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Chapter 12: Day 3, morning time part 3!
"Please take your own appropriate seats now at the table." A loud, clear female bossy booming voice rang through the dining room of Castle Ositia.
And of course, shuffling of chairs could be heard as the Fire Emblem crew rested their butts at the so-comfortable chairs. The dining table was a very long rectangular one where it could fit the whole of the Eliwood's Elite members, thirty plus of them. And what about the sitting positions? Well, here's a not-very-detailed description of who sat next to who.
The far end sat a not-very-healthy Hector with Eliwood and Lyndis beside him, symbolizing the 'great three lords'. Yeah right. Directly beside Eliwood was Ninian and beside Lyn was Rath. On the left side of Eliwood sat Marcus, followed by Lowen, Harken, Isadora, Pent, Louise, Rebecca, Wil, Raven, Lucius, Priscilla, Guy, Karel, Karla, Bartre and Canas. Meanwhile, at the right side of the table, Florina occupied the first chair, followed by Farina, Fiora, Kent, Sain, Serra, Erk, Nino, Jaffar, Matthew, Legault, Heath, Vaida, Merlinus and Oswin. …Yup, I think that's all of them. Miraculously everyone managed to come in for breakfast even though they had other 'pressing' matters at hand.
As what you might find, the sitting positions were quite…strategic. On the left side of the table, Harken and Isadora were still looking intensely at each other, Rebecca was glomping all over Wil in a sickly manner, Lucius trying to calm a scared Raven down, Priscilla shooting daggers at Raven (but luckily still acting quite sensible and proper in front of other audiences) while Guy tried to catch her attention, Karel and Karla still playing their never-ending game of rock-paper-scissors under the table while poor Bartre was murmuring about 'big words hurt Bartre many'.
Meanwhile, on the right side, Florina was looking very embarrassed while Farina stared at Hector with very dreamy eyes, Fiora glaring at Hector while Kent tried to calm her anger down, Sain trying to have a one-sided talk with Serra as she was having a glaring match with young Nino beside Erk, poor Erk receiving deathly glares from a certain assassin, Matthew and Legault talking excitedly, Heath and Vaida discussing about wyverns and their stupidity, and Merlinus was engaged in an animated conversation with Oswin about the problems with the young generation these days and how those two were given so little attention.
So to summarise the main situation, you could say that many glares and daggers were thrown around the dining table, and that VERY few people were acting normally. And of course, due to the OOCness and craziness in this fic. Well anyway, Eliwood, the 'pansy-lord', broke the intensity of the room innocently with an obvious stupid question.
"Everyone present? Hector?" Eliwood asked annoyingly in an 'I'm a V.I.L. (Very Important Lord) dammit!' tone.
Poor Hector who had large bruises and black marks on his face was practically slumped on his chair, his hands hanging to the floor, his head turned upwards in a very-not-lordly-like manner with his pale eyes to the ceiling, mostly to avoid two pairs of deadly-looking eyes glaring at him (cough, Lyn, cough, Fiora, cough). "Don't know…too tired to care…"
"Yes, Lord Eliwood, everyone is present here." Oswin who sat at the far end spoke up loudly.
"Good. Now, I believe Hector has something to tell you all here. Hector?"
"Huh?" The blue-haired lord's eyes shifted tiredly to Eliwood. "Too tired to speak…ill…so damn tired…"
Everyone at the table sighed. Murmurs arose, most of them somewhat saying 'You pervert' or 'Poor Florina…I heard that she was the poor victim' or 'Such unrighteousness of a lord' or 'I never knew Lord Hector was such a pervert' or 'Hector you damn bastard, how could you be so low as that', etcetera etcetera…you catch my drift.
Eliwood looked reproachfully at his friend and shook his head in an affected pompous manner. "Hector, Hector…let this be a good lesson to you now and the rest of your life."
Hector shifted his black eyes at Eliwood and managed to muster a glaring look at him. "Shut…up…argh…feel sick…"
Everyone at the table shook their heads. Oswin rose up from his chair with a sigh and went over to Hector's seat with a lot of 'cling clang' noise. Reaching for Hector's arms, Oswin declared a 'Heave-ho!' before practically flinging, yes, flinging Hector (who was too surprised and tired to even move or struggle) like a doll. "I will bring Lord Hector to his room. I am very sorry to say that he is unfit to attend breakfast today. He needs…er, rest. The meals will be served soon. Please wait, ladies and gentlemen." Then he went off whistling cheerily as if carrying a big chunk like Hector was practically like a piece of cake.
