Hey to all my good readers, new and old!
Hm… Not much to say other than this. No one will ever know what's going on with the bad guys. I don't like it when you know what they are going to do. You might get an occasional vision, but nothing much. I'm leaving you in the dark.
R.D. Who are you? You left a really short review, not that I don't like reviews, but still, I don't know who you are!
Esca chick *Sniff* you are no longer on my list of people who are reviewed all the chapters, *Sniff* Okay, I'm over it. I just wanted you to say "Keep up with your story!" And you did. Dork=me
PyroPixie I know. I am so darn lucky. And be lucky it isn't Barney.
Kristy Ah, what did you get burned on? I have no clue about how many chapters it is going to have. I don't know if I'll have time in between school and everything to make a full out war, or just a small coup de at (is that right?) here, leave big words to other people. Full out war or a rebellion.
Magicman Sometimes you are weird, I don't want to kill all the people who are going to SAVE Gaea. Sure parts of Hitomi's dream might come true *Grins* but I pick the parts.
YEA! Pretty much everyone got the hint that Zaibach is a BAD place to send them. He should note have done that. *Grins* you never know who survived the war, if I even want to keep people alive….
Chapter 15
Inquiries from the Inquired
"Goodbye, King Leo," Van and I said together. We looked at each other quizzically. The king just laughed good-naturally. As soon as he was in his carriage and down the road a little ways Van jumped in the air.
"Yes! The last one gone!" he yelled.
"Van they were your guests, try and be nice," I scolded. Yukari and Amano were giggling/laughing at his antics. (What guys don't usually giggle)
One of the two guards to Yoshiko and Umeko's room came up to us, not quite familiar with Van's current mental level, what with him dancing around. "Sir, the prisoners have awakened," he told them.
"It's odd that they wake at the same time," Van muttered. He led us down many hallways and I collected my thoughts. It had been two days since they landed here, and the two women had been asleep for that whole time. The day after the party, most of the nobles had left. An occasional family stayed a day to enjoy Fanelia some more, but most had done that before hand.
I had gotten really worried about Umeko and Yoshiko. I had Van asked his healers whether they were okay. At first he didn't want to, but with Yukari and I badgering him all the time he relented and allowed a healer to see the both of them. The healer had said they were fine, only a lack of sleep is what kept them from waking.
I found myself thinking about the laptop I had found on the ship. I found myself thinking about the time I had searched the machine quite throughly.
*Flashback*
After the first few hours of debating about the electronics I finally decided to turn on the laptop. Once it had booted up, a screen came on with the selection of Yoshiko, Umeko, or my names. I clicked mine and typed in my identification number from work. So that's why the boys didn't take it. It's for us girls only! I thought. Most of the computer was blank, but it did have three documents on it.
I clicked one the document titled 'Standard Procedures'. When it opened up it turned out to be a very LONG step by step process. It stated what to do in case of an emergency {as if they knew what Gaea was like, honestly}, which type of information they wanted recorded, and if you ran into someone, how to react. Most of stuff JSC had here would work on the Mystic Moon when it came to running into someone, but not here on Gaea.
I exited out of that word processor and clicked on another called 'Musings'. The computer said:
Authorization Needed: Yoshiko Nagashi
(I decided to give them made up names)
Needless to say I was a little miffed. It must have been a private file. I tried to open another called 'Wondering'. Again the computer made me mad by saying
Authorization Needed: Umeko Nahana
(Oh forgot, if anyone thinks of better names or (by some weird twist of fate) has these names, tell me and I'll change them if you want)
I started to get more than a little ticked I wanted to know what they said. I closed my eyes and was going to count to ten, but I saw the log in screen with Yohshiko's name highlighted and the numbers 13-28-992 typed in. Then I saw Umeko's name with 13-28-993.
I tried them both and was {pleasantly} surprised to find out that both of them were having misgivings about what the other's true intentions of coming here were.
That was perfect.
(I know that you could just hit cancel and get all the information from the main screen name, but work with me)
*Real Time*
"Hitomi, we're here," Van's voice cut through my mind's fuzzy state that thinking about the last two days had put me in.
"Huh? Oh," I said when I was fully aware. We walked in and Yoshiko and Umeko looked up at us. Their room consisted only of two beds {which they were on}, two chairs, and a small vanity type desk.
"Wuz up?" Yoshiko asked smiling.
"We are going to ask you some questions if you don't mind," I told them. They shook their heads no.
"Van, can I ask the questions and will you keep your mouth shut?" I said to him. Van leaned up against the wall with Amano and left the chairs for Yukari and I, which we took.
"But I wanna know what you are asking," he whined, or as close as you can with the dignity of a king.
