Chapter 13

Sorceress Myst: Hey Jed! Do the disclaimer, I'm too tired.

Apprentice Jed: (sitting back on a chair) Hey Fagtron! Say the disclaimer, I'm on my break!

Fagtron: (sitting there, doing nothing with drool starting to leak out of her mouth) …………

Apprentice Jed: Uh, What's wrong with Fagtron? Normally she's doing something extremely stupid around this time.

Sorceress Myst: I have no idea. (Fagtron falls over)

Fagtron: …Prunes… (Sorceress Myst and Apprentice Jed awards Fagtron with their 'What the heck?' faces)

Apprentice Jed: …So who's gonna say the disclaimer now?

Sorceress Myst: (whips out her trusty silver tape recorder) Have no fear, the tape recorder is here!

Tape Recorder: (in Sorceress Myst's voice) I do not own CCS or any of it's characters except for Xylona, Xavier, Eiryn, Kalie, Blane, and the Gifted Card. Whew!

Fagtron: (snaps up) OH-NO! The voice stealer is gonna steal all the voices! (tries to eat the tape recorder but remembers it's made of silver) NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! (runs away)

Apprentice Jed: …That was weird.

Sorceress Myst: I know, but we have to live with it. (they both glare at the camera for a few second then brighten up)

Sorceress Myst and Apprentice Jed: Now on with the story!

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"What could Father be thinking!? First he sends me to North America to meet this stuck up rich girl with a bad reputation and now he wants me to give you away as a gift to her!" Xavier shouted while holding up the small stuffed tiger. The tiger squirmed and responded cheerfully, "Well you get to see me when you get married."

"Ha! That's a laugh! Me getting married, to a snob." He muttered disgustedly.

"You're not giving her much of a chance. I mean since when do little brothers tell the truth about their sisters."

"Well Blane thought his e-mail pin pal was one of my servants instead of me and in his e-mails, he didn't say 'Please don't tell your master about what I said'. If he did then he would be lying." Kalie opened her mouth then shuts it, "…Well you done it! You confused me by twisting up the words."

"Look, girls like Xylona are the same. They think they always get what they want. Right now, Xylona is probably prancing about her mansion, thinking she's going to be a princess."

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"Ugh! And a prince of all people! He's probably going to waltz in here and think I'm going to fall in love with him!" Xylona grumbled as she paced around her room.

*Will you at least give him a chance? *

"Let me think …Uh, No! Princes can be very arrogant. Once he gets here he'll think 'hmm another girl to order around because I'm a prince and she has to do everything I tell her'. Well I got news for him! I'm an American! I have the freedom of speech! I-"

"Are you alright, dear sister?" Xylona spun around to the door to find Blane staring at her with concern in his eyes. She began to giggle nervously, "Just fine. I was just reciting a verse from my favorite play." Blane gave her a weird look, "Uh, Okay. I came to tell you that Prince Xavier is here and I want to show you the way to the parlor room."

"Oh! L-lead the way."

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"Oh, this is so exciting!" Xylona's mother squealed after they finally managed to drag Xylona in the same room as Xavier. Xylona's father started to pull the excited mother from the room and said, "Now why don't you two try to get to know each other and when you're tired you can retreat to your room" The door shut behind them and soon Xylona was left alone with her suitor. She turned to face him and found that he was wearing the same stone cold glare as she was.

"Hello Miss Xylona" he greeted with a cold voice and a bow. She curtsied and responded in the same tone, "Good morning your highness."

Another moment of silence echoed in the room as the red haired boy and the light brunette girl studied each other (As in they might start a fight, not the perverted one that Fagtron is thinking of. Fagtron: I told you I didn't mean it in that way when I said 'I like lemons'! Apprentice Jed: Yeah Right! Go cry us a river Fagtron.), like two tigers ready to kill. For a second, Xylona thought she heard someone whispering as Xavier closed his eyes and shook his head.

"Why don't we take a walk in the gardens?" suggested Xavier through clenched teeth. Xylona put on a sly, quizzical face, "Why?"

"Why not?"

