Arizda: Hi there!
Pilfred: SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
Arizda: Yess... I hope that ya'll like this thing, because I've never really written anything like it, before. NOW... where did we leave off...? AAAHHH YESSS... what is up with this mysterious Fae thing that the Queen sent Van and Fiona off to? And what about Irvine and Moonbay? What about them? And we can't forget about lil' ole Shigeru. What will he do? And will Princess Autumn make an appearance? WELL AH GUESS THAT YER JUST GONNA HAVE TO READ AND FIND OUT! **passes out Kudo bars** ON WIT DA FICCY!
Disclaimer: Yo, yo, YO, I don't own Zoids, but I do own my original characters, including the queen, the monarchs, teh Fae, Luna Ridge Mainland, and other random original stuff that I made up. NOW... ON WIT DA FICCY!!! HERE WE GOOO!!!
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"Yay... whee..." "Onward ho, to this journey of doom and failure... of which we have no information on..." "Yay... whee..."
"Oh, Van, cut it out!"
Despite the fact that it was hard to get Fiona in a cranky mood, she WAS, and Van's constant complaining and unenthusiastic, sarcastic cheering wasn't making it any more bearable, either.
"Rrrhhaa!" Zeke spoke up after about an hour of walking through the desert. It seemed as though he was the only one who noticed the small little concrete obelisk about 200 yards ahead of them. Van hung his head low as he slowly walked, with a groggy attitude, leaving Fiona to clomp her feet through the sand, but still keeping a lively pace. Van's head swung up when Zeke began to run past him.
"H-hey, Zeke, where are ya goin'!?" he shouted through the hot air, starting to run after him.
"Wait for me!" Fiona cried, running after the organoid and his boy.
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The three had reached the small, ancient, stone building, and it was placed convinently next to a large body of water. UNconviently, that large body of water was the ocean.
"Aww man! This water is undrinkable!" Van whined. "Hey... Fiona...?"
"Yes, Van...?"
"Do you think Faes would live somewhere like this...?" he asked.
"Well... we'll just have to go inside, now won't we?" she asked, and giggled, despite how parched and dry her throat was from the run. Zeke pushed the large, stone door aside, and the three walked inside the pitch black stone building.
There was loud, distinct sound that Fiona could note to be fast-paced rushing water. She was sure that Van could notice it, he just refused to say anything about it, and Zeke was still looking every which way to find out where it was coming from.
"Hi, there," came a voice.
Zeke and Fiona quickly turned around, while Van took his sweet, precious time.
"What are you guys doing so far from the village?"
It was a girl, much older than Van and Fiona, and she had black hair, and was dressed in much orange.
"U-uh... w-we were sent by Queen Mesymphenie o-on a very important task!" Van answered. The girl made a peculiar grin at his words.
"Aaah, so YOU are the ones the Queen chose to find the Fae. My name is Moonbay," the girl answered. She put her hand out as if to shake hands, but it was so dark, neither Van, Fiona, nor Zeke could tell. Moonbay quickly lit a match, and set a fire to the now-noticeable torches on the walls of the stone building. Van and Fiona turned to their right to see an iron fence beside them, and a canal full of rushing water by that.
"I'm Van, and this is Fiona, and my organoid, Zeke!" Van introduced. "Hey, Moonbay, ya got any water? I'm THIRSTY!" Moonbay laughed and pulled out a large canteen.
"Alright, here you guys go. Just don't drink it all, because I'm depending on that until my partner gets back!" She watched Fiona and Van take turns with the water. "Sooo... where do you guys think you'll have to go to find this Fae?"
"Fiona, were we supposed to tell anyone...?" Van asked, glancing at her.
"Oh, don't worry about it, I'm not going to let anyone know about this! You can trust me! I run this canal here so people can get to the Kzastran Mainland, and boy, I've never heard a story like this one before!" Moonbay said, anxious to get information Irvine was trying so hard to get.
"Well... you see, Fiona and I have been orphans in the Luna Ridge Village for... well, ever since we can remember. The village sorta watches after us, I guess," Van started. "And then the Queen started having trouble with one of the mainlands farther away. And then, she came to the village in person one day!"
