Willgm: Hello guys, back again with a new chapter . . . I need to get a new opener.

Will: No kidding, that's getting old.

Willgm: This coming from you?

Will: good point.

Sora: Just get on with it already.

Willgm: When'd you get here?

Sora: Just now.

Willgm: Right . . . on with the chapter.

Chapter 10: Argument between friends and misunderstanding

I'd just reached the bridge and heard Coco explaining to Tact our supply shortage.

"While it's usually the bridges job to keep track of it, Will offered to take a look for us." Coco explained, Tact seemed confused about my involvement.

"Why would Will offer to help? Not that I wouldn't appreciate it," Coco shrugged her shoulders.

"We're not sure," Lester told him. "After the last attack he asked to look at our supply list and write out what we were missing. So Will, how does it look?" Tact turned sharply to me in surprise.

"Will, when'd you get here?" ignoring Tact for the moment I handed my findings to Lester.

"That's a list of the general things we need, though I still need to ask the angel's if there's anything they're missing." Lester gave me a nod and looked things over, I turned to Tact. "Want to come with me and ask after I get something to eat?" he nodded.

"Yeah sure, I'm a bit hungry too," as if to prove it his stomach growled. I let out a laugh.

"Guess that decides that," I turned to Lester. "I'll leave the list to you guys okay?" I got some nods and I left the bridge with Tact.

The cafeteria was usually crowded when we arrived; guess everyone was hungry for some lunch.

"Tact, Will!" we turned our heads and saw Milfie and Mint; I waved them and walked over.

"Yo Milfie, and Mint too." Tact called out, I said 'hey' and sat down.

"Are you two here for lunch?" Milfie asked. We nodded.

"Yeah, I've been working on looking at our supply list for the last few days in my free time and only just finished so I haven't eaten today." Mint gave me a nod.

"Keep up the good work then," I smiled at her and zoned out of the conversation.

'It's been an eventful journey so far and everything's gone according to the game, other than me and that Sora girl.'

"You're not the only one here not from their original world"

What did she mean by that? Is she from earth as-well or maybe from a new world entirely or maybe from Eden? Whatever the case I need to speak with her again, she also said the white moon chose well, why would it choose me?

"WILL!" I was thrown out of my thoughts (and my chair) by a loud scream. "Are you okay?" I looked up to Milfie's apologetic face; she was the one who yelled.

"Yeah, I'm fine but why'd you yell at me?" that really hurt my left ear.

"Sorry, but you weren't listening." Milfie puffed her cheeks out in annoyance, Mint joined her.

"You should pay attention in the future Will. You might get in trouble otherwise." I bowed my head a little in apology.

"Sorry, I was just thinking about things." The little anger they had vanished. "Where's Tact?" I asked after noticing his absents.

"He went to get his lunch, that's why we were yelling at you." Before I could say anything else Tact came back empty-handed.

"Nothing on the menu you wanted?" I asked him. He shook his head.

"Assorted desserts were all that's left," he suddenly looked at Mint. "Don't tell me that's what you're eating Mint." She nodded.

"Yeah, I'm eating rainbow layered jelly. Aren't the colours beautiful?"

"I heard from a friend that it's extremely sweet," another lie to the list. "If desserts all that's left I think I'll just go." I turned to leave but Mint stopped me.

"Wait Will, didn't you say you haven't eaten today? You shouldn't stay hungry for long or ship a meal. If you'd like I could give you a piece of my jelly." She scooped up a piece and held it out for me.

"You aren't serious right?" she shook her head, is she seriously going to spoon-feed me? Isn't she meant to do this for Tact?

"Open wide." I sighed and ate it. It didn't taste all that bad, even with the rushing of sweetness that came after it. I grabbed a little bit of water and drank it.

"It was okay, though a little too sweet for my liking," I said after downing the glass. Mint let out a laugh. "What's in that?" I pointed to the jelly.

"Seven different artificial fruit juices and sweetness mixed into one." I almost sighed at her enjoyment of telling me, she really was a sweet fanatic.

'And a telepath' a voice in my head said. I suddenly remembered that and started to worry, I hope she wasn't listening to my thoughts earlier.

"You alright Will?" Tact asked me. I nodded to him.

"Yeah, why?" I took a glance at Mint.

"You started to look a little pale, maybe you should go see Vanilla." I shook my head.

"No, I was just thinking about how Ranpha and Forte's been running me ragged for the last few days."

True to her word Ranpha started going harder on me for supposedly abandoning them when I was fighting Sora and Forte's taking it as an excuse to work me even harder. Today was my first day to myself since the last fight and I'm still working.

"Should I ask them to take it a little easier on you?" Tact asked me. I shook my head again.

"Don't bother; Ranpha will just think I'm hiding from it and work me even harder, so would Forte." Milfie and Mint nodded their heads in agreement.

