However, I do own Esakatari, Sutara, Luther and Constantine, they are my characters and you may not use them unless you have permission from me.
Journeys in the darkTo this day I don't really know why we had to travel at night on our way back home…I thought that it would be better if we traveled in the sun light but we didn't. The only thing I could guess was that we where traveling at night so that Constantine could practice his darkness absorbing powers. Whenever there was a large collection of shadows in a particular place Constantine would reach out and some how pull the dark matter into his fingers then throw it back out the same way when ever we where under the moon. Kadaj's behavior had been changing around me too; I could tell that he didn't like Constantine at all! He was constantly glaring at him whenever he saw Constantine with me. In fact…Kadaj didn't seem to like any of the boys when they where with me. But he showed his detest more at Constantine than any one else. He wouldn't stop glaring at him, and he was getting worse to him all the time.
"What is the matter with you?" I finally asked him when no one was around to hear but him and me.
"What are you talking about?"
"You're constantly staring at Constantine when he's with me like you're going to kill him!"
"Aw, You're just interpreting it wrongly that's all. I'm not glaring at him…I'm not even looking at him." I huffed as Kadaj got up and walked away. He didn't notice that I saw some thing of mine hanging out of his pocket as he walked off. It was a silver locket I loved so dearly…I had found it one day on the streets and I never took it off. Then one day the chain broke while I was play fighting with Lord Sephiroth and I couldn't find it. I was about to run up and demand it back but I waited till he got back. He acted like the whole reason why he left was to get wood. I glanced back when he might have thought I wasn't looking and I saw him pull the locket out and look at it a long time. I was puzzled on why he was so attracted to it like I had been once. He closed his hand around it whenever some one else could possibly see him obsessing over it or even see it at all then he'd just open his hand again and keep on looking at it. When people started settling down for the night he finally put it around his neck instead of in his pocket then hid it in his coat.
"Hey! He put a new chain on it! He should have given it back to me!" I was getting mad. "Why is he consumed with that thing? He should have given it back to me! He's also been pushing the other boys away from me with his words even when they haven't done any thing! Why is he being such a jerk?" I walked over to Constantine, I put part of my self in Kadaj's mind to see what his reaction was when I started talking to the others, Kadaj's head jerked up and he started glaring at Constantine again then first thing in his head was
'Get away from her Constantine!' Then when I kept talking to him his emotions changed from anger to agony then his thoughts changed,
'Damn! Why do I have to go threw this torture? Just get away from her!' Was the one that confused me, until his thoughts changed again as well as his emotions from agony back to anger…only it was way worse now!
'If that guy doesn't get away from Esakatari soon! I'm gonna punch him in the nose! And I'll make sure his in PAIN before I leave him alone again!' I glanced up, Kadaj's face now looked like the very devil! I quickly walked away then Kadaj got up and walked away again.
'I'm starting to get tired of this game!' was his last thought before I left his mind alone.
"We should regain strength before we continue." Luther said laying down his sleep area. Every one followed his example, that's when Kadaj did some thing very strange. He normally slept somewhere lonely but not tonight! He came over and clamed an area right between Constantine and me. When he thought no one was looking at him he pulled out his sword and hide it under his headrest.
"Why is he doing this?" Then I saw him glare up at Constantine and that's when I got wise.
"He IS jealous! He's trying to keep the others from coming near me! Wha? Does he think he owns me or some thing? Or is it even possible that he…no way! Oh…I remember…Lord Sephiroth told him to make sure I was just the same way I left but this is way too much!" I tried to think about some thing else, so I grabbed the little dragon eggs to check on them. They seemed almost ready to hatch! I got so excited that I almost yelled out. But instead I whispered over to Kadaj,
"Hey! The eggs are changing color!" He got up then walked over,
"Does that mean that they'll be out soon?"
"Yes! Yes it does!"
"Let me see." He sat down behind me. I turned around and faced him, we handed the eggs back and forth for a minute.
