V
Irelia Has Been Charmed
"So~ What happened.. Last night?"
"Oh. It's nothing."
"Nothing? Your face tells me that it was a blast. Tell me!"
"No."
"Tell. ME!"
"NO! Why would I share it with a mutt like you?"
"Hm. Let me guess. You have a progress."
"A progress?"
"Progress of making Irelia.. yours."
"W-WHAT?!"
Syndra was blushing as she converse with the fox. Honestly, Ahri was the one who visited Syndra for her to know about the call that the mage wanted to try with Irelia. She has thoughts of playing tricks and teasing the mage because on how she sees Syndra entertaining to her view.
"M-MAKING HER MINE?! PREPOSTEROUS!" Syndra stutters.
"Oh look! I am right after all!" Ahri laughs mischievously.
"NO! THERE IS NO PROGRESS THAT YOU'RE EXPECTING TO! WE'VE ONLY TALKED! PERIOD!"
"Talked? About..?" Ahri pressed, she leered at the mage with mischief.
"Things!" Syndra declared. "Of course I am the only one who could talk to her more things!"
"Hmph. Just because you have YOUR phone with you! What happened to our DEAL?!" Her tails shrilled a little.
"Like you COULD borrow my phone from here." She crosses her arms and wiggled the phone that was in her hand's grasp.
"Hey! It's my turn! I will show you how I'll make Irelia more comfortable talking with the phone!" Ahri made a declaration.
"In your face. Mutt. My phone. My own." Syndra smirked. "You think that the Fool Captain was more comfortable with you? Ha! She even said that she will be happy to recieve my calls!"
Syndra now started to show off their talk with the captain to put a challenge between her and the fox, since Ahri was dedicated to have the phone borrowed from the mage.
"For your information, she said last time we had called her that I've brightened up her day! I am the first one that Irelia sees as COMFORTABLE!" Ahri argues.
"Secondly, SHE was ready to help ME if I NEED her!"
"This childish Ball-Loving Mage.. She was quite an opponent." Ahri thought.
"HMPH! I don't know if this 'Souvenir' has been knowing Irelia's likes!" Ahri ranted.
"You CALLED me AS A SOUVENIR?! ARE YOU A KINDERGARTEN IN A DAY-CARE CENTER?!" Syndra barked, trying to defend her own pride.
"I am NOT kindergar-!..Wait. What is that again?"
"HA! You call yourself KINDERGARTEN!? IDIOT!" Syndra laughed heartily."If YOU are referring to the education then you are an IDIOT! I am pointing as a STUDENT! YOU NITWIT!"
"S-SHUT UP!" Ahri felt embarrassed. "H-How should I know that? Those things came from humans!"
"That is WHY you must CALL a teacher for your idiocy!"
"Hmph! Then I will call Irelia as my TEACHER!"
"Do you THINK she can handle a dog pound?!"
"Don't think of me as DOG!"
"Ha! She also thinks that you ARE a dog! AND I know what she was thinking about your dog smell!"
"Oohh.. since when you know more about Irelia? You feel like you already KNOW her!"
"How about YOU then? Tell me what she likes!"
Ahri fixed her composure and laughed instead, giving Syndra hostility that was intriguing for her.
"Why would I tell it to a child? It's off-limits for those who aren't yet an adult."
"I am an ADULT." Syndra quickly cuts in. "So tell me!"
"Why don't you see it for yourself? Since, you told me that Irelia was happy to receive calls from you."
"And how should I do that? I am not like you who flirts all the way until a pervert came in."
"Hey!" Ahri cried. "Just because I talk like that doesn't mean I entertain perverts."
"Tch. Entertain my face." Syndra huffed. "Tell me already! You TWAT!"
"Fine. But. I WANT MY TURN!" Ahri pointed at the phone. Syndra sighed and accepted the deal, she waited for Ahri to speak the things that she has to say to Irelia in order to extract information about her likes. But, Ahri demanded written, because it really teaches Syndra things.
So after those patience, Ahri handed a piece of paper, it has notes that are sloppy yet written with a non-dominant hand.
