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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Pounding head, aching body... I was so exhausted, I wasn't looking forward to the next day, but I was introduced to... something different this time around./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Feeling his whole body ache, Bereit struggling to even stand up, he rose out of bed, and yawn, and stretched, feeling his left elbow crack, wincing. "Ow..." Though, when he opened his eyes, to his surprise, his body was small, and skin was smooth. He removed his bedsheet off of his bed, to see his little feet as well, curling his toes, thinking that he must have been dreaming. He was his 6 year old self again./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He got out of bed, his body suddenly not sore anymore, and decided to go outside. He realized he was definitely dreaming./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit before he walked out the door, he came across pictures of himself, as a child, with his parents. He took a closer look at them, taking the picture off the small dresser in the living room. He saw the familiar features of his father, the black hair and big grin, and his mother's brown hair and tanned skin, along with her big smile. He then looked at himself, as he was crying in the picture. He chuckled. "Oh yeah, I couldn't stop crying because I burnt my marshmallows that day." He reminded himself. He was really fond of marshmallows during his childhood. Now, not so much. He just got used to what he got on the ship, bread, fruits, veges and the sort. It had been a long time since he had a proper home cooked meal./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit put the picture back where it was, and saw a few more on the walls, that were unreachable. One with him and his father fishing, and another with his mother, baking together. Bereit took a deep breath, though shaky. "Don't cry... save it for when you find them." He whispered to himself, as he felt his eyes starting to develop tears./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He put on some sandals and opened the door, to find his hometown, lively and loud. Everybody was doing something for the village. Carrying crates, resources, or some just simply living their lives. Bereit stepped down the stairs of his house, and planted his feet onto the warm sand, remembering the feeling of this. The sand so bright, so warm, and the people. Too bad this was only a dream./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A hard slap on his back was felt, as Bereit yelped, and turned around, to see an 8 year-old boy with black hair, and tanned-skin. "Finally awake, sleepyhead? Come on, we have a group meeting at the..." He looked around, and leaned to him. "Secret hideout." He whispered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit remembered this day. This was the day the whole 'Our King' thing happened. It used to be a game, but now, it was something deeper, especially when he grew up. Bereit nodded. "O-Oh, right, yeah. I remember now." Bereit said, awkwardly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The boy crossed his arms. "Well? Go! We have no room for people slack!"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"U-Uhh, y-y-yes sir!" He said, as he ran past him. "Sheesh... even just a memory and he still scares me." Bereit said to himself. He ran along side the beach side, as he came to the waterfall. It looked so much more... clean, than it had in his time. Not as many vines and leaves. He walked through the waterfall, as he saw a bunch of kids, though there were some grown ups./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Late as always, Bereit." A grown up said, standing by a stand, while everyone was sitting down./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded. "I'm sorry, I was-"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Sleeping in?" He interrupted, knowing his excuse./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit laughed sheepishly, scratching his cheek. "Umm... maybe." The way he acted was so different then when he's grown up. Maybe he really was reliving his childhood. It made him miss the simple days. When it was all... well, simple./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, at least you showed up now, we just began. Take a seat." The grown up said, Bereit sitting at the front, to the right of everybody on the ground./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Alright. So, has anybody made any discoveries of this island? Any new resources we could benefit from? Coconuts? Fruits? Water? Anything?" The grown up asked./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"One little girl raised her bracelet covered hand. "I found a tree that grows bananas." She answered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Good. That's really good. Anything else?" He asked, as more people raised their hands, the grown up being told that they found some more trees of fruits, some spots where wildlife lived, that they could turn into meat, and other resources for ingredients for bigger meals that could be made. Like sugar, salt, or wheat./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Seeing everyone get together like this, it made Bereit feel like he was at home again. Everyone working together, talking, and just being a great community. It made him feel like his grown up life was all a bad dream. He just wished it was that way./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A teenage boy raised his hand. "Hey, has anyone seen Hoa? He's been gone for almost a week."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, I heard he was eaten by a monster." One child said./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, you dummy!" A little girl spoke up. "He was taken by a Siren!"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on, Sirens don't exist. You know that."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit's heart raced, thinking about The Siren, the arguing deafening. So someone has disappeared because of The Siren. But how did he get in the shrine? It was too late to know now./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Okay, that's enough. If a siren shows up in the waters, we'll ask her to return Hoa back to us." The grown up said./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Sirens eat people." The little girl spoke up./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I doubt they'd have the courage to eat a child. We'll just see how things turn out. In the meantime, we will continue to search the island for more resources and possibly any sort of interesting things. Meeting, adjured." The grown up said, as he tapped his hand on the stand./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everyone then stood up and left, walking out of the waterfall. Bereit looked at the ocean, having this small sense of dread. What if that child really was taken by a siren? Or the one in the shrine? As sad as he was to admit it, but there was no way he would still be alive in his time. He looked down, feeling bad for not being able to stop him./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"BEREIT! LOOK OUT!" One of the children shouted. Bereit looked up, to see a rock just the size of his head came down, coming directly to his face./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit shot up, out of bed, breathing quickly and his heart racing. He felt