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Chapter Six A Few Chores
It was nine o'clock in the mourning when Carrol stretched his arms and yawned before shading his eyes from the light streaming through the blinds.
"So he surfaces!" Lloyd said sarcastically. Though Carrol was only eleven he still cast a hard gaze onto Lloyd.
"Very funny! What time did you get up that you're dressed already?" Carrol shot back.
"Eight I think." Lloyd said as the laid back down, already dressed in his plain black pants and vest that was nowhere near plain as it was covered in his family crest. Full of intricate silver designs that glinted in the sunlight.
"Where's Saria?" Carrol asked as he got dressed in the bathroom.
"You like her don't you?" Was the only reply that he received. Lloyd tore his attention off of his thoughts of Aglis and the one treasure there that he loved. He rolled onto his stomach to watch Carrol's reaction to the question. Carrol's pale skin flushed as the true meaning of Lloyd's word sunk into his head.
"No of course not!" Carrol said as he started to stare at his hands. He knew in his heart that he did but it made no sense to him how he fell for a girl that he didn't even know for a whole day. Lloyd cast him a doubtful gaze that saw straight through Carrol's measly attempt of a lie.
"I'll make this simple for you Carrol. I can tell that you like her and I can tell that she likes you back. All you have to do is tell her." Lloyd told him and for a minute Carrol couldn't help but wonder if Lloyd was lying.
"How can you tell?" Carrol asked. Silence followed.
"Saria I think." Lloyd said as he tried to remember. "Yeah Saria always knew what girl I had fallen for and one day she just told me how she could tell. She's going to regret that. She thinks that Lenus is the girl that I love and if someone asks me that's what I tell them cause she has a tendency to eaves drop. I can avoid doing the things that make her recognize a crush." Lloyd finished. He missed his treasure from Aglis.
"So she likes me too?" Carrol said doubting the words he spoke.
"Yeah." Lloyd said as he turned to face Carrol again. "Carrol you break her heart and I'll break your leg!" Lloyd said in half a joke but it still held the meaning. All Carrol could do was nod frightfully.
Carrol and Lloyd got up and walked down stairs into the kitchen where breakfast was sitting on the table already prepared. Lloyd sat down instantly at the spot with the least food and began to stuff his face. Carrol sat down and took a small fork full in his hand and held it out debating on weather to try it or not.
"Go ahead Saria made it." Lloyd managed to get out between mouthfuls.
"Some how that isn't very comforting. Knowing that my food was made by a nine-year old is a frightening thought!" Carrol shot back at him.
"She's a really great cook. Plus if you really love her you would try it!" Lloyd replied. Carrol reluctantly shoved the forkful into his mouth and turned it slowly with his tongue.
"Hey this is good!" Carrol almost shouted in glee. All Lloyd did was cast him an 'I told you so' gaze. Lloyd finished the food on his plate and reached across the table stealing the pancakes and sausages off of his sister's plate only leaving the ham, eggs and toast.
"What are you doing?" Carrol choked back a cry of shock. "She's going to kill you!"
"Nah she doesn't like pancakes or sausages that's why she gives me one less than every one else so I have room to eat hers after." Lloyd suddenly dropped his fork and stood up. Carrol wondered what Lloyd was doing when he heard a song on the air. Sing in the forest was usual it was the song itself that made him listen it was a song that he had never heard before. However for Lloyd the song was all too familiar. Lloyd got up walked to the doorway, which was open and flew up to the roof Carrol right behind him.
"Carrol we're looking for Saria. She's up here some where so you go that way I'm going this way." Lloyd started to walk off before Carrol could protest. As Lloyd rounded the corner he saw Saria sitting down and humming to her favourite song.
Saria had her knees pulled up to her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs and was resting her chin in the small gap between her knees. Her eyes burned with tears that threatened to flow freely if only she would let them but pride made them stop. As soon as the song was over Lloyd walked over and offered her a hand up not noticing Carrol watching them. Saria ignored the hand in front of her so Lloyd sat down next to her noticing that she didn't wear the same clothes as the day before.
