Edit: Went back and fixed (hopfully) all the spelling and grammer errors. I added afew more details to the story or re-arranged some words, but nothing majorly changed.

A/N: I wanna start off by apologizing for the really, really, REALLY, late update for chater 2. I really intended for Chapter 2 to come out 2 weeks after the first one was out but then a family member of mine passed away and I lost all motivation and went into a very depressed and sad stage. But! After a while, the saddness has begun to dissapear and I got my motivation back. Most of this chapter was written during the time I was sad so its kinda... blah. But I did my best to revise it and make it better. :)

My last chapters spelling was not as well read over as I hoped I did to I did my best to make sure it was better this time round... I even used a dictionary so it should be better! :D

Oh and I checked the story status... 41 hits! I feel... hounored TTwTT... that more then 10 people decided to read my story! THANKYOU! ALL 41 OF YOU! And thankyou if your another new person reading right now! :D

SO! Without further hold back, here you go!

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Crystal Chronicles in any way, shape, or form.


Chapter 2: 19 Years Later

Alfitaria, the bigest city on the norther continent but the most important city of the north and east continents. It is the home to many higher living rich people and home aswell to the royal family. It is a very popular place for travelers and carivaners to stop and stock up on supplies of food fresh from Feilds of Fum or weapons to be made by some of the best known blacksmiths.

But during this time of year, Spring, the town was not busy with carivaners but rather busy with their own people. It was the time of year again, where tha carivaners would begin to prepare for their travels for an entire year, travels that would take them on a journey for the oh-so desired myrrh that protected towns across continenets.

People currently rushing in and out buildings and shops to buy supplies, while people roamed the streets carrying iteams to place in the carivans for those brave carivaners. There where 2 carivans where parked down by the giant crystal, one for the volunteer towns people to travel in; the other for the Lilty knights of the kingdom.

Because Alfitaria's crystal is so great in size, they must send off 2 carivaners to collect myrrh every year. It had been that way for at least 100 years now after the crystal's glow dimmed only halfway into the new year. Many other neighboring cities found quiet unfare for the city of Alfitaria to take two carivans out, equalling up to 6 drops of myrrh. But Alfitaria had a good reason.

They're crystal's great sized required more; 3 drops wasen't enoff to purify the crystal.

This great crystal there was rather a trademark icon there. Its 'bluer then the ocean' color, its great size stretched up the 3rd floor of the castle making it the biggest crystal on either continents. Many People admired the crystal even the people of the town who would take 5 minutes out of their day to look at it and admire. All people addmired it... including the princess of Alfitaria herself.

Up at the highest window in the castle, a blond haired girl looked at the crystal and the by-passers who walked past it. The girl must be no older then 19 years old; watched from that window. She rested her hands on the window seal as a light grin appeared on her lips.

She could see the joyfilled faces of the towns people, their lips moving in happy chatter, dispite the princess not hearing anything behind the glass window. A clavate baker waltzed by with a tray of bannock bread, 3 Lilty women chatted away carrying weaved baskets fililed to the brim with rainbow grapes, cherry clusters, and star carrots. Clavate and Lilty children playing tag with each other around the carivans... strange... he never really saw Selkie children in Alfitaria.. Selkies like herself.

Staring out the window aswell, sitting on the ivory window seal on its fluffy rear-end, was a moogles and a rather small one if you compare it to other moogles. Its fluffy red pom-pom actually being a rather large size copared to his body, but it was certain that a little growing would even things out.

The little moogles twisted his head quickly to his right. Narrow eyes focused on the girl with a happy cat-like grin.

"Zella-kupo..."

"Hmh?" The princess hummed, glancing down at the moogle wilth only her eyes.

"Why are you waiting to speaking with your momma and papa again, kupo? Shouldn't you be getting ready for the Farwell Ball tonight for the people going bye-bye carivaning, kupo?" The moogle tilted his head in question causing his pom-pom to flop on one side of his head.

"Thats just what I wanted to speak with them about." She smiled, lifting her thin index figure. She swiftly turning away from the window and toward a pair of large oak door with brass handles just a few steps behind where they where standing.