his chest, feeling the rapid beating of his heart, the pulse through his fingertips. He looked around, to see he was in his room, though, it wasn't like in his memory. This was... barely holding together. There were holds on the roofs, and moss was growing in the corner. "Am I... awake?" He asked himself./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He recalled everything. The prison escape, the battle against The Warden and his hound, everything. He was awake. He got out of bed, but fell to the ground, his legs giving out on him, barely being able to stand up. He spotted a walking stick under his bed, remembering he made one as a kid. He grabbed it, and then placed it, getting ready to lift himself. But as soon as he tried, it snapped, the wood being so damp, the wood was weak. He groaned. "Dammit..." He whispered to himself. All he could do was crawl at this point./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He pushed himself up, hoping he could try his idea for moving. Having the wall as support, he dragged his body on the wall, having one hand to keep him up, he brought himself to the front door. He reached for the handle of the front, and turned the knob, slowly opening the door. For a moment, there were tons of soldiers waiting at him by the door. He blinked, and they all disappeared. He rubbed his eyes, and blinked again, but there was still nothing. He shook his head, and saw Fallen by the door, seeing she was sitting on the ground, looking down. "Fallen?"/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's head shot up, as she stood up and hugged him tightly, Bereit wincing. "Ow, Ow, Ow! My body's sore!" Bereit warned./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen pulled away, blushing. "I'm sorry! I'm just..." She started to tear up. "You were so exhausted, and you looked so pale... I thought you were dying." She said, in a scared tone of voice. "And I couldn't live with myself if I let that happen..."/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm okay, Fallen. I promise." He assured, hoping it would get her to calm down. He then saw by the water lied the airship from the prison. He then saw some of the prisoners swimming and playing in the water. Not exactly what he thought he would wake up to, but he was glad to wake up in general./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you? Or are you just saying that to make me feel better?" Fallen asked, stepping back a bit./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I promise. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You think I'm lying?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Glad to see we trust each other. /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"strongSarcastic/strong/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I promise you, Fallen. I'm okay, I'm just sore around the body." Bereit answered, meaningfully./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked down for a moment. Could she really trust his words? He did seem like the type to ignore pain and press forward. Or maybe she was just over thinking things. She looked at him and smiled. "Okay... I believe you. I'm just worried for my guardians, you know?" Fallen explained. "I just don't want you lying to me just to make me happy."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Trust me, I wouldn't lie about being in pain... mostly because The Captain would beat the truth out of me." He said, though it was a figure of speech./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen giggled. "Speaking of, his ship is over there." She said, pointing behind him, seeing the open space that used to have trees all over were replaced by The Titan./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit saw all of the crew members all together, though he looked back at the ocean, seeing some were swimming too. He guessed they were enjoying what time of RR they had. He looked at Fallen, and smiled. "Well, this is Ozean..." He then took a second look of the place, seeing the houses and trees... or what still stood. "Or what's left of it..." Bereit said, his smile already gone./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"If you mind, can you tell me what happened?" Fallen asked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked down for a moment. "I'll tell you later... right now, I just want time to relax."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen nodded, understanding. "Okay. So umm..." She blushed a bit. "The kids keep calling me, 'The Queen.' Care to explain?" She asked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit chuckled. "The kids seem me as 'The King' because I helped them with being fed and have water to drink daily. So, I guess they make you 'The Queen' because... well, every king needs their queen." Bereit said, smiling./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen giggled. "Not happening." She said, with a playful smirk./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit laughed. "Your loss." He played back./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"By the way, your friends are waiting for you on the ship. You should pay them a visit." Fallen suggested./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked back at the ship, seeing that some were waving at him. He smiled. "Yeah, maybe I should." He said, as he started walking that way, though it was a bit of a limp, with his sour body./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen walked to his side and picked him up, having one of his arms around her neck. "Here, let me help." She offered, with a smile./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at Fallen, as he smiled. "Thanks." She really was going to make a great summoner. Not because he saw potential in her power, but it was her Guardians before anything else./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen and Bereit made their way to the ship, ever so slowly to Bereit's sore body. They reached the edge of it and climbed up the ladder, Bereit seeing everybody coming to Bereit, hearing cheers and people expressing their relief of his well being. Bereit couldn't help but feel happy, knowing they all really cared for him./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain then came in, and looked at Bereit. "Glad to see luck saved you from prison." He joked./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /"Oh shut up." Bereit said, as they both laughed, The Captain punching Bereit's shoulder, though it hurt Bereit, making him wince. "Oh, sorry." The Captain apologized./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit shook his head. "It's alright. I'm just a little sore."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"That was one hell of an escape we made out there. We were lucky to have you, otherwise, we might not have made it." Cid said, approaching them from the ladder. "Hell, we'd probably still be at the prison."br /span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit smiled. "It's all thanks to you."