Chapter 3
Yet another scene lapse, Yuri felt like his brain was on fast forward mode. He no longer bothered to wonder why he went from the palace garden to the palace court yard. He was surrounded by others, to his left were what he could only guess was the male version of Lady Cecilia sitting in a fancy red velvet lined chair, he looked like Wolfram's uncle only with longer hair. Standing next to him was the male version of Greta who looked like a short cute tan skinned boy dressed in a white shirt and matching trousers. Guinevere dawned her usual scowl as she looked out at the courtyard; to his right was a very worried looking Glinda and the usually calm and stoic Connie. Peeking out from behind Connie was a spunky looking girl with glasses dressed in a black school girl uniform. She sported a shoulder length black hair style and flashes a peace sign at him. Yuri blushes, but looks the other way, female murata was just plain creepy. Yuri looks over at the courtyard and sees Willow and Sarah facing each other with their swords drawn. Yuri sighed; this was insane, male Greta notices him and gazes at him concerned. Yuri looks back at him and smiles kindly.
[Hey there….uh….]
"It's Gregory".
[Gregory right…..I'm sorry]
Gregory smiles up at him: don't worry about it father, I heard about what happened this morning.
[Good grief, you and about half the kingdom.]
Gregory: By the way, that woman next to Aunt Connie is Makoto your best friend.
[Ah…thanks for that Gregory.]
Sarah: it's a shame that Yuri has to be associated with such a violent woman.
Gregory: MOMMA IS NOT VIOLENT, but she is going to kick your butt.
[That's not really helping things Gregory.]
Willow: I'm done with this banter, you're wasting time Sarah. PREPARE YOURSELF.
Willow trains her sword at Sarah and Sarah does the same. The two stay where they are for a while glaring at one another. Then without warning they charge toward each other clashing swords for the first time. Willow slides her blade off of Sarah's and strikes at her again, Sarah ducks missing the strike and retaliates by attacking her with a strike of her own. Their swords clash once again and they struggle against one another in a bid for who is stronger. Yuri nearly jumps out of his skin as someone pokes him in the shoulder from behind.
Makoto: hey shibuya.
[uh…m…makoto?]
Makoto: having two sexy ladies fighting over you, aren't you mister popular?
[That's not funny Makoto.]
Makoto: hey look on the bright side; at least if they take each other out, we could get married.
Yuri glares at her, and she in turn takes a step back.
Makoto: I'm kidding relax, I don't screw guys remember?
Yuri frustratedly pushes Makoto away a bit: [oh for crying out loud.]
Willow over powers Sarah and pushes her off causing the other blonde to teeter backwards slightly before dodging yet another attack by willow. This medieval cat fight was swift; fast paced and would have been exciting to watch if Yuri wasn't so worried that the two were eventually going to cut each others heads off. The level of agility and skill in these two was remarkable as they jolted, dashed and swerved around one another in their fight. The two continued their fight tirelessly clashing, slashing and swiping at each other; Sarah jumps back to give herself some distance. She then shoots a wave of energy from her hand and hits Willow in the shoulder ripping the cloth from her uniform. She throws another wave at Willow forcing the other blonde to dodge it rolling on the ground before standing upright again glaring at her, Yuri's eyes widened, he didn't remember the male Saralegui ever doing that.
Willow: you cheater, this is a sword dual.
Sarah grins: my apologizes, my hand slipped.
She snapped her fingers and an even more powerful wave hit willow directly throwing her off her feet and onto her back. Her clothing was torn and sliced at the front but not exposing anything from her chest area. Willow decides she has had enough and gets up slowly onto her feet, she then growls out an incantation summoning her fire beast. The lion made out of fire surges toward Sarah catching her off guard and blasting her clear off her feet and about 10 feet away. She screams while on the floor as fire burns off the top layer of her clothing. She tries to put herself out quickly by rolling on the floor smothering it. After the fire stops, she lays there breathing harshly from the flaming hell that almost engulfed her body. When she finally gets back to her senses she notices that her clothing was almost burned off and her hair was singed. Otherwise her physical body was fine; however the hatred in her eyes as she glared at willow spoke volumes.
Sarah: Y….you…..you….
Willow smiles: my apologizes, my hand slipped.
Sarah slowly gets up and stands there; she takes off her outside jacket which has been burn. Willow does the same, casting the tattered clothing to the ground, things were about to get real. Yuri looked over at Sarah who at this point was pissed; the air around her became quiet as the energy around her accumulated. Her hair began to move about her as if the wind had picked up; Yuri's gaze went from worried to downright scared. Yuri moves fast dashing towards willow and grabs the blonde girl moving her out of the way of Sarah's most powerful blast. In that split second Sarah shoots off her wave, it misses them and rams into the wall behind them creating a gigantic hole in its wake. Yuri holds willow close to him and looks over at the hole instantly turning pale. That move would have taken off willow's head if he hadn't moved her out of the way. Willow fidgets against him and looks at him confused.
