Note from the author: I would like to apologize in advanced for any errors in this chapter. I would also like to say I will be going on vacation soon, so I'm not sure when the next update will be, but I made this chapter extra long to make up for it.
I would also like to thank Miss Hammy for being the first reviewer to the story. I am a Velsea fan, but I have to say I can't guarantee that they will end up together.
As always please feel free to leave comments. Enjoy :)
My eyes shot open. What a crazy dream. I looked around. This is not my room. Wait a second I really am on a boat. I pinched myself as hard I as could. Well, I feel pain. I stood up and walked around. I was in a little room with a bed and a small hanging mirror. I could see the edge of the boat and the ocean from my window. I looked down to see that I was no longer in my swimsuit. Instead I had on a pale orange shirt and some jean shorts, with sneakers. On my bed was a bag. Must be my rucksack. I walked over to it and it had a little note attached.
Dear Calypso,
Dum-da-da DA . Since you're helping me out I wanted to give you something. This is your rucksack from now on. Oh and I sent a little package for you. Taro should give it to you once you get to Sunshine Islands. Toodles.
-?
A ?, she does realize I figured out who she is right? I picked up the rucksack and checked it out. Lots of room and very durable. I put it on and headed out, but I stopped to look in the mirror. My eyes widened. MY HAIR IS BLUE! My hair was long, light blue, and slightly wavy. My eyes were also blue, but a very deep dark blue. What happened to me? Wait. What do Nina and Anneliese look like? I quickly hustled out the door when I ran into a very curly- haired blonde with a pink streak in her hair. She wore a pink shirt and white skirt and was the first to speak. "I'm sorry. I was looking for two people and I was rushing. Actually have you seen a girl about your height and a small girl? They're names are Calypso and Anneliese."
I was stunned. "Nina?" I choked out. Her eyes widened.
"How do you know my name? Did someone ask about me?"
"No, Nina I'm Calypso."
"What? No, you are clearly not. Cally has dark brown hair not light blue. Who do you think you are, trying to impersonate my friend?"
"Nina, listen to me. I am Calypso. How could you argue my physical appearance, when you are now blonde and greened-eyed?"
"You must be crazy or blind. I have caramel brown eyes and curly brown hair." She retaliated.
"Okay, take a strand of your hair and pull it out in front of your face." I retorted. She did and her eyes widened again. "Look let's find Liesey and I'll explain our situation." She eyed me carefully, but followed me around the boat. We came across a girl with short lilac purple hair and grayish eyes wearing long jeans and a green t-shirt. She had a lost expression and was rather on the small side. I had a hunch that that was Anneliese. "Hey Liesey." I greeted her. She just stared at me.
"How do you know my name?" she asked.
I just laughed. "Nina here said the same thing. Believe it or not but I'm Calypso." Anneliese scanned me up and down. I knew she had already figured out she looked completely different and she was smart enough to conclude that Nina and I would look different too. She was about to say something when Nina cut her off.
"Wait so you're Cally and you're Liesey." We nodded. "Prove it."
I started off. "I am a huge Percy Jackson fan, huge Captain America fan, favorite color is blue, love Maximum Ride, you are 14 days older than me, your favorite color is pink, you love dolphins and hate cats, shall I go on?" She shook her head. Liesey looked as if she was going to say something, but thought better of it.
Then Nina gave us a big hug and then rambled "I missed you so much. I was so scared and now we look totally different and why did you guys get cool hair colors. I'm blonde for crying out loud.-"
"Well you have a pink streak." Liesey pointed out.
Ignoring the comment Nina continued to ramble. "I can't believe it. And Cally you look different but you still get to be tall, that is so not fair. Where are we and wait… Cally didn't you say you were going to explain the situation." I nodded. "So explain."
I went through the situation in my mind. How do I even begin to explain this? Liesey and Nina kept looking at me expecting me to start. I started by explaining what Harvest Moon was, then moved on to what the Harvest Goddess said. On a normal day, they would have laughed at me, but today was definitely not normal. They just stared at me wondering what to believe.
Finally Nina started to talk again. "So we are in a video game?"
"Yes, I believe so." I replied.
"Well then Miss Cally, we should be out of here in no time with your video game expertise." Nina smiled
I looked at the ground. "Not exactly Nina. I never actually finished Sunshine Islands completely. I mean I know how to it's just not as simple as you would think. Besides the Harvest Goddess warned me about this world not being exactly like the game, so I have no idea how long we are going to be here." Her jaw dropped. Why oh why did we not get stuck in one of the Wii games. Those were much easier to finish.
"Great." Liesey muttered full of sarcasm. I looked around.
