It was a dark night; most of the streetlamps and night-lights were turned off due to the constructions. No one would dare take a step outside so late at night for the citizens were traumatized by the horrible terror attack. However, despite that happening there were several figures, silhouetted by the pale moonlight. One of them carried a lantern, providing a small source of light.
Even though the lantern only provided a weak light in the midst of the darkness, if there was anyone, one could see with the flamboyant outfit and tall hat who it was. It was one of the court advisors and two of his guardsmen.
"Now with King Tristen dead my plan will only hinder……however that is a small delay. All I need to do is get rid of the princess and everything will be according to my calculation…"
He was deep into his thought that he never noticed a sly shadow sneaking up behind one of the guardsman.
There was a cry of pain and a sound of a blade cutting flesh as one of the guard fell down onto the pavement, dead.
"What the-"
Before the other guard could respond, he too ended up in the same fate as the other. Leaving only the advisor frantically looking around.
"Show yourself!"
As if one cue a figure appeared in front of the advisor and slowly advancing to him. The footsteps making a small sound of the stone path as the advisor began to back up.
"You! Do you know who I am! I am one of the top advisors under King Tristen! You will surely never get away with this outrageous action!"
"……"
The figure said nothing as it continued to walk toward the advisor. There was a small click revealing a blade which shone brightly in the moonlight. The advisor's eyes widened, knowing what was about to come.
"Y-you are going to regret this! With my power as an advisor I can execute you!!"
"……You have committed a crime far beyond forgivable. Suffer the same fate as the King…dear advisor…"
There was a ear-piercing yell as the advisor fell hard onto the pavement with a pool of blood forming beneath him. He looked up at the killer heavily breathing and stretching his hand out.
"……just by killing me…you…cannot…stop the plan…killing king…Tristen…does nothing……you cannot stop…the…ragnarok…from…approaching…"
"………" The figure said nothing as it stared down coldly at the dying advisor.
"…you will…regret killing…me……"
The body fell down with a thump, cold and still. The figure began melted away in the shadows, before disappearing completely, the moon shone brightly, showing an emblem of a pure white blade. Then disappeared completely leaving no trace except for three cold and very dead bodies in the middle of Prontera.
"So why are we all gathered here?"
A carefree voice cut in the silence as the rest of the members in the room sighed in irritation. Those members were Xeonhart, Camus, Edward, Richard, Yue, LORD Shinryu and Sir Xeno. All of them were now gathering inside of the Xeonhart's laboratory. All of the desks were moved against the wall and in the center was what seemed to be like a magic circle except it was written in Chinese or something.
"Because YUE, were going to call King Tristen's spirit with the help of Lord Shinryu to find out the culprit of the terror attack."
Sir Xeno put a hand on his head annoyed with the fact that A, they were using this kind of method to solve this and B, for having the loud voiced high priest in the same room.
"Oh right…because we FAILED at gathering ANY clue behind this attack. So were doing this LAME method of calling out a spirit from the dead and talking to it. Wow isn't that neat?"
Camus replied in a innocent voice as the rest of them stared at him. Yue on the other hand gave him two thumbs up before being smacked by Xeonhart and Richard. Lord Shinryu coughed in irritation.
"If you do not mind. I would like to get started." The masked soul linker said with a hint of anger in his voice. Probably because he had to wait long and because of the comment the acolyte said.
"Yes, please do so."
Sir Xeno, giving the final blow onto the high priest, said as the rest of them took a step back. The magic circle glowed in faint green as Lord Shinryu began mumbling something incomprehensible to most of them. (xeonhart was the only one who understood Chinese since he lived in Louyang for several years) Several seconds has passed before a transparent shimmer appeared in front of the soul linker. It eventually took form of the late king, King Tristen.
"King Tristen, I apologize for calling you from the dead…however, we are in desperate need to find the culprit behind this attack. Please tell use what you may know."
Shinryu said as the spirit made a loud wailing noise, causing the rest of them to cover their ears. It was a good thing it was Xeonhart's laboratory, if it was a regular room the wailing could be heard throughout the entire guild castle.
" heeeee killed meeeeeeeee……"
"Who?"
"thhheeeeeeeee asssassssssssssinnnnnn………whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite blllllllaaaaaaaaaaaaadddddddddeeeeeeeee eeemmbblllllleeeeeeeemmmmmmmm.."
"White blade emblem? Does he mean a guild?" Richard yelled over the wailing voice. Edward was now under the table, desperately trying to avoid the horrible sound as much as possible. Even Sir Xeno was at his limits. Xeonhart was the only one who seemed unaffected by it.
