Chapter 15: Suhalla Pass
A/N: lol I didn't get any reviews for the last chapter . . . I must have really scared some people off! Don't worry I'm under control now.
The dew of the trees shone in the cool pine air. The sun had already risen for yet, another day. The forest was lively with birds. Their sweet songs filled the morning and Morimachi's ears.
"Ugh . . . why couldn't she keep her mouth closed when she is sleeping?" Ivan woke up to find his part of the pillow wet from Sheba's drooling. At least it wasn't that much as last time. He clean himself up.
"Hey it's time to get up lazy." Ivan shook her and enclosed his hand onto her cheek.
"MMMMMMMMMM....PH!" Sheba turned her body away from Ivan to catch on last z.
"Stubborn." Ivan said in her ear, "You leave me with no other choice."
Sheba growled softly, "It's too early to get up."
"This will do." Ivan turned Sheba right back over to face him. He began to leave a trail of kisses around her neck. She didn't like that too much.
"Fine. I'll get up." She sneered and gave Ivan a shocking jolt on his arm.
"That was uncalled for." Ivan had that mischievous grin on. "Take this!"
He tackled and pushed her playfully. She laughed and threw a pillow at his face. As a result the two fell off the bed laughing.
"Sheba then froze, "I hope no one heard that, you better go off to your room so no one suspects that you were in here."
"Because of last night?"
"Don't make me repeat myself...off you go now."
"Right!" Ivan got up, "we got a lot of traveling to do today..be ready." He kissed her the cheek.
"Ohayo gozai!...Sheba?" Jan opened the door..unlocking it from the outside. She saw Ivan in the room with her.
"Hey breakfast will be done in ten minutes! Be sure not to forget!" She announced.
"We'll be there!"
"Okie dokie!' She closed the door to wonder what happened in that room just now.
"Did he just get into there this morning...or did he...stay in there overnight?" She thought walking toward her room. She had found Picard standing around by her door.
"Have you seen Ivan? He asked. "I checked his room and he wasn't there!"
"Try opening Sheba's door to find out." Jan giggled a little.
"Why did you catch them doing something they shouldn't be doing?"
"No..not really, I think I saw Ivan making out with in her in there..."
"Interesting, no wonder they acted strange around each other...he, Felix won't like the sound of this."
"Unless you don't tell him."
"Best not to if that's the case."
"Just don't say anything about them..or make insults when they come out of there, don't make me bring out my gauntlets."
"Oh now you're threatening me?"
"No, but I still can't get into my room with someone standing in front of it." She tapped him. He got out of the way.
"Breakfast is done you guys!" Marle ran up the stairs, "Get it while it's hot!"
"We'll be down! Let's go captain!"
"But what about.." Picard pointed to Sheba's door.
"Don't worry about them, come on Marle has breakfast waiting." Jan grabbed his arm and dragged it. "You are not going to eavesdrop on them!
Soon after they went downstairs, Sheba peeked out of the door.
"They're gone, we can go now." She said. "But I'm hungry!"
"Same here...who cares what they say." Ivan persuaded, "Come on, I smell breakfast."
Sheba was very nervous when going down the stairs. Would they say anything? When she went to go eat, no one said anything about this morning's incident. Not even silently. After breakfast was eaten, everyone packed up and head into the Suhalla Valley.
Nothing was in sight of the Suhalla passage. It looked peaceful. Plants grew on the sides of the cliffs and grass on the sides of the road. It
was also very quiet.
"Be extremely careful around here." Jan warned, "It may not look like nothings here, but the monsters are waiting in ambush.
"We can handle monsters, what is it so dangerous for us?"
"They come from a future era. They have the better advantage. "You're luckily I came from that same era and know their weaknesses." She pulled out a strange device. It had a strange silver handle and a gun like appearance.
"It's small..how could it do any damage!?" Picard took the gun to look at it and accidentally pulled the trigger.
"Duck!!" Jan moved his hand upwards to prevent him from shooting Ivan, who had ducked. The gun let out a big BANG!