"What the hell is this?! This writing is like a chicken who looks for worms!" Syndra spats, cringing on the note that was made by the fox.
"She licks to.. WHAT?! FIX THIS CRAPPY WRITING! YOU NITWIT!" Syndra angrily complained.
"She LIKES to!" Ahri corrected. "What licks!? I didn't even wrote that! Wait..she .. licks..what?" Ahri gasps and blushed.
"What the HELL!?" Syndra have got nervous and embarrassed. "Just. SHUT UP! FIX THIS!"
"Ugh! Fine." Ahri snatched the paper and rewrote it. "There."
Syndra reads the sloppy writing again but this time it was readable. She gasps as she interpreted the words that was indeed challenging for her, she was not that sociable and it made her think deeply.
"She likes..to drink tea? Well that was obvious." Syndra wondered.
"Not just tea, but bitter ones, just like her face." Ahri snickered.
"So you have tasted her bitter.. tea?" Syndra asked.
"Why, yes. I did. Jealous?"
"Shut up." Syndra pretended to let it slip by yet she wished that somehow she could try the tea that the captain was making. "But that tea she prepared for me yesterday was not bitter at all."
"Really? That's odd."
"How odd?"
"She often brew tea as much as she liked it bitter, I asked her why, and her answer was just simply a basis of her own life itself. She was so bitter." Ahri drooped her ears as a sign of loneliness, her tails flowed gently that was likely imitating Ahri's feelings.
"Interesting. I could spare a bitter tea as a recreation of how I see your FACE." Syndra tried to roast Ahri, rolled her eyes and sighed. She went back reading and wondered again.
"How mean." Ahri pouted.
A moment of silence just went by before Syndra spoke again. There is a sentence that intrigued her.
"Irelia was..c..cu.. cute? CUTE?! IS THIS EVEN HER LIKES?! I AM NOT ASKING YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON HOW YOU LIKED HER!" Syndra shoved the paper to the face of the fox.
"What?! She was cute!" Ahri replied. "You can't resist that so Ionian, human-ish and cute face of hers!" She wagged her tails endlessly. It was annoying.
"Your TAILS are slapping to my DRESS! MUTT!" Syndra pats her regalia to remove stray furs.
"Aw.. I want to talk to her. Let me use the phone!" Ahri demanded.
"Not yet! This is not much. I NEED MORE!"
"Why don't you ask her instead? Then you will let me use the phone!"
"What will I tell her then?!"
"Tell her what she likes, what is her hobby.. anything!"
"Hmph. I will let you have my PHONE if I am done with IT! SO BE IT!"
"Promise me THAT! Because I am going to tell Irelia that you are interested with HER."
"Don't. Freaking. DARE. I am going to kill you if you TELL HER THAT I.." Syndra paused.
"I..~?" Ahri repeated with a teasing tone.
"I-I.." Syndra stuttered, she blushed intently.
"Lov..?" Now, the fox teased, leaving Syndra blush for more.
"SHUT.. UP!" Syndra throws spheres at the fox. "THAT'S IT. NO PHONE FOR YOU!"
"What?! No!" Ahri teared up. "So it was TRUE! YOU LIKED HER!"
"I am NOT!" Syndra defended.
"Oh, you liked her. That's the fact!"
"SHUT UP! HOW MANY TIMES I-"
"Wow! Syndra likes Irie?! My god!"
"You. NITWIT! DON'T MOCK ME!"
"Aw~ She is blushing!"
"You better shut UP, or I WILL throw you OUT!"
Ahri was completely entertained, she was ready to tease Syndra more about how she was interested to the captain that was currently busy at work.
"Hm. What things you have liked to Irie?"
"You BETTER-"
"Oh. Probably her cuteness, wouldn't it?"
"Tch!"
"Aw.. Admit it~"
"You-!" Syndra prepared spheres for an attack, she knew that it was pointless because Ahri was too mobile to handle it.
"A-D-M-I-T.. IT~"
"UGH! FINE! I..I HAVE TAKEN AN INTEREST TO HER! HAPPY?! SO SHUT UP!" Syndra confessed, she covers Ahri's mouth with her palms and glared at her. Ahri was just giving Syndra teases again by chuckling playfully.
