Author's Note: This is my first romance fic, so if it does suck, please don't flame too much… Oh, and the pairings are: Wain/Seena, and Dei/Aima (I know Lurisa likes Dei, but I'm still going to say these two are a couple).
This fic is in honor and gratitude of Taito announcing the Fourth Lufia for this April of 2003: [Lufia: and the Ruins of Lore]. I think I speak for all Lufia fans when I say that we express our deepest gratitude to the company that created the best RPG game ever.
(Bows deeply to the Taito CEO and production manager)
(Update: 3/13/03: Thanks to Doc, the ages in this fic are now fixed.)
Ages: Wain- 18 Seena- 17 Dei- 24
Aima-26 Melphis-20
Randolph- 72 Deckard- 32 Mousse- Dunno
Yurist- 27 Ruby- 21 Isaac- 43
Milka- I dunno, natsume.com said she's 25, but that's not correct. She was there when the first Doom Island War began, so about… 225?
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Oh, and this fic is a month after Seena is 'revived' and her and Wain kiss at the end of the 'ending sequence' (After that, I've become obsessive over Lufia 3 and 4.)
Estoland: The Quest Continues
Seena stood looking out over the bow of the ship, her blue vest and her pristine dress rippling in the breeze. It had been a month since she 'came back' to get a second chance for life with Wain.
'Wain…' she murmured quietly, the fresh ocean breeze taking the words from her lips as soon as she spoke them. She froze, startled, when a pair of muscular arms came around her, but soon realized who it was that was embracing her.
"What are you doing all up here by yourself?" A certain red-haired man spoke quietly from behind her. She smiled slightly. It had been two weeks since they had boarded the ship bound for Estoland, the unexplored continent. "I'm just thinking…"
"About what?" Wain said softly, gently holding her to him.
"About old times, about our friends, and about… about us." She blushed slightly at the last part, and then turned to face her boyfriend.
"How long is it until we arrive?" Seena asked, her eyes locked onto Wain. "Oh, about two more weeks."
All of the sudden, the lookout shouted. "A ship! Two of them! They seem to be fighting!!"
The captain strode towards Wain and Seena. "So, what shall we do?" He asked, since it was Wain who was paying for the voyage.
"Well, seeing that we may be able to help them out, why not?" "Stupid!!" Seena smiled a little.
"How do you know that it's not a trap by two pirate ships to catch us and rob us?" "Because." Wain replied simply.
This was definitely not the answer that she had been looking for. "Seena. Look at that ship. Doesn't is seem a little familiar?" He pointed to the smaller ship, which had a blade placed over the bow.
"Wait. Isn't that… _Deckard's_ ship?!" Seena asked, her eyes round with surprise. "Yes it is, unless there's another ship out there with a steel blade mounted on the prow. Let's go and say hello, shall we?" He turned to the balding captain who had been standing there the whole time.
"Alter course for those ships. We want to make a slight detour for a few friends…" "OK, but, if this ship gets damaged in any way…" He trailed off. "Then we'll pay you double to bring us over, and then you can leave." Wain said, simply.
"Agreed. Change course for the two ships!!"
The small merchant ship began to sway, and sped up, as the mainsails were unfurled and swept out by the wind, pushing them towards the ship with the blade on it…
On Deckard's Ship
"Take that for trying to take my ship!" Deckard cleaved the pirate he had been fighting in two. He stood up, and looked around at Dei and Aima, who had both decided to hitch a ride with him. Dei had just finished taking care of two minor pirates, and Aima had taken care of three.
He smiled, and then all three of them advanced on the pirate boss. "Now, surrender, you pirate scum! We outnumber you!!" "Never! Launch the second wave!" The man shouted.
"Now, it seems that the tide has turned…" The Pirate Boss smiled smugly, at the twelve pirates behind them. "Now, we outnumber you!"
"Not quite." A voice rang out, as two pirates exploded into a pile of gore, blood and still-moving organs.
