Magic Knight Rayearth Fan Fiction ❯ The Glaciers' Widow ❯ Mane ( Chapter 12 )

~*Mane*~

*Morning*

In his dream, Ferio embraced Fuu in his arms and kissed her, their naked pressed bodies one against the other and the air filled by their bodies' heat and their moans of pleasure. But as each dream, also that faded away with the first lights of the dawn.

Ferio opened his eyes and blinked to accustom his eyes to the dawn's slim light. He breathed deeply, smelling the fragrances of his room: spices and sandalwood, almond and gardenia. With a sleepy smile on his lips, Ferio moved the look on the woman at his side: Fuu was really beautiful when asleep. Her long blonde hair covered as a cascade the silk pillows and part of her face, while some curls tickled his skin. Ferio had never imagined that her hair was so long.

Ferio watched her for a long time, insure about what to do: if she had been an other woman, he wouldn't have hesitated to wake up her and urged her to leave. But Fuu wasn't an ordinary woman. Nibbling his lower lip, Ferio decided to don't wake her; but it was dangerous that she stays there: Ferio didn't dare to think what would have happened if anybody has caught them. Sighing, Ferio got up trying to don't wake up her, he wore a robe, he picked up her clothes and wrapped Fuu in the sheet and he carried her back in her room.

Ferio made sure that Fuu's bedroom was empty: he knew that Presea slept in the bedroom nearby and surely at that hour in the morning the nurse was still sleeping. Silently Ferio drew near to the simple bed and opened the sheets; he there stretched his beloved still asleep and he leaned her clothes on a chair.

' It isn't bad if I stay still a little bit with her... '

Ferio thought with a smile. He was about to get away his robe when something hit him in the shoulders.

Presea had stayed awake for all night long: the Baroness - her baby girl- she hadn't gone back in bedroom. The nurse had even gone in library, where her lady must be, but the room was completely empty. She had an unpleasant premonition, as if that night something serious must happen to Fuu. That was been a long and stressful night: Presea had walked back and forth eating her nails, waiting the Baroness uselessly. Presea had warned Captain Lafarga too, who had organized a little patrol to search the girl.

Presea collapsed on an easy chair with Mokona on her knees and laid a hand on her own forehead.

" God of Wind, I wish my lady is well and comes back soon..."

Taken by the discouragement, Presea fallen into a sleep full of nightmares.

A just perceptible noise. Presea jolted on the easy chair and listened in silence. Somebody was in the Baroness's bedroom: the nurse could hear very well the stranger's light footsteps, his breath; the rustle of the sheets and the spring mattress' s light creaking. She had drawn near the door with plushy footsteps, she had opened it a little bit and had peered inside: Fuu lay unconscious in the bed, naked; in the slim light of the dawn she saw a masculine figure put down some things on a chair. When Presea saw the man untie his robe's sash, she saw red.

The nurse ran toward the man and hit him in the shoulders.

" How have thou dared!" Presea hissed hitting him again," How have thou dared to do this to my lady! And not satisfy thou want repeat thy crime in my presence?!"

Ferio, caught off his guard by the nurse's furious anger, for one instant he didn't know what do: the last push had beaten him against the wall and he could feel the taste of his own blood on the lips. Ferio looked angrily at:

" I don't know what art thou talking about. I have done nothing!"

Presea widened her eyes recognizing the man: from many moons by now, she suspected that the Prince gave too much attentions to Fuu -attentions that a young girl that doesn't know the Mysteries mustn't receive, but she was a girl too conscientious to give up to a man's lust... how was possible that this had happened? Surely Fuu had opposed resistance; she perhaps had been drugged. In an instant of anguish, Presea glanced at the young woman in the bed, but it was impossible see if she was wounded or not.

Ferio took advantage of that instant to push the nurse against the door; in the action he had taken the dagger that the woman held tied at the waist and pressed the blade to her throat, he growled:

" If thou say one word on the subject, I swear thou that it will be thy last word. I don't know what thou art thinking, but it surely is wrong: I would never harm Fuu."

" Bastard! It isn't hard understand that thou... my poor lady! A so young girl..."

" Shut up! Thou don't know what is happened between the two of us! Thou have a too lively imagination!"

Sensing the agitation in the room and the cold on her skin, Fuu frowned and tightened in a ball. Then she turned in the bed and opened her sleepy eyes.

" Pre-Presea, what is happen? I was doing a wonderful dream and... Gods of the Sky! Ferio, why art thou here? What is happened?!"