Unfortunately, the phone rang and the screen was written by a name with a phone number. It was not mistaken that it was her. Irelia.
The mages pounces the phone to see who will be the first one to answer it, Syndra struggled the phone while Ahri pulls the base of the phone away from the owner.
"WHAT THE HELL?! SHOO!" Syndra shoved Ahri's face.
"I am the one who touched it FIRST!" Ahri shoved Syndra's face with those nine tails.
"It's mine!" Syndra cried; her tone was muffled due to the tails' actions.
"Hey! We have a deal! So it's my turn!"
"Excuse me?! This is MY PHONE! DON'T SHOVE YOUR FACE TO MY PROPERTY!"
"Hush! A deal is a DEAL! Sondra!"
"S-SONDRA?! YOU CAN'T EVEN PRONOUNCE MY NAME?! WHAT AN INFANT!"
Suddenly, the phone just made a long beep, leaving the mages speechless, Syndra gasps as she thought that the phone was broken.
"IDIOT!" Syndra screamed in front of the fox's face, pointing at the phone. "Now it's broken!"
"Oh. That's not mine anyway. Who broke it?" Ahri disdained.
Before Syndra could speak, there was a voice in static when on, they have familiarized the speaker. The mages anticipated and gasps, until they have finally heard Irelia's voice.
"Good morning, Syndra. You are not answering, I thought that you are away right now."
"I-I am not AWAY! I am here! HERE!" Syndra answered, but she have wondered why the voice continued without pausing.
"I am leaving a message, did you know that you can leave messages via voice recognition? Even the recipient was away, they can receive or hear the caller's message."
"I didn't know that.." Ahri sighed.
"So do I."
"Well, you see.. I have something to give you today, I have plans for a visit to your fortress. So, I thought that I have to remind you because of that."
The mages gasps, glancing at each other.
"Oh, my god!"
"What 'Oh, my god!'?! She was about to visit here!"
"She has something for you! Syndra!" Ahri's eyes twinkled.
"Shut!" Syndra covers the mouth of the fox. "Listen!"
"My work shift has ended so, I will arrive at minutes, I hope you will understand. See you." Then, the voice was gone, the phone made a long beep as a sign that the call was ready for an another call. Syndra turned idle mode and it went back to normal.
"God damn it! She will arrive in minutes!" Syndra panicked.
"Oh. Excited?" Ahri teased.
"Shut UP! Now what!?"
"What 'Now what?'? You must be happy that she was about to visit here!"
"And she will see YOU! Go back to your kennel!"
"STOP treating me as a DOG!"
"But you ARE! A sly, fox-hybrid of a MUTT!"
"Shut up! Sondra!"
"My name is SYNDRA!"
"I don't care!"
Both of them ranted and argued, the fortress now is noisy as ever, their voice echoed throughout the hills and the air around them.
However, Syndra felt a strong aura coming towards her and it made her halted the dog.
"Excuse me." The figure spoke behind her, floating with the blades underneath her feet that was descending to the ground.
"Irelia!" Ahri gasps and dashed towards Irelia, pouncing and giving her a hug.
"A-Ahri! Stop!" Irelia's cheeks was squished as Ahri nudges her cheeks to her.
"Mm, so cute!"
"Wait! Stop!" Irelia felt ticklish while she was being tickled with Ahri's tails.
Syndra grunted while she watches the two, she cracks her knuckles and went to them, calling her powers and pulls Ahri away from Irelia, shoving her like a thrown paper.
"How rude!" Ahri coughed. "Irelia! Syndra is treating me a dog again!"
"But..you are. I cannot lie." Irelia replied flatly.
Then, Syndra made an attention that was not seen because Ahri was at it again.
"Irelia! Can you buy me phone? I also love those air button things that are wrapped around it." Ahri went close to Irelia.
"Air buttons? If that's what you want, I have those things stashed inside my drawer, I don't throw much so.."
"Yay! You're so.. dependable, Irelia.." Ahri embraced the captain, she made a glare at Syndra to make her jealous.
