Chapter thirty-six! Enjoy, bitches! XP
Louis began to pull his wife away, seeing Azlirac and Feladora running out of monsters to kill. "C'mon, Seda, we have to go now." He said, tugging on his wife's arm. She pulled away, starting to wave her other arm in the air to someone. "Sanora!" She called out.
"Brother!" Azlirac called out again, fighting a turtle off his wife.
Louis sighed, wrapped his arms around Seda's mid-section, picked her up and carried her away. "No!" She protested, trying to squirm free. "Sanora! Sanora!" She kept calling out for their lost daughter. "Sanoooraaa!"
'Thank god…' Ixxy thought. 'That yelling was getting annoying.' She thought more, continuing her digging for her orc acquaintance.
"Ak! Akazil!" Makaza cried again, wiping tears from his eyes as he dug. "Please don't die!" He pleaded.
Hearing those words again almost began to distract Ixxy. She quickly and roughly shook them out of her mind and focused on the rubble. "You know, this'd go faster if we had a little help here!" she barked, turning her head to glare at Guy and Dethiam, along with anyone else standing around.
"Why should we help?" Rebecca sneered. "He was a stupid Horde!" She said coldly.
"No he wasn't!" Makaza yelled at the woman, glaring at her with his tear filled blue eyes. "He was my brother! Is my brother! And he risked his life to save his friends!" He yelled, his heart tightening at the horrible thought of losing his one and only sibling. "If that's considered stupid to you or anyone else, then I'm glad he is!"
Rebecca was taken aback, though, she tried not to show it as she walked up to grab her daughter. "Whatever." She said, taking Stacy's hand and holding it tightly. "Come, Stacy. We're going to Shattrath." She said, starting to walk again. "No!" Her daughter cried, snatching her hand back. "Akazil!" She cried out as she went back to the rubble.
"Stacy!" Rebecca snapped, roughly grabbing her daughter's arm once more. "Come!"
As the two fought with each other, Guy slowly made his way next to Ixxy and began to help. "Think he's still alive?" She asked him, keeping her eyes focused on the rubble she was grabbing. Guy shrugged and sighed. "I honestly don't know." He said a bit grimly. "I have no idea what an orc's body is able to withstand."
"If he's dead, can I eat him?" Dethiam asked, walking up to Ixxy's other side to help as well. Ixxy just rolled her eyes at the undead girl. "You know, you're starting to lose your appeal to me…" She told her, only receiving a shrug.
"He has to be alive! He has to!" Makaza cried out, having to wipe his eyes again. "Please!" He choked out, blinded by his tears. "Please don't die…"
"Akazil!" Stacy shouted after getting away from her mother yet again. "Say something!" She cried out, trying to dig some more as her mother grabbed her again. "Say something!" She cried louder. "Akazil!"
As they continued moving pieces of the burnt down building, some of it began to move and groan. A second later, Akazil crawled out from beneath the rubble, groaning as he placed his right hand on his head. "Ow…" He groaned, then got the rest of his body out and stumbled out onto the street. "My head hurts…" He said, slowly sitting on his knees.
"Akazil!" Makaza and Stacy exclaimed with joy, both running up to hug the orc, crying tears of happiness and blissful relief of knowing he was alright. "Stacy?… Makaza?… Ow…" Akazil moaned, looking at the crying and vigorously shaking bodies latched onto him.
"Stacy, get away from those beasts!" Rebecca yelled out, running over to retrieve her daughter again. The little girl quickly ran to the other side of the injured orc and hid. "No!" She yelled, peeking her head out to glare at her mother.
Blinded by fury, the grown woman ran off to get the sword still stuck in Akazil's shield, coming back to swing it at the boy and his brother. "Give me back my daughter, you monsters!" She yelled, a hot tear sliding down the side of her face.
Stacy gasped at the sight of the sword, then quickly put herself in front of the two orcs. "No!" She yelled courageously at her mother, throwing her arms to her sides. "I won't let you hurt them!"
"Stacy, get out of the way! Mommy knows what she's doing!" The woman yelled, grief and anger clouding her judgment.
"You know, everyone here seems to have lost sight of what the real problem is…" Ixxy muttered to Guy, staring at some of the buildings still burning down around them. "Yeah, I know whatcha mean…" The young man replied.
With a sigh, Ixxy tried to shake some of her irritation off, then forwarded the rest of it at the crazy woman with the sword. "Look, lady! We got some more important things to handle!" She yelled, walking up to her and snatching the sword right out of her hands with ease.
Rebecca was about to swear a storm at Ixxy, but was forced to bite her tongue when a dagger suddenly appeared in front of her neck. "Keep your mouth shut and I might think about letting you live…" Dethiam chuckled, holding the woman captive with her other arm now.
"Deth, you aren't really helping our case…" Ixxy said, staring blankly at the disturbingly gleeful undead girl. Dethiam only rolled her eyes under her belts in return. "Haven't you heard that it's a dog kill dog world?"
"That's not…" Ixxy was about to correct the undead girl, her eye twitching a bit. She then changed her mind with a shake of the head and sighed again. "Nevermind… Anyways…" She went back to the real subject, turning her head to look at some of the other people around her. "Everyone seems to have forgotten-" She was saying, stopping at the feeling of something small and wet hit the back of her head.
Slowly, Ixxy used her right hand to reach the spot, feeling the wet spot of her hair. Her eye began to twitch a little bit when she realized what it was, and a low and slightly dark chuckle slowly slipped itself out as she turned around. "Did you just spit on the back of my head?…" She questioned Rebecca. The woman replied with a scoff and repeated the action, the saliva landing under her left eye.
With a simple; and slightly creepy; smile, Ixxy wiped off the spit and narrowed her eyes at the blonde. She then tossed aside the sword she had taken from her, took a step or two toward her and slowly lifted up her left hand. "You see this hand?" She asked simply.
"Yeah. What'd ya gonna do? Slap me with it?" Rebecca sassed. Ixxy only shook her head at her. "No." She said, then bitch slapped the woman with her right hand. "That's my slapping hand!" She snapped, then tackled the woman. After that, somehow, Dethiam got herself involved in the dust ball.