Ferio looked at her worried and he opened his mouth to reply her. That was a serious error. Taking advantage of his distraction, Presea was able to free herself and take back her dagger; then with a bull-like strength, she dashed the man at the feet of the bed and she blocked him setting a knee on his stomach.

" Don't fear my lady, thy grandfather will understand when he will know what was happened. But let me punish this abominable being in accordance with our laws. Prince, be ready for the trip toward the Lands without Memory!"

The nurse exclaimed raising the dagger aloft as an ancient priest. She was about to stub him when Fuu ordered her to stop. Presea watched surprised the girl, which had recovered a shirt and had worn it hastily.

" But, my lady! After that him have raped thou, do thou want to spare his miserable life? What would happen if thou..."

" These art fantasies, my loyal Presea: he hasn't forced me. If this is happened, it has been because I have chosen it." Fuu said blushing," Now... let us alone. And don't share with anybody what thou have seen."

Presea looked upset at the Baroness: the girl that was before her wasn't the Fuu that she knew.

" How... how could thou have disobeyed our laws! Oh God, thou don't know the Mysteries still, thou wouldn't even listen those things!"

" Presea, let us now."

Fuu said quietly helping Ferio to get up. Presea sighed in defeat and went to the door.

" Don't leave, Presea." Ferio said," I understand to have disobeyed thy laws, and I admire thy loyalty to thy mistress, but I promise thou that I will find a remedy to my gesture."

" And in which way, Sir? Not even all the gold of thy kingdom will erase this insult: thou are risking the life, and my lady will be forced to spend the winters of her life in high mountain. I wonder how thou want to find a remedy..."

" Simply making thy lady my bride, always that thou agree Fuu-chan."

Ferio smiled watching Fuu. The two women were amazed by those words. Fuu wasn't able to speak and she searched help in Presea, not less speechless than her. Ferio embraced the girl and sink the face in her hair.

" I hope that thy answer will be yes."

" It's ridiculous!" Presea grumbled, " My lady doesn't know the Mysteries still, thou couldn't propose her. If thou want try, Prince, wait that sun and then thou will do thy request to the Baron: if -and only if- he will accept thy proposal, then thou will marry my lady. I warn you, until that moment, I won't allow thou to graze my lady with a finger. Have been I clear?!"

The two young people looked at each other and burst in laughers.

The air was very cold in the capital city; it was always in October. In the greenhouse, Marquise Umi had organized a small party to celebrate who knows what: as always Geo gorged himself with candies and Zazu was drunk; Hikaru had improvised a dance with Umi while Fuu sat between Ferio and Emeraude. The guys had much fun, even if they didn't understand the reason of that party, while some adults looked at them amused.

" The Baroness seem radiant today, isn't she Dessin Duke?"

Queen Rosaura whispered launching a smile to the Duke. The father smiled watching his own daughter and he answered:

" Yes, today she's indeed gorgeous! Presea, do thou know why my daughter is so happy?"

" Eh? What?" Presea jumped," Ah-em. I... I don't know it, Duke. I think that my lady is so happy because.... because soon she will know the Mysteries."

" Ah, of course, I had forgotten that within two moons my baby girl would become a woman. I heard that my father -in-law wants to marry Fuu with Lord Innova, is it true?"

Presea threw a sigh of relief: who knows what would have happened if the Duke has known Fuu's happiness's true reason. The nurse poured of the tea and handed the cup to the Duke.

" So they say. But many men aim at my lady's hand: when the rumor that soon the Baroness would have reached the marriageable age has spread, many gentlemen have taken an interest in her. Innova from Monopoli, Lancelot from Ceglie, Amra from Gnatia, Jhil from Valley of Wind and so many foreign young men. Even some young Sephirian."

The nurse ended looking menacingly Ferio, whom was a little bit too close to Fuu for her tastes. Fortunately the Duke didn't notice the Prince's motions. Instead Caldina had noticed the Baroness' strange behavior and everything carried her in a single direction.

" This night anybody has picked her flower..."

Caldina said to herself. The Duke turned and asked her if she has dais something.

" Eh? What? Nothing, I said nothing Duke!"

Umi clapped her hands and a maid served rice with red beans. Her friends looked surprised at the woman pour a spoonful of the dish in their bowls. Geo moved the look on Umi and asked her:

" Lady Umi, what art we celebrating?"

