Rukata: Letsee.. Next chapter. Wow. Not too much to say except I think Ryudo ish a leetle out of character. And Millenia isn't as well.... Millenia-ish. So I've been playing the game all over again to get everything out of my system as well as their actions and stuff. So he may seem a little different in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Grandia II. And the PS2 version sucks so get the Dreamcast one! Yeah that's not really disclaimer-ish.
Japanese Translations: Densetsu = Legend
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Ryudo groaned as the light brushed against his face, taking him from his quiet sleeping. Slipping to the side of his bed wasn't the best thing either. A sharp reminding pain shot up through his left leg, forcing him to resent and fall back onto the bed of a patched quilt.
"Damnit." The cold wrapped around his toes and up his legs. Shivering he sought out his clothing scattered about in unorderly fashions. Half limping and half crawling he made himself suitable.
"I really need to take care of that damnable leg." Throwing on his belt made him stumble, which made his walking look even more so disorted. Throwing his weapon back into the floor with a loud thump he made his way, slowly and painfully, back to the main room of the Inn. Slipping down into a chair in the farest corner he rapped his knuckles against the polish wood. Wishing he'd sat closer to the bar. He really couldn't be seen back here and that was part of the idea, not to be seen. But atlas he was hungry and sitting back here in the dark didn't get you served too fast either. His head was throbbing from the long period of not having a decent meal. The last time that was when he had stopped in Carbo, Elena's hometown to see if she was there. And that was a good month or so ago. Stopping at Inns and people's homes out in the country cost gill. So he avoided it at all costs, if he could help it.
Lady luck must have been on his side because while he was musing to himself Tio had noticed his presence in the room and came over to ask if he was alright and needed anything. Nodding to the blue haired girl he mumbled something about food and that was enough for the automata girl. Watching after her for a moment he rolled his head into his hand and gazed at the door, not focusing on anything in particular. That was until the doors folded open and a unhappy group of knights strolled in. And to Ryudo, they reminded him of the Cathedral Knights. This grabbed his attention as he saw one approach Millenia, whom was tending to some paper work by her desk near the front door. Adverting her gaze from her workings she looked at them and smiled sweetly.
"Welcome! How may I help you?" The knights, as rude as they were before, just simply sat there, looking around without moving their heads in any way. Which didn't please Millenia one bit.
"Excuse me!" She roared, easily unsettled by a simple, but indeed rude gesture. The knight then gave her his undivided attention.
"I believe there is a boy here. He is 20 years of age, near 5"9' brown hair and greenish blue eyes. The village chief tells me he dwelt here last night." The knight in gray and white armor listened attentively waiting on her reply without flinching one bit. Millenia almost burst into anger. Why in the hell was everyone looking for someone!? And any knights weren't exactly her favorite people in the world either.
"Yeah, so?" Ryudo looked at them from the shadows. He didn't do anything to piss off any knights so why was he being sought out? Rising slowly he limped without notice up the stairs that led to the rooms. Hopefully Millenia would stale them and give him some time to beat it before they took charge and started searching.
After making the toilsome walk to his room and gathering his sword and tattered cloak he heard the rough voice of the knight who addressed Millenia.
"Oh shit..." The window was his best plan of action but was he about to dive out a four story window? He was desperate, but not THAT desperate.
"What troubles you, Ryudo?" Came a olden type voice from outside the window. Ryudo spun around as quick as his wounded leg would allow.
"Skye? You think you could carry me out this window?" The bird looked thoughtful, if a bird could look that way.
"Yes, I suppose. Now what mischief have you brought here?" Ryudo limped his way over to the door and pushed it open, Skye taking flight and flying backwards like a hummingbird.
"None of your damn business." Without another question Ryudo caught onto the falcon and was out the window when the knights broke in his door.
"Stay where you are you fiend!" The lead knight yelled after him, rushing to the window.
"Hurry outside all of you! We'll get him!" Ryudo figured that he'd at least make it to the surround forests of Mirumu. But he got his hopes up. Skye could only carry him to the house of Sandra. And making it there only got him a tremendous shock wave up his left leg and all twelve of the knights two steps behind him.
