For the whole day Filia kept trying to find things to keep herself occupied to pass the time. But no matter how hard she tried, the day just seemed to go slower and slower as time went on. And what was worse she couldn't even think of that many things to do. So she ended up spending most of the day doing pointless things.
But one of the things that had taken a lot of her time was when Filia was trying to decide what she was going to wear to her date that night. She had decided a day or two before was that she was going to wear a dark red dress, but now that it came to the day of the day Filia had reconsidered.
Though the dress was very pretty it didn't look quite the way Filia wanted it to look on her when she tried it on that morning. So that left Filia scrambling through her closets trying to find a dress to wear instead. She wanted to wear something nicer then the dress that she had worn on her date with Xellos but she was having trouble finding something. All that Filia knew was that she was going to wear the new matching necklace and earrings that she had bought before. The necklace was a gold chain with a crescent moon on it with diamonds set in it. The earrings were also crescent moons only they had only a diamond in each of them.
Upon searching deep through her closets Filia found a dress buried back behind a whole bunch of clothing. It was a strapless white dress that was embedded with diamonds. It was a dress that been passed down to her by her mother. Filia had never tried it on before and had no idea whether it would fit or not, but it was a very pretty dress.
Filia admired the dress for a few minutes before deciding to try it on. She looked at herself in her full length mirror with the dress on her. The dress didn't fit. It was a little big in a few areas but it wasn't as if she couldn't hem it up.
At about seven o'clock De Tanga in his Jarred Welmir appeared at Filia's door. He was well aware that he was being watched by a certain trickster priest. 'Well looks like Xellos is going to be our other chaperone for the evening. Besides Milo that is.' De Tanga gave Milo a little pat on the head. He did bring Milo along for the date as he said that he was.
Milo had given De Tanga a curious look when De Tanga first changed into his Jarred Welmir form. But he just yawned and went back to sleep. Unlike some creatures Milo knew De Tanga even if he was in different forms. Or maybe all animals were like that, De Tanga wasn't exactly sure.
He straighten his collar before knocking on the door. Moments later the door opened and Filia come out into the doorway. "Hello Jarred. You're right on time!" Filia smiled as she went outside.
"My Filia aren't you a vision of loveliness this evening?" De Tanga took her hand and gave her a light peck.
Filia lightly blushed at De Tanga's actions. Then she noticed the slumbering kitten in his arms. "My that little kitty sleeps a lot doesn't he?" Filia petted his head and Milo purred in his sleep.
"Normally that this much. But since he's been sick Milo has been sleeping a lot more lately. He'll probably be fine later on in a couple of days. Anyway Milo and I have a little present for you." De Tanga said coyly reaching inside his cloak for a little box that was in one of his pockets. He pulled it out and handed it to Filia.
Filia looked at him in shock. "Jarred you shouldn't have!" Filia exclaimed. Filia was having a little bit of trouble making sure that she was calling De Tanga, Jarred then by his real name. Because she knew from what De Tanga had told her that Xellos was undoubtedly around in the area spy on the two of them.
"Well I wanted to. Once I say it in a store I immediately thought of you. Go ahead and open it." De Tanga motioned at the box in Filia's hands.
Filia looked at the box for a few seconds before carefully opening it. What she found inside the box was a small beautifully crafted crystal dragon. "Oh my-! This is beautiful! I can't believe you got me something like this…"
"Well think nothing of it. It's a gift from me to you. I guess you should take it inside your home and leave it there."
"Yeah I don't want it to break on our date. If you will please excuse me I'll be right back."
De Tanga nodded as Filia left to go back in her home. She returned moments later and went to go lock her door. "So shall we go?" Filia asked him with a smile.
"Yes we shall." De Tanga offered his arm and they linked arms and walked off to their first location.
Xellos glared at Filia and 'Jarred' as they walked off arm and arm. He started to grind his teeth in anger. He was just about to go and follow them when his master summoned him.
~Xellos!~
'Yes Master?'
~Come here at once!~
'But Master I'm-'
~Are you questioning me orders?!~
'No Master-'
~Then come here at once!!!~
The telepathic link was cut leaving Xellos sitting there torn between to things. A part of him wanted to stay and continue spying on Filia and her date. But the other part of him knew that he had to go and see his master. He sighed and phased out and teleported back his master's lair.
He figured that he was going to have to wait in the hall before he could speak to Greater Beast Zellas but upon arriving he was taken to her right away.
He entered in the dark hall where Zellas sat on her thrown looking very cross. Xellos bowed down before Zellas on a bended knee. "You summoned me Master?"
"Yes I did Xellos… tell me why you have been ignoring your orders?"
"Ignoring my orders? What do you mean by that? I've been doing as you have asked. I have been spying on the golden dragon and ancient dragon."
"Oh really? I know very well that you've been paying a lot of attention to the golden dragon, but none lately to the ancient dragon. Why is that Xellos?"
"The ancient dragon is out on a trip with friends. I didn't think there was any reason to directly spy on him. I have one of my minions currently spying on him and reporting back to me."
"So that makes it okay to put all your attentions on the golden dragon? How do you know that your minion is doing a good job? It seems to me that you've been paying far too much attention. So much that you would even go as far as to leave just to find out information about someone that is associating with her?"
Xellos didn't respond he just stood there staring at the ground.
"Well?"
"I'm sorry Master, I'll be more careful next time."
"You'd better be. Or otherwise I might reconsider continuing having you as my general priest." Zellas gave Xellos a very evil glare before continuing on. "Leave now and go back to your assignment. And I don't want to hear anything of you not completely following my orders." Zellas waved her hand motioning him to leave and Xellos complied.
Once out of his master's great hall, Xellos teleported back to the town that Filia lived in. It took Xellos a few seconds of searching before he found out the exact location of where Filia and her date were.
At this point in their date Filia and De Tanga were walking and talking and laughing away generally having a good time.
"Jarred where are we going first?" Filia asked hoping to pry out some information out of De Tanga about tonight's upcoming events.
"Well you know that I am going to take you to dinner…"
"So are we going to dinner first?"
"We were only yesterday I thought of something we could do before dinner."
"So what are we going to do first then?"
"You'll see." De Tanga mischievously grinned at her.
Filia groaned. She had a feeling that De Tanga wasn't going to be very clear about their plans. 'Hmm… maybe being secretive is a common trait among monsters.' Filia absentmindedly thought.
~I suppose you are right about that.~
Filia mentally kicked herself. She had forgotten that he could do that. 'So are you going to be doing this all night whenever I think?'
~Only when I need to. Oh and by the way Xellos is back.~ De Tanga pointed out as Xellos resumed his spying.
'Why did he leave in the first place?'
~My guess is that he had to take care to something. Or perhaps maybe he was summoned by his master. In any case we should stop this telepathic discussion for now and get back to talking normally.~
'Okay.' Filia looked around at the area around them. She couldn't tell by the direction that they were heading on where their location might be.
They ended up heading towards the lake near town.
"A lake? What are we going to do here?" Filia looked around all confused.
"We are going to do that." De Tanga pointed to the little boat that was tied to the harbor. "Do you mind taking a little boat ride on the lake?"
"A boat ride? No I wouldn't mind at all. I think it's a good idea." Filia gave him a little smile. "But is the boat safe to use?"
"Yes it is, I tested it yesterday. So shall we?" De Tanga gestured for her to come with him.
Xellos glared at the pair. 'Damn him! Now it's going to be hard for me to spy on them without being noticed.'