Ever since that flower stunt that De Tanga had pulled he had been watching Xellos like a hawk taking advantage of his gem that invoked invisibility. First Xellos had stayed at Filia's home for a little while having a staring match with the flowers. Then Xellos went off to find out information about this Jared Welmir that Filia was going to be going on a date with.
De Tanga had expected that Xellos would do something like this so he took precautions. The reason why De Tanga decided on the name Jared Welmir was because that was one of the names of the many identities that he assumed. The great thing about Welmir was that no one was sure exactly on what he looked like. De Tanga owns many estates around various areas using that name and has appeared in many different forms. From what the people knew of Jared Welmir was that he's a rich man of noble blood and that he's very secretive and loves mystery.
So no matter where Xellos went or who he asked all he got was nothing more then rumors that had been flying around. It was quite frustrating to Xellos and he frequently grumbled in discontent.
De Tanga couldn't contain his laughter. He enjoyed the irony of it. Xellos had no idea who he was trying to get information about. It made De Tanga wonder what if there had truly been a guy named Jared Welmir that Filia was going to date, what would Xellos do if he got proper information about the guy or even got a chance to meet him? What was the purpose of this search for information? To satisfy curiosity? To heal a bruised ego? De Tanga did have a theory, but he wasn't going to say anything because he really had nothing to back it up. And he wasn't one to voice his theories unless he was certain they were close to being correct.
Did Xellos himself know why he was doing all this? Not really. He wasn't thinking rationally at that time nor did he care too. He didn't know why he wanted to find out information about this guy but he did want to.
"So what does Mister Jared Welmir look like?" Xellos asked a woman who lived near one of the Welmir estates.
"Well I only saw him once. He had long black hair and bright, vibrant blue eyes. He was tall and incredibly hansom." The lady gushed out.
"Oh I see." Xellos stated rather flatly. Everyone woman said a different thing about the way Welmir looked. Though he was normally described as having dark hair and bright eyes it always varied on the shades of both and the lengths of his hair. One person said that he had short dark blue hair and bright red eyes. Another said he had long green hair and light green eyes. But there was one thing that usually remained the same with every description.
"He's such a charmer! If I hadn't been engaged at the time I would have accepted his invitation for a date." The lady thought back almost regrettably.
Jared Welmir was always described as a savvy fellow and a real lady charmer. Out of all the women that Xellos' had spoken to, not one said that they weren't interested in Welmir's looks and/or personality. It was making Xellos very annoyed.
"Well isn't that nice. Thank you for your time Miss. I shall be off now." Xellos bowed and started to walk off.
"If you see Mister Jared can you tell him that Loni said hi?"
"Um, sure."
"Thanks." She gave him a wink with a smile and walked off herself. Xellos cringed at that. Not only had he not gotten anywhere with this little investigation but he had made a person happy. All these happy and lovesick people he had been talking to were making him sick. How can De Tanga feed off these sickening emotions? Bleh! Xellos shook his head and phased out back to Filia's town.
Filia sat around her house bored without a thing to do. Her house was tidy, she had no projects to work on and she didn't have the energy or frame of mind to start another one.
"What am I going to do?" Filia mused out in a soft voice. In a case like this Filia almost half expected Xellos or De Tanga to pop in and comment about her talking to herself. But neither monster suddenly appeared out of thin air. She sighed. Since there was nothing to do at her home then she go out and do something. Hmm... maybe I should go pick up some art supplies...
De Tanga thought since Xellos had teleported back to Filia's town that he had given up on this little search for information about the so-called 'Jared Welmir'. But as he followed Xellos he soon discovered that that wasn't the case.
Once back in town Xellos went hunting around for the flower shop from which Welmir had sent Filia the roses from. Unfortunately for Xellos there was quite a few flower shops and a lot of them delivered.
The one thing that Xellos figured since roses are so expensive that many stores wouldn't be selling them. Again Xellos struck out. Due to the recent festival many shops had roses in for sale despite their expensiveness.
Store after store Xellos went asking about Jarred Welmir but no one at any of the flower shops were able to tell him much. All the shops were busy and had been busy for the last couple of days so no one was really paying much attention to who the customers were.
Xellos mentally kicked himself for not looking closer at the roses earlier to see which flower store they had been from.
