Author's note: Gantz Gun here! I really hope more people will review this. But hey complaining about it won't really help, 'beggars can't be choosers' after all. but anyways, here's chapter two of Yin and Yang Tales 1. I hope you enjoy it! Also expect a couple of parts of the story explained. Flashbacks galore!
Chapter.2. Reminisce
(Ever since his little talk with Kiri, Wally was walking tall the rest of the day, he just felt so proud of himself. It was later that he was introduced to his new foster father.)
(Auto had just shown Wally to the Arena, which he showed him on the first tour. But this time around, Auto seemed a bit more unfriendly then he was before, when he talked it sounded like he was talking through gritted teeth, and when ever he gave his usual death stare, it seemed a bit more unfriendly. If that's even possible. When they went inside their stood a friendly looking old man though some what strange, he had white hair on the back of his head pulled into a pony tail, a white beard that was also tied together, an eye patch over his right eye, and even for an old man his wrinkles were barely noticeable. He wore a dark blue tunic, black baggy pants, and black shoes, not to mention since he was kind of hunched over was a tad shorter then Wally.)
Old man: Well hello you must be Wally. I am Golovin the master of ceremonies here at the arena.
Wally: (Holds his hand out.) Nice to meet you!
(Golovin is about to shake when Wally's arm is pushed aside by Auto.)
Auto: Golovin! Have you found Istara yet?
Golovin: … No, not yet…
(Auto lowers his head in sadness, Golovin puts his hand on Auto's shoulder trying to comfort him, and Wally just stared wondering what the heck is going on.)
Wally: Who's Istara?
(Auto just stares at Wally, his stare is a little to emotionless, even for Auto. Golovin puts his hand on Auto's shoulder calming him. It seemed whatever was with this Istara character was the one thing, only Auto could explain.)
Auto: (Sigh.) Istara was the first champion here at the arena, Sensei Golovin's best pupil, and now somewhat of an older sister to you.
(He points at a poster on the wall on it was a tough looking woman, her back was turned in the picture so it would only show a woman in a dark black jacket, white pants, and armored knee pads, she also had some easily remembered traits such as the gray hair brushed so a good amount would stick one way and another would stick to another way, but that was pretty much all the poster showed.)
Auto: You see she…
(Suddenly Auto stopped, his face turned from an emotionless stare to truly pained and badly hurt Mentally, of course. face, he lowered his head and to Wally's surprise started to cry. Golovin patted him on the back, comforting him. Auto continued on from there the tears still in his eyes, and a neutral frown.)
Auto: You see on the first day I met her I was instantly smitten by her, and I was what nine years old, but anyway we became friends when I protected her from a bully in school.
Enter Flashback.
(Young Auto fell back, he had a black eye and a bruised up arm, the young man that stood before him was the bully of the school yard, he had a red headband covering a good part of his brown hair, red coat, and blue shorts. 'Wait a minute.' Wally thought 'Why does that sound familiar?' The bully laughed at Auto's pain like it was but a great joke.)
Bully: You call that a fighting technique? PATHETIC! How are you supposed to become the best fighter there is, if you punch like a girl?
(The bully laughed again, Young Auto looked at his side to see Young Istara, she seemed a little battered up like Auto, she also put her hands to her face crying her eyes out. Seeing her cry was the final straw for Young Auto who stood back up, a crazed looking his eye, the bully stopped laughing and looked at Young Auto, he balled his hands up into fists.)
Bully: Oh come back for round two huh? Okay come on!
(Then the fight began, the bully threw the first punch, but Auto dodged by ducking, then the bully did a ground sweeping kick Auto dodged by jumping, just what the bully wanted. He threw a punch at Auto while in midair knowing he wouldn't be able to dodge, but he was wrong, Auto somehow jumped again in midair dodging the bully's punch, then without warning, a super fast, super hard punch, slammed the bully's face in. the poor bully fell down completely out cold.)
Young Auto: (Looks down at Istara and offers his hand to help her up.) You alright?
Young Istara: (Stares at Auto's hand, still kind of frightened from the little tussle, but takes it.) Yeah I'm fine, I'm Istara, who are you?
Young Auto: I'm Auto!
End Flashback.
Auto: We were as close as close can be after that. It was years later that on our first date things didn't go to well, and she broke up with me.
(Golovin tries to comfort Auto, who breaks out into tears, Wally looks sadly at Auto.)
Wally: Boy sounds like a jerk if you ask me, mate.
Auto: (Gives the most unfriendly death glare he's ever given.) What did you say you little punk?
(Wally immediately knows he said something wrong and tries to make up for it.)
Wally: Oh uh… I meant that in the nice way please don't take it personally!
(It was past to late for apologies Auto was madder then he had ever been before, he jumps out of his seat, approaches Wally and picks him up by the collar of his shirt.)
Auto: If you wanted a fight well you found one!
