I slowly awoke to find it was the middle of the night. I sat up and rubbed my eyes, then sensed someone's presence. I turned my head to the left and saw Wolfram sleeping on my bed... IN A PINK FRILLY NIGHTGOWN!?!?! I blushed as I stared in shock at him. Since when do men wear pink frilly nightgowns?!?! I kicked him off my bed and yelled, "What the hell do you think you're doing sleeping in the same bed as me?!?!?!"
He fell off the bed, then sat up and said, "Oh, you're awake..."
I started screaming bloody murder at him in almost every language I knew while beating the snot out of him. I also used some of my spikes that I found on the bedside table, but I was so angry, they were barely hitting him.
"Heika! You're awake!" I heard Gunter yell from my doorway. I turned my head to see him standing there with a shocked Gwendal and Conrad standing behind him.
"Of course I'm awake! Just tell me what the hell he thinks he's doing sleeping in the same bed as me?!?!" I yelled.
"Heika, it's normal for fiancees to share a bed..." Gwendal said.
"On earth it isn't! At least not until they're married!" I yelled at him.
"I'm sorry Heika, we didn't know that earth's customs were different..." Gunter apologized. "But, did you really have to beat him up?"
I looked at Wolfram and realized he was unconciouss. I 'hmph'-ed, and said, "Well he shouldn't sneak into someone's room while they're sleeping."
Conrad sent for a doctor and Wolfram woke up right before she arrived.
"Why the hell did you beat me up?!" Wolfram yelled at me.
I didn't have a valid reason since I didn't know our customs were different, so I yelled at him, "Why the hell are you wearing a pink frilly nightgown?!"
Wolfram blushed and I turned my head away and 'hmph'-ed.
"Good evening your majesty." I heard a familiar voice say. I turned my head towards the doorway and saw the green-haired doctor lady that told me how to help at the village.
"I remember you! But I never learned your name..." I trailed off.
"I'm sorry, my name's Gisela." She said with a smile.
I smiled and said, "My name's Yuuri."
Gisela looked over at Wolfram and saw his bruised and bloody form and said, "Oh my, what happened?"
"A misunderstanding..." I mumbled. I then said, "If you leave the medical supplies, I'll treat him. I'm sorry I had to wake you at this hour."
Gisela smiled and handed me the med-bag and said, "Thank you, you are very kind your majesty."
"Please just call me Yuuri." I said as I smiled back and took the med-bag. Gisela and the others left the room and I turned to face Wolfram. He looked panicked.
"What's up with you?" I said as I walked over to him.
"You're the one that did this to me! What makes you think I trust you with treating me?!" He exclaimed.
I glared at him and he immediatly shut up. I pushed him onto the bed, then opened the med kit and took out some goz, antiseptic, and bandages. "Look, this is my way of apologizing for beating you up. I didn't know it was normal for fiancees to share the same bed in this world." I then grabbed his arm and examined it. It had several scratches from my spikes, several bruises, and one spike going through it.
"Jeez, you're a soldier yet you got beat up by me." I said as I slowly pulled the spike out. If I pulled it out to fast, it might've ripped something.
Wolfram cringed and said, "Well you're the one that suddenly went berserk..."
I pinched his cheek and said, "What did you say?"
"N-nothing!" He said.
I let go of his cheek, then continued treating his arm.
"Hey Wolfram." I said.
He looked at me and went, "Hmm?"
"What happened at the town? I remember I helped a mother and her child escape from being crushed, but then I can't remember anything after that..." I said sadly. I hated not being able to remember things.
Wolfram looked at me surprised, then said, "You helped the villagers and captured all the bandits. The town's safe now..."
I let out a sigh of relief and said, "That's good."
Wolfram suddenly said, "No it's not! You almost died! Do you know how close that arrow was to hitting your heart?!"
I looked at him confused and said, "Arrow?" I faintly remembered an arrow, but I couldn't quite call upon the memory.
Wolfram looked at me shocked, then said, "You're a real wimp."
