Chapter 9 She's the Pest-Girl!

Door.

Door.

Door.

Yuri, and basically the whole group, had lost count on how many doors they had seen. The last double doors they saw, one was a trap, which they fell into, where they had to fight a few knights.

Door.

Door.

Zagi.

W-what?

Yes, the annoying, pest, in other words, Zagi stood there, in all of his pathetic and puny pride. It was like the last room. Well, not really. The room they were in was huge. It looked like some sort of control room, although it didn't look like it was controlling anything, since it was just them and Zagi.

"Yuri Lowell… today, you have to pleasure of being my victim…." He said, in that ridiculous voice of his. Yuri sighed.

"Oh, not you again." He muttered as the rest of the group sighed along with him.

And then he heard the door opened, fast. The whole group lost their attention from Zagi to the door.

"Yuri!" One of the figures shouted.


Behind him, were Flynn and Sierra, panting. Their swords were covered in blood. They, themselves were covered in blood. Zagi laughed at the sight of the two, though more at Flynn. He didn't know Sierra.

"Oh, is this Flynn Scifo? Oh, never mind. Yuri's better to kill anyways." Zagi pondered, though they all ignored him.

"What happened?" Judith asked. Raven looked at the mess quickly. And then deducted on a result.

"Well, it appears ta be that Sierra darlin' and Flynn were attacked." He said, stating the obvious. Sierra sighed, as she wiped the blood off her forehead. It wasn't hers.

"We were attacked by the remaining of Alexei's soldiers. So, once we dealt with them, we ran off to follow you." Flynn explained. The others frowned, well, apart from Yuri, who had a thinking look on his face.

"I see, so the Royal Guard attacked you two…" Raven said, as he thought. The rest looked at him confused, since they didn't know the Royal Guard. Sierra caught their confused glances and explained, right before Flynn was going to.

"The Royal Guard is knights that are extremely loyal to the Commandant, in this case, Alexei." Sierra explained as she took a cloth from her bag and wiped the blood off her face, and sword. Once she was done, she looked up and looked at the figure who was now behind them.

"Well, do we have another moron to slice, or is this your friend, Yuri?" She asked, as she took her sword out and held it by her side, her left hand clenched around the handle tightly. Yuri broke a bead of sweat and frowned.

"Friend? This freak? More like a maniacal fiend who claims he's stronger than I am. Or in other words a-" He was about to continue, but when he heard the words come out of Karol's mouth, he sighed and all he did, and could do at the time was nod.

"-a freaky fan." Were the words that Karol said to complete the sentence.

"Hey! You guys are to praise me, not ignore me!" He shouted in anger and desperation. He didn't see it, but knew the moment he shrieked.

The conversations were over when he saw blood pouring out of his leg.

And Sierra's sword was coated in blood again.


"You-you, pest-girl! You cut my leg! You're the second one to make me bleed!" Zagi shouted through gritted teeth. Sierra laughed, as she loosened the grip on her sword, just a little. Apparently not, the conversations weren't finished yet.

"Is that an achievement? I never knew it was such an achievement to make an idiot like you to bleed. But, I'm quite grateful for the acknowledgement." She said, as she slashed his legs again. Due to her feeling the blastia that was in his weapon, she didn't feel quite comfortable aiming there. So it was his legs. Right behind her, Flynn and Yuri had gone behind him and slashed him, on his back.

"Violent Pain!" Rita shouted, as she did her little dance that went along with the incantation. Judith did a few things with her spear, occasionally fighting against Zagi (one-on-one style), but all she was supposed to do was watch the items with Repede. Patty and Raven were using their weapons like crazy, Patty trying to aim at the back of his head, while Raven tried to aim for his neck, but the arrow always got to his back or his chest on some occasions.

Karol stood there, with his hammer, which he had swapped his sword for, listening for the vital information Zagi would spill.


