[1/2 Prince x Legend of Sun Knight] fic: Invincible, that is the Legend - Chapter 2

Jun 24, 2012 10:00

Title: Invincible, that is the Legend - Chapter 2
Fandom: 1/2 Prince x The Legend of Sun Knight
Words: 3,343
Summary: On their way to finish the Dictator, the Execution Squad's "invincible battleship" crashes, separating everyone, landing them on foreign soil. "Look Aldrizzt, an elf! I want her to join us." "Neo, that's not a her."
Notes: Not exactly the most interesting chapter in my opinion... or maybe I just don't like writing from Neo's POV. Aldrizzt's was so much easier to write for me! XD;; More notes at the end!

Previous chapter: Invincible Lack of Teammates, or in Which We Get Introduced to Neo and Aldrizzt (Who Really Do Lack Teammates)

Chapter 2: Invincible Communication Through Food and Fighting

The elf was still staring at him, star-struck, even as Neo stepped forward to give him a hand. Neo received a stare for his effort before the elf blinked and accepted his help. After Neo pulled the elf up, he was awarded with a winning smile.

He's quite the charmer too, Neo thought, with a smile that even rivals my student's.

Neo had no shortage of admirers and lovers, with his lovers numbering at least fifty, if not a hundred. Even at a young age, his fair hair and azure eyes had always garnered him endless attention, and his charisma had reinforced the deal. When he became the Sun Knight, the attention he'd attracted exploded even further, the public's adoration and awe following him wherever he went. In response to all of the attention, he'd taken to flirting like a fish to water. A charming smile was never far from his face during his time as the Sun Knight, compliments falling easily from his lips. If not for his appearance, he would have easily been mistaken for the footloose Storm Knight.

Although the whole continent knew that the Sun Knight was only supposed to love the God of Light and was not supposed to ever love women...that had never stopped Neo from accepting people's advances or initiating his own.

He was Neo, and that meant he didn't let rules bind him.

The point was, he was very experienced with attention, and he was especially familiar with that kind of attention. The elf before him had definitely been checking him out with those pretty red eyes of his.

"It's not polite to talk as if he's not there," Aldrizzt admonished Neo without answering Neo's question, even though Neo's question hadn't been rhetorical. It wasn't his fault elves looked so androgynous!

Aldrizzt turned toward the elf and said, "Sorry about that."

Neo snorted, hoping Aldrizzt's kindness wasn't going to waste. This was why Neo couldn't let Aldrizzt wander off by himself. He didn't know how Aldrizzt had been able to survive so long with his goody-goody nature that was begging for other people to take advantage of him. He sure would have made a fine Leaf Knight. The only problem was that he didn't believe in the God of Light. That, and the fact that he was a dark elf, made him an unlikely candidate for the Leaf Knight, but Neo truly believed that there were few people more suited to taking care of others than Aldrizzt.

The elf merely glanced between Neo and Aldrizzt, the smile he'd flashed Neo replaced with a frown. He did not respond to or acknowledge Aldrizzt's apology.

Aldrizzt stiffened and pulled his hood down further. When his sleeve slipped, he hastily dropped his hand to cover his dark skin.

Neo watched all of this without a comment. He arched one eyebrow and continued speaking to Aldrizzt as if the elf weren't there, just to make a point. "Well, if he doesn't like it, then he should speak up for himself." He paused, sparing the elf another look before he added, "And he should stop staring at me."

Because the elf was staring, again. Depending on who was currently speaking, he would swivel and stare at that person. This time, the gaze was more confused than appreciative, which Neo didn't find very interesting.

Even with Neo's blunt words, the white-haired elf did not speak a single word. He righted himself, half-leaning against the bark of the tree, before he took a few steps forward. His gaze flitted between Neo and Aldrizzt, and then he looked around at his surroundings, eyebrows furrowing as he did so.

After that, the elf opened his mouth, and Neo understood why the elf currently looked so confused and why he hadn't responded to them.