The clothes that she wore were very similar to his, a feminine version of the vest and black shorts that went down to her knees. She also wore black boots that went halfway up her shins. She started to mutter under her breath making Carrol strain to hear her soft words.
"It was all my fault! If I had listened to Savan, if I had stayed in Aglis then they would still be alive!" Lloyd couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth. How did she a nine-year old child decide that something terrible happened because of her?
"That's not true!" Lloyd shot back at her. "You only left because I did and I shouldn't have let you come."
"Zelldore beat Lavitz like he was nothing more than a rag doll!" She started.
"Lavitz is only eighteen. Zelldore is twenty so even without his wingly powers he has a great advantage." Lloyd replied as he tried to focus the blame on Zelldore.
"It hurt so much. . ." She started again as she started to rub the long scar on her arm. "I wouldn't cry or scream out when he cut me so he cast a curse over it to increase the pain. I still wouldn't shed a tear and that's what scared Mom." A tear rolled down her cheek but none followed.
Lloyd was aghast. He didn't know that she had been there when that sick bastard slaughtered his parents. He felt a pang of sympathy gush through him. That scar Zelldore had given her he had guessed that but not that he had placed a curse over it also.
"He made a proposition to Dad that he should trade the serum for my life. I tried to tell him that I was ready for death but he didn't believe me. He agreed so I started to take the serum out of my soul where I hid it. Dad had some too I put mine away before Zelldore stole it. But he knows that I have it and he'll come after it soon I just know it." Saria kept on telling him things in blank facts. Lloyd wondered if she was saying it just to bug him when he noticed a second tear trickle down her cheek. This newly found attitude of hers was starting to get on his nerves.
"Listen to me!" Lloyd said as he wiped a tear off of her face. "It wasn't your fault! It isn't your fault!" He said as he wondered what else she had been through in the last while.
"Dad gave it to him. . . and he got stronger just like Dad and us. He decided to kill me anyway he wanted to see me cry. He needed that satisfaction. Mom was to scared to move as Zelldore charged up a power ball. He told me it was pure pain and I would feel it all and wish that I was dead. When he shot it. . ." Another tear rolled down her cheek. Lloyd then realized that she had stayed bottled up and needed to say these things.
"When he shot it at me. . . I was ready for it. I wasn't going to give him that satisfaction, but I did. I couldn't stop from crying when I saw his face contorting from the pain." Lloyd held his breath he was sure of what was coming next. "Dad. . . jumped in the way. He didn't cry out. He did feel the pain though and after he felt all the pain Zelldore could provide he was killed stabbed through the back. All I could do was sit there and watch. I was sitting in a puddle of his blood but I was to afraid to move." She took in a breath that can in sharp and cold it made her gasp for a second. Lloyd didn't want to hear anymore but he couldn't stop listening. He felt like he needed to hear these terrible words as they echoed through his head.
"Then Mom tried to get him to stop and the tears coursed down her face. I'd never seen her cry before and never since. She tried to remind him of our old friendship of him teaching me how to dance of her helping him with his education. It just made him madder he walked right up to her and punched her. Now there were more tears coursing down my cheeks then there had been on hers. He didn't hold back on his punch. He broke her neck it was an instant death, at least she didn't feel the pain that Father had to endure." Saria finished but by now Lloyd had heard of all of these terrible things that had happened he couldn't stop from asking her one question.
"How did you get out of there alive?" Lloyd knew instantly that he was going to regret asking but it was too late. Carrol was still watching intently from around the corner. He knew it was rude but he couldn't stop. He was amazed at all the pain that this girl and her family had gone through.
"Savan." She said as the tears stopped. "He came up teleported to be behind me, he put a hand on my shoulder and asked me where I wanted to go. I told him I wanted to go to Aglis. So he took me there. I stayed there for a week that was just long enough for my arm to heal up." Saria said as she automatically grabbed her arm where her scar was with her other hand, wincing in pain as she did. "Then I left and ran into you outside Bale." Saria said still in a cold and uncaring tone.
