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Ganon smiled-- he could see the answer in his new love's eyes, and he swung her around once in the air before setting her back down! "Ah, Ninian," he sighed, positively beaming with joy as he took her hand and, holding the engagement ring with the tip of his tail, slid it onto Ninian's ring finger.

His tail then slid around her as he pulled her close, up, until her feet once more lifted off the ground, and felt his breath begin to mingle with hers, his hearts beating against the small woman's chest, his lips drawing closer, and closer--

NO!

He jolted and nearly dropped her, then set her down and stood upright, turning quickly to find the source of this screech, this unwanted interruption; his claws unsheathed themselves instinctively as his eye fell upon Roy, then drew back into his fingers as he closed it, composing himself. "Aha. It is always so tragic when men are blinded to the purity of love by factors of race, is it not, my dear?" he asked Ninian, protectively wrapping his tail around her. "And yet, these are the trials we must... face..." He trailed off as his eye moved to the red-scaled woman who had taken to staring, and there seemed to be a great disconnect, as though something had interrupted his very being, and he could not focus in the least.

His mind was battling with the heady vapors that had wound their way through it, and for a long moment he stood, until at last he was forced to discard one memory or another.

The mist, unfortunately, made that decision for him, and he pulled Ninian lovingly closer to himself. "If you'll all excuse us, now, my fiancé and I were just on our way to breakfast," he said, smiling down at the pretty dragoness.

When there is empty void that needs to fulfill
When there is loneliness that needs companion
When there is secret crush that needs to confess...




"Oh isn't it GREAT!" Psyche exclaimed more enthusiastic. It wasn't really a question, but more of an expression. However, the cupid couldn't help expression what a FABULOUS job she did.

So far, she had shot that snappy Sniper to fall for the pink-haired Bishop. She had shot Mr. Monocle for that Miss Gothic Woman. She took a shot at the captain of the Watch, but Mr. Drunken Man fell in love with the barrel of ale instead of his subordinate who was a Sniper woman. She wondered how could someone fell in love with inanimate objects. (Shutup! my muse is dead. lol xD) And to make another drama llama trauma, the cupid tried to shoot the lovely couple until a dog spooked her from behind. Thereby, causing her to jump with her girlish screamed and accidentally shot up in the air. Pysche scorned the dog for making her waste her arrow and had to shoot the couple the second time. It was unbeknown to her that her flying arrow had shot Tibarn while he was heading to the manor.

Besides the those horrible drama llama she had encountered, she was splendidly happy that she did a great job. All the lovely couples were together, sharing their love and feelings. Oh if only Commander Eros was there to witness this wonderful act and confessed his undying love to her. Sighed.... Oh how would that make her happy.

"Oh Commander Eros, of course I love you since we've first met." Psyche cooed blissfully as she blushed furiously with her hands to her cheeks and her eyes closed. Oh she could feel her heart jumped with joy and the pit of her stomach light as a feather. Why it was as if she was floating in cloud nine just thinking about her commander and herself spending time together.

Suddenly a shout disrupted her little bubble. Turning to the source of the disturbance, the cupid let out a gasp. There was a mob. Surrounding by mob was a person in a dress, shielding another being behind. GASP! A woman is trying to rescue her man from a mob of mad citizens! That was NOT the role a woman should be doing. It was supposed to be the man's job to rescue the woman, not the other way around. That man needed to stand up for his woman and himself.

"Looks like you need a dose of courage, Mr. Coward Man!" Psyche shouted as she flew up into the air. Now able to see a good view and perfect perception to shoot, the cupid pulled out her bow and arrow. She pulled the string to adjust her target, making sure that she would be able to get a clear shot. Now locking the sight of the Hero's head, she unleashed her arrow. The arrow rained down like a sleet of ice fallen from the rooftop in winter as it struck to the Hero's forehead.

"YAY! Now Mr. Coward Man can become Mr. Courage Man." Psyche chirped happily to see that her love arrow had pierced and flew away. Oh what a great feeling she had. With so many accomplished, she would surely get her commander's attention. After all, love was in the air...

... But even love could be blind and a very dangerous game to play if not being so careful.

It was two hours passed noon and Eyris was in chaos. Not the violent chaos that Loki had created over half a year ago, but a different chaos. Random people were falling in love. Destined couple were not together. Even the victims of this chaos were facing their fears of their emotions.

Hidden deeply in the dark alley, there was an erupting twister of fire and hearts. Citizens would have seen the sheer brightness of the eruption, but they could not see it. They would have heard the flickering flames as it soared into the air, but they could not hear it. It was as if the flame was nothing but an illusion. Suddenly, the twister began to decease.

