I slowly awoke to find Gunter staring at me worriedly.
"Uh, hi?" I said cautiously.
"Oh Heika!" Gunter wailed as he pulled me into a hug. I tried resisting, but my hand hurt everytime I tried to push him away.
"It-te-te-te!" I said as I quickly stopped trying to push him away and cradled my hand.
"Are you alright?" Gunter asked in a panicked voice.
"Yeah, my hand just hurts..." I said while I lifted it up a little to look at it and saw it was wrapped in bandages.
"I wouldn't doubt it hurts seeing as how it was nearly cut off." I heard a familiar arrogant voice say.
I leaned back to see past Gunter and saw Wolfram leaning against the window. I stuck my tongue out at him, then sat up so he couldn't see me since Gunter blocked his line of sight.
"Who won the duel?" I asked Gunter.
"Why you did your majesty, don't you remember?" Gunter said.
"The last thing I remember seeing was that maid getting hit by little lord brat's fire lion." I said as I thought back to the duel.
Then I realized something, I couldn't hear any soldiers training, which lead me to think one thing... "Where's Conrad?" I asked.
Gunter looked surprised, but said, "He had to take care of a village that was attacked on the borders. Why do you ask?"
"No reason." I quickly lied. I then tossed my legs over the side of the bed and was about to get up when Gunter pushed me back down and said, "You must rest."
"But I'm not tired." I whined. I pushed him away and stood up, but nearly fell when I felt intense pain on my right shin. "It-te-te-te!"
"You mustn't walk your majesty! Your leg's still healing."Gunter said.
I looked at him, then at Wolfram and said to him, "This is all your fault you know."
"How's it my fault?!" He yelled angrily.
"You're the one that has a grudge against humans." I said with a shrug. It was then, I realized I was still wearing the same clothes from the duel.
"How long have I been out?" I asked.
"Three days your majesty." Gunter said.
"Okay, one, stop calling me your majesty! It's just Yuuri! And two, if I was out for three days, why'd I have to sleep in the same outfit?" I said.
"Well, Your-, er, Yuuri, Whenever we tried getting a maid to change you into different clothes, you would start thrashing round and mumbling something in a different language..." Gunter replied while getting a nosebleed. Great, he's a pervert. I thought to myself.
I wasn't surprised that I thrashed around in my sleep, it was probably my instincts kicking in and keeping them from finding my hidden sais. I stretched and said, "Where's my belt and katana?"
"Well, your belt's in your room along with you sword, but, what's a katana?" Gunter asked.
"It's a type of sword, aka the sword you put in my room." I said with an annoyed face. Then I realized something, "If I'm not in my room, whos room am I in?" I asked.
"My room." Wolfram said with a 'hmph.'
"Why am I in his room?!" I nearly yelled.
"It was the closest open bedroom and we were afraid to move you while you were unconciouss..." Gunter said in a panicked voice.
My left eye twitched. "Whatever." I said as I walked over to the door, albeit, with a limp, and left the room. "Wait your majesty!" I heard Gunter yell as I heard footsteps coming towards the door. I jumped up high and stabbed my sais into the wall to hold me there. I looked down and saw Gunter poking his head out of the room and looking both ways.
"Where did she go!?!" He asked nobody in particular. Wolfram ran out of the room and looked both ways also.
"You idiot! You go that way and I'll go this way!" Wolfram yelled at Gunter with a trace of... was it worry I heard in his voice?
Interesting.
When they were both out of sight, I pulled my sais out of the wall and quickly re-hid them. When I landed, I had forgot about my leg, so I landed... most ungracefully. After I stayed still a while to allow the pain to go away, I started towards the kitchen. I was hungry after sleeping for three days. I hobbled into it and found that no one was there.
"Must be their day off." I mumbled to myself. I closed the door and started looking around. I found out what ingredients they had, then gathered the flour, butter, sugar, vanilla extract, milk, and a few eggs. After finding some bowls and utensils, then meausuring out the ingredients, I put spoon sized drops of dough on the pan and put them in the oven after I figured out how to light it. While it was cooking, I cleaned up the mess I had made and washed the dishes I had used. When the cookies were done, I pulled the tray out and stacked them on a plate to let them cool. I then washed the tray and put all the dishes away. I put the plate on a table in the kitchen and sat downn and started eating one. I was then that Wolfram poked his head in the kitchen.
