Chapter Nine: What's wrong with Alviss?

Disclaimer: …………………………………………………… I bet you're getting tired of this. I know I am. Refer back to all chapters before for the disclaimer.

Pairings: Ginta x Alviss, Phantom x Alviss. The usual XD.

It was several days later before Alviss grew sick. Every morning, he crawled out of bed and vomited his previous night's dinner into the toilet. Most of Team MÄR grew worried as days proceeded. Alviss vomited so hard, his body quaked and tears leaked from his eyes.

Ginta was a mess. The youth had never liked being so helpless. All he could do was help Alviss with his walk to the toilet and pat his back when the boy's semi digested food decided to make an appearance once again.

"Thanks… Ginta." Alviss murmured as he stood up from his kneeled position and wiped the side of his mouth.

Ginta nodded, though continued to frown. Maybe Phantom did something to him. The blond thought as he narrowed his eyes, glaring holes at the bathroom wall.

"… Ginta… Ginta?"

The blond blinked, only just realizing that Alviss had been speaking. "Um… Sorry, I didn't catch that."

Alviss blushed as he glanced down, scratching his neck. "You can let go of my hand now." He said shyly, making Ginta blink before the blond lowered his gaze. He didn't know when, but at some point, he had grabbed Alviss' smaller hand and held it securely in his.

"I… Uh…" He blushed, releasing the blue eyed youth's hand and jerked it behind his back. "Sorry."

Alviss opened his mouth to say something, only to feel more food begin to rise before he rushed over to the toilet bowl and heaved. Ginta silently patted the youth on the back as

Alviss begun to vomit out water once he ran out of food to heave.

Ed had taken it upon himself to make sure that Alviss drank extra fluid. As they had lunch, the brown taking dog that wore a Santa hat (A/N: When I first saw, I was like WTF. What the Hell was with the Santa hat?! ) refilled Alviss' glass with water from a jug that he now practically carried everywhere.

Alviss silently mulled over the fact that not only did he have a fairy following him everywhere, but a furry mutt as well.

While Ed filled his glass with water, Snow grabbed anything that resembled food onto his plate, stacking it rather high. Of course, Alviss didn't really see the point, since he probably was going to lose it by tomorrow anyway. Much to Alviss' horror, she added some roast duck to the pile.

Usually, Alviss wouldn't mind roast duck. He quite liked it, but usually just kept with the food Bell brought otherwise the fairy would have a spasm and resulting with him having bleeding ears. But mind you, anything with eyes is strictly a taboo to him. The black haired teen made a face. Inconveniently, Snow didn't give him a whole duck. She just gave him the head.

Heh… Cute… Alviss thought, laughing nervously as he shivered. "It's staring at me." He turned his plate around so the duck head was facing the other direction.

"So…" Nanashi begun, resting his chin on the back of his overlapped hands. "What are we going to do about the War Games today?"

"I'm going to have to sit out on this one." Alviss murmured with disappointment evident on his face. Ginta stood up, slapping his hands on the table.

"I will too! Alviss can't stay in the castle by himself! What happens if Phantom appears to take him back?!"

"Alviss can watch from the courtyard, can't he?" Jack piped up, before tearing his chicken with his teeth.

The boy in question frowned. "Alviss can hear you and he doesn't like it when people speak about him like he's not in the room." He said, referring to himself in third person as he crossed his arms and glared daggers at everyone at the table.

"I've already decided." Alan stated, focusing all the attention on him. "I'll sit this one out. You guys battle and anyway, I had already invited a doctor to try and diagnose Alviss' illness."

Ginta sighed in defeat. At least he knew that the old man would take care of Alviss, hopefully. For some reason, he was in doubt. Maybe because I had been in solitary for so long, I'm used to just relying on myself.

"Fine, fine." He murmured in agreement before he crossed his arms, pouting.

Alviss, meanwhile, stared in horror at the elder man. "N-Needle?" Was the only response he made out as he stared, mouth gaped and with wide eyes.

