First things first
Author's note: wow am I dreaming? I have fourteen reviews! Thank you! * Hugs random person * Aerena you are my number one reviewer. Lady Yuna with all due respect I did not copy your elf thingy because I have been writing lame short stories about them since I was 9. Yes Meru says that she is in love and she probably thinks that she is or she wouldn't be engaged in the game. I vaguely recall some one asking how they became dragoons well I tell you that next chapter. I think that that answers all the questions. Buh bye
P.S. Hope that you enjoy this chapter.
MIB: Miss could you please get off of me?
Iw-angel: who are you any way?
MIB: I'm a security guard.
Iw-angel: sorry * walks off blushing*
Friendly Rivalry
"So what's your name anyway?" Carrol asked Lloyd as they watched Garudha run off trying to stay dry, but it wasn't working to well.
"I'm Lloyd, and my sister goes Tyra in the common and Saria is her wingly name. Carrol are you sure that your Mom won't mind us staying?" Lloyd answered him.
" Of course she won't mind, she is a direct descendent of ancestor so since he is letting you stay so well she. She doesn't have much of a choice either." He told Lloyd hoping it would relive some of Lloyd's worries and from the look on his face it had worked.
~ Saria, I found us a place to stay ~
~ Yeah I read you ~ Came the reply. (For anyone who has not caught on yet ~ these things are for when they use mind speach ~.)
~ It's a big brown house with allot of windows, it is down at the end of fourth street. ~
"So where is your sister?" Carrol asked him curiously.
"She's probably with Meru." Lloyd told him.
" I'm not so sure," Came the reply with a note of concern.
" Why wouldn't she be?"
" Well it's her father, he doesn't want any one of isn't quite normal around Meru, in his opinion she is wild enough with out someone's bad influence." Carrol stopped to take a breath before continuing. "So after the show you put up in the town square he doesn't want you anywhere near her. I Meru's words 'He has a closed mind'. That girl is going to be the end of him, for crying out loud, she already talks about leaving the forest!"
"So knowing Saria, she is off wandering around some where, some place gloomy. With hurt feelings pretending it is all okay." Lloyd told Carrol as the two of them were walking down the street.
"How old is she, Saria I mean?" Carrol asked Lloyd.
"She's nine, why are you asking?" Lloyd asked as he ripped his gaze off of his dragging feet to watch Carrol shrug.
" Well we should probably go find her, if your right she is probably she'll be down around, Slareled lane. It's not a good place for a kid. There are a lot of gangs and stuff down there." Carrol sounded generally worried so Lloyd brought out his wings and followed Carrol as he flew to the outskirts of the city. Lloyd wasn't worried about Saria, Carrol was though. Lloyd happened to be more worried about the next person to piss her off.
"We're here." Carrol said as he landed. "I'll take allies on this side of the street you take that side okay?" Carrol ran off to check some of the allies.
Lloyd ran down the first ally then turned around as he realized that it was empty. He turned and ran into the second. There was a group of winglies about his age doing drugs and drinking, so he stood there and scanned through the group. `All red eyes like mine.' He thought to himself as he turned and walked slowly away, he didn't want to make a scene.
"Bingo!" Lloyd muttered as he walked into his third and final ally, and saw the silhouette of a girl sitting on a fence.
"Yes?" A voice answered him coming from the ally. " Excuse me sir, did you call me?" Bingo asked him.
"Uh. no. is Bingo your name?" Lloyd asked back more than a little bit confused. The girl who was oddly enough named Bingo nodded before talking to Lloyd.
"Well I go by that for fun, I hate to be called by my real name, it's Heather." Bingo finished explaining Lloyd nodded to show that it made sense now.
" It is really a quite beautiful name Bingo." Lloyd replied. Bingo blushed to a deep shade of red as she heard the comment.
"Thank you. You're a charmer you know that? Are you seeing someone?" She asked him rather quickly, so it took a moment for the words to set in to Lloyd's still confused head.
" WHAT?!? I.. I'm not a charmer, yes I am dating someone, her name is Lenus and I love her." He paused to take a breath. "I'm sorry for bothering you Bingo, I have to go now." With that he turned to run back the way he came.
