Ah the next chapter, it took a bit of time, but all of them do. I hope you guys enjoy it.

Warnings: It's shonen ai, don't like, don't read

Notes: (X) is pov of and or time change. Thoughts are 'insert thoughts'

Thank you.

Chapter, 3: Dreams

Ernest sighed smiling and lied onto his back on his bed.

'That would be so wonderful,' he thought to himself as the dream replayed in his mind. A boy his age about the same height was there, comforting him as he lied in bed crying from some unknown pain. Whatever it was, Ernest wouldn't mind being in pain if it meant being comforted by that boy. The bad thing was he'd never gotten to see the boys face, just heard his soft soothing voice in his ear as he sat next to him stroking his hair gently. He let out a small sigh and stretched out more knowing there was not much he could do about it. Dreams were just illusions of desires played throughout ones mind after all.

'What I wouldn't do for that to be true.' He rolled over onto his stomach so he could get his pillow under his chin. 'If I take down my shield…I'll be forced to hear a bunch of thoughts, but…I want to hear his thoughts…his voice…I want to see him…-' his thoughts were interrupted by someone opening the door to his room.

"MY LORD!" Ernest looked up his thoughts now completely gone from the servant's outburst. The servant himself looked panicked, nothing like the ones before who were just trying to get him to come downstairs for the feast.

"What's wrong," he asked instantly sensing the fear from the atmosphere around them. Yu pushed his way past the man and ran into the room as quickly as he could. He looked himself somewhat unnerved and to Ernest's shock, blood dripping from the left side of his eye. "Yu!"

"My lord, the castle is under attack. You're their target you must leave."

"What about you? And Kizuna?"

"The rest of your family is safe. I'll be going with you."

"What about-"

"My little sister is safe," Yu cut Ernest off almost like he was the one able to read thoughts. "Now let's go," he demanded grabbing Ernest by the wrist. The prince was grateful he still had his shield up and nodded following Yu out of the room to wherever their destination was. He wanted to know what was going on, but knew asking any questions was pointless. Yu wouldn't answer a thing until he was sure Ernest was safe and the prince taking his shields down when an attack was going on was something not even he was foolish enough to attempt.

'They must be after the moon sphere,' he thought wishing he could find a corner to curl up in. He knew this blasted thing would cause nothing, but problems for him.

Yu led them down the hallway quickly forcing Ernest to run at some points. When they finally made it to the end of the hall Yu pushed some bricks in that turned out to be a hidden door that even he didn't know about. The guard pushed him in and then followed himself pulling the hidden door closed behind him. He nodded to the staircase and started down them the prince having no choice, but to follow.

"We're going to end up at the left side of the castle. No matter what, you do not stop," he said in all seriousness leaving no room for debate in his tone. "Do not stop," he said again this time so demanding that it almost made Ernest wince. When they made it down the long twisting brick staircase Yu took a deep breath and pushed the door wide open. The sight that met Ernest's eyes almost made him scream.

There were dead bodies everywhere, the ground literally covered, some of their faces twisted in silent screams from what must have been a horrible death. Those with facial expressions that showed nothing probably didn't even realize they had died till the last second. To make matters even worse the entire village of Bale before him was ablaze smoke rising in almost every direction he could look. Ernest looked around trying to spot some kind of enemy and to his horror saw the men and knights of the village fighting…nothing. They were using their swords to slash at thin air. Ernest frowning at this turned to Yu for an explanation. Yu refused to give any words though and after checking to make sure the coast was clear pulled his lord with him.

"Why are they attack the air," Ernest demanded as he was forced to quicken his pace to keep up with Yu.

"They don't know it's air. Most of their awareness' are too weak to see that those are just illusions," Yu answered after Ernest had jerked his arm a few times. He didn't bother to give his prince a full explanation though or even look at him and Ernest knew he'd been given the pointless answer that explained nothing, but he was going to be told, this was his home.

"So who is attacking then? Who did all this?"

"A sorcerer, that's all we know." Ernest detected some trace hint of an emotion when Yu had said that, but couldn't get anything more out of him, not with his shields up anyway. He remained silent for a while as they ran for the front gates. Just as they turned the corner, though to where the fest was being held Ernest stopped dead in his tracks his blood going cold. Most of the chairs were knocked over onto the ground, some broken, and others mere ashes where they had once stood. The tables were covered with dead people, the white clothes on them now stained with blood as if this had been a sacrificial feast offering for some demonic creature of the dead.

