A HERO'S RETURN

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or anything else, except this story, on Suikoden IV.

Author's note: The names I chose for the game are as follows; the hero's name is Link, the ship's name is the Dauntless, and the army's name is the Crusaders.

Even though the war to save the islands from a madman has come and gone, Nay island still remains mostly the same, except for shop that is currently being run by Nalkul, Champo, and Noah. near the inn. Right now Noah was taking a little walk along the beach, wanting to get away from the constant bickering going on between the two Nay-Kobolds. The one thing that was on her mind the most was the lost of Link. That person had a way of changing most people for the better, now was sent afloat into the sea due to him using the Rune of Punishment to protect everyone in the fleet from the explosion from El-Eal.

"Excuse me, but is the chief still at his house?" A person asked, Noah not even bother to look up.

"Yeah, I think he's taking a personal day today." She answered, not realizing to whom she is talking to.

"Thanks Noah." The person said, while walking away.

"Sure thing, Link." The girl said, before continuing her little walk. It only took her about five steps before it dawned on her on who she just spoke to.

When Link was just barely close to the stairs, the next thing he knew he was eating sand, 'why me?' was his only thought.

Lino looked down at his son's situation and couldn't help but laugh again at what was becoming a regular thing, "You do know that you're going have to learn to dodge them if you want to keep from getting tackled all the time." He said, while containing a laugh.

"Except that by some chance that they fell and got hurt, who's blood do you think they'll be after?" Link shot back, causing Lino to laugh harder, "Hey Noah, do you think that it's safe for me to get up now, or would you rather have me keep eating sand?"

Noah had the decientcy to blush a little before she got of the poor guy, "Sorry about that Sir Link. It's just that I had to see for myself if you were real or not."

"Don't worry about it Noah," Lino intervened, "Link here has been knocked down more than once on this entire trip."

"Anyway," Link started to say while dusting the sand off of his body, "Kika and her crew should be here any time now, with some more of our friends. Do you think you can wait around for a bit, and let them know where I went?"

"Sure thing. Right now I'm just looking for an excuse to take a break from Nalkul's and Champo's constant arguments over every little thing." Noah said, causing those around to give a little laugh as they continued walking.

About an hour later, Kika, Sigurd and Hervey have just arrived on their ship, feeling a little glad to be on solid ground again. "Man, it's going to be weird when we get the whole gang together again." Hervey said.

"I know, although it would be nice to take a break from cleaning up after Dario's little screw ups." Sigurd responded back.

"Hey everyone, how nice of you to finally show up." They looked to see that Lino was there to greet them, "Link would be here to greet you, but he has other matters to attend to."

"Don't worry about it. We all know that Link still has a lot of catching up to do." Kika said, "Right now I've brought about four people with us, and I'm pretty sure they would like to greet our old commander."

"Wait, did we hear right?" Everybody turned to see both Lo brothers, Lo Seng and Lo Hak, like they were in some sort of dream, "Did you just say that Sir Link is still alive."

"Alive and well, although you'll have to wait awhile before you can see him again." Lino explained, "Anyway, I'm pretty sure your sister will be more than glad to see you two again. You'll find her somewhere on the Dauntless."

"Yeah we better go and say hi to Fong or else she'll really give us an earful for not greeting her first." Lo Hak said, while Lo Seng gave a slight nod before both left to board the larger ship.

* * *

Basil is currently overlooking the cliff that faces Iluya Island. After the islands have retrieved their freedom back into their own hands, he decided to stay at Nay Island for a little bit, just to help out the old folk since he knew that his little tops game would only take him so far.

Right now he was remembering his time in Razril, where Link and his friends would greet him, and even sometimes play his game. He can hardly do that here since most of the people here are more thumbs than compared to when they were younger, and the hands of a Nay-Kobold weren't designed to spin anything so small in the first place. He started to think about doing what his friends got to do when they were training to be Marines, which is mainly go to work on a ship. The only thing he won't do is learn how to use a weapon since he's a gamer, not a fighter.

"Like some company?" A person asked, leaning over the rail.

"It's fine with me." Basil answered back, not even bothering to recognize the voice.

"So what are you thinking about?" The person asked.

"Just thinking about where I should go from here. Right now I'm just thinking that now would be a good time for me to start growing up some more." Basil explained.

"Yeah, will when you do grow up some, make sure to pay back that 100 potch you owe me from that last game we played." The person said, getting the boy's attention.

Basil's eyes went why when he saw who he was talking to, "Link, is that really you?!" Basil shouted out. Both gave each other a high five before continuing their little conversation, "Man, I can't begin to tell you how glad I am to see you alive and well."

"You and everyone else I've met along the way." Link said, while looking towards the store behind them, "Anyway, I'm getting the Crusaders back together again for a little reunion, and I thought you would like to come along."

"You don't need to ask me twice. I was starting to miss being out on the open sea." Basil answered back within a blink of an eye.

"Well, I've gave everybody a chance to spend the day here, especially those who still have family living here." Link got up and walked towards the door, "Well, we better break the news to Nalkul and Champo before they decide to break the store."

Basil chuckled at this before following his friend towards the store.

* * *

The next day

After being greeted by Agnes and Bartholomew the night before, everyone woke up refreshed and determined to get their main objective taken care of, they went ahead and got whatever business that needed to be taken care of before they finally went to sea again. Their next destination now being Iluya Island.

Here's the latest chapter. Sorry its not so impressive, the problem is that the only thing that goes on Nay island is that you recruit very few characters, only one mini-game, and you ask them to join up, other than that, those that made the game didn't make it anything special. Read and Review.