Brave frontier couples #7: Yuura and Medina. Thank you to Lunar for this idea. P. will change.
Medina's P.O.V
Rinon was setting the table. I was cooking dinner. I'm not a great cook, but I do better than Rinon. Ruby is the best, but she and Dion are fighting again, but this time over where to go for their date. Rinon says its like old times, but if you want old times, just make Dion forget he ever liked Ruby, and there you'll have it. Yuura was digging a well with Balgran, the old well got poisoned. Yuura figured that out when he saw Dion foaming at the mouth after a drink. We barely saved Dion, luckily for us Balgran came dashing over to see what happened, but he tripped. Balgran had landed hard on Dion's belly, armor and all, making Dion...regurgitate the poison. Yuura set about finding out how the well was poisoned, and figured that either someone like Leon must've poisoned us, or the ground deep beneath the well has a poison gas chamber in it. So he's doing a neat trick with a candle, lowering it deep into the ground before they resume digging for water. If the candle flame goes out, the air down there is poisoned, if it doesn't, it's not poisoned. So far so good. I chopped up some carrots and dumped them into the pot, along with diced celery, potatoes, and beef tips. This made a really good stew. It's one of the only things I'm really good at cooking up. Ruby can make almost anything, but her real specialty is bread and grains. Rinon isn't a great cook, but she can clean until everything's more sanitary than the best hospital. I guess that comes with being a healer. I finished the stew and left it to cool. I watched the men dig, hoping they wouldn't get poisoned.
Yuura's P.O.V
At last! Water! We dug madly, and soon the hole was little more than a mud pit. We emptied barrel after barrel of mud, and still dug deeper. Balgran hit the right spot, and water gushed out of an underground pocket, instantly flooding the hole. We swam up and out, grinning at a job well done. I tasted the water. Fresh, no poison. Great. Poor Dion, he had wanted to help, but Rinon insisted he stay in bed until every trace of the poison was gone. Just than Medina called, "Dinner's ready guys!" I smiled. I just hoped it wasn't gonna be another disaster like last time she cooked. She had tried to make a special dinner for Rinon's birthday, but ended up making the kitchen a huge mess, and also herself. She somehow broke a metal pot, my guess is she filled it too much and tried to carry it, making the handles snap. The whole ordeal ended up making her cranky and sulky for days, although it was pretty fun to tease her when I couldn't help it. But this time she made her specialty: stew. We ate hungrily; digging a well gives you a big appetite. She was pleased to see there wasn't anything left in the pot after we ate. We drew straws to see who got clean up, and the two shortest straws were Rinon and I. After the clean up, I suggested we could play a game to pass the time. The others agreed, and I heard Dion curse, because he was bedridden and couldn't play. Medina suggested telling stories, and whose ever was the creepiest story was cleared of chores for a whole day. I agreed, thinking I had this game in the bag.
Medina's P.O.V
Balgran began, but his story was more sad than creepy, because all the main characters died of loneliness. Rinon's story was okay, put it lacked scariness, because nothing amazing happened except a secret door was discovered, but whoever went through it died. "Than what's the point of a secret door if no one can go through it?" Yuura said. Rinon turned pink. "It's hard to come up with something in the middle of doing it!" Yuura shrugged. Ruby was next. She told of one where a certain green haired man was an idiot, and never payed his beautiful red haired girlfriend any attention. So the girl left him to die in a horrible, burning fire. Yuura raised his eyebrows, than looked at me. I was trying not to laugh. Apparently Dion got it, because he yelled from his room, "Am I going to burn to death if I don't pay attention to you?" Ruby laughed and said, "Maybe!" I was next. I grinned, going next to last gave me an idea. "Once upon a time," I started. "There was a little girl alone in the woods. She never aged, never spoke, and never slept. She had been there for millennia, ever craving for some fresh meat. Once a bold young man wandered into the forest. He explored far and wide, finally stumbling across the house of the little girl. She usually seduced her prey to come closer by pretending to be scared and crying. The man heard her cries, and went to check where they came from. He peered into the house, spying the little girl crying in the corner. 'What's the matter little one?' The man said, reaching out to help the little girl. The girl looked up suddenly, eyes red with fangs protruding from her mouth. She bit the man's hand, sucking his life blood out. He screamed once, before withering into a husk, that she threw on the pile of other husks, from many people who wandered into her forest. No one ever saw the brave young man again." I finished, eagerly awaiting someone to scream. Yuura grinned. "That was...cute." He said. "Cute? Wasn't it scary?" I said to him. Yuura laughed. "Maybe if I was five." He said. I playfully pouted. "Aww..."
Yuura's P.O.V
My turn. I grinned maliciously. "Once, there was a woman, a woman with a horrible secret. She was a witch! She could make the evilest of spells, the most awful of brews, and the most scary of laughs. Like this:" I cackled evilly, in the highest voice I could. "She wasn't a evil witch, but sometimes her witch instincts took over, and she would perform a few spells. One would make her very beautiful, one would make her very smart, and the last would cause men to want her. She had no problem seducing them to her will, and getting them to her house. She butchered them up, one by one, while they were still alive. She used the remains to feed her evil birds: Ravens. She used the butchered parts for her brews, making more evil ones by the second. One day a man came to town, and she instantly wanted him as her own. He was very handsome, smart, and popular. She used her seducing charms, and the man fell head over heels for her. What she didn't know is that the man was faking. She led him into her house, where she prepared her knife. The man leapt up, used a rope he found against her, and chocked her to death. The man was a hero! He was paraded around town, but the spirit of the witch cursed him, so every girl he loved hated him, as finally one killed him to leave her alone. The man was forgotten, and a shrine was built to the witch, because everyone thought that she was very beautiful. The spirit of the witch still is there, cursing anyone who dares not kneel to her statue. The end." I grinned. "How was that?" I challenged everyone. Medina shrugged, "It was okay, I guess." She said. What? Just okay? Rinon told Dion he was the judge. Dang, I was out for sure, Dion hated me. He grinned, then said, "I think Medina's was the scariest." I muttered darkly. Medina patted me on the shoulder. "Next time Yuura." She said. I snickered. "What's so funny?" Ruby asked. I burst out laughing. "I guess Dion has to pay more attention to Ruby, otherwise he'll get burned." We all laughed.
Medina's P.O.V
I went into my room. Time for bed I guess. I looked around, there was my bed, my shelf with different books about the ocean on it, and a shell, which was a gift from Yuura. There was also my dresser full of clothes, the bag of orange dust, and a few...wait a minute! Bag of orange dust! Lily's bag! There was a note attached to it from Dion. 'Use wisely.' I thought about throwing it outside, but than an evil thought came to me. No, I told myself, Yuura hasn't done anything to you. But my mind came up with all the times Yuura teased me and Rinon. It would be my way of getting him back. No, I said again, Yuura wouldn't use this on you. Or would he? I fell asleep. The sun shine through my eyes, waking me. I saw the bag of dust in my hand when I woke up. The note from Dion was bigger than I thought. It said: 'Use wisely. P.S. Use this on Yuura, he needs it, and besides, he always teases you and Rinon. I added my own special ingredient, so the victim really does lose his mind, until it wears off. Best wishes.' I smiled. So, Dion wants revenge for the both of us, huh? I told Rinon about the bag and showed her Dion's idea. I expected her to say, "Throw it away!" But what she actually said was, "About time Yuura gets his comeuppance." She giggled madly. But did I have the right to do this do Yuura? I asked Ruby what she thought, and she said, "Do what you want, but just don't infect Dion again with that, especially with the added ingredient." I thought about it, and decided-
To be continued...