After they got information that Zagi spilled, saying that it was decoy that they were in, Sierra did the finishing blow. Ironically, it was the weakest move she knew.

"Demon Fang!" She shouted, standing a few feet away. He screeched in pain as he fell. Rita ran off to the control panel and turned everything off. But Zagi got up and ruined everything, by turning it on, and destroying the control panel.

And then Sierra got mad, literally.

"I don't know who the hell you are, but I will slice that blastia of yours if you don't care of this world, only of yourself. The world will NEVER revolve around you." She said, darkly. The dark vibes she was giving off made everyone in about a large radius, pale. She clenched her sword so tightly, that her knuckles turned white. All Zagi did was laugh.

"Oh crap." Yuri said, as she ran up to him, she being blinded in some sort of hate. She slashed him soo many times that many cuts started to appear on his legs, all of them slowly leaking out blood. And then he got kicked. A blur of green and red came to view.

"Well, well, well, wut do we have here?" A person spoke. Everyone turned to face…

"Yeager?" Karol asked, uncertain of what the hell he was doing. He threw out a bag of supplies that Sierra caught the dark side of her gone. She smiled at him.

"Thanks for that, Yeager. Though I don't think you know who I am. Though, could you pass a message to Linda, of Altosk?" She asked. Yeager's eyes widened, as a blush was quite evident in his face.

"Wut is it, liebchen?" He asked, the blush not disappearing. She looked at him, her blue piecing the grey eyes he had. (Are they grey? It's too hard to tell…)

"Please pass her the message that I will not back down. Under the name of Sierra Corlese." She said, her glare disappearing from him to the ground. He gasped a little, but nodded.

"Fine. Though, you'll have to go to the engine room, this place could destroy Zaphias." And without a look, Sierra smiled at the ground, before flashing a grin.

"Well, I finally got that out of my system; let's go stop this place from wiping some region off the map!" She shouted, punching her arm in the air.

The rest of the group nodded, Yuri, especially. Flynn would've, but he was knocked out, cold. But then, they wouldn't want see the region that they used to fight hard for gone. Sierra just didn't want to feel any guilt for seeing a place where harmless people could be camping, or a small civilization that lay unknown gone. And they were out of there.


They went down the ladder at the end of the control room, everyone eating an Apple Gel, and an Orange Gel. Sadly, there weren't any Life Bottles in the pack. And they had run out before… since the knights kept bullying on one specific member. So, Sierra did the only thing she knew. They gave her another Orange Gel, which she took.

"Resurrection!" She shouted. They looked at the figure on the floor, where they laid his body. There was a small glyph underneath him, and then he choked, shooting up like bullet.

"You alright there, Flynn?" Karol asked. The rest of them surrounded him, asking him question, if he was alright.

"First Aid." She muttered as he stood up. A small light was emitted from his chest, and he was back to normal. Sierra laughed when she was done with the healing.

"What happened to the all mighty Flynn Scifo?" She laughed out. Flynn's face turned red with embarrassment. And the rest of them, they looked at his growing red face and then laughed as they all walked towards the engine room.


Walk. Door. Walk. Ladder. Walk. Door. Walk. Ladder.

That was the pattern that the whole group was going in. No matter how many times they try to entertain themselves, they eventually got bored. They got soo bored that Yuri started to whistle a random tune, and Sierra never reacted to it. Rita started to read her book, Judith started to talk to Ba'ul, Karol was praising his sword, Raven started to brag to others how good and bad Alexei was, Sierra was just daydreaming about something, and Flynn?

He was on par of bored-ness with Yuri. He was playing Scissors, Paper, Rock with Patty, who he considered was a maniac, due to her strange happy attitude.

But that's for another chapter.

They were seriously bored. Since they had a heck load of Holy Bottles, they managed to go through the road to the engine room relatively unharmed. It was just when the effects faded and there was a monster in front of them did they have to fight.