"Get. AWAY!" Syndra shoved Ahri away again. "She visited me! So SHOO!"
"Hmph! Boring." Ahri crossed her arms and waited for them to finish.
"Why don't you practice your magic while we are talking, Ahri?" Irelia recommended, with a smile that brightened up the fox more.
"Sure~ If that's what Irie wants for me.." Ahri now meditated and focused her mana, an orb emerged to her palm that has a pink aura at the center, this caused by the desires she have wanted as she loves Irelia's visit today.
Irelia made a glance back at the fox that was meditating with a smile that was telling her that Ahri was happy enough to hear Irelia's voice, she finally faced the mage and coughed.
"I am sorry. I didn't mean to call like that." Irelia started.
"Hmph. Don't mind it. I didn't even know that this phone can do messages." Syndra avoided eye contact for her to prevent her for blushing.
"Well, I never knew that Ahri was also here too. Did you two have a fight?" The captain asked, formally.
"Fight for the PHONE." Ahri quickly cuts in while she was meditating. "She was unfair."
"Hm. I see." Irelia wondered. "Why would you two fight for it anyway?"
"Because she was TOO impatient! I am still using the phone!" Syndra spats.
"You've been using that from yesterday! No one else wants to talk to you except Irelia!" Ahri grunted, the orb she was focusing was having its natural pink aura again. "I want to talk to her! But you are so stubborn as a child who wants her candy back!"
Syndra was about to argue but Irelia stopped her, Irelia pouted to see that they are still fighting for a thing that they have been calling as technology, still with resolute, she gripped something that she has been hiding to her back, a letter which was dedicated for someone like Syndra.
"Hmph. At least, Irelia was here and I can talk to her for now.." Ahri smiles brightly, her magic turned pinkish than before.
"Wow. What a tremendous amount of energy." Irelia got amazed to Ahri's power.
"My power is better than hers." Syndra mumbled, she prepared her magic and let the spheres around her orbit. "Look."
Irelia glanced at the mage, her eyes were invited with dark, purple aura instead. "Hm. Your power is getting powerful, I admit."
"Of course. My power is limitle-"
Ahri's magic interrupted Syndra from speaking, the orb she holds was emanating with ridiculous amount of pink energy, it was beautiful yet something was off.
"Amazing. I am glad you are getting stronger, Ahri." Irelia praised.
"Hm~ Yes.. Yes I am, thank you, Irelia.." Ahri smirked, she loves the praise from the captain, and it made the pink energy more powerful.
"Why? My power is greater than hers!" Syndra cried.
"Be quiet, Sondra. I am about to express my feelings right now." Ahri barked.
"Feelings?! How does that relate to power!?"
"You'll never understand, you can't even express to Irie your feelings!"
"What..?" The captain gasps.
"Shut UP! DON'T YOU DARE!" Syndra pointed Ahri while her face means annoyance, with a blush to her face.
"Irelia? Syndra lik-" Ahri was about to speak but Syndra hurled a sphere at her.
The meditation was cut off by losing Ahri's focus, the orb exploded in front of Irelia; though her blades blocked the magic, it still affected her as well. The fortress was cloaked with pink magic and it quickly dissipated, Syndra blocked her eyes from the glare, she have wondered what is happening right now.
And then, her eyes fall to the ground to see Irelia was on it as well, her body lays on the grass with the letter on her hand, eyes was completely shut and unconscious.
"Now LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!" Syndra shouts at the fox.
"Oh no.. Irelia.." Ahri saddened a little. "I didn't.."
"YOU HAVE DONE THIS TO HER!" Syndra still accused Ahri for the cause.
"It was YOU who interrupted my meditation!" Ahri defended. "How come a mage like YOU forgot the rules of magic that no one must interfere a mage's meditation?!"
"How would I prevent from attacking if YOU kept pestering about that FEELINGS you have been saying?!"
"Just admit that you are so naïve to your FEELINGS! And excuse me Sondra for being brash but that feelings of mine are for Irelia only!"
