_ It's been far too long since I updated this thing. I really have to do it more often, but school forces me to not work on it.
Anyway…. Time for a Disclaimer!!!! We all love this part! Disclaim I don't own any part of the Nintendo industry, Squaresoft, or characters from either of their games. /disclaimer
Chapter 4 – The Storm Draws Nearer
I was in a brawl against one of the toughest guys ever. Chupon was there, getting ready to sneeze, but I gave him a blitz he'll never forget. He keeled over, almost dead, but rose and lunged forward. His girth was on his side, and I was knocked over. The crowd cheered. I got up, wiped the blood from my lip, and raced toward him. I jumped in the air, and kicked his face in as hard as I could. He let out a scream like I've never heard…
"Grr… Stupid girl… I oughta lock you up somewhere!"
"Sorry Sabin, but it's important this time!"
"When is it ever important?!"
"It's always important!"
"Fine! If I deem it worthy, I might not make you chop wood today."
"Oh Sabin!" She cried. "I don't know what to do. I had this really bad dream that Terra and Celes were being held captive by something, and it was scary, and I woke up, and I started screaming, and you woke up, and you screamed at me!!!!"
Obviously I couldn't care less about her bad dream, and what I said summed that up pretty nicely… "So?"
"So?!? Is that all you can say? Our friends are being hurt, or worse!"
"No they're not! They're just fine."
"NO THEY'RE NOT!! AND I'M GONNA GO FIND THEM!!!!"
She screamed at me while she left. I waited until she left, and screamed out behind her "IT'LL BE NICE TO HAVE SOME PEACE AND QUIET AROUND HERE FOR A CHANGE!!!"
She didn't respond and kept going. I went back to sleep, happy for the moment of peace.
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"Oh that Sabin! He makes me so angry! If he wasn't bigger, I'd…"
"You'd what?"
I whirled around at the voice.
"Locke! What're you doing here?! Shouldn't you be back at your home with Celes?"
"I would like to be there, but on the way there, Celes and I had a race, but I fell behind. Then my memory draws a blank. I awoke in a field, my head covered in blood. I went home thinking I fell off Bo, but Celes wasn't there. So I thought maybe she circled around back to your place to think I could win, but she didn't come home. So I was coming back to your place to see if she got lost and ended up back at your place."
"She isn't back at our place. I had this bad dream that both she and Terra were captured by something mean and scary. So I came to look for them."
"And Sabin decided you could do that alone?"
"No! That stupid jerk didn't believe me, so I left him behind."
"That wasn't very smart of either of you. I'll take you home. Then I'll go looking for them. After all, I am the Treasure Hunter Extraordinaire!"
"Whatever you say, thief…"
"I have half a mind to leave you here!" A cold wind blew, and the horizon blacked up with storm clouds. "But I'm not gonna make you walk back alone in this storm."
"I'm not a
little kid!"
"Uh huh. What ever. Come on.
Let's go!"
We headed back in the direction of Sabin's. But the wind blew harder, and soon the storm was upon us. The rain poured like tiny waterfalls, and the thunder boomed with the fury of the gods themselves. And we were traveling in it. I tapped Relm on the shoulder.
"Don't you know any magic that could get us there faster? Haste, Quick, Teleport, anything?!"
"I did, but I haven't used it in so long, I don't know if I can still do it. What about you? Don't you know any magic?"
"No, for
the same reason you don't know yours."
"Then I guess we walk."
And so we did.
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The storm cracked and boomed outside, but I barely heard it. My house was sturdily built, and I heard little of the storm. I was worried about Relm. She left hours ago, and hasn't returned. She's fine. She was so angry at you, she's teaching you a lesson about your temper, and she probably went to Celes's and Locke's for the night. I reassured myself with this and nodded off to sleep.
The door crashed open, and Locke stood there, drenched in rain, and looking very frightened.
"Locke, what's up? I didn't expect you. I don't have any extra food prepared. Relm left hours ago to do something."
"She was looking for Celes and Terra."
"Come in. Take a load off. So she told you about her dream, eh?"
"Yeah."
"And do you think she's outta her mind? Here, I have some clothes you can wear while those dry."
"Oh, thanks. Actually, she's quite right about Celes. I can't find her anywhere."
I turned around while he dressed in drier clothes. "She's probably playing with your head!"
"I found her Chocobo sleeping in our stable, but Celes was nowhere to be found."
"I still think she's playing a game with you." I shrugged. "Well, where's Relm? Didn't you bring her home? I bet she's freezing to death in this storm."
"I was bringing her home, but the storm came up. We were trapped in it. We came to a fork in the road, and neither of us remembered which was to go."
"Stupid girl. I told her. It's the left fork."
"Well she didn't remember. So we split up and agreed to meet back at the fork in an hour. I came back and waited about two hours for her to return, but she didn't. I think she got lost in that dense forest she headed into."
"There're no forests on my mountain."
"There was tonight."
I rubbed my face in my hands. "Alright, I've thought this through. We'll sleep tonight, and wait for the storm to clear. Then tomorrow, we'll search for the girls."
"I think we should look tonight."
"Look, if we get lost, what good are we. Far better we rest up, so we can save them tomorrow."
"Well, alright."
"We'll search tomorrow then."
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Ahh… Most excellent. This one will be a perfect addition to my collection. Then I can reawake my master!