I'm back! And as seen in the description, I'm doing a collaboration with The Trailblazer! It's going to be a bumpy ride with us! We're writing different chapters each time, and I'm doing the first chapter here! Ok, I do not own these characters and stuff they belong to Square Enix. I wrote this chapter!

Enjoy...

Arc sighed. He was lying on his bed, staring up at the plain white ceiling. How long has it been since we saved the world again? Arc enquired to himself. He lifted up his right hand, and began to count the days on his fingers. After raising ten fingers, he decided to count his toes instead. It had only felt like yesterday that Arc came home with Luneth, Refia and Ingus, when they had just saved the world. Honestly, it had only been three weeks since they came home. Everyone adored Arc now, since he had proven himself as not a weakling and all the bullies of Arc's past never bullied him anymore.

Nevertheless, Arc was bored. He had mountains of books around his room, but he had read every one of them. In fact, he re-read them all at least twice. Arc was a fast reader, of course. He also helped his mother around the house earlier that morning, so there were no chores for him to do. Arc sighed again.

All was quiet…until Arc heard a door shut downstairs. Arc got off his bed and dusted himself off. He walked to the door, trying not to trip over his books and not to misplace them.

Arc walked downstairs and walked into the kitchen to find Luneth, opening cupboards. He was obviously looking for food. Luneth took no notice of Arc standing at the doorway.

"Come on! There has to be something in here!" Luneth groaned. He had his head stuck right into the cupboard. Luneth's stomach started to growl, which made Arc giggle. Luneth turned around to see who giggled. Luneth wrapped his arms around his stomach, as if it was going to protect it from anymore giggles.

"I can make you something, if you want," Arc walked over to Luneth's side and smiled. "Mom's away to get us more fruit, because somebody ate the rest this morning." Arc chuckled.

"Hey! I didn't eat all of them!" Luneth defended himself.

Arc turned around and looked at him, not convinced. "Really, Luneth?"

"Yes, really. Topapa stole some fruit this morning too!" Luneth replied, partly blaming their foster father for thieving the fruit.

Arc still wasn't convinced.

Luneth sighed. "I guess you don't believe then?"

"I'm sorry, Luneth," Arc apologised. "I'm not easily convinced for those types of things. Even Refia and Ingus agreed on that."

Luneth cringed at the name 'Ingus'. It had been three weeks since he seen him and he started to remember all the fights he had with him. At first, he just bickered with him. Then, it escalated into something bigger. Luneth didn't like to fight with him, but then again, Ingus and Luneth were two different people.

"I can make you something to eat if you want?" Arc interrupted Luneth's thoughts. Arc gave Luneth a shy smile.

"Uh," Luneth blushed, still thinking about Ingus. "I guess so…"

"Ok, just tell me what you want and I'll try and make it for you. I can't guarantee that it will be amazing, not like Ingus' cooking anyway." Arc turned around and looked in the cupboards to see if there were any ingredients. He didn't notice Luneth blushing at Ingus' name.

All of a sudden, a knock at the door was heard. Luneth turned around to look at the door. "I'll get it…" Luneth began walking to the door. He got to the door and he hesitated for a moment. Who could it be? Ingus? No, it couldn't be, since when would he come visit us? By the gods, I hope it's not him…Regardless of whether Ingus was standing behind the door or not, Luneth opened the door to find a girl with orange-blonde hair, standing at the door. It was Refia

"Well, it took you long enough!" She giggled and rushed in to give Luneth a big hug. It had only been three weeks since Refia last saw Luneth. But then again, three weeks was a long time.

"Refia! What are you doing here?" Luneth exclaimed, as he returned the hug.

"Well, I finished my blacksmith training for the day, so I thought I might visit you and Arc." Refia stopped hugging Luneth and stepped into Luneth's house, inviting herself in through the doorway. Luneth made a face, wondering why Refia let herself all of a sudden. He shrugged his shoulders, shaking the thought away from his head.

Refia looked around. "So, where's Arc?" Refia asked.

"Oh, he's in the kitchen making me food." Luneth smirked.

"Is food all that you can think about?" Refia rolled her eyes. "And why is Arc making it? Can't you make the food yourself?"

Luneth shrugged his shoulders. "He insisted on it!" Luneth defended himself. "I cooked that turkey I found near that lake!"

"Yeah, but that was a farmer's turkey and you burnt it while you were cooking it." Refia grinned. She definitely won this argument. She turned around and walked into the kitchen, where she found Arc setting an apple pie on the counter.

Arc looked up from his apple pie to find Refia standing in front of him, with open arms. "Refia!" Arc exclaimed, as he ran towards to give her a hug. They both hugged each other tightly, just like Refia hugged Luneth as if she hadn't seen him for months. "How are you?" Arc let go of Refia and smiled at her, his arms on hers. Luneth stood at the archway of the kitchen, grinning. Arc never took notice of this.

"I'm fine," Refia smiled back, blushing a little. "I see Luneth's making you cook." She giggled.

Arc took his arms off Refia's. "Actually, I made this earlier. I forgot I left it on the shelf outside." Arc replied sheepishly. He started to blush heavily.

"Good, cause I'm hungry!" Luneth rushed over to the counter where the apple pie was. Refia and Arc started to laugh at their friend's passion for food.

Ok, that's Chapter 1 done! Stay tuned for Chapter 2, because The Trailblazer will be writing it. R&R peoples!

"Write what you think is right." - Anti-Arcus