Soul of the Silver Crystal
A Skies of Arcadia fic by: Neko-sama
Chapter four
Dusk has landed over the land of Valua. The young Mercenary gazes beyond at the gates of the newly contructed palace, vibrant and admirable in every way. He takes in a deep breath, takes his sword, and makes his way to the palace. The guards nod at him, having been given permission to enter. With a bit of reluctance, and a bit of reminsing that a good share of gold was at hand, Lawrance steps inside, and makes his way to the entrance. A young, humble servant girl awaits him, leading him down stone corridors decorated with artifacts having been preserved from the rains, a a ruby throw rug resting beneath his feet streaching far down the all. The servant girl lead lawrance to the dining hall, where the young emperor sat at the far end, and to his left, his wife.
" Your majesty, Lawrence, mercenary of ........ ahem..... ' where exactly are you from?' "
" Doesn't matter. Let's just get down to buisness." Lawrance spoke with his usuall cold exterior.
" Alright Lawrance, take a seat. " Enrique nodded at the peasant girl signalling her to depart, in which she did. " Let us now discuss affairs shall we?" Lawrence nodded and took a seat. " Very well, let us begin. "
" Just tell me what I'm supposed to do and I'll do it."
" Alright......." A servant girl came and delivered some food, mostly of valuan fish and such. Rich Loqua was poured into fine wine glasses. "Tomarrow morning, we'll be sending ships all over the globe to track down the pirate Baltor. He's been terrorizing my merchant ships far worse than any other Black Pirate. Turn him in, and collect a handsome reward. That's all you need to do."
" And....... what about a ship and a crew..... I"m not gonna start sprouting wings anytime soon."
" Yes, I willl provide all the nesessary provisions for the search and capture. I would prefer him alive to pass judgement for his acts against my kingdom. He's a tough character....... do you believe you can handle him?"
" There's nothing I can't handle." Lawrence took the glass of loqua and sipped it causally.
" Well, good then. You are welcome to use our beds for the night."
" Very well."
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" I am sorry Vyse. " The possessed Aika approached the young Air Pirate with a look of sadness...... a mask for Ramirez's vengence. " I found this sword, and her silver crystal...."
" It...... it can't.....'sniff'....be.......... she........she must've been jealous of you....... that didn't mean I cared anyless for her........."
" I know........I.........I'm really sorry......."
" Aika.......first I had thought you had died..... then Fina commits suicide when you returned......"
( This guy has serious issues...... he's killed many other people in his life including taking a hand in killing me....... why does the heartless one cry?) " Would you like me to leave?"
"No....no........you don't.........have to leave........"
( He has no idea that I had been the one to kill her.......I'll let him grieve for his lost one a while longer before I kill him off........ I'll let him suffer.....)
Vyse approached Aika, who had a look of forelorn written across her face. He responded by wrapping his arms around the possessed Aika..
" You must feel........responsable in some way......"
Ramirez was startled. He didn't know how to react to this one. The sword he held fell to the ground, as he felt the soft exterior of Vyse's jacket.
( What's that rouge doing? Why such a display of.........emotion?) " Vyse..........?"
" Aika........hush now......... everything............ everything will be alright..........."
Ramirez was frightened....... did Vyse even have a clue? Obviasly not....... " Will you let go!?"
" Doesn't this make you feel better?"
" Uh.........well...............I don't know.............." (This feels strange.........no one has ever held me like this before.......I dunno if........... this is mutual or not.........I mean........coming from.........another guy.....................)
"(Aika........)" Vyse placed his tender lips to Aika's ear........ "( I think...........I have fallin for you...................)" and then he kissed Aika on the cheek. Highly startled and confused...... perhaps shocked and scared at the same time........ Ramirez made to back away. "( Aika? Why are you............?)"
" Uhhh............ Vyse.............. I don't really feel..............comfortable like this.................." ( What's he doing!!! This is insane! I want to KILL him and yet here he is trying to set the move! WRONG!! I am NOT that kind of man and there is absolutly no way..................)
" Would you......... feel more comfortable without your clothes..............?"
"N-no!! I would feel more comfortable if you would just...........STOP!"
" Aika........" Vyse stopped and unravelled his arms around Aika. " What's wrong Aika?"
" N-nothing.......n-nothing's wrong.............. it's just............"
" You're not ready for a physical relationship......... " Vyse sighed. " Perhaps it's better this way....... but it's funny....... you were the one to kiss me that day.............."
( What day?)
" Before the battle between us and Galcian.......... I felt kind of........ well........ I dunno........... Fina didn't seem to be my type of girl..... and after a while....... I realized you were the one for me.......... but I guess you weren't interested in being serious.............well........... tomarrow I'm going back on the ship............ " Vyse hung his head low as he grabbed his cutlass and left.
( I just don't get this guy......... I thought he liked Fina......hmmmmmmm.....) Ramirez looked out the door, Vyse had already gone down. ( I wonder if he left.....) Curiously, Ramirez made his way down to the ship, and Vyse, standing there, ready to take his cutlass into his chest. He didn't know what came over him, but Ramirez leaped forward, preventing the young air pirate from his suicidal intentions.
" A-Aika?"
" Vyse...... what where you doing?" Quickly, Ramirez lifted himself of of his 'friend'.
" Aika......"
" Look, just because I stopped you form killing yourself, doesn't mean I feel any different...." ( Besides..... I'm the one who's supposed to kill you.)
" Sure Aika........ ready to set sail?"
" I thought we were going tomarrow?"
" I dunno....... I suppose the skies are what I live for.... and ....... it's just my way of dealing with the past events."
" I see......." ( My way of dealing with stress is taking it out on a pathetic monster of some sort....... I guess he can handle things easier........' sigh'.....) " Alright....... let's go........."
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The next morning........ Lawrence set out on his voyage to find Baltor.
" Alright men!" Lawrence shouted despite his usuall cold and quiet exterior. " You know what to do......"
" Yessir!" The voices were as one, as if in a chorus.....a huge valuan armada ship rose inot the air and took off full speed ahead......
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Author's notes: I realize I probably should've finished this weeks ago, but unfortunatly I don't have time to issue a chapter every weekend, hopefully with summer coming it'll be different. I apologize for any complaints, I guess the characters just aren't themselves in this story...... but we could probably say I'm trying to be more original and trying to think of how pirates would really talk........ and Fina is just experimenting with the pirate language, thus the term ' Land lubbers' falls into play..... and I just might rewrite this story someday anyway....... but I'm going to try and finish this first before doing so....... I thank you for any support and constructive criticism ( which is very useful..... especailly when muses are hard to find these days.....) so I'm always open to suggestion.
-- Neko-sama
