From the Core
Chapter 1 - Book
Disclaimer: None of my characters and the scenes all take place in Osenia! Yep! The characters are taking a little break before actually lighting the lighthouse...
If you look deep enough, you will soon find the core...
Felix lay on the bed, his head rested upon his pillow, staring at the bottom of the mattress above him. Loud snores erupted the peace of the night and Felix groaned. Flipping over onto his stomach, he took his pillow and attempted the muffle the sound with blankets upon blankets. A light was switched on, a young teenager with ruffled blonde hair stared sleepily at the bed above Felix.
"Garet! Shuddap already, your waking the whole place up you dope!" Ivan whispered harshly and there were sounds of agreement from the other bunkers. Felix raised his head and told them, "Eh, better not try — Garet sleeps like a log." Moans rose from the beds.
Ivan snorted and stumbled over to Garet's bunk. "Trying." Ivan took hold of a side of Garet's cloak and abruptly pulled him down. Felix stared as there was a thunk and a yell from the harassed fire adept and harsh scolding from Ivan and then both retreated to their beds.
After a few minutes the snoring started again, and Felix rolled his eyes. This lasted for about ten minutes, until Garet suddenly screamed in his sleep, "Help me MOMMY!"
Ivan kicked him.
The Djinn carefully nosed around the musty sack, poking its nose into the soft foldings. Twitching its tail lightly, it stepped all the way into the sack, interested with the smell that arose from the bag. Something suddenly snorted and the Djinn squeaked, crashing off the table, scrambling to its feet and taking off behind a certain aqua-haired guest.
Alex gently rubbed his hand against the squeaking Mercury Djinn's head, calmly soothing it as it quivered with fear. Taking his rucksack, he opened it and the Mercury Djinn suddenly hissed with anticipation, its horns bent back and growled, "Fire, Fire!"
Alex took the Mars Djinn out and the Mercury Djinn escaped into its little basket by the bed. Sighing, he set the Mars Djinn down on the table where it just stared at him and called- "Serac, come out and meet Fugue." Serac just poked her head out of her basket and snapped, "Fire!" before sticking her head back in and started sulking.
Fugue rested in Alex's arms as he carried him and the offending basket ("Fire! Fire!") Down the stairway and a man came downstairs and called, "We're ready to set off. Shall we go?" Alex nodded his head and the man left. Staring out one of the glass windows at the waving ocean, Alex chuckled to himself.
"I've always wanted to travel."
Felix had his cheek set on the cold tabletop, his eyes half-closed as he fought against nausea the boat was causing him to have. Piers sat next to him, looking worriedly at his brown-haired friend and his golden eyes rested upon the open book that lay in front of him.
"Felix." Piers said bluntly, but the younger man just grumbled a reply. Sighing, Piers carefully lifted the dusted-covered book and slowly turned the pages. He dropped the book and glared at Felix.
"Felix, what's this!?" Piers said in a shaky voice, "Where the heck did you get it?" Felix looked up slowly unblinkly. He rested his cheek on the tabletop then started to doze. Piers took the book and roughly threw it overboard, watching it sink under the water. Felix suddenly jumped up, knocking over the offensive wooden chair and made a lunge for the sunken book, but Piers held him back.
Holding his chin in his hands, Piers kneeled beside the sweating leader and whispered, "Did you know what that was?" Felix gingerly shook his head. Piers sighed. "You haven't answered my question."
"What question?" inquired Felix daintily though a bit tauntingly as well.
"Where the heck did you get it?" Piers repeated himself. Felix realized Piers' hand was still clutching his chin.
"Could you mind letting go?"
"No."
"Echo was sniffing my belongings and I knocked her over the countertop. She ran squeaking like mad and I chased her into Jenna's room. I found the book in Jenna's sack." Felix said, a bit droningly and toneless but he had said it.
Piers' eyes softened and he let go of Felix's chin, though he still seemed to glare at him. Sighing, the Lemurian ran his hand through his hair and muttered to himself, "Good thing he didn't read that last chapter..."
"Why did you have to drag me out of bed?" Garet huffed, gelling his hair inside the bathroom he and Ivan shared, his eyebrows furrowed in concentration. Ivan just glared behind his back, eyes narrowed and he stuck his tongue out at him.
