Adventure Between the Line
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"Well?" Lucrezia motioned on for him to continue when he opened his aquamarine eyes and smiled a fangy grin, letting loose of the stupid pose, the boyish smile playing upon full lips and with that he told her simply.
"I learned forgiveness."
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Chapter 13: Varuna in Disguise
Lucrezia blinked and then smiled towards Keith, her smile bright and unique as he remembered it on his dead wife. Looking over to her, he noticed that she looked weary, worried and sad, horribly sad. Her golden eyes were not boisterous yet not completely in sorrow. The vampire placed his hand on the back of his hair as he scratched trying to decide: Ocean or City?
Lucrezia stared at him, partially amused and partially tired. Her spirit could not stand being here much longer, her energy was soon going to go zap soon. Shaking her head, she looked at the city then the ocean. Understanding her spirit's urges for the ocean, she glanced over to Keith who had been doing the same thing.
"We are going to the ocean, next." Her words were like ice, cold and shocking. Shrugging, Keith felt the pull on him once again as they were suddenly on a beach. The sand felt smooth and soft, the waves crashing upon this land within seconds of each other.
He could not help but smile at this. The ocean waves splashed foam unto the shore, the beauty of it was amazing as the peach colored beach mixed in with the cool turquiose, the feeling of serenity claimed as he wondered what the occaission that he had blocked this memory out of his mind. When he turned around to his helper, he couldn't help but gasp!!!
Standing right by them was Lucrezia Winter-Valentine, his wife for the rest of the time she had left to live. Her golden eyes were so placid and filled with happiness as she was humming, swinging her arms innocently, spinning with her had held to the sky, tripping and falling down onto the sandy beach. He was there also, his green eyes intensifying as he looked at his wife. Her eyes were held open as she felt the tantric feeling of dizziness.
'My love!! How thy wish thee could be happy every moment there could be.' His wife's rich laughter filled the happy vampire's ears, letting the pointy lobes twitch slightly. The man moved over to his wife, smiling in wonderful bliss.
'That so, thy Princess?' He let his smile play upon his lips as he kissed her and then kissed her neck. She glared at him pouting like a child for his amusement. 'Ah, love, do not give thee that look, for if that smile was ever to leave thou face then thy might never smile again.' He told her laughing, joking with her as she fell along in giggles.
'Oh, Keith!! Thou should not be so, trust thee wife, will thou not?" She told him with a laugh. Her face festering in warmth of laughter. She leaned into her husband's embrace and snuggled a little closer till she poked him in the ribs which made the vampire squirm. His heart lightened in love and yet became heavy with sorrow as he and Lucrezia looked upon their past life, his most memorable one.
She was beautiful and yet something of her era, overly curious and always smiling, a little like a ray of sunshine, innocent and carefree from the troubles of his darker and more angstier background. He wanted that again. He wanted someone to treat as an equal and be his supporter through all of it.
His memories of his dead wife increased as Lucrezia looked on with a look of grim hurt upon her darkened cherry lips. The light of world from which the baroque and ricocco period resided within. She was then nearly 300 something years old, though she oftened lied to all who knew her.
'If only thee would stay forever this way, my love.' He told the woman in his embrace. Her face instantly went to anger. Their only real argrument had been her supposed demise as a human when she would eventually 'detiorate' into nothing but crumbling dust when she knew one day she would have had to tell him the truth about her and her demonic powers.
'Thy will stay in thy heart and thy heart is eternal.' She muttered to him, teasing the man who held her. Her bright orbs glowing faintly with power unheard of. Brunette hair was tossed back to her shoulders, as she heard her brother-in-law, Albert Simon prounouce his entrance with a wave of magic, making her fly away from her husband's arms.
'KEITH!!!' the lover screamed out to her husband, her dress flowing all around her bodice, her hair swifting the wild rides of the magically created wind, mixing in with the sand being brought up by such a sudden gale. Her pale arms reaching out beneath the fluttering lace of her dress, outstretched to the one who could save her.
'LUCREZIA!!!' His voice shouted farther off when it was cut short suddenly by a well-placed kick by none other than dear Albert. The demonic gentleman, lifted his leg with such power and completely warped around his being, doing a roundhouse upon the shocked vampire. A fist connecting to his fallen face's form, sharply jarring in the broken shells along his back.
Teleporting out of the situation, Keith appeared above his attacker's bent over form, raising a fist back to only feel nothing but darkness close around him. His attacker flipped up his hand creating many elegant arcs with the Varuna magic taught to him by his own wife, Katarina.
