I've noticed that some people have asked me to space out my dialogue more, I think that can be arranged.
This may be a little while before I update again, so I hope you enjoy these 2 more chapters.
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Lan sped home after he finished school. He was going slower than usual because he was going home with extra homework for Mayl, but he ran as fast as he could. When he reached the door he knocked and a fat jolly looking maid answered.
"Hello!" she answered "Who might you be?" Lan looked quizzically at her, he didn't know there was a maid in the house.
"I'm Lan, who are you?" "Oh, I'm just the maid!" she answered briskly "Do you need something?"
"Well no actually, I want to see Mayl... is that okaAY!!!" she had him by the arm and was dragging him down the hallway.
"Well it's about time!" she said as she bustled along "She's been waiting for you all day! What sort of a sweetheart is that?"
"Sweetheart!" yelled Lan "Now wait a minute..." he didn't have time to finish. She shoved him into an open doorway so hard he nearly fell into the room.
He looked around, he could see nobody in the room. Then he noticed, there was some stairs leading up to another floor that only had a bed and a few other things. He walked up the stairs and cautiously up to the bed
"Mayl?..." he said quietly. There was no answer. He went up to the bedside and shook her a little bit. "Mayl, are you awake?" she rolled over and opened one eye. Her other eye was painfully black and swollen. "Lan?" "It's me."
Mayl gave a little smile "Oh... I'm glad it's you." she sat up in bed a little and held an ice-pak to her eye. "How are you?" Lan looked exasperated
"How are you!" he asked incredulously "Not too great," she said "Dex punched me the other day and I've got a terrible head-ache, more like a migraine."
Lan nodded "Yai told me, I'm really sorry."
Mayl smiled again "Thanks Lan... did you meet the maid?" "I sure did!" said Lan "She practically threw me in here!"
Mayl gave a little laugh "She's a bit rough, but she's alright." then she looked rather sad "Lan... my parents are overseas again and, I have nobody to keep me company... would you mind staying here at the house a little while?"
"Sure." said Lan with a smile then he got the homework out of his backpack. "I brought your homework back." he said.
Mayl groaned and lay back in her bed. "Just what I need. Homework, huh!" Lan left them on a table and noticed Mayl's PET. "Have you checked your PET lately?"
Mayl bolted upright "My PET! I've totally forgotten Roll!" Lan brought the pet back to her bed and she activated it. "Roll?"
"Mayl!" cried Roll "I've been so worried!"
Lan took out his own PET and hooked it up to hers "Hi Roll! Hi Mayl!" said Megaman
"Hi Megaman!" said Mayl "I'm O.K. Roll, really I am." Roll breathed a sigh of relief. "Did you get beaten up?" asked Roll "You look like you got punched!"
"I was..." replied Mayl still holding the ice-pak to her eye.
Roll looked up at Lan "Lan, I know this is a little much to ask. But if Mayl feels good enough to go to school tomorrow, could you take care of her? I think she needs protection."
Lan scoffed a little at the request. "Um..." he thought of Dex and Mayl's black eye "Yes!" he said resolutely.
Mayl smiled "Thanks Lan." Lan blushed a little bit. "Don't mention it,"
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Lan walked with Mayl to school the next day. Mayl did feel better and she felt like going to school. When they reached the school, their teacher Ms. Mari met them outside the class room. "Good morning Lan, Mayl!" she greeted them
"Good morning Ms. Marie!" greeted Lan and Mayl Ms. Marie winced when she saw Mayl's eye "Ouch, are you O.K." "Yes," said Mayl "I'm going to watch out some more."
Ms. Mari nodded "I agree, I wouldn't want that to happen again. Lan, you've been here on time for the past couple of days, and you've been doing all your homework. Is something wrong?"
Lan smiled innocently "Nothing's wrong with me Ms. Marie, I've just been on schedule lately for a change."
Ms. Marie nodded again "Well, that's sounds like a good idea to me! Hurry on, class is almost starting.
Everyone was there, including Dex. He smiled a little bit when he saw Mayl's eye. Lan looked at him dangerously and Dex's smile disappeared.
