Chapter 4 --_-_-_-_

Neried stared at her plate, which was full of food. Everyone was wondering why she wasn't eating.

"Is something wrong Neried?" Mia asked her. Neried looked up. She shook her head.

"Then what is wrong?" Felix asked. Nereid made a sign were it looked like she was sleeping, and then crossed both her fingers on both hands, and made two sides of a box with them.

"You want to go to your bedroom?" Venus asked, and Neried nodded. Then she made the gaggy look. Venus had the 'ah' look on her face. "She feels seasick. She wants to sleep. I'll take her to her room." The others nodded, and the two left.

"I remember being seasick the first time I was on a boat." Garet said.

"I remember that FAR too well for my liking. It was disgusting Garet." Mia said, as she moved her eyes in his direction, and continued eating. He looked embarrassed, and continued eating.

"I don't think you would get seasick. After all, you are the Mercury adept out of the two of us. And I'M not gettign sick." Venus said. Nereid sighned the number one, and boat.

"Yeah, it is your first time on a boat." Venus said. "I'll let you rest for a while. I'll call you if we need you." She said, as Nereid entered her room. Neried sat down on the bed. She looked around.

"This is a big place." She thought to herself. The room had a blue bed, and not much else. It was a brown that matched the rest of the ship. It was small, but comfortable.

Venus came back to the room where they were eating, and sat down.

"Hows Neried?" Mia asked. Venus looked up at her, and smiled.

"She's just a little seasick. That's all." She replied, and began eating again. Everyone else began talking. Except Jenna. She sat near Venus, and decided to talk to her.

"What was your life like before you went into slavery?" She asked. Venus looked down, and closed her eyes.

"My village chose me to be the 'child of Venus' and that's why I have my name. I was raised probably like Sheba, only I was raised to fight, and do just about everything a man could do. But then sometihn unexpected happened." She said, tears swelling.

"Raiders attacked our village. They destroyed everything-homes, children, creatures, and even the temple in the village. The only thing that survived, was me." She continued, and Jenna gasped. How could life get any worse?

"And they found me soon enough. And then I was taken to their home, and taken as a slave their. And then I met Neried, and I was there untill now." Venus finished, and then looked up. "At least I'm now a VERY good cook!" She laughed.

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Neried looked up to the dawn sky. Everyone else was asleep, and snoring. She could still hear them. The sky was so dark and bright, at the same time. It was cold, and inviting. Colours of dark blue and red-pink were amazing to watch, as the red clouds drifted by.

She managed to climb up to the top of the ship, where people would keep watch for land(A/N: I don't' know what it's called). The ocean had a blue- green tinge, and it was clear as. . .. .. . . .glasss (?). You could see all the fish swimmng by, and which way the plants under there moved back and forth. It was deep enough so that you couldn't see the bottom, but that didn't' bother her one bit. Now that she was used to the water, she clearly enjoyed it.

Land was up ahead. "Should I wake the others?" She thought in her head. "Maybe I should learn to talk first." She thought, and she had a quiet laugh.

She put her index fingers on her temples of her forehead, and closed her eyes. She was starting to glow a light blue. "Maybe I can wake them up with this. Well, the Mercury adepts, anyway."

"Wake up!" That voice went through Piers' and Mia's head. They snapped their eyes opened, and looked around. No one else was awake, but someone told them to wake up. They both had a confused look on their faces, and went out of their room, to see if anyone was pulling a prank on them.

"What are you doing up this early?" They both asked each other.

"A voice went through my head, and it told me to wake up!" Piers said, sounding alittle annoyed.

"That was the same with me. What do you think did that?" Mia asked him, looking around the ship. Then they heard the voice again.

"I'm up here! At the look out! I TOLD you to get up!" It said, and they looked around. And then they looked up. They saw Neried sitting there, staring outward into the ocean. They looked where she was looking, and saw land.

"Land! I'll go tell the others!" Mia said, as she mumbled, "I can't believe we found land!" To herself as she walked away. Piers looked back up to the lookout, and saw Neried coming down.

