Ryuu Koorime
By Keiko
Previously " Ryuu Koorime Hime", I'm going through and editing this fic. Why? I noticed some mistakes I made, so hopefully, I can make this better. It's going to stay on my Koori Youkai Tenshi penname, too. (I've made a more permanent penname, the Kage Tenshi) I am also changing my main character's name.
Mayonbara's name is changing to Mayuka
Mayonbara equals Mayuka!
It was storming, loud crackle of lightning and thunder echoed through the air. A woman weakly dragged herself into Dragon Castle, "My nephew, where is he, I need him…" she said staggering into through the iron gates, holding a young child in her arms. She wore miko clothing; her hair was loosened and tangled looking, her emerald eyes dulled, her frail body damaged beyond extent.
"What the…?" a near by officer said. He had jet black hair bright magnificent blue eyes. The woman chuckled weakly and collapsed to the ground, she spoke just loud enough for the man to hear her.
"Lykouleon, running from Alfeegi again?" The rain poured harder and faster. She breathed heavily from exhaustion as the man came forward.
" Aunt Kanna……" Lykouleon sputtered. His aunt was standing before him half dead. She lifted up a small limp child toward him.
"I won't last much longer…please take her…" she said handing the limp child's body to him. "Mayuka… your…cou-sin" she stuttered as she fell to the muddy earth.
" Aunt Kanna!" he shouted.
He held the girl in one arm while he tried to turn over his aunt. He finally succeeded to turn her over. "Where's -"
"Dead" she answered weakly. "Please-nephew, take care of her-" Kanna said with her last breath. She closed her eyes, and never woke up. Lykouleon wept silently for his aunt.
"Good bye Kanna." He whispered, praying softly that she had a nice afterlife.
" LORD LYKOULEON!" he heard Alfeegi scream. When the white dragon officer found him, he looked like he was about to bust a blood vessel. "YOU TRIED TO ESCAPE AGAIN! IT'S RAINING YOU'LL CATCH PNEUNONIA! YOU DYED YOUR HAIR!" he screamed. The small child stirred in Lykouleon's arm. He could here stifled sobs. Alfeegi, after ranting about doctor's fee's and all sorts of finance stuff, That I don't necessarily know anything about….anyway back to the story, He saw the dead woman and the small child. "WHAT HAPPENED! " He screamed.
"Please Alfeegi..." the Lord said as he stood up, with the child sobbing on his shoulder, nearly asleep.
"My apologies, my Lord." Alfeegi said.
"See to it that this woman gets a nice resting place." Lykouleon said getting up.
"Yes sir." Lykouleon headed for the castle, to put the child to sleep. 'This is Nadil's Army's work; they're killing off my family one by one……' Lykouleon thought bitterly.
"M-mommy?" the little girl stuttered as she began pushing off sheets and covers. "Where am I? I don't know this place." She said as she got out of bed. She was in different clothes, she wore a nice blue night dress, and her hair was draped over her shoulders in a golden blonde mess. Her Emerald-Sapphire eyes shone worry. "Mommy?" she whispered. She ran over to the door, stood on her tiptoes and turned the knob. She looked out into the hall way. "Big place." She said. She began to wander around looking for her mother. "What's behind the door?" she wondered out loud.
She stood on her tiptoes and clutched the door knob, and turned it. She slightly opened the door. She peeked through it, inside she saw a tall blonde headed man sitting at a desk, looking down boredly. He looked an awful lot like her father. "Excuse me?" her small voice said, barely audible. Lykouleon looked up from his studies; the small child from last night had found herself in his studies.
"Mayuka… nice to see you're awake." He soothed in a velvety voice.
"Who are you? Where's my mommy?" she asked. Lykouleon looked at her sadly, the poor girl had no idea her mother had died.
"I am Lykouleon, your cousin and well, Aunt Kanna…" he began. Mayuka, interested in her cousin's story began to claim into his lap.
"What about Mommy?" she asked.
"She was hurt really bad, and, she,-"he was interrupted by a choked sound.
