Sorcerer Hunters: Darling I hate YOU!!!

By

Lane Kramer

Carrot Glace felt himself immersed in darkness. Throughout his time in the darkness he heard voices

come to him and then fade away. Sometimes they were his little brother Marron, other times his friend

Gasteau, and still more frequently then not he heard Tira and Chocolates voices ringing in his mind,

many times causing him to recoil in horror or attempt to look for a place to hide. It seemed like eternity

that he was trapped their but then he started to hear another unrecognized voice one that slowly drew

him to a light that had started to fill the darkness that surrounded him. The voice merely said, "Open

your eyes. You are healed my young friend." Carrot at first was unsure what to do, but then he also

heard another soothing voice. "Darling please open your eyes and show me you are all right." Carrot

remembered hearing a similar voice just before he fell into the darkness. He thought about it for a

moment then through his shoulders up and headed into the light. And then Carrot Glace opened his

eyes.

Carrot slowly opened his eyes and found himself looking into the face of a craggy-looking old fan. This

immediately caused him to shoot up in bed and have a slowly un-nerved look on his face. The old man

smiled "Well I see your reflexes are completely healed. So how are you feeling today. It certainly took

you long enough to heal. Of course us not being to use magic wards on you didn't help much."

Carrot heard the word magic and then realized he was in a bed. He was left wondering how he could

be in a bed when the last thing he remembered was seeing the wall following towards Chocolate and he

ran knocked her out of the way and then "thunk" and darkness. And he remembered hearing "I love

you" and him saying "I know and I care for you." He then asked the old man "Where am I and how did

I get here?"

The old man merely laughed a little and said "Well your a lucky lad. You helped take care of that

horrible sorcerer in the nearby village. Some of our villagers were going to check out the place when we

found you and a young lady there. We found the Sorcerer dead and found you badly hurt. They rushed

you back here and then we have a local sorcerer who is good with healing spells and were gonna use

them on you when she would not let us. We thought her mad, but agreed so we had to use some

potions on ya and luckily it worked. Your lady friend also was hurt, but she had been healed for several

days."

Carrot took in the comment on days and asked "How long have I been out?"

"I would say about ten days. You barely survived. That lady of yours was by your side for almost every

hour of each day. We had to heavily persuade her to eat and sleep. She should be back any moment to

see how you are doing and will love seeing you awake. You are very lucky to have a gal like her who

loves you so much."

After the old man finished he took in the comments of what the old man said and thought young lady

and realized that he must be talking about

"DARLING!!! YOUR AWAKE!" A happy voice cried out. Carrot looked to see familiar red hair on

the lady in the door. Chocolate then started to run towards Carrot. Carrot responded a little differently

then she expected. "AGGGHHH!!!" he cried and leapt from the bed into the nearby corner away from

Chocolate. Carrot normally would have figured she would pout or would come over and then bash him.

But instead Chocolate just stopped in mid-stride and had a look of complete sadness fill her face. Her

beloved darling has coiled away in fear of her and she just didn't understand why. All the tough

emotional stress she had been through the last days suddenly came out all at once. She fell the floor and

tears started to stain the floor.

The old man quickly saw this situation was not one meant for three so he spoke "Well judging by you

action your healing just fine and should be ready to journey...So I have somewhere else to be right

now." Then he took off through the door and shut it behind himself.

Carrot just stood in the corner a second and then realized he just made a mental goof. He felt like such

a jerk at making Chocolate cry like that. He finally moved away from the corner and near Chocolate

who didn't want to be doing this, crying all of a sudden, but the emotional stress she had gone through

the last few days just made it too much for her and she knew running right at Carrot to glomp him might

cause he to instinctively react and jump away she knew that, of course what hurt more was his leaping

away from her. Then Chocolate felt a hand touch her shoulder. She looked up to see Carrot putting that

goofy smile he does and then she heard him say "Hehehe, sorry about that ya just caught me off guard."

he said soothingly. Chocolate quickly cleared the tears from her eyes and then smiled. "Its ok I know I

probably over reacted, sorry." Carrot merely nodded his head. Just then Carrot was sure he heard a

noise from the window, which sounded like GIRLS. And instantly the giant libido of Carrot Glace was

instantly healed. The compassionate Carrot suddenly was gone and girl-crazy Carrot was back. He

then looked to Chocolate who just stood next to him smiling. He suddenly wanted to get her out of

there so he could look for some beautiful girls. And if by coincidence Chocolate remarked "You must

be famished Carrot I will run downstairs and get you some food." Carrot merely smiled and watched

