Lost...

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Marie awoke from her nap dazed and hungry. 'How long have I been asleep...?' Marie thought as she stepped off the bed, stumbling a bit. She was about to open the door when she heard to servants on the other side.

"Did you hear?" The first maid said.

"Hear about what?" The other questioned.

"About Lady Marie Louise and Prince Domon!" The first said.

"Oh! About those two! How Miss Marie fell off the bridge and Prince Domon heroically leapt off and tried to save her..." The second one replied.

"Yeah, I know... How I wish someone would do such a thing for me..." The first maid said in a dreamy voice.

"You Two! What are you doing?! Leave here at once!!!" A Royal Guard barked.

"Sorry! This will not happen again!" The two maids said, shuffling off in a hurry. The Guard sighed.

"I'd better be going as well. The search team will be leaving soon." He said, marching on, the clanking of his armor slowly disappearing.

"Search team...?" Marie thought. She hoped they'd get here soon, for She would starve here... 'Unless...' Marie thought as she sat down...

~*~*~Forest Viadon~*~*~

Rain slowly opened her eyes to see greenery everywhere. The bright sun was about over head, shining brightly in her face. As Rain tried to get up, failing miserably for she was sore all over.

"W...What happened?" Rain whispered in painfully. She heard a grunt behind her. She turned to see Prince Domon on his side, very sickly pale.

"L...La...Lady...M...Marie..." Domon gasped, wincing painfully. He clutched his side, and his arm drifted limply in the water by him. Rain slowly crawled to him.

"Domon... Domon... Wake up... Wake Up!" Rain said, more and more frantic with each call. She grabbed his shoulder in an attempt to shake him awake, but he jumped when she touched his shoulder. He hissed at her in pain. She touched his shirt, and unbuttoned the shirt and jacket, showing her his shoulders and back were covered in massive bruises.

"Oh... my..." she said in utter shock. She touched him gently; everything was dark purple or black outlined with green. She whispered quietly to him. "Domon... Wake up; wake up now Domon..."

"Ugnh..." was the reply. She tried this many times, only to get the same answer each time.

"Please forgive me Prince Domon." She sighed. She had tried to wake him for an hour now. "Please don't be angry!" She whispered as she put her hands on Domon's blackest bruises, and pinched, hard.

"YYYYYYYEEEEEEE-OOOOOOUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Domon screamed, eyes bulging and body going rigid.


~*~*~A mile away...~*~*~

George turned, hearing somewhat of an agonizing screech. Only one person can yell like that....

-Flashback-

George, Chibodee, and Domon ran around playing. They were all 8 years old, playing out in the gardens.

"Domon! You chicken! C'mon!" Chibodee yelled, jumping from branch to branch. George sat in the tree, almost asleep.

"I'm not a chicken!" Domon yelled back, staring up the giant tree a bit afraid. In the back, Rain sat there, reading an old torn apart book, ignoring the boyish games.

"I want to see you come up here then Chicken!" Chibodee challenged.

"Fine! I will!" Domon screamed back, stomping towards the tree. He stared long and hard up at the tree, swallowing a knot in his throat. He timidly reached up and gripped the tree, and slowly started to climb his way up.

Finally, he was almost to where Chibodee was when he lost his grip.

"Ahh!!!" Domon screeched as he fell to the floor. Rain was there in an instant with her little medicine kit, looking at Domon's knee that had pieces of dirt, grass, and some pebbles. Chibodee jumped out of the tree and went to tease Domon who had started screaming at him for the scratch. George however, stayed in the tree, relaxing.

"Here, now, please don't get mad Prince Domon; this is going to hurt, a lot..." Rain said, starting to get her little packets of tissues and disinfectants out. Domon, stared at her wide eyed as she stuck the disinfected tissues onto his knee. Pain raced up his leg in an instant.

"YYYYEEEEEEEE-OOOUUUCCCCHHHH!!!" Domon screeched at the top of his lungs. George, not ready for the full blasted scream, lost his balance, and fell out of the tree as well.

"EEEPPPPP!!!" George screamed as he too, hit the floor, and ended up with a scarred knee as well...

-End Of Flashback-

"That scream could only belong to Prince Domon." George said, slightly amused. 'No one else was able to ever make him scream like that except that one little Girl... How interesting...' George though.

"Men! Eastward! Now!" George shouted, all the men turned and they went onwards towards the east.

~*~*~With Domon and Rain~*~*~

"What the hell did you do that for you stupid imbecile?!?!?!" Domon yelled at the top of his lungs at Rain who scowled at him.

"I did it to wake you up." She replied calmly, suppressing her anger. 'the nerve of this man! I just helped him!' Rain thought crossly. "Now, sit up and let me see your back." She could see he was about to refuse. "Do it now!" She barked at him. He mumbled and turned around stubbornly and gingerly.

"What did you do to get such bruises?" Rain asked as she lightly fingered the bruises.

"Saving you." was the tart reply.

"How...?" Rain asked, looking out of the corner of her eyes at him.

"Let's see: you fell off the bridge, and I leapt off after you, and then you were going to fall off a waterfall, and I sheltered you from the fall." Was the soft reply.

