Me: sorry about the long delay my computer got all screwy but now its back to normal.
Croix: this is what happens when you don't sccan for dangerous stuff.
Me: oh be quiet, anyway again im sorry and here's chapter 2.
Chapter 2
The next morning Shadow got up wicked early so as to search the debris from Romeria's home, he figured that if the most critical areas of the house were burned then it would be pointless to even try but he tried anyway, he needed to find some form of protection seeing as how the wooden sword he had was now a smoldering pile of ash from the golem that attacked yesterday. "There's got to be something in this pile of rubble I don't really want to try hand-to-hand combat on a heavily armored opponent." Shadow said to himself as he continually searched the debris. After about an hour or two of looking, Shadow finally stumbled upon an old weapons rack lying flat on the ground. Upon further inspection of the rack Shadow noticed that it held a single sword made of iron and in an ironic sense a yellow book with the symbol for lightening on the front cover. Remembering that Romeria may have saved his life with lightening he decided to give the book to her while keeping the sword. "Well no sense in staying here any longer I should wake her up so we can get moving." Shadow thought while walking over to the sleeping body of Romeria. Not even one minute after crouching down to start nudging her shoulder did Romeria wake up to find Shadow's face looming over her own.
Red with embarrassment Romeria jerked up scaring Shadow slightly. "Ahhhhh! Don't scare me like that you almost gave me a heart attack." Shadow said clenching his heart. "Well maybe you shouldn't be looming over me then maybe I wouldn't have scared you." Romeria stated while looking away from Shadow. Shadow got up from his crouching position and held out a hand to Romeria who then in turn held out her hand to meet his and got up still being a little sore from yesterday (you would be too if debris from your house landed on top of you). "Oh! Before I forget, here…I have no idea what this book is for but you should hold on to it just in case." Shadow said holding out the yellow book in front of Romeria. "Uh thanks, but what about you surely you don't expect me to protect you all the time right?" Romeria asked expecting Shadow to say yes. "Actually I found this sword right next to that book when I was searching this morning so you don't need to worry about me." Shadow responded holding the iron sword close to his waist.
The two children spent most of the morning gathering fruit from the nearby forest for breakfast so that they can travel to the nearest town, the only problem being they don't have a map so they don't know where the nearest town is. "Man it's just our luck that all the maps in your house are all burned. GRRRRR why does this always happen to people like you and me." Shadow shouted out angrily. Romeria remained silent since even she didn't know. Suddenly Romeria caught something out of the corner of her eye and out of reflex turned in the direction of whatever was out there. "What is it Romeria?" Shadow asked. "I don't know I thought I saw something out of the corner of my left eye." Romeria answered. Shadow looked over in the direction Romeria was facing but found nothing. "Are you sure you weren't imagining it or something?" "I really don't know anymore… wait there I know I saw something that time." Romeria said pointing to an area in the forest.
Telling Romeria to wait, Shadow slowly investigated the area in which Romeria pointed to. "Hmm it doesn't seem like anything came through here but then again something could've come through here and didn't leave any tracks." Shadow said to himself. As he was returning from the investigation a quick, dark figure ran past Shadow unnoticed, Shadow immediately turned around the moment he heard a noise but was unable to find the source of the noise. As he turned back to return to Romeria, Shadow came face to face with a girl (and I literally mean face to face on this it's like their lips are centimeters from touching face to face). "Huh? Who are you and why are you so close to my face?" Shadow asked the girl who mysteriously appeared before him. "I should be the one asking that question, anyway my name is Lyre and you are?" the girl now known as Lyre responded. "Heeeeey! Did you find anything yet?" Romeria called out. "Yeah I did but not in the way I expected." Shadow yelled. "So there's another out here well then I guess we should go to her. And could you do me a favor?" Lyre asked. "Sure what is it?" Shadow asked curiously. "Could you not yell when you're close to me it kind of hurt my ears." Lyre said putting a finger to her left cat ear. As the two returned to Romeria Shadow introduced Lyre. Lyre, upon further observation wore a red, and white shirt with black linings, light red fingerless gloves with black sleeves, a white skirt, long black socks, a bright red choker, and black shoes. Her body was as slim as Romeria's but her skin was slightly tanner, she had orange hair braided into a ponytail, dark purple eyes, orange cat ears and an orange tail to match. "Alright now if I may ask for your names then we can move on." Lyre stated. "Oh! Right my name is Shadow and this here is Romeria." Shadow said introducing themselves. "Shadow well that's a weird name." Lyre said tilting her head. "Please don't start with me on my name." Shadow said looking down at the ground in embarrassment. "Oh don't look like that you have to admit that it is strange for your parents to give you that name right?" Lyre pointed out. "Although that may be true still it doesn't change a thing about how I feel about the subject." Shadow said closing his eyes. "Anyway what are you two doing out here by yourselves it's dangerous don't you know." Lyre said concerningly. "Wha—what do you mean dangerous?" Romeria asked. "I mean that there are Daein soldiers lurking around looking for some princess or something…wait I hear something." Lyre said holding a hand to her ear. "What is it, those soldiers?" Shadow asked putting his right hand over his sword. "Maybe but I don't intend to find out let's go." Lyre said running away. "Hey! Wait for us!" Shadow said chasing Lyre with Romeria following.
