The Thief King's Mishaps with Technology

By: DNL

Mishap 2: Hairdyer

Ryo sighed as he sat on the couch in front of the TV. He and his adopted brother Akefia were going to watch a movie today. Said movie was a horror movie about ghost haunting an old hotel. It looked really interesting to Ryo, it didn't seem like they went overboard with the computer effects. Akefia seemed interested enough. Though it took time for him to learn what was on TV wasn't real all the time he currently was comfortable with it enough to enjoy a movie from time to time.

What Ryo was sighing about was Akefia was going to take a shower before they watched the movie. The thief had exercised rather rigorously beforehand meaning he worked up a sweat. Wanting to change out of his exercise clothing he opted to take a shower. Which much to Ryo's digression took a long time. Ryo wasn't worried about the water bill though…oh no, what took so long was…..Akefia liked to admire himself in the mirror. Yes, the King of Thieves was rather vain. He was an attractive man and he knew it. It wasn't that he was high strung about his hygiene he just like looking at himself…which at times meant he take a while to leave the bathroom. Not all of the time but enough Ryo took notice and one day walked in on Akefia checking himself out.

Sad part is he wasn't embarrassed about it…making it a bit odd for Ryo.

Still until then Ryo was stuck waiting for him to get out, good thing he didn't make popcorn yet otherwise he'd eaten it by now. Blinking he heard the water stop, now to see if his older brother would stop to admire himself. Ryo prayed he didn't but then again the Akefia and the gods seemed to be at a disagreement about each other. So he could only wait.

As Ryo had thought…the Thief King was indeed checking himself out…he was grinning and admiring himself in the mirror. Then again what was there not to like? He was tall, nicely muscular, tanned, had an oddly attractive scar, sharp eyes and an exotic hair color then again he was overall exotic. He had been happy to find out that white hair was considered attractive now a days. At least some things could change.

Towel wrapped around his waist now that he had dried off he ran his a hand through his hair while admiring himself a little more. He frown…as usual his hair was taking forever to dry. Not only was it thick its color seemed to reflect heat…which had helped in the desert but made it take hours to dry where he lived now.

Looking around he rummaged through a draw and pulled out the white contraption Ryo called a hairdryer. He looked it over, again he failed to see how the thing did what it did but Ryo didn't know enough about 'mechanics' to explain it properly to him. It wasn't his trade so Akefia understood and just took his word for it. Since the item was meant for everyday use it looked simple enough to operate.

Akefia plugged the thing into its source of power, a socket in the wall. Ryo had told him that the sockets provided power to all things that needed electricity that weren't run on batteries. This 'power' was called electricity. Ryo had described that it was basically a form of lighting that people had made. Lighting to him was the power of a god…so….mortals had come to replicate it? It was safe to say Akefia had been impressed by that!

Looking at the handle on the thing Akefia found a switch of sorts between the words 'hot' and 'cold'. He hummed…did this mean it could let out hot or cold wind? It made sense he supposed and seeing as his hair seemed to repel heat he switch it to cold.

Something that sounded like a mini fan being turned on was heard and the hair dryer let out cold air. A bit unsure of how this was supposed to work Akefia pointed it to his hair to let it do its job. He wasn't so sure because his brother understandably liked his privacy in the bathroom. Though in his time period people would bath in groups without so much as a probably but things have changed and he respected his little brothers space.

Time went by and Akefia checked his hair's progress he growled slightly seeing only the one spot near the fan had dried. "This thing is weak!" He muttered to himself irately. He looked back to the handle causing the machine's wind to blow in his eyes.

"Argh!" He hissed before turning it away to rubs his eyes, "Damn, contraption!"

"Is everything okay?" Ryo called from the living room sounding a bit concerned.

Looking to the door Akefia replied, "Yes….everything's fine brother." He heard Ryo say 'alright' and he looked back to the handle, 'Maybe I should try hot…' Flicking the switch to 'hot' the sound grew louder and the fan inside turned faster making hotter hair. "Ah, there we go." Akefia said pointing the fan back to his hair.

Feeling that his hair was drying faster Akefia….once again took the time to admire his reflection not noticing he was leaving the hair drying to close to the skin on his neck. By the time he did notice his skin was burning fiercely, "OW!" He yelled tossing the machine into the air as he yelped in pain. It felt like he suck his neck in the fire. Of course the hairdryer came back down it hit the distracted and slightly confused Thief King on the head making him help again but it got worse from there…

With the fan still going…..it sucked in some of his hair. His thick hair got tangled in the fan causing it to get twisted and roughly pulled.

Feeling the sharp pain Akefia yelled, "AGH! RYO IT'S EATING MY HAIR!"

It a second's notice Ryo ran to the bathroom seeing his brother, with a towel wrapped around his waist….trying to separate his hair from the hairdryer….only in his life. He sighed, turned and merely unplugged the hairdryer, "Brother…why did you have the hairdryer so close to your hair?"

Still tugging on the hairdryer trying to pull his hair from it Akefia looked away, "I…uh…got distracted…"

Ryo eyed him, "Right." He said flatly, he knew he meant he had been looking at himself in the mirror but didn't feel like calling him out on it at the moment. Shaking his head he went up to his brother, "Stop pulling and let me see if I can work your hair out of there." Akefia stopped pulling on it and let him see it. Ryo shook his head, Akefia's thick hair had worked its way into the fan too well. "Stay here I'm going to have to get the hair clippers."

"Alright…."Akefia grumbled as Ryo left in search of the clippers.

A moment later he came back and in no time cut Akefia free from the hairdryer, "There." He looked at him a bit, Akefia's hair had already been so choppy it was hard to note a change, "You hardly look any different."

Akefia looked at the mirror tilting his head from side to side and agreed, he frowned seeing and feeling most of his hair was still wet, "Thing didn't even do its job!" He ran his hair through the patch that was dry, "Only this spot dried!"

Ryo furrowed his brows, "Well did you move it around?"

"Er…well….no" Akefia admitted looking away embarrassedly.

Shaking his head Ryo left taking the hairdryer with him, "Just dry your hair with a towel brother so we can watch the movie." He said tiredly, he swore it was like he was the older brother most of the time.

"Okay….." Akefia muttered dully as he took up the other towel that was hanging to dry his hair off. Once it was he grinned to himself, "I still look good~."

Here's the next one XD these are easy to write down but don't expect them all the time ^^; I need ideas first but I have a few already thought out but I don't intend to update all the time because I want to save them ;) but I have the next one in mind so rest assured there will be more :D

Poor Ryo...he just wanted to watch a movie XD

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