"Damnit!" Ryudo roared. Just his luck; a injured leg and a bunch of evil knights to make this day even better. They surround him and behind them he could see Millenia and Tio run down the path, weapons drawn. Somehow he managed to stand up into a fighting possion and withdraw his sword. Holding Densetsu infront of himself.
"What the hell do you want!?" The green haired mother, Sandra, peered out through the window, holding back the flowered curtains.
"We want you. Now stop this foolishness and come quietly and you will go unscratched." The lead knight spoke without any caring in his voice. Which didn't surprise him but he wasn't about two seconds from allowing them to take him*anywhere*.
"Where the hell do you want me to go?" Personally he'd rather go to a heated hell than with this crew of people.
"Shut up and come with us!" And with that the knights seized him and bound him with a strong rope.
"Die!" Screamed an angered female voice as an arrow shot through the air and damaged a knight's arm.
"What the..!?" Millenia and Tio had made it and were hacking away at the knights. Ryudo thanked his stars he was here and not somewhere else because his friends were about to help him. The knights distracted by the two enraged females gave Ryudo a good change to scram. But, with his left leg in such a bad shape and the forest still a good forty feet away he couldn't move. The fact of being tied up also made it's way know when he tried to walk.
"Son of a-!" Pale and deft arms caught him from his fall and drug him into the near by house seating him on a chair with a sea shell back, decorating the chair with a sea-ish type scene on it's back and front side weaving inbetween the groves.
"Sandra!" Ryudo gasped with relief. The small, once blind, girl Aira came to his side and tugged at the cuff of his shirt.
"You gotta hide!" And barely keeping up with the little girl he found himself in a secret room surrounded by the back shed and the house proper. With the only entrance behind the fireplace of the main room. The small dark closet was without light and smelt of decay.
"This place needs airing out..." Ryudo closed his eyes and leaned against the stone wall. It was almost unbearably cold. Bringing his right leg up to his chest hurt enough to forewarn him NOT to bring his left one up as well. Sighing, as tired as he was he knew he needed sleep from all this silly commotion. Drifting off his last thoughts were if he was going to wake up in the closet.
Millenia grinned at the satisfaction of killing or fatally injuring the knights and watching the cower away out of the town. But her thoughts rolled over to Ryudo and she looked around.
"Damnit! Where is he!?" Tio looked at her with regard.
"They must have him." she said in her soft robotic almost humanlike tone. Millenia looked at the dead and counted eight knights.
"And four ran off through the gates. So Ryudo should be around here unless that blockhead ran off into the woods!" Tio nodded, that would be his most likely plan of action.
"Wait...." A soft matured voice reached their ears and Millenia and Tio wheeled around to face Sandra.
"He is safe inside, come." She motioned them to follow. Once inside the old shabby room that served as a house seemed all the same. Millenia never really liked Sandra in the first place and Tio never knew her so the two never visited the mother.
"I sure don't see him.." Millenia took in the almost shameful sights of the home. Same table, same chairs, same old bookcase, same worn rug, the same dimly lit lantern and the bed still sitting in the far corner. Only thing that had changed was the people living inside. Aira had matured into a young teen since their last meet and Sandra had lines of aging crossing over her face. Millenia was almost sadden because these people had possibly saved Ryudo from whatever in the hell that was. She should be much more kinder to this good natured family of two.
Aira pulled back a door beside the fireplace completely hidden and the light seeped into the room with the sleeping Ryudo.
"ughh." Reluctantly he forced himself to a stance. How he didn't know. Limping into the brightly lit room, compared to him as the moment he slumped into the chair with the sea shell back. He looked as bad as roadkill and sounded like it too.
"What the hell happened to you!?" Millenia was beside herself with worry but was also going to get some facts sraighted out too.
"And why were those knights are you damned tail!" Millenia grinned as he cuddled himself in the chair. She could get anyone to do her bidding. Ryudo, after some time, finally responded but his voice was hoarse. He felt like going to sleep. His throbbing head still hurt and his leg was almost numb with pain.
"I got the hell beat out of me and I have no clue why those morons are after me." And with that he laided his head down on the dark wooden table falling to sleep.