There no more then ten feet away from this mass of decay and death was Doel, Albert, and Albert's friend Dart. They all had their weapons out, Doel his dark and light twin swords, Albert his trusty spear, and Dart with a bastard sword. Dart was frowning slashing again and again at a huge white creature with two huge black eyes. The thing looked more like a giant skeleton with a huge green sphere shoved into its giant forehead then anything, but it was actually moving. Its skin was white and hard as rock, one hand containing long claw like fingers while the other one looked like it belonged to a crab. It was growling and at some points trying to shoot what looked like lasers from out of the green sphere in its head at them only to miss each time. Ernest knew from the stories his father had told him what this thing was.

"Virage…" He whispered under his breath barely believing there was actually one standing in front of him and the fact it was really about the same height as the castle. Yu looked at the prince quickly when he heard him say the word 'Virage.'

"What?" It seemed Yu was showing emotions more than usual, Ernest was beginning to realize that his friend was a lot more fearful than he wanted to let on.

"Virage. The Winglies used Virage's as a trump card to try and beat the humans, but father always said that him and Dart had killed the last one…" Yu frowned a bit, barely noticeable to the untrained eye and looked back to the fight that was in front of them. They looked like they were doing their best against this creature, but for some reason it just wasn't working.

"Dart! This isn't working," Ernest heard his father scream out. Dart was shaking his head trying to keep his blonde spiky hair out of his face. He pushed his bandana up and that seemed to fix the problem. It was a good thing Dart was also wearing his usual clothes, upper red body armor that covered the top part and his left arm, but left his right arm free to handle his word and the same belt he always wore wrapped around him connecting to his sheath, his black pants with red knee guards and brown boots to complete the warriors outfit. If he'd actually been dressed for the ceremony he'd have probably been dead already.

"No! His life is fading! Just a few more hits," Dart screamed back to Albert. The king nodded just jumping back in the nick of time to dodge one of the Virage's claws. "This is it! Hit with everything you got!" They all ran at it and stopped short as the Virage was lifted into the air. A man with silverish white hair had walked out from behind the other side of the castle, he was smiling, his hand held out palm facing them.

"The moon sphere."

"We won't let you get in," Dart hissed his tone just daring the man to try to take it from them. The man's smile turned into a smirk and he moved his hand down to the hilt of his sword. Dart's determined look suddenly broke into a frown as he watched the man's movements. "Lloyd?" Ernest's face quickly began to match Dart's at hearing the name. Even though Dart had married Shana, another one of his father's travel companions, it was only due to the fact that Dart's lover, Lloyd, had died.

All of a sudden, a burst of green light and a tornado with leaves surrounded Albert. His spear became far more deadly and advance looking that could do much more damage than his normal weapon ever could hope to achieve while oddly shaped green armor formed over his body, wings sprouting from his back. When the tornado disappeared, he was wearing the full green body armor he'd been wearing the day Erts' had vanished. Ernest's eyes widened trying to take all of it in.

"Forgive me Dart, Lloyd or not, I will not let him hurt my family," Albert tried to explain as he fell into a battle position. The man being called Lloyd unsheathed his sword.

"How you know my brother I do not know, but my name is Hiead."

"Hiead," Dart repeated the words slowly. "Lloyd's younger brother?" Hiead smirked.

"Yes." With that said he ran at Albert and to everyone's horror shoved the blade through the king's armor and into his stomach. Albert's eyes widen in shock and he started to scream out in pain as gray and black mixed with blood red flames began to surround the blade and blast into his body. Ernest himself could not believe what was going on and felt like running, but the shock alone kept him in his place.

"Fa, father…!" He almost tried to again to run over to his father to give him any kind of help that he needed, but Yu grabbed his wrist holding him firmly. "No! Yu let me go," he screamed through gritted teeth trying his best to pull away. Yu refused to let him go however and jerked the prince back so they were safely hidden from view.

"If you go over there now, your father's death will be in vain," he said solemnly instantly catching Ernest's attention.