"Says the one who has his injuries being treated by said, 'wimp'." I said with a smirk. I finished bandaging his arm, then continued onto the other which wasn't quite as bad.
"Oh shut up." Wolfram said. I pressed on one of his bruises and he instantly tried pulling his arm away and I said, "It's rude to tell a lady to shut up."
"Okay! I'm sorry!" He apologized. I let go of his arm and he immediatly looked at it to see if it was injured further. I finished bandaging him, then put the remaining supplies back in the med-bag. I started heading towards the door and Wolfram said, "Where are you going?!"
"To return the supplies and get a bath." I said casually as I left the room. I started going down the hallway, then realized, I had no idea where Gisela stayed at.
It was then I saw Gunter walking down the hall towards me. "Heika!" He said surprised.
"Hey Gunter. Do you know where Gisela is? I want to return this to her." I said as I held up the med-bag. Gunter took it and said, "I'll return it to her, after all, she is my daughter."
"Eh?!" I nearly yelled. "You two look nothing alike!"
"It's because she's my adopted daughter." Gunter said.
"Oh, well that makes sense then." I said. I then walked past Gunter and he said, "Where are you going your majesty?"
"To get a bath." I said as I turned the corner. I had a strange feeling as the image of Gunter with a nosebleed entered my mind. I went into the bathroom and closed the door. I then realized I still had my hidden sais, so I put them on the ground and covered them with my clothes. I then stepped into the bath and soaked for a while. I was about to use the shampoo, but something in the back of my mind told me not to.
I sighed, then tried washing my hair as best I could with just water. I noticed my leg had healed and that my hand was near healed, but noticed I had an old wound on my left shoukder. When'd I get that?I sighed andlooked up and realized there were wood beams that criss crossed right below the ceilinng and went into different rooms.
Interesting.
I then got out of the bath and dried off with a towel. Again, there were three outfits for me to choose from. I looked at them and again choose the dress pants, and a shirt similar to the one I was wearing before, except this one had a white rose design on it. I then retrieved my sais from under my old clothes and hid them up my sleeves. I jumped up to one of the beams and looked around and noticed that the holes in the walls that the beams went through were just big enough for me to fit through. This should be... entertaining.
I sighed as I waited, on a beam in my office, for someone to come in. I had found an attic and stored in it was a one and a half foot tall skeleton puppet. I used some of my string, (That ninjas usully use to trap people since it's nearly invisable) and made the strings on the puppet longer and invisible. I looked down at it. I had it sitting on my desk.
Just then, Wolfram openedthe door and was surprised to see the puppet.
"Is her majesty in there?" I heard Conrad ask from behind Wolfram.
"No, but there's... a skeleton?" Wolfram said unsurely. Did I forget to mention the skeleton looked desceptively real.
Wolfram walked in, followed by Conrad and Gwendal. They went over to the puppet and just stared at it. Gwendal shook his head, then he and Conrad got into a discussion about where I might be. Wolfram kept his attention on the puppet, and then he reached up and was about to poke it's head.
My eyes lit up and I quickly made it bite his finger. Wolfram jumped a mile and and backwards and Conrad and Gwendal looked at him confused.
"It bit me!" Wolfram yelled.
Gwendal and Conrad looked at him shocked, then looked at the unmoving puppet. Conrad reached out and poked it's forehead, so I made it fall backwards.
"That was funny Wolfram, but I'm pretty sure it didn't bite you." Conrad said. He then continued his discussion with Gwendal. I smiled evilly.
Wolfram went back over to the desk and looked at the motionless puppet. He then cautioussly reached over and picked it up. He stared at it and it did nothing. He let out a sigh of relief, but then I made it's head slowly turn to face him. Wolfram tensed up and started sweating. I made the puppet open and close it's jaw, caussing the puppet to chatter.
"What the hell!" Wolfram said as he threw the puppet onto the desk.
Conrad and Gwendal looked at Wolfram. "What is it now?" Gwendal said in an annoyed voice.
