Disclaimer: Yo, I don't own Dragon Knights. I can't get my friends to sell me their souls so I don't own them either.
Sorry I haven't updated in so long. I've been kind of busy with school and stuff. Please forgive me :( So without any further ado, my story!
Things went fairly smoothly at the Draqueen Theater after Flames joined the acting troupe. Lim Kaana and Alfeegi were fairly crabby for at least a week. Lim Kaana because it took her a week to recover from the hangover she had gotten from Kai-Stern's super spiked milkshake, Alfeegi because he was born an angry, unhappy little man. Teeny spent the week bursting into tears every time she saw Kharl. Flames either cheered her up with copious amounts of coffee ice cream or Chibi would insist that more work would make her feel better which never failed to make Teeny run to the dressing room from which she would return stroking her holey kitchen knife fondly muttering about stupid clueless actors and workaholic anger management runaways.
Fried Sushi returned just in time for the performance along with a restraining order against Nadil who could no longer come within ten feet of the wounded sushi. Now the performance day was drawing closer and closer. Mirdemon continued to hang around the theater insisting that she was a backstage reporter. Fried Sushi had accused her of being a backstage paparazzi at the top of his lungs making Nanners's ear drip yet more blood and the entire acting troupe duck under tables and chairs and a few desperate ones even leaped into the orchestra pit.
Now it was the day before the performance and the tech crew plus Mirdemon were sitting in the scene shop eating breakfast. Alfeegi wasn't there yet. Nanners had threatened to fire him if he came in early that day.
Fedelta was sleeping behind a stack of plywood. Lim Kaana was perched on top of said plywoodyawning and trying to drink coffee but she just didn't seem to have the motivation. Chaos was snoring on Teeny's shoulder as Teeny stared at a random spot on the wall her entire body shocked by being up before noon for the fourth week in a row. Ruwalk sat by the two blondeshappily eating his own breakfast and enjoying the quiet.Gil sat next to Rath eating charred toast while his black and white haired friend kept giving what he must have thought were discreet looks to the clock and the door. Thatz, Kitchel, Mirdemon, and Nanners sat in a semicircle on the floor. Thatz wolfing down his food. Kitchel was eating too but much more slowly. Nanners was merely drinking a Coke for the caffeine rush while Mirdemon happily chomped away on her Rice Krispies. She started talking to them in between bites making everyone stare.
"Good morning to you too!" she cooed to her cereal, "I know it is lovely weather isn't it? I can't wait for opening night! It's going to be so exciting-"
Suddenly Mirdemon broke off, giving her cereal a slight glare, "What was that? Don't you 'snap crackle pop' me! Oh yeah! I dare you to say that again!"
The brunette then stood up and flung her cereal on the ground and kicked the bowl across the room, it skittered out onto the stage. Everyone stared at her horrified as she began to chuckle maniacally.
"NO! THE FOOD IS BEING WASTED!" wailed Thatz. He then flung himself on his stomach and started licking the spilled Rice Krispies and milk before Mirdemon stopped him.
"No! I want to see them suffer," she said in a creepy voice that made Thatz hide behind Kitchel who started laughing along with Nanners. Lim Kaana also started laughing but was cut off when she spilled her hot coffee on herself. She jumped and cursed, "Oh shit!" as she fell backwards landing on Fedelta.
"Ouch!" yelped Fedelta, "Lose some weight woman!" he added to Lim as she scrambled off him. "What was that?" asked Lim dangerously.
"You heard me," he said, stupidly not backing down.
Lim Kaana's face contorted in anger before it settled into a creepy grin that matched Mirdemon's when she had punished her Rice Krispies. Lim Kaana dumped their rest of her steaming coffee on Fedelta's face and whipped the coffee cup at it.
"MY EYES!" screamed Fedelta only making Kitchel and Nanners laugh harder.
"Idiot," muttered Gil.
"Why aren't they here yet?" asked an annoyed Rath loudly.
All noise in the room stopped as everyone turned to look at Rath.
"Who?" asked Chaos innocently.
"The actors of course!" said a peeved Rath getting up and standing by the door.
"Techie huddle!" ordered Teeny and all the techies plus Mirdemon who had gotten tired of glaring at her Rice Krispies huddled.
"It may just be a hunch but I think Rath has a little crush," sang Kai-Stern in a singsong voice.
"No way! Not Rath!" said Thatz disbelievingly.
"I wonder who the girl is?" mused Kitchel.
"Whoever she is, I bet she's not some psycho who throws hot coffee at people or plays with flaming torches," muttered Fedelta.
Lim Kaana punched him in the stomach and Chaos hit him over the back of the head.
"OW!"
"Did you take stupid pills this morning or something?" asked Nanners.
"Oh stop it Nanners! Can't you see he's in pain?" said Chaos in a saccharine sweet voice as she glomped Fedelta who tried to squirm away as everybody else in the huddle sweatdropped.