"Speaking of Ranpha," Mint spoke up. "She was complaining about the shower earlier. I wonder what it was about.

"Aw, this sucks!" speak of the devil, Ranpha walked in looking pissed.

"Hey Ranpha we were just talking about you." Tact greeted her.

"I need to talk to you two Tact, the showers are out of water!"

"Out of water?" Tact seemed confused.

"Now that you mention it my sink wasn't working either, guess we're all out of that too." I pulled out some paper I had in my pocket and wrote it down.

"We're out of shampoo too, I had to wash my hair with body soap!" I'd already put shampoo on the pervious list so nothing to worry about there. "You're supposed to be the commander, do something. A girls in trouble here!" I sighed.

"Relax Ranpha, I've made a list of things we're lacking like shampoo, didn't know about the water though so thanks for that." She turned to me surprised, like she only just noticed me.

"Is that why you've been late to training the past few days?" I nodded.

"Anyway, since we're low on water we'll have to limit the use of it until we can get more." Milfie and Ranpha didn't seem too happy to hear that.

"Ehh? We have a time limit to use water to wash our hair and shower." Milfie yelled that out.

"Why should we limit our usage of water? After exercising or fighting we need a shower to wash off our sweat." I sighed again, why was I the one being yelled at?

"I don't like it any more than you do but we haven't got a choice in the matter." I feel like I've suddenly become the commander in place of Tact. "Help me out please." I told him.

"W-well it's not like I've made a decision yet," you? I'm the one doing all the talking. "Still though, a limit on water is going to make things rough." 'Got that right.' Ranpha's stomach suddenly growled.

"You hungry too?" I asked her. She nodded. "Only desserts left, someone must have had an extra helping." My own stomach growled. 'Damn, I still need to eat something.' I sudenly remembered the argument Ranpha and Mil have in a minute.

To avoid the argument I attempted to left the room.

"Where are you going Will?" Tact asked me before I stepped out the door.

"Going to find Forte and Vanilla to ask them if they need anything." I left before anything else could be said.

A minute later Ranpha ran past me. Guess the argument came up. I sighed and ran after her.

I found her moping in the brake room. I walked up to her.

"You okay?" she didn't even look at me.

"You come to preach at me?" I shook my head.

"Not at all, I don't even know what's wrong but I'm guessing it involved Milfie," a nod. "You two have been together since you signed up right? Being friends for that long would make you really close so an argument isn't really surprising." She shook her head.

"Back in pilot school Milfie was always on top and I was always one below her. Eventually I ended up getting stuck with her." I nodded.

"Next to the top huh, that's pretty impressive. I had a similar friend like that in high school." She perked up to listen. "We were the best of friends and at the top of our class so we always competed against each other. She usually always beat me and it made me so irritated but I put up with it."

"What happened to her?" she asked me, I sighed.

"She died," Ranpha's eyes widened in surprised. "It was our graduation and we were eager to see our results. I did something stupid and got her run over. She died a week later." Ranpha had some tears in her eyes and held some sympathy. "It took me two years to get over it with the help of my brother and sister but I lost the job I planned to get and haven't known what to do since."

"Why are you telling me this Will?" guess she didn't get it.

"I'm trying to say that friends are important. You and Milfie too, even if you fight shouldn't you be able to make up afterwards." Her face flushed a little red.

"It's not that I hate Milfie or anything, it's just that Milfie success comes at my expense. . ." I shook my head.

"Geez . . . it's like talking to a brick wall," she glared at the insult. "So are you going to make up with Milfie or not?" She nodded.

"Obviously! After telling me something like do you expect me to just sit here?" another shake of my head.

"Not at all, thanks of listening to one of dramas of my life." She let out a little chuckle. "Looks like theirs to food here either, let's get some from the convenience store." She nodded and we left. Not noticing Mint coming after us.

When we reached the convenience store Tact and Milfie were already inside.

"Hey Tact, fancy seeing you here," he gave me a nod.

"Yeah, what are you doing here?"

"Getting some food with Ranpha, I am still hungry you know." He let out a laugh.

"Ranpha I came here to buy ingredients to bake something for you, you wanted cinnamon pie earlier right?" she nodded furiously and the two walked off. Tact turned to Mint who had been behind me the whole time.

"Looks like things went well Tact." She told him, I jumped in surprise of hearing her.

"When'd you get here Mint!?" she lightly giggled.

"I was here the whole time Will." She said that 'oh so innocently'.

"Thanks to you Mint." Tact replied after we'd finished our exchange.

"I didn't do anything Tact, you should be thanking Will. He was the one who talked to Ranpha." I flushed a little in embarrassment at hearing that.

"Seriously?" me and Mint gave a nod. "Then thanks for that Will, though you didn't have to." I shook my head; I've been doing that a lot lately.

