Silver Millennium Life Bonds
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 14
Disclaimer: Nothing has changed since my last chapter and I doubt it will any time soon.
Windy will be called a Guardian in this chapter. It is not the same as Luna and Artimas; Windy is like a Guardian angel. There will be some references to Michigan, please don't mind them, they're just me starting my autumn rant.
This time it was Ryo out on the porch when Windy returned with her hood down on her cloak. He stood up from his seat when she approached and met her half way up the stairs. "I was waiting for you," he said.
"What did you want to talk about?" asked the ghost.
"It's about Sage. I'm getting worried and so is Rowen. Serena told him that Sage is almost cutting her off from their twin bond and he is avoiding Lita and the Seasonals as much as he can."
"Ah, one of the big problems. May be we should bring the Ronin of Halo and Prince of the Sun to see someone."
"Who?" asked Ryo.
"His father."
"You can get him? I thought he was dead," asked Ryo, surprised.
"Yes and no," replied Windy. "It's just like when I took Lita to see someone. This time I will be going with Sage to talk to the Sun King; it turns out he wasn't happy about what his wife did. May be he can talk some sense into our favorite blonde hardhead."
Ryo laughed at the description of his friend and asked, "Hardhead? I thought that Kento was the hardhead."
"He is," smirked Windy. "It's just that on some things Sage is more stubborn then a mule and I plan on out stubborning him on this. You can start making your bets now."
The pair laughed as they entered the house. Mia looked up from her laptop and smiled at her boyfriend. Ryo joined her to see what she was doing and Windy went to the refrigerator to see what the leftovers looked like.
"You might not find anything in there. Kento was hungry and decided to binge."
"So all the shopping that you did was for nothing? I'll go shopping tomorrow morning while everyone is practicing."
"That doesn't sound very fair," said Setsuna as she walked in to get a drink of water.
"Ah, but I have the advantage of being older and more ready than you kids on the battlefield," said Windy. "Besides, these old bones are yelling for a rest and I have to talk someone into meeting with me and a visitor. This way I can kill two birds with one stone."
"I hate it when you have good reasons," muttered Haruka hearing the explanation. Michiru smiled at her partner and looked at Windy.
"Who do you plan on talking to?"
"One of the few that are still around from the Silver Millennium. I need to beat sense into a certain prince and hopefully he will help."
Looks were passed between the three Outers and they understood what the Windwalker was talking about. Windy was going to, hopefully, help their Prince see reason.
"Do you think that you can help him see what he's missing?" asked Michiru.
"I hope so. It will depend on him and her."
"It may be a good idea or it might break the other half of the siblings," muttered Haruka.
Setsuna shook her head. "I don't think that will happen. You can see Lita's feelings about Prince Sage even now. He will be the one who will break anyone's heart, be it his own or hers. We will just have to watch them carefully after tomorrow."
The group parted with the hope for tomorrow. Windy for her dinner and the Outers for whatever pursuits they were taking care of at the time. Ryo and Mia huddled around her laptop and studied the information her grandfather had left encrypted for her.
"Why don't you talk to her?" asked Rowen as he sat on his bed watching his friend.
"I don't know what you're talking about," retorted Sage.
"Yes, you do and it's tearing you and Lita up. You should talk to her. May be you can start something that should have been in the past."
"No. She hurt Rena; why should I give her a chance?"
"Because Serena is. You saw what happened today at practice. Lita asked formally for forgiveness. May be you should try doing the same as Serena."
"Hnn."
"Fine. Be that way. I think that Ryo is concerned and I know he will try to get help. You are going to listen to someone if we have to tie you down and yell it in your ears."
Rowen gave up and started to read his book. He looked up only when Ryo joined his roommates for the night. White Blaze looked at the bearer of Halo and gave a smug look before joining his human on the floor. Rowen caught the look and figured that something was going to happen soon.