The Oradons freaked out because of the loud sound. The adepts were also feeling the same. They looked at it as if it was a weapon of the gods.
"I don't want to be near that thing." Sheba didn't dare touch it. "What do they call that..loud thing?"
It's called a gun. G. U. N. It can sometimes kill someone in one blow like what Picard almost did to Ivan. She glared at Picard, "think of it as a bow and arrow, but better and stronger. She explained more about the gun.
"So what it does will defect the monsters around here?" Ivan asked.
"Yup and when they get hit, they go BAKOOOM!" Jan shot out and hit a strange creature jumping toward them. The bullet struck the metal lizard-like organism. The bullet released a virus which defected the chips implanted in the body. It malfunctioned and shut down.
"They are made of...some type and really strong armor, but how?" Ivan took a piece of the dead lizard.
"Could Babi be involved of letting these creature loose?" Sheba thought.
The lizards were a little larger than regular elemental lizards. They were not armed with explosives, fortunately. The only thing you had to watch for was the metal sharp plates erecting out of its back and shoulder blades. There were also the regular claws and teeth, only to be made of metal
"Those claws are worse than the animal girl's claws." Picard mumbled. He did not like to imagine the injuries from those strange creatures.
"I can handle the lizards and take them down ahead as long as they don't get into attacking range of me. Back me up..got it?"
"YEAH!" The three adepts said together.
She raced ahead, shooting off the lizards off the cliffs and the road. She shot accurately good. The hard thing was loading in the ammo. It took a few minutes to fully prepare and lock and load. That's when the other three came in, distracting them and slashing the metal of their bodies. Maybe the armor wasn't so tough after all.
Then an unexpected large group of the lizards circled them. They growled and hissed, waiting to tear the intruders apart.
"Great..." she mumbled, "Be ready!"
All djinn were being organized quickly. Sheba had put Gale, Aroma, Blitz, and Breath on standby. Ivan took out Kite, Squall, Zephyr and Smog. Picard's djinn, Eddy, Shade, Spring, and Chill were ready to fight.
"Zephyr go!" The djinn was used and they party's agility increased. With the help from Mellow, the psynergy power within them became highly
stronger.
"Spark plasma!" Ivan began to shock the robot lizards, it didn't effect them.
"No good, try water!" Sheba suggested.
"Tsunami!" Picard sent a rasping wave of water toward the lizards. To protect the others from the surrounding wave, Shade cast a water barrier. The lizards were stunned from the water.
"I'll try again now." Ivan used spark plasma a second time. It shocked them effectively and left them destroyed. But another lizard jump out
from a cliff. It shook the ground as it landed. The thing was huge, and it was equipped with strange weapons from the future. It roared out, glaring at the trouble makers.
"Kinzokuruu.." Jan hissed and glared her teeth at it. "I've been waiting so long to destroy and kick the crap out of you! She shot at its head.
She shifted to the right to dodge its missile attack. It blew off part of the canyon, making a rock slide. Kinzokuruu's eyes shifted into bright orange pupils.
"It's psynergy defense is down...hit it with everything you got!" Jan yelled, looking into the creatures eyes. The three adepts attacked at the
same time using the strongest psynergy spells they knew. As it was hit, the eyes turned back to being blood shot. Its psynergy defense went up again and it's physical defense plunging down.
"Keep distracting it, I need to figure out something!" Ivan said, trying to study the robot.
Ivan shot a ray at it's eyes to stun it from the flashing light. It received light damage.
"Psynergy isn't effective when it's eyes are red, use weapon attacks!" Ivan realized.
"I can use some backup someone!" Jan was dodging machine guns that were very close to hitting her. "I'm getting shot at!"
"Mist." Sheba covered the whole area with deep fog.
That gave Jan a chance to slice some of Kinzokuruu's equipment off. It wasn't made to
have sharp eyes. It swung it's tail back and forth aimlessly, hoping to hit something. The Oradons were knocked over and ran a short distance
away from the horrible unknown creature. Kinzokuruu turned around to shoot a laser beam out of it's mouth. It missed entirely and hit a cliff a few hundred yards away. There was a loud explosion as it fell apart and crumbled.
