Disclaimers: Disgaea not mine.
Warning! Spreading Epidemic Christmas! Pt.I
"Fuyuu…foo…foo…unnn…a….ah?"
A blonde woman felt around, eyes half closed vision blurry. She adjusted her vision to find the pillow next to her empty. It got her to be wide-awake, to say the least.
"Laharl?" she questioned to no one in particular, followed by a groan of agitation.
'He left early again!'
The woman slid off the bed and yawned, stretching, her red wings fluttering. Her eyes roamed and landed on the calendars posted on the wall. Perhaps looking through them could take her mind off of her husband. She made her way to them and observed the Netherworld calendar. Not a holiday or event seemed to be taking place at the-
"Queen Flonne!"
The queen despite still being a bit irritated met the source of the voice with a pleasant smile. The woman had long raven hair; her class is a healer.
"Yes, what is it Sachi?"
"Because of the Prinnies' constant complaints the king proposed today to be Prinny Day."
The queen nodded to indicate for the raven-haired woman to go on.
"Thus making the other vassals… couch potatoes." "How horrible!" squeaked Flonne, "we have to do something about it!"
"Agreed. I hate to be the one to be working all the time! Not that being your chambermaid is horrible your highness."
The queen just turned to look at the Celestian calendar, noting that she would have the day off if she were still an angel. She let her finger glide on the glossy paper until it landed on a certain box. Her eyes widened.
"I'm positively certain that P.L.A.G Day is the exact equivalent to the humans' Christmas!"
Sachi stared at her queen with a puzzled look topped with the she-has-gone-mental look. Flonne kept her finger on the P.L.A.G Day box as she looked for the 'equivalent' in the humans' calendar.
"They are!"
"So they are." The maid feigned a gasp after her statement that was filled with puzzlement and sarcasm.
"Why, yes!"
The demon-maid shuddered as the queen turned to her, fire literally burning passionately in her eyes. An uncharacteristic smirk befell the former angel trainee.
"Sachi?"
"Yes, my queen?"
"I have a plan!"
Queen Flonne had an idea but first she needed to convince the senators (who at Prinny Day lazed around as well.) She gathered them with the help of Sachi. Even though she and Laharl ruled the Netherworld, the senators still decided whether it was rational.
The Queen's personal maid paced around in a hallway only to encounter Akina. She had stopped the maid on her 20th round of pacing; eyebrows raised a sullen expression on her face.
"What in hell are you doing?"
"Oh… ah… nothing."
The child walked ahead, without looking back. The maid glared at her and once the princess disappeared into one of the many doors, she paced once more.
'Christmas…? The hell is that? I only hear it at times, but only between the king and queen.'
Flonne was lead back to the Overlord's castle by Plenair. She was silently congratulating herself the whole way.
'It took longer than expected, but I did it!'
She headed towards the throne room, victory written all over her smile, in the way she walked, greeted people and even the way her hair was glistening. Once she arrived in the throne room she turned to Dratti and asked whether the female dragon vassal had seen her maid.
"She's pacing in one of the hallways." "Uhh… Thanks."
Tired of pacing, the maid finally settled down, leaning on a door for support as she slumped to the ground. Sachi heard footsteps, too much for one person to make. She also heard a chorus of giggling. A chorus… it definitely couldn't be one person.
"There you are!"
"Ah! Queen Flonne!"
"So you were here all along. On my search for you I sort of got sidetracked…"
"Oh, I see… Did it go well?"
The queen nodded her usual soft serene smile planted on her face.
"Big sister Sachi!"
A little boy jumped from behind the blonde fallen angel and into the arms of the raven-haired demon. Sachi stroked the child's blue hair, brushed a few locks behind his ears and tightened her grasp on him. The child returned the affection, snuggling into the woman's chest and just as tightly held her.
"Hey Ferez, what's that?" Ferez broke the hug, and held two scrolls before the maid.
"It's a list of mommy's things to do, see?"
As soon as he finished his sentence he unraveled the scrolls. They draped all over the floor, and had writing from top to bottom. The healer's eyes widened at the list and twitched. She looked as if she mouthed something along the lines of "that's a lot!"