"Ladies, ladies!" Guy exclaimed, running up to the dust ball. "Calm down!" He told them, attempting to pull someone out and stop the fighting, being unsuccessful and sucked into it himself. "Ah!" He screamed like a little girl. Even Stacy thought so.
"I miss somethin'?…" Akazil asked his brother, staring at the dust ball as it bounced around.
"No." Ixxy; suddenly next to the orcs with a scratched covered body; answered before Makaza had a chance to even open his mouth. "But in case you did, let me clarify…" She went on, using her right hand to address the things and people she was speaking of. "She's an idiot, he's a crybaby, he's useless, she's losing her appeal, Ezekiel is still dead over there, and I'm pretty sure that she's a pedophile…"
"Ezekiel!" Makaza cried, running back to his dead friend's body, cradling it in his arms as he sobbed.
"I am not an idiot and Stacy is not a pedophile! She's only eight!"
"And I am fairly useful, dammit…"
"Of course you are." Dethiam said, patting Guy on the back as he murmured things to himself.
Ixxy rolled her eyes, ignoring everyone. "And last, but not least… We still have a freakin' city to defend, you damned idiots!" She hollered, jumping a good few feet into the air, her frustration blowing out her ears in steam form.
"Blargle nargh!" A ghoul shouted its warcry just before attacking a random citizen. "Exactly!" Ixxy exclaimed, throwing her arms in the direction of the attack. "Exactly, dammit! No one even noticed him because Miss Priss over here-"
"Hey!"
"-had to go and start a fuss over nothing!" Ixxy finished, then quickly pulled out her daggers. "Now can we please start killing these damned things before they kill us!"
"I'm still being attacked over here, you assholes!" The random townsfolk that had been tackled by the ghoul shouted, just barely fending off the thing. "A little help would be nice!"
Ixxy stared blankly at the sight, then threw one of her daggers at the ghoul's head, knocking it off. "Freaking hate this place…" She muttered to herself as she walked over to retrieve her daggers and possibly kick the man on the ground by "accident".
As Ixxy walked off, Akazil turned around and made his way for his sobbing brother. "Mak, you okay?" He asked.
Sniffling, Makaza showed his brother Ezekiel's body. "H-He's dead, Ak…" He managed to say, still nearly choking on his words. Akazil was a bit speechless as he stared at the dead imp, feeling sick as he looked over all of the wounds and dried up green blood. He shook his head to try and get a grip of himself, then looked to his brother and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Can't you bring him back?"
"No." Makaza sniffled, shaking his head. "I haven't gotten that far in my training. All I can do is summon another imp."
"Then why not do that?" Ixxy asked, suddenly next to the boys, staring at the dead imp along with them.
"I don't want another imp! I want Ezekiel!" Makaza choked out, beginning to sob uncontrollably again, holding his dead friend close to his shaking body. His brother kept a hand on his shoulder as he sobbed, trying to comfort him as much as he could. "It's gonna be okay, Mak…" He said.
"B-But-"
"Brother!" Azlirac yelled, stopping in his running next to the teens, muttering a swear or two to himself. He then looked at the three, then the imp. "What happened here?" He questioned.
"We've suffered a loss…" Akazil explained as Makaza showed the body to the night elf man. Azlirac nodded and knelt down next to the crying orc. "I believe I know a way to help." He said, reaching for Ezekiel's body.
"Really?" Makaza gasped with joy, even more tears flooding his eyes.
"Yes, I-" Azlirac was saying when his wife called for him. "Azlirac! The house in on fire!" Feladora exclaimed to him in horror. "Melanie is trapped in her room!"
"I'm sorry, I will have to help in a moment." Azlirac said in a rush and ran over to his wife to go save their endangered child.
"But-! Wait!" Makaza called out, getting up to run after him. "What about Eek…" He said softly, another tear sliding down his cheek.
"It'll have to wait for now." Akazil told his brother, placing a hand on his shoulder again.
"If we can't save him, can I eat him? Demons are really tasty." Dethiam said, suddenly on Makaza's other side, poking at the "food" he was holding.
Slowly, the two orcs and Ixxy stared at the undead girl, blinking at her.
"Deth…" Ixxy said, still blinking at her. "Go over there…" She told her, pointing in a random direction that just happened to be filled with many monsters. Shrugging, the undead girl did as told, laughing maniacally as she did so.
Once rid of the corpse hungry undead girl, Ixxy turned her attention back to the dead imp, slowly raising an eyebrow at it. 'Brother…' She thought, thinking of Azlirac. 'Louis and…Seda…' She pondered more, an idea popping into her head. "I think I know how to save him." She said, snatching the body and running off with it.
"Wha-? Wait! Ezekiel!" Makaza shouted, his voice now hoarse from yelling and crying so much. "Mak, I'm sorry, but we can't worry about that right now." Akazil told him, holding his brother a bit to make sure he didn't hurt himself by screaming until he passed out. "I'm sure Ixxy knows what she's doing. For now, just summon another imp and stay by me. Don't run off again."
Makaza sniffled, wiping his eyes again. He then began to summon for another imp as his brother told him to.
"Akazil, look out!" Stacy suddenly called out, being carried away by her mother.
Slowly, the weary orc turned around, coming face-to-chest with a felguard. "Hi…" He said after slowly leaning his head up to meet the demon's gaze. "How ya doin'?" He asked it sheepishly.
Just when the felguard was about to answer the question with its axe, its hand was shot with an arrow, making it drop its weapon. The demon roared with rage as it looked for who or what had done the action. Just when it saw it was a blood elf hunter, a spider jumped onto its head and began to use its web to blind it.
"Duck!" Cosmo shouted. With hesitation, Akazil and Makaza both crouched down, seeing Mittens fly over them and tackle the felguard with Naraxis barely a second after. "Cosmo?" Akazil murmured almost inaudibly, seeing the blood elf boy run toward them.
"You two okay?" Cosmo asked, not paying attention to Jerry jumping off his shoulder to help Mittens and Naraxis attack the felguard.
"We're fine."
"So-so…" Makaza corrected, going back to his summoning spell. "So-so." Akazil repeated. "What about you?"