'I AM taking her Valentine!!' The man's harsh voice was brash filled with hatred at anything and everything. Keith could do nothing, he was bound by darkness, neverending darkness waiting to see if he could find his wife, concentrating on her chakra but finding nothing of her within the darkness, nothing to identify the being he loved with all his heart.
'LUCREZIA!!!' His voice screamed out to echo back to him. He sounded pathetic, worthless with contempt riding in his mind. Her face disappearing in the annals of his long-lived life, dreaming far-off of a reality unhindered with sadness and sorrow.
'Keith..' Faintly, he heard her voice out of the darkness, watching around for her face and light to appear when he found nothing.
'Now, Dear sister, I need you to come with me, in regards of your cousin, Katarina!!' Laughing, madly, the paedophile mad gentleman reached over to the feared sorceress, her energy pent up as she transformed into her natural state.
Then everything went dead.
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"Okay. So my powers are strong enough to unbind both of you from two of the strongest magicks on this planet which you call Terra?" Arisu's face blinked at the sword spirit who was now fully turned back into a darkness class, a demon of sorts in other words. Tryving shrugged. He didn't understand it much either.
"I suppose you have not been defiled and is the purest maiden ever known, am I correct?" His garnet eyes glistened with the ruby dragon awakening deep within himself. His black leathery wings were feeling cramped up as he absentmindedly rubbed the horned top. His long hair flowed surrounding his pale and perfect form. He was more handsome than most people could get credit for.
Looking over to Yuri, Arisu blushed greatly. It was not well-known that Yuri and her had never had sex before, in fact not even Margerete had known. The ex-spy was in the kitchen once more, drinking tea for some odd reason. Margerete had tons of teas in her kitchen but she had never drank any in front of others and most certainly hardly drank any by herself neither.
"Well...umm...uh.." Yuri grinned sheepishly as he placed a tentative hand behind his back, amusing and embarressed at the same time. Arisu's stammering did not help the situation, especially not with Tryving's next statement.
"So you have not ever hopped on the bandwagon, done the bad thing, get your wedding shackles off, get some tender loving care, been doing the hobby horse, tried the naked tango, had peaches'n'crème, ever? So you two are still virgins?" Margerete could be heard spitting out her tea onto the floor, laughing harder than ever before. It was bluntly put in with many euphamisms, his attempt at being serious for once.
"WHAT?!?!" Arisu's facve grew ever the more hotter than anything that the planet could ever know as Tryving smirked with his knowing. He had already deduced by now with both of the young adults' faces turning into the deepest red he knew about the deep wine red color of his eyes. A growing smirk on his face truimphed leaving him to smile to them.
"Well, at least Malkovich and I have you beat then." His leacherous smirk growing to his pointy elf-like ears. Margerete popped her head out of the kitchen seeing the flabberghasted faces of Yuri and Arisu clicking back and forth between the two. Margerete's blonde eyebrow rose a few inches in mere curiousity when Arisu only shook her head in thought.
"You are a weird demon." Margerete shook her blonde head, the motion sending her slightly into dizziness, upon raising her firm chin up from confusion. Tryving smiled gently towards Margerete, the one he considered his own. He noticed that when she was making tea for herself that she unknowingly tapped into her water powers making the tempature heat up almost immediately even before she had put it into the microwave.
"With my woman." He winked towards her shrinking form from behind the door, a flirtatous edge added onto it. Arisu shrugged to herself as Yuri decided to help Margerete with some more tea for both of Arisu and Tryving, his hand still firmly into coffees, mochas especially.
"So you were saying about the purity?" Arisu started once more trying to be on task than the three surrounding her. She felt like she was being surrounded by a family of idiot monkeys, not that two of the monkeys were hot as hell to boot. Her voice was ash upon the trio not being heard slightly, until Tryving edged closer to her.
"C'mere!!" He whispered excitedly, his fingers snapping back and forth, beckoning for her to lean over. Her pale porcilein face had returned to normal by now and she leaned forward trusting him slightly, but ready for a blessed light if she must. "Y'know with your untainted power, I bet you are just begging me to take you now, after light and darkness do make wonderful shades of grey if you know what I mean." He told her, his hand cupped around her ear from his mouth, making the clarity of his rich sexy voice resound well within Arisu's ear.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!!!
"OW!!!! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SLAP ME!!!!!" Yuri ran out from the living room with Margerete close on his heels to see what happened!! Tryving clutched the perfectly seen side of his pale face with both hands to add insult to injury. The white mage merely 'hmphed' and looked the other way, angrier than when he had teased her, the redder skin on her face showing it well. Her arms were crossed beneath her perky breasts, blue and white mixing well in the scene of supposed calmness.
