-Author's FYI
OH MY STARS! RESHIRAMGIRL88 IS ALIVE!
Yes yes, I am. I just got a little busy for a while and had no time to write. So yeah. The reason I am updating this story is because this is actually ASiriusWriter01's Christmas present. And yeah.
You probably heard this before, but you should totally go and read some of her stuff because she is super duper amazing. GO CHECK HER OUT IMMEDIATELY!
Anyways, like I did last year, here is a little Christmas song parody.
Enjoy, Sirius.
(BTW this song was literally my jam when I was a kid. It is Dominick the Donkey)
HEY THIEVERY THIEF!
(Aubrey, Aubrey)
It's the Time Gear stealing Grovyle
Thievery Thief
(Aubrey, Aubrey)
The Corrupted Stealing Outlaw
(La la la-la la-la la la la la)
(La la la-la la-la la-ee-oh-da)
Thiefs got a little companion
Her name is Aubrey
The most stubborn human
You always hear her sass
When Thief needs to locate a Time Gear
With Aubrey he will drag
Aubrey he can see and hear into the past and future
Beause she has the dimensional scream ability
HEY THIEVERY THIEF!
(Aubrey, Aubrey)
It's the Time Gear stealing Grovyle
Thievery Thief
(Aubrey, Aubrey)
The Corrupted Stealing Outlaw
(La la la-la la-la la la la la)
(La la la-la la-la la-ee-oh-da)
Treasure bag around his shoulder
And time gears in his hands
Hey! Look at Aubrey pass out
Carried in Thief's strong arms
A time gear guarded by azelf
A uxie in fogbound lake
And a mespirit in quicksand cave
They all communicate by telepathy
Warning each of Thief's crimes
HEY THIEVERY THIEF!
(Aubrey, Aubrey)
It's the Time Gear stealing Grovyle
Thievery Thief
(Aubrey, Aubrey)
The Corrupted Stealing Outlaw
(La la la-la la-la la la la la)
(La la la-la la-la la-ee-oh-da)
There is actually more to the song, but I am both tired and don't want to spoil anything. SO yeah. Feel free to listen to it. IT is Dominick the Donkey. And yeah
Thanks for being my buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuudy Sirius. Merry Christmas!
Chapter 2: Carriage Ride
As the carriage barreled over the rugged landscape, Aubrey felt like her stomach was doing somersaults. Continuously flipping and turning, her stomach refused to settle. And she knew why.
In a matter of moments her entire life will be planned out, with no opinion from her whatsoever.
"Aubrey?"
Aubrey raised her eyes, looking directly at her older sister's face. "Yes?"
A soft, cold hand curled under her chin. "What's wrong?"
Aubrey lowered her eyes again, starring at the ground. "It's nothing, Kate."
Kate's hand slowly receded. No matter how hard she tried, her older sister could never quite replace the motherly role they had both lost years ago.
Aubrey didn't have any family left after her mother died in a fire. Luckily for her, she was orphaned around the time she met Kate. Kate changed her life by begging her own father to Aubrey in. Ever though the family was a broken one, what with Kate's own mother having perished years before, the two girls were never as happy as when they were together.
"Aubrey." Kate's gaze jumped, from the dazzling ring on her left ring finger to her younger sibling's face. "You know you have to do this, right?"
Aubrey's head shot up. "I know. It's just that…" Her voice trailed off as her sister's gaze slowly turned into a glare. She sighed. "It's nothing, really."
Kate's eyes softened, and she patted Aubrey's cheek. "Now, now Aubrey, you know you can tell me anything."
She wanted to tell her sister. She wanted to spill her guts, literally and figuratively. But all the words she wanted to say, would only shatter her sister's heart.
The carriage was completely silent.
"Aubrey, I know you don't want to do this. But…" A small and defeated sigh escaped Kate's lips. "It is our duty. You know Father, he has high expectations of us." A tear slipped down her cheek, landing on the top of her ring. "And we don't always get what we want." She wiped away the small teardrop from the precious stone. Then she swiped the back of her right hand across her cheek, erasing all signs of remorse from her face.
Years ago, Kate had loved another. A tall handsome boy with a long green pony tail and eyes that were the color of freshly risen sunshine. She loved him. And he loved her. But Kate's father had come between them. Their Father hated the boy, for reasons that neither Kate nor Aubrey could quite understand at the time. Their father kept saying he was a traitor, a disgrace, the very definition of treason. But Kate still loved him, despite their father's disapproval.
Then that awful day arrived. Kate had snuck out of the house to see the boy, while Aubrey held up the fort at home, convincing their father that she never left. But Aubrey cracked like shattered glass and the two lovers were found out. Grounded and beaten, Kate was forced to live with memories of her betrayal, to show how you were never allowed to cross their father. And the boy was never heard from again. Until…
"You know whose party it is, right?" Aubrey muttered, waiting for the ice to shatter under her feet and fall into the depths of her sister's melancholy and painful memories.
Kate took a deep breath, "Its Grovyle's, I know."
Grovyle, the boy who caused her grief and torment. He was still alive.
Aubrey shifted awkwardly in her seat, "Kate?"
Her older sister's eyes hardened and her gentleness morphed into a glare. "It was over a long time ago, Aubrey. There is no reason to uproot those memories."
Trying to escape the waves of hatred, Aubrey shrank back against the seat of the carriage. "I was just-"
"Enough Aubrey," Kate snapped, absent mindedly twirling her wedding ring around her finger. After getting grounded and beaten over Grovyle, Kate was forced into an arranged marriage with a rich man named Zen Hedevary, the son of the powerful Duke Hedevary. Zen was a rather nice gentleman, but he was nothing compared to Grovyle. No matter how hard he tried, Zen would never be able to steal and mend Kate's broken heart.
The carriage began to slow as it trudged through the front gates of Thievianson manor.
"Do you love him?" Kate asked hastily, leaning forward in her seat.
"Excuse me?" Aubrey muttered, caught off guard by the sudden question.
"Do. You. Love. Him?" Kate asked again, slower.
Aubrey's face slowly painted red, "I am undecided. I mean, he is not a bad guy…." Her eyes widened in realization. "Wait a second, are you still…?"
"What? No way!" Kate began to blush and her fingers danced, spinning the ring around and around. "I loved him….a long time ago, not anymore."
The carriage eased to a stop.
With a racing heart Aubrey climbed out of the carriage and into her new her predestined future.