Standard disclaimers apply.
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Author's notes; About 'last Tuesday's' chapter; I really thought it had uploaded. It was only on Sunday that I realized it hadn't gone through. sob In any event, I'm not worrying about it. Here's this Tuesday's chapter. Hope you enjoy.
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Thunder flashed across the sky, lightening it with an exlectric purple tint for a brief moment. Moments later, a crash of thunder rolled through the cloud covered sky; then their was another flash of lightening.
"I really hate this place, you know," Rikku said solomly to her six counterparts. "It's a really awful place..."
"You're not still scared, are you?" Rikk challenged. "Do the little flashes of light still scare you?"
"Heh, you've got to be kidding me. I camped out here for a week to get over this phobia!" Rikku exclaimed.
Rikku-sama spoke up, "Just because I'm not afraid of this place doesn't mean that I like it. Life can be classified into three seperate catergories with three different levels in each section -"
"Uhmm, wouldn't that be like having nine different levels?" Ri asked hesitantly.
"Who cares, let's keep going," Rikku-chan murmured. She shuddered when the lightning struck the ground near her feet.
"No, you see the three categories are: Like, Tolerate, and Dislike," Rikku-sama explained to Ri; she ignored Rikku-chan's comment completely. She liked explaining things to her weaker minded counterparts.
Rikk snorted. "Then the divisions in each category are: barely, significantly, and completely?" She glanced at one of the lightning towers, "Not sure what any of that has to do with fear..."
Rikku-sama pushed her hair back. "That's why I'm here to explain things," she pointed out.
"Well, I don't like this place," Rikku announced. "So it's not making very much sense why we're just sitting around and talking."
"I-I t-t-think that's be-because Rikku-san said she needed rest and went to sleep on us," Ri stammered.
"How can she sleep in a place like this?" Rikku-chan sobbed.
"And where's Rikki?" Rikku-sama asked. "I could have sworn she was here a second ago..."
"Probably complaining about her hair," Rikk said in an unimpressed voice. She walked over to Rikku-san and started shaking her. "Wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP, You Lazy Little Bt -"
"NO!" Ri slammed into her, driving her into the ground. "Please..." she looked away. "I can't stand it if you call Rikku-san a b-i-t-c-h. You can't curse at her because she's part of you... and me!"
"Whatever," Rikk said grumpily. She leaned against the tower, acting as if she were through with the conversation. Ri turned to try and wake Rikku-san up and Rikk shouted, "BITCH!"
Ri flopped face first into a puddle of water. "How could you?"
"Very easily." Rikk started laughing as soon as she finished speaking.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" Rikku-chan shouted, stilling all further conversation. "I hate this place -" Lightning flashed, cutting her off. "I'm afraid of lightning and I don't want to just sit around -" Another lightning flash cut her off. "I'M LEAVING!" she screamed, tears trembling on the tip of her nose. She broke away from the tower and vanished into the darkness of the Thunder Plains.
"Rikku-chan!" Rikku shouted. She took a step forword then stopped. "We have to find Rikki too!"
"Let's split up!" Rikku-sama suggested. "I'll take Ri and we'll look for Rikku-chan.
"Then Rikk and I will search for Rikki," Rikku said with a firm nod of her head. "Let's get going... watch out for fiends and everyone be careful, ne?"
Rikk stepped away from the tower. "Let's check the Travel Agency."
"Wait, there's one more thing," Rikku-sama said, "that needs our consideration."
"Is it what we're going to do with Rikku-san?" Ri asked quietly, thunder drowning out her words.
"After we figure out where they are, we should meet in the enterence to Macalania Woods -" Rikku-sama was saying when the thunder passed.
"We'll meet in the pavelian where we stopped on Yuna's Pilgrimage," Rikk added. "See you in a little bit..."
They all walked off.
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Ri glanced back as they left Rikku-san behind. "Uhmmm, shouldn't we..." she mumbled to Rikku-sama, taking her hand and tugging to get her attention.