"Fine. Been coming really close to losing my hair, but fine." The hunter replied, rubbing the back of his head. "Meow!" Mittens exclaimed as she attacked the felguard. "Oh, and Mittens' tail… But fine."
"That's…good."
"Naraxis, there you are!" Came Kadgaa's voice. Turning, Akazil, Makaza and Cosmo saw the draenei running there way. "Quit running off, you damned-!" He was yelling at the spider, now noticing the dead felguard he was sitting on. "Wow… What the-?… How-?… What happened here? !"
Before any of the three other boys had a chance to answer the racist, they heard a little girl scream. Turning their heads, they saw a little girl and her mother being attacked by a skeleton. Akazil's hand quickly made way to grab his sword, only to grab air. "Wha-? Shit! I must've lost my sword under the rubble…" He said to himself. Nevertheless, he still made his way to Stacy and her mother.
"Akazil, what're you-!" Cosmo exclaimed as the orc run off, quickly ducking an arrow Kadgaa shot in his direction. After standing up straight again, he turned around and saw a dead wolf with an arrow through its head. "Thanks." He told the dranei with a smile.
"Once in a lifetime thing…" Kadgaa replied, picking up his spider.
"Hey, mind if I barrow this?" Akazil asked the skeleton, snatching its shield from its grasp. "Ooh, very nice. But I better give it a test run." He said, using the shield to smack the skeleton in its bony face. He repeated the action several times until he made it drop its sword. Once the weapon was on the ground, he picked it up, used it to remove the monster's skull from its body, then tossed it in a random direction.
"Batter up!" Someone shouted, then used a staff to hit the flying skull, making it fly over to several other skeletons and knock them down. "Sweet. Strike." Mokoki said, apparently switching his sport activity.
"Mokoki, look out!" Akazil called out to the tauren, seeing another felguard appear behind him. "Whoa!" the shaman exclaimed, quickly being knocked aside by the demon. "Okay, ow…" He said, landing in a very awkward and quite painful position.
"Ak!" Makaza tried to call out with his sore throat, now done with summoning another minion.
"Mittens!" Cosmo yelled his pet's name, sending her after the felguard as it made its way for Akazil and the two humans. Unfortunately, the lioness was easily knocked away, as was Naraxis when he tried to jump on its head and blind it.
As quickly as he could, Akazil jumped in front of Rebecca and Stacy, only to be knocked out of the way as well. Before he could get up, the felguard stomped on his back, making sure he was unable to move and fight again. "Ah!" The orc cried out.
As his brother screamed out in pain at the top of his lungs, Makaza picked up his new sidekick and tossed him at the felguard. "Aaaaah! What the hell? !" The imp exclaimed, splatting on the side of the felguard's helmet. "Ow…" He squeaked.
"Distract him!" Makaza coughed his order to the imp, moving both of his hands to rub his sore throat.
Quickly regaining some of his composure, the imp began to crawl all around the felguard's head, trying to make it stumble and fall backwards. Sadly, the demon was unmoved and tossed the imp aside like he was nothing, then snatched Stacy right out of Rebecca;s arms and began to make its escape with her.
"Stacy!" Rebecca and Akazil both exclaimed.
"Mommy!" Stacy shrilled, trying to squirm her way free from the felguard's grasp.
"Stacy!" Rebecca cried again, running after the demon and her daughter as fast as she could. As she did, Akazil forced himself to his feet and do the same, almost falling back down when the ground began to shake.
"What the hell is going on? !" Mokoki exclaimed, his hooves slipping in different directions beneath him, forcing him to do the splits. "Ow…" He squeaked as a tear ran down the side of his furry face.
"I don't know!" Akazil replied, still trying to stay on his feet.
Their questions were answered when a giant red and green spider slowly made its entrance.
"Yippee ki yay, mother-!" Xanna exclaimed, bouncing on the back of the giant tarantula. "Ow! Hey, careful!" She told it, only to be bounced again. This time, she bounced forward, forcing her to slide down the beast. "Yabba dabba woo hoo!" She cheered, jumping off the head of the creature. "That's how I roll, bitchs." She said to no one in particular, giving herself a thumbs up. After that, she put her right pointer finger and thumb in her mouth and whistled, calling for some more "help". "Go! Go, my minions! Attack!" She ordered, many more spiders; all white and much smaller than the one she had been riding; running past her and fighting off demons, undead and other beasts. She cackled like a mad woman as they all helped the citizens of Stormwind.
"Xanna? !" She heard some of her friends exclaim. Xanna then paused her laughter, turned her head and smiled when she saw some of her comrades. "Hi, guys!" She said, waving at them.
"What the hell? !" Mokoki and Makaza exclaimed in unison.
Xanna laughed at her friends, about to make her way over to them when her ear twitched from hearing a mother and child calling out for each other. Quickly, she whistled again. "Steve!" She called out, jumping on the spider's back when it rushed over to her. "That way!" She ordered.
"X-Xanna! Wh-? !" Akazil exclaimed as the elf girl rode right past him. "Be back in a minute!" She told her friends. The orc just stood in the one spot, dumbfounded.
"Xan Xan, waaait!" Cosmo called out, running after the girl.
"Dude, what the hell just happened? !" Mokoki questioned, throwing his arms out in front of him. Akazil shrugged and shook his head. "I don't know, but we should follow." He said, forcing himself to run after Xanna.
"Mommy!" Stacy cried out, still trying to fight for her freedom, crying as she reached out for her mother. "Stacy!" The worried woman replied, trying to keep up with the felguard's pace.
"Yo, Lance!" Xanna called out, right behind the worried blonde woman on "Steve". The felguard stopped his running and turned around with a puzzled look from hearing the elf girl, seeing nothing but the blonde and a spider.
"Hi!" Xanna shouted just before landing on top of the demon, tackling it to the ground. With haste, Xanna unlatched the arm around the little girl, quickly tossing her to her mother. "Run!" She told them as she tried to fight Lance to stay on the ground.
Rebecca wasn't about to argue. She held her daughter tightly, turned around and ran off, only to bump into that damned orc again.
"Akazil!" Stacy exclaimed, watching as the young boy rubbed his head.
