Full chapter. Tired. Wanted to write more, but didn't want it to be too long. Twenty-two and a half pages. Enjoy.
After a short while, Xanna's sleeping body parts finally woke up. With a sigh of relief, she slowly got to her feet. "Much…" She was saying, tripping over her own feet, falling into a pair of strong, blue arms. "-better…" She said, looking up to her troll friend. "Thanks." She said with a smile, standing up straight again.
"It is no problem, Miss Xanna." Gishezpak said, placing his arms behind his back as he usually did. He then looked away awkwardly, a bit lost in thought. "I…" He managed to start, stumbling over his tongue. "Th-…"
"Gizzy…" Xanna said, still smiling, placing a gentle hand on the troll's shoulder. "No problem. I'll always be there for you. It's what friends are for!"
The blue teen nodded, a small smile making a home on his face. He tried to hide his emotions as he had been taught to, but they seemed to be stronger than they'd ever been. His heart cried out with such sadness at telling his family they had to leave him behind, but with Xanna being there, some of the pain went away. It was so strange to feel this kind of joy. He'd had some good moments hanging out with his good tauren friend, Mokoki, but never like this. Never in almost ten years had he felt such; dare he dream; love.
"C'mon." Xanna said, still smiling widely at Gishezpak, gently taking his hand and heading for the door. "Let's go make some cupcakes."
"Cupcakes, Miss Xanna?" The troll queried, raising his eyebrow slightly as he walked along with the short elf girl. "Mhm." She replied, turning her head to look up at him. "Cupcakes." She said with another gorgeous smile.
"Why?" Gishezpak questioned again as Xanna turned her head forward, only to receive a small giggle. "Cupcakes will make you feel better, silly." The halfling said. "How so?"
"I don't know, really." Xanna admitted, shrugging a bit as she and her friend began to walk up the stairs. "But Cosmo would always make me cupcakes whenever I was upset back at the orphanage." She said, her smile depleting to a small one as she thought of all those horrible memories that had somehow made such happy ones.
Gishezpak could see the conflicting emotions in Xanna's eyes. It actually pained him to see such a sight. To try and make her smile once more, he used his quick thinking to say something cleverly witty and funny.
"I had no idea that Mister Cosmo was able to cook at such a young age."
Xanna quickly turned her head up to look at the troll again, a slightly confused look upon her face. After a second, it turned into a smiling one. "Yeah…" She chuckled, looking forward again as they walked down the hallway. "I never knew how he learned to cook that way either. But I never complained." The girl chuckled again, remembering all the times she watched Cosmo cook such fantastic foods for her.
As the young girl went back to her memories, Gishezpak only watched, happy to have kept that beautiful smile on her face. Yes, he'd made note that he was enjoying it a bit too much, but he didn't care. He was only happy to be next to her.
Gishezpak stared at the cooking cap Xanna had placed on him, quirking an eyebrow at it. "Miss Xanna, is this really necessary?" He asked, taking his eyes off the hat and onto the girl in front of him. "Of course it is!" She replied, tying an apron onto herself. "Chef hats are totally necessary when cooking!"
"If you say so…" Gishezpak replied with a shrug, watching as Xanna began to look for ingredients. "What are you looking for?" He asked, thinking he would be able to help find the things. He did know were everything was, after all.
"Stuff to make cupcakes, of course." Xanna replied, crawling into a cabinet on the floor and popping out of one of the higher ones. "We need sugar, flower, cake batter, frosting, sprinkles, syrup, sugar, sugar, sugar, blood, and sugar."
"That is a lot of- Why do we need blood?" The troll asked, catching onto the only thing that didn't exactly count as food. "Uh…no reason…" Xanna replied, crawling into another cabinet. "Now where's the poison…"
"Poison? ?" Gishezpak repeated with question, raising his eyebrow as much as he could.
"Aha! I found the ingredients!" Xanna exclaimed, popping out of a cookie jar with several items in her arms. As she climbed out and hopped to the floor, she ignored the strange look and chuckle coming from her troll friend.
"And now to cook!" Xanna exclaimed with a big grin, throwing a pointer finger into the air. "I believe you mean bake, Miss Xanna."
"And now to cook!" Xanna repeated, spreading out the ingredients on the counter. "First; we will need a bowl!" She said, pulling a bowl from nowhere. "And then we just randomly toss in our ingredients!" She went on, tossing in everything she apparently found in a cookie jar into the bowl.
"Miss Xanna, I don't believe that is how you-"
"And then we stir it with a fork." Xanna went on, pulling out a tiny fork from nowhere, using it to stir up the cupcake mix. "We have to be sure to stir it real well. Gotta make sure that the flower is evenly spread out through the mix." She said, tossing in another actual flower into the batter.
'I am not sure if I want to try these cupcakes…' Gishezpak thought nervously, watching as Xanna baked.
"Little of this, little of that, toss in a dog and a cat." Xanna kept talking as she tossed in more random things into the bowl, still stirring it with a fork. "And then we bake!" She exclaimed once done stirring, carelessly tossing the bowl into the oven.
'I am almost positive that this is not how you are suppose to make cupcakes…' Gishezpak thought, staring at the oven as it burst into flames. His eyes widened in shock at it, then he began to look back and forth between it and Xanna; whom was standing there, whistling. "M-Miss, Xanna, I think they're done!"
"Nah. Couple more minutes." She replied, continuing her whistling, staring at her fingernails a bit as she waited.
"Miss Xanna, Elros will have me beaten to near death if the kitchen is ruined!" The troll exclaimed, tossing his hands onto his head, starting to hyperventilate.
"Beat you?" Xanna queried, ignoring the stove when it finally dinged. "What do you mean by that?" She asked her troll friend, putting out the flames of the stove before taking out the cupcakes and placing them on the counter.
Gishezpak's eye twitched at the situation. 'I should have figured that the stove would be fine…' He thought to himself, staring at the perfectly fine stove. He sighed at his failure to predict Xanna, then removed his chef hat and apron. "It is nothing. Just a slip of the tongue." He answered the girl's question.
Xanna gave the troll an irritated stare as she also removed her chef getup, randomly tossing it aside then leaning onto the counter, placing a hand on her hip to stare down; even though it was up at; her friend. "He beats you." She said, her anger showing through her tone a little.
Gishezpak looked away, putting his arms behind his back again. "Miss Xanna, please. I have had a rough day. Can we not speak of these things anymore and…try your cupcakes?" He asked, staring at the; oddly; perfectly normal looking treats on the counter.
