Chapter Three

Punishment

I have combined the 3rd and 4th chapters because the 3rd was so short. I have also re-written it because it apears to have gotten deleted.

Jonathan of Conte looked at the five ladys infront of him. Buri received no punishment because she didn't acctually do anything.

Thayet smiled. "Thats not to bad."

Kel, Alanna, Yuki, and Daine glared daggers at her. "Speak for your self Thayet."

"But Alanna you wear dresses."

"You forget, WE'RE AT WAR, we can't fight in dresses. You can't even breath in a bodice!"

Kel held her calm it was the 'you have to do anything your told to that' bothered her.

The Gentlemen had decided that the not-so-gentleladys punishment should be the same as the prank they pulled. Except they didn't have to dye their hair pink they had to do whatever someone told them to.

The king adressed them all in the mess hall. Some how they had found a way to get off the face paint, get their hair back to normal and find where the ladys had put their clothes.

"My decision is final Alanna. Tomarow you report for dutys in a dress."

Kel glared at her reflection in the mirror. Dresses were all well and good, but this was not funny. If I wanted to wear low cut dresses I was endanger of popping out of, I would have gone to the convent.

"Oh, Lady Keladry."

"No, not him!"

"Yes me."

"Sergeant Domatian, can I help you?"

"Why yes actually. Please come with me." He addressed her cleavage. He was trying to make her uncomfortable and she would not give him that satisfaction.

"Of course mi'lord." If they wanted her to be a lady, then she would be a lady, or at least as much of one as she could be.

When they reached their destination Kel had decided that she would rather face the chamber of the ordeal again, rather then be the object of one more aproving look.
The tight fitting, low-cut,pink dress was having an effect on the men of fort Steadfast.

"So Kel, your true self shines through. Your nothing but a convent girl." Neal's dry voice irritated her. At this point she had NO yamani calm left. She snatched the dagger tied to her ankle. Leveling it at Neal she said cruely. "If you wish to insult me Meathead you'll pay."

"Kel," said Neal in a laughing tone "Adress me as master."

"I will do no..." SUTPID king! "Yes, master."

All the men had looks of utter joy as they realized they could tell the lady knight to do anyting and she would have to do it.

"Any of you lads thought that if you try, in a week, when this god blasted punishment is over, I will kill you."

Voices every where started giving her comands. Aparrently they had decided torturing the lady knight now, was worth dying later.

"Hush!" Raouls voice boomed through the mess hall. "Kel would you please come tilt with me?"

"You've got to be kidding me. In this?" Kel gestured toward the dress.

"Kel, come tilt with me."

She had no choice, but to follow Raoul to the practice courts. Someone had already set everything up by the time they arrived.

Kel looked around. She knew if she tilted with Raoul in the corset she was wearing she'd hurt herself. Only one thing to do I guess. She unlaced the corset and took it off, before climbing on to Peachblossem's back.

"Now Kel," Said Raoul in a reprimanding tone, "You know your supposed to wear a dress at all times."

"I am wearing a dress. I'm just not wearing a corset. There's a difference."

Raoul sighed in annoyence, but in the end he gave.

The two jousters were about to charge when a...uhh, loud scream broke their concentration.

A furious Thayet stormed onto the practice courts. Yuki and Daine were both trying to calm her down. They had been atempting to calm her down for the last couple minutes, with no avail.

Kel started laughing. She couldn't help it. Thayet was wearing a pink dress with full skirts and an extremely tight purple bodice. The dress had large, Gaudy purple flowers embrodered on it.

"Thayet are you ok?"

"OK, OK,O-K, no Kel I am not OK! Would you be wearing this dress? I can't breathe!"

"You can't?"

"KEL, I can barley move!"

Kel got off her horse. "Has anyone seen Alanna?"

-Silence-

"We should find her."

All the ladys left imediately.

After running away in no particular direction for a bit, they decided to actually look for Alanna.

"She must be in her rooms."

"Thayat, why on earth would she be in her rooms?"

"I don't know Daine, but she's not anywhere else."

Kel looked at them. "You know, her rooms should have been the first place we looked."

Yuki put on a Yamani mask to hide her embarresment. "We don't seem to be thinking strait."

"It's the bloody corsets fault."

"Thayet, profanity, is that really necisary."

Thayet glared daggers at Daine. While Kel and Yuki walked off in the direction of Alanna's rooms.

Kel knocked on the door. "Alanna?"

The door opened a crack, Allowing Kel and Yuki to see Alanna's eye.

"Get in quick you two."

Once the door was closed purple fire shot across the walls sealing them in completely.

"Alanna, what's going on?"

"It's a spell."

"I noticed. Why are you spelling your room?"

"Because the spell makes it so I can't hear anything thats said outside."

Yuki smiled. "Therefore you don't have to carry out any command your given because you can't hear them. Brillant."

"What about when Numair comes and removes the spell?"

Both Yuki and Alanna glared at her. "You realize that we had hope for a second there."

Just then Numair broke through the spell and opened the door.

"Lady's you will join us for dinner. The gowns you will wear will be delivered to your room's."

"This can't be good."

Ahhh, anouther chapter anouther cliffhanger the simple pleasures in life. Please make sure you read the Author's not at the begning of the first chapter it will explain more than it doesn't (hopefully)

Once again adressing the hat issue, R. I was rather wondering if you would let me borrow it.

Now a short little peice of comedic info.
The Definition of Friendship

you smile I smile...you cry, I cry
You jump off a bridge,
I'm gonna miss you.

Curtisy of that loon I have for a best friend and a beta.