"We're here now so we might as well make the best of it. We need to finish this mission as fast as we can, which means no distractions" I looked at Nina "Especially no boys. Do I make myself clear?" They nodded obediently. They knew they were out of their element and had to listen to me in order to have any hope of returning home. "Okay well we need to find Chelsea. She's here on the boat. Brown hair, blue eyes, probably wearing a red bandana." They nodded again. Nina wasn't saying anything which is super rare. I started walking with the two of them behind me. Suddenly a girl slightly taller than Liesey came into view. I started to approach her, when her bandana slipped in front of her face and she began to fall. I reached out and caught her.
"Hello. Whoever you are, thank you for catching me. I'm a bit clumsy." She said. As soon as she regained her balance I let go of her. She adjusted her bandana and looked at me. "Hi, are you the one that saved me?" I nodded. "Thank you, my name is Chelsea." She stuck out her hand and I shook it.
"My name is Calypso, but you can call me Cally." I replied. "Oh and these two are my friends Nina and Anneliese."
"You can call me Liesey. Nice to meet you."
"Hiya Chelsea, pleasure to meet you." Nina chirped.
"It's great to meet you all. Are you heading to Sunshine Islands too?" Chelsea replied. We nodded. "Great! Where are you staying? I'm starting a farm, but I don't know the first thing about farming."
"We don't actually know where we are staying…" I trailed off.
"You guys can stay with me!" Chelsea said excitedly. "I would love to have roomies. I used to share a room with my two sisters, so I might get lonely being by myself." She seemed to be genuinely welcoming. Why not? We need to help her anyway.
"Really, that would be great. I would love to help around the farm too. I know a little about farming. I could help you as compensation for boarding at your place." I remarked.
Chelsea's smile got wider. "Yayyyyy! I will take you up on that offer. So since we're going to be roomies, we should get to know each other. So when are your birthdays? Mine is Spring 20."
Nina was about to answer, but I cut her off "Mine is Winter 15. Nina's is Winter 1 and Liesey's is Summer 14." Nina and Liesey looked puzzled, but kept to themselves. I'll have to explain to them about the 4 seasons later. "So Chelsea how old are you? Nina and I are 16 and Liesey is 15."
"I'm 17 and soon to be 18." She smiled. Chelsea was about to ask another question when an announcement came on.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now approaching Sunshine Islands. Please gather your belongings and head toward the front of the boat at this time."
"Okay well I got to run back to my room to pick up my stuff. I'll meet you guys at the front of the boat." Chelsea said as she took off.
"Winter 1. What's up with that?" Nina asked as soon as Chelsea was out of ear shot.
"There are four seasons in the Harvest Moon World, no months, just seasons. The amount of days each season has depends on the game. In this game there are 30 days a season." I explained. " I'm going to check my room again in case there was anything else left there. You both should do the same." They nodded and walked off to their rooms. I walked in my room and looked around. Nothing. I guess the rucksack was it. I decided to head on over to the front of the boat. Liesey was already there, with her own rucksack.
"I found this in my room. It looked similar to what you had on earlier so I assumed it was mine." She said. Before I could reply I heard two voices.
"Cally!" Nina and Chelsea said in unison as they approached. I spun around and smiled at them. They were both skipping towards me. They both had their own rucksacks and Chelsea had a small suitcase in tow. As soon as they caught up, we were ushered off the boat, where an old with blue overalls greeted us. Taro. Behind us a giant box was being carted toward a building that looked as if it was the Diner. A man was walking toward it, nodding in approval and pointing toward the building.
"Hello young ladies. My name is Taro. I heard that there was a young farmer amongst our group of new residents."
"That would be me." Chelsea said. "My name is Chelsea."
"It is a pleasure to meet you and it is always nice to see today's youth take up such an interest in starting a ranch." Taro then turned to talk to us. "So who are you young ladies?"
"Hi, my name is Calypso, but most people call me Cally."
"I'm Nina."
"I'm Anneliese, or Liesey if you prefer."
"Very well then, do you know where you will be staying?" Taro asked.
"They are going stay with me." Chelsea piped up. Taro raised a brow.
"Chelsea, your place is rather small. It could get crowded. I will see what I can do along the lines of other arrangements." Taro stated. The man from earlier started heading towards Taro. The cart with the giant box on was still being pushed up towards the building. I turned to look around the shore. Once I looked back I saw the cart rolling towards the man. I sprinted as fast as I could and pulled him out of the way in the nick of time. I decided to pursue the cart. I dived for it getting a full blast of sand, but catching the edge before the cart hit the water. With my other hand I got a better hold of it and started pulling it upwards. The guy originally pushing the cart came and thanked me, while taking the cart back. I rushed over to Taro, while brushing sand off of me. Great. Sand all over me, just what I needed. When I reached Taro he was pretty stunned. Chelsea and Nina had their jaws dropped and Liesey looked at me as if I was nuts.
