Chapter 6
Reunited
Fox was sitting by a bed that was occupied by the unconcious body of Bill. It was still the
same night when they came. Falco and Wolf were in the same room. The room was dark and had four beds;
which one was empty for Fox. Ray had just walked in.
"Still here, huh?" said Ray surprising Fox. "Fox, you're a devoted friend. I'm sure Bill would
like that."
Fox smiled. "I have another question," said Fox. "How did you make that fire dissapear and
reappear and make me fall asleep?"
Ray sat on a chair across the room and sat silent for a few minutes.
"Are you sure you would like to know?" asked Ray.
Fox nodded.
"Very well," said Ray. "A lot of people here call me the 'Card Master' for a reason. I
specialize in creating card games in this city. One that you may have heard of is 'Stone Cards'.
However, there is one type of card game I don't sell in stores or to anyone for that matter...."
Ray reached in his jacket pocket and took out a deck of cards. He took a card from the top
of the deck, looked at it and showed Fox. The card had a large tree with green leaves swirling
around it, the card's name was 'Healing Wind'. "These aren't ordinary cards." continued Ray.
"These cards hold magical abilities within them.
"Chant the words, point at someone or something, and the spell will affect the person pointed
to. Let me demonstrate...."
Ray had just taken out a small knife. Fox started to look frightened. At that moment, Ray
held the knife at the blade in the palm of his hand. He slid the knife out of his hand and started
bleeding. "OH MY GOD!" yelled Fox.
Ray kept a serious expression on his face as more and more blood sprayed out of his hand. He
held the card up, pointed at his bleeding hand, and chanted: " 'Healing Wind'!"
Suddenly, light, green fog covered Ray's bleeding hand. Then, leaves swirled around his hand
rapidly and then dissapeared in an instant. He turned his hand to the side were it was cut. His
hand was healed and the blood was gone. Fox was astonished at this site.
"Y...you weren't kidding!" said Fox in astonishment.
"I cannot tell you how I make these cards," said Ray. "I was just given the gift to do so. But,
some cards, like Flame of Pain, can cause damage to whoever you point at. Keep that in mind! Not all
cards are safe to use. Here."
Ray handed Fox his deck. "For you," said Ray.
Fox looked through the deck and looked up at Ray. "What if I use the card once?" asked Fox.
"Will I be able to use it again?"
"Of course," said Ray. "Just not after a period of time. Tomorrow morning, I'll have to teach
you to play 'Stone Crads'. Would that be fun?"
"S-sure." said Fox smiling.
Ray grinned.
Suddenly, a light groan was heard. Ray and Fox looked and saw Bill returning to conciousness.
Bill opened his eyes, sat up on the bed, and looked around.
"What happened?" asked Bill.
Fox smiled and laughed. "I'm glad you're back up!" said Fox in relief. "I was worried you
weren't gonna wake up."
Bill smiled and looked at Ray. "Who's he?" asked Bill.
"Well...." said Fox.
Fox had told everything to Bill. About the Geist, the town they were in, who Ray and the group was,
and about the Light Weapons. Bill understood it all. "I understand." said Bill.
"You're lucky I found you guys on the beach!" said a light, humorous voice.
Everyone looked at the door and saw the large, white creature with big fists. The face was
fat also; with small sharp teeth and small black eyes. It's ears were erected upward. It was highly
unnoticable, but small purple wings were attached to its back. Fox and Bill startled at first sight.
"Who or what's that?" aked Fox in surprise.
" 'That'is Cait-Sith." said Ray. "Were are you any way, C.S.?"
Fox and bill looked at each other oddly. "Um...he's right there!" said Bill.
"No, up here!" said the voice again.
At that moment, a small cat wearing a small, golden crown, a red cape, and red boots with a
megaphone in his hands climbed up and sat on the white creatures back. " 'I' am Cait-Sith." said the
cat. "This big fella's just a moogle doll. He doesn't talk, I just give him commands to move. WALK!"
The moogle doll walked up to Fox and Bill and held out its big hands. Fox and Bill shook its
hands giggling. "Nice to meet you both." said Fox.