Umi laughed and launched a knowing glance to Ferio and Fuu, she then answered:

" A birdie has told me that soon two of my dearest friends will get married, thus why don't celebrate?"

" Who art they?"

Eagle grumbled swallowing his rice and red beans. Umi exchanged a quick glance with the Princess and said:

" Oh, thou don't know them."

" C'mon, Lady Umi, tell us the truth: thou art the newly-wed bride!"

Caldina exclaimed teasing the girl. Umi burst in a roaring laughter and denied, while Ascot blushed.

About ten suns before her leaving, Fuu had picked her hair atop her head and had begun to wear the white wool dress of whom was next to learn the Mysteries. Her father weep the first time that he saw her in that way: also Baroness Klelia was next to the Mysteries the first time that they had met. And the Duke was sorry because he wasn't able to participate to the ceremony: unfortunately his brothers' business had problems and he must intervene -a noble could do much with his title, even if bought.

Also Ferio had been stricken by his beloved's change: the curls framed her face as a golden halo and the cloth's whiteness made more ethereal and delicate her shape.

But despite the presence -or it would be better say "guard" of Presea, Ferio went each night in Fuu's bedroom: to avoid every suspect, both had decided to restrict to the necessary their day-time meetings and to meet in her room at night, also because the nurse's presence guaranteed them some safety in more. Sure, Presea didn't like this situation and she wanted to avoid it, above all because those two made her despair and they prevented them from sleep. The trouble was that the poor nurse must find new justification to her more and more evident shadow and bags under her eyes.

Fuu was still awake and watched dreamy the ceiling. She sighed and moved the look on Ferio, who slept at her side: the girl bent down and she kissed gently his forehead; she then wore a robe and got off the bed. She approached Presea's bedroom's door, but two arms stopped her before she was able to touch the handle.

" Where art thou thinking to go? Thou art an unwise girl to leave me alone and stark naked: haven't thou thought that anybody could come here and... rape me?!"

A known voice sighed teasing in her ear. Fuu suppressed laughter and turned toward Ferio.

" Tell me, who could never do such a thing?"

" Presea. No, that woman would be able to evirate me in the sleep! Thou, very probably."

" What art thou saying?! I never...."

Ferio silenced her pressing his lips against hers, he then grabbed her arms gently and laced them around his neck. Fuu felt her knees melt when his tongue grazed her the palate and his hands slipped along her body and loosened her robe's sash. Ferio pushed her against the wall and began to caress passionately her skin while his lips caught one of her delicate earlobes: his hands slipped from her shoulders along her sides and grabbed her gluteus, massaging them with delicate firmness; he then squeezed them and raised her, so that her legs encircled his waist. Initially Fuu was amazed by his gesture, but then she abandoned herself in his intimate embrace and the pleasure that followed, was such that spontaneous moans rose in her throat.

" Well, do thou want to stop it?! There is a person that wants sleep!!"

Presea yelled opening the door -and ruining the moment. The two lovers looked surprised at the nurse, barely covered by her robe. The nurse looked nauseated at the two lovers. Presea turned and covers her eyes with her hands.

" God of Wind! Lady, I wouldn't have expected a so deplorable behavior from thou! And thou Sir, with which courage has dared do such a thing to a girl!"

" But I have done nothing! You have it in for me, Presea: yet I am a respectable man. "

" Against a wall, against a wall! Sir, thou don't know the limits of the decency! My poor lady, being involved in a maniac's perverse games must been a trauma for her! And I could do nothing because she's forced to marry him... sniff!"

" I have been involved in no perverse game! And I am not at all traumatized!"

" My lady, I know that thou try to defend this pervert, but..."

Suddenly somebody knocked at the door. With a sign, Presea said to Fuu and Ferio to be quiet and she went to open the door. Presea breathed deeply and opened the door: a servant was gasping leaning against the jamb.

"What's happening? What's this noise?"

" Where is the Baroness?"

" The.... Baroness?" Presea said fling a glance at Fuu's bedroom's door" The Baroness is sleeping, tell me what do thou want from her and tomorrow morning I'll communicate it."

" Wake her up! And tell her to reach the rooms of the Duke her father: it's just comes the news that Countess Alcyone is died!"

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FINALLY THE EXAMINATIONS ARE FINISHED!!!!!!!!! And I finally could devote me to my fanfic ;) Tell it, you have felt my absence in these two months of silence. Joking apart, I have come to the climax of this story, well soon you'll know the truth about Fuu, Ferio and Emma but there aren't preview :P

P-chan