The Eye Of The Yellow Dragon: Chapter 3

Chapter 3

"Holy moly!" exclaimed Lolly in surprise as she and the others stared at how busy the town was with the townsfolk while others want to the stalls to buy something, making the old woman say while smiling without turning around "Yes...it's busy at this time of year as it's the year that the yellow dragon reawakens from it's deep slumber, deep in the forest where you were...well I better head to the market before the emperor and his family arrive, forcing the stalls to close early".
This made the group look at each other when hearing the tone of the old woman, as Eona said while crossing her arms "It seems you do not like the emperor much, huh?", making the woman quickly swirl around, which made the group jump slightly as she whispered loudly to them "It's not the emperor I dislike...it's his consort, the queen...it's something about her that I just don't like and also the fact that she dislikes the daughter of the emperor since the daughter is from a different woman and her own son is studying somewhere else".
This made the group look at each other, making Lolly have a funny look on her face as she said to the old woman "Let me guess...the consort...wants to get of the daughter somehow so that her son can be the only heir?", making the group and the old woman look at her with shocked looks, which made Lolly shake her head as she grumbled "Come on...that's the most used trope I've seen and read in my books", until the old woman had an uncertain look, replied while glancing around to see if anyone was listening "Well...there has been a couple of murder attempts on the princess".
This made Lolly give the rest a 'I told you so' look, which made Dean nod at this with an impressed face said "How did you know?", which said girl replied with a smirk "By reading a lot", making Anna snort at this while quickly covering her mouth, as the rest except Jomei, the two Castiels and Placido, started laughing at this, making Dean give Lolly a dark look until...

"GUYS, YOU'RE FINALLY HERE!"

