[Legend of Sun Knight] fic: Lessons in Demeanor - Lesson Five: Drink More Tea (end)
Title: Lessons in Demeanor - Lesson Five: Drink More Tea (end)
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 2,363
Summary: If someone were to want to become better at flirting, who better to learn it from than...the next Earth Knight, who's honest and pure? What? Something doesn't add up here?
Notes: Completely rewrote this part from scratch. Not too fond of how I resorted to scene changes (when I didn't have a single scene change before, why is my style all over the place...). I think this "lesson" was telling me that it wanted to branch off into several chapters, but I wrestled it back into its original length of one chapter, though I kind of strayed from the title of this chapter, and this ended up much longer than 1k, my original aim. Anyway, this fic is now complete. (Finally!) ♥
Previous Part
- Lesson Five: Drink More Tea -
"Oh dear, have you heard?"
"Heard what?"
"The Earth Knight and the Storm Knight are..."
"Ehhhhh? Earth Knight and Storm Knight? I never would have thought... oh all the broken hearts..."
"Silly, not them! The younger duo!"
"You mean young Earth Knight and young Storm Knight?"
"Yes, them! Have you seen how they look at each other?"
"Now that you've mentioned it, I've seen young Earth tailing young Storm! I see, so that's how it was... oh my, what a cute pair."
"I know, right? Young Earth and young Storm complement each other so well! There surely can't be any two people more different than the two of them! One is so shy and one is so bold!"
"I know exactly what you mean!
"Ahhh, shh! Bring your voice down. There's the young Earth Knight right over there. Oh my, he looks so ravished today. You know, I heard young Storm was in young Earth's room..."
“The Storm Knight must have been quite wild, I imagine!”
As the future Earth Knight passed by the two clerics, he smiled pleasantly at them, his eyes narrowing in what had to be "joy", his fists balled together and trembling in what had to be "nervousness"...
"Do you think he's on his way to see young Storm Knight?"
"That has to be it!"
Too bad for everyone involved, but young Earth Knight was actually on his way to visit young Blaze Knight, not that that was going to help the rumors at all. Perhaps gossip would even start over how young Earth was now leaping into the arms of young Blaze after being cheated on by young Storm...
The clerics giggled as they walked away, furtively darting looks at young Earth's trembling figure.
-----
"Shield of Earth!" Georgo growled, a thick layer of holy light materializing in front of him. He then drew his sword and hacked at his shield to vent his frustrations. What he'd give to have one of Elmairy's "straw" dolls right now!
Generosity sucked! Georgo had learned his lesson. He'd gone out of his way to help Ceo, yet where had that gotten him? Nowhere good! He was now the center of unwanted gossip! And he couldn't even be angry about it in public, not when he was supposed to be honest and sincere. He’d walk for less than ten steps and would already run into juicy gossip, which he normally would have wolfed down happily, except this time, the gossip was about himself!
And why oh why was Ceo the "wild" one? How in the name of the God of Light had someone come up with that kind of conclusion? Ceo, aggressive? What a joke!
When Georgo finally spotted the unmistakable blazing head of red hair that belonged to the person he'd been waiting for, he turned and yelled, "Chikus. Tavern. Now."
Chikus blinked and backed up a step. "Whoa, what's gotten into you?"
"Nothing," gritted Georgo as he slashed at his own shield again. With each slash, he also poured a steady amount of holy light into his shield to maintain it, or else it would grow too weak under his barrage and shatter. Beads of sweat rolled down the sides of his face as he concentrated on maintaining a steady out-pour of holy light at the same time as he hacked away at his own shield.
After looking Georgo up and down, Chikus whistled. "You look like you've been training the entire day. That's not nothing."
With one last strike, Georgo let his shield dissipate, the holy light scattering into a million particles as his sword sliced through without any resistance. After putting his sword away and taking a deep breath to calm himself, Georgo repeated, "Tavern, now."
