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"The bonds of five shall soon be bound, by a fairytale legend."
Chapter 3
Bonds of a Feather
The Kingdom of Dalmasca
1 Hour Later...
Rabanastre
Southern Plaza
As Reks, Vaan, and Penelo were relaxing around the water fountain watching as the different races of people walked by,
they soon began to wonder if their uncle was ever going to show up.
"It's going to be sunset by the time he gets here." said a sighing Reks.
"Don't worry he'll be here, he's never broken a promise to us before, why start now." said a smiling Vaan.
"Yeah, we even got our parents' permission." said a happy Penelo.
"I guess so." said a somewhat board Reks.
As Reks, Vaan, and Penelo continued watching the different races walk by, they suddenly heard a voice call out to them.
"Reks...Vaan...Penelo...over here." said a drunken voice, as the three turned towards the source of the noise, they then saw Abel walking towards them with
an Ale in his hand and a happy smile on his face.
"Oh no not you." said a groaning Vaan.
"What...I don't have the right to see...my three...little buddies." said a slurred Abel, as he took another chug of his Ale.
"Don't be giving us that buddy routine, you just don't know when to quit, you drunken Cockatrice." said an annoyed Vaan.
"Common...can't we all be...friends." said a waterfall crying, Abel.
"Sure I'll be your friend." said a voice behind Abel, who suddenly turned around and hugged the person with joy only to feel a rock hard body in the process,
thus Abel looked up only to see Ryder with a very displeased look on his face and a tick mark on his forehead.
"Hello Abel," said Ryder
"AHHHHHH BOSS.," said a screaming Abel, as he quickly backed away and up against a wall scared to death by his so-called
increasingly angry by the second superior.
"How many times have I told you not to drink in public, especially in front of young children!" said a pissed off Ryder.
"Only four hundred and ninety-nine times and possibly that one time I went on a bender with two pretty good looking women from-."
said Abel, who was suddenly interrupted quickly for forgetting who he was talking to.
"ENOUGH, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT COMING FROM YOU!, ahem and clearly since you can keep track and describe an event in such explicit detail than
your sober enough to consider this your five hundredth warning!" said a smiling and beyond pissed Ryder, as he removed his wooden sword from his hip
and began to clobber Abel who started screaming like a little girl.
A Few Minutes Later...
"Let that be another lesson you won't soon forget, you Drunken Dum-Ass Cockatrice." said a satisfied Ryder, as he looked at a black and blue,
bleeding Abel on the ground twitching like a piece of road kill.
"Sorry about that, I guess I don't know my own strength and got carried away heh heh ." said a somewhat embarrassed Ryder.
"It's alright, we enjoy watching you beat up Abel especially when he screams like a little girl." said a laughing Vaan.
"Only because he's a pervert." said a giggling Penelo.
"And a drunk." said a chuckling Reks.
"Well on a different note I see that you're all here, which means you three got permission from your parents correct,"
said Ryder with an affirmative headshake.
"Yes we did Uncle." said all three at the same time while smiling.
"Glad to hear it, but before we go to the festival, I'm going to need your help with a little something Vaan." said a somewhat serious Ryder.
"Sure thing, anything you need Master Ryder, you just name it." said a smiling Vaan.
"Hold it Vaan, does this have anything to do with your two companions over there, they look like some important figures to me." said an observing Reks.
"Sharp as always Reks, yes they are, let me introduce his Lordship Prince Rasler Heios Nabradia and her Ladyship Princess Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca.
said, Ryder, as the two royal children took a slight bow towards Reks, Vaan, and Penelo.
After a few minutes of staring at the two royals, who were starting to become unconvertible at the awkward situation.
"Huh who would have thought." said a somewhat curious Vaan.
"Vaan show some respect, that's Prince Rasler of our neighboring Kingdom of Nabradia and Princess Ashelia of our very own Kingdom of Dalmasca."
said an embarrassed Penelo, who was bowing along with Reks.
"Vaan you could at least show a little bit of respect," said Reks.
"Alright brother," said Vaan, as he slightly bowed towards the two royals.