"Well, you deserved it!!" She screamed at him. Her sanity was now lost as both Yuri and Margerete sighed as Margerete went back to the kitchen to get a certain root. "YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN TRY!!!" Her hands immediately went over to the book of flesh as Tryving felt himself fearing what was sure to come!!
"HEY!!!" He screamed at the white mage as she pummeled him down hard with her book, each hit making it's mark with its metal lock, causing Tryving to flinch slightly, especially when she had hit him over the head a few times till finally Yuri had decided enough was enough.
"I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT CHASTI-huh?!" Arisu stopped her movement, feeling a pair of muscled arms lock her arms to her side, causing her to flail about with her legs. "LEMME GO!!! I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THAT NASTY ROOT!!!" She screamed, jumping up against her capturerer having done this many times before when Arisu could not keep her temper down.
"Well, sorry love." Yuri smiled confidently, until he started feeling the book hit his side, the metal clasp creating bruises next to his rib cage. Flinching with each mark, he held her for Margerete. The ex-spy smiled demurely, her face showing no malice towards the sword spirit's attacker. Yuri getting the hint, smiled at his love. "Now open wide, honey."
"I AM NOT GOIN-" She stopped short, feeling the root stuck in her mouth, Margerete's hand stilled upon her lips, making sure that she didn't spit it out like she once did when she had gotten so angry and lost her sanity points. Chewing, Arisu growled, swallowing the chewed up root and glaring at Tryving, who flinched hiding behind his wings from her sight.
"There, love. Are you feeling better?" Yuri's rough japanese voice came through to her ears as Arisu suddenly felt quite ashamed at her display of anger. She knew that being the perfect lady was so much more like her than what she had just done but that was a year pented out of frustrated anger and passionate frustrations. Smiling, she quietly nodded, seeing that Margerete took her hand off of her.
"Sorry about that Yuri, Margerete, and I suppose Tryving. I'm never usually like this,after all." Her once more quiet voice seeming lady-like, and sincere with love. Yes the Arisu everyone knew and love was back amongst them once again.
"Well, please, do not let it happen again to such an important spirit as me!!" Tryving 'hmphed' at her earning a laugh from Margerete, the ex- spy's face brightening up adding lightness to the situation. Tryving smiled at them proudly playing even more to get the trio to laugh a little than glare at him. His smirk plastered on his face with a smirk that was so cocky that a rooster would love it.
"Well, well!! Isn't someone pleased he got his ass kicked by Arisu?!" Margerete stated, gaining laughter and embarresment from Tryving. The demon shrugged, winking suggestively towards Arisu which passed Yuri's eye.
"Teehee!! An..An...Anyway," Arisu started, her breath being caught from laughing at Tryving's act, "what were you saying about the purity of a mage?" The girl's tone wa sturned into her habitual seriousness. Her blue clear eyes turning into the icy façade she often put up for other people that did not really know her.
"You have not been touched, therefore with your extreme power wihtout being touched, you have the magic to thwart the forbidden magic." Tryving replied nonchalantly, leaning back on his elbows. His garnet eyes focusing on nothing but the blue walls of her Arisu's eyes. They were still clear.
"Forbidden magic?" Yuri asked. He thought the only magic that was ever forbidden or looked down upon was harmonixing. Arisu's blue eyes were concentrating on the serious Tryving. His childish attempt earlier still in her mind but was stilled by the need to know what he was talking about. As a reporter she never knew her potential powers until the day her father was killed by Albert Simon, the man she was going to get her revenge against one day.
"Yes, the Varuna magic in which Albert Simon has in abundance from his wife's teaching, his daughter, and lastly, from the arch angel Uriel, holder of all magic." Tryving's pale face seemed to cringe at the name of the arch angel. Her name ringing a bell for Arisu, a dutious Catholic, who immediately was about to exclaim something.
"Uriel, even in that holy book of yours, white mage Arisu, is not actually called a she or for the fact that she is the holder of all magic in this world in which she is." His eyes softened somewhat at the name, though his body remembered memories, scars from the time he remembered the arch angel and his encounters with her.
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'Keith will find you out!! He will come and rescue thee, bastard!!' She yelled at him, Lucrezia looked on her own memories that were pouring out this time. Keith watched, the lies his wife told him all unture to that day. Her garb was that of gold and purple, royal and sparkling, a sorceress's dress. In her hand was her rod of power, a garnet crystal from the graveyard of her mind, a malice keeper, the guardians of all Varunas.
'He will not come, m'dear.' Albert's male voice sprung out from the dark circle he had casted turning his face toward the sky where she floated diligently, the wind easily supporting her form. Brunette hair flashed back as she began concentrating on a new spell. Many arcs into the air, shimmers of gold appeared and in the void of black, a golden chest appearing and opening, taking away more than half of his forgotten sanity.