Shop after shop flowers were everywhere. All different kinds and colors, all bright and beautiful. Each store was filled with heavenly scents and lovesick people gushing about what their loved ones had got them, what they were getting them, what they had given and what they hoped to get. And each store was decorated too to match this theme of love and affection.
It made Xellos sick.
First he had subjected himself to talking with all those women about Jared Welmir and now this. Love was many of the human emotions that he didn't understand. He couldn't stand all the happy sugariness of it all. He preferred things to be dark and depressive.
Though he himself had gotten roses for Filia on their date the previous night, Xellos had not gone to one of the shops in town to get them. Where could he find roses of that color at the flower shops in town?
De Tanga raised an eyebrow at Xellos' behavior. This wasn't like his normal self that was for sure. I wonder what Greater Beast would think of Xellos if she saw him acting like this? De Tanga smiled with a slight chuckle.
Filia poked her head around at another display in another shop in town. Since because of the festival there were a lot more interesting things for sale in the normal shops, but then there were also a lot customers then usual too. Tourists had flocked to the town and many of them were shopping for souvenirs.
It made things pretty irritating. Even the smallest of stores were overcrowded. For townspeople like Filia it made just normal window-shopping pretty hard.
Each of the store clerks watched the people in their stores like hawks. In times like this people were known to steal things so shop owners had to very careful to prevent their merchandise from suddenly disappearing on them.
Filia sighed. I'd hate to have to be in their position. She pitied the storeowners, they all looked so stressed out. During a festival like this you'd think that they would be happy with all this extra business.
She walked out of the store with her purchase in hand. Instead of buying art supplies Filia bought a beautiful necklace and matching earrings. She figured that it would a perfect thing to wear to her date with De Tanga that was coming up. She smiled when thinking of him and then that smile turned mischievous when she thought of Xellos.
Xellos walked out of yet another store and he was really annoyed. He realized that if he was going to find out anything he was going to need to ask the delivery boy who delivered Filia's roses for information. But that was also frustrating in the sense that since the flower service had been booming most of the delivery people were out making deliveries. So Xellos waited around the town square hoping to see the kid show up.
In the town square there was this large and majestic fountain. As part of the moon festival people during the three nights of the blue moon people came to wish at this fountain for things such as love, life and happiness. It's said that if when you make your wish that if the some of the stars in the sky twinkle blue then not only would your wish come true but you'd be blessed with luck.
Xellos shook his head at such thoughts. He didn't see any reason why people would waste their time to wish there. Sure there was the allure of the blue moon and the possibly blue twinkling stars, but Xellos knew for a fact that no matter what during certain times of the three nights of the blue moon the stars will appear to twinkle blue to a similar color of the moon sharing the sky.
He looked of to right and smiled. There was the area from which Xellos and Filia had kicked all the dance competitors' butts at that dance off competition. Though he wouldn't admit it he had fun doing competing in that dance off contest. He wondered if there were planning on having more dancing events because there hadn't taken down anything around the dance area.
A movement caught his eye off to the side. He looked in that direction to just get a glimpse of the delivery boy from that morning going right into one of the flower shops. Quickly Xellos scrambled to his feet to follow him.
As Xellos entered the shop he remembered coming there earlier. He had originally dismissed it as not being the right place because all they had in the way of roses were only like three or four of them and they didn't look that healthy.
Perhaps they don't have much because our dear Mister Jared Welmir had bought out most of this shops roses.
The kid sat down at a table in the shop, it was his lunch break. The kid didn't pay much attention too much in the flower store except what he pulled out for his lunch from his bag. That was why he didn't realize Xellos was standing right before him till Xellos said something.
"Excuse me."
The kid looked up from his lunch at Xellos blankly. "Yeah, what ya want?"
"I was wondering if you could provide me with some information."
"Hey wait a minute, yer that guy from dis mornin' at that blond dragon lady's home." The kid looked at Xellos suspiciously as he took a bite out of his sandwich.
"Yes I was that guy from Miss Filia's home this morning. Could you tell me about that guy who sent her the flowers, you know Jared Welmir?" Xellos asked placing a few coins on the table in front of the kid.
"Xellos what are you doing?" An accusing female voice asked him from behind.
Xellos spun himself around to find him face to face with Filia.