~ Lloyd who is this guy, what's his name? ~
~ Carrol why, what happened, what did you do to him?! ~
~ I didn't do anything to him. In fact I think that I might have scared him he threw a metal fan at me I didn't see it coming and it cut my side open. Then the wimp went into shock after watching me heal. ~
"I don't blame him, I almost pass out watching you do that sometimes." Lloyd said as he walked up behind her. "Come on I'll carry him, we should head to his house." Lloyd said but never did as Carrol's eyes started to flutter slowly then open.
" What the.. Where am I?" He really sounded pathetic in his current state. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Carrol screamed as he rolled over to see Saria starring at him. "What the HELL is it call Saria a freak day? HUH! Well is it?" She stood up and yelled Carrol shook his head in obvious disagreement.
"I'm sorry but you scared me, a lot. Your." He started but Saria cut him off.
"I'm what? WEIRD or did you mean a FREAK no wait it was NOT NORMAL wasn't it." She shouted up at the black sky hat was still pouring rain down on them. She tried to run her fingers through her hair, but it was tangled and matted down.
" Actually I was going to say beautiful, but if you prefer I could call you by one of the names that you picked." Carrol finished with a charming grin spread over his features. " Aren't you injured, or did I miss in the ally?"
" No you hit me really hard and fast, sorry I wasn't paying attention, so you saw when I healed and got scared and went into shock. So it is my fault that you are in your current state I am sorry. Can you ever forgive me?" Saria finished, sounding more than a little worried. Saria hated it when people were mad at her, unless she was mad at them too.
"So how was Meru?" Lloyd asked his sister.
"Meru was great. Happy energetic, just she was maybe a little over enthusiastic. Other than that she would have made a great friend." Saria finished sounding a little disappointed.
" Would have made a good friend, why won't she still make a good friend?" Lloyd asked sounding more than a little concerned for his sister.
"Was it something about her father?" Carrol asked as he listened in on the conversation. He let out a sigh as Saria nodded her head slowly. " Yeah he can be a jerk at times, okay more like he can be a normal guy once every ten years." He finished with a look of satisfaction on his face. "So Lloyd you owe me three pieces of gold for being right about Meru's Dad, and seven for me finding her first." Carrol said nudging his thumb over in Saria's direction.
Saria sat bolt up right and jumped to her feet and walked over to face Carrol. "You two bet over me!?!?!" She shouted right into his face. Carrol nodded slow backing away from what he thought to be a very angered girl and was caught very off guard when she asked her next question. "What time is it?" She said giving a curious look at the still black sky. Noticing for the first time that the rain had stopped.
" I dunno my guess is around five, but I am not sure since someone short circuited the sky!" Carrol said loudly giving Lloyd an evil glare, as Lloyd rolled his eyes towards the still gray not black sky.
"Lloyd I challenge you to a duel!" Carrol demanded after the three had eaten their dinner.
" Why so I can kick your ass or for a different reason?" Lloyd asked before agreeing.
" No so I can kick yours!" Carrol retorted.
" Well lets get going then!" Saria some how managed to get out between suppressed giggles. So the three marched off to the training center a few blocks away.
"We'll each use a full set of weapons, so that we can both switch at will. Is that okay with you Lloyd?" Carrol asked as he walked to his side of the court and picked his weapons.
"This is going to be so much fun! I love watching you two argue!" She started twirling around the court while Lloyd and Carrol picked their weapons.
"No more candy for you!" Lloyd taunted his sister.
"Are you two ready?" Saria shouted Carrol held two metal fans and a short sword, Lloyd on the other hand held only a sword, a light one of old design that was rarely seen now days -uh oh Carrol's in trouble if Lloyd uses that sword on him.- Saria thought to herself. Carrol and Lloyd nodded to show her they were ready. " One, two, and three BEGIN!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.
Carrol stayed as far away from Lloyd as he could, and threw the first of his metal fans at Lloyd whom easily knocked it down using his sword, Lloyd stepped forward to pick up the fan. Carrol took advantage of this and threw the second fan at Lloyd's back which grazed through the skin on his back Lloyd reached down and picked up the fan from the floor, as well as digging the other one out of his back. He clipped them on to his belt in case he needed them.
