Part 4: Luke, the Idiot

They got out and decided to go to Chesedonia, to rest. Upon arriving to Chesedonia, Luke got a headache, though it wasn't one to worry about. Everyone split up going to different places. Jade and Guy went to the weapon shop, Tear, Natalia, Anise and Ion went to the item shop and Luke and Lina (someone had to go with him to make sure) went to the inn to rest. We went inside, since Luke wasn't in the mood to pay, Lina paid for all the rooms, making sure that they were almost all individual, except for Luke and Guy. Sadly, there were only four rooms left, each with two beds. Mieu, the cheagle that made Lina go crazy, suggested an idea.

"Master, why don't we go this?" He asked (yes, it's a he, it's mentioned somewhere in the game) picking up the pen and drawing the plan.

"That's perfect!" Luke shouted. Lina, even though she liked cheagles, groaned.

"What?"

"Can't we change–"

"No. I'm the ambassador here, so we go with what I want."

"Fine, fine….aristocrat…..idiot." That's all she said as she placed her stuff in the room. A bit later, Lina had a knock on my door. She opened it and was face to face with Luke.

"What now?"

"I'm going out for a walk. I'll be back later."

"Fine." And he left. She sat there and then She heard a shout.

"LUKE!"

I got up immediately, ran outside and saw Luke with a sword in his hands.

"Luke! Snap out of it!" She shouted. He wouldn't listen and continued to attempt to strike Tear. Lina had no choice but to sing.

"…….swe yul vi fo lu" Her song ended and Luke went back to normal, but instead of getting back up, he fainted.

"Lina, what room is he in?"

"The first room near the counter."

Everyone got him up and into his room.

"So what's the sleeping plan?" Natalia asked. Lina groaned. Mieu, who was with her, got out the piece of paper. Everyone seemed happy with it, except for Jade, of course, who didn't show it, but it was in his eyes. She groaned and started to mutter curses.

"Idiot…..stupid…..ambassadors are stupid….."

"You agreed with this?" She heard a whisper. She turned around and found out it was Jade.

"Why the hell would I? He was doing the 'I'm the ambassador' stuff." She whispered back. He nodded, as she blushed slightly in realisation that he was close to her. It was then that Luke started to arouse.

"Where am I?" He said. Lina stood up and spoke.

"You're in your room at the inn in Chesedonia. You fainted after I stopped your connection with Asch."

"Thanks." And everyone, except for Guy left. Lina went to her room, closely followed by Jade.

"I'm going for a walk. See you later." He said nothing, but she left. He noticed that she took her stuff with her, but he didn't do anything, since he knew that if he did, she would shout at him. She only left, because she was too embarrassed to stay with Jade, for many reasons.

It was a nice morning at just about dawn when Lina woke up. She was just outside of Chesedonia, making a fire to eat the meat that she brought with her. When she finished eating, she heard footsteps, got her mace out and turned around.

"……….Sorry." She flushed and in reality blushed what I (authoress) call a tomato blush. She had almost hit Jade with her mace!

"No need to apologise. I knew I would find you here." Jade said, smiling. …..Smiling? Call the media! Get cameras!

"Why are you up soo early?" Lina asked.

"I usually wake up this early. What about you?"

"I don't know…. It's probably because of the fact that I'm supposed to be dead."

"Probably."

"When are we going?"

"You know, you worried the whole group until I told them that you were on a walk." Jade said, changing the subject.

"You did?"

"Of course, Lady Lina."

"Please, don't call me that, before I have to hit you with the non-spiky side of the mace." Jade paled, kind-of and sat there, chuckling.

"Then they started to worry again. I, of course saw you take your bag with you, so I told them that you were at the edge of Chesedonia, staying there. They didn't question any further, surprisingly." He said, chuckling. She raised an eyebrow, but said nothing.

"Is there anything wrong?"

"You know, even though everyone can't see your emotions, being your servant for four years made me learn where your emotions are." She smiled as she packed her stuff and stood up.

"Exactly where are you going?" He asked. She turned around and winked.

"That's somewhere that I don't think you need to know. See you later!" She said/shouted as she walked past the Colonel and further into town. She took a deep breath and sighed.

"That was way to close." She whispered to herself. She got herself together and walked to the inn, sitting down on a seat. She sat there, taking out a book and reading it. It took her a few minutes to realise that there were two people around her. She looked up from her book and found Jade standing there, leaning on the wall and Ion, who was reading the book, with her.