"There you are!" He sounded angry yet relieved at the same time.
I just looked at him and asked, "Want a cookie?"
He looked surprised at the sudden question, but said, "Uh, yeah..."
He just stood there, so I gestured for him to come over. He complied. What is he? A puppy?
He stood there, so I sighed and said, "You don't need my permission to do everything. Just have one." I pushed the plate towards him and he looked mildly surprised.
"Thanks." He mumbled as he picked one up. He took a bite from it and his eyes widened in surprise.
"This is good, which servant made this?" He asked as he took another bite from it. I finished my cookie and grabbed another and said, "A servant didn't make them, I did."
His eyes widened in surprise and he said, "You can cook?"
"You can question the obvious?" I mocked him.
"Well it's just a surprise that a mere-" He started.
I pinched his cheek and pulled it and said, "I'm sorry, what were you going to say?"
"Let go!" He yelled.
"Tell me what you were going to say first." I said as my eye twitched.
"That a person as, uh, skilled as you could make them!" Wolfram said. I let go of his cheek and said, "Good boy." He really is like a puppy.
He rubbed his cheek and said, "That was unnescessary..."
"No, it was." I said. I quickly stood up and started heading towards the door to leave the room.
"Wait!" Wolfram yelled.
"What?" I asked boredly.
"Don't you want to know where Conrad is?" Wolfram said. My eye twitched and I turned towards him.
"Go on." I said angrily.
"How in the world did I let you convince me to do this?" I said as I held on to Wolfram tighter as the horse sped up.
"Well, seeing as how you can't hold a rein properly because of the cut on your hand, you have no choice but to ride with me." Wolfram said with a hint of smugness in his tone. I would've slapped him again if I could've!
I looked behind us and saw four men, dressed in a similar manner as Wolfram, riding horses behind us.
"Who are they?" I asked.
"They're my personal guard and are highly trained in Maryoku." Wolfram said proudly.
I sighed and asked, "Are you sure it was okay to leave the castle without telling Gunter?"
"Do you really think he'd let you go near a skirmish you wimp?" Wolfram said.
"Don't call me a wimp!" I yelled at him.
We rode for a while in silence and night started turning into day. All the sudden I felt as if something was watching us. I looked around, then saw a skeleton with wings in the sky. You've got to be kidding me. I sighed and kept myself from looking at it longer, but I kept the knowledge that it was there.
"There's the village!" I heard Wolfram say all the sudden. I leaned to the left some and saw the village on fire.
"Eh?! Why's it on fire?!" I said in disbelief.
"Even though Conrad's been here for a while, it's still this bad?..." Wolfram said to himself.
"Naive as ever I see. Do you reeally think your brother can do anything?" I heard a familiar voice say. I turned my head to the right and saw the blonde guy that I first saw when I came to this world.
"You're Adelbert!" I said.
"My, you're smarter than you look girl." Adelbert said.
"Urusai!" I yelled at him. It was then I noticed Wolfram was covered in sweat.
"Eh? Why are you all sweaty? Don't tell me you have to go to the bathroom!" I said.
"It's a shame Wolfram. I'm sure you brought the strongest magic users, but they are all trapped in the magic barrier. You chould always have at least one soldier who can dispel magic." Adelbert said smugly.
"Did you guys do something to them?!" I yelled at him furiously.
"Pretty much. But why are you riding with him? How did you get him to let you ride behind, when he only responds to his mother and brother?" Adelbert asked.
"Err.. well that's... Wait! How did you know about him and his brothers? And you knew Conrad too. Are you a Mazoku too?!" I replied/asked.
"I used to be." Adelbert said with a smug smile.
"Then why don't you get along with him or Conrad?! Why are you bothering us?!" I yelled at him.
"Because I hate them." Adelbert stated.
"Wait, what?!" I said.