"Wheeeeeee!" Xanna yelled, flying over and grabbing the three, landing on Steve. "Wow, that was extremely lucky…" She said, blinking at the situation.
"Xanna! Steer this thing and get us outa here!" Akazil exclaimed. Xanna folded her arms, pouted her lips and stared in another direction. "Geez, no need to be so rude about it…"
"Xanna!"
"Alright, alright!" The girl yelled back, taking hold of the back of Steve. "Steve, don't fail me now!" She said, tapping the spider's side with her foot. The arachnid quickly jumped on a wall to the side as Lance got up and lunged for the group. "Wooo hooo!"
"Holy shit!" Akazil and Rebecca exclaimed in unison, trying to keep hold of the spider as well. "Aaah!" Stacy screamed and gripped her mother tightly.
"Oh, sure! Just forget about us!" Mokoki yelled at them as the spider skittered past him and the other three boys on the wall. He let out a loud groan and began to follow again.
Steve came to a halt with a loud skidding sound, standing still for all of his "passengers" to get off safely. "Alrighty, this is our stop. Please step off safely, one at a time, and have a good day. This has been Steve Transportation." Xanna spoke into a radio communicator, sounding like she was an actual transportation driver. Laughing at herself, she put the communicator away and hopped off the spider, helping the other three off, ignoring their blank stares.
Before either Akazil or Rebecca had the chance to question what was going on, the other four boys showed up behind them, panting.
"You…bastards…" Mokoki said, hunched over to catch his breath. "Whoo, I am out of shape…"
"Hey, if you wanted a ride, you shoulda said somethin'." Xanna said, shrugging at the worn out boys. If Kadgaa hadn't been so out of breath, he would've been swearing things known to only a few people and some orcas. "What?" The irritating girl questioned his look of annoyance.
Rebecca let out her frustration with a sigh. "I'm done with this." She said, adjusting her daughter in her. "I'm heading for Shattrath." She went on, turning around to leave. "Spiders, demons, skeletons, ghouls, halflings! I'm done with it!"
Xanna tilted her head at the last thing the woman said. "Halflings?…" She noted the word was plural. 'Ixxy?' She thought.
"Xanna? Wha-What the hell-? What-What's going-?" Akazil stammered to his friend, placing a hand on her shoulder as he tried to comprehend what was going on. "I thought you- What-? Where-? How-?" He continued, eyeing her from head to toe. He then quickly shook his head and waved his hands in front of himself. "I don't care. I'm just so glad you're okay." He said, then hugged her tightly.
"Glad to see you too." Xanna replied and returned the hug. "Anyways; the spiders… Yeah, I-"
"Xan Xan!" Cosmo said with a shrill after gaining his breath, tackling his friend to the ground, holding her tight in his arms. "Oh god, I'm so happy you're safe." He said, hugging her tighter and tighter, shaking and starting to cry. "Can't…breathe…" The girl choked out, then somehow squirmed her way free.
"So…yeah…" Xanna was going on after getting free from the bear hug. "Ya see, I-Dave, I said don't eat the citizens! We're here to help them! Not eat them! Help, dammit! Help!" She had to quickly change the subject to address another one of her spider "minions". She sighed and shook her head, then looked to her friends again. "Okay, long story short, I'm the spider queen."
"Spider queen?" The group repeated with question, all raising an eyebrow. "Yeah, I'll explain later. For now; where's Ixxy? I reeeally need to talk with about a plan."
"Plan? What plan? What's going on?" Akazil questioned. "And where's Gizzy?" Mokoki threw in.
"We don't have time for such complamacated questions! Where's Ixxy!" Xanna exclaimed, mispronouncing "complicated" on purpose.
"Present!" Said girl shouted from a little ways behind the group, throwing an imp at the back of Xanna's head. "Aaaah! I can't fly, dammit!" Ezekiel exclaimed as he flapped his arms, landing on Xanna's face when she had turned around. Mokoki burst out with laughter at the sight, thinking many perverted thoughts, then was hit very hard by Akazil for it. "Ow! Son of a bitch!"
"So, you wanna get dinner sometime or somethin'?" Ezekiel asked, still latched onto Xanna's face.
"Eek!" Makaza exclaimed as much as he could with joy, yanking the imp off of Xanna's face to hug him tightly. "You're alive!" He cheered, then looked to Ixxy. "How did you-?" He began to ask, ignoring his imp trying to squirm for freedom.
"No time." Ixxy said, then smacked Xanna. "Ow! What? !"
"That's for being an idiot!"
"What? ! I didn't even do-Dave! I said stop eating them! Don't make me come over there!"
"Focus!" Ixxy barked, grabbing Xanna by the shoulders to shake her. "What the hell are you doing here? And where is Elros?"
"Weeelll…"
Gishezpak place Xanna down on the floor, then began to undo her bindings, starting with her blindfold.
Once she was able to see again, Xanna quickly examined her surroundings. She was in a big room filled with all sorts of machines that looked to be unfinished. The room was well lit as well, but it still felt so dark to Xanna. "Where are we?" She queried as she continued to look around the room.
"Your new home." Elros answered, smiling down at the girl. She quickly snapped her head back to look at him, an eyebrow raised in question. "Home?…" She repeated, slightly tilting her head to one side. The raven haired blood elf man smiled a little more and nodded. "Yes. This is your home now." he said, then turned around. "gishezpak will give you the tour. I have some business to attend to." He said as he began to walk off.
"W-Wait!" Xanna called after Elros, quickly getting to her feet and going after him. "You kidnap me and then ditch me? What kind of bullshit is-What the hell is that? !" The young girl squealed, leaping into Gishezpak's arms and pointing to whatever was in front of them.
"Ahem…" Elros said to Gishezpak before answering "his queen", hiding the slight jealousy from not being the one whom held Xanna. It went away once the troll handed the girl over; making her have to adjust a bit as well. "That is a ghoul minion of mine." The psychopath answered the; under aged; girl in his arms. "You will see those wandering around very often."
"Uh-huh…" Xanna replied as Elros placed her back on the ground. "Right…"
"Now, I must leave, for I have other things to do." Elros said, walking off again. "Take care of her for me, troll." He ordered Gishezpak, waving a hand at him. "You know what will happen if you don't…" He murmured.