"Fine. But we're talking about this after." Xanna replied, hopping onto the counter, using it as her chair. Once comfortable, she and Gishezpak both took a cupcake. Though, she was the one to take the first bite. "Ah, you can really taste the flower." She said, her ears wiggling in happiness. "Go on, try it." She urged her friend, taking another bite of her cupcake.
"Um…" The troll replied, sniffing his cupcake before risking what could be his last bite. Stalling just a little longer, he looked to Xanna, seeing her childhood innocence filled smile glued onto her face again. 'Heh…' He thought, looking back to his cupcake. 'I don't want to hurt her feelings after seeing that smile…' With a mental sigh, Gishezpak finally took a bite of his treat, amazed at how it tasted. "This is…good." He said, blinking at the cupcake.
"If by "good", you mean "totally superly awesome", then duh!" Xanna replied, kicking her legs a bit as she finished her cupcake. "I learned from the best." She said, tilting her head and smiling more.
Gishezpak's eye twitched a bit as he stared at that wonderful smile again. He really did like it a bit too much. He shook his head and addressed his eyes elsewhere as he took another bite of his cupcake. 'Master Elros will surely kill me if he ever sees me looking at her that way…' He thought, his eyes slowly trailing back to Xanna as she was taking another cupcake. 'Perhaps it is fine to…think it?'
"Oh, Gizzy, you have some frosting right here." Xanna said, pointing at a spot on her own face to reflect the frosting spot on Gishezpak's. The troll took a moment to find it with his right hand, staring at the frosting on his pointer finger. After confirming where the frosting was, he reached for a napkin to clean it.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?…" The young girl still sitting on the counter asked, staring; occasionally blinking; at her troll companion.
Gishezpak quirked an eyebrow as he stood up straight. "I was…going to clean off the frosting. Why do you ask, Miss Xanna?"
"You're going to clean it…with a napkin…"
"Yes…"
After a moment of silence, Xanna raised her right hand and smacked the tissue out of Gishezpak's hand; ignoring him as he rubbed it with the other; and glared at him. "What the hell is wrong with you? !" She questioned him. "Do you have no idea how to properly clean frosting off your face? !"
"Um…" Gishezpak replied, still rubbing his smacked hand a little. "I believe I do." He answered honestly, but now unsure if there was another way that was the "correct one".
"You may believe it, but obviously you don't!" Xanna said, pointing a finger at her friend. "Now let me teach you how to do it the right way." She said, using the finger she had used to point to wipe off the frosting off her friend's face. Once the sweet stuff had been transferred, she held her finger to Gishezpak's mouth. "Now lick it."
Gishezpak raised his eyebrow yet again, giving a questioning look to Xanna. "Lick it?" He asked. "Yes." His friend replied with a nod. "Lick it."
"But…it's on your finger… Before that, it was on my face…"
"Mhm. Now lick it."
"I do not believe this is how you clean frosting from your face…"
"Do not make me shove my finger down your throat…" Xanna said, narrowing her eyes a bit at her troll friend. Gishezpak was actually almost frightened of the stare. With a sigh, he looked back to the frosting covered finger, then back to Xanna. "Lick it?"
"Lick it."
"Lick it…"
"Lick it."
"Lick it."
"Lick it."
After exchanging such big and complicated words, Gishezpak sighed again, then slowly stuck his tongue out, pausing to look at Xanna for a moment just before it touched the frosting. The girl smiled at him, obviously happy that he was learning how to clean his face off the "proper" way.
Once confirming there was no way out of the deed, Gishezpak looked back to the finger, gently placed his tongue on it and licked towards the tip slowly. After one lick, he wrapped his lips around the finger and gently sucked on it, making sure to get all of the frosting off.
When positive all of the sweet stuff was off the finger, Gishezpak released it from his grasp and stood up straight, staring at Xanna for a moment, then addressing his eyes elsewhere. "Is that what I was suppose to do?"
"Uh…yeah…" Xanna replied, staring at her finger. "I think it's pruney…" She mumbled to herself.
A few moments of silence went by and Xanna was still staring at her finger. Gishezpak was still next to her, standing straight with his arms behind his back and his eyes wondering the room. "Well…" He finally broke the silence, catching the girl's attention. "It's late." He said, looking to the halfling. "I believe we should head for our chambers."
"Uh-uh." Xanna said, pointing a finger to her friend again. "You are not getting out of this that easily."
"Pardon?"
"We agreed that you'd tell me about these beatings you mentioned." The girl said, folding her arms over her chest. "So you are not going to get out of this that easily."
'Dammit, she remembered.' Gishezpak thought a bit irritably, then let his eyes fall on the last cupcake. "We also agreed that we would have this "lovely" conversation after we were done with the cupcakes you made."
"Eh?" Xanna replied, looking to the cupcake next to her. "Ah… Clever." She said, narrowing her eyes a bit at the troll again. She then slid it over to him. "You have it."
Gishezpak looked to the cupcake, then back to his friend. "I do not want it."
"I insist. I had about seventeen of the cupcakes when you only had two. Now take it."
With a sigh, the blue teen reached for the cupcake and picked it up. 'Why do this? Why does she need to know?' He thought to himself as he moved to treat to his mouth. 'She doesn't. She doesn't need to know.' He went on, staring at the cupcake. 'Though, she will be my future ruler, alongside Master Elros…' He thought more, looking to Xanna before deciding on what to do.
She sat there on the counter, smiling, looking as sweet as could be. Even in the so-so lighting of the kitchen, she looked beautiful. Her hair shined, her eyes glistened, her lips were wet, and her body was so amazing. Gishezpak knew that you didn't have to be a genius to know that people would kill for it; halfling or not.
The troll looked to his cupcake again and then shut his eyes. 'Years of training my emotions…only to lose control of it all all at once like this…for a girl… The girl… Master Elros is going to kill me in the most brutal, vicious and painfully slow way possible…' Gishezpak thought, taking a bite of his cupcake. 'Might as well enjoy the little time I have left to live.'
"Oh, Gizzy, you have some frosting right here again." Xanna said, addressing the sweet stuff again. The troll responded by reaching for it with his finger. "Ah." Xanna said, stopping him. "I got dibs on this one. Only fair since you got the last one." She said with a smile, gently pulling her friend down a bit.
"M-Miss Xanna?" The troll squeaked when his face had come dangerously close to hers. "What?" She giggled. "I'm cleaning it off for you." She said to his confused; and slightly blushing for no reason she could think of; face. "Cosmo and I used to lick frosting off each other's face all the time."
