PianZoe: *listening to WA2 midi files and humming along to them*



Serap-89: *glares at cousin*



PianZoe: *doesn't notice cousin*



Serap-89: *waves hand in front of cousin's face*



PianZoe: *still doesn't notice cousin*



Serap-89: HELLO! CAN I LISTEN TO THOSE TOO?!



PianZoe: *STILL doesn't notice cousin*



Serap-89: *smirks* PianZoe doesn't own WA3 (or any of the other WA games), but I do.



PianZoe: no you don't.



Serap-89: 0_0 ... uh, hee, hee, hee...





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Georgia stood, alone, with no one with her. She was in a town she had never seen, but she knew where it was. It was Ballack Rise, she didn't know how she knew, but she did. The wind blew around her, giving her a slight chill. She noticed that around her were voices, but she didn't want to acknowledge them, for they didn't care about her. She was suddenly feeling very melancholy, and wanted to just shut everyone that didn't pertain to her normal life out. So that meant everyone in this town.



Suddenly the scene around her faded, and then she was back in Jolly Roger, but not with Emilia. She was on the dock, but she wanted to go and see Emilia again, so she rushed forward. But when she did so, she noticed that there were a very small group of people were gathered near the entrance of the town. When she glanced that way, she nearly fell flat on her face.



There stood a younger Emilia, holding a 1-year-old version of herself, and in front of them, were four other people, but two of them were recognizable to Georgia. They were her parents, and she was back to the time when her parents had left her with Emilia. Her mother wiped away a tear from her eye, and walked forward, to ruffle the one year old Georgia's hair.



"You be a good girl for Emilia, all right?" she said, and Georgia heard the one year old version of herself giggle. She walked closer, so she could hear better. When she saw the looks on her parents' faces, she felt the now familiar sensation stinging her emerald orbs. Virginia walked back to the others after hugging the one year old, then Jet walked forward, to hug her like Virginia had done. Georgia almost couldn't handle watching this.



"Yeah, do what she says, unlike you do for me." he said, then walked back to the others, and Georgia rubbed her left eye. The four teammates waved goodbye to Emilia and the one year old Georgia, and they waved back. As the others turned to leave, the younger Georgia yelled something out, shocking the older Georgia.



"Bye Mommy, Bye Daddy." Jet and Virginia looked to each other, then back to Georgia, who was waving sadly. They said another goodbye, then headed on their way out. Georgia choked on a lump in her throat, but swallowed it, and ran up to the four.



"No, don't leave me, you'll never come back! Please! Mom, Dad, please, stay with me, don't go!" she begged, stepping right in front of Jet, who just walked right through her, not noticing her. She turned around, to see Virginia burst into tears, and lean onto Jet, who stuck his arm around his wife to comfort her. Georgia watched them leave her, once again, not turning back, and never to come back again.



She dropped onto her knees, then backwards, so she was sitting on her knees and her posterior, and her head drooped down, her eyes squeezed shut. "I didn't want to live it again... it was bad enough the first time, when I didn't know what happened the day they left, and now that I do, it's like I'm reliving it..." she muttered, then suddenly, everything faded, and then brightened.





When she opened her eyes once again, light came flooding into them, and she had to shut them again. "Uhh..." she grunted when she felt a sudden pain in her arm and in her right side of her stomach. She gripped the whole right side of her, and grimaced, then heard a gasp.



"Oh, look, Georgia finally woke up!" she heard Kaitlyn's voice echo from the left of the room. She looked in that direction, to see Kaitlyn, standing at the top of a set of stairs. She slightly smiled, when she saw Meira, Kenji, Aleksey, and Oriole and her family rush up the stairs to check on her. They all walked over, and Kaitlyn bent down to her, then looked up to them, and motioned for them to leave. So they did so, well, except for Meira, Kenji, and Aleksey. She looked back to Georgia, and smiled. "Good morning, how are you doing, Georgia? You know, you got hit quite hard last night."