At the last statement, Xanna quirked an eyebrow. "What's that suppose to mean?…" she asked quietly to herself. "This way, Miss Xanna." Gishezpak said, interrupting her thoughts to lead her down the hallway ahead of them. "First, I shall show you your room."
"O…kay?" Xanna replied unsurely, following the troll anyhow. As they walked, she counted each door she saw, figuring she'd try to make a mental map of the place. She was also bored. 'One…two…three…' She counted, staying right behind Gishezpak. 'Seven…eight…nine…' She continued, making it all the way to seventy-three before finally stopping.
"This is your room." Gishezpak said, opening the door for Xanna. She entered the room slowly, her mouth dropping slightly in awe at the beautifully decorated bedroom. "Wow…" She softly exclaimed. "This is for me?…"
"Yes. Each inch was decorated to fit your liking. If there is something you want added or removed, let me know and I will have some ghouls do as you wish."
"That's so creepy, and yet so…nice…" Xanna said in another awe filled whisper, taking a few steps more into the room, taking in the whole thing as slowly as she could, wanting it to last. "I've never had my own room before…" She said, a small smile growing on her face.
"Care to continue the tour or shall we do that later?" Gishezpak asked Xanna, standing at the doorway as he watched her take in the room.
Xanna peeked her head out from the mountain of pillows on her bed. "Hmm? O-Oh, yeah. We can do that now." She said, quickly getting out of the pillows and hopping next to Gishezpak. "Just lead the way."
With a nod, Gishezpak led Xanna out of the bedroom and down the hallway once more. "Why are there so many doors?" She asked as they walked. "I cannot answer that at this time."
"Then at what time can you answer it? In the morning? Noon? Snack time? Peanut butter jelly time, maybe?"
"No. When you are a bit older and wiser, then maybe I can. For now, I cannot."
Xanna quirked an eyebrow at the troll's back. 'Older and wiser? So, what? I'm too young to know now?'
"Yes." Gishezpak answered, not having to look back to know that Xanna's eyes had gone wide.
'What the hell? Did he just read my mind? Does he have some sort of mind reading headband or something? !'
"No, I do not. You are just predictable at times, Miss Xanna."
'What? ! Me? Predictable? Pfft! I'm the most unpredictable-'
"I said at times, Miss Xanna."
'Oh, yeah? How 'bout you predict my foot in your-'
"I do not mean to annoy you, Miss Xanna. I was order to answer your questions, if you had any."
'Doesn't mean you gotta "predict" what I'm thinking…'"Then maybe you shouldn't be so predictable." Gishezpak said with a smartass tone, a small smirk growing on his face. Xanna stared irritably at the back of his head. 'Oh, ha ha…' She thought.
Gishezpak let out a small chuckle as they continued to walk. "Anyways; this way is to the dining room." He said, walking past a few more doors, turning right and then opening two big doors to show Xanna where the dining hall was.
"Wow…" Xanna said with awe like she had done when seeing her room. "It's so big…" She said, staring with amazement. "This is where we eat?" She asked Gishezpak, turning her head to look up at him. The troll shrugged. "If you wish to. Master Elros usually has his food sent to his study and I, myself, prefer to eat in my room."
"Wow, poor lovely room is pretty much goin' to waste…" Xanna said, pursing her lips at the amazingly decorated room. Gishezpak nodded to her. "Yep." He said, starting to turn around. "Shall we-?"
"What's this?" Xanna asked, suddenly at the table, poking some green gelatin type thing; with several other things inside it. "Is…Is that an eyeball?" She asked, poking the thing again, her jaw dropping when the eyeball looked to her and blinked.
"Come, Miss Xanna. We still have one more room to look at." Gishezpak said, walking out of the dining room. "One more? This place is filled with freakin' rooms!" Xanna muttered as she followed the troll.
"Whoa…" Xanna said, staring all around the biggest and most wonderfully decorated room of all she had seen on the "tour". "What room is this?" She asked, taking a few more steps toward the center of the room.
"The throne room." Gishezpak answered, standing by the doorway. "This is a room you will see very often when you are older. For now, this is the only time you will see it. And don't touch anything." The troll said, seeing Xanna try to poke a vase. She quickly retreated her finger and began to whistle. "Once you are done looking around here, I will escort you back to your room." He told her as she wandered away from the fragile object.
"Okay…" Xanna said, walking around the throne at the head of the room. "Hmm… If I'm gonna be…"queen",-" She said, making air quotes. "-then where's my throne?"
"You will get one you're ready for it."
"So I'm boned to stayin' in my room, ain't I?…"
"Yes."
"That…sucks…"
"Yes, but you will just have to deal with it for now, Miss Xanna." Gishezpak said, turning away with a sigh and shrug. "I'm sorry, but I must ask you to please hurry up. I need to discuss something with Master Elros…"
"'Kay." Xanna said, suddenly next to the troll. "Let's go."
"Thank you." Gishezpak said, nodding to Xanna before escorting her out of the throne room. Shortly after they began to walk, Xanna's ear began to twitch. She turned her head, hearing the noise coming from a room down another hallway. "What's that way?" She asked, staying in one spot to stare.
"Nothing of your concern for now. Just follow me and-" Gishezpak was saying, peeking over his shoulder, seeing only the air. Quickly he turned around and sighed. "Dammit…" He murmured to himself.
Xanna quietly and absentmindedly followed the sound, realizing it was music as she drew closer to the source. She would quietly hum along with the tune until a sour note popped up, making her cringe.
"Hmm, hm, hmm, hmmmm…" Xanna hummed when the music started over again, stopping to cringe at the on time sour note. "Man, this guy needs some practice…" She muttered to herself, getting closer to the noise. As she drew closer, she began to imagine about teaching whomever it was herself. It began to run a little wild after that.
"Why, yes, I was self taught. And I know, halflings are totally cool." Xanna was speaking to herself as she walked, practicing for her music award speech for making the sour note person into one of the greats. As she practiced her smiling and waving for the cameras, she bumped into someone.
"Oh, sor-" She was saying, turning to see a ripped bare chest, making her eyes grow huge then shrink, almost losing her pupils. "Heeeeeeello…" She greeted, blushing as she only stared at the chest.
