Yay, chapter 5! I beg you, please email my cousin at dlrt1990@msn .com. Please! Just with out the space between msn and .com! Anyway, I don't own Wild ARMs 3, but I wish I did!
After about 2 hours of traveling around on horseback and fighting several different monsters, Kaitlyn and Georgia came to a town called Little Rock. It was different than both of their hometowns, they both noticed. They stood in the entrance of it, looking around. They looked to each other, then straight forward, and walked into the placed that looked like an inn. Before they headed in, Georgia took a glance at the name of it. Yep, it was an inn all right.
They walked up to the counter, and the fellow behind it grinned at them as he stood up and walked over to assist them. "Hello, welcome to the Rolling Stone inn, would you like to stay the night?" (A/n: it IS the Rolling Stone, isn't it? I can't remember.) The guy asked, and the two females nodded their heads. The guy thought for a minute, then reached his hand out. "For two, that'd be about 59 gella." he stated, and Kaitlyn nodded her head, placing the gella into his hand, then turning around, and heading up the stairs.
She turned around when she realized that Georgia hadn't followed her, and saw that she was just standing where she had been, staring out the door with her jaw dropped. Kaitlyn furrowed her eyebrows, and walked down, to see what, or who, had Georgia so shocked. She peeked out the door, to see the man named Anthony coming towards the inn, but not noticing them in the doorway. Kaitlyn gulped, and looked to Georgia with a slightly nervous look.
"Um, Georgia? I think we better get up to our room before he gets here, or we'll be chewed out again." she said, tugging on Georgia's jacket sleeve, and motioning up the stairs with her head. Georgia finally snapped out of her shock, and turned to face Kaitlyn, nodding her head with an equally nervous look. They quickly turned and began heading up the stairs, but before they could get out of sight of the door, they heard him come in.
"Well, well, look who it is," he said, in the same tone of voice Georgia had heard him first use. The two young ladies cringed, and looked to each other, then back to Anthony, who was staring up at them, shaking his head. "Heh, either I'm following you and I don't know it, or you are following me. Which is it?" he asked, smirking. Georgia just sighed and shrugged, while Kaitlyn stood there, frowning down at the guy who looked only a year or two older than Georgia.
"I know for a fact we aren't following you, and I don't think, by your actions, that you're following us, so I think it's just..." she stopped mid sentence, and placed a thoughtful finger up to her lips. She half smiled, and looked back down at him, bringing her finger away from her mouth. "Maybe it's just something called destiny. I don't know, but I think we're supposed to meet." she said, slightly chuckling at how un-her-like she was acting. Anthony raised an eyebrow at her, then shook his head.
"Sorry, but I don't believe in that crap," he said, then turned to the man behind the counter, and paid for his room. He turned back to the two women, to see that they were discussing something. He slightly scowled, then began walking up the stairs to his room. When he was passing them, suddenly two thin arms came down in his way, making his scowl deepen. "Hey! What'd you do that for!? I'm tired! Let me through!!" he shouted, clenching his hands into fists. Georgia shook a finger at him, smirking.
"Ah, ah, ah, Mr. Tough Guy, not so fast." she said, in a smug tone of voice. He just glared at her, tiredness evident in his eyes. "From the looks of it, you're a Drifter, correct?" he nodded his head slowly, not sure where this could possibly be going. "Well, we're Drifters also," he raised an eyebrow in an oh-really-I-hadn't-noticed-ha-ha look. "And, well, we need help. I just got started, but she's been a Drifter since she was 14, but, anyway, we need help because we are searching for my parents and her father who disappeared 17 years ago. I'm sure you're not so rude as to turn down our plea for you to join our team and help us find them. Please?"
Anthony gave her a look she couldn't quite fathom what meant. "Well you're wrong. Now please, just let me go to my room!" he said, and she just shook her head stubbornly. Anthony let out a growl-like noise from his throat, and tried his hardest to push the two arms blocking his path out of his way. He gave up, and scowled deeply at Georgia, who was smirking. "How did you get so strong!? Actually, never mind that, why do you want me on your stupid team anyway? I mean, we only met 3 times, and you're asking me to join your team?" he asked, crossing his arms. Georgia just shrugged, and continued smirking.