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You were the key to our escape. The powerhouse." Cid explained. "Though, we did have a plan B, in case you weren't what they said you were."br /br /Bereit looked down, hearing what he said. From the corner of his eye, he could see Fallen had a curious look on her face. "I'm... gonna go see the kids. I'll see you guys in a bit." Bereit said, as he walked away from the group, his sore body forcing him to limp./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Fallen)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen watched as he walked away, noticing he was walking a bit quicker than usual. She thought something was wrong, and wanted to find out what it was. Though, a part of her felt like it was wrong to ask about it, since it seemed personal, she didn't like being kept in the dark with things like this. She bowed to the others and followed Bereit./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She had come to realize that this place used to be better than how it is now. She could only imagine what it was like when Bereit was a child. She wished she could see it./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She continued to follow him, feeling like some sort of creep for doing this, until he went to the cave in the waterfall, seeing what he was doing then. She could see the kids were there, all crowding around Bereit, being happy./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Bereit)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Guys... hold on a minute." Bereit said, his tone seeming to be sad. He then sat down, every child sitting down as well. Bereit looked down, his eyes brows curling up. "I'm gonna need to go... again." Bereit told them, voice starting to crack./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /Some of the kids looked sad as well, while some cried. "But, we need you!" One child said./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know... but there's a great danger coming to this world. And if we're to stop it... I need to help my friends." Bereit said, as he sniffled, starting to cry. "I wish I didn't have to leave you guys again. But don't have a choice."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Fallen)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen could hear the cracks of his voice, along with the sobbing. It really made her feel bad for having to do this. But it made her think, did he really have to go? She could just have Shiva by her side at all times. But she didn't want to call on her all the time either. What could she do? She kept listening, wanting to hear more on Bereit's decision./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Bereit)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The kids gathered around him, all hugging him tightly, as he hugged them back. His cries were then let out, not afraid to hold it back anymore. He cared too much for these guys to leave them again. What kind of king would he be then? "You guys are all I have left of family. You guys know how important family is to me."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"But will there be a time you'll come back?" One asked./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit couldn't answer for certain, but he had to give them one./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes. ====/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I don't know./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Someday, I might be able to return. Though... I don't know when." Bereit answered, putting his head down./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"One child stood up, after hearing that response. "Hey! Everybody, listen up! Our king may leave us, but he will come back to us one day! So let's be happy that he won't be gone forever!" He announced, as the kids all looked at him, the crying stopping, but a few sobs here and there./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit was actually happy to hear that somebody was taking the lead to bringing up everyone's morals. From the corner of his eye, he saw Fallen approaching them./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And I'll make sure he comes back in one piece." She said proudly, holding her staff in hand. "Even if it costs my own life."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The kids all looked at Fallen. Fallen then felt nervous, with all the eyes starring at her. "B-Because it's a summoners job to keep her guardians protected, as it is their job to protect me." She added, keeping her composure, though Bereit noticed the small stutter./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit stood up and wiped his eyes, and looked at Fallen. "Everyone, she is the reason I'm back here." Bereit said, figuring he should help change the mood. "It's thanks to her I'm even alive, and back here. What do we say?"br /br /The children all thanked Fallen, as some came up to her and hugged her legs, Fallen blushing a little. She then looked at Bereit, and smiled, as he smiled back. "I'd say we can spend some time here with everybody. We've got a great journey ahead of us." Fallen suggested./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit was happy to hear she was willing to spend time here. So Bereit could enjoy some time with everybody. He motioned his mouth, saying, "Thank you." to her. They then walked out the cave, to enjoy the rest of the day, together./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Everybody got together and formed a great feast around the big campfire they made. There were a fair share of beasts in the area, though only a few giant ones. Bereit knew that there were some underwater creatures that were edible, and here, there were big crab like monsters they could eat. They first drew it out of the ocean with a bright light, it being Bereit's lightning, but he made a simple ball of lightning, making it float in the air./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It drew the fairly large crab out of the water, it being a purple colour. As it approached the ball of lightning, it went to touch it, but Bereit made the ball explode, as it shocked it enough to kill it, the crab falling limb./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"With the creature hunted, it was cleaned for good measure, and then cooked. It served so much, that there was a lot left over. Threw it somewhere else and let it burn, so they could keep creatures from coming for their campfire, drawing them to the giant crab./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Throughout the whole time they all ate together, Bereit sitting next to The Captain, Fallen, Imbir, Vanessa and Zelkova, along with Cid./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Stories were told about Bereit's and The Captain's past, how they first met and how they came together. /span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It started off with talk on how Bereit was just on a canoe, and how dangerous the seas were. The Captain offered to let him ride on, to help him get where he needed to go. That was when The Captain learned why Bereit was going off on his own, to provide for the kids. Sure, they already had natural resources, but they would run out eventually, so he went out to find saplings he could plant to give them more food. It was then, The Captain really began to like Bereit./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Another about Bereit's first job he ever took on. It was a simple hunting job of small monsters, with a group of the Frozen Hearts./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Then the question was brought up. How was the name thought of? It turns out, it had no deep meaning or overwhelming back story. It was just because the queen of Mauer said his heart was frozen after he declined her love, so he got that as the name of their crew. Everyone found it was very