"Not the only thing that Savan did that I have to thank him for." Lloyd said reflecting on his sister's words.
"I thought you hated Savan?" Saria replied sounding like herself again.
"Nah I have never hated him. The way he treated you like a lab rat that I hated. He was always pushing you to your magical limit, I watched as you came back every night to tired to sleep. I think I even admire him a little, you would have to be brave to decide to dedicate yourself to protecting people forever." Saria simply laughed at his comment. "What it's true!" Lloyd replied.
"Lloyd brave is your middle name." Saria said before she started to giggle again.
"I'm not brave!" Lloyd objected.
"Not like that silly." Saria said as she turned to face him. "You are brave Lloyd, and it's in your name. Don't you remember? Cronan is brave in ancient wingly" She reminded him as he gave her a small smirk.
"I'll live up to my name if you live up to yours Nada." Lloyd replied as he sent a sharp thoughtful gaze at his younger sister.
"I wish that you wouldn't hold me to that. I've already lost all hope." Saria said as she made a fist while her other hand continued to hold her scar arm tightly.
"Well at least you remember what your name means and at least you'll be able to live up to it once you get over tragedy. Nada, hope, faith whatever you want to call it." Lloyd said meaningfully. He put his hand on Saria's arm and lightly tried to pull it off of her other arm. He stopped as he saw her wince in pain. "Sorry." He told her as he stood up again. "We should get inside shouldn't we?" Lloyd asked.
"I guess so." Was the only reply that Lloyd received. Then she to stood up and noticed a fair of sock feet at the other end of the roof and as she raised her head she saw Carrol standing there watching her and Lloyd. She hastily let the fist go as she wiped the few remaining tears off of her face.
"I'm sorry." Carrol said as Saria walked past him making no eye contact.
"It's okay, I'd probably never tell you if you hadn't heard it already." Saria said as she shrugged lightly. "Plus I need to tell you something, someday soon not today though."
"Thanks for breakfast." Was all that Carrol said before he turned and walked away.
"Is your arm okay?" Lloyd asked as he noticed she was still holding it tightly.
"Yeah. It just feels a little weird that's all." Saria said as she let go of it to prove it. However as she did her mouth fell open as her hand was drenched in her own blood. "Lloyd!" She called in terror and he whirled around and saw her reason for panicking.
"We have to get you to ancestor now!" Lloyd said as he ran over and let her hop onto his back. Then they headed to Ancestor Balano's house.
"Balano!" Lloyd shouted as he turned around to face the ancient wingly.
"What is it young ones?"
"It's my curse scar." Saria started.
"It has opened?" Balano finished for her as she nodded.
"So since it's a curse her own magic can't help her. She needs a dragoon, a white mage of a healer."
"There are none of those here." Was Balano's reply he bent down over Saria and tied a white piece of cloth around the now open wound. "However if she goes to Kedissa as you were planning already and you find what you are looking for then she has a great chance. Until then she'll continue to bleed, so you had best leave now. Don't wear her strength down either something tells me she'll need it." Ancestor informed them.
"Thank you." Saria said as Ancestor saw them off at the teleporter to the ancient city where the dragon Champaign came to a close.
"As the two of you took the liberty to remind me I owed it to your father." Were the only words they heard as they zoomed towards the mysterious ruins.
IwA: What do you know I actually updated! No I did not have writer's block. Which is about the only reasonable exclamation. I could provide. Well I accidentally saved over this chapter twice and I've also started three knew fics and posted four chapters since I updated this one but hey? I'm still a lazy writer! Forgive me please?
Meru: * sitting in a chair slurping on a slushy * umm. . . sweetness sugar. . . ficcy.
IwA: yup it's a new chapter!
Meru: OMG
Sam: hehehe I updated!
Meru: U killed Haschal!
