The Genome Offspring
The sun shown through the window. It shown in to reveal four beds and a bedside table, also revealing Jade, Matai, Jenna and Justin, complete with bandages, gauze pads, stitches and bruises. The first child-Jade- stirred and groaned.
"Where the heck am I? Hey…why is this bed so small?"
"Rally-ho!"
"Aaahhhhh!" Jade screamed and looked to her side to find a freakish (in her opinion.) dwarf standing next to her. The dwarf smiled she guessed.
"Ye be looking a wee bit tired, ah dannae think ye can be getting up yet! Oooo and by the way, ah be Margaret Miller! Call me when ye be needin me!" the dwarf walked out of the sunny room; just then, Jenna moaned and lifted her head up.
"Who the hell was----Jade? Where are we?" Jade shrugged her shoulders and looked about the room.
"This is completely different from home…and the guys here talk really weird…I wonder where my folks are?" Jade wondered her eyes about the room and slipped her feet out of the mini bed. She motioned Jenna to come but Jenna refused. So Jade went out alone. She realized that she still had her clothes on and was beaten all over. She shrugged it off and walked outside of the room; the sun shown so brightly that it felt good. She looked about the room and found that she was in a hall now; the hall had a boy looking dwarf with a dog following him. The dwarf looked at her and seem to salute her.
"Rally-ho! Ye must be the wee one who be hurt, ay?" Jade's face went confused.
"Yeah…do you know where my folks are?" the dwarf shrugged and walked away.
"Thanks for the help!" Jade said in a huff and stomped away. She stepped in through the next door and saw that she was now in a sort of courtyard. There was an enormous boat in the middle of it and…her parents where on it! She was about to run over to them when a hand was pulled in front of her. She halted to a quick stop; she looked up and saw that a blonde woman was standing there. She kneeled down and whispered.
"Those are your parents Jade, only much younger and still developing. This is when they are about to cross to the Iifa Tree." Jade looked confused.
"Iifa Tree? What's that?" The woman shushed her. Jade noticed the way her parents were young and adventurous looking. She thought long and hard when her thoughts were interrupted. Her mothers voice did that. Jade turned to her mother who was running towards her crying. Jade's eyes became droopy and she dropped to her knees. Dagger panicked and grasped her before Jade's head hit the rock hard floor. Zidane's voice soon entered Jade's ears.
"Honey! What's wrong!? Speak to me!"
"Zidane we need to get her back to the inn!" Jade's breathing became heavy. Then a voice was heard in her head.
"I'm so sorry about this…" Jade's eyes became wide. She could feel a knife slash through her stomach; she could hold back no longer, she had to let go.
"Momma! It hurts! Help me!" Dagger's eyes looked at Zidane for help.
"Honey…what hurts? …!!!" Dagger's hands were filled with blood. Dagger panicked and screamed. Zidane picked up Jade and ran towards the inn. He set her down on the bed and began hollering.
"Hey! Get a goddamn nurse in here! My child is hurt!!!! Hello!?!?!" Zidane also sounded panicky; Kuja and Ruby ran in followed by Mikoto and Blank. Blank was concerned and began asking questions.
"Zidane? Why are you yelling? We can't do anything if you keep screaming like that!" Zidane jerked his head in Blank's direction; his eyes were fierce.
"I'll tell you why I'm screaming! I'm screaming because me daughter's- "
"Zidane…I am helping her now." Dagger sounded calmer now, she had placed a curaga spell on Jade's tummy and Jade seemed more relaxed. Jade quickly grasped her mothers' hand and cried.
"I saw you! When you and daddy got married here; you guys were so young! And I saw her! That lady with blonde hair! She told me about the Iifa Tree and while you guys were screaming, she told me that somethin's gonna happen! I gotta go!" Jade tried to get out of the small bed when Dagger held her back.
"No…you are not going anywhere…am I clear on that?" Dagger's voice sounded stern and serious; almost as if she would cry any minute.
"Do you know how much hell I went through when I lost you? I was so afraid…afraid that I would lose you…and that madman would do something sickening to my precious baby…why do you intend on doing this to me again…?" Dagger completely broke down; Zidane walked over and comforted her. She laid her head on his shoulder and let her tears flow down from her face, down his shoulder, and finally hit the floor. Anastasia appeared in the room next to Jade.