The small moogle leaped to the floor - soffening his landing with a flap of his wings - to following Zella."The party, kupo?"

The Zella spun on her toes and grinned at him. Sticking her hands behind her back and leaning down to look closer at the moogle. "No Rie. About carivaning!" She practiacally sang the last part.

"Oh! Right, right! I almost forgot, Kupo!" Rie chirped happily, giving himself a stwirl on his toes-like-paws. Zella nodded her head. "I'll convince mother and father this time... if...", Zella's rather chipper behavior began to ease down, " If I can convince... father..."

A stiff silence filled the hallway. Then, one of the large oak door opened. Zella turned her head quickly around to see that a Lilty knight had opened the door.

"Your parents will see you know, Princess." He said with lack of any emotion in his voice.

Zella felt a light weight land on her shoulder, realizing it was just Rie taking a seat on her should like he would usualy when he want to come with her. She gave a last glance at Rie, as he nodded happily to encourage the princess.

Inside the audience chamber where her parents sat a distance on the other side of the room on their tall thrones; the floor was marble and the walls where white and a long royal red and gold carpet stretced from the doorstep to the thrones. The room had a warm glow to it because red curtains had been parted from the window making sunlight streaming through the windows running all along the far left wall.

Out of courtesy Zella bowed when she reatched the foot of ther parents thrones, where her Lilty parents sat and looked rather exhaused. Most likely from making all the arangments for the Farwell Ball tonight.

He mother grinned. "Oh Zella dear. You know you dont have to be so polight to us! Or even request and audience to see us."

"Oh..." Zella smiled... but nervously now.

"Yes... well you must have a reason for the audience. It must be very important... Zella." Her father said rubbing his still stubbled chin. He gave her a chilling stare that made her wonder if he was already suspiciouse of her. Zella could begin to feel the nerves kick in. She began to twidle with her fingure behind her back as she knawed on her lower lip.

"Ah..yes father. Well... you see, as you know of the Farwell Ball tonight and..."

"Yes, Zella. I hope you have your finest dress ready and your speech for the carivaners ready aswell." Her Lilty mother reminded her, still having a wide grin on her lips.

"Oh, I do mother. But thats not- well that is kind of what I did come to talk about..." The drop dead silence had Zella no choice but to continue. "Umm..." The strong stare of her father and the questioning stare of her mother left her a lost for words.

A silence stiffened the room, the only sound in the room was Zella's lips smacking together to form the words on her tongue and the short breath she'd inhail as if she was going to say somthing.

"Zella?" Her father arched an eyebrow, becoming actually impatient.

"Zella, start at the beginning, kupo" Rie whispered into her ear. She had almost forgot the moogle was even with her. Zella swallowed in a actally lady-like mannor.

"As you both know..." She began sternly, like she had finally made up her mind. "The great drought of the Jegon River has been continuing for over 19 years now... and I believe that... as a member of the royal family..." Zella paused, holdering her breath as the air in her lungs began to feel like ice. Her mother noded her head slowly, curiously, but skeptical to her. Zella took a deep breath in... and finally released it in one breath.

"If I may go carivaning this year to help find an answer to this drought and represent the royal family!"

She could just feel the butterflies form in her stomach and begin to flutter about. She dared not to look at her parents reactions, especially her father's; ratherly she stared out the window on the othre side of the room, waiting for a responce.

The queen cover a her mouth with a hand, eyes closed... just waiting for it. This similare situation happened 2 years ago if she recalled correctly but only ending in slight tiff between her husand and Zella that last only a few hours.

Zella dared herself to even glance of her father with her eyes. But when she did, all she could see his head lowered, and his mouth forming somthing similar to a slightly hidden scowl.

"Father?..." Zella took a step closer to him.

"Why?" He answered quietly but almost like barley contained rage.

"F-Father, if I go maybe it will bring hope to the people of Alfitaria that the royal family hasent forgotten them and th-"

"WHY!", his eyes flamed with anger. "Why must you insist on this...! This...", he motioned with his hands small circles as if her was trying to find the words in his vocabulary. "This... idea! Carivaning! People die carivanning, you've seen the funerals honnoring the ones lost on their travels! Do you wish to join them!"

