Final fantasy: Scarlet Eyes.
Author's rants: This chapter is a little shorter because it's about a single character, so making it five pages long, like the other four chapters, would be: (a) Very hard to do for me. And (b) Very boring, given the narrative the character is involved in. Anyway, I don't own Final fantasy, however I do own my original characters like Tyranis, Ariana, Sonya ect. So don't steal them. Enjoy!
Dark Eva.
Chapter 5 The Healer.
It was by this time dark. Sonya approached the Timber Chocobo forest, carrying a small metal cage. Inside the little Chocobo was wriggling about, Sonya heard its soft feathers rustling against the coarse steel of the cage. You'll be out soon.
As she entered the small forest the moon appeared from behind a fog of clouds, brightening the forest. She sat the cage down on a piece of flat land and pulled up the iron bars, releasing the little bird. At first it didn't stray more then a metre form Sonya. This worried her, as she thought the Chocobo may have become too used to her to be put back in the wild. But slowly it edged away from her and disappeared into the bushes, leaving Sonya alone. She let out a small sigh before turning round. As she walked towards the way out of the forest she noticed something lowing amongst the bushes. She bent over and searched through the bushes, pulling out a small sphere, no bigger than a marble.
It shone it the light of the moon and cast a lime shadow across the ground. Sonya rolled it about in her fingers fro a while. What is it? She brought it close to her face and stared deep into the ord. A shadowy flicker moved about inside the orb. As she brought it closer to her eyes the little shadow stopped and almost seemed to stare back at her.
:Hello young healer.: Something spoke.
Sonya span round and looked around her, searching for the speaker. No one there.
"Who said that?" She said still looking around.
:I did.: It said, sombrely.
"What?" She shouted, still searching for the origin of the sound. "Where are you?"
:Over here.:
This time the sound seemed to emanate from a direction, behind her. Clutching the small sphere tight, she turned around and walked slowly across the forest to a small pond. She peered down in to the clear water, but did not see herself reflected in it. Two golden eyes stared up at her from underneath the water. A long golden body, with two no feathered wings, and a thin tail, where also seen moving around in the water.
"What are you?" She whispered.
:I am hope. Quezcoytl. Guardian of Thunder.:
Sonya reached out her hand to the water, to touch the golden bird's face, but her hand just sank into the cold water.
"Why?" She mumbled.
:In here.:
The sphere began shining brighter than before, but this time it shone a golden glow that lit up the whole forest. She held her palm out flat and the orb sank into her skin, leaving her shivering.
:Hope.:
***
The car pulled over to the kerb. Sonya got out and retrieved her suitcase from the trunk. She gave her parents a wave as they drove off, leaving her in front of the gates of the train station. For someone who usually couldn't wait to get on a train, Sonya took small, slow steps as she edged closer and closer to the entrance. Her parents still didn't know off her intentions of enrolling in the Garden or that she'd acquired a guardian, although she knew they had suspicions about the former.
She stepped through the gates and entered the bust station. People pushed past each other, hurrying to their platforms to catch their trains. Sonya darted in between these people and made her way to the ticket desk. She put her suitcase down on the floor and looked at the ticket master. The man behind the glass was old and had a pair of spectacles balancing across his pointed nose.
"Yes my dear, what can I do ya for?" He chirped pleasantly.
"Which platform does this train leave from?" She said as she slid her ticket through a small slot in the glass. "I need to know the time it leaves too?"
The man typed something into his computer, holding the ticket in his hand. A few seconds later he turned back to Sonya.
"Platform twelve, it's that way." He gestured to the right with his hand. "It leaves in a few minutes, so you better get going."
Sonya thanked the ticket master, picked up her case, and proceeded to the right of the enormous station. She saw a sign marked '12' overhead, she looked around until she saw a metallic red train, with a small coachman standing at the entrance door. She approached him and flashed her ticket, he gestured his hand to the door and Sonya entered the train.
Although not poor, there was no way that Selphie and Irvine could afford to buy Sonya a first class ticket, looks like the economy class would have to do. Selphie strolled through the first class section, with its wide seats and dining tables, then walked through the business class, with its moderate seating and finally, trudged through the narrow tunnel that was the economy class. She found her seat, at least it was at the window.
Although excited by being on a train, Sonya was very subdued, not to mention bore. She pulled out a magazine and flipped through it, looking at the pictures. So boring.
:Will you stay at the Garden, young healer?: A sombre voice spoke.
"What?!" She squealed. A few of the other passengers stared at her for a while, Sonya lowered her head.
:Please don't do that. It's very embarrassing.: The voice said.
"Sorry." She thought. "I think I will stay, why are you interested?"
:I'd like know where my summoner will be taking me, that's all:
"Your not what I thought a guardian would be like." She said inside her head.
Quezecotly let out a small laugh then returned to his conversation with Sonya.
***
Sonya left the elevator and marvelled at the lavish furnishings of the hall, it looked like a palace. A young lady wearing some kind of military uniform walked up to Sonya.
"Hello there, are you a prospective student?" Xu said.
"umm," She thought hard about what she was doing. "Yeah, guess I am."
Xu walked her through to her cramped office and went through the enrolment procedure, luckily, since Sonya had already filled out most of the forms, it didn't take too long. After she was properly enrolled, Xu told her since the day was almost over tat there wasn't much point going to class today, instead she was to take a look around the place.
Sonya knew where she needed to go, the Infirmary.
Back down in the elevator to the main hall. Sonya walked round the circular pathway until she came across the grey sign 'Infirmary'. She walked down the wide path into a small clinic with a lady sitting behind a desk.
"Hello my dear, may I help you?" Dr. Kadowaki said.
"Well," Sonya said as she fished around in her pockets. "I was asked to give you this."
She put a folded piece of paper on the doctor's desk. The doctor picked it up and glanced over it before standing up and walking over to a large filing cabinet.
"I see." She said, searching through the cabinet. "I'll see if I can sort something out. I guess you'll be going back to Timber now."
"No." Sonya cringed. "I've enrolled in the medical department here."
"Oh, do your parents know?"
"Of course." Sonya lied, she started going red in the face.
Sonya left the Infirmary and walked down to her new dormitory. Back in Infirmary, Dr. Kadowaki was looking through her old phonebook. She hadn't used it in ages, she hoped the number would still be there. She picked up the phone and began to dial.
"Hello Selphie, It's Catherine here, we need to talk."
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Yikes, looks like Sonya's getting found out, wonder what will happen. I know this chapter was really short but the next one will be nice and long.
Dark Eva.