Georgia squinted her eyes trying to remember, then shook her head and sighed. "I don't remember what happened, and I'm doing quite good this morning, except my side hurts like crazy." she stated, and Kaitlyn nodded her head, understanding why she had felt that way.





"Yeah, that's because Janice Cascade attacked you last night. She shot you in the arm, and made a gash in your right side with her bayonet. You're lucky that Anthony was still outside, or you would probably be dead, because he brought you inside to get bandaged up after you got hit and went unconscious. Then he went out and fought against Janice, until we got out there and helped him fight her." she said, and Georgia made an o shape with her mouth, then furrowed her eyebrows in thought.



"Um, Kaitlyn, where IS Anthony? He wasn't with the ones that came up to greet me." she asked, making Kaitlyn sigh and motion to the side. Georgia looked that way, to see Anthony lying on a bed, also bandaged up, and still unconscious. She gasped, and looked up at Kaitlyn, with a slightly worried look. "What happened to him??"



Kaitlyn sighed, and got into a different position on the floor, that was obviously more comfortable. "Well, Janice got tired of getting beat, so she took it out on him, by hitting up into the air and then shooting him. We thought sure he wasn't going to make it. In fact, he was injured worse than you were." she stated, and Georgia gasped, her eyes wide. She looked back to him, to see that he was breathing, and that relieved her. She stood up, walked over to his bed, and kneeled down next to it, to examine his wounds. One on his non-bionic arm, one big one on his stomach, a couple on both of his legs, and a deep gash on his face. Kaitlyn got up from her sitting position, and walked over to them, looking down at Georgia. "If you wake him up, I'm going to leave, because he'll bark at us."



Georgia slightly laughed, as Kaitlyn walked out of the room and down the stairs, with the others following her close behind, but not without saying that they would see Georgia downstairs. She nodded her head at them, then looked back at Anthony, who seemed peaceful, although he had gashes all over him. Of course, anyone seems peaceful when they're asleep. She reached forward slightly, and touched the gash on his face, but when she did so, he flinched, but didn't awaken. She kept her hand there for a while, and smiled sympathetically at him.



She began to move her hand, but when she did begin to move it away, Anthony moved again, this time his eyes slightly coming open, but just a slit. He gave her a strange look, then flinched, and opened his eyes up wider. "Oh man..." he said, looking down at his wounds, and biting his lower lip. He then looked back up to her, and gave her a slightly wide eyed look. "Hey, you're all right..." he said in an almost breathless tone of voice. Georgia just half smiled, and shook her head at him.



"Yes, I'm fine, but you shouldn't be worried about me, you were the one who almost died." she said, and Anthony gave her a disbelieving look, until he tried to sit up, but the pain that shot through his stomach wouldn't let him. "I've just decided that until we get better we're staying here in Baskar. Sound good?" she asked, making Anthony sigh and shrug.



"Whatever you want to do, you're the leader..." he answered, then closed his eyes. After a few minutes, he was relaxed and breathing evenly. Georgia smiled at him, and rested her head down on the bed, just to admire how peaceful he was when he was asleep. Soon, she herself fell asleep, in that position.





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Kenji and Oriole sat outside, in the grass, next to her house, staring off out of the village. "So, Kenji, what is it like? Being a Drifter, I mean." she asked, and Kenji just shrugged, and sighed, looking at his feet.



"I'm not really a true Drifter, just... well, I guess I am. I don't really know what it's like, because, well, actually, I do, because I've lived like this my whole life. I just don't know how to explain it." he said, looking off to the other side, to see some other kids his age pretending they were Drifters.