"Albert!" Both Doel's and Dart's voices' screamed out in union as they watched the smirking Hiead pull the blade out of Albert's stomach. Albert fell out of the air and onto his knees and then because of the weight of his armor, onto his back. Dart looked over to Hiead tears streaking down his face.

(X)

Seeing Hiead kill Albert was like seeing Lloyd kill Lavitz all over again. Ironic how Lavitz, Albert's and Dart's closest friend was killed Lloyd, and his younger brother would come back to kill Albert, but how could Dart kill someone who had the same face as his dead lover?

"Why," Dart asked in a lower whisper his shoulders shaking badly as his sadness and confusion turned to anger. "WHY?" He demanded slamming his sword into the ground. "Why did you have to kill him?"

"Oh, I understand now." Hiead's smirk looked even more deadlier than before. "I thought I recognized you. You're my late brother's lover. Well, this does make things interesting." He walked over to the Virage and then turned back to look at them. "I'll ease your pains and give my brother what is rightfully his!" The Virage rose higher into the air and looked down at them.

(X)

There sphere on the Virage's head started glowing and everyone standing in front of them was lost within its blinding bright light. The only thing that could be seen through it was a small green light as it rose into the sky and disappeared. A few seconds later that same green light slowly descended back to the ground and landed in Ernest's hands. The light solidified into a green sphere. Tears began to fall down Ernest's face. 'Just like when Lavtiz had died,' he thought to himself the story going through his mind. When Lavtiz had finally left this world the Green Tusked Dragon, Feyrbrand's dragoon spirit had chosen Albert as its new master and now it had chosen him.

Visibly shaking, Ernest mouthed the words thank you before putting the Dragoon spirit into his shirt beneath his robes. It wouldn't fall out of there; it would be safe for when they started running again. Yu seemed hesitant at first about what to do, but he eventually started pulling Ernest into a gentle embrace so he would not see the carnage that lie behind him.

"M'lord…Ernest," he forcefully corrected himself. "We have to leave now. If we don't more people are going to get hurt." The prince nodded slowly. Before the blinding light died off completely they both took off running into what used to the busy streets of Bale. While running Ernest took a good look around and was glad, he hadn't taken part of the feast. The sights in front of him that he saw, very gruesome deaths, the stench of burning human flesh and blood mixed with the smell of smoke was no where near a settling scent for someone's stomach.

It took Ernest all he had to keep running and not to stop so he could be sick. Bale looked completely transformed; the night sky no longer looked like night, rather blood from all the flames from the burning buildings shooting into the sky. The one thing the prince could see in the sky clearly though was the moon that never sets. It too was glowing blood red even more so than the sky. That cursed moon that should have stayed destroyed.

After what seemed a eternity of nothing, but running Ernest and Yu made it out of the city of Bale. Yu turned to the prince and nodded to a path in front of them.

"We should probably go to Hoax from here." Ernest nodded and they both started walking down the long road in front of them. They walked in silence for a good deal of time until finally Ernest stopped dead in his tracks.

"Yu, wait." The guard stopped and turned around giving him a questioningly look. Ernest thought for a moment and then finally said. "Lohan was attacked already and then Bale. That boy is going after each big city one by one. His order will be Lohan, Bale, Hoax's then Selses. So-"

"We should go to Lohan where he's already been," Yu asked.

"Exactly, but we should go to Hoax first to warn them," Ernest said not wanting another town to be unprepared. They agreed on their path and started down the road.

(X)

"Something's not right," Gareas said rocking back and forth on the bed. He was in Zero's house in one of the many guest rooms. The room itself was quite nice, Dabas was very rich so Gareas knew he should have expected to see a good-looking house, but this one was even bigger than the one Dabas let him stay at. Not only was it bigger, but a lot more classier. The guest room itself had one window on the left side right above the bed, a big bookshelf on the wall right across from that bed holding so many books he couldn't even begin to count how many there were in it. The floor was actually carpeted and another rug next to the bed, a very high luxury for this day and age.

"Why do you think something's wrong," Zero asked sadly bringing Gareas back to the matter at hand.

"I don't know…it's just this feeling…I…I feel like I should go to Bale or something," he replied honestly.

