Return of the Dragon
Mara blazed across the ice, checking the leftwing into the boards. The left wing pulled his glove off swinging a fist at her which she easily avoided. He lunged again allowing her just enough time to flip him over. The referee's whistle blew loudly.
"Number 51, Mara Jade to the Penalty Box."
"WHAT?" Mara's jaw dropped open. "His glove was off first!"
"She checked me illegally," the left winger called, still lying on the ice. Wild Wing skated up behind Mara.
"I saw it too; he tried nailing her first."
"We know what we saw," a second referee argued, "Number 51 to the Penalty Box for 2 minutes."
"This is completely unreasonable!" Wild Wing cried completely exasperated.
"What was that, Smartass?" A third ref called out.
"Hey, I've got a right to stick up for my players." Wild Wing said, drawing himself up to his full height.
"Number 00, Wild Wing Flashblade taken out of game...unsportsmanlike conduct."
"WHAT?!" Wild Wing yelled. The crowd cheered loudly as the two trudged toward the penalty box.
"So much for the warm hospitality of the South." Mara murmured. Amber skated quickly out to them before they got in the box.
"Guys, this is total bullshit...we've gotta do something!" she said quickly, nervously darting her eyes back to the refs. Mara shook her head.
"No good Amber; they'll just kick you out too. Forget about us and go on playing."
"Well what are we going to do without a goalie?" Wild Wing was silent a moment before looking at Mara. Mara nodded her head in agreement then looked at Amber. "What? Why you guys looking at me like that?"
"Amber... remember when you first came how I tried you as a goalie?"
"Yeah, and I was too small, point being?"
"Get your gear and get in the goal cage," Wild Wing said forcefully. Before Amber could get a word in edgewise, the ducks had shut the penalty booth. Amber hurried off the ice, allowing the other five to play an offensive move. Duke scored.
"Ducks Rock!" the team yelled, slapping fives with one another.
"The goal doesn't count for unnecessary ruffling," the referee called loudly.
"What the hell is ruffling?" Duke asked, becoming defensive.
"Number 1, Grin Hardwing against center." As Duke skated back to position, he bumped into one of the refs. The ref glared at him accusingly.
"I suppose that's ruffling, too?" Duke responded wryly.
"Number 13, Duke L'Orange taken out for misconduct toward the Ref." The crowd cheered again.
Duke skated bitterly to the penalty box, murmuring something about rednecks. Nose Dive raised his hand to call a timeout.
"Guys... I am afraid we are fucked."
"We only have four ducks out here until Mara gets back, still then we'll only have 5." Tanya stuttered.
"Wait a second Taunny," Mallory interupted, "Where the hell is that little imp, Amber?"
"Right here." The ducks spun about to face a very short goalie. "Wild Wing told me to get my gear on..." she said apologetically.
"Well what do we have to lose?" Mallory commented skating back to right wing. The play started again. After a short while, Mara came back on the ice. The ducks scored one goal with ten seconds left to the game. Amber held her breath as the right wing approached her. All the ducks were checked out of range so she had no defense. Amber slowly counted the number of skates before he would shoot. "1, 2, 3..." The right wing shot as hard as he could; Amber dove with her glove outstretched...
"And #16, young Amber VanDrake saves the goal! Oh but wait a minute; the referees appear to have reversed the descision. That's right, the goal was counted! And with that, the ducks lose...that's right, their first loss in the last eight games. What a disapointment for this young rookie." Dragaunus smashed his television screen. "Damn ducks." He growled, putting a hand on his forehead. Since Canard formed the Resistance, these meddling ducks had haunted him. Even worse...after one was gotten rid of, another simply sprang up in his place. Canard was sent to dimensional limbo, Wild Wing had quickly filled his position, and quite adeptly, too. And finally, the last straw, the appearance of yet another two ducks... one of which, Amber, used to work for Dragaunus. That meddlesome brat, he supposed, provided a great deal of insight as to Dragaunus' favored methods of attack. He had eluded them thus far, but it was only a matter of time until the ducks caught him. There seemed to be no way out...
