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Favorite Flower

Part 3()

Synbios was scared. He understood the feeling quite well already with his experiences in combat as of now, but never did he feel helpless. Now, as his legs were dangling in the air while safety precautions were being taken cared of by the staff, he knew what it felt to be normal.

As hard as he tried to make this an inward experience, his outward expressions betrayed him quite nastily. Masqurin had been watching him the whole time, and quickly rested her hand on top of his. The action caught Synbios' attention immediately and he glanced at their entwined hands briefly before he stared into the accompanying girl's eyes.

They were soon caught in a whirlpool of thoughts and emotions. As soon as the boy gazed into the shining auburn eyes of the girl, he was lost, but he did not care, because he was lost in her. The girl herself never understood how someone's eyes could resemble emeralds so magnificently. This was not the first time she had found her and the boy of her dreams entranced with each other, but for the love of avalanches she could not remember the exact occasions because all she can remember is the eternal warmth and happiness afterwards.

Synbios continued to gaze at her until she smiled a grin that was meant to convey a message of comfort to him.

'Hey, isn't that supposed to be the man's job?' Synbios thought with a grin. He did not mind, because he knew that Masqurin needed him for other situations, and that the situation he needed her in was this one.

The spell was broken and the atmosphere shattered as the Typhoon Dragoon began its descent toward a lot of screaming.

Dantares and Cybel meandered through the festival casually, sometimes stopping briefly to buy some sort of festival food or to play a game and win a prize. Dantares would also occasionally glare at different people for scrutinizing his girlfriend with less noble intentions. Then he would also taunt and tease other people around him because he is that kind of a person.

Cybel was enjoying herself, though she had to scold Dantares whenever he tried to be rude to others. She understood how his attitude and cockiness worked, and that is why she has him under control for the most part. Dragging her big oaf, Cybel brought them to a calm water ride that allowed people to see the surroundings of the area floating in a river.

The ride was magically created, of course, so that the direction the ride traveled was actually against the tides. Either way, Cybel and Dantares made onto one of the ride (specifically designed to accommodate any race known to the world, except for giants) and slowly the cart flowed forward and onward.

Sighing happily at the passing scenery, Cybel propped her hands under her chin and rested her elbows on the edge of the cart. Dantares took this chance to snake one of his arms around her waist and the other rested alongside her left arm. Cybel smiled slightly at his act of affection. Dantares may appear to be a cocky, insensitive brute to most outsiders, but the circle of friends he had knew that he was a genuinely good person at heart, which was why Cybel remained with him. He was also the only one that can make her feel needed, excited, and all around cozy. Now, if only she could make him take baths regularly............

"Neh, Dantares." Cybel's voice stirred Dantares from his content state of mind.

"Hmmm?" He mumbled in reply.

"What do you think about kids?"

Now Dantares was scared, and he could have sworn that he felt his horse tail stand up.

"K-k-kids?" He breathed.

"Yeah, kids. You know? Children."

"I'm not stupid....j-just, why do you a-ask-k?"

The female centaur now stood more than lean and hugged her arms to herself and sighed.

"I don't know..... I just felt that things could have progressed mores since we started our courtship."

Courtship was what Cybel always called their dating, though Dantares could not understand the reason for it, he knew it was because of the insecurities she had.

"Cybel..... something's bothering you." He stated.

She sighed again. "I don't know how long this is going to last. I don't know how long we're going to last."

"What makes you think we won't last?"

"I'm not saying that!" She cried a bit indignant. "I'm just uncertain. There's no guarantee that we can be happy together forever. There's no bind between us as far as I can tell, and you still marvel at all the different gorgeous women you might come across." She spat the word women like it was venom.

'Dammit! Looks like Synbios isn't the only one with relationship problems! Although this is my own fault, for not paying more attention to what I should be doing to keep things right.' Dantares inwardly cursed himself for taking things for granted.

With sudden vigor, Dantares spun Cybel around to face him and looked at her directly in the eyes that were surprised at the moment.

"Cybel." He whispered. "I'm a man, centaur, whatever. I'm supposed to be attracted to women. But I love you. And only you." He gave her a few seconds to absorb what he said.

