Chapter 8: Getting to Know Each Other

"Are you kidding me Archie!?" I asked surprised that she was the one I was to marry, "Her? She is totally crazy!"

"And what do you base that assumption on kid?!" Rin asked.

"Kid?! If you didn't notice, I'm taller than you!"

"And what difference does that make?!"

"I take it you two know each other?" Archie said.

"Sorta." I said scratching my head.

"Well then I guess that saves me the trouble of formerly introducing you." Archie said, "Now as for the arrangement for the wedding..."

"You can take that arrangement and shove it up your rear, there's no way I'm marrying her!"

"Same here!" Rin said.

"Sorry but there isn't much choice." Archie said, "Don't you remember signing that contract?"

I did remember signing a contract for an alliance by marriage, but I didn't think to look at the name of the other signer.

"When you made me sign that stupid contract you didn't say I would be marrying him, I thought it would be to some random lord." Rin said boiling with anger.

"Well there isn't anything I can do." Archie said, "The wedding date is one week from now." Then he opened the door behind himself, "You two should get to know each other, you both have much in common." Then he stepped out the door and closed it.

And what did that mean?

Evernight Forest

Torrock walked over to a spot on the road where a small tent had been set up. He entered the tent, inside was a large black bowl one foot in each direction, inside was a tar-like substance.

It began to bubble and then raise upwards, it stopped when it had grown to the same height as him, then it began to morph in shape and changed to an appearance similar to Terreck.

Torrock bowed, "My lord."

"Speak brother." Terreck said.

"My lord, Lady Elise has evaded us." Torrock said, "We wiped out her army, but she managed to escape."

"That does not surprise me." Terreck said, "We never could find her in hide-and-seek."

"What shall we do?"

"There is only one thing remaining that we can do. We burn her only hope. Take your men to Spree. Mass slaughter usually drives Overlords out."

"Okay, but our small forces, still enough to take down Elise's soldiers may not be enough to defeat the Overlord."

"I understand that and that is why I am sending you reinforcements. They should arrive in one week."

"As you wish." Torrock said as the ooze fell back into the bowl.

Spree Village

We walked toward the gates of Spree in silence, you'd think that when you're taking a walk with your future wife you'd be talking about something, learning more about each other.

Rin was walking on my right side.

As we walked people would first see me and smile gladly, but when they noticed Rin they would turn back to their work.

As we reached the gate a couple people walked over to us. One was a man with light body armor and a crossbow and the other was a young lady.

"So you're really going." the lady said looking sad.

"Yeah, I wish I could stay longer mom." Rin said.

"You may not be my child by birth," the lady said, "but you're still our child. But anyways I guess you're not bad off with your soon to be husband, he's cute."

That made both of us blush.

"Mom!" Rin said.

Then the man leaned over to my ear, "Take good care of my daughter or I'm coming for you." he said.

Even though I could probably take him on with no problem that still frightened me.

"Goodbye mom." Rin said hugging her adoptive mother.

Then she also hugged her adoptive father.

Afterwards we both walked to the Tower Gate and transported ourselves back to the Dark Tower.

Dark Tower

For the past half hour Rin has been standing at the window in front of the Tower Portal watching as the sun set while Gnarl and I have been debating where to look for the Minion Tribes.

Then I looked over at Rin, I felt really sorry for her, she had just been forced to leave behind her home and family, I couldn't help but feel like it was my fault.

I walked over to her watching her shoulder-length blonde hair being blown by the wind.

"Rin, I'm sorry about..." I started to speak.

"It doesn't matter." she said, "Those people were glad to see me go. The only ones in that whole village who were ever kind to me were my adoptive parents and Archie." Then she turned around to reveal tears in her eyes, "Though I am still going to miss Spree."

I couldn't think of anything to say, so I walk over to her and embraced. She didn't say anything and just buried her head in my chest as she cried.

"Don't worry." I said, "I will make sure that you will be able to see them again. I will allow you to visit them whenever you want."

"You promise?" she asked.

"Yes," I said, "I promise."

"I'm going to hold you to that." she said as her face brightened up.

When she isn't being an oddball she is actually sort of beautiful, what am I thinking!?

Centurion Hawk, Mellow Hills Swamplands (normal ones)

"There's a clearing in the forest over there I'm going to try to land." Luka said.

"Okay." Kaito said sitting down in the chair next to her.

"Where's Ichiro?" she asked.

"In the engine room making sure this bucket of bolts stays in the air." he answered.

"And Akio?"

"Still at Yuka's bedside." he responded just as worried about Akio as he was for their injured companion.

Then the ship jolted slightly from the landing.

"I'm going to go look around to see if there are any towns or refueling stations nearby." Kaito said getting up.

She pressed the button to lower the hatch, "Just be careful, we don't know what is out there."

"Don't worry about it, I'm a Jedi."

Then he stepped out.

A few minutes later he came upon a small area where some trees had been broken.

"What happened here?" then he looked around and saw a crashed ship.

He walked over to it, there were some small plants just beginning to grow on it so he could tell it had been here a while, but not a long time. But what he then noticed was a picture of a star going supernova on the right side.

"Hey Luka." he said activating his comlink, "There is something you should see." Then he pointed the comlink at ship and took a picture.

"Is that the...?" Luka asked over the com.

"Yup, it's Nova's ship." Kaito said.

"That means..."

"That were not alone here."

"Why do we keep finishing each other's sentences?"

Then Kaito blushed.