"No Alviss, no needle."

Practically everyone was thunderstruck when Alviss suddenly begun to cry, blowing his nose on the table cloth before he cried harder.

"Alviss, why are you crying?!" Ginta thought, assuming the worse when the smaller teen begun to bawl his eyes out.

"I… don't know." Alviss stated in between sniffles, making everyone but Alan, fall anime-style. The brown haired, older man merely narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

Alviss suddenly stopped crying as quickly as he begun. "Is there tofu in this pile?" He randomly questioned, poking his pile of food with his fork and making everyone sweat-drop. Nanashi turned his head towards Dorothy.

"PMS?" He mouthed, making the witch shrug as she too gazed at the black haired youth suspiciously.

"My intuition tells me something's up." Phantom said with a smile, making Rolan glance in his direction, interrupting his game of chess with Candis (A/N: not quite sure about the spelling of her name. Some people subs it Kandis, and it is also commonly written as Candice too).

"Really?" Rolan asked. Judging by the look on the white haired Knight's face, the blond figured it was something to do with Alviss. He felt sorry for the black haired teen.

Just then, Rosette bounded into the room, the long sleeves of his grey turtleneck seemed to be stuffed with cylinder objects. Just by first glance, Rolan knew that Rosette had found another one of Chaton's tuna storages.

"Good morning all!" He exclaimed cheerily before bouncing towards Phantom. The Knight merely followed him with a purple eye as the golden eyed youth dumped his treasure behind his throne.

"Morning passed three hours ago." Phantom said airily as he turned his attention back to the fight between Ginta and one of his bishops. Which one, he wasn't sure. The only ones he knew by name really were Rosette, Sabbeth and that Chase guy. The latter was because Rosette tended to bitch about him a lot. He also knew some pawns and a rook called Yuki… mainly because Rosette also bitched about him a lot too.

I think Rosette should just bed Sabby already. The sexual tension really pisses me off. Phantom thought, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"And the winner is Ginta!"

Phantom snapped his eyes towards the projected image (A/N: I dunno what it is. A TV of sorts?). "Oh fiddlesticks, I missed it." The knight groaned, slapping his forehead as he directed his attention towards Peta, who had been silently observing. "Does there happen to a remote that you have failed to mention? I want to rewind it." A shake of the head. "Damn!"

"WE WON!" Ginta exclaimed happily towards the people before he merely sidestepped, making Dorothy kiss the ground. Alviss and Alan were gone, probably still with the doctor. I hope he's okay, Ginta thought, worry lines appearing on his forehead. It was a good thing Babbo didn't add snide comments that much anymore; otherwise he would have just taken out all of his stress on him.

Snow smiled and waved at the people while Jack puffed his chest. It had been a straight win. "WELL HELLO LADIES!" Nanashi shouted, waving at the girls in the crowd maniacally, before Dorothy grabbed his ear and tugged him towards the castle with the others.

"We have to be together when Alan breaks the news on Alviss' health." She grumbled when the thief of Luberia protested.

As they walked through the castle, they spotted Alan's hulky form leaning against the stone wall beside the door to Alviss' room. Ginta felt his heart sink.

"Is he okay?" He asked with a panicky voice as he peered into the room, spotting the youth unconscious and tucked in bed.

"He just fainted." Alan stated as he uncrossed his arms. "Though my suspicions were proven correct."

Ginta gulped. "So what's wrong?"

Alan looked grim.

I can't help but make Alviss suffer. -.- I love him to bits but seeing him sad makes me love him even more! Speaking of which, I'm changing this story from angst to humor as someone had pointed out it was more funny then angst. What can I say? I'm not a serious type of fiction writer.

It might be a while before I update (Half yearly exams are a killer).

With the pairings, I haven't made any definite choice yet with the final pairing, whether Alviss would end up with Ginta or Phantom. So I'm having a vote, so my darling readers can decide the final pairing. XD Review and choose then.

P.s If it is Phantom, then I'll make him less of a bastard of course.

Review. Please?