"Rikku-chan!" Rikku-sama shouted, not paying attention. "We're leaving now! There's no need to fear the Thunder or LIGHTNING! Soon we'll be safe in Macalania!"
She turned towards Ri, "What's wrong?"
"We've probably shouldn't just -" she said, voice further muffled by the mascott dressphere they still hadn't gotten her out of.
"Rikku-chan!" the other girl shouted, cutting off the muffled remark. "We need to find Rikku-chan, if it doesn't have to do with that, then let it wait until we're in Macalania, okay?"
"O-okay..." Ri stammered.
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Rikku-chan was running, tears seeping down her face. She needed to get out of the Thunder Plains; however, every turn that she made spilled her deeper into the cursed land.
She tripped over rocks, banging her palms and knees against wet stones. She was completely soaked now and trembling with more then just the cold. Fear nibbled at her mind, awake and firmly in control.
Distently she could hear the thunder calling out her name... coming after her. She picked up the pace. Only to run into a problem.
Standing a good two feet taller then her, stood a cimeria. It's forest green snake head hissed at her, calling a jagged lightning bolt to strike the ground she was standing on. It's lion head roared, it's bird head cawed, it's ram head snorted. Rikku-chan screamed.
They had split the dressphere up, approximently two a piece, as an additional means of identifing themselves. Rikk had declared both Warrior and Dark Warrior to be hers. Rikku-sama opted for the Alchemist and Gun Mage. Ri had made it clear that she wanted the Mascot dressphere and maybe the White Mage. Rikki had, of course, choosen to be Lady Luck all the time... Rikku-san was going with Gunner, having muttered something about shooting from afar... and she had also taken the Trainer dressphere. Rikku wanted her usual Thief costume and had been oddly adamant about becoming a Berserker. That had left Rikku-chan with Black Mage and Songstress.
Right now she was dressed in the Songstress dressphere; however, she was sobbing so bad that she couldn't sing... and she couldn't dance. What was worse was the fact that she couldn't seem to spherechange either...
The chimera started gathering flames in one hand. If flung them towards her with a terrible roar. She didn't move in time - didn't even try. The flames bit into her, sending her crashing to her knees. She tried to reach for a potion, but it wasn't working. She couldn't make her hand move that far...
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Rikku winched slightly. "I feel really bad for Rikku-chan - I'm really such a failure... I really thought that I was completely better, you know?"
Rikk's eyebrows shot up. "How are you a failure? Besides the obvious?"
"Hey!" Rikku exclaimed. Then she sobered up. "I failed to completely eradicate fear from my mind."
"What do you mean?" Rikk asked in a deadpan voice.
"Rikku-chan is part of me... and she's afraid of lightning... still. I was so certain that I didn't fear anything anymore. I was wrong, you know," Rikku whispered, holding herself tight.
Rikk started laughing. "And yet, you're not afraid. Maybe we're not as similar as we thought. Maybe we're not versions of you... rather, we're versions of who you could have been?"
Rikku made a face. "Now you sound like Rikku-sama."
"Heaven forbid," Rikk answered. "I find it hard to believe that I'm related to her. She's so bossy and always saying something - WHAT?" she demanded, seeing Rikku barely surpressing a smile.
"I think the same thing about you... and," Rikku hesitated. "Well, I can't wait to see Paine's face when you go up against her, ne?"
"Why would I go up against Paine?" Rikk asked, completely baffled. "She a completely sensible girl -"
"If you're me, you'll clash over something she says... only for once, Paine won't be garunteed victory."
The Travel Agency came into view. "Do you really think Rikki's in there?" Rikku asked, previous comments forgotten.
Rikk nodded. "But it gets worse, either she's bathing again or she's getting her beauty sleep."
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Rikki climbed out of the bath feeling silken and clean. She stood in front of the mirror, starring at herself naked, looking for any flaws. Seeing none, she smiled at her reflection, satified.
