a smile plastered onto his face, he complied, pouring just enough to cover the bottom of the cup. Once again, Sky smiled and requested more, so Knoma poured about another thimble-full into the cup and walked away. For a second, Sky's smile faltered, then it returned stronger than ever and he turned to Jumari, who was staring intently at him.
"Is something wrong?"
"No," she replied, blushing. "It's just that you look rather nice in that tunic." It was true. Sky cut a truly dashing figure in the tunic, it having been woven of silver and created by the seamstresses to the east, the finest in the spirit world. He smiled at her even more, then turned back to his dinner. It was a mixture of Rainbow Fish and Phoenix, with a small pile of the best ramen in the spirit world off to the side, and a basket of rolls. In all his years as Jumari's consort, Knoma had never eaten that well, and Sky was practically ignoring the food.
Knoma was really starting to get ticked off. He walked into a side room, where the desserts lay out on a platter which rested on a silver and mahogany cart. He carefully sprinkled sand into the plate that would be going to Sky. (a/n- in case you didn't know, sand was a common method of assassination way back when)
He smiled. Suddenly, a call from Sky caused him to straighten and return to the dining room. Sky was once again asking for more sake, and this time, Knoma filled his cup to the brink. Sky looked at him rather suspiciously, but sipped the drink and nodded his thanks.
Once again, Knoma smiled.
*~*
Chihiro and Haku lay on the floor, his arm draped over her shoulders and his legs intangled in hers (a/n- no, they didn't DO anything, they just fell asleep next to each other and arranged themselves in their sleep) Nami was once again awake and watching them, a broad smile on his face. He was going to have so much fun when they woke up.
"Mmmmm. I don't want. . . to get up. . . so comfortable." Haku was speaking in his sleep. "Yeah. . . she IS beautiful, isn't she." Nami stifled a giggle. Boy, this would be perfect material for blackmail, if only he had some way of recording it.
Haku and Chihiro's eyes both opened at roughly the same time, they looked at each other, then scrambled to get away, both thinking the exact same thing.
WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!
Only, Chihiro didn't just think it, she said it out loud, and when the word loud is used, the word loud is meant.
"Well, you were both kind of woke me up last night, you were making so much noise."
Chihiro felt her face flush, and she looked away so that neither of them would see it.
"We. . . didn't. . . DO anything, did we?" Nami felt himself about to answer hell yeah, then decided against it.
"No, but you certainly COULD have. I sure wouldn't have minded." He grinned at them, and Haku grabbed a pillow on the floor and threw it at him. Nami laughed out loud, and Haku glared daggers at him.
"Listen, we aren't doing ANYTHING until we're married. Except maybe making out," he added as an after thought. "That's perfectly okay." He stood up and walked over to the window and threw open the blinds.
Chihiro shrieked as the light flashed into the room, blinding all of them. Haku quickly shut the blinds again, then they all spent the next few minutes standing around blinking and looking like idiots. Once they got their sight back, they walked into the living room where they found that Knoma had arranged for breakfast to be served. There were all sorts of fun dishes, which Chihiro figured were leftover from the private meal the night before. (a/n- here's the deal. I'm jumping forward in the timeline to the next morning after the dinner scene, then I intend to jump BACK to the dinner scene again, for the second half of the ill fated dinner. If it's that hard to follow, review me so that I can have a good laugh at your expense) They ate in silence, then went and got dressed for the day ahead.
Chihiro and Haku walked Nami to the elevators and then told him that they'd be down at the hot springs that provided the inhabitants of the tower with warm baths. They intended to get some of the wedding planning done.
From upstairs, yelling could be faintly heard.
*~*
Knoma brought out the desserts, being VERY careful to put the correct dish in front of Sky. He then gave Jumari her dish, and walked into the darkest corner of the room to watch what would happen.
Jumari was first to take a bite of her dish, and she smiled, declaring that it was excellent. Sky then took a bite of his, and choked. Jumari stood up quickly, upsetting most of the dishes in her way as she leaned over to see what was the matter with him. He gasped and then collapsed onto the floor, his breath ragged and coming out in shorter and shorter gasps. Almost instantly, Knoma was at his side, energy flowing from his palms as he attempted ( :D ) to cleanse him from the impurities that were even then racing through his veins, attacking his vital organs and making mincemeat of his stomach and esophagus.
Jumari knelt by Knoma, but since she had no experience in healing, all she could do was stay where she was holding onto his hand.
