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Chapter 2: A Dragon's Awakening
'Where am I?' thought a voice from within the darkness. 'Am I dead? …So sleepy…'
"Wake up~" came a faint echo.
'No, don't want to. So sleepy.'
"Wake up~" the voice called out, louder this time.
'…Hm, sleep…'
"WAKE UP LUCIEN!"
Lucien's eyes shot opened and he found himself coming face to face with a black haired little girl with blue eyes, who was on top of him.
The 7-year-old girl smiled once Lucien opened his eyes.
"Good morning," she happily greeted him.
"…Karin," Lucien whispered as he reached one hand up to stroke her long, flowing black hair, and smiled. "I'm Awake."
Karin smiled back at him before getting off of him and set on the bedside for him to be able to get a better view of the room. Once Karin moved away from his reach, Lucien noticed another presence in the room and turned his head sideways to find a white haired man, with a fox face and a wide smile on his face, standing not far off from them.
"Gin-san," Lucien greeted the older man as he bowed his head a bit in his sleeping position.
"Lucien-sama," Gin greeted back with a bow to the Prince of Darkness.
Lucien then turned back to the smiling little Karin sitting on the side of his bed. "Where to?" he asked her.
Karin giggled as her eyes lit up with their usual fire. "California, then Thailand," she replied.
Lucien raised a questioning eyebrow at her.
"What?" Karin asked upon seeing his questioning face. "Didn't you want to go to Thailand?"
"…I do. But why both places? Is it really necessary to fly across the country and then the continent?" Lucien asked.
Karin's sweet and happily smile dropped. "Hey!" she yelled. "I had to fly all the way across the Pacific Ocean, all the way from Japan, just to resurrect you and take you back, you know? Do you know how hard it is to resurrect you? Do you?" She jabbed him in the head.
Lucien chuckled as he reached up to huge her and brought her down to him. "Yes, yes. I know. Thank you, my dear sweet little Karin-hime." He then inhaled her sent, Tsubaki flowers. "I missed you, very much."
Karin smiled as she pushed herself off of him and set on top of him. "Better. It's because Onii-chan's mortal parents are famous star actors and models in LA. We're going there to tell them about Onii-chan!"
Lucien smile dropped as he raised another eyebrow at her explanations. "Is that alright?"
"Of course!" Karin laughed out. "It'll be fine. Their good parents, it won't hurt them. In fact, it's best that they know…"
Lucien sighed. "You have plans for them, don't you?" he whispered.
Karin smiled. "Of course! I always have something in mind!"
Lucien gave out another sigh. "And why are we going to Thailand then? Surly it's not for a vacation or something, is it?"
"No!" Karin happily replied. "We're going to become actors in Thailand! Or maybe Korea… I really don't mind either one. Anyway, we had to do this for your sake. You're too well known here…"
There was a silent pause as Gin silently excused himself from the room and went to start on breakfast and give the two some privacy.
"I'm sorry," Lucien whispered as he avoided Karin's sad, blue eyes.
Karin sighed as she moved closer and hugged him. "…It's okay. It's alright. I understand. You're a man after all. It's only natural that you'd-"
"Can we not talk about it, please?"
"Of course, of course," Karin happily replied as she bent down and kissed Lucien on the cheek before getting up off of him once again and stood at the side of the bed. "Now, clean yourself up and come out for breakfast!"
Lucien watched her leave with a smile on his gentle face. Karin was almost out the door when she stopped and turned around to face him again. "Oh, and I missed you too, Lucy." And she walked out with a smile.
Lucien was shocked before he smiled at the old nickname and got out of bed to go and get cleaned up in the bathroom. He brushed his teeth before taking a long cold shower. He needed it with everything that had happened for the past few days…
Lucien sighed, as he thought back to the events of the past before seeing Karin's happy, smiling face popping up in his mind once again and he smiled. He turned off the water, pulled a towel around his lower half and another one for his wet hair. Once he walked out, Lucien found some cloth laid out on top of his bed for him and smiled. He dried himself off as best he could before putting on the black dress pant and white long sleeve business shirt. He then combed his a-bit-wet-of-a-mess, black hair before walking of his bedroom.
Karin was sitting at the kitchen table, a plate of curry and a glass of water was placed in front of her while she was messing with her I-pad in its white case with some red flower patterns on it as she eat.
Lucien sat down across from her and Gin placed a plate of curry, a glass of water and a green cup of steaming hot coffee in front of him before sitting himself down on the chair to the side of the table, sipping his own steaming, hot green tea and watched the show between the two friends.
"So," Lucien begins as he drank his coffee and his dark, brown eyes eyed Karin's form, "Does Ren know about this?"
Gin chuckled as he watched the show, holding onto his cup of tea.
"No," Karin simply replied him without looking up from her work on her I-pad.
Lucien sighed, turned side ways and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Let me guess, he's not even awake yet."
"Bingo!" Karin said. "Baka's on his way to becoming a big time actor in Japan right now, after running away to find himself. He's now going by the so-called 'stage name' of Tsuruga Ren, the most desirable man in Japan, instead of his birth name given by his mortal parents, 'Hizuri Kuon'. He even changed his looks to a darker shade and color, that Demon Lord." Karin, without looking up, tossed him a picture and Lucien caught it just in time before it hit his face and leave a bloody cute on his cheek.
He looked at it. "Hay... He actually does look you good."
"Hump," Karin pouted as she looked away. "Too bad it's fake, that smile of his… makes you wonder if he's really happy with this…" Lucien and Gin looked at her with a flown on their faces and there was a silent pause before Karin got back to messing with her I-pad again and the others followed her, going back to what they just were doing.