"It can't see through the fog." Picard aimed at it's left arm and sliced it. "Cut off the left arm."
The plated metal was hard to cut through. Picard chopped at it while Ivan sliced out the wires. Sheba kept the fog going and Jan kept it from moving by stunning it with a blast from the virus bullets. To help weaken to monster, Blitz and Gale attacked. Blitz successfully left
the right arm paralyzed with a strong bolt. Gale nearly blew the robot off it's feet. Than Jan began to shoot the other arm. It was harder to attack because it would start attacking everywhere, trying to protect itself.
"Giga Bolt!" Sheba released a powerful bolt into Ivan's blade. It became fully charge with electricity. He concentrated on the blade. The mighty Asura was released and with the extra power Sheba added ti the sword, Ivan was able to slice Kinzokuruu in half. It felled there, intending to go off. (BAKOOOOOOOOOOM)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Get out of here!" Jan yelled, running and jumping on her nearby Oradon. "It's going to explode!"
"Over here hurry!" Picard whistled to the Oradons that came rushing toward them. "Hop on!"
He grouped up with Ivan and Sheba as the giant creature began flashing non stop. A few seconds later, it exploded loudly and the ground shook violently.
Most of the canyon was gone after the loud crashes. The air filled with the dust of dirt and falling rock. It teamed almost everything up in the pass.
"I don't want to fight anything like that again." Sheba wiped off the sweat on her face.
"The wasn't the real one, the real Kinzokuruu and never explode."
"So...that one was just a fake!?" Picard sighed, where did the real one go?"
"I last saw it three weeks ago, I guess it went off somewhere else."
"This place is weird, I want to get out of here." Ivan didn't want to fight the strange new monsters. "Looks like the exit is clear even after that
large explosion."
They went down the almost destroyed stairs and down to a patchy field of sand. The Venus Lighthouse was in view. Though the lighthouse itself faced the Eastern Sea.
A/N: lol I didn't get any reviews for the last chapter . . . I must have really scared some people off! Don't worry I'm under control now.
The dew of the trees shone in the cool pine air. The sun had already risen for yet, another day. The forest was lively with birds. Their sweet songs filled the morning and Morimachi's ears.
"Ugh . . . why couldn't she keep her mouth closed when she is sleeping?" Ivan woke up to find his part of the pillow wet from Sheba's drooling. At least it wasn't that much as last time. He clean himself up.
"Hey it's time to get up lazy." Ivan shook her and enclosed his hand onto her cheek.
"MMMMMMMMMM....PH!" Sheba turned her body away from Ivan to catch on last z.
"Stubborn." Ivan said in her ear, "You leave me with no other choice."
Sheba growled softly, "It's too early to get up."
"This will do." Ivan turned Sheba right back over to face him. He began to leave a trail of kisses around her neck. She didn't like that too much.
"Fine. I'll get up." She sneered and gave Ivan a shocking jolt on his arm.
"That was uncalled for." Ivan had that mischievous grin on. "Take this!"
He tackled and pushed her playfully. She laughed and threw a pillow at his face. As a result the two fell off the bed laughing.
"Sheba then froze, "I hope no one heard that, you better go off to your room so no one suspects that you were in here."
"Because of last night?"
"Don't make me repeat myself...off you go now."
"Right!" Ivan got up, "we got a lot of traveling to do today..be ready." He kissed her the cheek.
"Ohayo gozai!...Sheba?" Jan opened the door..unlocking it from the outside. She saw Ivan in the room with her.
"Hey breakfast will be done in ten minutes! Be sure not to forget!" She announced.
"We'll be there!"
"Okie dokie!' She closed the door to wonder what happened in that room just now.
"Did he just get into there this morning...or did he...stay in there overnight?" She thought walking toward her room. She had found Picard standing around by her door.
"Have you seen Ivan? He asked. "I checked his room and he wasn't there!"
