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A Party is Formed
On a hill outside Giodd City a young dwarven girl was
watching her small herd of eight chocobo.
Though the herd was very small it was also very valuable and not only to
her. There were white chocobo; and some
said that these special chocobo were worth their weight in gold, but all she
cared about was the love that they gave her.
She knew that at some point she would have to sell one, though she
counted herself lucky because even with this small amount of chocobo, another
would always come along to replace the one she would sell. And luckily for her two white chocobo always
produce white offspring.
Suddenly light filled her eyes and she was forced to
cover herself from its blinding power.
When the light was gone she looked to find what had created it. At first she saw and noticed nothing but then
she scanned the cliff where the light had come from. There she saws three figures beginning to talk to one and
other. The dwarven girl was much to far
away to hear what they were saying, but she did notice when the one dressed in
green armor pointed down towards her herd, she prayed at that point. She had been able to avoid bandits for so
long, she didn't know what to do, so she just prayed.
* * *
Kain approached the white chocobo wondering why a small
herd of them would simply be wondering about, suddenly Kains' eyes caught a
girl hiding behind a large rock. Though
this was a dwarven girl, he would have said about twelve or thirteen. Kain called to the Girl, "Hello, we saw your herd and were wondering
what they were doing here by themselves.
This is your herd isn't it?"
"Yes," she said sheepishly. "Please don't take them though, they are all that I have. All that my parents left me." She pleaded with Kain.
Kain looked down at the girl and nodded his head at her,
"I promise to you that I will not take any of these creatures. However, I was wondering if my friends here
could use them for a minute."
The girl looked at Kain with confusion. "What are you going to do with them?"
"Well you see, the white chocobo have an ability that no
other chocobo has, that ability is to quickly regenerate the stamina lost by
certain people with certain skills.
These two behind me are those certain people with those certain skills."
"Okay. Just don't
hurt them, please."
"Of course these chocobos will be brought no pain at
all." And with that Naxos and Dawne
each approached one of the white chocobos.
Then Naxos touched the forehead of his selected chocobo. Suddenly he stood straight and erect like an
invisible string was pulling him up, but not letting him leave the ground. Then he took his hand away from the
chocobo's forehead and looked at both Kain and Dawne and nodded his head.
Dawne only gulped as she looked at what had just
happened. She slowly approached the
chocobo nearest her with her hand.
Suddenly she too began to stand straight and erect, however after a few
seconds she began to convulse. Naxos
shot his head at Kain, "What's wrong?"
"Patience, she has used up more of herself than you."
Then Dawne slumped down onto the ground. Naxos and Kain both rushed over to her to
see how she was doing but before either of them got there she had gotten back
on to her feet and was near glowing with the pleasure that the chocobo had put
within her. "How do they do that
Kain?" She asked.
"I asked the same question to Rosa once, she told me it
had something to do with osmosis, but really, I don't think she even understood
anything about them." Kain paused
looked around and saw the small girl looking at them. "Thank you very much for the use of your chocobos. But know we must be off."
The girl nodded her head at Kain and he could tell that
she felt so glad to be finally rid of these strangers.
* * *
As Kain and his two companions entered Giodd city Kain
suddenly began to think on his own stupidity.
He couldn't believe that he had forgotten to talk with Dekan and Phantine
about where to meet him. Kain's mind
began racing, where would the two of them most likely be right now. Well, they are supposed to be encouraging
rebellion from the dwarves, so they are probably in one of the fourteen-dwarven
sectors. But now, the question of course becomes which one?
Kain decided to take to an inn for the night and to begin
their search tomorrow morning. Inside
of the inn Kain was only able to get one room for the three of them, apparently
there was some kind of a festival begging tomorrow, Kain did not know what it
was about, nor did he care at that moment.
The three of them sat at a table that had been placed in
their room, they began to talk over where Phantine and Dekan could be. "Now look I say they probably went to the
worst of all the sectors because there, they are most likely to find those
wanting and willing to fight." Naxos
said.
"No, you see you never begin with the worst. You always want to start about three or four
places above the worst. Because there,
they have hope and hope is a most powerful weapon when used correctly." Kain informed them.