"C-Couldn't you just use your finger again?"
"What's the fun in that?" Xanna chuckled, then finally realized that Gishezpak really did look a bit uncomfortable. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you feel awkward or anything." She said, releasing him. "Nevermind. You take that one." She said, looking away quickly.
'What happened to that "enjoy while it lasts" thing just a moment ago?' Gishezpak thought to himself. 'You're right, you're right. I'll-I'll go for it.' He thought more, leaning in closer to Xanna. "Miss Xanna…" He said, gently taking her chin between his right thumb and index finger to have her look at him. "Please take care of this frosting for me." He asked sweetly, giving the girl a small smile.
Xanna was a bit taken aback. "A-Are you sure? I'm just trying to be playful. I don't wanna make you feel uncomfortable, Gizzy. Really, I don't." She said, frowning and lowering her ears. The troll smiled and turned his face slightly, displaying the frosting. "Go ahead, Miss Xanna."
With a smile, Xanna perked her ears back up and leaned in close to her troll friend's face once more, about to lick at the frosting upon it.
'Don't do it. Do it. Don't do it. Do it. Don't do it! Do it! ! When did I start thinking like this? !' Gishezpak argued with himself in his mind, staring at several versions of himself running around hitting each other. 'Get a hold of yourself, man!' One said as he came up to him, slapping him across the face and shaking him. 'Quit being so scatterbrained! Remember your training! Remember everything you've learned! Remember!' He told shouted to himself.
And Gishezpak did remember. He remembered all the times where he was forced to be silent, when he was slapped for doing something wrong and beaten as he got older, crying in his room late at night, missing and longing to be with his family, always being alone, all the pain he'd been forced to suffer through. He remembered everything at that instant. 'I need this…' He thought with a mental sigh. He'd been alone for so long, he now seemed to be unable to control himself around this beautiful girl because of it.
Once making his decision, Gishezpak jumped off the metaphorical cliff. As soon as Xanna stuck out the tip of her tongue to lick the frosting, her turned his face, wrapped his arms around her, and held her tight for a sweet embrace and passionate kiss.
"Mmph!" Xanna protested at her friend's attack, trying to squirm free. 'What the hel-looo, tongue…' She thought, quickly accepting the gift of talented tongue the troll had slipped in. 'Nice… Very nice…' She thought more, starting to smile a little bit.
Getting caught up in the moment, Xanna wrapped her arms around Gishezpak and began to kiss back. 'Ixxy would so call me a floozy for this… Oh well! It's awesome, so who cares!' She thought, holding back a giggle when the blue teen flicked his tongue a little inside her mouth.
'So…' Xanna thought more as Gishezpak removed his tongue and mouth from her to transfer them to her neck. 'Awesome…' She thought more, biting her lower lip and going slightly cross eyed as the troll placed light kissed on the right side of her neck. When the trail was completely made, Gishezpak began to slowly lick Xanna's neck up and down. 'Must…hold back…moan…' She thought, almost in pain from holding back the action her body was crying out to do.
'Oh god, it's so nice, but why does it feel so wrooong…' Xanna thought, holding back another moan by biting her lip when Gishezpak began to nip at her neck. 'I mean, it's just a…a… Crap, what do people call it again? Booby call? No… Uh… Booty call! That's it! Yeah,-that sounds so wrong…' She thought more, thinking of the phrase. Quickly, she went back to the main subject she was inwardly talking to herself about.
'Right! Booty call! That's, like, when a person just wants to make out and stuff! No feelings attached! And we're both obviously not attached…right?'
Being cautious, Xanna slowly addressed her eyes to Gishezpak. He began to lightly kiss to kiss her ear and held her closer to his body than he had already been doing.
'Yeah, that does not help…' The girl thought to herself. 'From what I read in that one book that I stole out of that one guy's pocket…I mean…borrowed…and from all those movies that I've seen, this is what happens when someone really does care about another.' She thought more, enjoying the pleasurable kisses the troll kept placing on her, still feeling very wrong about it for a reason she did not know.
'Then again…he's been alone for a long time… I could be a dwarf man and he'd act this way!… Right? Right.' Xanna mentally nodded to her conclusion, quickly getting frustrated again. 'Then why do I feel so wrong doing this thing that feels soooo goo-oh, do not stop that…' She thought, biting her lower lip again as Gishezpak began to rub her hip.
'So good…but so wrong! Why? !' Xanna thought irritably, pulling out a chart. 'Okay, from what I have learned from that one book and stupid chick flick movies, this stupid feeling has to do with me liking someone. But who?… Er…whom?' She thought, quirking an eyebrow if she had used the right word. Another kiss from her lovely troll friend quickly made her go back to her original thoughts.
'Okay, focus! Who is it? !' She yelled, staring at the blank chart. '…Elros?' She queried, flipping the first piece of paper on the chart to reveal a shirtless Elros beneath it. 'Hot…but psycho… Thus, a no.' She concluded, tapping her chin at the sexy picture. 'And it's obviously not Gizzy. Otherwise, I would have no problem with this! !' She yelled in her mind with great frustration, almost tearing out some of her hair.
'Well, it's definitely not Fëan…' She went on, flipping the paper on the chart again. 'We're cousins! Sure it'd be fine and good if we weren't blood cousins, but, sadly we are. We're freakin' first cousins! That's practically being brother and sister! !' Saying this statement made her flip the paper again. She tilted her head at the picture on it. 'Cosmo?…' She pondered, quickly shaking her head at it. 'No. I mean, I was pretty much deeply and madly in love with him back at the orphanage, but he obviously didn't feel the same… He doesn't now… He never will… So, that'll never be, even if part of me still greatly wishes for it… But at least we're siblings, even if we're not blood. And that's still great! !' She thought, forcing a smile.
With a sigh of hopelessness, Xanna continued on. 'Mokoki?' She thought, staring at the next picture. 'Hmm… I'll admit it, he's cute. With that furry face and tail and all… But not really my type.' she thought with a shrug, holding back a moan when Gishezpak finally brought his lips and tongue of magic back to her.
'Think, dammit! Think! You're on the verge of breaking that oh so thin line of making out and… What's the word? Fry thumping? I dunno… But you are still on the verge of that! Pull yourself together, man!' Xanna thought, mentally slapping herself. 'Let's see, who else is there?' She thought, rushing herself now. 'Uh… Kad!' She shouted, flipping the page. 'Nice tail. Bad personality. A racist. Has spider has pet… Attractive, but no!'