"Howay reaay ouyay?" the elf asked, gesturing at Neo and Aldrizzt. Then, he looked around him. "Hereway maay Iay? Siay histay hetay Orthernnay Ontinentcay?"

That sounded completely foreign to Neo's ears, and even after the elf had spoken, Neo still thought him to be androgynous. No male had such a dulcet voice!

"Aldrizzt, translate," Neo said. He stepped aside so that Aldrizzt and the elf could see each other unobstructed.

"I told you before that I don't know the elven language either," Aldrizzt replied. "It's not like dark elves and elves ever have time to stand around and chit-chat with each other, not when they would sooner kill each other..."

"What! I thought I told you to learn!" Neo exclaimed. Aldrizzt had plenty of time to learn! "If you had heeded my advice, then we wouldn't be having communication problems here."

Although Neo couldn't see Aldrizzt's face with how he had his hood pulled up, he thought he saw a flicker of white. Aldrizzt was rolling his eyes at him again.

"In case you don't recall, I was busy learning the Spell of Flight," Aldrizzt said dryly.

"Oday ithereay foay ouyay nderstanduay emay?" asked the elf urgently, cutting into the conversation. He gestured at Neo and Aldrizzt and then at himself.

Eyes flicking toward the elf, Neo said, "I have no clue what he's spouting, but it sounds like a question."

Aldrizzt frowned. "Actually, that doesn't sound elven either. I wonder what language he's speaking. He looks like he's wondering if we understand him though."

A look of frustration flashed across the elf's face. He pushed past Neo and Aldrizzt, stumbling forward, seemingly determined to head somewhere.

Neo and Aldrizzt shared a look before they followed the elf to see where he would go. It wasn't like they had anywhere pressing they needed to be, and Neo still very much wanted the elf to join their team, despite communication problems.

All that truly mattered to Neo was whether or not the elf knew how to fight, and if he did, how well he could fight.

Neo planned to find out.

-----

Hours later and five dead slimes later, Neo concluded that the elf definitely knew how to fight. Although slimes were basic creatures, the elf had plowed through them as if they were nothing. Neo had whistled appreciatively, especially over how the elf had sliced through them cleanly with a flick of his black blade. The elf's fighting style wasn't a style Neo had ever seen before. That fact made Neo's hands itch. He watched greedily, impressed.

As he dealt with his own slimes, Neo told the elf, "We should have a duel sometime."

The elf flicked his red eyes at Neo and grinned. "Ou'reyay uiteqay aay ighterfay ootay!"

"Hah, I like your fighting spirit!" Neo exclaimed.

After that, the two of them barged forward together, cutting down branches and chopping down all creatures stupid enough to cross their paths.

Behind them, Aldrizzt shook his head in exasperation. "You almost seem like you're having an actual conversation even though you just spoke gibberish to each other."

"It's the language of fighting, Aldrizzt, the language of fighting!" came Neo's response.

When a boar charged at them next, the elf made quick work of the boar, blood splattering all over his clothes. The clothes hadn't been all that clean beforehand, but now he had blood splatter to complete the outfit, and that was much harder to wash off than dirt.

The elf grinned, licked his lips, and tossed his head. His white hair almost seemed to gleam amongst all the scarlet. Clearly, he was enjoying himself.

Neo whistled once again, dropping to a stop next to the boar. "Looks like we have lunch taken care of." He hadn't even needed to go out of his way to hunt. Their lunch had delivered itself right to them.

Aldrizzt nodded, but his attention wasn't on the boar. Rather, his attention was on the elf, who was now covered in blood.

Neo caught Aldrizzt's gaze. Aldrizzt still had his hood up, but Neo doubted the elf would care. It excited Neo that they had come across an elf who was not quite like any other elf in the entire continent. Neo had heard that elves were the friendliest and kindest bunch out there (with the exception to their kind demeanor being their attitude toward dark elves). If they could help it, they wouldn't even hurt a fly, preferring to live harmoniously with nature. This elf in front of them? If he was "friendly" and "kind" and "wouldn't even hurt a fly", then Neo was a saint.

