Disclaimer: Suikoden 3 and all the Vexen Knights aren't mine. I just merely borrowed them for some entertainment XD
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Chapter 3 - Sickness
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"Geez, I can't believe this Lord Percival. I thought I told you to be more careful out there…"
Sighed the young squire as he placed a cool towel on the knight's burning forehead.
The brunette coughed slightly and forced his sore throat to speak, "Well, blame that stupid giant dwarf t-*cough*-hat's been forcing me to go practice with him in such a harsh weather…"
Louis shook his head slightly. Even though the young squire still a kid himself he couldn't help but to find Lord Percival's argument sounded a bit childish.
"You should know better, Lord Percival. It was raining really hard yesterday. You should be searching for cover instead of riding your horse under the pouring rain."
A light knock by the door stopped Percival to argue with Louis.
"So, how was our sick Vexen knight feeling right now?"
The brunette's expression turned sour as he saw whose behind the door. The strategist stepped into the room and closed the door behind him gently.
"Welcome back, Sir Salome. Sir Percival took the medicine already, so all he need now is some decent sleep and some rest."
The strategist nodded in approval and smirked slightly at the sick knight. "It was fortunate that Leo decided to help you out the river instead of leaving you to drown, wasn't it?"
Though Salome's expression didn't show it, but Percival knew that the strategist actually having fun (or too much fun) about the fact that Percival didn't watch where he was going when he went into the forest for some sword practice with the giant Vexen knight. Before he knew it, the horse he was riding stopped abruptly at a small cliff and the momentum had thrown him forward into the cold river.
A loud sneeze was the only reply that Percival could offer to Salome's comment.
"With your condition, it will only become a nuisance for you to stay in the front line."
Noticed his fellow knight slowly nodding off to sleep, Salome chuckled and smirked wider. "I've informed Lady Chris about your current condition and she said it's alright for you to take some days off until you felt better."
"Urgh, I guess it couldn't get anymore worse than this." Murmured the brunette as he started to drift off to sleep, oblivious of what plan that the strategist had for him.
"Oh, I too asked Lady Chris to persuade a certain someone to take care of you."
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[At the training ground]
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"WHAT!? You're forfeiting already?! It wasn't even a warm up for me!"
With Borus' sword poised right in front of his face, the soldier couldn't do anything else but to beg. "F-forgive me Sir, Lord Borus! B-but this is too much of a training--"
"Your stance was unbalanced! If this is a real battlefield, you'd be dead right now!" The blonde knight swore he heard the soldier yelped and whimpered. What the heck! Who raised such a wimp Vexen soldier?! He thought to himself harshly.
"Uh, excuse me… Lord Borus--"
"What is it! Can't you see I'm busy!?"
The guard yelped at the demanding tone, yet he kept his ground with all the courage he got left. "L-Lady Chris is here to see you…"
Right on cue, the silver haired lady entered the picture and smiled gently at her knight. "Oh my, training hard already at such an early morning, Lord Borus?"
The blonde knight's hard expression lighten up immediately as he saw the silver maiden's beautiful face. "L-Lady Chris!" He quickly straightened himself and bowed to her. "I'm sorry for my improper greeting."
"It's alright, I come here unannounced anyway." Smiled the maiden.
The blonde knight's cheek started to redden slightly. To see Lady Chris' smile this early in the morning is such a blessing, he thought to himself. Whenever he's with Lady Chris, all the trouble on his shoulders were all gone. The world could go and disappear for all he cared.
"Do you need anything from me, Lady Chris? It's rare to see you around the training ground."
"Ah, that reminds me. I've a favor to ask you, Lord Borus. Hopefully you're not too busy right now?" She asked sweetly.
The blonde knight blushed slightly. He guessed that Lady Chris had heard him yelling at his underlings.
["Will you do anything that Lady Chris asked you to, Borus?"]
Borus stiffened when he remembered what his comrade asked him that night.
["Then if she asked you to jump over a cliff, you'd do that too?"]
He quickly shook his head to forget what Percival had said and put a determined expression at the silver maiden. "I'll do anything for you, Lady Chris! I'll even jump a cliff if you asked me to!"
Taken a back by his knight's proposal, Lady Chris blinked and laughed heartily at Borus' reaction. "Oh, dear Lord Borus. Don't worry, I won't do such a thing to ask you to jump over a cliff."
Suddenly the blonde knight felt really ridiculous to have said that out loudly. He scratched the back of his head and tried to subdue the blush that slowly crept to his face. "S-so, what do you want me to do, Captain?"
"Well, you see. Lord Percival is down with sickness right now."
Borus blinked at the news. "Huh? Percival is sick?"
"Haven't you heard?" She asked him. "I guess Leo was just giving him too much hard time when they were training at the forest." She added with a sigh.
"I… I see."
He shouldn't be this worried about that man. Percival could have a broken bone or two for like he care. Yet there was something nagged him at the back of his head.
"That's why I need you to take care of Lord Percival for a few days."
Borus stared blankly at the silver maiden as if she had grown another head. "Come again?"
She giggled and patted Borus' shoulder gently. "Aww, don't be like that Lord Borus. We will be away for a mission today. We can't take Lord Percival with us and Salome is worried about you that he suggested that you should take some days off too."
The blonde knight could feel his eyes twitching.
"Is it alright for you to take care of Lord Percival for me?" She asked while tilted her head aside slightly, giving the blonde knight her 'puppy-eyes' look.
"Urgh… Uh, o-okay." Borus said in defeat. His weakness with the 'puppy-eyes' look really had taken him to his downfall now. He couldn't stop blaming himself for having such thing for a weakness.
"Thank you, Lord Borus. Now we don't need to worry about Lord Percival. I trust him under your care then." She said happily and smiled brightly. "Please excuse me then. I need to talk with Lord Salome for today's mission."
"Alright…" Borus stayed on his spot while he watched the silver maiden's back faced him as she walked away.
"Salome, I'm going to kill you someday!" The blonde knight yelled while swinging his sword carelessly, sending more soldiers and guards to flee from the training ground for their dear life.
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(to be continued)
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A/N: I'm sorry for the short chapter for today update x.x I'm kinda in hiatus now and so busy that I don't have enough free time to write or do something I like T_T :wibbles: and I'm sorry too for writing them in kinda the OOC way ROFL :dodges a flying shoes:
Anyway, hope you guys like this chapter. And review please, tell me what you think X3