"Are you alright, Miss Xanna?" Gishezpak almost purred, smirking down at the girl. "You seem to be lost in thought…" He said, looking as if he were holding back a frown.
"Mhm… I'm fine." Xanna squeaked, crossing her legs. "Just enjoying myself so much that I'm having trouble keeping my brain together." She said with a nervous smile. 'Hey, it's technically not a lie…right?' she thought to herself. 'Right.' She confirmed with a nod.
"Shall I continue?" The troll asked, his smirk growing as he went back to kiss Xanna's neck. When she made no objections, he continued.
'Must…control…brain…' Xanna thought, running her hands through her now messed up ponytail. 'C'mon! Fight those happy feelings! Cosmo and Ixxy always say that I'm not allowed to have happy feelings until I'm married! And I can't get married till I'm thirty-five or dead! Well, actually, Ixxy doesn't want me to get married… She thinks I might make too many idiots babies and have them take over the world…' She thought more, trailing off again.
'Agh! Focus!' She yelled at herself, flipping through the chart. 'Sonya? ! No! Simon? No! Margret? Hell no! Edna? No! ! That one draenei girl?' Xanna shouted, pausing at a picture of Ivette. 'What was her name again?…' She began to ponder, being interrupted when Gishezpak licked her lips.
'Aaah! Who cares! ! No! !' She shouted at herself, trying to think of anyone else. 'Sophie? One of my many other cousins? ! No! Dammit, Azlirac and Feladora need to stop having ki-what about Makaza?' She suddenly queried, changing the picture again, tilting her head at it. 'Hmm… Cute. Nice hair. Love the boyish charm. Buuut… Not really my type. More of a little brother, really.' She thought, shrugging. '…He'd be really hurt if I said that out loud, wouldn't he?… Yes. I must make sure to never let Ixxy know of this…' Xanna muttered to herself, placing the note she had suddenly made into her shirt. 'Okay, who's left?' She said after doing the action, flipping the paper again. 'Dethiam?… Yeeeah…no.'
As Xanna continued to fail at finding the person making her feel terrible for this moment, Gishezpak continued to kiss her and rub on her wonderful hips.
'Close…to…breaking…' Xanna thought, mentally ripping out her hair. This action finally made her remember the person she was leaving out. 'No… No way… No, there's no way!' She told herself, turning back to the chart to flip the page once more. She also suddenly had her hair back.
'There's no way that…that he's the one making me feel this way… Right?' She thought to herself more as she looked at the picture of her friend. 'Well…he has always been by my side ever since we met… Sure, it was only two weeks ago, but that still has to mean something… He always tries to make me laugh… He doesn't shun me…' She thought, starting to smile. 'I remember when we first met… We slept at the Crossroads' inn and the innkeeper wouldn't give me a pillow. He said it was because they were "fresh out", but I knew better…' She thought, smiling more, her eyes starting to twinkle. 'He gave me his extra pillow…'
Xanna began to drift off in the pictures eyes as she thought of all the time she had spent with Akazil. 'His eyes are so gorgeous… And his smile… Even his bald head…' She went on, her eyes starting to twinkle more. 'And his hugs…' She said, sighing blissfully at the thought. 'When he holds me… It's like…he…really cares…' She thought more, her eyes feeling a bit watery.
'Dammit! According to that book and the movies, this means…I…' She thought, unable to bring herself to even think of using the word. 'This means…I…have some feelings for him.' She chickened out with her wording, gulping as she looked away from the picture.
With her conclusion made, Xanna sighed. 'Well, since I'm obviously in…uh… Since I obviously have a crush on someone, I guess I must end this sweet, troll goodness…' she thought, sighing again. 'Well, that sucks…'
With one more mental sigh, Xanna pushed Gishezpak away from her. "Is something wrong, Miss Xanna?" He asked, concern in his voice. "Gizzy, I…I don't-" She tried to say to him.
"Oh no. Did I do something wrong? Did I make you feel uncomfortable? Did I force you? I should have asked first! I knew it! I'm so sorry, Miss Xanna!"
"No." A voice came from a little ways behind the two teens. Both of them turned in shock. 'Dammit, so that's why my ear was twitching so much!'
"You are not sorry, my dear Gishezpak…" Elros said, his eyes starting out closed then slowly opening; adding to the dramatic effect. "But you will be. I promise." He said, scowling at his minion.
'Yeah, he probably plans on keeping this one too…'
"Master Elros… I-" Gishezpak tried speak, forcing himself to regain his composure. If he stuttered out of nervousness at all, he'd really be in for it. Especially after that action. 'Why? ! Why did I listen to you? !' He inwardly shouted at himself, his fury making his other personas cower and tremble in fear.
""I"…what? What, Gishezpak? You what? You were looking at her long fully? Sucking on her finger? Kissing and touching her? She, being my queen!" Elros snarled, slowly making his way for the blue troll just on the other side of the counter. Each step was filled with hate, and his green eyes were filled with the intent to kill. "No matter, I will put you back in your place!" He snapped, raising his hand at the teen.
His hand had made a hard connection with a cheek. A rather tender cheek too.
"Uhn!" Xanna let out a small groan when the other side of her face made contact with the counter. "Ow…" She said, getting on all fours, then spitting out some things that appeared in her mouth. With a close look, she realized they were some of her teeth. "Heh… Knocked out the rest of my baby teeth… Thanks." She chuckled, placing the teeth somewhere on her person.
'M-…Miss Xanna?' Gishezpak thought, staring in shock at his rescuer. 'But…why?'
"My queen!" Elros exclaimed, helping Xanna to sit back comfortably on the counter. "Are you alright, my love? I am sorry, but you should never get in the way." He said, seeing some blood on the corner of her mouth. He glared to Gishezpak, receiving a napkin from him. "I would never lay a hand on you like that, my beloved Xanna." He said sweetly as he wiped away the blood on her mouth.
'Oh, so he'll fire arrows and throw spiders and fireballs at me, but he would never actually lay a an actual hand on me if it were to harm me. What kind of messed up logic is that? !' Xanna thought to herself. She wanted to think more; mutter even; but she made herself tend to the thing at hand. "Don't you dare…hurt him." She said, cleaning some of the blood in her mouth with her tongue. "If you want me to be your queen, then you have to do some of the things I say. Right?"
"You mean compromise… I take orders from no one." Elros said, slightly peering down at Xanna. She only shrugged. "Eh, same difference."
