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Chapter 7: What to do?
2 shadows stood in an alley. The street was nearly empty but they didn't want to be seen.
"Understand?" the girl asked
"Yes" the young boy replied
"I think Miria might drop by early to see who you are. Gather you materials today so if she comes by during the week, she might not miss you if you're out."
"Alright then"
"I will take my leave now." She turned around
"Be careful, Dietrich" She glanced over her shoulder.
"When aren't I?" With that she disappeared
"Well, is should go hunt now" the boy sighed. He stepped out of the alley into the street. The few people that were there left at the sight of him. Things never change he sighed to himself as he entered the east part of town.
Deneve, Cynthia, Clare and Yuma were sitting in the living room. Cynthia and Yuma were muttering amongst themselves while Clare and Deneve were at the dining table discussing probable strategies against Awakened Beings. Tabitha had gone out to get Yoki sensory lessons from Galatea again.
"Has anyone seen Helen?" Deneve suddenly asked. They all shook their heads.
"I thought she was resting" Yuma said
"No, her bed was cold when I woke up."
"Now that you mention it... Miria's missing too" Cynthia noticed
"You're right."
"I sense their Yoki on the roof" They turned seeing Tabitha enter.
"Do you know how long they've been there?" Deneve asked
"Before I left this morning"
"Hmm..."
"Should I go get them?" Cynthia asked. No one agreed or disagreed. Tabitha then shrugged.
"I guess." Cynthia went to the stairs up to the roof and climbed them. The door could be heard opening and closing. Tabitha took a seat on the couch and waited. They expected Cynthia to go up and return with Miria and Helen fairly quickly but 5 minutes passed and Cynthia hadn't returned.
"What's taking so long?" Clare stood up. "I'm going to get them." As she headed for the stairs to the roof, the sound of the door opening stopped her. The patter of footsteps followed and Miria, Cynthia and Helen appeared.
"Sorry we took so long" Cynthia apologized
"Uh... it's okay" Yuma said
"So what are we ganna do today?" Helen asked putting her hands on the back of her head and leaning back on the wall.
"I wanted to improve my Windcutter" Clare said
"I-I wanted to train as well" Yuma shyly said
"Alright then" Miria decided "Let's go." She went upstairs to their rooms and returned with Helen's and her sword. Tossing Helen's sword to her, she led the other to the training ground.
*CREAK* Cynthia opened the door to the roof. She glanced around the roof and was extremely surprised to see Helen asleep with her head in Miria's lap. She opened her mouth to apologize but Miria raised a hand telling her to stop.
"Shut the door" she quietly said. Cynthia obeyed closing the door quietly. Miria made motion for her to come over and sit beside her. Cynthia hesitated wondering if she walked into something she should have. She relaxed though as Miria gave her a gentle smile.
"It's alright Cynthia." She made her way to Miria and sat on the right side of her where Helen was not.
"You two are..."
"Helen is my little sister" Cynthia's eyes widened. She opened her mouth but no sound came out. Miria smiled. "I'll explain. 11 years ago when my family was attacked by Yoma, Helen and I were brought to the organization. I tried to make them release Helen so she could live a normal life but they refused. So instead I suggested they erase her memories so she wouldn't remember anything. They agreed, but not out of sympathy of course. They did it because it was a new experiment. Therefore, Helen had no memories, but it seems like her close encounter with death has brought back all her memories." The whole time she was explaining, her eyes never left Helen and she kept stroking Helen's hair.
"Then Helen only recently got her memories back, right?" Miria nodded "Then the whole time before you had to act like just a friend, right?" Miria nodded again. Cynthia paused for a moment before asking "Was... was it hard?" Miria looked up at Cynthia and blinked.
"I... you could say that" she returned her eyes back to Helen. Cynthia observed Miria for while, silent.
"You really love her. Don't you" she asked quietly. Miria looked at Cynthia and opened her mouth but she didn't say anything. Miria then quickly turned her head back down to Helen. Cynthia was wondering if she asked something she shouldn't have, but Miria nodded not looking at Cynthia. When she looked at Miria's face she could only chuckle. "I'd never thought I'd see you blush." Miria looked up at her ready to say something but was interrupted.
"You'll see her blush a lot more from now on" Helen yawned, opening her eyes. Miria looked back down at Helen.