"Bale," Zero, asked somewhat shocked. "But why?" Both of them had never been ones to like royalty much and had done their best to avoid the city containing their ruling king. It wasn't that they had anything against them per-say, they just didn't like them since most of them were stuck up idiots.

"I don't know why! We should go anyway though," he screamed in a random outburst.

"Wait! Why me?"

"You're the one who said you wanted to go!"

"Oh yeah," Zero laughed causing Gareas to sigh in frustration. Gar stood up and walked in front of the bed wincing as he did for having done the movement so fast. He took in a deep breath and grabbed his inventory bag walking over to the door of the room.

"Are you coming?"

"We're leaving now? Now? SO SOON! What about your wounds," Zero screamed jumping up from the nightstand he'd been sitting on. Gareas grinned at him.

"If anyone touches the angel from my dreams, I'll kill them. I have to save her."

"Why?" Zero asked point blank. It seemed like a lot of trouble to go through for anyone really.

"I'll show you her when we save her! Then you'll understand," he said happily heading out of the room. Zero sighed getting to his feet.

"I think you've lost it, but I'll help anyway," he called out after his friend. He was usually the one having outbursts and jumping into things without thinking and even he thought Gareas should wait a few more days before going on some kind of adventure.

"No one's forcing you to go," Gareas called from down the hall.

"I know that," Zero smiled and walked up behind his friend. "After we save your 'Dream Angel' can we come back to Lohan and fix up Dabas' shop?"

"You bet we can," Gareas said grinning at him. They both walked out of the room and headed down the stairs. Smiling Gareas threw open the door and walked outside into the dark warm night.

"Is there a reason why we're leaving during the night," Zero asked sounding concerned for his friend's sanity. This fact seem to settle into Gareas mind, but he didn't stop.

"Because…my feeling can disappear at any given moment!" Grease yelled. "Have to find her before it does." Zero groaned.

'I was right, he's completely lost it.' Nonetheless, he followed his friend on the start of their long trek.

(X)

"Something bad has happened in Bale," Erts said slowly a frown forming on his face as he looked at the flames rising from what used to be Indels Castle. Clay who wasn't to far from him looked up from his star chart pushing his glasses up with his index finger and went into a bit of shock upon seeing the flames.

"My word, I wonder what happened." He stood up and walked over to Erts. "It probably wasn't an accident, if it would have been I don't think that the whole castle would be on fire. They'd of stopped it before then." Erts nodded in agreement. Clay's frown deepened then from the way Erts was acting. For some reason Erts always seemed very concerned with the happenings of the castle, more so than a normal person usually was anyway. Sighing he wrapped his arms around the boy's waist. "I'm sure everything will be fine."

"You really think so," he asked quietly, but Clay could tell his words were getting to the boy and that it was sinking in.

"Of course, the knights there are trained for things like this. I bet you everyone there is completely safe," he grinned at him. It wasn't the complete truth, but the last thing he needed was for Erts to have another one of his panic attacks, because the castle inhabitants may or may not even be hurt. Erts nodded again and try as he might his smile failed going to a frown. Erts smiled slightly then at his failed attempt and kissed Clay on the cheek.

"Thanks for trying," he said somewhat sadly. Clay blushed seeing that his little white lie hadn't worked at all and tightened his embrace around the blonde. They had been courting for the past two years now and if there was one thing Clay knew it was that Erts enjoyed being held close to someone whom he liked being around. As he thought he would, Erts began relaxing more in his arms his head going to Clay's shoulder. The apprentice scholar looked back to the castle watching the flames as they continued to rise into the air while he stroked Ert's arm gently trying to calm him completely. He succeeded at least in getting his boyfriend to sway slightly and his breathing to even out.

He smiled at the sleeping form in his arms and manage to pick him up walking back into their room. He placed the boy on the bed gently and so as not to wake him up and pulled the blanket up around him. It was then that a thought occurred to Clay that sent a complete feeling of dread to go through his body.

'Dart's at Indels castle for the feast being held in Prince Ernest's coming of age ceremony.' He bit his bottom lip frowning deeply. 'This isn't good at all no wonder Erts was worried.