"No, it is n-"
"My point being…" Xanna said, interrupting Elros. She tried to hold in her laughter from making his eye twitch. "Don't lay a single hand, finger, toe, hair or some other body part type thing on him! Do not touch him! Keep your body parts-" She said, motioning her hands toward Elros. "-off his body parts!" She finished with motioning her hands toward the troll. "Besides; I came onto him!" She snapped, hopping off the counter.
At this, Gishezpak slipped up for only a split second to look shocked. He then quickly straightened up and pretended to act like as if everything the girl said was true.
"So if you got a bone to pick, pick it with me!" Xanna said, poking at Elros' chest, then finishing the statement by poking her own chest with her thumb. "Got it, buddy!" She said, narrowing her eyes up at the blood elf man. 'Good Lord, I really have lost my mind…'
"Alright." Elros said, snapping Xanna from her thoughts. He smirked at her, slowly leaning down a little bit. "I will not lay a harmful hand on him." He complied, chuckling. "You know, I find it cute when you try to be the boss." He said, raising his right hand. "You can make me do about anything just like-" He said, snapping his fingers. "-that."
'Oh no!' Gishezpak thought in horror. He knew what that snap of the fingers meant. He knew that within a few short moments, he was going to die.
"Well…g-good…" Xanna stammered out, trying not to look Elros directly in the eye. The man only chuckled and gently grabbed her chin to make her look at him. 'Don't fall for it…' She thought repeatedly; as did Gishezpak.
Sadly, it was futile and Xanna ended up looking deep into those gorgeous green eyes of Elros'. 'Can't…look away… So…' She thought, drifting through them.
With a smirk, Elros scooped Xanna into his arms and began to walk away, smirking at the thought of not laying a single harmful hand on Gishezpak.
'She said nothing about paws.'
'Okay, whoa! Slow down! Break! Rewind! Pause! Something!' Xanna shouted in her mind as she was gently tossed onto the bed. 'Why the hell are we in; what I assume to be; his room? !' She shouted, starting to lose her mind and run around like a headless chicken. 'Ixxy, you were right! They're rapists! They're all rapists! !'
"Anxious, are we?" Elros smirked down to Xanna and her surprised stare as he slowly began to shed his upper clothing. "I like that."
'Oh dear god!' Xanna thought, not able to help her eyes from widening a bit. 'What did Ixxy always tell me if I ever got in this situation? Keep your legs closed as if you're life depended on it and…and-!' She thought as hard as she could. 'Don't…flip over and run away! Yeah! So…don't move until you see your chance to run away without him noticing!'
Just then, Elros crawled onto the bed and hovered above her, wearing nothing but his pants. Xanna's eyes widened a little more. 'Okay, getaway time! !' She thought, quickly slipping out from beneath him. "Weeelll, it's my bedtime." She said, faking a yawn as she made way for the door. "So, I'll just be lettin' myself out here." She smiled nervously, attempting to turn the doorknob. "Heh. The door's locked… It's okay! I'll get it!" She said as she began to sweat a little, continuing to turn the unmoving door handle. 'Oh dear god! !' She thought frantically.
With great desperation, Xanna hopped onto the door and began to tug as hard as she could on it. 'Open up! For the love of God, open up! !' She cried out in her mind.
"Hehmm…" Elros chuckled from the bed, slowly getting off it to walk toward her. 'OPEN UP! !' Xanna scream louder in her mind, too scatterbrained to figure out how to simply unlock it before turning it. Part of her then went stiff when Elros had come up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. "Come back and play with me." He purred, trying to pull her off as gently as he could.
"Uh, no thanks." Xanna chuckled nervous, keeping a firm grip on the doorknob. "I don't feel like playing." She said, faking another yawn. "I'm tired."
"Then come and sleep with me." The man persisted, pulling on Xanna's waist a little harder. Fearing for everything she was, she kept a death grip on the handle, not budging one bit from it. "No, it's cool. I'll sleep in my own bed."
"I insist." Elros said, slowly and steadily putting in more effort into tugging on his "love" away from the door. "My bed sheets are made of silk." He purred seductively in her ear. "They feel nice on the skin." He added, a twinkle absolutely gleaming in his eye.
'Oh dear god, why didn't I listen to Ixxy? ! She was not joking about this shit! I should've listened! "Rapist" she said, but I never listened! Why didn't I buy that chastity belt like she told me to? !' Xanna inwardly shouted at herself, still keeping a death grip on the doorknob. 'Wait, didn't I find one at that other one guy in that place from that one time with bunny? No, wait, I broke that…' She thought sadly, coming to realization of the inevitable. 'Oh my god, my childhood innocence is hanging on just by a thread that is this doorknob!' She cried out in her mind, noticing that the tugging on her waist was lessening. Her eyes widened in horror. 'Oh god, it's gonna happen right here. My poor childhood innocence! !'
"Since you do not wish to be in my bed, I will…"compromise" and settle for here." He said huskily, reaching for the bottom button of Xanna's shirt.
"Bathroom!" Xanna blurted out, shouting the absolute first thing that came to mind. "Pardon?" Elros replied blankly. "Uh…bathroom! I have to use the bathroom!" She rolled with the moment, crossing her legs tightly. "Like, reeeally bad…" She groaned, leaning her forehead onto the door.
Elros sighed, feeling the moment completely slip away. "The bathroom is just over there." He said, pointing to a big double-door entrance a little ways behind them. "You smell like troll anyway." He added, not even bothering to hide his disgust. He then gently grabbed Xanna by her shoulders and walked her to the lavatory. "Do not keep me waiting." He ordered.
"Uh-"
"And change into this when you get out." He said, walking off into a closet for a moment, coming out with an elegantly beautiful white dress in Xanna's size. "The troll's scent is in those…rags." He said, staring blankly at the clothes Xanna wore.
The short halfling girl looked to her clothes as well, smelling the collar of her shirt. "I don't smell anything." She said, trying to smell it more to be sure. "Yep, nothin'."
"Well, I can smell it. And I do not like it." Elros growled like a territorial dog. "The clothes go in the furnace."
"But-"
"I am compromising, Xanna." Elros shaid rather sharply. "Besides, this dress; one amongst many I have had made for you; is far much more better than any of the clothes you have, had, or will ever be able to afford." He said, walking forward and holding it out for her to feel.
"Ooh, mageweave." Xanna said with a smile as she gently rubbed her hands along the beautiful piece of clothing. 'Kinda feel like I've seen this before, though… But where?' She pondered to herself, having a hard time remembering the exact same wedding dress she had seen in a window while in Silvermoon one day. 'Oh well. I'm sure it'll come to me eventually.'