Knoma's eyes glazed over as he frantically attempted to destroy each and every one of the grains of sand in Sky, making sure that in his panic he didn't miss a single one. Sweat was pouring down his brow, a poor testament to the agony that he had to go through just to heal him. Healing always took a lot out of him, but this particular one was much harder than usual, since there were so many separate focuses for his power to concentrate on.
At long last, the deed was done. All of the sand had been destroyed, and Sky was once again breathing easy. Knoma placed him into a healing trance so as to allow the damaged parts of his internal organs to repair themselves. He then sat back, collapsing onto the floor, exhausted by the effort.
Jumari reached out and took his hand, her gratitude showing in her eyes.
For that moment, all was well with the world.
*~*
Well, I didn't leave you with a cliffhanger! Aren't you happy?
Of course you are. I can read it in your eyes, as well as your reviews!
By the way, I've gotten sick of my summary of this story, so I'm changing it. Just a note.
Read and Review!
Your review was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funny. As my friend Paul says, I haven't gut laughed like that in a long time. I laughed and then I laughed some more, and then some more, and more and more and more! That was earlier. I just read your new review! Namaste!
Sure, go ahead and stalk me. Good authors should ALWAYS be stalked by other good authors. That's just the way that America works. LOL.
Anyways, this particular chapter goes out to you, because I want it to, and because there will be some fun action stuff in it.
And by the way, YES, Haku has been feeling slight misgivings. I mean, come on. Wouldn't you? You're about to sign your life away! Once finished, there's no going back, mainly because I HATE divorce. The song was Hero by Enrique Iglesias.
The reason that there was no action in the past like, two chapters was because I needed to develop certain characters. It's called character development! :D
Anyways, yet again, this chapter goes out to Keetra, thank you so much for reviewing! I assure you, writing this would be MUCH harder without you there to help me.
Writing for HIS glory ALWAYS
Dante/TME/Brian/Isildri
*~*
Knoma proceeded to Jumari's quarters, grumbling to himself all the way. Had you been a fly on the walls, you might have heard words like: Sky, bastard, bitch, idiots, stupid, destiny, torture, suicide, insanity, murder, kill, and many other fun things. Suffice it to say he was NOT in a good mood.
Things were not looking good for Jumari's little dinner party.
I certainly don't have to tell you what he intended to do when he got there.
He walked down the corridors, elaborately plotting a strategy to make Jumari hate Sky, and a plot to go with that one, this one to get Jumari to notice HIM again. He passed several carts laden with some of the best food available, delicacies such as basilisk, phoenix, unicorn, and dragon. Haku would be furious if he saw them. The carts seemed to be pushing themselves down the halls, but he knew all to well that there were invisible servants pushing them, so he stopped his quiet ranting and passed by without them suspecting a thing. He proceeded to the elevator, which he shared with a tray floating about shoulder high. He ignored it, and rode up to the correct floor, getting off without so much as acknowledging the tray's presence.
He walked swiftly down the hallway, empty with only one door, and that at the far end. The hall itself was totally void of furnishings, except for a single tapestry that covered one wall. The tapestry depicted a long forgotten legend, one in which a spirit and a dragon had battled for three days for the fate of the human world. The scene that was depicted in the tapestry showed the spirit thrusting his shining sword into the breast of the dragon as it thrashed above him, blasting fire from its mouth.
He walked to the door at the far end and entered without knocking. Inside was a long table, at which sat Jumari, being at the head, and next to her, Sky. Knoma released a glare that would have frozen anyone weaker into stone. Sky merely smiled and asked him to bring him some more sake.
With a smile plastered onto his face, he complied, pouring just enough to cover the bottom of the cup. Once again, Sky smiled and requested more, so Knoma poured about another thimble-full into the cup and walked away. For a second, Sky's smile faltered, then it returned stronger than ever and he turned to Jumari, who was staring intently at him.
"Is something wrong?"
"No," she replied, blushing. "It's just that you look rather nice in that tunic." It was true. Sky cut a truly dashing figure in the tunic, it having been woven of silver and created by the seamstresses to the east, the finest in the spirit world. He smiled at her even more, then turned back to his dinner. It was a mixture of Rainbow Fish and Phoenix, with a small pile of the best ramen in the spirit world off to the side, and a basket of rolls. In all his years as Jumari's consort, Knoma had never eaten that well, and Sky was practically ignoring the food.
