The travel there was more or less a frustration, considering the route was so full of trees, confusing bushes, and other such obstacles that got the group separated more times then once. Luckily, Dominique was rather familiar with these parts, from her potion ingredient expeditions, so they managed to get out of the forest, past the river, and up to the field directly north of Prontera Castle.
"So where are we headed from here?" Dominique asked, as they stood before a rather old marble torii that had been bored into the side of the mountain.
"In here," Lihn said, looking into her pocket for something. Damnit…where is it…
"I…in here?" Domino asked, twitching confusedly, and for good reason too. The stature seemed to be locked with a heavy marble block that judging from how far it dug out of the stature itself, was pretty thick in itself. Possibly even three people thick.
"Well yeah."
"Wait a moment…isn't this the hidden temple? I thought it was sealed four years ago by the king, because a creature who dwelled in here had caught, killed, and ate his eldest son."
Vihre cringed, but for reasons that couldn't be detected; he tried to hide it by forcing himself to shiver. Kelta raised her eyebrow.
"Something wrong?"
"No…just cold."
…Its not cold up here…She raised her eyebrow at him again, then shook her head.
"Yeah, Baphomet lives in here, but we won't have to worry about him, he leaves Kelta and I alone… I suppose he respects our status."
"You mean he's afraid of me?" Kelta raised her eyebrow, grinning.
"Baphomet!" Domino's ears seemed to stand upright upon his head like a dog's would when they were excited. "He's still alive?"
"Yeah, but his days are limited. He was shoved out of Glast Heim along with most of his animalistic tribe when the Demons decided it was time to take back what was rightfully theirs. Most of his kind died out, actually I'm surprised your alive Domino. Most of the creatures who used to live in Glast Heim went completely crazy outside of the walls, and simply perished. In fact, Baphomet was an excellent guest for tea until he started going insane.
"Some of their kind still dwells in these walls, so I want you two to be careful," she turned to Dominique and Vihre, "I doubt they will attack Domino, but you should try to keep yourselves protected at least. He seems to be still a child, so I doubt he can command anything," she frowned down at him. There were stories of how a baphomet could dictate and command over a monster just by scowling at them, but often times this was only achieved through being quite large, and scary. Domino was clearly none of these, he still had his baby fluff, after all.
"How are we going to get in here?" Domino remarked after a long while of silence. Nobody seemed to have any suggestions, and Lihn had long since given up on trying to find something, and was busy rubbing the exterior of the wall.
That was when Kelta realized something, do I still have my rune stone? She searched her pockets for a silky polished rock strung up on a simple gold chain. Afte ra moment she came up empty handed. Shit! Those fucking thieves must of took it… She sighed, she might as well tell Lihn now, and get it over with. "Mom, I don't have my rune stone anymore…"
"Yeah, well I couldn't find mine either," she sighed.
"What the hell is a rune stone?" Vihre asked, his impatience getting the best of him.
"Its something that will turn this marble stone transparent so we can go through it. But rune stone is so rare nowadays you can only buy it off the blackmarket in Comodo for about twelve billion zeny." Kelta answered. Lihn was still trying to find some sort of switch on the wall, or so it seemed.
"…Billion?"
"Yeah. Billion…But you can blame my mom for its special ability now a days," she rolled her eyes.
"How so?"
She looked on at the woman, before grabbing onto Vihre's long ponytail, and guiding him downwards, so she could whisper into his ear. Even with him kneeling, she had to stand on her toes. "She's the go-" she broke off. No…I shouldn't tell him that… "The lorekeeper of the books of destiny, basically she's their caretaker…"
"Wait…I thought Destiny was just some excuse people used to blame how bad their lives had turned out."
"Not exactly… although it really is our fault our destiny changes. I'll explain it to you later, when mom isn't around.. But I will say this: because mom is the keeper of the books of destiny, she can change anyone's fate. And she changed the fate of the rune stone to turn marble transparent when it came in contact with it. Rune was always rare anyways, but now that it can do this… more people want it. Not to mention, the prontera treasury is vaulted by rune."
She was about to say more, but was interrupted by a loud huff from Lihn. She wasn't sure if she was easedropping, but she tried not to worry. Especially when Lihn mentioned something completely off the subject. "Kelta, do you think you can cast an earth spike strong enough to destroy this rune? Other wize…we'll need to head up north through Mt Mjonir to get in through the northern enterence."