"Their colors vary…is there a reason for that?" he asked after he looked at one in particular.
"I think so but I can't remember what just now." I remembered what Jenova had told me right after I found these eggs,
"There's some thing I didn't tell you Kadaj…" He looked up, "…Jenova…was the one who lead me to the cave that day…she said so."
"Then there's obviously a reason for them being here." I looked up; he was still looking at the last one I had given him, it was the dark greenish-blue egg.
"Something interest about that egg?" I asked,
"I don't know what it is…" He said.
"You're probably attached to the embryo inside and don't know it." I said.
"Do you think that could happen?" He said looking up at last,
"It can AND most times it does." I answered; he looked back to the egg. I decided to see if he wanted it or not,
"Jenova never said I couldn't have help with raising them…" His glaze shot up,
"Okay!" He said smiling.
"…You want to raise it don't you?" he blushed and looked away.
"I don't have a problem with it." I said grinning,
"Bam!" He said looking down at the egg.
"Is that good or bad?"
"It's good." He said, his gaze pasted to the egg,
"You're going to have to keep it warm you know?"
"Don't care." He still didn't look up,
"It's not going to run away for no reason!" I said he finally looked up again.
"Sorry..." He blushed. "…Did Jenova tell you why she wanted you to find them?" I hesitated, she had also told me to keep the plan for the dragons a secret,
"…She did…but…she also told me to keep that underhanded."
"Oh, never mind…forget I asked." He handed the egg back to me,
"Wait…I thought we had said…"
"I shouldn't be raising it if there's a reason for it being here that you can't tell me." He walked away. I closed my eyes then looked down, I knew that the dragon wasn't going to be happy if it had bounded to Kadaj before it was born but…I didn't know if it HAD done that…and if it had then I had to tell him the reason for them being here or else the dragon would never listen to any one if Kadaj didn't raise it. Jenova had appointed me to take care of things…that meant that I had the final say so. I made my decision,
"Kadaj wait." He turned, "I know that if the dragon has bounded to you then…you're the only one who can raise it…it wouldn't listen to me…I'm not the one it chose. I'm going to have to trust you against what Jenova said." Luckily for me every one else was too caught up in some thing Sutara was doing to notice us,
"You don't have to do that if…"
"She wants them to be rider dragons." I cut him off. I felt like I had betrayed the most important secret that I was given, Kadaj raised his eyebrows.
"…Well, at lest now I know you're willing to tell some one who you can trust to keep quiet about what you're told." Kadaj said surprisingly,
"Wha…?"
"Jenova told me as well, she also said that one of them WAS going to bound to me."
"It would have been nice to know that earlier!" I said glaring at him.
"But then she wouldn't have been able to test you."
"Test me? On what?"
"To see if you trust any one else but your self. She wants you to stretch out and give your self away a little bit more." Constantine walked up,
"What's going on guys?" I saw Kadaj clench his teeth then relax and smile before he answered,
"I'm sorry. We can tell you that." Constantine looked for a moment at Kadaj with a raised eyebrow,
"Is this true?" He asked me.
"Yes. I'm sorry. It has to do with the reason why we're even out here." I explained as I took the liberty of getting into Kadaj's head to see what he was thinking.
'Get lost Constantine! Leave Esakatari and me alone!'
"I'm going to help put that fire out now." I said as Constantine left, I hadn't realized I wasn't out of Kadaj's thought before I heard the thought go through his head,
'No! She's leaving me!' I didn't pay attention to it; I just pulled my self out as fast as I could,
"So, Esakatari? You like this guy Kadaj?" Constantine asked when I got down.
"Not that way. I was kind of forced to have him for a companion on this journey."
"Well…even if you don't want to admit it he likes you…I can feel it." Luther interjected,
"Why?"
"You're not as ugly as you paint your self in the mirror when you look in it." Luther smiled, Sutara cut into the conversation saying,
"Even if you weren't physically attractive your personality is also appealing."
