From what we could make of it, it had no organs, yet it breathed black fire, it also didn't have a soul, yet it was moving freely in this plain, it also bore no scales but was a dragon, it was a summoning of which only the most powerfull liche could conjur...
-Chapter 5
The Dragon Liche
"We've got to hurry!"
"hurry to where?"
Death began to look around.. "What's that globe thing out there glowing! I hadn't noticed it before..."
Kimagure looked to where death was pointing... "What you mean the wizard's graveyard?"
"YOU SEE A GRAVEYARD THERE!?"
"yes!"
"PERFECT!"
Death pulled three sets of shovels...
"ALICE!!! FLARE! WAAAKE UUUP!!"
Death started running, alice and flare's eyes shot open and they gazed into eachother... they blushed and alice rolled off of flare, they brushed eachother off and started walking toward death, then they started running, Death got to the edge of the glowing sphere... "They hexed this graveyard so Nekromancers can't get in! LIsten I need you to DIG UP a courpse! get a FINE old Wizard would ya?"
"ARE YOU NUTS!"
Death handed her the shovel... "DO I LOOK NUTS?"
"YES!"
"WELL DO IT ANYWAY!"
Kima ran into the graveyard with the shovel... "umm ok headstones... headstones... HERE GUYS start looking for a good date..."
"why can't death just do this?"
"He says he can't"
Death pressed his hands against the globe it shocked him with electricity and knocked him 14 feet in the air...
he landed and stood up... "WOOH" he exclaimed... "so what's going on in there?"
"Shut up we're looking around!"
"Excuse me young man... but what do you think you're doing?"
Death turned around... a police mage in all blue with a 50's-type police hat on and a magical club looked him over... "answer the question.."
"umm I plead the fith?"
"Listen buddy theres no time for jokery in this town... Tell me what you're doing..."
"nothing at all..."
A bit of dirt kicked up and landed at his feet.. the policemage looked out into the graveyard...
"what's going on with you people? What are you doing..."
"listen officer we can explain.."
Death presed his foot into the barrier with a high-kick just as the policemage passed through it, the lightening rebounded off ot death's foot which he quickly retracted and shocked the mage, knocking him into the nearby stream... which started to carry him in one direction, then it shifted diections and carried him in the other...
"LISTEN! THE STREAM IS SHOWING SIGNS OF A DRAGON SUMMONING NEARBY! WE HAVE TO HURRY!"
A casket emerged from the energy feild... it read "Merlin The Magnificent Died by Meteor inhalation"
Death opened the casket...
"MERLIN WAS BLOWN TO SMITHERIENES!"
Alice's head emerged from the ball... "so?"
"I can't work with SMITHERINES!"
"get him a better on! make sure the dates are real far apart like he said!"
another casket emerged 2 minutes later... death openened it..
"AH this will do!"
two more quickly emerged... he gawked at them... "Ok that's enough!"
"Ok we can stop now! GOD this was terrible! I hope we don't get in too much trouble!"
"Don't worry i'll make sure their exit is entertaining!"
Death raised his palms into the air and began swirling them around in a circular motion...
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"NUFARU THAITHEES! UMNARVU KHARDIS! TETSUNO MHADVARI JEEZ! TANU OHAMORU CHAUN NO HAIDEEZ!" a bony hand ran around the surface of the crystal ball and a dark red eye opened up on its surface... then there was a bizare growling noise followed by a howl that shook the foundations of the castle MasakariKushariKai was in...
"I RELEASE THE UNTO MINE ENEMY!!!"
Death heard a growling just as he was done with his chant... the caskets started to move around.. even the one with the Smitherines... they, all four, shot open and mage courpses exited and stood on the ground...
One had a bit of paper folded in front of his head... the first courpse with merlin the magnificent stayed closed...
"Alright... I've summoned you from the dead to assist me, no better yet, to assist your town!"
"what are we supposed to be? why did you disturb our slumber int he afterlife?"