"Well, the northern enterence IS clear…"
"But, it would take more then this sunlight to get through the mountain," Vihre interrupted.
"But, won't the king be angry if he found out that a wizardess had destroyed the barrier on this temple?" Dominique asked. Aparently she wasthe only one who thought of that.
Lihn shrugged, "King Tristan can kiss my ass, I was one of the people against him putting the stone here in the first place. When I was in the group of elders he gave us the choice of putting the block here. Unfortuantly, he expelled anyone who didn't have his forsight. I believe I'm also banished, but that doesn't matter."
Domino whispered to Domi, "Heh…I like her."
"Me to." Domi grinned through her teeth.
Kelta sighed, her mind was feeling a bit cloudy, and her head hurt quite a bit. Even if earth spike was an easy spell to cast, it still would land her with one hell of a migrain. "I suppose I can do it," she said glumly, looking down.
"Whats wrong?" Vihre said quietly.
"Nothing…my head just hurts too much to focus that sort of magic through myself."
He had a puzzled look on his face, "then…don't? That's what you have a staff for!"
She cringed, she almost forgot about that staff, and grimaced as she took it off her belt. It was still as shiny as it was when they found it earlier in the tomb, and reflected even more beautifully in the setting sun. Still, she hated it. Now how do I do this… She raised the staff to her forehead, letting the purple orb dance just a few inches from her skin, placing her finger tips atop the staff's orb. She shut her eyes, and focused on the orb before her face, imagining the orb in her mind. She looked deep into it, and saw a quaking earth that tore through the marble, and split it in a thousand pieces. From her lips came a whisper that spoke the ancient spell, and when she had said the final words, the spell had been complete. Instead of focusing her mind on the element itself, she focused on the staff's orb, as she was told, and saw a glimpse of something she never was meant to see.
Far away from her mind, she heard something speak words in a familiar voice that she knew to be her own, but could not control. A loud crash followed.
The scene was hazy at best, and had qualities that reminded her of a dream. She couldn't walk, talk, or move in any way, all she could do was watch.
A rather burly man was holding what looked like her mother by a pair of glittery wings that stretched from her back. The man seemed to be of a higher power, because atop his head was displayed a rather ornate crown, and he was covered in armor.
"Take the rest of the Faella to the back, we can remove their wings after they have eaten a bit more. This one on the other hand tried to get away." He whipped his fist through the air, causing the woman to screech in pain. Kelta felt something come out of her eye, and it stung rather profusely, but she couldn't focus enough of her energy to blink it away, or rub at it. All she could do was stare.
"How could that of happened?" another man said, he looked almost exactly like the first man, except he was a great deal skinnier, younger, and his head was free of crown.
"Not sure, but these little faerie bitches have a lot of power on their backs," he seemed to grin, as he thrust his wrist so hard, the woman's wings fell off her back. "Have Demitri III grind up these wings, and put them into Osiron's staff. I'm sure he'd be pleased to have the queen of the Faella's power under his grasp."
"And what of her?"
"I don't really care, she's powerless…just leave her to die for all I care."
Kelta got one last look at the blue haired, green eyed, sorry faced woman that looked so much like her mother before her dream ended, and the Prontera field fizzled back into her mind.
"Ke…ta…
"K….ake p….
"Kelta! Arise damnit!" Vihre's voice came disjoined through her slumber, and she felt she was still in a dream like state as she poped open her eyes. When she looked up at his face she detected sadness, and worry that she had only seen one other time. Although once she had opened her eyes fully, he looked quite a bit relived. "What happened?"
She was about to tell them exactly what had happened in her dream, but judging from the sky, and the looks on the faces of everyone around her, not much time had transpired. "I….I blacked out is all… I guess I couldn't focus myself through a staff very well…" The staff… she cringed. No…no it can't be that!
"Why are you using a staff?" Lihn disrupted Kelta's thoughts.
"I figured it would be easier to focus her energy through that, rather then through her mind…she said she had a headache. Maybe it was too much? But at least you cleared the way."
Lihn didn't seem to approve of Kelta using a staff, but she didn't say much on the subject. "Can you walk?"
"Y..yeah I think so." Although when she got up, she teetered over to one side, and collapsed in Vihre's lap. She blushed profusely as she did that, and felt his large arms heave her up, and hold her up. He wrapped one arm around her torso, to balance her weight correctly, and glided her forward.
