Chapter two... Is this chapter more about Natalla or Ryuta? Oh, the suspense!(not really)
Natalla's journal# 1 continued...
I looked up at our kohara. I was completely confused. Confused doesn't even start it. She was smiling. I wasn't. This wasn't a joke. There were really different worlds called territories? They were beings called Travellers and I was one of them? We could go between worlds at will? This was all too much.
"I know it is a lot to take in, but I promise, in time you will understand everything. Oh, and one more thing. You'll need to start writing whatever happens to you down. Every detail, like you're writing a novel. This will be your record of your experiences. It is also for your acolyte, if you choose one."
"Are you a Traveler?" I asked, barely caring how off-topic it was.
"Yes." She gave a warm smile and I looked away. The horrible truth was, it all added up and made sense. She always went on "missions" and she kept them to herself. She didn't even tell her closest servant what they were.
"What's an acolyte?"
"Hm, how do I explain this?" She mused. "It can be anyone you want them to be. They'll keep your journals safe. They'll also get a ring and will be able to communicate with other acolytes."
"How do I believe you?" I asked. I looked into her eyes. "It's hard to believe this. I need proof."
"Kohara." A male servant called. I turned around. Saruto was there with two kohryn I didn't know. Actually, they weren't kohryn at all. They had weird ears and no tails. "They would like to speak."
"Let them in." She said.
Saruto came and knealt. The two didn't. Saruto had to elbow and they awkwardly knealt. One knealt right next to me.
"Kohara, I bring strangers before you to ask permission for them to stay in my house until they are ready to leave."
The kohara smiled. "You may rise." She said. They did. "I give permission." Saruto's eyes widened. It was the quickest she'd ever allowed an outsider. And these weren't even kohryn. "And I'd like to speak with them and Natalla."
"Yes kohara." Saruto bowed and quickly left.
"Natalla." She turned to me. "These two are your proof."
I looked at them. They looked just as confused as I did. "I don't understand."
"This is Spader." She motioned to the black-furred...I don't know what. He looked at her confused. "He is from the territory called Cloral. Am I right?"
"Well, yeah, but how do you know me?"
"Press." She simply said. Now she was speaking a different language to me. "This is Pendragon." She motioned to the one next to me. "He's from Second Earth. They're both human and I'm sure they'll teach you all you need to know."
"Whoa, wait." The one called Pendragon interupted. I glared at him for being so rude. The kohara pretended not to notice. "So did she just find out about the whole Traveler thing?"
The kohara nodded. "I used to be the Traveler from Clove. Now Natalla is. Here." She handed me a small object. It was a ring. Rings weren't popular in Clove and I wasn't really fond of them, but Spader, Pendragon, and the kohara had one so it had to be important. I took it and looked at it. It was gray with ten markings on the band and a darker gray stone in the middle.
"What do you mean 'used to be'?" I asked, looking up at her.
The kohara only smiled and turned to pendragon. "Teach her all you know." She looked up. "You may come in now." Ryuta peeked in. He quickly came in and gave a short bow. "Keep Natalla out of trouble." She said.
Ryuta gave a confident grin. "Don't I always?"
We were walking out. The two humans didn't say anything about the Travelers or anything, probably because Ryuta was there.
"I have many questions about this quest you want me to on." I said without worrying wheather Ryuta heard me or not.
Pendragon shuckled nervously. "Um, I do too. Trust me. I'll answer as much as I can."
"Hi!" Nallu said popping in front of me. I took a few steps back. She was hanging upsidedown from the tree, clinging to the branches with her tails.
"It looks like those two got permission, right?"
"Sure." I said walking past her. I heard her jump down from the tree and start following us.
"Don't forget about the snow festival." Nallu said as she skipped away. Ugh.
"What's the snow festival?" Spader asked.
"It's a festival to celebrate the oncoming days of snow." Ryuta said.
"You mean winter?" Pendragon asked.
"Sorry, I don't know what that is." Ryuta said, confused.
"Never mind. When is the festival?"
"A few more days from now. We'll have to get you something to wear."
"Where are we going?" Spader asked.
"I'm going home." I said.
"What? I though you had questions?" Pendragon said surprised.
"I still do." I said. "I also need to write."
"What are you writing?" Ryuta asked. "Is it about me?"
"I would never write anything about you." I snapped. He could be such a pain...all the time.
"You would never write anything bad about me. I bet you're writing about how much you looove me."
I whirled around and growled at him. Spader and Pendragon took a couple of steps back.
Ryuta put his hands up in surrender. "You know I was kidding, Natalla." I turned back and kept walking. "You don't have to write down how much you love me. I can already tell." He was just asking to get punched.