"NO." Zella said her head slightly lowered and eyebrows furrowed down with hints of an upset frown on her lips bending into plcae.

"Do you want to abandon your responsibility?"

"NO. Never." Zella answered, clenching her fists into tight balls against her stomache.

"What may be the reason Zella?" He asks banging a small, balled up fist against his thrones' armrest.

"To find the answer to this drought and give hope!... Thats all I want."

The king scratched his chin in a rough mannor. "And you believe you carivaning will help us find the answer? Our best scientist and scholors are working their best for the answer!"

"But father! Its been almost 20 years! They are not even close to an answer, but maybe I can he-"

"Not another word!" He called out in a loud booming voice for somone so small. His yell echoed against the Ivory walls and marble floor and bounced into Zella's mind. She flinted as it reatched her eardrums in ear ringing pain.

She was slient and so was everyone else, even the knights posted by the doors had not even seemed fazed by this.

Zella had looked to her mother who didn't seem to want anything to do with this conversation. Her face was covered by her hands as if she herself was trying to shut out her husbands yelling.

A scary silenceleft the room stiff, tense, and silent. Zella's inner hope of carivaning was quiet aswell and slowly disappearing.

"Dear..." A sweet voice broke the silence. The king cracked one of his closed eyes open to look at his wife. She was now no long hidden behind her hands but even standing up, stern and tall.

"Perhaps Zella is right."

Zella's eyes opened wide in astonishment as did the kings who's eyes where even wider. "What do you mean?" Her husband asked still lightly shaken by his wife sudden protest.

"Well... Zella does have a point. Our citizens are loosing hope that the water will ever come back to the Jegon River. If royalty where to join their carivan and look for an asnwer, then they would know that we the royal family are still conserned about th-"

"I WON'T allow it!" The king yelled in a raged tone like a child in a tantrum. But still... if you listened carefully you could hear the tint pain in his voice. Zella flinched at his world as his wife shooker her head, slowly taking a seat again.

"The citizens should know we care enoff by the fact were funding their carivaning and that we've hired the highest of scientist to cover the drought. That is all we need for this situation."

"But father..." Zella said weakly.

"Zella Nae...!", he stared at Zella with cold eyes. "You will not now or ever, carivan or do somthing as dangerouse as that! You are not permited to leave. THIS. Castle! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" The anger in his voice spilled like mighty waterfall. Zella nodded ever so slowly and her head lowered to hide her embarassed face.

"To think! What would your fiancee think, Zella!"

Zella could feel her inner being cringe with disgust at the mention of that man who is her fiancee. "I could care much less about my 'fiancee'. I dont love him!" Her voice rose with her temper at the mention of this fiancee of her. The marriage plan... was somthing that boiled in her belly but she hide quiet well. It was somthing Zella found more painful, then a smack to the face. Even she had never even experienced a smack or any type of punishment related to that in her life, but could imagin the pain.

Despite the mention of her arranged marriage, she was hurt and upset with this whole conversation... about almost everything... not carivanning... not choosing her husband... the drought... being locked up alone inside of a caslte, with no offence to her moogle, but he is her only and closest friend.

"I dont want to hear another world of this nonscene! My word is FINAL! You will not leave this castle under the slight whim of a want to carivan! And using the drought as an excuse to carivan aswell!"

A flaming sparked inside Zella. "I didnt lie! Its not an excuse!", she manage with a bit of anger in her hurt voice.

"Your duties are here and that is where you will stay!"

Zella's lower lip fell to form a word but she had no choice...hes her father, she must listen. As the anger fire in she body was put out, she had ducked her head low in pain that left her blood running cold. Her only comfort at the moment was her moogle Rie, who she could feel rub his silky soft red pom-pom against her cheek in a comforting mannor.

The king almost fell back into his throne further in bad posture. He rubbed his temples uncomfortably as he looked to his wife. "Can you believe it Lillian...", he said casting a glance to his wife who looked back with a slight frown bent on her lips.

