Dark-birdie: weeeeeeeee chapter seven! But I'm not getting as many reviews as before.. TT I knew it, you all hate me! cries in her corner
Switch- chapter 7
Rune woke from his long, uncomfortable slumber. He groggily opened his eyes and was greeted by the sight of many vertical, silver lines. He slumped back down to sleep more, muttering, "That's great, we're in a cage.". But then, after a moment's pause, his phrase hit him. "Holy crap, we're in a cage!" he shouted, getting up from the floor again, only to hit his head on the top of the cage. "Rath! Thatz!"
"Over here, Blondie," came Thatz's voice from his left.
"Ruuuuuuuune!" yelled Rath's from above him.
The three knights were place in three separate cages. Rath's on top of Rune's, and Thatz's to the left.
"Where are we?" inquired Rune, looking at the sight before him. Dirt paths and carriages tottering this way and that; different venders and stalls lined up against the street; he only hoped they were still in Draqueen.
"Don't worry, we're still in Draqueen," said Rath reassuringly, reading his friend's mind. "We're actually in the central market place."
"That's good…wait- MARKETPLACE!" he shouted, looking up at Rath. He began to hit his head against the bars, "I do believe I'm going to kill myself. Please, just let me DIE."
"Stop it Rune," said Thatz, throwing a pebble at the elf, "You're not making this any better."
"Don't you get it Thatz! We're going to be SOLD!" yelled Rune in dismay, "It'll be a miracle if our dragons can find us! They're complete dunces, minus Water! I mean, they could be miles away right now for all we kno- AAAAH!"
At that moment, a giant human face appeared right in front of the bars the water dragon knight was clasping. Well, rather, the face was normal-sized; Rune was just very small. The face belonged to that of a young girl, with wide, round blue eyes and brunette hair fashioned into two curled pigtails. She wore rather fancy, frilly red and white clothing that screamed "rich". The girl smiled rather evilly and opened her mouth wide.
"DADDY!" she half screamed, standing up right.
"What is it dear?" inquired an older gentleman, who had stepped out of the large, extravagant carriage.
"I want this!" cried the girl, knocking over Rath's cage to the floor so she could pick up the one containing Rune. Rath spat out some ashes in protest and the other two knights gave deep growls. "See?" said the girl, taking the growl the wrong way, "She likes me!" She held the cage close to her face. "Don't you?"
Rune became even more infuriated after being called a "she" and growled more, sliding over to the farthest side of the cage to stare down at Thatz and Rath.
The girl took notice of this and peered down again at the two other dragons. She held Rune's cage close to Thatz's. "You like this guy, Antoinette?" asked the girl, already naming her new pet.
Rune blanched at the new name, but nevertheless, didn't want to leave without his comrades. He shook his head up and down, giving the girl the affirmative, then slide to the other side of the cage towards Rath.
"And this guy too?" asked the girl, pointing to Rath who had gotten up from his cage after being thrown down.
Rune shook his head again, though angry at the fact that the girl thought of both Rath and Thatz to be male.
"Fine, fine," she said, "We'll get both of them too." She looked back at her father, "DADDY! I want these two, too!"
"They won't be cheap," said the vendor, grinning, "Rare elemental dragons, they are. Just found them this mornin'."
"I'm quite sure we'll be able to pay for them," said the older gentleman, producing a single, golden bar from the carriage. "I believe this is enough? Or would you like two more?"
After exchanging quite a large amount of money with the greedy vendor, the small girl cheerfully grabbed Rune's and Thatz's cage and left her father to pick up Rath's.
"Great, NOW what?" asked Rune contemptuously, "We're definitely NOT going to be found now."
Rath and Thatz stared back at Rune confused, but unknowing of what would happen.
But, rather opposite of what Rune had just stated, their dragons were not very far off from their location.
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Earth sipped his drink lazily, feet up on the café table and blinking at the newspaper he couldn't even read.
"Dusis, Earth, don't you care a single bit as to how our master's are?"
"Yes, I just don't feel like jumping up every moment after seeing a color of blue, red, or brown," replied Earth, chewing on the end of his straw.
"I am soooooooo going to be yelled at when I find master," mumbled Fire, bringing his drink to his lips. He looked up at Water, but instead, by the smallest bit of luck he would ever acquire in his life, he just HAPPENED to look past Water and to the carriage being loaded behind him. He almost immediately spat out the beverage in his mouth. "RATH!"
Water immediately turned around and Earth took his feet off the table to stand up. "What!"
"I saw them, they were in cages," sputtered Fire, getting out of his seat, "With a little girl who got into the carriage which is currently being driven away!"
