A/N: Alright so here's the next chapter! For some reason I have motivation to write more of this story now, so hopefully you guys continue to like it!
Disclaimer: I do not own any ToA characters, just OC's.
In all honesty, Lissa didn't think coming to Kimlasca would be that entertaining. She'd heard some rumors about it, and how it was more militaristic than Malkuth was. But now she was actually really glad she came. Meeting so many different people was definitely worth it.
She grinned at Luke after hearing his remark, finding it amusing. "Well just so you know, just because I'm a girl, doesn't mean I can't fight. But it sucks I can't fight you. It'd be fun to get that close to you."
The boy gave her another look like she's crazy and took a bite of his food as Guy chuckled quietly, taking a drink. It appeared he'd recovered from almost choking a moment ago.
His chuckle caused the Major to turn her attention to him however. As she watched him, she noticed his chair was slightly farther away than Luke's was. "Hey don't tell me you're like him!" She gestured to Luke. "I haven't even been bothering you."
Guy suddenly looked embarrassed. "Uh...well no... Its just... You see..."
"Guy has a slight aversion to women." Van smiled slightly.
"Really?" Lissa said confused, her mind churning.
"Oh boy..." Jade sighed. "You shouldn't have said that Commandant."
Hearing this, she grinned and leaned closer to Guy. "What kind of aversion?"
Instantly he jumped out of his chair and hid on the other side of Van. "H-hey!"
"I wouldn't say an aversion so much as a phobia." Armina grinned at him and leaned forward, so she was close to him. "But I 'don't count as a girl', right?"
Guy jumped back, not enjoying this teasing. "C-cut it out!"
"That's a rather unusual fear." Jade said casually, glancing at his niece and the Captain. "Though not entirely impossible to understand." Especially when you ended up being around woman with quick tempers.
Armina smiled and took a bite of food. "Not entirely."
Luke grinned at Guy. "If you hate girls so much you shouldn't hang around them so often."
"No, I don't hate girls! I love women!" Guy exclaimed.
"That's not much better, Guy." Van sighed.
"No, I meant-" Obviously seeing he wasn't going to be able to explain himself, Guy sighed.
Lissa laughed, finding all of this amusing. "Wow I didn't know coming to Kimlasca would be so much fun!" She would definitely have to come here again.
Jade smiled, adjusting his glasses. "Yes you got to meet two eligible bachelors. What could be better than that?"
A thoughtful look crossed the girl's features, before she smiled. "I know, right?"
"Uh...Luke isn't really eligible though." Guy said, still standing behind Van. "And did you mean me too?"
"I told you guys before I don't remember proposing to Natalia!" Luke said angrily. "So until I remember, I'm not engaged to her! Besides, she really gets on my nerves."
Lissa grinned at this. "So then you are eligible?"
"You're just as annoying as she is!" It was clear the redhead wanted nothing to do with either girl.
The Major pouted, looking upset. "How mean... Am I really annoying?" She looked at him, giving him her best cutest upset look.
"Hell yes!" He snapped, not being swayed as he turned to Guy, who was hesitantly taking his seat again. "I get why you're so scared now, girls are crazy."
Armina smiled slightly at Lissa's pout. "Perhaps you're moving a bit too fast, Lissa. He doesn't even know how old you are."
"17, by the way." Jade answered for her. "So she is perfectly eligible, and likely will be for a while yet." He smiled teasingly, ignoring the glare shot his way, before taking a sip of the wine.
Seeing this, Armina glanced at her uncle, who just hummed innocently and winked. She knew him well enough to know he did something he probably shouldn't have. 'Oh this won't be pretty. But it might be fun.'
Guy glanced at Lissa when he took his seat again, moving it as far away as possible. "S-sorry, it's nothing personal."
Lissa smiled at him, not seeming offended at all. "That's okay! At least I have another-" She paused, remembering what Armina had said. She was coming on too strong wasn't she? Maybe she should back off a little. Taking a deep breath, she flashed the boy a polite smile. "Never mind. So how was your day?"
"Uh..." He gave her a confused look. "Okay I guess..."
"That's good. Mine sucked. I had to ride in the Tartarus with him for hours." She said casually, gesturing to Jade, who smiled slightly.
"I think I should be the one complaining about riding with you. As I recall you were the one who wouldn't stop talking, am I right?"
His response obviously didn't sit well with her. "Well I had to do something! You and the stupid soldiers would have been silent the whole time if I wasn't there! And what's the fun in that?"
Jason grinned at that. "Sounds like you Malkuth soldiers are pretty boring."
"Well the Kimlascan soldiers don't seem that peppy either." The Colonel replied.
Hearing this, Lissa turned to Armina's uncle angrily. "Hey! Are you saying I'm boring?"
Jason shook his head. "Stereotypes, generalizations and rules don't apply to you, Lissa. You're your own little entity of energy." This apparently cheered her up, because she grinned happily.
"Well, most soldiers don't make it their job to be peppy." Armina clarified.
"Armina's like the definition of stoic." Luke said, looking at her. "You're a total workaholic! No wonder he thinks our guys are boring."
"I never said boring. I said not 'peppy'." Jade corrected. "Though yes, Armina can be rather boring."
The commander gave him an annoyed look, to which she just received a sarcastic smile before he took another sip of wine.
Jason thought for a moment. "I like peppy, it's fun. Lissa's peppy. Am I peppy?" He turned to the Duke in question, who gave him a strange look in return.
