Chapter 6: The Mysterious Slayer and fate

Back in the boy's hotel room, Chello eagerly strips his top clothing off which was dirty, torn, and stained. "Ugh...this is a mess... I just got this jacket a couple days ago and now its all torn up!" He thought. Chello fusses his blonde hair and tosses the Jacket to the wall. He looks around the hotel room. It was a basic hotel room you would find anywhere else. Painted wall, carpet floor, a television, drawers, etc. He sighs and heads into the bathroom. He flips open the light and looks at his face. "Wow...is that me?" He feels his own face, which had a noticeable scar right under his left eye. It was also dirty, to say the least. One thing is for sure, however. He noted that he has grown ever since he first met Jun. His face was more mature and he is in fact more masculine than ever thanks to Jun's training. Chello was indeed enjoying looking at his new self in the mirror, doing strong poses and "sexy" faces. He laughed at himself and left the bathroom.

"I should probably take a shower though, why did I leave the bathroom?" He turned around to re-enter the bathroom again when he noticed something shining out of his shirt he threw at the wall earlier. After rummaging through it, he noticed that it was Jun's hairpin, the first gift he has received from Jun when it was his birthday. He squeezed the hairpin tight and stared directly at the wall. "Shes just behind that wall. I wonder if she thinks of me the same way I do..."

"So why are you really here Simon?" The busty Elven mistress Siusha said. "I know your not here just to pick some fights anymore, I can tell."

Simon replied, "How do you know EVERYTHING about me? We don't even talk! I don't get you sometimes Siusha."

The two were standing in the lobby of Moonlight Tavern, a tavern where fights frequently occur, but is nonetheless one of the finer places to stay at due to the fine food and drink and cheap rooms. The lobby floor was marbled and had a checkered style pattern to it. The walls were painted a dark red, and the lighting was quite dim, perfect for relaxing. Simon looked around.

"So you redecorated huh?" Simon said. Siusha laughed. "Don't change the subject young man. Listen, i've been alive for hundreds of years. So I know how you humans typically act. Although I will say your one of the more entertaining ones, haha.."

Simon blushed, but waved it off. "You always do that! You- that- that- speech you have! Ah!" He scratches his head. Siusha smiles and walks over to a table and invites him. As soon as Simon sits, he begins to explain. "My father... Magnus sent me to go to Sky Tower to retrieve some gem that he wants. He sent me to go fetch this gem with these two other random people whom are under his debt."

Siusha lifts an eyebrow and asks, "Under his debt? And...Sky Tower..?" She lifts a glass of wine which seemed to appear out of nowhere, as the glass of wine was not on the table in the first place. She sits back and smooths out her long, elegant but revealing dress and smiles. "Please, do continue." she says.

Simon shakes his head. "Under his debt. I said it right." Simon said. Simon then recalls in his head of losing the shop to a mysterious knight days ago and fighting Jun and Chello in the streets and then being arrested. "I assume you probably have heard about a Magnus shop being destroyed on opening day." Simon said while looking down. Siusha only continued to smile while playfully rocking the champagne glass back and forth. Simon continues on with his story. "Anyways my father bailed me and these two people out, and the next thing I know I'm being sent to Sky Tower..." Simon's eyes start to tear up.

Siusha's smile disappears and she puts down the champagne glass. She puts her hand on Simon's shoulder and then lifts his face up and lets go. "This isn't how slayers are supposed to act, you know." she says gently. Simon, noticing that he is in fact vulnerable, straighens his composure. "Ah, right..yeah... I- I know that! I wasn't crying or anything..." He wipes his eyes. "There was something in my eye- that's all!" Siusha smiles again.

At the corner of the lobby room, a mysterious hooded figure sits watching and listening.

At Jun's room, Jun was relaxing herself in the bath-tub after a long day of hard fighting and work and dealing with Simon. "Ah...this is nice.." Her long and graceful legs playfully swayed back and forth in the bathtub full of hot, relaxing water and a more-than-generous amount of bubbles. She whistles a tune she had heard not too long ago about a popular TV Romance-Drama show about a boy from and a girl. She recalls her favorite episodes where the boy meets the girl by fate and chance, and that the girl takes the boy around Arad to show him how life was like. She giggles at remembering the cute moments, and falls silent upon remembering the sad parts. The show revolved around a love triangle problem where the girl has to choose between two people. She smiles again. "I miss good romance-dramas.."

And then something clicked in her mind. She is in almost the same exact position as the drama series, but she has never noticed it until now. She had always known that Chello was of Empyrian descent, but never noted that if it were by fate or chance that they met. The same also goes for Simon. He was also met by chance, but then again, isn't everyone new that you meet is by chance?

She sat up in the bathtub, and in doing so, the sudden movement caused the water to splash outside the bathtub, making a mess. The bubbles slid down her slender and muscular body while she came to realize the position she was in. "Wow...it's just like that drama.." She shakes her head and decides to take a walk outside. She gets out of the bathtub.

Simon scratches his head. "So, yeah...Sky Tower...I heard it's dangerous.." Siusha lifts her glass and begins to speak, when out of nowhere, a gruff voice interrupted.

"It is dangerous."

Siusha looks up and notices the mysteriously hooded man next to them. She smiles. Simon is completely surprised and jumps out of his seat. "Wha- how did you-" he says. Siusha, giggling, says, "I knew you couldn't keep out of this conversation, old man. Why are you wearing a hood in here? you should take it off."

Simon, a little infuriated about being scared, begins to yell. "Who do you think you are?! I should-" And then the man puts his hood down, revealing a balded head while two brown bandages cross both his eyes. "What- what is this?"

The old man speaks. "Your father is making a mistake sending you to Sky Tower."

Simon is utterly confused out of his mind. "Okay...what is going on around here? I've seriously lost track of my own life now."

Siusha laughs. She says, "This 'old man' is an Asura. Slayers who have given up their sight to gain supernatural powers."

Simon, at this point, is just speechless.

Meanwhile, another hooded figure standing near the doorway with bright red eyes exits the tavern.

Jun exits her room, all dressed to take a walk outside. Meanwhile, next door the door was creaked slightly to allow Chello to look outside. He sees Jun exiting the room. "Where is jun going...?" Jun then starts to walk towards his direction. "Oh snap, she's coming this way!" Chello wasn't aware of the pressure he was putting against the door he was leaning on to 'spy' on Jun. The door flings open and Chello falls in front of a suprised Jun.

It's been awhile since i've done these ;_; college college college

Next time: A continuation of this! G.S.D. explains Sky Tower, and a possible love tension starts to form between the three. Will the three start to becoming selfish for their own desires or will they finish the job?