"That thing's possessed! I swear of it!" Wolfram yelled while he pointed at the motionless puppet.
Conrad looked at the puppet and sighed, then said, "Wolfram, I-" He stopped mid-sentence as I slowly made the puppet move. I made it bring it's legs together and made it do one of those demonic- standing up things. You know, the one where the person arches their back while they're on it and somehow pull themself to their feet, then slump forward.
The three brothers instantly looked at the puppet, shocked.
I then made it look at each of them, then stomp it's feet while beating on it's chest like a gorilla and chatter it's teeth.
"What sort of magic is this?!" Gwendal exclaimed.
I deepened my voice and threw it (Vantriliquisim) and made the puppet's jaw move so it looked like it was saying it. "Pas aimez-vous savoir?" I made it say. (French for: Wouldn't you like to know?)
Wolfram drew his sword, (which I thought was a little much for a puppet) and took an aggressive stance. In response, I made the puppet grab the quill that was on the desk and hold it like a sword, also in an aggressive, yet mocking, stance.
I made the puppet chatter it's teeth and Wolfram struck at it. I lifted the strings so it went in the air, then made it draw a mustache on him. When Wolfram looked dumb-founded about what just happened, I made the puppet fall and roll on the desk, holding it's 'sides' and chattering it's teeth so it looked as if it was laughing.
"Jeez, have you guys never seen a puppet before?" I said as I laughed from above. Wolfram, Conrad, and Gwendal looked up and saw me.
"What the hell's a puppet?" Wolfram said. I smiled, then jumped down and landed behind my desk. I pointed to the now motionless skeleton and said, "That's a puppet." Wolfram looked at me confused, and with a fake mustache, so I sighed and lifted my hand up so the strings on the puppet would make it move again. I started moving my fingers, which had the strings tied to them, and the skeleton moved with them.
"A puppet is a tiny non-living creature of any design that's controlled by invisible strings." I stated.
"So wait, you made it bite me!?" Wolfram yelled.
"So wait, you still question the obviouss?!" I mocked him.
"Heika, you have some papers to sign."Gwendal said, killing the mood.
I glared at him and said, "Fine." He then left, then came back with a huge stack of papers.
"All those?!" I nearly yelled.
"Now who's questioning the obviouss?" Wolfram said with a smirk.
"Still you." I said with a smirk.
I immediatly started signing the papers, scanning over them quickly to see if they were worth signing or not. I was fine with all of them, but then I got to the last one. I read it and saw it was a war declaration. My eye twitched and I quickly and silently folded it into, three things. A tiny ball, a baseball helmet, and a curled up piece. I made the puppet hold onto the rolled up piece and put the helmet on it's head. I then got ready to drop the ball in front of it.
"Hey Gwendal." I said. He looked up from the table that was in front of my desk and looked at me. I dropped the ball in front of the skeleton and made it hit the ball so it hit the center of Gwendal's forehead. His eye twitched and I exclaimed, "Homerun!" Conrad chuckled and Wolfram looked confused, (But fake mustache-less.)
"Heika, what paper was that?" Gwendal said dangerously low.
I glared daggers at him and said, "The damn war declaration you tried tricking me into signing."
The brothers looked shocked and Gwendal said, "How did you know what it said?!"
"My father taught me this language since I was younger. I know it like it was the first language I ever learned, so don't think I don't understand it." I said.
"We need to declare war! I found out that all the humans that had attacked the village were from-" Gwendal started.
"I don't really give a flying shit!" I interrupted him. "Not only does war cost innocent people their lives, there's no way we'd win!"
All three of the brothers looked at me shocked and Gwendal said, "Of course we'd win!"
I counted to ten in my head, than said, "Gwendal, stand on one leg."
"What?" Gwendal said confused.
"Stand on one leg." I said dangerously low. He glared at me and continued to ignore my request. "As your queen, I order you to stand on one leg." I growled.
Gwendal's eye twitched, but he complied. As soon as he was on one leg, I threw the skeleton at him and he fell backwards.
"What the hell?!" He growled as he sat up and glared at me.
