8 Training! (1/2)
We are back to being bound to a chair and facing each other. ”Now we know, where your mother got that from!”, Celes accuses me. The old pervert waves a chalkboard with some scribblings in front of her.
”Come On! Say it with LOVE! -Angrod is my ONE and only ONE!-”, he says in a creepy voice. ”Say at least: I love you! For starters!”
”I l..l.. lov...e y ou. I guess...”, she gets out with a cramped face. ”Okay. We will work on the stutter. The expression comes second.”, Nicosar states grinning.
”Now you Angrod! Say: I love you! I would lay the world to your feet, if you asked me of it!”, Nicosars eyes gleam feverish and he wriggles his body in a creepy way.
”I shove you! I would slay the world and throw it before your feet, so you trip over it!”
*SMACK!*
Ow! I got hit with the board. My head hurts so much, I think it is splitting apart! Nicosar looks at the broken board and sighs. He drops it onto the pile of broken boards to my feet, which almost reaches my knees.
He takes a new board out of a chest and scribbles something onto it. ”Okay. Let's try that again.”, he steps behind Celes and nods to me, while waving the board.
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Tears are dripping from my eyes. They have started to shed tears and my vision is blurry, since the transformation started. Nothing I can do about it. ”I love you Celes.”, I whisper while giving up.
I don't want to get another board smashed on my head. It hurts so much! Imagine someone taking two screwdrivers and slowly pushing them into your eyes, while a mixer is mashing up your brain!
That's how I feel right now!
”YES! That emotion! You got that across just right!”, the pervert wipes the board and steps behind me, scribbling something. Celes blushes and looks down at her legs, which are almost completely covered by another pile of broken boards.
”M...My dearest one! Take me now and here!”
Omg, that was....nono I wont waver here! Its those headaches and the stress. Yes! That's it!
”Oh! You are starting to get good at this! Hmhmhmm... maybe we should start working a little on the physical part too?”, he muses to himself.
What do you want to make little children do, you sicko?
”What's the point of this anyway old pervert!? I thought you wanted to train us!”, Celes asks with empty eyes.
”Aren't I training you? On your graduation party you two have to convince the guests, that you two are one body and one soul. No one is allowed to have the slightest doubt about it, or chaos could be the consequence!”, Nicosar states.
”If the other houses would get the idea, that this bond won't work out, they will try to seize power. Civil war for both Tirna and Stricc would surely follow shortly after that. You have to be the perfect pair to the public!”
”But what's about physical training?” - Celes
”Pfff! No need for that! Both of you have royal blood. That means your bodies are the strongest you can get in this world and you are always at top condition.
But the strongest bodies in the world won't help us, if we are poisoned or bombed by some asshole. Also with everyone running amok, we can't be everywhere.
So you two will be here until you can convince everyone, that you were made for each other.”, Nicosar stops his tirade.
„I will train my magic like mad! And then this pervert will burn!”, I mutter to myself. I am really mad right now! Nicosar went a step too far in this!
„Hahaha, you are a hundred years too early for that!”, Nicosar grins again.
Celes forces a smile on her face, ”We will see, I would gladly give you a hand against the pervert!”
”YES! A mutual goal! The first step on your path to love and pleasure!”, Nicosar seems not to notice, that he is the one in question.
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The next weeks were a nightmare! It wasn't just the board-treatment. We had dancing lessons, smiling lessons, lap sleeping lessons oh and not to forget the BIG HUG lesson.
Celes tried to crush me with brutish strength every time. I am really afraid, that she will become strong enough for it in the end.
Sometimes even Nicol and Arthur join the fray. At least they are better than Nicosar, but its still far from fun. Though they are both usually busy with matters of state, eyeing each others actions like watchdogs.
At the dancing lessons, Celes tried to step on my feet, or trip me. I myself didn't even have to try it consciously. I am a bad dancer. Tripping my partner isn't something I have to aim for.
Celes and me tried to kill Nicosar multiple times, but we never succeeded. He has some kind of high level illusion or cloning technique. It's not magic, but some kind of innate ability he got from his raccoon heritage.
You may think, that you got him sometimes, but he just dissolves into white mist and is suddenly unharmed before you.
One time, I blew up an entire room, with him inside. We thought we got him, just to be hit from behind with his walking stick. Its a deadly weapon in his hands! Believe me!
By now, I have realized that we won't get him, until we have grown up bodies. He is several levels above us, at the moment.
Like that, the time went by. I lost track of it. He is drilling us from morning till night, with four hours of sleep a day! It is worse than military training. Our bodies will break, if this gets out of hand!
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After a particularly bad day, Celes sits at our evening meal, while sharpening a hairpin and mutters something incomprehensible to herself.
Suddenly she turns to me, ”Angrod, I can't take it any more!”, tears are in her eyes. I am really not sure if it is real, or if she is testing her acting on me.
”Hoh? And what do you want to tell me with that?”, I sip at my drink.
”!Let us run away together!”
”PFFT”, I spit everything on my food and need a second to gather myself. ”I don't get... , why do I have to join you for that!”
”Because, if you stay here, it will fulfil the second prophecy and you will destroy the world? If you are with me I can have an eye on you!”, she looks at me.