"A lot of things have been happening to you today, hon," Dominique said, walking alongside Kelta as they guided her under the temple entrance, and down into it.
((note: I have –no- clue how to navigate through hidden temple considering I havn't been in there for real since beta iro…and past that I've only used flywings))
I can't believe I'm doing this, I don't even believe in some super natural diety that watches over us, let alone destiny, fate, and whatever the hell this is. Dominique looked down at Domino who seemed rather quiet as he walked alongside his 'owner'. She smirked a bit at him. Although he seems to trust in this 'place' so why can't I? She sighed. She knew very well why she couldn't. Although Domino was in many ways very unique-he being a talking creature with dust upon his egg so old it dated back to Ragnarok itself-she still didn't trust his judgement. She was an Alchemist, there was no way that could be denied, and in her eight years of studying alchemy, potionry, and the creation of life, she couldn't help but think of all spiritual things as laughable. But still, there was something about this woman that intreigued her to the point to just saying 'what the hell'. Besides, if there wasn't really a temple of destiny stacked sky-high with books written on every living being outlining their destiny and fate…it wouldn't be a bad thing for her, or very disappointing. However, she wans't so sure what she would say if it turned out to be true.
"Whats troubeling you, Domi?" Domino asked her, glancing up and noticing her apparent discontent.
She sighed, how could he see through her so easily? "I don't know, I guess I'm just so disbelieving. I mean, a temple of destiny can tempt Vihre, and you, to the point of belivablity…But I guess from my years of experince, and rubbing with misery… I just can't believe it."
"I have no idea what the fuck your talking about, Domi," his ears twitched annoyingly
She took off her hat, and scratched at her hot pink hair that had curled naturally in the humidity. When she put it back on, she sighed. "I just can't believe in destiny, or fate. Dom-dom, I'm a scientist. Or as close to one as you can be in these days after Ragnarok… In fact, I can hardly believe there was a Ragnarok, if it weren't for eye witnesses!"
"But Dominique, it happened only four hundred years ago. How could anyone not believe it?"
"I don't know, I guess I just can't see some holy Deity, or two, or four, or however the hell many there were… Guarding over us! I mean, they never did anything for me! So why SHOULD I trust in them?" By now her face had become rather flustered, and Domino figured it was from her trying to hold back tears. Her past was rather painful, and he knew that quite well considering he had seen a good part of it before they left home.
"Domi…are you still thinking about that? You have to let it go, your father was crazy."
"Well I loved my father! Why couldn't he love me? Because I was a 'female'? Well I tried my best to have him love me! I went into Alchemy even though it killed my mother, I stayed with potionry even though I was picked on for being a little chubby girl! And now here I am in the Juno Alchemist guild, miserable as hell, because my father hates me now because it was me they chose….not him. Why the hell did they have to choose me, Domino? Because I can make berserk potions without much thought? Because I can create perfect embryos of plant life? Because I can blow up an entire city with my underwater explosive technology? Or was it because I have the potential to create living, breathing, TALKING life?
"Domino I never wanted this… I DON'T want this… I can't stand not being able to believe in these things, like fate, destiny, gods, or spirituality in general! I just can't see those things as true because of what I've become…And I hate it."
By then tears were streaming down her face, and Domino could do no more then look up at her and frown. "I know you do… but if you just forget what you knew-"
"It's just not that easy, Dom-Dom…It's different for you because you do believe in those spiritual things."
"Nah, its probably because I'm just weird," He shrugged.
She laughed a bit, "of course your weird… Anyone who has lived a thousand years ago, and has absolutely no memory of what that was."
"No, that's not weird, that's just unbelievably unlucky. You know how I feel about that, and I'll ask you again not to mention it in front of me," he turned his head from her, and remained quiet, facing the ground as he walked.
"I know," she sighed.
"Dominique seems upset," Kelta frowned, looking over Vihre's shoulder. By now she was literally being carried by Vihre considering twice she was knocked unconscious by something as silly and puny as a lunatic or poring. It wasn't worth the trouble to wait for her to rise again.
"Yeah, do you know why?"
"Not exactly…"
"Well if you couldn't hear it, then what the hell are those big slug things on the side of your head used for anyways?" His eyebrow twitched annoyingly.
I am so not in the mood to argue with you now, she really wasn't, so she tried her best to sway the conversation. "I did overhear a few things that might be interesting to you. If you care that is."