'You have yet to win, Simon!!!' Practiced spells came to mind, her mind running further than most would. Raising her hand, she called upon the holiness of her god, to receive nothing. Hand raised, she felt no power come from the sky as it should have. Albert was laughing, his heart ready to lurch out and murder her, but his plans would not be complete.
'I have won indeed my dear, for your favored Uriel is gone from the heavans!!!' His laughter reached her ears, her hand and heart trying even more for the holy power to come to no avail but more laughter, a confused and frightened look upon her gentle face.
'No..THIS CAN NOT BE!!!!' Her voice screamed, the Varuna sorcery Albert Simon had learned came through her skin, biting into it, tearing through her, demoralizing her and instantly putting her into self- conciousness. Her last thought had been on her husband as it would always be.
'Keith...'
"What was that?!" Keith's exclaimation made his wife turn her head towards him, her golden green eyes shimmering with unshed tears. Her cheeks turning red embarressed from lying all her life and lying to him most of all.
"That was the truth of your wife's life." She muttered underneath dark and heavy lashes. Instantly from the scenic ocean they were snapped back to the original place where it had began. "She loved you too much to tell you the truth of her." The kindred spirit spoke softly, her bottom lip being bitten by her upper teeth in an attempt not to cry out from the memories. That was the most horrible she had ever done to Keith.
"She was a...monster?" She looked up in confusion. A monster would be near the meaning but it wasn't. His question was not forced but it was dawning even more on him of why his wife was taken from him by Albert Simon.
"No. Not a monster. She was a mere demi-god, her race was that of the gods but not as pure. " Lucrezia was willing to tell him the truth now, no matter how much it would hurt, she would say what she must. Keith's face was puzzled, green eyes of emerald turmoil mixing in with them.
"If not a monster then what?" She did not know how to answer that. The demi-god was the easiest answer she could ever have given him. 'Who is my dear love, Lucrezia?' Keith thought to himself, pieces of his old life peicing together. He knew that Lucrezia held magic in her body but never that she was a sorceress with that kind of magical power.
"She was what she was. Keith, she was...a Varuna.." He turned to look at the woman crucially, his eyes holding such sorrow wihtin those emerald depths that she often loved to stare at. The Varuna family was well known from ancient times, mysterious strangers even for the magical realms. They were thought to be connected to God in more ways than one.
Mysterious strangers, the only ones with any of the intentional magical power of God were the women, the cursed women of the Varuna monopoly. It was known that if a person married a Varuna their spouses would die a painful horrible death.
"H-How??!?" She shook her head, cutting him off from asking anymore questions for his questioning eyes, those inquisitive orbs peircing through her skin, making her want to cry away her sins forever to just be with him....but her place would be gone soon, so soon.
"All will be answered after we go to the city." She told him briefly, looking over to the dreary raining city of Boston. The autumn smell easily smelled from their vantage point, spice of pumpkin pie that Koudelka would cook for each of the renters. The noises of the London Rats racing down the hall for halloween, and the sight of the woman he saved who had warmed his heart, and then the other one who looked like her with a torn past, and a way to try to get past it.
"....I will make you answer then, I promise you, helper.." He uttered underneath his breath in anger at her. He was not going to allow his answers to be drifted from him, not ever again!!!
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O_______O ......wow......I UPDATED!!!! Okay, this chapter was not that easy to write considering I was going to decide when Lucrezia will tell him about everything. I also wanted to depict the Tryving-Arisu thing.
Arisu and Tryving are almost like Yuri and Arisu. Tryving is just a hell lot worse and doesn't really want Arisu for herself, but for her power, unlike Yuri whose intentions for her are well....good? ^^;;; Dunno how to explain that one.
I have not been able to update in so long since I've been doing a lot of extra work for everyone I know. (Especially Tally-chan who HAS been taking my computer. GrRrRrRr!!!) We finally have a new system so I'm going to update that this weekend and I'm trying to not to listen to Oversoul (freaky song.) If anyone wants it I can send it to you. It's in Japanese but it sounds like a Halloween theme and I've been listening to it lately for this.
If any of you like Artemis Fowl, please read my So Like A Rose Songfic. (Holly/Artemis) It's one of my better song fics. My other one for MKr sucked. Damn this is like a huge major rant!!! GAH!!! I don't think I should put all my problems onto my fics!!! **whacks head repeatedly** OH!!! I forgot to say!!!
If you wanted to know what song it was in the second chapter of this, it was Avril Lavigne's 'Naked'. When I read it I thought so much of Arisu and Yuri's love life like that!! ^_^
P.S. Please donate a review to the Help Loki-chan society. ^____^ It would be soooooo much appreciated!!!