"Lord Shinryu! Can you please make this a bit quicker!! We're all being QUITE affected by this horrible sound!!"
The guild leader shouted, wondering how in the world the Soul Linker managed to bear this sound…without covering his ears. Then again no could see his expression since it was covered with a mask.
"King Tristen! Who is it! Who was the one who killed you!"
"iiiiiitttt wwwwwwassssssssssss"
Before the spirit could finish his wailing a bright red light erupted from the center of the magic circle, blasting the soul linker onto the ground. The green light faded as both the spirit and the wailing slowly disappeared.
Everyone beside Xeonhart collapsed onto the floor, relieved that the horror show was over. Richard shook his head, trying to get the horrendous sound of his head.
"Ugh……that's the last thing I want to do. Why aren't you affected by this Xeonhart?"
The priest looked over at Xeonhart to see that he wasn't paying attention or…not noticing? The wizard, realizing the incredulous look on the priest's face pulled his earplugs out.
"You were saying?"
"Never mind. You know it would have been NICE to give us a pair too."
"Never asked." The wizard said if it was the most obvious thing in the world. Richard just groaned and gave up even reasoning with him.
"ugh…what happened……" Sir Xeno mumbled regaining his sanity. The soul linker shook his head and sat up.
"Something disrupted the soul channeling. And the only thing that can do that is another soul linker. A powerful one since it was able to penetrate my soul channeling."
Getting on his feet he brushed a lock of hair behind him. Even with a mask one, one could tell that he had a grim expression.
"Now that this someone knows that I am trying to contact King Tristen's spirit, mostly likely he or she would seal it off."
"So…" Camus piped up. "The only clue we have is the white sword emblem?"
"Yeah, and where were you?" Richard asked, noticing that he never saw the acolyte in the room when the spirit connection started.
"Outside."
The white-haired priest mumbled something about sneaky and acting just like Yue before lighting a cigarette.
Only to be turned into a block of ice by Xeonhart.
"No smoking in my laboratory."
"……you're a prick you know that?"
"Always was and always will be."
"Sooo! How was your talking to the spirit time Roy?"
"Don't ask Oscar…just don't ask…and did you do your paperwork?"
"Phesh, no way. I had other important things to do." The paladin said as he threw the stack of papers behind him, leaving a big mess of papers onto Sir Xeno's office floor. Sir Xeno twitched before resuming back to his own paperwork.
"I'll cut your pay if you do not get it finished by tomorrow."
"WHAT?!" Oscar hollered making the Lord Knight twitch again. "You can't do that! How am I going to take out my girlfriend to a date!"
"Your girlfriend is not my business. Leave." He replied coldly not looking up from his work. Oscar let out a sigh and put an oh-well emotion sign.
"Geesh, what crawled up your pants and died?"
SNAP!
The feather pen that was in the lord knight's hand snapped in half, making the ink dripped onto his hand and to the paper. 3…2…1…
There was a loud yelp as the paladin ran out of the guild leader's office with pens in his hair and ink splattered all over his armor. Not to mention the lamp that crashed into the wall soon after he bolted out the door.
Several minutes later, the lamp was cleaned up and Sir Xeno had a new feather pen resuming his business. After he was 1/3 of the way done, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
"Hey! Look what I got!"
"Dear Odin…why does it have to be him of all people…." Sir Xeno thought bitterly as the air-headed high priest made his way in.
"Peach cakes from Al De Baran!" Yue said happily as he held up a box labeled "Extreme delicious peach cakes from Café Al De Baran!"
"And you're telling me this…why?"
"Just wanted to tell someone that's all. Whoa! Whoops!!"
Yue was unfortunate enough to trip over an "invisible bump" on the carpet as the cake went flying in the air and landed right in front of Sir Xeno. White whip cream splattered all over his paper and not to mention the lord knight who smelled like peach now.
"Oh oops! I'm sorry Sir Xeno. It was an ACCIDENT it's not like I did it on purpose! I'm going to buy another cake now bye!"
"………………………………………………………"
That day there was a mysterious desk that landed inside the courtyard of the guild castle. The odd thing was that there were traces of whip cream and an odd smell of peaches coming from part of the desk. And coincidentally, something broke the Sir Xeno's office window.
What a weird coincidence.
"How about this one? White and yellow daisies looks good."
"Nah, too plain. How about this?"
"Who sends RED roses to a person who is sick…hurt…or whatever."
"Obviously not you Orpheus. You retard."
"Take that back forest boy!"