"I'm just asking their opinions about coming here, if they want to really do bad things or not," I told him.
"Fine," Van sighed.
I turned back to them. "Okay, let's get started. Do you two know why I took the job?"
"Did you take it so you could be informed if we did something drastic, like come here?" Yoshiko guessed.
"Yes," I said.
"Quick question: Are you and Yukari actually from here?" Umeko asked.
"No, we aren't. It's just my story about coming here is actually true, not that you've heard the whole thing. But I became attached to Gaea and the people here," I started.
"Obviously," Umeko said, throwing her head in Van's direction.
I blushed. "Yeah, well, what can I say? But like I was saying. No we aren't from here. Yukari just understands how I feel about this place and ever since she and Amano first came here, they wanted to protect it as much as I do," I finished. "Now, back to you questioning. Do you really think it's all in the name of Science to come here?"
Yoshiko and Umeko looked at each other. "Well, we've both talked to each other about it and well, we don't know really. Sure, people are always curious, but this is a planet that's already inhabited. We don't really have a reason to come and study things here. Do we?" Umeko said.
"No, the people of Earth don't really have a reason, other than their own selfishness. If they wanted to learn about it, they wouldn't bring guns to the world when I told them that no guns exist here. Amano, Yukari and I don't even belong here. But we are here, and we learned about it by asking the people here if we could come first; we didn't just come flying out of the sky and land with out asking," I explained to them.
The questioning went on for a while in this manner. Us asking them what they hoped to accomplish here. By the sound of things, I had the distinct feeling that Yoshiko and Umeko were being left out of things. Then they told me that they had said particularly one day that they wanted to come here in hopes of bettering each planets life styles and after that the men just seemed to be quieter around them.
They blew it when they said that. Blew it for themselves not keeping their mouths shut about their goals, and also blew it for me cause that would hinder my knowing about what's going on.
Damn.
*~*~
The week that followed was organized chaos.
At first it was the mornings that were once again set aside for classes. It was fairly easy teaching Yoshiko and Umeko Gaean language and writing. Amano took a joke out of this and called them the reincarnates of Naria and Eiria (spell check?) because they always did things like as if they shared a mind, which after further study I found out that gold and silver twins actually do. I had decided not to give them back the laptop and digital camera. Even though they were my friends, I didn't want them contacting anybody, and Van didn't quite trust them since they had been with JSC. Of course Van didn't trust hardly anyone no matter whom they're with. He didn't even trust me to begin with, but look at us now.
Then Amano, Yukari, Yoshiko, Umeko, and I all found out how Merle handles PMS. Umeko had four scratches, Yoshiko had five, Yukari had three, I had seven, Amano had thirteen, and Van had one. Personally, I think I had so many because she had so many grudges built up over the war. Owwww. Amano got so many because he had never dealt with a girl PMSing, let alone a cat-girl. Both those things combined, a deadly combination. I felt sorry for him. Then I realized I should feel sorry for myself. You would think she would use her name file to make her nails dulled, but no! She makes them SHARPER! Owwww.
Then the dream/vision came back again. Same as all the other times except Dilandau was replaced with Celena. Could the dream choose one or the other?
Then it was reports that a riot had broken out near Zaibach's inner border. I got visions all during the riot; I knew about it before anyone came to Fanelia to report it. The five guys did get to Zaibach. And so happened to meet one of Zaibach's old generals. They couldn't communicate with him, but they pointed to the ground and said "Zaibach?" and gained admission to the country. After a while they managed to learn a rough and cut-up Gaean. The general showed them the battlefield of the last battle and there I saw Ravi die. He had slipped on a loose rock and slid right into a sword. I puked; it truly was a nasty, horrid scene to witness.
But the thing that I would say was the worst of all was the planning. The wedding was set for Van's seventeenth birthday. (Okay, let's just screw the calendar up some more~!~!) That was in six months. Yoshiko and Umeko helped Yukari, Merle and (via messenger) Millerna make the arrangements. Kami-sama, Van and I were dead scared of what our wedding would be like. Unlike Asturia, Fanelia didn't have a policy on what type of wedding the Royal Family had. Occasionally one of the girls would come up to Van or me and ask which color, style, flavor, and so on we liked better. They never quite told us where or how big the wedding was. We were pretty much left in the dark about the whole thing. Owww, my head hurt.
Word length: 2000
Can you believe it? This chapter is exactly 2000 words long.
Okay! You the reviewer will once again determine the fate of Gaea. *Unenthusiastic 'Yays' are heard*
HEY~!
A) I skip ahead to the WEDDING so that the guys can gain some POWER~!~!
Or
B) They never reach the wedding until the very END of the story and the guys try to ASSASSINATE them/one of them.
You pick.