"Now it's your turn," said Ryder.
"Hello my names Penelo it's nice to meet the both of you." said a smiling Penelo.
"Greetings my names Reks it's nice to meet the both of you as well." said a waving Reks.
"Hey my names Vaan." said an embarrassed Vaan, who quickly turned his back towards the two royals which made both royals sweet drop.
"Don't worry about Vaan, he gets a little embarrassed around new faces." said a worried Ryder with a sweet drop as well.
"Anyways now that introductions are out of the way, word on the street is that Vaan here is a pretty good tracker amongst other particular talents,
so are you up for helping track down a missing Chocobo named Isabelle that belongs to Lady Ashelia here." said Ryder.
But before Vaan could answer Reks wanted to make sure Ryder understood what he was asking since this was Vaan, his very own brother.
"Listen, Ryder, I know you're doing this for a noble reason, but I don't like it when my brother gets involved with the higher-class." said a neutral Reks.
"I understand," said Ryder.
"See that you do uncle," said Reks.
"So as I was saying, Vaan do you think you can track down this Chocobo named Isabelle," said Ryder.
"Sure, I got a little friend who might just know where we can start looking." said a grinning Vaan.
Afterwards, Vaan explained that they had to go to the Ozmone Plain in order to find his little friend, so Vaan, Penelo, Reks, Ashelia, Rasler, Ryder, and Abel
who was being dragged by the shirt by Ryder, just in case there was trouble.
Ozmone Plain
"Alright we're here, so where's your little friend?" said Ryder as he dropped a somewhat passed out Abel on the ground.
"Just give me a moment," said Vaan as he took a few steps forward and started concentrating.
As Ashelia and Rasler were waiting patiently, they saw Vaan close his eyes and lift up his left hand in front of him and after a moment
a soft illuminating light started glowing from Vaan's body.
"What is that light." thought a somewhat surprised Rasler.
"It's so beautiful and it has a warm feeling to it." thought a blushing Ashelia.
"It's so majestic and pure." thought a blushing Penelo as well.
"I hope Ryder won't get upset with my little brother since he's been using this strange power for a while now."
thought a worried Reks as he looked over towards Ryder.
"It can't be, his powers have already started to manifest, then it's only a matter of time before his other latent powers begin to emerge, by the elder gods if
agents of the Oblivion Organization ever found out, there's no telling what length's their lords would go to get their hands on him, it may already too late!"
thought a shocked and worried Ryder.
After a minute had passed the light began to die down along with Vaan lowering his left hand and opening his eyes. After a few moments, nothing happen's
when all of a sudden a fast-moving shadow came running through the tall grass like a streak of lighting, Ryder was about to pull out his short sword from
behind his lower back when suddenly Vaan put up his hand which told Ryder in a silent gesture to stand down, and so he complied. Then all of a sudden
a young pure white feathered Chocobo jumped out of the tall grass and tackled Vaan to the ground and started nuzzling against Vaan's chest
making him start laughing.
"Ah hah common Zero that tickles hah hah okay boy I'm sorry, I know I haven't been visiting as often as I should." said a laughing Vaan who
was stroking the pure white feathered Chocobo's face, while in a sitting position.
"So this is the little friend you were talking about who can point us in the direction of Isabella." said a somewhat cheerful Ryder.
"Yeah his name's Zero, his mother was killed by a pack of Hyena's, and so the three of us decided to raise him from a hatchling and ever since then we've
been the best of friends, and he's the one who will be able to tell us where Isabelle is." said Vaan as he finished stroking Zero.
"Wait a minute Vaan, how can you communicate with a Chocobo you're a Hume?" said a very curious Ashelia.
"Well the thing is I don't just understand a Chocobo, I can understand any animal or beast, your Ladyship," said Vaan as he continued to stroke Zero.
"How can that be." said a confused and curious Ashelia.
"To tell you the truth I don't really know myself it's like a deep connection between me and everything around me."
said a calm Vaan, with a far distant look in his eyes.