"As long as I can remember, we were friends. Me the egotistical jerk and you the gentle soul who everyone loved. Though they didn't know about your violent and destructive side." He snickered when she gave him a playful slap on the chest, but immediately became serious again.

"But we became more, because things went that way. And I don't want to think about losing you or reverting to anything less than we have now. If it's solid binding that you want......" He took both her hands and lifted them up to the level of their faces.

"Then I ask your hand in marriage."

Cybel's brain froze on the spot, only hearing the words 'marriage' and her man's, er centaur's, face.

But quickly regaining control, she answered the centaur who was becoming unnerved by the silence. She hugged him tightly, tears brimming in her eyes, and kissed him with such passion that he was caught off guard.

After she pulled back, breathless, she smiled so brightly that she almost glowed.

Dantares' smile mirrored hers. "So, western or eastern style?"

Their happy moment was shattered when a crying noise became apparent. The couple turned around and to their horror saw Irene, along with her master, and another man standing on another ride behind theirs.

The crying noise came from Irene, who was tearing up and wiping her eyes with a handkerchief.

The old man known as Unoma and Irene's master was eating away at ramen and smiled warmly at the scene before him.

The other man was also studying under Unoma and was considered an elder brother to Irene. His techniques were transforming his energies into ice attacks.

Author's note: Original character alert! And bite me!

"That was s-so.... BEATIFUL!!! Waaaaaah!!!" Irene wailed.

"Ohohohohoho. Young love is so grand, even better with ramen."

"Way to go you lucky bastard, you're on fire!"

Cybel wasn't too bothered by the audience, she liked people admiring her relationship with Dantares. But Dantares was a different matter, he had a weird ego and didn't appreciate people crowding his private time with Cybel, so he growled slightly at the sudden peanut gallery.

Without warning, even more people somehow managed to pop up from nowhere to disturb the already irritated Dantares.

"Way to go Dantares!" Produm, his wife and child showed up.

"Awww told you he was a big softie." How the hell did Synthesis and Uryodo get here?

"Bwahahahaha!!" Who the hell was that guy.

Now tension and anger made way straight to his face, and Dantares did the only thing he could think of.

Attack.

"And the winner of this round is Kahn!!!" The referee announced.

Punching his fists together, Kahn, the obsessed martial artist fighter grinned maliciously at the crowd outside the fighting ring. Training under his master Bukei, Kahn has mastered various forms of combat that made him a formidable foe for all sorts of people. And today he found a perfect place and event to quench his need to fight and to test his skills. Though most of the people who challenged him were useless fools trying to impress a girl or idiots who wanted to create betting pools.

Soon enough though, everyone watching understood that the man in the ring was a monster. Little fairies were seen carrying off the injured with their magic. The defeated had their bodies twisted in awful directions and were moaning for their mamas.

Kahn was getting impatient with the lack of a challenge and started shouting for someone to get Synbios, the only man he wanted to defeat so eagerly as he was the only man who ever defeated him. In battle and in checkers.

'I still can't figure out that triple jump thing!' Kahn thought while absent mindedly punching out the referee.

Suddenly, rowdy commotion caught his attention and deciding that everyone was afraid of him enough as it is, dashed toward the source while stealing some apples from the stands.

'Hey, what they don't see don't hurt 'em.'

Stopping right outside a crowd, he tried to see what was going on inside and so began the ritual of pushing and shoving along with mutters of 'excuse me' or 'move it'.

When he had successfully reached the destination of the circle he found a group of forest elves performing acrobats and difficult maneuvers. He also noted that two of the groupies were two people he knew.

"David? Hedoba?" Kahn asked loudly.

David and Hedoba stopped their tricks and gasped happily when they saw Kahn.

"Kahn!!!" They both exclaimed at the same time. David rushed forward and enveloped Kahn in a hug while he struggled to free himself from the amiable elf.

"Let go you fruit cake!!!"

"It is grand to see a familiar face here, dear friend!"

"And you're just as pretty since we saw you last time!" That, was David's comment.

"Raaargg! Why are you such a gay bastard!?"