The next morning Windy told the rest of the house what her plans were. Of course she was challenged by a few (read here Kento, Seckmet, and Dais). Some of the others knew what was needed and why she as going. Others weren't as open minded, but didn't want to get the unknown mad at them. The third group was proved right when Windy took the three dissenters out and showed them that she didn't need to practice.
"They're all warmed up for you, but you might want to wait until they gather their pride and sore body parts back together before practicing with them. Especially Kento, he had a hard hit that last time. I was afraid that he was going to stay unconscious for a lot longer." Windy shrugged her shoulders and started for the front of the house. The three soundly beaten warriors started to get up. It took them several tries before they could stay on their feet while swaying.
"Do you need any money or a car for the shopping?" asked Mia.
The ghost shook her head. "I have a car. And I'm sure that I can get my money exchanged at a bank in town."
"What kind of car?" asked Haruka.
"One of Ford's finest. It's not a Mustang, but it gets through the snow good." There were some worried looks on different faces at the mention of an American car. "Don't worry," said Windy. "I'll drive on the right side of the road for this country. And I have a plate for the car. It's all legal." The ghost walked away from the worried group.
"Think she'll be okay?" asked Michiru.
"She should be fine," replied Sage. "She did it yesterday with her motorcycle."
Kayura looked at Sage. "Should we ask?"
"It was about that time when I told you we were leaving. My sister and the others were being attacked."
"You'll have to tell us about it later, then," said Setsuna.
"Yes, later," responded Sage.
Windy drove to a secluded park along the way to the city. After parking the car she wandered around the area until she found a place where she could work. "It would be nice to find a natural door, but I'm just thankful that I can do this here." Windy rolled her eyes. "Imagine trying to do this in the city." The Occidental stranger chuckled at her own sally and started her work. Soon the clearing she was standing in was empty, but to those with the ability to see beyond the material world they would have seen a door standing in the center.
The Sun King paused in his work to think about his lost children once again. He has lost his heir and his daughter when the Moon was attacked a millennium ago. Now he had to carry on without any of his family. You would have thought that he would have turned bitter toward the loss, but one visit to the desolate Moon gave him a small hope. All he had to do was wait.
"Majesty," interrupted a soldier. "There is a person here to see you."
"Tell him to leave. I'm busy."
The soldier looked flustered. "I can't, Great Light. The woman said if I came back with a refusal she would make this whole palace a piece of rubble and pull you out of the stones to talk to you."
"It was an empty threat," waved the King.
"No. It wasn't, old man. I am very capable of doing it."
The Sun King looked up to see who would dare to call him an old man. He has served as the Sun Keeper for a long time, but to be called an old man called for retribution on the insulting person.
He didn't have time to do anything else except look up.
"I've come to talk to you about your idiot son. I don't know where he got his stubborn streak, but I have a feeling it came from you and that person who called herself the Moon Queen."
The King stood doing a good impression of a fish out of water. "Leave us," he croaked to the soldiers. They left in a hurry. "What brings you here, Guardian?"
Windy looked the Sun King up and down. "Your son. He needs to be kicked in the pants, but I'm hoping that a talk from you will straighten him out."
"On what subject?"
"Admitting his feelings to a certain Jovian princess before she gets swept away by another. Almost like what happened to you, I think."
"I would love to talk to my son, but Serenity sent him to a different dimension. I can't reach him anymore."
The Windwalker snorted. "That's where I come in," she said with a roll of her eyes. "I get him here or take you there and you have the father to son heart-to-heart. May be he can FINALLY say something to Lita."
"Lita?"
"Makato."
"Oh. The Jovian princess; she didn't give her stand at the end of the Silver Millennium did she?"
"No, but she is about to now. The Scout of Jupiter is about to give her stance and the power will be out of flux once it's done."
"Then it will start over."
Windy shook her head. "Let the children set their own future. Let the Silver Millennium stay in the past. Let Crystal Tokyo be a dream unless it is really wanted. Serena has had enough battles and Sage has had enough trials of his own to overcome. Let them decide their own future."