"Yuri." Yuri stopped whistling the theme song (Ring a Bell by Bonnie Pink, for those who don't know.) and turned around, looking at Karol.

"What is it, Captain Karol?"

"…How many Holy Bottles do we have left?" He asked. Yuri looked at the supply bag, only managing to find four. And he was very sure that there were no more in Karol bag. I mean, why would Karol ask in the first place?

"Four." He replied. That got everyone's attention. Well, except for Flynn and Patty, who were still playing Scissors, Paper, Rock.

"Four? You kidding, Yuri?" Karol asked, his voice shaky. He didn't really want to fight, especially when they were headed to the engine room.

And then Karol's face was splattered with blood.

Not his, of course.

…Did I forget to mention how boring it was on the Heracles?


They had finally made it to the engine room. Well, it looked like one. But there was a great pillar of light in the middle, something that looked like it could fire in about a tenth of a second. Literally.

"So that was the thing that shot down the Entelexeia before…" Rita mused. Judith looked at it with some sort of small hate.

"We've gotta shut it down!" Rita shouted, after her few seconds of thinking. The rest of the group reacted fast, as they looked outside, from the convenience of Patty's binoculars and a small porthole in the room.

"And it's going for Zaphias noja!" Patty shouted. Yuri, Flynn and Sierra gasped, and gaped at Patty. It was like that for about a few seconds, before they got moving again.

The whole group ran up the stairs that lead to the terrific and great pillar of light, and doom in a case. Rita, on her way there had started to analyze the blastia at work inside the great pillar of light, which was actually aer, but let's just call it light. It's more epic.

"This formula implanted in this blastia is more complicated than I thought. I don't think I can stop it, especially at the rate that it is absorbing aer." Rita continued musing through the glyph of calculations she had setup.

The white light had slowly, but surely started to turn red, something that was just a little strange, and if anything, bad.

"Uhhh… Rita? Is the light supposed to be red?" Raven asked, himself not really an expert of aer. Rita looked up from her glyph and her face paled. She panicked.

"It's absorbing aer too quickly! At this rate… Zaphias will be gone!" She exclaimed, making the glyph disappear. Sierra looked at Yuri, himself holding the Deim Nomos.

"Hey, Yuri. Can't you use the Dein Nomos to stop the flow of aer into the blastia?" She asked, as casually as she could be at the time. Rita clicked her fingers.

"That's a great idea! Try it!" She shouted, urging him on.

And he did. Slowly but surely, the light slowly changed, from the dark, angry looking red color, to a passive and cool green.

"Thank you."


Me: I'm back after a weeks long holiday. Well, actually quite the opposite. Assignments, studying for exams, drawing, babysitting, and yeah. So, wasn't really that relaxing.

Yuri: Didn't you have a message to pass along to a reviewer?

Me: Oh yeah. 'Thanks of the review, for a start. Now, to the response. About the spelling mistakes, I find it hard to correct them myself majority of the time (beta's a partial prankster), so they just appear there, no matter how many times I check. About my writing style? I'm quite aware that I don't have the writing skill of a professional or anything like that. We learn from practice. As they say "practice makes perfect". Though, I might not change either, since everyone doesn't necessarily have the same writing style (trying not to offend, or anything). I'm just writing the way I want to, for fun.

I just thought I needed to get the point through. I'm too sorry if I've offended you or anything, since your 'pointing out' skills have helped and are a lot better than mine. And yeah, I've probably bored you to tears as well, and its kinda long. Kinda.'

Yuri: ....That was weird, you being serious for once?

Me: You're just angry because I drew half your body in my latest artwork.

Yuri: I see... so you did...

Me: I don't ToV. Review, please, since they DO help!

Yuri: She has also forgotten about her apology about how inaccurate the lines in the engine room (pillar of light room, cannon room, whatever) are. She has past that part of the game, and had forgotten. And she doesn't have the English transcript of the game.

Me: That was cold... cold. And stiff.