"Of course I care. Just tell me damnit!"
She rolled her eyes, there was no pleasing that man! "She's upset because she;'s an alchemist. I don't really see the fuss…"
"Oh…so she doesn't believe in the gods, destiny, or any of those things. I'm not surprised either, there are a lot of those kind popping up in the world now-a days. I hear the juno alchemist guild is close to completing homunculus, do you suppose she's part of that guild?"
"I want to say yes, but I couldn't hear her very well… for some reason my ears are really sore. But I do know one thing…"
"What is that?"
"Are we almost there?" Dominique asked, trying her best to catch up to them.
Kelta realized this, and dropped her voice to a whisper, "you can't find the temple of destiny if you don't believe in it. So I'm not sure if she'll even be able to go into it."
"Really… we'll just have to wait and see then."
"Hey! We've made it!" Kelta laughed as she squirmed out of Vihre's arms, and bounced towards the edge of the forest. It took them nearly an hour, four rights , two lefts, and one straight pathway, and two chances to run for their lives from things that were far too large to fight, before reaching it.
"Wait a minute… I've been through this place, and I've never seen this stature before…"
"Because you weren't looking for it, there's two rules to finding this pl-" she did a double take. "You've BEEN here before?"
"Yeah, before it was sealed. But that was back when I was still a teenager, and training. But go on, what were those two rules?"
"Yeah Kelta, you might as well tell them that too." Lihn rolled her eyes, as she removed a branch from an old, cobweb strung, torii that looked much like the one they had passed beneath earlier.
"Well if you don't want me to…"
She sighed, "You might as well…they know too much already, one more thing –really- can't hurt," she didn't seem to want to say that, but she knew as well as anyone…she couldn't control Kelta any longer. Before long, she disappeared down the staircase.
"Well…" she had her back to the stairs, and was facing the group of three. She bit her lip, as she tried to force the words out of her mouth. Judging from her delicate twitching, and shivering: she had a form of stage fright. Why can't I just tell them…? She shook her head, and lowered her eyes to the ground. "Uh, um.. Well… You need two things to find, or enter this temple. Although now that you've seen mom enter it, you will have no trouble getting in.. But to find it… Well there is a belief that states that the temple moves every time someone tries to find it, and you can only find it if you believe in your own destiny. That you believe that there IS fate, and that something does create your future. But what most people don't understand…" she finally had mustered up enough curage to look at her friends in the eyes as she spoke. "Is that its not the keeper of the temple that changes your destiny…its you. But I'll explain that later.
"But it is impossible for you to ever find this place it you weren't supposed to. You see, because you control the path of your destiny, you must also control the time when you come here. Its fate that you find this place, but you cannot find this place if you do not believe in fate, and there for will never write about it."
"That's confusing, Kelta," Vihre remarked, scratching the back of his kneck. Dominique seemed to agree, but for some reason… Domino seemed to follow it quite well.
She yawned, "well. Whatever," she turned on her heal and walked down.
As they walked down the stairs they saw the first room as a wide boxed area with marble flooring, vine covered pillars cast in jade stone, and a large fountain laced with lilly pads, and filled with clear sparkling water. Above them they could see a setting sun that cast the room in a delicate orange hue, that mixed lovely with the green. However lovely it was, pages were scattered about in a very messy way, and books floated in mid air.
"Don't touch anything," Kelta warned, leading them over the pool, stepping on the lily-pads as she would stepping stones. "If you do, the book will suck your arm into its pages, and consume your soul. I'm not kidding," she looked at them with a completely serious look.
Vihre sweat dropped, "no kidding, huh?" He waved his arm at the book, and nearly had it snapped up when he touched the binding. However, instead of cringing like Kelta thought he would, he simply laughed. "They can't hurt me! It's a book!"
"…Its not just any book. Ever heard of Ride-word?" By then they had reached the edge of the pool, and were walking down a long hallway lined with bookcases.
"Ride word…actually, yeah I've heard of it."
Kelta turned her attention to Dominique, and frowned. "I wasn't really asking you, but go on."
"I've read stories about them, but aren't they cursed books that will consume your body and soul if you let them?"
"Not exactly, but your on the right track. First of all…nobody would 'let them' eat their flesh, bones, and soul. I mean, why would they?" she snorted a bit, which got a laugh out of Vihre. She made a mental note to kick him in the leg later. Rolling her eyes, she continued, "but it is fairly difficult to convince them to not eat you. They don't really have any free will, however, and see you as 'something in the way, and tasty' so they'll eat you. The only way to really get away from it is to either out run it, or destroy it. But destroying a ride-word isn't exactly easy either, nor is it advised.
