A/N: Hiya! Finally, I had time to do this…sorry! I took only a hundred years to finish….I've been trying to make time all month but due to certain reasons...ahem…I was not able to find one until now…anyway this is haphazardly done…this chapter I crappy…and I don't blame you if you think it is really bad and what I mean by bad is really really worse than a monkey writing a poem….i'm sorry! Nevertheless, please take time to read it! I know I'm being arrogant again…but please even if this chapter is really bad!...
since th borders disapear after upload i wish to explain when the place change...there will be a A/N (eg; A/N GEO)above that situation and you will understand...it...an excuse for not having a border... i know...i hope i amke someone's day happy!
Chapter 2: A Pearl-y Day
Third person POV
'What!' Elazul's jaw dropped in torturous surprise. Feeling three weeks of weariness, he fainted on the very steps of the landing.
'ELAZUL!' both women shrieked in astonishment. They both ran for his bodice and incessantly stared at it. Maya grabbed hold of ELazul's shoulders and shook it along with the rest of his body. Her efforts were in vain and stopped. Falling serious, she faced Pearl to ask
'He's been at it the whole time?'
'Hai… ' Pearl muttered under her breathe as she gaped on Elazul's handsome facet.
'Let's get him on my bed,…I don't think sleeping out here on the ground would do him some good…' Maya persuaded Pearl and lifted Elazul's shoulder, struggling to drag him towards her home. Pearl remained where she was, and stared at Maya's back.
Noticing Pearls passiveness to her actions she over her shoulders and said 'Well? Come on girl! Were burning daylight here!' Pearl ran up to Maya and helped her with her load, who is none other than Elazul.
'Lazuli mentioned that he met you at the tavern in Domina before coming here…' Maya blurted out as she dragged Elazul through the door. 'Where were you when he went after the "moon"?'
'I stayed at the Bejeweled City, some matters that I, I mean Lady Black Pearl had to take care of arose before I could leave the city.' Pearl answered following Maya up the stairs.
'Okay…I wonder…Now that Elazul's out cold – and I don't think he'll be up soon – and Lady Black Pearl is back inside that head of yours, aren't you tempted to explore?' Maya asked as she walked toward her bed and threw Elazul's body on it who continued to sleep despite the painful landing on the bed that caused a loud thumping sound. She gasped for breathe and turned around to get a better view of Pearl who stood behind her.
'I don't know...I always travel with Elazul. I guess I'm too weak and susceptible to accidents.' Pearl sheepishly admitted. Trying to avert from Maya's eyes, her head hung low as she watched her feet as if waiting for it to do some amazing trick. Pearl shivered and began to fidget.
Maya walked away from the bed and gestured Pearl to follow her, trying her best to calm the girl. Pearl moved by Maya's compassion and enthusiasm complied and followed her down the stairs.
Maya jumped off the last three steps and turned to look at Pearl. She happily beamed at her and said 'Do you want to go somewhere now?'
Pearl pretending not to understand tilted her head and naively asked 'What do you mean?'
With big gestures and merry smiles, she answered without waiting for the Jumi to react. 'Austere Lake Kilma? Lively Polpota Harbor? Sunny Mandora beach? Or maybe romantic Lumina? So take your pick!'
'Wha…' Pearl quivered out of surprise 'I – I – I…'
'I know! What do you say about Geo?' Maya added as she manically waved her arms in the air gesturing something extremely big like Geo for example in her attempt to encourage the girl.
Pearl hesitantly replied 'I – I – I think it is a lovely city…but – but…' but she did not finish because of Maya's sudden intervention.
'SO GEO IT IS THEN!' Maya shrieked as she gaily strode out of the door, making the other run after her.
'Maya-san…I – I – I don't think Elazul will approve to this…' Pearl beginning to doubt Maya's sense of judgment after making them lost in some damn jungle intervened as they walked past some more trees that look the same. Maya trying to appease Pearl merely beamed at the jumi and then shrieked.
A/N:SOMEPLACE ElSE...-;;
'I know where we are!'
'Really?' Pearl obviously startled at the other girl's shrill bawl asked.
'We're inside the Jungle!' Maya who was proud of her intelligence exclaimed.
Pearl sweatdropped and tried her best to raise both ends of her lips. 'I see…maybe we should start asking for directions…'
'Great idea!' Maya praised and squinted to look around for any living creature that can possibly help them of their quest. From the distance, she saw a little flowerling pacing back and forth on the same spot. 'Look over there, Pearl-chan!'