"She died?" the little girl said tearing, "I knew she would, the demons hurt Mommy really bad, I never got- to – say bye, bye!" she cried, her tears streaming, but the tears turned in small gems.
'This is what they where after! These small gems, they wanted Mayuka! Not my Uncle or Aunt.' Lykouleon picked up the small gems, "What do you call these?" he asked holding up the gem to Mayuka.
"Mommy said they're called Hiraseki stones." She choked. 'Hiraseki stones' he thought.
"So, are you going to be my new daddy?" the little girl asked cutely with large puppy dog eyes. He looked at her with surprise; he hadn't expected her to think of him as a father.
"My Lord, about the Demon rampaging In Dusis!" Alfeegi shouted bursting into the room. Mayuka stared at the teal haired white dragon officer.
"Who?" she asked the Dragon Lord pointing at Alfeegi.
"Pointing isn't nice, Mayuka-chan" The lord cooed. Alfeegi looked confused. Remember this is before Rath, Alfeegi used to only yell at Lykouleon, Kai-Stern, and Ruwalk, besides he really hasn't met little Mayuka yet
"The. Demon. In. Dusis!" Alfeegi said, his temper wavering between distressed, somewhat normal, and anger.
"Fine 'Feegi, IF you take Mayuka-chan to Raseleane." The Lord said. Handing the small child to Alfeegi. She looked up at Alfeegi with cute puppy dog eyes, "Who you?" she asked. Alfeegi sweat dropped.
"Alfeegi, I'm one of the Dragon Officers..." he said.
"Ohh… Who's Raseleane?" she asked. "Umm ahh… I guess she would be your Cousin-In-law" Lykouleon said.
"Is that even a word?" Alfeegi asked under his breath.
"Feegi-kun, I can walk." Mayuka informed the older man who was carrying her, pouting all the way.
"I'm making sure you make it to Lady Raseleane without any trouble." Alfeegi told her, ignoring the pout.
"But, I can walk by my self." She told him once again.
"If you're really related to the lord, you'll run off right after I put you down." He said.
"Darn." She said crossing her little arms. 'I really wanted to es'plor more, maybe Raseleane will let me es'plor! Or maybe Feegi-kun will put me down before then…' she thought. "Feegi-kun?" she asked. Alfeegi looked down at the little girl.
"What?" he asked, raising a questioning eyebrow.
"Why can't I es'plor?" she asked innocently.
"You may get lost." He said "And don't you mean, Explore?" he asked.
"No, I mean Es'plor." She informed him. Alfeegi shook his head.
"Explore." He said.
" Es'plor" she said stubbornly.
"Explore"
" Es'plor"
"EXplore"
" ES'plor!"
"EXPLORE!"
" ES'PLOR!"
"EXPLORE!"
"Calm down Feegi-kun, you gonna hurt yourself." Mayuka said worriedly patting the white dragon officer on the head.
Alfeegi -.-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
'Wow, Feegi-kun look mad…' Mayuka thought.
'Don't hurt her, she's just a child, she doesn't mean any harm…' Mayuka looked at Alfeegi with concern; he looked ready to rip something apart with his bare hands.
"Is that Raseleane room?" she asked pointing to a large oak door.
"Yes and you are to call her Lady Raseleane, or Raseleane-sama." He said.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because it shows respect to the Queen." He answered.
"How?" she asked.
"How what?" he asked.
"How she becomes Queen?" she asked.
"She married your cousin." He said.
"Why?" she asked curiously.
"She fell in love." He said.
"Really? Why?" she asked again. Alfeegi sweat dropped.
"Why don't you ask her?" Mayuka sighed and looked up at him.
"You no tell very good stories. Does Raseleane-sama tell good stories? Can I call her Queenie?" Alfeegi looked at her.
"Was I supposed to be telling a story? I don't know. And no. You ask a lot of questions did you know that?" he said.
"I know I'm a kid, that's my job." She said very seriously, or a seriously as a four year old could get. Alfeegi sweat dropped and knocked on the door.