silly./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Though Imbir and Vanessa didn't have any stories to tell, they all had laughs, thoughts, and happiness to share to everybody./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit really enjoyed the night he had. It felt like he was just another person. Nothing special. Just him, and his friends, all having this great feast, and telling these tales of their lives./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Fallen)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It had been a long time since she had a good night sleep. It was funny that she was sleeping well, despite sleeping on sand, like everyone else, though she had a towel underneath her. However, she felt something wasn't right. She woke up, rubbing her eyes and looking to her right, to see Bereit wasn't there. She then felt a tap on her shoulder, and saw Shiva, as she pointed to the ocean, Fallen seeing Bereit just standing there./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Go see him. ====/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Leave him alone./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Maybe now was a good time to ask some questions about him, since they were alone. She stood up and smiled at Shiva, then started making her way to Bereit./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Bereit)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit could hear the footsteps coming behind him, as he peeked behind himself, to see Fallen was approaching. He then looked back at the ocean, hearing Fallen's steps stopping for a moment, before walking to his side. "Can't sleep?" He asked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen shook her head. "I was sleeping so well. I just felt like something was wrong." She then looked at him. "You weren't there. That's what was wrong."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked down for a moment. "Sorry. I've just been thinking. About what's waiting for us out there." Bereit explained./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Adventure?" Fallen said, in a happy tone, hoping to cheer him up./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked up, realizing that she was right. It really was going to be adventure that waited for them. "Yeah... I guess you're right."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I understand you're nervous about this Bereit. I bet leaving the kids behind isn't easy, but if we don't, those anomalies will get them eventually. So, we really don't have much of a choice." Fallen said, turning her body to him./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know... I just wish I could have more time." Bereit answered, putting his hands on his pockets."Just... don't bother me. I'm just taking time of your sleep."br /br /Fallen furrowed her eyebrows. "Bereit. Look at me." She demanded./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at her, his expression showing no happiness /br /"My role is clear. If you're down in the dumps, it's my job to cheer you up. Because you're always the one keeping everyone's morals up. You're vital to our survival." Fallen said, crossing her arms. "You're more than a leader."br /br /"Falle-"/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I'm not finished." Fallen interrupted. "But I don't expect it out of you all the time. Just do what needs to be done. And right now, we need hope on finishing all of this." Fallen said, then putting a hand on his shoulder, though she had to reach up to him. "We're all in this together. One of goes, we all go."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit was taken back by her speech. It was... motivating. She really did bring his moral back. He looked at her, and smiled. "You're right. Sorry for being such a gloomy leader." Bereit apologized, showing he was feeling better emotionally./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen sighed happily. "Now. Let's get some sleep. You'll need it."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes, mom." Bereit joked, walking past her./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen watched as he walked past her, smiling. She felt proud for handling that so well./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She then turned to see Shiva behind her, as Shiva made two small ice figurines, as they were kissing, Shiva having a playful smirk on her face. Despite being a Divine, she still had her fun./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen stuck her tongue out at Shiva, as then walked back to camp, to rest for the night./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The morning sun rose, as Bereit and the group were all at the airship that Cid flew to get here. They all stood together, Bereit facing the kids and The Captain. "So... I guess it's goodbye." He said to them, some of the kids holding back tears./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain looked at Bereit, him having a sad smile. "It's a shame you're going off on your own."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Sorry. But it's time for this bird to leave it's cage." He said, looking at him./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Frozen Hearts was a cage?" He asked, though it was more of a playful question./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You know what I mean." Bereit said, smiling./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain chuckled. "Well, before you go." The Captain then handed him a brass knuckle. "If you ever lose your sword and magic fails, you'll at least have this."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at it, looking at the shining metal of this weapon. He recognized it, recalling the time he showed it to him. It was his very first weapon he ever gave him. "Sweet. Can't wait to see blood stain it." Bereit joked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Oh! I almost forgot!" Fallen said, as she then ran to Bereit's house. "Hold on! I'll be right back!" She said. After a bit of time, she came back, giving Bereit his serrated sword, resting in it's sheath. "I completely forgot to give it back. You left it after... you know."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit smiled, happily taking it. "Thanks." He then wrapped the belt on it around his waist, as he then looked at the others. "Stay strong, kids. Your King will return soon." Bereit said./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"He waved them goodbye, and walked into the ship, along with everybody else. Imbir, Vanessa, Fallen, Zelkova, and Cid all came together, along with some prisoners, them being the pilots of the ship./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The platform closed as they all entered, and the ship flew off./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And so began to journey of an unlikely band of heroes. Though, the group could always grow in numbers, and in relationships. With their targets clear, and purpose in their heads, there was nothing that could stop them now. Many dangers awaited them, but that's just part of adventure, isn't it?/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Save your game up to this point?"