Stepping out of the bathroom, she pulled on a pair of lacey black panties and a matching bra. "I wonder where those other six are," she murmured out loud.
"We're teaming up to take you back to the Moonflow and drown you," Rikk said. She'd gotten the room number and a spare key off of the desk clerk. How was he to know that she was a different person, and he was violating his guests privacy?
"Yuck," Rikki said, her voice honey-combed. "Where's the rest of you?"
"Rikku-chan ran off and the others followed her," Rikku explained. "Come on, we're going to Macalania -"
"What about the missing Rikku-chan?" Rikki asked. "Shouldn't we help find her?"
"We already made arangements. If you see her on the way over to the pavelian, let us know and we'll retrieve her, if not, we're just going to wait," Rikk said.
"Why don't we wait at the Travel Agency then? It'll be a lot more comfortable..." Rikki started to suggest.
Rikk cut her off by picking her up and climbing out a back window with her. "Rikku, why don't you go out the front door?"
"Huh? Sure," the orginal version of the seven said. She stepped into the hallway and marched towards the front desk.
"RIKKU!" she heard someone exclaim. "Where did you find her?"
"She was lying motionless by one of the lightning towers!" came the shouted reply. "Do you know her Rin-san?"
"She's Cid's little girl," was the response from Rin.
Rikku peeped around the corner, spotting the gunner outfit on Rikku-san. "Baka!" she murmured angrily. She raced back and leapt through the window.
Rikki was sitting on top of a disgruntled looking Rikk. "What's with that look?" she asked.
"What happened with...?" Rikku asked before she could stop herself.
"Rikk put my hair in the mud and I got even. What's with that look?"
Rikku-san got picked up by Rin. We're going to have to lay low a bit, ne?"
"How about lets not and say we did?" Rikki suggested, she glanced at the muddy ground disdainfully.
"Get your butt back in there and spy on them!" Rikk snapped from the mud. She stood up, spilling Rikki into the mud. "We need to know what story she's explaining, and what they're going to do with her."
"Right," Rikku agreed and dove back through the window, getting away from Rikki's retaliation to the mud.
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"I contacted Bevelle and they're coming to pick her up," Rin was saying. "It looks like she just passed out from exaution -"
Rikku stiffled a snort. Rikku-san had been sleeping for hours, there was no way that she had passed out from exaustion. She sighed, looking at her sleeping counterpart. They were walking toward the back room when Rikku-san spoke up. "Don't leave me alone!" She looked directly at Rikku and mouthed, 'I'll contact you from the Celcious, ne?
Rikku nodded and slipped out of the room.
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"There she is!" Ri exclaimed, pointing towards the crying blond girl. They were still some distence from the battle, no where near enough to effect things. "She's in trouble!"
"We've got to help!" Rikku-sama exclaimed. They both ran forword, fearing that they weren't going to get there in time.
Rikku-chan was on her knees, both hand touching the ground. She was frozen shock still with the crashing and flashing, and the combined force of the chimera's attack.
A pulse of light shuddered through the clearing and she feel down unconcious. A figure outlined in white stepped towards the chimera with a long jagged sword.
Then Rikku-sama and Ri arrived. The chimera was fading along with the glowing figure. "W-who w-w-w-w-was that?" Ri stammered.
"It looked..." Rikku-sama murmured. She glanced down at Rikku-chan. "She's going to need a healing spell.
"Hai!" Ri agreed. She spherechanged into White Mage and cast Full Life.
"Where's Tidus?" Rikku-chan stammered instantly. "He's around here somewhere -" She looked around wildly. "Isn't he? Aren't we not supposed to be seen together?"
"Tidus isn't here," Rikku-sama announced. She glanced at Ri, willing her to be silent. Discussions about the mysterious man who had saved Rikku-chan could and would wait until they were in Macalania. It wouldn't be wise to spook her again.