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"Well?" Lucrezia motioned on for him to continue when he opened his aquamarine eyes and smiled a fangy grin, letting loose of the stupid pose, the boyish smile playing upon full lips and with that he told her simply.
"I learned forgiveness."
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Chapter 13: Varuna in Disguise
Lucrezia blinked and then smiled towards Keith, her smile bright and unique as he remembered it on his dead wife. Looking over to her, he noticed that she looked weary, worried and sad, horribly sad. Her golden eyes were not boisterous yet not completely in sorrow. The vampire placed his hand on the back of his hair as he scratched trying to decide: Ocean or City?
Lucrezia stared at him, partially amused and partially tired. Her spirit could not stand being here much longer, her energy was soon going to go zap soon. Shaking her head, she looked at the city then the ocean. Understanding her spirit's urges for the ocean, she glanced over to Keith who had been doing the same thing.
"We are going to the ocean, next." Her words were like ice, cold and shocking. Shrugging, Keith felt the pull on him once again as they were suddenly on a beach. The sand felt smooth and soft, the waves crashing upon this land within seconds of each other.
He could not help but smile at this. The ocean waves splashed foam unto the shore, the beauty of it was amazing as the peach colored beach mixed in with the cool turquiose, the feeling of serenity claimed as he wondered what the occaission that he had blocked this memory out of his mind. When he turned around to his helper, he couldn't help but gasp!!!
Standing right by them was Lucrezia Winter-Valentine, his wife for the rest of the time she had left to live. Her golden eyes were so placid and filled with happiness as she was humming, swinging her arms innocently, spinning with her had held to the sky, tripping and falling down onto the sandy beach. He was there also, his green eyes intensifying as he looked at his wife. Her eyes were held open as she felt the tantric feeling of dizziness.
'My love!! How thy wish thee could be happy every moment there could be.' His wife's rich laughter filled the happy vampire's ears, letting the pointy lobes twitch slightly. The man moved over to his wife, smiling in wonderful bliss.
'That so, thy Princess?' He let his smile play upon his lips as he kissed her and then kissed her neck. She glared at him pouting like a child for his amusement. 'Ah, love, do not give thee that look, for if that smile was ever to leave thou face then thy might never smile again.' He told her laughing, joking with her as she fell along in giggles.
'Oh, Keith!! Thou should not be so, trust thee wife, will thou not?" She told him with a laugh. Her face festering in warmth of laughter. She leaned into her husband's embrace and snuggled a little closer till she poked him in the ribs which made the vampire squirm. His heart lightened in love and yet became heavy with sorrow as he and Lucrezia looked upon their past life, his most memorable one.
She was beautiful and yet something of her era, overly curious and always smiling, a little like a ray of sunshine, innocent and carefree from the troubles of his darker and more angstier background. He wanted that again. He wanted someone to treat as an equal and be his supporter through all of it.
His memories of his dead wife increased as Lucrezia looked on with a look of grim hurt upon her darkened cherry lips. The light of world from which the baroque and ricocco period resided within. She was then nearly 300 something years old, though she oftened lied to all who knew her.
'If only thee would stay forever this way, my love.' He told the woman in his embrace. Her face instantly went to anger. Their only real argrument had been her supposed demise as a human when she would eventually 'detiorate' into nothing but crumbling dust when she knew one day she would have had to tell him the truth about her and her demonic powers.
'Thy will stay in thy heart and thy heart is eternal.' She muttered to him, teasing the man who held her. Her bright orbs glowing faintly with power unheard of. Brunette hair was tossed back to her shoulders, as she heard her brother-in-law, Albert Simon prounouce his entrance with a wave of magic, making her fly away from her husband's arms.
'KEITH!!!' the lover screamed out to her husband, her dress flowing all around her bodice, her hair swifting the wild rides of the magically created wind, mixing in with the sand being brought up by such a sudden gale. Her pale arms reaching out beneath the fluttering lace of her dress, outstretched to the one who could save her.
'LUCREZIA!!!' His voice shouted farther off when it was cut short suddenly by a well-placed kick by none other than dear Albert. The demonic gentleman, lifted his leg with such power and completely warped around his being, doing a roundhouse upon the shocked vampire. A fist connecting to his fallen face's form, sharply jarring in the broken shells along his back.
Teleporting out of the situation, Keith appeared above his attacker's bent over form, raising a fist back to only feel nothing but darkness close around him. His attacker flipped up his hand creating many elegant arcs with the Varuna magic taught to him by his own wife, Katarina.
