Dazzling Malevolence

Chapter One

Whom I imagine as Elka~

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Breathing slowly, crouching under the safety of the giant pine tree, sweat sliding of her forehead, a slight smirk on her thick lips, her dreads running down her lean back, slanted eyes as sharp as a hawks, watching for any movement.

A rustle and a high pitched battle cry erupted, as a young boy jumps out of the bushes to land on his target. Only to have his legs swept out from under him, a chuckle resulted from the dark skinned woman holding onto the thrashing child by his ankles.

"Hey! that's not fair Ellie!" The child fought tooth and nail to get away, Elka chuckled again and promptly dropped the boy "Quit your whining Koza, you know you wouldn't be able to beat me in a hundred years." Elka smirked a triumphet smirk as Koza tried to get up, but kept falling on his backside. Finally he gave up and pouted crossing his little arms and turning away from Elka.

"Awe, c'mon it wasn't that bad" Elka nudged the little midget but again received a pout and a head turn. Sighing dramatically she began to walk away saying "Oh well, i guess that special apple and pear pie you, oh so love, won't be there for desert i suppose" The sound of whiplash could be heard for miles but the crying could be heard for eons. Elka turned around to try and console the child, who just groveled and sniffled. Wrapping his sticky hands around her neck as well as his legs around her ribs. He calmed down after she offered him, begrudgingly, her slice of his absolute favorite desert in the world.

Apple and Pear Pie...

'He better hope there's one more slice left over for me...'

Sighing and rubbing the boys back slowly as they back tracked to their home of Morel. A small village in the kingdom of Knightingen towards the eastern boarder of the kingdom, and unfortunately, closest to the kingdom of Valdrig. Heaving a sigh of relief at seeing the village just over the hill, Elka put Koza down on his feet again. Turing around Koza grinned a mischievous grin, shouting over his shoulder "Race Ya Down The Hill!!" Than proceed to run like his ass was on fire, just all over the place, not even going towards the village. Cackling at his expense, Elka was about ready to run after the runt when she heard rustling.

Tensing her muscles and reaching down for her twin daggers, she slowly turned around getting ready to attack. Koza hadn't realized her posture and was still running around, promptly running into Elka. She shot Koza a look to stop him from playing, refocusing her attention back to her 'target'. The rustling soon turned to heavy breathing and a mild thump on the ground, Elka didn't know what to make of the situation. She maneuvered from her position next to Koza, whom was clinging to her pants leg, next to the stranger.

"H-help.. Pl-please.."

Clicking her tongue, Elka turned this stranger on his back to see whom this person was.

And she wished she hadn't.

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Hearing hushed voices and what seemed to be blades, being used to either cut or stab he didn't know. Blinking his eyes open, he tried to be discrete about spying on his 'captor' or 'savior'. He was hoping for the latter. Swift movement made him flinch away, opening his eyes to see what had happened. His eyes landed on a young boy with big brown eyes and short spike-like hair on his head, promptly staring at the young man. "Koza! Leave the miscreant alone, he could have rabies!"

The strange man gaped, feeling insulted and hurt, he turned to voice the fact he wasn't a miscreant and most certainly did NOT have Rabies! Glaring slightly, the young man noticed the beautiful young woman standing before him. She was gorgeous even as she held the boy close, dagger pointed in his direction. Sigh, 'I think I'm in love..'

"Hey..." He tilted his head slightly down on an angle, looking up through his lashes and lightly biting his bottom lip. Trying for the more seductive approach while saying this, The young woman went for a simpler approach.

... Thwack!

"Ow! What was that for!?"

"For trying to put seduction tactics on a woman when a child is around."

"But you hit me?!"

Elka sat back down, ignoring the man cradling his jaw, sharpening her twins to perfection. 'Can't be too careful.' She thought to herself. Lifting her gaze to the stranger to see him gazing intently at her weapons, she even saw his Adams apple move up and settle down again when the light glinted off of her blades. The man lifted his gaze to see that she was mildly smirking at him, in a somewhat sadistic way.

"What's your name?" Elka simply fed up with referring to the stranger as that. 'Stranger'.

Although she'd recognize the royalty of the Valdrig kingdom anywhere, she wouldn't be known as the best warrior if she didn't, now wouldn't she? But through all the studying of the enemy she had to be sure. Staring intensely and determined to get her answer. Elka was a warrior... with patients. She could wait all night.

'Dammit! If she knows whom I am she'll either skewer me or take me to a bounty hut, place, thing! I don't know what they're called!!'

The man didn't realize how much time he was actually wasting, thinking about what and when things could happen if he told her. "Answer the damn question fool..!" Elka snarled at her captive. She lied, she had absolutely no patients for pretentious bastards!

Smirking the man then insinuated slyly "It's impolite to not give your own name first, fair maiden."
Elka was rolling her eyes internally, but had a thoughtful facial expression firmly planted on her face before replying with a simple, "True."

The young man thought he'd get the name of the gorgeous young woman- "But whoever said i was polite... Or a 'fair maiden'." Elka smiled a cold smile towards the young man, simultaneously blanching at the idea of being a 'fair maiden' internally, of course. The man felt a shiver travel down his spinal cord from the simple gesture.

"Well, uh, no-one said you were polite... and Technically speaking..."

'Hmm' Elka was getting tired of watching her captive fidget. She wanted to instil some fear into his eyes, after all, when your the next to be throned and being hunted at the same time. It would be a fearful situation if anyone were to discover your identity, especially in the country your almost at war with.

"Exactly, so tell me your name."

"It's-"

"Don't even think about stalling, you'll be dead if you think you can get out of this situation." Elka sneered, covering Koza's ears, so he wouldn't hear the terrible things she's saying. After all, he actually wanted the prince to live. Even said he'd make a good playmate, as funny as that might be, it isn't the time to get lost in thought.

"-aima"

"Repeat yourself fool!"

"My name is Dekaima!"