"I hate the Mazoku with a passion. That's why I came to rescue you. Suddenly being sent to a different world and pressured to become the new queen, the demon queen is the enemy of humans. Don't you thhink it's cruel to expose you to that kind of situation? These guys needed a sacrifice, they will set you on the throne, just so they can have a figurehead to help run the country. You are just human, are you not? That's why the magic seal doesn't work on you." Adelbert said as he made his horse start to walk towards us. Who the hell does this guy think he is? and what the hell is with these people and humans?
"Don't listen to him!" Wolfram suddenly yelled, causing me to jump.
"You could talk?!" I said surprised.
"Don't listen to anything he says, that man betrayed us. If you join up with him..."Wolfram stopped talking and looked like he was in pain.
"Does it hurt to talk? If it does, than don't talk." I said soothingly to him.
"That's right youngest son." Adelbert said as he drew his sword and out the tip of it at Wolfram's throat. "Being the youngest son, you could have led an easier life had you not become so skilled in magic. Besides, aren't these bandits doing you a favor? They're killing the humans you despise so much, so why stop them?"
"But the bandits are humans too! Why are they attacking each other?!" I yelled out.
"This is probly all your doing!" Wolfram yelled at Adelbert.
"They were starving, so I gave them some advice on how to get food. Otherwise, they would've starved to death. Besides, those people couldn't be called humans anymore, not since they allied themselves with the demons." Adelbert said.
"Why are they attacking each other, I don't understand!" I yelled.
"You don't have to. Anyway, I came here to save you. Now, come here." Adelbert said as he held out his hand for me.
"Go..." Wolfram said, "He doesn't look like he wants to hurt you. Just do what he says and go."
"But what about you guys?" I asked worriedly.
"Forget us, just go!" Wolfram said. "I'll definately come back for you."
I looked at him and he just silently pleaded me to do what Adelbert said. Since when did I become the one that needed saved? I reluctantly dismounted the horse and landed carefully on the ground because of my leg. "Wise choice." Adelbert said smugly.
"I'm the only one you want." I said. I then grabbed Wolfram's leg and made him kick his horse and it sped off, followed by the other horses that Wolfram's men were on.
"Yuuri!" Wolfram yelled as his horse sped away.
"You brat." Adelbert said bitterly.
"Call me what you want, at least Wolfram's safe. Besides, you look more like the bad guy then they do, so I'm gonna stick with them till this is all over." I said.
"Is that so?" Adelbert said. I just nodded my head. "Well then, I guess I'll just have to kill you." Adelbert said as he put his sword to the back of my neck. I quickly jumped away and reached for my sword, only to realize it wasn't there. Then I remembered how Wolfram had convinced me to go with him without him telling Gunter where we were going.
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"If you want me to take you to the village, you have to show me you have faith in me as your fiancee and leave your weapons behind." Wolfram said confidantly.
This, of course, lead to a huge argument, but in the end, I ended up agreeing with him when he threatened to tell Gunter what I was scheming.
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The only weapon I had on me now was my two hidden sais.
Great, just great. I thought to myself. Adelbert dismounted his horse and started walking towards me when I started backing up and got ready to use my sais if I had to.
"If you stay still, I promise to make it quick and painless." Adelbert said as he raised his sword. He was bringing it down when I was about to block with my sais, but the strange skeleton bird-thing flew down and took the blow for me.
"Eh!?" I yelled. I quickly knelt down and picked up the skeleton in my arms. "Hey! Are you alright?" I asked it worriedly.
"Tch, I've never seen one of the skell-i-bone tribe act like this before. Oh well, it's just one less ugly bird in the sky." Adelbert said with a shrug. I immediatly analyzed the situation and knew there was a chance the skell-i-thingy could still be alive. I quickly stood up with it in my arms and ran past Adelbert.
"Hey!" I heard him yell. The other two people that were with Adelbert quickly blocked my path, so I tucked and rolled between the legs of the horses, than stood and continued running, but, not without feeling one of the men's sword just barely cut the skin on my back through my shirt. I heard them starting to run after me, so I ran into the closest part of the forest and climbed as fast as I could up the closest tree.