"So the question becomes, did you tell this to your two
friends, Kain?" Dawne inquired.
"I am sure that I did."
"Well then that means that we have to find out the place
where these dwarven people are most likely to have hope and are still down deep
in the gutters."
"Sector three."
Naxos said.
"Why do you say that?"
Dawne asked him.
"Because look at this map here. Look how sector three is looking right up at the human
sector. Just enough so that the humans
aren't always looking down like a security camera, but enough to annoy you that
they are still a presence where before only your King reigned. You did say that the human sector is where
the castle used to be, right Kain?"
"Yes that is correct."
Naxos nodded. "And I also
believe that you're right about the dwarves there having the most hope of
anyone. Because they are the closest to
where their King reigned."
"So we all leave for sector three tomorrow then?" Naxos asked.
"You and I will go Naxos, But Dawne I want you to stay
here. No, don't argue or say that I'm
being sexist. It's because I just
remembered what tomorrow's festival is and why everyone from across the
underdark decided to descend upon the city today."
"What kind of festival is it Kain?"
"It's called, Grak Yrast Kya, that means the feast of the
pure."
"I don't get it.
It sounds just like any other feast day to me; except they probably eat
some kind of 'haloed meat'."
"No, you must understand Dawne, that pure is a synonym
for virgin." Dawne stared at Kain for
the longest time, and then she opened her mouth with a look of horror that
spoke the frightening awareness to Kain.
Then she shut her mouth and was about to ask Kain a question when he
interrupted her to say. "I can tell,
let me put it that way I can tell.
Also, I doubt that they will only be 'feasting' on the pure." Dawne nodded at him once more in agreement
with Kain suggestion for staying in the Inn's walls. Kain could also feel the silent prayer that she voiced about the
innkeepers being noble about tomorrow's activities.
* * *
As Kain and Naxos entered into the twentieth bar they had
been to that day, within seconds they had exited the twentieth bar that
day. At that point Kain began to wish
that he was back at that inn with Dawne, at least there people kept to their
"activities" in private places instead of what was going on within every single
bar in the third dwarven sector. Naxos
looked at Kain with yet another disgusted look in his eye and said. "That's it Kain, I don't care. Either A: we search somewhere other than in
these bars or B: we go back to the inn."
Kain looked back at his companion and said. "Very well, where would you suggest we look
if not within one of these, 'fine' establishments?"
"I say we go back to the inn. There is nothing we can do here today; we just have to wait till
tomorrow. Unless you want to interrupt
all those *coughs* friendly dwarves in there."
At that moment though Kain wasn't paying any attention at all to what
Naxos was saying, he was looking at the two humans strolling down the
street. Hoods were covering both of
their faces, but.
"It is not possible that I have this good of luck." Kain whispered silently and then he nearly
ran over to the two humans, barely making note of the fact that Naxos was
actually running after him. As soon as
Kain caught up with the two humans his heart sank. Their was no way that it was Dekan and Phantine, for the last
time Kain had looked, he had not remembered Dekan having breasts. Thus he stopped and waited a couple of
seconds for Naxos to reach him. "It's
not them," Kain whispered to Naxos.
"Though they may know where they are.
Something tells me that humans in the Underdark would want stick
together a lot."
Thus, Kain approached the two women in their brown hooded
cloaks. Kain tapped lightly on one of
the girl's shoulders. Each turned
around at the same moment though to see who was there. Both also reacted with great surprise to
seeing humans, instead of a couple of very anxious, enterprising dwarves. The one on the left was slightly taller and
with brown eyes and brown hair. The
other was shorter, though not actually short, and had gray eyes with brown hair
again. "What do you want?" The brown eyed one asked.
"We are looking for friends and were hoping that one of
you two might know something about where they are." Kain asked them.
"It all depends on the friends that you are looking
for. Are they dwarven, or human?" Asked the gray-eyed girl, and girls both of
them were Kain noticed that neither looked older than eighteen. Suddenly Kain began to wonder why everyone
he was meeting was a teenager.
"They're human, a male and female. Both of them are also about your ages. The male is equipped with a spear and should
be training with it quite a bit. The
female is quite the marksman with two pistols she has. If that information helps at all." The two girls looked at each other then they
began to whisper to each other.
