Rebellious

Chapter Twenty-six – Troubles fixed?

"My, oh my!" Old Lady Ophelia spoke clearly when they stood upon her home grounds.

The recognition of Sapphire clearly displayed in her eyes but she made fast track of scrutinizing all of them to make it appear that she just first knew of them. Dying to drape her arms around the old lady, Sapphire remained purposed to keeping up the act until it was safe enough to display and talk about old times with her. But as long as travelling with this pack was concerned, she was sure that it wasn't possible to ever do so without being discovered of her knowledge with the village. There were many things that she could and could not do with the new group she travels with. Concerning her past with the village and everything so private about herself is out of the question. One which that she wished would never have to be spoken.

But remembering on her travels with Raven of the mysterious attacker that led her zoid to a state, it took a little longer than ever for her to heal. The mysterious green eyes were not as mysterious as she would have hoped them to be. Of course she knew the owner of the one true eyes of evil. If she could have at least defending herself a bit more, not have taken down her guard with the boy she formerly travelled with, maybe then she wouldn't have to constantly think that he's gloating over having her easily taken down for the first time. She really wanted to sigh heavily over her stupidity. Letting down her guard, what on earth was she thinking? Could she have been anymore careless about her actions? No of course not, she happened to think that she was unbeatable, and that was her mistake. What a fool she had been.

"What do you miss to discuss with me?" She asked, taking on a tone of slight anger about these travellers approaching her.

"Can we talk about this inside, Ma'am?" Moonbay asked a little too nervously.

Sapphire was able to come back to reality, and soon rolled her eyes at the way the group was acting so pathetically around the old lady.

"Although, in this village, there is no private matters normally to discuss isolated in one's house so that others won't hear." Ophelia examined all of them with her eyes and took an instant, near to accurate, guess about each of them. "But seeming as you're helping out republicans, come inside, and we'll discuss what I am to do with you."

Everyone looked at each other in shock about her accusation when she had turned to walk inside. The silence droned through all of them, rendering them from moving or speaking a word. Sapphire was a little different on her reactions. She yawned but didn't move. She had to keep pretending that she wasn't intimidated by the woman. She had to react remotely like them in order to continue up with her tactics to keep this village out of targeting range. She watched the others for a little longer, wondering what on earth they were going to do once Ophelia had noticed that they hadn't dared step a foot inside her home. A smile broke across her face of a memory just brought from the past.

Ophelia turned around and narrowed her eyes and snapped her words. "Well don't stand there like wooden posts. Get inside."

Nia had no idea what she really had gotten herself into. But all she knows is that she's getting Sapphire, and in return the only thing she had to give to Fiend was... She shook her head from the thought of her exchange to get Sapphire. Her brown eyes glanced over at the green eyed male who dully played with the fire. His attention was lacking from anything and as always he remained to himself. The thought was irritating, especially when you want to try and figure something out about him. Whenever you think you've got a gist of him, he suddenly changes it. It's as if he knows everything that you're thinking and then changes it so you can't figure a thing about him.

"If we keep our pace we'll confront Raven tomorrow at high noon." He spoke, catching her in an eye lock. "Unless you don't want to confront him at all."

"No, we need to." She found herself saying. It surprised her to say the least. "Once we've confronted Raven, we'll be able to know how to find Sapphire." She looked away.

"What about afterwards?" He bit into an apple and threw one towards her. She caught it. "What do you once we have the information? If we get the information."

"We'll use the information to get to her. If he doesn't cooperate with us, then I'll let you do with him what you please." He looked at her with an amused smirk for once. "I mean, you might have a better chance at obtaining the information way better than I possibly could."

"So you're going to rely on me to deliver us the information if the boy doesn't cooperate?"

She nodded, unable to use her voice to deliver the confirmation that he obviously wanted her to admit. She knew she was useless in gathering information, unless it's what the informer wants off of her, and usually that's what Sapphire had accused of her. A prostitute! She focused on the ground in front of her and focused on the patterns that the ground barely made. Fiend, what a truly strange name it is, wasn't really informative on anything. He asks questions and expects her to give him answers to each of them. In other words, he's just making her use her own plans. Going along with what she has to say. Even if it meant failure, he was just going along with what she was saying. She wasn't sure why, but it's what she can make of him at the moment.

He was leaving her to do everything.

"Taki, do I have to repeat myself again for you to follow simple commands to move your butt off of that floor and get moving?" Rain bit back her anger as she spoke, but she knew that her anger drenched her tone and easily got through to the turquoise organoid.

The wind was beating against everything this time around. The rendezvous point wasn't for miles away and Rain was irritated that little progress had been made despite her travelling plans. Her tight one piece suit clung to her body, so she didn't have to put up with it blowing about in the wind. Her hair was tied into one pony tail this time, to keep it more out of the way than before. Her silver bangs annoyed her though, but she didn't want to get rid of them. She slung her backpack over her shoulder and got inside the cockpit of her zoid. Strapping herself into the darkly purple coated zoid, she prepared for the hard day journey through the terrible wind. Taki slowly got off her butt and walked out the cave, easily showing her reluctance to go out in the weather.

Rain made sure that a lot of sand was kicked up over Taki as she got her zoid walking faster than the organoid. Taki stopped in her tracks and narrowed her darkly blue eyes at her owner before shaking the sand off. She soon raced off after the now running zoid that blended into the night. Nearly enough anyway! Easily going in tune with the speeding zoid, Taki was able to observe the surroundings although the speed they were going out was amazing. Dark sand covered the ground for miles. The moon was high up in the air, showing off its glow that the sun had allowed it. The stars patterned the sky amazingly, but they didn't have time to view the wonders of the heavens.

