Vale: So please read, review, relax, enjoy, and love my fic. K?
Vince: ...is this a good fic that deserves people to r/r/r/e&l?
Thor: No.
Vale: YES IT IS!! NOW BE QUIET BOTH OF YOU!
Tomoe: -_-; always fighting.
Fantasy Girl: Yeah. I'm glad we're not like them.
SUMMARIZE THE WORLD
CHAPTER ONE
BY:
Vale (Saturn Angels)
Rose walked into the tavern holding herself with confidence as usual, she walked over to an empty table in the corner of the tavern and waited for the waitress to approach her.
To Rose's misfortune she got the bubbliest waitress in the entire city. She was tall, had red hair, freckles, and blue eyes, "Hi there, Ms. Grumpelstiltskin!" she obviously thought this to be hilarious and began laughing. Rose groaned and rested her head in her hands waiting for the girl's annoying, high-pitched laughter to end, 'Just what I need…a hyper waitress. Fate has fun mocking me doesn't it?' once the waitress's laughter did end she cleared her throat, "Hi! I'm Daisy! I'm your waitress for today!" she giggled, "what's your name?"
"Rose," she muttered simply wanting to get the conversation over with.
Daisy gasped, "Wow! We could be the flower twins!" she said excitedly.
Rose glowered up at the waitress, 'I don't think so,' she thought then mocked her laugh which made the girl shut up.
"What do you want to order?" Daisy asked bringing out her notepad and taking the pencil she had stored in her hair.
"What's the strongest thing you have?"
"Ooh. It's not anything you can handle Rosy," Daisy said shaking her head slightly for emphasis.
Rose glared at the waitress, "What's the strongest thing you have?" she asked again though a bit more severely.
The waitress shrugged, "Fine. We have this new drink that came in from that district…that's…over the mountains…and across the sea…and… and I don't know where it is. But we got it from there and it's called Dragonbane. That's the strongest we have when it's not mixed. Few people are left standing after a shot of it. Then we can make these things called Mind Erasers that mix Dragonbane, Vodka, Kahlua, soda water, and some other stuff. So, what'll it be?"
Rose paused momentarily wondering what she should get; "Give me shots of your strongest liquor and then an empty glass,"
The waitress was about to protest when Rose held up her hand to silence her, "I'll leave you a big tip." The waitress nodded slowly then skipped to tell the bartender the order. Rose sighed deeply and rested her head on the table waiting for the damned waitress to hurry back with her drinks. She was going to make one hell of a Mind Eraser. Better then a mind eraser. The waitress came back with a tray full of glasses of different colored liquids. She set each on the table left to right.
"Um. The order in which they are, are from strongest to weakest, left to right. And the bottles are also on the table…would you mind if I asked for the tip now? I mean…after this you could forget, or die…or something." The waitress said nervously.
Rose began to laugh cynically; it was the only way she knew how to laugh. The thought of her dying was actually a little comical. The worst that would happen was her getting drunk and making a complete fool of herself, "Here's your tip," she muttered and handed the girl 200 gil so she would be left alone to drink in peace.
The waitress scurried off to leave work early. Rose tapped her fingers lightly on the table eyeing the fifteen bottles and sixteen shot glasses, one empty of course. She looked at the glass furthest to the left, it was a dark red liquid which resembled red wine. She looked at the bottle that was placed behind it, it read: Dragonbane, "So that would be Dragonbane…" she took the shot glass and drank it all in one shot easily. She blinked slightly her vision a little fuzzy, she shook her head to rid herself of the effects and her sight quickly returned to normal. She took the empty glass and poured Dragonbane, Vodka, Quicksilver, Screwdriver, Tequila, and Wolfsbane into the glass. She swirled it around a bit and drank it quickly. It had more of an effect then the Dragonbane that was for certain. She blinked blearily and decided that was enough, she seemed fine for the moment, she would chance that Mind Eraser plus some other strong liquor some other time. She called for the check and a very quiet waitress came and gave the check to her saying something about Daisy having to leave early. Not like Rose cared anyway. She paid and walked outside stumbling slightly at every step. It seems the drink had some slightly late effects. She grinned goofily--very out of character for her-and began singing very drunkenly, "I'm the Dragoon of Darkness! No one cares, everyone knows!" She hiccupped slightly then bumped into someone. She lost her balance slightly and almost fell over if not for the person's arms that kept her from falling.
