I had major Writer's Block when I wrote this chapter. This chapter is actually two short chapters put together. Last time that I tried to type this it was deleted by my little brothers as I was half-way through typing it, so I had to start typing it again. Pure torture for my hands! This is way too long of a chapter! I asked about Elliot because I wanted to know if it was too obvious or not.
For those who are wondering what Sienna looks like in detail, I drew a picture of her. You can find it at -http/i5. albums/ y173/ kayleighoo/ scan1. jpg- You'll have to delete the spaces in the URL for it to work.
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Akayumi: Don't worry about it! I never beat the game, (-.-;;; I got to the last level then my gamecube died T.T) so I'm missing a lot of the storyline too. Thanks!
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Areku26: I love the idea too! Yhagris and Shara Ne together would be so adorable! Yeah...I was hoping I'd make the whole "Elliot" thing kinda obvious.
Everyone sat around eating the strange salad, as Nayruu squealed in delight.
"I love this food!" Nayruu squealed. She was in high spirits.
"It has a...unique taste." Elliot said, poking it with a fork.
"So Nayruu, can we go to Shella now?" Shara Ne asked.
"We have Shella Marks, so yeah, we can." Nayruu smiled. "But after we finish breakfast!"
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Sienna nervously attempted to drive the caravan. Her fingers were twitching. The rain endlessly poured. It was cold and the wind blew so hard that the rain was nearly horizontal.
"I don't know if I can do this!" Sienna yelled.
"You'll manage. Don't give up!" Nayruu yelled back from inside the caravan.
Everyone, except for Sienna, who was driving it, was inside the caravan. It was a very squished fit, but they managed.
Sienna was wrapped in a cloak and a blanket, so that she wouldn't freeze. The only parts of her body that weren't covered were her hands and her face.
"How far are we from Shella?" Sienna yelled.
Naza Dat climbed out from the inside of the caravan and sat beside Sienna. She handed him the blanket.
"Nayruu said to keep going down this road and we'll get there." Naza Dat said.
"Why don't you go inside? You'll stay dry." Sienna smiled.
"Have you ever tried fitting seven people in a caravan? Not an easy thing to do." Naza Dat slightly smiled, as Sienna giggled. "Besides, I don't want you to sit out here all alone."
"Thanks for being out here with me." Sienna said.
"I'm supposed too. I promised that I'd be there for you anywhere, anytime, right?"
Sienna nodded and smiled.
The rain started to pour even harder, and hail started to fall.
"Hey! We're going to have to stop. It's raining too hard." Naza Dat yelled. He took the reins from Sienna and stopped the caravan on the side of the road.
Naza Dat and Dahn Mi grabbed a tarp and held it up as Shara Ne and Celeste quickly tied up the corners of the tarp to the nearest trees. The makeshift tent actually held up. Sienna stuck a pole in the center so that the water wouldn't make a pool out of their tent.
The rain continued to pour, but it started dying down. By morning, the rain was a slight dribble. It was more of a sun-shower.
Celeste blinked as she woke up. She normally was the last one awake, but today she woke up early. She glanced over and saw Shara Ne attempting to make a fire with wet wood.
"That's not going to work." Celeste said as she wrapped herself in a blanket.
"Neither is trying to keep warm with a wet blanket." Shara Ne laughed.
Celeste got up and stretched her arms. "How can you wake up this early? Your insane!"
"I'm used to it; I'm not insane." Shara Ne threw down the logs. "I guess you were right about this."
Celeste yawned. She was extremely tired."Hey, um, Shara Ne?"
"Yeah?" she smiled.
"Do you still like Elliot?"
"What are you going to do if I answer you? Try to get him even more?" Shara Ne's tone had a hint of anger in it. She was sick of her stupid arguements with Celeste.
"No, I wouldn't do that. I think Elliot is being too introverted with his feelings." Celeste sighed. "He's just a pretty face with a couple morals. He doesn't love anyone, does he?"
