Par-ty Par-ty
By: Fumi

Chapter 5: Demon Hunter Extraordinaire

Rath yelled again, "DEMONS!"

Cesia sighed. I guess he is stupid enough to believe me. Rath and his one track mind…

Cesia was interrupted from her reverie when a voice echoed towards them.

"Shut up already!" the voice cried.

Rath started grinning like a kid on his birthday that's gotten too many gifts to count. "There is a demon!"

There was a pause followed by the sound of a shuffle and a sigh. "Yeah, yeah…I'm a demon…" The said demon walked into view.

He was about 5 feet 7 inches with short shale colored hair. His bangs were spiked but the rest of his hair hung loose. The demon was wearing crème colored pants and a faded looking tunic as well. His most distinguishing feature though had to be his eyes, which glowed with an inner fire.

"So who are you?" he asked.

Cesia waited for Rath to speak but the dragon knight of fire just stood there shaking with his hands curled up in fists.

Cesia finally stepped forward, held an arm up to her chest and bowed. "I'm Cesia, a witch trained in the Misty Valley. I can see the future through a crystal ball and serve the Dragon Lord Lykouleon," she finished by straightening her back.

The demon cocked his eyebrow in questioning when all of a sudden the now silent Rath stopped being so silent.

"I'M RATH ILLUSER DEMON HUNTER EXTRAORDINAIRE!" he yelled with all of the force he could muster.

Cesia sweatdropped and resisted the urge to fall to the ground. Demon hunter extraordinaire? I think Rath is starting to become a little bit too full of himself… Nothing I can't handle of course.

The Yokai cowered with his hands over his ears. "Ow. Rath Illuser eh?" Where have I heard that name before? Oh well, it's not like it really matters… "I'm Ciruculus," he said in short, to introduce himself.

Cesia frowned Does he work for Nadil's army? Even if he does… why isn't he intimidated by the fact that I work for Lykouleon-sama?

Cesia was knocked out of her reverie once again when she noticed that Rath had taken a step forward.

"Do you teach the destructive dances of the universe?" he asked.

"Yeah," the demon replied. "Yeah, I do…why?" Where is he going with this?

Rath looked at his hand and started picking at his fingernails. "I want to hire you to teach a party how to dance…"

"How much are you offering?"

Rath looked up and gave a bemused look to Ciruculus before turning and shrugging at a very confused Cesia. "Actually… you're going to do it for free…"

What is going on here? Cesia thought to herself. What was with that shrug and the nail thing and EVERYTHING? What is Rath planning? Stupid jerk! He never tells me what's going on! When we leave here…

Ciruculus jumped back and waved his hands in protest. "No way José!" he cried. "I'm not working for free! Give me five, no one good reason why I should!"

Rath grinned a slow cold grin. "If you don't agree," he pulled out a certain bell and shook it turning it into a sword. "I'll kill you." With a loud clack he turned the sword so that the sharp edge of the blade was facing Ciruculus.

Ciruculus held his arms in front of himself and slowly backed up. "Oh…" he finally said. "You're that Rath Illuser… Well I don't care how many demons you've killed! I don't work for free!"

Rath's smile grew even larger. "Wrong answer," But I'd lie if I said I didn't want to hear that one… He took this time to laugh a low and evil laugh. "Heh heh heh… get ready to die…" The dragon knight picked up his sword and moved into a position ready to dash towards Ciruculus to start a battle.

He put extra pressure on his forward foot and was about to move when—

Cesia lifted up her arms in between Rath and Ciruculus. "Hold up!" she cried

Rath fell from the sudden interruption. He leapt up and yelled in a very Rune-like way at Cesia: "WHAT?"

Cesia was not intimidated. Rune is way scarier nitwit! Anyone can yell, it takes a real ability to scare like Rune can… she glared at Rath at half force. "What? I'll tell you what! What if he's cursed!"

Oh yeah… Rath thought. I forgot… For a lack of a better thing to say he simply repeated his thoughts. "Oh yeah… I forgot…."

Cesia clenched her fist. Must… not… kill… Must… only… hurt… severely…

Ciruculus looked at the two in confusion. Just what is going on here? I thought he came here to hire me and what's this girl got to do with it? He shrugged. Oh well… I never can resist a chance to make fun of someone… "What, cursed easily are we?" he asked. "The itty bitty dragon knight's afraid of getting cursed" he added in a condescending tone. "Well, I'm in luck because I happen to be COATED in curses. I guess you can't kill me huh?"

Rath pouted and whined, "That's not true!" He lowered his sword and leaned on it. "Cesia's the one who's curse prone!" The knight then pointed at her for emphasis.

Cesia's fist collided with the cave wall and left cracks spiraling from where her hand connected with stone. She turned and growled at Rath with a feral look in her eye. "Thanks…" That little, when I'm through with him he'll wish he never had a death wish! Cesia smiled sinisterly at him. "Apologize," she ordered.

Rath gulped. K-kowai…. I better… NO! I'm a dragon knight! I'm not going to apologize to a stinkin' fortuneteller! "I'm not going to apologize to a stinkin' fortuneteller!"

"Why you little…." Cesia lunged at Rath.

"At least I'm not curse prone!"

"Tell the whole world why don't you?"

Rath stuck his tongue out at Cesia while placing his thumbs at the side of his head for a moose face. "Well maybe I should!"

Cesia smiled sinisterly at him and glared at him full force.

Rath staggered and fell to his knee. Too powerful… I can't win… Glare… too… full… of… hatred…

What is going on here? Ciruculus asked himself. I mean, isn't Rath supposed to be fighting me, and not his weird girlfriend? He sighed. I know I'm going to regret this but… "Ahem" he began. "Uh guys… remember me?"

Rath and Cesia turned to see the poor unfortunate demon standing all by his lonesome. "Oh yeah… Ciruculus…" Rath realized. There was a clack sound and where the dancing demon had once stood was Rath. "Man, that was no fun. He was waaaaaaaaaaaay too easy to kill! But now that that's taken care of…"

He just! He just! He just killed Ciruculus! Why that little…. "Raaaaathhhhh……" Cesia growled.

"Yeah?" he dumbly replied. Is she going to congratulate me for being so strong and awesome?

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" she shrieked.

Rath dropped his sword. "Oh yeah," he began. "Now I have to come up with new entertainment….."

Cesia blinked, "Well yeah… but that's not it! Now I'm gonna get cursed!"

"Oh yeah…. Why didn't you tell me?" the dragon knight of fire dumbly asked.

She began to twitch and screamed, "I DID TELL YOU RATH! YOU IDIOT!"

Ciruculus' body began to glow

Rath looked on in amazement, "Woow….."

Cesia cowered, "AHH! Don't curse me!"

The glowing shot of Ciruculus, raced into Cesia, bounced off her and hit… Rath

"Uh oh…"

"Cesia!" Rath cried striking a pose. "Let's dance!" He then grabbed Cesia by the hand and forced her to do the tango.

What have I done?

Meanwhile in a restaurant in Dragoon…

Yeah yeah yeah… this took forever to come out, probably isn't that funny etc. On the plus side it's almost twice the length of chapter 4! Please read and/or review Just Happy or Trials of Love 2. They have like no hits and it took me forever to do the ToL chapter. Just Happy… I guess it's one of my few attempts at humor-less stuff. Even if it does have humor… I'm angst challenged...

12/27/05