"I brought the little girl." Alfeegi said.
"Oh, Alfeegi!" a warm voice said from within. The door opened to reveal a thin woman with shoulder length black hair with all sorts of doodads decorating it; she held out her arms and Alfeegi placed Mayuka into them.
"His Highness is going to exterminate the demon rampaging in Dusis." Alfeegi said.
"Please tell him to be careful." Raseleane said, concerned for her husband's safety.
"I will." Alfeegi confirmed.
"Feegi-kun?" Mayuka squeaked. Alfeegi looked back at the little girl. Mayuka hugged him, or tried to squeeze the life out of him, which ever you prefer. "You fun" she said smiling. Raseleane giggled. Alfeegi was blue from the lack of air.
"Mayuka-chan, you can let, 'Feegi' go now." She said. Mayonbara laughed nervously as she released Alfeegi from her death grip. Alfeegi gasped for air.
Raseleane sighed; Mayuka asked a lot of questions. Mostly about how she had met Lykouleon; where did this child get so many questions? 'She is so curious about everything around her' Raseleane thought to herself.
"Raseleane!" she heard someone calling her.
"Lykouleon?" she asked. She went to greet her husband in the garden. She raced through the halls and took as many shortcuts as she could. She met up with him in the garden. She gasped. Lykouleon had a small boy in his arms; the boy had jet black hair with a little white bang on the right side of his head. "Another one?" she asked.
'Not exactly' Lykouleon said. "His name is….Rath……..Illuser." he said thinking back to the name they had chosen him.
"Well, we better get him a room." She said taking the little boy into her arms; he looked at least a year older then the little girl that Lykouleon's aunt brought to them the day before.
'Raseleane would have been a great mother, damn Nadil.' He thought bitterly.
Rath opened his eyes. "Who are you?" he asked the woman carrying him.
"Raseleane." She said with a small reassuring smile.
"Okay." He said drifting back into unconsciousness.
'Mayuka-chan will want to here about this…' Raseleane thought as she went into a bedroom and placed the child down on the bed. Raseleane tittered to herself and walked out of his room. As she walked across the hall into Mayonbara's room. The girl was sleeping softly. "Mayuka-chan, guess what." She said softly. Mayuka snapped her eyes open.
"What?" she asked.
"A little boy just moved in across the hall, he's cute." She said rather scary like for Raseleane. WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO RASELEANE!
"Raseleane-sama," Raseleane looked at the little lump on the large bed. "Your not cheating on my cousin is you?" Mayuka asked. Raseleane sweat-dropped.
"No, Mayuka-chan, I was implying that you should meet him tomorrow." She said.
"Raseleane, what does, 'In prying' mean? What's his name" Mayuka asked.
"To suggest something and his name is Rath." Raseleane answered her questions.
"Oh," she yawned, "Okay, Raseleane-sama" Mayuka said sleepily. Raseleane smiled and left the room.
Rath opened his large crimson red eyes to meet equally large Emerald –sapphire. "HI!" it said. Rath jumped back. "Boy you jumpy." It said again. It appeared to be a girl about his age with golden blonde hair tied back in a pink ribbon and a pink dress.
"Who are you?" he asked, suspicious of the odd creature before him.
"I'm Mayuka, Hi Rath!" she said cheerily. "You have no idea how boring it is without anyone to play with." She said taking the young boy by the hand and dragging him out of the room.
"Where are you taking me!" he yelled.
"Don't you eat Breakfast?" she asked staring at him. Rath's stomach growled he blushed in embarrassment.
"Of course I do!" he said to her.
"Then come on!" she said as she continued dragging him down the hall.
"Are there any demons here?" he asked while cleaning some of the dust on the floor with the back of his shirt.
"I don't know; Feegi-kun didn't let me Es'plor." She said.
So in the end, she still didn't say 'explore' right.
A 4 yr old having an intelligent conversation with Alfeegi……..
R/R plz, remember, I changed Mayonbara to Mayuka!
- Keiko