"I think he does, but he won't say who." Shara Ne pondered, thinking of any possibilities of what person in their group he could like. "I kinda gave up on Elliot too. I guess he doesn't want either of us. It doesn't matter; I have someone else I like anyways."
"Are you saying Elliot doesn't matter? That he's insignificant?" Celeste yelled.
"No, I'm just saying that if he has no feelings for either of us. His love shouldn't matter."
"Yeah...I guess." Celeste mumbled.
Both Sienna and Celeste were getting depressed. Although they realized that their love towards Elliot would go unanswered, they both felt uneasy with grief and sorrow.
Sienna yawned and sat up. "Can you be a little bit quieter please?"
"Oh! Sorry Sienna!" Shara Ne laughed. "Did we wake you up?"
"Yeah, but it's okay. I have to get up anyways." Sienna smiled. Little did Celeste and Shara Ne know, Sienna had been awake for a while. She had heard the entire "Elliot" conversation. She felt really sorry for them.
"Soo...Nayruu told me what happened between you and Dahn Mi, Celeste!" Shara Ne said, trying to get off topic.
"What?" Celeste blushed. "N-Nothing happened!" She buried her face in her hands, only letting her eyes peek out.
"Huh? What happened?" Sienna said, trying to sound sleepy.
"They had a wonderful romantic moment!" Shara Ne laughed. "He gave her a handkerchief and held her hand!"
"How is that romantic?" Celeste said as her voice squeaked.
"He shared with you. How cute!" Sienna smiled as she held her hands together.
"It's not cute or romantic!" Celeste blushed. "Leave me alone!"
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Everyone was putting away things and disassembling their "tent". Nayruu was twirling around as she shouted of "...wonderful, super awesome spell dusts and spell rings in the entire universe!" Shella sounded like a very exciting place, judging by the way Nayruu described it.
Sienna hummed as she was packing blankets into the caravan. "So who's going to Shella?"
"You all have to come! It's full of awesome-ness!" Nayruu yelled.
"I don't know if I can; I'll feel so out of place. Besides, someone has to protect the caravan, right?" Sienna hopped out of the caravan with a cheerful smile on her face. She didn't use offensive magic often and she didn't know a thing about spell dusts. She already had a cure ring and had mastered the "Clear" spell. She didn't need to go to Shella.
"I guess someone has to protect the caravan." Nayruu pouted.
"Are you sure you don't want to come? I can stay back with you if you want." Naza Dat said.
"Don't worry about me. You can go to Shella if you want to." Sienna smiled sweetly.
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah. I need some time alone to think."
"Okay." Naza Dat kissed Sienna on the forehead.
Naza Dat and the rest of the group, except for Sienna, walked towards Shella, which was only a minute or two away, with the chalice. Sienna sat in the back of the caravan with the Myrr "Lantern" beside her, dangling her feet out of the back and watching them leave.
She finally had time to herself, the first time in months. She loved living in a caravan group, but she did enjoy her time alone as well. She layed on the caravan floor on her back. Most of her body was in the caravan, except for her knees and whatever body parts were below them. She closed her eyes and drifted into sleep.
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"So, are we going to loot this one?" a squeaky sounding Moogle whispered.
"Maybe." The clavat beside him pointed to the back of the caravan. "Look, Lytze. There's someone in there."
"Feet. See how skinny they are! They look like...a girl's feet." Lytze the Moogle smirked.
"Oooo. Hmm...do you think that she'd be a risk? Could we take it?" the Clavat smiled with a clever look.
"Are you kidding, Russell? Of course we could. She's probrably weak. That, and she's sleeping." Lytze laughed in a high pitch.
"You have the most amazing hearing. Sometimes I wonder what I'd do without you, Lytze." Russell laughed, then started slowly walking towards the caravan.
Silently, Lytze followed. Lytze hopped into the front instinctively, ready to move any second. Russell climbed into the back and sat on top of Sienna.