"We're asking you to join us because you look experienced. I mean, you look like a real fierce Drifter." she said, wondering if by the look on Anthony's face if they were even making any sense to him. He grunted, and turned around, so his back was facing them. Georgia frowned, and tapped Anthony on the shoulder. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?"
"I'm leaving, what does it look like?" he spat, as he began to walk down the stairs. Georgia bit her lip and looked to Kaitlyn, who was motioning for Georgia to stop him. She quickly ran towards him, and jumped in front of him, with her arms out both directions. Anthony growled, and slapped a hand to his face. "Come on! Don't tell me you're not going to let me go anywhere until I join your stupid little team?"
"I think you already got that message," she spat, shocking both Anthony and Kaitlyn that she could sound so angry. Anthony backed up a couple steps, blinking. "Now, Anthony Bernadette, I know you say you're all rude and junk but I bet you're a pretty nice guy. Come on, what would you do if any of your family members were lost when you were really young? Like, your parents or just one of your parents! That's what happened to us. Now COME ON, please help us?" she practically begged, a slight frown on her face. Anthony scowled deeply again, and just crossed his arms.
"A lot you know," he muttered, then sighed, and shook his head. "FINE, I'll join your stupid team, now will you let me go to my room, please!?" he asked, turning his back to the silver haired female Drifter. She smiled, then threw her arms around him in an embrace. This shocked his so much, he stumbled back a bit. "H-hey! What are you doing!? Trying to make me have a heart attack!?" he shouted, trying to struggle out of the female's amazingly tight grip. She laughed, then let go of him, and walked up to Kaitlyn, to whisper something in her ear.
Kaitlyn smiled, nodded her head, turned around, and began heading up to her room. Georgia spun around to Anthony, who was glaring at her. "I hope you don't mind having a roommate, 'cause, well, I just don't trust you to stay here if we don't wake up early. I hate myself for it, but I think you'll leave either during the night or when you wake up in the morning." she said, and Anthony groaned, slapping a hand to his face and dragging it down.
"I WON'T leave, all right? You'll just track me down again, anyway." he said, and Georgia gave him a extremely disbelieving look. He scowled, and began storming up the stairs, passing her, and heading into a room. She smiled, and followed him into the room, humming a tune. When she got in there, she saw that he was already on the bed, and with his back to the door. "Fine, you can stay in here, as long as you don't snore." he said, in a exhausted voice. Georgia laughed good-naturedly and walked to the other bed in the room.
"Don't worry, in all my life, my mother figured never woke me up and told me to stop snoring. And she's a real light sleeper, so, it's obvious that I don't snore." she said, as she sat down on the bed, pulled her jacket off, and then pulled her boots off. She laid down, and turned to the wall, still smiling. "'Night, Anthony." she muttered, closing her heavy eyelids. All she got for an answer was breathing.
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Georgia opened her eyes, and blinked the drowsiness out of them. She turned over onto her back while stretching and yawning. She quickly noticed that it wasn't quite light out yet. Sighing, she stood up and walked to the window, to look at the dark sky. She smiled, and leaned against the window sill. As she stood there, she saw what looked like a figure in the sky, but since she was still drowsy, she didn't pay too much attention to it. 'How pretty. I never really got to see the sky so dotted with stars back in Jolly Roger. Emilia always made me stay inside after it began to get dark.' she sighed, and rested her chin on the sill.
She stood there for a while, with thoughts running through her head about what was going to happen and if she was actually going to find her parents. She was beginning to lose her faith in actually finding them, but she wasn't a quitter. She was going to stick to it, until she found proof that her parents, and Kaitlyn's father, were dead or weren't dead. She yawned, and let her eyes close for a moment. Only a moment, she told herself, stifling a yawn.
