Chapter four! I really have to say, all the reviews are helping a lot. So thanks you guys! Anyway…the sisters are reunited but not really and Fiora is flipping out, Farina is freaking out and Florina finally stuck up for herself! Boy, are those girls busy! So now we'll give those (poor) girls a break and go to the Caelin Commander himself for a little while, perhaps see a bit of Sain and Serra…maybe some let's-get-Sain-in-trouble-stuff…

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Another side of her, the stronger side, laughed. Did you see her face? It was classic. Fiora deserved it and you know it. She's always trying to control everything and everyone. You know for a fact that's why Farina left. She felt suffocated. And you do too. She always walks all over you and tells you what to do. And guess what? You comply. So don't feel bad, Florina. Feel good, you just stood up for yourself! She won't be mad anyway!

Um…wrong, Florina's conscience. She is major P.Oed right now.


Sisters NOT So Reunited

"We'll talk later, Florina." Fiora said frostily as she slammed her javelin at the nearest target. Poor guy, talk about picking the wrong day to be a mercenary. And poor Florina, she picked the extremely wrong day to stand up for herself. Yesterday would have been better. For Elimine's sake, any day but this day would have worked. Guess you really do have to be in the right place at the right time.

Florina said nothing as she took down the nearest foe. Her angelic face said nothing of contempt, but her attacks were vicious. Fiora, beside her, had already felled four monks and was working on her fifth. The tension between the sisters is like an oil tank and a match—not good.

Meanwhile, Kent and his battalion of knights fought at the northern bridge. Lowen was severely injured on a count of him trying to force feed Isadora during the battle. While on the cot he kept muttering, "But…she hadn't eaten…meals taken…are so…important!" Then he was knocked out cold by Serra's heal staff (by 'accident' you see). Sain had taken a mighty blow when he tried wooing Serra while she was tending to Lowen. Serra hadn't even noticed his pain and agony (Sain was screaming after all) until she saw him lying there with an arrow sticking out of his shoulder (seems like Hector wasn't doing his job properly).

"Sir Marcus, your left!" Kent yelled as he alerted the seasoned knight to the horseman riding towards him. Marcus looked up just in time to send his javelin straight through the enemy's neck. Ew. How gross.

Apparently not gross enough, for this is where Farina decided to land.

I can't stay over there with Fiora…she'll kill me and then blame it on "the enemies." I can't let her do that! Plus, they could use me over here. It seems like those ballistae are giving them a hard time. There's even a knight with an arrow sticking out of his shoulder! Ouch. That's got to hurt. Where's that girl from before…? Raine, was it? Lavender hair…lavender hair…kind of like Florina's…there! I'll see if she'll let me stay! Farina thought hopefully as she flew in Raine's direction. Raine, however, was busy lecturing Serra on how to properly heal someone—even though she's not a cleric herself.

And I'm not completely convinced Serra is either.

"No, Serra! You can't just leave him here! You have to pull it out and then heal him. You can't just heal him when the arrow's still in there!" Raine shouted. She thought it'd be obvious that you can't heal someone when they've got a shaft still stuck in him or her. It appears that Serra never heard that little tidbit in clerical school. It makes you wonder what she did learn in that school… Sure wasn't celibacy.

"But Raine…! He's always saying gross things to me and trying to get me in his tent and stuff! I think—"

"I. Do. Not. Care. What. You. Think. You will take out the arrow and you will heal him, Serra. Do I make myself clear?" For a girl of barely five feet, she was extremely…persuasive, if you catch my drift. Serra did and got to work, prying the bloodied arrowhead from a semi-conscious Sain. I say semi-conscious for a reason. He was still sufficiently coherent to flirt with Raine, but not well enough to know to stop. Last time Sain flirted with Raine he ended up doubled over on the grassy floor.

Enough said.

Farina landed and dismounted, Raine turned around to see the newly appointed pegasus knight staring at her. Ooh, I bet she's here to thank me for reuniting her with her sisters! Oh, I'm so happy for her! Raine thought excitedly. She walked towards the knight, but not before she glared at Sain for making rude remarks he would so regret if he wasn't incapacitated (lucky him) at the moment.