He looked up just in time to block a blow from Carrol's short sword. Now that Carrol was closer Lloyd who was at an overwhelming advantage, Lloyd had been raised as a swordsman, and Carrol was not familiar with the short sword. Lloyd was also three years older than Carrol, and five years older than Saria.
Carrol's sword went flying from he harsh blow that Lloyd dealt on to the higher part of the hilt. Carrol was so amazed at what Lloyd did next that his jaw dropped, Lloyd unbelted the two fans and handed them back to Carrol, just before back flipping away to talk to Saria.
"We're gonna need healing in a while." Lloyd told her, the expression on her face was totally blank, she was completely dumbfounded.
"Lloyd where are we going to find someone to heal you two?" Saria asked with a look of concern covering her features, Lloyd took the moment to smack his hand to his forehead. Saria simply nodded to show that she didn't understand him. Then her eyes widened as Lloyd pointed to her. "Me?! I get to do it HURRAY!!!" She was almost bouncing off the walls as the excitement coursed through her.
Carrol had finally regained his bearings; he hadn't understood why Lloyd had given him a weapon, let alone his favorite.
Carrol POV
Shit there goes that stupid sword, why did I even pick it; it just got in the way! Oh great, what is Lloyd doing with his belt. taking off the fans, is he going to beat me using my own weapons to win. God he is more of a hot head than I thought is he trying to rob me of my dignity? Wait, no that makes no sense at all. he. he is, he's giving them back, but why? Is he having fun fighting me, well I ever understand this guy? No probably not, and his sister, how do you tell a nine-year old girl that you. wait a sec WHAT am I saying? Plus she's taken for sure.
"Carrol, are you okay?" Saria's concerned voice snapped him back to reality. Carrol shook off the weird butterfly feeling and nodded to her before turning to Lloyd.
"Are we gonna finish this or not?" He asked Lloyd impatiently. Lloyd just shrugged and then nodded in reply. "Lloyd don't go easy on me okay?" Lloyd took a glance into Carrol's eyes, which told him Carrol was serious so he nodded again.
Carrol backed away and threw the first fan weakly, Lloyd noted that he was probably trying the same way that he had started the first time. So instead of knocking it down Lloyd caught it and threw it
back so fast Carrol didn't notice until it slashed his arm just below the shoulder right down to the bone.
"Shit! I let my guard down, stupid me!" Carrol muttered to him self as he doubled over from the surge of pain that shot through him. When he straightened and stood up he was shocked to see Lloyd standing in front of him, with his sword arm extended so the blade was not even an inch from the skin on his neck.
"I win." Lloyd stated as he turned to Saria who was beaming at Carrol from the sidelines. "Can we have a heal here please?" Lloyd asked her before turning back to Carrol "Hold still, this will only hurt for a second." Lloyd warned him and Carrol seemed to heed his advice.
"Here you go." Saria said placing her hand on Carrol's wound. A soft glow came from her hand as the wound completely disappeared. The same process was then carried out on Lloyd, only he winced in pain. It was only a minute or two before Lloyd regained his composure, and Carrol finished examining his new scar, he wouldn't admit it but he kind of liked it. Instead, he just sat there waiting for someone to talk. He didn't have to wait very long, because Lloyd was the one who broke the silence only a moment later.
"That hurt like HELL!" Lloyd shouted as he rubbed his back with his left hand still holding the sword in his right hand.
"What do you mean, I didn't feel a thing. maybe I'm just more manly than you?" Carrol stated solemnly.
"Yeah right!" Lloyd retorted, as Carrol's remark echoed through the building. Saria started giggling hysterically.
"What are you laughing at?!?!" Lloyd and Carrol snapped at her together.
"Nothing really just wondering how Carrol's was painless, but on the other hand Lloyd's hurt him almost to the point of passing out." She told them and watched in satisfaction as they both nodded, she then added innocently, "I wonder why?" She finished with a smirk.