"Well what are you waiting for!" yelled Water, aggravatingly, "Let's go!"
But as the dragons hopelessly tried to catch up with the moving carriage, their legs failed them and they fell, farther and farther away from the knights.
"Damn…now how are we going to find them?" said Water hopelessly.
"Well at least now we know where they are…kinda," said Earth, getting up from the ground. "I mean, looking at the state of that carriage, they're rich people. And this town is a bit of a lower-class place, so we just gotta look for the richest-looking house!" he said smartly.
"And HOW do you know all this?"
"I learn from Thatz."
"Right."
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"Okay, so…you two need names too!"
Rune, Rath, and Thatz stared both angrily and sadly at the girl before them. Angry, because she seemed to be a very brutal, spoiled rich brat; and sad, because their dragons were nowhere in sight.
Rune was even angrier than the other two, because even though he wasn't even in his human form right now, he was STILL being mistaken for a girl. I mean, what IS it with the world and his manliness?
The girl skimmed over the remaining two dragons' features and clapped her hands together. She pointed to Thatz and said, "You're Spike, 'cause of your spikes." Then, in turn, she pointed to Rath, "And you're Ember, 'cause you're the color of fire."
Rath tried to hide his laugh at the name "Spike" by faking a cough, but it caused him instead to give a momentary gag.
"Oh stuff it, Ember," hissed Thatz, "Your name ain't any better. Sounds like a chick's."
"WOULD YOU TWO STOP COMPLAINING!"
Rath and Thatz sighed and turned towards Rune, still in his cage. After attempting many escapes from the young girl's, who was soon found out to be named Elizabeth's grasp, she had decided to keep him locked up whenever she wasn't busy tormenting him. The other two, however, would never try to escape because they couldn't leave Rune behind, and so were allowed out of their cages.
Both dragons snickered.
"Why so grumpy, Antoinette?" asked Thatz sarcastically.
"Yah, don't like your pretty ribbon?" giggled Rath.
Rune resumed on to turning red and glaring at the two. Elizabeth was so overjoyed on having new pets that she decided to collar each of them. Thatz and Rath, of course, had normal, and even cool collars. Thatz's, black and with spikes lining it, and Rath's, also black but with a single red gem in the center.
Rune, however, was what Elizabeth called special. She had found a pink velvet lace and a small bell. Elizabeth forced it around Rune's neck and tied a very large and visible bow on his back. After quite a significant amount of superglue and fumbling around, the small girl had finally gotten the collar to stay on Rune, and now, with the help of the bell around his neck, she knew exactly if he was attempting to escape.
Rune sighed deeply and his corner of the cage became suddenly dark as he attempted to go gothic and mentally kill his spirit.
"Aw, c'mon Rune, you're pretty as a picture," said Thatz, smiling.
"Say another word and I swear I'm going to disembowel someone," in such a murderous tone that it would have made the devil cry.
"Geez Rune, you're no fu-"
"ANTOINEEEEEEEEETTE!" came a cheery, high-pitched voice as the door flung open.
Rune covered his face with his wings and cried.
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"So how do we get in without causing suspicion?"
"Hell if I know! I got us to the right place, my job is done."
"Earth! What use is getting the right place if we can't get inside!"
"Shhhh! Quiet! Someone's coming out!"
The three dragons-in-knights quickly hid behind some bushes as someone exited the grand house. They peered out from between the leaves for a look.
An old man, a butler from the way he was dressed, had come from the house to hang a paper sign on the front door. After finishing his job, he hobbled back into the mansion.
And now, the dragons stared at the sign, trying to decipher the writing of humans.
"Ano…I don't suppose any of you know how to read?" asked Earth, turning his head to the side to see if it could be read that way.
"Sadly, through all my life, I've never learned," replied water, crossing his arms in a huff, "I'm not let out much."
"Help wanted."
Water and Earth turned in unison towards Fire, who was staring intently at the sign.
"…"
"Help wanted: two butlers and a maid," read Fire again.
"…YOU CAN READ!" exclaimed both Earth and Water simultaneously.
"Well, duh," said Fire bluntly, "You should go back and read Dragon Knights 1-22, really (well, that's the Americans have up to currently anyways), I read AND write." He held up a pile of Dragon Knights manga.
"Ah, enough of this!" said Water, dumping the pile of books in a nearby bush. (Mineko Ohkami: HEY!) "We have to concentrate on finding a way in!"
"I think we already have," said Earth, smirking and giving an evil little laugh. He pointed to the sign, "That's how we're getting in."
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dark-birdie: yay! Another chapter done! Now, I gotta sleep. R&r please!