Discalimer: I don't own Legend of Mana. Period…..no further discussionsPlease! Have mercy on me! I don't want to experience trauma related to lawyers and court marshals. I don't own Legend of Mana. Period…..no further discussionsPlease! Have mercy on me! I don't want to experience trauma related to lawyers and court marshals.
A/n: SurpriseSurprise! I finally got myself to get up from my bed and type down a decent chapter…well maybe not at all as decent as I expected it to be….anyway, here it is….finally my imagination is thriving again! Moreover, I owe it all to you people! Thank you so much for reviewing! Though I'm really sorry for not making something that may come to your expectations….but I did my best…..so I hope even a little bit that you like it…thank you…
Chapter 3: Desperate Calls for Desperate Measures?
Pearl's POV
I stood longingly amongst dozens of trees. Somehow, somewhere, I have to go. I do not belong here. The darkness pains my heart as it throbbed deeply inside of me. Ahead of me, I see a familiar place – a dark tower that strikes fear and excitement in me. My heart pounded more as if demanding me to go forward.
I took a step forward and then another and another. Suddenly, I realized that I was running, sweeping pass the gates and going for the same room.
The same doors welcomed me as I pushed it open and found the four walls that longed for me unchanged. I gasped for breath and controlled every heartbeat that my heart made. I scrutinized the room. The same throne rested on one side with the same old banners that adorned each side. I noticed the platform in the hub of the room, the same platform the shouldered a crystal that I knew so well. My vision blurred and I found myself walking towards the crystal with my hands held out as if longing for its presence to venerate my palms.
A gushed of wind stormed on me. I closed my eyes and used my arms to protect my head. The wind forced me to the ground and I found myself in pain. Suddenly, the wind stopped. I opened my eyes to see if the safety was afoot although my arms remained the way they are as it continued to protect it from the dangers of nothingness. The room was clear of hazards so I searched myself for any marks of pain. I gasped as I found my white dress is no longer white but a brilliant black. I touched my face, and grasped for my core, which was now as black as the clothes now on my back.
I…I…I…This can't be happening…I don't believe it! I frantically search the room for anything. What am I searching? My hands shivered from fear and confusion. Abruptly, I felt warmth grow from the tip of my toes, which turned fiery as it moved up to my legs, thighs, and soon my head. I closed my eyes and clasped my hands together as if praying that none of this was truly happening.
I opened my eyes again and found myself enveloped by an unusual blue fire. A flash of white light blanched my eyes and then…
I shot up my bed and gasped for breathe. My chest rapidly thumped as I struggled for breath. I felt sweat and tears slide off my face. IT was Just a dream! I assured myself. I ran up the mirror and saw that I still looked the same, my core was as white as the first time I saw it white. It was a dream. It was a dream.
Third Person POV
'ELAZUL!' Maya called, cupping her hands around her mouth to try to make her voice louder. The moon rose above her home and everything else that surrounded it without Maya noticing. She felt upset and somehow, her innards began to squirm around her insides again making her feel like she swallowed a giant worm that her stomach just gave up on digesting things.
'ELAZUL!' Maya called out again. Her throat felt like barbed wire; for the rest of the afternoon, she had been shouting her larynx out.
'…ugh…Ma-Maya…' Someone from beyond the shadows moaned in a rather loud yet confusingly curt voice that Maya recognized as Elazul's.
Maya scrutinized the shadows to make sure that whoever called for her is not some ferocious beast from the underworld out for their revenge on her. She squinted and by some unusual way, she spotted a glint from a blue stone attached to a human. 'Lazuli…' she hesitantly called 'Hey! Is that you Lazuli? What are you doing there?' She walked towards the stone-attached man, her hand firmly gripping on her spear. She stopped a few steps ahead as the stone-attached man stood, using his sword as support.
He turned his gaze from the ground and towards the perplexed girl and answered. 'No! I'm a beastly beast out to get you!' he said in mordant sarcasm through his obviously tired entirety. 'Of course I'm ELazul! Who do you think I am? Nobody else would come to your ramshackle of house unless they need to!'
'Well SO-RY for not having a mansion!' Maya answered obviously annoyed of his insult of her Home. 'What are you doing here?'
'I thought it would be nice to sleep outside so I did!' Elazul said again in a mordant tone of voice. 'What's wrong with you? I bumped my head on one of those branches, tripped and fainted – again!'
'Sheesh! I was just worried about you!' Maya shrugged, trying to brush Elazul's irritation off her.