Lloyd turned to glare at her, his garnet eyes meeting with Saria's set of pure silver. Then as if she had just told him something important he jumped up and was alert.
"You." He said pointing at her with a look of mixed rage and disbelief on his pale face. "You make it hurt me?" He asked her in a hurt tone of voice, and to his surprise she nodded. " You little brat!" With that he jumped up and started to chase her around the room in circles.
Saria risked a glance behind her and saw that Lloyd was easily gaining on her so she sped up ten fold. Lloyd seeing this followed suit, so once again he was gaining on her. As his speed increased a few locks of his platinium hair fell into his face, he raised his hand and pushed the locks behind his ear Saria had seen him and took the chance to fly to the ceiling. So when Lloyd looked up his little sister was nowhere in sight.
"When did you learn to go invisible?!" Lloyd shouted down at the ground. Carrol chuckled at the thought of fighting siblings. He couldn't imagine Saria lasting very long against Lloyd; but then again he knew little of both of them.
"The same day that you remembered to look up!" Saria shouted down at him. Lloyd looked up in surprise to see his sister flying up near the ceiling with her flaming blue soul buster drawn. Oh great Lloyd thought another duel. This time I might not be the winner!
Saria dived down at him, sliced the light sword in his right hand into two pieces, cut his wrist, and kicked off if his stomach to get some distance. Lloyd pulled his soul buster out of thin air the way that Saria had a moment earlier. Saria winked at Lloyd as she started to heal her brother's wrist, making him almost pass out from the pain.
When Lloyd got over the painful healing process he took a glance over at his sister and thought to himself. "What is her weakness, she knows way more magic than I do so it has to be psychical!" Lloyd created a small barrier around himself; it slowly began to expand until the whole room was covered in the warm yellow glow. "No magic in here." Lloyd warned his sister, but it was too late for her to do anything about that.
Carrol gasped as the barrier surrounded him, the wind was knocked out of him as his magical powers went into submission, the effect was however much greater on Saria who fell to the floor and had a coughing fit.
"You win Lloyd." She stated sourly. "Now get me the hell out of this thing!" Saria shouted as she stared at Lloyd's soul busted only an inch from her throat. With the defeat official Lloyd snapped his fingers and the barrier disappeared. He then kindly stretched out a hand to help her up, which to his surprise his proud sister accepted it and was raised to her feet.
"Your not mad?" Lloyd asked doubtfully.
"No not today, you normally beat me with pure skill, but no I have a weak spot to work on." She told him honestly and in an almost happy tone that matched perfectly with the grin on her face.
Carrol caught his breath, while still staring at the two and how quickly they got over the fight. "That was amazing. you were amazing!" The comment had been directed to Saria but she didn't notice that or the soft tone in his voice. "What the hell are you two, I want to be one!?!"
"We're winglies," Lloyd started but knew his sister wanted to finish, so he stopped.
"Cursed by fate." Saria finish in a sour tone of voice. "And I hate it so much!" Saria finished as a single tear rolled down her face.
Carrol heard the hurt tone in her voice a decided that if he could he would help her. to step away from the pain, or to just get over it. "Can you tell me why you're cursed?" He asked the two of them.
Lloyd nodded and spoke up. "We could both tell you, but she could actually show you!" He finished gesturing to Saria.
"Would you please show me why your so called curse?" Carrol asked her sincerely, and watched her slowly nodding her head. "I just want to understand you two." He added to ease his self-doubt.
"Okay. I guess. but only if you are sure." Saria told Carrol as he nodded quickly. "Well if you're sure. Tell me if it gets to be to much for you, okay?" She told him as he continued nodding. Saria held out a hand and Carrol grasped onto it and let out a gasp of shock as the colour began to swirl then to blur. Then the room went completely black; all he could see was Saria and himself glowing dimly in the endless darkness.
Whayooooooooo!!!!! That is by far my longest chapter yet. It's around 3500 words long!
Well what do you think? Please review, I love reviews!
Oh yeah sorry that my battles were stupid so when you review would you please tell me if I should continue to write during the battle or start afterwards? Please?