"We will not be used for evil means!"
"NO wait! You have to help!"
"help? With what?"
"THE TOWN OF FARLIS!"
"that old junk heap is still around.. oh right... i was burried there..."
"FOR FARLIS! I WILL SURLEY FIGHT IN IT'S NAME!.... umm unless it's gone bad or antyhing..."
"its still the same apparently"
"GOOD then let us fight for farlis!"
"yes indeed! I've needed some action!"
"Heaven can be so... boring sometimes..."
"all you do is sit around and wait for the end to come, but it never really comes..."
"eat fruit..."
"bliss bliss bliss, where's the fun in that?"
"Well we'd better not go and DISS it or anything but LORD knows we deserve this vacation!"
"congratulations! you are all 12th Dan Liches!"
"...ok..." they all said in monotone...
There was a loud screaming noise and death and the liches ran into the city's square... darkness began to descend on the town...
The roar of a dragon struck fear into the hearts of everyone and then a giant skeletal dragon appeared from the dark clouds above, it was struck by lightening repeatedly before landing in the fountains and crushing them beneath its feet.... it roared insainly...
"OK GUYS START CHARGING!! KIMA, FLARE, ALICE, I NEED YOU TO BUY SOME TIME HERE!"
he tossed htem the weapons he had collected form his secret bank... they armed themselves and ran toward the dragon, slashing and hacking at its bone furriously... the dratgon looked at its feet and then kicked Flare over, his jewled broad sword struck the ground... it began to glow with a light..
"What's this now?"
He aimed it up at the dragon, it shot a beam of light out that made the dragon lose its ballance...
"WHOAH" everyone said.. the dragon fell on top of a building and then forced itself up on its feet agian... it looked at farlis and then breathed fire...
"METSUKATSU'S SANCTUARY!!!
The flames shot around kimagure and her bubble of protection exploded pushign the flames in all directions except toward earth, she furthered the spell by pushing it upward into the dragons through, making it cinge it's own mouth...
"HAHA TAKE THAT YA BEEYACH!"
The dragon shook its head furriously... it turned toward Alice and began another blast... alice pulled out the jewled daggers and slashed at the dragon... cherry blossoms split where the blades had cut int he air and the dragons bones started to shatter fromt he strenght..
"These new weapons are great agasist Dark Beasts! KIMA use yours!"
Kimagure pressed the jewl on her want, it charged up and began gathering enegy...
"BY THE SONS OF FLAIM I SUMMON THE SWORD THAT CUTS ENERGY!! NIGHT SWORD!!!"
A sword formed in the sky and fell down onto the dragon striking it hard, it toppled over on the same side again and then Alice sliced at it some more with cherry blossom wind cutting daggers and the light beams form Flare's Broadsword worked wonders on putting the hurt on...
"NOW NOW SUMMON THE SPELLS!"
"MAX HASTE!!!"
Everyone sped up except the dragon which now seemed to be moving in slow motion trying to get up and then tripping as it tried..
"ANTI DRAGON-RAIN!"
The skies started to rain water ontot he dragon that seemed to be made up of GLASS, it cutt through everything even bone... one missgueided 'droplet' struck a tree and cut it in two...
The last mage then let out a meteor storm that leveled the remains of the dragon liche in fire...
"ITS STILL MOVING SOMEONE HAS TO FINISH IT OFF!"
"I SUMMON THE GODESS FARYLIA OF THE BLIZZARD TO RAIN DOWN TEMPERATURES SO COLD THAT THEY MAKE THIS FOE SHATTER INTO A THOUSAND PEICES OR MORE!"
..."who said that?"
A scraggly courpse marched into town with one eye bulging from its socket and the other eye missing, he seemd to have been litterally STITCHED together...
