Happy Halloween everyone! I'm Ginji! -grins- So my perverted mind clearly got through to my readers. (Yes AirJay, the lemony goodness happened... multiple times.) I love exercising the ability to write lemon, but it stays in the PG-13 rating because I never really say anything. -grins- I am told I have a gift. I believe them.
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"Amelia my daughter, why have you been so happy the past few days?" Prince Phil asked Amelia. They were sitting on the park bench that Zelgadis and Amelia kept on coming back to in the little park in the Olympic Village.
"Hm?" Amelia blissfully replied. "Sorry Daddy, what was that?"
"You have been so happy lately. What was it that brought you out of that odd depression?" Prince Phil knew that he was just asking for trouble since he did not even know why she was sad to begin with when she had thought Zelgadis was cheating on her. This was actually the first time in a long while that Prince Phil had the opportunity to really sit down and talk with Amelia since Lina's coaching trial started back in September. Everything was so hectic that it was impossible to find downtime until that moment.
Wether it was downtime or not, Amelia's mind froze. Because of the long space between her and her father's lat talk and that moment, she had not even told her father she was dating Zelgadis, let alone dating at all.
"Daddy...?" she nervously asked. "You know Zelgadis, right?"
"Of course!" Prince Phil happily replied. "He is the best goalie that Seiryuun has seen in a long time! Why do you ask?"
"He is kind of the reason I was so sad... and am now happy," she half-whispered. Prince Phil looked at her, shell-shocked and confused.
"Then it really has been too long since we last talked. What have you not telling me my dear?"
"Well," Amelia started. She paused, took a deep breath and then let it all out very fast. "Even before the Olympics I was going out with Zelgadis. In fact, we started dating right after Lina-san became the head coach officially. Right before the hockey quarterfinal game against Finland, I had overheard a conversation Zelgadis had and misunderstood it. He explained and now everything is all better."
"Why did you not come to me Amelia?" Prince Phil asked lovingly.
"I... I don't know. Please don't be mad at me!"
"How could I become mad at you?" Prince Phil said. He hugged Amelia, feeling a bit unloved himself. He had wanted to be in his daughter's life as much as he could and now he realized that he was so far out of the loop that it would be difficult to get back in. Prince Phil could remember watching Zelgadis grow up right along with Amelia. It was odd, how even when Zelgadis was a young boy he seemed to always blush and be extra polite when Amelia was around. Back when he first met Zelgadis, Prince Phil knew that the small boy standing next to his daughter and Frederick Yerbinski was going to eventually become the one for Amelia. It was just a good thing that Prince Phil had studied Zelgadis, found out all about him as the boy grew up, otherwise he would feel threatened over his daughter's affection. Prince Phil just hugged his daughter thankfully, just glad at that moment for her to be safe and in his arms and that she was happily in love.
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"This is just so nerve-wracking!" Frederick panicked.
"Oh, shut up," Elena sighed. She and her jittery twin were watching their brother Harry in the snowboarding finals. It was exciting, especially since Gabriel and Ian were in the stands cheering as well. They were a few rows lower than Elena and Frederick and wanted to really back their sibling up since they had been knocked out of the curling competition by Great Britain.
"Why are we here?"
"Shut up Frederick."
"Shouldn't we be formulating plays, going over linework, studying our opponent's moves? We are playing the United States soon and..." Frederick said quickly. He was highly spastic and fidgety, causing Elena to grumble profusely.
"Can it before I clock you right across the face," she growled.
"Why have you been so grumpy?"
"I just am."
"Time of the month?"
Undistinguished grumbling from Elena.
"Is the miso ramen we had for lunch bothering you?"
More grumbling.
"Amelia and Zelgadis?"
In a swift movement, Elena slammed her fist right into her brother's knee and stormed off. She had been in a bit of an irritable mood lately and not a single person could figure out to why.
"Damn it," Frederick cursed as he nursed his sore knee. He was so attentive to his knee, that he did not even notice the woman go and sit down next to him in his sister's seat.
"Are you Frederick Yerbinski?" the woman asked. Frederick looked up to see a woman who appeared to be very tall, own an unusually large chest and holding a small white dog.
"Who wants to know?"
"Does it really matter?"
This was it. Frederick's heart skipped a few beats. A very pretty woman was there next to him, wanting to know who he was. The pain in his knee magically went away as he tried to suavely lead the woman over to the stairs and down to the ground to go behind the bleachers.
"So..." he said, trying to oppress his geek-like qualities. "What can I do for you?"
"I need to talk to Zelgadis Graywords," the woman said, her interest in Frederick becoming non-existent. Frederick was crushed.
Why Zelgadis? he thought. He gets all the females. Why don't I ever get any?
"What would you want to talk to him about?" he asked after sulking for a short moment.
"None of your business," the woman said, grabbing Frederick by the collar and lifting him threateningly into the air. "Now, where is he?"