"My Lord Dragaunus, I have been thinking."
"How very unfortunate for the rest of us. Get to the point, Wraith."
"Perhaps if we call back the ancient saurian powers of our ancestors we could..."
"Ancient powers...preposterous. Even if you had a way to summon such things, what makes you think the ducks will have any more trouble than usual thwarting these feeble powers?"
"Consider, my lord...the ducks were trained in combat, technology and strategy. Each one of them is a specialist in one thing or another. But don't you think there's something missing?" Dragaunus turned this thought over in his mind.
"Yes...not a one of them knows about magick! Of course, genius! Well Wraith, seeing as this was your plan, it must needs be that you set it up. Where do we begin?"
"We may need to accquire a few...tools...but the main thing we need is you, my lord."
"More talk, less art."
"You are the last Saurian overlord. Only you have the sufficient amount of power to tap into our magickal heritage." Dragaunus grinned a cold, toothy grin.
"Very well then. We'd better get to work."
"Come on Sweetie, cheer up. It's not your fault that the referees were asses." Mallory said comfortingly to Amber, who was slumped in her seat looking completely depressed.
"Yeah, I mean, taking half the team out of the game is one thing, b-but discounting our goal and your save?" Tanya stuttered, "Total bullshit."
"But it's my fault... I could have helped us tie then it would have gone into overtime and we would have won." Amber rested her head against the window and closed her eyes. "All I wanted was to be a hero...you know, to be noticed."
"Notice you? Amber, you're one of eight ducks from another planet, how can they not notice you?" Nose Dive remarked. His smile faded with the realization that this really had gotten her down. "Amb, actually it was my fault."
"How?" she asked harshly.
"Simple... when I found we were playing the Tennessee Tornados I started to sing Sick Liberty's song "Suesy the Redneck"... I didn't know that one of their wives was named Susie!"
"Wife? More like his cow." Wild Wing added in quickly, looking up from the Aerowing's controls. The ducks burst out laughing and even Amber managed a weak smile. For the rest of the ride home every time that Amber attempted to mope one of the boys would make a various "farm animal" noise.
"That's odd," Grin finally interrupted.
"What's that, Grin?" asked Tanya.
"Well, I just got word from Klegghorn... apparently the Saurians robbed a museum while we were gone."
"They're sure it was the Saurians?" Wild Wing jumped in.
Grin responded without hesitation, "Oh yeah...huge claw marks all over. They were obviously in too much of a hurry to conceal who they were."
"What did they take?" asked Tanya.
"Well that's the odd part...nothing but some odd brass ring with old runes on it. Just a cheap piece of junk, according to the curator."
Wild Wing sat back pensively, "Well it must have had some value otherwise Lizard Lips wouldn't have gone to the trouble...oh well, let's not worry about it until we get home." The ducks all agreed whole-heartedly.
"Looks like a piece of garbage to me. What is this thing, Wraith?" Lord Dragaunus growled, holding up the cheap, brass-like ring to the light. The ring stood at a little less than a foot tall, but despite it's size and relative thickness, it was extrodinarily light weight.
"Merely a ring, my lord...probably used as a simple decoration by the primitives of this planet; it has very little value at all actually."
"Then why," Dragaunus snapped impatiently, "Did I go to the trouble of having you steal it?"
"Well my lord," Wraith said nervously, sensing his master's impatience, "it's made of a material known as corolyium...an alloy that's quite hard to find these days because of it's apparent uselessness...it was difficult to build with. However, corolyium has distinct magickal properties..." As Wraith went on, Dragaunus turned the ring over carefully in his hands and noticed the vague red glow it had when the light played upon it the right way. "...It works through sound. Strike the ring and as you cast your spell the sound waves from the ring will carry the spell further, so to speak; strengthen it. Would you care to try, my lord?"
"Very well." Dragaunus closed his eyes. Smoke began to fume from his nostrils as he let out a snarl.