'I AM taking her Valentine!!' The man's harsh voice was brash filled with hatred at anything and everything. Keith could do nothing, he was bound by darkness, neverending darkness waiting to see if he could find his wife, concentrating on her chakra but finding nothing of her within the darkness, nothing to identify the being he loved with all his heart.
'LUCREZIA!!!' His voice screamed out to echo back to him. He sounded pathetic, worthless with contempt riding in his mind. Her face disappearing in the annals of his long-lived life, dreaming far-off of a reality unhindered with sadness and sorrow.
'Keith..' Faintly, he heard her voice out of the darkness, watching around for her face and light to appear when he found nothing.
'Now, Dear sister, I need you to come with me, in regards of your cousin, Katarina!!' Laughing, madly, the paedophile mad gentleman reached over to the feared sorceress, her energy pent up as she transformed into her natural state.
Then everything went dead.
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"Okay. So my powers are strong enough to unbind both of you from two of the strongest magicks on this planet which you call Terra?" Arisu's face blinked at the sword spirit who was now fully turned back into a darkness class, a demon of sorts in other words. Tryving shrugged. He didn't understand it much either.
"I suppose you have not been defiled and is the purest maiden ever known, am I correct?" His garnet eyes glistened with the ruby dragon awakening deep within himself. His black leathery wings were feeling cramped up as he absentmindedly rubbed the horned top. His long hair flowed surrounding his pale and perfect form. He was more handsome than most people could get credit for.
Looking over to Yuri, Arisu blushed greatly. It was not well-known that Yuri and her had never had sex before, in fact not even Margerete had known. The ex-spy was in the kitchen once more, drinking tea for some odd reason. Margerete had tons of teas in her kitchen but she had never drank any in front of others and most certainly hardly drank any by herself neither.
"Well...umm...uh.." Yuri grinned sheepishly as he placed a tentative hand behind his back, amusing and embarressed at the same time. Arisu's stammering did not help the situation, especially not with Tryving's next statement.
"So you have not ever hopped on the bandwagon, done the bad thing, get your wedding shackles off, get some tender loving care, been doing the hobby horse, tried the naked tango, had peaches'n'crème, ever? So you two are still virgins?" Margerete could be heard spitting out her tea onto the floor, laughing harder than ever before. It was bluntly put in with many euphamisms, his attempt at being serious for once.
"WHAT?!?!" Arisu's facve grew ever the more hotter than anything that the planet could ever know as Tryving smirked with his knowing. He had already deduced by now with both of the young adults' faces turning into the deepest red he knew about the deep wine red color of his eyes. A growing smirk on his face truimphed leaving him to smile to them.
"Well, at least Malkovich and I have you beat then." His leacherous smirk growing to his pointy elf-like ears. Margerete popped her head out of the kitchen seeing the flabberghasted faces of Yuri and Arisu clicking back and forth between the two. Margerete's blonde eyebrow rose a few inches in mere curiousity when Arisu only shook her head in thought.
"You are a weird demon." Margerete shook her blonde head, the motion sending her slightly into dizziness, upon raising her firm chin up from confusion. Tryving smiled gently towards Margerete, the one he considered his own. He noticed that when she was making tea for herself that she unknowingly tapped into her water powers making the tempature heat up almost immediately even before she had put it into the microwave.
"With my woman." He winked towards her shrinking form from behind the door, a flirtatous edge added onto it. Arisu shrugged to herself as Yuri decided to help Margerete with some more tea for both of Arisu and Tryving, his hand still firmly into coffees, mochas especially.
"So you were saying about the purity?" Arisu started once more trying to be on task than the three surrounding her. She felt like she was being surrounded by a family of idiot monkeys, not that two of the monkeys were hot as hell to boot. Her voice was ash upon the trio not being heard slightly, until Tryving edged closer to her.
"C'mere!!" He whispered excitedly, his fingers snapping back and forth, beckoning for her to lean over. Her pale porcilein face had returned to normal by now and she leaned forward trusting him slightly, but ready for a blessed light if she must. "Y'know with your untainted power, I bet you are just begging me to take you now, after light and darkness do make wonderful shades of grey if you know what I mean." He told her, his hand cupped around her ear from his mouth, making the clarity of his rich sexy voice resound well within Arisu's ear.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!!!!!
"OW!!!! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SLAP ME!!!!!" Yuri ran out from the living room with Margerete close on his heels to see what happened!! Tryving clutched the perfectly seen side of his pale face with both hands to add insult to injury. The white mage merely 'hmphed' and looked the other way, angrier than when he had teased her, the redder skin on her face showing it well. Her arms were crossed beneath her perky breasts, blue and white mixing well in the scene of supposed calmness.