A few seconds later, she found herself drifting in and out of sleep. 'Must still be pretty late, if I'm so tired still.' she thought, rubbing her shut eyes. She turned away from the window, and stretched. She walked back to her bed, slowly. As she sat down on it, she felt a wave of dizziness, indicating that she was indeed bushed. She grabbed her head, then lay back, and closed her eyes. Soon, she was asleep again.
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Anthony woke up to the sound of two female voice, chattering away about something. He squeezed his eyelids together as hard as he could, trying to make himself fall back to sleep. It wasn't working. The annoying voices chattered away, giggling an annoying giggle every once and a while. He growled a slight growl under his breath, and pulled the blankets up over his head. Maybe that would protected him from the voices. It didn't work.
He snarled, and sat up in bed, turning to the other two to find them sitting on Georgia's bed, eating some kind of roll and talking about something that he didn't find interesting enough to listen to. "Hey, why don't you two go into the blonde's room and have your talk? You're pretty loud, and I'm pretty tired." he said, a scowl on his face. The females looked to each other, then back to Anthony with their heads shaking. He growled, and laid back down, his arms crossed.
"No, because, well, we already gave my room to another person." Kaitlyn said, taking a bite out of the roll she had been eating on. She took a glance down at the edibles, then back up to Anthony. "You want one?" she asked, and Anthony just laid there, not moving. After a minute of silence, Georgia broke it.
"What's the matter? Not used to kindness or something?"
"No."
"No what?"
"No, that's not it."
"Then what is it?"
"Nothing that I'm going to tell either of you bimbos."
"Why not? And if you call either of us bimbos ever again, I'll do... something drastic."
"Because I don't feel like it right now. Maybe later I'll tell you, but don't expect me to."
Georgia just shook her head, and threw a roll at him, making him jump. "Have one. Kaitlyn made them herself, and I don't want you to faint from lack of nutrition." she said, taking a bite while smiling. He just scowled deeper, and took a bite of the thing to find out it was a jelly roll. Not half bad, either.
Georgia and Kaitlyn continued their chatter, while Anthony sat on his bed, trying to think of something to drowned out the noise. Nothing was coming to him. He stood up, and began walking to the door, but was stopped by Georgia, who exclaimed, "Hey! Where do you think you're going?" she placed her hands on her hips, and gave him a suspicious look. He rolled his eyes, and motioned to his stuff that was still on the floor next to his bed.
"Do you really think I was going to actually leave all of my stuff here and leave the town? Sheesh, you don't think do you?" he asked, turning the doorknob and leaving the now silent room. As soon as he left, the chatter start back up. 'Yep, I did the right thing to leave that room. Now, just if I could find a way to leave those two...' he began thinking of ways to sneak past the two female Drifters without getting noticed.
Suddenly, a blonde haired 15 year old ran past him, bumping his shoulder. "Hey! Next time, watch where you're going!!" he shouted at the female, making her halt and look back at him. She just stood there for a minute, then shrugged, and flipped her hair. She was dressed in an orange dress and had a red bow in her hair.
"Why should I? I would never listen to someone I don't know." she said, then spun around on her heel, and stormed off towards the room that Kaitlyn had slept in that night. He scowled, then walked back into the loud room.
"So, Anthony, did you have a fun time?" Georgia asked, taking a bite of one of the jelly rolls. He glanced at the plate they had, and noticed that it still had all of the same rolls on it. He looked back up at Georgia, still scowling.
"No, and I didn't leave to 'have a fun time,' either." he said, walking back over to his bed, to get ready to go. He sat down, and quickly got all of his stuff gathered, and looked up at the two females. "You two ready to leave yet?" he asked, impatient to get going so he wouldn't have to listen to chattering chirping female voices any more. Georgia stuff all of the non eaten jelly rolls into a bag, and stood up.
"I've been ready to leave for a while, but I was waiting until someone mentioned leaving." she said, pulling her jacket on. Kaitlyn stood up, and grabbed the bag off of the bed. She adjusted her bow, and then smiled. All of them headed out the door, and began heading down the stairs.