"Boy, what a pretty face. Too bad your breasts aren't bigger, then you'd be my perfect girl!" he laughed, then got up.
He looked around the caravan, going through all the bags, carefully trying to not wake up Sienna. Russell made a low whistle. "They've got a lot of good stuff. Let's head out."
"Uh-huh. Will do." Lytze made a squeak and then started to move the caravan. "She's going to be in for a suprise!"
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"Where the hell is the caravan?" Celeste yelled.
"Did Sienna just drive away?" Shara Ne asked.
They stood around where the caravan once was. Naza Dat was examining the tracks as Nayruu and Shara Ne were freaking out. Celeste was yelling and Dahn Mi, Elliot, and Yhagris stood there silent.
"No. Sienna isn't this good at driving a caravan." Naza Dat said. "These are clean tracks. It looks like the caravan went at a fast pace. She's not a good enough driver to make clean tracks at a fast pace. These were made by an expert driver."
"AAAAAAH! She was kidnapped? Oh no!" Nayruu screamed as she ran around in circles panicing.
"We can find her." Naza Dat said seriously.
"Let's follow these tracks." Elliot said, then started walking down the tracks.
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Sienna slowly awoke. She looked around as she got up. Instincively, she started putting things back where they were before, without questioning why they were strewn around.
"Where's my Cure Ring? Some of our weapons are missing. Where's all our things?" she whispered.
"Hey, "Sleeping Beauty" is awake!" Lytze squeaked.
Sienna turned around after hearing something from outside of the caravan. She walked backwards towards the front of the caravan. She screamed when she felt an unknown hand on her side.
"Ssh. Don't scream." Russell whispered.
Sienna turned around and backed away from the clavat. "W-Who are you? What's going on?"
"I don't tell my name unless I'm told one." he smirked.
"Then I guess you'll be nameless." Sienna yelled.
"Ooooh. A testy one. Me like." he laughed.
"No! You don't need to like me! You don't deserve to like me, you...you kidnapper!" Sienna screamed and ran out of the caravan.
"Hey! Don't be so cruel!" Russell said, and then tripped and fell out of the caravan face first.
Sienna looked around. They were somewhere nearby Shella. The fire was small. A moogle sat cooking a fish over it. Their things were strewn around the ground in a mess; luckily they weren't broken.
Sienna ran at Russell with a knife in her hand that was hidden in her skirt. He quickly jumped back, grabbed Sienna's arm, and then threw her to the ground.
"I'm not as weak as I look." He laughed, then planted a kiss on Sienna's neck.
Sienna's face was bright red. She kicked Russell off of her with force, then slapped him hard.
Russell rubbed his face. "Ouch. That hurt. So now that I've kissed you, can I know your name? I mean, come on, you can't kiss someone without knowing their name. That'd be stupid. It'd make the kiss completely worthless."
"You don't deserve to know it. Your too much of a selfish jerk." Sienna said with her back turned.
"I'll tell you mine." he grinned.
"It's Sienna. I'm not repeating it."
"Pretty name for a pretty girl." he smirked. "I'm Russell."
Lytze muffled a laugh.
"Russell is not a stupid name!" he yelled. "It's a lot better than Lytze."
"Lytze is a family name!" the moogle pouted. "It's been passed down for generations. My father's name was Lytze; same with my grandfather."
"That doesn't change the fact that the name is ridiculous." Russell laughed.
Sienna tiptoed to the caravan as the two argued over names. She tripped over a couple of their weapons, revealing her escape plan. She quickly got up and tried running away, but Russell pulled the back of her skirt, stopping her in her tracks. He had a good grip on her skirt. If Sienna tried running, it would tear her skirt.
"Don't try running away." He said with a frustrated tone.
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The caravan group hid behind some trees. They had followed the tracks to the spot where their caravan sat. Since it had just rained, there were few tracks on the ground. That had made it easier to find their caravan.
