A/N: Hello Everyone! Sem break is now here.. and not only that my birthday is now over . Anyway another thanks to my beta reader, kuchinatsu for his taking time to read and edit my story for me.
please enjoy this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Nobunaga the Fool, I only own the plot and some of my OCs.
PS: and sorry another long delay...
Chapter Three
We were in a quiet place just a bit away from town, which offered an incredible view of the entire burg. There were some crystal like things that were surrounding the place, making me want to take a picture of the whole view with my phone. But Jeanne was sitting next to me, and I couldn't afford to risk more questions from her. I obviously couldn't tell her my secret.
I glanced at Da Vinci who was busy writing something in his notebook near us, then looked back at the blond girl next to me. I noticed that she looked so shy, nervous, and probably lonely, maybe because of how the people in town acted towards her. I remembered hearing rumors about her being demon-possessed from a group of girls that I ran into, before coming here, but I didn't care what they said at all.
I sighed. The opinions of the people here were absolutely nuts, so damn them and their freaking beliefs to hell. I didn't like it, but of course I couldn't do anything about it, since the people in the medieval dimes were really different from the people that lived in the modern age.
"Uhm, excuse me," asked a voice, causing me to snap out of my thoughts. I looked beside me and noticed that Jeanne was looking at me, curiously.
"What is it?" I asked her.
"I was not able to get your name." she replied.
My name? Oh right, I was not able to introduce myself to her just yet, since I was really in a hurry to get here.
"I am Jenna Romero," I introduced myself while standing up and bowing. "Nice to meet you, Jeanne-chan."
She bowed back at me as well.
"Nice to meet you too, Jenna-chan."
I smiled at her and she smiled back. While sitting back down, I admitted that I was curious to learn more about her and her life in this town. She looked down, as if feeling a bit scared.
"Hey, no need to be scared—and I don't care for what people say about you," I told her. "I find you interesting."
She was evidently shocked by what I said, eyes widening and filling up with tears.
"No one ever said that to me, not even my friends here, who seem to hate me so much. Everyone here is so scared of me because of the voices I hear and the visions I see."
Poor girl... She must be really lonely. All she wanted was to be accepted by everyone in this town. So I decided to give her a big hug, which surprised her.
"From now on, I will be your friend, okay?"
"A friend…" my blonde companion repeated to herself. "But I never had a friend like you, a true kind of friend."
"Yeah, a friend who accepts you, just for who you are."
"I..I…"
She seemed to go into further shock with my words. The tears that were hanging to her eyelashes began flowing freely.
"I...I feel so happy...that I was able to meet you…"
Jeanne deserved to have some friends, who would accept her for who she was. She should meet my friends, I felt, but of course they were still back in my world, who knows how far away and unreachable. Speaking of my friends... I missed them so badly, especially my best friend, Katie. With a pang, I wondered how she was doing right now?
"Yeah, me too," I said with a smile. "So, tell me about yourself!"
She looked so surprised when I asked her to tell me about herself. I remembered in the anime, they just gave us a little glimpse of her past life, brief childhood flashbacks, but I wanted to learn more about her and the other characters.
"Uhm, nothing is special about myself except hearing voices and seeing visions," Jeanne told me. "And being demon-possessed…"
I turned my head away a bit, frowning at these downtrodden words. Tilting my head back, I opted to redirect the conversation. There was more to her than that, and I'd let her prove it herself. "I mean—any hobbies, likes, dislikes etc?"
"Oh, not really. But…I like flowers, and animals."
I listened as she continued to talk about herself. From our conversation, I learned that she was an only child who wanted to have siblings, but with that desire came the equal fear of prejudice that would cause them suffering, as people's hatred did for her. She was an earnest and hard-working person, helping her parents a lot every day, just to make a simple living.
"It's not easy though, especially when you are being pranked daily," the blonde female told me sadly, looking down.
Oh, right. She also experienced being bullied a lot by her so called friends and other kids here in the village.
We continued to talk about our favorite things and our dislikes; I told her a bit about myself as well, but obviously left out the more troublesome facts, like the minor detail of me, uh. Coming from another dimension. We kept at it until Da Vinci approached us, and then we both redirected our gazes at him.
"You two are getting along just fine," he observed with smile. He then looked at the blonde girl next to me. "So, Jeanne are you coming with us to the Star of the East?"
I glanced at Jeanne who flicked her eyes back at me, then returned to look at Da Vinci and nodded.
"I am ready to find who will be the Savior King that will save both stars," she replied with a determined voice, ringing in sharp contrast to her demure speech bare moments before..
A satisfied smile. "Okay then. Shall we go?"
We both nodded and headed towards Magellan's starship . The Admiral greeted us as soon we entered the ship. He and Da Vinci talked for awhile, while Jeanne and I sat in one of the coaches in the captain's lounge. I made myself comfortable on the plush cushions, looking around the lounge in amazement. It was large and looked so comfortable for guests to stay in. It also had many floor-to-ceiling windows so that you were privy to witnessing the vastness of space. The staff were there as well since this was also where they controlled the ship.
I stared with amazement as the starship began to take off to space. I couldn't believe my luck! I got to see and go to space for free, in the flesh! Not only that, I was going to see Nobunaga really soon!
I heard a gasp beside me, causing me to jump I looked to my side and realized that Jeanne had a vision.
"Did the prophecy call to you?" asked Da Vinci, who was sitting at Jeanne's right side.
"I… need...to go..." she muttered, standing up suddenly as if in a trance.
"I'll go with you." the blue haired male said, standing up too.
"Count me in!" I stood up, and we ran to the door.
So the three of us ran towards the small starship where Da Vinci's Giant War Armor was located. Da Vinci managed to knock one of the men out, and then we entered the small starship and it started to descend from the main starship. I couldn't hide my excitement; beside me, Jeanne had her hands on both of her ears.
"I am not sure if this is a good idea, Da Vinci." She told him.
"You heard the voice telling you to go right away, no?"
"Yeah, But—"
"Come on, Jeanne, this will be fun," I said, voice edging into absolutely gleeful territory.
Jeanne stared at me like I was crazy.
"It's inevitable," I said, repeating Nobu's favorite motto. She blinked at this, but she continued to cover her ears with her hands.
The starship kept on descending, then suddenly I felt the small starship start to shake violently. I heard Jeanne scream beside me. It looked like we got hit by their cannon.
"Seems like this is gonna be a bumpy ride!"
This time, the starship shuddered even more violently than before. Reeling, I could feel that we were diving too fast towards land, rushing closer and closer. It looked like we going to crash!
BOOOOM!
The impact of the crash was bone rattling. I tried to stand up, but my head hurt like hell, making me feel really dizzy. Everything around me was spinning like crazy..damn I feel so dizzy…
Suddenly, everything faded to black.