Buh bye.
Author's note: wow am I dreaming? I have fourteen reviews! Thank you! * Hugs random person * Aerena you are my number one reviewer. Lady Yuna with all due respect I did not copy your elf thingy because I have been writing lame short stories about them since I was 9. Yes Meru says that she is in love and she probably thinks that she is or she wouldn't be engaged in the game. I vaguely recall some one asking how they became dragoons well I tell you that next chapter. I think that that answers all the questions. Buh bye
P.S. Hope that you enjoy this chapter.
MIB: Miss could you please get off of me?
Iw-angel: who are you any way?
MIB: I'm a security guard.
Iw-angel: sorry * walks off blushing*
Friendly Rivalry
"So what's your name anyway?" Carrol asked Lloyd as they watched Garudha run off trying to stay dry, but it wasn't working to well.
"I'm Lloyd, and my sister goes Tyra in the common and Saria is her wingly name. Carrol are you sure that your Mom won't mind us staying?" Lloyd answered him.
" Of course she won't mind, she is a direct descendent of ancestor so since he is letting you stay so well she. She doesn't have much of a choice either." He told Lloyd hoping it would relive some of Lloyd's worries and from the look on his face it had worked.
~ Saria, I found us a place to stay ~
~ Yeah I read you ~ Came the reply. (For anyone who has not caught on yet ~ these things are for when they use mind speach ~.)
~ It's a big brown house with allot of windows, it is down at the end of fourth street. ~
"So where is your sister?" Carrol asked him curiously.
"She's probably with Meru." Lloyd told him.
" I'm not so sure," Came the reply with a note of concern.
" Why wouldn't she be?"
" Well it's her father, he doesn't want any one of isn't quite normal around Meru, in his opinion she is wild enough with out someone's bad influence." Carrol stopped to take a breath before continuing. "So after the show you put up in the town square he doesn't want you anywhere near her. I Meru's words 'He has a closed mind'. That girl is going to be the end of him, for crying out loud, she already talks about leaving the forest!"
"So knowing Saria, she is off wandering around some where, some place gloomy. With hurt feelings pretending it is all okay." Lloyd told Carrol as the two of them were walking down the street.
"How old is she, Saria I mean?" Carrol asked Lloyd.
"She's nine, why are you asking?" Lloyd asked as he ripped his gaze off of his dragging feet to watch Carrol shrug.
" Well we should probably go find her, if your right she is probably she'll be down around, Slareled lane. It's not a good place for a kid. There are a lot of gangs and stuff down there." Carrol sounded generally worried so Lloyd brought out his wings and followed Carrol as he flew to the outskirts of the city. Lloyd wasn't worried about Saria, Carrol was though. Lloyd happened to be more worried about the next person to piss her off.
"We're here." Carrol said as he landed. "I'll take allies on this side of the street you take that side okay?" Carrol ran off to check some of the allies.
Lloyd ran down the first ally then turned around as he realized that it was empty. He turned and ran into the second. There was a group of winglies about his age doing drugs and drinking, so he stood there and scanned through the group. `All red eyes like mine.' He thought to himself as he turned and walked slowly away, he didn't want to make a scene.
"Bingo!" Lloyd muttered as he walked into his third and final ally, and saw the silhouette of a girl sitting on a fence.
"Yes?" A voice answered him coming from the ally. " Excuse me sir, did you call me?" Bingo asked him.
"Uh. no. is Bingo your name?" Lloyd asked back more than a little bit confused. The girl who was oddly enough named Bingo nodded before talking to Lloyd.
"Well I go by that for fun, I hate to be called by my real name, it's Heather." Bingo finished explaining Lloyd nodded to show that it made sense now.
" It is really a quite beautiful name Bingo." Lloyd replied. Bingo blushed to a deep shade of red as she heard the comment.
"Thank you. You're a charmer you know that? Are you seeing someone?" She asked him rather quickly, so it took a moment for the words to set in to Lloyd's still confused head.
" WHAT?!? I.. I'm not a charmer, yes I am dating someone, her name is Lenus and I love her." He paused to take a breath. "I'm sorry for bothering you Bingo, I have to go now." With that he turned to run back the way he came.