"Maybe because I don't want to take a walk or maybe it's because I don't like you."

"Well I don't like you either!" he yelled. Xylona acted surprised, "Wow! We found something we have in common! It's probably safer for you if we just go to our separate rooms and avoid each other for the rest of the week."

"More like it would be safer for you." He sneered before he stormed out to one of the guest rooms. Xylona was about to shout out a rather painful comeback but the Gifted convinced her not to and so she stormed off in the opposite direction. Kalie, who jumped out of Xavier's pocket after making a suggestion, followed Xylona to her room and waited for her to cool off.

"Who does he think he is?! I should slice him in half with a sword." She fumed. Kalie jumped out of her hiding place and shouted with joy, "You like to swordfight too?!"

"Who are you?"

"I'm Kalie! I'm supposed to be your early wedding present from the king even though I really belong to Xavier." The tiger creature extended her wings and flew to Xylona's shoulder.

"Hello Kalie, I'm sorry you have the misfortune of being owned by that arrogant dork." She answered, carefully sitting down on her bed so Kalie wouldn't fall off her shoulder. Kalie began to get angry.

"Why do you both do that? You judge each other before getting to know each other. Xavier isn't as bad as you say he is. He only wants to find someone who would love him for who he is and not for the fact that he is a prince! He thinks you're a snobby rich girl hoping to become a princess."

"I-Is this true? Is he really searching for someone out of love?" Xylona began regretting all that she had said, "And I told him to stay away from me. How am I going to fix this mess?"

"First of all you apologize," a sly grin began to form on Kalie's face, "And I have a good idea. You do swordfight don't you? Because Xavier loves to swordfight."

*I can teach you how in a second. *

"Okay, I'll do it!"

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(knock, knock)

Xavier groaned and opened the door to find Xylona wearing a tight-fitting black shirt and black velvet pants. She smiled and waved quickly.

"What do you want?" he snapped.

"I have three things I'd like to discuss. First here is your little friend. She wanted to go exploring." She explained while holding Kalie out to him. Kalie did her cute little wink and flew in his room.

"Second," she continued, "I want to apologize for my behavior this morning and after rejecting you like a jerk after you were attempting to try to get to know me."

"Well I guess I could have been a little nicer too so it wasn't entirely your fault. I guess we can start over and at least try to be friends." Xavier said, smiling a little.

"Great! I also came by to ask if you would like to swordfight against me."

"Against …you?"

"What, you never heard of a female swordsman?"

"Actually …no, I haven't, but I accept you challenge."

          Xylona led Xavier out to the family's gym and took out two dull swords from a closet.

"I picked out dull ones so we won't injure each other." She explained. The battle started and the two fighters were equally matched. Xavier proved to be a good challenge because it seemed he had the same fighting skills as Xylona. After thirty minutes, Xavier was pinned to the ground with Xylona on top of him and the swords in between them. It stayed like that for a while. Soft green eyes stared at dark sapphire ones until Xavier did the unthinkable. He leaned forward and kissed her and Xylona closed her eyes and leaned into the kiss. Once they broke apart, Xylona blushed and stood up.

"I never thought I'd say this, but I think I have fallen in love with you." Xavier said while getting up.

"I'm sorry, I have to tell you the truth. I'm not the real Xylona." She cried out, "She died and I was adopted yesterday after my family died."

"What?"

"She's absolutely right! This Xylona or should I say Mysty belongs to me so back off!" Shouted a familiar voice.

"I TOLD YOU I NEVER WANTED TO BE YOUR GIRL EVEN IF YOU WERE THE LAST MAN ON EARTH!!! Get it through you thick head and let me be Eiryn!" Eiryn stepped out of the shadows at the mention of his name.

"Who is this man Xylona?" Xavier asked, holding her in his arms.

"He pretended to love my sister and broke her heart. Then he killed her and my family." She continued to glare angrily at Eiryn. He just smirked and made things worse for Xylona, "Xavier, you come from a land that doesn't like magic users, like the sorceress you're protecting in you arms. Mysty is a sorceress, a disgrace for a prince like you."