Rose blinked and looked up at the person who she had ran into, even through her drunken state of mind she could recognize those piercing garnet eyes and that damn platinum blonde hair, "You're that damned fool who beat me in the hero competition!"
"In all due respect, it is called a Hero Competition, not a Heroine ((No. Not the drug. The drug is spelled Heroin; this one means a female hero…get it?)) Competition. You shouldn't have been participating in it anyway."
"Yeah…well at least I don't have white hair!"
He sweatdropped, "And…you are very drunk."
She slapped him. She would have punched him but feared missing due to her drunken condition, "Bastard!" she spat.
The slap caught him by surprise so of course she hit him, "You're drunker then I thought you were..." he said with a slight glare at her.
"I am not drunk," she slurred.
"If you're not drunk then what color are my eyes?"
She blinked and looked up at him squinting and cursing at the fuzziness, "Ehrm…blue."
He shook his head.
"No! I meant…green!"
Again the headshake.
"When I said green I was thinking along the lines of hazel…"
He smirked and continued to shake his head.
"…umm…" she went into a comical thinking position: one eye shut tight and the other look up at the sky with a finger on her chin while biting her lower lip, "Your name is Daisy!" she paused momentarily, "Wait that wasn't the question…"
Lloyd sweatdropped wondering how she got Daisy from Lloyd, "…I'll give you an easier question then…"
"Will I still win 1,000,000 gil if I answer correctly?" she asked then held her head suddenly as if in pain, she stumbled back a few paces before shaking her head, "I'm going to have one hell of a hangover," she said quite suddenly acting normal again though still her eyes were half closed as if she were extremely tired or drunk. She looked at him, "You're that guy in the Hero Competition…you cheater!" she yelled and quite all of a sudden without any warning pounced on Lloyd and tried to choke him.
He grabbed her wrists so her hands were outstretched trying to reach for his neck. He pushed her off of him and tried to get up only to have her run at him again, this time with a drawn weapon.
He easily knocked her weapon out of her hands making it fly across the street narrowly missing an old woman. She continued lunging at him nonetheless and he was forced to using the sides of his arms to block her rapid blows. She blinked suddenly and stared at him, "…Your eyes…they're…the color of…blood…" she said extremely taken by surprise for reasons Lloyd didn't know. She groaned slightly and by this time had given up fighting, "…red eyes. You have eyes the color of those flowing pools of blood that run in rivers because of me, why didn't I see it before? Red eyes…"
Before Lloyd could think of a sarcastic reply the girl passed out on top of him, he looked around nervously as everyone seemed to be staring at the two.
He rolled her off of him and got up, he was about to leave her like that. Just lying there, easy pickings for thieves. But he couldn't bring himself to do it so instead he lifted her up and decided he would take her to an inn, rent a room with two beds, and just stay the night in that little town. 'Just to make sure nothing happened to her, like she ends up sleep walking and going to the pub and drinking a lot more then she did today then getting pick pocketed or killed or something like that…or there was always the possibility that she would kill someone. Why did she ever drink that much anyway? It couldn't have all been because of that stupid competition…and when she finally realized the color of my eyes…' his thoughts were interrupted when he looked up in time to see that he had almost passed the inn. He walked in and rented a room for 50 gil.
~*End Chapter One*~
TO BE CONTINUED
Special Thanks to:
Kattz Maricle, dyna, Carolyn, Dark-Crystal Dragoon, Ninth Lady, xaphanea, and Lady Crysania Majere
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