"Our daughter... the heir to the throne and princess wants to risk her life in somthing as commoners work...", he paused, "and to think I though Zella had matured so much since 2 years ago... I though that she had grown up..." The king muttered all of this under his breath but loud enoff for both his wife and daughter to hear. His wife casted an unexpected and cold glare at him, but snapped out of it when she heard the whimper that escaped their daughters mouth.

Zella took a step back. Her eyes began to moisten and her lowerlip trembled lightly. Zella tried with all her will power to hold back the tears.. to hold back her frustration. But shes only Selkie, just another being with emotions all the same and she coundn't hold it back like she wanted.

She turned on her heals and strided quickly straight for the large oak wood doors on the other side of the room that the knights had opened for her to leave. Her pace was like a jog but as she strided, the bounce in her step cause a tear to finally fall and then she began to run out and down the hall.

As she ran she shook her head to prevent anymore tears to fall. Rie held onto the delicate lace collar of her dress with his mouth - because the lack of arms - as he bounced along on her shoulder. The sound of her 2 inch high heal shoes tapped agaisnt the marble floor making rights and left down different halls. While it seemed like she was running aimlessly, Zella knew exactly where she wanted to go at the moment. The only place to think and where she could have a quiet time to herself...


Back in the quiet throne room, where the whole argument over a young princesss fate went and ended, the 2 remaining Lilties sat in absoulute silence for stressful minutes until one of them broke the chilled air.

"I don't believe this, Ives..." The queen muttered, barley contained anger in her own voice. "Your own daught-"

"I don't want to hear it. She is not even blood related.", King Ives muttered, his face hidden under a hand that he seemed to be rubbing his stressed face.

Queen Lillian's eyes widened, filled with rage. "H-How dare you even say that!" She gasped and yelled, shooting up from her throne. The king didn't move his face from that one small hand. But if he had looked at his wife, he would have seen anger, a fire in her eyes that only a mother could have when she felt her child is in pain.

Lillian quickly strided away from the throne, hastely walking down the hall in a similare mannor Zella went just a few minutes ago, not wanting to even be near the man she called her husband. But at the half ways point in the middle of that long room, she stoped and looked over her shoulder at him.

His face still burried in one hand. She frowned bitterly. "What happened to the man I married? What happened to the man who loved his daughter more then anything?... blood related or not..."

She exited the room through the oak doors, knights meeting her on the outside to escort her. As the door shut slowly, Ives lifted his head and caught a quick glimps of the cold over the should stare his wife was giving before the doors shut, obscuring the sight of his wife.

Had he hurt the two most closest people to him? He burried his face back in that hand with a angry and frusterated groan.


Despite the cold sadness that hazed and fogs of depression in the castle, the courtyard garden was warm with the afternoon spring sun shinning over head. The courtyard garden was smack in the middle of the castle with no roof to block sunlight. The castle was long ago build around it, being the center of the rather large castle.

The moss-like-grass in the garden was green and healthy, despite the drought. Infact all the plant and vegitation growing there where flurshing with leafy green beauty. In the center of the garden was a pond, decorated with Lily Paddes, floating in the water with pink flowers and variouse other water plants grew, while no more then 7 fish, smaller then a Lilties hand, swam around gracfully in the pond. Horizontaly passing though the garden, and hovering over the small pond, was a eggshell colored bridge that led from the east side of the courtyard to the west side of the courtyard. Every so many spaces on the bridge's railing, where small lamps that would be light every night to give light to the garden in the dark. Standing tall just behind the pond was a rather large and tall tree thats branches stretched out over the bridge and would grow striped apples all year; even now you can see small apples begining to grow right on schedule according to mother nature. On the far ends, framing the garden where different types of Lily flowers growing that the servents planted only weeks ago with their many colors and shaped taking bloom. Classic White, Caption Prado, and Gabrielle Calla Lillies standing beautifuly. Asiactic Lillies growing smaller in size but bold in their darker shaddes of maroon reds, dark oranges, and black&white. Orienpets Lilles, grew most beautiful of all their bright colors of mostly yellow and pink while some grew to be plain white but just as beautiful.