"So should I tell Akio?" Luka asked.

"Are you kidding me?" Kaito asked, "I don't think it's a good idea to tell him that his long time rival and nemisis is on this planet with us. Besides, he's got something else to worry about."

Then he heard leaves cracking and twigs snapping.

He turned around and grabbed his Lightsaber in his left hand and raised it to assassin defensive pose and activated the green blade.

Then he saw a woman wearing a dirtied green robe and cracked armor as well as blood running down her arm. Then she began to fall over. He immediately raced over there using the Force to increase his speed.

He caught her just before she fell, "You okay miss?" he asked.

She didn't answer.

"Oh please don't be dead."

After he said that a loud smack sound appeared and the was a red handprint on his face.

"Does it look like I'm dead?" she said, then she cringed in pain and clutched her injured arm.

"There she is!" a voice shouted as some pale humanoids with pointed ears and pict dark armor smashed out of the forest.

"Run." the woman said.

You didn't need to tell him twice, Kaito and the rest of the group have run for a long time.

Dark Tower, Private Quarters

I walked up the stairs to the Private Quarters to see how Rin was doing. Quite well by the look of the place. There were flower vases on tables inbetween each column in the hallway.

I then walked into the bedroom and saw that a large bed had been set up. (It is similar to Rose's, but not the same).

I then walked out to the balcony (added next to the bed) where Rin was standing in a white nightgown staring into the night sky.

"So judging from the room I'd say you'll be okay with living here." I said.

"You could say that." she said.

"Well," I said, "This is slightly awkward."

"I know." Rin said.

Then after a few moments of silence Rin spoke, "Are you from a different land?" she asked, "I mean, we don't usually see people with snow white hair around here."

"Well you could say I'm from a different land." I said, "I know this will probably sound strange, but I am from a different planet in a different galaxy entirely." then I went on to tell her about the Grand Republic and the Jedi Order, how I was raised and trained by them and taught to use the Force.

"So you're basically space monks." Rin said laughing a little.

"I never really thought of it like that." I said. Though I guess it is kind of true, we were not aloud to marry, have personal possessions, form any attachments, and we were dedicated to following an entity that makes up the whole universe. "So what about you?"

"I've spent most of my life in the village of Spree with my adoptive parents." Rin said, "I was rejected by most of the adults and most of the children feared me because of their parents so I never really had any friends."

"And before that?" I asked.

"I'd rather not talk about it." Rin said.

I would've liked to know more, but I didn't want to pry.

Then we returned to our room.

"You can take the bed." I said to her.

"What about you?" she asked.

Then I grabbed a pillow and tossed it on the couch and sat down.

"Oh." she said as she sat down and covered up, "Goodnight Nova."

"Night." I said lying down.

In The Morning

I woke up with a yawn.

I got up and saw that Rin was still in bed. She was lying on her left side facing the doorway to the balcony and she had the blankets all bundled up around herself.

Lying there in the early morning sunshine she looked very beautiful. Did I really just think that?

I walked into the room between the bedroom and the hall (the space between the thick metal doors and the hallway) where some minions had place a small table and two chairs. On the table were two plates, they each had some form of bacon, a flat round bread with butter and a dark liquid on it, and some chunks of white and yellow stuff (I still hadn't learned about all of this planets foods).

The a minion walked in from the kitchen (which is the room across from the bedroom were they would be either a torture chamber of a garden in the game) with two glasses of milk.

Rin walked in just as I sat down, "Good morning." I said.

"Good morning." she said sounding like she had a good night's rest, then she noticed the food, "Wow, I've seen food like that before." she said.

"Neither have I." I said cutting some of the breadlike stuff with my fork and eating it, it was rather cakelike, whatever it was, it tastes a lot better than those rations I had to eat during that war. I wondered how the war was going, it's not like it matters though, I could care less about the Republic after they betrayed the Jedi.

We ate the rest of our food in silence, it was the best breakfast I've had since coming to this planet, if you're wondering what I ate during my short time at Gromgard it was the few rations I had on my ship and some old potatoes.

Later after I put my robe and armor back on I went downstairs to the throne room and sat down on my throne (which I had the minions add some cusions to) where I had the minions bring me a table with maps stretching from the Golden Hills to Empire City.

"If the Reds really do like fiery places like you say then I'd say this is our best bet." I said pointing to a volcano within the mountains that boarder between the regions of Evernight Forest and the Golden Hills.

"I was thinking the same thing master... I mean Nova." Gnarl said.

Then I heard footsteps, I turned to look over at the stairs and saw Rin walking down the stairs wearing white and red flower designed robes.

"It was the only thing I could find that fit." she said, "Does it look okay."

"It looks fine Rin." I would have said beautiful, but that would probably lead to an embarrassing argument.

"So what are you doing?" she asked.

"I was just about to head out." I said.

"Where?" she asked.

"To find another one of the minion tribes." I answered.

"You mean you want more of these things running around the Tower?"

"While the Browns are handy when you need some muscle I will still need more than just brute strength to complete my goal."

"What goal?" she asked.

"I don't know yet." I said getting up and walking towards the Portal, "It probably has something to do with why I ended up on this planet."

Then I said, "Golden Hills, Main Gate." then put on a smooth metal mask that covers my nose and mouth. Then I put my hood over my head and jumped through.

Well I guess you could say that Rin and Nova are at least friends now.

I just got home from my vacation a few hours ago, the only place that had internet was my grandparent's home so I didn't get to do much online.