The Start of Lily's Journey
Lily sighed as she still waits for Vine Rot, the sun almost gone now as the sky is now a variety of colors. She decided that maybe the stone slab on the side of the road is a far better place to sit and wait than the signs on the road. Right now her biggest fear other than Vine Rot not showing up is getting her white dress dirty, it is the only thing she brought with her to remind her of home and she is willing to cut off her tail than part with it.'Ok maybe not that desperate, but I certainly do not wish to part with my dress. I know my brothers said take as little as needed but really? I can not bring any of my parchments, tomes, scrolls, clothing, dolls, or even my piano! Ugh, meanwhile what can they bring? Shade has his entire stuff in that weird veil he uses for storage, Lee doesn't even have anything worth bringing, and that lazy bastard Vine Rot is always drinking wine!...''Speaking of which where is that damn peasant? No that was wrong of me, even the peasants would not urinate of him...'Lily looked down both sides of the road with a sigh, 'He still is not here... it has been nearly three hours now! What in the emblems of our family is he doing!' Lily grabbed her tail in frustration and hugged it. This usually calmed her down whenever she was upset, her big fluffy tail would calm down anyone. Its soft fur, the length itself is almost as big as she is, and its so fluffy it is as if you are hugging two soft pillows. She made care not to touch the black tip of it, she did not want a mess everywhere.Suddenly she hears the sound of glass clanking against glass. Lily looked up from nuzzling her tail and sighed in half relief and half embarrassment. Down the road almost twenty meters away came Vine Rot, both of his eyes bandaged as usual and his three tail-like vines carrying a bottle of wine in each vine. He seemed to be dressed better than usual though, his normal 'nude unless told to' policy obviously not showing. He wore a leather breastplate, gauntlets, even leather boots. In hid left hand he carried the leather helmet, while in his other was a very large bottle of wine. He is actually wearing pants for once, a black pair of pants that seemed to have been stained red by its owner's drinking. His vine tails seem tocome out from the top of his pants, a lone shirt covering anything that might be showing due to this. Vine Rot took another large gulp from his wine bottle and than shook it, hearing nothing left he tossed it away, making a loud sound as it thunked off the tree he tossed it to. Lily just stared at him in disbelief, 'I can not beleive
it.... he is wearing clothes... armor no less, even if it is leather... At least I know it is him, the smell of his tendencies can be smelt from here...' Lily waved at him with her tail.Vine Rot seemed to see this and waved, Lily had no idea how since both of his eyes were covered with white bandages. He quickly places the helmet on his head, the visor covering his bandaged eyes, he runs to her swiftly with open arms, "Hey! Princess Lily! How is my cousin doing after all these years?"Lily flinched as she is quickly pulled into a bear hug, his breath so strong her tail twitched in pain at the foul stench, "Agh! Vine Rot get off me! You smell like a town drunk!"Vine Rot laughed at this, only hugging her tighter as he now runs in a circle with Lily in his arms. "Oh please, you know you still love me! Hahaha! Or else you would never have waited for me!"Lily now had trouble breathing, his smell and grasp on her too strong, "Let me down, you damn cannibal!"Vine Rot let out another merry laugh before he came to a stop, gently letting her down, "Oh I'm so sorry Ink Face, if I knew you were about to start calling names I would bring a dictionary, Hahaha! Your royal tush always thought it was so much higher than everyone else."Lily dusted off her dress as she is finally set free, glaring at him as she makes sure he did not stain her dress, "I am certain my grape filled friend, that a princess is much higher in scale than one who goes around drinking his own kind all day, and then laughs about it!" Vine Rot simply laughed at this too, his right tail giving him another wine bottle as he uses his teeth to uncork it, "I may be a grape vine, but this is hardly cannibalism. If anything I am giving my brethren a final resting place besides, last time I checked you're no longer a princess. Don't a princess need a kingdom to rule over in order to be one?""You bastard! We are standing on my kingdom now!" Lily yelled in anger, stomping her foot on the ground and glaring at him, her face turning red with anger and her tail thrashing around behind her."Oh?... Oh! You mean that?" He pointed at the forest where her old castle used to be, his face looking somewhat irritated now, "Because last time I heard, a kingdom has more than just yourself in its populace! In fact, if anything your princess to a dead kingdom, a kingdom that died f*cking decades ago! Do you hear me you thick skulled
royal brat? Your f*cking Kingdom died over two hundred years ago! You and your brother Shade have been living in that damn castle alone for that long, while Lee and myself have been out and exploring the world. We have not been in a little fantasy land of royal banquets, feather beds, golden thrones, and f*cking delicious wine!... F*cking wake up your royal f*cking highness! It is way past time for you to wake the f*ck up!" Vine Rot angrily chugged the entire wine bottle down and tossed it away, this time it landed somewhere in the woods with a loud crash. Lily meanwhile is now laying on the ground, crying into her tail as she hugs it. her dress getting dirty as she is curled up in the dirt road, the tears in her eyes making the tip of her tail drip a black liguid on the road. Vine Rot sighed and shook his head, "Lily.... come on you know I was just angry... come here..." He gently picked her up. Holding her into his arms as he rocked her back and forth as if she were a baby. He smiled at her and held her tight, the stench in his breath now somehow gone. Vine Rot softly rubbed the side of her cheek with his free tail, the vine wiping her tears out of her eyes as her crying started to calm down. "We have to stick together now, ok Lily?... So no more of this royal stuff.... We have a long road to go till we reach our new home... and I don't really want to spend all of that time arguing..."Lily nodded and smiled slightly at him, "Yes Vine Rot... Let us go on...."Vine Rot let out a chuckle, "I still don't see why you guys call me that, you know my name is Le."Lily suddenly stopped crying and just start at him with a expression that looked as if someone just asked her is she had a tail, "Really? You do not honestly know why we call you Vine Rot?..."He shook his head, shrugging with a happy smile on his face, "No... not really...."Lily poked him on the forehead, "Are you sure that drinking has not melted what you call a brain?"Vine Rot laughed at this and set her down, letting her walk beside her as they went down the road. "Well at least I don't spray ink all over the place."Lily glares at him again her tail wagging behind her happily as she walks beside him. The side of her dress a light brown from laying in the dirt, "I shall have you know that my tail does not spray ink... it is like a quill. If I wet the tip of it then ink will flow through, however I have to wait for a minute or two for the ink to dry so that it does not drip everywhere."Vine Rot laughs at
this and uncorks another bottle, giving it a sniff before he takes a sip, "Oh I know Lily, I have seen you write before. Lets go find a lake so we can clean you off... I need a bath too after all, these clothes are too stuffy."