LolliPopsAreTears: Don't worry I'll kept them safe, especially Dio of course!!
Dio: Sadly to say this story will soon reach its end.
Loki: puts her arm around Dio don't say things like that! Blame it all on RF, it's her fault!!
Lavie: Keep your hands off of him, Loki!!
Chapter Nine: Betrayal of the Pawn
"You are given 20 minutes in advance to suit up and go outside!" my mother instructed everyone in the mansion. It was cold outside; of course it was snowing. My mother yelled over the howling winds.
Everyone scrambled to their rooms, to go and find the suits for battle. I never thought we would us them, ever. Anna, Dio, and myself were left outside in the snow. So much for a Merry Christmas, I thought.
"Suit up?" Dio looked at me confused.
"We've entered a battle Dio, sir." Anna said answering for me. "We have to suit up."
"Then I'll help!" Dio said sounding eager. "It's the least I can do, for what yellow eyes has done for me." He winked at me.
"Wha?!" I said bewildered. "What did I do? How could I have helped?"
"Let's figure that out later!" Anna said pulling us along to go inside. "Now let's go!"
"Yes, ma'am!" Dio said saluting to Anna.
I watched Anna and Dio run upstairs. Anna told me she had her suit under her red coat. She was going to ask one of our uncles to lend Dio one of our extra suites. I ran upstairs after I watched them go inside a room.
"Who would've thought?" I said running down the left wing of the hall. I ran to the far end of the hall keeping my eyes out for a white door with black marks on it. "Ah-ha!" I said stopping in front of my door. "I found you."
I haven't been here in years, I wonder if they kept it the same? Hopefully they did, though I shouldn't even be thinking right now. I have to get my suit!
I ran inside the room, it was the same way it was years ago. Nothing change, the navy bed sheets along with the light blue walls were still there. I noticed something on my bed, my cases. What are they doing here?
"I'll figure it out later…." I said mostly to myself. I closed the door to my room and opened my old closet's doors. Inside I found old long black dresses, and a black suit I wore once pretending to be a boy. "But where's the battle suit?" I looked all around the closet.
"9 minutes left till departure." A voice said came from the intercom in my room. It was Maurice's voice.
I looked under my bed and found a metal box. "I think I left it here." I opened the case. To my surprise I found the suit. It looked just like the one that Dio first wore when I met him, only my suit was in black. "I'll leave the Guilder piece in here."
And with that I took off the coat, shirt, pants, and shoes. The only thing I was left with was a pair of shorts and a shirt. I brought the black suit out of it's hiding and put it on. I looked inside the case and found a pair of goggles and a head helmet. I took those with me. I took with me the pistols and the bullets, you never know when you might need them.
"T-minus 50 seconds and counting!" the voice reminded me to hurry up.
I ran outside, and found Dio waiting at the stairs. He looked really good in black, to tell you the truth. I ran forward and accompanied him outside.
"Go, go, go!" Dirale shouted pushing Dio and me along, to the ship outside.
I was outside the mansions' gates when I saw the ship. It was black, and had black side armoring, it was about 750 feet long and in height it was about 500 feet.. Which is ironic because we have so very little people.
"It's like the Silvana." Dio pointed out as we boarded the ship.
I looked Dirale who stood behind Dio. He had his black suit on too. Though the way he looked at Dio I got the impression he wasn't quiet fond of him. Alas, I thought, Dirale never is quiet fond of anyone, though he treats me good, probably because I'm the heir.
We were soon inside the ship. The three of us walked down the hall and then opened a door infront of us. It was enormous, I was in this small room, and it was a waiting room of some sort. It had a good number of chairs.
"This is the waiting room as you can see." Dirale smiled at me.
"It doesn't look like a waiting room," Dio said looking around the room and touching some things, "does it yellow eyes?"
"Listen here -" Dirale got mad and raised his voice, I raised my hand cutting Dirale off from his sentence.
"He is somewhat right, it doesn't look like one," I looked around and found some books, "and as long as Dio is right here next to me, you can't raise your voice, especially for something, as the remark he made right now. Do I make myself clear?" I said raising my voice.
"Yes, ma'am!" he said saluting followed by a dirty look at Dio. "Let's go to the other room's shall we?"
We went out of the waiting room and down a flight of stairs. I saw the rooms for the crew, their quarters, dorms, whatever the heck they're called. I counted some of the rooms, there were over 30!
"Dirale," I asked curiously, "did father bring more people to be in our crew?"
"He did, why?" he raised his eyebrow at me.
"How come I never saw them?"
"Your father recruited more after your disappearance."
"Where do they live now?"
"About fifty miles from here." He stopped and looked at me. "Why all the interest now?"
"My -" I stopped, I felt shy.
