MSSKZ: Hey, I'm back again! I'm sorry about all of my erratic posts. I was ill for a while, then I had surgery, and then there's just my laziness.

Neo: Mostly the last one.

MSSKZ: *bonk* Ignore the idiot. His personality was merged with Ted's (Bill + Ted's Excellent Adventure).

Luke: She owns almost nothing, as usual. In other words, same disclaimer as last time.

MSSKZ: *glomps Rath*

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Cesia was trudging along the forest path, following the Knight, Officer, and bounty hunters. She knew that Beirrez wasn't always this mean, but he must have really hated Rath in his previous life, or whatever Keu said Beirrez was remembering from. They were on the way to find the Wind Dragon, and were making quite a bit of progress.

She was hating them all then. They could have saved Rath. They could have gone back. They could have not let him get caught in the first place. However, her anger wasn't completely focused on the others, but she was angry with herself: if she had just given herself up, Rath wouldn't have been caught. His efforts had been futile, and she blamed only herself for the whole predicament. You couldn't argue with Fate, and she still did. She then decided. After she got the Wind Dragon, she wouldn't go back to the castle. She would go back to Nadil's army and rescue Rath from his fate.

Keu really wished that the group could have split up even more, that some of them could go try to fight Nadil to rescue Rath, but Fate had commanded him to leave immediately. My, God, he thought and stopped dead in his tracks, she told us to get out as soon as possible, not to never make a rescue attempt. If Cesia finds out, she'll be so-o-o-o pissed. He started to walk again, as top not attract any attention, and then picked up on Cesia's thoughts. Damn. Now I really can't tell her, but if she follows us that far, she has to come back to Draqueen. There really won't be any time left then...

As Keu was debating with himself, Beirrez really felt terrible. He knew that Cesia really cared for Rath, but he just couldn't bring himself to forgive Rath. Yes, it was a different Rath, but Beirrez still couldn't feel anything but antipathy towards him. Cesia's never going to forgive me if Rath does die. Dammit!! Why couldn't I have just kept my mouth shut?! I always have to say the wrong thing at the wrong time! Beirrez glanced back at Cesia. ...She's going to run. After she gets the Wind Dragon, she's going to run back... Well, I won't stop her.

The other three were thing relatively more happy thoughts. Gil was keeping his mind off things by counting the number of pine trees they passed. He knew it was just a diversion to not think about their predicament, but really wished there was something else to do. Seu was absorbed with trying to find the way to the mountain where the Wind Dragon was, but felt like they were becoming even more lost. Reu, on the other hand, was reciting the screenplay to Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure in her head. Every time she laughed, Gil, Beirrez, and Cesia stared at her like she was insane. Keu and Seu just tried to ignore her, since they knew that she most likely was crazy.

Things were just as somber with the other Dragon Knights, even though Neu was doing the exact same thing that Reu was. Thatz was also set on eating food at every town they passed. Rune was really the only one who was being serious. In fact, their little adventure was being quite .

The condition was also similar in Draqueen. Well, not exactly similar, because Alfeegi was yelling at anyone and anything that messed something up. Tetheus was acting grave, but he's perpetually serious, so there's really no change. Kai-Stern was on the run from Alfeegi, for whatever reason Feeg had now. Ruwalk was busy doing Secretary of State-like stuff. Lykouleon was a completely different story, though, because a very annoying, old friend had decided to drop in. She made it her mission in life to annoy the hell out of Lykouleon and the rest of her friends by calling them annoying nicknames. He was currently on the run from her.

While patrolling the castle, Tetheus noticed that Lykouleon was hiding on the roof, doing . It was out of character for him to be hiding for any purpose whatsoever, except if it had to do with Alfeegi. Sir, what, pray tell, are you doing on the roof?

What do you think? Hiding!

I could tell that, but from whom?

Chi [1]. She won't find me here. I can finally get my work done.

Lord, if you don't want her around, you could just tell her to go away.