"I'm not gay, I have a girlfriend!"

"Then stop hugging everyone you see!"

"O, I don't mind."

"That's not the point you barely clad wench!"

"Hey! That was anti-feminism!"

"Who the hell said that!?"

As the "conversation" grew, so did the distraction. All the other performing elves ceased their antics and instead watched their leaders "talking" to a monk fighter. The people in the crowd also watched the three converse. Some were curious. Some were pointing. Some mothers covered their children's eyes. Some people laughed. A pig took a shit on someone's shoe. Suddenly, a path was created when people from behind the crowd parted.

Several men in black outfits threatened people to go aside in order to make way for who obviously was their leader. The leader was quite a big man. He was bald and had two pointy whiskers. He wore a business suite and held a bastard sword like a cane. He had already caught the attention of the surrounding crowd and all the forest elves present. He grinned evilly and moved his gaze toward his intended target, to find them to immersed in their chattering to notice him.

He coughed loudly once and one of his followers took out a trumpet and blew in it hard to get Kahn and the elf couple's attention.

Rubbing his ear, Kahn growled furiously. "Okay, whoever did that is going to need new legs."

"I assure you, that would not be a good idea." The leader said.

"Ah? Who are you?" asked an irritated Kahn.

The man's followers gasped in horror, one began to weep.

"He says he doesn't know who the boss is!"

"Blasphemy!"

"I like cake!"

"Pervert!" One said while pointing at Hedoba.

The leader raised his hand to silence his posse.

"My name is Forando, as I am sure you will remember from now on."

"Forando?" David muttered, suddenly his eyes blazed and he shouted with a rose in his hand. "It is like Orlando! What a great name! Alas, only Hedoba and Orlando can meet the expectations of true beauty!"

Aside David, Hedoba sighed and sweat dropped.

Forando stared at the weird elf curiously and Kahn muttered "Sick freak." Under his breath.

"Anyways, I wish to propose a deal that can benefit us both."

"Oh? Let me hear it."

Forando grinned. "Very good. It is to my understanding that you wish to challenge Synbios to a match."

Kahn smashed his fists together again. "You're damn right."

"Well, we have decided to hold a competition for eager fighters like yourself while advertising certain products of ours. We are a global company that produces various goods and we have decided to embark our influence to here as well."

"Go on."

"And so we ask for your participation in exchange that you advertise one of our products."

It seemed like too much of a hassle just to fight Synbios, but Kahn also found the chance to beat Synbios in public tempting.

"Before I say anything, what you want me to .....advertise?"

Forando grinned again, and flicked his finger for his follower to come up with a pair of ........spandex?

"The latest design of spandex! Giving comfort and powerful mobility! This would be a great sale during a fighting competition! This in only part of the set of course, we will seek others to participate and sport the rest of the set!"

Kahn stared wide eyed. David drooled at the sight of the spandex. Hedoba went to the bathroom.

"Of course, if you do not accept...." He clapped his hands and a huge man came up from the back.

"I am sure you know what I'm about to say."

Kahn found himself staring at a fist the size of Dantares' ass (which is huge since well......... he's got a horse ass). He turned to look at Forando and turned again to look at David. Slowly, he raised his fist and it glowed with an immense amount of chi.

Eyes sparkling with evil intent, Kahn cackled as Forando discovered that something was definitely amiss.

"My answer is......... see you next year." Girlie screams were heard throughout the area.

Hayward finished yet another bowl of food and sighed happily. The surrounding people gaped at the green haired man who just devoured everything in the stand. The owner of the stand stared in horror to what just happened in front of him.

"Yep, that was good." Hayward then swore he heard some screams, but thought nothing of it.

"Ummmm sir, that would be about 340 kujins (the currency here)."

"Alrighty let's see...." Fingering his pockets Hayward realized a fatal fact: he had no money what-so-ever. Sweating profusely, Hayward forced his brain to think of a plan.

"Look! Twenty naked women!" He yelled pointing behind the owner's back.

"What!? Where!?"

"Haha, sucker!" And with that he dashed off.

"W-what!?" The owner caught a glimpse of Hayward dashing into the crowds of people.

