Caught by the Tale

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Good luck...buttface.
I hope your 'boys' get hit a few more times.

Meanwhile, Kanata was trying to get out of the palace....in the middle of a blizzard.
Darnit!
This place was supposed to be the warmer area!
Oh well...back to the stables.
Once he brushed out Mirari and cleaned up the stall he actually curled up in the corner on top of two hay bales.
Zzzz.
 
Makari had Ajax spar in the lists a pretty long time...
Some hours later~

Ajax face planted the ground, tried and fairly in need of a bath or food... He groaned in pain at the thump he got from someone's boot into his side.
"Get up, you baby. No one said you could have a break." growled his brother who hauled Ajax to his feet and shoved his sword back into his hands.
Ajax stumbled back and tried to spar with whoever was next- and he was knocked down again.
Makari growled and stormed over, dragged Ajax back to his feet again...and then started whacking at him from all directions.
"Why- are you- so useless?! Fight- damn you!!" barked Makari, bringing his sword down in a swing that had so much power behind it, that you could hear bone crunching as it connected with Ajax's blocking arm, causing the boy to scream in pain as he collapsed.
 
Suddenly there was an abrupt shove from Makari's back as Kanata's foot connected with it.
The force sent him down to the floor while Kana yawned sleepily.
"Couldn't sleep without my grumpy pillow..."
Eying Ajax he frowned and walked over to the men trying to get closer.
"Stay away from him of face my blade."
Wait, he didn't have a sword anymore...
Oh right, he just took one from a random guard.
Problem solved.

"Prince, get up and go to the medic."
Man, who'd have thought the boy's brother was so aggressive in swordplay.
 
Going sickly pale as he tried to ignore the pain in his arm, Ajax got up and did as Kanata told him.
This was his first injury involving bones...Kudos to him!

Makari got up from the ground.
He glared daggers at Kanata.
"You dare kick down me...?
You dare kick down the heir to Suhrandur!?
I'll have your head on a pike!" With that, Makari charged, swinging his sword at the other prince.
Yeah, had Tritanion been around, Makari wouldn't be so nuts.
What a creep.
 
Kanata raised his blade just in time to defend against the strike.
Makari was a master swordsman, that much was obvious but Kanata also had extreme training and blocked or parried each blow with his own, matching blade for blade like only one trained just as well, if not better, would.
"Stay your blade.
I am not here for a fight, just to help an interest."
As in Ajax.
He'd kinda started to like the little brat.
Well, at least to make fun of him.
 
Makari growled and raised his sword for another swing.
"I'll stay it when you're dead-"
CLANG!
Someone had hit Makari over the head, and when he fell over, sure enough it was Isabella.
She sighed and handed back the sword she borrowed.
"Man he get's annoying...
Evening, Kanata.
Ajax is looking for you...I don't know why, he just is."
The lady shrugged and proceeded to poke Makari with a stick.
Yes, this is rather random, but this was just Isabella's spunk showing.
So...Meh.
 
Thank you Isabella!
Now then, Kanata bolted out of the area before anyone could question who'd actually knocked on Makari.
He wandered the halls for awhile, actually managing to get lost after asking two people where the infirmary was.
About ten minutes later he was at the medical ward, panting from running after the fight.
"Hey, are you okay prince cocky?"
Yeah, still the joker.
Either way he was there and worried.
 
Ajax looked over-
His arm didn't look like its condition hadn't improved.
"About time you got here...
What took you so long...?"
Not really cocky at the moment.
The medic was standing by, brewing up a pain killing solution.
Reason? Because it's going to hurt big time when she resets and then binds Ajax's arm in a cast like thing.
Look's like he was screwed for a few weeks.
 
Kanata grinned and walked over to Ajax.
Eying his arm and then the medic he shook his head.
A potion wouldn't help very much, especially if it was a quickly made one.
So, he grabbed Ajax' arm with both hands and did a quick tweak.
The bone slid back together and then he wrapped it quickly before the kid could pull away.
"Problem solved. Sorry for being late?"
 
Ajax whimpered at the contact of hand on broken limb.
And then he practically screamed in pain when it was tweaked and reset.
Now he was cursing up a storm at Kanata as it was wrapped up.
Leave it to Ajax to swear up and down at Kana.
The medic took notes on this for future injuries.
"Should I give him the tonic now or do you want him to grumble at you?" she asked, adding stif cloth to keep Ajax's arm from de-setting.
"It'll only keep him quiet for an hour or two, unless you get him roaring drunk like his brother when he's pissed as a mule."
 