"What happened to sparring? And isn't it the middle of the day right now...? Ah whatever, I'm free anyway," Chikus replied while scratching his head. He fell into step with Georgo.
Georgo nodded in satisfaction. Chikus was pretty much the best excuse for visiting the tavern, only second to Ceo whom everyone expected to be a frequenter of taverns. Chikus was loud and brash, so people would assume that Georgo was merely accompanying the hotheaded future Blaze Knight on one of his whims to visit the tavern. Now that Georgo couldn't drag Ceo along with him -- that would only make the rumors worse -- Chikus was the next best option.
-----
On the way back from the tavern, Georgo swayed as he walked and almost stumbled until Chikus managed to grab him.
"That no good Grisia," Georgo continued mumbling, hand twisting Chikus' sleeve. "I bet this is all his fault..."
After all the alcohol that Georgo had downed and all the complaints that Georgo had spouted, Chikus still didn't know what Georgo was angry about. All he caught was that Grisia had something to do with this, and that Ceo ranged from hopeless to infuriating to downright maddening.
At this very moment, the future Sun Knight happened to pass by with what Georgo would call maddening timing. When their future Sun Knight with his head of dazzling blond hair spotted them, a large gasp could be heard. Those blue eyes of his darted between them before the future Sun Knight stepped forward and addressed the future Blaze Knight with utmost severity, his eyebrows furrowed in concern.
“My dear brother Chikus, the benevolent God of Light teaches us not to disturb the wind and the earth if they so wish to unite together. There is no room for flames to come between them, for flames would only scorch the earth and incite the wind.”
Once he finished talking, the skinny stick of a Sun Knight smiled benignly at a large-eyed Chikus.
“Huh, what?” asked Chikus in confusion. “I didn’t get any of that.”
“Ceo and Georgo are...” Grisia leaned in and whispered into Chikus’ ears, the latter whose eyes grew even wider if possible. “So don’t come between them!” finished Grisia in a "kind" voice that was anything but kind.
"Grisia..." growled Georgo, hand twisting Chikus' sleeve even more as he pulled himself up. He stumbled forward away from Chikus and grabbed Grisia's collar. "You...!"
Eyes large, Grisia exclaimed, "Brother Georgo! Though sunlight may be resplendent and stormy weather too ferocious to navigate, you must weather it through and must not stray!"
"You are so doing this on purpose!"
"What might brother Georgo be insinuating? Grisia is doing no such-"
"You are doing this on purpose!!!" Georgo practically screeched as he shook Grisia back and forth like a rag doll.
"...no I'm not," Grisia hurriedly said, but Georgo wouldn't stop shaking him. "Stop messing up my clothes!"
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not! Let go of me!"
"Yes you are!"
"NO I'M NOT!"
"YES YOU ARE!"
"NO I'M NOT!!!"
"YES YOU ARE!!!!"
"CAN I LEAVE NOW?" bellowed Chikus.
-----
Georgo was not Georgo if a rumor of this degree could defeat him. Not even Grisia's meddling would be able to keep him down! After his trip to the tavern, Georgo felt more lucid than ever. Taking his frustration out on his Shield of Earth was a waste of energy, and downing his sorrows in alcohol was stupid. Why should he avoid female company just because of a rumor? He'd only be missing out!
Resolved, Georgo immediately continued on like he always did.
-----
This was more like it. This was what he should have been doing all along, entertaining a lovely lady instead of coaching a hopeless guy like Ceo or seething over rumors.
"H-Have a seat," Georgo said, gesturing toward the bed. His room was fairly large for a knight in training, but he did not believe in chairs, or more like, he had put all of them away. The cleric hesitated for a moment before stepping over to the bed and sitting down, smoothing her robes as the bed dipped in.
Georgo smiled shyly at her and busied his hands with setting out the saucers and tea cups. Next, he brought out the tea kettle and his containers of tea leaves, placing them on the small table next to his bed.
"That's quite a collection you have there," the female cleric exclaimed. She bent over from the bed to study the various teas, giving him a perfect view as she selected one of the teas.
