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The Outcasts- chapter 4

"Something happened," Kira briefly commented, staring at her roommate while they were getting ready for work. Slowly dusk fell.

"How did you deduce that?" Yaga raised an eyebrow.

"Because you packed all the things you came here with," said the Sram cultist, pulling away a completly white strand from her face. She had to cut her hair soon. "Listen, I promised I won't be dwelling in your business, but I'd be a bad friend if I allowed something to happen to you."

"This is a surprisingly nice gesture from you," muttered the dark-haired woman, and Kira reacted with an outraged snort. "Okay, okay, you're right, something happened. I met Master Joris."

"Ambassador of Bonta?!" Kira almost jumped with excitement. There were legends about this guy...!

"I heard about only one" Jaga shrugged. "At least he presented himself as Master Joris. Never mind, in any case, he told me someone was looking for me. And if the alleged Ambassador Bonty found me, then surely they too. So today I'm leaving, just talk to Madame Litchi"

"The old witch won't be happy," Kira muttered. "Okay, maybe you have no damned idea about dance and sing, but you're awesome actress and everyone can confirm that."

"Thanks," the dark-haired girl smiled, a little wryly. She didn't value her stage skills so much "one last performance and I'm out of here"

"And I dunno a damn thing" the Sram cultist nodded. Jaga smiled again, this time more friendly. It's good to have such a roommate.

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Not without reason Port Mali was called the coastal Brakkmar. As soon as night fell, all the fishermen and merchants were fleening from their stalls and hiding in their homes to make space for the real rulers of this city- all those who lived from black magic, poisons, gambling, song and dance.

Kira and Yaga worked in the Madame Litchi's cabaret, known as the "Palace of Stained Glass". The name was most accurate because wall from sea's side contained three circular stained glass windows, through which sunset light and moonlight came through.

"Here you are, you lazy monkeys!" snarled for a hello Madame Litchi, a mighty, slightly obese Pandadwa in costly robes and with huge fan in her hand, seeing her two subordinates "You supposed be here half an hour ago."

"We were supposed to be at 18.45," Yaga remarked.

"And it's 18.30," Kira said, looking at clock attached to the waist of a Xelor girl who was working with machinery at the backstreet.

"DON'T TALK ME BACK!" The woman roared "To the dressing room and dress up, or I'll cut off your bonus!"

"Do we have a bonus?" Kira was surprised, looking away from the clock.

"You think so, remember this time when naphthalene balls appeared in the wardrobe?" I think it was a bonus," the dark-haired reminded.

"OOOOOUT!" Madame Litchi screamed, so Kira and Yaga quickly went out of her sight.

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Adamai, Ush, Remington and a man in the hood entered the Palace of the Stained Glass, where, as their agents had told them, they should now be looking for a girl. The interior of the cabaret was smoked with smoke and poorly lit. In one corner concentrated the seamen and fishermen, in another, city council (without the mayor, because he was new one and not yet accustomed to his profession), the priests of local denominations and, in the end, the tourists, including the emissaries of Lady Echo.

"Are you sure it's here?" Adamai looked at Ecaflip uncertainly ashe noticed one of the girls working here "What exactly does this powerful sorceress do?"

"She's some kind of actress," Ush said with a shrug. "Do you know how she looks like?"

"Yes," nodded the young dragon and took a small portrait of wanted girl's face from the pocket of his cloak, "Better find some good observation point"

The four strangers sat at the table by the stage, which was decorated... in a very specific way. Fog vapors, braided trees (artificial) and something like... a gravestones?

Suddenly, the curtain went aside and a tall connoisseur, with cane in her hande, dressed in a suit and a top-hat entered the stage, but it was difficult to determine whether it was she or he.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen" the announcer cocked their hat and proved beyond doubt that she was a woman. She had lightly tanned skin, short cut, white hair, brown eyes with a slight touch of red and a white skull painted on her face "Some people said that true art is defending itself. But not from me." Here she gave the audience a smile full of teeth "I will tell you the story from distant lands. About drama. Love. Passion. And extremely abominable, foul murder."

"About what?!" Adamai wondered. He always thought that cabaret shows were rather... merry, not murderous.

"Kira is a Sram's worshipper, she always gives such shows," Ush said, apparently familiar with the local program.

"Get it, boys" the announcer murmured casually, not exactly to the audience, and the orchestra behind her firstly experimented with one chord on their instruments, and then they played the right melody. Kira waved her cane and opened her mouth "Heey! Give me a listen you corpses of cheer, Leastles of you who still got an ear" Here she sent a meaningful glance to the group of sailors who hadn't some part of their bodies "I'll tell you a story make a skeleton cry of our own jubiliciously lovely corpse bride!"

From behind the curtain came out a rather short, almost morbid pale girl in a black like tar and a slightly torn wedding dress. Her eyes and forehead were covered by a black veil supported by flower crown made of crimson roses. She smiled broadly to the audience, as did her stage partner, showing a lot of teeth (some teases that it was a smile that shows her teeth and the teeth of the people next to her) and joined Kira.