"Wooow, big bathroom…" Xanna said with awe, her eyes slightly widened as they wandered around the enormous lavatory. "Dude, it's, like,…two living rooms put together!" She said with astonishment.
"You know what they say." Elros chuckled. "The bigger, the better."
"Eh, I dunno." Xanna said, folding her arms over her chest to use one hand to tap her chin. "I think I like smaller bathrooms better." She said, shrugging; and not getting the joke. "But that's just me."
"Smaller?…" Elros repeated, his eye almost wanting to twitch. Xanna nodded to him. "Yeah. This bathroom is cool and all, but it's too big. I feel like that I'd actually be bathing and stuff in front of people. It makes me feel uncomfortable." She said, holding herself a bit and frowning. "Can I use a smaller bathroom?"
"No." Elros said bluntly. "I do not want to risk you getting near that…heathen troll again." He said, grabbing the bathroom doors to bring them together and close them. "You stay in here. And do not keep me waiting…" He said, peering at Xanna for a moment before shutting the doors.
'I'm still almost confused as to how he is able to get just about any woman he wants…' Xanna thought to herself, facing the door but her eyes off to the right. She then closed them and sighed. 'Oh well. Best to-' She was thinking, turning to see the bathing area. Her eyes widened once more at it. 'It's a freaking swimming pool… I can't bathe in that! Doesn't he have a shower or something?' She asked herself, looking around for the shower. After a moment, she realized something.
'Wait a minute… I'm alone… Where the hell is the window? !' She thought, quickly dropping the clothing in her arms to search for an escape, coming up empty handed. 'Dammit! But there's got to be some way out of here!' She shouted out in her mind, taking another moment to think of what to do. 'What if I…dig?' She said as something began to stir up in the black void known as her brain. 'Yes, yes… Dig! Yes! I shall use-' She thought, pulling something off her person. '-a spoon! !' She thought loudly with victory, holding back a cackle. 'Ah, spoon… What times we have had.' She thought, looking for a tile to start digging under as all of the glorious memories with the food utensil ran through her mind.
'Hmm… This looks like a good spot…' She thought, quietly leaning down to remove the tile. Every two seconds or so, she'd glance to the door, making sure Elros wasn't using his blood elf hearing. When she was positive it was okay to start digging, she dug for her life. 'Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig.' She repeated over and over and over as she made her underground tunnel.
'Where the hell am I going, anyway?' Xanna eventually asked herself, taking a pause from digging to let her arm rest. 'Maybe if I try to listen for something, I'll find a way out?'
Just as the thought came to her mind, Xanna heard several howling, hissing, skittering, roars and many other beast like noise coming from a distance.
'I pray that is not Elros…' Xanna thought to herself, getting her spoon to begin digging again.
Slowly, she grew closer and closer to the noises. 'What the hell is goin' on over there?' She thought, flexing her arm every now and again between when she would dig.
As quickly as she could, Xanna continued to toss little spoonfuls of dirt behind her, slowly and slowly getting closer to all of the howling. She even used her sprint from time to time to make her arm go faster.
Eventually, she reached the spot under the animal noise. 'Ah, here.' She thought to herself. 'They all sound really hungry…and a bit rabid… This would be the part where Ixxy would say to just keep digging for my life and flee to Winterspring as I would try to think of how much my curious peeked my interest to get me to look or not.'
As Xanna had a discussion with her curiousness and interest, she heard sounds of summoning spells; thus, meaning a fight; and the sounds of a man grunting.
'Wait, that's not a man…' Xanna thought to herself, trying to listen closer to the person above her head. 'That's…Gizzy? !'
After hearing her friend in trouble just above her, Xanna used her powerful spoon of awesomeness to dig upwards. She dug for a few minutes and eventually making a hole to peek her head out of. "Hello?…" She asked as looked around, her eyes widening at all of the beasts that had surrounded her. "Uh…hiii…"
"Miss Xanna, what are you doing here? ! Get out! Get out now!" Gishezpak yelled out , summoning another totem, then knocked the black wolf that was about to try to eat the little elf turnip head away. "Go!" He told her, trying to get all of the other beasts' attention on him again.
"No way!" Xanna protested. "I am so not leaving my friend behind in this mess! Especially after I just made out with him for, like, five to ten minutes just a little while ago! That would be heartless and slightly awkward!"
At this statement, Gishezpak and all of the beasts only stared at Xanna; all with raised eyebrows.
"I am currently scatterbrained… More so than usual, I mean." Xanna said, addressing her eyes elsewhere. "My point being;-" She went on, emphasizing her words a bit as she looked back to her troll friend. "-that I will not leave you alone! I won't abandon you, Gizzy!" She such with such a strong look to her eyes.
Seeing such concern for his being in her eyes made Gishezpak's heart leap for joy again. 'Why does she care so much for me?…'
"Alright, let's do this!" Xanna shouted, leaping out of the hole, pulling out her daggers. "Bring it, bitches!' She said with a devious smirk spread across her face. "And…other animals that aren't female dogs…" She added, looking to all of the turtles, spiders, cats and what not.
When one of them leapt to tackle her, she quickly dodged it, grabbed it by the leg and threw it toward a wall. 'Hopefully, that knocked it unconscious.' She thought, not wanting to actually kill all of these animals. One or two was fine, but all of them was a bit much to her.
"Miss Xanna, you should leave!" Gishezpak called out to her, shooting a lightning bolt at a snapping turtle. "Now!" He added as quickly as he could as he dodged a snow leopard. "This is my punishment for what took place in the kitchen!" He yelled, summoning some fire totems and shooting more lightning.
"I told him not to lay a hand on you, dammit!"
"Yes, but-uhn-you didn't say paw!" The troll pointed out the flaw, shoving away a bat with his staff.
"That loophole using bastard! How dare he work his around what I said!" Xanna exclaimed, dodging two animals at once by jumping between them as they were headed for her.
"So, does he always do this when you do something he doesn't like?" She called out as she had one head of a chimera bite the other.
"No, not always!" The troll replied, making a dragonhawk fly into a nether ray. "As I; accidentally; said earlier, he also beats me!" He said, doing a double black flip away from a couple ravagers and spiders. When he stuck his landing, he summoned a healing totem, another fire totem, then used his lightning spell again. "Sometimes it's the ghouls. Other times it's torture devices. And on occasions, he likes to freeze me in place to burn me till I faint from pain then toss me in a lake!"
'Jesus, and I thought that I suffered back at the orphanage!' Xanna thought, too busy fighting to be horrified at the thoughts placed in her mind.
