ch10: Cupil's Failured Eyesight

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Disclaimer:I'm running out of ideas. I do not own the characters, the only thing i own is the game. oh, and this plot, and Jade130 owns the Phoenix.

I bet you can recite my next line by now

let's hear it,,,

Cupil owns all!

(One week later at Crescent Isle...)

Ramirez gazed out into the sky. His life was almost back to normal*cough*, but things were different. For one, there was no Shrine to go back home to.

Fina leaned against the railing outside the meeting room, looking at Ramirez. She recalled very faintly how she had rescued herself...

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Fina opened her eyes as best she could to see Aika helping Vyse put Ramirez on the table. She had one MP left. She could hardly breathe the word "Sacrulen." She stood up and was knocked back down by the brilliant flash of light, which she knew was Zelorn being extinguished at last.

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Fina sighed and leaned back.

Aika kept thinking about her parents. She had been thinking about them a lot lately, because Vyse's parents had come and brought pies. She looked out her window in her room and saw Marco.

He was drawing in the dirt with a stick. She peered closer -

SMACK!

-and got her head smacked on the window.

Vyse was helping Dyne check over the Phoenix with Kirala. The ship had taken massive damage thanks to -

"Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupil............."

"Don't worry, Cupil. It wasn't your fault." Vyse patted the creature's head affectionately.

Cupil gestured to the LARGE dent in the side of the ship.

"It can be easily fixed. Now run off to Fina. I'm sure she's lonely."

Cupil plopped on his head. "Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, cupil cu pil. Cu!" He hurried off.

Vyse shook his head and continued working.

After getting some ice for her head, Aika walked outside to Marco.

"Hey, kid." She crouched down.

Marco grumbled and covered his art. "Hi."

"are you okay?"

"...yeah..."

"Sure?"

"...duh, yeah..."

"Hmm..."

Marco stared at her. "You're not so energetic anymore."

"You think?"

"Yeah." He picked his nose and wiped it on his pants.

Aika gazed at the flag, a dolphin with wings. "Just...thinking."

"That's bad."

"Why?"

"You'll look like a scarecrow with gray hair."

Aika chased him around the sleeping quarters.

Fina watched and giggled. Then-

"CU-" BONK!

Fina fell over and saw Cupil floating above her head. She smiled and pulled herself up.

"Hey there, Cupil."

"Cu cupil cup cu pil."

"It wasn't your fault. It's just that it was a wooden ship. You just forgot that."

"Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." He became a puddle of goop on the floor. Fina giggled again and poked him. He regained his former shape. Fina smiled at him.

"Let's talk to Ramirez, okay? Remember him?" Fina laughed, remembering what happened the first day they got back...

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Cupil was hauling a bunch of logs and Ramirez ran into him, trying to help. Cupil dropped the logs, thinking it was an enemy, and swallowed Ramirez. Fina had to coax him while trying not to laugh to release Ramirez.

"Cupil, he is just trying to help."

"CU! CUPIL!" He didn't open his mouth. Ramirez could be heard yelling.

"Cupil, please. He was your best friend too. On the Shrine?"

"CU!" He didn't open his mouth. The yelling was getting louder.

"Cupil! Argh, hold still..."

"Cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" Fina wrenched open the mouth and reached inside, pulling a very distraught Ramirez out.

"Ptooey!"

"Sorry, Ramirez. He's just a little too excited."

Ramirez wiped his mouth. "That's okay. Happens all the time."

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Fina laughed again and went down the elevator.

Aika dropped to the ground, breathing hard. Ahead, Marco laughed and danced around her. Aika stuck out her legs and tripped Marco.

"OUCH!"

"Ha! Gotcha now!"

Marco groaned and and got hit by a passing silver blob.

"Cupil!"

Fina raced past. "Sorry! Cupil, wait up!" She fled up the hill.

Aika and Marco looked at each other and burst out laughing.

"You think*snort* Cupil's blind?"

"Wouldn't be surprised."

"Me neither.*snort*" Marco fell over and kicked the air, laughing hard.

Aika laughed along with him. Recently, she felt bonded with Marco. Maybe because we both lost our parents, she thought.

"Marco, what did your parents look like?" Aika thought of something.

"Why you ask?"

"Curious."

Marco thought hard. "Uh, Mom had kind of reddish hair and blueish eyes, and Dad had brown hair and green eyes. I remember my Dad better, 'cause he was the one who told me he was going to try to escape."

Aika pondered the description, and gasped. "Oh no!"

"What?"

"I remember what my parents looked like!"

"You mean-"

"You don't suppose-"

Both gaped at each other before screaming really loud.

"WE'RE SIBLINGS?!?"