"Right there." Dahn Mi whispered and pointed at the caravan.
"Huh? Must've been the wind." Lytze mumbled.
Lytze sat there, eating a fish by the fire. Sienna and Russell were probrably inside the caravan or out somewhere.
"I think Sienna could fend herself off from that. There is probrably two or more involved." Yhagris muttered.
"Let's go find Sienna." Shara Ne whispered.
They ran out of the trees. Celeste and Shara Ne held the moogle down. Dahn Mi and Elliot looked inside the caravan.
"No one's here." Dahn Mi yelled.
"Interogate the moogle." Naza Dat said in a deep, serious voice.
"Umm...I guess we can do that." Shara Ne mumbled.
"Tell us where Sienna is or else your wing gets twisted!" Celeste yelled.
"Oww! Oh, don't do that! I'll tell you! I'll tell you!" Lytze screamed.
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"Ouch. Let go of my wrist!" Sienna screamed as Russell pulled her through the forest.
They tripped over logs, sticks, rocks, and whatever was in their way. Russell pulled Sienna as he ran as fast as he could. Trees slapped him in the face as he ran. He kept running, dragging Sienna behind him.
"Why are you doing this? Where are you going?" Sienna whined as she tried pulling her wrist away.
"I'm doing this because I don't want to get hurt and neither do you." He said. "We're going somewhere."
Russell stopped and hid beside a tree, pulling Sienna beside him.
"How do you think that I'd get hurt? You're just afraid of getting caught!" Sienna shouted.
"Shh. Something's there."
Sienna looked around the tree to see a pack of goblins. There were many of them, too many for two people to handle. It was strange for them to be anywhere near Veo Lu. They were probrably planning an attack on Shella.
Russell grabbed her and pulled her close to him. From where the goblins were, they could not see them now. Sienna's face blushed red as her head rested upon Russell's chest. He silently motioned her to stay quiet.
The goblins looked around. Some of them thought that they heard heavy breathing. A couple of them said that the breathing was probrably their own. They looked once again, but still saw nothing, to Sienna and Russell's releif. They started walking away, grunting and mumbling as they made their way.
Sienna pushed herself off of Russell when the goblins were gone. She hid her eyes behind her eyes and screamed "You're just like Dahn Mi!"
Russell was about to say something, but then heard a loud "What?" from the distance.
"Damn! They know where we are." Russell muttered, then tried to grab Sienna's wrist.
"No." Sienna held her hands behind her back "I'm not going with you. Take the consiquences, jackass!"
"Wow!" Nayruu yelled as she got closer to them. "Sienna can curse! I never knew she talked like that."
Naza Dat and Dahn Mi caught up to Nayruu and ran towards Russell and Sienna.
"Theif!" Nayruu yelled and kicked Russell in the shins.
"Ouch. Stop kicking me, kid!" Russell shouted.
"I'm no kid!" Nayruu shreaked.
"You sure look like one." he laughed. Nayruu kicked him in the head as hard as she could. "Ouch! Jeez, that smarts."
Naza Dat ran to Sienna. He took her and held her close. Sienna then lifted her head and rested it on his shoulder.
"I'm so sorry that I didn't take care of the caravan. I'm so sorry." Sienna said as she started to cry.
"It's okay. It's not your fault." Naza Dat whispered.
Dahn Mi and Nayruu tackled down Russell as Naza Dat embraced Sienna. Russell whined as Nayruu repeatedly kicked him.
"What are we going to do with him?" Dahn Mi asked.
"Something that he deserves. Let's kill him." Nayruu said.
"That's going too fat, Nayruu." Naza Dat said, still holding Sienna. "Did he do anything bad to you, Sienna?"
"He didn't do the worst things, but he tried to." Sienna said with a cold glance at Russell.
"So what do you think we should do to Mr. Kidnapper?" Dahn Mi asked.
"Hey! I have a name!" Russell yelled.