Elazul sighed after comprehending his harsh actions towards the girl who only cared so much for him…err…his race. 'Alright…it has been two weeks and I haven't felt that stupid stone on my hands…what will I do?'
'First of all, you need rest because you haven't slept for three weeks and second of all, I just gave the stone…err…staff to Rachel who badly needed it at the moment but, for sure tomorrow, I will get it back!' Maya encouraged optimistically, bending her arm to show her muscle and somehow her strength.
'But…' Elazul negotiated but his sentence stopped as Maya cut in more encouragement.
'Okay…Tomorrow we get it and everything will be okay! Okay!' Maya affirmed as she pulled on Elazul's still-clinging-to-his-sword hand and dragged him all the way inside her house.
The next day rose like a jack-in-a-box popping in and out of its box. It was a fine day not only because the sun rose up again but it also brought hope that a certain lapis lazuli jumi may end his mission today.
'MAYA! Wake up!' Elazul who woke up earlier than the sun commanded the girl as he uneventfully grabbed her shoulders and shook her in his attempt to wake her up.
'…ugh…' Maya drowsily moaned.
Elazul watched intently as he waited for any signs that she has truly awakened. He tightened his grip in anticipation of her awakening, staring harder at her orbs as if boring into her eyelids.
'I'm gonna get you stupid crabs someday!' Maya shriek as she lifted her eyes towards Elazul and then slumped back on her chair to continue sleeping.
Elazul sweatdropped and almost laughed at this unusual action but serious matters were at hand and he wasn't about to let those matters go by without him doing something about it.
'MA – YA! WAKE – UP!' Elazul yelled in her ear. Maya, startled by Elazul's yell, jumped up in surprise. Unfortunately, Elazul still held his grip on her shoulders and were practically face-to-face with Maya when her head moved forward as she jumped in surprise.
'OWW!' They both hollered in pain as they massaged their foreheads with their hands.
'What you do that for?' Elazul asked as he felt the lump that was now growing on his forehead.
Maya felt the lump on her forehead that was identical to Elazul's and responded 'What I did? You're the one who startled me! What's your problem anyway?'
'I want that moon on my hands now!' Elazul told her as he walked towards the door. 'We've no time to lose!'
Maya rose from her chair and grabbed her spear. She looked at Elazul who was poised and ready to face whatever nature throws at him with utter admiration at his devotion to find the stone and then sighed. 'It was your fault I was up all night…can't we sleep a little longer?' she complained but he was out the door before she even finished.
Domina loomed ahead of the two figures who walked towards it both terribly awake from a serious incident that whiles ago as Maya ran after or rather into ELazul causing them to fall into a pile of two people.
Maya led the way towards the small town that nobody would suspect to have and incredibly important item that meant life and death for the Jumis. In fact, nobody would suspect that it was important. Nothing very important happens here. The last time that its peace was disturbed was when pumpkins controlled by two academy dropouts invaded its outskirts.
As she skipped merrily past the very unwary merry sign that adorned the entrance of the small town, a series of thoughts rampaged in her mind. I wonder how Pearl is…I mean we just left my house at the spur of the moment without the second thought of actually checking for her health. Maybe Elazul checked up on her before we left…IMPOSSIBLE! He doesn't even know she's at my house…or maybe he does and I don't know it. What if he's got super mind powers that can see through his eyelids while his asleep. That must be how he got himself outside my HOME. Cool! I wish I had super cool mind powers that can see through my eyelids! Maya's thoughts paused for a few seconds as a few memories from the day before ran back into her mind; however, she did not noticed that she stopped skipping her way towards the town as well as the fact that she stopped moving at all in pursuit of focusing on her thoughts. Wait a second! I remember Elazul pacing on the porch while Pearl watches him walk back and forth. That means Elazul doesn't have ultra super cool mind powers that can see through is eyelids! Does that mean Elazul has been lying to me all this time? That is so evil of him!
Whilst Maya thought hard in her place, Elazul stared at the sky as memories flood into his mind as if a group of dubbears rushed into him knocking him down. First, a flowerling stole it from me, and then an onion boy gave to a boink that sent me to places that I didn't want to go. Afterwards, a doll had it who gave to someone else who gave it someone else who gave it to Maya! Damn it! The world has gang up on me, trying to make my life miserable! Well, they won't get the better of me! They'll see! I'm gonna make them all sorry! Elazul halted behind Maya and had a good glimpsed of the back of her neck. He mind began to wonder again. I wonder if Maya agrees to all that is happening. I mean the stone was just handed to her and all this time I've been blaming her for losing it. Even before, problems like this stuck on to her like tree sap. I wonder doesn't she ever get tired? Especially with someone like me who always bring my despairs to her?