In the center of all the warmth and beauty of a garden, was a lone princess. No pain created tears, but moist eyes filled to the brim with disapointment. She stood in the middle of the bridge, elbows resting on the thick and wide railing, while her hands twiddled with a pair of small dark orange Asiactic Lillies.

Little moogle Rie was sitting beside her on the rail, even his naturally happy cat-like face had signs of sadness for his friend and master, even he letting out sympathetic sighs of sadness every so many minutes.

Zella plucked petals from the flowers releasing them one by one as the gently fluttered down into the pond. She released a lady like sign before letting go of the flowers all together, watching them fall a good 5 feet until they his the water with a small splash.

"I could hear the argument from the library. Are you alright, princess?" Zella heard a familiar elder voice speak from behind her.

"Yes, Frederick... I'm... fine." Zella admited half-heartedly, turning around, eyes down casted to see Frederick, a Lilty man dressed in armor; lacking the helmet that was tucked under his arm. His face looked older and his age was a mysteryto her but he looked older then Zella's father for sure.

"That didn't sound oh-so assuring princess. Would you mind talking about it?" He had said with a grin hoping to raise the young princess' spirite, but it didnt achieve. Zella nodded slowly, turning back around to rest her elbows on the railing of the bridge. "To think..." she began in a seriouse tone. "I'll be... sheltered here all my life... forced to marry some man I don't love... and never have a say-so in anything..."

Her lip quivered, "Frederick... I don't know what to do!" She muttered over a whisper as a tear shed but hid her face in her hands to cover the tear. The elder knight sighed, "Don't worry. You'll have the last say-so at the alter... princess"

Zella signed, pulling the thin tiara off her head and hoding it tightly in her hands. " Thats just it... I dont want to be a princess anymore. If it means I'll never live-"

"I you never became a princess, you would have never lived." Frederick interupted, heavily emphasizzing the word 'never'. Zella paused her eyes wide before her eyes fell shut, mentally recalling the story her mother, father, but mostly Frederick had told her man times as a little girl.

That Fredrick and several other nights found her in the forests in her dieing mother's arms and her mother handed her off to Frederick who he brought back to the king and queen. He told her she was lucky that if the queen never heard a cry and if he and the knights didn't come in time, she would have been eaten by goblins.

Zella signed placing the thin tiara back on her head, "I should be gratefull... I-I'm sorry, Frederick." Frederick crossed his short arms over his chest. "You should be grateful... But that shouldn't stop you from living life."

"Kupo?" Rie finally asked after being quiet for so long.

"Princess, I'v seen you grow from a dainty, innocent little girl into a strong and inteligent young women. And... somday you'll have to run a kingdom..." Fredrick began, his voice old and sounding with years of wisdom.

"So you should do whats right, best for you and even best for others. Its only a choice you can make yourself."

Zella sat in silence, his words echoing in her mind as she thought about it. When ever she actually had a mind turning conversation with Frecrick, he always seemed to give her advice that would cange her mind for the better... Zella gave him a assuring nodd that she understood what he was saying...

'A choice for the better or worse, that only she can make.'

Frecrick gave her a grin and pleased nodd back. "It a shame your retiring next year, Fredrick..." Zella muttered through a sigh, "How has been looking for your replacment captain been?" She asked continuing the conversation.

Fredrick shook his head as he placed his helmet back on his bare Lilty head. "Where getting there. A few young Lilty men are in line for the picking but... they lack in some areas to be captain."

"Hm..." Zella hummed, it assured she was listening but had nothing to actually say. Fredrick took a step back and bowed low at the waist with a respectfal mannor. "Well, I must be off Princess, I wish you luck with your dessisions."

As soon as Fredrick was out of sight, Zella began going back into deep thought. She nervously knawed on her lip as Fredrick's words of wisdom flowed like a river in her mind.

'So you should do whats right, best for you and even best for others. Its only a choice you can make yourself.'