"There was also one time when he used spider venom to make me go numb so Niamh could nip away at my body parts till her heart's content." Gishezpak added, killing a wolf that just so happened to remind him of that she wolf. He seemed to force out a small chuckle. "I remember the pain I felt when he allowed me to feel again."
'What kind of sick man is this?' Xanna thought to herself, staring at her friend in absolute shock and horror now; yet, still able to fight just fine fighting while doing so. 'No, this isn't a man. Not even a monster or a demon. He's something much worse!' She thought, leaping around all of the animals as they tried to attack her. 'I guess Elros used his paladin abilities to keep him alive because he felt that he still needed him. That's the only reason I can think of how and why Gizzy's still alive now.' She thought more, punching a gorilla in its teeth. 'But all of that pain he went through… That suffering…' She thought, looking to Gishezpak as he continued to fight. He was so strong and there seemed to be nothing wrong with him. But Xanna knew not to judge books by their covers. 'He didn't deserve it…' She thought, getting angry. 'He didn't deserve any of it!'
Now infuriated, Xanna gave horrible death glares at all of the animals around her. "I'll make him pay!" She shouted and charged toward some animals, slicing and dicing them all up into little bits very quickly, chunking eyes, organs, teeth, skulls and spines at the wall. She was filled with so much anger, she shut her eyes tightly, trying to shake away the horrible thoughts of her friend as she fought all of the beasts around her.
"I'm tired of it!" She cried, hot tears running down her face. "I'm tired of the way they treat me! Us! And people like us! !" She shouted, cutting open some more animals. "They hunt us down! They wait till we're hurt and in our weakest moment, willing to take any offered hand! Then they trick you into doing things for them and stab you in the back! !" She howled, stabbing a turtle so hard in its back, her dagger went right through its shell. "I'm so sick of it! ! !"
"M-Miss Xanna?" Gishezpak squeaked out to the girl, paused in horror with some of the animals around him.
"Sick of it! ! !" She screamed again, then her dagger spontaneously combusted. With her eyes shut tight and her anger the only thing she felt, she didn't notice. She only gripped her dagger tighter and drove it deeper into the turtle's back, making it scream out in pain as it died such a nasty death.
After the turtle was dead, Xanna continued to kill the rest of the beasts in the room, each one suffering a more painful death than the last.
After throwing a bear's heart onto the ground and stomping it into the dirt, Xanna tried to catch her breath, then turned to her; horrified; troll friend. "Are you okay?" She asked him, more tears sliding down her cheeks.
"Um…yes." Gishezpak replied, staring at all of the chopped up corpses around him, his eyes landing on the turtle Xanna had stabbed in the back. He gasped at remembering her hands and ran to look at them. "Are your hands alright, Miss Xanna? Do you need for me to heal-" He asked worriedly, looking down at her perfectly fine palms. "-them…" He finished, puzzled at what he was seeing. "But…I saw… Your dagger… It was-! And there was-! H-… How are your hands…?"
"Smooth?…" Xanna tried to help finish, looking to her baby soft hands. "I just lotion as often as I can…"
"No!" Gishezpak said, lifting the girl's hands up a bit. "When you stabbed that turtle, you set your dagger on fire! How are your hands fines? !" The troll questioned, unable to comprehend what was going on in this certain situation.
"Look, we have no time for you to finally go crazy! So snap-!" Xanna was telling her friend, yanking her hands away from him, finally seeing the blood he was covered in. "…Not all of that blood belongs to the animals…does it?"
Gishezpak was a bit confused at first, but then finally looked down at himself as well. "Oh… No, I suppose not." He replied, shrugging, about to place his arms behind his back. He was forced to stop when Xanna grabbed them and held onto them, pushing up his sleeves to reveal his wounds and scars. Her mouth slightly dropped in horror as she took every single inch of his forearms in.
Quickly, Xanna pulled his sleeves back down and looked away. "Heal them." She said. "And all of the other wounds you have." She added, waiting for the troll to tend to his wounds.
"I cannot." Gishezpak said, placing his arms behind his back. "I am forbidden to."
"For-… Forbidden? !" Xanna exclaimed, balling her hands into fists. "Why? !"
"Master Elros says that I am not to heal myself. I must keep the wounds I receive and let them heal on their own and keep the scars they make as a reminder of my failure." The troll explained. "If I dare try to heal myself, he will torture me."
"Fine!" Xanna snapped, ripping off her shirt sleeve; not noticing the troll's wide eyes and blush. "I'll heal you!" She said, motioning for him to give her one of his arms. "Miss Xanna, I don't believe that will stop the bleeding for long."
"I'm not going to just leave it as a sleeve." She replied, fidgeting with the cloth. "My shirt is made of linen. It's all I need to make a band aid for you." She said, yanking the troll's arm out from behind his back. "This should help, even if it's just a little." She said, pushing up his sleeve, about to wrap her friend's forearm in the bandage.
"No, Miss Xanna." Gishezpak said, pulling his arm away. "If you help, you may get hurt too."
"I don't care." Xanna said, pulling his arm back, quickly wrapping the bandage around it. "I'm not gonna let you suffer like this." She said, pulling off her other sleeve for his other arm. "It's just not right." She went on, tears trying to blind her sight again as she ripped off the bottom half of her shirt. "I know that I'm just a stupid halfling and you'll eventually leave me and completely forget about me." she continued, ripping off her right pant leg. "But you're in my life now. And I care about you." She was coming to a finish, ripping off her other pant leg. "I don't want you to hurt…" She said quietly, making band aids out of torn clothing. "Ever…"
"Miss…Xanna? Are you-?" Gishezpak was asking when the; almost half naked; girl threw herself into his arms and began to sob into his person. He was shocked at first, but then returned the embrace and held her tightly.
"Gizzy, I'm so sorry you've gone through all of this…" Xanna finally managed to say. "I know it's my fault, somehow. And I'm so sorry."
"Miss Xanna, it is not your fault." The troll said, almost chuckling. "Master Elros is…a little off. And quite the trickster."
"What'd ya mean?" Xanna asked, looking up to her friend, sniffling and wiping her nose.
"He tricked my family into working for him." Gishezpak said, shrugging. "I know you would probably like to know the story, but I do not feel like talking about it."
"It's okay." Xanna said, pulling away from the hug, wiping her nose one more time. "Um…" She said, looking away with a slight blush. "I need you to take off your robe so I can get to your other wounds…"
"Hmm?" the troll queried, a blush appearing across his face as well as he looked to himself again. "It's fine, Miss Xanna. You do not need to tend to those wounds." He said as he looked back to her, a little sweat drop sliding down the side of his head.
