"talking"

'thoughts'

/Zephros/

disclaimer: i down own skies of arcadia but i do own my characters.

ch. 3

After a few hours we had finnally gotten to sailors island.

"so now that were here what are we going to do" I looked at Maiyuki confused. She'd explained her little plan of stocking up before we left to valua but...I'm not exactly sure if we had enough money.

"I told you, to stock up on supplies and-"

"Get a harpoon cannon, I know that. i meant after we get all that. are we going to stay here a bit?"

"And be caught by Vyse. I don't think so!"

"Your so stubborn, you know that. What could possiblaly go wrong, I bet you 4 silver peices that all he's going to do is tell us how worried he is and maybe ask him to help with whatever that you won't tell me, that you know." ...did that make sense? i shrugged off that thought and looked at her with a stern face.

"...maybe...but-"

"I think we should wait for him, besides maybe he can help us get to valua"

"..." Maiyuki looked away thoughtfully.

"Well...?"

Maiyuki sighed. "fine. we'll wait"

I smiled at her and then it faded when I heard my stomach growl. We both looked at my stomach then at eachother, I smiled sheepishly. "heh..guess i for got to eat"

"well we could go to polly's and-"

"and waste our money?! there is a reason i brought that bag you know. i packed food before we left." i pulled out an apple and passed it to her. "here"

maiyuki looked at it for a moment and took it.

"it's not cold...are you sure it's good?"

i looked at her confused "what do you mean. fruits aren't sopposed to be cold."

she blinked a couple times and took a bite out of it. "whatever you say"

i grabbed out an apple for myself, taking a bite out of it. "why would it have to be cold? is everything kept cold where you come from?"

"well...sorta, i put my chips in the fridge when i don't finish the bag..."

"chips...? what is that?" i was now completely confused. what in seven hells was chips?!

maiyuki laughed. "i'll explain later, lets go to an inn so we can gut us a room."

"..o...k..?" i blinked a couple times as i followed her. she seemed to know exactly where everything was. /she seems to know a lot doesn't she./ 'yeah...' /she also seems to know exactly what happens and when.don't you see that a bit strange Alzu./ 'yeah kinda...i wonder how she knows all this...perhaps we should talk to her again about her knowing these things...' /she doesn't seem to know a lot that is to happen to us, let alone herself...she seems scared of something.../ 'but what could she be afaid of'

"Alzu!..are you listening?! Earth to...Arcadia to Alzu, come in Alzu!"

i snapped out of my conversation with Zephros. "yes?"

she sighed. "like i was saying before you were dozing off..probably talking to your lover boy Zephros-"

"he's not my lover boy!"

"...whatever, now that i have your attention. we need to hurry back to the docks tomarrow at noon. so you need to get supplies and help me clean out my bag..ok"

"ok. well what is it you carry in that thing anyway"

"my school stuf and half of my room."

"half of..your room?"

"well yeah, i can't go to shool without it..though the only thing i cant take is the funiture and game consules and don't think i would want to anyway."

i blinked at her a couple times "ok?"

"great! now come here" she dragged my to her bed and she opened her bag pouring all of it's contents onto that bed. i gaped at all the thingsshe had. all of that..in her little bag?!...wow. but then something caught my eye, i saw something next to where her bag was. it was a case of some sort "whats that?" i said ponting to it.

maiyuki turned her head to where i pointed and she smiled. "oh thats my intsrument. it's a violin, i'll show you it when were done sorting through my junk."

we seperated her school books and i had found that she had some interesting things. "whats this?" i asked picking up a few coins.

"oh, thoses are tokens and those are wuarter and..." she blink a couple times and pouted. "i could have avoided this all! i totally forgot about my change from thursday when i got ships from the vending mechine at school! i could have taken the bus home and i wouldn't have to be here..."

i looked up at her "what do you mean? whats a..bus?"

she looked amused by my curiousity and giggled. "well in my world. thats a form of transportation when you dont' own one yet."

"oh...how convenient."

"yeah..well anyways those last to coins are called dimes"

"i see" i looked at the coins curiously. "so this is your worlds money"

"yeah." she picked up some sort of technalogy tools along with some wires that had plugs to them and more.

"what are those?"

"this is my phone, my extra battery from my old phone, an mp3 player, extra double A batteries, a cd player, a battery charger, my cell phone charger, an adapter for the usb cable to charge my mp3 player so i don't have to plug it into the computer, my digital camera charger, and this is my digital camera."

i blinked at her and was a mix of curiousity and confusion. "what do those do?"

maiyuki smirked "well the chargers recharge the baterry of them, but each one is spusific. and as for everything else...i'll show you later-"

she was cut off when some sort of sound seemed to be coming from, what she called it, cell phone.

