-Colnet vs. Flute-
Chapter one:
The devil returns
The air was fresh and clear. The wind drifted a few soft cherry blossoms over the silver glittering water of a shimmering small lake. A young girl stood in the middle of this lake. Her hair was short and gold-blond, her eyes were glowing dark green. She watched this wonderful scene, but was lonely, though. Suddenly she heard ' "the" voice. The clear, powerful and simultaneously delicate, sad voice, of which's sound her heart wanted to burst everytime, she heard it.
"Colnet!", the voice called softly.
"Colnet!"
The beautiful, young girl turned around and catched sight of the owner of the voice.
It. was a tall, good-looking young man with blond hair, which covered his red eyes. And he called the young girl's name.
"Colnet!"
Her eyes opened wide, her soft cheeks blushed.
"Hamel-sama!", she shouted in happiness with her angelic voice.
"Colnet!"
"Hamel-sama!"
"Colnet! Come to me!"
"Yes, Hamel-sama!"
The girl named Colnet started started running through the cold water. And with every step you coul hear a splish-splash as clear as a bell. Splish-splash, splish-splash, splish-splash.... .
She approached him....only two more steps and she would fling her arms around his neck.
The youth reached out his arms for her."Colnet..."
BUT-all of a sudden a lightning flashed across the sky, thunder crashed, and the sky, which had been so clear and blue only a few seconds ago, turned black.
A red liquid, which smelled suspiciously like BLOOD, filled the lake and approached the little Colnet.
"Hamel-sama! What is this?! I'm scared!", she sobbed.
"Colnet! Come over here!! I will protect you!!", Hamel shouted.
"Hamel-sama...yes!!" Colnet started running again. But a dirty laugh teared the air to pieces.
And an image of horror appeared in the sky. It. was an excrescence of uglyness. A young girl with red-brown hair, brown eyes, repulsive plaits AND her face was covered in warts.
"Forget it, Colnet, Hamel is MINE!!!!", she screeched maliciously.
"Oh, no!!", Hamel shouted, "It's the goddess of uglyness-FLUTE!!!!"
Thunder crashed."Oh, no! Hamel-sama!!" Colnet kept on running.
BUT-suddenly her ankles were grapped by slimy tentacles which started pulling her backwards. Colnet turned her cute head and saw a slimy monster, whose saliva gushed out of every hole and that, moreover, also had Flute's face!!! The Flute-monster opened it's mouth and reached out it's disgusting, rotting tongue for Colnet.
"MWAHAHAHAHAH, I'll enjoy this meal!!!!" it hissed and putrid smoke came out of it's black mouth. Colnet screamed, frightened out of her mind.
"HAAAMEEEEL-SAAAAMAAAA!!!!"
"Colnet! Take my hand! Our infinite love will destroy this ugly creature!! Colnet!!"
"Hamel-sama!" Colnet reached her hand out for him, and so did Hamel. Only two more centimetres and their hands would touch...only one centimetre....BUT THEN!!!
Hamel was grabbed by something! The disgusting Flute in the sky had stretched out one of her claws for him and hold him tight now!
"Ha-... Haaamel-samaaa!!!!"
"Colnet!! Help meeeee!!!"
Flute laughed out loudly. And Colnet felt something tickling her neck.
She turned around and, with a look of absolute horror on her face, stared into the stinking, widely teared open mouth of the Flute-monster, which was actually licking her neck.
"Colneeet!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!!", she heard Hamel's voice.
"Hamel-sama!!!!!", she screamed.
"KYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
Colnet started with a scream. Immediatly she jumped out of her bed and looked around. No monster. No Flute-onee-sama. But on her walls she saw the countless posters of Hamel-sama. This calmed her down a little bit. Everything had been just a dream. She sighed, sat down on her bed and hugged her stuffed SD-Hamel-sama.
"What a terrible dream....", she thought and wiped the sweat out of her face. Her eyes were filled with tears.
"This dream....it surely had a meaning....a terrible meaning....something must have happened to Hamel-sama-and Flute-onee-sama....", her face clouded over, "Flute-onee-sama surely has something to do with it!"