When the elf turned to look over his shoulder, Neo nodded at the boar and then mimed eating while Aldrizzt simply gestured at the elf's clothes and said, "I hope you know how to do laundry."

The elf nodded at Neo to indicate his understanding before he tilted his head to the side, shrugging in incomprehension at Aldrizzt. He swung his blade down, red blood flicking off his weapon.

Neo heard Aldrizzt sigh. Really, was an additional set of clothes all that much of a bother? All Aldrizzt had to do was toss everything in together! It wasn't like washing clothes was all that difficult!

-----

Behind them hovered the carcass of the boar that Aldrizzt had elevated using the Spell of Flight. When Aldrizzt had cast the spell, the elf's eyebrows had shot up before he casually said, "Oolcay," which Neo had taken to mean he approved. Which was a given of course, since the Spell of Flight was a damn useful spell in Neo's opinion. Otherwise, why would he have pestered, ahem, suggested Aldrizzt to learn it?

After they located a stream, or well, after Aldrizzt located a stream (since both Neo and the elf had just barged on without a care for the direction they took), Aldrizzt lowered the boar down to the ground. Immediately, Neo and the elf headed toward the stream to wash their weapons, leaving Aldrizzt behind to gather twigs for their campfire.

"That's quite some blade you have," commented Neo when they were at the stream. He gestured at the black blade the elf was currently washing. Streams of red dyed the river, branching out from its source.

"Histay siay ymay Lackbay Aoday," the elf said.

Shaking his head, Neo said, "I still don't understand a single word, but want to trade?" He pointed at the black blade in the elf's hand and then lifted his own sword to show the elf.

Glancing down at the weapons in their hands, the elf shrugged and held his black blade out, hilt first.

With a wide grin, Neo accepted the weapon. He handed his own weapon over, a high quality blade. It paled in comparison to the Divine Sun Sword, but few blades could live up to that one (and Neo didn't need the best blade out there to defeat any and all opponents that came his way). Still, he appreciated good blades.

Lifting the slim black blade, Neo gave a few experimental swings. He liked the feel. Readying his stance, he asked, "Duel?"

"Uresay," the elf replied, grinning in response.

They flew at each other, weapons clashing.

If Neo hadn't already wanted the elf to join their team, he definitely wanted the elf to join their team now. It wasn't every day that he came across someone who liked the thrill of battle just as much as he did, and it wasn't every day that he found someone who could keep up with him. They practically spoke the same language!

"Don't kill each other," Aldrizzt said dryly. "And remember his injuries, Neo."

"Yeah, yeah, make sure the boar's done cooking when we're finished!" was the only response Aldrizzt received.

-----

"I told you two to be careful," Aldrizzt nagged with enough concern to put the Leaf Knight to shame.

Neo watched as his teammate fretted over the elf who was now sporting a large gash across his upper arm where Neo had nicked him. The elf had paled when that had happened, and even now he was still visibly shaken.

It boggled Neo's mind that the elf was so bothered by the injury. The injury wasn't even a severe one! Neo made a face. "I was careful. Besides, I can easily heal this."

Waving his hand, he gathered some holy element, enough for the spell he had in mind. "Minor Heal!"

The healing spell landed gently on the elf's injury, sealing the gash.

See? Simple.

The elf looked at his arm that was now completely healed and then at Neo. "Hankstay," he said. "Iay idn'tday nowkay ouyay ereway aay ealerhay. Iay houghttay ouyay ereway aay arriorway."

"No problem," Neo replied, thinking that the elf was probably thanking him, though he had no idea what else the elf had spouted.

"Are you okay?" asked Aldrizzt in concern.

Staring down at the ground, the white-haired elf said, "Tiay urthay aay otlay. Hyway idday tiay urthay osay uchmay? Histay oesn'tday akemay ensesay." He sounded like he was working out his thoughts in the open. Neo hoped he wasn't expecting a response.