"Well, you deserved it!!" She screamed at him. Her sanity was now lost as both Yuri and Margerete sighed as Margerete went back to the kitchen to get a certain root. "YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN TRY!!!" Her hands immediately went over to the book of flesh as Tryving felt himself fearing what was sure to come!!
"HEY!!!" He screamed at the white mage as she pummeled him down hard with her book, each hit making it's mark with its metal lock, causing Tryving to flinch slightly, especially when she had hit him over the head a few times till finally Yuri had decided enough was enough.
"I'LL TELL YOU ABOUT CHASTI-huh?!" Arisu stopped her movement, feeling a pair of muscled arms lock her arms to her side, causing her to flail about with her legs. "LEMME GO!!! I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THAT NASTY ROOT!!!" She screamed, jumping up against her capturerer having done this many times before when Arisu could not keep her temper down.
"Well, sorry love." Yuri smiled confidently, until he started feeling the book hit his side, the metal clasp creating bruises next to his rib cage. Flinching with each mark, he held her for Margerete. The ex-spy smiled demurely, her face showing no malice towards the sword spirit's attacker. Yuri getting the hint, smiled at his love. "Now open wide, honey."
"I AM NOT GOIN-" She stopped short, feeling the root stuck in her mouth, Margerete's hand stilled upon her lips, making sure that she didn't spit it out like she once did when she had gotten so angry and lost her sanity points. Chewing, Arisu growled, swallowing the chewed up root and glaring at Tryving, who flinched hiding behind his wings from her sight.
"There, love. Are you feeling better?" Yuri's rough japanese voice came through to her ears as Arisu suddenly felt quite ashamed at her display of anger. She knew that being the perfect lady was so much more like her than what she had just done but that was a year pented out of frustrated anger and passionate frustrations. Smiling, she quietly nodded, seeing that Margerete took her hand off of her.
"Sorry about that Yuri, Margerete, and I suppose Tryving. I'm never usually like this,after all." Her once more quiet voice seeming lady-like, and sincere with love. Yes the Arisu everyone knew and love was back amongst them once again.
"Well, please, do not let it happen again to such an important spirit as me!!" Tryving 'hmphed' at her earning a laugh from Margerete, the ex- spy's face brightening up adding lightness to the situation. Tryving smiled at them proudly playing even more to get the trio to laugh a little than glare at him. His smirk plastered on his face with a smirk that was so cocky that a rooster would love it.
"Well, well!! Isn't someone pleased he got his ass kicked by Arisu?!" Margerete stated, gaining laughter and embarresment from Tryving. The demon shrugged, winking suggestively towards Arisu which passed Yuri's eye.
"Teehee!! An..An...Anyway," Arisu started, her breath being caught from laughing at Tryving's act, "what were you saying about the purity of a mage?" The girl's tone wa sturned into her habitual seriousness. Her blue clear eyes turning into the icy façade she often put up for other people that did not really know her.
"You have not been touched, therefore with your extreme power wihtout being touched, you have the magic to thwart the forbidden magic." Tryving replied nonchalantly, leaning back on his elbows. His garnet eyes focusing on nothing but the blue walls of her Arisu's eyes. They were still clear.
"Forbidden magic?" Yuri asked. He thought the only magic that was ever forbidden or looked down upon was harmonixing. Arisu's blue eyes were concentrating on the serious Tryving. His childish attempt earlier still in her mind but was stilled by the need to know what he was talking about. As a reporter she never knew her potential powers until the day her father was killed by Albert Simon, the man she was going to get her revenge against one day.
"Yes, the Varuna magic in which Albert Simon has in abundance from his wife's teaching, his daughter, and lastly, from the arch angel Uriel, holder of all magic." Tryving's pale face seemed to cringe at the name of the arch angel. Her name ringing a bell for Arisu, a dutious Catholic, who immediately was about to exclaim something.
"Uriel, even in that holy book of yours, white mage Arisu, is not actually called a she or for the fact that she is the holder of all magic in this world in which she is." His eyes softened somewhat at the name, though his body remembered memories, scars from the time he remembered the arch angel and his encounters with her.
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'Keith will find you out!! He will come and rescue thee, bastard!!' She yelled at him, Lucrezia looked on her own memories that were pouring out this time. Keith watched, the lies his wife told him all unture to that day. Her garb was that of gold and purple, royal and sparkling, a sorceress's dress. In her hand was her rod of power, a garnet crystal from the graveyard of her mind, a malice keeper, the guardians of all Varunas.
'He will not come, m'dear.' Albert's male voice sprung out from the dark circle he had casted turning his face toward the sky where she floated diligently, the wind easily supporting her form. Brunette hair flashed back as she began concentrating on a new spell. Many arcs into the air, shimmers of gold appeared and in the void of black, a golden chest appearing and opening, taking away more than half of his forgotten sanity.