"Just doing my part to support the team," 'That and I couldn't just stand and watch.' My stomach growled again. "I'm again reminded of the fact that I haven't eaten anything today." They let out a laugh at my expense. Milfie and Ranpha came back.

"They're out of cinnamon; I can't make a cinnamon pie now." Ranpha didn't look any more pleased.

"And you got me looking forward to it too." I turned to the clerk and gave a look.

"I'm sorry but it'll take three hours to get the place restocked." Why that length of time? It takes five minutes to get down there!

"And so we're still left with no food, I doubt I'm going to last until dinner at this rate."

Mint suddenly gave out an idea. "We could eat some of the sweets I have in my room."

"I'll take it," I said almost immediately. "Anything to get rid of this hunger." Everyone, including the clerk, laughed at my desperate plea.

"I felt a little sick, that's the last time I eat a mouthful of sweets." I complained to Tact after we ate the sweets Mint gave us.

"Yeah, I'm stuffed full of sweets now."

"Glad I could help." Mint cried out from behind. When'd she get here again? I need to get used to that.

"Thanks for the meal Mint." I told her.

"Now you two can get on with your work." I sighed at that, after the last half hour I'm about ready to say screw it. "Why don't I help you two?" I perked up a little.

"Thanks Mint, glad you volunteered, after all the work I've been doing recently, between the training and the supply checking, I might as-well become the princes aid while I'm at it, as he calls me every day." Whoops shouldn't have let that slip. They're eyes widened at hearing that.

"You speak with the prince daily Will?" Mint asked me. I reluctantly nodded.

"Yeah, apparently he likes having someone to talk to." As if by fate, my phone rang. "Yes?" it was Shiva's attendant. "I'll be there right away." I put the phone back into my pocket. "The prince is calling me, got to go." I ran off before they could say anything else.

"Sorry I'm late Shiva, I've been with our supply shortage problem." She told me it was okay and asked if we could go somewhere else today. I suggested the whale room and we left.

I was currently lying on the beach next to Shiva who seemed to be enjoying herself.

"You picked a nice spot to relax in today Will." Her compliment oddly made me blush a bit.

"I just like relaxing here in my free time. It's really refreshing here, don't you think?" she nodded with a smile. "So what did you want to talk about?"

"I wanted to know a little more about you Will; you've hardly told me anything about yourself." Seriously, her too.

"Okay then . . ." I told her everything I told Vanilla in the same detail and it seemed to satisfy her. "Then I woke up in the infirmary and you know the rest, that's the story of my life." She smiled at me and my heart fluttered a little.

"Can I ask you something?" she nodded. "Why me, why do we keep having these talks and why do you keep asking for my company? Not that I don't enjoy the talks we have."

Shiva seemed uncomfortable with the question. "I . . . I. . ." I silenced her.

"If it's that uncomfortable to say then I won't force you." She seemed relieved. "But I want to hear it one day okay?" she nodded and smiled.

"Thank you Will." I nodded; I had an idea of what she wanted to say, though it couldn't be true. She suddenly turned to me.

"Will," I turned to listen. "What do you see me as?" I was taken aback by the question.

"As I friend I guess."

"Just a friend?" my heart was racing. "Is that all you see me as?" she was beginning to lean in. No way, you can't be serious!

"I. . ." I was subconsciously leaning in to meet her, this is bad. If anyone sees this we'll both be in trouble, but my body wouldn't listen. "Shiva. . ." I was close enough that my breath touched her cheek; she seemed to get a little excited by this. 'Stop man,' I yelled inside myself. 'She's only ten, you're eighteen!' but my body wouldn't listen, I kissed her.

Her lips were soft and sweet, like honey. My mind began to shut down and slowly, I let myself give in to the kiss. It wasn't my first kiss; my first belonged to my friend who died. Her dying wish. I felt Shiva wrap her arms around my neck as we deepened the kiss; I even heard a little moan from her.

A voice suddenly rang out. "Will!" we turned to who called me out and my heart stopped.

Vanilla was gazing at us, eyes wide with shock. Tears slowly made their way down her cheek.

"Vanilla. . ." I got up and took a step towards her. She broke into a run and left the room. "Vanilla wait!"

Almo's voce came out from the broadcaster. "We have exited chrono drive, angel wings report to the hanger. I sighed, worst timing. I turned to Shiva and nodded for her to return to the audience chamber. She nodded back and I ran to the hanger. I'll have to fix this misunderstanding later.

Willgm: That's the end of the chapter people; (turns to Will) you've done it this time, how do you plan to get out of this one?

"Will: You're the one writing this, you tell me.

Willgm: You'll just have to wait and see.

Willgm: Also, as of tomorrow I'll be on holiday in France so I won't have an update in a while. In any case tell me what you think of this chapter and I'll see ya next time.