"F-F-Follow me..." Frederick sputtered. This woman was fierce. It was almost a kind of ferocity he had experienced before. Well, he was bullied as a small child and the bullies still really stick around as he grew older. Once the woman dropped him, he shook it off and lead her through the Olympic Village and towards the building where the men from Seiryuun were staying.
"Will the princess from Seiryuun be there too?" the woman defensively asked before she entered the door to the building hall.
"No, this is the men's building," Frederick replied in a matter-of-fact voice. "Come on." He lead her up to the door to the room that he shared with Zelgadis, Gourry and Xellos, left the woman and her dog in the hall and disappeared into the room to find Zelgadis.
"Zelgadis! Are you in there?" he yelled, pounding on the door of the small bathroom. Sure enough, the chimera stuck his head out of the door, letting steam from his shower roll out into the main of the room.
"What?" he asked grumpily.
"There is some woman out in the hall to talk to you."
"I hate reporters."
"This one has nothing to do with underground chemicals underneath your apartment's street or hockey... at least I think..."
"What do you mean by 'I think'?"
"She's really hot!" Frederick said in a half a giggle. Zelgadis shook his head and closed the bathroom door. In about five seconds, he exited the bathroom, lacking a shirt but wearing pants and a towel around his neck. Frederick shoved his friend out into the hallway. "If you are not back in five minutes, I'm sending a search party who'll be headed by your girlfriend!" With that, he closed the door and left the highly confused Zelgadis and the pretty woman-stranger alone in the hall.
"Who are you?" Zelgadis asked suspiciously. The woman before him looked highly familiar, as if he were staring at a mirror of the past.
"Hmm... no wonder she picked you. These past few years have turned you into quite the looker..." the woman muttered out loud as she examined Zelgadis, stopping for quite a while on his bare chest. "It is a miracle that you are not taken by someone else."
"Who in the hell do you think you are?" Zelgadis asked angrily. Inside he was a bit scared too, yet tried his best to conceal it.
"I am surprised that you do not remember me. I do not think that you were that young when I left home," the woman chuckled.
"Left home...?" Zelgadis whispered. It took him about a fraction of a second to figure out who this mystery character was. "Garcia?"
"Do not call me by that name! I am called Naga now," she replied vainly. She gave a howling laugh and pet Kiko the dog forcefully.
Years ago, ten years earlier to be exact, Amelia's elder sister Garcia ran away from Seiryuun with her boyfriend, breaking Prince Phil and Amelia's hearts. The family had already been grieving due to the sudden death of Princess Sylvana and everyone that had been close to them were devastated. Zelgadis was fourteen when Garcia left and he remembered it all clearly. The look on Prince Phil's face when he burst into the room, tears running down his face and crying about how Garcia was gone. Carson Yerbinski, her classmate, was saying that it was just her being dramatic, wanting attention, and that she would come back within a week. Garcia never came back though. Amelia just kept on crying and crying and crying until there were no tears left in her eyes and would fall asleep while talking to Elena, Frederick, Gourry and himself. It was a very sad time for everyone connected with the royal family. There was even a reward put out for her safe return, yet they all had to stop the search once Garcia's eighteenth birthday came and went. Amelia's sadness and pain from the last ten years welled up inside Zelgadis and turned quickly into anger.
"Where in the hell have you been?" he yelled.
"Nowhere I can tell you."
"Do you realize how much your father and sister miss you!"
"Like I really could care."
Zelgadis did not even have to think about his next move. He went and curled up his fist and went to punch Naga, wanting her to hurt for what she had done to his Amelia. It was because of Naga. Amelia cried because of Naga! Without even dropping Kiko, who now appeared to be sleeping, Naga blocked the attack and took Zelgadis by the throat.
"Shut up," she sneered. "I've only come to do my job and leave."
"What job...?" Zelgadis gasped, trying to catch his breath in Naga's throat-death-grip-of-doom.
"Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Threatening my little sister's lover, that's what," she laughed. "We have never had a brother and our father is not really all that much of a threat, so I decided to take over the job myself! Now, if you upset my sister, you are going to die in ways that you never even thought of."
"How did you...?"
"Know about you and Amelia?" Naga finished. "I am the great and powerful Naga and I know everything! You upset Amelia before and if you hurt her again..."
"You were the one who hurt her the first time," Zelgadis spat. "If you had not left, then she would be much happier that she already is now!"
"Life as a royal is not my thing," Naga said. "Amelia is more the diplomat and heir-to-the-throne material than I ever will be. Now I love my little sister with my very heart and soul and all I want is the best for her. Will you be the best?"
"As long as you put me down," Zelgadis coughed. With a slight scoff, Naga dropped the chimera and let him breathe again.
"Then you will do everything that will be in your power to make her happy?"
"Of course. I love her."
"Good," Naga said, feeling quite satisfied. She turned away to leave Zelgadis be, yet was stopped when she felt his hand touch her arm.
