Teach me the game? [Cielle/open]

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Arashi found that his room hadn't changed it's position luckily, and he was even more lucky to have such excellent company. Arashi opened the door to his elegantly put together room and a smile came to his lips at the sight. He was so pleased to have found himself at home again after months away. Though, if everything went according to plan he would find a new home soon. He was sure that being in the seventh layer all his life wouldn't do. then again, heading back to the sixth layer may or may not be a good idea. He had basically vanished in the night from Yomi's bed, not that there was any special meaning in that. Just that he slept in her room, and he kinda just left suddenly.

"Well we're here. Tomoyo made it for me, isn't it wonderful. Your mother is really the sweetest person I know. Though, I wonder if you might be more adorable."

He smiled and looked over to her with a most interesting glance. He was not all too subtle in his hints and advances, but he hoped not to be too forceful. He meant only to get to know her, even if her undoubtedly had a bit of an interest in her. She was a soothing person, even if only on the eyes. He sat on the banister of his little balcony, looking out over the hellion kings layer. It was always a beautiful view to look upon. He didn't have a chess board in here, nor did her have any furniture other then the bed. He may have had the wrong idea in coming to this room. It seemed so suggestive, even if he hadn't that exact intention.

"You know... I forgot that I don't have a chess board in here. Or any furniture at that..."

He blushed lightly and felt a pang of annoyance at the hysterical laughter of Ranmyaku. she was finding the awkward Arashi all too cute. not to mention she found it funny that he was so shy around this female, after having drained so many others of their lives and souls.

Arashi.. you are surely a strange creature. You spend months stealing the souls of women, mostly through lustful means. Yet, when you care to actually get to know one you lock up. You're so young Arashi.

Even if she didn't mention the other souls he'd hunted she did have a point. Though, it didn't make him raise his eyes any more the the floor before her. At least he played it off with a thoughtful expression. Though, if she found out he was this nervous being in the room with her it may become very embarrassing.

[Cielle Blanche]

The room itself was lovely, and even before Arashi had said anything she knew it to be her mother's work. Decorated in an asian design, Cielle glanced at Arashi, knowing that he must have been connnected to this location somewhat for her mother to put it together for him in this way. He seemed happy to be in the room again, she observed, and it made Cielle wonder if her own room was still the same or had changed location. Before she had left, a few mischievous Elves had moved in, and they had begun switching the room around. They were very playful, however, and Cielle still got along with her.

Seeing Arashi's room gave her a slight feeling of nostalgia, and she began to briefly wonder about whether or not a lot of things in her home had changed. In her last days wit her mother, she hadn't been around very much, avoiding her mother and anything that had to do with her because of the loss of her sisters to Chiyo, who had asked for them in return for her death at Tomoyo's hands. It was a very sad experience for Cielle, and going home to her wolf pack for a while had helped to cheer her up.

"Well we're here. Tomoyo made it for me, isn't it wonderful? Your mother is really the sweetest person I know. Though, I wonder if you might be more adorable."

Arashi's voice broke her thoughts, and she could see that he had moved since they entered to the balcony, sitting on the banister there. She could see a glint in his eyes, something that she had been taught to see as a pup in her pack--the spark of interest. Cielled blushed a bit, looking around. The room was mostly empty, which meant that either Arashi didn't have many belongins or didn't put much value into them.

Registering her comment about Tomoyo, she shook her head, "No one can be more adorable than Mama...."

It was then that he said almost as though to himself,

"You know... I forgot that I don't have a chess board in here. Or any furniture at that..."

Cielle giggled. "I can fix that," she said, easily using Light magic as a conduit to pull a table from the room adjacent to Arashi's and to conjure a Chessboard and pieces from her own collection. Of course, they were Hellion addition Chess pieces, items that Tomoyo produced herself for commericial sale in Hell not too long after Cielle began to live with her. They were like regular chess pieces, only they were painted in detail to look like the founding and former Kings of Hell.