The elf closed his eyes, piercing red hidden for the time being. "Iay hinktay Iay eednay otay oglay ffoay. Omething'ssay otnay ightray."

Immediately after he finished speaking, his eyebrows knitted together, and he shouted what had to be an expletive in his language. Eyes shooting open, he glanced around him in disbelief. Wild, red eyes sought Neo and Aldrizzt out. In a panicked voice, the elf blurted, "Iay an'tcay oglay ffoay!"

He gestured at his head and made some sort of motion that looked like he was trying to take something off of his head but had failed to do so. Neo pursed his lips, not knowing what the elf was trying to tell them. After all, there was nothing there for the elf to take off.

"Easy there," Aldrizzt said, trying to calm the elf down. "Panicking won't help us understand you."

The elf wrung his hands and plopped down on the ground. He cradled his head with his hand, eyes darting around him as if he were seeing his surroundings for the first time. When his eyes started looking moist, Neo immediately said, "You know what, food sounds really good at the moment."

Dealing with a distressed elf was so not his forte. He hated it whenever anyone cried! It had been bad enough whenever he went too far and accidentally made Grisia cry -- Grisia had been a child then, so Neo figured it was a right of his to cry -- but this elf was clearly a grown-up! Or wait, was this elf still a child...? Age was so hard to tell with elves!

Taking a skewer of roasted meat, Neo shoved it in the elf's face to stop the incoming tears.

To the surprise of everyone present (yes, even the elf) it wasn't the elf who responded to Neo's offer of food. Instead, a plump, white blob burst out of the elf's clothes and gobbled the roasted meat in one gulp.

Neo and Aldrizzt stared.

Rightfully so.

Neither had any idea what they were currently staring at.

Was it a slime? It couldn't be. Slimes weren't white and opaque. More importantly, slimes didn't eat meat.

"Aldrizzt, I think I might be seeing things," Neo said as he stared down at the white blob that was currently munching on the meat that Aldrizzt had spent so much time roasting for them.

"No, you're not, not unless I'm seeing things too," Aldrizzt replied. He too, was staring down at the white, carnivorous, blob.

The elf's reaction was different. At the sight of the white blob, the elf's eyes lit up. He gave a cry of joy and hugged the white blob before he started blabbing at it nonstop. The white blob also spoke back in the same language.

"Huh," Neo said with one eyebrow raised. He'd seen plenty of odd sights before, but a white blob that looked like it could be a slime of some sort...capable of speech? Now, that qualified to be at the top of the list of "odd".

His eyebrow disappeared further into his hairline when the white blob turned to him and Aldrizzt and bowed. Then, the white blob bounded up onto the elf's head and said, "Meat-bunbun is thankful. Thank you for taking care of Mama."

"You can speak," Neo said dryly, no longer needing to look down at the blob, since it was now on the elf's head.

"Yes," the white blob nodded and did a little hop on the elf's head. The elf didn't seem to mind getting his head pounded on. "Meatbun knows all languages!" the blob said proudly, cute little eyes blinking at them.

"You're Meatbun?" questioned Aldrizzt.

The white blob, Meatbun, nodded with its entire body. "Yup!"

"What in the world are you?" Neo asked.

"Meatbun is a meatbun!"

Well thanks, that tells me so much, Neo thought to himself.

"I believe a meatbun is a type of food," Aldrizzt said. "Possibly a bun filled with meat, given the name?"

"Yup!" Meatbun answered. "Meat-bunbun loves to eat meatbuns!"

Neither Neo nor Aldrizzt knew what to say to that.

"Wait," Neo said not a moment later, recalling what Meatbun had first said to them, "did you just call the elf 'Mama'?"

"Mama is Mama~!" Meatbun said, hopping up and down on the elf's head.

"You sure he's a guy, Aldrizzt?" Neo said. "I hate to bring this up again, but maybe you were wrong. That thing is clearly calling him Mama."