"She wants to know because one day she will command this ship. Am I right, yellow eyes?" Dio said.
"Yeah, that's right!" I said smiling.
Dirale smiled at Dio, for once he smiled at someone he barely even knew. This showed that with time comes age, and it looked Dirale had a heart after all.
I looked around there were exactly four bunk beds in each room. At the thought of so many people my stomach growled and I began to turn red.
Dio laughed while Dirale shook his head. I never ate anything, all because of the officals. I wished they had called later. Then something hit me, how did they get our number? It was known too only those who worked with us. It was secrecy, you were forbidden to tell, or else suffer the 'consequences.'
"Come on I'll show you the kitchen." Dirale laughed out. "It's this staircase here." He pointed to the left edge of the hull.
Dio and I both ran upstairs into the kitchen. It was beautiful there was so much room, and food was on the side table.
"Yumm, food!" I said running towards the table.
I swear it was like watching a starving dog eat. I suddenly forgot all about being proper, I was blinded by hunger that, which I guess in this cause, is an exception. I looked Dio; he had a hard time picking what to eat.
"It's okay!" I said muffled with some chicken in my mouth. "Eat! It won't kill you!"
"Um," Dio took his fingers and made them rip a piece of chicken on the platter. I watched him stick it in his mouth. He had his eyes closed. "It's delicious, it very good."
The two of us suddenly had some food to eat. Thank God for the food, I probably would of died by now, I'm exaggerating but it felt true.
"That's good!" I said having some trouble swallowing my food; Dio helped by patting me on the back.
"Take it easy! It's not a contest, yellow eyes!"
"We should be going to the captains quarters!" Dirale suggested as we finished with the kitchen. "Let's go!"
This is of course passing the hanger, and the shower rooms, along with the long stretch of a hall to the captains quarter.
"Captain," Dirale said opening the door, "here are the two you requested to see. Loki and her friend Dio Elaclaire." With that he left the room.
This was the Control Bridge where all the orders are given. I looked around Annie, Alice, Alcke, Shugo, and Jacius were in there, along with my mother and father. My father sat on a chair while my mother and the others stood up. My mother was second in command, which was good because she was trained, not just because she was married to the captain. My worker friends maintained the ship on course, gave orders to the others by the speaker, or reported our status, their role was just as important.
"Captain," I said standing next to my father, "how long till we approach our destination?"
"Sit tight, Miss Ayo," he said looking at me, "while be there momentarily."
"Captain, Gio has just come in with the cargo ship. He's brought two unidentified personnel's and three identified ones with him. What do you propose we do?" I never heard this voice on the intercom before; he must one of the new workers.
"Bring them here at once."
"Roger!"
Five people? I thought I asked Gio Gio for only three, I have a bad feeling about the other two though.
25 minutes later…
"Hey let me go!"
"Unhand me, just who the hell do you think you are?"
"Guys calm down! I'm sure she has a good reason for this!"
These voices seemed almost muffled from outside the door. It was impossible to make out who they are. I just prayed my friends were safe.
"Hey! Ough!" one body landed on the ground near my feet.
"Ack!" the other one made this thump noise next to the one landing near my feet.
I looked at the two bodies I couldn't believe my eyes, it was Yahiko and Jin. Did they become stowaways?
"Jin, Yahiko," I said. "How-"
"You know these two, Miss Ayo?" Pricilla asked, Hamiad accompanied her.
"Yes," I said looking back at her, "Miss Pricilla these two are my friends."
"Then," Hamiad has this deep voice, "these three are friends as well?" he moved to the side. There I found Lavie in her work clothes, Claus in his work clothes, and Alvis was wearing one of ours.
"Dio!" Lavie yelled with tears in her eyes.
"Loki!" Alvis ran and held me tight.
"Hey you guys!" I said smiling.
I watched Lavie hold Dio very tight, almost suffocating my poor friend. I quickly turned around when they got 'to close,' if you call that a kiss. They were outside which was good and all but right know emotions can't be used in the heat of battle not when we're this close to it.
I patted Alvis on the head to calm her down from crying. I tried to hush her a bit and it almost worked but then the water works began to flow when Pricilla mentioned to us we were going into battle.
I looked at Claus, I felt relieved that everyone was all right, especially my Immelmann. Actually he's Dio's Immelmann; he gave him the name. He smiled at me, but I could tell there was more to it than his smile, a lot of emotions were bottled up inside. All of the them stood before my parents.
"Captain," I said letting go of Alvis and pulling Jin and Yahiko up from the floor, "this was my temporary family for the past two years." I left longer before that, like about six years ago, but those pills they gave me really could f you up.