"Ooh, wow, from the sounds of it, that must be really rare!" Moonbay commented.
"Yes! And she said that she was looking for someone perfect for a job of looking for a Fae! She talked to the Village Chieftess, and she decided to make Van and I look for the Fae!" Fiona finished.
"Wow... now why would she pick a couple of kids like you?" Moonbay asked.
"The Village Chieftess said it had something to do with our network of friends..." Van said. It was obvious that that confused Moonbay.
"What he means is that we would be able to befriend the Fae, or at least that's what the Queen says. I guess that the Fae is our age, or something like that," Fiona said.
"All I know is that you all have a big case on your hands! I doubt that you'll get very far with your quest in the Luna Ridge Mainland. I'll tell you what!" That got Van and Fiona's attention. "When you're finished checking the Tower Lands for the Fae, come back here, and I'll give you a free ride to the Kzastran Mainland to resume looking!" Moonbay offered. The kids' eyes widened.
"Really!?" Fiona asked.
"You'd do that for us?!" Van added.
"Oh, of course! This issue has got something major to do with ALL of us here in Luna Ridge. So I'm going to help you guys as much as I can with it. I'm sure my partner can help somehow, too! He's got a zoid!" Moonbay explained, referring to Irvine. She was pretty sure that he wasn't going to be very pleased with the decision that she had made, but he would be happy with all of the information she squeezed out of the two kids.
"Alright then, Van! Let's go to the Tower Lands!" Fiona shouted joyously. Van looked somewhat terrified of the idea.
"T-t-the TOWER L-LANDS!?" he asked.
"Yeah, the Tower Lands! Why? You are going with me, aren't you?" Fiona asked.
"Well... it's just that... out of the very few people who have dared to GO there... only one or two people have made it back safely!
"How many people have been to the Tower Lands?" Moonbay asked, curious.
"One or two," Fiona answered, making it sound like Van was pathetic. Moonbay smiled and nodded.
"You see? Faes LIKE places like that! Places where humans haven't been, before! Why don't you go and check in the Tower Lands? Don't worry, you'll be okay!" she assured.
"Well... I guess... but what about the TOWER...? People live there, don't they?" Van asked.
"It's just an old myth. Don't worry about it! Now, you two go and you FIND that Fae!" Moonbay shouted, trying to give them some courage.
"Right!" Fiona said, and grabbed Van's wrist as she ran out of the stone monument with Zeke at her side. As soon as it was clear that they were all out of the place, Moonbay took out her screen disk and called Irvine.
"Hey, Irvine!" she greeted.
"Keep it down, will ya?" Irvine replied.
"Turn down the vol-ume!" Moonbay told him, stupidly. Irvine cocked an eyebrow and did so. "Anyway..."
"Yeah, anyway. What's the matter?" he asked.
"I got to talk to those two village orphans who were sent to look for the Fae!" Moonbay answered. "And it turns out that they were picked because the Fae is most likely their age. SO... this is what's happening. They're going to look in the Tower Lands, and then they're going to come back here if they can't find her, so that I can give them a ride to the Kzastran Mainland!"
"What!? Why are you going to help them!?" Irvine shouted. Moonbay sighed.
"BECAUSE...! If they think that we're their friends, we can tag along behind them! If we can see that they're actually getting somewhere with their quest, than we can rush ahead and nab the Fae!" she explained. Irvine smiled at the plan.
"You know, you amaze me, sometimes," he replied.
"Don't I always?" she giggled. He rolled his eyes, and then said his goodbyes. Moonbay did the same, and turned off the screen.
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Arizda: Geez... I'll be happy when I hit a BIG chapter, ya know? ANYWAY... please RxR... **passes out Kudo Bars** and later on, I shall start taking snack requests! Now... what will happen on the way to the Tower Lands...? What will happen IN the Tower Lands? What are they like? Will Irvine decide to follow them there? Fnd out in the next chapter! See ya then!
Pilfred: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSKK!!!