She digged her nails into her sheet. Flute-onee-sama! Only the thought made Colnet sick! Why had she failed to kill her, back then?! Why hadn't the shark "Blue Thunder" devoured her in the 9th manga?! She would have been roasting in hell now!!! But her damn luck had saved her. "If I only could join Hamel-sama's Party once more....at least to get rid of Flute-onee-sama and get Hamel-sama into safety....", she hissed.
Suddenly the door to Colnet's room was hurled open and her big brother Clari dashed in.
"COLLIN!!!!" she heard his worried voice shout.
Colnet looked at him and smiled as innocently as she could.
"Collin, you screamed, are you alright!?!?"
"Of course, Onii-sama!"
"THANK GOODNESS!!!!!" , Clari howled and flinged his arms around his sister. Colnet sighed guilty. She had worried her poor Onii-sama so much... .
"Everything's alright, Onii-sama, I just had a nightmare.", she explained qickly to calm him down.
"How terrible...!", Clari said obviously shocked.
"It.'s really not as bad as all that, Onii-sama, it was only a dream!!"
"WAAAAAHHHH, MY POOR COLLIN!!!!!"
Colnet sighed. Hopeless. But then a thought flashed across her mind! Of course!! She could make use of Clari's love to....her eyes sparkled.
"But....on the other hand...", she started with an emphatically sad voice.
"What? What's wrong, Collin?" Clari asked full of worries.
"It. really was an horrible nightmare....what should I do if it returns, this nightmare?"
"Oh no!!", Clari shouted deeply shocked.
" But...I think I know were this dream came from, Onii-sama."
"Where from, Collin?! I shall cut the culprit into pieces!! YAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Clari took up a cool magician-pose. A huge sweat-drop appeared on Colnet's head.
"N-...no, no, Onii-sama. I didn't mean it like that. It.'s just...." She thought a second, how she could put it into words the best way. There she had a great idea!!
"Onii-sama, I've had nightmares pretty often lately. Because I know, far, far away from here, I've many friends who are in danger, just like Hamel-sama, Flute-onee-sama, Sizer-sama.... ."
Clari got it."Oh....I see...you're so worried about them, am I right?" Colnet nodded."That's it, Onii-sama. If I only could do something for them....(sniff)....ah! I got it! Hey, Onii-sama, can't I join Hamel-sama and the others again?"
Clari looked at her thoughtfully.
"Ummmmm....no."
"WHAT?! WHY NO-....oh, er....I mean....why not, Onii-sama?" (questioning look)
Clari sighed."It.'s because of Horn-sama. Her condition has become worse." Colnet's face darkened once again. Horn-sama! That stupid bitch!! She was the cause of all of Colnet's trouble!!!"If she'd only finally kick the bucket, Flute-onee-sama'd have to return to Sforzando then, and wouldn't be in my way with Hamel-sama anymore!!!!" she whispered full of hatred.
"What?!" Clari asked extremly surprised.
"Oh...er....nothing, nothing!", Colnet said quickly and showed him one of her especiallly-lovely-super-cute-innocent-Colnetchan-smiles."But Onii-samaaa....", she kept on begging,"why do you need me here? Horn-sama won't feel bettere because of me being here, won't she?" "But Collin! Just imagine, Bass and his mazoku would attack Sforzando! If Horn-sama won't be able to help us, we will need every combatant!"
"But Oniii-samaaaaa....!"
"No, Collin, I'm sorry, but I'll have to deny you this wish." Colnet fell silent. How could her Onii-sama be so mean?! The corners of her mouth started twitching. Her eyes began sparkling. She covered her face with her hands.
"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH, ONIIII-SAM NO BAAAKAAA!!!!!!"
Clari was shocked. He had made Collin cry!!! His madly loved Collin!!!!
".....but Collin!!", he said, lacking in self-confidence.
"I WANT TO BE WITH HAMEL-SAMAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!"
"Co...Collin.....!!!"
"WAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!"
Clari sighed once again. Mazoku or no, he couldn't watch his little sister crying.
".....alright. You may go to Princess Flute and...um....teach her a bit more magic, okay...?"
Colnet stopped bawling from one moment to the next and gave her brother a big huggie.