"Why don't you go and say hello to Amelia and Prince Phil," he said. "They would like to know that you are alive at least. They have been worried sick."
"Let them still think of me as missing," Naga replied solemnly. "It is better for them to not talk to me than to loose me all over again. I know it was hard for them the first time. A second would kill them both for sure." She then shook Zelgadis's hand loose and started to walk away again.
"One more thing," Zelgadis added as Naga reached the stairs. "I want to ask Amelia to marry me."
"Go ahead then. I approve."
"Would you come to the wedding in disguise at least?"
"Maybe. Only if I really feel like it."
"Thank you."
Zelgadis watched in silence as Naga disappeared by way of the staircase. When she had left, he went back into the room where Frederick was waiting impatiently.
"So?" Frederick asked slyly. "What did she want? Did she know you have a girlfriend?"
"Yes," Zelgadis replied with a smirk. He then rummaged through his suitcase for a clean shirt. "In fact, that is what the conversation was about. Amelia and me."
"What?" Frederick asked. He was confused. How did some random woman know about Zelgadis and Amelia going out and why did she talk to him about it? "Who was this woman?"
"She said her name was Naga."
"Naga?"
"Yup. That is what she said."
"Do we know this 'Naga' by any chance?"
"Why?"
"She seems familiar to me somehow."
"Familiar?"
"She threatened me and it was like she had threatened me before."
"You really are a nerd."
"What?"
"She had threatened you before."
Frederick was struck silent. He pondered his friends's words as Zelgadis got dressed in his black-and-green uniform from the Seiryuun team.
"Take a guess," Zelgadis grinned.
"I don't know."
"She's been gone for ten years."
"No way! Is it Garcia?"
"The one and only."
"Where is she going? Is she going to see Amelia and Prince Phil?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"She does not want them to know she was here. Garcia was just here to make sure that I respected Amelia and all that," Zelgadis said cooly. He then went and got right into Frederick's face, coming within centimeters of his face. "Now you will not tell anyone that she was here, right?"
"R-Right," Frederick answered, slightly uncomfortable. Smiling at his success, Zelgadis moved away and went over to the bathroom to go brush his teeth.
"That's good," he said as he put toothpaste on the toothbrush. "If Price Phil or Amelia ever found out, they would both go into hysterics."
"You're right," Frederick said sadly. "It was so bad when she left the first time. I'm not sure how it would be a second."
"Exactly," Zelgadis said, having brushed his teeth. He and Frederick then went out of the room, down the opposite flight of stairs that Naga took and headed over towards the ice hockey rink where in a few hours, they would experience the most exciting time of their lives to date.
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Naga quickly descended the flights of stairs until she got to the very bottom. With a hastened gait, she walked out of the building and over to a man that was sitting on a bench underneath a nearby tree.
"How did it go?" he asked.
"Peachy," Naga replied, sounding slightly disgusted. "He wants to marry her."
"A wedding!" the man said excitedly, standing up brusquely. "I love weddings! Drinks all around!"
"We're only going if we can be unnoticed," Naga said monotonously. She started to walk away and the man followed.
"This is your only sister!" he protested.
"AirJay," Naga snapped. "I cannot have my father and sister loose me again. That would be too difficult."
"You don't seem like yourself today," AirJay said sheepishly. "Is all of this Big Sister stuff getting to your head?"
"It must be, because I want to beat myself up right now for being so strange," she said as they headed over towards the skeleton hill. "Now if you shut up, I need to watch an old classmate of ours tear up the slope. Want to join me?"
"Yes dear," AirJay said obediently. He followed Naga over to the stands and they stealthily watched Carson Yerbinski speed down the hill and grab Seiryuun's first gold medal, forcing Daniel to have come in second.
Parodies/References I Do Not Own So Therefore I Am Legal (In A Writing Sense)
The United States: There! You all have it! Seiryuun is going to play the United States of America in the Olympic hockey finals! -sighs- Well, I had to put my country in somewhere. Damn country. We are very rude when it comes to the medals, taking almost every one we can get our mitts on and barely leaving any for the rest of the world. It is a sad, cruel thing, particularly since I cheer multiple countries on.
"...nothing to do with underground chemicals underneath your apartment's street...": This is a reference to the cruel Detroit news media, parking their trucks on my street corner, all because there are some chemicals underneath my street that really do not effect anyone. I hate the news.
Naga Being Protective: I got this idea from reading Gerao-A's fiction Sylvia, for this sort of thing happens somewhere in the fiction. Not saying exactly when. Read for yourself to find out. Also, this is what fathers and brothers are supposed to do, not elder sisters.
The Zelgadis Fan-Service: I would so want Zelgadis if he was not already claimed by Amelia. -cries-
"A wedding! I love weddings! Drinks all around!": A Jack Sparrow quote from Pirates of the Caribbean... which is one of the best movies in the world if I do say so myself.
Big Sister: When I wrote this... I thought of Big Brother and how he and Lord Vader are watching me.