"I'm MERLIN the magnificent!! and I just summoned a scuicidal spell! so Ill be seeing ya kids later hehehee suckers!"
he exploded and a blue angelic figure leapt from his body accompanied by a few doves, it rammed into the dragonliche and then detonated in a huge pillar whichi was like an F6 tornado, the dragon was granulated...
it then blew away like dust int he wind, the clouds quickly parted and the lightening stopped, all was warm and happy around the town again, except the foundtains were destroyed and the glassware shop had been caved in...
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA AS TO HOW MANY YEARS BAD LUCK THIS IS GOING TO BRING ME!" the old shoplady said sitting up from the building...
"at least you're still alive" one mage shouted to her...
"AIYE! me Heart!!"
Nobody took any notice of the little old lady having a stroke...
The Liches confronted death...
"well now that that's all over with sonney I suppose you should send us back..."
"it was fun and all but we really aughta be getting back..."
Death stared at the surley group of courpses... "umm actually The spell i cast was a little... um... strong..."
"oh great, how strong?"
"umm you're gonna be ghosts for 30 years..."
"WELL DAMN!"
"Wouldn't ya know it..."
"Well i guess we'd better set up a system of haunting rounds!"
"ILL HAUNT THE LADIES ONSEN!"
"NO I GOT DIBS!"
Flare spoke up "i'm sure you don't want to do that..."
"why not?"
"take a look and see..."
The three liches went in... and came out...
"EEWW" "AARG" "lord have mercy! Im haunting the library!" "im with you!" "i've seen hotter chicks in an aviary!"
The liches dissapeared...
"well I guess that went well..."
the mayor walked up draping a cloak behind him 30 times the lenghte of his body...
"weeel yeeounga meeen,... and weemeeen.. eet seeems yeeev doeen usa a faveeer..."
"is he speaking english?"
"eees an eweeed eee weeed leeek tee peee yeee tweeeenteee teeeseend geeed sheeleengs..."
"I think he said he'd give us 20 gold shilings each..."
"Wheer deed yeer tap danceen freeends goee?"
"Nah I heard 30..."
"heeeryeee geee theen i geeese"
< here ya go then I guess...>
a small bag materialized in front of each of them... Death handed his to Kimagure... again..
"I owe you again it would seem... you can use this to buy some real spell books that will be of use to you..."
"actually, I think i'd rather read yours, and see just what you have to say..."
Death blushed through his pale skin...his cheeks were a bit grey...
"IM GONNA GO BUY SOME CANDY!"
"i think im gonna practice using this broad sword.. what are you two doing..."
Kimagure put her arms around death... "i think we're going to rent 3 seperate rooms in the local inn...
"three rooms, wait a minute, that means that someone would be left out..." the connection finally clicked in Flare's mind..
"YOU SWEETALKING SCOUNDREL!"
"come Death"
"actually I wanted to UMPH" death was pulled along forcivley all the way to the inn..."
"COME ON FLARE!"
"oh what is it Alice?"
"Help me pick out some candy!!"
he narrowed his eyes...
"FINE..."
he stomped off toward the candy shop...
Once inside the inn kimagure already had the rooms aranged, hers would be farthest away from everyone elses and it would have the finest bed and bath... she even forced Death to pay extra for it... gigling and laughing as if she was invoulved in a relationship with him she then tugged him into the room, even as he tried placing a death grip on the outside of the door...
Death sat in a comforable chair... shaking like an eskimo in his underwear...
"ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod..."
He heard the shower turn on... "this rooms been magiced to death with art and perfection... I should get out of here while I still can..."
Death opened the door.... he stared out into an abyss of darkness at the very end as a tiny bit of light, he ran throught he dark hallway which wasnt there before and came to.... the very door he had exited from... he looked behind him..
"KimaGURE..."
"hehehe I hoope you like that little spell I put on the doorway! you're not geting out of here tonight..."
"how long does this technique last?"
"4 hours..." she began kakling wikedly... death was more afraid than ever..."