"Then what was that light-" said Rasler, but was interrupted by Ryder who put his hand up in front of Rasler and shook his head telling him not to dig any
deeper, which got Lady Ashelia extremely curious.
"Did you just say something your Lordship." said a spaced out Vaan.
"No never mind it's nothing to worry about." said a somewhat sweating Rasler.
"Well I should start asking Zero where Isabelle is then." said a now standing Vaan.
Once Vaan was ready he stood in front of Zero and proceeded to close his eyes along with Zero's, after a few minutes of silence Vaan opened his eyes once
more along with Zero's and looked towards Ashelia.
"Zero heard from a few other Chocobo's in the surrounding lands that a Chocobo not belonging to any known pack had a crystal around its neck and was
spotted in the Dalmasca Estersand." said a calm Vaan.
"That's my Isabelle alright." said a joyous Ashelia.
"Then we better hurry, nightfall will soon be upon us and if your Chocobo is still out their then I fear she may be in danger of being attacked by Wolfpacks
or Wild Saurian's." said a serious Ryder.
"Then we have no time to lose." said a worried Ashelia as she started to hurry back towards Rabanastre.
"Hold on your ladyship there is a shortcut we can take just past the Giza South Bank that will lead us into the Dalmasca Estersand," said Ryder.
"Then please lead the way." said a frantic Ashelia.
Dalmasca Estersand
After the group traveled for some time they made it into the Dalmasca Estersand, which upon entering,
saw a lone Chocobo being surrounded by a pack of Wolf's.
"That's my Chocobo Isabelle, please we must help her." said a worried Ashelia.
"That's it, common Zero let's go help Isabelle." said Vaan as he got on the back of his feathered friend who "kweh!"
and took off charging into the pack of Wolves.
"Wait, Vaan it's too dangerous!." said a worried Penelo.
"That reckless brother of mine is going to get himself killed one of these days." said an agitated Reks as he ran off after his brother
with a short sword in hand.
"We better go help them." said a chuckling Ryder.
"Yeah." said an equally chuckling Abel.
As both men pulled out their short swords from their lower backs as they glanced towards one another and nodded, and immediately afterwards they
dashed towards the center of the pack while cutting down any wolves that got in their way in order to protect and assist Vaan, Reks, Zero, and Isabelle
from the pack of wolfs that surrounded them. While Prince Rasler in the meantime protected Penelo and Lady Ashelia, while also keeping a sharp eye out
for any other predators in the area.
After a couple of minutes of fighting, most of the Wolves were either dead or dispersed.
"Well that was easy." said a smirking Vaan who was standing next to Isabelle and Zero.
Then suddenly Penelo walked up to Vaan and smacked him across the face.
"Huh." said a surprised Vaan as he held his hand to his cheek.
"YOU IDIOT, YOU NEVER THINK BEFORE YOU ACT!" said an angry crying Penelo.
After a few minutes of silence between the two, Vaan slowly hugged Penelo close to him which stopped her crying along with surprising her,
but after a moment she hugged him back.
"I'm sorry Penelo I should have thought things through, I just reacted on the spur of the moment," said Vaan with closed eyes.
"It's alright I'm just glad you're safe." said a content Penelo with her eyes closed as well.
"Ahem you two finished because if you are, we need to return to Rabanastre before the festival starts without us." said an amused Reks.
"Oh yeah sorry." said an embarrassed Vaan.
"Oh no forgive me." said an even more embarrassed Penelo.
"It's alright." said a chuckling Vaan.
"Hey seriously thought we better get back now before King Raminas gets worried and starts sickening his Knightly Order on us." said a smiling Ryder.
"Yeah...I don't really feel like being charged with temporary royal kidnapping either." said a reluctant Abel.
"Alright let's head back then, you ready to go lord Raze, lady Ashe." said a smiling Vaan, as he walked past them.
"Ashe?" said a bewildered Ashelia.
"Raze?" said an equally bewildered Rasler.
"Don't worry it's Vaan's way of giving new friends he trusts nicknames," said Ryder.
"What you don't like it." said a questioning Vaan.
