Yay! I found a way to clear up my face before I go to High School! Anyway, enough of my problems, lets get on with the story!
Emily looked at Leon in shame and gave a heavy sigh before looking down to her feet.
"I'm sorry, Leon. It's just that the Stone has really been bugging me, and...", Emily stumbled over her sorry explanation.
Leon let a sigh escape his lips and said,
"I know. Emily...I think we needs to talk about finding you a new teacher...", he says
Emily let her mouth fall open and stared at him in disbelief. Her Stone gaining a pink glow in excitement.
"What? Why?", she asks, trying to keep her hurt and panic at ease. Did she let him down? Was he disappointed in her for her lack of progress?
"I don't see how I can be a good teacher to you if I don't know how you feel.", he says, sadly.
The Stone lets out a laugh of victory,
"Ha, I knew it."
"Shut up", Emily says.
"I think we might be able to find you another teacher in Cielis. A more suitable one.", he walked past her without another word. Leaving her to turn and stare at his back as he jumped down off of the roof. She had been able to lift every other object he had brought with him for her training, but she couldn't even manage to life a stupid rock more than 9 inches off the ground? No wonder she was a failure in his eyes. Emily let her head hang as she thought about her options. Unfortunately, there was only one...
Trellis leaned on the railing some, looking out to the vast sky. The sun was set, it's orange rays present and warm on his pale features. He had always prefered sunset over sunrise. It came with hot and bright colors as it shown on and through the clouds, making them more vibrant. Of course, he'd never tell anyone that. He'd never really told anyone anything about him. He wanted people to stay out of his way and in return, he would do the same. But, recently, it was getting harder and harder to do that. His intentions were misunderstood and so people would step out of their place. Especially that Emily, girl. She always challeged him, whether it be in a good or bad way. He couldn't really say he disliked the girl. He didn't see anything about her to dislike. She was caring, independant, and strong. He knew that she would willing give up her own life to save the people she loved and he adored that about her. He'd never tell her that, not that she would listen to or believe him.
Trellis was shaken out of his thoughts by another presence, and he knew exactly whose.
Emily had found Trellis leaning on the railing, looking out into the unknown. It was the most layed back she'd ever seen him, though he still kept his perfect posture. He was always so serious. He never smiled, he never laughed, or even chuckled for that matter, and he never had a calm look on his face. He was a complete mystery to her, to which she hated with a never seen someone look so...so...
Lonely.
He only had his father, she assumed, and even that much was pretty bad. She often times found herself wondering about his family line. Most particularly, his mother. Where was she? Now that she really thought about it, sitting here, she didn't know anything about him that mattered. Emily felt her heart twitch when she realized he was looking at her. How long had she been sitting there staring at him?
"Oh! Haha, hi.", she tried to give her best smile while still looking serious. She nearly tripped when she bolted up, what was wrong with her?
"Um...Hi..", he gave her a strange look, but it wasn't much of a change from how he normally looked at her. She was smiling at him like she'd gotten bit by something or like she was trying to hold back a hysterical laugh.
Emily saw that her "be nice" plan wasn't working well, and quickly dropped it.
"Okay, look, I don't like you and you don't like me, that much is clear. But, I need your help.", she says sternly.
Trellis felt his heart drop a bit, but tried not to let the small amount of hurt he felt show, of course, he failed. He didn't absolutely like the girl but he didn't hate her either, he just didn't expect her to be so straight forward with it.
Meanwhile, Emily mentally kicked herself for being so harsh
*Now, look what you've done, you're supposed to be asking him to teach you!*, she thought to herself
*Look at his face, what's wrong with you!*
Trellis could see the obvious battle she was having with herself, and decided not to disturb her in fear of making things worse.
"Well, doesn't that look fun.."
Trellis, despite knowing the voice of his own Stone for years, jumped in suprise.
"Don't be so jumpy, you're not 5 anymore.", the Stone said nonchalantly
"I'll take note. What do you want?"
"My dear, I want nothing. I just thought I'd talk with you, since its been sooooo long", Trellis gave the Stone a mental glare
"You say that like it's a bad thing." , Trellis says smartly.
"Ouch, that hurts. I know I ruined things for you back then, but why hold a grudge?", the Stone asked in mock-hurt
"You did more than ruin things. The entire population of Alledia believes I'm a killer because of you.
"And, why do you think that is? She got in the way. I just decided to give her a little push."
"Literally." , Trellis finishes the conversation just as soon as it began. Only to see Emily staring blankly at him.
The two said nothing for a long while. Listening to all kinds of creatures screech and roar in the distance. Suddenly, Emily brought her shoulders up to her ears and quickly stuck out her hand.
"Would you teach me how to use the Stone?", she said without looking at him.
Trellis stood dumbstruck, looking at her outstretched hand and thinking about her request. Teach her? Wasn't Leon doing that? Why is she asking me?
Emily stood there, hand still out, feeling like a fool. She felt herself blushing hard in embarrassment and felt like a child. She was about to say something rude and rushing when she felt a hand take her's and shake it slightly.
"Sure.", was all he said as he shook her hand up and down twice before letting go of it.
Emily couldn't believe it. He said yes? She looked up fast and saw the casual look on his face. He had accepted and agreed to teach her. Just like that? No deals or conditions? She felt happy and foolish, it had been so easy for him, but for her it was a mess! She turned her humiliation into anger and without thinking about it, gave him a fierce glare and stormed off to her room. Leaving him standing there.
Leon watched Emily storm off to her room in an embarrassed rage until she disappeared inside the ship, then turned his gaze on Trellis. The prince stood stock still in suprise at her reaction to his agreement to teach her about her Stone. She glared at him as if she hated the very fact that he existed. Right then he became nervous, wondering just what he'd gotten himself into, he didn't want to always be on her bad side when he would train her every day. He figured that he would have to make some changes for tomorrow.
Sorry, Trellis is a little out OOC, but I didn't want to make him too much of an ass, so I had to go with too little. Besides, he can be nice, too! The voice I was picturing with Trellis' Stone is somewhere like Bruce Willis & Richard Haydn's voice, only without the retarded accent(Sorry Richard!)