/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"No/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"1/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"st/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Pounding head, aching body... I was so exhausted, I wasn't looking forward to the next day, but I was introduced to... something different this time around./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"3/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"rd/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;" person (Bereit)/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Feeling his whole body ache, Bereit struggling to even stand up, he rose out of bed, and yawn, and stretched, feeling his left elbow crack, wincing. "Ow..." Though, when he opened his eyes, to his surprise, his body was small, and skin was smooth. He removed his bedsheet off of his bed, to see his little feet as well, curling his toes, thinking that he must have been dreaming. He was his 6 year old self again./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He got out of bed, his body suddenly not sore anymore, and decided to go outside. He realized he was definitely dreaming./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit before he walked out the door, he came across pictures of himself, as a child, with his parents. He took a closer look at them, taking the picture off the small dresser in the living room. He saw the familiar features of his father, the black hair and big grin, and his mother's brown hair and tanned skin, along with her big smile. He then looked at himself, as he was crying in the picture. He chuckled. "Oh yeah, I couldn't stop crying because I burnt my marshmallows that day." He reminded himself. He was really fond of marshmallows during his childhood. Now, not so much. He just got used to what he got on the ship, bread, fruits, veges and the sort. It had been a long time since he had a proper home cooked meal./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit put the picture back where it was, and saw a few more on the walls, that were unreachable. One with him and his father fishing, and another with his mother, baking together. Bereit took a deep breath, though shaky. "Don't cry... save it for when you find them." He whispered to himself, as he felt his eyes starting to develop tears./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He put on some sandals and opened the door, to find his hometown, lively and loud. Everybody was doing something for the village. Carrying crates, resources, or some just simply living their lives. Bereit stepped down the stairs of his house, and planted his feet onto the warm sand, remembering the feeling of this. The sand so bright, so warm, and the people. Too bad this was only a dream./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A hard slap on his back was felt, as Bereit yelped, and turned around, to see an 8 year-old boy with black hair, and tanned-skin. "Finally awake, sleepyhead? Come on, we have a group meeting at the..." He looked around, and leaned to him. "Secret hideout." He whispered./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit remembered this day. This was the day the whole 'Our King' thing happened. It used to be a game, but now, it was something deeper, especially when he grew up. Bereit nodded. "O-Oh, right, yeah. I remember now." Bereit said, awkwardly./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"The boy crossed his arms. "Well? Go! We have no room for people slack!"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"U-Uhh, y-y-yes sir!" He said, as he ran past him. "Sheesh... even just a memory and he still scares me." Bereit said to himself. He ran along side the beach side, as he came to the waterfall. It looked so much more... clean, than it had in his time. Not as many vines and leaves. He walked through the waterfall, as he saw a bunch of kids, though there were some grown ups./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Late as always, Bereit." A grown up said, standing by a stand, while everyone was sitting down./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit nodded. "I'm sorry, I was-"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Sleeping in?" He interrupted, knowing his excuse./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit laughed sheepishly, scratching his cheek. "Umm... maybe." The way he acted was so different then when he's grown up. Maybe he really was reliving his childhood. It made him miss the simple days. When it was all... well, simple./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Well, at least you showed up now, we just began. Take a seat." The grown up said, Bereit sitting at the front, to the right of everybody on the ground./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Alright. So, has anybody made any discoveries of this island? Any new resources we could benefit from? Coconuts? Fruits? Water? Anything?" The grown up asked./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"One little girl raised her bracelet covered hand. "I found a tree that grows bananas." She answered./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Good. That's really good. Anything else?" He asked, as more people raised their hands, the grown up being told that they found some more trees of fruits, some spots where wildlife lived, that they could turn into meat, and other resources for ingredients for bigger meals that could be made. Like sugar, salt, or wheat./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Seeing everyone get together like this, it made Bereit feel like he was at home again. Everyone working together, talking, and just being a great community. It made him feel like his grown up life was all a bad dream. He just wished it was that way./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"A teenage boy raised his hand. "Hey, has anyone seen Hoa? He's been gone for almost a week."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Yeah, I heard he was eaten by a monster." One child said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"No, you dummy!" A little girl spoke up. "He was taken by a Siren!"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Come on, Sirens don't exist. You know that."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit's heart raced, thinking about The Siren, the arguing deafening. So someone has disappeared because of The Siren. But how did he get in the shrine? It was too late to know now./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Okay, that's enough. If a siren shows up in the waters, we'll ask her to return Hoa back to us." The grown up said./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"But Sirens eat people." The little girl spoke up./span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I doubt they'd have the courage to eat a child. We'll just see how things turn out. In the meantime, we will continue to search the island for more resources and possibly any sort of interesting things. Meeting, adjured." The grown up said, as he tapped his hand on the stand./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Everyone then stood up and left, walking out of the waterfall. Bereit looked at the ocean, having this small sense of dread. What if that child really was taken by a siren? Or the one in the shrine? As sad as he was to admit it, but there was no way he would still be alive in his time. He looked down, feeling bad for not being able to stop him./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"BEREIT! LOOK OUT!" One of the children shouted. Bereit looked up, to see a rock just the size of his head came down, coming directly to his face./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Bereit