Zella was in thought for a while, long enoff for the moogle to fall asleep on the railing of the bridge and the sun to begin setting. Zella nodded with the mental decision she made. "I know what I must do..." She said sternly in a hushed tone.

"But...", a happy grin curled on her lips. "I'll may need some help..." She looked at the sleeping Rie, narrowing in on his little purple wings on his small body.


-5 Days Earlier-

The sun was high and bright in the blue sky. Salty water that sprayed from the ocean lapped against the hard rocky shores that made up the land. The sun gave a glimmering reflection off the water at that time of day and made it a relaxing view for the the citizens of this island. The sun's sunrays penetrating the sand making it rather hot to walk on with bare feet. But the Selkie citizens of Leuda where well protected wearing their leather strap sandles.

The houses where all structuraly-sound built tents on the different levels of sandly rock that made up the island. On a usual day like this, the small population of Selkie citizens on Leuda would usually be at their daily work, while few children would run about playing games or jumping on their rope trampoline that is danerously hung over a large gaping hole with high sea water at the bottom.

But on this particular day, many of villagers where at the small dock in the front of the island near their crystal; that sadley pailes in comparison to Alfitaria's crystal.

They where in a some-what small crowd around one male Selkie. He was tall, has a well built structure, and had long sky blue hair and sharpe dark blue eyes, hes was in the traditional Selkie carivaning attire, and anyone who knew him personally knew not to many weeks ago he became 23 years of age. But over all he was quiet handsom.

In the Selkie's hands where a paire of rundown leather reins that traced up to a silver bit in the beak of a large yellow bird. It had large orange feet, big wings, and a rather large leather saddle on its back that also had a empty myrrh chalice tied on thie side of it. Many of the small children where petting its beak, wishing it a safe travel. The bird chirped in a squeek-like chirp like it was thianking them as it thrusted it head up.

The young Selkie man holding the reins gave a shallow smirk as he patted its neck.

"Your gonna be back, right Levi!" A young girl asked tugging on his wrist. "I hope so." Levi muttered rubbing the back of his neck closing his eyes as his eyebrows furrowed down in thought.

"Course he'll be back, ya dummy! Levi's way to strong to die!" The young boy next her pipped up. "Yeah, you have a safe journey, Levi." One of the older women in the small group said to him with old wrinkly grin.

From the back of the small crowd, two other young Selkie men push they're way through the crowd. Once throught, they plesently strolled up to Levi with cheecky wide grins.

"Heeeeyy buddy!" The male selkies chuckled. One of them had a head of short teal hair and the other with shoulder length light purple hair tucked under a red bandanna. "You wernt gonna forget to say bie your favorite buds, where ya?" The teal head asked teasingly. Levi smirked meanly as he tossed the pair of reins over the chocobo's neck. "That was the idea."

The teal haired one unexpectidly leaped forward and headlocked Levi in his arm as the other Selkie rubbed his knuckles into Levi's scalps, both grinning ear to ear. "Well, you be safe little Levi or the big bad monsters are gonna-" The purple head's mocking and teasing in a goofy tone was cut short when Levi layed a hard punch to square to his jaw.

The purple head stumbled back as Levi, clutched his teal haired friend's arm that was locked around his neck and pulled him over his back landing roughly on his back with a loud 'thud' against the dock's wood planks. The other towns people broke into amused laughs as many children snickered uncontrolably.

"Ahhh, damn Levi, that actually hurt." His teal headed friend moaned from the floor. Levi laughed. "Its not suppost to feel good either!"

"Yeah. Whatever pal." The purple headed friend rubbed his jaw until he heard somthing crack and rolled his neck. "Well, Guste wanted us to tell you 'bye, and dont die'. Course, he wanted to see you off himself buuuut, he's to hungover to even stand up."

"Yeah, well thats his problem." Levi muttered not really giving a care while he tried tightening his chocobos' saddle girth, but inwardly grinning at the mental image of his blond hung over friend, to sick to stand and puking out his guts.