Thinking twice about whether or n ot she should use pieces that were this difficult to distinguish from normal pieces, she quickly used her magic to exchange those for pieces of a normal set.

They were strewn about the board, and she didn't bother to pick them up.

"What am I missing...? What am I missing...?" she tapped a finger on her bottom lip, looking up at the ceiling. "Ah! Chairs!"

Waving her hands while beginning to hum a gentle but upbeat tune, the door opened and in danced two chairs, both bouncing to the rhythm of her song as though there were marionette strings tied to them. She sat them on both sides of the four legged table, and she said, "Arashi...come here if you want to learn..." She was in a jovial mood now, and was ready to have some fun with him.

[Mishiranu Arashi]

She seemed to think the room was as wonderful as he himself thought it was. His eyes stayed low however and he wasn't so brave as to raise them and betray his thoughts. she said something that changed that though. Her mention of no one being as adorable as her mother made him look up quickly and he saw on her face a blush that made him mimic her. His own face grew reddened from the look on her face. If he didn't know better his feelings were already along the lines of a mild infatuation with the daughter of Hell's ruler. his eyes blinked and the deep entrancing pools of his eyes caught her frame without letting go. He really didn't understand much in his small mind, even with all of his knowledge acquired from multiple souls he was still so easily shocked by this. There had to be a good reason these celestial women caught his eye so easily. Either that or he was just a sucker for a good looking girl.

Got a real crush this time Kid? I'd take this one over Yomi at least... She's cute

Get outta my head dammit. I'm just looking, why do you always have to bother me.

What else do I have to do? Let me out and give me a drink and I'll leave you right the hellion wench alone pal.

In a minute then.

Arashi's gaze averted momentarily from Cielle as she conjured up a table from nowhere. Arashi looked back and a look of intellectual interest covered his face now. Then he saw a chess board pop into place on top complete with pieces and all. Then the scene continued with a bit of humming the chairs bounced into play. He watched curiously as the furniture she'd so easily brought to his room settled itself in the middle of his room. It seemed that her spirits had lifted since the affair in her mothers room. He knew that she was worried for her mothers wellbeing, hell, even Arashi worried about Tomoyo now and then. He had come to think of her as a friend and rival and would love to see her happy.

Cielle seemed to be ready to play, and Arashi was very sure he liked her this way. She invited him to sit and he nearly leaped over to the table. Of course, that was before her earlier words struck him again and he paused mid-rise and looked at her with a caressing stare. Her shook his head in slight annoyance as he thought about her apparent inferiority complex with her mother. He didn't like it, he honestly thought that Cielle was far more adorable, sweeter and cuter. For Cielle to so easily knock away his words was very rude to him. So, in order to make this point he rose and looked at her with a mildly serious face and crossed his arms. He inflated his chest a bit to give him a more pronounced stance and his arms across his chest made him seem to be posing a bit.

"I don't think I'll come over there until you admit just how adorable you really are Cielle"

Unable to keep a straight face he allowed a sweet and playful smile to steal his serious face. His eyes shown in slight admiration of her humbleness, but he still anted to hear it. Even if only as a joke she should say something about her adorable self. There wasn't a chance in hell [and is saying something] that Tomoyo is more adorable then Cielle. She was just too old for one.

Don't play hard to get when the female in question will just walk away you ass. Like she cares that much as to bend to your desire.

Oh whatever.

[Cielle Blanche]

He stared at her with the strangest look, and for a moment, she stared at him, too, just for the fun of it.

But after a couple minutes, she said with another smile, "Aww...you're not that afraid of learning chess, are you? I promise that it's not going to hurt you. It's just a board and pieces..."

He seemed distracted by the sunset momentarily, almost as though he really was afraid of the board, and Cielle giggled. When he looked back at her again, he seemed to be sizing her up, making a decision or something of that nature. Then he puffed out his chest a little in the cutest expression of indignation as he said, "I don't think I'll come over there until you admit just how adorable you really are Cielle."

