1Mad Hatter Tea Party
Chapter 9
Many miles away from Draqueen the capitol in another town
"Oookkkaayyy. What should our first order of business be?" Hi Rai states as she and Xin Yami wonder around town with Kitchel following them.
"Maybe a room for the night?" Kitchel offered, noticing how dark it was getting.
"Well that's a good idea, but one problem we have no money," Hi Rai states also noticing the darkening sky. "But we do have things to trade."
"Well there you go I know a nice pawn shop that will be delighted to have some of your stuff," Kitchel once again offered help to her 'kidnappers'.
"Then here you go," Xin Yami stated reaching into her bag and pulling out: a fourteen carat gold necklace, diamond earrings, platinum bracelets, ruby rings with white gold, sapphire bracelet, and a rainbow diamond tiara.
"Aren't you going to trade them?" Kitchel asks in confusion.
"I would but you seem to be an expert on it, so I thought you could get a better deal," Xin Yami stated her 'trust' in Kitchel.
"Thank you but how do you know I just won't walk off with them?" Kitchel asked in curiosity.
"You won't leave these dragons in our hands if you have the chance to gloat at Thatz and tell how much a fool he is for losing his dragon to a little girl like me," Xin Yami smiled as she offered her bait
Hook line and sinker, Xin Yami thought with an imaginary smirk.
Your just cruel you know that? Using Kitchel like that.
You would do the same in my position.
"You probably know a good um… inn too right?" Hi Rai asked.
"Yeah but can't you find one?" Kitchel asked suspicious
"Yeah back home maybe," Xin Yami whispered so low that a normal person would not have heard her, but Kitchel being a very good thief heard her.
"No I'm afraid to admit it, but we're illiterate," Hi Rai blushed in embarrassment.
"Great look what you've done now," Xin Yami exasperates.
Confused, Hi Rai turned to look at her little sister, "what did I do now?"
"You spilled our secret, you baka."
"So… your point would be…." She trails off.
"Know one was supposed to know about it."
"Oh…."
"That's right 'oh," now we're going to have to kill her and find some other way to get Thatz to the island."
"Do we have to," Hi Rai whines. "It's too much of a hassle to lure the dumbo to the island without his girlfriend. We have his dragon, but that's all we have. How, your majesty, are we going to get him there?"
While Hi Rai and Xin Yami are "discussing" that opportune method to lure Thatz to the island, Kitchel, still holding the backpack and random jewelry the girls pulled out of there pockets, started to back away slowly. All right, I can get the hell away from here while they're arguing and give back these dragons.
Unfortunately as Kitchel was backing away, she accidentally stepped on a toy horn, which stopped Hi Rai and Xin Yami's argument and turned there full attention to the frozen Kitchel.
"And just where do you think you're going," Hi Rai asked, glaring at Kitchel.
Kitchel shrugged. "Oh, no where important just going to go find the uh… umm… bathroom. Yeah the bathroom, I really have to pee after that long journey."
"And the found that the bathroom was the exit?" Xin Yami asked.
"Yep, sure is. I'll just go and pee and I'll be right back." Kitchel said and turned around before Hi Rai grabbed her shoulder, preventing her from leaving.
"Just hold on a minute. Naryu, don't you think it's a bit weird letting her go like this?"
"Like what? C'mon Din, just let the girl go the bathroom, it's not like she's going to run away. Right Kitchel?" Xin Yami say's slapping Kitchel sisterly on the back and giving her a glare that would curl your aunt's-mother's-brother's-sister's-cousin-twice-removed-on-your- great-aunt Woodrow's-uncle's-half-sister's hair on her chin any day.
"N…no, how could you ever think such a thing Din? I mean we're partners right? And partner's never back out on their partner's back like that." Kitchel reassured Hi Rai. Good freaken fracken God. These girls are weeeeeeird.
You think she'll come back? Hi Rai glanced at Xin Yami as both where against a wall waiting for Kitchel.
I have all her stuff silly I always takes precautions my little sis. School actually helps you know and I was thinking of my precious manga sitting at home all defenseless. Wahh!
Your manga?! What about my manga?
What about your manga? Yours isn't as impressive as mine.
That's only because you horde all of my manga in your room claimed as yours
Well that's why yours is not as impressive as mine and well it's defenseless how are we to live without our manga?
Well, we're just going to have to find a bookstore.
A bookstore? Come on you know as much as me that we can't read anything from this place?
"Well, we're just going to have to learn aren't we?"
Just then, Kitchel walked back in, a look of shere anger on her face.
Looks like she figured out that you have her stuff.
"What are you going to have to learn," she asks after she gets her stuff from Xin Yami.
"We sorta can't read." Hi Rai blurts.
"Hi Rai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"What? It's true."
"So you guys can't read? Like anything?"
Hi Rai nods, "duh. Why do you think we had you go find a pawn shop. We wouldn't be able to find one, if we were on our own."
"Oh, well, if ya want. I could teach ya'll how to read." Kitchel offers.
"Really," Hi Rai and Xin Yami exclaim in unison. "How?"
Kitchel spins around for a second, before spinning around aging. Only this time with glasses on her face and her hair pulled back into a bun, wearing a deep purple gown, "here's my card." She said handing it to Hi Rai.
Taking the card, Hi Rai looked at it, "yeah, I can't read this."