"This country is made up of both humans and mazoku. So, the leg you were standing on represents the Mazoku, the leg you had lifted represents the humans. You think humans are weaker than mazoku so you claim you don't need their help. When you were only standing on the leg representing the mazoku, it only took one hit and you fell, but if you had been standing on both legs, aka using the help of both humans and mazoku, you wouldn't have fallen. Basicially, you need both of their help to stand. Right now, this country only stands on one leg. If we declare war, many innocent people will lose their lives and we'll ultimately lose the war in the end." I said confidantly. The three brothers stared at me, shocked at what I had just said.
"United we stand, divided we fall." I said calmly. I then walked over to Gwendal and offered him a hand. He stared at me, then accepted it. I helped pull him up, then grabbed the skeleton and left the room.
I immediatly pulled the same, 'jump-up-and-stick-my-sais-in-the-wall-to-escape-their-view-trick' that I had pulled before to escape Wolfram and Gunter. I watched as Conrad, Wolfram, and Gwendal ran out of the room to catch me.
"How the hell does she do that?" I heard Wolfram say. Conrad went down one way of the hall and Gwendal went down the other. Wolfram stood there, unsure of where to go, so I pulled my sais out of the wall and hid them and landed on Wolfram, causing him to fall.
"That's how I do it." I said with a laugh.
"What the hell?! Get off me!" Wolfram said.
I did and watched as he stood up. "I swear, you must be crazy."
"I just didn't want to sign anymore papers..." I said in a falsely sad voice. "Besides, I'm hungry."
Wolfram sighed, then grabbed my hand and started pulling me towards the kitchen.
"Hey!" I said as I nearly tripped over my feet.
"You said you were hungry, right?" Wolfram mumbled. I smiled. He was acting kinder than when we first met. We went into the kitchen, and it was empty again.
"It's empty again?" I said aloud.
"It's because all the servants are working on your coronation ceremony." Wolfram said.
"Eh?!" I said surprised.
"So what do you want to eat?" Wolfram asked.
"Do you know how to make curry?" I asked him doubtfully.
"Eh-to..." He said since he was caught off guard. I pushed him into a chair and said, "I didn't think so."
I then got a pan out along with all the ingredients needed for vegetable curry and started working on it. As soon as it was cooking, I started cleaning up the mess I had made.
"Do you cook on earth or something?" Wolfram asked from the table while he leaned his head on his hand.
"Yes. Do you always question the obvious or something?" I mocked him.
He glared at me and I stuck my tongue out at him. "How?" Wolfram said, catching me off-guard.
"How what?" I asked.
"How is it that ypu ac so immature yet you said those really wise words back in the office?" Wolfram asked.
I smiled and said, "When people are immature, they think differently then everyone else. It's from that point of view that they realize things that others are too oblivious to notice."
Wolfram looked stunned and I just smiled. I looked around the kitchen and waited for the curry to finish cooking. As soon as it was done, I prepared two plates for me and Wolfram. I set his plate down in front of him and he looked mildly surprised.
"I figured you'd want to try some." I said. He just nodded, then took a bite.
"This is amazing!" He exclaimed.
"Why thank you." I said cheerfully, then took a bite of mine. We ate in silence for a while, then my instinct told me to lock the kitchen door. I quiickly stood up and went over to where I had saw the key earlier, then walked over to the door and locked it. It was then that someone tried opening the door.
"Who's in there?" I heard Gwendal say.
"What's the password?" I sang out sweetly.
"I should've known it was you. Open this door now!" Gwendal yelled.
"Sorry, wrong password, try again in five minutes." I then went back over next to Wolfram and continued eating my curry while he just stared at me in shock.
"How'd you know that brother was going to look in here?" Wolfram asked in awe.
"Lucky guess." I stated as I took another bite of my curry. As soon as I finished my plate, I said to Wolfram, "Let's go."
"Go where?! We're trapped in the kitchen!" Wolfram exclaimed.
"Earth to captain obvious. There is a window." I said as I pointed at it.
