Yay the start of my tales of the abyss story!! YEEEY!! .
I should go hide in a corner or under a table till I'm calmed down...
Thank you very much, to my beta reader Anna Tramell
I'm sorry you have to deal with my horrible grammar and spelling sweety!
READ ON!
Tis a warm summer's s day in the desert oasis between Baticul and Chesedonia as a young pale girl draped in a silk slip sat against the well that lay in the center of the oasis. Long brown curls framed her reddened cheeks and confused sky blue eyes. She scanned her surroundings with a look of shock, dismay, and at a loss. After what seemed like hours, she finally came enough to her senses to realize that she needed water and desperately. Standing up with a bit of trouble, she looked at herself in the shiny waters of the well in the middle of a desert she was sure she didn't live by.
A man put his hand on her shoulder and she looked back. "Would you like to donate 100 gald for a drink? The desert is hot and this is the only water source." He said with a smile.
"Um... can I not donate and take a drink any way?" The young woman asked tilting her head and giving the best puppy eyes she could muster with her sun burning face.
The guy shook his head and the woman look horrified. But a bag of coins was put in the man's hands and a red head came up next to her. "Take a drink." He told her. The woman didn't hesitate in dipping her hands into the surprisingly cool water that soothed her burning throat.
Taking a breath, she turned to her savior. "T-Thank you... sir?" She said weakly. She had been sitting far too long in the sun for much energy to still remain, though the water did help greatly.
"Luke Fone Fabre." The red head replied. "And who are you?"
"Opal Ophelia Opelé Blanc. You can call me Pelé." She replied slowly by the hour turning from her odd combination of healthy pink and white to a bright and painful looking red.
Luke nodded. "You don't look like you're from around here? Did you come from Baticul?" he asked the girl giving her a smug attitude. "No one around here would walk around in that get up." he said pointing to her white short skimpy dress.
Pelé cocked an eyebrow and tilted her head. "Bat-y-cool?" she asked with a look for WTF DUDE? On her face. "No I'm from the big NYC." She said with a nod.
"Where?" Luke asked looking at her like she was crazy.
"Luke," A blond said coming up, "We're almost ready to set out for the ruins." He told Luke. "And who is this?" he asked turning to Pelé.
"Just some crazy chick," Luke replied. "She says she's not from around here."
Pelé nodded. "I'm rather lost. In fact just a while ago I was indeed sitting in front of my TV watching the latest episode of Scrubs while my brother nearly beat me to get the remote to play his stupid video games..." she explained.
"See! She's crazy!" Luke shouted to prove a point.
"Maybe you've been in the sun to long. My name's Guy, and I'll make sure we find somewhere you can stay till you recover." The blond said reassuringly
"Thank you." Pelé said smiling. "But I'm in perfect health..."
"Why are you blushing?" Luke asked poking Pelé's cheeks.
"OWIE!" Pelé cried. "S-S-S-sun burn!" she whined flailing her arms.
There was a chuckle as an older man walked up, with a black haired girl. "It seems you have a knack for finding spontaneous people, Luke." He teased. Turning to Pelé, he bowed slightly. "My name's Jade."
"I'm Anise," the little girl introduced herself, and then asked, "Why are you all red?"
"I'm very pale, and I can't get tan so I get red and it hurts." Pelé said quickly.
"I see. She's as pale as Ion." Anise said inspecting Pele. "Are you in failing health?"
"No! I'm pale, born that way and will die this way," Pelé said a bit rudely. "But I NEED to find out where I am so I can call my parents, have them wire me some money so I can get a ticket back home."
"Call? I don't think they will hear you from here." Luke said crossing his arms.
"Call like cell phone, pay phone, police phone, telephone." Pelé elaborated.
"Fon? You mean you're a fonist?" Guy asked trying to get it straight.
"A phoniest... a person who uses a phone?" Pelé asked cocking an eyebrow.
"Can you communicate to other people using fonons?" Anise asked.
"If the phone is on, then yes I can use it." Pelé said with a nod.
The group was getting nowhere in this confusing mix of similar sounding words.
"Look this is getting nowhere. Please just help me find a way home." Pelé asked.
Luke shook his head. "Can't. We're on our way to somewhere important. We don't have time to help you." He said walking off.
Guy sighed. "We'll help you after our affairs are settled. Why don't you come along with us." He suggested.
"She can't fight. She'll be a burden." A brunette woman pointed out.
"Who said I couldn't fight?" Pelé said a bit angry.
"You don't have any weapons on you and your fonslots are closed." The woman said smugly.
"OKAY! AGAIN WITH THE PHONES!" Pelé yelled. "I do not need damned weapons to fight. In fact I don't need anything to fight. Ever think I might be a martial artist and use my hands?" she asked ticked off.
"Calm down she meant nothing by it." Guy said trying to calm her.
"Though Tear raises a point," Anise pointed out. "We can't take care of someone else. And we still need to rescue Ion."
"We should at least get her to Chesedonia. Maybe someone there will know her, " A golden haired woman suggested.
"Sounds like an idea." Jade said pushing up his glasses. "Nowcomma shall we be going?"
"Who made you leader?! I'm the Ambassador! Don't I get a say in this?" Luke yelled.
"No, " Pelé said with a smile. "See, cause were I come from, whinny emo pregnant boys DO NOT get a say in any thing!" she said with a snicker. "Thought Tidus did get a lot of say in that stupid FFX game..." she muttered to herself thinking about it. "He was the true emo whinny bitch."