Finally. Lucien put down the picture and sighed, looking away. "When do we leave?" he asked.
"Tomorrow morning. Everything's already packed and you look well enough to travel," Karin answered.
"Obviously. It is you who resurrected me, after all."
Karin chuckled. "True." She surged, then looked down, her face face. "But it was also partly my fault that you-"
"Karin, it's okay," Lucien interrupted, trying to get her to smile again. "I'm okay. I'm here right now, aren't I? I'm fine."
"But still..." Karin looked up at him.
Lucien sighed after a moment of staring into her eyes, and smiled. "So, how's life been?" he asked in a cheery voice, trying to change the topic.
Karin's smile dropped even deeper. "Fine," she answered, still not looking up and eyes clouded over.
Lucien's smile dropped and he raised an eyebrow at her. "Fine? Just find?" Karin nodded. "Come on Karin... You're not being fair here..."
Gin chuckled at Lucien's childish whining.
"Whatever do you mean by that, Lucy?" Karin innocently questioned.
"You know what I mean, Karin! You know how my life has been for the past 500 years yet I don't know anything about you!"
"…I don't know what you're talking about…"
"Karin!" Lucien stood up and slammed his hands on the table.
Not one person in the room reacted to his outburst.
Gin laughed some more, putting his tea cup down. "If you'd like, Lucien-sama, I can tell you how Karin-chan's been doing in the time of your absents," Gin offered.
"Really?" Lucien's head snapped to Gin, a happy smiled on his sparking face.
Gin nodded his head. "Hai. You see…" Gin began as Lucien sat down like an obedient little pappy, waiting for his treat.
"Gin!" Karin yelled as she stood up.
"It's not like it's going to hurt, Hime. Besides, he has the right to know."
"…" Karin pouted.
Lucien sighed, got up and walked across the room to Karin and wrapped his arms around her enraged form.
"Karin..." he began.
Karin ignored him as she closed her eyes and refused to listen. Gin chuckled at the cuteness of Karin's angry face.
'Oh how I wish you could see this, my dear son. Karin-chan's cute face when's she's angry. If you could only see this once again, then maybe you'd…' Gin sadly thought about his cold, emotionless, and eldest work-a-holic of a son and child and sighed.
"Come on... Please...? I love you..."
"Hump!"
Lucien's face turned serious as he let go of her. "You know how much this older cousin of yours cares for you, right Karin? I just want to know how you've been, its that so bad?"
Karin opened her eyes and sighed. She then turned around and stared up at Lucien's dark, drown eyes that almost matched his Father's own.
"…Fine! Big meanies! Go ahead, I won't stop you! But if I hear anything, anything at all out of line, you're all dead! Again! Understand?" Karin huffed as she sat down and went back to work. Though she was still keeping an ear out from anything embarrassing that Gin was going to tell the too-engorged-to-know, puppy-dog Lucien, who'd move back to his place across the table and was ready to listen to the story of her life. She sighed.
Lucien listened and had to restrain himself from hitting something when her hear about Karin's death at the hands of that woman.
"That Bastard," he growled out. "No offense Gin." Lucien turned to Gin, a bit less murderess.
"It's okay," Gin replied.
"You mind if I kill him when I see him?"
"Lucien!" Karin warned as she sent him a death glare.
"Fine," Lucien crossed his arms. "I won't kill him. I'll beat him within an inch of his life!"
"No you will not. You will not do anything unnecessary to him. He is but a clone of the original."
"Yeah, but I can't beat the original…"
"…You're right, you can't." Lucien stared at her while Gin looked down, feeling sorry for his son. "But I can." Karin smiled at him with a glimmer in her eyes that she hadn't show in a long time.
Lucien gulped, not liking where this was going. 'I feel so~, so sorry for you, General Winter…'
At another place, a man with white hair and pale skin shrived suddenly and dropped his pant bush, stopping, for just a moment, his never ending curse of all existence paperwork, which he's been continueously working on for over 5000 years, stopping only when he really needed to (and that in itself was very little amount of time).
The snowstorm was still going on strong outside and was beating on his glass window behind his work desk.
'Why am I shivering? I'm the god of winter for goodness sakes, so why…' wondered the blue eyed man. 'I haven't felt this way in a while. Since… It's almost as if… that woman… is planning something again…' his face turned horrific at the thought of his partner plotting something again. And most likely, it was once again, agent him. Ohh joy…
The so-called icy cold, emotionless and work-a-holic God of Winter screamed of the first time in 5000 years that day, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Gin and Lucien suddenly shivered as the high-pitched sound of a certain someone's screaming on the top of his lungs for his dear life up from the northern realm. The two men stared at the little girl as she chuckled evil at what she'll do once she gets her hands on her fated partner in all her lives.
'General Winter/Shiro-chan, I hope for your shake that she never gets her hands you,' the two men thought, sweet dropping. 'But knowing you and your weakness for Karin/Karin-chan, even if you're a child genies and is of a higher ranking and power…' the two men looked at each other, 'you're still a Dragon who's tightly wrapped around her little fingers…'
Lucien closed his eyes and sighed, his head down. "We're going to have to save him, aren't we?" he quietly asked Gin. "That Ice Dragon Lord…"
"Yep," Gin answered as he looked at Karin.
Lucien sighed once again. "This Family is truly messed up…
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The meaning behind this chapter title id because of two things;
1. Lucien himself because he's a DRAGON (J.S.Y.K. it's Romanian for Dracula)
2. General Winter is an Ice Dragon and Lord of the ice dragons
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