~ Lloyd who is this guy, what's his name? ~
~ Carrol why, what happened, what did you do to him?! ~
~ I didn't do anything to him. In fact I think that I might have scared him he threw a metal fan at me I didn't see it coming and it cut my side open. Then the wimp went into shock after watching me heal. ~
"I don't blame him, I almost pass out watching you do that sometimes." Lloyd said as he walked up behind her. "Come on I'll carry him, we should head to his house." Lloyd said but never did as Carrol's eyes started to flutter slowly then open.
" What the.. Where am I?" He really sounded pathetic in his current state. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Carrol screamed as he rolled over to see Saria starring at him. "What the HELL is it call Saria a freak day? HUH! Well is it?" She stood up and yelled Carrol shook his head in obvious disagreement.
"I'm sorry but you scared me, a lot. Your." He started but Saria cut him off.
"I'm what? WEIRD or did you mean a FREAK no wait it was NOT NORMAL wasn't it." She shouted up at the black sky hat was still pouring rain down on them. She tried to run her fingers through her hair, but it was tangled and matted down.
" Actually I was going to say beautiful, but if you prefer I could call you by one of the names that you picked." Carrol finished with a charming grin spread over his features. " Aren't you injured, or did I miss in the ally?"
" No you hit me really hard and fast, sorry I wasn't paying attention, so you saw when I healed and got scared and went into shock. So it is my fault that you are in your current state I am sorry. Can you ever forgive me?" Saria finished, sounding more than a little worried. Saria hated it when people were mad at her, unless she was mad at them too.
"So how was Meru?" Lloyd asked his sister.
"Meru was great. Happy energetic, just she was maybe a little over enthusiastic. Other than that she would have made a great friend." Saria finished sounding a little disappointed.
" Would have made a good friend, why won't she still make a good friend?" Lloyd asked sounding more than a little concerned for his sister.
"Was it something about her father?" Carrol asked as he listened in on the conversation. He let out a sigh as Saria nodded her head slowly. " Yeah he can be a jerk at times, okay more like he can be a normal guy once every ten years." He finished with a look of satisfaction on his face. "So Lloyd you owe me three pieces of gold for being right about Meru's Dad, and seven for me finding her first." Carrol said nudging his thumb over in Saria's direction.
Saria sat bolt up right and jumped to her feet and walked over to face Carrol. "You two bet over me!?!?!" She shouted right into his face. Carrol nodded slow backing away from what he thought to be a very angered girl and was caught very off guard when she asked her next question. "What time is it?" She said giving a curious look at the still black sky. Noticing for the first time that the rain had stopped.
" I dunno my guess is around five, but I am not sure since someone short circuited the sky!" Carrol said loudly giving Lloyd an evil glare, as Lloyd rolled his eyes towards the still gray not black sky.
"Lloyd I challenge you to a duel!" Carrol demanded after the three had eaten their dinner.
" Why so I can kick your ass or for a different reason?" Lloyd asked before agreeing.
" No so I can kick yours!" Carrol retorted.
" Well lets get going then!" Saria some how managed to get out between suppressed giggles. So the three marched off to the training center a few blocks away.
"We'll each use a full set of weapons, so that we can both switch at will. Is that okay with you Lloyd?" Carrol asked as he walked to his side of the court and picked his weapons.
"This is going to be so much fun! I love watching you two argue!" She started twirling around the court while Lloyd and Carrol picked their weapons.
"No more candy for you!" Lloyd taunted his sister.
"Are you two ready?" Saria shouted Carrol held two metal fans and a short sword, Lloyd on the other hand held only a sword, a light one of old design that was rarely seen now days -uh oh Carrol's in trouble if Lloyd uses that sword on him.- Saria thought to herself. Carrol and Lloyd nodded to show her they were ready. " One, two, and three BEGIN!" She shouted at the top of her lungs.
