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Fonts in italic are for character's thought
In Domina, it was never quiet there would always be hustle and bustle around in the market, but it can be serenely peaceful near the chapel and the outskirts. Angelique traveled alone to Domina since Kain was busy teaching the kids some magic and some manner too.
"Hmm… lucky me, I got out in time since if Kain starts lecturing... he will almost never stop." She thought gleefully. She walked around until she glanced into someone who dressed like nomads entering the tavern.
"I wonder, where did he come from…? Might as well check it out, it can turn out to be interesting…" Angelique strolled to the tavern after thinking for a lil' bit.
"Don't make me repeat myself. Where is she?" A husky scream rang through the lonely bar, shocked from hearing the loud voice, poor Rachel was trembling… Angelique rushed in to the scene knowing that Rachel will just be too scared to talk to that rude man.
"Hey… What're you thinking you're doing?" Annoyed by the sudden interruption, the boy gruffly replied, "Shut up! It's none of your business. Now tell me where did you see her?" Curiosity killed the cat, Angelique asked him, "Who are you looking for?" this time a little bit gently.
"A friend of mine, she's like a sister to me. I'm worried." He said with a frown.
"Let's search for her together!" Ever the compassionate person, she just can't help it, if someone was in need for help she will offer her help to that person immediately.
"You shouldn't mingle us... No, I will be grateful." He said that with a little bit of gratefulness.
"Here…" Rachel handed them a little piece of map showing the location of Mekiv cavern.
"Let's go!" He rushed out to the door after taking the note from Rachel.
"Okay!" Angelique said quite readily.
As we walked to the cavern that was pointed in Rachel's map, we fought several monster on the way. But other than that it was silence. Ugh.. I can't stand this silence… It's so unnerving. So I started a conversation hoping it will liven up the atmosphere a bit. "Uhm… we haven't introduced ourselves yet, right?"
He nodded
"My name is Angelique. What's yours?"
"Elazul." The boy replied.
Well... wasn't that elaborate… what a curt and short reply. Thinking that this was the end of the first conversation, she started another one soon after, "Say… you said you were looking for someone. Who is she?"
"How do you know that is a girl?" Apparently Elazul was a bit shocked by me knowing his search subject.
"You said it yourself, that she's like a sister to you."
"Her name is Pearl." Short replies again, I know I could see myself rolling my eyes a bit, it would be impolite to roll your eyes fully. I could just see Kain in my head lecturing. Remembering Kain, I just had remembered how much salvation I had gained from this adventure, surely a taciturn person must be better than a lecturing Kain. Do not get me wrong, I love my brother very much but not in his lecturing mode. I must have chuckled and didn't notice it since Elazul cast a strange look at me, "What's so funny?" He asked me roughly.
"Oh… nothing. I just remembered my brother's…. nagging." I replied cheerfully. Obviously, happy that we're going to continue the conversation. So it's always me who ask some question and he will reply in one sentence. Mostly 3 words sometimes 5 or 6 but not much. When we reached the cavern, Elazul tried to ask the onion person about Pearl and he said that he saw her heading somewhere in this cavern. After much searching and gaining nothing, I noticed Elazul was getting agitated and anxiety get to him I guess. Poor Elazul, if it was me, I wouldn't worry very much if Kain was missing, it's Kain after all. But if Kain was like Pearl then I knew I would react the same way like Elazul.
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As time goes by, Elazul got more agitated and anxiety made him fight like a berserker.
"Damn, where is she? What if something happen to her…? Damn it!" Elazul cursed at his own misfortune.
"Calm down, we'll find her soon enough." Angelique assured him softly. After they have fought horde of monsters finally they met a lady with flowers in her head.
"Be careful… if you stay around them too long then you'll be turned to stone." The lady said to Angelique.
"What….? What do you mean?" Her eyebrows were raised with such blatant statement.
"How do you know about that?" Elazul slightly irked by her knowledge of his race.
"The girl is at the back. You should save her before she becomes monster's food." The lady said while she exited to the path where Angelique and Elazul came from.
"Pearl, damn it. Let's go!" Elazul said hurriedly as he ran to the room straight ahead them. There, they met with a giant white baboon holding an ax plus cornering a girl clad in white dress and adorned with many pearls all over her.
"Pearl! Get away from her! You monster!" Elazul screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Elazul… help…" Small cry heard from the corner.
"Pearl… don't move. I'll get you now." Elazul said.
"Here... we... go!" Angelique started off with a shot from her bow.
The battle was intense, they were giving their best shot to beat the hell out of that monster.
"Forward artillery" Angelique screamed and rains of arrow were dropped at the monster. Du'Inke yelped in pain upon the arrows infliction. Before it had any moment to recover, Elazul charged his energy and his sword gleamed with blue light.
"Laser Blade" Elazul rushed toward it and swung it to the monster.
"Does that do it?" Angelique exhausted from the battle slumped down.
"Seems like it does." Elazul looked down at the collapsed monster.
"E… Elazul…" Soft cry were heard from the rock formation.
"Pearl! Where are you?" White robe was into their sight as Elazul's voice rang through the cave.
"El… Elazul…" The white robed girl stuttered as she came closer to Elazul. One would wonder on how come the girl could survive until now seeing how frail she looked.
"Um…. Who is she?" Angelique turned her head knowing that it was she that is being regarded and waiting to be introduced.
"Just someone who helped me find you." Elazul said.
"How rude… !after I have helped YOU!, find that girl… you just brush me off… can't you at least introduce us?? You sick perverted coot." Fuming, her anger was its boiling point, "One more insult and you're finished… consider it lucky if it's painless…" Hearing this Elazul turned sharply at Angelique and, "Who do…"
But the girl cut in and smiled to Angelique, "Hello, my name's Pearl. What's yours?" her anger suddenly gone, Angelique can't find any reasons to lash out to girl, "Angelique, it's nice to meet you, Pearl."