Nobody at the dining table said anything. I suppose you could say that silence 'reigned' over the room. That is, until Hector disappeared from view. When no one could see Hector any longer, whispers and voices straightaway arose.
"Yeah, that's right! Get that pervert off my sight!" A furious Lyn was shouting.
"Hmph, I bet Lord Hector will need a lot more rest after this…" An amused Erk was declaring.
"Damn you Lord Hector…sneaking up on an innocent girl like that…" A cheeky Sain was muttering under his breath.
"Oh well…I guess Hector needs to tune up his sneaking skills a bit more before trying to sneak up on someone…ain't that right Matthew?" A normal-like Legault spoke to his fellow thief next to him.
"Yup, he really needs some polishing. Never knew young master was so dirty though…Leila would be disgusted to hear that. She always did hate peeps."
"Oh dear dear…Louise, I never did believe such a thing. Did you?"
"Why dear, no, I must confess that I thought Lord Hector was indeed a very respectable man. Perhaps we just merely judged him from his cover, Pent."
"You must be right, dear. I'm sure he deceived everyone else as well though."
"Order and silence in the court!" Eliwood suddenly spoke out and somehow managed to conjure up a toy hammer and hammered it on the table. Everyone (except Ninian, Pent and Louise) rolled their eyes.
Lyn who was feeling VERY irritated and bad-tempered at that moment felt like biting someone's head off. "Excuse me, 'dear' Eliwood, but unfortunately this is NOT a court, and YOU are NOT a judge by all means." She calmly explained sarcastically.
"Nah, that doesn't matter. Anyway, since Hector alias pervert isn't here, I'll represent him as head today and relate any important matters."
Murmurs of 'whatever' and 'duh' and 'don't care anyway' and such arose, but Eliwood was apparently too dense to hear that. "So let's get on to the point. Meals haven't arrived yet (by the way, I might just let you know that the serving services here are VERY slow and inefficient, so it'll be some time before we get to eat), so we'll start on the biggest issue so far in Castle Ositia."
Here Sain gulped. Oh no, oh no, it's coming…I'm doomed! Maybe I can think up of some excuse to forgo breakfast…Sain quickly thought up of a suitable-enough excuse and stood up. "Pardon me Lord Eliwood, but I have vital matters at this time…so may I be excused?"
Unfortunately for Sain, there were times where Eliwood was not so dense, and it happened to strike him at that moment. Smiling at Sain, Eliwood spoke pleasantly enough, but not without a glint in his eyes. "No Sain, I believe this is a very big issue that everyone must know and hear of. I beg of you to sit down once more in your chair."
Sain's face crumpled. No way! This can't be…Man, even Lord Eliwood sees through my flimsy excuse…Oh no, I am so going to get it…Oh Elimine…please, please, I beg of you to save my sorry –beep!-…No, this is not my own self! I mustn't lose my cool as the proud green lance of Caelin! …But I can't help whimpering and cowering! Someone save me! Defeated, a pale-faced Sain sat on his chair. This is it…my life's over…doom, boom! …Hey, it rhymes! So as you can see (or rather read), at his last moments of death, Sain is a weirdo.
By this time, everyone (except dense and still lovestruck Nino) had already knew what Eliwood was going to say, and they more or less sat up in their lousy-fake-oak chairs. Liking the attention given, Eliwood cleared his throat pompously and started speaking slowly.