"Very much so."
"Cool." Jason grinned, seeming pleased by that.
Lissa grinned at him. "It seems like we're the only cool soldiers here!"
"That's fine by me." Jason grinned back. "Now we can be doubly annoying!"
Jade sighed. "Well tonight should be...interesting. Don't you think Armina?" He glanced at her, taking another sip of wine.
"Oh yes, very interesting." Armina replied, watching him drink the wine. She was curious as to exactly what her uncle had done.
Lissa thought for a moment, before remembering something. "Oh yeah! Tonight is a girls night, right? We get to talk and do our hair and nails!" She paused, a thoughtful expression on her face as she tried to think of other stuff to do. She hadn't really ever been to any sleepovers, so she wasn't sure what it all entailed.
Hearing this, Luke laughed. "Armina's not a girl how can she have a girl's night?"
"Yeah I couldn't really see Armina acting girly either." Guy added.
Lissa came out of her thoughts and grinned at Luke. "I could do your hair too! It's so long it'd be fun to style it! What do you say?"
This caused Armina to smirk slightly. "Hm...yes, that seems fine. If I'm not a girl he'll have to take the position for me. What do you think, curl it? Braids?"
"You crazy chicks aren't touching my hair!" he exclaimed, leaning away with a glare, causing Armina to laugh.
"Hm, he took me seriously."
"Little wonder why. You almost never joke." Jason stated, defending the teen.
"When I'm working I can't afford to play around." It was true. Armina took her job very seriously, and rarely had time for fun.
Jade took another sip of wine before speaking. "Well, maybe you could teach that trait to Vasilisa. Heaven knows it would be helpful."
Guy glanced between the two Malkuthians. "You two sort of have a love-hate thing going on, huh?" It was becoming clear the two argued a lot.
"Just without the love part." Jason grinned.
"It's hard to love annoying uncles." Armina stated calmly.
Jason glanced at Lissa. "She says that now, but in reality she knows I'm awesome."
As Armina shook her head at her troublesome uncle, Lissa glanced at hers. It wasn't like she didn't like him, but they did tend to disagree on a lot of things. "Hmm...well I guess you could say that. He can get annoying sometimes though."
"And you can get annoying all the time." The Colonel said, drinking his wine again.
His glass was almost gone, and it was a show of how controlled Armina was with her emotions that she wasn't grinning. She had a feeling she knew what her uncle had done, and honestly she couldn't wait until it kicked in.
At her uncle's jibe, Lissa stuck her tongue out at him annoyed, though this didn't seem to bother him at all. "Its rude to do that at the dinner table Vasilisa."
I told you its Lissa!" she exclaimed angrily. "I hate using my full name!"
"Why? Vasilisa's a beautiful name." Guy said, smiling at her.
This of course caused the girl to turn to him and smile, leaning closer. "Aww well thanks!"
Guy leaned away a little scared, as Luke played with his food, seeming bored. "I don't know why you talk to girls like that when you know they're just gonna like you more. That's why I don't say that kind of stuff."
Lissa's attention quickly shifted to the boy on her other side. "That's all right. I like a good chase!" she grinned, winking at him.
Van laughed as Luke looked creeped out and scooted away from her. "I think you're making him uncomfortable, Major. You're almost more forward than the princess."
Armina smiled at this. "At least the princess has her reasons."
Jade nodded. "She's man-crazy. Maybe they should call her the Huntress, I'm sure we could find you another name Armina."
Why people feel the need to give us titles beyond our rank I will never know." The Captain sighed.
"'Cause they sound cool?" her uncle shrugged. "Besides, you just called her 'The Dragon'."
"She was feeling left out, Jade and I have too much of a reputation each. She needs one herself now." Armina smiled, glancing at the younger girl. "And with that personality..."
"Yeah, well, I'm not forgetting this girl anytime soon." Luke stated annoyed, poking in the Major's direction with his fork.
"So you're not gonna forget me, huh?" She obviously took this a different way than he meant.
"Yeah but its not a good reason!" he snapped.
Lissa shrugged and turned away. "That's fine. As long as you always remember me. And you'll eventually come to love me. Everyone does."
The Colonel attempted to hide his smirk behind his glass, though it didn't go unnoticed from his niece. "Oh you know you love me Jade. Your life would be so lame without me in it!"
"Yes well, I suppose you're right about that." He agreed. She definitely livened things up. Though not always in a good way.
Lissa grinned at this, turning to Jason. "Well what about you? Do you love me yet?"
Jason shrugged, knowing she didn't mean this in any weird or romantic way. "Yeah, sure, why not?"
Well, this has certainly been an interesting conversation." Armina chuckled.
"Interesting?" Luke exclaimed. "I've got a creepy stalker chick sitting next to me!"
"Well, that's pretty interesting, even if you don't like it." Guy said thoughtfully, earning a glare from his friend.
"I'm almost sad we'll only be here for one day." Jade said with an amused look, finishing off his wine. "Hm...this is very good, actually."
"Secret ingredient, Kimlascan specialty." Jason told him, nodding solemnly as Armina smothered a laugh.
Van, being the next one to catch on to what was going on, rose an eyebrow, before sighing. 'And this is why we rarely have dinner guests.'
A/N: Well hope you all enjoyed! Please try to review, so I know how I'm doing! I'll try to update again soon!