"uhh…umm…hello, Fon Master Ion" She said, nodding her head.

"Hello, Lady Lina." Lina groaned.

"I swear. I must send you to His Majesty in Malkuth. I'm getting tired of 'Lady'."

"I apologise." She smiled and then smirked at Jade.

"At least someone here can at least apologies when calling me 'Lady', Young Master Curtiss."

"I'm so sorry, 'Lady' Lina. My old age is affecting my nerves, which in turn is affecting my brain. My reaction time isn't just as fast as you younger kids." At this comment, Lina dropped her book and stomped to the unnerved Jade and dragged him by his arm. Ion just sat there, staring at the two. Lina turned around for a bit.

"Fon Master, please excuse us. You may read that book….while I give Jadey Jadey here a punishment." She said, as she muttered the last phrase darkly. Ion picked up the book and started to read it, as Lina continued to drag Jade outside.

"What did you say, Jade?"

"I said 'my reaction time isn't just as fast as you younger kids'." For that, he got himself in a lot of trouble, though he just smirked. Lina raised her hand and smacked his cheek, really hard.

"Never. Call. Me. A. Kid. I'm. Only. Six. Years. Younger. Than. You. Are." For every full-stop that was typed, Lina went from smack to jab in that pattern.

".Ha. You never cease to amaze me, Lina." Lina smiled and jumped up and down.

"…Is anything the matter?"

"You called me 'Lina'. It seems you learnt your lesson." She smiled in satisfaction before leaving. She sighed and walked back to the inn, where she found everyone else.

"Where were you?" Tear asked.

"My apologises, I was out on a walk but I realised I stayed out there too long. So, I stayed out there."

"That makes sense, especially with the Colonel's story" Tear said, smiling.

"Who cares? Let's go to Akzeriuth. Master Van's waiting for us there." Luke said as he walked out. We all sighed and walked out, where Jade was already standing outside.

"Why are you here?" Natalia asked. Lina groaned, but answered for him.

"…….He annoyed me too far, so I punished him."

"Well, that's reasonable…..though you two fight like a married couple…." Natalia said, as she mumbled the last bit. Since Lina was standing next to her, she blushed a tomato blush.

"W-what did you say?" She choked out.

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing."

Luke and co were walking up the Deo Pass, where halfway through, Ion fell due to fatigue.

"…It's fine. Let's keep moving."

"No, Ion. You must rest." Anise said.

"Rest? No, Master Van is waiting for us." Lina got pissed off and stomped up to Luke. He didn't notice of feel her anger. Jade, who was watching this knew exactly what was going to happen, though didn't stop it. Anise, who was just as angry was about to do the same thing, but since Lina started it first, there was no point.

SMACK!

Lina had smacked Luke in the face and started her ramblings.

"Luke, you idiot. You shouldn't always think of yourself. BECAUSE, YOU'RE THE SAME AS ION. IF HE COLLASPES HERE, THEN IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR SHORTENING HIS LIFE!" She said calmly at first, but then shouted. Everyone, apart from Jade and Anise, were shocked, though were just as petrified as Luke to do anything. Jade was the only one who could actually speak.

"Let's take a break. It's not going to kill you, will it, Luke?"

"uhh...umm…yeah, it shouldn't" And they took a break, Lina walking a little further from the group to calm down. She heard footsteps behind her and instinctively grabbed her mace.

"How did you do that to Luke?" Of course, it was Jade.

"I really don't know, Tear. It's probably my rage releasing."

"Well, whatever you did, good job."

"Thanks."

A bit later, she heard another pair of footsteps come.

"Lina, we're just about to leave."

"Thank you for telling me, Fon Master Ion."

"No problem." He started to walk away, but heard Lina talk to him. She was already standing up.

"I told you I would do it."

"Do what?"

"Remember, on the boat?" Ion stood there for a minute.

"Oh yes. I remember."

They kept walking until they saw something. Something passed them at almost the speed of sound.

"Major Legretta!" Tear shouted as she turned to the direction of the cliff.

After the mini conversation that Tear had with Legretta, everyone got out their weapons as she went down the cliff and did a battle pose.