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Ryudo groaned as his world returned to him, he snapped his eyes open to a blurred wooden roof with green mosses and fungus. Absorbing this unusual but welcoming sight he lulled his head over to the side. Blurry he first recognized Millenia and beside her Tio, the automata. Across the table was Sandra and outside he could hear the soft glee of little Aira. Which he looked out the window to see dust being kicked up but no sign of the girl. Rolling his head over to the table he heard the conversation going on there between the three women.
"I'm worried about Ryudo, he's been out of it for a good two weeks!" It was a female voice that he really couldn't pick out but if he'd been lying there for two weeks he couldn't blame himself one bit.
"Hey look he's turning!" That was undeniably Millenia. The red-head rushed over, sitting by his side and brushed a cool hand of his notable burning forehead. That made Ryudo wonder how in a thousand hells he got Millenia to worry about himself. Also what plagued him is that how he got so suddenly sick. Possibly all that living in the wilderness and falling on his leg. Fuck. Ouch. Thinking about his leg made it hurt. He was aware of the same pulsing pain was running up his leg numbing it.
"Ryudo...?" Her voice ran like an echo in his head. The rest of her sentence he couldn't understand it was that one word that racked his brain over and over and over again. But at the same time calmed the throbbing and made it less noticeable.
"mmhmm?" Ryudo tried to focus in on her but his vision remained blurred. Either from this numbed leg or pounding headache. And it was more than likely the latter.
"Close you eyes a tell me what's wrong." She murmured in a soft soothing tone But demand was very noticeable in her tone. Mumbling something about his leg and whined about it. It stung. So without hesitation she flung back the covers with a loud hiss from Ryudo as she rolled up his pants.
"No wonder you took your time lately" His leg had a deep shade of purple blue and black with the foot bone at an odd angle. No wonder he could hardly walk.
"Tio you're good with healing Come here and look at what this boy did to his leg" Ryudo twisted at her crude comment. The only other time he'd found himself in a tight fix was when he fell ill with some retarded disease. Now was not the time to dwell on such thoughts. Ryudo scowled and fell into darkness.
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Rukata: Yay. Chapter completed. On to do another chapter for another story. R/R like always. The leetle good bugger readers ye all are! ^_^ The next chapter shall have… dun dun dun! Melfice! BRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fear me.
Chibi Sephiroth: They do.
Rukata: Good now REVIEW NOW! Or Sephy here shall get you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Grandia II. And the PS2 version sucks so get the Dreamcast one! Yeah that's not really disclaimer-ish.
Japanese Translations: Densetsu = Legend
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Ryudo groaned as the light brushed against his face, taking him from his quiet sleeping. Slipping to the side of his bed wasn't the best thing either. A sharp reminding pain shot up through his left leg, forcing him to resent and fall back onto the bed of a patched quilt.
"Damnit." The cold wrapped around his toes and up his legs. Shivering he sought out his clothing scattered about in unorderly fashions. Half limping and half crawling he made himself suitable.
"I really need to take care of that damnable leg." Throwing on his belt made him stumble, which made his walking look even more so disorted. Throwing his weapon back into the floor with a loud thump he made his way, slowly and painfully, back to the main room of the Inn. Slipping down into a chair in the farest corner he rapped his knuckles against the polish wood. Wishing he'd sat closer to the bar. He really couldn't be seen back here and that was part of the idea, not to be seen. But atlas he was hungry and sitting back here in the dark didn't get you served too fast either. His head was throbbing from the long period of not having a decent meal. The last time that was when he had stopped in Carbo, Elena's hometown to see if she was there. And that was a good month or so ago. Stopping at Inns and people's homes out in the country cost gill. So he avoided it at all costs, if he could help it.
Lady luck must have been on his side because while he was musing to himself Tio had noticed his presence in the room and came over to ask if he was alright and needed anything. Nodding to the blue haired girl he mumbled something about food and that was enough for the automata girl. Watching after her for a moment he rolled his head into his hand and gazed at the door, not focusing on anything in particular. That was until the doors folded open and a unhappy group of knights strolled in. And to Ryudo, they reminded him of the Cathedral Knights. This grabbed his attention as he saw one approach Millenia, whom was tending to some paper work by her desk near the front door. Adverting her gaze from her workings she looked at them and smiled sweetly.
"Welcome! How may I help you?" The knights, as rude as they were before, just simply sat there, looking around without moving their heads in any way. Which didn't please Millenia one bit.