While they waited for the water to boil, they made small talk, and Georgo nonchalantly sat down on the bed too. Like Georgo had predicted, she was extremely curious about what was going on between him and Ceo, which provided him the perfect opportunity to turn the situation around into an advantageous one.
"If I may be so bold as to ask," the cleric started, "are you and young Storm Knight..."
"C-Ceo, you m-mean?" asked Georgo, eyes darting at the cleric before he looked down at his hand and then back at her face. "U-Um, he's been h-helping me l-learn n-not to s-stutter so much, and how to be m-more natural around g-girls..." he trailed off, blushing on command as he darted his eyes at the cleric again.
"Oh!" the cleric's cheeks reddened. "Is that what's been going on? I completely misunderstood. What good friends you are!"
"C-Ceo's been a g-great help," Georgo said. "T-Though I s-still can't s-stop stuttering and..."
The cleric hurriedly reassured him, "Don't worry, practice will help!"
"I-I can p-practice speaking on m-my own time, b-but I-I s-still can't h-help feeling nervous a-around girls..."
She blinked at him before a smile smile came across her face. "Why don't I help you with that?"
"W-Would you?" he gasped.
"It would be my pleasure."
"Oh, t-thank you so much," he said all in one breath, grabbing her hands in gratitude before he hurriedly dropped them in chastisement, his eyes large, shock plastered on his entire face over what he had just done.
The cleric giggled and placed her hand over his. "This isn't bad for a first step."
"O-Oh..."
The whistling of the damn tea kettle broke them apart. Georgo almost scowled, but since the cleric had already scooted a respectful distance away from him, woken up by that shrill shriek, he served the tea, hoping that would loosen her up again.
They chatted over the tea. Georgo gradually slid closer. She also placed her hand on his again. Things were progressing nicely... and then came knocking on his door.
What now?! Go away!
Whoever was at the door, however, was persistent and refused to heed Georgo's silent command. It couldn't be Chikus since he'd kick Georgo's door down without knocking. Could it be that damn Grisia once again?
"Ah, I should take my leave now," the cleric said, finally realizing that spending time in a boy's room like this was a little scandalous, even if that boy had the reputation of being honest and sincere.
"I-I have s-some more s-snacks! Y-You're welcome to s-stay longer. I l-like the company!" Georgo said quickly as he walked toward the door, hoping that he could shoo the person at the door away without too much trouble and keep the cleric from leaving at the same time.
As he opened the door, ready to be greeted by Grisia's infuriating smile, Georgo was instead greeted by Ceo's... infuriating smile.
The situation was startling familiar -- he had been interrupted by Ceo last time too when he thought the culprit to be Grisia -- but he'd have expected Ceo to dart his eyes at him in nervousness instead of smiling at him so infuriatingly!
Something was off!
"Ceo?" asked Georgo, completely not understanding why Ceo was even here and why he was smiling so blindingly.
"Um, thank you for the tea, young Earth Knight," the cleric said from behind. "I'll be taking my leave now!"
Georgo glanced at Ceo, certain that Ceo's confident demeanor would vanish without a trace now that he was face-to-face with a female cleric, but instead of what Georgo expected, Ceo turned in the general vicinity of the cleric and...winked!
The cleric swooned. Georgo could tell that all thoughts of helping the young Earth Knight had flown out of her mind. Now, all she could see was young Storm!
Then, Georgo felt a hand on his shoulder. Georgo was seething and watching the cleric blush all the way up to her ears when he felt this hand on his shoulder. Immediately, his head snapped back. He stared at Ceo with wide eyes.
Ceo leaned in closer and whispered, "Thanks Georgo. I really wanted to thank you! I think I've figured things out! If my eyesight is so blurry that I can't see the girls, I'll be fine! And then to keep them away, my teacher has always said that girls will squeal until they faint when they see two guys standing very closely to each other. I never knew how true his words were!"
The cleric behind them squealed. "Oh my, oh my! I won't bother you two any longer!"