I finally got to the door of my house and turned to the three who were following me. "You two can stay with Sora. Ryuta lives with him as well. He can show you the way, goodbye." I turned and went into my home.
I barely heard Ryuta tell the two, "Don't worry, she's just in a bad mood for some unknown reason. She'll be fine tomorrow." I shut my door.
I huffed and sat on my bed. I'm tired and I don't want to write anymore. I don't even know who I'm writing to. Whatever, it doesn't matter. I'm tired and I'm ending the journal.
End of Natalla's journal #1
Pendragon's journal continued...
Man was that girl grumpy or what? Courtney, I know you would be the person to charge right in there and ask what her problem was, but part of me felt that she should cool off alone.
Anyway, we made it to Sora's house. When we entered we were greeted with a wonderful smell. I can only decribe it as pizza. Weird right? Did this world even know what pizza was?
"Who's cooking?" I asked.
"Probably, Saruto." Ryuta said with a shrug. "He's usually cooking around here, since Kaira's too lazy." He shot a look at the orange haired kohryn sitting on the couch, relaxing.
"I thought you said I couldn't cook." She said.
"You can't." Ryuta simply said.
"Hey, that Natalla mate could have written her journal in here with us." Spader said. "We all could."
"Well, her and Kaira don't exactly get along." Ryuta said sheepishly.
"Are you kidding?" Sora said from the kitchen. He could hear our conversation? "Everytime they see eachother they fight over something."
Then Sora walked in and sat next to Kaira. "It's something they've been doing since they were kids. It never ends." He said calmly.
"Why would you all write journals anyway?" Ryuta asked.
I looked at Spader. He shrugged. I turned back to Ryuta. "It's just something we started doing."
"Makes sense, but how'd you get Natalla to start doing that? Natalla isn't the type of person to write anything, not to mention listen to kohryn like you tell her to do."
"Kohryn like us? We're human, mate." Spader said.
"Oh. Sorry, I didn't know."
"Hey, the food's ready." We heard Saruto say from the kitchen. We all made our way to the table. Luckily they brough two extra seats for us.
"There's no problem, we have Kitamura and the kids over all the time." Ryuta said.
The dish looked kinda like pizza. The crust is burrito formed and there's sause and cheese, but what was the white stuff that everyone, but me and Spader, were squeezing on top? Apparently, the dish was called sorre.
"Have you ever had sorre before?" Ryuta asked.
"Sorry, no." I said. Everyone stared at me. "What? Is that a bad thing?"
"Well, usually kohryn make it on special occasions. So it's popular. We're just surprised that you never had it before." Saruto said.
"It's a possibility." Sora said. He turned to us. "You'll never know if you like it or not if you don't try. Opinions are welcome here."
I was free to say I hated it. Wow. Usually I'd be forced to like it just to be generous. I shrugged and took a bite. It tasted like regular tomato sauce. This was a speacial dish? As soon as I swallowed I was hit with a blast of spicyness. Ow, right?
"It's really spicy!" I said sticking my touge out. Then I realized how rude that was and stuck it back in. Habit I guess. Spader took a bite earlier and was having the same experience.
"Here, you were supposed to put this on top first." He handed me the bottle of white stuff that everyone was squeezing on their food. I took it and put it on top like everyone else. It looked a lot like sour cream. I handed the bottle to Spader and took another bite.
I couldn't taste the cream at all, just the same toamato sauce. Then the spicy came back. I was just about to tell them that it didn't work, when it did. The spicy was replaced with a nice cool feeling. It tasted... I don't know. It tasted kind of like ice. That's the best description I can give. I never had anything like it before. The cream had a little sweet after taste too. We both dug in. This stuff was awesome.
After we finished Saruto agreed to wash our dishes. It was weird. This world seemed like it was back in time before cars or TVs were even thought of, but there was a such thing as plumming. Electricity wasn't needed. Ryuta explained that everything ran on magic. Magic. Before I didn't even believe in magic. I still don't. Not until I see it anyway. I was soon going to be shown.
We went to Ryuta's room. He agreed to let us write in our journals and he wouldn't look. I liked Ryuta. He was fun to be around and loyal at the same time. He didn't seem like the type of person to lie. Too bad he wasn't the Traveler from clove.
We wrote some in our journals and wrapped them up. We couldn't send them, Ryuta was sitting right there.
"Maybe I should write, it seems relaxing." Ryuta said.
"It definetly keeps you sane." I said truthfully. He chuckled.
"So where do you two come from?" He asked.
I glanced at Spader. "There's only a few things I can tell you." I said. "We come from far away and we're travelling around."
