5th May 2015
Warning: Grammar errors, Spoilers, Out of Characters and Original Characters.
Disclaimer: Gensou Suikoden belongs to Konami, but this fanfiction belongs to me.
Summary: Never in my life have I enjoyed to have a talk with anyone before, then what made that talk with you so enjoyable? A side story of 'Puff of Lime'.
Hi everybody. This is my new Gensou Suikoden fan fiction. I hope you like this story.
"When you don't talk, there's a lot of stuff that ends up not getting said."
Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen
Talk to Me
Chapter 1. Someone from the Past.
SY 475.
A man with olive hair and emerald eyes stood in the middle of ruins. The ruins were collapsing, but the man did not bother to leave because he simply did not have the strength anymore. So, the only thing he could do was accepting his end.
"I wonder if you're here, what you will say to me." He wondered. "Perhaps, you won't say anything as always."
Never in my life have I enjoyed to have a talk with anyone before, then what made that talk with you so enjoyable?
I looked up and remembered my past.
It was around 18 years ago when I met you.
{G~S~III}
SY 457.
I was standing behind the Stone Tablet. There was a girl named Lotte there, she kept talking nonstop which annoyed me.
"Can you leave me alone?" I asked more like an order.
"Luc, can you just listen to my story..."
"I don't care, you keep talking about your cat, and I am tired listening about it." I cut in.
"But, Luc."
"Leave me alone!" I demanded.
Lotte stormed out from there with a pouting face. I did not care about her. I just relieved that I had my tranquillity back, unfortunately, only for a while. Because, Tir, my leader walked to my direction.
"Hi, Luc." Tir greeted me. "I just saw Lotte, did something happen?"
"Nothing, she kept talking about her cat, so, I told her to leave me alone," I answered nonchalantly.
"Did you have to be so rude? Well anyway, I want you to accompany me to Rikon." Tir requested.
"Who else's coming?" I asked.
"There will be Hix, Sheena, Tengaar and Viki," Tir answered.
I groaned. "Seriously Tir, can you ask someone else?"
"Oh come on, you need to leave the Stone Tablet once in a while," Tir said.
"Fine, what you need to do there anyway?" I asked.
"Nothing, just looking around," Tir answered nonchalantly.
"WHAT! You have time to look around in the middle of a war." I shouted.
"Oh, come on, let's go." Tir dragged me to the port.
After a short trip that seemed like forever, finally, we arrived at Rikon, actually, almost. Near the fortress of Garan, we saw 3 men, who looked like bandits, cornered a girl. The girl looked scared and nervous.
We were about to help her when something unexpected happened. While she still looked scared and nervous, the girl took out her sword from its sheath which hanging in her waist. Then, she knocked out all of the bandits in a few minutes.
The girl looked relieved and sheathed her sword back. But then, she collapsed. We hurried to her side.
"What happened to her?" Tengaar asked.
"Should we go back to have Dr Liukan looks at her?" Hix asked.
"Come on, Tir, we should save this pretty girl," Sheena stated.
"Oh, all right," Tir said. "Can you teleport us back, Viki?" Tir asked Viki.
"Oh, sure," Viki said.
Thankfully, there was no mishap with Viki's teleportation and we arrived at Toran Castle. Tir with everyone else carried the girl to get her treatment, while I went back to my place at the Stone Tablet. I did not really care with the girl, but I kind of relieved that the trip was over, thanks to the girl.
{G~S~I}
A week had passed and everyone in the castle kept talking about the new girl. It turned out the girl was poisoned by the bandits. She just awoke a few days ago, but, the weird thing was, she won't talk. The only voices came out from her mouth was her cough and breathe. That's what I heard. It made me kind of curious.
Today the people were still talking about her. Although not as much as before, because, tomorrow we will attack Shasarazade. The people called her 'the silent girl' since they still did not know her name because she still won't talk.
When I was at a mission with Tir and Sheena, Sheena said that he tried to talk or more like flirt, but the girl was still in silence and ignoring him. The story amused me, I hate to admit it but this girl really was interesting.
I walked alone to the roof at night, I like to go there at night because I like the tranquillity there and I enjoyed it when the night wind whiffed through my face. When I was at the entrance of the roof, I could feel there was already someone there, which annoyed me.
I was about to leave when I saw a shadow, it kind of looked like a rabbit. That made me curious, so I decided to go there. And I saw someone there, a girl. I could see her clearly under the moonlight. The rabbit I saw was actually a girl with high pigtails. She wore a blue cape and she was gazing at the lake, she did not seem to notice me.
I did not know what made me come closer to her, maybe because she was the silent girl who made me curious. I made a loud step to make her realized I was there.
She looked surprised and turned around. She looked at me nervously with her small sapphire eyes. I could clearly saw in her eyes written 'who are you?' and 'what are you doing here?' I did not know why I could see that I just can.
