Next snippet! A rather amusing one I wanna do one of all the character's childhoods... though this doesn't fit into that category, it's a first-meeting type one. Enjoy!

Warnings: none.

Dragon Knight Snippets: Mistaken

Rath only had one day to realize Lykouleon was gone. He didn't ask why, he didn't really care, he was probably at some political reunion with other kingdoms or something. It took three weeks for him to come back though, and he wasn't alone.

There was a little faerie elf with him.

Alright, so he wasn't really little, but that had been Rath's first impression of him anyway. Upon hearing that there was a guest staying in the permanent-resident knight's quarter —the room right down the hallways from his, in fact— Rath's insatiable curiosity was piqued.

The door was like, which Rath found odd, but he shrugged to himself and tried to peek underneath the heavy wooden door, but all he could see were tiny booted feet. So he tried looking through the keyhole. It was vague, but he could see, just outside the limited field of vision the tiny keyhole gave him, long golden hair. Then the head turned around, allowing him a cut-off view of an effeminate, almost babyish, face, and large crystal blue eyes.

"Rath!"

The little fire knight jumped a mile high to face Ruwalk, who looked at him with a mix of bemusement and disapproval before grinning, "You know better than to stalk people, right, kid?"

"But Ruwalk, I wanna see who it is!" Maybe if Rath whined pitifully enough, Ruwalk would give in, as often happened.

Ruwalk simply ruffled his hair and plucked him by the collar, dragging him towards his bedroom, "Don't worry, you'll get to meet our guest eventually."

Rath wrestled out of his grip, stuck his tongue out, and went in search of Fire.

So. Their new guest was a little blond girl.

Ew. Well, maybe she could play with him anyway. If she was in the knight's quarter's though… did that mean she was going to live here? And be a knight? Gross, that ruined everything. Rath had a very clear mental picture of him standing victoriously over the carcasses of countless, monstrous demons, the world's most feared demon slayer, in all his glorious goriness. He didn't want a little girl tagging along, crying at the sight of scary demons and being all sissy.

It wasn't until two days later that he got to see the elf again.

"I don't wanna go to bed yet!" he crossed his arms, huffing like an authoritative adult. Or at least, like Lyokouleon in one of his sulkier moods.

"Rath…" Kaistern sighed, not in the mood to deal with one of Rath's, "Sorry, but there's no argument tonight. You kids got it so easy, no sharp-tongue diplomatics for you to deal with…"

Rath suddenly let Kaistern's hands push him away while he grumbled, as his mind was distracted by something else.

Shiny, golden hair was what had caught his attention, complementing Alfeegi's slim lock of long aquamarine hair. But now, able to see the elf in full, Rath noticed two things—one, that she was way taller than him, so there went the idea of a playmate. On the other hand, Raseleane wasn't that sissy, she could play in the mud and she didn't faint at the sight of blood. Maybe the older girls became, the less girly they got. On that note, the second things he noticed was that she lacked that… that thing, the shape, the, the… he groped for a word to fill in the blank. The squishy thing girls had on their chest, like Cernozura and Raseleane, and those girls that snuck out of Ruwalk's room every once in a while, they had lots of it.

Oh well, he wasn't sure what it meant that this girl didn't have that—maybe she was only half a girl?—but it didn't really make a difference.

"What are you looking at?" Kaistern blinked, cocking his head at Rath.

"Her!"

"Her?" Kaistern turned to look at the now empty corridor and frowned, "Who are you talking about?"

"That girl with Alfeegi!" Rath stomped his foot.

Kaistern sighed and picked Rath up, "Sure. Let's go to bed," under his breath he muttered, "Now he's seeing things, what is RUwalk feeding him for lunch?"

"I am not! And you fed me today!"

All Rath knew was that the next day, Kaistern came to get him.

"We got someone for you to meet," was all he said, no matter how many questions Rath perstered him with. And he was usually so good at getting some information that way…

"Is it that girl?"

Kaistern looked at him funny, "I have no idea what you're talking about."

He's delusional, Fire agreed. Rath muttered something at Fire, and stuck his tongue out.

If it wasn't the girl, then it was probably some silly fat politician who tried to make funny faces and talk to him like he was mentally retarded, or something boring like that. He had better things to think about, like how he could sneak into the laundry room and dye Tetheus' clothes pink.

At that time, they reached Lykouleon's office, and Rath didn't bother looking away from his staring contest with Fire.

"Rath, I'd like you to meet the new Water knight," Lykouleon interrupted, and Rath's head snapped to attention.

"I'm Rune, it's nice to meet you."

Rath gaped, "It's her!"

The blond faerie elf stared, and Lykouleon and Kaistern exchanged a puzzled glance.

"Her?"

"Yeah, that's the girl I was talking about! Can a girl really be a Dragon Knight?"

By this time, both men were trying their hardest not to laugh, for Rune's sake, but it wasn't working out very well. Rune's face was still blank, slightly pale.

"Rath…" Lykouleon had to pause to cover his mouth and stifle his laughter, "I'm sure he will do fine."

Rath blinked and slowly tuned with a puzzled look back to Rune, whose face now looked like a strawberry, whether out of anger or embarrassment, he wasn't sure.

"Oooooh…." The Fire Knight's eyes widened, "So that's why he doesn't have those squishy chest-things girls have!"

Rune looked horrified.

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