Quest: Book 2

by Yufeng Zhuang

19

  People leave after the meeting, I sit on the grass, look at all the ever bright stars over on the sky and have my nerve-racking, Wensly, how should I explain to you?

  A firefly flies around from the grass sending out the fluorescence from its tail, it flies up and down slowly in front of my eyes. I stretch out my hands and put it in my palms, I say to it, "my friend, make you suffer from the injustice for a moment." I stand up and walk to Wensly's tent.

  "Miss Wensly hasn't come back yet." an elf standing next to a blue tent tells me, "you can go to look for her elsewhere."

  I almost run all over the whole elf camps with sorry, but I still can't find her, where would she go to? I begin to ponder Wensly's mood now...

  "Is there a river or lake nearby?" I grab a passing by elf and ask, "the environment is a bit quiet that kind."

  "Yes..." or I grab him too tight, he warps his mouth corners up a bit, "there is a small river should comply with your request there."

  "Thank you!" I put him away, run out to the direction where he points at.

  What annoying is, I sought along the river bank for a long time, I still haven't seen Wensly yet.

  "It's a nightmare!" I begin to kick a rock into the river to let off, the water splash up, it breaks this quiet summer night.

  "What are you doing?" a familiar voice comes from the other side of the river, though the tone is not very kindly, but it is really a soothing sound to me now.

  "Wensly, why do you on the other side there?"

  I walk directly through the river to there, it's not bad that the river is not too wide, "I've been looking for you for a long time."

  "What's the business, viceroy Kone?" it seems that the wet clothes don't have the comedy effect I want, Wensly says to me with a cold face, "if you have nothing matters, please leave me alone."

  "Yes, of course there's something!" I stare blankly a bit, I say, "I have something for you."

  "What's that?" it seems that Wensly is somewhat listless.

  "You look," I open my left hand which has been grip into a fist in front of her, "it's your baby."

  It's really backfire! The bug doesn't fly away as what I want it to be, the poor guy is still struggling in my palm's sweat.

  "You this idiot!" Wensly help carefully the firefly to relief with her finger, she wrinkles her eyebrows to scolds me, "why can’t you be more careful a bit?"

  "I'm sorry." I'm very glad, at least the accident changes the embarrassed atmosphere that shrouded between both of us, "because I was too nervous."

  "Don't say sorry to me," Wensly puts the firefly on her finger, she blows on it gently with her mouth, "this firefly is really so poor… It's brought to here by somebody who doesn't like it."

  "Then..." hearing the pun words, I feel pins and needles on my scalp, "we can send it back, let it back to its happy life."

  "It'll be alright that we just send it back?" Wensly says quietly, "it can forget that it has been brought to here by you?"

  "Can I... Sit down?" my intuition tells me, I should better to think this kind of problem clearly before I answer, "you know, I am not used to just stand around."

  Wensly doesn't speak, but I can tell that she has allowed my suggestion from her expression.

  "Wensly, if now your mood calms down," I sit down, I look at her and say, "I have some important words to say to you."

  "Tell me, I'm listening."

  "It's like this," I say, "there are a lot of things happened in the Saint Capital this time, the marriage between me and Lola sisters is one of them, it's decided under the queen Nashall's intervention."

  "Feline and Kelly are Wensly's good friends," Wensly says with a insipid tone, "I'll feel happy for them."

  "You..." my heart is getting a knot, "please don't interrupt my topic?"

  "Sure."

  "Now the situation of the empire is not very optimistic." I comb through my thought and go on, "so my father and Your Majesty Krimer seems conceived of a plan, as part of this plan, my wedding will be held next month."

  "What else?"

  "The time is too tight." I say, "I have no other way to notice you."

  "If it's like this, you finished?" Wensly has the tears in her eyes, "I need to go back now!"

  "You wait a minute!" I stand up quickly and take hold of Wensly, "am I explaining to you now? Even I'm such as the most serious sin, you still need to wait for me to finish my words!"

  "What else you can say?" Wensly looks at me, the tears finally fall down from her eyes, "you'll go back to the Dark Moon city to get married, the brides are my best friends, this fact can be changed?"

  "Can't changed." I say, "but you can marry me too."

  "No!" Wensly says firmly, "I don't want to marry you."

  "Why?"

  "You already have two wives..." Wensly lowers her head in pain, "and they're my best friends..."

  "Wensly, you look at me!" I embrace her tightly, her body trembles in my arms, and she finally looks up at me, "you answer me, in such a long time after we know each other, haven't you feel that I love you? You think about it, the lakeside by the place we lived in the Saint Capital, the days we got along in the Dark Forest... Are all these less then an engagement paper?"

  Wensly bites her lips tightly, and her eyes blur up...

  "Don't be sad," I carefully wipe away the tears in her eyes, "as long as we love each other, the rest can't be counted as problems."

  "But... You're getting married." Wensly says, "and that is not a problem?"

  "Yes, I'm getting married," I say, "but no one said that the brides can be only two!"

  "You..." Wensly looks at me with her big eyes, she almost says with desperation, "there are others as well?"

  "yes, it's you!" I say with smile, “the beautiful spirit, miss Wensly!"

  "Ah!" Wensly is surprised, it's obviously that she doesn't have any preparation for this, "I... No..."

  "My dear Miss Wensly, I'm here proposing to you now," I say, "are you not going to answer me? This is my first time to propose."

  "No!" Wensly pushes me away mercilessly, her face flushes, and she has a smile on the corners of her mouth, "I'll not promise you!"

  "Ah! It's hurting my brain!" I hold my head with my both hands and say, "it seems like that I must go to see the auntie spirit by myself."

  "How dare you!" Wensly pretends the very ferocious look and says.

  "I don't have anything that I don't dare to do," I hold her hands once again, "do you know? My nickname is called the rascal viceroy now."

  "Ah!" Wensly is sneaked in by me suddenly, I kiss gently on her lips.

  Wensly who just lost her first kiss has her face full of shy, she forgets to reprimand me, just stares at me for a moment, and then runs away like a gust of wind, it leaves me standing by the river and giggling "hey hey" all by myself.

  ............

  The elf communication mode is really strange, in less than three days, a letter in reply of auntie spirit is placed on my desk.

  "Boss!" Jack looks at me, "what's the good news? You don't have to smile so exaggerated?!"

  "Jack," I wave at him, "you come to take a look at it."

  "Can I see it?" Jack feels pleased and runs over to me, "I really can?"

  "You this bastard!" I take hold of Jack and slam him onto the ground, "I almost forgot to give you lesson!"

  "Help...!" this time it's Jack's turn for exaggeration.

  Early the next morning, after we arrange all the jobs for everyone, I bring the guards with Wensly dashing to the Dark Moon city...