Mind Games
Scene Three, The Date part b
The first place they headed to was the theatre. Xellos had bought them two tickets before and had it arrange that their section would not have any other people sitting in it. Now in most cases a person would not be able to arrange that or even buy tickets so late before a show, but you know Xellos, he has his ways. They sat down at their seats and Filia looked the trickster priest with suspicion. She knew that with very few people around Xellos could have an easier time with his little pranks.
~Don't worry Filia, he wont be able to do much, not while I'm around.~ De Tanga reassured her. He himself sat down in the row behind them.
Xellos himself was grinning mischievously, plotting his little plans. That and he was quite happy to be going to see that particular play. It was a horror story and a good majority of the cast were monsters themselves. Meaning if someone stabbed them they wouldn't really get hurt. And they even used their magic abilities to make it look like they are bleeding when they are struck. These monster actors were also very good at making themselves appear dead. The reason why they would do this is the more they could scare the audience the more fear they had to snack on.
In the first scene of the play a man was brutally murdered and a flesh-eating zombie chased the second. Xellos laughed an applauded the acting. What he was planning to do was to both scare and gross out Filia so that she wouldn't be able to stomach eating dinner. Filia on the other hand also applauded the acting. First of all Filia didn't scare easily to stuff like that. Second, being a golden dragon she was able to sense just how many monsters were in the play. She was actually impressed by them. Monsters usually caused death and destruction to feed their appetites, but these monsters managed to feed themselves just by putting on a show.
~So you like this idea?~
'You mean how they feed? Yeah I'm surprised.'
~Most of these monsters' are cursed and their magic skills are not very good. But with this little traveling play group the monsters of The Phantom Theatrical Group get the chance to feed without having to do much else then just putting on a show. And they also enjoy acting and putting on shows.~
'How do you know so much about them?'
~Because this little company has been around for quite some time and both Xellos and myself have been apart of it before in our earlier days.~
Filia smiled and looked over a Xellos. He was watching the play intently and she could see a bit of longing in his eyes. It was apparent that he missed those days.
At the end of act one Xellos was expecting Filia to be scared out of her mind and would want to leave. But she was actually enjoying the play very much. As well as being a horror the play was also a mystery. She was left trying to figure out who was guilty and who was still dead.
"So what do you think of the play so far?"
"Well I'm really don't know whose the person who murdered Dalen and his brothers but I'm pretty sure that the bar maid knows something more then she's letting on. Maybe Dalen isn't even dead, you know he could just be faking it and trying to get the family inheritance for himself. Meaning his father would probably be the next target-"
"You mean you are actually enjoying it?!" Xellos was shocked and his face conveyed that. Filia almost laughed out loud. His expression was priceless. De Tanga on the other hand didn't need to worry and was laughing hysterically.
"Why wouldn't I? I love murder/horror mysteries. And great thing that they've that most of the cast are monsters, because they wouldn't be able to pull off effects like that normally."
Xellos mentally kicked himself. He had forgotten that Filia could sense monsters. 'Oh well I've still got my little bag of tricks.' Xellos smiled as the next scene started up. De Tanga smiled too. He had been able to hear Xellos' thought, and what Xellos didn't know was that someone had 'tampered' with his bag of tricks. Namely a dark blue green haired monster. Xellos' bag of tricks was now just a bag. De Tanga had replaced Xellos' bag with another on of Xellos' other bags that's roughly the same size. When Xellos would look at he bag he would think that he brought the wrong one by mistake.
And Xellos did realize the bag problem and he did think that he had grabbed the one by accident. That put a damper on some of his plans, but he didn't let it bother too much. 'I'll just watch and enjoy the play and I'll think of something to do at dinner.' Again he smiled mischievously and returned his attention back to the stage.
After the play was over Xellos and Filia were the only ones smiling while leaving the theatre. Everyone else was green in the face and terrified out of their minds. To then it really looked some of the actors had been killed, because they knew even with excellent acting and effects, no one could pull of things looking that real. But of course to everyone else's knowledge all of the actors were human. But Xellos and Filia were the only ones who knew otherwise. Both the golden dragon and the monster found the other audience members reactions funny and couldn't help but laugh. Of course all of those other audience members thought the two of them were crazy anyway.
"Xellos were you surprised on the ending?"
"Oh not at all."
Filia shot him a dirty look. "Oh so you didn't find it surprising that it was in fact it was priest behind it all?"
"No I didn't Filia-dear."
"And why didn't you?"
"Because I've actually acted in that same play many hundreds of years ago. Unless they changed the script then I knew exactly what was going to happen anyway."
"Was anything changed in the script?"
"Actually there was, they changed a few scenes. Dalen was actually supposed to have been killed in the second to last scene instead of the third scene in the first act. So I was a bit surprised on some of the changes. I was still expecting the priest to be the main culprit in the end, but I wouldn't have been too surprised if it had been someone else." Xellos thought back to when he had very first done that play. He went out afterwards and fifteen people who had seen the play were scared at the sight of him.
"What part did you play?"
"That's a secret."
~It's a bit funny actually Filia, he played the priest.~ De Tanga informed her.
"Knowing you, you were probably playing the role of the priest." Filia flashed him a smile while Xellos just stared at her puzzled. He didn't tell her that she was right, but he also didn't say that she was wrong. "So where are we going for dinner?"
"Just follow me." And follow him is just what she did.