"Excuse me miss." I turned around to see the man I pulled out of the way talking to me. "Hi, My name is Nick, I run the Diner over there. Thank you so much. Not only did you save me, but my ingredients as well. I owe you big time. If you ever need something from me feel free to ask. By the way, what's your name?"
"You're welcome sir and thanks for the offer. I'll have to take you up on it sometime. Oh and you can call me Cally." I said smiling. He nodded and quickly jogged away.
Nina's jaw was finally closed and she raised her hand for a high five. Upon high fiving, Taro started to speak to me "Miss Calypso, that was highly dangerous. You could have been seriously hurt from the dive, but I got to say I'm impressed by your guts." I smiled back at him. "Anyway ladies I will introduce you to some of the folks today, but most you will have meet yourselves. Follow me towards the ranch." He started walking up the main path. We passed the Diner and a purple roofed house. Pierre's most likely. We continued on and stopped at a nice home on the left. "This is my house. I live here with my daughter and two grandchildren."
"Dad." Said a lady with long pinkish red hair tied up loosely. "Oh are these the new residents? Hello I'm Felicia."
"MOM, Elliot dropped another plate. Oh hello. Who are you? I'm Natalie." A short haired girl said.
Chelsea was about to introduce herself, when a boy with glasses ran out of the house. He looked at us and then mumbled "Umm, you're you're the new residents right? I'm I'm Elliot."
Taro sighed. "This is my family."
"Hi, my name is Calypso, but most people call me Cally. Nice to meet you. This is Nina and Anneliese, or Liesey."
"And I'm Chelsea."
"Nice to meet you all." Felicia said. Elliot and Natalie nodded in agreement.
"We best be on our way. Let's go meet the shop owners." Taro said as he lead us over to mini-temple like building. Inside we met Chen and his son Charlie, who was absolutely more adorable than in the video game, in which he was so cute. In the animal shop we met Mirabelle. She asked us to stop by again tomorrow to meet her daughter Julia. Then Taro finally led us to the ranch. "Okay ladies. Since I was informed that you are novices I shall give some tips. Here are some hoes, water cans, and seeds." Taro continued to instruct on the basics of farming. "Hoe up down and pull. Repeat. Hoe up down and pull." We followed his instructions on hoeing and I came out with nine close enough to perfect tilled squares. Nina's were a sloppy mess. Liesey's were barely tapped and Chelsea's was an absolute disaster zone. Taro inspect our squares. He nodded at me and frowned upon the others. "Practice makes perfect. Calypso would you help them out." I nodded and fixed their plots. "Okay now you can cover nine squares per bag of seeds if you toss them properly." He showed us the technique and I landed all nine of mine. I looked over and face palmed myself. Nina got six, Liesey got three, and Chelsea got one. No wonder the Harvest Goddess said she was helpless. This is going to be much harder than I thought. We pressed on and Taro explained watering. About this much goes on the plant. Don't over or under water. Certain crops are more sensitive than others. Blah blah blah. Finally he was done. "Okay ladies you should rest for the day. The house is over there. Oh wait. Calypso I believe I have a package for you. I can't believe I almost forgot. Come with me to back to my place." I followed Taro to his place as the rest of the girls headed in the house, which should have been called a shack. It was so worn out and dinky. Oh well just have to earn some Gs and expand I suppose. At his home Taro brought out a rather large package.
"Thanks." I said politely. "See you tomorrow." I carried the package home, having to stop and set it down twice. At Chelsea's house I promptly opened the package. It contained some extra clothes, sleeping bags, pillows, hair accessories, few books, and 500G. I looked around at my temporary new home. I just sighed and pulled out a sleeping bag and pillow. I was too tired stay up and chat or even change into pajamas.
An alarm rang at six in the morning. "Ughhh. Shut it off." I heard Nina groan.
I guess this part of the video game gets to stay. Why six in the morning? I want to sleep. I forced myself to get out of my sleeping bag and debated whether to change clothes. Everyone else in the game wears the same thing every day. OH wait I still have sand all over me. Maybe I should change… I ended up putting on a white collared short sleeve shirt and another pair of jean shorts. I saw Liesey and Nina emerging from their sleeping bags. They actually changed into PJs yesterday. Liesey out on long jeans and a dark purple shirt and Nina put on a spring dress. Chelsea was nowhere to be found. I ran outside to find her water her square of seed. At least she isn't bad at watering. I ran back inside to grab my rucksack and went outside to water my own crops. Mid-watering Chelsea skipped over to me. "Good morning Cally."
"Good morning Chelsea." I replied.
"What should we do today?" she asked.
"Meet the rest of the residents would probably be a good idea. Oh and foraging, we could make a little cash off of wild herbs/flowers." I said. She nodded in agreement. I watered Liesey's and Nina's plots. As I finished watering they trudged out of the house.