Without hesitation, she said, "I think I'm very adorable. Why would you think that I didn't think that I was..." she paused for a moment..."ah...hm...did I say that right?" her smile faltered and she took a moment to mumble the phrase back to herself under her breath. "Right...okay. I did. I just almost confused myself..." now past her moment of doubt, her smile became as bright as before.

"Now hurry up! I want you to learn!"

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Her response was sweet, and he smiled more widely seeing her fumble through her words. In a way she was just being more adorable, and he had felt that he adored her for it. Arashi let his false indignation fall from his arms and his puffed up chest. He drooped and allowed his frame to relax in it's normally languid stance. He really didn't have the look of a serious person, he knew he was probably funnier then he was serious looking. Arashi sighed and raised his palms up facing the ceiling and closed his eyes as if to admit defeat. His eyes opened after a moment before his arms dropped and held nothing but laughter and endearment. Arashi stepped toward the table and stopped a moment before he sat though.

"Go easy on me Luv."

He winked and smirked and pulled the chair out to seat himself. He looked at the bored with obvious ignorance and looked up a Cielle. He honestly had never seen the chess pieces more then once or twice, and had no idea of what they were. His father's memory held nothing much either, it seemed that none of the information running through his head held chess as a game of choice. Arashi was rather curious about the game, even more now that he'd established that it must be a fun game. If both Tomo and Cielle were willing to teach him it should be an interesting game to play. Arashi smiled and sighed.

"I'm seriously clueless here..."

You're hopeless. Nobody likes an idiot Arashi. Looks like you'll die alone... Hey.. let me out again please?

Why should I? It's kinda creepy to just cut myself and bleed out a huge puddle of blood.

Please?

I'll think about it.

[Cielle Blanche]

Cielle smiled, knowing that he had realized that she wasn't going to back down from his learning to play his game, no matter how big a fit he pitched about her being adorable. The serious look left his face, replaced by an expressioin of defeat. He sighed and threw his hand into the air palms up, as though he had wanted to make his loss of this argument more obvious.

"Go easy on me Luv."

He smiled and winked at her, which made Cielle blush to herself.

...Is he hitting on me? she asked herself. She decided that she wouldn't respond for the moment as she saw his expression change to one of cluelessness while looking at the board.

"Okay," she said. "Ready to learn. The first thing that we're going to go over is the point of the game. Chess was derived as a tactician's game, for the noblemen of the time in the Mortal Realm to prove their strategic prowess. In some kingdoms--as there were verions of the game from many different countries and civilzations--those who were the best at it were given troops to lead into battle. Chess isn't the first game of this variety, either, which I'm sure that you can tell. In any case, it's a game of skill. It's important for you to be able to read your opponents moves or to head off any disguised attacks."

She looked at the pieces again, and shrugged. "Well, these pieces don't look very fun..." sighing, she used her light magic in the same manner as before, swapping the pieces of her set with another from in her mother's room. The new pieces looked like little people dressed like chess pieces, and she clapped her hands with glee. "Aren't they cute?" she asked.

She cleared the board of the newly exhanged pieces, and pointed at the board:



Every chess board is eight by eight squares--sixty-four total. The first two lines of the sides facing you and me are the ones that will have pieces on them. Usually, the board is labeled vertically with numbers, and the horizontal side with letters, so that it is easier to tell where you move a piece. I'll show you."

Using her magic yet again, Cielle created a thin, transparent replica of the board to float over the one already on the table, this one with labels for both the pieces and the place values:



"We'll be using this, Arashi, to help you to get a grasp of where the pieces go and what they do. Do you have any questions so far before I start introducing the pieces?" Cielle batted her eye lashes.

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Arashi did his best to focus on what she said, but he kept looking at her face. It was a nice face really, he liked the way her lips moved when she talked. He looked at he and thought about how nice her lips were too. Arashi noticed his mind drifting and mentally shook himself only to notice that Ranmyaku was shouting at him too. Her smiled and listened intently as she finished her little historical background of the game. A game of skill indeed, Arashi felt himself grow more interested in the game. He wondered how good he could get in the game. He watched as she switched the pieces for more interesting ones and chuckled.