"Uh…Raine? Can we talk?" Farina said awkwardly. What a conversation this is going to be. The knight thought sarcastically. The amber eyed girl looked to Farina who was a couple inches taller.

"Yes…of course. What is it?" Raine had a sneaking suspicion that she wasn't here to thank her. Or anything of that sort, but what Raine heard didn't quite make sense to even her brilliant, brilliant mind.

"You don't want to see Fiora or Florina ever again? Ever during this…campaign? Is this what I'm hearing?" Raine said skeptically. "You're joking!" She laughed until she saw Farina smiling grimly. Her laughter faded.

"Um…no I'm not? Listen, we just have a few…kinks in our relationship. We're not exactly 'sisterly' in any way. More like…I'm the kid and she's the drill sergeant. I've got nothing against Florina, mind you. She is my sister after all…it's just the other sister I've complications with. Will this be a problem because I've already got my pay and if you say "no" I'm out of here—"

"Okay, whoa there…calm down for a second. Let me figure this out, you don't want to work with your relatives—excuse me, relative. But if I say too bad, you'll leave. Correct?" Farina nodded, turning slightly around to see if Murphy (and her gold) was still there. "Well, then. You're staying as far as I'm concerned. But you can't stay here; there are ballistae all over—"

"No problem!" Raine started to look confused.

"Pardon me?"

"I can take care of the ballistae." Raine looked muddled now, completely muddled.

"You're a pegasus knight and though I've heard of your prowess elsewhere I don't think…" Raine's voice faded off when she saw the determined (and also bored) look on Farina's face. "You really think you can do this? Because, I'll admit it, it'd be a great advantage if someone could take down those archers. They're causing problems for us." In other words, Hector isn't doing his job! Raine giggled mentally. I told you he wasn't doing his job!

Let's see…I can a) take down those pesky archers and possibly get a raise for such amazing skill or b) stay here and fight without showing off and don't get a raise or c) go back to where Fiora and Florina are fighting and have Fiora 'by accident' chop my head off. Choice 'c' was eliminated almost immediately (obviously). Hm…I do like raises…, Farina thought covetously.

"Yep, I can do it." Farina agreed. Raine eyed the arrogant knight. She is either as skilled as is said or is even greedier than I've heard! And I've heard she's pretty greedy. Elimine, help me. Raine prayed silently. Again, it boils down to Elimine's help—well what if she doesn't want to? Hm? What then? You can't expect a deity to be benevolent all the time.

"Okay…watch yourself, Farina of the Stormwings! I want you back here alive and though you may not think so, so do your sisters." Farina didn't hear one word other than "raise" echoing in her head…and "heaps of gold". Oh yeah, time to earn that raise! Farina thought. Hm…did Raine say something? Guess not, let's go! Farina mounted Murphy and patted him confidently (or rather patted her cloth bag of gold) and soared.

Not long before she got into the air, a ballista aimed for her and shot. Luckily, the archer wasn't skilled at all (even Hector was skilled compared to this lout) and Farina didn't even notice the bolt until she saw it fly way past her. Raine was worried about these pathetic archers? Please! She should have given me more credit than this! That arrow didn't even come close to me! Farina thought smugly.

Karma, ever hear of it? It's this thing that dictates what's going to happen in your life whether it be bad or good. You do good things and think good, unselfish, humble thoughts, you're fine. You be bad and attack other people and/or try and maul your sisters, you're not going to do so well. And trust me, karma gets around. What comes around goes around. And what doesn't come the first time will bite you in the derrière the next. It happens.

And it did happen. Suddenly, an arsenal of arrows came raining down at dangerous and erratic speeds. It was all unpredictable and unpredictability is a very bad thing if you're mid-air and in the middle of an unholy hail of arrows. Which Farina did.

And she was very, very, very scared.


Dun, dun, dun! And so Farina finds herself in a storm of arrows all directed towards her and she's stuck. Arrows to her left, arrows to her right, arrows falling on top of her head. I would NOT want to be in her position right now. If you want to save her (which I hope you would) I'd review right now! I mean, those arrows can only stay suspended in air for so long until one of them hits its mark…