Pearl strode towards Maya's side. She squinted to see the said flowerling, and never expected Maya's hand to grab her wrist and pull or rather drag her towards the strange creature's vicinity.
The trees loomed over the two girls and all the other living creatures habituating the area forming a canopy that should strike fear to someone who is extremely frightened of dark places. Maya, however, was not one of those people. She instead smiled a wide smile exposing her white field of teeth. Pearl on the other hand tried her very best not to blush. She either felt embarrass or she felt humored at her companions spontaneity and enthusiasm.
'Hey! Mister flowerling-san!' Maya called or rather yelled at the unusual creature that was but a step away. 'Can you tell us where the exit is?'
'Quit yelling!' The flowerling yelled back in irritation. He tilted his head back to see the two girls towering over him and asked 'What can I do you for?'
'Please tell us where the exit is?' Maya beamed and stared at it. Switching her gaze from one person to the other, Pearl watched the two in great curiosity. The Flowerling merely blinked and stared back at the beaming girl as if there was some oversized wart growing on every part of her face that was too hard to ignore. Finally it replied, after shaking off a few derange and obviously unusual questions.
'You want to know where the exit of this jungle is.'
Maya bobbed her head up and down in agreement, as she vigorously displayed her million-lucre smile. Pearl smiled as well although inside of her she hid a whole ocean of sweatdrops. She was surprised at this girl's enthusiasm but what surprised her most are her endless smiles. From there, Pearl knew that this girl was either a very cheerful one or she is just too optimistic for her own good.
'Have you tried going that way?' the flowerling pointed towards the only other path in the borough – other than the path the two girls just took.
Maya felt sheepish and sweatdropped. 'Oh! Okay…'
Pearl tried to suppress a very powerful fit of laughs although some escaped in the form of giggles. Maya flushed some more and laughed as well to try to reconcile herself of humiliation.
A/N: GEO
The two girls approached the archway that allowed them entry to Geo. A loud sound that came from large bells echoed through the city welcomed them. Maya grinned and scrutinized the archway, Pearl, on the other hand, sighed. Somehow a feeling of being misunderstood grew on her stabbing her over and over in the back like some dagger that had a mind of its own and was on stabbing spree as it pretended to be an inanimate object anyway there is no dagger involved, just Pearl being misunderstood.
'Pearl-chan! We're here! Aren't you happy?' Maya asked, pointing frantically towards the city's innards.
'Hai..I am happy Maya-san but…' Pearl paused and blinked as she rolled her eyes towards Maya's green orbs.
'But what? Are you hungry?' Maya merrily cut in. 'Well then, let's go eat!' Maya grabbed Pearl's wrist and practically dragged her towards the tavern that had no roof.
Pearl sweat-dropped and sighed. I wonder if Elazul's awake now? Pearl pondered as she tried to overlook the current situation.
A/N: BACK TO ELAZUL
'Ugh…gyah…' Elazul moaned as he rose from his slumber though he kept his eyes closed, preventing the light to blind him. 'Ugh…my head hurts…'
CRACK
Elazul moaned some more. 'My back hurts! Why?'
Elazul rubbed his eyelids and forced them to open into the blinding afternoon sun. 'Maya? Pearl?...Where are you?' He called as he struggled to see through his blurred vision. He recalled the events that occurred a little while ago and immediately jumped off the bed. He remembered Maya's last sentence and felt his stomach slumped down on the space that his intestines were place, which had also slumped in the innards' bottom.
'Maya! Pearl!' Elazul called – rather yelled – for the two girls whom he expected to have been waiting for him somewhere inside the house. He ran towards the stairs and swept passed it, he kept his eyes peeled for a sign of any of the two girls.
Elazul checked again but to no avail. They must be outside somewhere he theorized as he ran out of the door.
He ran towards the giant tree to ask it if it has seen the two girls. Out of impatience, he ran really fast and did not notice an extremely large root that, apparently, rose as high as his head.
Thump!
He felt a lump on his head as he continued to walk towards the tree; however, he also did not notice another large root and uneventfully tripped over it.
'Damn it! Stupid tree!' he dizzily muttered with great difficulty, as he felt lightheaded and finally fainted again.