Leave it up to a female to need cuter pieces.

Shut up.. Those are lovely pieces. You should be grateful that she has good taste. That way she can help you dress when you start dating.

Arashi blushed and shut out his sprite's voice as best he could as Cielle continued on her explanation. He watched as she created a hologram of sorts to show him the placement scheme. He was sure that the board was like a checker board, just with black and white instead of red and black. Arashi found it relieving that he recognized something about the game, even if it was irrelevant. Though, in any case he was sure that the board was unimportant in the way of things. The fact that it was a war game meant that the pieces must be like the units of an army. Arashi liked this game already, it would likely be a very good way to relax in the future.

"No.. no questions. You can continue."

He smiled and then he saw her bat her eyes, his pulse vanished for a second. He was sure she was flirting with him, or at least he hoped she was. If there was nothing intended by the little motion of batting her eyes then he was a fool. Though, he knew that he was remarkable and likable. His little ego was boosting his thoughts of fancy.

[Cielle Blanche]

Cielle was happy that she had made everything clear up to that point. "Good," she said. "Now we'll go through the pieces one by one. We'll start with the most simple and work up to the hardest."

She picked up two of the pieces, one white, and one black. Even though she held two of them, there were many identical pieces for both colors still on the table.





"These are pawns. As you can see from the layered set up of the board, all of the squares in the front row on both sides have pawn lined up on them. They're like the solider in this little game of war, which is why there are so many of them. For their first turn, they're able to move two pieces ahead, but after that, they can only move up one space at a time. And, they can only take pieces that are diagonally in front of them. For example, if there was a pawn on E5, it could only take pieces that were either on D6, or F6. That may be a little confusing, so do you have any questions now?"

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Arashi looked at the pieces she'd presented and recognized their purpose. He saw them as the grunts of the game. The foot shoulders that made up the front line. the ones that usually die before the war's end, and are rarely awarded for their duties. The unloved soldiers with no statues or recognition, it was interested that this game have them. He smirked just at the thought. Yes, this was really an interesting game indeed. He wondered just what other characters would be played here. He wondered who the creator of this game thought of when they created each piece.

The way it moved was easily understood, run forward slice down the opponent at an angle. The fact that they can only move one space at a time made sense on this grand battlefield. Then there was the fact that as the front line they would need to rush out faster then any to start things up. For that reason they must start out moving forward twice instead of the normal one at a time. Arashi looked up and smiled.

"I understand completely Cielle. So do all the pieces have a catch to them?"

He waited for her to continue, still listening intently to her instruction.

[Cielle Blanche]

"Yes. All of the pieces of Chess have their own movement patterns and stuff," she said. "They all work together, like those in the military with different skills, to win the war. The next piece we'll be looking at," she continued, leaning forward to be closer to Arashi, her bosom sticking out over the table, "are the rooks."





These are rooks. They're like the rushman of the army. They are allowed to move any number of squares horizontally or vertically at a time. However, you can only do one at a time. Vertical or Horizontal. You can't do both. Is that confusing in any way?y she asked coyly, a bit of sensual bite in her voice at the question.

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Arashi paid all the attention he could as the next piece was introduced. His eyes were distracted however by the cleavage of his instructor. Naturally he blushed and the bangs of his hair fell as he looked down at the table for a moment. He took no shame in his attraction, but it was just a bit embarrassing to be caught. After a second of collecting himself he looked back to the piece and nodded. Her explanation of the game was just as he'd expected, and this piece was no different in the scheme of things. If the rooks were as the rush-men then he could imagine their real life counterparts. Moving only in straight lines and only in one direction. It reminded him of a charging bull, and he grasped the concept with ease.

"I get it."

He smiled and looked her in the eyes, careful not to let his gaze drop again. It wouldn't be too good if he was caught blushing, he'd look too childish. His eyes reflected her gorgeous face, as well as the sensuality she'd placed in her voice. Arashi had yet to understand anything she may want just yet, but he caught the hint in her voice easily.