Carrol stayed as far away from Lloyd as he could, and threw the first of his metal fans at Lloyd whom easily knocked it down using his sword, Lloyd stepped forward to pick up the fan. Carrol took advantage of this and threw the second fan at Lloyd's back which grazed through the skin on his back Lloyd reached down and picked up the fan from the floor, as well as digging the other one out of his back. He clipped them on to his belt in case he needed them.
He looked up just in time to block a blow from Carrol's short sword. Now that Carrol was closer Lloyd who was at an overwhelming advantage, Lloyd had been raised as a swordsman, and Carrol was not familiar with the short sword. Lloyd was also three years older than Carrol, and five years older than Saria.
Carrol's sword went flying from he harsh blow that Lloyd dealt on to the higher part of the hilt. Carrol was so amazed at what Lloyd did next that his jaw dropped, Lloyd unbelted the two fans and handed them back to Carrol, just before back flipping away to talk to Saria.
"We're gonna need healing in a while." Lloyd told her, the expression on her face was totally blank, she was completely dumbfounded.
"Lloyd where are we going to find someone to heal you two?" Saria asked with a look of concern covering her features, Lloyd took the moment to smack his hand to his forehead. Saria simply nodded to show that she didn't understand him. Then her eyes widened as Lloyd pointed to her. "Me?! I get to do it HURRAY!!!" She was almost bouncing off the walls as the excitement coursed through her.
Carrol had finally regained his bearings; he hadn't understood why Lloyd had given him a weapon, let alone his favorite.
Carrol POV
Shit there goes that stupid sword, why did I even pick it; it just got in the way! Oh great, what is Lloyd doing with his belt. taking off the fans, is he going to beat me using my own weapons to win. God he is more of a hot head than I thought is he trying to rob me of my dignity? Wait, no that makes no sense at all. he. he is, he's giving them back, but why? Is he having fun fighting me, well I ever understand this guy? No probably not, and his sister, how do you tell a nine-year old girl that you. wait a sec WHAT am I saying? Plus she's taken for sure.
"Carrol, are you okay?" Saria's concerned voice snapped him back to reality. Carrol shook off the weird butterfly feeling and nodded to her before turning to Lloyd.
"Are we gonna finish this or not?" He asked Lloyd impatiently. Lloyd just shrugged and then nodded in reply. "Lloyd don't go easy on me okay?" Lloyd took a glance into Carrol's eyes, which told him Carrol was serious so he nodded again.
Carrol backed away and threw the first fan weakly, Lloyd noted that he was probably trying the same way that he had started the first time. So instead of knocking it down Lloyd caught it and threw it
back so fast Carrol didn't notice until it slashed his arm just below the shoulder right down to the bone.
"Shit! I let my guard down, stupid me!" Carrol muttered to him self as he doubled over from the surge of pain that shot through him. When he straightened and stood up he was shocked to see Lloyd standing in front of him, with his sword arm extended so the blade was not even an inch from the skin on his neck.
"I win." Lloyd stated as he turned to Saria who was beaming at Carrol from the sidelines. "Can we have a heal here please?" Lloyd asked her before turning back to Carrol "Hold still, this will only hurt for a second." Lloyd warned him and Carrol seemed to heed his advice.
"Here you go." Saria said placing her hand on Carrol's wound. A soft glow came from her hand as the wound completely disappeared. The same process was then carried out on Lloyd, only he winced in pain. It was only a minute or two before Lloyd regained his composure, and Carrol finished examining his new scar, he wouldn't admit it but he kind of liked it. Instead, he just sat there waiting for someone to talk. He didn't have to wait very long, because Lloyd was the one who broke the silence only a moment later.
"That hurt like HELL!" Lloyd shouted as he rubbed his back with his left hand still holding the sword in his right hand.
"What do you mean, I didn't feel a thing. maybe I'm just more manly than you?" Carrol stated solemnly.
"Yeah right!" Lloyd retorted, as Carrol's remark echoed through the building. Saria started giggling hysterically.
"What are you laughing at?!?!" Lloyd and Carrol snapped at her together.
"Nothing really just wondering how Carrol's was painless, but on the other hand Lloyd's hurt him almost to the point of passing out." She told them and watched in satisfaction as they both nodded, she then added innocently, "I wonder why?" She finished with a smirk.