"Up here." Elros said, tilting Xanna's head up to look at his face, taking another drag off his cigarette as he did so. "Hiiiii…" The short elf greeted, turning a bright shade of red. "Hi." Elros greeted back, smiling as he blew smoke in her face. He then began to chuckle and lean on the doorway as she coughed.
"You know, secondhand smoking can kill too…" Xanna coughed, staring irritably at the taller elf. "Then forgive me." He said, leaning down to her, closing the space between their faces quickly. Xanna immediately turned red again, leaning back as Elros leaned forward. "U-Uh, okay… You're forgiven! Please back away from my face now." She said, almost fallings backwards.
Elros stuck his cigarette back in his mouth, chuckling as he caught Xanna to keep her from falling. "You're clumsy…" He told her, removing the cigarette from his mouth as he leaned down again. "We can fix that."
"Define "fix"…" Xanna said, taking a step back. Elros smirked, standing up straight to take another drag. "I think you know what I mean." He said to Xanna, leaning down again, his smirking growing.
"Um…" The girl squeaked, falling backwards onto her backside. "U-Uh, I, uh…" She stammered, trying to think of away to save her ass before Elros got a hold of it. Her eyes wandered around quickly to help, landing on a guitar in the room Elros came from. She quirked an eyebrow at it, tilting her head. "You were the one making all that noise?"
"Hmm?" Elros replied, turning back to the room, seeing that Xanna was talking about the instrument. "Oh." He said plainly, shrugging and taking another drag as he turned back. "Yes. That was me." He said, looking down to only see the floor, not surprised at all.
"So this is the "business" you had to "attend" to." Xanna said, holding the guitar, going over its details. "No." Elros replied, taking one more drag off his cigarette before tossing it on the ground, putting out what was left of it before walking over to his "love". "I had real business when I left you earlier. Once I was done with it, I decided to take some personal time."
"To play a guitar…"
"Yes, to play a guitar." The other elf replied with slight annoyance, taking a seat on the stool next to him, watching Xanna take the other one as she continued to stare at the guitar.
"It's very nice." Xanna complimented, looking to Elros through the side of her eye. She then handed the instrument to him. "Play something." She said, a childish look upon her sweet face.
Elros raised a slight eyebrow at the young girl, shrugged it off and began to play what he knew, playing only a few notes before hitting a sour note. "Over a hundred years of practice and I still have not learned to play this damned thing properly." He said with annoyance. With a frustrated sigh, he placed it on its stand to his side. "Damn thing must be broken."
Xanna smiled, giggling a little bit. "Here, let me see it." She said, holding her arms out for the guitar. Elros shrugged, took it from the stand and handed it over. "Well, first; you still need to tune it a little bit." She said, tuning the instrument. "Secondly; you're thinking too much."
"Thinking too much?" Elros asked, quirking an eyebrow at the girl. Xanna nodded. "What I do is just think a bit, then let my mind go blank." She said, tuning the guitar a little more. "And also; you need to know how to play with your emotions." She said, looking to Elros through the side of her eye again. "Like this. This is a happy tone." She said, demonstrating how to play the emotion through music. "Sad tone. Lovey dovey. Rock and roll. Lovey dovey rock and roll. Sad lovey dovey. Lovey lovey death. Lovey dovey rock. Hard core death metal." She went on, playing each emotion she named.
"That is quite a few emotions…" Elros said, staring at the girl with an expressionless face. Xanna smiled and nodded. "Yep. There's a type of tune for each emotion and genre! You just gotta go with the flow to play them." She said, looking away a bit and shrugging. "Well, at least, that's what I do."
"Then play something, if you know so much." Elros said, folding his arms over his chest and crossing his legs.
"Oh, uh…" Xanna went sheepish from being put on the spot. "Well, alright. But I'm mostly self taught, so I don't know if it'll be any good…"
"Just play."
"Alright." The other elf replied with a shrug, got comfortable and began to play like a professional. For some reason, room went completely pitch black around her and Elros, some lights flashing on her as she played. It was rather cool.
Elros raised his eyebrow again, looking around the room as it slowly went from pitch black to normal when Xanna stopped playing the guitar. "See?" She panted. "Not that good."
"You are better than I am." Elros said when he looked back to the girl. She only shrugged as she handed the guitar back. "Try again." She said with a smile. He took his turn to shrug, then began to play the same notes he had been.
"Um…here, let me help you." Xanna said, walking behind Elros, placing her arms on his, gently guiding his fingers on the strings. After the first few notes, she began to hum along then quietly sing the tune she had him playing. "~8675-309~…" She sang, continuing with her guiding. "~Jenny, don't change your number~ ~I need to make you mine~…" She sang, letting go of Elros to let him play alone. "See? You got it!"
Without her seeing, Elros rolled his eyes as he played the Tommy Tutone song, stopping halfway through it. "You are a strange woman." He chuckled to Xanna as she sat back down on the other stool.
"Yes, but I'm a lovable one!" Xanna said with a big grin, quickly catching onto the choice of words she chose, gulping slightly at how they made Elros' smirk come back and eyes twinkle. "I-I-I-I-I mean metaphorically, n-n-n-not physically." She said, choosing her words as carefully as she could now. "I-I-I-I-" She stammered, slightly blushing and feeling greatly uncomfortable with the way Elros stared at her. "I think it's my bedtime!" She said, trying to make an escape for it.
"Have I ever told you how beautiful you are?" Elros asked, grabbing Xanna by the arm to pull her into his lap, staring deeply into her dark yellow eyes. The girl gulped again, a bead of sweat sliding down the back of her head. "N-No… Guess the…"rescues" made you so busy that you forgot…" She stammered, still choosing her words carefully. Elros only smiled at her, holding her closer to his body. "You are so beautiful, Xanna." He said, lowering his lids a little as he stared even deeper into her eyes.
"Th-… Thanks…" Xanna replied, getting caught in his emerald green traps. 'Why can't I…think…straight…' She thought, losing even more of herself in Elros' eyes. He smiled at he more and began to gently stroke her cheek. 'Oh god, that feels so nice…' She though, closing her eyes and biting her bottom lip at the touch.