"So what's next Sensei?"

He smirked and held a light teasing tone. He was starting to get the feeling that her teaching him this board game had become a game in itself. His mind was running through all the most perverted possibilities as usual. Though, the sound of Ranmyaku teasing his actions and doing her usual play by play of his foolishness never ceased either.

[Cielle Blanche]

"Next," Cielle continued, her attention going back to the game, "are the Bishops. They are the priests so to speak, or--depending upon the mythology--the magic users. As priests they are those who give God's blessing on the battle before it begins to ensure victory. While mostly skilled at defense and evasion they have attack power as well. As the magic users, it's quite the opposite. They are good at evasion but not physical defense. On both sides, their prayers and or magic allow them to influence the battle from a distance. Don't allow that information to confuse you, however, as what I've just told you was side information and you don't have to know that to get how the piece works.

"Bishops are known for being close to the king--as either priests or magic-users--and thusly are right next to the King and Queen on the board, if you look at the floating diagram. Their movements are diagonal in any direction on the board forward or backward--unlike the pawns, who are restricted to forward movement. Do you understand?" She smiled.

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Arashi listened to the explanation given with a interested expression. For the most part the game seemed simple and mostly obvious. Once the pieces were memorized there wasn't much else to it. Or, maybe he simply didn't understand all that this game fully entailed. If it was a game of strategy then there must be something more complicated about the game then the pieces. Arashi felt as if the lesson wouldn't be starting yet, and that he was merely getting the pre-lesson information. The anxiousness to get started gave a smile to his lips and Arashi felt more aware of Cielle's voice. Though, that was not altogether good for him on the level of learning.

The youthful ears of Arashi seemed easily allured into distraction. Cielle had a nice tone, and her voice was nice too. Arashi snapped back together though as he thought more of the piece recently introduced. Since the piece was so close to the king he almost though it was more of an adviser or tactician. He saw the piece in that way himself, not to say he was calling his teacher wrong, but it was an opinion that crossed his mind. In any case he had understood and found himself nodding in response to her words.

"So... next is that?"

Arashi pointed at the knight with mild interest wanting an explanation of this one next. He was wondering how many ways the makers of this game had thought of making the pieces move. If horizontal and diagonal were taken then it was likely that this piece moved in yet a different way. Though, Arashi was curious as to what else the pieces of one game could do in movement. He grinned and joked before Cielle continued.

"Does it move in squares or something.?"

After his joke was met with a response the lesson moved on. It didn't take so long for the game to be fully explain and each peice introduced. Once Arashi had commited the whole of the games rules he felt he was ready to challenge his teacher to a round.

[Cielle Blanche]

Cielle was glad that he had grasped the game, and she couldn't contain her happiness.

"I'm so glad that you understand!" She clapped her hands together, rising from her chair to skip over to his across the table and hug him. "Now you can play me and Mama!" Pressed close to her, Cielle smiled, wondering what he was going to say. She was really happy that he had learned how to play with relative ease.

"Well, you can either play a game with me now, or practice until you think you can be a match for me. Until then, is there some other game that you would like to play while we're here? Did you want a tour or something?" Trying to think of things to do, she realized that he'd been here longer than she had. "Well, nevermind...you probably don't need the tour, now that I think about it....so, what do you want to do?"

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Upon the feeling of her embrace Arashi felt his heart beating a bit faster and his mind ran in circles. He wasn't quite expecting the sudden contact. He rather enjoyed the feeling but it was her words that made him grin. What to do... he could think of a good few things he'd like to do. Arashi's more perverted thoughts were pushed away and he decided against anything to heavily rash. Instead he raised his hand as if not truly aware of his own action and touched Cielle's cheek delicately with his fingertips. He looked up with a smile as intently charming as any and made a face as if to be thinking.

"Well. Even though I'm sure I have enough skill to 'match' you I'm not so sure a game would be fun without some risk. Maybe we could make the game a bit more interesting?"

