Sorry that this page didn't come in anytime soon, I had loads of work to do and I sort of…. forgot…. Runs away from angry people
Chris: What's with you?
Ishya: What?
Chris: You keep tormenting me!
Ishya: Sorry but I have a contract with Eclipse and it doesn't expire anytime soon. No hard feelings?
Chris: Evil fan girls and their twisted schemes
Chris reached the kitchen before Erutis and saw something that chilled his bones.
Eclipse.
Eclipse didn't notice the intruder, he just stood there, back towards Chris, in the kitchen, preparing lunch. At the moment he was chopping lettuce, with a butchers knife. Chris imagined the lettuce head to be his own if he told Raenef, or anyone for that matter, about last night.
Eclipse turned around and glared at Chris saying coolly, "What brings you here?"
"I just wanted to see if I could get something to eat," said Chris, trying to keep his retain a level voice.
Eclipse put down the knife and said while he kept icy stare upon the young cleric, "Lunch will be ready at 1:00, I don't want to see you until the-"
Erutis crashed right into Eclipse, sending both of them crashing and sinking like the Titanic as Chris jumped back.
After Chris realized that it was just Erutis he stared at the massive mess on the floor that included an apron, three eggs, dumpling mix and two unfortunate souls.
"Oww, sorry," said Erutis, slowly rubbing her head while Eclipse sat up,who wascovered in dumpling mix.He didn't seem happy at all tofind that Erutis was on his lap, her covered in eggs.
"Out," he ordered, shoving Erutis off of him as he angrily stood up. "I don't want either of you in the kitchen until after lunch!" seethed Eclipse.
Chris sprinted out of the door while he dragged Erutis out with him by grasping onto her cape. She was attempting to break away from Chris so she could try and help Eclipse out but gave up when the kitchen door was out of sight. Chris stopped, letting go of Erutis' cape while he caught his breath. While he gasped Erutis attempted to quickly remove the sticky egg goo.
"Why was Eclipse so angry?" asked Erutis curiously, she really wanted to known since she's been trying to get on Eclipse's good side just for her life's sake for a little over a month now.
"I don't know, you know him, always so easy to anger," lied Chris, giving a convincing shrug.
" Whatever, let me get cleaned up then we'll find Raenef," Erutis said, "It's fun killing time with him," and with that she set off in search of the young demon lord.
A while later…Chris had been following Erutis as they checked every room, looking for Raenef. Erutis offered Chris to lead but he refused to lead he told her that you'd know where he'd be, but the real reason was that he knew that he'd get them lost.
"Rae!" piped Erutis when she found the young demon lord sleeping on the living room couch.
Erutis pounced on the shocked Raenef, causing both the hunter and the hunted to fall onto the hard marble floor as she tried to give him a hug.
"Ouch! Nice to see you too Erutis," said wearily Raenef, half choking on Erutis' 'loving' hug.
Chris just stared there, unwillingly discovering the 'happier' side of Erutis, 'what'd she eat this morning,' thought Chris as he pitied the helpless demon.
Erutis got off of the slightly embarrassed Raenef. Chris walked up to Raenef as he got up and ended up being the next victim of the killer hugs, or so he thought.
"Chris!" yelled a happy Raenef as he puppishly pounced on him, knocking them both down and hugging him.
Erutis suppressed a laugh when she saw Chris' look that greatly resembled someone that never learned to swim and luckily enough was alone on a sinking ship, even worse for Chris was that the position he was in wasn't the most 'approiate'.
"So what do you want to do, lunch isn't ready yet," said Erutis smiling while Chris and Raenef both got off the ground. Chris could tell she was enjoying this, he was only too happy that she didn't have a camera with her.
"I don't know, what do you want to do Raenef?" asked Chris, hoping it wasn't going to be anything life threatening.
Chris still remembered the time Raenef asked for him to pick off some fruit from a tree in the forest near by, forgetting that it was really a human-eating tree that ate anything that was close enough to its mouth. Chris still has the scars on his right leg to prove to Raenef that the tree wasn't friendly.