Elros chuckled at the girl in his lap, removing his hand from her cheek. "No… P-Please…touch me more…" She asked, hiding her face in his neck to not display her blush. "Don't worry…" He told her, gently moving her head to see her face again. "I plan to…" He purred, taking out her hair band to let her lushes hair be free.
Xanna shook her hair once the hair band was out, making her blush a little more. Elros only kept smiling at her, then tilted her head up, and slowly moved in for the kill.
Sadly, a knock at the door interrupted the lovely moment.
Xanna perked her head up and stared at the door, her ears twitching at the knocking. "Someone's at the door…"
"Ignore it." Elros told her huskily, holding her even closer to his own body to keep the moment. Xanna shrugged slightly and ignored it, only to stare at the door as Elros began to seductively breath on her neck. "It's rude to not answer the door…" She murmured, not paying much mind to Elros sighing with annoyance.
"Fine, I'll answer it!" The man growled, scooting Xanna out of his lap to get up. "What is it!" He snapped at whoever was at the door.
"I…came to discuss with you…about what you promise…" Gishezpak replied to his irritated master.
"Hi, Gizzy!" Xanna greeted with a smile, waving a hand to her friend.
At the sight of the girl, Gishezpak knew he had come at a bad time. "We can discuss it later, if you'd like…" He said, slowly looking back to his master's infuriated gaze.
"Discuss what?" Xanna asked, walking over to the males at the door, oblivious to the tension flying all around the room. "Um…nothing…" Gishezpak lied to her, about to make his leave. "No, really. Discuss what?" She asked again, her smile growing smaller as she folded her arms over her chest and leaned on one of her legs. The troll looked to his master, then to her and shook his head. "It's nothing, Miss Xanna."
"Is it nothing? Or something?"
"Nothing."
"Then leave us be." Elros ordered coldly, about to slam the door in his minion's face. "No, no, no." Xanna held up her hand to stop him. "What's going on here? What do you need to "discuss"?" She questioned.
"It is nothing, my queen." Elros said, taking Xanna by her waist, looking into her eyes again. "I would tend to it if it was important." He told her, closing the space between their faces. "Now let us continue from where we left off…"
Xanna almost lost herself in those emerald green eyes again, catching herself when her ear twitched at Gishezpak's leaving. "N-No!" She told Elros, pushing him away. "Gishezpak, get back here! If there's something bothering you, then tell me!" She told the troll.
The tall, lanky troll turned back, looking to Xanna, then his master, then to her again. "It is nothing, Miss Xanna. It can wait."
Before going to retrieve her friend, Xanna peered at Elros, a small scowl appearing on her face. "Gizzy, whatever it is, tell me." She said, narrowing her eyes a little bit. "Your future queens commands it." She said with authority.
Gishezpak was taken aback at Xanna's tone. This wasn't the sweet elf halfling girl he had been planning on kidnapping for his master for the past two weeks. However, she had a point about her being the future queen and he could not disobey. "I…" He began, avoiding eye contact with Elros. "I came to discuss the promise Elros made to me…"
"And what was that?" Xanna asked, keeping her stern tone, ignoring Elros when he tried to say it was nothing important.
"He promised…he I brought you to him…he would let my family go…"
Xanna snapped her head to her right, glaring at the taller elf. "You have his family!" She yelled at him. The elf man rolled his eyes. "They are a few of my many minions, yes."
"You have his family trapped her as slaves? !" Xanna continued her stupidly courageous yelling. 'Boy, I am being stupidly courageous right now…' She thought, still keeping her stern authority expression. "If you promised to let them go, then let them go!"
"I do not appreciate you yelling at me as if you are higher than me, Xanna…" Elros almost growled, glaring back down at the young girl elf. "Well, if I'm gonna be queen, then you're gonna have to deal with it! Now let his family go!"
Elros huffed and rolled his eyes. "If that is what you wish, my queen…" He growled through gritted teeth before turning back to the troll. "Gishezpak, I am a man of my word,-"
'Are not…' Xanna thought.
"-so your family is free to go."
Gishezpak's heart began to race at the words, distracting him and almost making him forget how to breath. They had been there for so long. So very long.
"Y-You will let us go?" He managed to ask.
"No." Elros said. "I said I would let your family go. I never said anything about letting you go." He told the troll, smirking at his heartbroken expression. "I told you. I am a man of my word." He mocked.
'Oh, you sneaky, rat bastard…' Xanna thought, narrowing her eyes at elros without him noticing.
"Now, go release them before I change my mind." Elros said dully, waving his minion off with his right hand.
"Yes, sir…" Gishezpak responded, completely broken. He then turned around and slowly made his leave, staring at the ground, feeling so empty, and yet so sick.
"Now…" Elros said as the troll left, turning to Xanna. "Where were we?" He purred, finding only the air. He turned his head back to Gishezpak, seeing Xanna chase after him; while putting her hair back up. Elros stared plainly and sighed at the sight. "Alright, I will have a cold shower…" He muttered, walking off to his quarters.
"Giz! Gizzy!" Xanna called after Gishezpak, finally catching up to and walking next to him. "Are you okay? Look, I'm sorry I had to raise my voice and all, but it was the only way to get through to you. I'm-" She was apologizing, finally seeing how broken Gishezpak was. "Are you alright?" She asked worriedly.
"I'm fine, Mizz Zanna…" Gishezpak seemed to choke out with his thick troll accent. He coughed and shook his head. "I mean, I'm fine, Miss Xanna. No need to worry… I'm…fine…"
Xanna frowned, almost wanting to cry as she looked at her troll friend. She took a deep breath and grabbed his hand, looking up to him when he looked to her with a puzzled face. She smiled kindly to him. "I'll help you. I won't let you do it alone." She said out of the pure kindness of her heart.
"Th-… Thank you…Miss Xanna…" Gishezpak replied, a bit baffled at how nice Xanna was being toward him. "But, may I ask why?" He said before they began to walk again.
"Because you're my friend."
"Even after I've lied, kept secrets and helped with your kidnapping?"
"Yep."
"Why?"
