1.1.1 Raziel

Young miss Heartly slept till the early hours of the afternoon. I removed her over top with the wings on, her blue cuffs and her boots. I also removed the weapon that she was carrying. Such a young creature should not carry weapons of such destructiveness. I laid her to sleep in my bed. I spent the morning making her a decent breakfast. Obviously by miss Heartly's collapse, she was exhausted and undernourished to accommodate the energy loss.

I walked back to my room, making sure that I didn't wake her up, and sat down and read my book for a period of time until she awoke,

"…Where…"

"You're in my humble dwelling, miss Heartly, there is some breakfast in the dining room if you feel hungry." I could tell she was famished, just by the way she smiled and nodded. She stood to her feet.

"Um?" she looked at her feet, under which was my carpet. "Raz? Where are my boots? My cuffs? My OVERCOAT!?" she realised that I discovered her weapon. But she tried to 'cover it up' as if I wouldn't notice. Not a lot escapes my attention though. I calmly got up from my chair.

"your cloths are on the side miss Heartly," she looked over to see them, "and I have your weapon." She staggered a little. "I'll keep hold of this till I determine when you need this." She pouted and gave me the 'big sad woeful eyes'. "and looking innocent won't help you." She changed the sad pout in to an angry one. Her balled fists on the end of her down facing arms where shaking. It was most comical. She turned her back to me. "I'll be in the library if you want to talk. Till then I would get your head strait and think." I then left and didn't see her till later on that night. I was, as I said, in the library. Yes I had a library, it was modest, but it had a lot of books. When I wasn't under crystal dynamics employ, I read books, or I went for a swim. At any rate I was sitting in front of a log fire. Despite the facts that I had no skin or organs to speak of, I was fully dressed; I had a shirt, jacket, a pair of trousers (uk-usa translation: trousers = pants) and a cravat. I was reading a very long book. It was 'the complete works of Shakespeare' and I was on 'Romeo and Juliet'.

"Raziel?" Rinoa came in. I had laid her out some spare cloths that I had gotten from the store earlier that day. Unlike most people, I didn't feel embarrassed about buying woman's clothing. Because the shop assistant knows that all the cloths that I buy, are tailor made as so the clothing items which I had purchased would not fit me anyway. I had procured her a black polo neck jumper and a long skirt. She looked quite pretty.

"Yes miss Heartly?" I put a book mark in my book and closed it,

"Rinoa's fine, Raziel"

"Very well, Rinoa what is it you want to speak to me about?" I gestured towards the other chair; it was a classic dark wooden chair with red padding. She sat and started,

"It's about Aya" my eyes widened

"What is wrong with Aya?" my voice rose a little in decibels, in fear.

"She has been taken, kidnapped." I became angry, but I kept my composure. I knew what was going on.

"Let me guess," I stood up and walked towards the large window, "a man in riot gear, with a gasmask on? Humph." She stood up and looked at me,

"How did you know?" she walked over to me.

"Because I was there when they where organising it all." I 'flashed backed' to what had happened.

RVO: before all this, you might remember we where all servants, correct?

Rinoa VO: yes I remember. I think I was a chambermaid.

RVO: Yes, and I was a butler to my master, the superior of crystal dynamics.

RIVO: actually, I think I was the boss's maid. I'm not too sure, I remember seeing you though at a meeting of something, I was sent away to get a drink for my master. I never found out what the meeting was about. I asked if he had a good meeting, he just stared and said, "So you want you pay docked?" I stayed quite after that.

RVO: Remember how it started?

Raziel, Aya, Rinoa and others include people from Nintendo and Sega including link (legend of zelda) walk in to the meeting room following their respective 'masters'. A man dressed in a black suit walked in front of a board. He addressed the servants:

"Please go get your masters a drink or something" they nodded and left.

RVO: I walked with Aya down the corridor and we talked.

"Are you okay?" Aya nodded.

"I thought I was the only maid in any ones employment."

" We best hurry with our masters drinks, then we can listen in on there meeting." She smiled and agreed.

RVO: we got back to our side of the room. The door had been left semi- open so we watched through it, they where disguising a dome, a room of some sort. They referred to it as 'The Pit'.

"This is something we should not be seeing."

RVO: we backed away from the door, and then knocked to see if we could enter. We entered left the tray and went. However I noticed a soldier, a 'keeper' as they called it. A man like what took Aya.

I came out of my remembrance, noticing that Rinoa had her eyes closed.

"Err… Rinoa?"

"THAT'S HIM," she yelled, I moved back in shock. She had obviously fallen asleep on her feet. She opened her eyes, which had changed from their usual dark brown colour to an unnatural yellow, Pupil and all. Her eyes faded back to their original colour as I backed away.

"Sorry…" she smiled and blushed a little "I should really ask before I read your mind…"

"We have a lot of work to do if we are going to rescue Aya."