"You shouldn't baby him!" snarled Lim Kaana.
"Fedelta's girlfriend problems aside, I wonder who Rath likes?" said Teeny.
"Maybe it's that Tintlet girl," offered Ruwalk.
"Nah, she's with that blondie Rune," said Thatz with a wave of his hand.
"Maybe it's that actress Cesia," offered Kai-Stern mischieviously.
"I thought Bierrez liked her," said Gil frowning.
"Liking someone doesn't mean they like you back," sniffed Teeny.
"Yeah, take stalkers for instance. They are infatuated with the people they stalk but how many people like their stalkers?" asked Nanners.
"You know, you would think people would find the fact that somebody stalks them flattering, but no. They're all like, 'would you please sign this restraining order?'" whined Teeny.
Everyone looked at her for a minute before Mirdemon said "OK" and they returned to the more pressing matter of Rath's crush.
"Yeah, I bet its Cesia," said Kitchel.
"She scares me a little bit," whimpered Ruwalk.
"Most people scare you a little bit," pointed out Kai-Stern as he took another swig of his morning vodka.
"All right everyone! We'll be playing matchmaker today to break the monotony of play rehearsal!" announced Teeny. Everybody cheered, watching the same play over and over and over again was getting boring.
The actors plus Alfeegi finally arrived and an unspoken competition between Rath and Bierrez began. They would glare at each other constantly resulting in several accidents that disabled Zoma and Nohiro for the day sending Miss Chibi into spasms. Mir, Nanners, Kharl, and Flames managed to calm the poor manager and get her to take a nap on the couch in Nanners's office. And by calming her down I mean they dragged her into office, strapped her down with Kharl's belt, knocked her out with a fire extinguisher, and tranquilized her. None of this daunted Rath and Bierrez who had taken to knocking each other over the head with heavy objects so they could help Cesia with something. Eventually it had gotten to the point where Nanners deemed it necessary to call another techie huddle.
"So, which one are we gonna help?" asked Chaos bluntly.
"With what?" asked Nadil brightly.
"What are you doing here Nadilly-bar?" asked Nanners.
"Well it's a techie huddle and I'm not doing anything..." he explained weakly.
"Go play with your friend Sushi," said Kai-Stern.
"But I can't go near him because of the restraining order," explained Nadil.
"What this restraining order?" said Nanners as she ripped said restraining order to pieces.
"In other words: Go. Now," said Gil as he pushed Nadil from the huddle, "Now back to businesss."
"Well, I can't in good conscience set any guy up with any girl," said Fedelta looking pointedly at Lim and Chaos.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Lim offended.
"You don't like Cesia do you?" asked Chaos in horror.
"No, of course not!" said Fedelta.
"Well I would say we should help our fellow techie but Rath is such a sour person," said Teeny with a sad nod and a sniffle.
"Will you get over it all ready?" asked a peeved Thatz.
"DON'T BE SO INSENSITIVE!" yelled Kitchel as she hit him over the head with a bench she was supposed to be moving on set.
"Alfeegi's gonna kill you," said Gil wide-eyed.
"I'm all ready fourth on his death wish list so I don't think it really matters," said Kitchel with a shrug.
"He has a death wish list?" asked Ruwalk.
"Yep, I stole it," said Kitchel proudly.
Meanwhile Teeny had broken into sobs...again. "Don't cry Teeny," said Nanners soothingly, "So what if Kharl doesn't love you?"
"He loves me," growled Teeny as she slipped out the holey knife and latched her fingers into Nanners's arm.
"Miss Nanners! Get over here!" screamed the familiar voice of Alfeegi.
"Guess I gotta go," said Nanners nervously as she tried to break away from her friend. "No. You're not going anywhere til Kharl comes," said Teeny in a truly terrifying low, gravelly voice.
"Obsessive much?" asked Nanners in a high squeaky voice. "Not in hell," Teeny informed her in that same creepy voice, still clutching her knife.
Ruwalk had fainted dead away by this point and all the other techies were slowly backing away.
"Is that what rejection does to women?" asked Fedelta in a slightly high voice glancing between Lim Kaana and Chaos.
"Yes," Chaos informed him cheerily, "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
Meanwhile Nanners was still trying to finda way to pass off the responsibility of handling Teeny to somebody else. The fact that the blonde had started hissing and spitting made Nanners consider Chaos's tranquilizers. Sadly though they had to send Tintlet and Rune out to buy some more because they'd used up the last of their current stock on Miss Chibi. Just when Nanners thought all hope was lost she saw a familiar actress walk by.
"Flames! Get over here right now! And bring ice cream!" yelled Nanners. The actress did as she was told.
"Flamey!" sobbed Teeny as she slowly loosened her grip on Nanners.
"There, there," said Flames, "Have some ice cream and we'll talk."