She obviously had not heard Ceo's words and had only seen his action of whispering...into Georgo's ears.
Ceo's smile didn't drop from his face as he gave another wink to the cleric before she bounced out of the room, giddy with what she had witnessed.
"Wow, it's really just like my teacher claimed!" Ceo said.
Georgo stared, stunned, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
Then, he grabbed Ceo's collar.
"When I had you practicing whispering compliments," Georgo growled lowly and slowly, enunciating every single word clearly, "I did not mean whispering things like this into my ear!"
-----
Rumors did not die very easily, but they did morph very easily.
"Hey hey, have you heard? I heard that young Earth and young Storm are an item!"
"No way!"
"It all started when young Storm could not keep his eyes off of young Earth..."
"Alas, once young Earth gave into young Storm's charms, that young Storm cheated on young Earth, so young Earth escaped into young Blaze's arms!"
"Oh yes, and I heard that young Sun was actually young Earth's true love, so young Blaze and young Sun got into a fight over young Earth!"
"But I thought the Sun Knight may only love the God of Light and may never love women?"
"Precisely because he may never love women! You know how the Sun Knight and the Earth Knight are best friends!"
"Oh, but listen to this! In the end, young Storm apologized to young Earth, who fell into his arms and accepted his apology wholeheartedly with his magnanimous personality!"
"Sigh, what a beautiful story."
"No way, look, look! It's young Storm! Isn't he just so handsome~."
"Kyaa, look at that wink!"
"Weren't you a fan of young Earth before this?"
"Yeaaah, but young Storm is so much cooler!"
-----
"...Ceo, I, Georgo Earth, am never going to help you ever again!"
-----
the end
Aaaaand that's a wrap! \o/ I should never start multi-parters... they take me a ridiculously long time to finish...
Poor Georgo. I just love making fun of him so much. He brings a great dynamic to the cast of LSK, who are mostly all more serious and upstanding than he is.
...the ending turned out fairly different than what I had planned. XD; I wasn't expecting so many rumors!
Fandom: The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 2,363
Summary: If someone were to want to become better at flirting, who better to learn it from than...the next Earth Knight, who's honest and pure? What? Something doesn't add up here?
Notes: Completely rewrote this part from scratch. Not too fond of how I resorted to scene changes (when I didn't have a single scene change before, why is my style all over the place...). I think this "lesson" was telling me that it wanted to branch off into several chapters, but I wrestled it back into its original length of one chapter, though I kind of strayed from the title of this chapter, and this ended up much longer than 1k, my original aim. Anyway, this fic is now complete. (Finally!) ♥
Previous Part
- Lesson Five: Drink More Tea -
"Oh dear, have you heard?"
"Heard what?"
"The Earth Knight and the Storm Knight are..."
"Ehhhhh? Earth Knight and Storm Knight? I never would have thought... oh all the broken hearts..."
"Silly, not them! The younger duo!"
"You mean young Earth Knight and young Storm Knight?"
"Yes, them! Have you seen how they look at each other?"
"Now that you've mentioned it, I've seen young Earth tailing young Storm! I see, so that's how it was... oh my, what a cute pair."
"I know, right? Young Earth and young Storm complement each other so well! There surely can't be any two people more different than the two of them! One is so shy and one is so bold!"
"I know exactly what you mean!
"Ahhh, shh! Bring your voice down. There's the young Earth Knight right over there. Oh my, he looks so ravished today. You know, I heard young Storm was in young Earth's room..."
“The Storm Knight must have been quite wild, I imagine!”
As the future Earth Knight passed by the two clerics, he smiled pleasantly at them, his eyes narrowing in what had to be "joy", his fists balled together and trembling in what had to be "nervousness"...
"Do you think he's on his way to see young Storm Knight?"
"That has to be it!"
Too bad for everyone involved, but young Earth Knight was actually on his way to visit young Blaze Knight, not that that was going to help the rumors at all. Perhaps gossip would even start over how young Earth was now leaping into the arms of young Blaze after being cheated on by young Storm...