"And don't go telling mom that it told you this…but, a ride-word is a Demon's 'book'. Because a demon's soul is so chaotic deep down, their book completely insane, and will do anything to protect itself. It is believed that if you manage to destroy one of these books, the demon will become pure chaos, and will merge with the god Chaos. And we all know about him." A few confused looks fell over her, and she frowned. "The God Chaos was the counter part of Loki, which was originally the god of divinity. During Ragnarok Loki was replaced by Valkyrie, who later tried to destroy Chaos. All she succeeded in doing, however, was destroying herself, and condemning Chaos to imprisonment. Nobody knows what happened to Loki, but it is believed she was the fused goddess of the elementals. Complete, and utter, balance. Basically the goddess of balance." She shrugged. She didn't expect them to follow her through that, and she was far too tired to continue.
"Any who," she motioned to yet another stair well, this one lead upwards. "What we see before us is where I live, what we have just walked through is the temple of Destiny. If you look carefully, you may be able to find your book, but I would very strongly advise you not to medle with that…at least not until I've told you more. But now, lets get some food!" she clapped her hands happily, and grined as she ran up the stairs.
Vihre followed her, and Dominique was about to do the same, when she halted. "Domino?" She looked over to her pet which was trying to sneak away, "didn't you hear her?"
He sighed, of course he did. "No….? Oh fine," he scowled at her frown, before following her up the stairs.
The area above the temple was, surprisingly, rather ordinary. It seemed to be a lovely Payon type field with an oriental house sitting right beside a stone surrounded pond. "You don't want to swim in that," Kelta said briefly, motioning to the pond. "We grow special herbs in there that we can only get in watery areas. Also, stay out of the back yard, unless you want to do work. Believe me when I say that mom will force you into being her harvesting slaves if you even go within walking distance of that field." She walked up to the porch, and slipped through the paper screen doors.
The house itself was made up of five rooms-or so it seemed. The sitting area they walked into didn't seem entirely oriental as they looked at the wooden chairs fitted with soft cushions, and rather Prontera styled couches set against the free walls. There were four square walls, two free of doors, with the other two holding simple paper screens. She walked over to the wall to the far left, and opened one of the screens.
"If you want to take a bath, this iw here you do it," she motioned to a steaming pond surrounded by rocks. "Don't touch the rocks, they're as hot as FIER!" She cackled, before shutting the door, a bit rudely, on Vihre's face when he tried to look in better.
"Hey!" he rubbed his nose, and brought back a hand, as if getting ready to hit her, but thought better of it at the last minute.
"Quiet, my house." She grinned through her teeth, opening the door beside the first. "This is the sleeping area, unfortunately…we only have two beds…." She looked at Vihre, then Dominique, frowning at them in turn. The beds were set in the corners of the room, with a paper screen splitting the room in half. "I guess we can figure that out later.." she coughed.
Dominique shrugged, "I can sleep on the couch, I think I'm small enough," she motioned to the couch. Although she was rather plump, she was still quite short, and probably could fit on the couch much better then Vihre.
Kelta frowned, she almost wanted to sleep with the girl, or rather lay in bed with her. The way Kelta slept, she wouldn't detect even a bigfoot in bed with her! Still, she was saddened. "Okay… I'd offer you that other bed, but its moms." She tried to smile at Vihre. They had slept together once before, doing it again couldn't hurt. Still…
Vihre noticed her sadness, and quickly acted. "I don't really need to sleep," he shrugged. "Why don't you two share a bed, I can just wander around, I guess… Or help Lihn with things?"
Dominique smiled a bit, and Kelta couldn't of been more happier to hear those words. Domino on the other hand, looked as if someone had dropped an empellium on his face. He was angry, and confused, but tried not to say anything about it.
"Okay then!" Kelta giggled, closing the door. "well, um.." she walked over to the other side of the room and pushed open a third door. "This is the library, its mostly a place to find out about things that happened before Ragnarok. Plus there are artifacts, and the like."
"What about that compass?"
"..Compass…? OH! No," she remarked sadly. He was talking about the compass used to locate the four elementals. "Mom is in possession of that…I'll need to talk to her about it later." If she even lets me out of the house again, she grumbled silently, shutting the door.