Sam: What!?!?! * turns around and sees Haschal dead from shock* That isn't very nice! I update more that once a lifetime!
Meru: Apparently not.
Sam: There is no way in hell this can be proven!
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Chapter Six A Few Chores
It was nine o'clock in the mourning when Carrol stretched his arms and yawned before shading his eyes from the light streaming through the blinds.
"So he surfaces!" Lloyd said sarcastically. Though Carrol was only eleven he still cast a hard gaze onto Lloyd.
"Very funny! What time did you get up that you're dressed already?" Carrol shot back.
"Eight I think." Lloyd said as the laid back down, already dressed in his plain black pants and vest that was nowhere near plain as it was covered in his family crest. Full of intricate silver designs that glinted in the sunlight.
"Where's Saria?" Carrol asked as he got dressed in the bathroom.
"You like her don't you?" Was the only reply that he received. Lloyd tore his attention off of his thoughts of Aglis and the one treasure there that he loved. He rolled onto his stomach to watch Carrol's reaction to the question. Carrol's pale skin flushed as the true meaning of Lloyd's word sunk into his head.
"No of course not!" Carrol said as he started to stare at his hands. He knew in his heart that he did but it made no sense to him how he fell for a girl that he didn't even know for a whole day. Lloyd cast him a doubtful gaze that saw straight through Carrol's measly attempt of a lie.
"I'll make this simple for you Carrol. I can tell that you like her and I can tell that she likes you back. All you have to do is tell her." Lloyd told him and for a minute Carrol couldn't help but wonder if Lloyd was lying.
"How can you tell?" Carrol asked. Silence followed.
"Saria I think." Lloyd said as he tried to remember. "Yeah Saria always knew what girl I had fallen for and one day she just told me how she could tell. She's going to regret that. She thinks that Lenus is the girl that I love and if someone asks me that's what I tell them cause she has a tendency to eaves drop. I can avoid doing the things that make her recognize a crush." Lloyd finished. He missed his treasure from Aglis.
"So she likes me too?" Carrol said doubting the words he spoke.
"Yeah." Lloyd said as he turned to face Carrol again. "Carrol you break her heart and I'll break your leg!" Lloyd said in half a joke but it still held the meaning. All Carrol could do was nod frightfully.
Carrol and Lloyd got up and walked down stairs into the kitchen where breakfast was sitting on the table already prepared. Lloyd sat down instantly at the spot with the least food and began to stuff his face. Carrol sat down and took a small fork full in his hand and held it out debating on weather to try it or not.
"Go ahead Saria made it." Lloyd managed to get out between mouthfuls.
"Some how that isn't very comforting. Knowing that my food was made by a nine-year old is a frightening thought!" Carrol shot back at him.
"She's a really great cook. Plus if you really love her you would try it!" Lloyd replied. Carrol reluctantly shoved the forkful into his mouth and turned it slowly with his tongue.
"Hey this is good!" Carrol almost shouted in glee. All Lloyd did was cast him an 'I told you so' gaze. Lloyd finished the food on his plate and reached across the table stealing the pancakes and sausages off of his sister's plate only leaving the ham, eggs and toast.
"What are you doing?" Carrol choked back a cry of shock. "She's going to kill you!"
"Nah she doesn't like pancakes or sausages that's why she gives me one less than every one else so I have room to eat hers after." Lloyd suddenly dropped his fork and stood up. Carrol wondered what Lloyd was doing when he heard a song on the air. Sing in the forest was usual it was the song itself that made him listen it was a song that he had never heard before. However for Lloyd the song was all too familiar. Lloyd got up walked to the doorway, which was open and flew up to the roof Carrol right behind him.
"Carrol we're looking for Saria. She's up here some where so you go that way I'm going this way." Lloyd started to walk off before Carrol could protest. As Lloyd rounded the corner he saw Saria sitting down and humming to her favourite song.