(Auto reels back his fist, but Wally after thinking quickly reels back his head and head butted Auto, Auto releases Wally to hold his head in pain. seeing his chance Wally charged and slammed his fist into Auto's stomach, and before Auto had a chance to react, Wally Spin kicked the poor guy connecting to his face, Auto was then down on the ground unconscious. Wally looked at what all he did, completely amazed.)
Wally: Did I do that?
Golovin: As surprising as it is… You did. You've K.O.'d one of my best students with your fighting skills. And that is a feat no one has made yet.
Wally: (Looking at his hands.) Oh my…
Golovin: Please, when he wakes up, forgive him. He really doesn't take kindly to people who calls Istara names.
Wally: (Somewhat confused.) But I was just stating the truth, mate.
Golovin: Either way. Please don't say anything about her, he's been getting sensitive throughout the years and if anyone makes fun of Istara, He'll crack, I mean after all Istara still means everything to him.
(Wally nods a little he partly understood what he said, suddenly Auto awoke when he was back on his feet he pulled back his fist.)
Auto: You can't even begin to imagine the hurt I'm gonna lay on you!
(Auto was just about to leap, but was held back by Golovin.)
Golovin: Control yourself child!
(He lets go of Auto and starts to scold him.)
Golovin: I understand getting emotional about Istara, but attacking a poor young boy who has nothing left? For shame Auto! For shame!
(Auto looked more pained then ever, he lowered his head sadly.)
Golovin: Now apologize… Right now!
(Auto turned to Wally, his eyes were past the point of tears.)
Auto: I'm so sorry!
Wally: (Remembering Golovin's words.) Ah it's okay, mate.
Golovin: You are lucky this boy is very forgiving! Otherwise he would never trust the likes of you, ever again! (Sneaks a wink at Wally.)
(Auto looked surprisingly bad, not 'pure evil bad', but 'sad, bad'. His tears stopped and his face only registered sadness.)
Golovin: Auto… Don't you think you should show Wally to a place to sleep?
Auto: (Popped back into attention.) Oh yeah!
(Auto motioned towards the door.)
Auto: Come on I'll take you to your room.
(As Auto and Wally, walk out of the arena's sign up room, Golovin looked at them go he smiled slightly as Wally began a little casual conversation with Auto.)
Golovin: This friendship may very well work out for the both of them.
(Auto showed Wally to his new 'personal quarters' as he called it. After Auto left for his room, Wally only stayed in his room long enough to decorate it. He left it some time later, and headed for a familiar stall.)
(Kiri worked on the stall a little and cleaned off her ice cream scoop, that is until Wally paid her a visit.)
Wally: Hey Kiri mate! How are you doing?
Kiri: (Taking her eyes off her work.) Oh hey Wally! What are you doing here?
Wally: What's the matter with a mate paying a visit to another mate?
Kiri: I suppose nothing is wrong with it, I was just curious, that's all.
Wally: that's okay.
(Wally starts looking around the stand, he notices there's pre-fixed ice cream cones in her little freezer.)
Wally: What's with this? I've never seen you do this before. (Pointing at the already made ice cream cones.)
Kiri: (Looks at what Wally's pointing at, looks back to him and smiles slightly.) Oh that… Well you see, the kids at the Academy usually come down to the creamery, to get ice cream cones after school. I usually get the ice cream cones ready before they get here because there's so many!
Wally: (Chuckles a little.) Yeah… I suppose so! After all, all of those kids are very lively, and there's about, what ten of them?
Kiri: (laughs a little.) Yeah they are, Aren't they?
(Kiri and Wally laugh a little bit. Wally looked at Kiri a couple of minutes and asked something Kiri would never expect…)
Wally: Do you think you'll need some help with giving those ice cream cones? That is if you might need some help…
(Kiri looked at Wally a little bit confused by his offer.)
Kiri: (Smiles a grin that's almost as goofy as Wally's.) I would love to have some help!
(Wally's heart missed a beat; he was actually going to help Kiri with her work! He got behind the stalls main desk, he got to see the inside of the stall it had a small freezer, with a wide variety of sorted ice creams in them. On the shelf under the front desk were cones, and cups to put the ice cream in, and on the counter was a sort of cashier. Wally sniffed in the fragrance of the ice cream, he felt like he was in heaven!)
Wally: Nice place, mate! Really not bad at all!
Kiri: Why thank you!
(Soon it happened, a bunch of crazy psyched up youngsters, suddenly came up to the stand, asking for as much ice cream as they could afford. Wally did his best to keep up, while Kiri handled it like a professional. Watching her work was really a sight for Wally, she handed every kid they're respective ice cream cone, and carefully balanced the cash, being sure to give them a discount. Soon it was over, everyone had their own ice cream cone or two, and went home. Kiri relaxed herself by sitting on the back desk, Wally stretched a little, trying to get the bad parts of the event out of his head… Not that there was any… Working with Kiri was like a gift from heaven to him. Of course he didn't let her catch on to that fact.)
Kiri: (Big sigh.) Whew! That does get tiring after a couple of minutes.
