Hiya folks! Chapter fourteen!

Yuan: About time.

Me: Shut up.

Yuan: She owns nothing.

Why that two-faced big nosed balding waste of oygen asshole-! Wait, let me back up. See, we

made it to the peak, and that Koton guy is...URGH! I need to hit something!

SMACK!

"HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" Lloyd shouted.

Okay, maybe that wasn't such a good idea, but it made me feel better.

"Cause I felt like it!" I snapped.

Long story short, Koton is an ass who insults people for sneezing on his 'aritifacts'. Oh, I forgot to

mention, we were heading back to Palmacosta. ALL THE WAY BACK!

"Sheesh, what was that avaricious old geezers problem?" Lloyd wondered.

Insert shocked gasps.

"Heh, not bad Lloyd." I smirked.

Raine went on to rant that she was amazed Lloyd knew a big word, while I watched on with a

slight smile. Lloyd wasn't... that dumb sometimes. I mean, he sucks at school, but he's really smart

when it comes to worldly things, you know?

"...Why are you looking at him like that?"

Oh shit, Genis was right behind me.

"Huh? Looking at who like what?" I stammered.

He raised an eyebrow at me. "...You...you like him, don't you?"

WHAT?

"...No, of course I don't!" I snarled.

The little punk just smirked at me, I was SO in trouble... I grabbed him by the arm and dragged him

aways behind the group.

"Listen. You say a WORD, and I'll kill you, got that?" I hissed.

"So you DO like him!"

"...I...I think he's cute but I don't LIKE him!" I muttered.

"You like him!"

"...He likes Colette." I answered. "Besides... I can't be with anyone."

The last words out of my mouth suprised even me. I wasn't even sure what I meant. While it was true

sooner or later I'd have to return to Cruxis, I think... I thought I couldn't be with anyone ANYWAY.

No one would want to be my boyfriend. Except-

"..." I spaced out.

When I was little, five, there was this little boy who always stayed by me. He was always smiling, he

was sweet and nice.

I vaugely remember a time three 'big kids', his brother's I think, were picking on me. They had

pushed me onto the ground and I was crying, he stepped in front of me, he told them... What was it he

told them...? ...Oh...yeah... that was it...

'Leave her alone! If you want to bully someone bully me!'

I bit my lip, I didn't want to cry, but that was okay now, since I could control it. That boy... he went

on a trip once, when he came back he had brought me a little 'Cinderella' perfume bottle. A boy,

buying perfume. Even when I moved away, one valitines he sent me a rose and chocolates. Overseas.

Express delivery. We were EIGHT. He sent me a picture...

"Jaela? Helllooooo? You still alive?" Genis waved his hand in front of my eyes.

"Sorry. I spaced. Let's go." I shook my head, walking off toward the group.

The half-elf slowly followed me, probably still freaked by my spacing out.

Where was I? Oh yeah... he sent me a picture of himself... I closed my eyes. Photographic

memory rocks people. I could see it clearly in my head, his silly grin, his bright eyes, his messy brown

hair...come to think of it, he looked alot like-...! No...way... No!

"Lloyd?" I asked.

"Yeah?" he turned to look at me.

Sweet Lord...Lloyd looks like an older version of him! What the-? WHAT THE-? No, stay calm, deep

breathes, so what if Lloyd looked so much like him? The eyes weren't the same, yeah. It was still so...

odd though, he looked so much like...

"Hello? You still there?" Lloyd snapped his fingers in front of my face.

"Huh?" I shook my head. "Sorry, nevermind."

After traveling a little more, we made it to Palmacosta. Where of course, the Desians happened to be.

"This woman has refused to give us supplies!"

"MOM!" Chocolat ran up to them. "Let her go!"

"Do you want to hang next to her woman?" a desian snarled.

"Someone please help!" Chocolat shouted.

"We've gotta do something!" Lloyd exclaimed.

"But if we interfere, this city may be destroyed just like Iselia." Raine stated.

"But we can't just let it happen!" I shouted. "Besides, this is different, they have a militia!"

That's when Magnius made his entrance, then a small boy, whom I've GOT TO compliment, threw

rocks at him. When the cardinal headed for the boy, Lloyd 'demon fanged' him.

"ARGH! What the-? Attack them!"

Three mages shot fireballs at us, which Genis blocked single-handedly.

"Amatuers." he smirked.

That's the ONLY time I ever thought Genis was pretty cool.

"Enough of this crap!" Magnius shouted, giving the signal to hang Cacao.

Colette stepped in a hurled her charkam at the rope, relseasing the shopkeeper.

"What are you doing?" Raine snapped. "Do you WANT this to end up like Iselia?"

"It won't if we stop the desians..." Lloyd growled. "Well destroy them all.. THE ENITRE RANCH!"

My God, he is so awesome when he gets like that...my heart sped up.

"Jaela?" Genis blinked.

But before I could say anything, we were fighting several desians, Magnius had run away. The battle

was pretty easy, seeing as most of them were spellcasters.

Later...

"Thank you SO much for saving my mom!" Chocolat grinned.

"Ah, it was nothing." Lloyd smiled.

"I wouldn't know what to do if they killed my mom as well..."

"As well?"

I sort of fazed through the whole thing, I knew all of it already, and...it was kind of painful to hear...

eventually, Chocolat would hate Lloyd, and he would be depressed... Chocolat went on to talk about

their 'goddess'. Being a christian, I really was uncomfortable with that talk, so I stayed out of it. But...

"You...should try to have faith in SOMETHING." I told her. "It just...helps."

Chocolat bit her lip, then slowly nodded.

"I'll...I'll try."

Once we left, I got the groups reaction to what I had said.

"What made you say that Jaela?" Genis asked.

"So you're a follower of Martel too?" Colette smiled.

"...Sorry, but no." I shook my head. "I have a...different faith."

"There's a different religion?" Lloyd stared.

"Odd, everyone I've met is either a Martelist or Atheist..." Raine glanced at me.

"No one around here would know it." I said truthfully.

Raine continued to glare at me. I felt a chill down my spine, I was giving off WAY too much

information... Raine was suspicious, as were Genis and even Kratos. Lloyd and Colette however...

"Off to get the Spiritua Statue!" he made a 'charge' motion.

"Yay!" Colette chirped.

Were as carefree as always.

Again, short, again, long wait, again, I'M SO FREAKING SORRY! T.T

Yuan: Work faster! (Gets whip.)

Me; AH! NOT THE WHIP! PLEASE NOT THE WHIP! (Runs away.)

Yuan: She still has like four stories to catch up with reading too! And a collab to write!

Me; I NEED A VACTION! (Cries.)

Yuan: Baby.