Author's note: thank you swords-babe for reviewing! (Took me ages to kick the crud out of fou-lueeee) Now it's the next chapter!
Disclaimer: god do I have to do this? (Sighs) all right I don't own bof4… But I do own Bolt and Dawn, and Crestville and the city annnnnd… lilyflower row… anything else… oh and the armored furball!
Paths of the heart
Chapter VI: Of Kidnappings and hair dye
A Yawn.
A groan.
And a scuffle.
The Blue haired Dragon god (well partly) has just roused from his slumber.
He remembered the events of last night (stop thinking dirty thoughts readers)
After Nina had dragged him upstairs:
"Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch."
"Quit your wining, Ryu!"
"Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch."
"Now… where's that room?"
"Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch."
"Ah, here we are!"
Plop!
"Ouch."
"Goodnight Ryu!"
"…"
"ZZZZZZZZZZ"
Yes, Ryu painfully remembered how Nina had dragged him up the stairs, and then dropped him in the middle of the room to be eaten by vicious wolves… Well he would have except there were no wolves in the room, plus even if there was I'd have to right a long fight scene, with involves Ryu chopping the heads off those POOR wolves, however that would be too violent for the lil kidies out there so… I won't.
"Your just too lazy." Says Ryu, humph I am not… hey wait a minute your not surposed to speak to me, I'm narrating!
And this isn't even in the humor section!
Uh, so readers just ignore this paragraph OK?
So Ryu sat up, still rather afraid of Nina, speaking of which, where was she?
He looked over to Nina's bed to see…
She was gone, yet again.
"Nina?"
"Nina!"
"NINA!"
Ryu looked frantically around.
Where could she be?
Ryu stood silently, clutching his sword by its hilt, looking solemnly round the room, checking for any clue, anything to help him find Nina.
"Maybe she's just downstairs…" The idea came to him.
So he scurried downstairs as fast as a tree monkey, and stood in front of the desk, gasping for breath.
"Have… you seen… my friend…Nina?" he gasped out.
It was the same attendant as yesterday Ryu noted; though he looked a lot less terrified now.
"Nina? Oh you mean that witch-girl?" Ryu nodded.
"Yeah, I've seen her, a man and a woman dragged her away… She put up quite a fight, made a racket she did, all that screaming…I'm rather surprised you didn't hear, had a hard day yesterday?" he asked
"I've had an adventure and a half yesterday…" Ryu answered '…then again I always do…' he thought afterwards.
"Anyway… where did they take her?" the attendant shook his head
"I dunno but they left this." He said handing Ryu a wrinkled piece of paper, and walking off to clean, while muttering "I tell ya round here things are getting weirder and weirder…"
Ryu glanced at the note:
Dear: blue haired one
Your friend is certainly very interesting with her bird like appearance and strange powers, that we observed last night, so in the name of science we took it apon ourselves to find… more about her.
Love
Dawn snow & Bolt Blueberry
XXX
PS: Don't bother looking for your little feathered friend; you know you won't find her.
Ryu growled, Nina had been kidnapped and he couldn't do anything about it. She could be anywhere in this god-forsaken world, what's a dragon to do in a situation like this?
"You might want to check the Crestville research center, that's the kind of place that would kidnap a girl and experiment on her." A voice called over from the other side of the room- The attendant. Ryu raised an eyebrow as characters in my stories do, he shrugged.
"What? Not my fault I couldn't resist taking a little peek at it." He said referring to the note, at this Ryu rolled his eyes.
"Humans…" he muttered, the attendant looked at him strangely.
"Pardon?" he asked, Ryu waved his hand dismissing it
"Nevermind…" he murmured, the man sighed.
"Some people are weird." As he went back to his ever so important job, cleaning the tables.
Ryu walked outside though the door and into direct sunlight.
'Good thing I'm not flammable." He thought.
It was much different in the day than at night Ryu discovered as he explored, these people looked less likely to beat the crud out of you when you were not looking.
'Now where's that place… Crestville?' Ryu thought anxiously 'hmm… I'm not going to find it this way, Maybe I should ask someone.' Ryu then agreed with this statement, and walked up to a woman with a young child by her side.
"Excuse me Mam do you know where the Crestville research center is?"
The woman studied Ryu from this red socks to his bright blue hair, at this she frowned lightly, she was just about to reply when…
"Geez mister you have COOL hair! How did you get it blue that's my favwite color (I spelt that wrong on purpose, remember she's little) did you dye it like mummy?" at this the woman slapped her hand over her daughter's mouth lightly though, blushing furiously at her secret, that wasn't so secret anymore.
"Uh… no I don't even know what this 'dye' is, my hair has always been this color…" The little girl looked amazed while her mother doubtful.
"Cool!" the girl squealed.
"Um… anyway Mrs. do you know where it is?" Ryu asked again trying to get the subject off his hair.
"Of course I know where that spooky place is, everyone does, it's on the other side of town on lilyflower row, here have this map."
She said handing Ryu the said item. Why did she give it Ryu for free? Well minor characters in RPG's have a habit of giving our protagonists free stuff.
"So mister, where do you come from?" The tiny girl said snuggling her teddy, Ryu didn't know how and what to answer.
"Uh… I don't know…" The woman looked critically at Ryu "I Uh… have amnesia!"
The woman now looked at Ryu like he was insane.
"Sure… Bye!" she said quickly running off dragging her daughter behind her, but not before hearing her say:
"Mummy, can I have pretty hair like that?" and a swift "No dear."
'Amnesia… pah that's one excuse that didn't work.'
He thought when they were gone, when he suddenly remembered exactly where the excuse had come from.
Nina.
X
Nina noticing Dawn's look of confusion made an excuse, this was soon becoming the war of lies. "We. Uh. Have amnesia, yeah."
"Ryu?"
"Hey Ryu!"
"Ryu why are your always so…"
"Come on Ryu!"
"Your SO noble Ryu…"
"Ryu… whether you're a dragon or not… you're still my friend."
X
'Oh Nina… I know what I must do now…
I will rescue you and KILL anyone who gets in my way!
Nina… why am I falling in love with you…?
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Will Ryu rescue Nina?
Will they ever get back to their world?
Will I ever shut up?
Find out next time!