Chapter eleven. ...Why am I doing this?

Yuan: Doing what?

Me: Self-insertion! No one really likes reading this things and all it's doing is cutting my limit-

Yuan: Limit? There's no limit on this site...

Me: It's my own limit. I only work on five stories at a time.

Yuan: FIVE?

Me: It's all I can handle.

Yuan:...Freakyanimegal owns nothing.

Me: Okay...Gotta write 'Role Reversal', update 'Grandkid'...

Yuan: Uh, Freaky?

Me: Think of new plot twist for 'Plot Twist'...

Yuan: Freaky?

Me: E-mail Kratos Lover 1 about our collab...

Yuan: Freaky!

Me: Then me and my brother can work on that Zelda story...

Yuan: FREAKY!

Me: What?

Yuan: The chapter's already started!

Me: Woops. IGNORE THIS!

Since we just fought Sheena and walked about a million miles- oh, something about that. You

know how in the game it only takes... three minutes to get from one place to another? In here, it take

about five hours. So five hours from Triet to Ossa trail, an hour through it, four hours to Izoold.

That's ten hours of walking if you suck at math. It was like six in the evening and we hadn't even eaten

lunch. We were out of ingredients, ...then Raine tried to make 'moss stew'.

I will never get that image out of my head.

"I'm beat." Lloyd sighed. "Can we stay at the inn?"

God bless your laziness Lloyd!

"Yeah!" I said. "Let's do that."

"Well-" Raine started.

"PLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSEEEEE?"

"I don't think we should stop just yet." Raine shook her head.

Then it was time to pull out the ace in the hole. I whispered one word into Raine's ear.

"Month."

She blushed. "Oh, uhm... let's get to the inn."

I grinned and went toward the inn.

"Wow!" Lloyd gaped. "How'd you do that?"

"Girl thing." I said, it wasn't LYING after all.

The Inn actually had rooms now believe it or not. Two unfortunately. We split guys and girls.

"Mm..." I smiled, laying on my bed. "It's so soft..."

That's when something hit me. We were going to go to Palmacosta tommorow...What if we took that

test thing? Oh God! I didn't know ANY of their history! I'd fail! I'd look like an idiot!

"Uh...Raine?" I asked, she was reading.

"Yes?" she replied, looking up from her book.

"Do you...have a history book?"

This people, is the only time I have willingly studied. I skimmed through her book, trying to get at least

their major events down. Thank God for photographic memory. Hm...maybe that's why I get good

grades... photographic memory... Anyway, did you know Cleo the third had seven toes on one foot?

...God, even in another world, I'm still a geek...

"You sure like to study!" Colette smiled.

Actually, I hated to study, but let her think what she wants.

"Uh...Sure." I said, skimming through chapter nine.

A few hours later, we hit the hay. The next morning we heard someone talking about Aifread and

before we knew it, we had Lyla arguing with Max. And then...

"You there!"

"Us?" Lloyd blinked.

"Do you see anyone else here?" Lyla sneered. "Take this letter to Luin for me!"

"We can't go there without a boat..." Lloyd blinked.

"Max will take you!"

I kind of felt sorry for the poor guy... anyway, we eventually wound up on his boat.

I'd never been on a boat.

"Whoah..." I staggered a bit. "It's kind of weird..."

Just then a big wave hit the boat, I lost my balance and toppled onto Lloyd.

"ACK!"

"Ah! Oh my God! I'm sorry!" I blushed, getting off of him.

"Ow...How much do you WEIGH?" he griped.

I smacked him, hard.

"Oooowww!" Lloyd rubbed his cheek.

"Did you say 'Oh my God'?" Colette blinked at me.

Oh crap. They had their 'goddess' so...oh crap.

"Uh...Hey look!" I pointed to the sky. "A seagull!"

"OH! A SEAGULL!"

Thank God for her shot attention span.

"Going...to die..." Raine murmured, hanging on to the mast.

The ride took a while, so I went over that textbook again. I was NOT going to look like an idiot.

Can you imagine if I lost to Colette? Or even Lloyd? OH GOD! STUDY HARDER!

"Land ho!" Lloyd grinned, spotting Palmacosta.

"That kind of sounds wrong..." I muttered.

"Get your mind out of the gutter!" Raine shouted.

SMACK!

My jaw dropped. Raine just slapped me! Oh hell no, I'm not taking that.

"Stop abusing people!" I snarled, smacking her back.

Everyone, witht he exception of Kratos, gasped. I guess no one considered doing that.

"WHY YOU-!"

SMACK!

"OW! JERK!"

SMACK!

"RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!"

SMACK!

"STOP HITTING PEOPLE YOUNGER THAN YOU!"

SMACK!

Raine went to smack me again when Kratos grabbed her arm and mine.

"That's enough." he stated. "You're both acting like children."

"I am a child!" I snarled. "You should be yelling at her!"

Kratos grabbed my arm and dragged me to the other side of the boat, out of earshot of the others.

"You're not a child." he whispered. "You're an angel of Cruxis."

"..." my gaze fell to the floor. "...I'd prefer just being a child."

"Hmph." Kratos frowned. "So would I."

Meanwhile Lloyd and Genis were talking excitedly about the bitch-slap fight they had witnessed.

"She HIT Raine! HIT HER!" Genis gasped.

"Wow!" Lloyd grinned. "I need her autograph!"

I smiled slightly. At least they were happy. Colette was staring and Raine was still in shock.

And know what else? My face hurt for hours afterward, Raine can really bitch-slap...

We walked into Palmacosta and through the market. That's when I decided to try something. In the

game there was always a 'Secret Street Merchant' but he was NEVER OPEN. So I decided to ask him

what the hell he actually sold.

"Uh...I'll be right back." I said to the others. "I want to see something."

I ran off before they could say anything. I found all those empty stands and worked my way

through them until I saw a man.

"Hello! I'm the secret-" he started.

"I know I know, now tell me, what is it you actually sell?" I asked.

"Me?" the merchant blinked. "I sell..."

"Don't stall!" I snapped. "I want to know what it is you actually sell."

"These! Ipods!"

I stared in shock. The man had Ipods! WHAT THE HELL?

"Want to listen to this one?" he held one out. "It has All-American-Rejects!"

I almost snatched it. That band rocks! But I stepped back.

"How the hell do you have IPODS?" I gasped.

"Ebay!"

"How the hell do you have EBAY?"

"Internet!"

"HOW THE HELL DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THAT?"

"Hell, beats me." the man shrugged. "Want one or not?"

I calmed down a bit. Did this make sense? No. Did I care? ...No, not really.

"How much?" I asked.

"Thirty-thousand Gald!"

HOLY SHIT!

"Nevermind." I grimanced, turning to leave.

"This one has Nickelback!"

DAMN HIM!

Me: That took a bit... By the way, thanks everyone who's reviewed!

Yuan: She's not very confident that way.

Me: SHUT UP!

Yuan: You slapped Raine!

Me: Well... she slapped me first...

Yuan: But STILL...