[fanfic] That Blasted Red Stone pt III
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ickaimpMel's still a big prat. Just had to mention that. ¬_¬
Thanks to Mel for acting as beta-reader.
Espeically since Al was being a brat and decided to switch from third person to first. I'm not asking why.
Thank you everyone who commented on the earlier chapter, will go through and fix mistakes. #^^#
***
Oh... kay... In Kaito's scale of expertise, as both the Kid and as his usual dashing self, giant suits of armour were -not- supposed to move. Especially when there was most emphatically nothing in them.
At least the giant moving suit of armour had -sounded- polite...
That was more than he could say for the little blond monkey that was shouting something incomprehensible at him, waving his fists in the air with what he could only call murderous intent. Well, at least that's what it looked like. The words didn't make any sense, but the actions certainly did. That there was a stabby death, that motion was a strangly death, okay, he wasn't sure about that one but it certainly looked painful, that was a shooty death...
The large suit of armour was starting to make soothing sounds at the blond monkey, not that they appeared to be having much of an effect. Kaito slipped out of the iron-knuckle grip and perched on the armour's giant spiky shoulders. Illuminated by the lantern behind him, he couldn't see any exits to the stone room they were in, hiding in the armour was out, so height sounded like a very good idea right now.
"He wants you to return the Philosopher's stone to him." Hakuba spoke up, staying on the other side of screaming monkey.
"It's -Pandora-." He corrected stubbornly, adjusting his stance slightly as the armour moved so that he didn't get hit by the moving head. "You can understand what they're saying?"
"I speak many languages." Hakuba commented smugly before returning his attention to the monkey, who now had a homicidal gleam to his grin. Hakuba said something in the harsh-sounding language that the other two were using, the only thing Kaito was able to understand being the word 'Pandora'.
"Pandora?" The monkey repeated, before launching into another tirade that included a finger being pointed at him and waved around.
"He says he needs to use the stone to return his brother and himself back to normal." Hakuba translated.
Kaito frowned, the stone appearing in his hand with a small puff of smoke. It had felt weird to him earlier, heavier, but he hadn't been able to examine it very well. It had stopped glowing by the time he'd opened his eyes and ducked into hiding. Now that he had a chance to look at it again, it was now twice the size it had been. The shape was different as well, more round than the rough shape he had seen before getting tackled.
The monkey screeched again, making the armour move again and make more worried soothing noises.
He looked down at the fighting... brothers, then at Hakuba, whose posture -screamed- uncertainty and a touch of fear.
"I think we need to know more."
***
This is the first time since I got turned into a suit of armour that I've been used as a stepping stool, Al mused to himself as the white clad boy clung to him. Well, maybe not a stepping stool exactly. Jungle-gym perhaps?
And it -did- keep him out of Brother's reach... Well out of reach, even if it was blasphemous to think.
The Kitty Kid said something to Saguru in that soothing sounding language, but there was a jarring note in the seriousness of the tone. Saguru cleared his throat, gaining Brother's attention. "I think we need to... talk. Understand what's going on."
Brother snarled several very impolite things that basically boiled down to 'bastard, gimme, stone and mine'. Saguru cleared his throat again and awkwardly mentioned that the person hanging on my head didn't understand what we were saying.
Which was a bit troublesome, seeing as though he could make the stone disappear and reappear at will.
Brother was not going to be happy. They had found their cure -Brother could be whole again!- but it was dangling just out of reach of their fingertips. And it was simply not polite to simply strip-search Kitty.
"We should sit down and talk." Here was probably as safe as a place was we were going to get. We'd sealed up the walls after us so no one could ambush us, just in case, and it made for a temporary safe haven. "Find out exactly what just happened. I didn't recognize that array."
It took a moment for Brother to sit down and begin to talk with Saguru, but once they did, I sat down too. Kitty Kid patted my head affectionately and slid off my shoulders, taking a seat in front of me, leaning against my legs. He reminded me of a cat, all wary eyes and graceful limbs. He looked like one too, under the shadows, his eyes were curved like a cat's too.