"I Summon The Ancient Powers of Draconus to Return!" The power in the Raptor turned off creating darkness. Dragaunous backed up toward the wall sensing a strange sensation enter the room.
"Who dissturbed my sssslumber?" a voice boomed loudly, knocking Dragaunous to the floor.
"It is I, Aladdin!" Camelion called out. Dragaunous hissed at him and hit him in the side with his tail.
"It is I... Lord Dragaunous."
"Ah yes, my dessscendent... the only one to break out of that accurssssed Limbo." The voice seemed to travel around the room. Dragaunous kept looking around trying to spot him. "Why have you ssssummoned me?"
"I need your help... there are ducks here and I..."
"Duckssss?" he said, hissing the 's' even more snake-like.
"Please my lord, I bid your help."
"I ssssshall obey." Dragaunous' eyes opened wide as he looked up at the power of Draconus.
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"Dragaunousssssssssss..." the voice caused a trembling sensation in the raptor's interior. "I have some newsssssssssssssssssssss."
"Yes, Lord Draconus?" Dragaunous replied, rushing to his side.
"I have been ussssing our ancient Sssaurian powerssss and I realized that the magickssssssss are here."
"The Magickssssss?" Dragaunous asked confused.
"Yesssss, the Magickssssss... the heirssss to the Ducksssss that banissshed ussss to Dimensssssional Limbo."
"But I thought that was Drake DuCaine?"
"He was the sssstrongest Magic, along with his associatesssss." Draconus' nostrils flared with smoke and he flapped his wings slowly, deep in thought. "The three linkssss musst be kept sssseparate."
"Well, who were the other two associates?" Siege chimed in, entering the room. Dragaunous was about to silence him but Draconus answered very slowly.
"Jared L'Orange and Sssylvia VanDrake."
"L'Orange? The descendent would be Duke L'Orange then?" Dragaunous asked getting excited.
"Alexander."
"What?"
"Hisss real name isss Alexander."
"Then VanDrake... that lousy rat, Amber, that used to work for us!" Dragaunous shouted shoving a table across the room.
"Aaliyah ussssed to work for you?" Draconus asked cocking his head, "how on earth did you not ssense it?"
"The only thing I could sense about that brat was an annoying headache," Dragaunous moaned.
"Then she will be the firssssst to go."
"AHHHHHHH!" Amber screamed jumping out of her bed. Clutching her head, she stumbled out of her room and wandered down the hall, extremely dizzy and quite frightened. She paused at Mara's door, about to go in, but then thought again; she seemed to be thinking a bit straighter now. Instead she went to the next door and went into Duke's room. Her hunch was correct; Duke, who had always been a rather heavy sleeper, didn't even stir, but Mara opened her eyes as soon as the door opened. She sat up and looked at Amber, perplexed. Her younger sister didn't normally come barging into peoples' rooms late at night...and if she did, certainly not like this. Poor Amber was breathing heavily; her eyes were wide and frightened, making them seem even redder than usual. It was a beautiful effect, even if it was caused by fright which Mara was sure it was.
"Honey, what's wrong?" Mara asked alarmed, but making sure to keep quiet so as not to wake Duke.
"I-I saw...I mean, I didn't see, but I felt like...there was-and-oh..." Amber frantically paced about the room, trying to explain. After gingerly sliding Duke's arms from her, Mara got out of bed and hugged Amber, who was quite visibly upset.
"Come on now, just relax." Mara said soothingly, "Was it a dream?"
"No, no!" Amber said, "I know it wasn't. I was dreaming about the Olympics, and I'd just won the individual for jumping..." Mara smiled slightly; what else would Amber dream about but horses? "But there was this shadow...it was the Saurians, I could feel it. Something's going on...I just know it. A battle-or something-we're gonna die!"
"Come on now, it was a dream. We all get that feeling once and a while, it's perfectly natural."
"But it was so real." Amber insisted.