Saria had her knees pulled up to her chest and her arms wrapped around her legs and was resting her chin in the small gap between her knees. Her eyes burned with tears that threatened to flow freely if only she would let them but pride made them stop. As soon as the song was over Lloyd walked over and offered her a hand up not noticing Carrol watching them. Saria ignored the hand in front of her so Lloyd sat down next to her noticing that she didn't wear the same clothes as the day before.
The clothes that she wore were very similar to his, a feminine version of the vest and black shorts that went down to her knees. She also wore black boots that went halfway up her shins. She started to mutter under her breath making Carrol strain to hear her soft words.
"It was all my fault! If I had listened to Savan, if I had stayed in Aglis then they would still be alive!" Lloyd couldn't believe the words coming out of her mouth. How did she a nine-year old child decide that something terrible happened because of her?
"That's not true!" Lloyd shot back at her. "You only left because I did and I shouldn't have let you come."
"Zelldore beat Lavitz like he was nothing more than a rag doll!" She started.
"Lavitz is only eighteen. Zelldore is twenty so even without his wingly powers he has a great advantage." Lloyd replied as he tried to focus the blame on Zelldore.
"It hurt so much. . ." She started again as she started to rub the long scar on her arm. "I wouldn't cry or scream out when he cut me so he cast a curse over it to increase the pain. I still wouldn't shed a tear and that's what scared Mom." A tear rolled down her cheek but none followed.
Lloyd was aghast. He didn't know that she had been there when that sick bastard slaughtered his parents. He felt a pang of sympathy gush through him. That scar Zelldore had given her he had guessed that but not that he had placed a curse over it also.
"He made a proposition to Dad that he should trade the serum for my life. I tried to tell him that I was ready for death but he didn't believe me. He agreed so I started to take the serum out of my soul where I hid it. Dad had some too I put mine away before Zelldore stole it. But he knows that I have it and he'll come after it soon I just know it." Saria kept on telling him things in blank facts. Lloyd wondered if she was saying it just to bug him when he noticed a second tear trickle down her cheek. This newly found attitude of hers was starting to get on his nerves.
"Listen to me!" Lloyd said as he wiped a tear off of her face. "It wasn't your fault! It isn't your fault!" He said as he wondered what else she had been through in the last while.
"Dad gave it to him. . . and he got stronger just like Dad and us. He decided to kill me anyway he wanted to see me cry. He needed that satisfaction. Mom was to scared to move as Zelldore charged up a power ball. He told me it was pure pain and I would feel it all and wish that I was dead. When he shot it. . ." Another tear rolled down her cheek. Lloyd then realized that she had stayed bottled up and needed to say these things.
"When he shot it at me. . . I was ready for it. I wasn't going to give him that satisfaction, but I did. I couldn't stop from crying when I saw his face contorting from the pain." Lloyd held his breath he was sure of what was coming next. "Dad. . . jumped in the way. He didn't cry out. He did feel the pain though and after he felt all the pain Zelldore could provide he was killed stabbed through the back. All I could do was sit there and watch. I was sitting in a puddle of his blood but I was to afraid to move." She took in a breath that can in sharp and cold it made her gasp for a second. Lloyd didn't want to hear anymore but he couldn't stop listening. He felt like he needed to hear these terrible words as they echoed through his head.
"Then Mom tried to get him to stop and the tears coursed down her face. I'd never seen her cry before and never since. She tried to remind him of our old friendship of him teaching me how to dance of her helping him with his education. It just made him madder he walked right up to her and punched her. Now there were more tears coursing down my cheeks then there had been on hers. He didn't hold back on his punch. He broke her neck it was an instant death, at least she didn't feel the pain that Father had to endure." Saria finished but by now Lloyd had heard of all of these terrible things that had happened he couldn't stop from asking her one question.
"How did you get out of there alive?" Lloyd knew instantly that he was going to regret asking but it was too late. Carrol was still watching intently from around the corner. He knew it was rude but he couldn't stop. He was amazed at all the pain that this girl and her family had gone through.