His eyes shown an obvious glint of his perversion as he looked p at Cielle. Arashi was positive she would be able to interpret his little play. The only problem was wondering exactly how she'd respond to his ploy. Arashi wondered which risk she would pose to the game, either way it was up to him, personally he thought it'd be fun to play a game that would be more along the lines of provocative.

"I propose that for each piece lost that person must fulfill one request without question. Naturally it can be anything within the abilities of the other."

Arashi spoke in the alluring tone he'd practiced in his dealings over the past few months. Convincing mortals that they didn't need their soul was a difficult game. Arashi had acquired a skill in that field as a result of genetics and talent.

[Cielle Blanche]

[do you have any idea how we're going to dictate this game??? XD LOL]

Cielle smiled. Did he really think that his natural nature would be enough to fool her? Not when her mother was the King of Demons. She knew too much about them. Moreso than Arashi probably knew about himself.

However, despite his failed attempt to sway her with his voice alone, he had touched her cheek tenderly, and even if he wasn't charming her with his magic, Cielle felt charmed by what she thought she could see underneath. A timid young boy who was struggling to make the right decisions.

On the other hand...there was a part of her mother that seemed...distant, almost, from him. That meant that something was troubling her about Arashi. Cielle was not eager to let someone else's opinion dictate her own, but her mother was very old and wise--she doubted that her Mama was pretending to dislike Arashi just to stop her from interacting with him.

She decided in that moment that she would take things cautiously, to see how things went. Again, she reminded herself that she did like him. She just wasn't sure how much. And her mother had taught her, after all, to never pass up a game that you would undoubtedly win at.

"Okay. That sounds fun. No requests too serious, though," she said. "I haven't gotten to know you properly yet." Of course, if her mother had heard that she would have told her that she'd taken all of the fun out of the game, but Cielle did, contrary to popular belief, have a different moral system than her mother. They were from two different worlds, after all.

"Fine," she said. "I agree. Shall we start? Do you remember where all of the pieces go?"

[Mishiranu Arashi]

[Well.. I lose. I think it'd be fun if he lose completely without a single piece won. So we should skip forward a bit and you can list some of the things he'd been forced to do.]

Hey.. you're about to get creamed... why not just agree to be her slave and get it out of the way?

Arashi ignored Ranmyaku and smiled seeing Cielle take a shine to his idea. He wasn't sure if he'd done anything with his verbal charms, but he was used to use it when he wanted something in any case. It had become his natural way of speaking, and it took conscious effort to hide. His smile and his gaze held the same charm as his words, but his eyes held more. The depth of his eyes seemed to give a vision into him as he was. The darker feelings that haunted him and the chaos that threatened to take him all accumulated deep in his fathomless gaze. The tender touch he'd chanced was withdrawn as he looked back to the game board. He exhaled and looked up to Cielle from the board with a confident smile that was all too misplaced.

"I have it all down, just make sure you can keep up."

His teasing was as futile as his belief that he understood the game's true hardship. The pieces and positions were merely the beginning, and he was going to learn the hard way that he was in for a beating. Seeing as he wanted his queen out fast he moved the pawn between the queen and his bishop to free them up. In his mind he'd already made a great move, though the game was likely to be a lot more then he could handle.

You are seriously gonna die Arashi.. I can't watch.

Shut up Ranmyaku.

"Your turn Cielle."

[Cielle Blanche]

[Okay, Jose XD I hope you don't mind if I godmod a little bit in my first sentence; I'll change it if you have a prob with it ^^]

Cielle would give him some credit; they had been playing for at least ten minutes--not including the tasks that Arashi had been made to do--but only because Arashi took at least one to think about every move that he was making. But it had done him no good; she had so far forced him to give up quite a few pieces in exchange for other that weren't worth as many points. She was playing the game seriously, but only because she didn't want to have to lose the bet.