"Excuse me!" She roared, easily unsettled by a simple, but indeed rude gesture. The knight then gave her his undivided attention.
"I believe there is a boy here. He is 20 years of age, near 5"9' brown hair and greenish blue eyes. The village chief tells me he dwelt here last night." The knight in gray and white armor listened attentively waiting on her reply without flinching one bit. Millenia almost burst into anger. Why in the hell was everyone looking for someone!? And any knights weren't exactly her favorite people in the world either.
"Yeah, so?" Ryudo looked at them from the shadows. He didn't do anything to piss off any knights so why was he being sought out? Rising slowly he limped without notice up the stairs that led to the rooms. Hopefully Millenia would stale them and give him some time to beat it before they took charge and started searching.
After making the toilsome walk to his room and gathering his sword and tattered cloak he heard the rough voice of the knight who addressed Millenia.
"Oh shit..." The window was his best plan of action but was he about to dive out a four story window? He was desperate, but not THAT desperate.
"What troubles you, Ryudo?" Came a olden type voice from outside the window. Ryudo spun around as quick as his wounded leg would allow.
"Skye? You think you could carry me out this window?" The bird looked thoughtful, if a bird could look that way.
"Yes, I suppose. Now what mischief have you brought here?" Ryudo limped his way over to the door and pushed it open, Skye taking flight and flying backwards like a hummingbird.
"None of your damn business." Without another question Ryudo caught onto the falcon and was out the window when the knights broke in his door.
"Stay where you are you fiend!" The lead knight yelled after him, rushing to the window.
"Hurry outside all of you! We'll get him!" Ryudo figured that he'd at least make it to the surround forests of Mirumu. But he got his hopes up. Skye could only carry him to the house of Sandra. And making it there only got him a tremendous shock wave up his left leg and all twelve of the knights two steps behind him.
"Damnit!" Ryudo roared. Just his luck; a injured leg and a bunch of evil knights to make this day even better. They surround him and behind them he could see Millenia and Tio run down the path, weapons drawn. Somehow he managed to stand up into a fighting possion and withdraw his sword. Holding Densetsu infront of himself.
"What the hell do you want!?" The green haired mother, Sandra, peered out through the window, holding back the flowered curtains.
"We want you. Now stop this foolishness and come quietly and you will go unscratched." The lead knight spoke without any caring in his voice. Which didn't surprise him but he wasn't about two seconds from allowing them to take him*anywhere*.
"Where the hell do you want me to go?" Personally he'd rather go to a heated hell than with this crew of people.
"Shut up and come with us!" And with that the knights seized him and bound him with a strong rope.
"Die!" Screamed an angered female voice as an arrow shot through the air and damaged a knight's arm.
"What the..!?" Millenia and Tio had made it and were hacking away at the knights. Ryudo thanked his stars he was here and not somewhere else because his friends were about to help him. The knights distracted by the two enraged females gave Ryudo a good change to scram. But, with his left leg in such a bad shape and the forest still a good forty feet away he couldn't move. The fact of being tied up also made it's way know when he tried to walk.
"Son of a-!" Pale and deft arms caught him from his fall and drug him into the near by house seating him on a chair with a sea shell back, decorating the chair with a sea-ish type scene on it's back and front side weaving inbetween the groves.
"Sandra!" Ryudo gasped with relief. The small, once blind, girl Aira came to his side and tugged at the cuff of his shirt.
"You gotta hide!" And barely keeping up with the little girl he found himself in a secret room surrounded by the back shed and the house proper. With the only entrance behind the fireplace of the main room. The small dark closet was without light and smelt of decay.
"This place needs airing out..." Ryudo closed his eyes and leaned against the stone wall. It was almost unbearably cold. Bringing his right leg up to his chest hurt enough to forewarn him NOT to bring his left one up as well. Sighing, as tired as he was he knew he needed sleep from all this silly commotion. Drifting off his last thoughts were if he was going to wake up in the closet.
Millenia grinned at the satisfaction of killing or fatally injuring the knights and watching the cower away out of the town. But her thoughts rolled over to Ryudo and she looked around.
"Damnit! Where is he!?" Tio looked at her with regard.