"No!" Xanna protested, turning back to face her friend. "Now take it off!"
'I feel so naked…' Gishezpak thought, standing only in his underwear after being forced out of his robes. He'd been through such a treatment many times before, but never with anyone that was not his master. Suddenly, he felt a bit self conscious. 'Damn you, emotions…' He thought, glaring at all of his little alto egos of his emotions running around and about in his brain as they had been for the past long while.
"Alright, just stand still and this'll be over with quickly." Xanna said, getting a bandage. "Hope you aren't ticklish…" She muttered, beginning to wrap the cloth around the troll's right leg. Without realizing it, she would pause every now and then, staring at all of the scars on his body. 'I never knew that there was someone in the world that suffered worse than I did…' Xanna thought, wrapping a bandage around his other leg, thinking of the one scar she had on the back of her left shoulder. It was nothing compared to everything on his body.
She sighed as she began to wrap the last bandage around his torso. "Gizzy…" She said quietly, not wanting to look up at him. "Yes, Miss Xanna?"
"I meant what I said…" The girl said, almost whispering. Finally, she choked back a sob and looked up to see him. "I promise I won't abandon you." She said, a small tear forming in the corner of her eye. "I swear."
'No…' Gishezpak thought, feeling his heart leap again. 'Please, don't say that, Miss Xanna.' He thought more as he watched her look back to the bandage. 'Please, do not care about me so much. I will end up…falling for you… And I can't… Elros will not allow that…'
"Alright, you're all patched up, buddy." Xanna said as she stood up, bring her troll friend out of his thoughts. "You can put your robe back on no-" She was saying when Gishezpak wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close. "Miss Xanna, I am deeply sorry for…" He tried to tell her, almost getting lost in her beautiful yellow eyes. 'For loving you…' He finished his mind, finishing with a mental sigh. "For the way I acted earlier. I should have never done that."
"Pfft." Xanna said, brushing off her friend. "It's totally understandable."
"It is?"
"Yep. It was just a… Crap, what was it again? A boo…boot… Booty call! That's it! Yeah, and it's totally fine. Being teenagers and all." Xanna said, smiling to her friend.
'It was most certainly not a "booty call"… Could she not tell that I was giving it all I could without taking it too far? Could she not realize how much I care by the way I touched her?' Gishezpak thought, offended by his feelings being ignored. 'But perhaps it's for the best…' He concluded with a mental sigh.
"Hey, did you hear that?" Xanna asked, her ear twitching. "Heard what?" The troll replied as he put his clothes back on.
"XANNA! !" Came an angry shout through the tunnel Xanna had made.
"Oh dear god…" Both teens said, staring at the hole in the ground with wide eyes. Their eyes grew bigger when fireballs began to shoot out of the tunnel.
"Shit, we gotta get outa here!" Xanna said, grabbing Gishezpak's hands. "No, Miss Xanna. I cannot leave!" He told her, pulling away. "You must go. Leave while you can!"
"I am not leaving you here with him!" Xanna snapped at him, grabbing his hands, attempting to drag him toward the door. "No! Miss-" The troll protested, trying to pull away, only to be thrown over the girl's shoulders. 'I'd almost forgotten how unbelievably strong she is…'
"You are leaving this place with me whether you like it or not!" The halfling said firmly, kicking down the door. "Now which way was the exit?…"
"That way, Miss Xanna…" Gishezpak said, pointing to the girl's right. "But I don't believe we should walk right out of the front door… Something a bit more inconspicuous seems more proper."
"You may have a point there…"
"XANNA!" Elros shouted from down the other side of the corridor. "Ah! !" Said girl exclaimed, jumping in the air when he shot another fireball at her direction. "GET BACK HERE!" He commanded.
"Heh heh. Yeeeah… I don't think so." Xanna chuckled nervously. "See, it's been fun and all, but we gotta get goin'. So…see ya!" She said, sprinting off in the opposite direction of him.
"AFTER HER! !" Elros ordered, resurrecting and healing all of his dead pets in the room the two teens had come from. He was happy to see that they all seemed more aggressive than usual. 'I see that they have a bone to pick with her…' He thought, a smirk growing across his face.
"Running, running, running." Xanna repeated as she ran from all of the animals. 'Shit, I think that turtle has it out for me!' She thought, noticing that the turtle she had stabbed in the back was at the head of the stampede. "Ah!" She yelped when it tried to snap its jaws at her. "Running!" She shouted, running faster, making a few turns, then splatting on a wall. "Ow…" She and her troll friend groaned, sliding down on top of one another.
"Miss Xanna, please, just leave me." Gishezpak said, rubbing his head. "You will make a faster getaway alone."
"Snap out of it, man!" Xanna snapped at him, shaking him vigorously; also wearing an army helmet. "This is WAR here, man! No man left behind! Not even a banana! You hear me? ! Do you hear me, boy? !" She continued to shout and shake him.
"But we do not have bananas!" Gishezpak managed to say without biting his tongue.
"Dammit, you're right!" The said, stopping her shaking of her friend and turning away. "And they know that, don't they! Those sick bastards!" She exclaimed, slamming her right fist down on her left palm. "But don't worry… I have a plan… I just need some jellybeans…"
"Jellybeans, Miss Xanna?…"
"Yes!" The short halfling replied, beginning to dig in her pockets to find some jellybeans. "Shit…" She said, making a slight worried expression. "I don't have any!"
"Then, do we keep running?"
"No! Just give me a second…" Xanna said, continuing to dig in her pockets. After a moment, she pulled out some little knickknacks "A paperclip, a button, and a string…" She said, slowly growing a full out grin across her face. "This'll do juuust fine…"
"How?" Gishezpak asked as the girl turned around to fiddle with the things she had pulled from her pocket. He tried to peek over her shoulder, but she had quickly turned back, revealing she had somehow made a rocket launcher. "How in the world…?" He trailed off into a chuckle. "You cease to amaze me, Miss Xanna."
"Thank you. Now you might wanna get behind me…"
Done. For the people I lied to about what was going to happen in this chapter... PYSCHE! XD
Lol. Hope everyone enjoyed this chapter. I wanted to write more, but I didn't wanna make the chapter too long. So...yeah. And all errors will be fixed in editing.
Note: Wow, Xanna's about to be two years old... Hope I don't go over the three year limit.
One More Note: I want every to say "rest in peace". I will not explain why. Please, just say it.