"Who are you?" The Pirate Boss, (A/N: Another one, not the one that Wain and co. defeated in the game.) said, shakily, cowering behind his men. Then, as the mess of blood finally settled, it revealed a second ship behind them, and a person standing there; to be more precise, a man wielding a red sword adorned with silver inscriptions. Deckard, Dei and Aima's mouths dropped, all as one.
"Wain?!!" They all asked. "Yep, it's me. Now, let's finish this off, Seena." Wain turned his head to tale to a woman who was standing serenely holding a blue staff.
"SEENA!!??" Now, all three's mouths broke through the deck and penetrated two decks before they just stopped and hung.
They stood there, dumbly observing as Wain and the woman, 'Seena' as Wain had called her, skillfully took out the last of the pirates, and Wain decimating the Boss with a well-placed Bolt Sword. When the Pirates had been defeated and their ship sunk, Deckard, Dei and Aima approached the two.
"Wain?" Dei was the first to speak. "You _do_ know that Seena died a year ago. It's an insult to her memory if you let yourself be deceived by this idiot trying to pose as her." Dei finished, narrowing his eyes at 'Seena', both Deckard and Aima nodding at his words.
"Dei! How dare you speak like that to Seen-" "Wain. Stop this. I would feel this way too, so don't blame them for it." The girl had turned and was not addressing Wain with a clam voice. "What do you mean? They had just insulted you, and now you're defending them?" "Wain…"
Wain turned to the rest of them, his eyes blazing at the injustice he felt. 'Why are they deriding her, when we all should be happy when she's returned to us?' "Now, all of you: I want you to apologize to Seena now. We all should be happy now, and-"
'Seena' had cut Wain off, this time, she seemed impatient, kind of like the real Seena, Deckard thought. "STUPID!!!"
Now, Deckard was sure that it was Seena, only she had that kind of temper. "I already told you that it doesn't matter!" "Oh, okay…" Wain spoke in a soft, reduced voice.
"I'm sorry, Wain, I didn't mean to sound like that…" Seena strode over and hugged Wain, while he hugged back, now oblivious to Deckard, Dei and Aima.
"Seena? Is that really you?" Dei tried to start a conversation. "Yes, it really is me." Seena turned, and faced the three, letting the three see the tears in her eyes for the first time.
"Aww, don't cry, Seena. We all know you missed my good looks, but-" Dei stopped abruptly when she whapped him across the side of his head with her staff, eyes blazing in a similar fashion to Wain's. "That's not it!" Seena's eyes returned to normal, but the tears were still there.
"It's just… It's just that… Just that I haven't seen all you guys for so long…" Her voice broke, and all of the friends came to hug her and console her.
When that was over, she smiled at the three of them, her hand still holding Wain's. "Thanks for accepting me back as your friend." She spoke so softly, it was almost inaudible.
"Don't worry, that's what we friends are here for," Aima smiled warmly at the younger girl.
"Also, when did you and Wain get together?" Dei popped in, breaking the warm feeling of the moment. Seena's face, along with Wain's, immediately flushed a bright crimson. "We'll tell you that on the way to Estoland, I am assuming you're going there too?" Wain spoke to the rest of the group, as the ship sailed onward towards Estoland...
Author's Note: Do you approve? This was just a random ficcy that I decided to write, since it turns out the Fourth Lufia isn't gonna be about Estoland, and there isn't going to be anymore Sinistrals in it… Darn. Oh well, at least in this fic, I can explain what happened between now and the 4th Lufia (whatever that's gonna be about).
Anyway: Next time on Estoland: The Quest Continues: What will happen along the journey to Estoland? Will the others be there (that's a given, it's said at the end of the game after killing Zalbak)? What will happen between Wain and Seena? What will the others think about Seena coming back to life?
Next Time on: Estoland: The Quest Continues: Arrival!
Author's note: In this fic, I will be basing it on _my_ game ending: Wain is level 85 and the Egg dragon _has_ been defeated and will be making a few appearances to help the characters out. Also, if you have any pairing suggestions between the other members of the old 'gang', please do tell. Thanks, your opinion is important to me.
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-Blackraven