(X)

"How much longer," Zero whined four hours later into their long journey. "I swear I don't remember Bale ever being this far away from Lohan!" Gareas raised an eyebrow and turned to look at Zero trying not to throttle the boy into next week.

"Zero, you've never been to Bale," he stated bluntly. Zero was actually silence for a moment as he thought about it and then just shrugged throwing his hands into the air.

"SO! THIS IS BORING," he screamed. Gareas just rolled his eyes at him and turned around to face his destination. It was actually taking a lot longer than he had thought too. For some odd reason it seemed like something was trying to keep them from arriving there. "IS THAT BALE?" Zero asked hopefully when they'd gone another mile or so. Standing in front of them was a completely fortified area that looked more like a war tower than anything else.

"No, that's Hoax." He headed towards the entrance deciding they might as well stay the night there given how long it was taking them. Zero groaned stomping his feet behind him, but followed nonetheless.

"That's not fair," he complained hanging his head. Gareas was a bit surprised at the way Zero was acting really. Zero had traveled around the country of Basil with his father before coming to Lohan to settle down. He shouldn't have been this weak! Unless of course that's why Dart never finished their journey and took him back to Seles. Whether he was too weak though or just getting on Dart's nerves he wasn't to sure of, but thought it may have been a mixture of both.

"Look, we're going to go to Hoax and spend the night there okay? Stop whining," he scolded. Zero's eyes light up immediately and he started doing a small dance and latched onto Gareas' arm.

"THANK YOU!" Zero seemed to decide his dance wasn't enough, took a few steps back and went into a running leap tackling Gareas to the ground completely ignoring the wounds that hadn't healed on the older boy yet. Gareas of course connected face first to the ground groaning loudly as one of his wounds reopened and had dirt shoved into it.

'I hope this kid gets eaten by a dragon on our way there,' Gareas thought smirking a bit. 'I'd pay to see that.' His smirk widened slightly until Zero's elbow came smashing down on the top of his head. He blinked stars falling down in front of him while Zero had gotten up to start jumping around like the idiot he was. He wondered more then a few times why the boy was whining so much about being tired when he had so much energy to spare and dragged himself to his feet walking into the city. If he was lucky maybe the boy wouldn't notice he'd gotten up and would get lost.

(X)

Ernest sighed looking around the inn room he was currently in located in the city of Hoax. What had started off as a would be quick visit ended up becoming an overnight stay when the gates closed and the guards refused to open them again until morning. Being denied an exit they had been forced to take up a room within the walls of what now seemed like a war base more than anything else. The whole village was surrounded by brick walls that surrounded the entire village and they had placed guards at every end of it while they had towers and weapons stationed in every direction as if they'd been expecting an attack for years.

Ernest sighed again and walked outside into the cool night air taking in what used to once be a very beautiful city turned war zone. Even with all these things in place, though he doubted that the city could hold its own should the boy Hiead come and stand against them. He doubted that if the Knights of Bale couldn't stop them at all. If his father and one of his most trusted friends couldn't do a thing, these normal people didn't stand a chance.

He began to walk around the brick walkway that led from one guard station to another. Yu had gone to sleep a while ago leaving the prince to his own means of entertainment so sneaking out hadn't been a hard thing to accomplish. Smiling he leaned over the wall that enclosed the walkway and looked out into the vast forest all around him. It seemed odd looking out from this walkway rather than his own room, but there wasn't much he could do about that. From the reports that he wasn't supposed to hear he'd found out his home had almost been completely destroyed and would have to be rebuilt.

"On this quiet night, I'm waiting for you, I've let go of what happened back then, and thus my smile has returned." He closed his eyes allowing the song to leave his lips as his father had sung it to his siblings and himself. The song had always been a source of comfort for him, but now it was more of a way to say goodbye without having to actually say it. "Since then, just a little time has passed, but it seems our memories have already become fonder." The image of a knight coming towards him with a sword out entered his mind, it wasn't the first time he'd seen this. "In the place where the stars fall, I was constantly wishing that you would be smiling, we may be far apart right now, but I know we'll be able to meet again."

He let the words echo and then fade as he stopped resting his head on his folded arms. He wasn't sure what the best move would be now. In all reality, he would become the next king soon once the castle was rebuilt and they had gotten rid of Hiead. He wanted these thoughts to go away quickly and so began the song again.

