Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Knights. Now for the grovelling… please, please don't sue me! I don't have any money! And it's Christmas and I have to buy people presents because of America's focus on commercialism! (oooh big word…)
Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I meant to. Really I did! But we had this school play and I had to do five-hour dress rehearsals every school night until we started performances which took up my weekends! Then we have this English paper and now History Day projects, but anyways…time to relieve the stress by continuing my story! Here it is!
Tintlet sweatdropped. She hadn't meant to upset anyone! All she had done was ask whether or not this was the Draqueen Theatre, and now thatblonde man on stage was freaking out and a girl was coughing uncontrollably behind him giving him a murderous look.
"This is ridiculous!" said her manager brushing past her into the auditorium.
"Excuse me!"
No one noticed. There attention focused on restraining and sedating the two blondes. The girl had stopped coughing and attempted to choke the blonde man, except for brown-haired man who was cowering in the corner staring at the two violent blondes in horrified amazement and a pink-haired girl and green-haired man who were exchanging bets on who would win.
Tintlet looked at her manager. Miss Chibi was not the type of person you wanted to piss off. She had short, wavy brown hair with two purple strips framing her face and steely dark blue eyes which were flickering with annoyance.
"EXCUSE ME!" Miss Chibi screamed.
Movement on the stage stopped, even the girl strangling the blonde man stopped and stared at Miss Chibi and cocked her head to once side cutely with a sweet smile plastered on her face. One would have thought she was the epitome of innocence had her hands not been wrapped firmly around the blonde man's neck cutting off his supply of oxygen, while his face grew more and more purple.
He took advantage of her being sidetracked and broke free of her loosened grip and would have started screaming again had not yet another woman started talking.
"Who are you?" asked a woman with dark brown hair in a messy ponytail.
Miss Chibi straightened, finally they were paying attention, she wondered if their boss was aware of their behavior. Especially that of the murderer and victim pair, the two gamblers, and the insolent one who had addressed her.
"I am Miss Chibi, the manager of the Dusis Acting Troupe. Where is the manager of this theater? I believe the name is-"
"Nanners."
"Excuse me?" Man, she was saying that a lot today. The only difference was this time it was a question not a command.
"Call me Nanners. I'm the manager," the girl responded blankly. Miss Chibi did a double take. 'Nanners' was of medium-height with a carefree hair style, a black shirt, and jeans practically spotted with holes! And more than a glimmer of a sarcasm were in her eyes! This couldn't possibly be the manager!
"Nanners, can I finish murdering Alfeegi now? He's getting on my nerves!" said the blonde girl who had attempted murder minutes ago.
"Huh? Oh, no." said Nanners, before turning back to Miss Chibi, "Anyways, I'd like you to meet my crew. This is Gil and Alfeegi, Alfeegi's the angry blonde who was almost a murder victim. Which reminds me, WHAT DID I TELL YOU ALL ABOUT ATTEMPTING MURDER WITH WITNESSES AROUND!"
"Don't do it..." mumbled all the inhabitants of the stage except for the cowering man like kindergarteners who had just been told not to eat glue.
"Gil and Alfeegi are my assistant tech managers. And that's Teeny, the attempted murderess, she's the sound technician..." Nanners continued, nothing about her betrayed that she had just been giving a lesson about when and when not to commit murder. Teeny also looked like she had absolutely nothing to do with anything criminal as she smiled and waved at Miss Chibi.
"And here are the other techs, Rath..."
The black and white-haired guy waved sullenly.
"Kitchel..."
The pink-haired gambler smiled, waved, and pocketed a large amount of cash.
"Thatz..."
The other gambler payed no attention to the actors and their manager, he merely cried himself to sleep on the floor and began mumbling threatening things about Kitchel in his sleep. Kitchel muttered, "lazy ass..." and kicked Thatz repeatedly but was still unable to wake him up.
"Kai-Stern, he likes to drink but gets more done than Thatz. Random fun fact, thought you might enjoy it..."
The albinosmiled sheepishly and waved.