When they only had gotten a little ways down the stairs, they heard a female voice say, "Hey, could you guys move a little faster, I gotta get downstairs so I can go to the ARMs shop and get my ARMs updated." all three turned, to see the same 15 year old that had bumped into Anthony. Anthony just scowled when he saw the girl, and the other two moved to the side, smiling at the 15 year old. "Thanks," she said as she passed them, and ran down the stairs and out the front door of the inn.
The 3 continued down the stairs, until they heard something that sounded like someone tripping. They all spun around, to see a man who looked about 31 or so, staring at Georgia with his eyebrows raised. He looked like he was related to the 15 year old girl. Georgia noticed the way he stared at her, and smiled politely. "Hi!" she said simply, and the man slightly smiled back, but the 3 could still see that he was deep in thought about something.
"Hi. Sorry for staring at you, but you REALLY remind me of someone, I just can't place who yet." he said, scratching his head. Georgia nodded her head, and looked to Kaitlyn, who was slightly smiling, and looking at Georgia out of the corner of her eyes.
"Someone else said that to me before. You must have known my parents." she said, turning her attention back to the man. "I'm Georgia Enduro. And to see if this is the reason why you thought you knew me, my parents' names are Virginia and Jet Enduro. My mom's maiden name was Maxwell." she said, and the man's eyebrows furrowed, while he scratched his head. Georgia could tell he was thinking quite hard, from his expression.
Then, his jaw dropped, and his arms dropped to his sides. Then he turned around, and began running to where Kaitlyn's room had been. "Hey, Sis!!" they heard him shout before he disappeared from sight. Georgia looked to Kaitlyn with a confused face, but she just shrugged. Then Georgia looked to Anthony who was just shaking his head, with the same scowl he had on when the 15 year old had passed them. Georgia rolled her eyes at this, and poked his arm. He glanced at her, with the same scowl, but she was just looking towards where the man had ran.
Before they could move, the man came out, with a woman that looked a few years older than the man. She had medium length blonde hair with a few white hairs in with it, and was dressed similar to the 15 year old. The 3 suspected, by the way she looked, she was the 15 year old's mother. She looked directly at Georgia, and half smiled. "Heh, so, Virginia's daughter, huh? Virginia and her silver haired teammate finally got together. I'm not surprised. When we were fighting them, every time one of us hit Virginia, he would quickly heal her, and vice versa." she said to herself, but Georgia heard it, and her eyes lit up.
"You know something about my parents!?" she asked excitedly, making the woman look at her strangely.
"Yes, I do, but, why are you so excited about it? You should probably know about all of that from them." she said, and Georgia looked down, biting her lower lip. She then looked back up, and sighed.
"Well, when I was one, they left on some kind of Drifter business, but never came back." she said, and the woman gave her a strange look.
"You mean, Virginia, the one that had to save Filgaia, left her own daughter and never came back?" she asked, placing her hands on her hips. Georgia sighed, and nodded her head, then looked at the woman strangely. "Oh, how rude of me, I forgot to mention my name. I'm Maya Schroedinger, and this is Alfred." she motioned to the man who had met them first. "And, well, you weren't born when that happened, and I don't know about the other 2..." she looked at Anthony, who was still scowling, and then to Kaitlyn, who was smiling. 'Hmm, that black haired kid reminds me of that silver haired companion of Virginia's.
Kaitlyn smiled wider, and nodded her head. "Yes, I was born before then, because I remember hearing some of the conversations they had." she said, and Maya gave her a strange look. "I was Clive's daughter." Maya raised both her eyebrows, and shook her head.
"Wow, both your parents and her father were in the same team, and now, you're in the same team. That's interesting."
Georgia cut back into the conversation, grinning. "You think you could tell me all you know about my parents?" she asked, and Maya slightly nodded her head, making Georgia go ecstatic.
"But I don't know all that much about them." she said, then began telling Georgia about her parents, while the other two found something to do. Well, actually, while Anthony found something to do; Kaitlyn was interested in hearing the story.