The clerics giggled as they walked away, furtively darting looks at young Earth's trembling figure.
-----
"Shield of Earth!" Georgo growled, a thick layer of holy light materializing in front of him. He then drew his sword and hacked at his shield to vent his frustrations. What he'd give to have one of Elmairy's "straw" dolls right now!
Generosity sucked! Georgo had learned his lesson. He'd gone out of his way to help Ceo, yet where had that gotten him? Nowhere good! He was now the center of unwanted gossip! And he couldn't even be angry about it in public, not when he was supposed to be honest and sincere. He’d walk for less than ten steps and would already run into juicy gossip, which he normally would have wolfed down happily, except this time, the gossip was about himself!
And why oh why was Ceo the "wild" one? How in the name of the God of Light had someone come up with that kind of conclusion? Ceo, aggressive? What a joke!
When Georgo finally spotted the unmistakable blazing head of red hair that belonged to the person he'd been waiting for, he turned and yelled, "Chikus. Tavern. Now."
Chikus blinked and backed up a step. "Whoa, what's gotten into you?"
"Nothing," gritted Georgo as he slashed at his own shield again. With each slash, he also poured a steady amount of holy light into his shield to maintain it, or else it would grow too weak under his barrage and shatter. Beads of sweat rolled down the sides of his face as he concentrated on maintaining a steady out-pour of holy light at the same time as he hacked away at his own shield.
After looking Georgo up and down, Chikus whistled. "You look like you've been training the entire day. That's not nothing."
With one last strike, Georgo let his shield dissipate, the holy light scattering into a million particles as his sword sliced through without any resistance. After putting his sword away and taking a deep breath to calm himself, Georgo repeated, "Tavern, now."
"What happened to sparring? And isn't it the middle of the day right now...? Ah whatever, I'm free anyway," Chikus replied while scratching his head. He fell into step with Georgo.
Georgo nodded in satisfaction. Chikus was pretty much the best excuse for visiting the tavern, only second to Ceo whom everyone expected to be a frequenter of taverns. Chikus was loud and brash, so people would assume that Georgo was merely accompanying the hotheaded future Blaze Knight on one of his whims to visit the tavern. Now that Georgo couldn't drag Ceo along with him -- that would only make the rumors worse -- Chikus was the next best option.
-----
On the way back from the tavern, Georgo swayed as he walked and almost stumbled until Chikus managed to grab him.
"That no good Grisia," Georgo continued mumbling, hand twisting Chikus' sleeve. "I bet this is all his fault..."
After all the alcohol that Georgo had downed and all the complaints that Georgo had spouted, Chikus still didn't know what Georgo was angry about. All he caught was that Grisia had something to do with this, and that Ceo ranged from hopeless to infuriating to downright maddening.
At this very moment, the future Sun Knight happened to pass by with what Georgo would call maddening timing. When their future Sun Knight with his head of dazzling blond hair spotted them, a large gasp could be heard. Those blue eyes of his darted between them before the future Sun Knight stepped forward and addressed the future Blaze Knight with utmost severity, his eyebrows furrowed in concern.
“My dear brother Chikus, the benevolent God of Light teaches us not to disturb the wind and the earth if they so wish to unite together. There is no room for flames to come between them, for flames would only scorch the earth and incite the wind.”
Once he finished talking, the skinny stick of a Sun Knight smiled benignly at a large-eyed Chikus.
“Huh, what?” asked Chikus in confusion. “I didn’t get any of that.”
“Ceo and Georgo are...” Grisia leaned in and whispered into Chikus’ ears, the latter whose eyes grew even wider if possible. “So don’t come between them!” finished Grisia in a "kind" voice that was anything but kind.
"Grisia..." growled Georgo, hand twisting Chikus' sleeve even more as he pulled himself up. He stumbled forward away from Chikus and grabbed Grisia's collar. "You...!"