He decided to sit on the couch, staring at the fireplace... there was a sign over it... it read "say light up to turn the fireplace on... say Get ______ and then an emotion to change the mood setting of the room..."
"... get Crazy?" the walls started pulsating in and out and death was thrown out of his chair.... the floor oppened up into a group of hands that started grabbing at hima nd tickling him...
"UWAAAH! GET SCARRY!"
All stood still... there was a sound of creakinng on some footsteps... a pendulum that was actually a giant axe swung through the center of the room dripping with blood... the walls started to bleed as the sounds of ghosts filled the air...
"yes this will do..."
Suddenly Kimagure slid the shower curain open, sthe stepped out and walked into the room in a towel...
"WHAT THE... oh I get it... you think your real smart dont you..."
"AhAHAHAH You cannot defeat this spell of HORROR and TORTURE unless you let me exit!"
"i've stayed here before buddy, its not gonna work... "GET FUNKY!" a disco ball shot out of the ceiling and lava lamps sprung up along with a flashing checkerboard floor..."
"umm uhh..."
She started wakling towards him.... the lights... oh god she wasnt going to atcually take that thing off was she?
"Get normal..."
She said... Death hit the comfortable carpet and she placed her arms around his waist...
She then ran her body up across the front of his and looked him in the eyes...
her eyes did seem like a set of dark pools in which to gaze... he stared unblinking at them... "it's so comfortable" he thought "its frightening yet... enjoyable... i've never felt this way before..."
Her eyes blinked and then narrowed slightly... her eyebrows lifted...
"get romaaaantic..."
The lights clicked...
"YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" Flare ran at top speed toward the door and ramed into it with his armor on... hundreds of magical sparks shot off and he rebounded agasint the wall which had the same rebounding effect, this in turn threw him at a 45 degree angle into the next wall and he pretty much bounced around the whole hallway like a pingpong ball and then he flew through his own open door which Alice was holding open...
"heh... that's never goinng to work! You've done this... how many times now.... isnt this try number 5?"
"i can dewt... itsjust sotired need.... rest... NO must stop the she devil temtress monster beast,... ahgagagahgahgabey!eeee yeeee heheeee oooOOooh..." Flare conked out on the shaggy rug... Alice stooped down and looked at him, closing the door behidn her... "im going to arrange that the third room be taken off th ebill, we'll just stay in two rooms tonight.. alright?"
He looked at her odly.... "donchu daaaayeeerrrr...." and then fell unvonseouse...
his vision was quite blurry, he saw something pink in front of him, a red part connected to it seemed to be swaying back and forth... no wait there was more to it... the image was becoming clearer...
his eyes shot fully open...
Flare quicky backed up agaisnt the wall and then forced a hand over his eyes...
"I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING IM SORRY!"
The still soaked Alice shreiked yanking a towel off of the dresser...
"OH GOSH IM SORRY I ASSUMED YOU'D BE OUT UNTIL DAYBREAK!"
"I SWEAR I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING!"
"Then why are you reacting like that..."
"It... was... umm PREDICTABLE heay..."
Two of his fingers parted and he saw her staring straight at him now sitting on the bed with him...
"well if youre up then i don't have to sleep on the couch... MOVE OVER"
he rolled to one side as the female berserker curled up next to him gently...
"Funny I thought you'd taken a shower..."
"Oh I did..."
He motioned for the lights to magically turn off and closed his eyes... abotu 5 minutes in the dark later Flare swore he heard alice whisper in her sleep... "so did you like what you saw?"
It had to be just him.. right?
Meanwhile Death was standing in torn shorts up against a wall, scratch marks were on his body from the knees up... his shirt had been ripped off and his red hair was a mess, he was panting heavily...
"now.. LISTEN... I realize that you have ... possible FEELINGS for me and I may have some for you but..."
There was a sound similar to a cat screaching before making an attack... Kimagure in a fushia colored bikini leapt at the wall and tore at it, then turned snarling at death...