"C'mon buddy, you're getting out of this hot hell whole for an entire year. You could act a little happier." The purple head friend asked. "Then why dont you come, Rag? Its been hell doing this by myself."

Rag raised his hands in a surrendering mannor. "Hey, I'm not crazy enoff to carivan."

"Hey looked at it this way Levi." The teal haired friend stood from the ground. "Maybe you'll finally find a girl this time out. Maybe even get lucky." He smirked. Levi arched a sarcastic eyebrow at him. "Yeah, how many times have you been 'lucky' Kai?"

Kai crossed his arms as he began to laughe, giving one slap on the shoulder to Levi. Ones his laughing calmed he reatched out his arm to Levi. Levi gabbed is forearm as did Kai. Rag did the same after Kai, jokingly adding. "Dont get yourself killed, bud." Levi coudnt help but let out a low dry chuckle.

"He's right. You better no die out there Levi."

Levi heard a familiar, yet scary to him, female voice come from behind his friends. His friends moved out of the way to see a girl, older then Levi. She had long blue hair tighed at the bottom in a hairclip. Just like Levi, she had blue eyes but only a lighter shade then his. Her hands where folded into fists on her hips as she stared at him with a stern face and seriouse eyes.

Levi smirked. "I didn't think you where gonna come see me off, Lotus." Lotus closed her eyes with a grin. "What? And miss getting rid of my little brother for another years? I dont think so."

"Ouch, that hurt sis." Levi chuckled as he pretended to flinch. He glanced around for a few seconds. "Hey, where's the husband?" His sister glanced behind herself and gave a light shruge. "Zeff was right behind me..."

'Ding, Ding, Ding'

Three loud bell rings rung from behind Levi.

The boat from the mainland pulled into the dock at the noon, as planned. Selkies began to give a small waves or grin unconditionally at Levi. Children jumped and waved to get his attention as Levi hauled the chocobo over a plank onto the boat. Even after the multiple times this chocobo had been on that boat it still didn't like water and was a rather a pain to get on the boat.

Once Levi was done grunting and trying to pull a heavy bird on bord, he could hear behind him Selkies wishing him luck and safe travels. He even managed to single out the sound of his sister's mature voice reminding him to 'clean his cloths' and to 'write often so they know he okay'.

But Levi didn't turn to look back at them. He faced out; onto the ocean's wide blue range that stretched for miles. He knew it was going to take a few gruling and boring hours to get to the mainland. But he figured he'd maybe just toss a sting over the boat with a hook and see if anything would bite, hoping he'd actually not be that bored this time out.

The boat had a rough rocking motion as it began to leave the dock, the rough waves hitting the sides of the boat. The salty smell of the ocean filled his nose as seagulls squacked just above his head as the flew around the top sail of the boat. To any new carivaner who looked out to that sea and felt what he felt, they would think their going on an adventure, but for Levi... its just another day.

Levi breathed a sigh heavy enoff, his breath flip one of the long stray hairs to the other side of his face. He patted his chocobos' neck while through that sigh he breathed,

"Here we go again..."

To Be Continues...


So thats chapter number 2! I decided that I WILL NOT keep you guys in the dark about who Zella's future carivanning partner will be and gave the whole last parparagraph of the story to him. (NO ITS NOT FREDRICK AND NOT ONLY RIE!) Levi will probley be my favorite character to write... him or Rie, but I adore Zella just as much! xD Its hard to pick favorites... And if you coudn't tell, my favorite flowers are lillies... theyre just the prettiest flowers I'v ever seen. (I got carried away with describing the garden... just a little.)

Just incase if you arn't clear yet about apperances for some characters, Zella is a Raccoon Tail female Seklie, Levi is a Wolfie male Selkie, Lotus is a Wolfie female Selkie, and Levi's friends are the remaining male selkie looks (Shark Eyes, Bandanna, Raccoon Tail). (Sorry, I just had to make that a point cause I hate reading stories with not very good mental images of the characters so I just wanted to point htat out ^^")

Thankyou again for reading, chapter 3 wont be out till... early next month. Please Review! Thankyou!

~SomtinERanother