"Right, forgot that." Kitchel sighed, and took her card back from Hi Rai, adjusted her spectacles, and coughed the phlegm from her throat and read: " Madame Kitchel's five easy steps on how to read the language of the country or world your currently residing in."
"Well then, I'd like to learn your five easy steps, "Xin Yami said. "Go ahead Madame Kitchel, enlighten us."
"Beautiful," Kitchel sang and started towards the door. "And don't forget the dragons, they must be alittle uncomfortable in there, squished and all." And with that, walked out the door.
"Bossy much."
"Seriously."
At a local motel
Is this the best they have," Xin Yami asked disbelievingly, dropping her stuff (A.N.: Yeah, "stuff" means the backpack containing the dragoons) on the ground and turning a full 360 degree survey around the room.
The carpet, or if one can even call the puke green and brown flooring covering a carpet, had holes, where it someone had light it on fire. The once white walls had a yellow stains splattered across them, that no one wanted to venture as to what they were. Overall, the room was a nightmare, horribly lighted, and the bathroom was in a dimension in itself.
"Cozy. Feels just like home," Hai Rai states, jumping onto the lumpy bed.
"Right. Okay, let's get started," Kitchel says whipping out a blackboard and a pair of desks. After Hi Rai and Xin Yami take their seats, she pulls her hair into a bun and takes a piece of chalk in one hand and leans against the dresser:
"You go to school to learn girls," Kitchel begins, singing. "The things you never, never knew before."
"Like I before E except after C?" Hi Rai asks.
Kitchel nods, "and why 2 plus 2 makes 4," she adds, singing. "Now, now, now, I'm going to teach you."
"Teach you, teach you," Xin Yami and Hi Rai sing, background.
"All about love."
"Love?" Xin Yami asks.
"All about love, dear. All about love."
"But, wait. What does this have to do with learning to read?" Xin Yami asks pointing out the obvious and standing up.
Kitchel walks over the Xin Yami's desk, and slams her whip on the top, "because I say it does. So just sit yourself down and take a seat. All ya gotta do is repeat after me."
The door opens suddenly and the inn keeper and a maid appear and sing and dance to the "music" : "A,B,C. Easy as 1,2,3 . Simple as do, re, me. A,B,C, 1,2,3, baby you and me girl."
Kitchel leans over a little bit, her "teacher's" outfit revealing her breasts, " I'm, going to teach you how to sing it out. Come on, come, on, come let me show you what it's all about," she pulls a frightened Hi Rai out of her seat and pushes her the chalkboard where she writes out a series of words with black spaces, and math problems, then handing the chalk to Hi Rai to solve the problems.
She turns and sings to Xin Yami: "Reading, writing, arithmetic are the branches of the learning tree. But without the rules of love everyday. Your education ain't comple-e-e-ete. T-T-Teacher's gonna show you."
"Show you, show you," the keeper and maid sing.
"How to get an A." Shaking her hips and bobbing with the "music" she grabs the chalk out of Hi Rai's hands and pushes her down into her seat and writes on the board. "Spell me, you, add the 2." She sings, as she completes her own problems and turns to her pupils and shrugs, "listen to me baby, that's all you gotta do."
"A, B, C. Easy as 1, 2, 3. Simple as do, re, me. A, B, C, 1, 2, 3, baby you and me girl. That's how easy love can be," The background sing out.
Hi Rai stands up excitedly and shouts: "It's easy!. Like counting up to 3, sing a simple melody, that's how easy love can be. 1, 2, 3, you and me!" she finishes pointing to Xin Yami.
Who immeadiatly jumped up and sang, " Ohhh, yeah. Come on now!"
Soon the entire room was jumping up and down and causing such a ruckas that all the residents the inn where in the room, and a party had formed. Random people shouting: "Shake it, shake it baby."
Kitchel singing loudly, "that's how easy love can be!."
The background singers sang: "A, B, C. Easy as 1, 2, 3. Simple as do, re, me. A, B, C, 1, 2, 3, baby you and me girl. That's how easy love can be!"
Soon the party ended and the guests left and the inn keeper and main excused themselves with more work to be done. Hi Rai and Xin Yami laid down on the bed and immediately went to sleep, exhausted. And Kitchel finished with a knowing: " That's how easy love can be." Before she collapsed herself.
With Thatz (3rd pov)
As it happens just as the party was just getting started over in Kitchel's room, Thatz, who had told Rune and Rath that he was just going to get a room for the night and would be back out as soon as he found was, "resting" in the room next door to Kitchel's. And when he woke up, he heard the multitude of people trampling out of the room, and being the nosy guy we all know and love, stepped outside and opened the neighboring door.
"What the hell," he whispered loudly as soon as he opened the door and saw the mess. He stepped into the room and saw a body laying on the floor and two girls, who looked like they just fell into the bed, sleeping soundly on the bed. As he walked around, careful not the disturb anything he saw the body move and stopped in his tracks, holding still and holding his breath. The body stirred some more and sat up into a sitting position, held it's head in it's hands and moaned.
Thatz for a moment I know that moan. "Kitchel? Is that you," he asked crouching down and placing his hand on her shoulder.
The body looked up and her eyes widened, "Thatz, thank God its you. Quick grab that bag, and let's get out of hear before they wake up." She said, standing up quickly and running toward the door, Thatz right behind her.
"What happened in there," he asked when he and Kitchel were outside.
"I'll tell you as soon as we find Rune and Rath. You'll never believe me."