"They must have him." she said in her soft robotic almost humanlike tone. Millenia looked at the dead and counted eight knights.
"And four ran off through the gates. So Ryudo should be around here unless that blockhead ran off into the woods!" Tio nodded, that would be his most likely plan of action.
"Wait...." A soft matured voice reached their ears and Millenia and Tio wheeled around to face Sandra.
"He is safe inside, come." She motioned them to follow. Once inside the old shabby room that served as a house seemed all the same. Millenia never really liked Sandra in the first place and Tio never knew her so the two never visited the mother.
"I sure don't see him.." Millenia took in the almost shameful sights of the home. Same table, same chairs, same old bookcase, same worn rug, the same dimly lit lantern and the bed still sitting in the far corner. Only thing that had changed was the people living inside. Aira had matured into a young teen since their last meet and Sandra had lines of aging crossing over her face. Millenia was almost sadden because these people had possibly saved Ryudo from whatever in the hell that was. She should be much more kinder to this good natured family of two.
Aira pulled back a door beside the fireplace completely hidden and the light seeped into the room with the sleeping Ryudo.
"ughh." Reluctantly he forced himself to a stance. How he didn't know. Limping into the brightly lit room, compared to him as the moment he slumped into the chair with the sea shell back. He looked as bad as roadkill and sounded like it too.
"What the hell happened to you!?" Millenia was beside herself with worry but was also going to get some facts sraighted out too.
"And why were those knights are you damned tail!" Millenia grinned as he cuddled himself in the chair. She could get anyone to do her bidding. Ryudo, after some time, finally responded but his voice was hoarse. He felt like going to sleep. His throbbing head still hurt and his leg was almost numb with pain.
"I got the hell beat out of me and I have no clue why those morons are after me." And with that he laided his head down on the dark wooden table falling to sleep.
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Ryudo groaned as his world returned to him, he snapped his eyes open to a blurred wooden roof with green mosses and fungus. Absorbing this unusual but welcoming sight he lulled his head over to the side. Blurry he first recognized Millenia and beside her Tio, the automata. Across the table was Sandra and outside he could hear the soft glee of little Aira. Which he looked out the window to see dust being kicked up but no sign of the girl. Rolling his head over to the table he heard the conversation going on there between the three women.
"I'm worried about Ryudo, he's been out of it for a good two weeks!" It was a female voice that he really couldn't pick out but if he'd been lying there for two weeks he couldn't blame himself one bit.
"Hey look he's turning!" That was undeniably Millenia. The red-head rushed over, sitting by his side and brushed a cool hand of his notable burning forehead. That made Ryudo wonder how in a thousand hells he got Millenia to worry about himself. Also what plagued him is that how he got so suddenly sick. Possibly all that living in the wilderness and falling on his leg. Fuck. Ouch. Thinking about his leg made it hurt. He was aware of the same pulsing pain was running up his leg numbing it.
"Ryudo...?" Her voice ran like an echo in his head. The rest of her sentence he couldn't understand it was that one word that racked his brain over and over and over again. But at the same time calmed the throbbing and made it less noticeable.
"mmhmm?" Ryudo tried to focus in on her but his vision remained blurred. Either from this numbed leg or pounding headache. And it was more than likely the latter.
"Close you eyes a tell me what's wrong." She murmured in a soft soothing tone But demand was very noticeable in her tone. Mumbling something about his leg and whined about it. It stung. So without hesitation she flung back the covers with a loud hiss from Ryudo as she rolled up his pants.
"No wonder you took your time lately" His leg had a deep shade of purple blue and black with the foot bone at an odd angle. No wonder he could hardly walk.
"Tio you're good with healing Come here and look at what this boy did to his leg" Ryudo twisted at her crude comment. The only other time he'd found himself in a tight fix was when he fell ill with some retarded disease. Now was not the time to dwell on such thoughts. Ryudo scowled and fell into darkness.
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Rukata: Yay. Chapter completed. On to do another chapter for another story. R/R like always. The leetle good bugger readers ye all are! ^_^ The next chapter shall have… dun dun dun! Melfice! BRAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA fear me.
Chibi Sephiroth: They do.
Rukata: Good now REVIEW NOW! Or Sephy here shall get you.