Xanna shrugged. "I am either very kind hearted and forgiving, or very, very stupid." She told the troll plainly, shrugging again. "Either way, I'm good."
Gishezpak let a small smile grow on his face. "Thank you, Miss Xanna." He said again, then started to walk once more.
"This is the door." Gishezpak told Xanna, standing in front of the door that led to the Elros' slave pens. "My family…is down in this cellar…" He said, beginning to shake as he stared at the doorknob without even realizing it. Xanna, however, did and gave his hand a gentle comforting squeeze of reassurance. "I'm right here with you, Gizzy." She told him, giving him a comforting smile to go along with the hand squeeze.
The troll hesitated a nod to the girl, then took in a deep breath and opened the cellar door, walking down the stairs with Xanna as slowly as he could. Everytime he hesitated to take another step forward, Xanna would give him another hand squeeze, making him feel a little better.
It took five minutes to reach the bottom of the stairs. Gishezpak began to shake again, not even noticing all of the slaves running to their doors and screaming for help.
'This is more disturbing than I thought it'd be…' Xanna thought, looking at all of the arms sticking out through bars from the pained slaves. She started to go angry at the sights of them. 'Elros is so going to pay for this.'
"This way." Gishezpak said, finally walking forward again, interrupting Xanna's thoughts by pulling her along with him. He started to have a hard time breathing when they finally reached the door. "Th-… This one…" He told Xanna, staring at the floor. Before reaching the doorknob, he squeezed Xanna's hand to reassure himself.
Xanna watched as her friend slowly reached a hand up to the doorknob, turning and opening the door just as slowly. She went to hold his hand again, but he pulled it away from her. 'Guess he wants me to just stand in the background…' She thought, following him into the room and standing next to the door, watching him walk up to the trolls in the room.
"Mother, Father." Gishezpak greeted formally, placing his hands behind his back as he usually did. "I-"
"Gizzay!" Shari cried, jumping up to hug her son tightly, a few tears sliding down her face. "I 'ave missed joo so much!" She cried more, hugging Gishezpak tighter.
Holding his breath, Gishezpak gently pushed his mother away. "I've missed you too." He said, biting back his emotions as much as he could. "And I have news for you." He told his parents, trying to ignore the faces of his younger siblings. "Master Elros says…you're free to go."
"Free?" Shari repeated, a great big smile growing onto her face. "Joo shure, son?" Binkadoo asked, noticing how Gishezpak looked unsettled with the news. His questioned was replied with a nod. "Yes, you may leave." He said.
"We're free!" Shari cheered, grabbing the hand of her other son as Binkadoo grabbed their daughter. They began to run for the door, stopping when Shari saw Gishezpak wasn't following. "Gizzay, c'mon! We can go!" She said, still keeping her happy smile.
Xanna turned her head away a bit at this, knowing that the hard part was now coming.
"You may go…" Gishezpak said, not turning back to look at his family. "I have not yet earned my freedom…" He said, not having to look back to know his mother's smile had left her face.
"W-… Wut? N-No! No!" Shari yelled with outrage, letting go of her youngest child's hand to retrieve her eldest. "Shar, don't." Binkadoo told her, grabbing her by the waist. "We mus' not upset Elrahs."
"No! No, Ah won't leave 'im! Let meh go!" Shari protested, kicking and screaming as her husband dragged her out of the cell. "Gizzay!" She screamed as they went down the hallway. "Gizzay! GIZZAY!"
Xanna flinched at the last eardrum breaking scream, sighing in pity at the door slam after. 'That probably could have gone better…' She thought, looking randomly to her right. Her eyes then traveled to Gishezpak's back. Xanna frowned slightly at him, watching him only stand in silence. "Gizzy?…" She managed to whisper.
Gishezpak finally broke down, falling to his knees and sobbing loudly. "Mama!" He choked out with his thick troll accent. Xanna quickly ran up to him and pulled him into a tight hug, gently stroking her fingers through his mohawk. The troll responded as anyone would; holding Xanna tightly and muffling his sobs in her neck.
Even when her legs began to fall asleep, Xanna didn't move, for Gishezpak's sake. 'I know how you feel, Gizzy…' She thought, hugging the troll tightly again when he began to shake. 'I know what it feels like to be alone…' She continued, adjusting her head to whisper in the troll's ear. "I promise I won't abandon you…"
At this, Gishezpak's crying lessened, eventually stopping. It was very comforting to hear such a thing, even if it didn't turn out to be true. He'd been alone for so long, so very long.
After a few moments of silence, Gishezpak finally stood up, his eyes still a bit red from his sobbing. He held out a hand to help Xanna up as well.
"Give me a moment…" Xanna said, slowly rocking back and forth to wake up her legs. "Shiooot…" She whimpered, falling over onto her side. "Ah, it hurts!" She whined, trying not to move at all. "Ah, I think my ass is asleep too!" She added with another whimper.
"Would you like me to assist you, Miss Xanna?" Gishezpak asked, staring at the squirming elf girl. "No…" Xanna squeaked in reply. "I'm good… Just gotta…move slowly…" She said, trying to get up, only to whine in pain from her sleeping body parts. It may have been a bit mean, but Gishezpak couldn't help the chuckle that stirred up.
That's it for now. I actually might come back and add more to it later.
Note: Yes, we've gone over this. I love to make reference's.
Second Note: I was hoping that the whole Gizzy freeing his family scene would be more depressing...hmm...disappointing... *shrug* I suppose I'll fix it in editing.
Third Note: if you do not know the song (Bifrost...) 8675-309, then go to YouTube (Bifrost...) and type in Tommy Tutone - 8675-309 (Jenny) and click on the one posted by DFarms001. If you can't find it, it's in my favorites. (Youtube link is on my profile.) So, yeah, look that up (Bifrost...).
Last Note: Yeah, I got caught up with Sims, Fable III and taking care of my guild. Lol. So, sorry. But this is November! So I shall make sure that I post at least one more time before procrastinating for a month! XD
Actually, one more last note: You know, I should make ALL of you look up some of these awesome eighties songs! If you're my age (sixteen going on seventeen) and don't know them, then for shame (Bifrost...) on you! *disapproving look* For shame!