A/N: PEARL AND MAYA
'Pearl, come on!' Maya called at the girl who continued to stare at one of the stones that lay before her.
Pearl, however, mumbled something under her breath, which sounded like a cross between "sheepish bully" and "slap me a smelly". Maya tried to pry Pearl's gaze away from the stones by waving a hand in front of her. Pearl wore a mesmerized expression on her face that sent worry into Maya's innards; therefore, she had no choice but to pull her by the arm away from the stall.
'Pearl – chan, you're making me worry…tell me what's wrong?' Maya asked as she strode in giant steps away from their former spot; her stares bounced back and forth from Pearl and her trail.
Pearl forced Maya's grip off her wrist; Maya stopped in her tracks and turned her head towards Pearl who, by unusual means, is now out of sight.
Maya felt a lump in her throat and found that her breathing began to run – fast. 'Pearl?' She managed to say in between her gasps.
Her bottom lip quivered as she tried to say what is in her mind now…
Where did you go …COME BACK!
A/N: LATER
A yellow haired girl ran passed the weapon store, searching for a girl in white whom she happened to lose hours ago. She stopped at the corner and rested her palms on her knees; she gasps for air feeling the long hours that she ran without stopping. She felt tears swell in her eyes but she swept them off with her thumb – she knew very well that it is forbidden to cry for the jumi. Where are you, Pearl? she repeated in her mind though she knew that it was to no avail.
She straightened up and walked towards the academy – the last place she has not searched – in hopes of finding the girl there or Atleast find some decent help.
LATER SOME MORE
'Can't stop now! I got to study!' A student not more than a quarter of her height told her without even hearing her.
'But can't you Atleast answer my question?' Maya asked in frustration. It was about sunset but she saw no sign of the girl in white.
'We can't stop now! We have a humongous test tomorrow!' another student roughly the size of the other said
'GOT TO STUDY!' They all began to chant, trying to erase Maya's existence from their library.
Maya felt rage warm-up inside of her and her fist trembled in fury and frustration. She tried to suppress freaking out though the urge to grab one of them, turn it into a human basketball and shoot it towards the nearest ring is inevitable.
'WILL YOU ALL SHUT-UP!' Maya yelled at the top of her voice as she left the 'elves' with their chanting, taking big stomping steps as she did.
Maya pushed everything and everyone in her path, as she felt anger overflowing from the top her lid, even a particular serpent-headed woman followed by a mutant cross from a horse and a human.
'Watch it!' The medusa warned in contempt then she turned her gaze towards the horse-man 'Why are you still following me?'
Maya stopped walking as an idea rose in her head I wonder if these two can help me.
'My lovely lady, why do you try to repel? Do you not know that you are the sun that lights my life?' the horse –man said in the most eloquent manner he can force out of his unusually shaped body.
Maya walked back towards them. As she walked a series of thoughts swirled around her brain, running around like that Skippie fellow who runs fast. Man! This horse sure is a Casanova…he changes girlfriends as much as Elazul changes his shirt. I wonder - does Elazul change his clothes…his worn that cloak since I can remember. Hey! Maybe his clothes are part of him like his core. No! That's impossible! If his clothes were like his core then he would have bee damaged long ago! That's funny! I've seen his clothes mutilated before but I haven't seen a single hole in one of them. That means he changes clothes…or maybe Pearl fixes them when I'm not looking. Then that means Pearl is an extremely fast and good tailor… Maya's thoughts stopped as if realizing something important that she forgotten only a few seconds ago. Wait! Pearl! Where is Pearl? Elazul! What will he do to me when he finds out that I lost Pearl! Pearl! I wonder if she's safe! Then, for an abrupt and unusual reason another thought rose above the surface. Why is it taking me a long time to get to the two?
'Gilbert- that's you're name right? – How many times do I have to turn you to stone until you realize that I don't care a damn about you! Don't you understand?' The medusa/teacher yelled at the horse-man. She turned and walked away, noticing Maya standing in the same spot wearing a dazed expression on her face.
'Wait! Please wait! You are the rope that saved me an eternity of loneliness from the mountain of despair! Please consider my music, my beautiful Kathinja! You are my life!' Gilbert exclaimed as he held out his hand in hopes of reaching out into the "love of his life".
'PUT A LID ON IT!' Kathinja yelled back in hopeless aggravation as he continued to approach Maya who still wore an unusual expression that looks as if her brain gave up on her.