"Try opening Sheba's door to find out." Jan giggled a little.
"Why did you catch them doing something they shouldn't be doing?"
"No..not really, I think I saw Ivan making out with in her in there..."
"Interesting, no wonder they acted strange around each other...he, Felix won't like the sound of this."
"Unless you don't tell him."
"Best not to if that's the case."
"Just don't say anything about them..or make insults when they come out of there, don't make me bring out my gauntlets."
"Oh now you're threatening me?"
"No, but I still can't get into my room with someone standing in front of it." She tapped him. He got out of the way.
"Breakfast is done you guys!" Marle ran up the stairs, "Get it while it's hot!"
"We'll be down! Let's go captain!"
"But what about.." Picard pointed to Sheba's door.
"Don't worry about them, come on Marle has breakfast waiting." Jan grabbed his arm and dragged it. "You are not going to eavesdrop on them!
Soon after they went downstairs, Sheba peeked out of the door.
"They're gone, we can go now." She said. "But I'm hungry!"
"Same here...who cares what they say." Ivan persuaded, "Come on, I smell breakfast."
Sheba was very nervous when going down the stairs. Would they say anything? When she went to go eat, no one said anything about this morning's incident. Not even silently. After breakfast was eaten, everyone packed up and head into the Suhalla Valley.
Nothing was in sight of the Suhalla passage. It looked peaceful. Plants grew on the sides of the cliffs and grass on the sides of the road. It
was also very quiet.
"Be extremely careful around here." Jan warned, "It may not look like nothings here, but the monsters are waiting in ambush.
"We can handle monsters, what is it so dangerous for us?"
"They come from a future era. They have the better advantage. "You're luckily I came from that same era and know their weaknesses." She pulled out a strange device. It had a strange silver handle and a gun like appearance.
"It's small..how could it do any damage!?" Picard took the gun to look at it and accidentally pulled the trigger.
"Duck!!" Jan moved his hand upwards to prevent him from shooting Ivan, who had ducked. The gun let out a big BANG!
The Oradons freaked out because of the loud sound. The adepts were also feeling the same. They looked at it as if it was a weapon of the gods.
"I don't want to be near that thing." Sheba didn't dare touch it. "What do they call that..loud thing?"
It's called a gun. G. U. N. It can sometimes kill someone in one blow like what Picard almost did to Ivan. She glared at Picard, "think of it as a bow and arrow, but better and stronger. She explained more about the gun.
"So what it does will defect the monsters around here?" Ivan asked.
"Yup and when they get hit, they go BAKOOOM!" Jan shot out and hit a strange creature jumping toward them. The bullet struck the metal lizard-like organism. The bullet released a virus which defected the chips implanted in the body. It malfunctioned and shut down.
"They are made of...some type and really strong armor, but how?" Ivan took a piece of the dead lizard.
"Could Babi be involved of letting these creature loose?" Sheba thought.
The lizards were a little larger than regular elemental lizards. They were not armed with explosives, fortunately. The only thing you had to watch for was the metal sharp plates erecting out of its back and shoulder blades. There were also the regular claws and teeth, only to be made of metal
"Those claws are worse than the animal girl's claws." Picard mumbled. He did not like to imagine the injuries from those strange creatures.
"I can handle the lizards and take them down ahead as long as they don't get into attacking range of me. Back me up..got it?"
"YEAH!" The three adepts said together.
She raced ahead, shooting off the lizards off the cliffs and the road. She shot accurately good. The hard thing was loading in the ammo. It took a few minutes to fully prepare and lock and load. That's when the other three came in, distracting them and slashing the metal of their bodies. Maybe the armor wasn't so tough after all.
Then an unexpected large group of the lizards circled them. They growled and hissed, waiting to tear the intruders apart.
"Great..." she mumbled, "Be ready!"
All djinn were being organized quickly. Sheba had put Gale, Aroma, Blitz, and Breath on standby. Ivan took out Kite, Squall, Zephyr and Smog. Picard's djinn, Eddy, Shade, Spring, and Chill were ready to fight.