The Sun King smiled. "You are wise for a young Guardian. I wish that my wife had listened to you a little more."
"The Moon Queen was stubborn. She didn't see me as a Guardian, she saw an eighteen-year-old looking ghost who had the title of Guardian. My wisdom comes from my Master and my experience. I believe in free will and the only set future is the Second Coming of Christ." The ghost sighed and looked up. "If you listen to every Christian saying the Lord's Prayer you will hear them ask for it to be soon. I know that I pray for it every day; I'm tired and I want to go home." She looked back at the king. "I'll stop my self pity and finish my other task before dragging Sage to you. I'll call before I come if that's alright with you?"
"That will be fine. Is there any place that is neutral we can go to?"
Windy winked as she turned to leave. "I think I can find something." The ghost disappeared from the presence of the Sun King.
"I will finally get to see my son again." He raised his eyes to the ceiling, but meant it to go farther. "Thank you Great One."
It took awhile, but Windy did return with the extra groceries. Kento was instantly pressed into helping bring them into the house. "Touch one item and I will put you on a liquid diet," threatened Windy. "You will have trouble even saying your sure kill unless I let you."
Kento didn't chance the threat being a promise. Windy had done something like this before and she sometimes did carry out that threat. Sage getting a cold shower proved that.
When all the groceries were put away Windy turned to the Ronin of Hardrock. "Thanks for the help. Here, I thought that you might like a treat for putting up with the threat I gave you." She handed him a brown paper bag and Kento looked at it suspiciously. "Trust me, it's good and it may even fill you for a while. I liked to eat it when I was in the area."
Kento shrugged and opened the bag. Inside was a huge pastry. Thinking that it had some sort of jelly in it, he took a large bite. He was surprised that it wasn't a jelly or a sweet filling, but vegetables and meat.
"It's a pasty (pronounced with a long a). It makes for a good meal when your hungry and it's filling. I loved them." The ghost walked off to find someone and Kento went back to his game. Surprisingly, he did feel content after eating the pasty.
Ryo found the Windwalker before she found Sage. "Are you going through with it?" he asked.
"I already talked with his father. Once I find your brother in arms, he is going to have a little chat with a long lost family member. Try to keep Rowen and Serena out of the way. They can talk to him later."
"You got it," nodded Ryo.
The two parted and Windy continued her search. She threw all pride aside and started to ask the forest and wind where the object of her search was. They directed the ghost to the small clearing that Sage liked to train and meditate on his own. Quietly Windy entered the area and stood before the Prince of the Sun.
"What do you want?" asked Sage.
"Your undivided attention," said Windy.
Sage opened his eyes. "What?"
"You need to talk to Lita. You're putting her and a lot of others through needless pain and worry because you don't talk to her. You heard your sister yesterday. Lita is on her way to forgiveness and may be once again the trust she lost. Are you going to let the same mistake you made a thousand years ago play out again?"
"Why not? History does repeat itself."
"You know, you can be a complete idiot sometimes. The whole reason why we have history in school is to learn from past mistakes. Stop repeating your own and talk!" Windy turned to walk away. "Oh," she tossed over her shoulder. "There's someone else that wants to have a word with you."
"Who?"
Windy gave a now familiar smirk. "You'll see." Then the clearing had only one occupant.
A deer crept into the clearing in hopes of finding something to eat, but found the woman. "Your welcome to eat; I'm just leaving." Windy quietly left the deer to its foraging commenting on how small it seemed to the white tailed cousins she was used to. "Blasted things take out cars worse too," muttered the ghost. "Just you wait. When November comes I'll be seeing a lot of deer on the way to work. The things I do to keep money in the bank." She continued on to find out if Ryo had kept his promise. She thanked him and Jesus that the two Life Bonds were completely oblivious to Sage's trip.