Maya turned to see Elazul face to face. Elazul gasped under his breath as he stared at her green suddenly-in-front-of-his-own-orbs orbs. Obvious contempt plastered her face whilst Elazul's exhibit sincere gratitude; and, unexpectedly, both of them blurted out.
"How could you?"
"What?" They asked in chorus again, this time Maya's voice trailed off to be much louder than the last one.
"What are you talking about?" They both yelled again at surprisingly the same time.
"That's enough! Quit repeating what I'm saying!' They both yelled at each other.
"Quit repeating what you're saying? But you're the one repeating what I say!" They yet again yelled at each other. This time both irate at how the other could joke at a time like this.
"STOP THAT!" once again, they yelled together. "How could you play at a time like this!"
"I'm not playing!" They both yelled, surprised at the fact that they have been saying the same things for the last few seconds. "What's your problem!"
"How come you're lying to me about having ultra super cool mind powers that can see through you eyelids?" Maya broke off in as much contempt as the next person whom we would like to call Elazul and who is now much more bewildered than the time before their amazing argument started.
Surprisingly, Elazul heartily chuckled. "What are you talking about?" Elazul struggled to say between his fits of laughter. "Where do you get such ideas?"
"What do you mean?" Maya who was sheepishly confused asked as she wondered how she herself got those ideas.
Elazul walked further towards their destination as he smilingly said "Come on, we better get that staff before it flies away with someone's astounding imagination." Elazul did wonder why she did such things before, things that endangered her life, threatened her health, challenged her mind, harassed her body, and weakened her soul; but shrugged them all off, bearing in mind that she did it because she wanted to. He knew that that must be who she really is – brave, true, kind, optimistic and simple.
Maya, confused, ran after him yelling, "Hey! Wait up! What's so funny? Hey!"
They entered the small town of Domina, anxious to retrieve the moon and therefore end the problem at hand, and neared the local pub in which a small fairy who Maya spoke to just yesterday dwelled in most of her afternoons. They pushed open the doors and entered with glee as they saw the girl waiting for anyone to attend. The fairy girl who we usually call by the name of Rachel raised her head towards their direction and walked towards them.
Maya smiled sweetly and asked Rachel "Do you still have the staff that I gave you yesterday?"
Rachel blankly nodded letting her head hang low.
"I was wondering if I could have it back, please." Maya insisted rather than pleaded.
Rachel raised her head and apologetically said "I'm sorry but I can't return it to you, you see it gave away when a rabbit-man came bouncing in here."
ELazul suddenly suspiciously asked, "What do you mean 'gave away'?"
Rachel walked towards the storeroom way back and came out minutes later with a heap of rubbish on her hands. "This is what's left of your gift…I'm very sorry."
The two gasped as Maya reached for the remnants of her once work. "I can't believe it. No wonder I couldn't do anything with it…it was just a regular rock!"
"What! A regular rock! How can that be!" ELazul shrieked flabbergasted. "I can't believe it all this time I've been chasing after a rock!"
"I'm very sorry" Rachel's voice trailed as she went back into the storeroom.
"So where is the real moon?" Elazul asked Maya, hope flowing out of him with every breathe that passed.
"I don't know, but we have to find it. Who knows what could happen to the real stone." Maya said as she tightened her fist on the remnants.
"What if the stone doesn't exist? What will happen to Florina?" Elazul thought aloud as they left the tavern, wholly disappointed. "What if another Jumi have to give up their cores and be left to die? We may have to go into extinction again."
"I won't let that happen as long as I can do something about it! I won't let something as desperate as that lead into much more desperate measures." Maya said with an air of determination. "Besides, IT really does exist. The Eye of Flame existed almost alongside the Seventh Moon, if I read my history book right."
Elazul managed a smile and followed her out of the small quiet town.
"We should check on Pearl first…" Maya hinted, not daring to tell Elazul of their little trip to Geo.
End of chapter
A/n: thank you for reading…..well the whole theme just change, I can't find anything funny in this chapter…so might move this story to from humor…but what do you think? I hope you like what I've accomplished….i feel like I a made crap but still I hope you enjoyed it even a little bit…..thank you for all the reviews! Therefore, I hope you like this chapter and review…..make a wannabe write like me happy…thank you!