"Stop THIS stupid NONSENSE! This foolish feelings you have been talking is utter ridiculous!"
"It's only ridiculous for YOU! So why don't you think back on what happened?! You are the one who caused me to discharge my magic!"
Both of them are arguing about the magic, they raised their voices until the one who was lying unconscious woke up. The mages stopped and glanced back at Irelia's figure, Syndra immediately nudges Irelia to clarify her consciousness.
"What.." Irelia groaned as she wandered her eyes to the surroundings.
"F-Fool Captain! Are you?" Syndra kept nudging her until Irelia's attention went to the mage.
This is it. Something was really off, as her green eyes went on contact with those glowing eyes of the mage, her chest suddenly beats, leaving her entranced by the mage's grumpy, yet pretty face with the menacing eyes, her face started to redden that both mages notice it.
"Those eyes..how beautiful." Irelia murmured.
The mages glances at each other with a shock to their face, Ahri snickered on Syndra's reaction because it was too genuine.
"What?" Syndra was petrified and speechless.
"Syndra.." Irelia suddenly went bashful like a young girl trying to confess something. "I.."
"What is going on?!" Syndra whispered at the fox behind her.
Ahri only gestured that she doesn't know yet she knew this will going to happen.
"I don't know..but, I kind of..l-like you." Irelia confessed with bashfulness, leaving Syndra blushing.
The mage screamed, her face was deeply in red after she heard the confession.
"W-WHAT?! WHAT? WHAT?!" Syndra's mind was indeed in turmoil that she doesn't know what to do.
"Oh! Really?! You..You like.. the Ball-Loving Mage?!" Ahri pressed as she went to Irelia.
Irelia nodded sheepishly that Ahri gasps. "Ha~! Oh God!" Ahri's tails wagged and her excitement came, her eyes has a pink aura that tells that she really loved the situation, much likely it has a heart embedded to her pupils.
"Oh God my FACE!" Syndra slapped Ahri on her shoulder. "She just CONFESSED!"
"You don't like it?! This is amazing~!" Ahri was sparkling with happiness. "The grumpy mage has been taken with the likeness from the most influenced human of Ionia!"
"SHUT UP! THIS IS RIDICULOUS! Y-YOU HAVE DONE SOMETHING!"
"Irelia has been charmed~!" Ahri squealed on the thought. "She was charmed by the greatness of the Sondra!"
"How many TIMES that I have been telling YOU that my NAME was not SONDRA!" Syndra stomped the ground many times as a sign of exasperation. "YOU CHARMED HER!"
"Hehe~" Irelia giggled.
"W-What?" Syndra suddenly blushed as she heard the giggling that was seriously showing the other character of the captain.
"I am sorry, but you are..cute when you stomped the ground like that."
Syndra gasps internally, she was petrified again with a blush to her face.
"Me-Me?! C-Cute?! SH-SHUT UP!" Syndra pouted, she never expect that she has starting to like the praise.
"Um..Here. P-Please.. Take it." Irelia handed the letter with again her bashfulness, giving Syndra a solid beat from her chest.
"T-Thank you.."
"You're welcome. I-I have to go now.." Irelia quickly gets up and flees the land.
"Wait!" But Syndra didn't catch up, she just let Irelia flee the land with her blades.
Ahri gave Syndra a teasing leer, she nudge the Sovereign and it made Syndra hissed back at the fox. She gently slides her finger across the surface of the letter, giving Ahri an idea for teasing.
"Missed her?" Ahri started.
Syndra just gave her a deathly glare.
"Admit it~"
"SHUT!"
"Hm. A love letter perhaps?"
"L-Love .. LETTER?! THIS?!"
Syndra opened the envelope hastily and reads it.
Dear Syndra,
Hello, I know that this letter could be an annoyance to you, and I have to apologize. To be honest, I made this letter instead of giving you a call, I am not certain to my words if ever I could ask you this. There is a festival coming before two days and I would like to invite you to the occasion, I thought it might be a good chance for you to experience the event, it's okay if you don't come, I understand your claims because of the elders.
If ever you have changed your mind, I will be at the mountain near from my home, I prefer staying away from people, publicity is one of the things that I must avoid. Thank you.
