Copy Rights: Suikoden is bought to you by the Company Konomi And by the writer me.
Dedicated Suikoden Fans (Sub-Deditecation- Viktor and Flik fans)
Notes: The Hero of Suikoden II is Justin and the castle is Hogwarts (cause I'm a Harry Potter Fan). Possible Suikoden spoilers
What's Up With Him?
"Something is not right." Freed Y said as he paced back and forth in Viktor's room at Hogwarts castle. "Sir Flik should be back by now, whether the mission was a success or not. Maybe the rumors are true…." Freed Y stop in front of Viktor, who was sitting at a table drink his ale.
"Will you calm down?" Viktor says. "You're making me sick and you'll wear a hole into the floor and soon you'll end up fall in the room below us." Viktor takes a slug of ale and then wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. "Look, just cause Flik is one day late, doesn't mean we have to panic. He's a big boy and he can take care of himself. So sit down and have a pint with me." Viktor motion to a chair across from him. "Since Flik's not here and you have my other drinking buddy out keeping an eye for him, I have nobody else to drink with." Viktor gives a drunken grin. "You should know that I hate to drink alone."
"Sir Viktor…how can you think about drinking at this time? Have you not heard the rumors that have circled the castle?" Freed Y's face was sick with worry. "Even Shu is taking them seriously." He went back to pacing the floor. "Bandits could have our Warrior Village hero out in the woods, naked and bleeding to death, while you sit there drinking."
"Oh, they're just rumors." Viktor said waving a hand like it was nothing. "I'll eat my gloves if Flik has lost to a handful of bandits. He'd go berserk the minute they even try to take Odessa away from him."
"But what if he was knocked on the head." Freed Y stop in front of Viktor again. He waved an index finger in bear-man's face. "Did you ever think about that? Hmmm?" Freed Y straightens up and put his hand on sides of his face. "Or what if he was drugged? Then he couldn't possible defend himself. We must send out a search party this minute for him." Freed Y heads for the door. "I'm going to tell Shu we must."
"Whoa, slow down." Viktor jumps up from his chair. "Let's give it one more day a least, so as not to wound his pride." He suggested. "At least leave it till the morning." Viktor made a reach to grab Freed Y's shoulder, but Freed Y was already jumping back as the bedroom door flung open with force.
"Viktor, Freed Y!! (Whew)…Good news, he's back and he's ok." A young man voice pants through the opening of the door. Freed Y opens the door wider show a young man leaning on the frame of the door with his right hand and holding his side with his left. He was a couple years younger than Viktor and had a build that was slightly smaller than him too. The young man had short brown hair and brown eyes. He wore a red bandana around his head, a red long sleeve shirt tucked into a pair of black pants, a leather belt, a pair of leather gloves, and a pair of leather boots. On his back was a two-handed sword.
"See?! What did I tell you?" Viktor laughed. "I told you that Flik would be just fine. Thanks for the good news Jason." Viktor said to the young man. "Freed Y here was about to taint Flik's dignity by having Shu send out a search party for him."
"Well…you see. I meant no harm. It's just that…there are…that is to say…" Freed Y search madly to find the right words to say about the situation.
"It's ok, it's ok." Viktor laughed again. "Buy him a drink and call it even. Now that he's back I have all my drinking buddies, plus one more."
"Don't celebrate yet." Jason said. "I can't put my finger on it, but something about him is not right."
"What do you mean?" Viktor asked. He looked at Jason with a raised eyebrow.
"Well…" Jason rubs the back of his head and looks at the floor. "Maybe you should have a look for yourself. I didn't get to talk to him, because he just brushed past me without a word."
"Well, where was he going?" Freed Y asked.
"I don't know. He looked like he was…lost." Jason still didn't look at Viktor, nor did he look at Freed Y.
"Well let's go find him." Viktor said with a bit anxious in his voice. It surprises Freed Y and Jason.
"You don't have to go too far to find him." Jason said. "Cause there he goes now." He had turned around in time to see a man past by them.
"Are you sure that's him?" Freed Y inquired. "The outfit is like Sir Flik's, but the color is all wrong and I don't see his sword by his side."
"Hey, Flik!" Viktor yelled out the door. "Come have a drink with us." The man acts like he did not hearing a word being said to him. Viktor pushes passed Jason and Freed Y to give chase after the man. "Hey, wait a minute." The man doesn't turn around, he didn't even stop. Viktor grabs a shoulder and turn him around. It was then that Viktor realized something, "Hey, your not wearing your traditional blue, no shield and…. And where is your little sword?" Viktor was looking at his friend now. Seemed to be Flik's outfit, but where there was suppose to be blue was red and there was a something bumping out from under his cape. Plus there were bow ends coming from over the top of the man's right shoulder and below his left waist. There was also sword ends parallel with the bow. Viktor, out of curiosity, lifted the cape to see a two-handed sword in its sheath with a large quiver full of arrows attached to it.