Cait-Sith looked around to Ray. "So, I heard you ran into another group of Geists."
Ray chuckled. "Well, you know the deal." said Ray getting up. "Well, I think we should get some
sleep. It's almost one o'clock. We'll talk more about this later."
Fox nodded his head. "Well, see you guys tomorrow." said Cait-Sith. "BEDROOM!"
The moogle doll walked out of the door with Ray following behind. Fox got to his bed and got
under the sheets. "Night Bill." said Fox.
"Good night." said Bill.
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"Aww...man!" said Fox in disapointment.
It was the next morning, Fox and Ray were playing the 'Stone Cards' game in the tavern. After
Falco and Wolf were told about what has been happening, they decided to keep venturing the world
as there original objective was. Ray looked at Fox grinning and said, "You'd best equip your monster
with more cards."
Spike was sitting with them on Fox's side. "He just can't pull out the right cards." said
Spike.
Wolf had walked in and joined in the conversation. Bill was trying to get Faye atracted to him.
He always would call himself a 'Love Magnet' even though his attempts of trying to get a girl friend
were failures. Faye decided finally to play along in Bill's game by giving him a big kiss on his
nose. Falco always looks around the city without the other boys at times.
Ray looked at Wolf and then at Fox and Spike. "Why don't you two look through some stores
and find some better cards?" suggested Ray.
"Okay!" said Fox.
Ray had just thrown a large, black wallet to Spike. "There's a couple of Xen in there for
you." said Ray.
"Heheh, thanks." said Spike getting up.
"NO CIGS!" yelled Ray to Spike as he walked out.
Ray and Wolf were all alone. "It's been a long time, Wolf." said Ray.
"I'm sorry," said Wolf, "I just couldn't get back in time."
"Did you show them you Light Spear?" asked Ray.
"Had to." said Wolf. "That Geist was heading for Falco."
"I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, just that you should be more careful, people will get
suspicious!"
"It's so fun though, weighing the odds!"
" 'Weighing the odds?' You still haven't learned a lesson after what happened to your eye."
"You knew 'he' would've done something to me if you wouldn't have come late!"
"I didn't get 'suspicious'! See! That's a lesson to be learned there! You're father was really
tricky!"
"Still, you didn't see the scars on me?"
"No.... I only saw you bleeding to death, took 'him' out, and took you in."
"Still, it was great after you killed 'him'. I could finally live without 'him' there to beat
me."
"So, the Geist are coming from the ocean now?"
"Yeah. It was strange."
"Something's out of place...."
"Are you saying someone 'misplaced the key'?"
"No. I think it's the Partisans of Dram."
"The great council of Dram? How would you know? You haven't even seen one member!"
"Still, the Exile Forces haven't even moved since the Great War."
"What about 'the incident' that happened in the Underworld?"
"The door was shut. Necrolords won't be coming back for a long time. I highly doubt it has
anything to do with the 'incident'."
Ray got up and went to the bar. "Drink?" he asked to Wolf.
"Nah...breakfast got me filled." said Wolf still sitting.
Ray came back with a glass steaming heat with white liquid. Wolf smiled. "So, have you seen
chaos around lately?" he asked.
"chaos is busy in Second Miltia." said Ray taking a sip of his drink. "He says he found where
his 'android' was."
"And how's the Lightfellow Clan coming along?" asked Wolf again.
"I'm a member." said Ray. "So is Spike and...."
Wolf looked at Ray with a suspicious look. "NO!" said Wolf wearing his same suspicious look.
Ray nodded. "It's him alright, but it will have to cost your friend's life."
Wolf looked down with a serious look. "I know...." he said. "How though?"
"When we venture to Mount Tigerfoot." said Ray. "When Holy get's to him. Also, Cloud's with
the Lightfellow Clan also."
"I haven't seen him since he joined MERCINARY."
"We're gonna see him again."
"When do we leave?"
"In two days."
Silence was in the air. "Will Fox see Vixy and James?" asked Wolf.
Ray smiled. "They're having some difficulties at the moment." said Ray. "Trying to find the
'Core' and all."
"Let's hope to see a family reunion real soon."
"Really soon...." said Ray finishing his glass.