The group walked through the desert heading in the way they were told the ruins lie. Pelé stood behind Jade for the shade, since he was much taller than she was. She had attempted to stand behind Guy, but he freaked out on her so she tried out Luke who was close to same height as herself anyways. They were only faced with a few enemy monsters but Luke, Jade, Guy, and Tear quickly disposed of them.
"Finally!" Pelé shouted. "Shade!!" she sighed in relief. "My feet were starting to burn." She giggled, since she had no shoes. Running into the ruins, she was the first to get inside.
"So sorry, " Jade said. "I guess my days of shading are over." He commented.
"Whatever," Luke said impatiently. "We have to get through here quickly, Master Van's probably already at Akzeriuth."
The group followed into the ruins. Pelé looked over the edge of a spiral slope's railing. "It's a bit of a ways down." She said.
Luke came up to her and looked down as well. "It's going to take forever to get down there!" he whined.
Pelé pulled herself up onto the railing. "See you down there, then!" she said with a smile giving them a wave before she jumped.
The group all gasped and ran to the side to look over. Pelé was at the bottom already landing gracefully and uninjured. All but Jade and Luke gave a sigh of relief and started down the spiral path.
When they got down there, they found Pelé entertaining herself by jumping around a monster, dancing around as it tried to attack her. Jade and Guy gave it no time to attempt attacks any more as Guy went in with his sword and Jade cast a Fonic arte. The monster crumbled and Pelé pouted. "Aw, you killed my dance partner." She laughed a bit though to show it was merely a joke. And they continued on deeper, gaining Meui a new ability and broke some rocks! And Pelé learned that fonons are sound particles, which everything and everyone is made up of.
Pelé yawned as they walked across a bridge. "This is one of the most boring ruin trips I've ever been on, and I once went to Pompei." She said though everyone seemed to ignore her, causing her to go into a tantrum and huff crossing her arms.
Opening a chest, they found a rather large axe. "What are we going to do with this!?" Luke nearly yelled.
"Save it to sell later?" Anise suggested.
"Uh... guys... why is there a glowing circle on the ground?" Pelé asked pointing to a healing circle.
"It's a collection of fonons that will heal you," Guy replies.
"Oh..." Pelé replied.
"You didn't get it, did you?" Anise asked mockingly.
"Nope, but I could really care less. As long as it won't kill me, I'm good." Pelé said with a huge smile.
They crossed the bridge and three men stood in front of them. "OMG! LUKE YOU HAVE A TWIN!" Pelé said with a laugh.
The group ran up to two guys, one large lion-like man, and a smaller, frail boy. "The fon master is in the middle of a ritual..."
Pelé stopped paying attention at that point and covered her eyes. "Could you be any more of a giant?" she snickered.
"The six god generals!" Tear said.
"There's only four here," Pelé said counting.
"Ion's in the white outfit." Anise said.
"OOOh," Pelé said.
"Such impudence after kidnapping the one your suppose to sever," The blond girl from the group, Natalia shouted.
Pelé sighed, "I'm so confused." She said, letting her shoulders slump forwards.
"Don't worry, we'll handle this," Guy said standing next to her.
"Sync! Largo! Give Ion back!" Anise said running to the front of the group.
"I think not. We still have work for him," Sync, the frail boy, said.
"Then we'll take him back by force," Luke said.
'Well he's not as self centered as I first thought.' Pelé mused to herself in her head. She got to miss the entire smash talking Largo and Luke did between each other, thanks to that little inner monologue, and narrating she did.
The battle started and Natalia, Anise and Pelé stayed back, leaving Luke, Jade, Tear, and Guy to fight. Pelé watched in interest as this was the first fight she got to see them giving it their all. With out knowing she wandered a little to far in as Guy dodged Largo's attack, and was left wide open. "Oops." She said with a smile, catching Largo's giant axe.
Largo growled and tried to pry his weapon from her slightly bleeding hand. Pelé had caught it on the sharp side, a bit painful but nothing she couldn't handle. "You know... you are about as strong as you look," she said with a bright smile. "Too bad I'm stronger." She said hitting Largo in the stomach with a punch which sent him flying and he was unable to continue fighting.
"Wow, that was amazing!" Anise said in shook.
"Thanks," Pelé replied.
The rest of the fight went by quickly as the team took Sync out-after corner him with no place for him to go.
The Luke look -alike charged and Luke went to meet his attacks. It was like watching a mirror, as they did the same exact moves at the same time.
"How did you know those moves?" Luke asked.
"What are you, stupid? We trained in the same style, how else?" Luke's look-alike said angrily.
"Asch! Stop!" Sync said getting in the way of the fight. More talking ... blah blah blah, Ion is returned to the group and no one is buried in the sand.
"Let's go," Luke said as the group started to walk away.
"Pelé, how were you able to stop Largo's attack with only your hands?!" Anise asked.
Pelé thought about it for a moment, then laughed. "I drank all my milk as a child." She said smiling.
"But you have no muscle whatsoever," Luke pointed out. "You're skin and bones."
"So? Those fonic artes I saw everyone use seemed to come out of nowhere." Pelé replied quickly.
"But there is a reason behind them," Tear pointed out.
"As is there a reason behind my strength and my other abilities," Pelé replied. "But no one has to know them to let me use my own powers."
"What other abilities do you posses?" Natalia asked.
"Well I guess you're just going to have to wait and see." Pelé smirked. "But you do now know I'm strong and I don't die from long drops." She said with a laugh.
"Interesting." Jade mused.