"Yeah, an unimportant one." Nayruu shouted and kicked him again.
"Let's take him back to the caravan. The rest of us can help figure it out." Dahn Mi suggested.
"Okay. Let's go." Nayruu said as she tied up Russell's hands with a small rope that she carried around.
"Ow! Why'd you tie it so tight?" He whined.
"Because I did, that's why." she said, then pulled him with her as they walked towards the direction of the caravan.
Naza Dat let go of Sienna's body and held her hand instead. They started walking with the rest of them, but a little behind.
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The caravanners sat around, trying to think of ideas for how they'd punish the theives. Russell and Litze were tied to a tree. Nayruu was stomping around and shouting ridiculous things.
Nayruu jumped up. "I got one! Suicide!
"Suicide?" Elliot asked.
Nayruu laughed. " Ritual suicde!"
"No, Nayruu." Naza Dat mumbled. "We don't need to kill him."
"He'd be killing himself! We wouldn't get our hands dirty." she whined.
"That's even worse than us killing him." Yhagris replied.
"What are we going to do?" Nayruu asked.
"I have an idea." Celeste said. "Why don't we leave them tied up to that tree and drive away? That'd teach them a lesson."
They all agreed, except for Nayruu and Sienna, who didn't say a thing, and started packing up their things.
'No one takes my friends' stuff and throws it around. He kidnapped my friend and thinks he can get away with it? He deserves worse than that!' Nayruu thought.
Sienna grabbed a couple things and helped put their stuff away.
"Come on! You have to untie me Sienna!" Russell pleaded.
Sienna glared at him. "No."
Celeste got up and stomped over to thre tree that the two were tied up to. "You two better not have done what I think you've done!"
"Obviosly I didn't. Even I like to get to know a girl before I do anything that bad." Russell smirked. He could tell what Celeste meant because of her facial expression.
"Good thing you didn't. I would've stabbed you if you said 'Yes.' " Celeste said in a very evil-sounding tone.
"Why do you all hate me so much? It's not like I killed her!" Russell yelled.
"If you did, it'd be much worse." Elliot said. "Celeste would torture you and Nayruu and Naza Dat would brutally kill you."
"Damn right!" Nayruu screamed and jumped up. "Can we leave yet?"
"Yeah, we can leave. We have all the stuff packed." Shara Ne said.
"Where's Sienna?" Nayruu asked.
A couple meters away, Sienna was cutting the ropes that were holding Russell and Lytze back. She carefully tried not to harm Lytze, because he didn't do anything bad to her, besides stealing the caravan.
"Why are you doing that?" Nayruu asked in a shrill voice.
"I can't do this to them, regardless of how much of a jerk Russell is. There are some goblins near here. They might come back around here and kill them. Neither of them deserve death and I think Nayruu has already punished Russell enough."
Sienna said as she pulled the ropes off of them.
"There were goblins here?" Nayruu screamed.
"Yeah. Okay-Let's go." Sienna smiled and hopped into the back of the caravan.
Nayruu laughed as she started moving the caravan. "Let's go home!"
Russell waved at Sienna and laughed. He really wanted to get to know her better, but he couldn't help but feel stupid for acting the way he did. He smiled as he thought of all the fun he had. He would probrably never forget it.
Sienna slightly waved back. She didn't really feel like waving back, but she did anyways. She didn't want to leave his wave unreturned.
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As they headed down the gravel road back to the miasma stream, everyone was estatic and chatty, except for Naza Dat, who would never be extremely chatty, and Sienna, who was unusually silent. She couldn't stop thinking of what had happened to her in the last seven months.
I thought that I'd make Russell last two or three chapters, but I guess he only lasted one chapter. He is a minor character, so it doesn't really matter.
EDIT: Originally in this chapter I had Nayruu suggest seppuku, which was not only out of place but was also something I didn't fully understand. Now, I replaced it with suicide, something else that makes more sence.