"Your spirit showed up in your father when he was a little one." Jade gasped.
"You were the lady! Who are you?" Jade stood up from the bed; she winced at the pain that was still on her tummy.
"I'm Anastasia, or you may call me Grandma." Jade smiled; then cocked her head to the side.
"You don't look that old…" Anastasia smiled.
"Believe it or not, I am over a thousand years old!" Jade chuckled; the twins and Matai sat up from their short slumber.
"Who's the broad?" Kuja shot a scowl at Justin.
"Justin! You don't ever talk to your grandmother that way!" Justin looked at Anastasia in amazement.
"No freaking way! I got a freaking Granny!" Kuja winced. Anastasia looked over at Dagger and Zidane who were standing again.
"Zidane…Anzonin is after Jade. I have learned that and the reason he was after her." There was a pause when Zidane interrupted it.
"Well? What is it!?" Anastasia nodded.
"He has been searching for a wife, and he has found out how to increase people's age…but that is all I know…" Zidane grunted.
"So how do we get this nutcase away from them?" Anastasia thought for a moment then responded.
"We use to have a circlet…it had the power to create a force that only a genome could harness…but somehow it was lost…" Zidane remembered it.
"Is this it?" Zidane pulled the circlet from the pouch he had set it in. Anastasia's eyes opened wide.
"How did you-where did you-who gave this to you?" Anastasia realized who did and reached over for the circlet. As the tip of her finger pricked the green jewel on the face of the circlet, a bright light sparkled and the whole inn was washed with light. Anastasia stepped back and panicked.
"My-my-my lord!" she kneeled down and placed her arm across her chest and bowed her head. Zidane looked around the room to see whom she was bowing for, and he caught what she was bowing at. A man stood there with different writings on his face. He was dressed in sort of a cape and long slacks; he had jewels trailing down the armor he had and looked fairly young.
"Selestine!" Anastasia still faced the floor when the man waved his hand.
"No need to bow…I am in no mood."
AN: Hiya! It's time to RR if you want! E-mail me at manaprincess@yahoo.com
The sun shown through the window. It shown in to reveal four beds and a bedside table, also revealing Jade, Matai, Jenna and Justin, complete with bandages, gauze pads, stitches and bruises. The first child-Jade- stirred and groaned.
"Where the heck am I? Hey…why is this bed so small?"
"Rally-ho!"
"Aaahhhhh!" Jade screamed and looked to her side to find a freakish (in her opinion.) dwarf standing next to her. The dwarf smiled she guessed.
"Ye be looking a wee bit tired, ah dannae think ye can be getting up yet! Oooo and by the way, ah be Margaret Miller! Call me when ye be needin me!" the dwarf walked out of the sunny room; just then, Jenna moaned and lifted her head up.
"Who the hell was----Jade? Where are we?" Jade shrugged her shoulders and looked about the room.
"This is completely different from home…and the guys here talk really weird…I wonder where my folks are?" Jade wondered her eyes about the room and slipped her feet out of the mini bed. She motioned Jenna to come but Jenna refused. So Jade went out alone. She realized that she still had her clothes on and was beaten all over. She shrugged it off and walked outside of the room; the sun shown so brightly that it felt good. She looked about the room and found that she was in a hall now; the hall had a boy looking dwarf with a dog following him. The dwarf looked at her and seem to salute her.
"Rally-ho! Ye must be the wee one who be hurt, ay?" Jade's face went confused.
"Yeah…do you know where my folks are?" the dwarf shrugged and walked away.
"Thanks for the help!" Jade said in a huff and stomped away. She stepped in through the next door and saw that she was now in a sort of courtyard. There was an enormous boat in the middle of it and…her parents where on it! She was about to run over to them when a hand was pulled in front of her. She halted to a quick stop; she looked up and saw that a blonde woman was standing there. She kneeled down and whispered.
"Those are your parents Jade, only much younger and still developing. This is when they are about to cross to the Iifa Tree." Jade looked confused.
