Valerie and the Legends Of Oscavia.
Chapter Seven: Lightening.
"This is the banquet hall" Dansé said gesturing to the doors she had pushed open.
"Amazing, look at that ceiling" Valerie said in awe. The very high ceiling looked like glass with colourful gasses trapped in it, it was beautiful.
"I created it" Mayi said in a matter of fact manner as they continued walking, they were strolling down a beautiful corridor to the Throne Room. On the way, the girls were giving Valerie a little tour.
"Yes, Mayi does the most wonderful decorations," Dansé said dreamily as she hooked her arm through Valerie's "that is her art; designs and texture"
"Like fashion designing?" Valerie asked and Mayi blinked at her.
"We don't use those terms here" Vanity (Mayi's duanti), said lazily as she rest on her owner's shoulder. She was a dainty purple thing that reminded her so much of Disgust from Inside Out.
"Oh, so what's your art Dansé?" Valerie asked.
"The joys of dance and music, you can tell by my name, yes?" Dansé replied, skipping a little.
"Oh yeah, it sounds French though" Valerie said.
"Fwenchch?"Dansé asked, tilting her head slightly.
"It's another Terrenian language" Em, Dansé's sky blue duanti said "Dansé is dance in French and also in Oscavian"
"Oh, thanks Em" Valerie said "why are you duantis so smart? You know everything about my world when you haven't been in it"
"We duantis are born with knowledge from the Twelve Karis so we know almost everything" Vanity said with a proud smile "the first twelve duantis are said to be fragments of the gods themselves"
"Cool, so you guys worship the Twelve Karis?" Valerie asked the girls.
"Some do, some do not, it is a choice you are not forced to make" Mayi replied.
"What did you do to Tijan?" Dansé asked with full interest "he was very angry when he came back from the Cliff, and Jags mentioned you!"
"Oh, um..." Valerie pushed her hair behind her ears "I retaliated when he bullied me and it wasn't just me though, it was this dark power...but I guess it's because I was being 'turned', I don't know, but it felt like electricity but in a good way, you know?"
"Hmm" Mayi said and stopped walking "this good feeling, where did it come from?"
"From in me? I guess" Valerie said, uncertainly "it felt like something from my guts"
"Eww" Vanity murmured.
"I know," Valerie said with a small smile "but that's how it felt"
"Oh, let me see your hands" Mayi said with a little excitement in her usually monotone voice.
Dansé came over to look too as Valerie put her hands in Mayi's open palms.
Mayi placed Valerie's palms a few centimeters apart so that they were facing each other and not touching.
Like she was holding an invisible box.
Mayi said something in a low yet audible voice but Valerie didn't understand the words.
Dansé replied to her in the same language, excitement tinting her voice.
"What's going on?" Valerie asked looking between both of them.
"The lines are promising" Mayi stated, simply "now say, lamak and please do not faint this time"
"Umm...lamak" Valerie said although her hesitancy made it seem like a question. Lamak?
Immediately, she felt some tingling in her palms and when she looked, her mouth fell open.
There between the space of one of her palms to the other were dark blue strips of electricity! They were surging from her fingertips and connecting with her other hand through zig-zaging lines of crackling, live, energy filled, electricity!
"Oh my God, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop!!" Valerie said panicking, she took deep gulps of air so she won't faint but that only made her whoozier.
"You started it so you must stop it" Dansé said.
"What do you mean I started it?!" Valerie asked as she tried to pry her hands further apart but the strips of lightening connecting them would not budge! "Mayi told me to say that stupid word!"
She felt more energy surging from her fingertips, from both her palms, and the static energy formed a dark blue sphere of electricity. "What's going on?!" Valerie asked, it seemed like with every hard heartbeat, the ball of static energy became larger.
"Calm yourself, Valerie" Mayi called.
"I'm trying!" Valerie said her eyes were on the ball of static energy that was now as big as a basketball.
Now way bigger.
Now the size of a boulder!
"You are NOT trying!" Mayi said, her voice was surprisingly not panicked, she was pressed against the wall, trying to get far away from the glowing ball.
"This would be the best of times to faint, agapíthos!" Dansé said loudly, she was also pressed against the wall opposite Mayi.
"Oh jeez, okay, okay Valerie, think about the dead wall gecko in your tomato sandwich" Valerie said to herself.
But instead, she thought about milk coming out of Sophie's nose and she accidentally snorted a laugh which made the giant ball of crackling, dark blue electricity shoot towards Dansé!
"Dansé look out!" Valerie screamed and just in time, the blonde girl dove to the ground and landed on her tummy, her sky blue wings covering her head while the boulder sized sphere crashed into the wall with a deafening crack!
Valerie sighed before falling on her knees with fear, her entire body was shaking.
She glanced up at the huge hole she had created in the wall then Dansé who was staring wide eyed into space.
"Oh my God I broke her" Valerie said walking up to the beautiful blonde and sitting on the messed up floor next to her. "Dansé? Dansé can you hear me?" Valerie grabbed her shoulder and shook her slightly.
Dansé turned to Valerie with a wide creepy smile.
"Um...that expression makes me uncomfortable" Valerie said and turned to her duanti "hey Em, is she okay?"
"Trust me, Dansé is more than fine" Em replied.
Dansé squealed happily and jumped to her feet, she started talking fast in loud, fluent Oscavian, she ran up to Mayi and danced with her and she knelt next to Valerie and shook her hard with that happy voice.
"I don't understand a word of what you're screaming" Valerie chuckled softly.