"As what you all might know, there has been a disturbing case of the females in this team, the Eliwood's Elite, whereby most of them have been ill lovestruck for the past two days. This has, no doubt, caused much chaos between ourselves as many of us have already our own separate partners, and to have them going to someone else is definitely making the males heartbroken and disturbed. Therefore, this has caused many fights and jealousy among the males of this group, as some of them were deserted by their female partner, whereas some gets more than one, which in this case does happen. Though of course, some females were not affected, and to be precise, only a few of our female members were not affected by this potion-spell. On the other hand, some who were affected still 'desired' their 'original' ones, but only that their desire was definitely much more greater than ever before. This, and that, has…"
By that time everyone had already been sleeping, some snoring loudly. Some were sleeping in their chairs, some slumped on their chair, some heads carelessly thrown on the table, some hugging their partner beside them while sleeping (cough, Harken and Isadora, cough, Wil and Rebecca, cough) and would you actually believe it, a few of them actually slept on the table itself upside-down and a few sleeping on the floor! Thus, we can conclude that Eliwood's speech was indeed, too detail and of course, boring. Now then, back to the story…
Anyways, when Eliwood finally realized that everyone was ignoring him and that he was literally talking to himself with the maids outside staring weirdly at him and everyone else in the room (who wouldn't?), he finally turned a fine shade of red and shut up in an instant. His feelings BADLY hurt (who cares anyway? Nyak nyak nyak), Eliwood produced a dirty sheet of torn paper, wrote something on it, stood up, and walked away from his sleeping friends and past the maids with as much dignity as he could with his ears burning from the excited whispers and chuckles among the maids about his stupidity and absurdity of the members' sleeping positions.
"HEY GUYS AND GALS, WAKE UP FROM YER DAMN SLEEP AND GIT YER ASSES UP-, I MEAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE ARISE NOW!"
A VERY loud, booming male voice echoed from three big speakers in the dining room, shooting sleeping people from their sleep at once. Many of them clutched their heads in agony, since the suddenly-booming-voice almost scared them out of their wits and caused a big, big, big headache.
"Oww…"
"My head…"
"Gosh…who the hell was speaking so damn loud?"
"It hurts!"
"Man…what kind of rude language was that guy saying anyway in the middle of a castle?"
Even though with so many exclamations with some examples shown above, moments later when everyone came to their rightful senses, one and the very same question popped into every single of their minds.
"Why was I asleep?"
Everyone was thoughtful as they sat back at their own chairs. Surprisingly, there were no meals on the table. The very next moment another question entered their wide-conscious mind.
"Where is that pansy-lord of an Eliwood?"
Everyone started scratching his or her head (that weren't itchy at all) all at the same time and rhythm. Yes, how fascinating.
Anyways, moments later Lyn exclaimed loudly and slapped her thigh with her hand. "Oww…now WHY did I have to hit my own leg?"
"Huh? Is anything wrong Lady Lyndis?" Kent asked in a concerned tone.
Lyn shook her head furiously. "No no. It's just that I finally remembered what happened before we all went asleep."
Dozens of voices immediately sounded. "What?"
"Yeah, it's like this (I don't even know why I'm the only one who remembers this anyway)…remember 'dear' Eliwood speaking slowly with his undutiful speech?"
Dozens of voices spoke out again. "Oh yeah! That ABSOLUTE BORE speech!"
Lyn nodded her head vigorously. "Yep, that's right. Now, I'm not too sure about what happened during that time, but we one by one must have fallen asleep due to boredom."
"Yeah sounds about right." Matthew spoke to Legault.
"I bet that speech could beat the most exciting fairytale story in making a child going to sleep in an instant..." Erk rolled his eyes and muttered under his breath, emitting a shrilly laugh from Serra who heard him.
"So many big, big words make Bartre pain! Sleep do best to big, big word!" Bartre was exclaiming.
"There there Bartre, don't worry, no more 'big, big words' to 'make Bartre pain'." Canas who understood Bartre's character and lack of understanding sympathetically patted his friend on the shoulder.
"That was the worst damn speech I ever heard in my entire life. Not even Bern's informers were so bloody detailed and boring. Hmph, no wonder Pherae's news were always so exaggerated." Vaida who was seating next to Heath spoke in her manly rough voice.
"Now if only Lord Eliwood had hastened in his speech, I'm sure we could have spent some more time with each other, Isadora…yet instead we both were pulled into sleep!"