Rocky Oberlin
Chapter 14
Disclaimer: Nothing has changed since my last chapter and I doubt it will any time soon.
Windy will be called a Guardian in this chapter. It is not the same as Luna and Artimas; Windy is like a Guardian angel. There will be some references to Michigan, please don't mind them, they're just me starting my autumn rant.
This time it was Ryo out on the porch when Windy returned with her hood down on her cloak. He stood up from his seat when she approached and met her half way up the stairs. "I was waiting for you," he said.
"What did you want to talk about?" asked the ghost.
"It's about Sage. I'm getting worried and so is Rowen. Serena told him that Sage is almost cutting her off from their twin bond and he is avoiding Lita and the Seasonals as much as he can."
"Ah, one of the big problems. May be we should bring the Ronin of Halo and Prince of the Sun to see someone."
"Who?" asked Ryo.
"His father."
"You can get him? I thought he was dead," asked Ryo, surprised.
"Yes and no," replied Windy. "It's just like when I took Lita to see someone. This time I will be going with Sage to talk to the Sun King; it turns out he wasn't happy about what his wife did. May be he can talk some sense into our favorite blonde hardhead."
Ryo laughed at the description of his friend and asked, "Hardhead? I thought that Kento was the hardhead."
"He is," smirked Windy. "It's just that on some things Sage is more stubborn then a mule and I plan on out stubborning him on this. You can start making your bets now."
The pair laughed as they entered the house. Mia looked up from her laptop and smiled at her boyfriend. Ryo joined her to see what she was doing and Windy went to the refrigerator to see what the leftovers looked like.
"You might not find anything in there. Kento was hungry and decided to binge."
"So all the shopping that you did was for nothing? I'll go shopping tomorrow morning while everyone is practicing."
"That doesn't sound very fair," said Setsuna as she walked in to get a drink of water.
"Ah, but I have the advantage of being older and more ready than you kids on the battlefield," said Windy. "Besides, these old bones are yelling for a rest and I have to talk someone into meeting with me and a visitor. This way I can kill two birds with one stone."
"I hate it when you have good reasons," muttered Haruka hearing the explanation. Michiru smiled at her partner and looked at Windy.
"Who do you plan on talking to?"
"One of the few that are still around from the Silver Millennium. I need to beat sense into a certain prince and hopefully he will help."
Looks were passed between the three Outers and they understood what the Windwalker was talking about. Windy was going to, hopefully, help their Prince see reason.
"Do you think that you can help him see what he's missing?" asked Michiru.
"I hope so. It will depend on him and her."
"It may be a good idea or it might break the other half of the siblings," muttered Haruka.
Setsuna shook her head. "I don't think that will happen. You can see Lita's feelings about Prince Sage even now. He will be the one who will break anyone's heart, be it his own or hers. We will just have to watch them carefully after tomorrow."
The group parted with the hope for tomorrow. Windy for her dinner and the Outers for whatever pursuits they were taking care of at the time. Ryo and Mia huddled around her laptop and studied the information her grandfather had left encrypted for her.
"Why don't you talk to her?" asked Rowen as he sat on his bed watching his friend.
"I don't know what you're talking about," retorted Sage.
"Yes, you do and it's tearing you and Lita up. You should talk to her. May be you can start something that should have been in the past."
"No. She hurt Rena; why should I give her a chance?"
"Because Serena is. You saw what happened today at practice. Lita asked formally for forgiveness. May be you should try doing the same as Serena."
"Hnn."
"Fine. Be that way. I think that Ryo is concerned and I know he will try to get help. You are going to listen to someone if we have to tie you down and yell it in your ears."
Rowen gave up and started to read his book. He looked up only when Ryo joined his roommates for the night. White Blaze looked at the bearer of Halo and gave a smug look before joining his human on the floor. Rowen caught the look and figured that something was going to happen soon.