shot up, out of bed, breathing quickly and his heart racing. He felt his chest, feeling the rapid beating of his heart, the pulse through his fingertips. He looked around, to see he was in his room, though, it wasn't like in his memory. This was... barely holding together. There were holds on the roofs, and moss was growing in the corner. "Am I... awake?" He asked himself./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He recalled everything. The prison escape, the battle against The Warden and his hound, everything. He was awake. He got out of bed, but fell to the ground, his legs giving out on him, barely being able to stand up. He spotted a walking stick under his bed, remembering he made one as a kid. He grabbed it, and then placed it, getting ready to lift himself. But as soon as he tried, it snapped, the wood being so damp, the wood was weak. He groaned. "Dammit..." He whispered to himself. All he could do was crawl at this point./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"He pushed himself up, hoping he could try his idea for moving. Having the wall as support, he dragged his body on the wall, having one hand to keep him up, he brought himself to the front door. He reached for the handle of the front, and turned the knob, slowly opening the door. For a moment, there were tons of soldiers waiting at him by the door. He blinked, and they all disappeared. He rubbed his eyes, and blinked again, but there was still nothing. He shook his head, and saw Fallen by the door, seeing she was sitting on the ground, looking down. "Fallen?"/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen's head shot up, as she stood up and hugged him tightly, Bereit wincing. "Ow, Ow, Ow! My body's sore!" Bereit warned./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Fallen pulled away, blushing. "I'm sorry! I'm just..." She started to tear up. "You were so exhausted, and you looked so pale... I thought you were dying." She said, in a scared tone of voice. "And I couldn't live with myself if I let that happen..."/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I'm okay, Fallen. I promise." He assured, hoping it would get her to calm down. He then saw by the water lied the airship from the prison. He then saw some of the prisoners swimming and playing in the water. Not exactly what he thought he would wake up to, but he was glad to wake up in general./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Are you? Or are you just saying that to make me feel better?" Fallen asked, stepping back a bit./span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"I promise. ====/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"You think I'm lying?/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"Glad to see we trust each other. /span/spanspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"strongSarcastic/strong/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I promise you, Fallen. I'm okay, I'm just sore around the body." Bereit answered, meaningfully./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked down for a moment. Could she really trust his words? He did seem like the type to ignore pain and press forward. Or maybe she was just over thinking things. She looked at him and smiled. "Okay... I believe you. I'm just worried for my guardians, you know?" Fallen explained. "I just don't want you lying to me just to make me happy."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Trust me, I wouldn't lie about being in pain... mostly because The Captain would beat the truth out of me." He said, though it was a figure of speech./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen giggled. "Speaking of, his ship is over there." She said, pointing behind him, seeing the open space that used to have trees all over were replaced by The Titan./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit saw all of the crew members all together, though he looked back at the ocean, seeing some were swimming too. He guessed they were enjoying what time of RR they had. He looked at Fallen, and smiled. "Well, this is Ozean..." He then took a second look of the place, seeing the houses and trees... or what still stood. "Or what's left of it..." Bereit said, his smile already gone./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"If you mind, can you tell me what happened?" Fallen asked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked down for a moment. "I'll tell you later... right now, I just want time to relax."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen nodded, understanding. "Okay. So umm..." She blushed a bit. "The kids keep calling me, 'The Queen.' Care to explain?" She asked./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit chuckled. "The kids seem me as 'The King' because I helped them with being fed and have water to drink daily. So, I guess they make you 'The Queen' because... well, every king needs their queen." Bereit said, smiling./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen giggled. "Not happening." She said, with a playful smirk./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit laughed. "Your loss." He played back./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"By the way, your friends are waiting for you on the ship. You should pay them a visit." Fallen suggested./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked back at the ship, seeing that some were waving at him. He smiled. "Yeah, maybe I should." He said, as he started walking that way, though it was a bit of a limp, with his sour body./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen walked to his side and picked him up, having one of his arms around her neck. "Here, let me help." She offered, with a smile./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at Fallen, as he smiled. "Thanks." She really was going to make a great summoner. Not because he saw potential in her power, but it was her Guardians before anything else./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen and Bereit made their way to the ship, ever so slowly to Bereit's sore body. They reached the edge of it and climbed up the ladder, Bereit seeing everybody coming to Bereit, hearing cheers and people expressing their relief of his well being. Bereit couldn't help but feel happy, knowing they all really cared for him./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain then came in, and looked at Bereit. "Glad to see luck saved you from prison." He joked./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /"Oh shut up." Bereit said, as they both laughed, The Captain punching Bereit's shoulder, though it hurt Bereit, making him wince. "Oh, sorry." The Captain apologized./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit shook his head. "It's alright. I'm just a little sore."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"That was one hell of an escape we made out there. We were lucky to have you, otherwise, we might not have made it." Cid said, approaching them from the ladder. "Hell, we'd probably still be at the prison."br /span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit smiled. "It's all thanks to you."