As the trio ran the sounds Lyre heard before began to grow louder and was coming from all directions. Then they stopped wondering what they should do: continue to run, or stay and fight. Unfortunately the answer was clear they had to stay and fight as the Soldiers appeared and surrounded them spears, swords, and axes drawn. "Ugh! Dammit we're surrounded, so what do we do now there's no way we can take them all on can we?" Shadow asked preparing to defend himself. "You've never met a laguz before have you?" Lyre smirked. As soon as she said that Lyre transformed into a large cat surprising Shadow immensely. "Be careful men a sub-human is among them." The leader advised his troops. As the soldiers slowly advanced Lyre was preparing to attack, she waited for the right moment and then finally a spearman dropped his guard and Lyre lunged forward sinking her teeth into the soldiers neck and tearing out his throat.
Shadow was the next to strike slicing up any who got too close to him while Romeria gave support from behind with her magic. "Hey Shadow behind you!" Lyre shouted spotting a soldier preparing to kill Shadow. Romeria noticed this and used her magic to stop said soldier. Minutes later the trio settled down to heal any wounds they may have received. "Phew! That was a real trip; I've never felt so sore." Shadow said rubbing his left shoulder. "I guess this is your first time in a real battle then." Lyre said looking at Shadow. "Well not exactly I had to rescue Romeria from her home after it was burned down, apparently a golem was involved." Shadow explained. "Really so that's what happened I wonder if those soldiers we fought earlier were involved." Lyre wondered upon hearing the story. "Anyway where do we go from here?" Romeria asked. "Well I need to get back to my captain and report in and I can't very well leave you two alone so you're both coming with me." Lyre said. "Are you certain it's alright for you to do that I mean what if you get in trouble with your captain?" Shadow asked concerned for his new friend. "Of course, my captain actually likes beorc, in fact, just recently he went to see a group of them a couple of days ago so for now let's get some rest and then we'll leave okay." Lyre explained. "Okay as long as you're certain we'll follow after that I'm not sure." Shadow stated.
That night the trio went to sleep with Romeria sleeping in Shadow's arms again Lyre who transformed back to her cat form curled up into a ball and slept on top of both Romeria and Shadow. The next morning it was Lyre who woke up first and started preparing for the journey back to her home. "Hmm this should be enough for the three of us." she said to herself. "Are you certain about this?" a voice spoke out. Lyre turned around to see Shadow rising from his slumber with Romeria still asleep in his arms. "I didn't know you wake up at this time that's a shock." Lyre said beginning to stand on her feet while throwing Shadow a bag. "Okay so exactly where are we heading?" Shadow asked. "We're heading southwest to castle Gallia it'll take a while so you might want to wake her up." Lyre said pointing to romeria. "Hey Romeria wake up we need to go." Shadow said pushing Romeria's shoulder. After several attempts Shadow finally succeeded in waking up Romeria, she rose from the ground, received a bag from Lyre and the three left for castle Gallia.
Me: okay so it's a shorter Chapter than the first but still at least the story continues right?
Croix: yeah but still you could put a little more in there
Me: i could but ill do that thursday... hopefully
Croix: What do you mean by that?
Me: i mean i need to go to college tomorrow oh well it ain't gonna last long.