Thank you for reviewing my last chapter/chapters. The story is to be in soon, so please, of you have anything to comment on then please tell me! Yes, I will make mistakes, I'm sorry! I've still got two more chapters to go and, no I won't be writing a chapter for Larsa, not sure why yet, maybe because I don't have enough time! I haven't completely made up my mind if I will write more than one chapter per person – I'll cross that bridge when I come to it! These next few chapters will be uploaded pretty quickly, please, still review! This may be long because this is the chapter that has the 'action' in it :P. Oh well, here we go! I hope you enjoy! And I am so sorry for the wait if you have been waiting for this to be uploaded – been very busy with school and stuff! Anyway – enjoy!!
Vaan looked around the deserted diner. Fran and Balthier were still chatting in the kitchen and Basch was STILL looking out the window just in case anything happened. Vaan smirked and then turned back around to face Penelo and Larsa.
"What you laughing at?" asked Larsa.
"Hmm, oh, just that guy over there, does he speak?" he replied.
"That's Basch and we dunno, maybe he has a problem..." Penelo said, looking at Basch.
"I'll go speak to him," and with that Vaan went over to speak to Basch.
"Hi, I'm Vaan," he said as he sat down opposite Basch.
"Hello," Basch replied, still looking out the window.
"What exactly are you looking for?" Vaan asked.
"Well, if the rain stops, I'd like to find somewhere much safer," he looked at Vaan and turned his attention to the weather again.
Vaan got up again, unable to sit still till the weather calmed down. This was unlikely. Suddenly there was a rumble. Everyone looked at Vaan.
"What!?" he screeched. Then he clicked. "Ohh no, that was NOT me..." that was all he could say before Basch interrupted him and stepped away from the window.
"What's wrong?" asked Fran. Vaan got up and stood behind Basch.
"Well, one question before I tell you are there any upstairs or even a basement to this diner?" asked Basch, still backing away from the foggy window.
"Yes, both, why?" Fran replied. Then Larsa and Penelo ran towards where Basch and Vaan were standing to get a better look at what they were going on about.
There it was. A huge spinning tornado of snow and a long tidal wave of huge ocean waves following it.
"That's why," replied Basch, still backing away.
"I think this is a good time to run," said Balthier, ushering Fran and the rest of them down a flight of stairs and through a metal door. They just got inside in time before they heard the diner's glass windows smashed and loud bangs like someone was jumping on the ceiling.
The room they were now apparently stuck in wouldn't be so bad after all. It turned out to be a storage room, where they kept the food and whatnots. The only thing was, they were stuck in a small confined space with Vaan, who they had already realised was just a bit irritating.
After a few minutes recovering, they all thought on how they would get out. Vaan thought about this hard, but couldn't quite come up with an answer. Well, a sensible one. Then, after thinking to himself that he would never come up with an idea, he started to hum.
Balthier sighed and shook his head at him, but was surprised when Basch joined in. Fran looked at Basch, laughed and joined in too. They were like dominos, one after the other joined in. Penelo, Larsa AND Balthier also joined in, adding drum beats and bom chika wow wows in occasionally. Then out of nowhere Vaan jumped up and tried – and failed to do an air guitar solo, but nobody was impressed and stopped humming and stared. Vaan was too busy 'rocking out' to notice they stopped, so continued until he finally opened his eyes. He had definitely taken it too far.
After getting up, embarrassed, he sat back down to his original seat and looked around. He looked at Penelo and Larsa, in the corner and thought – Great. I embarrassed myself AGAIN. That's three times today! Although he didn't realise he wasn't thinking – he was saying.
"What are you doing?" asked Balthier.
"Hmm..?" replied Vaan, not realising what he was on about.
"You- you were talking to yourself,"
"What? No I wasn't! I don't talk to myself," he said as he got up and leaned on one of the large metal shelves that contained flour and different foodstuffs on them. He leaned a bit too hard though and the shelf collapsed.
"Vaan!" they all shouted, covered in flour and all kinds of gunk.
All Vaan could see when he opened his eyes to see what he did was Balthier coming at him. He grabbed Vaan's arms and said -
"Boy, you are-" he was stopped short as he heard Penelo say –
"There's a door!"
And he finished his sentence – "A genius!" but we all know he wasn't intending to say that. I think even Vaan knew he wasn't going to say that. Balthier felt a bit awkward so let go of Vaan's arms and took a look at the door.