"So you're saying that he likes me for the way I look AND the way I acted?"
"Those could be some reasons yes." Constantine said finally putting out the fire.
"You boys…" I said rolling my eyes. Unexpectedly there was a snapping sound of a branch not to far away. Every one's attention shot up towards where the sound came from.
"Could have been a deer." I said shrugging,
"That's sound was to big to have been an accident caused by a deer." Kadaj said jumping down from the rock behind me.
"I agree with Kadaj…it sounded more like more like a human than an animal." Luther chimed in,
"You think there could be an attack?" I asked starting toward the rock
"I don't just think there's going to be one I know it!" Sutara said grabbing his sword. I ran over and got my guns,
"I may need these again." I said strapping the ammo around my chest.
"Get up on that rock and guard the eggs." Kadaj whispered to me. In one jump I was on top, the eggs where right behind me so I grabbed them and put them under me as I lied down on my abdomen to hide.
"It's to late at night for this." Kadaj moaned slinking behind a large bush to conceal him self.
"Keep talking. If you keep talking that loudly they may just find out where you are." Constantine said mockingly as he followed him,
"Oh ho!" I whispered to my self, unless Kadaj felt like it was going to be stupid to pull any thing now…he would get Constantine bad!
"Please don't do any thing." I prayed as I saw Kadaj's face go to a pissed off look and his eye slits contracted again as he growled deep in his throat when he saw Constantine beside him. Constantine didn't seem to notice it,
"So Kadaj? You like Esakatari?" Constantine asked after a minute, I knew this was a bad time along with he was a bad person to be asking that.
"What's it matter to you buddy?" Kadaj snapped narrowing his eyebrows at him.
"It was just a question." Constantine said shrugging. Kadaj gritted his teeth again,
"So YOU like her too! Don't you?" He growled at him,
"I never said I did I just…"
"You might as well have said it! I'm warning you! Stay away from her! And I won't have to get rough with you!" Kadaj's eyes blazed.
"Kay…it was just a question though."
"I said! Keep the hell away! Don't even get near her!" Kadaj said through gritted teeth. I shied away; I didn't want to ever hear a boy of my age that wasn't a relation of mine to say that about me to another boy.
"Oh, man! What do I do? No…he's just protecting me." There was another snapping sound then a large group of maybe twenty came out from behind the bushes on the other side. They shouted out in some language that the others wouldn't have spoken in but it was the language that my people used all the time. They shouted out things like,
"Where are all these people you said you saw?" Then some one would answer,
"I don't know…I saw them a minute ago." They started arguing.
"Now's a good time to attack with your power over darkness powers Constantine." I whispered to him. He boldly jumped out from behind the bush.
"Hello!" He shouted extending his hand forward; they started running towards him and they where almost on top of him when he sent the dark matter from his fingertips.
"Kadaj! Go!" I shouted to him loading my guns, Sutara was already out from behind his hiding place slashing at who ever dared to come out from the black abyss where he stood, Kadaj started doing the same. As more and more men started finding new places to come out, I shot at them sending them back into the darkness.
"You shouldn't bother people who are twice your strength children." Luther said beating some of them back with his ninja sticks…occasionally throwing his shuriken stars at them. After about an hour of this tactic Constantine pulled the darkness back into his hand, reveling twenty some odd men all beaten up and bleeding, they jumped up and retreated followed by Luther and Sutara chasing them off with their swords out.
"Good job." Kadaj said to me as I jumped down,
"Thanks…but if it weren't for Constantine we would all be bug juice." Kadaj looked at him then gave a some thing like a thanks, when the others got back we decided to put a guards man out to make sure they didn't come back. I went back up on the rock and grabbed the eggs. I counted them and found one missing!
"Kadaj! One…" I stopped when he showed the missing egg to me,
"…Oh, I remember." I blushed and walked over to my somewhat bed.
"Right." Kadaj said when I lied down. I drifted off to sleep after ten seconds.