From the Captain of the Guard,Irelia Lito
"Oh God!" Ahri gasps, her tails shrilled as well as her ears.
"Again with this 'Oh God!'. WHAT IS IT?!" Syndra snarled, she gripped the letter tightly.
"You know what this means, Syndra.." Ahri leered. "Hm..~ I swear you will LOVE this.."
"Just. GET. TO. THE. FREAKING POINT!"
Ahri gestured that Syndra must lean over, she lend the mage's ear and whispers.
"Date~.." Ahri's voice was indeed mischievous, giving Syndra a chill down to her spine.
"DATE?!" The mage jumped.
"Uhuh!" Ahri snickered.
"That FOOL CAPTAIN WANTS A DATE?! WITH ME..?!" The mage raised her voice under with disbelief.
"Well, she invited you, so prob..ab..ly?"
"God..DAMN IT! WHAT SHOULD I DO?!"
"Just go! Irelia was too patient that some people find her stoic." Ahri grinned, with her tails wagging endlessly.
"What will I do if that HAPPENS?! I don't know what kind of things that people do on d-dates!" Syndra panicked a little of being ignorant to human activities. "Aid me!"
"Oooh.. Aid you? You can't even lend me your phone then you will ask HELP? Boo." Ahri pouted.
"F-FINE! HERE!" Syndra shoved the phone to Ahri's chest. "Just DON'T BREAK IT!"
"Yay!" Ahri jumped for joy, she wagged her tails again that annoys Syndra. "Ok. Let me see, here is the plan."
Ahri explains the plan for the 'date' that they interpreted but the real thing was Irelia was only doing her job to make Syndra occupied to other things than to sought destruction.
"I will tag along, maybe follow you two, if you need anything, just do this!" Ahri made hand gestures that cringes the mage.
"What the hell is that? Rock-Paper-Scissors?! IDIOT!" Syndra barked. "You are making me a vile imbecile!"
"Then why don't you come up with an idea on how you will communicate me?!"
"You are HOPELESS! You need proper Day-Care education! SERIOUSLY!"
"Ugh, can we just stick to.. Rock-Paper-Scissor THING?!"
"FINE! DON'T MAKE AN IDIOT THERE!"
"Okay, here is the plan. Paper means 'Help', Stone means 'Approve' and.. Scissors.. well." Ahri rubs her chin as if she was thinking.
"Hurry up!"
"How.. about. 'Just..Kiss..' ?" Ahri smirked.
"KISS?!" Syndra gasps.
"YES~!"
"WHAT THE HELL?!"
"Why not?! Don't you like that you will be able to touch those.. soft lips of an Ionian like her?"
"We are BOTH women!"
"So what? Girls can kiss each other you know."
"Don't tell ME that you've learned that from those HUMANS that you had been stalking!"
"Probably? But hey! It's common knowledge!"
"GOD DAMNIT. DO I HAVE TO DO.. T-THAT?!"
"It's a date so.. Hmm~ It's up to you.." Ahri playfully wagged her tails along. "Oh yes! You HAVE to do that for you to help from breaking my magic. So it's considered!"
"YOU AND YOUR STUPID, FLIRTING CHARM! IF THIS WILL NOT WORK, I AM GOING TO. KILL. YOU!"
And it happened, the plans for the two will commence before two days, they festival of the Placidium was all tradition that brings culture of Ionia, Syndra immediately prepared for the things she needed while Ahri was playing with the numbers of the phone, literally making Syndra horrified because of the thought that Ahri might break it.
NOTE:
If I am at Syndra's place, I am sure that I will definitely kill Ahri for what she have done. *Laughs* And that Scissors thing is..pretty misleading if you think outside the box. *Giggle
ANYWAY! This chapter is very fun to write! Honestly, I really enjoy writing Syndra's lines because of the mixture of anger and being a tsundere; which is kind of fitting with her character at some point in a different perspective.
Next chapter will be the date! We'll find out if Syndra would be able to break the charm off from Irelia because of Ahri (Yes, thanks for Ahri)