"Is this true Xylona? And to think that I was worried about you finding out that I was a sorcerer."

"Really?!"

"Interesting, a sorcerer. Well then I guess we have to fight for custody of her if you still refuse to give her to me." Eiryn grins while pulling out a real sword he hid behind his back. Xylona quickly rushed to the closet and threw a silver sword in Xavier's direction, "His relic is glowing! Don't cast any magic or it'll will take that power away!"

Eiryn charged but was thrown back when Xavier caught the sword and swung it. He swung it again causing Eiryn to loose balance and then he tried to knock the sword out of his hands, but Eiryn tumbled backwards, landed on his feet, and raised his sword.

"Phoenix Flame!" Soon Eiryn's sword was surrounded in a red flame.

"He's using my guardian beast's attacks!" Xylona thought furiously as tears welled up in her eyes. The Phoenix was given to her from her father and her father received it from Dimitri on the day of her death. She looked down at her feet to find the silver sword was knocked out of Xavier's hands.

Xavier was trapped against the wall as Eiryn was preparing to plunge the flaming weapon into his heart. Seeing no other way out, Xavier charged up his energy and grabbed Eiryn by the shoulders to electrify him. The relic glowed brighter and was about to take Xavier's only spell away from him.

"Xavier! Let go of him!" He obeyed. Then suddenly a sword emerged from Eiryn's chest and he fell down to reveal Xylona dropping the sword as she realized what she had done. He immediately ran to her and hugged the pale and shaken Xylona.

"I'm a murderer." She whispered. He shook his head, "You avenged your family's death."

"I didn't want vengeance." A low laugh emitted from the disappearing dead body.

*How did that relic…? Never mind. Eiryn is dead but I don't know about his spirit. *

"That relic must have returned to wherever it came from with the body as its prize. It once belonged to an evil sorcerer." Xavier explained, hugging Xylona tighter.

"Aw isn't cute Blane? Your sister found her fiancé!" the couple turned to find Xylona's mother and her brother peeking around the door. Xylona blushed and shouted, "MOTHER!!!"

"Oh sorry!" she said as she pulled the giggling Blane out of the way and closed the door.

"I'm surprised they didn't hear the fight."

"Me too." Agreed Xylona. They walked out of the gym to find Kalie waiting for them.

"Xylona and Xavier sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" she sang in her shrill voice. Xavier acted surprised, "You learned how to spell!"

"Hey are you making fun of the fact that I'm the youngest guardian born?!"

"I would have made fun of her voice. She sounded like she sucked helium when singing." Teased Xylona as she and Xavier walked away hand and hand.

"HEY!"

End of part 3

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Sorceress Myst: Aww wasn't that cute! In the next chapter Xylona's family moves to Japan.

Fagtron: I got a Prune Slurpie!

Sorceress Myst: Eww! (Apprentice Jed turns on the tape recorder)

Tape recorder: (In Fagtron's voice) The voice stealer is gonna steal all the voices!

Fagtron: (Drops her drink) It stole my voice! AIEEEEEEEE! (runs around in circles)

Apprentice Jed: …Just a little more… Got Cha! (presses a button and Fagtron is stuck in a silver box)

Sorceress Myst: Okay so what is this?

Apprentice Jed: This time it's a silver playpen and the opening is closed off with the same material I used from that bubble.

Sorceress Myst: Now the question is… Does it work?

Apprentice Jed: Lets wait and see. (They walk to the playpen)

Fagtron: The voice stealer's henchmen got me! AAAHHHHH!!!! It hurts! It hurts!

Apprentice Jed: Where does it hurt Fagtron?

Fagtron: In my stomach!

Sorceress Myst: Uh-oh! She's been drinking a Prune Slurpie.

Apprentice Jed: …Then that means she's gonna… (they back away slowly and big vibrations emit from the playpen that causes the bubble to pop)

Fagtron: I'm free! And stinky!

Sorceress Myst: (wearing a gas mask) Fagtron! No more Prune Slurpies!

Fagtron: Aw man!