"Thank you Onii-sama, I love you sooooo much!!" she shouted happily.
Clary didn't even hit upon the idea that Colnet could have played this whole show to him, one second. All he saw right now was Collin obviously being happy, and everything that made his Collin hapy, had to be a good thing.
"But don't tell Percus about it, okay?", he said quickly,"Otherwise, he'll just lose all his sleep over it." "Will do, Onii-sama!", Colnet squawked cheerfully. She did it! Flute-onee-sama would be in for it now...!!!!
In the meanwhile, far, far, far away from Sforzando, at the other end of the world, Hameln lay there, shrouded in the dead silence of the night. The northern capital seemed to be deserted, and only the fools who dared to approach it (what actually was NOT a good idea...) noticed all of the dark shadows, which were whooshing through the dark narrow lanes and corridors, following blindly the smell of death, blood and destruction. The capital was just completely filled with evil. And in the center of this place of depravity stood Lute. With his scepter in one hand, and Bass' blue head in the other hand. The four eyes of the probably most evil one of all the mazoku were turned towards the window, south, were somewhere, many, many miles away, Sforzando was situated.
Bass' look was full of hatred. Very soon the blood of those worms, also known as "humans", would run through the sewers of Sforzando. And Horn's head would be hanged up over his bed. This would bring him the most dreadful dreams, he could imagine. A thoroughly pleasant idea. A smile appeared on the blue, bearded head's face. A very evil smile. Which vanished just as quickly as it had appeared there. Because something broke through the wonderful diabolical silence of the night. It was the warrior king Gita, who just charged into the throne room.
"BASS-SAMA!!!", he shouted.
Lute turned around calmly. "What?"
"Bass-sama, please come quick!!"
Bass facial expression did not change.
"Don't yell at me like that. Why should I come?"
"Ou...our magicians ma...made out a strong magical force...in the middle of Sforzando!!"
Bass raised an eyebrow."Gita, I am not in the mood for jokes."
He thought about this for a second.
"When I think about it...somehow I am NEVER in the mood for jokes."
Lute scratched his chin.
"Well, be that as it may. So, what is so special about making out a strong magical force in the magical kingdom of Sforzando?" he said with a ironic voice.
"Well, Bass-sama..." Gita had got to grips with himself again."It is a strong force of DARK(!) magic!!" he explained thriumphantly.
"What?!" Now Bass showed some interest. Dark magic...that was EVIL magic! But people in Sforzando only used GOOD magic!(Healing-magic and more useless rubbish like that.)
"I see...dark magic...could it be one of our soldiers?"
Gita shaked his both heads."No, Bass-sama. None of our mazoku is stationed there."
Bass suddenly glared at Gita and the dog warrior realized, what he had said.
" WHAT!? WHY NOT!?!?!?", Bass yelled at him,"GITA, YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATIONING OF OUR SOLDIERS, ARE YOU NOT?!?!?! SO, WHY DIDN'T YOU STATION THEM, WHERE WE NEED THEM MOST?!?!?!?!"
"...Oh...er....I forgo...(-he realized that this was NOT a good excuse-)...I mean...I am sorry, Bass-sama.", he said quickly and a huge sweat-drop decided to appear on one of his heads. Lute shaked his head and then cleared his throat."However, this makes me really think, Gita." And Gita wasn't sure what Bass was talking about now. Bass turned his eyes towards the southern window again. Dark magic from Sforzando...Queen Horn...what was she planning now?
And this dark magic really came from Sforzando. Out of a little room of which's door was written in colorful lettern:
"Collin's room-please knock *^_^*"
And inside this room dark rituals were held, by a young girl...with the blood of bats...the tongues of snakes...the brain of a baby...and a stuffed SD-Flute, which was hanged up above a black fire.
"Mwahahahah....Flute-onee-sama...", Colnet croaked,"...watch out...I will return...mwahahaha..."
END OF CHAPTER ONE
Special thanks: Marion for helping me with translating this story from german to english (you did a great job ^_^), Elena for correcting the mistakes Marion didn't notice(if this happened), Mr. Watanabe for making up such a sick character like Colnet and all the ones who like this story. Thank you!
-Rollchan *^_^*