'Maya!' Kathinja called as she snapped her – err – claws to try to wake her brain.
Maya blink once…twice and then shook her head. She gaped at Kathinja and jump in joy! 'Yehey! I'm finally here!'
'Where? You haven't moved from that spot for the last thirty seconds?' Kathinja pointed out.
Maya who felt sheepish sweat-dropped. 'Oh! Hehehe!' A thought popped into her mind again this time she voiced it. 'Pearl!' She manically gestured Pearl's features in ways she herself did not understand as she said 'Pearl! Have she seen her! She's wears a white dress and she has a pearl in the middle of her chest! She has brown hair and…and…and…'
'I've seen her! She said something about going to a large tower outside of town…I think she said that she was going to the tower of Leires…' Kathinja narrated as she rubbed her chin, trying to remember the events that happened a few hours ago.
'Tower of Leires? Thank you, Kathinja! I owe you one!' Maya screamed over her shoulder as she ran towards the archway and out of the city.
A/N: SOMWHERE DARK SCARY AND DARK
Darkness loomed over the yellow haired girl as he approached the gates. She felt another lump in her throat; she felt afraid though her urge to find her friend compelled her to go on. I have to find Pearl! She chanted in her head as she took step after daring step towards the dark tower.
What is she doing in a place like this? Maya asked her self and remembered the last time she – or rather they (Elazul and her) – found Pearl in the same tower. She hid in the highest room of the tower…the room of fate.
She pushed the massive doors forward and allowed herself entry to the room. She found Pearl sitting on the throne in the middle of the room. A blank expression is evident in her face as her head hung low. She held something in her hand that gleamed. Maya recognized the stone as a Lapis Lazuli.
'Pearl…' Maya muttered to herself as her face unknowingly contorted into a sad worried expression. 'Pearl…Let us go home!'
Pearl raised her head, the blank expression still lingered. 'Where am I? Is this what you call home?'
Maya walked forward and embraced Pearl. 'Please Pearl…Tell me what happened.' Maya begged as she continued to cling onto Pearl as if trying to put some sense into her.
'I saw this stone in the market…' Pearl mystically narrated. She tightened her grip on the stone. 'I wanted to have it so I took it and I went here…I remembered a warm home…I felt very happy…I remembered a blue stone so…maybe…if I took this somewhere…' she rubbed the stone with her thumb. Maya is on the verge of tears but she remembered the jumi's curse…she felt pity for the young jumi girl who had no home to begin with. 'Maybe with this…I could have a home…'
'Pearl -please- do not fret…I'm with you…this is not your home…' Maya pulled away from their embrace but she held a grip on her shoulders. She stared hard into Pearl who stared back. 'Let us go home! Let us go back to your real home!'
'Real home?' Pearl murmured as Maya pulled her up and led their way out of the room and away from the tower.
A/N: LATER AT HERHOME
Maya brought Pearl towards her bed and bade her to sleep. Maya pondered and realized that Pearl's actions today was her fault. She knew now Elazul's effect on Pearl's life.
Maya walked down the stairs and found the house to be missing one other person. 'Elazul!' She yelled in astonishment. She ran out of the house in the hopes of finding him somewhere out there.
A/N: TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: that's the end of this chapter! I hope it comes as an interest to anybody who is interested….i hope you like it even if I think its crappy and really really ba…okay I'm repeating myself….i'll make a revised version of this but for now I hope I satisfy you with this. If your all curious…everything will be explained in the next chapters but for now…I know this chapter is crappy…there is major ooc-ness and I made Elazul look too irritable that his clumsy…cry…I'm sorry!
I would like to thank everybody who gave time for this…everybody and to mention names… DiMeraslover- I didn't like him here either….his is evil…but don't you think I overdid it on his evilness? Don't worry I have a plan for him…sinister laugh choke now I'm over reacting. Thank you!
Caitlin-really? Uhm…thank you I hope this chapter satisfies you though I doubt it will…I think this chapter is really crappy! CRAPPY!… Salacassera – uhm…really…I thought I overdid it but thank you! I hope you find this to your satisfaction…Karina Gomez – wow…Niccolo must really be bad bunny…we should punish him! thank you!
Once again I repeat I think its crappy and letting myself become pessimistic…lets be optimistic! I hope you like it! Thank you for taking time to read it!