Blushing, Pearl looked down as if Angelique's face were down there, "It's ni… nice to meet yu… you… too.." Annoyed and irritated Elazul grabbed Pearl, "Let's go and leave this place it's dangerous." Yelping in pain, Pearl was off balanced and she fight with little resistance, "B… but…" Green eyes met with angry blue eyes, "Enough. Let's go."
Seeing this nonsense, Angelique couldn't just let it be, " Hey. You shouldn't treat her like that!"
"Shut up! It's none of your damn business." They left without any last glance at Angelique.
"GRrr… I swear… if I met him one more time… I swear… I'll kick his butt off and torture him… until he begs forgiveness and mercy…" Angelique stormed out the cave fighting the monster that hindered her while she's heading back to the entrance
Meanwhile…..
"Do you understand Bud? Lisa?" Kain is holding a big textbook about magic and been teaching the kids about the fundamental of magic for two hours now.
"Hmm… kind of… I still don't quite get it…" Looking confused Bud was getting nowhere in this two hours study.
"Why did we learn all this stuff again? I think we can put this into action already and we already showed you right?" Lisa grumbled since Kain been treating them like a total idiot.
"I know that but it is still far from perfect, Lisa. A good sorcerer had to have a good basic knowledge and technique. Every profession had to have a good basic then if you already master the basic, you can learn whatever you wanted." Kain lectured, completely ignoring Lisa's statement.
"So… If I can do all this stuff correctly then you'll teach us some conjuration?" Twinkling eyes, Bud was never been so much excited before.
"Uh… huh… sure if you can do it right, I'll teach you some cool magic." Kain said while looking at the clock.
"Well, it's time for lunch now. I'll go prepare some food, you kids can get a break or you can help in the kitchen if you want too." Happy screams rang though the house, "Yayyyy!! It's lunch time… what we'll have for lunch?" Bud asked.
"Hmmm… maybe garden salad and ham sandwich." Kain said while heading to the kitchen.
"Awwww…. But… but…. We don't like vegetables…" Lisa and Bud whined to Kain, they clutched Kain's feet and look at him with their best puppy dog eyes.
"Save your trick for someone else. Vegetables are good for you and you also get ham sandwich so no grumbling or no food for you." Kain said nonchalantly, he was still trying not to be affected by the kids.
"Please….pretty please… no garden salad… please…." Lisa begged with teary eyes.
Kain knew it, he lost, he couldn't resist their pleas anymore but he couldn't let them have their merry way over him every time, "Okay…" Bud and Lisa faces brightens up, "Let's make a deal okay… I promise you that the salad won't be bitter and I will make it as good as I can. I'll also give you two slices of ham in your sandwich. No more arguing. Deal?" Kain sighed defeated.
"Okay… but you promise alright! Pinky promise." They did the pinky promise and Kain headed off to the kitchen… "I swear one of these days I have to cast a spell so that those kids' eyes won't affect me or something. It's not like their fault but I just can't help it. It's irresistible, they look so cute and kinda hard too resist and I just have to succumb to their whims." Kain sighed again, "I'll have to try really hard to not spoil them too much."
"It was delicious…How can you make everything turns to really really good, Kain?" Bud said with his tummy bulged a bit.
"Well, I promised you, didn't I? Anyway, after you rest up for a bit and after I do the dishes, we're going to do some magic practice okay?" Kain smiled at the sight in front of him. One large serving of garden salad and 4 ham sandwiches were wiped clean. The culprits' stomachs are bulged cause of that. He doesn't even get much of it too, he just able to get one small serving of the salad and one ham sandwich.
"Yayyyy...! Yipeee! You're the best, Kain!" Bud squealed in joy and Lisa brimming with obvious happiness, "At last... we got to do some action."
After they had practiced, Bud and Lisa were napping while Kain studying some ancient manuscript. Then the door just burst open and gave out a loud bang, there stood Angelique breathing raggedly, looking dirty, and anger obvious in her eyes. Kain irked by this impulsiveness, he came out from the study to see Angelique heaved her breath, when he wanted to give her a piece of his mind about the door, "I'm so angry with that pompous ass… how can he just ignore me after I have helped him… I'm soooooo fed up with him, next time will be his death bed when I saw him." Angelique just lashed out her anger there, she didn't care who she vented out her anger to. Well, she just needed to get it out of her, to make it feel a little bit better. Hearing this Kain just can't get angry anymore, he rarely saw his sister been this angry before. It had been a while since he actually seen her curse like that again. Striding to Angelique, Kain gave her a hug to comfort her a bit and patted her hair.
"Oohhh… Kain… I just… I just…" Angelique at loss of words.
"It's alright… just let it out… I'm here to listen…tell me what happened, Ange" Then she just rambled on her encounter with Elazul, Pearl, the battle with Du'Inke, how hard it was to search for Pearl and the events that happened to her so far.
"Well, you had a harsh day… you should probably take some good long rest and maybe tomorrow you should just stay with the kids. Since I think, I'm going to meet Rosiotti tomorrow." Kain said comfortingly carrying Angelique to her bed.
"No fair, I wanna go too." She whined weakly.
"We'll see. We'll see, if tomorrow you got no aches or whatsoever then you can go but if you are then just the day off and play with the kids okay?" Kain said softly knowing that Angelique would sleep in just a moment.
"Mmmhmm… ok.." She drifted off to sleep as soon as she was tucked in. Kain walked out to fix the door that Angelique broke just now and looked at the stars and frowned a bit, "I pray that harbinger of misfortune will not come to us." He closed the door then he too, fell to slumber in his bed.
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