Eyes large, Grisia exclaimed, "Brother Georgo! Though sunlight may be resplendent and stormy weather too ferocious to navigate, you must weather it through and must not stray!"
"You are so doing this on purpose!"
"What might brother Georgo be insinuating? Grisia is doing no such-"
"You are doing this on purpose!!!" Georgo practically screeched as he shook Grisia back and forth like a rag doll.
"...no I'm not," Grisia hurriedly said, but Georgo wouldn't stop shaking him. "Stop messing up my clothes!"
"Yes you are!"
"No I'm not! Let go of me!"
"Yes you are!"
"NO I'M NOT!"
"YES YOU ARE!"
"NO I'M NOT!!!"
"YES YOU ARE!!!!"
"CAN I LEAVE NOW?" bellowed Chikus.
-----
Georgo was not Georgo if a rumor of this degree could defeat him. Not even Grisia's meddling would be able to keep him down! After his trip to the tavern, Georgo felt more lucid than ever. Taking his frustration out on his Shield of Earth was a waste of energy, and downing his sorrows in alcohol was stupid. Why should he avoid female company just because of a rumor? He'd only be missing out!
Resolved, Georgo immediately continued on like he always did.
-----
This was more like it. This was what he should have been doing all along, entertaining a lovely lady instead of coaching a hopeless guy like Ceo or seething over rumors.
"H-Have a seat," Georgo said, gesturing toward the bed. His room was fairly large for a knight in training, but he did not believe in chairs, or more like, he had put all of them away. The cleric hesitated for a moment before stepping over to the bed and sitting down, smoothing her robes as the bed dipped in.
Georgo smiled shyly at her and busied his hands with setting out the saucers and tea cups. Next, he brought out the tea kettle and his containers of tea leaves, placing them on the small table next to his bed.
"That's quite a collection you have there," the female cleric exclaimed. She bent over from the bed to study the various teas, giving him a perfect view as she selected one of the teas.
While they waited for the water to boil, they made small talk, and Georgo nonchalantly sat down on the bed too. Like Georgo had predicted, she was extremely curious about what was going on between him and Ceo, which provided him the perfect opportunity to turn the situation around into an advantageous one.
"If I may be so bold as to ask," the cleric started, "are you and young Storm Knight..."
"C-Ceo, you m-mean?" asked Georgo, eyes darting at the cleric before he looked down at his hand and then back at her face. "U-Um, he's been h-helping me l-learn n-not to s-stutter so much, and how to be m-more natural around g-girls..." he trailed off, blushing on command as he darted his eyes at the cleric again.
"Oh!" the cleric's cheeks reddened. "Is that what's been going on? I completely misunderstood. What good friends you are!"
"C-Ceo's been a g-great help," Georgo said. "T-Though I s-still can't s-stop stuttering and..."
The cleric hurriedly reassured him, "Don't worry, practice will help!"
"I-I can p-practice speaking on m-my own time, b-but I-I s-still can't h-help feeling nervous a-around girls..."
She blinked at him before a smile smile came across her face. "Why don't I help you with that?"
"W-Would you?" he gasped.
"It would be my pleasure."
"Oh, t-thank you so much," he said all in one breath, grabbing her hands in gratitude before he hurriedly dropped them in chastisement, his eyes large, shock plastered on his entire face over what he had just done.
The cleric giggled and placed her hand over his. "This isn't bad for a first step."
"O-Oh..."
The whistling of the damn tea kettle broke them apart. Georgo almost scowled, but since the cleric had already scooted a respectful distance away from him, woken up by that shrill shriek, he served the tea, hoping that would loosen her up again.
They chatted over the tea. Georgo gradually slid closer. She also placed her hand on his again. Things were progressing nicely... and then came knocking on his door.
What now?! Go away!
Whoever was at the door, however, was persistent and refused to heed Georgo's silent command. It couldn't be Chikus since he'd kick Georgo's door down without knocking. Could it be that damn Grisia once again?