Ms. Mari announced "Today's lesson is on netbattling, everyone jack in their PETs!" everyone got out their PETs and jacked in. "Today we'll look at virus-busting techniques." continued Ms. Mari.
Lan looked over at Mayl's PET and noticed that her virus was... Gutsman? Dex had hacked into Mayl's PET and was battling Roll.
Lan called up to Ms. Mari "Ms. Mari! Dex is trying to battle Mayl!" Dex jerked his head in Lan's direction in total fury
"DEX!" said Ms. Mari sharply. Dex tried to look innocent "I wasn't doing a thing Ms. Mari!" he said. Ms. Mari looked at him sternly
"Dex, I suggest you keep your mind on what's in front of you. Why do you want to battle Mayl? she's already hurt enough!"
Lan almost scoffed, Ms. Mari didn't know that Dex did it?
After school and the bell rang for recess everyone went to the playground again. Everyone started eating their lunches before they played on the playground. Lan and Mayl walk along the outside of the building looking for a bench.
"Are you sure it was a good idea to tell on Dex?" asked Mayl
"I'm not sure," replied Lan "But I'm glad I did it. He's been annoying these past couple of days."
"Did someone say, annoying?" they both swerved around and saw Dex standing with mischievous smile on his face. "You've come to the right place!"
Roll and Megaman could see him from their PETs. "Maybe you two should run?" suggested Megaman. Lan and Mayl did turn to run, but they were in a corner section of the wall and Dex's wide frame prevented any kind of escape.
"You'll pay for telling on me Lan." said Dex putting his fists up. "I'm gonna make you sorry, both of you!" Lan's first instinct was to make a break for it. But Mayl got behind him and held on his arm.
"Don't forget! you said you'd protect Mayl!" called Roll from the PET.
Lan felt shnuckered. He didn't exactly feel like the brave and gallant knight defending the sweet and beautiful maiden, he felt more like he was tricked. Drafted into the army just to slow down the enemy with no means of defense.
But he had made a deal, and he would try to keep it. He put up his own fists and said "Stay back Dex!" Dex laughed and advanced forward. "No way! I'm going to make mince meat out of you! Here, take this!"
Lan took a full punch in his forehead. He flew back dazed against the wall and collapsed. He heard a ringing noise that he heard when someone popped a fire-cracker near his ear. His vision was slightly blurred and his head was swimming.
Mayl backed up against the wall and yelled at Dex "How dare you hit him!" Dex merely lined up for another punch "Here's another blacky for your other eye!" he yelled.
Lan saw Dex line up and forced himself up to his feet. "Leave her alone!" he yelled.
Dex didn't notice however and when he drew his fist back, Lan grabbed it and heaved backward. Dex flew backwards and screamed like a baby when he hit the ground hard. Lan drove a kick home right into Dex's soft flabby belly. Dex felt the wind get knocked out him when Beethoven's 5th symphony was whistled through his teeth. He gasped and wheezed as he struggled back to his feet.
Lan tried to stand firm, but he was still in a daze from his previous punch. Dex saw this and ran headlong into Lan knocking him down to the ground. He held Lan down and said "Now your really going to get it!" he yelled triumphantly.
Then suddenly, his head dropped to the ground beside Lan's and his whole body rested on top of him. Mayl stood there with her PET in her hand. She had hit Dex with it and Dex was knocked out. Lan arched his back and Dex rolled off of him like a sack of sand.
Mayl helped Lan up "Are you O.K.?" she asked "I'm fine I guess." said Lan rubbing his forehead. His entire forehead was beet red.
"Thanks for helping me out there." Mayl smiled at him gratefully
"Thanks for protecting me. Your a real hero!" said Mayl. She gave him a big hug "What is this all about?" thought Lan.
"Thanks a lot Lan!" said Roll. "Go Lan!" cheered Megaman. Lan blushed at the comments "Thanks guys." he turned and looked at Dex.
He sighed regretfully. "I just wish I didn't need to fight him, he was my friend!" Mayl nodded "I know, I wonder what's gotten into him. "We'll need to take him back to the school nurse though, He'll be pretty heavy to carry!"
They somehow managed to get him to the nurses office and leave him there with a large bump on the back of his forehead.