"You've been under a lot of stress lately, Shortstuff." Duke called from the bed. Amber looked at him and wondered how long he had been awake for. "And if the Saurians haven't killed us yet, then why worry now?"
"Because something's changed! It's different now! I just don't know how..."
"Well, whatever it is, it's no use worrying about it now. We'll find out soon enough, and in the meantime you need your rest so we can all be ready for it." Amber took a deep breath and nodded.
"I guess you're right." Mara smiled at her.
"So you're okay now?" Amber smiled back at Mara and hugged her gently.
"Yeah, I think so...goodnight you two."
"Goodnight, Shortstuff." Mara remained standing after Amber had
left, looking at the door. "Don't worry, she's just fine. Come back to bed." Duke urged her gently. Mara walked slowly back to the bed and curled up beside him. Duke kissed her neck softly. "What's wrong, Angel?"
"I just think it's odd that she should be having these dreams too...do you suppose it's just a coincidence?" Duke frowned slightly. For the past week Mara had been waking up from nightmares...horrible ones; about the Saurians. What worried Duke was that they usually involved her and Amber's deaths. Although he'd done his best to comfort her, the dreams had been getting steadily worse. He didn't want to admit to her just how worried he was becoming. And now Amber too? Yes, something wasn't right..."Babe?" Mara asked, interrupting his train of thought.
"Don't worry Mara. It's just a coincidence, that's all. The Saurians have been on all of our minds lately." he kissed her forehead. 'And I won't let them hurt you.' he thought silently to himself. Comforted, Mara smiled at him and took his hand, laying back down to sleep; she just hoped Amber would be okay.
Amber tried to go back to sleep but it seemed impossible. Slowly she walked out of her room and down the hall into Nose Dive's room. 'Hell, if Mara needs some comfort then I certainly could use some.' Nose Dive was sleeping quietly on the top bunk. Amber watched silently, feeling a pain of melancholy; Jake often looked that way when he slept. Shaking the thought out of her head she climbed up onto his bunk and slid under his covers. Nose Dive opened his eyes feeling warmth.
"Damn, I must be dreaming," he laughed quietly and rolled on his other side.
"Time for your wake-up call." Nose Dive's eyes quickly opened and he rolled back over, staring at her with amazement.
"Amber? What are you doing here?"
"I keep sensing weird stuff with the Saurians and couldn't sleep, I figured that... nevermind." She sat upright and faced him.
"No, what?" Nose Dive asked, also sitting upright so that he could see her at eye level.
"Well... I figured that you could get my mind off of it," Amber said hesitantly. She closed her eyes almost wincing. Nose Dive chuckled to himself, realizing her innuendo. He put his hands on both sides of her rib cage and encouraged her to lie down.
"If you aren't thinking of me by the end of this, then you've just got issues," Nose Dive whispered before moving over her. He looked down at her, brushed his fingers through his hair, then leaned down to kiss her.
"Dragaunousssssss?"
"Yes my lord?" Dragaunous asked running to his side. Draconus was busy observing a surveylance screen.
"Your technology is sssssuperb. I was able to program it to track down VanDrake... issss this her?" Draconus asked tapping the screen.
"Why yes as a matter of fact it's-" Dragaunous frowned watching the scene, "-completely disgusting, my God!" Draconus did not reply but continued to watch the two. Dragaunous quickly changed the location of the screen to another section of the Pond where Wild Wing was sleeping.
"We have found her weaknesssssss."
"I beg your pardon?"
"Ssssshe has a weaknesssss towardssss ssssexxxxxx."
"But how can that help us?" Dragaunous asked perplexed. "It's not like we're trying to ruin a porn star's career!"
"Every ssssmall advantage can add up big time."
"I doubt this is much of an advantage," Dragaunous groaned loudly.
"It will be if she gets addicted to it then cannot have it," Draconus said flapping his wings slightly.
"What are you going to do? Make all the condoms in the world disapear?" Camelion asked from the doorway. Dragaunous lunged toward him causing a large chase around the interiors. Draconus watched quietly, flicking his tongue slightly. 'Perhaps something much worse, Camelion,' he thought.