"Hmm," said Raenef thoughtfully, "Let's go to town or something, there's nothing fun to do in the castle."
'Uh-oh' thought Chris and Erutis, they also remembered the time Raenef ran away because he thought he'd become a better demon lord if he left his castle and traveled. Erutis was the first to recover and say, "How about we do that later Rae? We don't want Eclipse to get angry at us again, do you?"
"No, but what did you do to get him angry," asked Raenef, curious of knowing what happened.
Erutis and Chris explained what happened in the kitchen while Raenef listened.
"Why would he get angry at that?" asked Raenef, "I did that once and he wasn't angry."
"I don't know, maybe Chris over here got him angry," said Erutis pointing at Chris. He froze, praying that they wouldn't ask.
"What's done is done," said Raenef sighing, "Want to climb the trees in the garden?"
"Sure," said Chris, he didn't care what they did as long as it kept them off the subject about what happened in the kitchen.
"Why not," agreed Erutis shrugging.
"Go," said Raenef as he closed his eyes and they were in the garden.
"What was the point in that," asked Erutis, "We could of just walked, it's only a few feet away from where we were."
"I knew that," said Raenef, an anime sweat drop falling from the back of his head.
"I never realized how big the trees really are," said Erutis, walking up to one that must have been at least 200 years old.
"Some of these trees have been around since Raenef the IV," said Raenef as he too marveled the ancient trees' size, "Last one up's a rotten egg."
With that, Raenef, Chris and Erutis raced up the tree.
170 feet up and fifty-five minutes later…
"Haha, Chris' a rotten egg," shouted Raenef as Chris finally was at the top with Erutis and Raenef.
"No," a sweaty Chris gasped desperately for air, "fair."
"Oh come on Chris, its not that bad," said Erutis, rolling her eyes about how odd Chris was.
"Master Raenef"
"Did you just call Rae 'Master Raenef' Chris," asked the sword master uneasily, she had a feeling what his answer would be.
"No why," replied Chris, looking at Erutis strangely, apparently he didn't a thing or he was lying.
Poof! A dark purple cloud landed on a branch a few seconds after Chris replied. When the cloud blew away, Eclipse was in its place, looking sternly at the young master.
"Master Raenef, what are you doing up here, it's time to eat," said Eclipse ", it's improper for a demon lord to play in trees." Eclipse turned his gaze to land on Erutis and Chris, "I suppose you would like to get down as well?"
Chris nodded, gaping at Eclipse, 'I didn't know that they could appear in trees too.'
"Yes please," said Erutis shakily.
It didn't seem that Raenef would remember that her and Chris were humans, as usual, and the cleric seemed to have lost his voice suddenly.
'What was going on between Chris and Eclipse and why was Eclipse treating Chris worse than he normally did,' wondered Erutis, even though she was headstrong it didn't mean she was dense.
At the Dining RoomAfter Eclipse teleported them from the tree, Raenef, Erutis and Chris went to clean theirselfs up before Eclipse could say another word.
Chris was the last one at the table, everyone was glaring at him, almost like he was their lunch.
Chris swallowed a lump that was forming in his throat and said, "What did I do now?"
"We're starving Chris, could you be any slower," commented Erutis impatiently as he sat down.
Relief swept right through him, "Sorry, I won't do that again."
"If you do we'll just have to eat without you," replied Raenef jokingly, serving himself some garden stew.
Chris grabbed a bowl of soup too, slurping it down until he noticed that Eclipse was watching him. He almost in an instant stopped doing so and ate his soup quietly and carefully. He really didn't want to awaken Eclipse's vengeful side by doing something small, or doing anything at all for that matter.
Erutis and Raenef chatted from across the while Eclipse kept his eye on Chris the whole time and since Eclipse was seated directly across from Chris, that would be no problem. Chris' whole meal was horrible, he couldn't talk with being glared at, he could barely ask anyone to pass anything without Eclipse casting a piercing gaze, he just couldn't do anything at all without the raven haired demon looking at him so to be safe he just had his soup. The vegetables in the stew he ate went down hard and cold like left out oatmeal that no one wanted.