"Would they be trying to start some kind of trouble here
with the dwarves, perhaps trying to raise old spirits of the past back into the
spirits of the present?" The
brown-eyed girl said.
"And if they were would that be such a bad thing." Naxos
said. "From what I have seen this world
needs to be changed, and as a wise man once said to me the easiest way to
change the world is from the bottom up."
"You talk as though you find revolution against, our
beloved Guardian, acceptable." Said the
gray eyed one almost sarcastically.
"Enough," Interjected the brown-eyed girl before Kain
could respond. "All of us know what's
going on here, so just tell us their names and I will lead to them. If I know them of course."
"The female is Phantine, and the male Dekan."
"Good enough for me."
The brown eyed one said.
"Follow, and we shall lead."
While the four of them walked through the streets they
talked about many things including how each of them thanked the light that this
was on majority an inside festival. The majority of the conversation though was
about: how change was needed and how to go about, the means of which to fund a
war, the resistance movements going on within the city, and finally each of
themselves. The gray-eyed one was known
as Arigon, and the brown eyed was called Illior. The four of them walked for what seemed like miles only to end up
at the back of an alley. The girls let
them through a basement door and down through a staircase. At the end of the staircase Kain saw sitting
at an old wooden table, a slightly older looking Phantine and Dekan.
* * *
Kain found out from his two friends, after he had sent
Naxos back to get Dawne, that he had been gone for approximately a month. Though from Kain's understanding it must
have been the hardest month of these twos' life. They had managed to find, create, and establish ties with all of
the resistance groups from sector two to sector nine. And as soon as the festival was over they were planning to
formally establish ties with sectors ten, eleven and twelve. Kain was incredible impressed by these
teenagers which he himself had sent out to do the work of veteran
adventurers.
They began discussing exactly what kind of support they
could expect. "Well from the numbers
that we currently are aware of, there are about 350 dwarves who are 'openly' in
the resistance and near couple thousand more who will join if pressed. If we can get all of those we can start a
rallying cry. We can probably take
Giodd City without any trouble at all.
The Guardian apparently thinks that the dwarves have no hope left within
them, or something like that. The only
problem comes with taking control of the rest of the underground, or what will
soon be known as the Grand Empire of the Dwarven Clans and Heritage, or
something like that." Dekan said with
all the exuberance of a young boy talking about his newest toys.
Kain nodded in approval.
"Yes I see, from what you have told me about the army that the Guardian
has retaining control of the underground it would be very difficult to send
messages from community to community.
Plus, we have all forgotten something."
"What's that?"
Arigon said with an air of contempt in her voice.
"The Guardian will use that kind of an uprising as both
propaganda, and an excuse to tighten his grip around the world. If we do this, then the upper world will
look upon the Guardian as the hero who saved them from the dwarves." With that comment the conversation stopped,
Kain was amazed that none of the others had seen this coming.
"Well then, what do we do? We have to do something we can't just sit here and wait for
everyone to come to their senses, and then do this." Illior asked Kain with revulsion on her tongue.
"I have been thinking on this for awhile and the here is
the best solution that I can..." Suddenly Dawne and Naxos entered the room
neither of them seemed to have a breath left inside of their lungs.
"Sorry to barge in," Dawne said after taking a moment to
catch her breath. "We just didn't want
to miss anything."
"I thank you for rushing, although I would have told you
exactly what everyone here had said anyway."
Kain looked back at the four already seated at the table. "I apologize, these are Dawne and Naxos,
they are callers and they also have other magical talents as well." Both Arigon and Illior looked on with a
stunned silence at the two callers.
Phantine and Dekan were surprised as well but they recovered quite
quickly. Noticing the surprise still
embedded on the girls' faces Dekan decided to have see if he could make their
jaws actually drop.
"Oh and how rude of me as well. Arigon, Illior this is Kain, you know the legendary Dragoon Kain,
from the legends." At that moment
Arigon fainted and Illior looked as though she needed to find the bathroom rather
quickly.
After about 15 minutes the two girls had recovered and
Kain went back to what he was talking about before. "Now, you all know about the tower of Babil, right?"
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