Wally: (Looks at her, even though is still full of energy he agrees.) Yeah it does.
Kiri: (Giggles a little.) What are you talking about you look like your still bursting with energy!
(Wally realizes she's right and sits down, she laughs a little, and slows to a stop.)
Kiri: how long have you been here in Antheum, Wally?
Wally: (Even though surprised at the question answered.) Just today, I don't remember what time.
Kiri: I also heard from Auto that you're moving in, and Golovin will be your new teacher. Where did you live before here?
(Wally looks absolutely pained, not only was he talking about the past, but he was talking about it, with Kiri. Kiri looked at Wally, a little concerned.)
Kiri: Wally?
Wally: (After a few more minutes he finally answered.) I… Don't know… I don't remember anything about my past, mate.
(Kiri gasped, she immediately saw what was wrong with the question, and dove to correct it. Not literally of course.)
Kiri: Oh Wally… I'm so, so sorry… If I had known, I… I would've never…
(Wally puts his hand up to quiet her, he gives her a goofy reassuring grin.)
Wally: Don't worry about it, you didn't know. That's all that counts.
(Kiri looked at Wally, at first her face is concerned, but it changed into a sad smile.)
Kiri: Thank you Wally… Thank you.
(Kiri soon closed down the stall, then she and Wally started to talk some more, as Kiri talked she tried to avoid her own family, since Wally couldn't remember his. But soon Wally had her talking about it. her family seemed nice enough, but it seemed it got worse at a point, the family was broken up some years after she turned 10, now she was nothing more then an orphan. There were two times that Wally had to comfort her, so she could go on. She had stopped sometime later, and started sobbing her eyes out, completely losing the will to tell more… Which of course Wally could understand. Her past seemed very sad.)
Wally: (Kiri continues to sob, he puts his hand on her shoulder.) Kiri, I'm so sorry. I never knew…
(Kiri, even though she had heard him, was to busy sobbing to really answer.)
Wally: I'm very, very sorry… Kiri…
(Kiri continued to cry, Wally wraps his arm around her and allows her to lean on him.)
Wally: But that's over, and whatever way I can, I'll help you feel better.
(Kiri finally raised her head, she had a sad smile on her face, there was a tear going down her face.)
Kiri: R-really?
Wally: (His usual reassuring smile is on his face. He wipes the tear off Kiri's face.) I promise mate.
(Kiri spent a few more minutes crying out all of her sorrows while she and Wally were locked in an embrace, afterwards Wally walked her home. On the way they saw Tellagio walking around Antheum, Tellagio was a young man with orange clothing, blue cloak, and blue hat on top his head. after making an offer, Tellagio painted a picture of the two in front of the spring, and made an exact duplicate of it giving one to each. When Wally finally got Kiri back to her home, she thanked Wally for walking her home and comforting her that time earlier. Wally simply answered back that it was no trouble and said a goodnight to her, although Kiri had to give Wally one last hug before going.)
(The two broke the embrace.)
Wally: Well goodnight Kiri.
Kiri: You two.
(Kiri walked inside her house and closed the door behind her. Wally proceeded to walk away.)
Wally: (In thought) Man and I thought I had problems, but I guess I'm not the only one in suffering… Poor Kiri… (Out loud) No one should have to suffer like she did.
(Then Wally returned home. He looked around his room, it was decorated with swords in sheathes hung on walls, a simple rug, a medium sized bed was in the corner of the room, and scrolls unrolled all over the place, Those were Wally's diaries. Wally unrolled a new scroll, toke a pen, and started writing slowly.)
(this next part is what Wally writes in the scroll he calls a diary when the words are in 'Italics' then it is writing.)
Dear Diary:
Tonight I had a little get together with my new teacher and guardian, he was a nice enough guy but he was somewhat strange. I also made a new friend, that Auto guy, then I talked to Kiri again, but it wasn't a happy affair… You see I tried to get her to talk about her family, but when she did I ended up finding out just how rough she had it… Man a girl like her doesn't have to deal with the things she talked about, it was just plain cruel and unusual. But I offered to truly help her through these difficult times… And she accepted, Oh diary the feelings I have for her are so great I have a difficult time trying to hold it all in. I hope that someday soon I will be able to express them without fear. But that's probably not going to happen, after all I'm too much of a coward… But as they say 'a faint heart never wins the lady.
Yours truly,
Wally.
(Wally puts the scroll away and hops into the bed he turned out the light and slowly fell into a deep slumber dreaming sweet dreams. Meanwhile in another room Auto stared at a poster and after a while spoke to it.)
Auto: Istara Where ever you are, I will find you…
(Having said that he turned off the lights and went to bed. All of Antheum was at peace that night… Completely unaware of the peace shattering plot that was unfolding.)
Authors note. Hello again everybody! that has been chapter two of Yin and Yang Tales 1 , I hope you've enjoyed it! Chapter 3 is where all of the action begins! Gandrake Enterprises invades!