RO2


A/N:
I'm so sorry this came so late! School started, and so I'm piled with mounds and mounds of homework! I think I'll have to clean my desk again… it's getting messy! I'm getting back into RagOn, and so, my character in Loki needs some serious training! Ehe….

Hai! Please, enjoy!


Chp. 2: Calm before the Storm

"…Is is possible?" Ean looked at Dev.

Dev shrugged. "Being pyrokinetic doesn't really help with doing that."

"Stupid!" Izzy shot Dev a look. "If you can be associated with fire, couldn't you rip the force field of its magnetism?"

"Well, we'll just have to try, right?" Ean grinned, leaning back.

Izzy laughed and Dev smirked.

"Well, then," the pyrokinetic cracked her knuckles. "They won't know what hit them…"

"…after all…," she lifted her gaze to the heavens," … it always is calm before a storm…"

Norna Iva's Angulus, page 48

"Urgh— What in Odin's name is this?"

Holding up her spoon, Zeffy examined the gloop stuck to it with what seemed like both fascination and horror.

Looking from across the table, Sirc put his own spoon back into his bowl and sighed. "I told you, it's Fried Wolf Stew."

The small hunter giggled and dropped her utensil into the mushy mess in front of her. "More like Mashed Gut Paste."

"Stop it." Sirc looked at his bowl, disgruntled.

"Maaa, maaa," Ecarg reached over and patted Sirc on the arm. "Don't mind what they say. It's not that bad..." here, she trailed off and avoided eye contact with Allenaid, who had to practically stuff her fist into her mouth to smother her giggles.

Sirc opened his mouth to retort when the front door slammed open.

"Excuse me! Might I remind you, it was I who killed the freakin' monster while you stood there laughing! I deserve it! Give it!"

"Awesome!" Zeffy jumped up from her chair, knocking it over in the process. "Entertainment!"

"Be quiet, Zeffy, Mimi and I are having a very important debate!" glaring at the hunter, a fair-haired assassin turned her attention to another assassin, who was acting very busy doing the task of laying her head on the table, eyes tired.

"… As I was saying, it's mine! I did all the work! C'mon, please!" The sleepy assassin was met with over-large apple-colored eyes.

"Uhnn…" she covered her head with her arms. "Your pouch…"

"My—wha…?" the other 'sin glanced around, confused. "….wha—what about my pou—Oh My Odin…—you want to steal that too! What kind of cold-hearted assassin are you—"

"—But Yuzie," Allenaid reasoned, "Aren't assassin's supposed to be cold and heartless?"

"That's true…" Yuzura looked furious, and pointed at the now asleep assassin. "… especially assassin's like her!"

"Uh-huh… right…hey! Wow!" Zeffy's voice cut through the tension. "What's this, Yuyu?"

"What's what?" Yuzura turned around.

"This!" with seemingly great difficulty, the golden-haired huntress pulled out a scarlet orb imprinted with gold edges.

The assassin stared.

"What?" Zeffy looked up at her from the orb. "Right now, you look like a very heterocliff, animaluse person.

"… Heteroclite, anomalous person," Ecarg corrected tiredly.

"Right—like I said, a hecticroclique, aminolupe…"

"…give it a rest already, Zeffy." Allenaid held up her hands in exasperation.

Zeffy pouted, then, as the huntress looked back at Yuzura, she let out an inhuman scream.


Panting, a blacksmith rested his arm on a pole. Looking around, he could see no sign of his targets. Mopping his pallid hair back, he scooped up the bundle lying at his feet, and started out again.

I can't believe they deserted me!


After a few minutes of calming the huntress and putting her to bed, telling her that she needed some rest, Ecarg and Allenaid turned their full attention back to the cause—Sirc looking on with interest, murky soup forgotten. Mimi's hair fluttered as she let out a soft sigh.

Ecarg placed her hands on her hips. "My Odin! Did you have to scare her like that?"

"Uhh…" Allenaid watched the now purring assassin on the floor with disbelief. "I have to admit, that was stupid, and to someone as small as her too…"

A bloodcurdling face raced towards the screaming girl, arms outstretched.

As she raised her arms over her face, Zeffy prepared tot surrender, rather get tortured. A quick death was better than a prolonged one…

Snatch!