Rain's mind was set onto greeting Sapphire at the rendezvous point, rather than the other way around. She wasn't sure how long ago it was since she had met the white haired maiden, but she was sure that their friendship had blossomed to the highest forms of friendship far long ago. Their loyalty with one another was stronger than any weather, stronger than any army force, stronger than any gravity pull... Whatever the two wanted doing, they always planned to do it together. However, since the separation in the disaster at one of the points that the Imperial army had lost against the republicans, Rain has wanted nothing more than to reunite with her ultimate friend. Her loyalty burns stronger than ever, but with the way that Prozen wanted to keep Sapphire under his influence and not into friendship, it was a possibility that Sapphire might not remember the rendezvous point, or even her.

Rain's rebellion on the Imperial army since their separation hadn't bothered her in the latest. She didn't care if she was now hunted by them as an enemy. She only cared for the reunion. She only cared that her friend remembered her. If she could get to the rendezvous point before Sapphire, then maybe she could get their reunion she has dreamed of for months. Whenever Sapphire was around Rain, she always felt peaceful and capable at doing anything far beyond her limit. She felt capable at doing many things that she's only dreamed about doing. It's like the girl gives people's dreams a reality whenever she's around them. For some reason, she reminds Rain of an outsider to Planet Zi. Was it possible that she was just born with something different from any other person? Or could she truly be from another planet that has extraordinary differences that this planet would fear?

Whatever her reason behind her difference, to Rain it didn't matter at all. After all, Sapphire was still Sapphire.

"Well now, isn't that something I haven't expected in all of my years?" Ophelia laughed heartedly. "You young ones have no need to fear. You can restock up here, have a good night or two's rest and be on your way again. I have no objections to deny you of your supplies for your journey." Her smile faded. "But I do fairly warn you. If this village comes under any danger from the republicans, then be warned, we will wage war against you. It will be the fight of a life time, I guarantee."

"I'm sure there's no need to wage war against the republicans. I'll be sure that they get the message to not attack this village." Moonbay replied with nervousness edging off of her very being.

"I agree with Moonbay. I'm sure they'll kindly overlook you and keep you out of harm's way." Van spoke and Irvine nodded his head.

"Well now, that's great to hear." Ophelia looked to Sapphire momentarily and looked back to the rest of them. "I'm sure you're all tired. Allow me to show you to your rooms." She stood and everyone gladly followed after her up some stairs she began to walk up.

Ophelia had noticed Fiona's familiarity around Sapphire, although the way that they remain distant from each other was fairly obvious. They sought to each other like ordinary girls, always oblivious to danger that's around the corner, but this danger was only concerning the both of them, not the war that is currently waging. Oh no, they were very observant on that danger, but it was the danger of themselves that they weren't aware of. The mysteries of Sapphire have yet to be identified, but Fiona, her mysteries were written all over her. But it was that crystal clear that they are overlooked. Something that Sapphire never overlooks. Surely she must know something about Fiona, but the way that her obliviousness to the group and the trust towards her reflects in her eyes, Ophelia knew that she's currently been upholding problems with the emotion and word 'trust'.

The poor child! Ophelia thought.

Ophelia sat in her chair in the living room. The fire was burning brightly. The children were resting in their beds up stairs. But she felt cold to the bone about Sapphire's sudden appearance in the village. Oh how much she had missed the child of night, but she couldn't help but fear her appearance. Such hair of pure colour still clung to its purity this very day. But eyes as dark as the midnight sky bore ever brightly from their sockets in the girls head. She couldn't be called the child of the sun for she resembles nothing of the source of daylight. Her features resemble the moon and the sky that blankets it. The child of the moon, of the night, surely they fit better to the girl than that of the sun that shines overhead.

Now that she remembers carefully of Sapphire's features of that she had saw today, she carefully remembers the past of when Sapphire was much younger than she is now. But the Sapphire today shows signs that she's always performing things perfectly, never messing up, and always working hard to never give away her intentions of anything. So packed tight in security and so hard to figure out, but so clearly showing her perfectness in everything that it just didn't remind Ophelia of the child she had raised. Until she was taken away by the Imperial forces, to which she had hated ever since she lost Sapphire.

Ah yes, the younger Sapphire. Always so reckless and carefree! Never caring if she messed up and always fighting hard to try better. She didn't care for being perfect. She was such a clumsy, a non perfect, child. But today... she doesn't seem nothing like the child I remember. But I do know it is her. Those terrible people have changed her completely. Ophelia thought with sadness. The memory of the younger Sapphire overfilled her mind that she allowed herself to bask in its memory.

Ophelia laughed heartedly at a six year old Sapphire who happened to once again clumsily make her bed. Entangled her in bed sheets was Sapphire, humour flooded Ophelia and she couldn't help but laugh at the child. Seeing as Sapphire made the old woman laugh, a smile broke across her wonderful features that she laughed along too. With help from the old lady, Sapphire was freed from the blankets and the bed no longer was naked to the air. With the household chores, Sapphire full of effort and so clumsy performed every task with high difficulty, but in the end, she managed to complete all chores to a very high standard. Her efforts made Ophelia so proud that when she went to complete them, she ended doing them perfectly, alongside being clumsy as she performed them.

She was so contrasting in all her efforts that sometimes Ophelia thought she played both the sun and moon.

The sun and moon! Ophelia thought. Maybe there is a way to discover the mysteries of the child.