To Love a Theif

By: Helbaworshipper (AKA 'Helb')

Chapter 2

Eric sat safely in the backup Seno castle, watching the currently used one to begin shaking. He had waited awhile for Alice Seno to get the right words wrong. Now he watched with a rich and almost completely full of hatred smile. Alice Seno was a well birth righted Neo Master, hence the reason her sister had the other less deserving teacher. He now waited for the delivery of his future tool.

Seno Castle...

Alice couldn't move from her spot, fear entered her mind as she imagined being swallowed up by the huge castle she had lived in all her life. However, someone's hand began to drag her body through the crumbling wings of the castle. She could feel and hear the pouring rain soaking into her dress and her hair as she was dragged. She could hear her dress tearing as her body was unable to hold up the frail fabric from being too clingy to her annoying heels.

"Utei!" A male voice was calling out, and the servant began to morph. Her wrist was still held tightly by the servant, who began to use it's black maram to hold her to its back. "Give me the girl!"

"She belongs to Darva, Lotis theif." The monster who was once a servant began to pull her abdomen to its back, holding her in a way to bar her from looking at the source of the voice.

"She doesn't belong to you yet, let me have the girl." She felt her legs beginning to give in to some of the strange holds trying to tug her. She began to feel so drowsy, and her concentration wasn't helping very much either.

"Raji-"

"Aleto!" The monster began to leave existence as she began to fall forward again. Another body stopped her ascent and began to pick her up bridal style. "It'll be okay, you're safe now." Her eyes finished their descent to sleep, and she slumped into the male voice's abdomen.

Darva's Castle...

Eric's eyes followed the room for any sign of the fruits of his labor. His only reward so far seemed to be the endless amount of waiting for his other subordinates to return with the good news. It was then his eyes met a figure running into the room with the speed of one being attacked by a wild boar. It was Kayna, he could tell from the white mask with the red rose mask on her visage. "Master Eric, terrible news has arrived from the Seno castle." This made him remove his black mask with three white stripes on each side.

"What happened!"

"When we sent the servant to obtain and protect Alice Seno from the grasp of any lotis, we found our plan had somehow leaked to the Lotis Theives. The servant tried his best to keep the princess from the sent in hero's grasp. He was purified before we could send any reinforcements to help the servant."

"We can't focus on our failures, we still haven't had the time to assimilate a plan that seems well. I believed that if we nicked it on the bud at first before they got involved, we could skip that factor all together. For now we will have to spy on her progress and see when we can find an opening to use her."

Lotis Theive's headquarters...

The shape on the bed in the one of the guest rooms of the newest refugees began to move as it began to open its eyes. The shape slowly became female, making a slow and almost completely confused state seem odd. It was then it hit her, she wasn't in her home or even her room anymore. "Where in the world am I!" Her voice went high from bottom of her frail body. Another shape that seemed to wake from the call that resounded from the female figure on the bed.

"You sure wake up even the mice when you're away from home, aren't you?" The voice from last night! She looked at the source more closely now as the oppurtunity presented itself. The male was dressed in spoiled servants clothes and his hair looked a bit dishivelled. His eyes were almost royal looking and his face had this sort of look that placed people in their place.

"Who are you?"

"Kyou Wakamiya."

"Wait, aren't you the one that I was supposed to be engaged to?"

"Yeah, before the kingdom collapsed. Darva did the same thing to my kingdom years and years ago." His body raised from the chair, pulling out from the strange matierial she couldn't seem to discern the exact composition too.

"What am I doing here?"

"Scipio will tell you all about it." He made his way to the door as his voice began to reverberate out louder than her first reaction. "Mei Lin!" Once he had exited the room into the cushioned hallway. The next person that ended came into the room holding a bundle of clothes. Her hair was in a bun that expanded to a pony tail that reached just below her waist. Her clothes were like the other person's, except that it was a female version. Her eyes and face looked royal as well.

"Are you also a royal that was attacked by Darva?"

"Yes, I'm from the lotis kingdom located in China. You should get changed so you can go and get your answers fast." Alice took the bundle offered and began to slide out of her torn and ruined pale pink silk dress. Her body felt more comfortable wearing the spoiled servants clothes, it was then she noticed that no one seemed to be wearing shoes. The female beside her seemed to notice this, probably experienced with the first hand experience herself. "We don't wear shoes unless we're training Alice, don't worry about the halls." The said blushed and nodded as she was led through the hall. She was finally led to one of the wood doors, which was painted ruby and knocked. She walked through the door and came face to face with another person as the door shut.

"Welcome to the Lotis theives, I'm Scipio."