"And finally, our latest addition, Ruwalk," Nanners glanced at the man cowering in the corner, "But he appears to be a bit scared at the moment, so we'll just move on. That's Lim Kaana, the costume designer,"
The girl with short brown hair smiled.
"And the guy with the dark red hair is Fedelta, the lighting technician. The one hugging him is his uh...assistant, I guess...Chaos." Nanners finished.
Fedelta didn't respond, he was too busy trying to pry a girl in a black cape/Chaos off of him. Eventually Lim Kaana and Teeny stepped in and pulled Chaos off of the poor lighting technician. Fedelta flipped his hair in a macho way, well at least as macho as you can get when your practically acting like a cross between Britney Spears and Sesshomaru (a/n: They both make a show of flipping their hair. Sesshykharl and Chigiri Ikeda are gonna kill me. If the rest of you wouldn't mind, please forgive me, I all ready have to many people out to get me.)
"Yes well," said Miss Chibi her mind reeling, "I'm not sure whether or not it's a pleasure to meet you but I guess I have no choice, I'd like you to meet my actors."
She gestured at the group of people who had filed in behind her.
"This is Tintlet,"
A pretty girl with long, swirling blonde hair and clear blue eyes stepped forward.
"And Rune,"
Another pretty blue-eyed blonde girl stepped forward.
"Bierrez,"
A young man with orange and yellow hair and sharp green eyes stepped forward.
"Nohiro,"
A guywith short black hair, purple eyes, and a white headband attempted to step out of the crowd but failed to notice that he was standing at the mouth of the stairwell, and tripped down it unceremoniously.
Thunk.
Wince.
Bump.
Wince.
Clunk.
Wince.
The techs stared at the klutzy actor. He's an actor? they all thought.
He'd die on our sets! thought Gil, ever so slightly worried.
"Ouch," said Teeny wincing, "I've fallen down those stairs before. It hurts!" She shuddered.
Must not laugh...must not laugh... thought Chaos as she choked on suppressed giggles.
Must not look at Chaos...must not look at Chaos... thought Nanners, struggling to control her own laughter which had the bad habit of bursting out at innappropriate times as it was.
Must not look at Chaos...must not make eye contact...it only encourages her... thought Fedelta.
"Note to self: Very short costumes for that one, durable ones too..."Lim Kaanasaid out loud as she stared at the sprawled mass on the floor.
"I bet he's a bad drunk..." mused Kai-Stern. Alfeegi glared at him.
"Chill out Feegums..." yawned Thatz, who had just woken up. Nohiro's crash landing had woken him up.
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" screamed Alfeegi who started chasing after a drowsy Thatz.
"KITCHEL! HELP!" screamed Thatz.
"No thanks!" smiled Kitchel, munching on popcorn as she watched the entertainment. "Popcorn!" squealed Chaos leaping at Kitchel.
"I'll sell you some for 20 bucks," said Kitchel, sensing the chance to make a sale.
Chaos thought for a moment. "Look, MONEY!" she yelled.
"Where?" Kitchel asked turning to look. Chaos snatched the popcorn out of her hands, "Over in the scene shop," she said as Kitchel ran out, not noticing that Chaos had outwitted her.
"Sucker," mumbled Chaos, grinning madly as she popped a kernel into her mouth.
Meanwhile Alfeegi was still chasing Thatz. Nanners sighed and stuck her foot out tripping Alfeegi. He stumbled off the stage and landed beside Nohiro on the ground. Ruwalk yelped.
"Can I continue now?" asked a perturbed Miss Chibi, a popped vein evident on her forehead.
"Yes please!" chorused the remaining techs on the stage.
"This is Zoma," continued Miss Chibi as they all ignored Nohiro and Alfeegi.
A small boy with spiky purple hair and red eyes stepped out from behind Miss Chibi.
"Fiji,"
A young girl with bushy blonde hair and blue gray eyes stepped forward shyly.
"Cesia,"
A beautiful girl with long wavy black hair and red bangs with gold eyes stepped out of the crowd.