"Why you little-"
"Don't make me take out my metal friend you two"
"………………………………………"
The newbie trio were now standing in a flower shop, trying to decide which flowers to bring to their captain. Orpheus insisted on taking daisies or carnations because they were less expensive and simple. Edward on the other hand wanted to take roses, especially red ones. Camus was just standing behind the two licking a Popsicle he bought at the candy store right across from them.
"How about…we take lilies to her? Their pretty and they smell nice too!" The acolyte said with his cute little voice…with a morning star ready in his hands for those who denied him.
"um…yeah! That sounds…great! What a great idea Camus!" Orpheus quickly said as he stepped backwards and hid behind Edward.
"Yes! That's perfect! After all lilies are…perfect to take to her!" Edward quickly followed, his eyes not leaving the morning star.
"Great! I knew I just had the greatest ideas! Miss flower shop lady! Can I have a bouquet of these? And if you can give me a discount?"
Needles to say, his 100 cute and innocent look had a great affect on the flower shop lady, who let out a glee in delight. Not charging a single zeny as she gave him a bouquet of the finest lilies.
"Thank you nice lady!"
"………dude, sometime I wish I had that kinda ability you know…" Orpheus said watching the scene from outside the store with Edward.
"……at least we got the flowers without paying any money." The hunter said as Camus walked up to them.
"Okay that will be 1000 zeny."
"……what?" The dumbfound duo said as Camus smiled.
"A fee for using my super cute face."
"You're kidding, why would I pay…"
Orpheus's words faltered as Camus slowly took out his morning star, without changing a single expression. The hunter and the swordsman looked at each other before looking at the acolyte again.
"You know 1000 zeny isn't all that big of a deal…" Edward started as he took out his wallet.
"Yeah…" Orpheus said as he also took out his wallet. "1000 zeny is no big deal at all…"
"Yay! Now I have extra money to spend!!"
"………………………"
Never defy this acolyte.
"Where did that idiot high priest run off to now…"
Richard was fast walking down the hall, in search of his captain (who was currently at Al De Baran eating peach cake but no one knows that) After thirty minutes of searching with no progress he bit on his cigarette in anger.
"That good for nothing idiotic, lazy, stupid, retarded, idiotic, selfish high priest…"
"You know you said idiotic twice."
"Oh…it's you Griever…" The priest answered calmly as the assassin cross leaped down from windowsill. Stifling a yawn, which he failed, and sleepishly( new word by me!) rubbed his eyes.
"Staying up late at night? I wouldn't recommend that."
"Eh…was busy looking at porn magazines."
Richard gave Griever a disgusted expression as the navy haired captain gave a small grin. How could one say that so openly and calmly out loud…in public!
"I'm a guy, what can I say?"
"There is more to life than looking at vile magazines Griever…" The priest mumbled darkly not caring if he heard it or not. Griever just gave another yawn, apparently not hearing what the priest had said.
"So…how's Julian? I heard you were the one that checks up on her situation daily." It's been nearly a month since she's been knocked out. Even though her situation didn't get any worse and all her wounds are almost healed, there has been no sign of her waking up. Some even believe that she'll never wake up at this rate.
"……well her injuries are all almost healed…it's just that she won't wake up…" Richard said quietly, he was one of the many that believes Julian would wake up, no matter how long it would take. "……I'm going to kill the people who did this…the people responsible for that attack…"
"…………………well I'm not stopping you. But do you have any leads?"
"Just one, a white sword emblem……do you know anything about it?"
Griever folded his arms and thought for some several minutes. Occasionally tilting his head slightly to the right and sometime to the left.
"………nope never seen a guild with an emblem like that."
"…well if you get any information about it. Let Sir Xeno know."
With that the priest resumed his search for his captain, leaving the assassin cross in the empty hallway. After the priest was out of presence Griever took out what seemed to be a black communicator.
"……they found out about the guild emblem but other than that they have nothing."
There was a small buzzing sound before a voice came back.
"Affirmative, I'll change the guild emblem to erase any detection."
"And tell Juda he has done a great work in disrupting Shinryu's spirit connection and to keep up the good work. I'll stay here a little longer before going back, expect a raven to deliver the next set of orders within 235 hours."
"Yes sir. Guild master of Knights of Round, Knight of One"
Yumi Sakura: You know that never occurred to me…maybe I should make them you know like that…
Cisqua: Yes I am glad to myself that I updated before it was left inside the dusty hardware. :P
Attic-Window: Yes I will try to fit the cute Camus in much part as possible. And his age? He's 16 now.
Bystander: YES I UPDATED! HUZZAH!!
Filir: Well I kinda had a reason not to write it at that time. Mainly because of this chapter. And should I really make them…you know Yaoi? XP
JenEvan: No one can beat Camus's cuteness.