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You were the key to our escape. The powerhouse." Cid explained. "Though, we did have a plan B, in case you weren't what they said you were."br /br /Bereit looked down, hearing what he said. From the corner of his eye, he could see Fallen had a curious look on her face. "I'm... gonna go see the kids. I'll see you guys in a bit." Bereit said, as he walked away from the group, his sore body forcing him to limp./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Fallen)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen watched as he walked away, noticing he was walking a bit quicker than usual. She thought something was wrong, and wanted to find out what it was. Though, a part of her felt like it was wrong to ask about it, since it seemed personal, she didn't like being kept in the dark with things like this. She bowed to the others and followed Bereit./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She had come to realize that this place used to be better than how it is now. She could only imagine what it was like when Bereit was a child. She wished she could see it./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She continued to follow him, feeling like some sort of creep for doing this, until he went to the cave in the waterfall, seeing what he was doing then. She could see the kids were there, all crowding around Bereit, being happy./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Bereit)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Guys... hold on a minute." Bereit said, his tone seeming to be sad. He then sat down, every child sitting down as well. Bereit looked down, his eyes brows curling up. "I'm gonna need to go... again." Bereit told them, voice starting to crack./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /Some of the kids looked sad as well, while some cried. "But, we need you!" One child said./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know... but there's a great danger coming to this world. And if we're to stop it... I need to help my friends." Bereit said, as he sniffled, starting to cry. "I wish I didn't have to leave you guys again. But don't have a choice."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Fallen)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen could hear the cracks of his voice, along with the sobbing. It really made her feel bad for having to do this. But it made her think, did he really have to go? She could just have Shiva by her side at all times. But she didn't want to call on her all the time either. What could she do? She kept listening, wanting to hear more on Bereit's decision./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Bereit)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The kids gathered around him, all hugging him tightly, as he hugged them back. His cries were then let out, not afraid to hold it back anymore. He cared too much for these guys to leave them again. What kind of king would he be then? "You guys are all I have left of family. You guys know how important family is to me."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"But will there be a time you'll come back?" One asked./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit couldn't answer for certain, but he had to give them one./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes. ====/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I don't know./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Someday, I might be able to return. Though... I don't know when." Bereit answered, putting his head down./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"One child stood up, after hearing that response. "Hey! Everybody, listen up! Our king may leave us, but he will come back to us one day! So let's be happy that he won't be gone forever!" He announced, as the kids all looked at him, the crying stopping, but a few sobs here and there./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit was actually happy to hear that somebody was taking the lead to bringing up everyone's morals. From the corner of his eye, he saw Fallen approaching them./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And I'll make sure he comes back in one piece." She said proudly, holding her staff in hand. "Even if it costs my own life."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The kids all looked at Fallen. Fallen then felt nervous, with all the eyes starring at her. "B-Because it's a summoners job to keep her guardians protected, as it is their job to protect me." She added, keeping her composure, though Bereit noticed the small stutter./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit stood up and wiped his eyes, and looked at Fallen. "Everyone, she is the reason I'm back here." Bereit said, figuring he should help change the mood. "It's thanks to her I'm even alive, and back here. What do we say?"br /br /The children all thanked Fallen, as some came up to her and hugged her legs, Fallen blushing a little. She then looked at Bereit, and smiled, as he smiled back. "I'd say we can spend some time here with everybody. We've got a great journey ahead of us." Fallen suggested./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit was happy to hear she was willing to spend time here. So Bereit could enjoy some time with everybody. He motioned his mouth, saying, "Thank you." to her. They then walked out the cave, to enjoy the rest of the day, together./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Everybody got together and formed a great feast around the big campfire they made. There were a fair share of beasts in the area, though only a few giant ones. Bereit knew that there were some underwater creatures that were edible, and here, there were big crab like monsters they could eat. They first drew it out of the ocean with a bright light, it being Bereit's lightning, but he made a simple ball of lightning, making it float in the air./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It drew the fairly large crab out of the water, it being a purple colour. As it approached the ball of lightning, it went to touch it, but Bereit made the ball explode, as it shocked it enough to kill it, the crab falling limb./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"With the creature hunted, it was cleaned for good measure, and then cooked. It served so much, that there was a lot left over. Threw it somewhere else and let it burn, so they could keep creatures from coming for their campfire, drawing them to the giant crab./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Throughout the whole time they all ate together, Bereit sitting next to The Captain, Fallen, Imbir, Vanessa and Zelkova, along with Cid./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Stories were told about Bereit's and The Captain's past, how they first met and how they came together. /span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It started off with talk on how Bereit was just on a canoe, and how dangerous the seas were. The Captain offered to let him ride on, to help him get where he needed to go. That was when The Captain learned why Bereit was going off on his own, to provide for the kids. Sure, they already had natural resources, but they would run out eventually, so he went out to find saplings he could plant to give them more food. It was then, The Captain really began to like Bereit./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Another about Bereit's first job he ever took on. It was a simple hunting job of small monsters, with a group of the Frozen Hearts./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Then the question was brought up. How was the name thought of? It turns out, it had no deep meaning or overwhelming back story. It was just because the queen of Mauer said his heart was frozen