Willow: Yuri, what are you doing?
[Enough Willow; just stop ok.]
Sarah: Yuri, you must move out of the way. Otherwise you'll get hurt.
[Enough Sarah, this fight is over.]
Willow: Yuri, why…I'm only trying to…
[Because this whole thing is stupid, you two are going to end up killing each other. And for what? I'm not even worth it.]
Willow leaned in against Yuri's chest looking up at him distressed: That's not true, how can you say that? After everything I am going through right now, how can you say…..
Yuri holds her even tighter to him: please, this has to stop; you don't have to do this….because I lo…..care for you very much. I value your friendship more then anything.
Willow: that's the thing, can't you see? That's the core problem here.
Willow looks deep into his eyes, drawing him in. Yuri blushes looking into her beautiful eyes as she leans in closer to him.
Willow: after all this time and after everything we have been through, is your friendship the only thing I am allowed to have.
[w…..willow.]
Yuri and Willow stare at one another and things were getting romantic between them. Was wolfram still just a friend? Yuri's mind became muddled with all sorts of new found thoughts. Actually no, he was wrong again, these thoughts were always there in the back of his mind. Only at the time what kept him at bay was wolf's gender, this led Yuri to wonder. Is the rapid beating of his heart due to the fact that wolfram was now a girl or are these feelings genuine, he was confused. However his romantic moment and his thought's were suddenly interrupted by the feeling of boobs on his back.
Yuri freaks out: GAH….UH….s..sarah?
Sarah: Yuri, please don't ignore me, I am in love with you too. Does that mean nothing to you?
Willow: stop it Sarah, can't you see your presence isn't wanted here?
Sarah grabs Yuri's arm: you're the one that is not wanted here. Your majesty; I will be more then happy to serve you in ways that a little girl like her will simply be unable to.
Willow grabs his other arm to pull him away: how dare you? He's not that lewd to want something like that from a whore like you.
Sarah angrily pulls his other arm: WHORE? You have the audacity to call me that…you…you…bitch
Glinda rushes over and wraps her arms Yuri from behind and his head ends up in between her boobs: Ladies please such behavior is unbecoming of a princess.
The two blondes play tug of war with the double black king, while Glinda tugs at his middle. Makoto casually walks over to them and tilts her head.
Makoto: As fun as this is to watch don't you think you should do something your highness?
[I..I'm trying but….they are about to rip me apart…..HEY KNOCK IT OFF EVERYONE.]
Makoto: yeah ladies there's enough of him to go around.
[SHUT UP, YOU'RE NOT HELPING.]
The blondes both pull at his arms straining his joints which causes him pain and having glinda yanking at his torso didn't help much either.
[ STOP IT, ALL OF YOU JUST CALM DOWN.]
Willow: YURI IS MINE
Sarah: NO HE'S MINE
Glinda: DON'T WORRY YOUR MAJESTY, I WILL GET YOU OUT OF THIS.
[OW…OW STOP IT THIS HURTS, MAKOTO DO SOMETHING]
Makoto: sorry shibuya, but your own indecisiveness has gotten you into this. You have to make a decision.
The three women kept yanking at Yuri's arms and torso, he could feel his limbs dislocating and he screams out in pain. This keeps going until finally his arms were ripped out of their sockets; time seemed to stand still for everyone as Yuri stands there armless. He looks over to his left, then to his right and then realizing the horror of his situation does the only thing he can think to do…flip out.
[AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAA]
"Your majesty…."
[OH MY GOD….MY ARMS…..SOMEBODY HELP ME.]
"Your majesty, WAKE UP".
Yuri opens his eyes and finds himself in his office still in Shin Makoku, he breaths heavily and quickly looks at his hands. To his relief his arms were still on his body, he looks around himself and tries to focus on his surroundings. When his breathing calms down he notices everyone around him and sees that Gunter, Conrad, Gwendale and Wolfram are all in the room. To his delight, he also notices that they are all males again.
[Conrad, thank god you don't have breasts.]
Conrad stares back at him sternly: your majesty this is hardly the time to joke around.
[W..what?]
He takes another look around and notices everyone's expressions and the overall tone in the room. Gwendal looked angered, Gunter looks solemn and Wolfram, who was standing in front of him at the other side of his desk, looked severely depressed off at the side avoiding Yuri's gaze.
[Did something happen?]
Conrad: the parchment your majesty, you were just about to present it to Wolfram.
[Present what?]
Conrad gets agitated: read the document Yuri.
Yuri cringes a little at the sudden coldness in Conrad's voice; he decides to look at the document in front of him. After a moment of reading it, his eyes widened and he looks up shocked at everyone.
[WAIT A MINUTE; I'M CALLING OFF THE ENGAGEMENT?]