Oriole looked over that way, and smiled, then looked to Kenji again. "That's the Caradine family. Wanna go say hi?" she asked, standing up. "They're really nice." Kenji stood up, and nodded his head. Oriole smiled, grabbed his hand, and ran both of them over to the other 3 kids. The youngest was a boy that looked about 9, the middle was another boy that looked 11, and the oldest was a girl that looked about 13. When they got there, the three stopped what they were doing, and smiled at Oriole. "Hi guys! I would like you to meet my old friend from Pualani's Abode, Kenji Enduro. Kenji, this is Colby Caradine," she motioned to the 9-year-old, who nodded his head, "This is Matt Caradine," she motioned to the 11-year-old who half smiled and also nodded his head, "And this is Kioko Caradine." the 13-year-old did a slight curtsy, and Kenji nodded his head at them.



"Nice to meet you guys." he said, then something in his head slightly clicked, and his eyes widened. "I think I've heard your last name before. Do you think I could see your parents for a minute?" he asked, and the others gave hm weird looks.



"Why would you want to see our parents? They're just ordinary boring parents." Colby stated, and Kenji sighed, looking to Oriole, who was also looking at him strangely.



"I want to see them because I think that they may have known my parents." he stated, and the three Caradine siblings nodded their heads in unison, then ran into the house they were in front of. Soon, they came back out, with a 31-year-old looking man, who had brown hair. Once he caught sight of Kenji, the man paused, and looked at him strangely. Kenji smiled at him, and waved, nodding hi head. "Hi, Mr. Caradine, my name's Kenji Enduro and I was wondering if you've ever met Virginia and Jet Enduro, my parents."



The man's eyes widened, and he stood up completely straight, nodding his head. "Yes, I've met them, but that was... 19 years ago that I last saw them. The way I knew them was that my older brother, Gallows Caradine, was one of their teammates." he said, and Kenji's eyes widened.



"Oh wow, cool! I keep meeting people who knew my parents and were related to their teammates!" he shouted, then looked to Oriole with a wide smile. "Isn't this great, Oriole? I mean, it's exciting!" he exclaimed, then looked back to the man, with a weird look. "By the way, what's your name?"



"Shane,"



"Ah, gotcha." he said, then turned around, looking over his shoulder at Shane. "Wanna meet my brother (or bother, you could also call him) and sister, Aleksey and Georgia?" he asked, and Shane nodded, then turned to his kids.



"You three stay here and help your mother clean up around the house, ok?" he said, and the three siblings nodded their heads then rushed into the house to do like he said. He turned back around, then followed Oriole and Kenji to the Rhymeless residence.



Once they got there, Oriole barged in, and yelled out, "WE'RE BACK, AND KENJI MET SOMEONE THAT KNEW HIS PARENTS!" Kenji and Shane blinked, looked to each other, then back to Oriole, who just shrugged, smiling at them, and then they walked up stairs to see why no one had greeted them. When they got up there, they noticed that no one was up there either. Not even Anthony nor Georgia, who had both been injured and needed to stay in bed. Oriole looked nervously to Kenji, who also looked slightly nervous. "Kenji, wh-why isn't anyone in here?" she asked, and Kenji shook his head, looking down stairs, to see a note on the floor.



He rushed downstairs to it, and picked it up. His eyes slightly widened, and he looked up to Oriole and Shane, who were looking down at him. He looked back down to it, and began to read it out loud.



"Enduro and friends (teammates, brothers, whatever),



Well, you were better with the fight than I expected. Well done, although you're still not anywhere near my superior level. Like I said in my previous note to you, turn back on your little quest now, or I will have to resort to killing you. I would have killed you and your little friend, Bernadette, if I had wanted to, but it was just as a threat. You hear me? That was just an example. If you continue, I will end your life. Course, if you get here, to Den of Miasma, where your parents are being held, without dying, then I will have the pleasure of fighting you again. And this time your parents will get to see you die, isn't it perfect? Den of Miasma is not far from Ballack Rise, the place that my mother, who is now dead (and I took her place) captured them. You do know how to get to Ballack Rise, don't you? Great. See you there, if you make it. Until we meet again,



Janice Cascade."