"Since when has your smile been so fragile and short-lived? It broke under one mistake and gave way. Let only the things that really matter become your light and with that strength, cross over the distant sky." He turned his back to the wall and noticed two people standing in front of the inn. The taller of the two pointed towards it and the shorter one nodded at him running off into it. The taller one shook his head in amusement and followed him. "To the place where the stars fall, I want my feelings to reach you and I'll embrace that coldness that has been at your side for so long. We may be far apart right now, but I know I'll meet you someday." As the words faded this time, Ernest got the odd feeling of the spirit who'd been near him during the ceremony come into his mind. He was about to mutter a curse and then saw that the two boys he'd been watching had ran off too and felt like kicking himself. He'd wanted to get a good look, especially at the taller one considering it may have very well been Hiead. 'What an idiot I am.'

"On a quiet night..' Ernest jerked around instantly hearing the words he'd been singing repeated by someone else. "Hey." The prince looked horribly pale now and was shocked he hadn't jumped out of his skin and over the wall and wondered how this guy had gotten this close to him without him sensing a thing.

"H, hey," he said nervously trying to get a good look at him. He looked him over noting the earrings and green hair and smiled. The person standing in front of him wasn't Hiead and to make things better he was pretty good looking, especially in the outfit he was wearing. 'Okay, he's hot and good looking and he has a bit of style…but attitude does matter,' he told himself a few times in his head and took a quick breath then smiled. "So…"

"You were the one singing the song right? The one King Albert wrote," he asked tilting his head to the side curiously. Ernest felt like the air had been knocked out of him, he'd been going around trying to avoid being known as the prince, but obviously, this person had to have some type of connection to the throne if he knew about the song.

"Umm…yes…I mean…how do you even know about that song," he asked nervously a blush going across his face. He tried his best to hide it then realized it was dark out and the guy wouldn't be able to see it even if he wanted him to.

"Oh umm…just heard it a few times," He muttered looking embarrassed himself. "It's a nice song…and you sing it really well...It was written for the Queen you know," he said off handedly and looked away. Ernest's blush deepened immediately at the compliment. Of course he knew who the song was originally for, but right now all he was thinking about was the rest of the sentence. Even though his father had, had nothing against him singing he'd done his best to hide his talent so as not to attract even more attention to himself of wanting a male partner rather than a female one. "So, what's your name?"

"My name? It's-"

"I'm Gareas,' the boy said cutting him off. He looked so proud Ernest wondered if the guy really did know he was the prince and was having fun with trying to insult him by treating him with such little respect, not that he minded, it was just slightly annoying.

'I think he's hitting on me too,' Ernest thought with slight amusement. 'I wonder if he knows I'm a guy.' Ernest had been mistaken for a female on many occasions to more than a few of his family members' horror. He'd been forced to cut his hair, but even so, he still looked more feminine than half the women in the castle and was still mistaken. "Excuse me, you do know that I-"

"GAREAS!" The boy from early screamed running up the ramp towards the two of them completely ignoring the rule about not waking up sleeping soldiers. He glared at Gareas putting his hands on his hip sighing. "You need to sleep; you need rest so your wounds will heal. Besides, how will you ever find that 'dream angel' of yours if you don't wake up tomorrow morning?"

'Damn he's already taken,' Ernest mentally sighed sitting on the wall. He watched the two exchange glares, which ended up turning into a shout fest. It lasted for about four minutes until Gareas finally managed to calm down to the point of being able to be understood as he screamed.

"Look Zero, I know that already I was just -"

"Stop hitting on the girl you womanizer and let's go to sleep," Zero growled and stomped back to the inn.

"FINE," Gareas shouted at his friend's retreating form. Ernest on the other hand remained where he was near chibi tears as he watched them.

'I knew it.' He put a mask up though and smiled as he'd done so many other times before. "Good luck finding your angel," he said in a fake cheery tone. Gareas turned back to Ernest a frown on his features.

"You know, I was just thinking. What's a beautiful girl like yourself doing traveling alone," he suddenly asked. He was grinning again as the words left his mouth, no doubt one of his best ones. Ernest mentally rolled his eyes at him tempted to take Gareas out with a single punch to the stomach or one in the face. He decided against it though figuring it'd only cause more problems for him and decided to play along with this little game.