"Iifa Tree? What's that?" The woman shushed her. Jade noticed the way her parents were young and adventurous looking. She thought long and hard when her thoughts were interrupted. Her mothers voice did that. Jade turned to her mother who was running towards her crying. Jade's eyes became droopy and she dropped to her knees. Dagger panicked and grasped her before Jade's head hit the rock hard floor. Zidane's voice soon entered Jade's ears.
"Honey! What's wrong!? Speak to me!"
"Zidane we need to get her back to the inn!" Jade's breathing became heavy. Then a voice was heard in her head.
"I'm so sorry about this…" Jade's eyes became wide. She could feel a knife slash through her stomach; she could hold back no longer, she had to let go.
"Momma! It hurts! Help me!" Dagger's eyes looked at Zidane for help.
"Honey…what hurts? …!!!" Dagger's hands were filled with blood. Dagger panicked and screamed. Zidane picked up Jade and ran towards the inn. He set her down on the bed and began hollering.
"Hey! Get a goddamn nurse in here! My child is hurt!!!! Hello!?!?!" Zidane also sounded panicky; Kuja and Ruby ran in followed by Mikoto and Blank. Blank was concerned and began asking questions.
"Zidane? Why are you yelling? We can't do anything if you keep screaming like that!" Zidane jerked his head in Blank's direction; his eyes were fierce.
"I'll tell you why I'm screaming! I'm screaming because me daughter's- "
"Zidane…I am helping her now." Dagger sounded calmer now, she had placed a curaga spell on Jade's tummy and Jade seemed more relaxed. Jade quickly grasped her mothers' hand and cried.
"I saw you! When you and daddy got married here; you guys were so young! And I saw her! That lady with blonde hair! She told me about the Iifa Tree and while you guys were screaming, she told me that somethin's gonna happen! I gotta go!" Jade tried to get out of the small bed when Dagger held her back.
"No…you are not going anywhere…am I clear on that?" Dagger's voice sounded stern and serious; almost as if she would cry any minute.
"Do you know how much hell I went through when I lost you? I was so afraid…afraid that I would lose you…and that madman would do something sickening to my precious baby…why do you intend on doing this to me again…?" Dagger completely broke down; Zidane walked over and comforted her. She laid her head on his shoulder and let her tears flow down from her face, down his shoulder, and finally hit the floor. Anastasia appeared in the room next to Jade.
"Your spirit showed up in your father when he was a little one." Jade gasped.
"You were the lady! Who are you?" Jade stood up from the bed; she winced at the pain that was still on her tummy.
"I'm Anastasia, or you may call me Grandma." Jade smiled; then cocked her head to the side.
"You don't look that old…" Anastasia smiled.
"Believe it or not, I am over a thousand years old!" Jade chuckled; the twins and Matai sat up from their short slumber.
"Who's the broad?" Kuja shot a scowl at Justin.
"Justin! You don't ever talk to your grandmother that way!" Justin looked at Anastasia in amazement.
"No freaking way! I got a freaking Granny!" Kuja winced. Anastasia looked over at Dagger and Zidane who were standing again.
"Zidane…Anzonin is after Jade. I have learned that and the reason he was after her." There was a pause when Zidane interrupted it.
"Well? What is it!?" Anastasia nodded.
"He has been searching for a wife, and he has found out how to increase people's age…but that is all I know…" Zidane grunted.
"So how do we get this nutcase away from them?" Anastasia thought for a moment then responded.
"We use to have a circlet…it had the power to create a force that only a genome could harness…but somehow it was lost…" Zidane remembered it.
"Is this it?" Zidane pulled the circlet from the pouch he had set it in. Anastasia's eyes opened wide.
"How did you-where did you-who gave this to you?" Anastasia realized who did and reached over for the circlet. As the tip of her finger pricked the green jewel on the face of the circlet, a bright light sparkled and the whole inn was washed with light. Anastasia stepped back and panicked.
"My-my-my lord!" she kneeled down and placed her arm across her chest and bowed her head. Zidane looked around the room to see whom she was bowing for, and he caught what she was bowing at. A man stood there with different writings on his face. He was dressed in sort of a cape and long slacks; he had jewels trailing down the armor he had and looked fairly young.
"Selestine!" Anastasia still faced the floor when the man waved his hand.
"No need to bow…I am in no mood."
AN: Hiya! It's time to RR if you want! E-mail me at manaprincess@yahoo.com