Vaan tried to get a look in, but could see nothing but the back of heads. Penelo was still sitting in the corner so he went to see her.
"Do you think this'll be our way out then?" he asked her.
"Well – it could just be another store room," she replied. They sat silent for a minute or so and then Penelo asked him –
"Do you do this kind of stuff usually?" trying not to sound rude.
"What, stuff like this?" Vaan replied, pointing at the toppled over shelves, "Oh yeah," he said, laughing a little. Penelo laughed along. But their laughing was stopped by Balthier as he said –
"Well, do you two want to get out of here or do you want to have another little conversation?" trying to be sarcastic.
Vaan looked at Penelo and noticed that how big her eyes were. He was about to say "Wow!" but thought not to as he would embarrass himself – again. In actual fact he liked Penelo. He thought she was a very loving person who would look after someone very well – and just look at Larsa.
They all walked through the door, down a few stairs and were all crammed in a slightly smelly empty room. They were all still covered in food and now that it was beginning to dry it made it smell so much more. Soon enough they were all looking around to try and see a way out, after all it was a bit dark.
The only thing was it didn't look like there WAS a way out... maybe Penelo was right, thought Vaan, holding his hands out to feel where the walls were. There was a metal sound that came from the ground. It came from where Vaan was standing. He jumped a little from side to side to make the sound again before he bent down to see what it was.
Still it was dark and you couldn't see anything so he used his hands instead. It was round, obviously metal, cold and was connected to the ground somehow. He turned his head towards the door when Fran walked out into the other room and the light from the candles beamed in, giving him a small amount of light. When she returned, she had another candle and walked towards Vaan, and bent down beside him, holding the candle towards the ground to make a proper inspection.
It was a drain. Nobody knew why a drain would be in an empty cold dark storage room, but still, it could be there way out. They all gathered around Fran and Vaan, trying to see what it was. Vaan felt proud that it was him that found it first, but refrained from saying anything just in case it made anyone in particular think he was a show off who wanted all the attention.
He stood up and rubbed his hands together before he crouched down again and tried to lift the large round metal drain lid. It was too heavy for Vaan to lift though and he dropped it after lifting it only millimetres from its original spot, making a long ringing noise that filled the little room and the room outside.
"Vaan! Do you have to make so much noise?" said Balthier after the ringing had finished.
"You sound like my-" he stopped mid way through his sentence and thought what he was going to say now. He decided it would be better to not say anything for a while and stood up and walked over to the corner Penelo was sitting in.
He watched Balthier and Basch as they lifted the drain lid and placed it in the opposite corner to where Vaan and Penelo were sitting.
Balthier, Basch and Fran stood over the drain, looking down into the place below. Surprisingly there were lights all the way down the tunnel which made their eyes hurt.
"Who wants to go down first then?" asked Fran, looking towards Vaan.
"Well don't look at me, I don't wanna go down first," he said as he got up to see what was actually down there. It was very bright, practically white. Fran, Vaan, Basch and Balthier all moved away and shouted at each other, not noticing that Penelo had got up from the corner she was sitting in and started to climb the ladder, Larsa following. The other four were still arguing – but went silent when Penelo screamed.
"Who's that!" Balthier shouted, looking at the corner Penelo and Larsa were sitting in minutes before. Vaan noticed that the echoing was coming from the bright tunnel that they were arguing about going down.
"Penelo?" he said, peering down the hole. "What's wrong?" he asked her.
"There's rats!" she squealed, looking up at Vaan. Vaan looked back up at Fran, Basch and Balthier and quickly said "Come on," as he continued to go down the ladder into the bright hole.
When they were all down the ladder and the rats had scurried away, they then had the problem of which way to go. The only person who would have a real idea of which way to go would be Fran, who was already walking away. Everybody guessed she knew her way, so followed her.
On the way they saw many, many rats and the odd spider or two. Nobody knew where they were going to go, not even Fran, but she didn't say anything. Suddenly loud bangs and thumps travelled through the tunnelling sewers.
"The water!" Basch shouted, making a loud echo that got quieter and quieter.
Yep. Well that was chapter 4. I'm going back to Fran's POV now, I have an idea :L. It's already been started (if that makes sense) and I am going to France in a couple of days so I'll try and have it done by the end of our Easter holidays! I hope you enjoyed that chapter, but I hope you enjoy the next chapter even more!! See Yaa!