Chocolate exit the room. He then jetted over to the window opened the drapes and felt his tongue fall

out of his mouth. He saw at least three beauties across the street in a bar. Suddenly Carrot wanted to

get out of the room. He realized Chocolate was not around so now was as good a time as any. He got

sneaky grin on his face and turned to leave when he found Chocolate standing in the doorway. "Darling

I forgot to ask what you might want to eat, but I see you already have girls on the menu." Suddenly

Carrot Glace was feeling very small and scared. Chocolate had that sinister

I-am-going-punish-until-you-call me queen look on her face. She started to move towards Carrot and

he started to pray and then closed his eye expecting to see stars. Instead he waited a moment and felt a

kiss on his cheek. He opened his eyes slightly and saw Chocolate was pecking him on the cheek.

"Normally I would punish you Carrot, but seeing as you did save my life the other day I will spare your

life this time and I will assume the hit you took on the head has damaged your brain seeing as I don't

understand why you would even look at another lady other than me." she said smugly. He just nodded

and thank whoever would listen to him not being beaten. Then Chocolate spoke again, "But promise me

you will just stay here with me tonight and not go out. I really mean this darling I have been so worried

about you" Chocolate looked at Carrot with a serious look, but also with a touch of pleading in it.

Carrot felt like he probably should say yes, but his great libido was also playing with his mind and in the

end it won. "OK. I promise Chocolate I will not leave." he said as he crossed his fingers behind his

back. Later that night around the witching hour Carrot was asleep on the bed under the covers with

Chocolate asleep next to him, still in her clothes. Carrot opened one eye and then the other. He looked

at Chocolate who slept soundly. She was going to go to her room, but she was so tired she fell asleep

next to Carrot on his bed. Carrot slowly got up through his shirt on and crept out of the room and

moved down the Inn's stairs quietly and then ran across the street looking for signs of Chocolate waking

up. He then smiled mischievously and wonder what beautiful women he would meet that night.

Carrot slowly woke up from the counter of the bar. He started to feel like he had a splitting headache.

He slowly raised his head of the bar and then looked to the outside and realized it was light out. His

mind, even while half soaked in beer, registered that Chocolate might wake up any minute and then. He

merely gulped and then jumped up and slowly managed to make his way out of the bar and back into

the Inn where he had been laid up. As he made his way up the stairs he mentally scolded himself for

doing something this dumb, it being dumb since he found no beautiful women, and that Chocolate will

pound him through the floor when she finds out, but just maybe he can sneak in without incident. He

slowly opened the door peering inside and then saw Chocolates eyes were focused right at him. He felt

overwhelming fear, but that fear soon turned to confusion as Chocolate didn't say or do anything. She

merely glared at him with annoyance and maybe some hate in her eyes. But then those eyes of her

showed nothing but pain and then it turned to cover her whole face. Carrot could only stare

dumb-founded. Then Chocolate spoke "Darling how could you? You promised that you wouldn't

leave." She said as a few tears fell down her face. Carrot glace only threw up his hands and started to

walk forward trying to think of an excuse. "Umm...Chocolate ya....see...I..ugh..I mean to say..." he tried

to speak as he got near her and put his left hand on her shoulder. Then just as suddenly her arm

knocked off his left hand from her shoulder and her other hand moved and slapped him violently on

face. It caused Carrot to stagger back and then grip his face.

"I don't want to hear it. Do you know how much I have gone through Darling. I have been wondering if

you would live for days and I ask that you stay with me for one night, and not even to do anything with

me, and you disregard it. Did I do something to make you hate me or not care about what my feelings

are?" she asked bluntly.

"No Chocolate its just that there were some beautiful girls across the street and..." Carrot never finished

his sentence.

Chocolate leapt up and tackled him and just started to hit him. Carrot through up his arms to protect

himself, but the way Chocolate was attacking him she really wasn't trying to hurt him, she could really

hurt him if she wanted to, but just whacked with her fists not striking him hard. But then she stopped.

"Darl...Carrot I hate you. I want you to leave now and don't come back. I will join up with you and the

other hunters later. But for now I just want you gone. So please...leave."

Carrot felt his whole world crash hearing her saying hate and his name in the same sentence. He never

thought that Chocolate of all people would tell him that. He moved backwards after she stopped her

assault and wanted to go and hold her and tell her he was sorry. He always ran away from Chocolate

and Tira but he never purposely hurt either of them. He got up and left though because of the plea that

Chocolate had in her voice, something she never did. Carrot exited the room and left Chocolate to cry,

her heart breaking after every step he took..

The End...(To be continued)