"Meatbun is not 'that thing'!" Meatbun protested.

Aldrizzt sighed. "Neo, should I be worried? You seem to really want him to be a girl."

"What? No! It's not my fault he's so confusing! You elves are all so frustrating!"

"Neo, I'm not an elf..."

------

With Meatbun as their translator, they managed to get a few things straight. If only Meatbun hadn't been sleeping, they would have gotten things straightened a lot earlier! They learned that the elf's name was "Prince" (and yes, he was a guy despite what Meatbun called him, though he had looked strangely suspicious, eyes darting away when Neo questioned him about why Meatbun called him Mama if he wasn't female). He had been on his way to someplace called the "Northern Continent" when his ship had crashed and he got separated from his companions.

"Prince, huh? That's... who names their kid 'Prince'?" Neo asked.

"It's not a very elven name," Aldrizzt murmured.

"Nothing about him is very elven," Neo said, "Except for the ears." And how misleading he is.

"True," Aldrizzt said in agreement.

Neo and Aldrizzt introduced themselves to Prince, who asked them if they would help him find his companions. Since neither of them were in a hurry, they agreed, but only if the elf would join them as their teammate for the time being. It was a win-win situation for both parties.

Prince agreed.

When Prince asked them about "logging off", only to receive blank stares, Prince paused and then asked Meatbun to ask them if the word "NPC" meant anything to them. When Neo and Aldrizzt both shook their heads, Prince seemed to have come to some sort of conclusion about them, though Neo didn't know what that was.

It didn't matter to Neo though. He was excited that the elf had decided to join them after all. "So, what should we call ourselves?" asked Neo. They even had a fourth member, Meatbun, though Neo wasn't sure how useful Prince's pet would be in a fight.

"Neo, your naming sense is..."

"How about Dark Human Elf Squad?"

Aldrizzt planted his face in his hand. "Not this again... That is a terrible name. Please don't name us that."

-----

That night, Aldrizzt discovered quite happily that Prince 1) knew how to cook and 2) knew how to do laundry, so Aldrizzt welcomed Prince onto the team wholeheartedly.

The same night, Neo discovered that Prince flushed a very interesting red when it came time to take a bath. For some unfathomable reason, Prince's nose started bleeding uncontrollably when Neo took off his shirt.

Neo merely raised one elegant eyebrow and dragged Prince into the water.

-----
to be continued

Phew, introduction is finally over! XD

Long notes ahead!

Speech from 1/2 Prince characters (when heard by LSK characters) is written in Pig Latin. If you actually want to figure out what Prince is saying here, you can! Pig Latin is where the first character in a word is moved to the end of the word and "ay" is added onto it. Prince isn't actually speaking Pig Latin. I just used it to show that LSK characters don't understand him (instead of my typing up a bunch of complete gibberish or using random languages to replace their speech, though I suppose I could've used Chinese for 1/2 Prince characters~).

Speech from Legend of Sun Knight characters (when heard by 1/2 Prince characters) will be written backwards. If you want to figure out what they're saying, all you have to do is invert the entire sentence.

I'm thinking of possibly making an exception for character names though, so we can have the characters actually introduce themselves to each other and learn new names. Otherwise, we'll forever have Prince referred to as "the elf"! (in cases where we don't have convenient translators!)

I thought of using ROT-13 to encode either side's speech, but it's a little harder to decipher their speech that way, so I chose two methods that still allow you to figure out what they're saying if you really want to know. ;) I also considered using l33t speech for 1/2 Prince characters (vowels replaced by numbers), but not all words looked funny enough when I did that, haha.

...I can't think of a suitable name for this team. They might go unnamed. |D;;

Next chapter: Invincible Music; Hark! What is that beautiful tune? No, no, don't be lured by it. He's a demon!

fic type: longfics, the legend of sun knight, 1/2 prince, fic: invincible; that is the legend

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