"Someone! Help! That man ran off without paying!"

Suddenly, six figures appeared on the ledge of a house. Shrouded in the shadows, they leaped into the light, to reveal......

The Rainblood platoon!

The King raised his fist. "In the name of the Empire!'

The Queen got into a pose. "We shall vanquish the evil!"

The Bishop raised his hand and one of his legs. "And bring forth the light!"

The Knight crouched down and got into a tiger stance. "Forever we shall be the justice!"

The Rook raised both hands in an 'x' pose. "Nothing can escape out wraths!"

Lastly, the Pawn struck a pose as well. "For we are...."

All of the six shouted at once. "The Justice Rain!"

Everything was silent as the wind blew and birds chirped.

"Follow that man and bring him to justice!" King commanded and so the Justice Rain dashed off dashingly (bwahahahaha) after Hayward.

Holding Synbios' arm, Masqurin lead him to a resting area. The ride had troubles half way through and they ended up being upside down, and after the techies panicked and tried to fix the ride hurriedly, the ride ended up going forwards extremely fast. Masqurin tried to hold on but the force of the speed and soon impact broke her safety and hurled her out of the ride. Synbios acted with super reflexes and speed. He broke free of the safety restraints and used his body weight to fling Masqurin back into the ride safely. That resulted him flying off instead of Masqurin. So Synbios flew into at least five carnival stands before abruptly ending up in a piranha tank.

"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch." The young man repeated as Masqurin helped him sit down. Masqurin was scared out of her mind when she felt herself flew out of the ride, but became even more scared when Synbios performed that maneuver. She watched in terror as Synbios crashed into various stand and tanks. When she had arrived at the scene where Synbios was, she saw him yelping and jumping out of a tent with piranhas biting all over him. She used a quick ice spell and froze all the deadly fishes and Synbios promptly fell to the ground, groaning.

"How does this feel?" Masqurin asked, trying to make sure Synbios was comfortable with his position.

"I'm fine Qurin-chan. I didn't take that much damage, and I' a quick healer too." Synbios said, trying to be cheerful.

Masqurin stared at him before she gazed at the ground and slightly shaking.

Synbios was alarmed and the tension he felt and Masqurin's shaking.

"Qurin-chan? Are you...." He was abruptly cut off.

"What were you THINKING!!??" Masqurin shouted.

"W-wha...."

"You could have been seriously hurt! No, wait! You are!"

Synbios saw tears in her auburn eyes.

"A normal man would have died ten times already!! Do you know how worried you made me!!??"

She didn't try to stop the flow of her tears. Synbios felt his heart wrench at the sight of her crying. Masqurin now was just sniffling and gazing at the ground again. Her dress was a bit ruffled as she grabbed the skirt part roughly and her hair was plastered to her face as her anger and worry made her sweat.

Synbios watched her silently a moment before he reached to tilt her head to look at him.

"I'm sorry I worried you there. But I had to do what I did, no, I wanted to do it." Gazing into her eyes, he once again found himself hypnotized as he was before the dreaded ride.

"I wouldn't forgive myself if you were hurt, and I can take a lot more damage than you can. Besides, I heal quickly." Both were breathing slowly but steadily. Gingerly, Synbios wiped away some of her tears.

"You should know by now, that one of my personal missions is to protect you with my entire abilities. Because......."

I love you.

".....because you're the most important person in my life."

Dammit!

Still sniffling but now smiling, Masqurin sat next to Synbios and held his arm and rested her head on his shoulder.

"Baka....." she mumbled sweetly.

Synbios grinned, now feeling much better. "Silly....." He then rested his head on hers.

The two then sat there, enjoying the weather and the tender moment they wished to treasure forever. But alas, the ill humored gods decided to end it with a bang, literally.

A man dropped from the sky and landed about ten meters away from the couple. The couple were shocked to see such an event and quickly stood up, not without Synbios flinching for a second.

Another man appeared running and screaming "monster, monster!"

Tossing a Forando who was shoved into a pair of spandex head first, Kahn smiled in satisfactory.

"I found you"

"Ah, crap."

To be continue.................