Knoma was really starting to get ticked off. He walked into a side room, where the desserts lay out on a platter which rested on a silver and mahogany cart. He carefully sprinkled sand into the plate that would be going to Sky. (a/n- in case you didn't know, sand was a common method of assassination way back when)
He smiled. Suddenly, a call from Sky caused him to straighten and return to the dining room. Sky was once again asking for more sake, and this time, Knoma filled his cup to the brink. Sky looked at him rather suspiciously, but sipped the drink and nodded his thanks.
Once again, Knoma smiled.
*~*
Chihiro and Haku lay on the floor, his arm draped over her shoulders and his legs intangled in hers (a/n- no, they didn't DO anything, they just fell asleep next to each other and arranged themselves in their sleep) Nami was once again awake and watching them, a broad smile on his face. He was going to have so much fun when they woke up.
"Mmmmm. I don't want. . . to get up. . . so comfortable." Haku was speaking in his sleep. "Yeah. . . she IS beautiful, isn't she." Nami stifled a giggle. Boy, this would be perfect material for blackmail, if only he had some way of recording it.
Haku and Chihiro's eyes both opened at roughly the same time, they looked at each other, then scrambled to get away, both thinking the exact same thing.
WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!
Only, Chihiro didn't just think it, she said it out loud, and when the word loud is used, the word loud is meant.
"Well, you were both kind of woke me up last night, you were making so much noise."
Chihiro felt her face flush, and she looked away so that neither of them would see it.
"We. . . didn't. . . DO anything, did we?" Nami felt himself about to answer hell yeah, then decided against it.
"No, but you certainly COULD have. I sure wouldn't have minded." He grinned at them, and Haku grabbed a pillow on the floor and threw it at him. Nami laughed out loud, and Haku glared daggers at him.
"Listen, we aren't doing ANYTHING until we're married. Except maybe making out," he added as an after thought. "That's perfectly okay." He stood up and walked over to the window and threw open the blinds.
Chihiro shrieked as the light flashed into the room, blinding all of them. Haku quickly shut the blinds again, then they all spent the next few minutes standing around blinking and looking like idiots. Once they got their sight back, they walked into the living room where they found that Knoma had arranged for breakfast to be served. There were all sorts of fun dishes, which Chihiro figured were leftover from the private meal the night before. (a/n- here's the deal. I'm jumping forward in the timeline to the next morning after the dinner scene, then I intend to jump BACK to the dinner scene again, for the second half of the ill fated dinner. If it's that hard to follow, review me so that I can have a good laugh at your expense) They ate in silence, then went and got dressed for the day ahead.
Chihiro and Haku walked Nami to the elevators and then told him that they'd be down at the hot springs that provided the inhabitants of the tower with warm baths. They intended to get some of the wedding planning done.
From upstairs, yelling could be faintly heard.
*~*
Knoma brought out the desserts, being VERY careful to put the correct dish in front of Sky. He then gave Jumari her dish, and walked into the darkest corner of the room to watch what would happen.
Jumari was first to take a bite of her dish, and she smiled, declaring that it was excellent. Sky then took a bite of his, and choked. Jumari stood up quickly, upsetting most of the dishes in her way as she leaned over to see what was the matter with him. He gasped and then collapsed onto the floor, his breath ragged and coming out in shorter and shorter gasps. Almost instantly, Knoma was at his side, energy flowing from his palms as he attempted ( :D ) to cleanse him from the impurities that were even then racing through his veins, attacking his vital organs and making mincemeat of his stomach and esophagus.
Jumari knelt by Knoma, but since she had no experience in healing, all she could do was stay where she was holding onto his hand.
Knoma's eyes glazed over as he frantically attempted to destroy each and every one of the grains of sand in Sky, making sure that in his panic he didn't miss a single one. Sweat was pouring down his brow, a poor testament to the agony that he had to go through just to heal him. Healing always took a lot out of him, but this particular one was much harder than usual, since there were so many separate focuses for his power to concentrate on.
At long last, the deed was done. All of the sand had been destroyed, and Sky was once again breathing easy. Knoma placed him into a healing trance so as to allow the damaged parts of his internal organs to repair themselves. He then sat back, collapsing onto the floor, exhausted by the effort.
Jumari reached out and took his hand, her gratitude showing in her eyes.
For that moment, all was well with the world.
*~*
Well, I didn't leave you with a cliffhanger! Aren't you happy?
Of course you are. I can read it in your eyes, as well as your reviews!
By the way, I've gotten sick of my summary of this story, so I'm changing it. Just a note.
Read and Review!