She looked at her small son, asleep in the boat. Sighing, she gently picked him up "C'mon, Marcus.
let's get going.". Rae looked at the island before her, the memories coming back to her.
"Rae, are you all right?" A gentle voice came behind her. "Oh Keldy..." She breathed "Is this really the same Illusia we grew up in? It's so...so......" her voice broke and tears streamed from her face. She heard the cry of her newborn daughter behind her, where Keldy was standing. "Here, give me Rosetta, you take Marcus."
Keldy complied and looked at her closely. "It's been too long, hasn't it?"
She nodded in agreement. "Far too long."
She closed her eyes and his image came to her mind, causing her to bury her face in Keldy's chest and whisper the name of her one and only.
"...Lekius..."
-THREE YEARS AGO-
"You're really leaving then, aren't you Lek?" A female voice piped up. The young green-haired archer paused whetting his hunting knife and looked into the emerald eyes of Ramalle, a young orphan much like his best friend, Keldric. Also like Keldy, she too came from a faraway place as a small child. But unlike his precocious friend, she didn't have the proper gift of protection, like Ritzia's flower.
Plus he felt the need to stretch his legs a little in the deep forest outside the villiage.
"Don't worry, Rae." He stood up and looked into her bewitching eyes. "It'll only be for a short while.
I just need to get more real-time practice in case something ever does happen."
Rae held him close "It's just...I worry about you all the time. Just please...be careful, all right?"
Lekius ran his fingers through her platinum hair. Nodding, he grabbed his bow and took off to the forest borderline.
-
A day had passed...it just wasn't here. Lekius cursed his rotten luck and kept searching. Finally after what seemed like forever and a day he heard a shrill roar. He ran to the forest glen where the noise came from.
"What in the name of the goddess...is THAT!?"
Before him was a creature he had not seen the likes of before in his life. It was lizardlike...but it was huge and the scales were...unusually shiny. He wished for a closer look but the snapping jaws told him otherwise. Lekius, being a deft archer, drew his bow and arrow.
"All right, if it's a fight you want it's a fight you'll get!" He fired a warning shot, aiming between the creature's eyes. However, the lizard was more perceptive than he had hoped. It deflected the arrow as easily as Lek would swat a fly.
"Damn it..." he cursed. "This thing sure is smart!" Just then a giant tail swept around but being agile, Lekius
easily evaded the attack. He jumped up into the trees, but unfortunately the creature saw him and attacked.
Lek jumped again and hid in another tree. The creature sniffed and snorted around the splintered tree while
Lek studied his target.
"Is that a...Komodo Dragon?" He breathed as the sun sparkled off its scales. "So bright...the scales look almost like prisms." He gasped. "That's it!" With new resolve, he looked for a weakness...and found it at the tendon right beneath the jaw. It was a small target, but a risk he was willing to take to retrieve those scales.
Lekius jumped from his roost, landing perfectly on his feet. He ran as hard and as fast as he could,
scrambling up the spine of the dragon. It lashed but he kept a steady foothold. Huffing and puffing,
Lekius readied an arrow and jumped off its back. He twisted his body, aimed and fired. With a
violent roar and a tremble, the giant beast fell down dead.
With his feet planted firmly on the ground again, Lek sauntered over to the giant lizard. "Sorry,"
he breathed "but I need your scales. If you'll only give me four I'd be satisfied." As he was talking
he took out his hunter's knife and pulled off the brightest scales he could find. "Thank you, now
rest in peace mighty creature." Lek safely put the scales away, stretched, and decided it was time to call it a
day, right then and there.
-
Later that night, Lek sprawled out over his bedding, full from a supper of giant lizard. "It really is as legendary as they say..." he smiled, rubbing his belly. With a contented sigh, he fell asleep, weary from the days events.
-
Lekius awoke to a disturbing snuffle. Rubbing his eyes, he peeked at his sack and sure enough, a pesky Rabite was nosing through his satchel. He smirked, and playfully fired an arrow right above its head. The Rabite squealed and hopped away, cursing Lekius all the way down to his roots. Lek laughed, retrieved his wayward arrow, and prepared to return to the village.
As he was backtracking through the woods, he stopped dead in his tracks. "Wait! I can't just give her the
scales as they are right now! How can I make them so she can wear them?" He continued onward, thinking
about it. "Not a covering...too big for earrings. Hey, how about I string them into a necklace!" He
stopped again, reaching into his pocket and pulling out the now-hard scales, safely wrapped in a leaf.
Taking out his hunting knife, he bore tiny holes into the scales. "Now for a string..." He looked everywhere,
finding nothing. He sighed, at a loss, and plopped down next to a steam. He sighed and gazed into the water,
suddenly having an idea. "I know!" Again with his knife, he clipped a long lock of his hair, braided it, and
strung it through the small holes he had just made. Lek inspected his handiwork, grinning in approval. "There."
Wrapping it up again in the leaf, he sprinted back to the village. "I...hope she likes it!!"
~OMAKE~
RAE: Whew!
LEK: It's about time!
KELDY: *sulks* I wish I had more of a role than THIS.
LAWLIE (me): Shush you! *hits him upside the head* You will, it's just not time yet! You need to be patient,
I haven't even finished the game yet!
KELDY: You mean that.
RAE: ...you're writing a fanfic.
LEK: ...about a game.
RITZIA: ...that you haven't even FINISHED yet?
LAWLIE: Patience, my young padawans! It will be soon!
RAE: When will Lek and I get our moment?
LAWLIE: You...will! *huff*
LEK: Careful...I think she's about to blow a fuse and then all the creative energy will run out.
LAWLIE: *ahem!* ANYway, thanks so much and continue to cheer for us!
FAYE: *hovers above her head* Can I cover her with sugar yet?? :3