"But that's a two story drop!" Wolfram exclaimed.
"Okay, one, I know that. And two, quit questioning and stating the obvious!" I yelled at him. I then went over to the window and opened it.
"Hey!" Wolfram said as he grabbed my shoulder and pulled me away from the window.
"What?" I asked him angrily.
"You're not seriously planning on jumping out, are you?!" Wolfram yelled.
I rolled my eyes and pushed his hand away. I then leaned out the window and looked around. There was another window to the right, just a few feet away. There was also a ledge that jutted out from the wall about three or four inches. I stepped onto the ledge and was now outside.
"Hey!" I heard Wolfram say. I slowly edged my way towards the window, than opened it and crawled inside. I then peered out and saw Wolfram still hanging his head out the window and staring at me in awe.
"Come on!" I said, "He's probably going to brake the doors down!"
Wolfram quickly nodded his head, than stepped onto the ledge and started edging his way across towards me. Right when he was near the window, the ledge crumbled a bit and he started falling. I quickly reached out and grabbed his arm and pulled him in and we both fell onto the ground.
"Two words; Epic, Fail." I said.
"Oh shut up." Wolfram said as he pushed himself off the ground. I quickly sat up and pinched his cheek and said, "What did you just say?"
"I said this seems all to familiar." Wolfram said as he tried pushing my hand away. I only stopped pinching his cheek when my instincts kicked in again. "Hide under the bed now!" I whispered to him urgently.
He looked at me confused, but did as I said. I quickly ran over to the door, opened it, left it open, then hid under the bed with Wolfram. Just then, I heard heavy footsteps rin to the door and I could tell someone was looking in.
"Where'd that damn brat go?" I heard Gwendal yell at himself. I had to hide a giggle.
Gwendal walked around the room, then quickly left. I crawled out from under the bed and said, "Ha, serves him right!"
"What'd he ever do to you?" Wolfram asked nervously.
"Made me sign a mountain of papers that could've rivaled Mount Everest." I said.
"What's Mount Everest?" Wolfram said confused.
I sighed and said, "Nothing..." I then looked around Gwendal's room and realized something shocking. "Your brother... knits?" I stared in awe at the countless stuffed animals that were throughout the room. Then an idea dawned upon me and I smiled evily.
"Yuuri?..." Wolfram said a bit scared.
"It's nothing, let's go, it's dinner time." I said as I walked out of the room. Wolfram quickly followed and we ended up in the dining room.
"Wolfie!" Cheri said as she stood up and ran over and hugged Wolfram. I snuck away and went over to my seat.
Wolfram gave me a look that said, 'traitor'. I just gave him a look that said, 'Sorry, but survival of the fittest.'
I then looked at who was sitting at the table and noticed the only other people there were Conrad, Gunter, and Gwendal.
"And where have you been?" Gwendal asked.
"Oh, the usual, everywhere but nowhere. It's amazing what you can learn about someone just by going in their room..." I said evily. Gwendal immediatly started sweating and I smiled. Wolfram and Cheri finally came over to the table and sat down to eat. It was then that I realized what we were eating. Since I had made a bunch of curry, I had left it in the kitchen, so I guess the maids decided to serve it. I had to suppress my laughter. Wolfram obviously wanted to laugh too and everyone noticed.
"Is something wrong?" Conrad asked.
"Nothing..." Both of us said at the same time. Gwendal, Gunter, Conrad and Cheri exchanged confused glances.
Everyone started eating and I finished before everyone else. I was about to stand up to leave when Gunter said, "This is different and quite delicious. I must remember to give my compliments to the chef."
Wolfram and I immediatly started laughing. I continued to laugh as I stood up and walked over to the door while everyone at the table (except Wolfram) stared at me in surprise.
"Compliments accepted." I said between laughs. I then slipped out of the room and went to my room. I laid down on the bed and continued to laugh a while. Then slowly stopped and stared at the cieling. I sighed and said to myself, "Maou, eh?"