"Okay, makes sense, I guess." Ryuta said nodding. "Are you two related?"
"Nope."
"Oh, are you going to stay long enough for the festival?"
How was I going to answer this one? I couldn't say something like, 'we're staying as long as it takes for Saint Dane to cause trouble.' He'd probably have more questions. "I all depends." I finally told him.
"What's that thing you call magic?" Spader asked.
Ryuta looked at him as if he had three heads all of a sudden. "You don't know what magic is? Even kohryn from far away should know. If you're a human, shouldn't there be kohryn there?"
"Sorry, mate. I wasn't taught." Spader shrugged.
Ryuta grinned. "Then I'll just show you. It's easier anyway." He came closer and held out his hand. We all watched it intently. At first nothing happened. Then I saw a small dot. It got bigger and bigger. Finally, when it was big enough, Ryuta moved his hand. The dot followed but it seemed to stretch out and create a stream.
"It's called a magic stream." Ryuta said. "It's the most basic form of magic. Kohryn children start out learning this, but I advanced enough to become a Herai fighter. Sora, Saruto, and Aaira are already Herai fighters."
"Wow." Spader breathed. This wasn't the type of magic I was expecting. Oh well.
"Oh, and kohryn have abilities. I can see your emotions when I look into your eyes. Sora can see your past when he touches you somehow. And Saruto can heal boken limbs."
Hey, I want to test this. "What am I feeling?" I asked.
Ryuta turned to me. "You don't believe me?"
"No, it's not that. I just...yeah, I don't believe you." I couldn't come up with anything.
Ryuta stare at me for a moment. "I see couriosity." He said. Whoa. I guess I was pretty curious. "I also see some sort of fear from earlier. Did something scare you?"
I had no response. I guess comming to a new world was scary. I didn't know what to expect.
"Back to the magic stream." Spader said. "Can humans do that?"
"I don't know. I never met, or even heard of a human. Sorry. Of course the girls look a whole lot better when they dance with the magic stream."
Spader chuckled. "You seem to have a thing for Natalla, mate."
Ryuta blushed. No surprise. "Well, maybe, but she obviously doesn't feel the same about me. We've had moments in the past, but she seems to miss it."
"Doesn't seeing into someone's emotions help?" I asked.
"Sometimes, but she doesn't look me in the eyes. She always keeps her emotions hidden."
I'm no love expert. Why was I talking about this. Then we all turned as Sora walked in. "Glad to see you have made new friends." He said.
"Yeah, even though they're not kohryn, they really nice and fun." Ryuta told him. I didn't know Sora that long, but he seemed like a smart person...or kohryn...or whatever. He seemed like that mystical buddha guy. Why couldn't he give Ryuta advice about his situation. It was time to find out.
"Hey, Sora?" I called.
He turned to me. "Hm?"
"You know about Ryuta's situaltion with Natalla, right?"
"Well, yes I do."
"Well, how come you wouldn't help him. Unless you already did. Then..." Suddenly I felt stupid. I looked at Ryuta who was looking at the ground. Did I say something wrong?
"Sorry, I'm not really that good with these kind of subjects." He said with a sad smile. "Sorry."
"No, it was a dumb question." I said. I was awkwardly silent for a long time before Sora started out.
"I guess I'll go to bed then. Goodnight." We nodded and watched him leave.
"What was that all about, mate?" Spader asked.
"Sora's had a tough relationship. I'm not sure if I should say, but he liked Alastyn."
A new name that I haven't heard before. "Who's Alastyn?"
"She came to this village when she was ten and Sora was the first kohryn she met. They always trained together. One day they even almost kissed. But a neighboring village attacked. She was taken and we left out village to look for her. She wasn't in the first village so we went on to the next and so on. When we finally found her we were attacked with someone bigger than a neighboring village and she died. Now Sora doesn't even talk about things like this so we just avoid it around him."
"Wow, that's a story." I said. It wasn't to sound rude. I was just surprised.
Ryuta yawned and stretched. "I'm tired. Maybe we should get some sleep."
"Good idea." Spader agreed.
It turns out Natalla and Kaira haven't gotten along since they met. All Kaira wants to do is make Natalla make a fool of herself. Heh... Um, when sune is attached to the end of someone's name, it's like the japanese honorific, san. I just wanted to make up my own honorifics in this world. Here, magic is more like a solid item then making something levitate. Just something i thought would be kinda cool.
And chuponics are the animals there. There are four elements for them: Spore, Mist, Blitz, and Bolt.(grass, water, fire, and electricity) Oh, kohryn are not from Cloral and if anyone was confused about that I give my apologies. They're all on the kohryn wolrd, Clove. Sorry. Sorry.