after he declined her love, so he got that as the name of their crew. Everyone found it was very silly./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Though Imbir and Vanessa didn't have any stories to tell, they all had laughs, thoughts, and happiness to share to everybody./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit really enjoyed the night he had. It felt like he was just another person. Nothing special. Just him, and his friends, all having this great feast, and telling these tales of their lives./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Fallen)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It had been a long time since she had a good night sleep. It was funny that she was sleeping well, despite sleeping on sand, like everyone else, though she had a towel underneath her. However, she felt something wasn't right. She woke up, rubbing her eyes and looking to her right, to see Bereit wasn't there. She then felt a tap on her shoulder, and saw Shiva, as she pointed to the ocean, Fallen seeing Bereit just standing there./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Go see him. ====/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Leave him alone./span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Maybe now was a good time to ask some questions about him, since they were alone. She stood up and smiled at Shiva, then started making her way to Bereit./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;" person (Bereit)/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit could hear the footsteps coming behind him, as he peeked behind himself, to see Fallen was approaching. He then looked back at the ocean, hearing Fallen's steps stopping for a moment, before walking to his side. "Can't sleep?" He asked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen shook her head. "I was sleeping so well. I just felt like something was wrong." She then looked at him. "You weren't there. That's what was wrong."/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked down for a moment. "Sorry. I've just been thinking. About what's waiting for us out there." Bereit explained./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Adventure?" Fallen said, in a happy tone, hoping to cheer him up./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked up, realizing that she was right. It really was going to be adventure that waited for them. "Yeah... I guess you're right."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I understand you're nervous about this Bereit. I bet leaving the kids behind isn't easy, but if we don't, those anomalies will get them eventually. So, we really don't have much of a choice." Fallen said, turning her body to him./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know... I just wish I could have more time." Bereit answered, putting his hands on his pockets."Just... don't bother me. I'm just taking time of your sleep."br /br /Fallen furrowed her eyebrows. "Bereit. Look at me." She demanded./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at her, his expression showing no happiness /br /"My role is clear. If you're down in the dumps, it's my job to cheer you up. Because you're always the one keeping everyone's morals up. You're vital to our survival." Fallen said, crossing her arms. "You're more than a leader."br /br /"Falle-"/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I'm not finished." Fallen interrupted. "But I don't expect it out of you all the time. Just do what needs to be done. And right now, we need hope on finishing all of this." Fallen said, then putting a hand on his shoulder, though she had to reach up to him. "We're all in this together. One of goes, we all go."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit was taken back by her speech. It was... motivating. She really did bring his moral back. He looked at her, and smiled. "You're right. Sorry for being such a gloomy leader." Bereit apologized, showing he was feeling better emotionally./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen sighed happily. "Now. Let's get some sleep. You'll need it."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes, mom." Bereit joked, walking past her./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen watched as he walked past her, smiling. She felt proud for handling that so well./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She then turned to see Shiva behind her, as Shiva made two small ice figurines, as they were kissing, Shiva having a playful smirk on her face. Despite being a Divine, she still had her fun./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen stuck her tongue out at Shiva, as then walked back to camp, to rest for the night./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The morning sun rose, as Bereit and the group were all at the airship that Cid flew to get here. They all stood together, Bereit facing the kids and The Captain. "So... I guess it's goodbye." He said to them, some of the kids holding back tears./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain looked at Bereit, him having a sad smile. "It's a shame you're going off on your own."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Sorry. But it's time for this bird to leave it's cage." He said, looking at him./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Frozen Hearts was a cage?" He asked, though it was more of a playful question./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You know what I mean." Bereit said, smiling./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain chuckled. "Well, before you go." The Captain then handed him a brass knuckle. "If you ever lose your sword and magic fails, you'll at least have this."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at it, looking at the shining metal of this weapon. He recognized it, recalling the time he showed it to him. It was his very first weapon he ever gave him. "Sweet. Can't wait to see blood stain it." Bereit joked./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Oh! I almost forgot!" Fallen said, as she then ran to Bereit's house. "Hold on! I'll be right back!" She said. After a bit of time, she came back, giving Bereit his serrated sword, resting in it's sheath. "I completely forgot to give it back. You left it after... you know."/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit smiled, happily taking it. "Thanks." He then wrapped the belt on it around his waist, as he then looked at the others. "Stay strong, kids. Your King will return soon." Bereit said./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"He waved them goodbye, and walked into the ship, along with everybody else. Imbir, Vanessa, Fallen, Zelkova, and Cid all came together, along with some prisoners, them being the pilots of the ship./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The platform closed as they all entered, and the ship flew off./span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And so began to journey of an unlikely band of heroes. Though, the group could always grow in numbers, and in relationships. With their targets clear, and purpose in their heads, there was nothing that could stop them now. Many dangers awaited them, but that's just part of adventure, isn't it?/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Save your game up to this point?"/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-weight: normal;"No/span/span/span/p
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