That would be rude, and she'd be even more annoying the next time she came.

...Why don't you then, next time, have someone say that you are away?

Last time Alfeegi let me out, I had to sneak out. And that was a decade ago!

I thought you were away last month?

No. That doesn't count. Alfeegi was with me.

Right. I forgot.

Then, Chi walked around the corner. Lykouleon noticed, and tried to be even less noticeable. Chi walked up to Tetheus. Have you seen Lykky?

No. I think he left this morning for Cezzare.

Did he sneak out? I doubt Feeg approved that little venture.

Alfeegi is quite busy at the moment. Why don't you annoy him instead?

Chi thought about it for a second, and replied, Thanks! What a good idea!

Alfeegi's going to kill him... Lykouleon thought.

Do you need anymore help, Lady Chi? Tetheus asked.

A little vein popped out on Chi's forehead. Who told you that was my name?

Lord Lykouleon.

Would it hurt him to put the other two syllables on? My name is Achika, NOT CHI!!

Lykouleon yelled a reply from up on the roof, Only if you don't call me my degrading nickname.

Chi stared at the ground for a second, then turned to Tetheus and smiled, but one of the I'm going to kill you smiles. You knew he was up there the entire time, didn't you?

Whatever do you mean? I didn't have any knowledge of him being up there.

Oh, go ahead! Save your own ass! Lykouleon murmured to himself.

When Tetheus didn't reply, Achika spoke again, not angry anymore. How the hell did he get up there anyway?

Don't ask me. I wasn't talking to him long enough to get that information out of him. Tetheus turned to leave. If you'll excuse me, I have to go keep Alfeegi from killing Kai-Stern again. He then left.

Lykky, how did you get up there?

Plot hole.

They sure are handy aren't they?



I can see you are busy working on reading manga, so I'll go piss off Alfeegi for no reason. She threw Lykouleon a pack of batteries. Just in case the CD player you were hiding behind your back runs out.



No, it didn't seem that there was impending doom, from the way the the higher ups were acting. Especially on the Dragon side of the prism. That doesn't mean that the demons were having a better time. In fact, as Shyrendora puts it, they were planning what they had already done.

Shydeman, Shyrendora, Nadil, and Kharl were theoretically all standing around a map of Dusis, trying to plan their attack, when in fact, Shyrendora was pointing out all of the problems with the plans, Shydeman was making stupid suggestions, Nadil was considering how to kill Lykouleon, and Kharl was thinking about what sort of demons to make.

This was to be the day that Shyrendora could take it no longer. I'M SURROUNDED BY INCOMPETENT, MORONIC, SCATTERBRAINED, FEATHERBRAINED CLODS!!

The other three stared at her for a few seconds. Nadil said, I think we should have her institutionalized.

But if we give her to the Dragon Tribe, she'll spill all our secrets! Shydeman rebuked. And then, the Dragon Tribe will kill us!!

Not my preciouses!! Kharl then added, speaking about the demons he had just recently created.

Just kill me now... Shyrendora pleaded, while crying. I can't stand the stupidity any longer!! Tetheus was always right!

Nadil and Kharl stopped planning to send her away for a second, and looked at her like she was even crazier. Shydeman then explained, I think she always had a thing for our brother.



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Hey!! ^_^ I hope you liked the humor trip. I just couldn't not include Achika's mission to annoy all. Here's a more detailed explanation for the footnote:

[1] is only as a shortening for and has absolutely nothing to do with the female
lead in Chobits. Sorry for any confusion, and the fact that I just did a Tenchi Muyo crossover. Don't ask how Lykky knows her, he just does. And it's a plot hole as to how she got there in the first place.

Thank you for reading, please review, and I hope you enjoyed this installment of A Dragon Knights Sleeping Beauty! (God, now I sound like the announcer dude from the Star Wars: Special Edition thingy...) AND! I remembered to spell-check. ^_^