"I am Luc if you really want to know," I answered nonchalantly. "And I often came here at night. I am the one who supposed to ask you, what you are doing here."
She looked surprised and she looked happy and relieved. I raised my eyebrows at her sudden change in expression. She turned around to gaze at the lake again and I saw her long ebony hair blew by the wind. Then, she looked at me again and I saw it again, in her eyes written 'I like it here'.
"Oh, right," I said. "Well, I will let you enjoy it." I walked away.
I walked away to leave but something changed my mind. I turned around to look at her eyes. She looked sad, then, I understand she was lonely. She did not want me to leave but she also did not want to stop me to leave her. It was weird that I could conclude that just from seeing her eyes.
I sighed and walked closer to her. She looked happy at me. I looked at the lake and said without looking at her.
"What is your name anyway?" I asked. "Or should I call you 'the silent girl' like everyone else?"
I did not hear any replied, so I turned to look at her. She took out her sword and motioned me to take it, I raised my eyebrows. She looked at me and in her eyes written 'you will find it there'.
I took the sword and observed it, then, I found something engraved on it.
"Eden." I read it.
I looked at her. "Eden, is that your name?"
She smiled and nodded.
I gave the sword back to her and I looked at the lake again. Then, I smiled, I felt somewhat happy to be in company with her and that was weird because usually, I did not like to be around people.
We continued to be silent for as long as we were there, but I like the silence and she seemed to like it too. Then, after I stared at the lake for only who knows how long I turned around to look at her.
I startled because there was no her beside me when I looked around me there was still no her. Was the one I see a ghost? I did not like the idea I was seeing a ghost.
{G~S~I}
The next morning, we prepared to go to Shasarazade, everyone looked ready to battle. I was, on the other hand, was not thinking about the battle at all. I was still confused with what happened last night. Was she real? The question still disturbed me. Before we left to Shasarazade I decided to forget about it, so I could concentrate on this battle.
Then, outside from the frozen ship, I saw in the castle roof a figure stood there. I narrowed my eyes and I saw that it was her. I could see she was smiling and in her eyes, I saw written 'good luck'. I smiled back at her. I felt relieved that at least I know she was real.
The battle was hard as the other battle, but, at least it was over.
{G~S~I}
After we were back to the castle, I did what I do every day, guarding the Stone Tablet. I knew no one would ever steal it, but, that was my duty here and that the only thing that made me belong here.
"Luc." Someone called me.
I looked at Tir. "What do you need?"
"Well, it's about that girl." Tir looked hesitated.
"You mean Eden? What's about her?" I asked.
Tir looked surprised. "Eden? Who?"
"You mean the silent girl, right," I said.
"Is that her name? How did you know? You talked to her." Tir looked at me in disbelief.
"Yes, that's her name," I said. "What's wrong?"
"You talked to her?" Tir repeated.
"Not really talking." I looked away from his gaze.
"Then, how?" Tir asked.
"She gave me her sword and I saw 'Eden' engraved there. I asked is that her name, then she nodded," I explained.
"Well, I never thought you will socialize with her out of all people," Tir stated. "Maybe it's because both of you have trouble with socialization."
I looked at him in annoyance.
"All right, so what do you need?" I asked.
"Oh, right, can you help me to talk with her?" Tir asked. "The others had tried but she won't talk, you the only one who hasn't tried. But, you had talked with her maybe you can help me."
"Why did you need to talk with her?" I asked.
"Well, I want to know if she wants to help us," Tir answered.
"Fine."
That time I didn't know why I agreed to help since it related to socialization. I finally realized the answer years later, but unfortunately, it was too late for me to realize it.
Tir led me to a room that he said was occupied by Eden. He knocked on the door and the door opened immediately. And for the first time, I could see her clearly. She wore a black blouse and blue short, and she wore blue tights and brown boots. Unlike last night, she did not wear the blue cape.
"I am sorry to disturb you," Tir said. "I just want to talk for a while."
She looked hesitated but then she ushered us to her room and we sat across from her in the chairs.
"Well, I am sure you know that we're at war." Tir began.
She nodded.
"I just want to know if you want to join our forces." Tir continued.
She was silent like I expected. She looked at Tir thoughtfully. And, I could see in her eyes written 'I don't know if I can help'. She looked unsure, scared and hesitated.
I looked at Tir, but he did not seem to notice what she wanted to say.
I stood up and said.
"Tir, we don't need any more help," I said.
"But, Luc..."
"I don't think she can help us." I dragged him out of the room.
After we were far away from there, I stopped to drag him. Tir looked at me weirdly.
"Luc, that was rude to leave like that," Tir said.
I did not care about that and left to go back to my place.
I hope you enjoy this chapter. Please be kind to me and review it. Thank you for reading this fan fiction.
Marmora F. An Nora