Pilfred: SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
Arizda: Yess... I hope that ya'll like this thing, because I've never really written anything like it, before. NOW... where did we leave off...? AAAHHH YESSS... what is up with this mysterious Fae thing that the Queen sent Van and Fiona off to? And what about Irvine and Moonbay? What about them? And we can't forget about lil' ole Shigeru. What will he do? And will Princess Autumn make an appearance? WELL AH GUESS THAT YER JUST GONNA HAVE TO READ AND FIND OUT! **passes out Kudo bars** ON WIT DA FICCY!
Disclaimer: Yo, yo, YO, I don't own Zoids, but I do own my original characters, including the queen, the monarchs, teh Fae, Luna Ridge Mainland, and other random original stuff that I made up. NOW... ON WIT DA FICCY!!! HERE WE GOOO!!!
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"Yay... whee..." "Onward ho, to this journey of doom and failure... of which we have no information on..." "Yay... whee..."
"Oh, Van, cut it out!"
Despite the fact that it was hard to get Fiona in a cranky mood, she WAS, and Van's constant complaining and unenthusiastic, sarcastic cheering wasn't making it any more bearable, either.
"Rrrhhaa!" Zeke spoke up after about an hour of walking through the desert. It seemed as though he was the only one who noticed the small little concrete obelisk about 200 yards ahead of them. Van hung his head low as he slowly walked, with a groggy attitude, leaving Fiona to clomp her feet through the sand, but still keeping a lively pace. Van's head swung up when Zeke began to run past him.
"H-hey, Zeke, where are ya goin'!?" he shouted through the hot air, starting to run after him.
"Wait for me!" Fiona cried, running after the organoid and his boy.
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The three had reached the small, ancient, stone building, and it was placed convinently next to a large body of water. UNconviently, that large body of water was the ocean.
"Aww man! This water is undrinkable!" Van whined. "Hey... Fiona...?"
"Yes, Van...?"
"Do you think Faes would live somewhere like this...?" he asked.
"Well... we'll just have to go inside, now won't we?" she asked, and giggled, despite how parched and dry her throat was from the run. Zeke pushed the large, stone door aside, and the three walked inside the pitch black stone building.
There was loud, distinct sound that Fiona could note to be fast-paced rushing water. She was sure that Van could notice it, he just refused to say anything about it, and Zeke was still looking every which way to find out where it was coming from.
"Hi, there," came a voice.
Zeke and Fiona quickly turned around, while Van took his sweet, precious time.
"What are you guys doing so far from the village?"
It was a girl, much older than Van and Fiona, and she had black hair, and was dressed in much orange.
"U-uh... w-we were sent by Queen Mesymphenie o-on a very important task!" Van answered. The girl made a peculiar grin at his words.
"Aaah, so YOU are the ones the Queen chose to find the Fae. My name is Moonbay," the girl answered. She put her hand out as if to shake hands, but it was so dark, neither Van, Fiona, nor Zeke could tell. Moonbay quickly lit a match, and set a fire to the now-noticeable torches on the walls of the stone building. Van and Fiona turned to their right to see an iron fence beside them, and a canal full of rushing water by that.
"I'm Van, and this is Fiona, and my organoid, Zeke!" Van introduced. "Hey, Moonbay, ya got any water? I'm THIRSTY!" Moonbay laughed and pulled out a large canteen.
"Alright, here you guys go. Just don't drink it all, because I'm depending on that until my partner gets back!" She watched Fiona and Van take turns with the water. "Sooo... where do you guys think you'll have to go to find this Fae?"
"Fiona, were we supposed to tell anyone...?" Van asked, glancing at her.
"Oh, don't worry about it, I'm not going to let anyone know about this! You can trust me! I run this canal here so people can get to the Kzastran Mainland, and boy, I've never heard a story like this one before!" Moonbay said, anxious to get information Irvine was trying so hard to get.
"Well... you see, Fiona and I have been orphans in the Luna Ridge Village for... well, ever since we can remember. The village sorta watches after us, I guess," Van started. "And then the Queen started having trouble with one of the mainlands farther away. And then, she came to the village in person one day!"
