Soul of the Silver Crystal
A Skies of Arcadia fic By Neko-sama

Chapter 5



" So, Belleza, what are some things that the elders say?"

" Well....... I guess you would just have to ask them yourself........" Belleza replied as she spoke with her former 'rival' over Vyse, who was still sailing the skies of life. Aika took a quick glance at the entrance to the underworld.......a familier figure stepped forward, wearing rather unusuall blue rouge pirate garments, and along side her, a creature looking like a silver tadpole.

" Hey! Isn't that!? Hey Fina!!"

Fina only shot a cold glance at Aika..... then took a moment to ponder the suituation at hand........ ( Aika....... .... Aika was alive wasn't she? No...... that must've been some lookalike imposter..... Aika would never kill me......... not the real Aika....... then I was......right........ oh Aika...... I'm so sorry...........) " Aika..........." Fina showed only forlorn toward her comrade....... ( But if that wasn't Aika in the world of life....... then............... that...... look.......in...... her......... eyes...........) Fina expressed another look, a look of great fear..... ( C-could it.........b-be?)

" Fina..... what's wrong? What are you doing here? Uhhhh! Forget that! How've you been! It's great to see you!"

" Aika...... your the reason I'm here........ and yet.......... your not........"

" Huh!?" Aika now expressing a look of confusion, replyed, " You just lost me......"

" Alright......." Fina now takes in a deep breath. " Aika........ I think your body has been possessed by an evil spirit......"

" Really? But..... what would they want with my body?"

" I think the question is 'why'." Belleza replyed evesdropping on the girl's conversation. The two friends reunited turned their attention to Belleza now. " I haven't seen Ramirez's spirit cross these gates...... but I know his has departed from his body.......... "

" Wha?" Aika and Fina now looked worried.

" But if Ramirez isn't in the spirit world.........!"

" He must've takin my body! That... that bastard!!" Aika screamed. " How dare he take my body! It's mine! He can't have it! Arrrrrggg!!!!" Aika spazed out as she usually did when something bad involved her.

" Aika........ Ramirez having your body is the least of your worries....." Belleza spoke calmly. " What you should really be worried about is what he plans to do with it...."

" Uhhhhh!!! What if he!!?? Arrrrrggg!!! NO! That would be WRONG!!!!"

" Yes well, .... wrong as that would be...... he might try to kill Vyse and destroy all of Arcadia...... I just hope the handsome one will find a way to stop him....."

" But... on his own?" Fina now looked worried.

" He doesn't have a choice..... but don't worry yet..... he still has many allies out there ready to aid him......"

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Vyse and Ramirez set sail aboard the Neko2k5. Gazing out from the deck, Vyse is completly oblivious to the danger at hand, while Ramirez ponders his next move......

( Why did I save him? Why? I mean....... I want him to die......I want to kill him......... but........ just look at him....... just content without any worry.......... no obligation....... just the open skies.......... I don't understand.......... I thought he was evil........ amoungst the other people of Arcadia..... caring only for material possessions....... he cares about others........ he even tried to kill himself over his love for Aika............ I.....)


" Something wrong Aika?" Vyse approched him worriedly.

" It's nothing...... nothing really........." Ramirez tried to assure him.

" You've been quiet since we left Cresant island.........." He gazed into her eyes for a moment. " I know you too well Aika......... you can't hide it from me........ there's something wrong......"

" There's nothing wrong Vyse...... I don't know what your talking about....."

" Aika....... normally you can't be quiet on these voyages...... you always find SOMETHING to say........."

" Well....... uhh..... errr....... I was just thinking.......that's all............"

" That's a new one...." Vyse nudged Aika with his elbow. " You....... think? "

" .............. What's wrong with that?" Ramirez's reply really shocked Vyse..... normally Aika would've snapped back at Vyse with some obnoxious response.... but instead, Ramirez was cool about it.

" Aika?"

" What?"

Vyse let in a long deep sigh. " Nevermind.........." ( She has been acting....... kind of strange since her return....... but after hitting all those walls and plumeting to deep sky.......... well...... you would think she would've died....... I don't get it........... I'm grateful she's alive........'sigh'........ I guess she just needs a little time that's all..... a little r and r should do it....) " I think you need some rest......"

Ramirez shrugged his shoulders. " I'm fine Vyse...... why would I need to sleep? Besides....... it's really beautiful out isn't it?"

" Well....... if you say so........" Vyse shrugged his shoulders and went up to the look out deck. " WHOA!!"

" What?" Ramirez looked up at Vyse who was zooming in on an approaching ship.