"I'm here with my guardian. He's taking me to Lohan in the morning," he said as innocently as he could. 'You really are a womanizer.'

"No way! Zero and I just came from Lohan! What are you going there for if you don't mind my asking?" He suddenly seemed way into it and the prince had to hold back the urge of choking him since he realized the only thing Gareas wanted was to get into his pants. If this had been on Ernest's terms where they'd both known he was male, he wouldn't of minded this at all, but given the circumstances he decided he'd rather play the evil victim and catch the boy in his own game till he was to scared to ever play womanizer again.

"Well you see, we just came from Bale and-"

"That's where we're headed," Gareas screamed in shock. Ernest himself almost went over the edge and fell to the forest below. He managed to keep himself from dying though somehow and stared at Gareas wearily wondering how the person in front of him could have so many mood changes so fast.

"I wouldn't…you see Bale was just attacked. We left due to the fact we were one of the few survivors," he said doing a Mary sue voice and looking down, he even placed his hands in his lap to give it more of a girlish effect.

"No…Damnit," he turned to where Zero had been. "I told you didn't I! Now she may be dead…I may be to late…Damnit!" Ernest looked at him curiosity taking over common sense.

'Oh he's really pushing it. He was going to save another girl and here he is hitting on me.'

"Is something wrong," he asked evilly though his face still sounded innocent. His act was completely blown off though as Gareas grabbed his wrist tightly and pulled him down to his feet then pushed him up against the wall, his face inches from his own. Ernest's eyes instantly widened in fear and he tried to pull away, but the boy's grip was far stronger than his own.

"Tell me right now. Do you know anyone who just had some kind of ceremony to put a sphere into their back?"

'He couldn't be….' Ernest stared at Gareas in utter shock and wished Yu would wake up and come save him. There was no way this guy could be the same spirit that had held on to him during the ceremony and even worse, he thought he was a girl. "Why?"

"You'd think I was nuts if I told you, just tell me! The girl was about your height, same hair color, hair length. I saw some kind of sphere get put into her back by some person with brownish blonde hair in a ponytail. He looked kind of proud or something I don't know, but have you?" Ernest stared at him.

'He doesn't even know what his own king looks like,' he sighed. 'And he is the one who hugged me. Of all the rotten luck I could of ran into,' he mentally muttered. He strengthened the mask and attempted a bigger smile. "Of course I do, that was me," he said honestly. Gareas' eyes shot open and he looked like he'd been hit.

"R, really? Do you remember anything while they were putting the sphere into your back? Being hugged while something tried to comfort you?" Ernest held back the urge to burst into tears at how stupid his supposed knight was.

"Yes. That was you," he asked in his most innocent tone. Gareas nodded quickly. "I guess I didn't have to wait that long then for you to find me." He smiled seductively at him causing Gareas to blush.

"We, well…can I know your name now…?"

'You're the one who interrupted me,' he thought with another sigh thinking of a fake name he could give him. It only took a few seconds though for one to click into his mind. "Kizuna."

"Well then, Kizuna, I here by swear to protect you from here on out. I will be your knight in shining armor," he swore taking Ernest's hand and bowing his head towards it. Ernest watched him more bored than anything wondering if Yu would ever come to save him.

"Well see, I already have one of those," he said in the same bored tone. "My guardian is currently my knight so I really have no need-"

"Yeah well, I can be a real knight for you," he cut in again laughing. Ernest rolled his eyes at him pulling away from his would be knight.

'Wonderful, now I get to pretend to be a peasant woman. I can't believe he's so stupid. He hugs me in the middle of my ceremony in a castle with a king next to me, only royal members have seen coming of ages ceremonies and he thinks I'm a girl and a peasant, wonderful.'

"Thank you."

"Well, I'll see you in the morning then," Ernest said walking away. "Thanks," he muttered as he walked towards the inn. 'Gods Yu is going to murder me. Maybe we can sneak out early and avoid him. So much for my knight in shining armor,' he thought wearily. Couldn't he get any kind of a break?

TBC

Okay there, that wasn't so bad. I rewrote the entire chapter with better grammar, or at least that's the plan. Thanks for reading.