Later that night, Duke woke up in a cold sweat. He'd been having some kind of nightmare, but now he couldn't remember what it was...beside him, Mara had begun to toss and turn in her sleep. Duke rubbed her arm, trying to wake her up. "Angel?"
"Amber..." she murmured in her sleep. "No, hang on!!!" She wept a little, "Amber..." Grabbing his comm, Duke tried to reach Amber; hers had been shut off. Duke bit his lip. He was a little reluctant to leave Mara, but, well, it couldn't hurt to check...he slipped out of bed and out into the hallway. She opened the door to her room and looked inside; no Amber? He walked toward her bed and pulled back the covers that were barely warm; she had been gone for little more than an hour.
"Where the hell is she?" Duke murmured, voice shaking. Having a quick thought, he stopped at Nose Dive's room.
"Nah... she wouldn't... would she?" With a sigh, Duke decided he had to check. All he had to do was look at it to see that it was locked. Without a thought, he bent down and picked it. Duke opened the door and stood in the doorway for a moment, listening. His eyes widened as he heard a familiar sound... 'What the-' he thought cursing. Duke crossed his arms and silently walked into the room glaring.
"Hey Amber," Nose Dive sat upright on the top bunk quickly, "did you hear something?"
"Nose Dive..." she moaned irritated, "Not now."
"I'm uneasy about this, maybe we should check?"
"Not now... come on baby, please?"
"Listen! It makes me uncomfortable. It's like you don't even love me or anything, like I'm just some sex toy!"
"Nose Dive, no, you know I love you it's just that I'm feeling like..." Amber was cut off and the farmilliar noise was once again heard causing Duke to feel sick. Duke stepped closer to the top bunk but Amber and Nose Dive, both occupied, didn't notice him. He watched the silouettes of the two in the darkness for a few minutes until it disturbed him so much that it brought out an anger streak in him.
"Hello Children." he said darkly. Nose Dive pulled away from Amber jittering, "I knew I heard something," before Amber screamed. They quickly scrambled to pull a blanket over themselves but Nose Dive was knocked off the top bunk and onto the floor in the process. He grabbed a blanket off the lower bunk and pulled it on him, knowing it was absolutely no use, before looking up at Duke.
"Uh... Duke, I uh, didn't expect to see you here..." Nose Dive said nervously, "do, uh...do you want something?"
Duke glared and raised a fist, "No, no, go right ahead, I'm just watching. Infact, why don't you put everything on holds until I come back with a video camera?"
Amber blushed, "I, uh, couldn't sleep."
"I don't blame you... sort of hard to fall asleep while your having sex." Duke responded cooly.
"Well..." Nose Dive said, trying to think of something to say, "What are you doing in here anyway?! I locked the door! And you know I always say not to come on without knocking unless it's an emergency!" he said indignantly.
"It was. I was trying to find Amber...I was a little concerned that she might be in some danger. Glad I was wrong." Amber pulled the blanket up around her even further...this was thoroughly humiliating.
"Sorry Duke...I guess I just...You-you won't tell, will you?"
Duke sighed, "No, there's no point. Look, I can't tell you how to run your life and I never did tell you, but...well, I worry, and..."
"And?" Nose Dive asked, curious.
"AND I'M GONNA HAVE NIGHTMARE FOR WEEKS NOW!!! THAT WAS DISGUSTING!" He shook his head, looking nauseated. "Listen Amb...from now on when you fuck strange boys keep your comm on so we can reach you when we like, okay?"
Amber pulled the blanket up over her beak. Duke yawned and walked out.
"Goodnight... hope I haven't disturbed you too much... have fun." As the door closed Amber let the blanket go and put a pillow over her head, humiliated.
"Of all the guys I never wanted to see me naked, he was right at the top of my list." she muttered while Nose Dive sighed and reached over his dresser trying to find his boxers. Amber looked down at him from the top bunk, "What are you doing?"