"Die, die we all pass away!" The two artists cried out while dancing a faster version of waltz mixed with tango. "But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay!"

"And you might try 'n' hide!" the orchestra added "And you might try 'n' pray!"

"But we all end up the remains of the Day!" the two girl finished.

"Who is she?" Remington whispered, glaring at the ankles and calves that sometimes popped out of the skirt of the 'corpse bride'; He has not seen such nice ankles for a long time.

"Our goal," Adamai snapped, not paying attention to the show.

"One hundred years more, and I would take that as a subtext" murmured their hooded companion, for which he got a punch in left side. With so many people around Adamai couldn't afford to hit his face, or something more painful.

"Well, our girl is a beauty known for miles around" the Sram's follower continued the recital and pantomime "When a mysterious stranger came into Town. He's plenty good lookin', but down on his Cash, And our poor little baby, she fell hard and Fast" Here she stroked the cheek of her companion for what she got slap in hand "When her daddy said no, she just couldn't cope, So our lovers came up with a plan to elope!"

"Die, die we all pass away!" This time the chorus was sung only by the orchestra and the girls started dancing again "But don't wear a frown cuz it's really okay. And you might try 'n' hide, And you might try 'n' pray. But we all end up the remains of the Day!"

Suddenly, the lights turned violet, and in the twilight appeared oddly thin figures swirling in the dance. After a while it turned out that they are girls with painted skulls on their faces and bones on arms, backs and chests. This Danse Macabre was led by the announcer and the corpse bride.

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"Yaga, you're leadin' again," Kira observed, not interrupting the dance.

"Really?" Yaga grinned. Sram also showed her teeth and they continued dancing.

Some viewers tried to grab them and pull them off the stage, but some well-aimed kicks solved the problem.

"Something's wrong with those four," Yaga muttered. With the veil on her face, no one saw where she was looking.

"Those near the scene?" Kira also noticed them, but she tried not to stop the show "I know this Ecaflip, cheeky puppy, or kitten if You want to be exact, but the rest are new guys."

"Two have a strange aura," whispered the dark haired female "I need to move"

"To do" The Sram cultist discreetly handed a signals to female Xelor, operating the machines behind the stage. "How much time do you need?"

"Twenty seconds," Jaga replied.

"Okay," Kira nodded. "Now help me bend back, come on!"

Yaga put her hand on Kira's waist in the cross region and helped her bend back and not fall over.

"Oh, that's nice," Kira muttered, staring at the region a little below Yaga's neck, for what she was jokingly slapped in the cheek. "Hahaha! So they conjured up a plan to meet late at night. They told not a soul, kept the whole thing tight. Now her mother's wedding dress fit like a glove, You don't need much when you're really in love. Except for a few things, or so I'm told Like the family jewls and a sachel of gold!" Here she caught Yaga for her wrist showing the audience a silver ring with a sapphire, and 'corpse bride’ pulled Kira by the ear with a gold earring "Then next to the grave yard by the old oak tree, On a dark foggy night at a quarter to Tyree. She was ready to go, but where was He?"

"And then?" one of the musicians asked.

"She waited" Kira answered.

"And then?"

"There in the shadows, was it the man?"

"And then?"

"Het little heart beat so loud!"

"And then?!" now almost whole audience was asking.

"And then, baby" Yaga's covered eyes looked at the audience "everything went black."

For a moment there was total darkness. The dancers disappeared. When the light came on again, only the bride and the announcer were on stage. The woman in the suit was holding her hands in front of her companion's eyes.

"Now when she opened her eyes she was dead as dust, Her jewls were missin' and her heart was bust." Kira took her hands and showed everyone Yaga's face. Several men and a few women sighed. With make-up and swirly paintings on the face and illuminated with the appropriate light she looked unearthly. And these eyes... Suddenly Jaga moved forward as if looking for someone in the audience "So she made a vow lyin' under that tree That she'd wait for her true love to come set her free" The 'corpse bride' reached the end of the stage, to the table at which the Lady Echo's agents were sitting and crouched. Such little joke, provocation. Her attention was entirely devoted to the man in the hood. In its shadow she saw blue, swollen like drowned man's lips and something like... "Always waiting for someone to ask for her hand When out of the blue comes this groovy young man" Before Yaga kissed these blue, slightly open lips, Kira quickly pulled her away from the table and started spinning her with her again. They were getting closer to center of stage "Who vows forever to be by her side And that's the story of our own corpse briiiiiideeee!"

The orchestra didn't even finish playing a tune when under Yaga opened up a hidden hatch and the girl disappeared under the stage leaving behind only her black dress, because its flounces entangled in the hinges.

"What the…?!" Ush and Adamai rose from their seats.

"Oops," Kira's smile said brightly, that there was no breakdown or accident at all.

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It's a last time when I put song in chapter. In that way, at least. It was more difficult than writing a normal story!

Song's title is "Remains of the Day" from Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride". I noticed that this song sounds a little like a some kind folk ballad which you can sing everywhere if you planned everything in right way.

#outcasts #fanfic #wakfu #Yaga

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