Her head snapped up. What had happened? Was she dead? Who was that monstrous being—

She was met with the sight of a very happy assassin, cuddling a very familiar scarlet orb.

The assassin's head turned towards her, an innocent look on her face.

"What's wrong, Zeffyy…?"

Zeffy's mouth dropped open. That was it. She… she couldn't take it any more.

The huntress broke into hysteric sobs.

Yuzuna shrugged. "I got over-excited, I guess."

Ecarg threw up her hands. "Over-excited? Over-excited! Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You went way over that line. You crossed into psycho-country. Congratulations, Yuzie, you just transformed into a lunatic."

The assassin's brow furrowed. "Lunatic…?"

"Yep." The priestess crossed her arms. "How do you feel about that?"

Yuzuna's eyes widened. "Oh… I feel horrible…"

"Yeah, you should." Allenaid sighed. "I mean, look at what you did, you—"

"Oh Good Odin!" Yuzuna jumped up, orb falling out of her hands. "Oh Good Odin! I can't believe I did that! I feel so horrible! Ahhrgh! What am I to do! Oh Dear Odin! Nooo! I should be punished! What am I to do!"

"…" Allenaid and Ecarg looked at each other in confusion.

"Yuzie…" Ecarg took a cautious step towards her. "Don't take it that hard… we didn't mean it to sound as bad as it did—" She was grabbed by the front of her collar again..

"Not that!" Yuzuna's face was inches from her own. Ecarg coughed uncomfortably. "I mean my Lunatic! Poor Koie! I left him with Volten! Ohhh! I should be punished! Oh, Odin!"

Ecarg stumbled back as the assassin let go of her and ran from the room, out the door.

"Koie! Koie! Oh Dear Odin, I'm going to kill you, Volten…"

Ecarg and Allenaid looked at each other again.

"…"

After a while, Ecarg cleared her throat.

"Well!" She looked at Allenaid again.

"…"

She tried again. "…Well! That was… that was… eventful…"

And with that, both priestess and swordsman fell to the ground, laughing uncontrollably.


Silence suffocated the dimly-lit room.

"… Maybe we… should first take out the girl…" an oily voice filled the area.

"No…" another hissed. "The others supply too much of a distraction…"

Yellow teeth flashed in the dim lighting. "Is that so…"

A slight shuffling was heard, followed by a sound of an object slicing through air.

"Hmm…" a gnarled hand reached for a knife. "It leaves me no choice, then…"

"... we'll just have to take them out one by one…"


"Message from Jinjubk!" A rogue appeared quite suddenly, waving a letter in the air.

"Ehh! Really!" Zeffy, who had long forgotten her frightening ordeal, spun around from hanging the clothes and clapped her hands together in delight. "Did you hear that, Shii? We might get to go on a quest again!"

Wiping her hands on her apron, a lilac-haired hunter smiled tiredly. "That's good."

"Outta the way!" a blur of purple and white sped past them.

"Thanks, Jurei!" snatching the letter from him(who was now feeling quite offended), Allenaid ripped it open.

Scanning through it quickly, the priestess was deaf to Zeffy's cries of "What is it? Let me see!" and Shivon's soothing "Settle down, Zeffy."

After a few silent moments, Allenaid spun around. "Alright! We got for ourselves another quest!"

"Yipee!" Zeffy threw her hands in the air, soapy water splashing everywhere. Running inside, she hollered up the stairs. "Yuzie! Ecchi! Dark! Everyone! We got a quest!"

As soon as she said that, footsteps thundered down the staircase.

"Awesome!"

Yuzuna, first to reach the bottom floor, picked up Zeffy, and spun her around the room, the huntress squealing with delight.

"About time, hmm, Dark?" Ecarg grinned at the silent wizard, who raised his eyebrow in return.

"C'mon, you guys! We're going straight over to Jinjubk's!" Allenaid waved from the courtyard.

"Dark" sighed as everyone hurried towards the priestess. Looking up at the sky, he silently wondered what he did to deserve this.


8 Sept. 2005
A/N: Well, there's the third chapter! I'm so so sorry if I didn't make the characters or story up to your standards! Please, if you have any complaints, tell me, so I can work it out! And also, I will try to mention the little noticed characters more next chapter! Thank you for sticking with me on this story!

Thanks to you again, my lovely readers!

-hopelessmine!