"Well, lastly, theres the kitchen. We can eat here, but I'm a bit tired so-ahhhhhoww" she yawned widly, leaving the door ajar, as well as her mouth. "-I can't make anything too crazy. Can either of you cook though?"
"Cook? Don't look at me," Vihre said quickly, shaking his hands at her, and backing away a bit.
Kelta grinned, "I didn't think you could cook, anyways."
"I can, but I mostly prepare soups," Dominique looked around the kitchen, peering into pots, and inspecting spice jars. This seemed to confuse Lihn who was munching on a turnip.
"Soup sounds excellent!" Kelta clapped her hands, while Vihre just shrugged and sat across from Lihn at a half circle table.
"So…going to tell her?" Vihre poked Kelta, as Dominique and Domino chatted lowly while fixing soup.
"Tell her what?" Kelta asked annoyed.
"You know what I mean," he growled through clenched teeth, trying not to yell at her. But after silence spread over them for a few minutes, he shouted. "Think!"
"I don't know what the hell you want me to say!"
"I'm not going to remind you!" He shouted.
"Why not! Are you too much of a man to be helpful!"
"Maybe I am!"
"Well its foolish! Just tell me!"
They continued to bicker for a short while, Lihn watching them with certain amusement, before Dominique spoke up, ending their argument. Kelta seemed more cranky then angry, and she didn't want the girl to go more insane then she already was. "Hey, Kelta! Do you guys have any oregano?"
"Oregano?" Kelta raised her eyebrow. "What the hell is that?"
"It's a simple green plant with almond shaoped leaves, and a fuzzy underside. They grow in strips."
"Oh, yeah I thin there are a few outback, would you like for me to look?"
"Would you, hon?" She smiled.
"Yeah," Kelta blushed a bit, walking out the backdoor. She returned only a moment with a handful of herbs. "These right?"
"Yeah," she took one of the strips, and placed it in the soup, stem and all.
"Aren't you going to wash that?"
"Are you kidding? The soil you got this from is so earthy, and has such a lovely scent! It's a great accent to the mushrooms!"
"Er…okay," Kelta decided against asking any further questions about the soup, and sat down beside Vihre. She hadn't forgotten about their agument, and by now she knew what he was talking about. "I'll talk to her about it later, okay? Stop pestering me."
"Fine. And is that girl crazy or what?"
Kelta didn't seem to hear his last words, she was too busy watching the gothic teenager prepair their soup. Only a few moment had passed before the soup was dished out in six earthenware bowls, one for each of the people, including Domino.
"He eats what we do?" Vihre remarked, poking at his soup with a spoon. Do I really want to eat something an alchemist made? He shrugged, realizing he was too hungry to complain, and emptied a spoonful down his throat. It was actually quite good.
"He'll eat what's before him, or he won't eat at all," Dominique frowned, patting Domino's head.
"Actually, her meals are good," Domino shrugged, ignoring the spoon and drinking the stalk of the soup.
By this time, Kelta was almost falling asleep, and nearly drowned herself twice when she dozed off an inch from her soup. It was a lovely flavor, but she couldn't seem to stay awake long enough to enjoy it. Once she had eaten all the mushrooms, baby corn, squash, and dried fish, she was too tired to drink up the soup without choking on it, and simply laid her head on the table. "Sleepy time now," her eyes were closed, and her mind had turned itself off.
"She's such a sweet girl," Dominique said quietly, as she patted the girls head. In the back yard they could see through the screen that the sun had set, and Lihn had long since gone off to bed.
"She really is," Vihre mumbled, looking up at the celing. Although he had been through quite a bit over the course of the day, he wasn't the least bit tired. He figured it was because he was in such a glorious temple, and what he could find there could perhaps add another reason for him to stay alive in the world. He looked over at Domino, who was busy staring away from Kelta and Dominique –probably out of jealousy- and frowned. "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing." He wasn't about to talk to someone he didn't know
Vihre shrugged, slipped his hat back on, and wandered off into the yard.
Dominique noticed this, but didn't say much until the screen had been closed. "Do me a favor Domino… keep an eye on him."
"…Why the fuck should I do that? And since when do you care?"
"JUST DO IT!" She screamed at him. "I don't want you pestering me while I'm sleeping anyways!"