Once the flame was gone, there stood a young man in its place. The man wore a white shirt, brown pants, reddish maroon boots and brown fingerless gloves. He wore a red shoulder-pad over his dark red cape. His white hair was tied loosely as he opened his deep azure eyes. His bow clung tightly in his left arm as he walked toward the street of the beloved Eyris. His sword hung by his side tapped silently as he walked for a moment before coming to a stop.

The citizens didn't see this strange man coming out of the alley. They were just walking passed him. It was as if he was a ghost. But he didn't care about his presence being unknown to the people of Eyris. He had a mission to do.

Earlier he received a message that he was needed in Eyris to fix the chaos. He did not understand why he was needed. The chaos was more in the Battle Division under General Micheal's order, not his. After all, he was a pacifist, not a fighter. However, the messenger said that the chaos fell under his category to fix the situation, not the Battle Division and that the Goddess requested him. He had asked the messenger what was the chaos, but the messenger did not know. It was the messenger's job to deliver the message, not being the informant. Though he did not like the news, he obiged his Goddess's order and came to Eyris.

The man scanned the area around him. So far what he had seen were ordinary citizens doing their daily lives. This did not seem chaos to him. However, he couldn't let the scene before him fooled him. His Goddess had ordered him to come and fix the problem. Therefore, there must be chaos in this city. There could be no mistaken from the Goddess's order.

Suddenly, he noticed something strange when an odd couple, an old perverted man and a young feminist lesbian, strolled passed him.

"..." He did not say anything but to follow the strange couple. Now he understood the chaos in Eyris. Random people were fallen in love instead of destined couples. This could be taken care easily.

He drew out his sword as he followed the couple behind, listening to their conversation about how much they loved each other. As he gotten close, he raised his arm over his shoulder and slashed across the couple's backs.

There were no cuts or blood spilled on the couple's back. But unfortunately, his blade had made a pierce to each of their hearts. A sense of cold had flooded from the heart and into the body, mostly toward the brain. Though his sword could not shed blood from the body, his cut had shredded the love spell that was placed upon them. In addition, the cold feeling had washed part of their memories of being in love and replaced false memories inside.

As the couple stopped and looked at each other, the woman let out a scream before attacking the old man, shouting that he had tricked her into helping him just to check and feel her body. Not bother to listen to the lesbian's lecture of treating women unfairly, he turned around and walked away.

There were two options to this madness. Either there was a rogue cupid on the loose causing mishaps or some random citizen found one of his cupid's bow and arrows and decided to mess with it.

Curious of who was patrolling Eyris, the young man pulled out a scroll from his quiver and looked. The cupid in charge of Eyris was Psyche.

"... Psyche..." He sighed, now more burdened. So it was more of option number three, a cupid had lost the scroll of destined couple and shot random people in love. He should have seen it coming. And after all the training he had put her through, his subordinate somehow managed to cause problems. Why did he not ignore his mother's wish and become a scribe, an angel who recorded all deeds of mankind, to avoid this. He did not understand why he didn't transfer Psyche to another division from the very beginning. Maybe he was being too nice and was giving her too many chances.

Wondered how many errors Psyche had made, he pulled out his arrow from his quiver and had it laid on his hand. Nothing had happened. Suddenly the arrow slowly began to spin before becoming rapidly, never ceased to stop.

"..." He sighed deeply before placing his arrow back. There were too many love spells looming in the city to make his arrow spun like crazy. Therefore, he couldn't find his subordinate with this chaos around. It would appeared that he had to find Psyche and fix the problem along the way.

Eros, Commander of the first platoon in the Knowledge Division, walked stoically to finish his mission.





But if the heart cries out for help...

The only reason Canas and Melethia had gone to Roy instead of Aruna was because they knew him, not the Hostess woman. How were they supposed to know Aruna was in a relationship with Ganon, who was confessing to Ninian? He sure as hell knew there wasn't that kind of connection between the two. Something was very fishy here. Very, very fi-- ...There was a fish cart just further up the street. And the wind was blowing the smell down their direction. And that would explain the fishy smell.

But back to Roy and not the fish cart. There was no way he would accept this relationship between Ganon and Ninian. And judging by the reaction Ganon had given Aruna, it was the very same situation Roy encountered between the charmed Ephraim and Kishuna. Ephraim didn't recognize Kishuna, just like Ganon didn't recognize Aruna. But why? Was it psychological warfare from an enemy country on the citizens of Eyris to shatter happiness between already formed couples with these false couples? Or some other unknown force? Maybe someone had spiked everyone's drinks this morning?