"Savan." She said as the tears stopped. "He came up teleported to be behind me, he put a hand on my shoulder and asked me where I wanted to go. I told him I wanted to go to Aglis. So he took me there. I stayed there for a week that was just long enough for my arm to heal up." Saria said as she automatically grabbed her arm where her scar was with her other hand, wincing in pain as she did. "Then I left and ran into you outside Bale." Saria said still in a cold and uncaring tone.
"Not the only thing that Savan did that I have to thank him for." Lloyd said reflecting on his sister's words.
"I thought you hated Savan?" Saria replied sounding like herself again.
"Nah I have never hated him. The way he treated you like a lab rat that I hated. He was always pushing you to your magical limit, I watched as you came back every night to tired to sleep. I think I even admire him a little, you would have to be brave to decide to dedicate yourself to protecting people forever." Saria simply laughed at his comment. "What it's true!" Lloyd replied.
"Lloyd brave is your middle name." Saria said before she started to giggle again.
"I'm not brave!" Lloyd objected.
"Not like that silly." Saria said as she turned to face him. "You are brave Lloyd, and it's in your name. Don't you remember? Cronan is brave in ancient wingly" She reminded him as he gave her a small smirk.
"I'll live up to my name if you live up to yours Nada." Lloyd replied as he sent a sharp thoughtful gaze at his younger sister.
"I wish that you wouldn't hold me to that. I've already lost all hope." Saria said as she made a fist while her other hand continued to hold her scar arm tightly.
"Well at least you remember what your name means and at least you'll be able to live up to it once you get over tragedy. Nada, hope, faith whatever you want to call it." Lloyd said meaningfully. He put his hand on Saria's arm and lightly tried to pull it off of her other arm. He stopped as he saw her wince in pain. "Sorry." He told her as he stood up again. "We should get inside shouldn't we?" Lloyd asked.
"I guess so." Was the only reply that Lloyd received. Then she to stood up and noticed a fair of sock feet at the other end of the roof and as she raised her head she saw Carrol standing there watching her and Lloyd. She hastily let the fist go as she wiped the few remaining tears off of her face.
"I'm sorry." Carrol said as Saria walked past him making no eye contact.
"It's okay, I'd probably never tell you if you hadn't heard it already." Saria said as she shrugged lightly. "Plus I need to tell you something, someday soon not today though."
"Thanks for breakfast." Was all that Carrol said before he turned and walked away.
"Is your arm okay?" Lloyd asked as he noticed she was still holding it tightly.
"Yeah. It just feels a little weird that's all." Saria said as she let go of it to prove it. However as she did her mouth fell open as her hand was drenched in her own blood. "Lloyd!" She called in terror and he whirled around and saw her reason for panicking.
"We have to get you to ancestor now!" Lloyd said as he ran over and let her hop onto his back. Then they headed to Ancestor Balano's house.
"Balano!" Lloyd shouted as he turned around to face the ancient wingly.
"What is it young ones?"
"It's my curse scar." Saria started.
"It has opened?" Balano finished for her as she nodded.
"So since it's a curse her own magic can't help her. She needs a dragoon, a white mage of a healer."
"There are none of those here." Was Balano's reply he bent down over Saria and tied a white piece of cloth around the now open wound. "However if she goes to Kedissa as you were planning already and you find what you are looking for then she has a great chance. Until then she'll continue to bleed, so you had best leave now. Don't wear her strength down either something tells me she'll need it." Ancestor informed them.
"Thank you." Saria said as Ancestor saw them off at the teleporter to the ancient city where the dragon Champaign came to a close.
"As the two of you took the liberty to remind me I owed it to your father." Were the only words they heard as they zoomed towards the mysterious ruins.
IwA: What do you know I actually updated! No I did not have writer's block. Which is about the only reasonable exclamation. I could provide. Well I accidentally saved over this chapter twice and I've also started three knew fics and posted four chapters since I updated this one but hey? I'm still a lazy writer! Forgive me please?