So far, since he still had pieces on the board, she had made him do funny things; things that made him laugh--like going outside and skipping around the premesis of the castle even though he would be stopped by a guard every two minutes and checked in case he was a trespasser, asking Ranmyaku to play a game of hide and seek in the castle to see if Arashi could find her in five minutes; things of that sort. The last turn she had made him give her a piggy back ride for three minutes through the castle, and despite the fact that she didn't really feel emotion, she had gotten the strangest look from Symphony as they had gone past.

She hoped that Exodus wouldn't get hold of them in the future--he was a spoil sport and it would ruin their fun. Now it was Arashi's turn, and one of Cielle's pawns was in the perfect position to be taken--just so that she could give him one wish for the whole game. She thought such a gesture ironic, considering that he was the Djinni...

[Mishiranu Arashi]

Arashi's confidence was lost rather quickly as he watched the game. And that was just what he was doing, watching the game, and losing it. He had not yet done anything that seemed successful in the game. He had yet to take anything she wanted to keep, nor had he been able to trap a single piece. Arashi saw just how bad he was at this game as he lost piece by piece and performed for her amusement. He hadn't exactly hated what he was forced to do, at least she hadn't made him run around the castle naked. Though, he wasn't sure if he would have been so kind as to leave her with her clothes if he'd done that one. The guards more or less took him as a confused intruder and made him explain himself over and over till she bailed him out.

Thinking over these things in his head almost allowed him to overlook what was going on. She'd left the back door open and seemed to be dangling opportunity at him. The move was unfair and it was an obvious give he wondered how badly he'd die for this. After a few moments of pondering Arashi decided it was either take the piece now or never get another chance for freebies. He looked up with a mild annoyance, he couldn't be harsh with her even if he took it, thinking of a penalty game for the piece made him pause over his knight. He touched the piece and looked up once more to see that she wasn't in the least worried about losing the piece. The fact that he had to be given a piece was a bit discouraging. He moved, took the pawn and set it to the side without the victorious flare one would if it had been an achievement.

HAHAHAHA How sweet of her to pity you enough to give up a piece.

Arashi grumbled lightly, "Well.. since I was able to take a piece I guess I get to make you pay huh?"

Arashi gave a sarcastic yet playful smile. It made sense that bashing a new player in a game you just taught him wasn't fun all the time. Maybe it wasn't just pity, and that thought alone made his winning the piece all the more worth it.

"Let's see... I want you to dance down the hall to the throne room and back with a pair of your mom's panties on your head shouting "Green onions are the food for me", sound about right? For beating me so badly and for smacking a hole in my pride by giving a piece I'd try to think of worse... but that should do."

Arashi gave the most charming smile that shined all the way through his face. His eyes seemed to shimmer in his moment of malicious playfulness. As if he could not be happier with anything else in the world. Though his susceptibility to her was always high, he was sure this would be a goos show.

[Cielle Blanche]

Cielle pouted. She had allowed a piece to be taken, and what she earned for her trouble was having to run around with mama's underwear on her head. He was going to have to pay for that.

"Well, mama doesn't really wear them anymore--just joking," she teased, the idea of a menacing Tomoyo without underwear surely appalling to him. To not get into that image too deeply, though, she looked toward the entrance of the door. "Well, ah, mama and...Ren...are fighting, still, I think," she said, aptly remembering the budding argument as they left Tomoyo's room. "I can t them here, though," she said. Trying to think back to the image of a particular pair, she furrowed her eyebrows.

"I used to play around with her clothes when I was small, but I don't really remember doing anything with her underwear--and considering how she was then in comparison to her being settled down now, I wouldn't have wanted to..." she made a face. "But she did have a favorite pair, I think..."

The image of a pair of lavender underwear came to mind. They were very...plain, and Cielle was sure that her mother had told her something about them to make them specially--which is why they were memorable--but the fact wouldn't come to mind.

She put the underwear on her head, carefully manipulating them with magic so that the fabric wouldnt' have to stretch. "There. You ready?" She smiled. "And Green Onions are the food for me, by the way," she said for pure silliness, laughing out loud and rising from her chair.