Rei no Kigen to...
(The Origin of Rei and...)
[Author's Note: I hope you will enjoy this fan-fiction. This is my absolute first fan-fiction that I have ever written. Rei is basically my favorite character of all the Breath of Fire series. But, why aren't there others like him? I intend to answer this by creating the story around his creation. Also Rei and Momo would be a perfect mismatched couple. Also, putting them together would allow me to dapple in comedy and romance writing. After reading please give me constructive criticism through the Reading and Reviewing. Thank you and enjoy. Jya~!]
Chapter 1 - Establishing Our Scene
The desert winds scraped across the dunes of sand expanding over the horizon to infinity. The winds draped sand over the footprints of four heroes. One set of prints belonged to a human of average weight, two other sets belonged to light-weight humans, and another set was larger but not human. The winds were very good at disguising their tracks. The imprints in the sand belonged to a young man named Ryu, two women named Nina and Momo, and the last belonged to a theif named Rei, respectively.
Recently these four warriors, along with two other companions, just defeated an over-bearing and some would say clingy goddess named Myria. The two other companions, the guardian Garr, and Yggridasil disguised as a mutant onion named Peco, were no longer present after the long battle. Garr turned himself to stone, and Peco planted himself into the desert sands to save the world from the expanding desert.
But who was this Myria? She was a goddess who believed she was saving the world by controlling it. Myria attemped to destroy a powerful race of dragons called the Brood, whom she believed were too dangerous to the world. She almost succeded, but two remained, the warrior Ryu and his childhood friend named Teepo. Myria brainwashed Teepo praying on his ignorance of his own race. Teepo tried to destroy Ryu and his other childhood friend Rei. The group of warriors killed Teepo in the end as well as the goddess herself.
The group of four were heading back to their hometowns to live out the rest of their lives in the newly-freed world.
"Ryu, I think we should set up camp here. We haven't rested for a while since we defeated Myria," said the blond-haired girl named Nina.
Ryu nodded in agreement as Rei and Momo started to set up camp. Rei and Momo, the oddballs of the group always fought with each other. Mainly it was because of their differences, or something else. Ryu always thought their little spars were hilarious, Nina was mostly embarrassed by it.
"Oh, no. Ryu, they're at it again," said Nina with the palm of her hand pressed on her forehead.
"I think we should set up the four side poles for the tent," said Momo as she pushed her spectacles up on her nose with her index finger.
"You're wrong! We should find a source of food, water, and wood for a fire. It gets very cold in these deserts at night," said Rei who was glaring at Momo.
"You think you know all the answers don't you. I guess you've forgotten who the genius is here."
"I know, why don't you make a machine that could improve your aim with that damn bazooka?!"
Momo was furious, "I guess, then, I can use you as target practice!"
"That'll be easy," retorted Rei, "I wouldn't have to move at all to avoid your chrysm shots!"
"Why don't you steal a brain?! Theivery is your specialty after all."
"At least I'm not a complete klutz who has nothing better to do than mess around with machines and computers."
"Hmph! At least I'm not an animal who has no self controll and attacks his own allies."
Rei was about to say a comeback, but that made him quiet. He knew that he was the only person in the world who had a tail, other animalistic features, and was a lycanthrope. Momo didn't have to point it out. Rei decided to end the arguement by using the standard one-word insult.
"Nerd!" Growled Rei.
"Muscle-brain!" Momo shouted after Rei who was walking off to set up the tent.
"Gee, that was harsh! At least that one ended in time before Momo blasted Rei with the bazooka or Rei scratched Momo," Nina observed out loud, regardless who was listening.
Ryu simply continued to go about setting up the tent and preparing for the night in the desert. Momo was really pissed off at Rei. "That damn tiger! He annoys me to no end. I hate him, but then again..." Momo thought to herself as she walked around, searching for something to do before the tent was set up.
Rei was pushing in the poles of the tent into the soft sand and measuring the sides and distances of the poles. "That damn scientist! She irritates the heck out of me. I hate her, but I also..." Rei thought to himself before Nina interrupted him.