"Why?" Rain said, pushing on. She looked around for some kind of medicinal herb. She saw and herb by her, lots of it. She looked away from Domon, starting to pluck the herbs, missing his full out blush.

"Erm... Well... I don't know... Because... Cause..." He stammered unable to answer her. She didn't seem to mind though, until her heard soft pounding behind him. He stiffly turned to see her crushing the herbs with two flat stones. He watches in interest as she carefully crushed them and felt the mixture. He blushed when she ripped a huge chunk of her silver dress off.

"W... What are you doing...?" He asked her as she ripped off more and more. Soon, the dress that was longer than her feet, was up to her mid thighs.

"Here, stay still." She wrapped the crushed herbs into part of her dress, then smeared it all over his back, wrapped it tight and tied it.

"Ah..." He said wincing. "What's all this going to do...?" he asked in pain.

"It will help the bruises heal faster and make it a bit less painful." She said, looking down at her legs, she blushed madly. Domon smirked knowingly.

"Here Marie, take it." He said tossing his outer jacket to her.

"But... What about you...?" She asked timidly.

"I'll be fine, now, we need something to eat, don't we?" He asked her smiling.

"Yes... Well..." Rain glanced around. She soon looked over towards the water, something, many silver something's swam in the water. "Fish!" She said triumphantly.

"Hm... Sounds good. Can you pick firewood? I'll catch the fish." He flashed her that smile again, making her flutter.

'its the weariness and hunger...' Rain thought as she nodded and walked off for firewood.

Domon watched as she left, a blush creeping onto his face as he thought of her creamy white legs under the jacket. That earned him a mental slap.

'What are you thinking?! What about Allenby?! YOU LOVE HER!!!' a part of him screamed in fury.

'Yeah, whatever. That boring little twit? Love isn't the word. Marie Louise on the other hand...' Another voice piped in a thoughtful voice.

'No way! No Way she can compare with Allenby! Although... she is nicer, and won't only talk about that Orpul guy...' the first voice said. Domon snapped out of his trance when he realized he was having a mental argument.

"I'm finally loosing it..." Domon said as he reached for a long stick sitting by the water. He then took the rock Rain had been mashing the herbs on and began to sharpen the stick to a point. After about ten minutes. he finally approved of the stick's sharp point, and proceeded to crawl painfully to the waters edge where he saw many average sized fish. He smirked and stabbed the fish in the water with lightning speed. He pulled the squirming fish out, it was quite large, and very plump looking too.

He got ready to get another as he wondered, "Where was Marie...?"

~*~*~Near the riverbank~*~*~

Rain had already gotten a huge amount of sticks for fire wood, now all she needed was some extra spices for the fish.

"Hm... Now, I have some parsley, sage... I wonder if that will be all I need..." Rain pondered as she made her way back to Domon.

Once she approached the bank, she heard a silent but pleasant humming coming from a deep voice. She looked to see Domon, sitting by the water and humming as he jabbed the stick forward into the water with an impossible speed, and pull out a fish. Not only amazed by the speed of his thrust, but also how striking he was with the water reflecting onto him. She blushed hard.

"Wow... Three already?" She asked, hiding the blush.

"Haha... Yeah. Just incase we're more hungry than usual..." He said, pulling the twitching fish off the stick. He then put the fish on another shorter stick and jabbed it into the ground.

"What's all of that?" He asked, pointing to the bundle of herbs in her arms.

"Oh! These? Just to make the fish taste better..." Rain replied, placing the sticks in the middle of the ring of fish.

"Now... How do we light these?" Domon thought aloud. However, Rain was already searching for flint to light the twigs.

"A ha!" Rain said triumphantly as she held up a piece of flint.

"Now what are we going to do Marie? We now have a little stone...thing..." Domon said, staring at the thing in rain's hand. Rain sighed and held out her hand.

"Your belt please?" She asked kindly, putting on a smile.

"My.. My belt..? What ever for?" He asked, blushing a dark red. She held out her hand persistently.

"Just give it to me! I'm not going to take it, I just need that Kasshu Emblem! Its steel, am I correct?"

"Yes... Well..." He said uncertainly.

"Well what? Do you want raw fish or something? Because I certainly do not." Rain said a tad bit annoyed.

"Oh alright! Here..." Domon said, but as he reached to take it off, he winced in pain.

"Oh dear! I forgot!" Rain said, crawling to his side. "Here, Let me do it." Rain said as she unbuckled the belt and slid it off, in the process, Domon turned strawberry red as he felt his pants slip a bit down. "There!" Rain said, turning, not noticing Domon's beet red face.

Rain took the piece of flint and scraped it against the metal belt, which made sparks fly onto the pile of sticks. Domon watched as Rain made fire, in a complete daze.

'How... How does she know all of this? Light fires, pick healing herbs, pick edible herbs... How...? Usually only servants know all of this... And usually Ladies only know how to bare children, cook, clean, or sew... This is utterly confusing!' Domon though as he watched Rain in deep thought.

Bwahaha! How do you people like it so far? Good? Bad?
OH! And I'm so Sorrie for confusing people on the Rain
and Marie names! Cheese...-_-; I totally forgot that
Domon isn't supposed to know... Haha! Welps! I double
checked this time! So yeah, I hope everythings okay!

Lina