"Fried Sushi,"
"Come again? Did you just say Fried Sushi?" asked Nanners her face totally surprised, her eyebrows about to merge with her hairline.
"How can sushi be fried? It's supposed to be raw!" asked Teeny making everyone sweatdrop.
"I'll have you know I'm a Tony winner!" said a petulant voice.
"Who said that?" asked Lim Kaana.
"I did!" said a large, walking... piece of sushi!
"Holy mother of pearl!" screamed Lim Kaana.
"Whose Pearl?" asked Teeny. Lim Kaana, Nanners, Gil, Rath, Thatz, and the actors fell over in astonishment.
"Don't ask stupid questions," chided Chaos beaming her in the head with a flaming paper airplane.
"CHAOS!" screamed Teeny with a murderous glint in her eyes. Thanks to the firey paper airplane it looked like steam was actually coming out of her ears. Scary and hilarious at the same time, just like Jason.
Chaos and Teeny bickered and fought in the background while everyone else gave their attention to the walking, talking piece of sushi who was basking in the attention seeing as he was still deciding whether or not he should be indignant at their surprise.
"MAY I PLEASE HAVE YOUR ATTENTION NOW SO I CAN FINISH THESE STUPID INTRODUCTIONS!" screamed Miss Chibi.
The bickering in the backgroung halted and everyone else stopped staring at Fried Sushi and turned their attention back to a Miss Chibi who was rapidly approaching her boiling point.
Miss Chibi cleared her throat and continued though her face was still red, "Finally, this is Kharl," she said introducing a man with poofy white blonde hair.
"HE IS SO HOT!" Half-squealed, half-screamed Teeny. She continued cooing about how hot Kharl was. Everyone decided to ignore her, except for Kharl who asked her if she would like his autograph.
"Chibi!" whined a voice from the shadows, "You forgot to introduce me!"
"Yeah, right, I 'forgot'," said Miss Chibi grudgingly as she turned to Nanners and said in a dull, flat voice, "This is my sister, Mirdemon. She's a journalist,"
"Don't be so mean about it!" said a girl stepping up to the stage as she shook hands with the surprised techs.
"I'm Mirdemon, and I write the entertainment column for the Daily Dragon and I couldn't resist coming today," she said over Teeny's repeated of chant of, "kharl kharl kharl kharl".
Mirdemon had short, styled brown hair and intelligent blue eyes with a dash of humor sparkling just below the surface.
"So, Nanners, what are your first thoughts after meeting the new acting troupe you'll be acting with?" asked Mirdemon whipping out a pen and pad of paper. Chibi groaned in the background and Rune's eyebrow twitched.
Nanners looked at Mirdemon for a moment, totally nonplussed, at least outwardly. Inside she was trying to keep herself from doing several things which included: bursting out laughing, screaming, kicking Alfeegi to see if he was alive, taking a short, impromptu nap,seeing ifGarfakcy was done cleaning, going off to the staff room to make Ramen, and talking with Gil about whether or not Nohiro would survive on their sets. Mirdemon wasn't bothered by her silence she just kept waiting and smiling though in her head she was wondering, When will she hurry up and answer? Oh well, it's annoying Chibi!
Nanners glanced back at Teeny who was still chanting "kharl kharl kharl kharl" while skipping around said Kharl in a circle. Kharl didn't seem to be bothered by the attention, in fact he started giggling.
Nanners turned back to Mirdemon with a creepy, little smile on her face.
"I'm thinking of muzzling Teeny."
Once again, I shall end there! Now that I've finished introductions, we will begin the actual story. Next chapter is play rehearsal and (insert gasp here) the reappearance of Nadil!
Oh, hi sesshykharl! Ack, put down the knife!
sesshykharl note: 6:29 pm, Wednesday December 7, 2005. I have successfully stolen coca-cola addict's keyboard. Now read and review while I get back at her for making fun of my beloved Kharl and Sesshomaru! Don't care about Britney Spears. I abhor her! Yay! I used a big word! Nanners, guess what? Oh, she looks mad...
Read and review while I get her for stealing my keyboard!