"Getting dressed. Here are your pjs," he said throwing them toward her.
"But... he said have fun," she said with her voice trailing off, "and it's not like there's a difference anymore."
"Amber, please, I'm really not into it, okay?" Amber sighed nodding her head reluctantly. After she walked to her room, Nose Dive sighed leaning his head on his pillow. Everytime they tried to have sex there was always some sort of problem. The first time they tried Nose Dive was so nervous that he couldn't get it up; he had never had sex before, knew that Amber had, and didn't want to be bad. The second time he was able to go at it but he kept stopping because he was worried the only reason why she was doing this was another image of Jake. The third time they tried he was alittle rough and Amber sprained her ankle... and now this? "Why is this happening to me?" he groaned closing his eyes. Slowly, he opened them again, "Maybe Amber's right..." Tiptoeing out of his room, Nose Dive opened Amber's door and slipped in.
Dragaunous watched as Draconus started reciting spells. He was fascinated by his ancestor's knowledge and wisdom. Fire came from nowhere and began to swirl infront of Draconus. Dragaunous squinted slightly, realizing the fire was taking form. "Dragaunoussss, you sssseee thissss?"
"Yes, my lord... it's a... Aircraft of Militant Style! Good God, I've never seen one like it before." Draconus chuckled slightly as the fire dwindled. He turned slightly, spreading his wings out behind him, "And that wassss only one... imagine a fleet."
"The technological advances are amazing! What powers them?"
"Our ancient Ssssaurian powersssss," Draconus replied. He lifted up a claw and stroked his protruding jaw slowly. "We will attack and pull a full out war when they are leasssst expecting... the VanDrake ssshall be the firssst to go."
"But she knows most of our strategies, it's a weird sense."
"Were you aware of any of her powerssss?" Draconus' attention was fully on Dragaunous.
"Not a damn thing," Dragaunous grumbled. "The miserable wretch just got in the way. She was just like the Camelion; if it weren't for her not being a Saurian and a transformer I would have thought she were his sister. She was always joking and smiling on the job and insisted on playing stupid card games!" Dragaunous broke from his train of anger, "Forgive me, my Lord. I just despise that duck so much. It would be a present to see her dead." Draconus flickered his tongue and a small curve of a smile started to become visible.
Grin paid attention to the after-prayer lecture at the Buddhist temple. John was a terrific teacher and a very enlightened soul. Grin felt as if he could reach nirvana through his meditations yet something was wrong... Grin waited patiently for the six other students to leave before approaching John. "John, I've got a question."
"Yes?"
"I've been feeling strange and bad vibes for the past two weeks and I don't understand them. We fight against Dragaunus and the evil Saurian Overlords which is not peaceful, but we save the lives of millions... am I sensing a disturbance or was my logic incorrect for the fight?" John looked at Grin thoughtfully before replying.
"Well, that depends on the individual. One asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama whether a Buddhist would have killed Adolf Hitler. He replied that varies: one might not kill, strictly sticking to pacifist views. Another might to save the lives of others and be willing to live more lives as lesser beings in not so nice situations. Whatever the choice is, the descision is hard to make." Grin nodded his head.
"Thanks John. I was worried that my struggles with the team were interfering. Oh, and one last thing?"
"Yes, Grin?"
"Do you know where I could order a good pizza? The last place gave me bad karma." John hesitated a moment before laughing hysterically.
Nose Dive slumped his shoulders as he walked behind the counter at Captain Comics. Thrash elbowed him in the ribs.
"Hey Divester, how was your night?"
"Oh... great... just... great."
"Wow, you scored for the fourth time! Awesome!" Mookie yelled, poking her head out from the storage area.
"Yeah, sure. It's great."
"Hey Dive, you don't look so ecstatic about it... something wrong?" Thrash took his glasses off to look at Nose Dive better. Ever since Jake and Amber had a mutual calling off, Nose Dive seemed even more depressed and usually the causes were related to Amber.
"I dunno Thrash, it's just that... I dunno, Amber."