The next morning Windy told the rest of the house what her plans were. Of course she was challenged by a few (read here Kento, Seckmet, and Dais). Some of the others knew what was needed and why she as going. Others weren't as open minded, but didn't want to get the unknown mad at them. The third group was proved right when Windy took the three dissenters out and showed them that she didn't need to practice.
"They're all warmed up for you, but you might want to wait until they gather their pride and sore body parts back together before practicing with them. Especially Kento, he had a hard hit that last time. I was afraid that he was going to stay unconscious for a lot longer." Windy shrugged her shoulders and started for the front of the house. The three soundly beaten warriors started to get up. It took them several tries before they could stay on their feet while swaying.
"Do you need any money or a car for the shopping?" asked Mia.
The ghost shook her head. "I have a car. And I'm sure that I can get my money exchanged at a bank in town."
"What kind of car?" asked Haruka.
"One of Ford's finest. It's not a Mustang, but it gets through the snow good." There were some worried looks on different faces at the mention of an American car. "Don't worry," said Windy. "I'll drive on the right side of the road for this country. And I have a plate for the car. It's all legal." The ghost walked away from the worried group.
"Think she'll be okay?" asked Michiru.
"She should be fine," replied Sage. "She did it yesterday with her motorcycle."
Kayura looked at Sage. "Should we ask?"
"It was about that time when I told you we were leaving. My sister and the others were being attacked."
"You'll have to tell us about it later, then," said Setsuna.
"Yes, later," responded Sage.
Windy drove to a secluded park along the way to the city. After parking the car she wandered around the area until she found a place where she could work. "It would be nice to find a natural door, but I'm just thankful that I can do this here." Windy rolled her eyes. "Imagine trying to do this in the city." The Occidental stranger chuckled at her own sally and started her work. Soon the clearing she was standing in was empty, but to those with the ability to see beyond the material world they would have seen a door standing in the center.
The Sun King paused in his work to think about his lost children once again. He has lost his heir and his daughter when the Moon was attacked a millennium ago. Now he had to carry on without any of his family. You would have thought that he would have turned bitter toward the loss, but one visit to the desolate Moon gave him a small hope. All he had to do was wait.
"Majesty," interrupted a soldier. "There is a person here to see you."
"Tell him to leave. I'm busy."
The soldier looked flustered. "I can't, Great Light. The woman said if I came back with a refusal she would make this whole palace a piece of rubble and pull you out of the stones to talk to you."
"It was an empty threat," waved the King.
"No. It wasn't, old man. I am very capable of doing it."
The Sun King looked up to see who would dare to call him an old man. He has served as the Sun Keeper for a long time, but to be called an old man called for retribution on the insulting person.
He didn't have time to do anything else except look up.
"I've come to talk to you about your idiot son. I don't know where he got his stubborn streak, but I have a feeling it came from you and that person who called herself the Moon Queen."
The King stood doing a good impression of a fish out of water. "Leave us," he croaked to the soldiers. They left in a hurry. "What brings you here, Guardian?"
Windy looked the Sun King up and down. "Your son. He needs to be kicked in the pants, but I'm hoping that a talk from you will straighten him out."
"On what subject?"
"Admitting his feelings to a certain Jovian princess before she gets swept away by another. Almost like what happened to you, I think."
"I would love to talk to my son, but Serenity sent him to a different dimension. I can't reach him anymore."
The Windwalker snorted. "That's where I come in," she said with a roll of her eyes. "I get him here or take you there and you have the father to son heart-to-heart. May be he can FINALLY say something to Lita."
"Lita?"
"Makato."
"Oh. The Jovian princess; she didn't give her stand at the end of the Silver Millennium did she?"
"No, but she is about to now. The Scout of Jupiter is about to give her stance and the power will be out of flux once it's done."
"Then it will start over."
Windy shook her head. "Let the children set their own future. Let the Silver Millennium stay in the past. Let Crystal Tokyo be a dream unless it is really wanted. Serena has had enough battles and Sage has had enough trials of his own to overcome. Let them decide their own future."