He reminded me of those stories that Mom used to read us, full of mystical creatures from a different place. The people who could disappear and reappear too. What where they called again?
Oh, yeah.
Fairies.
Saguru sounded a bit like an Alchemist, the way he talked. Only he didn't know any thing about Alchemy and instead of creating, he was trying to capture Kitty. Brother explained what they needed the stone for, but by then they had almost completely tuned out Kitty and me.
Kitty pulled out a deck of cards and began to play some sort of game, placing alternating colours of cards in a descending order on top of each other. It was a one person game, but he didn't seem to mind when I pointed out a possibility he had missed.
The smirk on his face when he put down the card made me realise that he had probably been teasing me. Which made it a lot more fun to look over his shoulder, looking for other opportunities. Despite the fact that he was probably sticking close to me as a handy wall to hide behind. There are occasional advantages to my size after all.
It wasn't until Saguru and Brother realised that they could only go so far in the conversation without the input of the current holder of the stone that the conversation faltered. Kitty seemed amused by their lack of information. What ever his relationship was with Saguru, close it was not.
But translating that conversation would take forever. Kitty saying something, Saguru translating it, us saying something, Saguru translating it... And neither Brother nor I still were sure how close either someone non-friendly from the Government or the Homonculi were on our tail.
Brother had his thinking face on, calmer now that he knew some of the facts. Or what little we could get at the moment. "What does he want the gem for?" He asked Saguru.
Saguru paused, and translated it for Kitty. Kitty paused, his hand hovering in the air, caught in the movement of setting a card down. Kitty's tone was perfectly calm when he answered, but the response startled Saguru, causing him to fumble over the translation.
"He says... he says he wants to destroy it."
-geh-
Interesting article on blogging ettiquite that was pointed to me. ^^;; (guilty of that, guilty of that...)
Thanks to Mel for acting as beta-reader.
Espeically since Al was being a brat and decided to switch from third person to first. I'm not asking why.
Thank you everyone who commented on the earlier chapter, will go through and fix mistakes. #^^#
***
Oh... kay... In Kaito's scale of expertise, as both the Kid and as his usual dashing self, giant suits of armour were -not- supposed to move. Especially when there was most emphatically nothing in them.
At least the giant moving suit of armour had -sounded- polite...
That was more than he could say for the little blond monkey that was shouting something incomprehensible at him, waving his fists in the air with what he could only call murderous intent. Well, at least that's what it looked like. The words didn't make any sense, but the actions certainly did. That there was a stabby death, that motion was a strangly death, okay, he wasn't sure about that one but it certainly looked painful, that was a shooty death...
The large suit of armour was starting to make soothing sounds at the blond monkey, not that they appeared to be having much of an effect. Kaito slipped out of the iron-knuckle grip and perched on the armour's giant spiky shoulders. Illuminated by the lantern behind him, he couldn't see any exits to the stone room they were in, hiding in the armour was out, so height sounded like a very good idea right now.
"He wants you to return the Philosopher's stone to him." Hakuba spoke up, staying on the other side of screaming monkey.
"It's -Pandora-." He corrected stubbornly, adjusting his stance slightly as the armour moved so that he didn't get hit by the moving head. "You can understand what they're saying?"
"I speak many languages." Hakuba commented smugly before returning his attention to the monkey, who now had a homicidal gleam to his grin. Hakuba said something in the harsh-sounding language that the other two were using, the only thing Kaito was able to understand being the word 'Pandora'.
"Pandora?" The monkey repeated, before launching into another tirade that included a finger being pointed at him and waved around.
"He says he needs to use the stone to return his brother and himself back to normal." Hakuba translated.
Kaito frowned, the stone appearing in his hand with a small puff of smoke. It had felt weird to him earlier, heavier, but he hadn't been able to examine it very well. It had stopped glowing by the time he'd opened his eyes and ducked into hiding. Now that he had a chance to look at it again, it was now twice the size it had been. The shape was different as well, more round than the rough shape he had seen before getting tackled.