"Oh Harken…I suppose it's all right really. After all, we've got a lot more happy times in front of us, right dear?" (author chokes –yuck!-)
Lyn rapped the table smartly to divert the Eliwood's Elite members' attention towards her. "Also, as to where Eliwood is, I'm afraid I don't know-, hey wait a minute, what's this?" Lyn had lifted her gaze to Eliwood's seat and her eyes caught a dirty tiny piece of paper on the table. Picking it up from her seat, Lyn started reading the note, chuckling under her breath as she did so now and then.
"Um…may I ask what is so funny in that letter, Lady Lyndis?" Ninian the half-dragon girl spoke timidly.
Lyn laughed. She held out her hand that contained the slip of paper. "Here, you can read this. Read it to everyone will you?"
Ninian shyly took it from Lyn and began to read it out in her soft voice – but was stopped before she could begin by Lyn. "No, I think I better read out this instead. It might be harder for others to hear you, Nini br-, I mean, Ninian. After all, this note needs the ACCURATE motions and voice too!"
"Oh…okay." Ninian gave back the paper.
Lyn chuckled. "Okay listen up everyone! Here's the note left by our 'DEAR' Eliwood! Listen with all your might, people!" She cleared her throat and started reading out the note with sarcasm and humour to ridicule Eliwood's written words.
"To all Eliwood's Elite members: I'm so offended with you people! You all ignored me, even went to sleep when I talked, and humiliated me right in front of those maids! How could you all do that to me? How DARE you! I hate you all! Hate you and hate you and hate you! (repeat that a thousand times, ohohohohoh) I wish you all would disappear, then I wouldn't always be the victim! It's always like this! It's so not fair! Note: I bribed the maids not to serve you all any breakfast, lunch or dinner for today to get back at you guys for this, so don't expect any food today! Mwahahahahaha! Serves you people right! That'll teach you not to mess with me! P/s: Hear this - I SULK! Wanna hear that again? I SULKKKKK! –Eliwood."
By the time Lyn had finished her reading she was already laughing loudly until tears of mirth came out. Everyone else joined in with her and started chuckling and laughing until their stomach ached. Even stern Marcus was for once laughing with the others. Some even doubled up with laughter. Only Ninian didn't laugh like the rest, but she looked full of pity for Eliwood.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I never knew Eliwood was so childish!"
"Heh heh, guess some lords are just so sensitive eh Matthew?"
"Yup, you got it Legault. Bahahahahaha…Lord Eliwood? Oh please!"
"Hey, wouldn't you believe this new side of Lord Eliwood before?"
"Dear dear, even in my younger days I never knew Lord Eliwood was this immature…guess there's a lot more to learn eh?"
"-chuckle chuckle- Hmm, looks like there's someone even worse than you in terms of childishness eh Serra?"
"Bad Erky! What's that supposed to mean anyway?"
The dining room was filled with echoes of laughter. That is, until Ninian couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up defiantly and banged her fist on the table. Oooo.
"Stop this!" For once, her voice was quite loud. But only 'quite loud', mind you. "Why are you all doing this to Lord Eliwood? Can't you all understand his hurt feelings? Is this how you treat your lord and former leader?"
Silence. Everyone stopped laughing. A minute went by with full silence. Everyone looked at each other silently.
Then, everyone laughed again, even louder this time.
"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH- Hey Ninian, don't you know you're sticking up for some childish idiot?"
"AHAHAhahahaha…Why don't you go ahead, 'comfort' pat your 'dear, dear Lord Eliwood' on the head and say 'Never mind, Lord Eliwood…I'll always be here with you' then?" This was greeted by more squeals and peals of laughter.
"FINE THEN! I'LL GO!" Ninian almost shouted, then stamped away (for the first time in her life) in an angry huff.
People started laughing again. "Aww…there goes little Ninian to comfort her 'dear little Eliwood'…how 'touching'!" More laughter.
Minutes later when everyone wiped away their tears and finally calmed down, Lyn spoke out. "Okay, now that everything and everyone is fine again, let's just resume our meeting. I'll replace Hector and Eliwood –chuckle- instead. All right with that, everyone?"
"YES!" Hmm, seems like everyone supports Lyn here…
"All right then, so let's get on with what Eliwood –chuckle- was saying. As what you all might know, we girls (including myself) have been lovestruck this past few days, but with some common sense and help from others, we've finally been cured."