Reunited
Fox was sitting by a bed that was occupied by the unconcious body of Bill. It was still the
same night when they came. Falco and Wolf were in the same room. The room was dark and had four beds;
which one was empty for Fox. Ray had just walked in.
"Still here, huh?" said Ray surprising Fox. "Fox, you're a devoted friend. I'm sure Bill would
like that."
Fox smiled. "I have another question," said Fox. "How did you make that fire dissapear and
reappear and make me fall asleep?"
Ray sat on a chair across the room and sat silent for a few minutes.
"Are you sure you would like to know?" asked Ray.
Fox nodded.
"Very well," said Ray. "A lot of people here call me the 'Card Master' for a reason. I
specialize in creating card games in this city. One that you may have heard of is 'Stone Cards'.
However, there is one type of card game I don't sell in stores or to anyone for that matter...."
Ray reached in his jacket pocket and took out a deck of cards. He took a card from the top
of the deck, looked at it and showed Fox. The card had a large tree with green leaves swirling
around it, the card's name was 'Healing Wind'. "These aren't ordinary cards." continued Ray.
"These cards hold magical abilities within them.
"Chant the words, point at someone or something, and the spell will affect the person pointed
to. Let me demonstrate...."
Ray had just taken out a small knife. Fox started to look frightened. At that moment, Ray
held the knife at the blade in the palm of his hand. He slid the knife out of his hand and started
bleeding. "OH MY GOD!" yelled Fox.
Ray kept a serious expression on his face as more and more blood sprayed out of his hand. He
held the card up, pointed at his bleeding hand, and chanted: " 'Healing Wind'!"
Suddenly, light, green fog covered Ray's bleeding hand. Then, leaves swirled around his hand
rapidly and then dissapeared in an instant. He turned his hand to the side were it was cut. His
hand was healed and the blood was gone. Fox was astonished at this site.
"Y...you weren't kidding!" said Fox in astonishment.
"I cannot tell you how I make these cards," said Ray. "I was just given the gift to do so. But,
some cards, like Flame of Pain, can cause damage to whoever you point at. Keep that in mind! Not all
cards are safe to use. Here."
Ray handed Fox his deck. "For you," said Ray.
Fox looked through the deck and looked up at Ray. "What if I use the card once?" asked Fox.
"Will I be able to use it again?"
"Of course," said Ray. "Just not after a period of time. Tomorrow morning, I'll have to teach
you to play 'Stone Crads'. Would that be fun?"
"S-sure." said Fox smiling.
Ray grinned.
Suddenly, a light groan was heard. Ray and Fox looked and saw Bill returning to conciousness.
Bill opened his eyes, sat up on the bed, and looked around.
"What happened?" asked Bill.
Fox smiled and laughed. "I'm glad you're back up!" said Fox in relief. "I was worried you
weren't gonna wake up."
Bill smiled and looked at Ray. "Who's he?" asked Bill.
"Well...." said Fox.
Fox had told everything to Bill. About the Geist, the town they were in, who Ray and the group was,
and about the Light Weapons. Bill understood it all. "I understand." said Bill.
"You're lucky I found you guys on the beach!" said a light, humorous voice.
Everyone looked at the door and saw the large, white creature with big fists. The face was
fat also; with small sharp teeth and small black eyes. It's ears were erected upward. It was highly
unnoticable, but small purple wings were attached to its back. Fox and Bill startled at first sight.
"Who or what's that?" aked Fox in surprise.
" 'That'is Cait-Sith." said Ray. "Were are you any way, C.S.?"
Fox and bill looked at each other oddly. "Um...he's right there!" said Bill.
"No, up here!" said the voice again.
At that moment, a small cat wearing a small, golden crown, a red cape, and red boots with a
megaphone in his hands climbed up and sat on the white creatures back. " 'I' am Cait-Sith." said the
cat. "This big fella's just a moogle doll. He doesn't talk, I just give him commands to move. WALK!"
The moogle doll walked up to Fox and Bill and held out its big hands. Fox and Bill shook its
hands giggling. "Nice to meet you both." said Fox.
Cait-Sith looked around to Ray. "So, I heard you ran into another group of Geists."