"Good morning Nina and Liesey. Cally and I were going to go meet others and forage. Are you joining us?" she chirped. They just nodded and trailed along behind us as we went around. We went directly to Sprout Island, since we saw most of Vendure Island yesterday.
"Hey Chelsea, what's today?"Nina asked.
"Today is Monday Spring 2." She replied.
"Oh okay." yawned Nina. We went around meeting the local residents: The café owner Halia, the innkeeper Carol, Regis, Sabrina, Lanna. When we went into Gannon's shop he explained about what he could build. His daughter Eliza, looked stunningly like the blonde Nina. They could be sisters.
We left Gannon's shop and went to meet Denny. Big mistake bringing Nina. As soon as Denny introduced himself, she went all giggly and flirty. When we finally exited his house Nina ranted "Did you see that hunk. He had a perfect tan and the cutest curly hair and he's only 17. Eeeep!"
"Nina! Remember no distractions." I said. She frowned.
"Whatever." She shrugged while rolling her eyes. I rolled my eyes back and headed over to the beach area. There were some herbs lying around so I picked them up and put them in my rucksack. I walked over to the big boulder and collected seaweed. Just like the game. After some foraging efforts we went back to Vendure Island. We went into the animal shop to meet Julia. "Holy cow, smoking hot cowboy right over there." She whispered. "Hey Cally, he's tall enough for you." She added playfully. I elbowed her in the side and she crossed her arms. "Hmpf"
"Hello ladies. Meet Vaughn. He's our animal trader. He's here on Mondays and Tuesdays." Mirabelle said.
We all introduced ourselves to him and he tipped his hat. Nina went up to him. Oh no please do not go into flirt mode Nina, not with the anti-social cowboy. Mirabelle left to find Julia, while Nina started talking to Vaughn.
"Hi Vaughn, how are you doing?" she asked.
"Fine." He replied stiffly.
"Just fine? Want to elaborate." Nina said fluttering her eyebrows. By this point I walked over to drag Nina away. I tried to gesture for us to walk over to Chelsea and Liesey, but she ignored me and persisted on bugging Vaughn. "Come on Vaughnie, you can talk more you know."
"Don't call me Vaughnie. Don't bother me." He said voice filled with irritation. Nina still didn't get it.
"Come on." She pouted. "Don't you like me?"
Vaughn snapped. "LEAVE ME ALONE! You're just some annoying kid. Why do you think I would want to talk to you?"
Okay I know Nina was annoying but he didn't have to put that way, so of course as her best friend I snapped back. "Hey! You don't have to be so mean. Yes she's annoying, but who gave you permission be such a jerk." If he was stunned by what I said, he certainly didn't show it. He just brushed passed us and headed towards the door. It slammed behind him. I was about to chastise Nina, when Mirabelle came and introduced us to Julia. After giving her our names, we left the animal shop. "Nina." I started.
"I know, I know I shouldn't have pushed his buttons so much, but you could have told be the sexy cowboy was a jerk." She said.
"I did try to get you to leave him alone. His voice was full of irritation, how are you so oblivious?" I replied. She just shrugged. "Anyway I got to stop by Chen's real quick. I want to get some more seeds."
"Oh me too." Chelsea piped. Chelsea and I went into Chen's shop, while Liesey and Nina went to visit Taro. I asked Liesey to pay attention to what Taro said if he said anything about tomorrow's forecast.
"Hi Chen, can I get 2 potatoes seed bags and 1 turnip please?" I asked.
"Sure thing Cally. That will be 420G." Chen replied. I handed him the gold. "Do you need something Chelsea?"
"Umm, yeah could I get one pack of potato seeds and one turnip? It's 270G right?" she said, as Chen nodded. As soon as she paid we headed out the door. Charlie was coming in so we said hi and left.
We met up with Liesey and Nina. "Taro said sunny for tomorrow." Liesey informed me.
"Okay that's cool. I guess we should go meet Pierre. He lives in the purple house." I replied. They nodded in agreement. We knocked then walked in and introduced ourselves. I was ready to leave, but Nina started to chat with him.
"She did this with … Elliot ,I think his name was, too." Liesey noted. "She keeps trying to find out more about the guys here. You think she's up to something?"
"She's always up to something." I sighed. I started thinking about the Vaughn situation. If he hates us, how are we supposed to get his sunstone? I guess I need to apologize... but how? Wait his birthday….it's tomorrow. I can get him a present and say sorry. That might work but what do I get him? An idea struck me. "Hey guess I'll meet you all over at Chelsea's place. I got to go run an errand. Chelsea and Liesey nodded, while Nina was still running her motor mouth. I decided to dump my herbs and seaweed into the shipping bin before heading to the Diner. I walked in and Nick greeted me.
"Hey Cally. Do you need something? I'm happy to help you with anything as long as it deals with food. Just say the word."
"Actually Nick there is something I need your help with."