"Oh dear. It seems that I'm leaving a mark on you, too." Lina said as she got out her mace. Everyone, apart from Natalia, Jade and Lina moved ahead and started to strike her. Lina started to chant spells for Splash and Icicle Rain, basically, while Natalia barraged her with arrows. Jade, on the other hand, had his fon slot seal half undone, started to use the complicated spells.

Soon after, Legretta fell and dropped her guns. She somehow got up, no scratches or blood, but by the looks of it, dead tired. (that's game animation for you)

"Tear! Stay away from the 'reject'!" Jade twitched, and so did Lina.

"'Reject'?.....crap. It's exactly what I thought…." Lina muttered.

"WHAT!" Everyone jumped at the voice. Surprisingly, it was Jade who shouted that. Yes, our cool and collective Colonel just lost his cool.

"Here it comes….." Lina mumbled to herself as she covered her ears.

"YOU ARE THE ONES WHO REVIVED FOMICRY!?" Jade shouted. Lina lifted her hands of her ears.

"Is it over?" She asked to no one in particular.

"Yes, Jade the Necromancer. That ludicrous ban that you placed on it was futile."

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN?"

"Why of course….well, I better get going." Legretta said before leaving via the 'quick jump'. Jade, who was still pretty angry, huffing just stood there as everyone started to inch away since they were scared, never seeing Jade get angry, apart from Lina, that is.

"Jade, you can't do anything about it. Stop moping and let's help the people of Akzeriuth. Calm down….." Lina said, patting the Colonel's back, truly knowing what would happen next if she was to let him go. Jade sighed and smirked.

"Well, yes. I'm sorry, I just lost control. Let's keep moving." And they kept walking until they reached Akzeriuth.

"Thank Lorelei Lina knows how to calm the Colonel down." Anise said to no one in particular. Lina just smiled.

"If you've been his personal servant for four years, I'd think you would know too."

Lina had received the Emotional Backpress title! If you're angry, feelin' blue or annoying, she'll be the one who snaps you out of it.

The party entered the mining town of Akzeriuth, which as they saw, as they knew, the miasma covering the whole town, though in different quantities. When they entered, they bumped into the mayor (acting) and one of the Oracle Knights, who took Tear to observe what she was supposed to do. So, she left the group as the group entered the mine shaft, where the miasma was supposed to be the strong point of the miasma.

"…Help…" They heard. Everyone, apart from Luke turned around and saw many mine shaft workers suffering. Everyone, except for Luke ran to people and started to help them. In desperation, Natalia used her fonic artes.

"Recover!" But sadly, it did nothing.

"Heal!" She shouted in desperation, but it did nothing, again.

"Lina, why don't you use your fonic hymn?" Guy shouted. Lina turned around and nodded.

"I don't know if it will work with this many people, but I'll try." She shouted back. She started to sing, and surprisingly, it worked, but only for a period of time.

"Luke, why don't you help us?" Guy asked.

"I don't need to help. I'm the ambassador. I'm going to find Master Van." He said before he left.

"Again with the 'I'm the ambassador' stuff…." Lina muttered inbetween her singing, which was the best solution and option that they had.

A few long minutes later, everyone heard and felt an earthquake. They left the miners and ran to the door, which Luke had gone through. They found Asch there, being hung by a griffith and Lina caught the words out of the man who was with Luke.

"'Foolish replica Luke'"

Everyone ran to where Tear was standing. Both Ion and Luke had passed out and by the looks of it, Luke had used his hyperresonance. Guy had gone to pick up Luke while Lina picked up Ion. They both ran to Tear, who stood there and started to sing.

There was a light and then everyone went black, well to Lina, anyways. When she awoke, she saw everyone standing there, staring. She lifted herself up and the first thing she noticed was that the sky was purple.

"…w-what hap-happened?" She croaked. Apparently, her singing repeatedly had made her lose her voice. Jade turned around.

"We seem to have fallen into the Qliphoth."

Me: The randomest thing in the game....Luke's line of that he's the ambassador... It really pissed me off, reminding me of a friend of mine. Though, I wanted Jade's outburst to be random. Oh yeah, before I type the next chapter I have to type, the storyline may changed a lot. Stupid mind changed.

Tear: That's fine.

Luke: ...........

Me: Luke?

Tear: He's sad and lonely.

Me: Oh yeah. I don't own TotA. Reviews are pleased, though not forced.

Tear: Thank you very much.

Luke: ........