Ray chuckled. "Well, you know the deal." said Ray getting up. "Well, I think we should get some
sleep. It's almost one o'clock. We'll talk more about this later."
Fox nodded his head. "Well, see you guys tomorrow." said Cait-Sith. "BEDROOM!"
The moogle doll walked out of the door with Ray following behind. Fox got to his bed and got
under the sheets. "Night Bill." said Fox.
"Good night." said Bill.
**************************
"Aww...man!" said Fox in disapointment.
It was the next morning, Fox and Ray were playing the 'Stone Cards' game in the tavern. After
Falco and Wolf were told about what has been happening, they decided to keep venturing the world
as there original objective was. Ray looked at Fox grinning and said, "You'd best equip your monster
with more cards."
Spike was sitting with them on Fox's side. "He just can't pull out the right cards." said
Spike.
Wolf had walked in and joined in the conversation. Bill was trying to get Faye atracted to him.
He always would call himself a 'Love Magnet' even though his attempts of trying to get a girl friend
were failures. Faye decided finally to play along in Bill's game by giving him a big kiss on his
nose. Falco always looks around the city without the other boys at times.
Ray looked at Wolf and then at Fox and Spike. "Why don't you two look through some stores
and find some better cards?" suggested Ray.
"Okay!" said Fox.
Ray had just thrown a large, black wallet to Spike. "There's a couple of Xen in there for
you." said Ray.
"Heheh, thanks." said Spike getting up.
"NO CIGS!" yelled Ray to Spike as he walked out.
Ray and Wolf were all alone. "It's been a long time, Wolf." said Ray.
"I'm sorry," said Wolf, "I just couldn't get back in time."
"Did you show them you Light Spear?" asked Ray.
"Had to." said Wolf. "That Geist was heading for Falco."
"I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, just that you should be more careful, people will get
suspicious!"
"It's so fun though, weighing the odds!"
" 'Weighing the odds?' You still haven't learned a lesson after what happened to your eye."
"You knew 'he' would've done something to me if you wouldn't have come late!"
"I didn't get 'suspicious'! See! That's a lesson to be learned there! You're father was really
tricky!"
"Still, you didn't see the scars on me?"
"No.... I only saw you bleeding to death, took 'him' out, and took you in."
"Still, it was great after you killed 'him'. I could finally live without 'him' there to beat
me."
"So, the Geist are coming from the ocean now?"
"Yeah. It was strange."
"Something's out of place...."
"Are you saying someone 'misplaced the key'?"
"No. I think it's the Partisans of Dram."
"The great council of Dram? How would you know? You haven't even seen one member!"
"Still, the Exile Forces haven't even moved since the Great War."
"What about 'the incident' that happened in the Underworld?"
"The door was shut. Necrolords won't be coming back for a long time. I highly doubt it has
anything to do with the 'incident'."
Ray got up and went to the bar. "Drink?" he asked to Wolf.
"Nah...breakfast got me filled." said Wolf still sitting.
Ray came back with a glass steaming heat with white liquid. Wolf smiled. "So, have you seen
chaos around lately?" he asked.
"chaos is busy in Second Miltia." said Ray taking a sip of his drink. "He says he found where
his 'android' was."
"And how's the Lightfellow Clan coming along?" asked Wolf again.
"I'm a member." said Ray. "So is Spike and...."
Wolf looked at Ray with a suspicious look. "NO!" said Wolf wearing his same suspicious look.
Ray nodded. "It's him alright, but it will have to cost your friend's life."
Wolf looked down with a serious look. "I know...." he said. "How though?"
"When we venture to Mount Tigerfoot." said Ray. "When Holy get's to him. Also, Cloud's with
the Lightfellow Clan also."
"I haven't seen him since he joined MERCINARY."
"We're gonna see him again."
"When do we leave?"
"In two days."
Silence was in the air. "Will Fox see Vixy and James?" asked Wolf.
Ray smiled. "They're having some difficulties at the moment." said Ray. "Trying to find the
'Core' and all."
"Let's hope to see a family reunion real soon."
"Really soon...." said Ray finishing his glass.