"c'mere" she said...
"I'd RATHER NOT!"
he jumped while screaming just as she knocked over a flower vase which crashed on the floor...
"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD KIMA-CHAAAN!"
"If you keep calling me that then why are you so afraid DEATH-KUN!!"
she made another jump for him... landing on the bed she contorterd her body around and then sat with her legs curled upward..
"come on" she said pervertedly to him...
"I'ts not that I don't Like you or anything But I really think that you're taking things too FAAAST"
She leapt again and slashed some more paper form the wall, the room was a mess...
"get CLEAN!" death shouted the room immediatley went back to its original form..."
"Listen... kima... I really don't want ot have to do this to you but... BIND SPELL!"
She was in mid jump and stopped like in the matrix...
Death walked around the mid air leaping critter and then slipped outer clothing back onto her... he then sat her in the bed...
"darn cat DNA i swear.."
he sat down next to her and looked her in the eyes... now you're going to just SIT like that and sleep peacibly!!
"yeeesh!"
He sat as far away in the room as he posisbly could from her ... the mana was already draining from his body... but he HAD to stay up.. he simply had to!!... wait... where were those candies... he spend summoning the liches but it wasn't anything too bad.. wait a second... THEY WERE GONE...
"kima... where did you put my Vest with all the stuff in it!!... he looked around the room... she'd HIDDEN it from him on PURPOSE... he saw her frozen image smiling wikedly..."
"no.. no nonon nonononoNONONONONONONO!"
A few hours passed, death kept trying the door to see if it would open to the actual hallway... it never seemed to want to...
Death turned to the frozen neko-jin on his bed... he then plopped down next to her looking at her with a despitefull look...
"Im going to unfreeze you BUT ONLY if you promise you'll give me back my VEST and you WONT try to go and DO ANYTHING..."
He snapped his fingers and she sat where she was... all right then... we'll just sleep... your vest is under my pillow if you want to get it... she then curled her body around the pillow in such a way that the only way under it was through SOME part of her...
"you're despicable..."
"hehe I thought you liked the looks of my eyes, they did seem to pul you in.."
"well now all I'm seeing is a smiling set of jaws bent on something that i dont think either of us are ready for..."
"all I wanted to do was kiss you..."
Deaht looked at her squinting... "you mean it?"
She sniffled... "ye-yeah..."
Death got closer to her... "well i'm sorry I didn't realize... maybe we are pretty much the same... you and I... so tell me... have you ever felt love before?"
"never... you?"
"He's my BROTHER who'd want to FEEL his own brother!"
"OH so you are related arent you..."
"DOH I just admited my own gosh darned family secre..."
She already forced her lips against his.. this lasted for quite some time before death reared his head back... "you knew all along didn't you... that the reason the Dragon Liche came was for me, That Im the only real threat... I don't see why you guys don't just kick me out of your little group... flare doesn't even like me..."
"but I like you... and alice likes anything she can leach candy off of..."
"Are you seriouse?"
"she put her arms around him..."
"give me a back rub and maybe ill be..."
"err Im not exactly a masouse..."
"if you know any form of martial art you should know were the pressure points are..."
"errr I dunnow..."
"BIND SPELL!"
Death stared at her with wide eyes and still hands... kimagure then wrapped her legs around him and hugged him as tightly as possible...
"GOTCHA!! you'd make a real nice teddy bear... lights off..."
all was quiet...
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Sleep well Heroes...
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Suddenly Flare Bashed down the door screaming with all of his might... he ran into the room and looked aorund... it was dark... too dark...
"LIGHTS ON!!"
He saw Kimagure holding death who wasn't even able to move... kimagure decided not to either... she just smiled slyly...
"AAAHAAAA!!!"
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"BIND SPELL!"
"that'll shut him up..."
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... *cricket chirp*
...err yeah.. sleep well... Heroes...
@_@ kimagure did a romance roll and got a 19, there was nothing I could do....