The Sun King smiled. "You are wise for a young Guardian. I wish that my wife had listened to you a little more."
"The Moon Queen was stubborn. She didn't see me as a Guardian, she saw an eighteen-year-old looking ghost who had the title of Guardian. My wisdom comes from my Master and my experience. I believe in free will and the only set future is the Second Coming of Christ." The ghost sighed and looked up. "If you listen to every Christian saying the Lord's Prayer you will hear them ask for it to be soon. I know that I pray for it every day; I'm tired and I want to go home." She looked back at the king. "I'll stop my self pity and finish my other task before dragging Sage to you. I'll call before I come if that's alright with you?"
"That will be fine. Is there any place that is neutral we can go to?"
Windy winked as she turned to leave. "I think I can find something." The ghost disappeared from the presence of the Sun King.
"I will finally get to see my son again." He raised his eyes to the ceiling, but meant it to go farther. "Thank you Great One."
It took awhile, but Windy did return with the extra groceries. Kento was instantly pressed into helping bring them into the house. "Touch one item and I will put you on a liquid diet," threatened Windy. "You will have trouble even saying your sure kill unless I let you."
Kento didn't chance the threat being a promise. Windy had done something like this before and she sometimes did carry out that threat. Sage getting a cold shower proved that.
When all the groceries were put away Windy turned to the Ronin of Hardrock. "Thanks for the help. Here, I thought that you might like a treat for putting up with the threat I gave you." She handed him a brown paper bag and Kento looked at it suspiciously. "Trust me, it's good and it may even fill you for a while. I liked to eat it when I was in the area."
Kento shrugged and opened the bag. Inside was a huge pastry. Thinking that it had some sort of jelly in it, he took a large bite. He was surprised that it wasn't a jelly or a sweet filling, but vegetables and meat.
"It's a pasty (pronounced with a long a). It makes for a good meal when your hungry and it's filling. I loved them." The ghost walked off to find someone and Kento went back to his game. Surprisingly, he did feel content after eating the pasty.
Ryo found the Windwalker before she found Sage. "Are you going through with it?" he asked.
"I already talked with his father. Once I find your brother in arms, he is going to have a little chat with a long lost family member. Try to keep Rowen and Serena out of the way. They can talk to him later."
"You got it," nodded Ryo.
The two parted and Windy continued her search. She threw all pride aside and started to ask the forest and wind where the object of her search was. They directed the ghost to the small clearing that Sage liked to train and meditate on his own. Quietly Windy entered the area and stood before the Prince of the Sun.
"What do you want?" asked Sage.
"Your undivided attention," said Windy.
Sage opened his eyes. "What?"
"You need to talk to Lita. You're putting her and a lot of others through needless pain and worry because you don't talk to her. You heard your sister yesterday. Lita is on her way to forgiveness and may be once again the trust she lost. Are you going to let the same mistake you made a thousand years ago play out again?"
"Why not? History does repeat itself."
"You know, you can be a complete idiot sometimes. The whole reason why we have history in school is to learn from past mistakes. Stop repeating your own and talk!" Windy turned to walk away. "Oh," she tossed over her shoulder. "There's someone else that wants to have a word with you."
"Who?"
Windy gave a now familiar smirk. "You'll see." Then the clearing had only one occupant.
A deer crept into the clearing in hopes of finding something to eat, but found the woman. "Your welcome to eat; I'm just leaving." Windy quietly left the deer to its foraging commenting on how small it seemed to the white tailed cousins she was used to. "Blasted things take out cars worse too," muttered the ghost. "Just you wait. When November comes I'll be seeing a lot of deer on the way to work. The things I do to keep money in the bank." She continued on to find out if Ryo had kept his promise. She thanked him and Jesus that the two Life Bonds were completely oblivious to Sage's trip.
