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Hiya' peoples! I noticed the minimum amount of Avalon code stories on here and I thought, "why not?" why not indeed? The only sad part is that none of my friends play the game or thinks Anwar is cute. They say he looks like a girl. :(

Anyway I guess I better let you guys get to the story :) I hope you like my first story!

Anwar's POV

I wasn't supposed to have feelings. Olly made sure of that. But what was this, then? The girl with the jacket and idiotic smile… she made me feel something I couldn't quite describe. I think I've heard of it before. Some of the nomads say it sometimes. What was it? Ah, yes.

Annoying.

She had come up to me asking for my name three times. Couldn't this girl see I didn't want to converse with her? She was here to do Olly's bidding, not to socialize with heartless swordsmen.

And what do you know… here she comes now.

"Hey." She gave me her innocent smile that I found so annoying. "So are you going to tell me your name?" I felt my left eye twitch.

"It's Anwar. It means 'desert wind.'" Her smile only got bigger.

"Neat! My name's Aria!" I turned away. My name was not neat. And I most certainly didn't care about her's.

I was watching the occupants of this little town converse with one another. They smiled, laughed, and sometimes cried. I shook my head at their confusing emotions. I turned my head a little more to the right to see a man polishing his gun. I stared longingly at the gun. It was a foreign item I had desired for a quite a while.

"Here." I jumped at the sudden voice. I turned to see the girl still in her same place. Why was she still here?

That was when I noticed what she held in her hand.

"Why- this is…" I took the golden gun from her hand and turned it over and over in mine to make sure it was real. It most certainly was. I turned to see the man still polishing his. She hadn't stolen it.

I didn't know what to say to her. Why had she given me such a valuable item?

"Th…thank you."

She smiled again. It was that idiotic one. "You're welcome. I saw you staring at it and I just happened to have one just like it."

"Why are you giving it to me?" she looked out into the desert, as if seeing something only she could. And then she smiled once more.

"Because you deserve it." She grinned in my direction before walking into a tent.

I deserved it? I don't deserve anything from her. I have done nothing good for her. I had abducted her.

She walked out of the tent with her big book in hand. She smiled at me one final time before running into the monster-infested desert. As I watched her, I felt the heart I knew wasn't supposed to be there tighten.

Aria's POV

"I don't see why you bother talking to that walking brick wall." I finished the last hit of the judgment link attack and then collapsed to the ground in exhaustion.

"Rempo, he's not that bad. He just needs someone to open up to him." Mieli smiled and sat on my shoulder.

"She's right, you know. He doesn't seem like a bad fellow. Just lost and confused."

"(Like Rempo's common sense…)" breathed Neaki. Rempo huffed and sat down on the sand.

"Neaki! You mustn't compare Anwar to Rempo's common sense! That's very insulting!"

"Thank you!"

"Um… I don't think that was for your benefit." I whispered to Rempo.

He clenched his teeth and raised his voice. "Whatever!"

"(Like a rebellious teenager…)"

"Guys, we have to keep moving." I spoke up. They all muttered a "yeah" or a "yes ma'am."

I looked up ahead to see about six monsters standing in a group. Right behind them was a small, delicate flower. I opened up the Book of Prophecy to Anwar's page. A smile overcame my lips.

Anwar's POV

Where was she? She had been in the desert for an easy five hours. Was she wounded and couldn't make it back? Was she lost in a sandstorm? Was she…

I stopped myself there.

I found myself doing what I never thought I would do. I was pacing around the well. I got a lot of stares from the natives.

That's when a thought occurred to me that caused me to stop the pacing.

What did I care if she got hurt or was killed? What loss would it be for me?

My eyes traveled down to the golden projectile weapon in my belt next to my water pouch. That empty spot in my chest once again tightened at the thought of her being injured; the thought of her being lost; the thought of her being dead…

While lost in my thoughts, I hadn't realized my legs carrying me to the eastern desert.

Sooo waddya' think? I have a tendency to rush things, so if I am, please tell me! And sorry for the POV switching the whole time. I'm turning thirteen in a few weeks so my writing might not be as good as other's on here. Oh well! I had fun! I'm gonna' try to come up with my own stuff instead of just writing what's in the game. Sure it's interesting and cute but we all know what happens. Anywho- please stay tuned for the next chapter!