"I wouldn't have to if you wouldn't just snore that loud and so into the night!" Ivan retorted, undressing himself to his pants, which he left on (of course). Packing his nightclothes into his bag, he pulled out his cloak and staff, running his fingers along its smooth surface. Garet raised an eyebrow as Ivan grinned.
"I can still remember the time Sheba gave this thing to me..." Garet scowled darkly, then went back to gelling his hair, leaving the wind adept to change clothes in peace.
After the two men were done, they stumbled down the wooden steps of the inn. Jenna was arguing quite loudly with the innkeeper, both of them asking for one price or another.
"I swear the inns at Daila were cheaper then this!" Jenna argued darkly, dragging in comparison to the argument. Fortunately, the innkeeper had a neat comeback.
"And I swear that the inns at Daila are known for their musty beds and dirty food!" Jenna ground her teeth in the growing flame between her and the poor innkeeper. She had a decision to make- Give in and agree to the innkeeper- or – Blast her to death and get run out of town.
However, this choice was not hers to make. Ivan smirked evilly, his pretty blonde face had become a sinister dark mask and he strode over to the innkeeper and slapped down 100 coins. "Good enough for you?"
Jenna glared daggers at Ivan, but they left the little musty inn into the sunlight, where the sand was powdered gray and soft shoots of emerald grass stuck out of the dirt. Jenna had her auburn hair tied up in a nice shiny ponytail, her brownish eyes dull and her face smooth and unwrinkled. Garet looked at Ivan questioningly.
"Where did Felix, Piers, Sheba, Kraden and Mia go?" Garet said innocently, "And I know Isaac's somewhere in town..."
A Djinn dozed in the meadow as it watched its skilled master train, waving his sword through the air, as if slashing at the atmosphere itself. Yawning, the Djinn sat up on its plump muddish body and it waddled over to its friends, which had plopped themselves around a fallen log and were sniffing carefully.
"Log?" One of the Djinn, one with a small scar between its eyes, chirped lightly, nudging it with its nose. Another Djinn, this one a runt, jumped up and down upon it, making bark fly in all directions and hitting elder Djinn who glared at the youngster.
"Bark." It said apologizing for its act and hopped down from the others and decided to sulk in the leather bag their master had designed for them. The Djinn all crowded around the log, an occasional, "Wood!", "Dark!", "Ooooh!", "Ahhhh!", and "Aak!" erupting from the bustling crowd.
Isaac sheathed his sword and wiped a handkerchief over his sweaty forehead and pulled off his heavy cloak, resting it on a tree branch and deciding to see what his little Djinn were up to. Walking slowly to the clearing his mind was on many things...
(I wonder where Felix and them are...) He brooded to himself, (I wonder if they noticed I was gone... I told Garet but I think he forgot about it already...) the runt saw its master walk forth and it excitedly jumped out of the bag and landed on its master's shoulders.
Isaac, startled practically threw the poor Venus Djinni to the ground and he caught himself just in time. Taking the Djinni squarely by the tail, he faced it while it hung in midair, "Geode! What are doing here, not playing with the others?"
"Bark." Geode replied sadly and decided that he like hanging in midair. Twirling, he tried to bite his tail (even though Isaac was holding it) and instead, looked like it was trying to do a somersault with its tail pinned up like 'pin the tail on the donkey'.
Chuckling, he set the Djinn down and watched as it skittered to its friends, as they seemed to be squealing of excitement or fear.
(I wonder what you'll grow up to be,) Isaac thought, (Maybe you'll be the strongest of them all...)
And as everything happened at once, a book was sinking through the layers of the ocean, only to be picked up again by a curious merman...
TBC...
Author's Notes: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! These were little things I just made up! Quite fun, actually! See you next chapter! (Please Review!)
Piers: . . .
Feliz: I don't act like that!
Ivan: I don't kick people...
Garet: I don't snore...
Jenna: I've never yelled at an innkeeper before...
Mia: WHAT ABOUT MEEE!!!!???
Kraden: What-
Author- SHADDUP!!!!!