He was just about to look up at Aruna and say something before he felt a sharp sting in his cheek. He winced from the blow the Nagini had just dealt him. Okay, he would let one slide as an apology for just standing there while her heart shattered into millions of little pieces. But he wasn't going to be smacked again.

Her hand formed a fist, and she swung at him. His hand swung up and caught her fist.

"Something's not right here...there was almost no reaction from Ganon when he looked at you. It was the same thing with Ephraim when he saw Kishuna earlier. How can two people madly in love with each other forget about the other that quickly and then suddenly become extremely obsessive over another person? It's not that I'm completely against Ganon's current relationship with Nini...Oh who am I kidding? I completely oppose it! If he were in the right state of mind, I'd kick his a** for completely leaving you like that without any explanations." he said softly, then pushed Aruna's hand down gently.

"Someone or something is completely messing with everyone's feelings and emotions. You, me, Ganon, Ninian...everyone's a victim."

And then Melethia bitched a bit and pulled him away before he could say anything more.

"Roy, I--I'm not a victim, I--I love him, Roy. Can't you--can't you just accept that I'm happy? Truly happy for the first time since I came here? Or is it impossible for you to accept that I can love someone other than your father? I am human! I can fall in and out of love just like anyone else! And I love Ganon!"

While Roy was touched that Ninian remembered him, even to the point where she yelled at Aruna not to touch him, he was hurt by her response. He had his reasons for not accepting Ganon to be Nini's new man. Dared he list them? Yes, he dared.

First, Ganon hadn't officially broken up with Aruna. So wouldn't that technically be cheating on her? Roy sure as hell did not want the lizard to be cheating on Ninian. Hell no. Half of Learania (with Eyris being at the middle) would be engulfed in flames before he would let *anyone cheat on Ninian.

Second, Roy had been at the Hostess Cafe often enough to know that there was nothing between the two. Ganon was too busy with his bard duties and being with Aruna to do much with Ninian. Nils would have definitely noticed something as well. The bard and dancer weren't in their right state of mind. What would happen if the effects wore off and they realized they made a mistake they can't take back? That would break Nini's heart more than anything once divorce papers were filed out or Ganon left her to go back to Aruna.

Third, what if the effects didn't wear off? Ninian would be targeted by Aruna as the woman who stole her man. Nini already suffered enough in her life. She didn't need any more suffering, especially not at work. She had only fully recovered at the start of the year. Roy didn't want to see his mother in bandages again.

The list went on and on, but he didn't want to waste space listing them all. Roy really would have been fine with almost anyone else Nini fell in love with. Just not Ganon, just not now.

"Fine, go ahead and go with him. I have my reasons for not accepting him as your new husband/my stepfather, and you'll soon see them later. I'm just trying to save you from being heartbroken, because I care about you. I love you, Mother. You know that, just as I know you love me back. No Oedipus Complex." said Roy, loud enough for Ninian to hear him.

And with that, the young lord turned away and stormed off, mixed feelings and emotions clouding his mind.

(( *Edit ))

Bozo yawned. Bozo had been in hibernation. Bozo enjoyed hibernation. Bozo didn't really need to go into hibernation, but Bozo had heard other animals could sleep the winter away, and Bozo liked sleeping, so Bozo did the same. But even Bozo got hungry during winter, and unlike bears Bozo didn't like eating gravel and rocks and dirt and worms and other things in mud and mud and stuff to clog up Bozo's poop hole, so Bozo still had to get up once in a while to eat and do Bozo's needs. So Bozo wasn't very good at hibernating, but Bozo liked eating, so it was alright.

After been able to do Bozo's needs and wash up afterwards, Bozo was now ready for Bozo's next adventure!...The adventure of finding food! And a nice next to sleep in. Bozo liked sleeping...and eating. And to be petted.

A lot of other people enjoyed getting petted and cleaned too, because when Bozo floated along the main road in Big Town, they were petting and stroking and licking eachother. Bozo didn't know why. But it was nice to see that people got along. Bozo didn't like conflict, it scared Bozo. But what scared Bozo more was to go hungry. Bozo was hungry...

"Boyo~" Bozo whined, as Bozo's stomach rumbled, tiny droplets of tears formed in Bozo's eyes as Bozo yawned. Waking up was so exhausting...is what Bozo thought.

Canas felt a fist crack him in the face and he saw her book it and he got up and gave chase. apparently she was playing hard to get or she was just plain stupid and did not care about her safety. And he could not allow that. He put a much greater effort into it. His game face was on. He could not allow himself to lose her as he had lost his wife...