Domino was taken aback, and quite hurt, by what she had said, but tried not to let it show. "F..Fine." He mumbled, jumping off the chair, and wandering out into the yard, following Vihre.
"What's wrong?" Kelta asked sleepily. Apparently Dominique screaming awoke her.
"Nothing, hon." Dominique smiled, hugging Kelta tightly. I just don't want little mister jealousy to disturb us…This is the first time I've gotten to sleep with someone other then him, and I couldn't be happier. Heh, its funny in a way. I think I might actually believe in love again. She smiled at the skinny girl as she led her to the bedroom.
Vihre stood before the large jade column that they had seen only an hour before. The night was strong, and he could see the bright silver moon over head. They should be asleep by now, he mumbled to himself quietly, as he slipped behind one of the columns, and went straight torwards the book case. Unfortuatly for him, all the books were written in the ancient language, so he probably couldn't find what he was looking for. Still, he was determined to find it. "If I can find my book…maybe I can change my destiny enough to…" he broke off as he took one of the books off the shelf and realized it was written in the ancient language. "Shit!" he swore loudly his voice echoing amonst the quiet temple, before dropping the book, and claping his hands over his mouth.
"Doing that won't change what you said," an irritated voice came from behind the pillar.
At first he thought it was Lihmn, but the voice was too squeaky, and masculine to be hers. "Domino?" He turned, and sure enough, the squat large horned creature was nealing against the pillar, his arms crossed, and an annoyed look on his face. "What are you doing here?" He bent down to retrieve the book, and placed it back-hopefuly in the right spot.
"Because you are here, you know your going to get in trouble for being here. And whats going to stop me from telling on you?"
"Me punching your face in?" Vihre cracked his knuckles. He was in no mood to take that sort of talk from something no higher then his knee.
He chuckled a bit in a dark toned nature. Belive it or not, he seemed rather creepy cast in the shadowed moon light, and the darkness accented his evil features. "I may be small, but theres a reason people fear even the smallest of our kind."
Vihre shrugged, "you aren't really small compaired to the dwellers of clock tower."
"Those are nestlings, Vihre. Their eggs were lain in the clock tower as a way to protect it. Why? I have no idea."
"Huh, well what are you doing here?"
"Watching you…" he rolled his eyes, he was starting to bore of this act. "Actually, Dominique had me follow you. She told me to keep my eye on you, as if you were going to sneak around doing perverted things to little girls… But I can't see that in you. Your much too proud to steep to that level, and I can see from your face and your actions… that love has hurt you in a way that makes you fear things like that. The truth is though, Dominique probably wanted to get me to stay out of her way so she could enjoy the night with Kelta."
Vihre raised his eyebrow, he really had no idea what the creature was talking about, and so he asked him. "What do you mean?"
"Dominique probably wants to have sex with Kelta." He said bluntly.
Although the words didn't seem to phase Domino, Vihre found himself blushing profusely, and looked towards the ground to hide is face. Not like it did any good, however. Domino was a demon, and demons were rather good at seeing in the dark. "R-Really?" he choked out that word.
" Yeah, Dominique is the kind of person who will fuck anything she can get her arms around. But the truth is, she's just lonely. Ever since her father kicked her out of the house, and her mother died, she's been obsessed with finding some sort of love. The sad part is, she has the view of love all twisted.
"You see, she's under the impression that passion also involves 'fooling around' and judging from the way Kelta looked at Dominique when they first met, she has the same view on things. But its not surprising, most people their age- or rather their maturity- don't really understand what love is anymore. But Dominique doesn't really care, she's desperate for any sort of emotional security, and she'll do just about anything to do it. Even if it means fucking a cute little girl like Kelta."
"And, Kelta doesn't know?"
"Doubtful, but if you looked at the way Kelta reacted, and how she talked to Lihn… I can only guess that she's just as lonely. I think she would of tried to jump you if she had any interest in the male physique. But as it seems, she has a thing for women."
Vihre had to agree with him on that. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that the past showed rather obvious signs of that. Without realizing it, Kelta had both flirted with the Prontera Kafra, and the innkeeper in Morroc! And here she was blushing around Dominique the way he had with his… He tried not to think about it, bringing up past memories still hurt.
