Instalment two of the A (NEW) Radiata Story story. Hope you guys (and gals) enjoy it. peace out.

DISCLAMER: Radiata Stories is owned by Square-Enix and Tri-Ace. It's their game, I'm just writing a parody of it.

Chapter 2: Pre-trial Prep Talk

Jack made it to Radiata castle in considerably less time then he had imagined. He had gotten to the castle a good thirty minutes sooner than he thought he would. In fact he was surprised to find that despite running all the way here he wasn't even out of breath.

"I guess all that endurance training old Karna put Roth and me through the past few months payed off."

Jack smiled sourly as the memories of logs, ropes, rats, pitch forks and pitchers of steaming bat guano filled his mind. Jack walked down one of the castle's many corridors, following the directions one of the guards had given him at the castle gates.

Deep in his own memories of his times training back in the village, he didn't notice the other person coming down the hall until they ran into each other. Both of them fell onto the ground with a resounding thud. As Jack got up he saw that it was a girl about the same height as him, no slightly shorter, with long blond hair held in two pony tail. She also had…well….very nice dark green eyes. Which at the moment were burning with anger and staring daggers in my direction.

"Watch where you're going you idiot." She said glaring at Jack.

"Geez I'm sorry. You don't have to get all huffity." Jack got up offered his hand to help her up.

She looked Jack up and down then slapped his hand away. "I don't need your help farm boy." She said getting up.

"I said I'm sorry. Just trying to be nice. Don't have to be angry at me though." Jack said steamily, shrugging his arms and shaking his head.

Getting annoyed the girl retorts back, raising her voice, "I'm not angry at you!"

"Well it sure doesn't seem like it." Jack grumbles backing up a step.

"This isn't about you!" She said darkly.

"Then who does it have to do with." Jack asked.

Realizing she said to much the girl looks away and was silent.

"Well I've got to get going." He said after a few seconds and began to walk away.

The girl looked up suddenly and said angrily, "It has to do with my father." Jack stopped and turned around.

"Um" Jack started unable to think of what to say, "Do you want to talk about it?" Another few seconds of silence passed.

"Didn't you have somewhere to be?" She glared at Jack.

"I've got another ten minutes before I need to get there." Jack said wondering what the heck he was doing.

There was a slight pause as the girl sat down drawing in a deep breath "My father likes to meddle with my life, always trying to make me happy." She said angrily.

"Ok, I'm listening." Jack said sitting across the hall from the girl.

The girl nodded and continued. "He buys me fine clothes, new axes, books and fancy furniture because he thinks it makes me happy. He keeps me away from other people, or more accurately he keeps other people away from me. He just can't stand to see me with other people it seems."

She stopped talking for a second smiling. "In fact he would probably have the castle guards throw you in the dungeon if he saw me talking to you right now."

We laughed. She continued.

"I've trained and studied and worked hard for years all so that I could become a Radiata Knight." That startled me since that was the whole reason I was here."Everyone said I should have no troubles winning the knight selection trials today, but my father would have none of the would's and should's. Using his influence he convinced the leader of the knight's Lord Larks that no matter what, I should be one of the knight trainees."

She pounded her fist on the ground. "I want to win on my own, with my own strength, not because my father said so."

Standing up Jack walked over and offered the girl his hand.

"Well it doesn't matter either way if you don't pick yourself up and at least try at the trials. If this Larks guy has only half a mind, he wouldn't hire on anyone that wasn't skilled and at their best. So no matter what your dad did or didn't say it will still come down to your skills. And if everything you said is true, then getting in should be easy peasy for you.I'm here to win the selection trials today and become a famous knight like my father. Unlike you though I'm nothing more than a simple farm boy. So what are you sitting there complaining about? Get up."

The girl looked up still glaring, but with the anger in her eyes now gone. She grabbed his hand and stood up.

She gave him a nod of thanks and looked him over again, smirking. "You a farm boy, a Radiata Knight. They'd laugh about it for ages." She said walking down the hall.

"Well Miss high and mighty don't count me out just from my looks, you're not the only one that's been training. So you better look out." Jack said catching up to walk with her.

She glared at me. I smiled.

"Well it will be a miracle if you got far enough to fight me anyway."

"Yeah, well we'll see about that."


Alrighty then, there it is chapter 2. I hope you guys enjoyed that little encounter. I would still enjoy getting reviews and suggestions for future material. Chapter 3 might not be out for a while, so send in plenty of reviews. And again thanks for taking time to read this story, i appreciate it.

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