A/N: Hi everybodies!! It's your lovely authoress Narri-chan here, with another chapter of "The Multi-Slash Rayearth Bash!" Yaaaaaay!! realizes no one else is cheering. Cough…yeah, okay. I would like to dedicate this to the Inspiration/Planning Committee! Namely…Jadey (GTJ) and myself. There'd be more though, if you all would get a move-on and start reviewing! Okies?! OKIES!! (snaps whip) READ MY FIC!!
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Multi-Slash Rayearth Bash
Chapter 2: The Horror Ensues
The slithering horror slid up the palace steps, zipping inside the barred doors with ease, as none were currently on guard duty: anyone rarely was. It quickly hid behind a large column, using the shadows to its advantage. People would surely react violently if they saw 7 feet of quivering gelatinous green goo, with octopus-like tentacles and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. …Okay, maybe not razor-sharp…maybe just kitchen-knife sharp. But they could definitely do some damage. Yes…such was the horror of…
…the Slash Monster!!
(Dum-dum-dummmm…)
Checking to make sure all was clear, the moldy menace slithered its way down the nearest corridor, at a surprisingly fast pace for a gelatinous blob. For there was much more to this monster than what it appeared to be…which, granted, would be a giant green jello with teeth, but maybe I'm just hungry. The beast's true power was purely parasitic in nature. By infecting the minds of the innocent, it fed, and would prove to be a more formidable foe than Cephiro would ever have faced before.
Sensing prey, the Slash Monster halted outside a great wooden door. Reaching out to test the door with a hesitant tentacle, it found it unlocked…and quickly slipped inside. Fortunately, the occupant was dozing on his bed, fast asleep…for the room's inhabitant was none other than Cail Lantis (the laziest swordsman in Cephiro). Slithering silently over to the bed, the beast placed a tentacle on the napping swordsman's forehead…and began to feed…
(Lantis's Thoughts)
A cold chill swept through Lantis's body, startling him from a peaceful dream about fluffy bunnies and unicorns frolicking in sparkly fields of goodness. Drifting out of his dream, the Cail was surprised to be seemingly-floating in nothingness, a gold-colored mist. 'Gold…' he thought vaguely. 'Why…this mist is almost as the same beautiful gold that Eagle's hair is when reflecting the sunlight…' A picture of Autozam's heir flashed before Lantis's eyes…which was odd, because, if he recalled correctly, Eagle had nothing to do with unicorns and was violently allergic to fluffy bunnies. 'But…that's so cute…' he thought, oddly lightheaded. Almost everything about Eagle suddenly seemed cute. The way he looked so serious when poring over stacks of reports and crew rosters…his brilliant smile he so easily gave away…not to mention how downright sexy he looked all tied up in the FTO's wires, in the heat of battle, and—WOAH!!!'
(Reality)
Lantis sat up with a jolt, eyes widened, terrified and in a cold sweat. He looked around frantically; in case someone should happen to be there yelling 'surprise!' or Clef was messing with his thoughts again as payback for something he'd done…but no one was there. He rubbed the back of his neck, dazed and confused. What was THAT all about? He'd never been partial to thinking of Eagle as anything more than a friend, and suddenly he was thinking all these disturbing thoughts…but his thoughts in general were interrupted by a twitch at his nose. Reaching up to scratch it, he frowned (scaryscary!!), surveying the room around him. His nose always itched when there was a monster close by, and rarely otherwise. Upon getting up to examine his room, from closet to adjoining bathroom, he found no creature lying in wait. Rubbing his itchy nose, he surveyed the room once more, before stepping out into the hall. About to trot down the North Wing for further surveillance, he heard something squish beneath his feet as he stepped outside his door. Bending down to examine it (and really hoping it wasn't chewed bubble gum) he found a small puddle of sticky green goo. Frowning, he dipped his finger in it and found it had the same texture as rubber cement, the Earth glue that the Magic Knights had introduced to Cephiro when Mokona, on a particularly bouncy day, had broken Clef's antique hourglass. But he had never seen it in green before…
Wiping his hand on his tunic, Lantis turned on his heel and started down the hall to Clef's study. Something was not right in Cephiro Castle.
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A/N: snicker snicker Anyone get why it's called the Slash Monster yet? Ne? Neeee?? Lol…Y'like? Y'don't like? Let me know by clicking the cute little purple button down yonder, okies? Jaaa!