Domino sighed, "unfortunately, Dominique doesn't realize that she's only going to get hurt with Kelta. They're both immature, I don't care how smart or powerful they are, they are confused in this world. But I'm not surprised, this whole fucking world is confusing. I mean look at me! I'm getting jealous when Dominique hugs Kelta the way I only wish she would hold me, and I don't understand why! I'm not supposed to feel these things, Vihre. I'm not human, I'm not even a humanoid Demon! I'm a 'creature' as they call it. A baphomet." He shrugged it off, "but nothing really makes sence to me anyways. You know, Dominique believes I was born before Ragnarok, and egged well before then. But I can't remember a thing before the day I we met."
"How did you two meet?" Vihre had given up on trying to locate the book, and was now leaning against the case of books, folding his arms. They looked almost like a mirror image of each other- with the exception of height, weight- and of course…species.
"She was given my egg by some shady woman, saying that I would protect her if brought up right… some sort of garbage to that effect, that is. The weird thing is, I didn't trust her enough to even give her the light of day until I saw her father throw the girl around. You've seen Dominique, she's heavy, strong, and all sorts of things, it still surprises me to this day that she let her father hurt her so much. But she was only thirteen then, and a great deal skinnier, as well as weak. She didn't start lifting and swinging an axe until about a year ago."
"She sounds like a poor girl, I feel bad for her, to be honest."
"I don't blame you. So what ARE you doing down here?" Domino raised his eyebrow, finally wishing to find out something.
"What do you think," Vihre remarked, before passing through the pillar.
"I think your trying to change the inevitable."
"And what do you mean by that?"
"You are human, right?"
"…" Vihre refused to answer that question, instead he just stared on right down at him.
Domino rolled his eyes, "you want to cheat death, right?"
Vihre sighed, "I'm not like most humans, Domino. I don't do things for power anymore, I do them for a spiritual gain. I guess. I just want to be at peace with myself."
"Everyone wants that, even I do. But there are some things we just can't have. I mean look at me, I can read the ancient language, I even understand what Kelta is mumbling about when she casts a spell… But that doesn't matter, because I have no use for it. Not to mention, even fi I wanted to change my destiny here, I couldn't. Do you know why?"
Vihre blinked, he was too taken aback at Domino being able to understand the ancient language to really concentrate on the question.
Domino didn't wait for an answer, "because I don't know my name. These books are written by the name your soul knows, I don't know how I know that, but I do. Unfortunately, if you used to have a name eons ago, it's the name your book would still be under. If my name was Decta, then that what my book would be listed under, not Domino, Domino was the name Dominique gave me."
"Why did she give you that name?"
"I have no idea."
"Oh well, I doubt your going to help me find my book, are you?"
"What's in it for me?" Domino raised his eyebrow.
Vihre simply mumbled, "never mind. I'm going to try to get some sleep… Even it means sleeping on the roof."
Domino seemed to understand what he was talking about, and if he was to be honest with himself, he didn't want to hear anything 'fun' coming from Kelta and Dominique either. "Domi is a quiet girl, besides…they're in the same room as Lihn. I don't think they'd make much noise."
Vihre didn't seem to feel like arguing, so he simply grunted, and slipped through the door, before sitting on the couch, covering his eyes with his hat, and slowly drifting off. Domino lay on the couch beside him, finally letting his jealousy fade away as his slumber over took him.
"Shh!" Dominique said, giggling, as she hugged Kelta. The two were quite content, having enjoyed at least something in the past day. After Kelta had been possessed, poisoned, seen death, and almost killed those she loved..she really needed SOMETHING to make her feel better, And Dominique was damned good at it.
The sun leaked through the paper screen windows, and warmed Kelta's face for the first time in a while, allowing her to greet the day with happiness. She dressed in a black outfit much like her long sleeved, short skirted, dress she wore the day before, and watched as Dominique stuffed herself in one of Kelta's larger dresses. It mimicked what she was wearing only the day before, but it was free of a cape, and lined with gold ribbon on the skirt's hem. Kelta grabbed onto her new partner's hand, fingures laced, and guided her to the kitchen.
If I scared you during that chapter… well… grow up (just kidding, but hinting is as far as I'll go XD its like watching a movie after all..and I'm suremost of the people who read this are mature enough to watch a movie :O) And actually…I think that sthe last time this will come up. Ooa
Chapter 5 SHOULD be out soon I'm shooting for the weekend (but its like..Saturday today isn't it a) but I'm not sure. I also didn't mean for this chapter to get so long / OH WELP. I hope you enjoyed it at least :D! The more reviews I get, the sooner a chapter will be up a