The monkey screeched again, making the armour move again and make more worried soothing noises.
He looked down at the fighting... brothers, then at Hakuba, whose posture -screamed- uncertainty and a touch of fear.
"I think we need to know more."
***
This is the first time since I got turned into a suit of armour that I've been used as a stepping stool, Al mused to himself as the white clad boy clung to him. Well, maybe not a stepping stool exactly. Jungle-gym perhaps?
And it -did- keep him out of Brother's reach... Well out of reach, even if it was blasphemous to think.
The Kitty Kid said something to Saguru in that soothing sounding language, but there was a jarring note in the seriousness of the tone. Saguru cleared his throat, gaining Brother's attention. "I think we need to... talk. Understand what's going on."
Brother snarled several very impolite things that basically boiled down to 'bastard, gimme, stone and mine'. Saguru cleared his throat again and awkwardly mentioned that the person hanging on my head didn't understand what we were saying.
Which was a bit troublesome, seeing as though he could make the stone disappear and reappear at will.
Brother was not going to be happy. They had found their cure -Brother could be whole again!- but it was dangling just out of reach of their fingertips. And it was simply not polite to simply strip-search Kitty.
"We should sit down and talk." Here was probably as safe as a place was we were going to get. We'd sealed up the walls after us so no one could ambush us, just in case, and it made for a temporary safe haven. "Find out exactly what just happened. I didn't recognize that array."
It took a moment for Brother to sit down and begin to talk with Saguru, but once they did, I sat down too. Kitty Kid patted my head affectionately and slid off my shoulders, taking a seat in front of me, leaning against my legs. He reminded me of a cat, all wary eyes and graceful limbs. He looked like one too, under the shadows, his eyes were curved like a cat's too.
He reminded me of those stories that Mom used to read us, full of mystical creatures from a different place. The people who could disappear and reappear too. What where they called again?
Oh, yeah.
Fairies.
Saguru sounded a bit like an Alchemist, the way he talked. Only he didn't know any thing about Alchemy and instead of creating, he was trying to capture Kitty. Brother explained what they needed the stone for, but by then they had almost completely tuned out Kitty and me.
Kitty pulled out a deck of cards and began to play some sort of game, placing alternating colours of cards in a descending order on top of each other. It was a one person game, but he didn't seem to mind when I pointed out a possibility he had missed.
The smirk on his face when he put down the card made me realise that he had probably been teasing me. Which made it a lot more fun to look over his shoulder, looking for other opportunities. Despite the fact that he was probably sticking close to me as a handy wall to hide behind. There are occasional advantages to my size after all.
It wasn't until Saguru and Brother realised that they could only go so far in the conversation without the input of the current holder of the stone that the conversation faltered. Kitty seemed amused by their lack of information. What ever his relationship was with Saguru, close it was not.
But translating that conversation would take forever. Kitty saying something, Saguru translating it, us saying something, Saguru translating it... And neither Brother nor I still were sure how close either someone non-friendly from the Government or the Homonculi were on our tail.
Brother had his thinking face on, calmer now that he knew some of the facts. Or what little we could get at the moment. "What does he want the gem for?" He asked Saguru.
Saguru paused, and translated it for Kitty. Kitty paused, his hand hovering in the air, caught in the movement of setting a card down. Kitty's tone was perfectly calm when he answered, but the response startled Saguru, causing him to fumble over the translation.
"He says... he says he wants to destroy it."
-geh-
Interesting article on blogging ettiquite that was pointed to me. ^^;; (guilty of that, guilty of that...)
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Date: 2004-06-22 06:15 am (UTC)XD;;; I'll be a prat and bother you for 'nother chappie! The development is so great! ....Y'sure there's no plot behind that? Sounds a bit like there's one. And I wouldn't wanna be Kaitou when Ed registers "stone" and "destroy".