Lloyd turned to glare at her, his garnet eyes meeting with Saria's set of pure silver. Then as if she had just told him something important he jumped up and was alert.
"You." He said pointing at her with a look of mixed rage and disbelief on his pale face. "You make it hurt me?" He asked her in a hurt tone of voice, and to his surprise she nodded. " You little brat!" With that he jumped up and started to chase her around the room in circles.
Saria risked a glance behind her and saw that Lloyd was easily gaining on her so she sped up ten fold. Lloyd seeing this followed suit, so once again he was gaining on her. As his speed increased a few locks of his platinium hair fell into his face, he raised his hand and pushed the locks behind his ear Saria had seen him and took the chance to fly to the ceiling. So when Lloyd looked up his little sister was nowhere in sight.
"When did you learn to go invisible?!" Lloyd shouted down at the ground. Carrol chuckled at the thought of fighting siblings. He couldn't imagine Saria lasting very long against Lloyd; but then again he knew little of both of them.
"The same day that you remembered to look up!" Saria shouted down at him. Lloyd looked up in surprise to see his sister flying up near the ceiling with her flaming blue soul buster drawn. Oh great Lloyd thought another duel. This time I might not be the winner!
Saria dived down at him, sliced the light sword in his right hand into two pieces, cut his wrist, and kicked off if his stomach to get some distance. Lloyd pulled his soul buster out of thin air the way that Saria had a moment earlier. Saria winked at Lloyd as she started to heal her brother's wrist, making him almost pass out from the pain.
When Lloyd got over the painful healing process he took a glance over at his sister and thought to himself. "What is her weakness, she knows way more magic than I do so it has to be psychical!" Lloyd created a small barrier around himself; it slowly began to expand until the whole room was covered in the warm yellow glow. "No magic in here." Lloyd warned his sister, but it was too late for her to do anything about that.
Carrol gasped as the barrier surrounded him, the wind was knocked out of him as his magical powers went into submission, the effect was however much greater on Saria who fell to the floor and had a coughing fit.
"You win Lloyd." She stated sourly. "Now get me the hell out of this thing!" Saria shouted as she stared at Lloyd's soul busted only an inch from her throat. With the defeat official Lloyd snapped his fingers and the barrier disappeared. He then kindly stretched out a hand to help her up, which to his surprise his proud sister accepted it and was raised to her feet.
"Your not mad?" Lloyd asked doubtfully.
"No not today, you normally beat me with pure skill, but no I have a weak spot to work on." She told him honestly and in an almost happy tone that matched perfectly with the grin on her face.
Carrol caught his breath, while still staring at the two and how quickly they got over the fight. "That was amazing. you were amazing!" The comment had been directed to Saria but she didn't notice that or the soft tone in his voice. "What the hell are you two, I want to be one!?!"
"We're winglies," Lloyd started but knew his sister wanted to finish, so he stopped.
"Cursed by fate." Saria finish in a sour tone of voice. "And I hate it so much!" Saria finished as a single tear rolled down her face.
Carrol heard the hurt tone in her voice a decided that if he could he would help her. to step away from the pain, or to just get over it. "Can you tell me why you're cursed?" He asked the two of them.
Lloyd nodded and spoke up. "We could both tell you, but she could actually show you!" He finished gesturing to Saria.
"Would you please show me why your so called curse?" Carrol asked her sincerely, and watched her slowly nodding her head. "I just want to understand you two." He added to ease his self-doubt.
"Okay. I guess. but only if you are sure." Saria told Carrol as he nodded quickly. "Well if you're sure. Tell me if it gets to be to much for you, okay?" She told him as he continued nodding. Saria held out a hand and Carrol grasped onto it and let out a gasp of shock as the colour began to swirl then to blur. Then the room went completely black; all he could see was Saria and himself glowing dimly in the endless darkness.
Whayooooooooo!!!!! That is by far my longest chapter yet. It's around 3500 words long!
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Oh yeah sorry that my battles were stupid so when you review would you please tell me if I should continue to write during the battle or start afterwards? Please?
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