"Isn't it? It should be more than enough to remedy the laziness. Laharl spoils his vassals!"
Flonne turned to Ferez and patted him on the head, instructing him as she did so. With obedience he saluted her, and dashed off.
"I guess I'll go eat brunch and then get the meeting started!"
"May I make a suggestion your highness?"
The queen turned to the healer with an inquisitive look. The maid pointed at the other woman's attire.
"Perhaps you should dress first."
Flonne looked down and her eyes widened, color rushing to her face.
"Oh my! No wonder there has been many eyes on me today. I thought I've gone popular!"
Akina sighed poking two needles into a stuffed bear.
'I'm so bored! Someone… help me.'
"AKINA!"
In a nanosecond, Akina collapsed to the floor, her little brother atop her. He was giggling madly, an innocent yet devious look on his face. With sincere interest the elder girls asked Ferez what he was carrying out. In a cute youthful voice he replied childishly that mommy wanted them to gather everyone. A sigh escaped the elder girl's lips.
'It's better than nothing…'
One corner of Akina's mouth twitched upward.
"Let's get Osakari."
"YEAH!"
Akina and Ferez passed by Sachi and stopped.
"Helloo!"
The maid greeted them happily with a gentle smile as she pulled the cart of dirty laundry to a stop.
"As much as we love to bound around and bust eardrums with pointless announcements…"
"We're going to see big brother!"
The maid smiled at the youngest prince and then at his sister. She felt a warm feeling she couldn't describe when any of the king's children confided in her. The more 'pointless' it was the warmer the feeling… Before she went on her own dreadful little way to clean all the grubby laundry in her cart she told them that if they needed her at all, all they needed to do was call.
Ferez inhaled a huge amount of air and as he attempted to shriek in a shrill voice, he was stopped by a deadly glare from his sister, a 'special technique' she referred to as the 'basilisk's gaze' She then turned to the door, eyes blank, fists clenched, weighing the options. She was eager to know her mother's plans, and since they involved the whole Netherworld it must be a huge plan. She let her fist shoot at the door and stopped only an inch from fist-door connection.
Then again, she thought, it'd be more fun to surprise him. In the sneakiest way she could, she opened the door and slipped in, her little brother following suit. They found Oskari sitting down on his bed, back to the door, oblivious to them. He had something in his hand, it looked like a book or something with pages; perhaps he was writing? Akina shrugged and approached him, hands behind her back.
"What 'cha doing?" she asked slyly.
The "victim" hurriedly shoved whatever he was occupied with under his covers. He turned to his sister, his face; at least what was visible of it due to his huge red scarf had a tinge of pink.
"My, my big brother… Was that porn?"
A long stretch of silence passed between the siblings, then…
"No."
"What's porn?" piped in the little one with much curiosity and interest. The female just chuckled quietly her twin was silent.
"What is it? Aki? Oshi?"
Despite the agitation in the twins' younger brother's voice, they did not say a word. Ferez resorted to pouting and muttering about Akina's pointless amusement. Shoving the past "subject" from before aside, Akina told Oskari their reason for being in his room in the first place. Oskari developed a plan.
A/N: The second chapter to this story… Yay! After this there will be an Omake (perhaps) on Oskari's "plan." I read that Oshi meant to push or something… I'm not quite sure, but Ferez has this thing with ending names with an "ee" ending. So I decided on Oshi, basically because I couldn't think of anything better. Part II will be much shorter. I just cut the other half of this chapter because it was long. P.L.A.G stands for "Peace Love And Generosity." I couldn't really think of anything better for this also. I really can't think of many things that could be better. ;-;
What's with the Christmas thing? And was Oskari really looking at porn? Err.. just review!
This is dedicated Muk Master and Bella. I felt all floaty, gained motivation and started working immediately after I saw their comments. Thank you very much. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Bella- I'd love to swap and give a description of the kids. I'm wishing I could show a picture of the kids… unfortunately there's that… thing with not having a scanner problem. -
