Bad Taste [Odin Sphere, Ingway/Mercedes, PG-13]

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Title: Bad Taste
Author: lurk_stiltzkin
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 247
Prompt: 6th – Odin Sphere, Ingway/Mercedes: disguises, "Okay, seriously, I'm not going to kiss you until you change your face back"
Summary: “Your Majesty, meet the fly, my dinner.”

The first thing Queen Mercedes of the Vanir demanded from him was the sole truth. What sort of bad behavior you've stooped so low to, froggy? For even the bad, bad magician would actually cast a spell so horrible that it requires my lips on your venomous hide to cure you?

Of course, he knew the Queen was just stalling, so he told her that he's a poor runaway from a broken home, mother's deceased, father's took off, while little sister's love struck with a Titanian-dimwit-in-white-tights-pansy. A frog gotta live, he informed.  

"That would have been believable,” Mercedes crossed her arms, and eyed him skeptically.  “If only you weren't puckering your lips toward me all the time."

The thought of informing the Queen that he was indeed a very, very bad prince that had done very, very bad things and planning to do even more worse, worse things to the world did occur to him.

Just then, one fly hovered past his nose, and it took less than a second for it to slide down his throat.

"...What do you have to say about that, froggy?"

He smacked his lips like he'd just enjoyed the best meal of his life, and stared up to find the corners of Mercedes’ royal lips twitched, as if she had swallowed the fly in question herself. Ingway considered. "Tastes like chicken?"

"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice..."

Mercedes slowly glided away with an exasperated sigh, and he hopefully said, "I shall take that as a yes!"

Comments

[volta-arovet.livejournal.com]

This is incredibly cute! I like how Ingway's able to have fun with Mercedes while still keeping that dark undercurrent. And, of course, the ongoing problems with being a frog.

[lurk-stiltzkin.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[kusanagi-karin.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, that was so cute! And all those remarks... so very Ingway.

Ingway/Meceredes are my OTP. X3

[lurk-stiltzkin.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it. ^^