"Get down here so I can kill you!" Adelbert yelled from the base of the tree. I let out a sigh of relief since I knew I had just barely escaped.
"Like hell I will!" I yelled down to him. I climbed up the tree farther, and rested on a high sturdy branch. I sat down on the branch carefully and put the skell-i-bone on my lap and looked at its sad face, er, skull? I don't know! It chattered a little and my hopes rose when I thought it could be alive.
"Hey, you okay? Can you understand me?" I said to it.
It chattered again.
"I'll take that as a yes." I said with a sigh of relief. I looked at its slightly broken form and the pieces I had managed to gather before fleeing. Its spine was twisted enough that its legs were backwards. Some of his ribs were also broken, and the pieces I had gathere looked like it would be enough to fix it. I reached down to my right shin and pulled the bandages off my injury. I then used them to reattach the skeleton's broken ribs. When they were reattached, I carefully twisted his legs around and wrapped the rest of the bandage around the part of the spine that had twisted to keep it from twisting again.
"Better?" I asked it. It somehow seemed happier and chattered seemingly happier. I smiled and said, "That's good."
In response, it flapped it's wings and lifted into the air.
"Wait!" I said grabbing it's arm, "You should rest!"
It just chattered and landed on the same branch as me.
"Arigatou." I smiled and leaned back carefully against the trunk. I cringed a bit as the cut touched the rough tree trunk.
It was then I heard a familiar voice yelling my name.
"Yuuri!" I heard Wolfram faintly calling my name. I turned to the skeleton thing to tell it to rest, but it was gone. I slumped my shoulders and mumbled to myself, "You should've rested..."
I think started to slowly crawl down the trunk. I stopped on a branch that was six feet off the ground and looked down. Right below me was Wolfram.
"Yuuri!" He yelled again, apparently not noticing me. I cringed a bit at how loud he was yelling. I put the branch under my knees and swung down so I was facing Wolfram upside down. He yelped and jumped back.
I laughed and said, "Scared are we?"
"Yuuri! Why didn't you just stay where you were?!" Wolfram now looked furious.
"Because that psycho tried to kill me!" I yelled at him.
He immediatly looked worried and said, "Did he hurt you?"
I looked at him with an annoyed look and said, "Why did you come back?"
He looked at me shocked, than said, "Because you're my fiancee! I can't let you die!"
I then dropped down from the branch and landed in front of Wolfram and said, "But what if Alderbert used another seal? You would've been defenseless and he would've killed you! You need to start thinking before you act!" I yelled at him.
Wolfram looked angrier now and said, "That's why I returned with Conrad! I'm not as reckless as you!"
"Your majesty!" I heard Conrad yell. I turned and saw Conrad looking happy to see me safe and sound. I turned to him and said, "Conrad! It's Yuuri, not your majesty!"
"Gomen." Conrad said with a smile.
All the sudden, Wolfram grabbed my shoulder and turned me away from himself. "What happened to your back?!" Wolfram yelled.
"One of Aldeberts goons cut me, it's nothing!" I yelled back as I hit his arm away and turned to face him.
"What do you mean it's nothing?! It's bleeding!" Wolfram yelled at me.
I pinched his right cheek and started pulling on it.
"It's nothing and you'll leave it alone, understood?" I asked in a dangerously low voice.
"I don't care how hard you pinch my cheek! I won't say it's nothing!" Wolfram said as he tried to get my hand off his cheek. Conrad laughed and I looked at him.
"I'm sorry Yuuri, it's just this is the first time I've ever seen someone treat Wolfram like this." Conrad said with a smile.
I stared at him, but then let go of Wolfram's cheek when I remembered why we had gone there in the first place. "Crap! I totally forgot the town's on fire!" I yelled as I ran past Conrad in the direction of the town. "Yuuri! Wait!" Conrad yelled. I ran into a camp where the wounded were being treated. I ran over to a woman with green hair and tapped her shoulder. She turned and said, "Yes?" But then stared at me shocked. I ignored the look and said, "Is there anything I can do to help?"
