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Fight

Ce knew something was wrong as soon as he walked into the house. King was nowhere. That was unusual. His gut clenched. He dropped his jacket over the couch and slowly walked through the house. Everything was cleaned spotless, the backdoor locked tight, making Ce's dread grow. Da rarely ever cleaned passed vacuuming and dusting during the week.

If he thought the rest of the house was clean, Ce was scared of their room. Everything was organized and sorted. Ce was terrified to enter, for messing it up would probably result in his decapitation. He gently and quietly closed the door, giving a sigh when he heard the click. The evil, for now, was contained to their room. Now, Ce thought as he leaned on the door, he just needed to man up and face his wife. There was only one place she ever hid herself, especially if an argument happened or was going to and she didn't want to argue.

Ce thought it was rather childish of her, but it was a comfort factor she had picked up from when she was a child. Although her parents didn't fight often, when they did it became a yelling match. Da, when she was younger, would take Xiao and they would hide in the tub in the bathroom since it was the only room with a lock besides their parents. That, and Da had said since it would save them in an earthquake is should have saved them then.

As Da aged, the habit stuck. She often locked herself away in the bathroom, taking any pet in with her for comfort. Ce was slightly worried about what would happen when they got kids. Running a hand through his hair, he found the bathroom. She never used the one in their room; Da said it felt unnatural. The door was shut, and Ce was almost scared to see if it was locked, as predicted. Not because Da was hard to reason with, not because the probably impending argument would be overly difficult, and not because he didn't know what was wrong. For once Ce kind of understood her perfectly and knew probably what exactly was wrong.

Ce still dreaded it though. Grabbing the doorknob with a sigh, he turned it. The door wouldn't budge. She had locked it. "Da?" Ce called out, leaning on the door. King gave off rapid barks, at some point learning how not to breathe as he attacked the door. Poor giant rat probably needed to go pee. Ce laughed at the irony of that. Da however did not respond. Growing worried, the fear different now, Ce called again. Cursing, Ce stomped into the eerily cleaned bedroom and snapped open one of Da's jewelry boxes. Finding the key he rushed back to the bathroom and opened the door.

The mutt rushed passed him, running into the wall with his wide turn before continuing to the back door. Ce leaned over the tub and gave a weary sigh. Da lay asleep in the tub, a book laying in her lap and her iPod in her ears. Her quiet breathing is what calmed him, and he gently scooped her up. Tomorrow he knew she was going to lecture him at the same time he lectured her. However, it was late and the clean bed if nothing else looked comfy. He couldn't' say inviting, because it was all just too clean, but comfy was a good word, Ce decided. Except the infernal dog kept attacking the back door.

This is a small continuation of the Dragon Rider thing I did before.

Worm

Ce leaned on the window, staring up at the rising moon. It had been almost one year exact since he had been saved by the Worm Riders. Half the time he wanted to say it had all been a dream, but the scars and long nights told him different. While the scars weren't bothersome, she often found her way into his dreams. Ce wasn't sure if he looked forward to the nights or not.

"The worm isn't going to come," a bitter voice said, and Ce pushed away from the window to see Yu leaning against the wall. His arms crossed, the strategist stared at the ground. His long time best friend was still healing from the experience. While Ce's hair hadn't been long, and so not much had been damaged, Yu's hair was barely reaching passed his shoulders anymore. Some of the hair had to be cut because the tangles were too bad, and some because his hair had been burnt. The smell had followed Yu for weeks. Ce almost felt bad for him.

"Almost as likely as a speckled worm dropping by huh?" Ce said lightly, stretching.

"Just as likely." Yu had seen the white Worm Rider, since the young girl had done little to try and hide her face. From being a klutz and very animated, Ce had seen her face as well more then once during the night.

"I can't believe we're pining over girls we've only seen. How shallow does that make us?" Ce said with a laugh, running a hand through his hair.

"I do believe that would fall under horribly shallow and vain."

"And since its lasted passed a year, I'd say we're unfixable."

"I'd bet on that." Yu looked up with a grin. Ce laughed again, leaning back to stare at the ceiling. "I'd also bet that we're fools."

"I already knew I was a fool. A vain, shallow fool is new to me though."

"We should get some sleep."

"Yeah, I'll get right on that." Ce rolled his eyes.

"Tomorrow will be a long day. We are supposed to be hunting down Lu Bu."

"Well, I'm going to go hunt me down a snack." Ce waved to his friend, who shook his head, and slowly walked towards the kitchen. It was going to be a long night, no doubt.

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