Mad Hatter Tea Party

Chapter Three

"Sure we will!" Thatz agrees, as he packs away the crystals in his bag.

"Demons!" Rath sings over and over again happily as he skips merrily down the path.

"Thank you kind sirs," Xin Yami says as she sniffles away the last of her tears.

God hopefully we don't have to do that again and no real demons come after us for our titles. And these knights are dumb as they look.

Seriously, we have a repution to protect. If any demons back home saw this, we would be the laughing stock of the community and our names would come to the attention of Kharl.

Hi Rai we HAVE to use fake names so demons who do attack or humans ask questions they won't find out about us.

How about our middle names the ones that are based off of the Triforce creators?

Sure good thing no demon know our middle or last names and we only smell human,well most of the time anyway.

"Excuse me, but what are your names?" Rune, the polite one asks.

"Oh, I'm so sorry I'm Din and this is my little sister, Naryu," Hi Rai says politely.

"Well for whatever its worth, its nice to meet you. I think, that is if we don't meet any demons or Thatz doesn't discover some hidden treasure, we'll get to Draqueen in a week."

A week? Did I hear him say week? I'm going to have to be with these idiots for a whole week? Uh-huh no way, make time go faster, or force them to use their dragons. I'm NOT spending a week with these people. Luna, demands, poking Hi Rai in the back.

"Pardon me but the fortuneteller and crystal collector who's going to buy our crystals will leave Draqueen in about three days, we would have made it if not for that that mean ugly demon. Please is there any other way we can make it in time?" Xin Yami sniffles with big puppy dog eyes and huge chibi tears in Rune's direction.

Rune looks over at Thatz and Rath, who were quite a ways ahead of the three, and stares for a while at them, without saying a word.

Now look what you did, you made him comatose.

No I just attacked his justice and moral sense or better known as the Damsel in Distress Syndrome. It works on guys like him ,who believe in doing the right thing. Cute ne?

Well, apparently your plan, backfired 'cause he's out of it. I mean look at the guy, he's totally thinking about whether we are truly DDS or just fakers.

Well, onto plan B. You get the other two and say something is wrong with sir Rune and I will stand by concerned about his well being and this will make us go faster if one of their kind is out of it. So go!

God, when did you get to be so bossy?

Since, we arrived here.. Its messed with my mind, man, like a drug. I feel so much taller than I used to be and I do believe that when we get home. I'm going to need some serious counseling. Plus, I hate storms. Now go. Xin Yami adds when she looks up to see dark ominous clouds rolling in.

Aye aye captain. And Hi Rai rushes to catch up with Rath and Thatz who were discussing Rath's cooking habits, "Hey guys, I was just curious if something had happened to Rune before today?"

"Happened? What do you mean happened? Nothing happened to Rune, he's perfectly normal, well as normal as he could be." Thatz replies, puzzled.

"Yeah, well either he's possessed or he's experienced some kind of trauma, but he's like a dead man walking. If ya don't believe me, check him yourself." Hi Rai explains pointing to Rune, who was walking in circles.

Rath and Thatz stop and rush back over to Rune, and Xin Yami moving aside so Rune's friends could check on him. "What did you do to him,' Thatz yells

"What did we do? Absolutely nothing, one minute we were talking and the next he was like this." Hi Rai says on the verge of fake tears at Thatz's quick accusation.

"Look what you've done now. Its okay Din, don't cry. He didn't mean it, didn't he?" Xin Yami coddles Hi Rai, shooting the evil eye at Thatz, with tears also welling up in her eyes.

Thatz paranoid at the prospect of tears, it's a common factor that all men are afraid of a women's tears and would do anything to not make that happen, races over and takes Hi Rai's hands in his, "No, I'm sorry Din. I didn't mean it. Don't cry. Please, oh please don't cry. I'll do anything."

Hi Rai instantly looks up, with puppy dog eyes, "Anything?"

"Yes, anything."

"All I want is for us to get to Draqueen as quick as possible. I don't like seeing Rune like that."

Thatz ponders for a moment, a rarity that deserves silence and appreciation, glances at Rath who was holding onto Rune, where he shakes his head up and down.

Thatz drops Hi Rai's hands and steps back, "Well, okay ladies, step back and I'll show you the Dragon Lords, Dragon Knights really travel."

Oh really, in a Mercedes convertible? Hi Rai thinks to herself.

Thatz pulls out his sword and yells: "Earth! Please take us to Draqueen, Rune's acting somewhat funny, and these nice young ladies need a helping hand."

Suddenly, a loud crash is heard throughout the pass way of Misty Valley.

Shit, what do you think you're doing, make the demon go away, we don't need him. Xin Yami panics as she looks down the mountain,where a gigantic demon spider was crawling its way up.

Not mine.

"Oh no! Not another one." Xin Yami shouts, grabbing onto Thatz's arm.

"Hey, let go, and get on Earth, he'll take us to Draqueen." Thatz says, when Earth finally appears.

"But what about the demon?" Hi Rai asks, as she sits on Earth's back.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of him," Rath says pulling out his sword, "Just go with Rune and Thatz on Earth, and I'll meet you at the castle."

That's fine by me. Get on the dragon, Xin Yami. NOW! Sol says to calm down the easily panicked Xin Yami.

"Okay okay, I'm going, I'm going." Xin Yami repeats, calming herself down, and climbs onto Earth with Thatz's help.

And with that Rath stays to destroy the demon spider, as Thatz, Rune, Hi Rai, Xin Yami, all on top of Earth, fly to Draqueen Castle.