Others nodded his or her head approvingly.
"Good, I like this. Quick and straight to the point."
"Lovestruck? Has that really happened?" Nino curiously asked, apparently still in her half-lovestruck state and not realizing the real thing.
Lyn stared at her. Looking for Jaffar for answers, Jaffar decided to inform the rest of the current situation with Nino. "Nino is still…half-conscious as to now."
"Oh…I see. That means you have to set her proper again, Jaffar. I'm sure you don't want her to mess more with Erk, and I'm sure you don't want Nino chasing after you, Erk."
"That's right, Lady Lyndis." Erk was grateful that Lyn could understand his situation.
Lyn cleared her throat again. "Okay, so I take it that the rest of the girls are already cured." Looking at Harken with Isadora and Rebecca's loving looks at Wil, she quickly added, "Well, at least those that are not cured yet are still sticking to their original ones." Then, looking at Farina's dazy eyes, she added again, "And at least those that are still under the lovestruck potion and not going for the rightful person is going for the correct person, if you know what I mean." She grinned evilly and others followed, thinking of a scared and hurt Hector chased to the end of the world by a fully-energetic Farina.
Pausing a moment for breaths, Lyn continued. "Now then, I'm sure that most of you know what caused the severity of this lovestruck situation." Everyone shifted their eyes to Sain's seat, throwing evil glances there, and exclamations were cried out in an instant.
Sain was not there!
"Where the hell is that pervert?" Lyn burst out, cracking her knuckles in anger. Rath beside her glared at Sain's empty seat.
"Sain…I may not have been stern enough with his ways, but now I'm afraid I have to give him proper teachings about harming other innocent women." Kent said with the 'I am the purest knight' tone. You wish.
"Now where is that Sain when I was just going to roast him with my tome of Elfire? I purposely prepared one ready in my pocket, still brand new just for him! A GOOD lesson is what a guy like him REALLY needs!" Erk was VERY irritated.
Jaffar said nothing, instead he rose silently and quickly sheathed his two Killing Edges and started clashing them together, scaring the people around him. (author snickers -heh heh-)
Lyn banged her fist on the table, diverting everyone's attention towards her at once. "Now then! Does anyone know where did that bloody Sain go? Raise up your hand if you know anything, but don't shout all at once! We need to hurry and catch that idiot!"
A few hands were raised. Lyn raised her eyebrow. "All right, let's start with Louise! What do you have to say about Sain?"
Louise spoke carefully. "If I'm not mistaken Lady Lyndis, Sain hurried away when we were busy laughing just now, murmuring something under his breath."
Those people who also rose up their hands nodded their heads in confirmation to Louise's statement.
Lyn's eyes glinted. She, Rath, Kent, Erk, Jaffar, Guy and Raven (yes because Sain made Priscilla mad about Guy) stood up immediately hearing Louise's calm words. "Do you know which direction did he go? Which exit did he use?" There were seven doors leading in and out of the dining room, excluding the main door – and the only door which Sain could never have use to escape since Lyn and the rest would have been informed by the by passers and maids who saw him.
"Um…I think he went to the first door."
Lucius quickly raised his hand and objected. "But Lady Lyndis, I saw Sain running past the second exit."
"No! He went through the third door!" Another voice cried out.
"You're all wrong! It was the fourth!" And another one.
"No, fifth!" Yet another one…
"Sixth!" And again, ANOTHER one!
"Seventh!" …another one.
"Well, I think it was the first door…"
"But perhaps you were mistaken, Lady Louise. These things are perhaps quite confusing sometimes. But I happened to witness Sain running silently pass the second door."
"Well then confusion can also happen to you too, Lucius. I'm quite sure he went past the third door."
"No, you're wrong again! I'm hundred percent positive sure that he used the fifth exit!"
"How many times must I tell you all that it's the sixth one and not any other door!"
"Wrong! SEVENTH!"
"SIXTH!"
"SEVENTH!"
"NO! FIFTH!"
"SHUT UP!" Lyn shouted and banged her fist again on the table.
Everyone shut up, apparently afraid of the dangerous female lord.
"Stop this nonsense bickering at once and be sensible! Now, which door or exit did Sain escape to?"
"First!"