"Rei! Could you help me open the food chest? It's stuck and won't open!" Shouted Nina. Rei walked over to Nina, growling to himself as he walked to Nina and the food chest.
The container was fairly simple in its design. It had a white coating over a thin, insulated metal box. Rei struggled to get it open, but then he thought of that scientist and he got angry. That anger helped him open it. Unfortunately, Rei accidentally ripped of the top of the chest. "Well doesn't that just beat all, they don't make them as they used to," said Rei.
"I guess they don't make them for you," said Nina, glaring at Rei.
Meanwhile, Ryu and Momo were searching for various materials left over from the explosion in Caer Xhan, since they had nothing else to do for the day. Pieces of metal, wires, and fiber-optic cables were strewn throughout the desert nearby. "Wow!" exclaimed Momo, "Imagine what I could do if we found a fully-intact machine!"
Ryu rolled his eyes and sighed. She had that dreamy look on her face again.
Momo walked through a large pile of broken metal and glass. Suddenly, the wind rushed over the dunes of the desert and pushed away much of the sand around the pile of metal. Momo noticed something shiny in the sand. "What's this?" Momo asked herself, expecting an answer from nobody. She pulled it from the sand's loose grip. "Hey, Ryu! Have any idea of what this is?" Momo shouted out to her partner. Ryu stood up looked at the machine Momo had in her hand and shruged. He had no idea what that was.
Momo shook all the sand out of the machine. The machine itself was very similar to a modern color Palm Pilot(tm). "I wonder what this does?" Momo thought to herself. "Oh, Ryu, you should go back to camp and see if anything else needs to be done before sundown," suggested the absent-minded scientist. Ryu walked to the camp as Momo asked him.
"I'll see if I can look at the info inside. I guess I should turn it on," said Momo as she pushed the largest key on the machine. Luckily, the machine was still operational. Words, letters, numbers, and codes flashed across the small screen. Momo searched through the many files of the mini-computer. "I guess I'll look through this later, I should find a battery of some sort," Momo said to the open-air.
At nightfall...
"Tonight were having.." Said Nina before being interrupted by Rei and Momo simultaniously, "fish!"
"How did your know?" Asked Nina.
"Because the only food Ryu knows how to catch is fish," answered Momo.
"Rei, do you mind?" Asked Nina.
"Oh, no. Actually I like fish," Rei replied.
"There's the cat in you," Momo said attempting to irritate Rei.
"Oh, shut up," Rei growled back at her.
"Gee, you couldn't come up with a good comeback," Momo said with a mocking tone.
"Now isn't a good time for you to be fighting..." Nina said, trying to stop the arguement.
"Be quiet! Stop trying to stop us. Why does everyone insist on meddling in our buisness? If you don't like it, just go into the tent!" Rei & Momo yelled at Nina simultaniously.
The fight continued for about 15 minutes until they got tired and went into the tent to fall asleep. But Rei didn't let the chance to get the last laugh on Momo get away. "If Momo is sleeping in the tent, I'm sleeping outside. She snores too much," said Rei as he smirked.
Momo parried the blow by saying, "Well then, you should have to trouble with that fur coat of yours, cat."
"Idiot-scientist!" And with that, Rei left before Momo could get a word in.
Later that evening while everyone was asleep, Momo looked through the files of the miniature computer again. But this time she stumbled upon a file made by Myria. She tried her hand at hacking and somehow, she got in. "What's this?" Momo thought to herself, "A file made by Myria... It's called Project-. Oh my god..." Momo suddenly got up, and walked to the opening of the tent and peeked out.
Momo saw Rei looking into the fire, his back turned. All was silent for a while until Rei asked, "What do you want, Momo?"
Momo froze in her tracks. "How did he know I was here?!" Momo thought.
"Um, Rei... I..."
"Yes?" Rei said with his back still turned. His tail was sweeping back and forth slowly.
"Never mind. It's nothing," said Momo. She walked back into the tent and thought to herself, "I'll tell him tomorrow. I guess we'll be going back to Caer Xhan soon."