"Awake, sleepy head?" she smiled.
"Yea" Helen yawned and sat up. "So what about the others?" she asked rubbing her eyes.
"The others?" Miria was confused
"Yea, are we going to tell the others about us or what?" Miria thought about it for a while.
"Well do you want to?" Helen hesitated
"I'm not sure"
"I'm not sure you should tell them" Cynthia said. "Well, not yet anyway."
"What do you mean?" Helen asked
"There's been a lot of action lately and I don't know if they're ready for more surprises" Miria nodded in agreement.
"That's true, I guess... " Helen tapped her chin "Alright, well tell them later on when things have died down. So we still have to tell Deneve, Clare, Tabitha, Yuma, Clarice, Miata, Galatea and I guess you could count Dietrich too." she decided standing "1 out of 9" Mira chuckled
"We should be getting back. I told them I would come up and quickly get you guys. They must be wondering what we're doing." Cynthia told them also standing.
"Then let's go" Miria headed for the door. The three of them went down to see the others, a silent promise between them.
*CLANG CLANG CLANG* Cynthia and Helen clashed as Deneve, Yuma and Clare watched from the sides. Miria was having Tabitha 'scan' for Yoma and Awakened Beings nearby.
"So?" she asked Tabitha
"I sense two Yoki signatures. They're in the town of Lezon. Regular Yoma it seems" Miria tapped her chin in thought.
"Tomorrow I will take you and Cynthia with me to the town of Lezon."
"What? Why?"
"Think, the boy Dietrich said she was going to give her messages to is in the town of Lezon. If the Yoma decide to have him for a meal..." she trailed of letting Tabitha fill in the rest.
"I see." Tabitha realized what Miria was saying. "Should we tell her now?"
"Once she is finished her battle with Helen." Nodding Tabitha and Miria joined Clare, Yuma and Deneve. Deneve was leaning against a tree while Clare and Yuma rested against their Claymores. Miria also lent against the tree while Tabitha sat down against the tree.
"So what do you think?" Miria asked
"3 minutes" Deneve replied
"Don't you think that's a stretch?"
"Knowing Helen she'll probably go on longer than her body allows"
"True" Miria lightly chuckled.
Surely enough about 3 minutes later Helen dropped to her knees covered in sweat. She was taking in big breaths of air.
"That's your limit" Cynthia said also dropping on her knees to help Helen up. She sheathed both Helen's and her Claymores before taking Helen's right arm. She swung it over her shoulders and used her left arm to support Helen by the waist and walked towards the others.
"Damn it." Helen muttered to herself
"You haven't fully recovered yet. Your body won't last that long" Cynthia comforted her laying Helen against the tree beside Tabitha as Clare and Deneve got ready to spar. She put Helen's Claymore down beside her and then stuck her own in the ground beside Yuma. She was about to sit down when Miria called her.
"You, Tabitha and I will head to Lezon tomorrow"
"Why?" Cynthia had not expected this
"Tabitha senses a Yoma in the town. Dietrich's messenger boy is also there. If they Yoma decided he wanted him for a meal… well you know what would happen."
"But why the three of us? You could very well go alone."
"Yes, but remember the rule that none of us may ever be alone. I'm brining you along because I intend to meet the boy. You have a nice personality and you might make him feel more comfortable around us. Not only that," she lowered her voice "Tabitha is probably the next person who will take the news well, next to Galatea"
"Ah, I see. Alright then."
"We will depart before noon" Miria informed. Cynthia nodded sitting down and watched as Deneve and Clare sparred.
Galatea stood at the top floor of the cathedral. The cold night wind ruffled her hair. Miria had told her that she, Tabitha and Cynthia were going to Lezon the following morning. Tabitha had sensed a Yoma and Miria was worried about the boy… worried may not have been the word. It was more like she didn't want to be without a messenger for Dietrich and seemed like she had to tell Tabitha something, alone. Using her Yoki sensory skill, she looked into the town of Lezon. After a search through the city, she smiled. It was a small smile one that did not reach her eyes. More of a smile of irony, for she did not sense one Yoki signal in the town of Lezon, but three.
"My my, I wonder how this will turn out" silently turning around she went to rest for the day.
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Sry about this chapter. I know there isn't much really going on but I hope the next chapter will have some action.