She took a moment to compose herself and asked, "Umm, do you have any healing abilities?"
"Sorry, no..." I said a little embarassed.
"Well, I guess you could try to put out the fire or get the wounded out of the village..." She said.
"Arigatou." I said quickly as I ran over to the village. I jumped through a gap between the fire and landed in the town. I looked around and immediatly saw some villagers trying to get a person out from under a fallen wall. It took me a second to realize the person was a mom and that she was clutching a child to her chest. Ander welled up within me as I saw some bandits getting ready to fire at the people helping the woman. I quickly pulled out my sais and deflected the arrows, startling the people who were helping the woman. I bent down and picked up the arrows, then broke the tips off them and whipped them at the bandits. The arrowheads went throught their arms, causing them to drop their bows. I went over to the villagers who were staring at me stunned and put my hand under the edge of the wall and lifted the wall up. "Pull her out!" I yelled at the villagers. They quickly complied and pulled her out, along with the child. I dropped the wall and pointed in the direction of the camp and said, "Go that way. You'll end up in a med camp. Now go!" The villagers quickly ran off to the camp. I turned around and got struck by an arrow in my left shoulder.
"Die you damn demon!" The bandit who fired the arrow said.
"What the hell is wrong with you?!" I yelled at him, "I'm just as human as you are!"
"No you're not! You're a demon! It's obvious because of your hair and eyes! Anyone who is a demon or allied with them deserves to die!" The bandit yelled.
My hair grew so long it almost touched the ground.
"Is this why you're attacking your own kind? Because they extend a hand of friendship towards someone you don't understand or even bother to understand?" I said with pure rage in my voice.
My anger and power grew as I started noticing the dead bodies around me. I rose up into the air.
"You take innocent lives away and expect no punishment because you think you have a just reason?!" I yelled out. "It was not my intent to shed blood, BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE!" Thunder sounded through the air and lightning lit up the now darkening sky. "LET JUSTICE BE DONE!" It strated pouring rain, and water dragons came down from the sky and wrapped themselves around the flames, effectively putting them out. The dragons made a huge ditch in the center of the town, probably fifty feet in diameter and fifteen feet deep, then the dragons gathered the bandits and dropped them into the ditch. "Learn from your mistakes and pray for Shinou's forgiveness." I said right before I passed out.
Wolfram ran into the camp as he was chasing after Yuuri, but saw her no where. He then spotted Gisela and ran over to her.
"Gisela! Have you seen her majesty?!" Wolfram asked in a panicked tone.
"You mean the double black?! She just went to help the wounded in the town!" Gisela exclaimed.
"Shit!" Wolfram yelled to himself as he started heading towards the town. He ran past a group of villagers that were heading towards the camp and heard them say, "Thank Shinou that double black was there to save us!"
Wolfram paused for a moment, but then ran twice as fast towards the town. When he got there, he heard thunder and saw lightning.
"Oh no," He said to himself. He jumped over some flames and saw Yuuri, the same way she was when she used powerful maryoku on him and nearly killed him. She was floating in the air and summoning Maryoku.
It started raining and Yuuri yelled out, "LET JUSTICE BE DONE!" Water dragons, still attached to the clouds, came down from the sky and started putting out the fires and some of them started digging giant ditch. The water dragons the grabbed the bandits and dropped them into the ditch. "Learn from your mistakes and pray for Shinou's forgiveness." Yuuri said.
She then passed out and Wolfram ran beneath her and caught her. He looked at her sleeping form, then said, "Wimp..."
"Wolfram! Yuuri!" Wolfram heard Conrad yell. He turned to see both of his older brothers running towards him.
"Wolfram! What happened to Yuuri?!" Conrad asked worriedly.
"Does it matter now?! We need to get her to a healer immediatly!" Wolfram said as he noticed the arrow in her shoulder. Conrad nodded and Gwendal took Yuuri from Wolfram. Wolfram was about to protest, but Gwendal said sternly,"I have a horse, so I'll be able to get her to the camp faster, alright?"
Wolfram reluctantly nodded his head and watched his eldest brother take Yuuri to the med camp.