Chapter II: Alone With You
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Jet and Virginia woke up early the following morning. The train that would take them to Boot Hill would be leaving shortly so they did not have much time to get ready. Virginia still had her 'sick' play going on. Catharine and Kaitlyn helped her out with that one. Kaitlyn even pretended that she 'must have accidentally put something weird in Virginia's dish.' Luckily Jet was convinced with that one. Plus he did not really care. All he cared about was getting Virginia back home to her aunt and uncle so that he could go hunting for Gella.
Virginia said her goodbyes to Catharine and Kaitlyn and quietly told her to thank Clive for her when he returned home. Waving goodbye, she followed Jet to the stables to get their horses.
"Can you handle riding?" he asked her hoping to god she would say yes.
Virginia had not thought of that. She smiled wickedly to herself and put on a worried face. "I-I don't know," she said. "I feel lightheaded. What if I pass out and get seriously hurt from falling off my horse? D-D'you think I can ride with you so that I can hold on tight to you and you could catch me if I fall?"
He turned blood red. The thought of him and Virginia on a horse together with her arms wrapped around him made him feel ten million different things at the same time. He wanted to refuse so badly! But the thought of Gallows finding out that she had to ride a horse and her falling off from dizziness made him fearful. An angry Gallows was not pretty and he was not in the mood to have the living crap beat out of him.
"Fine," he mumbled bitterly.
'YES!' she thought. 'Ooh I am on a roll!'
"Thank you, Jet," she said sweetly putting on her cutest most innocent face.
'Ugh! Why does she have to be so damn cute!' he thought. 'Wait! What the hell did I just say!'
"Come on," he said. He mounted his horse and held out his hand. She took his hand and he pulled her up on the dark brown horse. She put her arms around him and leaned her face on his back.
"I'm ready," she said.
He began shaking and sweating. Why did it feel so good for her arms to be around him? What was this he was feeling? And why was it only whenever Virginia was around? He had known her for over a couple years now, but here recently he began feelings things he never felt before. He shook his head of these thoughts and rode his horse out of Humphrey's Peak.
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Train station,
Jet paid for two train tickets and they boarded the train. They walked into an empty compartment and took their seats. Jet sat on the left side while Virginia sat on the right. Neither one of them said anything to each other for a while. He just gazed out the window while she looked at him. He knew she was looking at him so he continued gazing out the window to avoid her gaze.
"Jet……thank you," she finally said once the train went into motion.
"For what?" he asked finally looking at her.
"For all the times you have helped me," she answered. "I really appreciate the fact that you were always there for me. I love you very much as a friend. I…….I hope you don't hate me."
He felt sweat roll down his face. Her words were making him so nervous. It would have been so much easier if she was saying, "Good riddance, you selfish asshole!"
"I-I don't hate you," he replied almost whispering. "I just don't like you all that much. I was only in it for the Gella."
Virginia's eyes instantly showed pain. 'He might as well of just shot me down with his Airghet-lahm!' she thought. 'Why, Jet? Why do you have to be this way? Have two years with us not shown you anything!'
'Why, Virginia do you care for me so much?' he thought. 'I don't understand you!'
"I'm sorry," he said looking at the floor. "I- - -"
Just then the train came to a jerking stop sending Virginia flying out of her seat and into Jet's arms. Both their faces turned blood red. Her arms were around his neck and his around her waist.
'Am…….do I……..do I……..like him?' she thought. 'He makes me feel so odd. Especially now in his arms.'
"What was that?" he asked. "Why did we stop?" He stood up shaking her off him. "We're not supposed to get there for another two hours."
Virginia screamed and jumped back when a hole was shot through the top of compartment. Someone was attacking. This reminded her of when they first met Janus Cascade. He too shot through the roof to attack.
Jet jumped up and grabbed the edge of the hole and pulled himself up. "Stay here," he told Virginia.
"I'm coming with you!" she said.
"You're in shape to fight," he replied. "You'll just get in the way." 'Or hurt,' he added to himself.
"I lied," she finally confessed looking up at him. She jumped up and pulled herself up so that they were both standing on top of the train. "I'm not sick."
"There they are!"
Jet and Virginia turned around and saw a man and woman standing their. The man was tall with long black hair, green eyes, and wore a black hood and cape. The woman was dressed the same way and had long blue hair and red eyes.
"Who are you?" Virginia demanded pulling out her twin pistols.
"I am Sain," the man answered. "And this is Terra. We are hired to assassinate you two."
"Why!" Virginia gasped.
"The stop you from entering the world, Lantalla," Terra answered.
"What the hell is Lantalla?" Jet asked.
"Why does it matter?" Sain asked. "You two will die now." He held up his hand and a beam of energy shot from it.
Virginia quickly cast a reflective spell on Jet since he was the target. The spell bounced back and almost hit Terra. She jumped out of the way and pulled out a long sword. She ran at Virginia. Jet used his accelerator and shot her. She fell backwards. The bullet did not pierce through her skin, but she was affected by it.
"They're not human!" Virginia said shooting at Sain. The bullets were going right through him. She then tried using a Devastate spell. It worked, but only a little. She finally figured out that magic spells only worked on Sain, while Physical attacks worked on Terra.
Jet used gattling on Terra when she tried to get up to go after him. It worked successfully. She took heavy damage and fell to her knees. Sain used a healing spell on her, but it did not work enough to let her back into battle.
"I have to retreat," she said teleporting away.
Sain sighed and looked at Virginia. He held his hands up and energy waves circled around him. He threw his hands forward and Virginia was hit hard and almost knocked off the train.
"Virginia!" Jet gasped.
She got on her knees and started panting.
He glared at Sain and used the highest level spell he had. Sain took the hit hard falling backwards. "Damn! I failed!" he cursed and retreated.
Jet turned his attention back on Virginia and gave her a heal berry. "Thanks," she said taking the berry. "Why was someone trying to kill us? And what is Lantalla?"
"Who knows," he said.
"Ugh!" she gasped falling forward.
"Virginia?" he asked. "Ugh!" he felt a searing pain in his head. He fell to his knees and lost consciousness.
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Author's Note: Sorry for the cliffhanger! I promise I'll get the next chapter up soon!
Thanks:
Teefa and co.: I am so glad y'all are enjoying this fic! I'm glad to know I'm doing a good job considering I haven't actually finished the game yet.
Riny Beoulve: Thank you for your advice. I thought that first paragraph sucked too. I'll try my best to do better.