" It looks like the Valuan fleet! I haven't seen them gather like this since the battle against Galcian!"

( Huh? Valua?) " Can you see what's going on?"

" I'm not too sure......... I'll try and make contact......" Vyse ran downstairs and hit the reciever. " This is Neko2k5 to valuan airship...... do you read?"

( Loud and clear Vyse.)

" Huh? Lawrence?" Lawrence's voice could be heard over the reciever.

( Yea.... what do you want?)

" I...... I was just wondering......."

( What all the ships are gathered here for right? Simple....... our mission.... to seek out and capture baltor....)

" Baltor? If you're just going after Baltor, then what's with all the ships?"

( Ask Enrique..... apparently this Baltor guy is tougher than he looks..... but the price is right...........)

" Hmmmmmm...... well y'know...... I could've brought Baltor's head on a golden platter........... but whatever he has to do....... I'm just out sailing..... no particular reason......"

( Yea........ sure.......... you're probably after any goods on this ship...... well forget it............)

" Ok! ok! I told you...... I'm not out to raid today..... besides..... I'm not about to rob from an old ally........"

( Whatever....... I suppose now you're going to want to tag along.........)

" Sounds like fun..." Ramirez entered the room having heard at least half of the conversation. " Let's go Vyse....." ( This sounds like a good challenge.......)

" Aika..... we're Blue Rouges...... we can't just go out and kidnap somebody......."

( That's funny.... they seemed to have kidnapped Fina did they not? Oh well.... I'll play along.) " Yea..... that's right..... must've got my head banged a bit too hard....."

" That's not all you've got banged....... well.... good luck Lawrence!"

( I don't need luck..... but thanks anyway.... alright men... let's go......) Lawrence's ship, along with the several others determined to find and capture Baltor, take off to their destination.

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( It looks like two of the brats have made their way to the land of the dead............. they, along with Belleza..... are the ones responsable for ruining my plans of world domination.............. I haven't seen Ramirez...... perhaps he succeeded in destroying them finally........ but the boy hasn't come here yet.... but he can wait...... I'll enjoy making them suffer right here.......... as they cannot die if they're already dead..........) The Dark lord Galcian thought to himself amoungst the other people in the land of death. ( Vengence will soon be mine.........and Ramirez I trust will deliver the boy in due time..... along with the other worthless souls arcadia had to offer...... I will make all of Arcadia suffer for what they had done....... the question is.......... how....... there aren't any moon crystals here....... I must find a new means of instilling fear into these worthless lives...........)

" Hey mistah....." A young boy walks up to him, oblivious of the danger he would attempt to bring. " What're you standin around heh for?"

" Get lost kid....." With one strike, Galcian sent the young lad far into the next week. ( What I need...... is to suduce these people to follow me....... just as I suduced Ramirez............. the wiser ones should provide me the knowledge I need of any source of power I can find to use at my command.......)

" Owww..... that really hurt asshole!!!" The boy from before got up and headed in another direction, but not before giving Galcian the finger. Galcian ignored him and went about his buisiness plotting a means of vengence....... and he had all eternity to do so. As for the young kid, he wasn't too happy about being pushed around, but he knew better than to start going in rounds with him. " Geez....... why's ever' one gotta be so cold hearted.......?" Not watching where he was going, the kid walked right into Aika, knocking her to the ground.

" Hey! Watch it!"

" S-sorry......." The kid offered her his hand, but Aika refused.

" Next time, I would suggest watching where you're going...." Fina said politely.

" Uhhh! Well how could I when that jerk shoved me aside like some ol' rag......."

" Hmph..... doesn't surprize me...." Said Belleza. " He never was too fond of kids...."

" I ain't no kid!" The boy shouted. " I'm fifteen!"

" Oookay...... but last I knew fifteen was still teenage years....... you've got a long way to go before you're an adult....."

" Oh! Whatever! But just look at that guy! Just standing there stairing into space! I mean..... what's his problem! Looks like psycho ward material if you ask me...."

" Good luck, because there is no psycho ward here..." Belleza sighed. " This whole place is out of control if you ask me..... there's no one here to regulate any sort of law......."

" Hey....... Galcian just might use that to his advantage!" Aika spoke up.

" The possability certainly is there...."

" Uh-uh... ain't no way I'm living under that asshole!" The kid crossed his arms in a stubborn manner. " I make mah own rules.... ain't no one gonna take 'im away......'specailly not a low life like him!" The kid looked up at the rest of them angrilly, as if ready to kill. Fina observed him for a while.... he had white skin, with a slite tint, blue eyes and meduim length dirt blond hair....... and a highly city slicker look to him looking like someone out of lower city in Valua before it was devastated.