"What is your problem?" Viktor was asked, as the cape was being pulled from his hands.
"I see you've upgraded from that baby sword to a man's sword. So how does it feel to upgrade Odessa?" Viktor said with a laugh as a hand slams down on guy's shoulder and almost makes the man's knees buckle. In return, Viktor receives a cold glare. "Hey I didn't mean any offence to her, I just meant that it must be nicer to have a better weapon." Viktor grabs the top end of the bow sticking out from under the man's cape with his other hand. "By the way, when did you start carrying your bow and arrows with you Flik?"
"I'm not Flik. My name is Clik." The man says. He wipes the hand that was on his shoulder off and jerks his bow end from the other hand. "I wished people quite calling me that."
"Wait…what did you say? Clik?!" Viktor was taken back. Freed Y and Jason were looking over Viktor's shoulders at the guy, but now they were looking at each other.
"Flik are you ok?" Viktor takes one of his gloves off and feels the top of his friend's head. "No fever."
"Will you knock it off?" The man brushes Viktor's hand away from his head. "Where do you get off touching me? And get it straight my name is Clik. C-L-I-K." He looks at the group. "Who are you people anyway?"
"Who…who are we?" Viktor felt hurt. "Don't you know your best friend and comrades in arms?"
"Know, you? I've never even seen you before in my life." Clik said angrily.
"See, I told you something happen." Freed Y said, coming between Viktor and Clik. "He was robbed, that's why he's wearing different clothes." Freed Y started rubbed Clik's head. "He must have been knocked on the head too. That's why he doesn't seem to remember us."
"What about the weapons? If he was robbed, how did he afford to get those?" Jason asked pointing towards the weapons sticking from under Clik's cape.
"Maybe out of the goodness of others." Viktor said with a shrug.
"Wh…what do you think you are doing?" Clik tried to brush away Freed Y's hands.
"Checking for any head injury." Freed Y said. "I am certain that a bump to the head must be why you are acting so strange."
"I'm acting strange?! What about everyone else here?" Clik finally managed to brush Freed Y away from himself. "Everyone here calling me Flik, asking me if I'm ok."
"I didn't feel any bumps, but he kept moving too much to know for sure." Freed Y said franticly. "Let us get him to the infirmary."
"I'm not going anywhere with you." Clik said. He starts to walk away, but Viktor take him in a bear hold. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Clik yelled.
"We're taking you to the infirmary." Viktor said as he struggled to keep a hold on Clik. "Dr. Huan will see what is wrong with you and make you all better."
"I don't need to be made all better, cause there is nothing wrong with me." Clik said as he elbowed Viktor in the gut; causing Viktor to let go of him. Clik tried to run, but Viktor managed to grab the man's wrist with one hand, while holding his own stomach with the other arm. Like a reflex, Clik grabbed Viktor's wrist with his free hand and flipped the big man over his shoulder. Viktor landed on his back with a loud slam, the wind knocked out of him and making him release Clik's wrist. Now free, Clik made another try to run for it, but Jason and Freed Y managed to grab the red dressed man's arms.
"Get this pile of flesh off of me." A muffled voice came from under Viktor. "My face is being pushed into the floor."
"Ah, shut up old man." Viktor grunted as he sat up. "You didn't have to land on you. Geez that hurt."
"No, but I had you land on me." Start Dragon Sword said angrily. "I'm flat enough as it is. I don't need any more help from you."
"Let me go!" Clik yelled as he tried to pull free.
"Not till we get you checked out Sir Flik." Freed Y said as he tried to pull him back.
"What is going on here?" Shu said as he came into the area. "You make enough noise to wake the dead." He sees Clik. "Sir Flik, welcome back." Shu said, looking at Clik then at the others confused. "Why are you men holding him?"
"Because Flik isn't right in the head." Viktor said, rubbing his back as he rises to his feet. "We're trying to take him to infirmary."
"For the last time, my name is Clik." Clik yells.
"And he keeps calling himself that." Viktor says with a sigh.
"I see." Shu rubs his chin as he thinks. "Well…Sir Clik, please except our apologies."
"You mean that? You believe me when I said my name is Clik?" The man stops struggling and looks at Shu hard.
"Yes, I do." Shu says. He motions to Freed Y and Jason to release Clik. The two men reluctantly do as they were told. "To show how sorry we are for your mistreatment, why don't you have one of the best rooms we can offer right now?" Shu points to the room they were in front of, next to Viktor's, Flik's room.
"Well, ok." Clik says as he looks at Shu, then at Freed Y, Jason, and Viktor. The three men didn't seem to agree with what Shu was doing, but didn't say anything. "What about them?"
"I'll deal with them. Why don't you make yourself comfortable?" Shu turns from Clik to the other. "You boys will join me in hall." He leaves in the direction of the Main Hall.
"Now that's the first sane man I've met so far." Clik said as he opens the door and goes in. He looks out back Freed Y, Jason, and Viktor before turning back to going into the room. "Nutcases."