Teeny sniffed, "Thatz was making fun of me and then Nanners was being mean. She...she said Kharl d-didn't l-love me anymore..."
"When did he love you to start with?" asked Nanners, her annoyance getting the better of her. She blanched when she dared to look at Teeny whose hair was practically standing on end.
"Don't you have somewhere to be?" half hissed half sobbed Teeny. The effect was kind of chilling.
"Yes, yes, she does," said Kai-Stern obviously wanting to get away himself, "Come along boss, let's go see Alfeegi."
Kai-Stern practically pushed his stunned boss to wherever the angry strawberry blonde was waiting.
"Damn," whistled Kitchel softly.
"Yeah. Whenever somebody chooses Alfeegi over something else you know things are getting scary," said Thatz. Lim, Gil, and Chaos nodded, Fedelta whimpered making everybody stare.
"Women are scary," he sobbed.
"Here, give him some ice cream," said Flames handing Lim Kaana the coffee ice cream.
"No! I'll give it to him!" said Chaos excitedly. Fedelta cowered. Gil quickly snatched the ice cream away from both girls.
"I'll do it," Gil said boredly before turning to Fedelta with a rarely seen mischievous expression, "Open wide!" He then stuffed a gigantic spoonful of coffee ice cream into the poor lighting technician's mouth.
"BWEN FWEES!" screamed Fedelta through a mouthful of coffee ice cream.
"Did he say 'brain freeze'?" asked Kitchel.
"I think so," said Lim.
Gil scooped up another spoonful of ice cream, "Open up for the little airplane!" he cooed. Fedelta immediately began waving his hands in front of him in an undignified way to ward off Gil and his Ice Cream of Pain. "Don't you want any more?" asked Gil in mock disappointment. Teeny was now giggling in the corner as she watched the strange scene from the happy corner Flames had set up for her.
"If he won't eat it, then I will," said Thatz resolutely as he took the tub of ice cream from Gil and began eating it himself.
"Glutton," seethed Kitchel. "Whatever," shrugged Gil, slightly disappointed that his fun had been cut short.
"Now that everything is right in the universe, I will be getting back to work," said Flames with a satisfied smile before walking away.
"It won't last long you know," said Gil pessimistically as he followed her. "I know, I know," said Flames tiredly.
Meanwhile Cesia was sitting in her dressing room reading over her lines when Rath entered.
"Oh Rath, what's up?" asked Cesia surprised but not unhappy to see the techie in her dressing room.
"Umm, Cesia there's something I wanted to tell you," said Rath looking down.
Is he blushing? thought Cesia but all she said was, "What?"
"I-" began Rath but he was cut short as the door burst open again.
"Hey do you know if Garfakcy came in today? Fried Sushi just had a temper tantrum and-" started Mirdemon before she noticed Rath was in the room too and was a lovely rose pink color, "Oh I'm sorry, was I interrupting something?"
"No not at all!" said Rath with fake brightness as he began to push the brunette out of the room, "Garfakcy didn't come in today. He was sick. Last I heard he was puking into a bucket. Buh-bye now!"
He slammed the door shut behind the reporter who stood stunned for a moment outside the door before grinning malevolently to herself. It was a grin much like the one she wore when she punished her Rice Krispies or annoyed her sister.
"This is going to be fun," she muttered before going out in search of anyone interested in causing some trouble. The first people she found were Nanners, Kai-Stern, and Alfeegi, who were arguing over the state of the curtain.
"It's two centimeters short on one side!" insisted Alfeegi.
"So what? Nobody's going to notice," said Nanners dryly.
"I noticed! And other people like me will!"
"So that means you and Chibi. You have to learn to look at this from the perspective of the type of people who will be in our audience," began Nanners matter-of-factly, "Kai-Stern, do you see anything wrong with the curtain?"
"Nope," said Kai-Stern simply.
"He doesn't count! He's drunk all the time! How is that a representation of our audience?" asked Alfeegi completely frazzled.
"There's a bar down the street," pointed out Nanners.
Just as Alfeegi opened his mouth to respond Mirdemon interrupted, "Nanners! Guess what!" she exclaimed excitedly before whispering about the situation between Rath and Cesia into the other girl's ear.
"What's going on?" asked Kai-Stern.
"What about the curtain!" asked Alfeegi.
Nanners smirked mischievously, her eyes shadowed by her bangs, "Hehehe...This'll be fun..."
I feel evil, oh so evil, I feel evil and evil and bad! Will Rath ever tell Cesia how he feels? What will Bierrezdo?Will Teeny and Kharl ever resolve their issues? Will Kharl finally figure out that they had issues? Will Teeny stop crying long enough to tell him? Will Fedelta ever resolve his girlfriend issues? Will Chibi gnaw herself out of Nanners's office if she has to? What about the curtain!
If you don't review then I will become disenheartened and mope on my couch and get fat and eat dustbunnies because I have no life and youwill never find out what happens! So review, review, review!