"I'll just get him drunk then."
Kanata grabbed Ajax and slung him right over his shoulder.
If the boy didn't want to be a ton of pain he probably shouldn't fight with his bad arm.
"I know where the brewery in, walked past it earlier. See ya."
With that Kana was gone and out the door.
About five minutes later, after ignoring whatever Ajax was cursing at him he sat the brat down on a stool in front of a pitcher of beer.
"Drink so you can be quiet."
 
The medic sighed after Kanata had left with Ajax.
"...Thank goodness he went for the brewery. That close to losing my evening tea." she said with a laugh as she walked away with the what Ajax had thought to be the pain sapping tonic or whatever.
Damn thing was just tea?! Grr...
Anyways, Ajax was mostly cursing and whimpering at the pain in his arm.
Honestly, this was not how he was suppose to be treated!
And what the crap was that...?
He blinked in confusion at the pitcher of beer.
"...It looks like horse piss."
 
"Tastes even better!" Kana said as he grabbed the boy's chin and squeezed so his mouth opened.
Then he tilted it up a bit and poured a good amount in.
"Swallow, then drink the rest. You'll feel much better and so will my headache."
Someone seems a bit abusive.
Hopefully it doesn't become a full time thing.
I think he would still cower a bit in front of Makari but Ajax?
Nah, not really.
 
Ajax would have failed his arms to get Kana to stop that-
But seeing how one is busted and it wouldn't do any good with the other, he refrained from doing so.
Gods, the beer tasted like soured tea!
...Yet it also had a nutty after taste.
So Ajax didn't argue when instructed to drink the rest of the pitcher.
Wanna know the funny part?
Wasn't even tipsy. "How is this stuff suppose to make me feel better?"
 
Kana leered and chugged his own pint.
Seriously, he'd given the kid the strongest ale he could find and it didn't do nothing?
"Whatezer, if'd I get drun it's the sane thin."
And there goes pint two, down the hatch.
...yup, totally smashed.
Well, now he wasn't 'there' enough to really care about Ajax.
Um, and I think he's laughing like a little child.
Yup, totally is.
Ah, the joys of being drunk.
Op...fell off the stool...
 
Ajax just gave him a look that said-
You are really an idiot...
But that looks like fun.
So he asked for a few more pints for himself to drink.
About twelve pints later he was somewhere between tipsy and drunk.
And he was still going!
Ajax wasn't drunk until pint 22, but by then he felt really sick to his stomach.
"Kana...You're a fucking idiot..."
And he's off the stool too.
By the way- this was about three minutes after Kanata had fallen off his own stool.
No wonder why the little guy felt sick to his stomach.
 
Well, there was one way to fix that...
Kana rolled over sloppily and gave Ajax a hug, pulling the kid's back against his stomach so he was facing downwards...
And now?
Good shove to the gut.
And just in case he pushed a finger in the back of the kids mouth to trigger the gag reflex.
Definitely gonna puke.
Either way Kana didn't want the idiot getting alcohol poisoning in his behalf.
So throw up stupid!
 
Yeah, the shove in the gut didn't do anything but wind the poor kid-
Kept him from crying out from the pain in his arm, as he had landed on it when he fell off his stool.
And yeah...
Definitely puked at the finger in his mouth thing.
Wasn't pretty because it caused a chain reaction vomit fest.
In other words, the kid didn't stop until his stomach was empty and there was nothing else to retch out.
Which is when he passed out.
Yeah...Let's not get him drunk and then try and get him to puke.
 
He probably felt better now though?
And might not have a hangover!
You can thank Kanata later.
Anyways, back to the brats room...
It took quite awhile since Kana was definitely still tipsy but he managed to get the kid in bed before falling in next to him.
Another minute later and he was passed out as well, snoring loudly from the beer in his system.
 
Yeah, totally gets a pillow to the face for being such a loud snorer.
When Ajax woke up the next morning, he felt like hell-
Or as he puts it:
Like he was bashed in the face with a battering ram and then trampled by a hundred horses after having his throat burned with molted lead.
Now, I don't get the bashed in the face or trampled thing but the throat?
Probably from his vomit fest last night and all the beer.