'You have yet to win, Simon!!!' Practiced spells came to mind, her mind running further than most would. Raising her hand, she called upon the holiness of her god, to receive nothing. Hand raised, she felt no power come from the sky as it should have. Albert was laughing, his heart ready to lurch out and murder her, but his plans would not be complete.
'I have won indeed my dear, for your favored Uriel is gone from the heavans!!!' His laughter reached her ears, her hand and heart trying even more for the holy power to come to no avail but more laughter, a confused and frightened look upon her gentle face.
'No..THIS CAN NOT BE!!!!' Her voice screamed, the Varuna sorcery Albert Simon had learned came through her skin, biting into it, tearing through her, demoralizing her and instantly putting her into self- conciousness. Her last thought had been on her husband as it would always be.
'Keith...'
"What was that?!" Keith's exclaimation made his wife turn her head towards him, her golden green eyes shimmering with unshed tears. Her cheeks turning red embarressed from lying all her life and lying to him most of all.
"That was the truth of your wife's life." She muttered underneath dark and heavy lashes. Instantly from the scenic ocean they were snapped back to the original place where it had began. "She loved you too much to tell you the truth of her." The kindred spirit spoke softly, her bottom lip being bitten by her upper teeth in an attempt not to cry out from the memories. That was the most horrible she had ever done to Keith.
"She was a...monster?" She looked up in confusion. A monster would be near the meaning but it wasn't. His question was not forced but it was dawning even more on him of why his wife was taken from him by Albert Simon.
"No. Not a monster. She was a mere demi-god, her race was that of the gods but not as pure. " Lucrezia was willing to tell him the truth now, no matter how much it would hurt, she would say what she must. Keith's face was puzzled, green eyes of emerald turmoil mixing in with them.
"If not a monster then what?" She did not know how to answer that. The demi-god was the easiest answer she could ever have given him. 'Who is my dear love, Lucrezia?' Keith thought to himself, pieces of his old life peicing together. He knew that Lucrezia held magic in her body but never that she was a sorceress with that kind of magical power.
"She was what she was. Keith, she was...a Varuna.." He turned to look at the woman crucially, his eyes holding such sorrow wihtin those emerald depths that she often loved to stare at. The Varuna family was well known from ancient times, mysterious strangers even for the magical realms. They were thought to be connected to God in more ways than one.
Mysterious strangers, the only ones with any of the intentional magical power of God were the women, the cursed women of the Varuna monopoly. It was known that if a person married a Varuna their spouses would die a painful horrible death.
"H-How??!?" She shook her head, cutting him off from asking anymore questions for his questioning eyes, those inquisitive orbs peircing through her skin, making her want to cry away her sins forever to just be with him....but her place would be gone soon, so soon.
"All will be answered after we go to the city." She told him briefly, looking over to the dreary raining city of Boston. The autumn smell easily smelled from their vantage point, spice of pumpkin pie that Koudelka would cook for each of the renters. The noises of the London Rats racing down the hall for halloween, and the sight of the woman he saved who had warmed his heart, and then the other one who looked like her with a torn past, and a way to try to get past it.
"....I will make you answer then, I promise you, helper.." He uttered underneath his breath in anger at her. He was not going to allow his answers to be drifted from him, not ever again!!!
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O_______O ......wow......I UPDATED!!!! Okay, this chapter was not that easy to write considering I was going to decide when Lucrezia will tell him about everything. I also wanted to depict the Tryving-Arisu thing.
Arisu and Tryving are almost like Yuri and Arisu. Tryving is just a hell lot worse and doesn't really want Arisu for herself, but for her power, unlike Yuri whose intentions for her are well....good? ^^;;; Dunno how to explain that one.
I have not been able to update in so long since I've been doing a lot of extra work for everyone I know. (Especially Tally-chan who HAS been taking my computer. GrRrRrRr!!!) We finally have a new system so I'm going to update that this weekend and I'm trying to not to listen to Oversoul (freaky song.) If anyone wants it I can send it to you. It's in Japanese but it sounds like a Halloween theme and I've been listening to it lately for this.
If any of you like Artemis Fowl, please read my So Like A Rose Songfic. (Holly/Artemis) It's one of my better song fics. My other one for MKr sucked. Damn this is like a huge major rant!!! GAH!!! I don't think I should put all my problems onto my fics!!! **whacks head repeatedly** OH!!! I forgot to say!!!
If you wanted to know what song it was in the second chapter of this, it was Avril Lavigne's 'Naked'. When I read it I thought so much of Arisu and Yuri's love life like that!! ^_^
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