This made the group look around for the female voice that called out to them, until suddenly a blur of pink flung itself at Lolly, causing her to yelp in surprise as she crashed on her back to the back, but it was revealed to be Satoko who was sniffling on top of Lolly as she whimpered "I thought I lost you Oka-lol", making the group say in surprise "Satoko?!".
"Where did you come from?" asked Jason in surprise while he and the rest stared down at Satoko who was still hugging Lolly who hugged her back tightly, when suddenly, Wing and the rest were running towards them, while trying to dodge the townsfolk by passing through them like ninjas, making Elsa say with a surprised look "You guys were actually here all along?!".
Once the other group was close to them, Sly nodded as he replied "Well the three who have the powers of their dad lead us here while Cole and the six were already here somehow".
Once Lolly and Satoko were back on their feet, the group were happy to see each other again as they talked except Siren who still hasn't talked for a while, which made Yukiko, Lolly and Jason be worried by this as they looked at each other with uncertain looks on their faces, when the old woman said to the group "I think it's best for you to get into different outfits...the clothes that you're wearing is attracting a lot of unwanted attention".
At this, Lolly looked down at her usual outfit as she said "She's right...we need to get into something more suitable for this place...", until Cassandra glanced at Tasuki with a grin on her face as she said to him "Feeling up to some shopping?", which made the others give her a funny look, until Tasuki who realised what she said, grinned as he was about to reply, until Antares, making a snort, went up to a huge clothes stall closest to them.
This made everyone stare at him as Ragna said with a blank look "What the hell is he doing?", which made Placido have a blank look to his face, replied "What an incubus does...seduce someone into doing something for them" and true to Placido's word, while everyone watched from the side, Antares said something to the man who owned the stall, making the man grin hugely while Antares smiled seductively while rubbed his hand underneath the man's chin, causing the man to nearly collapse from this.
"Dang...imagine if Chichiri and the ukes of the team became incubuses..." mumbled Tasuki to himself while drooling, causing the rest of the semes to have a thinking face to the idea, causing the ukes to give them dirty looks at this, until Antares came back suddenly while carrying lots of cloths in his arms said with a grin "It seems my work here is done...care to say 'thank you' while you're at it".
This caused Lolly to look at the cloths in Antares' arms and then she looks at the others with a approved look on her face, said "I think that will do for us...", which made the others look at each other, until Wing said with a shrug "Well, she's right...we need to blend in anyway...".
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So finding somewhere to get changed along with saying goodbye and thank you to the old woman who is now in the marketplace, the guys, the boyfriends, semes and ukes were dressed in a male Chinese-styled clothes in their theme colours, while the ones who had long hair tied their hair behind their heads away from their faces, while the girls wore a female version of the Chinese-styled clothes along with them tying their hair up so that it wouldn't get in their way, however as Lolly, Alanna, Saber, Wing, Thundra and Cassandra were about to get changed, they all stopped and stared to see Siren holding Hanji's dagger, making everyone stare at her in surprise.
"Siren...what are you doing with Hanji's da...?" started Lolly as she walked towards Siren while holding her hand out to place on Siren's shoulder with a worried look, until suddenly...
Siren grabbed her hair with one hand and held the dagger to her hair, making everyone stare at her in shock upon this, as Jason started with shocked eyes "What are you...?".
As he was about to say more, Siren said talking for the first time she came her, as she looked at the rest with tears spilling down her face while smiling sadly at them "William always said my hair looked nice but...", then without another word, sliced all of her hair off with one swift slice from the dagger.
With her hair much shorter now, Siren stared at the others with a sad smile as she held the long pieces of hair in her hand said "But since he's gone now...I don't need long hair anymore...because onee-chan will be to one to have the long hair this time...since William always said my long hair made me look pretty...".
"Siren..." said Lolly with a shocked look as she and the others watched Siren lifted her hand up in the air and then loosens her grip on the pieces of hair, causing them to fly in the air as she said quietly with a faraway while watching the hair fly "Goodbye...William, my love...forever...".
At this, this made Lolly and the family members stare at her sadly while Capala had a guilty look on her face, until Cassandra went up to Siren and gently took the dagger out of her hand until, she also grabbed her slightly burnt hair with one hand and used the same dagger that Siren used to cut her hair off and sliced it off in a similar style like Siren's but messier, making Dean say as he threw his hands up in the hair "Is it 'cutting your hair day' today or something?!", which made everyone give him a dirty look, until Cassandra said while looking at the others "I think I wanted a change since everyone keeps telling me to be someone I'm not...so I'm deciding to be who I want...not who people want me to be.." and with that, she held her hand out with the hair in it, making fire appear around her hand as it burned the hair away, causing the ashes of the hair to fly in the air.
"I think this is the day that things have changed," Lolly said as she looked at Alanna, Saber, Wing, Eona, Thundra, Cassandra and Siren, making the others look at each other at this.
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True to Lolly's word, she, Alanna, Eona, Thundra, Wing, Saber and Siren wore the male Chinese-styled outfits while binding their chest areas with the help of Alanna and Eona who helped the other five how to do it, so that no one can tell if they're men or woman while Lolly, Saber, Wing and Thundra tied their hair in a ponytail style as the men of the town were wearing, causing Tasuki to say once they were back in the open again "You guys are crazy...what if yah get killed for impersonating man?", making Wing say as she rolled her eyes at him with her hands on her hips "I think we can handle it...me and Saber have handled dressing up like a guy for years," which Alanna added "I was also the same since I wanted to be a knight but they would not allow women to be knights so I had to disguise myself for it...", until Eona also said as she looked away from Kygo at this "My master forced me to dress up as a young boy to become a dragoneye as they thought woman weren't good enough to be a dragoneye".
"Meh, my master wanted me to be the leader of the bandits but I had to dress up like a guy at all times," shrugged Cassandra to the others, when Lolly added "The male's clothes are comfortable then the woman's clothes", making Thundra grunt in agreement, while Siren mumbled quietly "I don't feel like dressing nicely...not after what happened..." as she looked down at the ground, making the others looked at each other with uncertain looks while Capala looked away from Siren with a guilty look, when suddenly...
A loud horn noise blasted through the air, causing the group to cover their ears at this while the voice shouted "Make way for the emperor and his family!", which made the townsfolk quickly scramble to shut their stalls while others got the way of the street and then went down on their knees to bow on each side of the road, as ten monk-looking men each holding on top of their shoulders of two different palanquins with a beautifully designed woodwork with golden ornaments around it, as quite a lot of guards were around the palanquins in a protective way as they walked through the street.
"Get down or you'll get beat!" hissed a older man who was bowing on the ground to Lolly and the group, making Bucky reply with an raised eyebrow to the older man on the ground "We're not from here and why would we bow to someone who we don't know?", which made the rest of the group grunt and nod their heads in agreement, causing the older man to snort "Have it your own way" and then ignored them after that.
As nobody was looking, Satoko who was standing next to Lolly and Zero, noticed something shiny on the middle of the street, causing her to open her mouth in awe and then ran straight towards it, just as the men and guards were coming closer with the palanquins towards the shiny object, which made Lolly glance slightly beside her to see that Satoko wasn't standing there, making her whole head swirl in front with a shocked look, to see that Satoko ran straight in of the guards and men who were carrying the palanquins, causing the men to nearly drop the big first palanquin at this, as she bent down to pick the object.
"How dare you run in the middle of the street while we are carrying our emperor!" roared the captain of the guard as he pulled out his Chinese-styled sword at Satoko, causing her to swirl around in fright as she held onto the object while looking at the sword right in her face.
"Do you have anything to say to us since you nearly made us dropped our emperor and his queen consort?!" shouted the man right at Satoko's face who whimpered as she shook, causing the man to lift up his sword shout "You shall pay for your life then if you can't explain properly!", making Satoko squeak as she closed her eyes tightly while lifting her arms out to protect herself from the sword that was about to swing onto her head...