"You were the person talking to us in our heads?" Piers asked her. She nodded. "Why didn't' you say anything to any one else?"

"I can only talk that way to Mercury adepts. And seeing as no one else on the ship but you, Mia and me are that kind of adept. . . .. that is pretty self explanitory." She said to him, with her psynergy. And then she laughed. And then she walked to cook in the kitchen, for when everyone would wake up.

Piers stared after her. "Maybe she should learn how to talk like everyone else." He thought. Then he walked to the front of the ship. The water seemed so calm. So peaceful. So quiet.

Then he heard a crash. "The others must be awake now. I'll go help."

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"That was. . . . . . different. . . " Mia said, as she was eating, directing the comment ot Felix. He blushed.

When Mia had woken him, he had grabbed his sword, and nearly slahsed her in half. She managed to dodge in time, and he fell over, making the crash that Piers heard. Everyone else dashed into the room, and saw Felix on the floor, with his sword. And you can guess the rest.

"Neried spotted land earlier." Piers brought up, hoping to relieve Felix of his humilation. They all turned to him.

"Really?" Venus asked, before the others did. "In what direction?" She added.

"I think north. That's what it looked like from the front of the ship." He said, putting some more food in his mouth.

"North huh?" Venus said, looking down. "That was where I was raised." She thought in her head. She didn't' want to go there.

"That place was always hot in the summer. Heck, it was always hot. Almost everyone there was a Mars adept. Except me and my father. . ." She added to her thoughts. "Mercury adepts were never there. Only Mars and Venus adepts were there, really. We never had visitors. . . .they would have to pass the desert. . . ."

"Is something wrong Venus?" Felix asked her.

She looked up. She shook her head. "No. I'm just thinking." She lied. Neried looked at her funny.

"She's lying Piers." Neried said to him.

"How can you tell Nereid?" He replied in his head. No one could hear them when they spoke like this. Except Mia.

"It doesn't seem right. Besides, she once told me that she had lived in a continent near where we were slaves. She came from the continent near us. She can't deny that." Neried answered him. And then Mia spoke to them.

"I'm sure she'll tell us when she is ready. We have to get to land." She said to them, and then they all went up to the top of the ship.

Venus stood at the front of the ship. "Memories. . . . .the ones I don't' want. . . . .are back. . . ." She thought. She turned, and saw Felix standing there. She bumbed into him.

"I'm sorry Felix." She said, as she tried to walk past him. He looked at her, and then asked her a question.

"Will you tell me what's wrong?"

She stopped. She sighed. "Ok. I come from the continent north of us. But no one lives there. Everyone from there, but me, is dead. Ok? Now will you all get off my back?"

He looked at her again, only with a look of sympathy. "It'll be ok Venus. You don't' have to go if you don't' want to." He said to her. He felt sorry for her.

"It's ok Felix. You guys need a guide. I know my way through the desert. We never really. . . .. had visitors because of the desert. No one can seem to go through it. I'll have to deal with it Felix." Venus said to him, and she walked away.

"Felix seems concerned for Venus." Jenna said, sighing.

"Do you think he likes her?" Garet said, teasingly.

"I think he does Garet." Jenna agreed. Then he looked at her funny.

"She almost NEVER agrees with me! What's wrong with her?" Garet thought in his head, and then looked back out to sea.

"How much longer untill we reach land Garet?" Jenna asked him. He just shrugged, and then she asked Piers.

"Maybe afew hours Jenna. Don't' worry. It wont' take long at all. It migt take only one if we had the wind in our sails." Piers replied. Ivan and Sheba caught wind of that, and then used their pysnergy to bow wind into the sails.

The ship then went twice as fast, and they made it there in no time.

Which is what Venus didn't' want.

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Piers: that was probably the longest chapter you've ever typed.

WP: Yep. And I changed my name too ^_^

Piers: I can see that. . . . . . . . .

WP: Why wont' other people review?!?