1Mad Hatter Tea Party

Chapter Four

"Wow it's so pretty!" Xin Yami yells at the others looking at the ground that is some odd 100 feet below the Earth dragon, pointing at the sparkly white castle coming into view.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool. I remember when I first got into the place. I was going to steal the Earth Dragon gem, but I got caught." Thatz reminisces , as Earth descends, landing in the courtyard.

"Thatz is everything, okay?" the lord of the castle, Lord Lykouleon asks as Thatz gets off of Earth.

"Er . . . kind of, Rune's acting weird and Rath's fighting a demon or on his way right now." Thatz reports as he helps Hi Rai and Xin Yami off the back of Earth while keeping a eye on Rune to make sure he does not fall off.

Lord Lykouleon, looks at the two kneeling girls, while Thatz and Kai-Stern, helped Rune off of Earth, and leading him into the castle for examination.

"Who are you?" a voice demands, coming up beside Lord Lykouleon's left side.

This isn't good Hi Rai. We're being double teamed. We gotta get out of here.

Shut up. I know, but you'd think, us being the "all mighty and powerful" back home, we could take these guys on right?

Hi Rai if you mean political we may have a chance if we keep the simple- girls- being- chased- by- demons act up, because of Rath but if you mean head on fighting we're out of luck especially with Tetheus around somewhere.

True. But...Hi Rai is cut off by Tetheus' impatient tapping of his foot.

"Well? Who are you?"

Lord Lykouleon, places a hand on Tetheus' chest, and moves to stand in front of him. "Don't be afraid, Tetheus doesn't bite... much. Tell me you names."

"Heheheh my HEHEH name hehe is heheh Naryu and hehehe this heheh is heheh Din." Xin Yami breaks down into a fit of laughter, while Hi Rai sweat drops at her insane little sister.

"What she means to say," Hi Rai says, stepping forward, so she's in front of Tetheus' face, showing that she's not afraid, "is that I'm Din and she's Naryu, and I'm not afraid of some old retired demon like you." Hi Rai states boldly, sticking her tongue out at him, before her sister grabs the back of her shirt and pulls her violently to the ground.

WHAT do you think you're doing? How could you say something like that? He's a Dragon Officer, you idiot, plus the rest of them are standing right behind him. Now, you've gone and got us in trouble AGAIN!!!

Oops, my bad, but I can't stand it when someone tells me to be afraid of someone. Especially if he's a demon. We of all people should know how manipulative and conniving they are.

I know but I would like NOT to sleep in a dungeon or be questioned by the one and only Alfeegi he'll give us headaches behind comprehension. At least we can put this off as jet lag and flying from a big "scary" demon thank god for being a girl.

"Yeah yeah yeah," Hi Rai accidently says aloud.

Good one. You've to solve the problem now. Xin Yami says, leaving her elder sister to fend for herself.

"Gee thanks," Hi Rai mumbles.

"Hello?" a voice shouts interrupting Hi Rai's concentration.

-Nothing-

"HELLO!!!"

-Nothing-

"Wakey wakey, eggs and baccy," the voice continues.

Hi Rai finally shakes off her "concentration" spell, "What," she drags out, and looks up to the face of the great Ruwalk. Hi Rai yelps, and jumps back at least ten feet, "Wh- wha- What are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be like... anywhere but here?"

"Yeah," he says scratching his head and arching his back, "but I needed a break and I heard that there were two young ladies on the grounds, and I looked out the window and saw you sitting here, I thought that you must be one of them and came out to say 'hi'."

"'HI'? You came to say hi... To me?" Hi Rai repeats slowly questioningly

"Pretty much. So, Hi and Bye, cause I gotta go before Alfeegi sees me. I think I'm in trouble, but I have no idea why, so I'm going to go before I find out why." and walks away.

Well, that was interesting. Luna says.

"No doubt. He has a good point though."

What point? He seemed kinda odd.

"He said Alfeegi. End of story. We gotta go, before he finds us, and questions us. Remember, we're here to kidnap Fire and Water, not be questioned by ALFEEGI!!!!!!!!! So, here's what we're going to do. RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And Hi Rai, along with Luna, hanging on her back, race away into the gardens.

Okay after walking away from my elder I search the garden for a way into the castle, but with no luck what so ever. I can't even find my way out! And with that I bump into a young woman with black hair and blonde bangs.

"I'm so sorry I didn't see you," I say in a hurry when I see that this almighty Cesia good thing Hi Rai is not here or she'd start sparking, I'm starting to freeze the air.

"It's okay I wasn't looking either" Cesia says before looking up and pointing at Xin Yami her hand shaking.

"Demon!" Cesia shouts as Xin Yami bolts far far away, but just close enough for her to hear Rath appearing saying 'Demons where!'.

Great, run into the only person who reads the demonic Sunday paper. What luck you have and stop or you'll run over Luna! Sol shakes his mental head.

"Hi Rai! Hi Rai! Plan C get outta here, she reads the paper!" Xin Yami says as she stops in front of Hi Rai.

"Who and what's a plan C? Can we leave the castle so-" Hi Rai is interrupted by Alfeegi walking in and saying, "May I have a word with you two young ladies?"

"Ah . . .no?" Hi Rai says nervously.

"My sister is still a little in shock over our parents' untimely death, but if you want I'll try answer as many as I can sir Dragon Officer," Xin Yami responds.