" Don't worry......." Said Aika. " We aren't going to let him take this place over...... we can't die if we're already dead right? So there's no way we won't beable to back down...."

" Well....... actually there is a way the dead can die..." Belleza sighed. " It's called the eternum....... a void deep withen the heart of the land of death..... I heard it looks kind of like deep ocean....... anyone cast into that void can never return......... they sufficate under it's intense pressure..... and become a lost soul...... I don't think Galcian knows about it though..... and I hope that I'll stay that way.... if he found a way to open the eternum.... he might just be able to accomplish his plans....."

" Well.... we just better make sure there isn't a way he can open the Eternum....." Aika replyed.

" Yea..... the only way to open it....... is acquiring the final eternity.........a gem stone that makes the moon crystals look like pebbles on the ground.......... this is what the elders of the old world have told me....... I only hope they do not tell Galcian of this information or he'll go to the far ends of this dimention to find it......."

" So like, where is it?" Asked the kid.

" No one knows for certain....." Said Belleza. " But legend has it that it is found in a place called Infinate proportions....... guarded by a Leopard-like creature named Mictlan........ whose fearsome power would make the gigas look like normal monsters......."

" Mictlan? I don't believe I've ever heard of him......." said Fina. " The elders never mentioned him....."

" Well, the elders didn't know everything......... I suppose that Mictlan was the most feared being in the old world...... elders of the old world claim Mictlan destroyed a previous world before that......... "

" Whoa! A previous world? That's just too far out!"

" Yea...... I thought so too............ but in the previous world....... there was no deep ocean....... in fact......... everything revolved around the area beneath the clouds....... and the continents rested on a huge body of water that covered the entire planet..........."

" You must be loco lady..... how could an entire body of water cover the whole planet? It would be swallowed by deep ocean!" The kid replied.

" She didn't ask you!" Aika snapped.

" Well............ I always thought the old bags were coots...... dammit..... if only the damn rains of destruction didn't come to Valua I'd still be alive! Lower city is better than dead city!"

" You lived in lower city?" Belleza asked.

" Damn right...... looks like I just transfered from one hell hole to another..........'sigh'........ I've had dreams of sneaking off into the upper city and moving to a place far away such as Nasr....... or maybe join Vyse the blue rouge..."

" Hey! I know Vyse!" Aika yelled with enthusiam, which imediatly became a tone of slight depression.... " Well......... knew...... Vyse......"

" You did!? Damn! Uhhh...... I never told you my name did I?''

" Uhhh....... no....I don't believe so...... " Said Aika.

" Yea, but we haven't given our names yet either..... my name is Fina..."

" I'm Aika!"

" I'm Belleza, former admiral to Valua...."

" Belleza........ beautiful admiral of Valua...... I've heard about you, I'm.......I'm Solo....."

" You mean single?" Aika teased.

" Uhhh.....no...... actually.... that's my name: Solo......"

" Solo......." Fina gazed at him dreamily..... " Uh uh..... well.... umm... Galcian...."

" Yea....... "

" Mmhmmhmmhmmhmmhmm......"

All four jumped as Galcian had been standing right behind them the entire time. " HUH!?"

" So....... there is a way to create fear amoungst the afterlives of this pathetic world after all.......... but don't worry......... I won't have to sacrifice my life fighting that monster........ seducing it to do as I please will work just as well......"

" Galcian!" Belleza warned. " You don't know what you're up against! That monster is a fearsome best! He'll tear you more holes than swiss cheese! Please come to reason...."

" Hahahahahahaha.......... you actually think I'm going to listen to a pathetic woman such as yourself....... you are weak Belleza....... if you were only stronger....... you wouldn't have had to sacrifice yourself to stop me!"

" Grrrrr! Well if that monster doesn't rip you a new one I will!" Aika jumped up.

" Yea! What's the big idea pushing people around like that anyway asshole!"

" You four actually even dream of being able to stop me....... "

" We'll see about that!" Aika yelled grabbing her boomerang as the four of them prepared for battle to stop Galcian from doing something incredably psycho..... while it didn't matter to them what happened to Galcian, they weren't about to let Galcian even try.....

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To be continued......

Author's notes: Aika, Fina, Belleza, and a new mysterious ally know as Solo get ready to fight Galcian.... the plot thickens as Galcian discovers a means of Vengence against his enemies. Meanwhile, something seems to be holding Ramirez back from killing Vyse.... well, anyway..... as always, I think you for support and constructive criticism....... all suggestions are welcome..... now to see if I can't finish this story.......