"Ooh, wow, from the sounds of it, that must be really rare!" Moonbay commented.
"Yes! And she said that she was looking for someone perfect for a job of looking for a Fae! She talked to the Village Chieftess, and she decided to make Van and I look for the Fae!" Fiona finished.
"Wow... now why would she pick a couple of kids like you?" Moonbay asked.
"The Village Chieftess said it had something to do with our network of friends..." Van said. It was obvious that that confused Moonbay.
"What he means is that we would be able to befriend the Fae, or at least that's what the Queen says. I guess that the Fae is our age, or something like that," Fiona said.
"All I know is that you all have a big case on your hands! I doubt that you'll get very far with your quest in the Luna Ridge Mainland. I'll tell you what!" That got Van and Fiona's attention. "When you're finished checking the Tower Lands for the Fae, come back here, and I'll give you a free ride to the Kzastran Mainland to resume looking!" Moonbay offered. The kids' eyes widened.
"Really!?" Fiona asked.
"You'd do that for us?!" Van added.
"Oh, of course! This issue has got something major to do with ALL of us here in Luna Ridge. So I'm going to help you guys as much as I can with it. I'm sure my partner can help somehow, too! He's got a zoid!" Moonbay explained, referring to Irvine. She was pretty sure that he wasn't going to be very pleased with the decision that she had made, but he would be happy with all of the information she squeezed out of the two kids.
"Alright then, Van! Let's go to the Tower Lands!" Fiona shouted joyously. Van looked somewhat terrified of the idea.
"T-t-the TOWER L-LANDS!?" he asked.
"Yeah, the Tower Lands! Why? You are going with me, aren't you?" Fiona asked.
"Well... it's just that... out of the very few people who have dared to GO there... only one or two people have made it back safely!
"How many people have been to the Tower Lands?" Moonbay asked, curious.
"One or two," Fiona answered, making it sound like Van was pathetic. Moonbay smiled and nodded.
"You see? Faes LIKE places like that! Places where humans haven't been, before! Why don't you go and check in the Tower Lands? Don't worry, you'll be okay!" she assured.
"Well... I guess... but what about the TOWER...? People live there, don't they?" Van asked.
"It's just an old myth. Don't worry about it! Now, you two go and you FIND that Fae!" Moonbay shouted, trying to give them some courage.
"Right!" Fiona said, and grabbed Van's wrist as she ran out of the stone monument with Zeke at her side. As soon as it was clear that they were all out of the place, Moonbay took out her screen disk and called Irvine.
"Hey, Irvine!" she greeted.
"Keep it down, will ya?" Irvine replied.
"Turn down the vol-ume!" Moonbay told him, stupidly. Irvine cocked an eyebrow and did so. "Anyway..."
"Yeah, anyway. What's the matter?" he asked.
"I got to talk to those two village orphans who were sent to look for the Fae!" Moonbay answered. "And it turns out that they were picked because the Fae is most likely their age. SO... this is what's happening. They're going to look in the Tower Lands, and then they're going to come back here if they can't find her, so that I can give them a ride to the Kzastran Mainland!"
"What!? Why are you going to help them!?" Irvine shouted. Moonbay sighed.
"BECAUSE...! If they think that we're their friends, we can tag along behind them! If we can see that they're actually getting somewhere with their quest, than we can rush ahead and nab the Fae!" she explained. Irvine smiled at the plan.
"You know, you amaze me, sometimes," he replied.
"Don't I always?" she giggled. He rolled his eyes, and then said his goodbyes. Moonbay did the same, and turned off the screen.
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Arizda: Geez... I'll be happy when I hit a BIG chapter, ya know? ANYWAY... please RxR... **passes out Kudo Bars** and later on, I shall start taking snack requests! Now... what will happen on the way to the Tower Lands...? What will happen IN the Tower Lands? What are they like? Will Irvine decide to follow them there? Fnd out in the next chapter! See ya then!
Pilfred: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSKK!!!