My mother and father welcomed them like our family, though I guess dramatic irony was in place because, I, being an 'audience member,' in this small world knew that they would join us one day.
"All van ship pilots and navigators report to the hanger immediately!" the voice instructed us.
"I guess this is it." I looked at my mother and father one last time. "Adieu!" I said bowing before them before joining the rest of the trained personnel.
10 minutes later…
"All right everyone!" this belonged to Sakio, he was tall and was bald with blue eyes. "This is no time to goof off, we're dealing with a battle! So, Marx and Marik, ship one! Anna and Claus Valca, ship two! Loki and Dio Elaclaire ship three. Hitomo and Johnny ship four. Maur- Where's Maurice?!"
"Sir Sakio," Hitomo said awkwardly, "Maurice went with the cargo ship to act as a decoy for us. He went in the direction of the enemy."
"What?!" I said dragging Hitomo by his feet. "You didn't stop him?! What the hell were you thinking, letting him go alone?!"
"Enough!" Sakio said, "this just means that Reani and the young Alvis Hamilton take ship five. Yahiko Wain, and Jin Hursti take ship six. May fair winds be with you! Now everyone to their ships!"
I looked Alvis and she seemed scared, 'It's okay,' I mouthed out the words out to her. I looked Reani. She nodded to me in reply; she wouldn't let anything bad happen to Alvis.
I ran to the van ship I was assigned to with Dio. Ship three has a name, I called Estardok, and the name doesn't have a meaning. The ship was black and had red metal outlining, there's too much red on the battlefield, but I really didn't care. We were all wearing our headgear and everything we looked like robots except for Claus who wore his own.
"Let's go yellow eyes!" Dio was in the navigator's seat.
"All right!" and with that I was jumping onto the pilot's seat.
"Ship's five, three and one take the front! The rest of you in the back!" was all we heard and did.
I felt free as a bird in the sky again. It had been so long that I've flown a van ship. Thank God the head gear had night vision in it but it was still hard to see thought.
"Enemy ship at three o'clock!" Dio said loud and clear.
I looked at that side and found a ship almost the same size of our ship come out of hiding.
"Woah!" I steered that van ship out of the way.
"Ships three, four and five attack on the inside! While the other ships defend!"
"Dio cut our speed by 15 percent!" I said dodging the bullets and cannons that whizzed by us.
Our speed slowed down a bit and we moved to close to the enemy ship. I scratched the side of the van ship and we lost balance for a bit.
"Be careful!" Dio yelled.
I looked at the other van ships they were damaged as well, I was worried for Alvis, but Reani had 'told me,' that she wouldn't let anything happen
Somehow we got inside. I almost got Dio killed in the process, a bullet had skinned his right shoulder. I was able to dodge the incoming fire, but fighting inside would be the hard part. Our van ship had a lot of holes in it, and a fire almost started.
I looked around the hanger andsoldiers were lined up every. They surrounded my van ship, Alvis's and Claus's van ship.
One of the soldiers looked around our age. He asked me if I was the girl known as Loki, I answered. He was wearing a blue and white uniform.
"Mr. Giloi," my eyes widened as he said this, "his been waiting, for you Miss Ayo."
That's all I remember before being knocked out.
"Poor girl," that voice it was familiar, "to have her entire crew in my grasp."
I finally regained my vision. I was tied to a chair and I looked around, I was all alone. I looked at my captor. It was Maurice, not long ago did he call me to eat dinner. Now he had me tied to a chair.
"What the f is all of this?!" I yelled. "Maurice you traitor!"
"All I've been is a pawn to all of you. I've never really been a Shacoff, just a pawn. I wanted to be the heir to the Ayo mob, but you! You had to go and become the heir," he leaned in and whispered in my ear, "but I'll soon change that. You'll see."
Angry grew up inside of me, I would of loved to kick his butt right about now, darn it though I was tied to a chair.
He then backed away, and I got to see his face clearly now, as the traitor he really was. "Since I can't have that position I might as well take it from you, but first I'll take away everything you hold dear. Including…" he got to close for comfort. I swear I could of spat in his face, but I was stiff from the fact my lips were to close to his, "your Guilder friend, and that Valca kid." he wasn't finished though.
I closed my eyes and felt something on my cheek, "Maybe if we met in different places I would have had you here by my side, forever." Those words haunted me, like you have no idea.
I have an adopted-sick-and-twisted- cousin, that at one point in his life we must of made him feel unworthy. This was the beginning of the betrayal ofthepawn.
Loki: Seruma! What was that?! Eww!
Claus: Loki come on it's just acting.
Next time Life in the Clouds.
'Life in the Clouds,' the end to this tale.
Dio: Hey Lavie?
Lavie: What's up?
Dio: Will you—
RF: Out of time would you look at that.