"Second!"
"Third!"
"Fourth!"
"Fifth!"
"Sixth!"
"Seventh!"
"All right all right, stop! I don't want to hear anymore of this! You guys will never stop, and by Mother Sky's hand, who knows I'll even hear a 'eighth' or 'ninth' or something…"
"Eighth!"
"Ninth!"
Lyn sighed. "See, what did I just exactly tell you?" Shaking her head, Lyn readied her Mani Katti and Sol Katti. "Nevermind, since I take it that the rest does not really want Sain's head, then just we seven people will just search for Sain all around the castle! Seven beats one easily!"
"YEAH!" All the rest of the six people cheered.
"Alrighty then, seven doors –Lyn waved her Mani Katti around, scaring people-, seven people, one door one person each! Be quick about it and hunt around the castle for our main objective: Sain! We are the hunters, him the hunted!"
"THAT'S RIGHT! WE THE HUNTERS!"
"Catch him and the reward of being the first to beat the crap out of him is yours! May we return with definite success! Don't even waste a minute second now! Let's go everyone!" And with a manly war cry, Lyn waved her Mani Katti and charged for the first door followed by the other six. Within seconds, the seven 'hunters' were already out of view.
The rest of the people who were left at the dining table just stared at the vanishing figures with their mouths wide open.
"Wow…"
"I'll really say Sain's in for a bad, bad time…"
"Sometimes now I can't help it but to pity him…hiding from those frenzied people won't be easy."
Matthew and Legault sighed. "Oh well…now what are we people going to do? No food, no breakfast-"
"Um…excuse me…" A timid feminine voice sounded. Everyone craned their necks to look at the main door and saw a tall and slim figure of a maid; short fluffy black hair with a curious and shy look at them.
"Yes?" Serra rose from her chair.
"Um…would…would all of you…ladies and gentlemen prefer…breakfast?"
"WHAT!" Dozens of hungry voices shouted, scaring the poor maid.
"Uh…um…I…I was asked…not to serve any dishes…by Lord Eliwood…but ah…I thought you might be hungry, so…I ah…"
"YES YES! PLEASE!"
"Uh…o…okay then…I'll hurry up…" The poor maid vanished in an instant.
Bartre was exclaiming in delight. "Yes! FOOD!"
"Yes, food, food. Good for Bartre." Canas smiled and patted Bartre again.
"Well, I must say I'm feeling ravenous after training in the early morning…"
"That's right, Lowen! Eat to your heart's content and relax, but no relaxing once in battle, and not even in training! Remember these golden words, for they serve you well in any battle!"
"Yes, Lord Marcus!"
"Hey Wil…you don't need to worry about eating all right? I'll spoon feed you…" Rebecca looked at Wil adoringly.
"Uh…thanks a lot Rebecca…but I think I can manage eating by myself. Thanks…for the offer, all right?"
"After this, let's continue our match, Karla. I will win!"
"You mean 'Rock-paper-scissors', brother? Very well. But as for you, brother, winning, I must remind you that so far, you've won 10 times, and me triple yours. It's really quite easy to beat you, brother Karel. After all, you've always coming out with rock only!"
"Hmph, I do believe in neither scissors nor paper, for they are weak, and the weak shall fail and fall, and the strong will succeed and rise! I shall not let you win, as much as you are my sister, Karla."
"Um Farina…can I exchange seats with you?" Fiora asked cautiously.
"Hmm? Lord Hector…he's not here…Lord Hector! Lord Hector!"
"-sigh- Never mind, come here and sit beside me, Florina. You can take Kent's seat for the moment. You'll want company right?"
"Oh…all right sister Fiora. Thank you."
"Thank goodness food's arriving soon…my appetite's been so big lately. Must have been the hard training with the wyverns, eh Vaida?"
"Hmph, are you sure you won't be some ugly fatso by the time we leave this shitty castle eh Heath?"
"No, and I'll bet you'll look even uglier when we leave for Bern. You never seem to take care of your physical appearance anyway, not like many other women and girls I know."
"Who cares anyway? Not me! Charm does not win battles, and that's all I care about."