"Ah, I should take my leave now," the cleric said, finally realizing that spending time in a boy's room like this was a little scandalous, even if that boy had the reputation of being honest and sincere.
"I-I have s-some more s-snacks! Y-You're welcome to s-stay longer. I l-like the company!" Georgo said quickly as he walked toward the door, hoping that he could shoo the person at the door away without too much trouble and keep the cleric from leaving at the same time.
As he opened the door, ready to be greeted by Grisia's infuriating smile, Georgo was instead greeted by Ceo's... infuriating smile.
The situation was startling familiar -- he had been interrupted by Ceo last time too when he thought the culprit to be Grisia -- but he'd have expected Ceo to dart his eyes at him in nervousness instead of smiling at him so infuriatingly!
Something was off!
"Ceo?" asked Georgo, completely not understanding why Ceo was even here and why he was smiling so blindingly.
"Um, thank you for the tea, young Earth Knight," the cleric said from behind. "I'll be taking my leave now!"
Georgo glanced at Ceo, certain that Ceo's confident demeanor would vanish without a trace now that he was face-to-face with a female cleric, but instead of what Georgo expected, Ceo turned in the general vicinity of the cleric and...winked!
The cleric swooned. Georgo could tell that all thoughts of helping the young Earth Knight had flown out of her mind. Now, all she could see was young Storm!
Then, Georgo felt a hand on his shoulder. Georgo was seething and watching the cleric blush all the way up to her ears when he felt this hand on his shoulder. Immediately, his head snapped back. He stared at Ceo with wide eyes.
Ceo leaned in closer and whispered, "Thanks Georgo. I really wanted to thank you! I think I've figured things out! If my eyesight is so blurry that I can't see the girls, I'll be fine! And then to keep them away, my teacher has always said that girls will squeal until they faint when they see two guys standing very closely to each other. I never knew how true his words were!"
The cleric behind them squealed. "Oh my, oh my! I won't bother you two any longer!"
She obviously had not heard Ceo's words and had only seen his action of whispering...into Georgo's ears.
Ceo's smile didn't drop from his face as he gave another wink to the cleric before she bounced out of the room, giddy with what she had witnessed.
"Wow, it's really just like my teacher claimed!" Ceo said.
Georgo stared, stunned, unable to comprehend what had just happened.
Then, he grabbed Ceo's collar.
"When I had you practicing whispering compliments," Georgo growled lowly and slowly, enunciating every single word clearly, "I did not mean whispering things like this into my ear!"
-----
Rumors did not die very easily, but they did morph very easily.
"Hey hey, have you heard? I heard that young Earth and young Storm are an item!"
"No way!"
"It all started when young Storm could not keep his eyes off of young Earth..."
"Alas, once young Earth gave into young Storm's charms, that young Storm cheated on young Earth, so young Earth escaped into young Blaze's arms!"
"Oh yes, and I heard that young Sun was actually young Earth's true love, so young Blaze and young Sun got into a fight over young Earth!"
"But I thought the Sun Knight may only love the God of Light and may never love women?"
"Precisely because he may never love women! You know how the Sun Knight and the Earth Knight are best friends!"
"Oh, but listen to this! In the end, young Storm apologized to young Earth, who fell into his arms and accepted his apology wholeheartedly with his magnanimous personality!"
"Sigh, what a beautiful story."
"No way, look, look! It's young Storm! Isn't he just so handsome~."
"Kyaa, look at that wink!"
"Weren't you a fan of young Earth before this?"
"Yeaaah, but young Storm is so much cooler!"
-----
"...Ceo, I, Georgo Earth, am never going to help you ever again!"
-----
the end
Aaaaand that's a wrap! \o/ I should never start multi-parters... they take me a ridiculously long time to finish...
Poor Georgo. I just love making fun of him so much. He brings a great dynamic to the cast of LSK, who are mostly all more serious and upstanding than he is.
...the ending turned out fairly different than what I had planned. XD; I wasn't expecting so many rumors!