"Zephyr go!" The djinn was used and they party's agility increased. With the help from Mellow, the psynergy power within them became highly
stronger.
"Spark plasma!" Ivan began to shock the robot lizards, it didn't effect them.
"No good, try water!" Sheba suggested.
"Tsunami!" Picard sent a rasping wave of water toward the lizards. To protect the others from the surrounding wave, Shade cast a water barrier. The lizards were stunned from the water.
"I'll try again now." Ivan used spark plasma a second time. It shocked them effectively and left them destroyed. But another lizard jump out
from a cliff. It shook the ground as it landed. The thing was huge, and it was equipped with strange weapons from the future. It roared out, glaring at the trouble makers.
"Kinzokuruu.." Jan hissed and glared her teeth at it. "I've been waiting so long to destroy and kick the crap out of you! She shot at its head.
She shifted to the right to dodge its missile attack. It blew off part of the canyon, making a rock slide. Kinzokuruu's eyes shifted into bright orange pupils.
"It's psynergy defense is down...hit it with everything you got!" Jan yelled, looking into the creatures eyes. The three adepts attacked at the
same time using the strongest psynergy spells they knew. As it was hit, the eyes turned back to being blood shot. Its psynergy defense went up again and it's physical defense plunging down.
"Keep distracting it, I need to figure out something!" Ivan said, trying to study the robot.
Ivan shot a ray at it's eyes to stun it from the flashing light. It received light damage.
"Psynergy isn't effective when it's eyes are red, use weapon attacks!" Ivan realized.
"I can use some backup someone!" Jan was dodging machine guns that were very close to hitting her. "I'm getting shot at!"
"Mist." Sheba covered the whole area with deep fog.
That gave Jan a chance to slice some of Kinzokuruu's equipment off. It wasn't made to
have sharp eyes. It swung it's tail back and forth aimlessly, hoping to hit something. The Oradons were knocked over and ran a short distance
away from the horrible unknown creature. Kinzokuruu turned around to shoot a laser beam out of it's mouth. It missed entirely and hit a cliff a few hundred yards away. There was a loud explosion as it fell apart and crumbled.
"It can't see through the fog." Picard aimed at it's left arm and sliced it. "Cut off the left arm."
The plated metal was hard to cut through. Picard chopped at it while Ivan sliced out the wires. Sheba kept the fog going and Jan kept it from moving by stunning it with a blast from the virus bullets. To help weaken to monster, Blitz and Gale attacked. Blitz successfully left
the right arm paralyzed with a strong bolt. Gale nearly blew the robot off it's feet. Than Jan began to shoot the other arm. It was harder to attack because it would start attacking everywhere, trying to protect itself.
"Giga Bolt!" Sheba released a powerful bolt into Ivan's blade. It became fully charge with electricity. He concentrated on the blade. The mighty Asura was released and with the extra power Sheba added ti the sword, Ivan was able to slice Kinzokuruu in half. It felled there, intending to go off. (BAKOOOOOOOOOOM)!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Get out of here!" Jan yelled, running and jumping on her nearby Oradon. "It's going to explode!"
"Over here hurry!" Picard whistled to the Oradons that came rushing toward them. "Hop on!"
He grouped up with Ivan and Sheba as the giant creature began flashing non stop. A few seconds later, it exploded loudly and the ground shook violently.
Most of the canyon was gone after the loud crashes. The air filled with the dust of dirt and falling rock. It teamed almost everything up in the pass.
"I don't want to fight anything like that again." Sheba wiped off the sweat on her face.
"The wasn't the real one, the real Kinzokuruu and never explode."
"So...that one was just a fake!?" Picard sighed, where did the real one go?"
"I last saw it three weeks ago, I guess it went off somewhere else."
"This place is weird, I want to get out of here." Ivan didn't want to fight the strange new monsters. "Looks like the exit is clear even after that
large explosion."
They went down the almost destroyed stairs and down to a patchy field of sand. The Venus Lighthouse was in view. Though the lighthouse itself faced the Eastern Sea.