'Face it,' he thought to himself, 'It's going to be like this for a while.'
"That was great," Erutis happily said staring at her empty plate, she laid and back relaxed.
"Yeah, thanks Eclipse," said Raenef, smiling at Eclipse brightly.
Eclipse flinched. Raenef was breaking the rules of a demon lord, again. He stopped psychologically tormenting Chris and looked at Raenef, Eclipse restrained himself from smiling or doing anything cheery.
"Your welcome Master Raenef," replied Eclipse, he couldn't help himself, he decided he'd let it slide this once.
"Chris," Erutis said quietly, not trying to ruin Raenef's little moment, which Rae seemed to be blissfully unaware of.
"Hmm, wha?" was his simple reply as she mouthed something to him. 'What's she saying? Go along with it?' thought Chris, 'Go along with what?'
"Excuse me Eclipse but I need to continue with Chris' sword lessons," said Erutis.
Chris still puzzled, groaned and said, "I thought you taught me all the things I needed to learn."
" I only covered the basics, now come on!" yelled Erutis as she stormed up to him and dragged him off while Chris pleaded for Raenef to help him.
Raenef just looked at Chris, a sweat drop falling from the back of his head when Chris tried to break away and ended up choking, Erutis had grabbed the young cleric's collar.
"Master Raenef, you too must continue with your training," said Eclipse, he spoke firmly as if trying to avoid Raenef's puppy eyes, something that Raenef used often when he wanted something to be done his way.
Meanwhile in the Garden"Oww," Chris rubbed his head as he half choked half groaned, "W-what was t-that for?"
"Great act Chris, I think they fell for it," Erutis said joyously as she slapped him on the back causing the cleric to topple over.
"Who's acting?" asked Chris as he sat himself up.
"Well I did say go along with me, either way I'd knew it'd get you out of there," replied Erutis as she walked over to a blossoming cherry tree.
"So you're not going to teach me anything," Chris replied slowly, trying to be sure this was no joke.
"No, I wanted to know why you've been acting so weird," mumbled Erutis loud enough for him to hear, sighing as she leaned against the pink petal covered tree.
There was no reply, Erutis looked back to see if the cleric was listening but instead she saw no one. She looked around and thought she saw a bush move but ignored it. Out of seemingly nowhere the cleric appeared right in front of her. Erutis screamed but none of it was heard as Chris put his hand against her mouth.
His scare had tactic worked but for a price that made the joke worthless and extremely painful. Erutis, who didn't seem to take any of this as funny, did the only thing she could think of doing. Within ten seconds Chris was the one on the floor, spitting out an angry stream of curses as tears rolled down his face while Erutis just watched, trying to catch her breath.
Ten minutes later Chris was back to normal.
"Why the heck did you kick me there!" said Chris, trying to blame this all on her.
"You're the one that scared me," argued Erutis, she was embarrassed beyond belief.
"And you say I'm weird," mumbled Chris. "Why are you so jumpy, is lover boy trying stalking you again?" Chris was referring to Krayon, someone Erutis would probably torture more than he tortured her.
"…." Erutis, who normally always had something to say, said nothing.
"So that's it," said Chris feeling triumphant for discovering the reason for that painful assault. " So what," he said slowly, "you want me to be your bodyguard?"
"Bodyguard from who?"
Both Chris and Erutis flinched, fear shining bright in Erutis' eyes while Chris almost instantly lost his voice.
Krayon had arrived.
Ishya: What a touching moment! Chris and Erutis
Chris:… that really hurt
Ishy: that wasn't intentional, it just kind of fit in, it was either that or kiss her.
Chris:….
Krayon: No Way! Erutis is MINE!
Erutis: I'm not anyone's!
Ishya: .- I think I'll just be leaving now… runs for it
PS: Sorry it took so long for this chapter, hope it's long enough for you. I'll try to make the fourth ASAP but unfortunately I can't make any promises.
BTW, I'm not sure when Chris will tell Rae or anything that I have planned for the future, well I have a few ending options but I need to get the other chapters up so yeah.
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