"Yuuri?" Conrad said from my doorway.
"Come in." I said.
Conrad stepped in and I immediatly noticed he was holding to baseball gloves and a baseball.
"Would you like to play catch your majesty?" Conrad said.
"Conrad." I said in an annoyed voice.
"I'm sorry, I meant Yuuri." Conrad said with a smile. I smiled then nodded and walked with him to the courtyard and we started tossing the ball back and forth.
"How'd you know I liked baseball?" I asked him as I threw the ball back.
"We'll, when I met your father, he seemed to like baseball alot too, so I figured it's be something you'd inherit." Conrad said with a smile.
"Eh?! You met my dad?!" I said as I caught the ball, then tossed it back.
"Yes. He was recomended by the earth Maou to be the father of the twenty seventh Maou, you." Conrad said.
"Wait! Earth has a Maou too?!" I exclaimed as I barely caught the ball, then tossed it back. "What are you going to say next? That you met my mom?"
"As a matter of fact, I did." Conrad said with a smile.
My eye twitched and I instinctly caught the ball. I sighed and said, "When did you meet her?"
"When she was giving birth to you actually. There were no cabs available, so I stopped my cab and let her ride with me. She was complaining about the heat from the July sun, so I told her that the July sun makes children who grow up in that month strong. I then told her that where I come from, July is called Yuuri." Conrad said with a smile.
"Wait, so the stories she told me that were about the day I was born, you were the mysterious stranger in the story?!" I said as I caught the ball and held it. Conrad nodded his head, then I said, "You named me! You're practically like my Godfather!"
Conrad laughed and said, "I wouldn't say that."
"Conrad, you named me. Of course I should say that!" I exclaimed.
Conrad smiled and walked over to a bench and sat down. I walked over to the same bench and sat beside him.
"Do you really hope you can unite the Mazoku and humans?" Conrad asked.
"I don't hope," I said, "I know I can."
Conrad smiled, then unclasped a necklace from around his neck and handed it to me. On it was a beutiful blue gem that had something inside it.
"This is a lucky charm a good friend of mine gave me. I'm giving it to you so that it might help you with your goal." Conrad said. I looked at him ,then at the charm, then back at him and said, "Thanks Conrad." I then put it around my neck.
The next day, it was time for the coronation ceremony and I walked down the seemingly endless rows of people. Cheri had told me earlier that it would feel like someone's grabbed my hand when I put my hand in the water, but the feeling would slowly fade. I sighed once I walked up to the indoor waterfall. Doing as I was instructed to do earlier, I stuck my hand in the water and immediatly felt the hand.I then said, "I swear I'll do whatever it takes to help this country to not only survive, but thrive." All the sudden, it felt like someone was pulling me into the water. Before I could say anything, I was sucked in and I once again saw the strange swirling black hole.
The next thing I knew, I was at home in the training pool.
"Yuuri!" I heard dad yell. He immediatly ran on top of the water over to me and picked me up.
"Are you alright?" he asked. I nodded my head and said, "What just happened?"
"You passed out in the pool." Dad replied.
I raised an eyebrow, but shrugged off the creeping suspicion I had. Dad set me on the ledge of the pool and told me to rest the rest of the day. It was then I realized I was wearing my ninja gear again. Sais, katana, shurinken, and spikes were all there.
"It must've been a dream..." I mumbled to myself as I walked towards the hidden room in my room. Once I got there and started changing, I noticed I was wearing the blue pendant Conrad had gave me. My eyes widened in shock and I said to myself, "It wasn't a dream..."
Back at the castle, the same day as the coronation when Yuuri had mysteriously vanished, Gwendal was running around the castle collecting his knitted stuffed animals. Yuuri had sneaked into his room during the night and taken them. He looked all over the castle, but couldn't find them anywhere. It wasn't until he went into his office that a booby-trap was set off and the stuffed animal fell from the ceiling, sudpended by string, all throughout the castle and each one of them had a note on it that said, 'Made by Gwendal'. What an annoying queen. Gwendal thought to himself.
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