"Bad sex?"
"Yeah... No! No, I mean that's not what I meant." Nose Dive barked defensively.
"Hey, chill dude. We'll get you over the sex phobia."
"That's not my point! I don't want to for the sex. You know, I liked it better when we didn't because I'm seeing that's all relationships add up to. It's not about me loving her, or her loving me, it's just who can please the other the best or who gives the best orgasms or..." Thrash put a hand on Nose Dive's beak to silence him.
"It's not about that Nose Dive. I mean, hell, if it were would Amber have tried fucking you this many times?" Nose Dive glared and turned his back to Thrash. "Okay dude, bad joke. It is though about love, I mean, you do love her don't you?"
"What?" Nose Dive asked shocked.
"Well, you do, don't you?"
"Yes, Of course I do! I wouldn't have stood up for her that long if I didn't! I wouldn't be so upset that she's into the shady way if I didn't! I-" Nose Dive stood up as he proclaimed, not noticing Mookie symboling for him to cut it out. "I wouldn't have saved my money for a new car and used it with the money I had from my last three paychecks to buy her this if I didn't love her!" Nose Dive flashed out a small velvet box very quickly. Suddenly, a hand closed on his shoulder. Nose Dive dropped the box and spun around. "Phil..." he said, voice trailing off. Immediately, Nose Dive jumped on the floor and grabbed the box, putting it in his innercoat jacket. Phil was quiet and slowly took Nose Dive's arm.
"Come on, let's talk."
Mallory took Wild Wing's arm as they walked through the Anaheim Mall. "Honey, is it just me or does everyone seem really tense lately?"
"No, I've noticed as well. It seems as if there's something just waiting to happen. We haven't heard a peep from Dragaunous in weeks!"
"So do we have a sixth sense for some sort of devious plot that will fail?" Mallory laughed nervously for a few moments. "Are Mara and Duke going to move out since they're planning a wedding?" Wild Wing paused realising what the whole conversation was leading up to.
"Honey, I don't know."
"They wouldn't go back to Puckworld... would they?" Wild Wing took her hand and kissed it.
"I cant answer that for you." Mallory sighed and rubbed a hand past her eye.
"It's kind of funny, but they're the last people I wanna see leave us. I dunno, maybe we'll be lucky," Mallory added in with a taste of melancholy.
"Hey look, it's Nose Dive... and Phil?" Wild Wing said quickly, changing the topic. "What the heck are they doing?"
"I dunno, but I don't like the looks of it."
"Should we check it out?" They started to walk toward the duo.
"Nose Dive, are you sure you know what you just bought?!"
"Yes I'm sure! And how would you know about it?!" Nose Dive spat.
"I went in to get cufflinks and Vinny told me about your purchase..." Phil said quietly, "But Nose Dive, you hardly know her and you know too much about her past. Do you really want that?"
"Listen Phil, I love her okay? Is that good enough for you?"
"I just wonder if you truly do or if you feel it's your obligation!" Phil yelled.
"Jesus Christ, Phil! This isn't some auction! I want her to be my fucking wife!"
"But Nose Dive-"
"Fuck off, Phil! I spent time and money to get her the most special ring ever to make this a special time and I'm not letting you ruin it."
"But you were so unhappy lately," Phil muttered. "And if you don't like a nymphomaniac then you're in an awful lot of trouble."
"Leave me alone!" he yelled fiercely.
"You never even say "I love you" to her face!" Phil yelled back.
"Yes I do."
"No, you don't. If she says it you'll say, "Thanks babe." It's not your initiative." Nose Dive clenched a fist but turned away; he wasn't going to lose a job and home over an argument. Seeing Mallory and Wild Wing, Nose Dive waved a hand casually but headed the other direction. Phil shook his head and walked to the duo.
"I think I offended him," Phil said.
"What happened?" Wild Wing asked curiously. Phil took in a deep breath.
"I cant say... really it's not my business." At the moment, Wild Wing's comm went off.
"That's odd, someone triggered an alert..."
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