"oh wow i have service here?!" she said before answering it, she put to where i could hear the conversation. i looked at it weird. what was that thing? who was talking. was it the phone?

"weelllllllll..."

"well what! why didn't you go to school today. and how come you didn't come home yesterday either? you know how worried i was! your parents we looking everwhere for you."

"...if i told you you wouldn't believe me"

"what do you mean?! what happen"

i looked at it fasinated and subconsiously took the phone from maiyuki. she seemed surprised but didn't take it back

"who are you?..what are you?"

maiyuki blinked a couple times and tried her best not to laugh.

"what do you mean! who are you! and obviously i'm human stupid. what are you, a marshin." the voice had said the last five words sarcasticaly.

"no, i'm Zeipelian"

there was a pause and then laughter "what are you, a two year old hahahaha nice imagination"

my right eye turned red and my expresion changed.

"how dare you laugh at where i come from mortal you should learn to show some respect to Zeipelians unless you want your pathetic planet to die." Zephros had been angry and had meant every word that he said with such malice. maiyuki had took the phone hastally and took some sort of wrapper in her had.

"im sorry...wha-...-think were-...-up..." she had crumpled that wrapper in front of the phone making a staticy sound and after she stopped she hung up and turned her phone off.

"phew...that was a close one." she looked back up at me. "you need to chill out a bit you know that. and anyway why did you give yourself away. your suposed to keep your civilazation a secret til you destroy the world...wait.. your not destroying earth...right?"

i laughed a bit "no, but i'm sorry. i let it slip."

"alright well try to keep it in. no wonder you have Zephros do all the talking during interigations."

"heheh..." i shrugged

soon we were done sorting and i eagerly ask her again about her violin.

"haha, we still need some supplies. i said when we were done but i think we should get the supplies before we forget." she got up. "you wanna come with me? or nah"

"i'll go"

"are you sure you look sorta tired."

"well i sorta am but i can't let you go around a lone. wheres your weapon?"

maiyuki giggled and showed me a necklace around her. "these are brass knuckles..and let me tell you they hurt like crazy so yeah..i'll be back in 10 minutes or so ok. get some sleep" with that she left. after she left it was quiet..nothing left to do. i looked over at her stuff curiously and crawled toward it, curious on what she was had i looked at them. i noticed a drawing of a young girl. she seemed so sad, she looked as if she were ready to cry any minute. surrounding her was dead blooded corpses with a girl of her age standing with a bloody sythe by a withered tree and covered in blood, laughing. her eyes were filled with such malice and her hair was covered with blood spots. the picture was so perfectly detailed with some minor mistakes and the hand position but it wasn't anything to bad. he looked at another it had the same girl in the picture, she was crying and outside in the rain. surrounded by people who ignored her, she seemed lost in the crowd. she was younger in in this picture, but when he looked closely it looked like... 'mai...are you agaonizing about something' he saw another picture of her. she looked happy in this one, she was hugging someone. a friend of some sort? it was a boy with semi-long hair. he had pale blond hair with green eyes, he seemed to be reluctant to the hug but still showed he was happy. there was also an older

woman hugging them both, they looked almost like family.

I caught a glimpse of another with the same boy but he looked distant to something. i didn't see the whole picture, i had been gathering the papers together and put them back.

'i shouldn't be looking through her stuff...what if she didn't want me to see?'

i looked back at the door.

"oh chill out. i've played enough racing games at the arcade to know how to handle speed."

i looked at her skeptical. "well don't kill us" i got up leaning on the wall for sopport "where are we headed?"

"Sailors Island"

"and where is that?"

"if you come here and see my map then you'll see" she said holding a small map that she pulled from a small bag she was wearing.

"why are we going there?"

"so we can get a harpoon cannon to get through some area's and then to valua to pay a visit to someone"

'was that boy...the one you wanted to visit?'

/she seems happy but the question is, is she. having drawn such pictures isn't normal..but then again. your not normal./

"hey! i'm normal!"

/is talking to yourself normal?/

"i'm not talking to myself, i'm talking to you"

zephros laughed. i ignored him and look around. i saw that violin case again, i wanted to see how it looked, there were so many questions i had but i'd have to keep them to myself so a bit.

I yawned and walk over to my bed and as soon as i layed down my eyelids were heavy and i drifted off to sleep.

A/N: oooooohhhhhh...!! :o maiyuki has some secrets to reveal!!

well it's longer than the other chapters, i was going to make it longer but i had no idea what to add. hope you like the story so far