"Hmm…finally some nice food. It better be good! Then maybe after eating I can retire and visit Lord Hector, he probably needs comfort. I'll be with him and I'll take the chance to stay in his bosom! Ah, such joy!"
…Well well. I'm sure everyone knows who said that. Anyway, the very-delicious food arrived minutes after that, and everyone tucked in happily. And after that? Playing games and gossiping – the usual after eating.
And what about those seven hunters, you ask? Well, of course needless to say they continued their feverish hunt for dear Sain, but somehow he was clever enough to avoid all seven at one go the whole entire morning, ducking behind bushes and staying as quiet as mice, and all that. All seven were very confused as to the knight's whereabouts. But did they give up hunting?
Nah. Never on your life. Don't ever think of it, Sain.
Poor, poorSain. No matter where and how hard you hide and always watch your back, one day you'll get it. Oh no, don't deny it; it shall surely come true; your divine punishments await you! Don't forget; seven beats one, remember?
Author's Notes: 12th chapter finally complete! Hopefully I'm not updating too slow, but there's the possibility that I'll be updating even at a slower pace since I've got projects looming up here and there, so it's really too bad. I'm very, very sorry.
Well anyways, this chapter ends the morning time of the third and final day of the craziness! Finally, the whole group has 'discussed'! How will Jaffar convince Nino of the 'truth'? Will Sain be caught and 'slain'? What will happen to poor-beaten Hector and 'pansy-boy dear Eli'? Find out in the next chapter – Chapter 13: Day 3, afternoon time part 1! Stay in tuned always and review!
To reviewers: Thank you always!
K-Gforever: Yeah, maybe I'll really take your tip on Jaffar asking how to be cute from someone…it might really be funny. Thanks for the tip! …Oh yeah, and what does LMAO and IC stand for?
Nightmare3: You really mean it that Eliwood's less of a man than Lucius? Was Lucius ever a guy? …Oops, sorry, really – didn't mean it. Oh, and about not knowing what Lyn said in her sleep, you forgot that she was already very wide awake – busy punishing Hector for his perverted actions. Nyak nyak nyak, I'm sooo evil…but anyways, I hope you received my review for your FE fic.
Gingy Mittens: Well I'm not too sure about what you think, but perhaps you thought that I was indicating Erk and Nino pairing, not Jaffar and Nino. But if you ARE thinking that, then really I'm sorry to make you think that because Erk and Nino is not my favourite pairing either – of course I'll pair up Jaffar and Nino together. Other than that, I hope you continue to enjoy this fic.
Sandoishi: Whoohoo, you got Mattay-chan's language correct again! Prissy out for Raven's blood is…er, maybe postponed for a while, since he's busy hunting for Sain, but don't worry – I'll definitely finish that matter up before this fic ends. And I hope you don't mind the 'real, serious Matthew' in this chapter – Mattay-chan is really my favourite too.
Lemurian Girl: Seriously, I also think that the rock, paper and scissors were quite 'the real, funny thing'. Actually I was planning for Karel and Karla to spar, but the rock, paper and scissors just suddenly popped out into my head when I was typing, so why not? I'm glad many people liked that part. Hope you like the rest as well!
MiSs JoVaNNa: If I'm not mistaken, a typo is a spelling mistake isn't it? If so, then what's the typo in 'call 991'? Ehehe…sometimes I'm confused as to all the phone stuff – never really did take much attention at them too. Poor Jaffar? Nah, he's going to need more support in getting Nino back!
enigma4ever2020: Yalah, I also think that those two parts were quite funny. Yeah yeah, I know – whatever.
lilylisa31: Yay, a newcomer! I'm glad you find the events in this story funny, but as for weird – uh, well, whatever – maybe I should take it as a compliment. Anyway, I hope you'll keep reading this fic, and hopefully, review!
Blazing Fool: Well as long as you take an interest in Wil and Rebecca, then I guess it's fine with me! Heheh, I admit that I made Merlinus' character weird and kinda scary, but I was pretty much grossly taken in with what he said when he was first allowed to travel with Eliwood and Hector in the Chapter 13x. Forcing Hannah to fall in love with him? Wow, that's really quite a good idea! I'll remember it and take into consideration – I'm really grateful to all of you since you guys also provide some nice suggestions. Thanks!