"Oh yes, English" Dansé said "that was truly amazing, Valerie, you have the powers of lightening!"
"Not just that, you have the powers of the hands also" Mayi stated.
"Or as you call it in your land," Vanity said "Magic"
Valerie speechlessly stared at her hands. It was all too much to process in a day, she needed a breather.
"I heard a loud noise from here!" A voice suddenly called loudly "glory to the twelve Karis what happened here?!"
Valerie looked up and saw the guy with white hair and white wings in front of her, he was staring at the hole in the wall with a dumbfounded expression.
Then he turned to her and she just looked at him, like REALLY looked at him.
He was beautiful!
She had thought Dansé was impossibly beautiful but this white haired angel was...impossibly beautiful times a hundred.
He had eyes that reminded her of icy crystals and his hair was long enough for a small ponytail.
Then there was his lean, muscular body, oh and he was walking up to Valerie.
"Let me assist you" he said holding his hand out to help her up.
Valerie grinned and took his cold hand so he could help her up. Who was Mr. Knight anyways? "I saw you on that cliff earlier today" she said.
"And I saw you." He replied, up close, Valerie could see he had snowflakes in his hair. Where on Earth did he get snow from? The sun was shining. Hard! He was really beautiful. "Are you fine? Your face is pink"
"Oh you're fine" Valerie said holding her cheeks "I mean... I'M fine, and I don't mean fine as in attractive, I mean fine, like I'm alright. I'm guessing that information is completely unnecessary because you're looking at me like I said something stupid which is normal...for me...I say stupid things all the time like right now haha I just said something stupid. Well! What I'm trying to say is...yes I'm fine" Valerie gave him an awkward smile and he grinned and she nearly fainted.
"My name is Kyoh" He said "meeting the Chosen one is a pleasure" he bowed slightly.
"It's nice to meet you too" Valerie said, tucking stray brown hair behind her ears and giving him a winner smile.
Then without really thinking about it, she turned to look at Dansé and Mayi.
Valerie raised her eyebrows in shock, Dansé was glaring at her or was it Kyoh?
Valerie looked at Kyoh and then Dansé once more.
Ok she was definitely glaring at Valerie.
She was so confused, one second, Dansé was sending her a death glare, fists clenched, a blue mist covering her eyes, and her gold hair literally flying around like Medusa's snakes. She looked scary.
Mayi caught Valerie's eyes and desperately signalled for her to....do something?
"Huh?" Valerie asked cocking her head to the side.
Mayi did the desperate signal again but Valerie shook her head, lost.
"For Kari's sake! Step away from Kyoh before Dansé blasts you into pieces!!"
"Oh," Valerie said, looking at Kyoh who was staring wide eyed at Dansé "oh!" Quickly, she moved backwards.
Yeah she said "oh" a lot like she understood what was happening but the truth was she did NOT. Saying oh just felt like the right thing at the moment
Dansé visibly relaxed, the blue mist disappeared from her eyes and her hair went back to their perfect waves.
But she was still giving Valerie that scary glare.
"Dansé" Kyoh called sweetly and went to hug her, hiding his face in her neck. Dansé smiled slightly before sending Valerie that mean glare again.
Then it clicked, finally!
"Holy sh- are you guys dating?!" Valerie asked and covered her mouth with her palms "I am so sorry Dansé I had no idea" Valerie felt stupid! She had just shamelessly flirted with someone else's boyfriend.
"She might find it difficult to forgive this offence" Mayi said as she walked up to Valerie, they watched the couple walk down the corridor together.
"Yes, you should know about Dansé's five yaku rule" Vanity said.
"What's a yaku?" Valerie asked
"It is time concept, in this case it means 'seconds'" Mayi replied.
"Five second rule?" Valerie asked
"Indeed, no female must stare at Kyoh for more than five Yaku" Vanity said with a shudder.
"That's outrageous! What happened to the last person who did?" Valerie asked.
"Dansé cut her hair" Mayi stated simply and kept on walking, Valerie followed shaking her head.
"Wow I wish I knew this piece of information earlier, Dansé totally hates me now" Valerie said rolling her eyes.
"Yes, she does" Mayi agreed. Valerie groaned.
"That's not making me feel better!" She said.
"I apologise" Mayi said almost automatically "ah, here we are, the throne room, the Prince is waiting"
Valerie stared up at the high doors, they were so tall! And they were made of actual gold!
"Is that Tijan?" Valerie asked, spotting the red winged figure standing stiffly by the doors.
"Yes" Vanity replied with a small smile "I actually think he is attractive, in a not light creature-ish way"
"You're right" Valerie said as she took a good look at him while she stepped closer. He looked out of place here, he didn't have that angelic aura that surrounded almost everyone she had met here so far.
He looked like he could punch a wall of he only felt like it while the others looked like they would fix the tiniest flaw they came across. His short hair was a mess, somewhere between brown and black and even his stance was different. The way he clenched his jaw all the time.
He was good-looking, but in a silently evil kind of way.
Unfortunately, he caught Valerie staring and he glared at her as she passed by, when she glared back, his irises turned gray and caught fire.
Valerie gasped, looking away immediately, that thing was really creepy!
The gold doors swung open and she looked back at him just in time to catch him chuckle darkly at her.
She smiled.
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Heyyyyy fam!
What do you think about this chapter, it sort of a filler actually 🙂 so...😉😉 Tijan and Kyoh huh?
Anyways, tell me what you think about them so far and Kyoh is taken so he is not a love interest.
Thanks for reading.
Rhodes.
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