"No it's just I never had a nickname before now." said a smiling blushing Ashe, as she started stroking Isabelle's beak out of nervousness who did a soft
"kwehing" sound in return.
"It's the same for me as well." said a smiling but somewhat embarrassed Rasler.
When suddenly both Ashe and Rasler realized what Ryder just said a moment ago.
"Wait are you saying we're friends now." said both a hopeful and shocked Ashe and Rasler.
"Of course." said a laughing Vaan as he started running back towards the Royal City of Rabanastre with Penelo and Reks in tow, then after a moment Rasler
and Ashe started to give chase along with Isabelle following her friend close by.
"Well we better get going as well don't want to miss the festival now do we." said a smirking Ryder.
"Yeah." said an equally smirking Abel.
"Oh and thanks Zero for all your help, we'll be back later to play, I promise." said a smiling Vaan as he kept running while waving goodbye to his pure white
Chocobo friend who jumped up and down "kwehing!" in response and afterward took off back towards the Ozmone Plain.
Rabanastre
Main Plaza
After getting back to the Main Plaza, the group started to enjoy the festival that was in full swing now with everyone playing, conversing, dancing, eating,
and of course drinking.
Then after a while, a song that Vaan recognized was being performed by a group of traveling musician's that was located in the Main Plaza Square.
Authors Note: Insert "lovely calamities" by Tsuneo Imahori
"I know this song." said a chuckling Vaan, as a ukulele was being played along with a flute, guitar, and drums as well as other instruments. After a minute
of listening to the music being played he suddenly felt someone grasp onto his right hand, thus he looked over to his right to see Penelo holding it while
looking at the stage that was set up for the musicians. After a moment of looking between Penelo and the stage, Vaan suddenly said "Go on" to Penelo,
who suddenly blushed at Vaan's words along with looking over towards Vaan who had an affirmative headshake, thus a smiling blushing Penelo started
walking towards the stage with a rapidly beating heart.
Once she reached the stage she asked politely to the musician's if she could dance to the same song once again which they happily agreed to play once more.
As the song began once again Penelo immediately began to dance to the rhythms of the music which entranced the crowd and even got the crowd even
more excited to dance to the music.
"Wow look at Penelo go she certainly knows how to get a crowd going." said a surprised Reks as he and his brother watched Penelo dance on stage.
"Well her dream is to become a famous dancer one day." said a chuckling Vaan.
"Yeah I guess so." said a chuckling Reks.
Afterwards, the crowd started dancing and clapping to the rhythm of the music along with Vaan, Reks, Raze, Ashe, and Ryder, who then saw Abel chatting
it up with a few good looking Viera women only to be dragged away immediately by Ryder before he did something he would be regretting later on.
A Few Hours Later...
It was very early in the night when the group decided that they had enough fun at the festival and decided to head towards the Royal Palace of Rabanastre.
While making their way towards the Royale Palace Vaan remembered a gift he got from Zero before he left, that he wanted to share
with the rest of his friends.
"Hold up for a second, I got a gift that I almost forgot to give to you guys that I got from Zero," said Vaan as he was going through his pouch that he
carried around on his waist.
As he was doing this everyone started to gather around Vaan to see what kind of gift he wanted to share with them.
"Here they are," said Vaan as he pulled out several pure white Chocobo feathers.
"Wait a minute are those the same feathers that came from your Chocobo friend Zero," said Ashe.
"Yes your highness, oh and don't worry about Zero he gave them to me just before we entered the Dalmasca Estersand," said Vaan.
"I see," said Ashe
"You know there's a local legend behind these' particular types of feathers amongst us Dalmascan's." said a smiling Penelo.
"Yeah, a local legend saying that these particular feathers can intertwine and bind the lives of friends and loved ones no matter where they are,
no matter how far away they are, and no matter how long they are apart these feathers will bring them back together again." said a nostalgic smiling Vaan.
"Is there a name behind these particular feathers," said Rasler.
"Sure is, we Dalmascan's like to call them the bonds of a feather." said a smiling Penelo.
To Be continued
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