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Author's notes; Uhhmmmm...... I don't really have anything to say except next week's chapter might be a day late depending on when I get back into town so don't hang me, ne?
Next Chapter; With the events of the Thunder Plain weighing the girls down, they arrive in Guadosalm. Paine catches Rikki flirting with a blitz player and things get hectic!
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan
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Author's notes; About 'last Tuesday's' chapter; I really thought it had uploaded. It was only on Sunday that I realized it hadn't gone through. sob In any event, I'm not worrying about it. Here's this Tuesday's chapter. Hope you enjoy.
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Thunder flashed across the sky, lightening it with an exlectric purple tint for a brief moment. Moments later, a crash of thunder rolled through the cloud covered sky; then their was another flash of lightening.
"I really hate this place, you know," Rikku said solomly to her six counterparts. "It's a really awful place..."
"You're not still scared, are you?" Rikk challenged. "Do the little flashes of light still scare you?"
"Heh, you've got to be kidding me. I camped out here for a week to get over this phobia!" Rikku exclaimed.
Rikku-sama spoke up, "Just because I'm not afraid of this place doesn't mean that I like it. Life can be classified into three seperate catergories with three different levels in each section -"
"Uhmm, wouldn't that be like having nine different levels?" Ri asked hesitantly.
"Who cares, let's keep going," Rikku-chan murmured. She shuddered when the lightning struck the ground near her feet.
"No, you see the three categories are: Like, Tolerate, and Dislike," Rikku-sama explained to Ri; she ignored Rikku-chan's comment completely. She liked explaining things to her weaker minded counterparts.
Rikk snorted. "Then the divisions in each category are: barely, significantly, and completely?" She glanced at one of the lightning towers, "Not sure what any of that has to do with fear..."
Rikku-sama pushed her hair back. "That's why I'm here to explain things," she pointed out.
"Well, I don't like this place," Rikku announced. "So it's not making very much sense why we're just sitting around and talking."
"I-I t-t-think that's be-because Rikku-san said she needed rest and went to sleep on us," Ri stammered.
"How can she sleep in a place like this?" Rikku-chan sobbed.
"And where's Rikki?" Rikku-sama asked. "I could have sworn she was here a second ago..."
"Probably complaining about her hair," Rikk said in an unimpressed voice. She walked over to Rikku-san and started shaking her. "Wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UP, You Lazy Little Bt -"
"NO!" Ri slammed into her, driving her into the ground. "Please..." she looked away. "I can't stand it if you call Rikku-san a b-i-t-c-h. You can't curse at her because she's part of you... and me!"
"Whatever," Rikk said grumpily. She leaned against the tower, acting as if she were through with the conversation. Ri turned to try and wake Rikku-san up and Rikk shouted, "BITCH!"
Ri flopped face first into a puddle of water. "How could you?"
"Very easily." Rikk started laughing as soon as she finished speaking.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" Rikku-chan shouted, stilling all further conversation. "I hate this place -" Lightning flashed, cutting her off. "I'm afraid of lightning and I don't want to just sit around -" Another lightning flash cut her off. "I'M LEAVING!" she screamed, tears trembling on the tip of her nose. She broke away from the tower and vanished into the darkness of the Thunder Plains.
"Rikku-chan!" Rikku shouted. She took a step forword then stopped. "We have to find Rikki too!"
"Let's split up!" Rikku-sama suggested. "I'll take Ri and we'll look for Rikku-chan.
"Then Rikk and I will search for Rikki," Rikku said with a firm nod of her head. "Let's get going... watch out for fiends and everyone be careful, ne?"
Rikk stepped away from the tower. "Let's check the Travel Agency."
"Wait, there's one more thing," Rikku-sama said, "that needs our consideration."
"Is it what we're going to do with Rikku-san?" Ri asked quietly, thunder drowning out her words.
"After we figure out where they are, we should meet in the enterence to Macalania Woods -" Rikku-sama was saying when the thunder passed.
"We'll meet in the pavelian where we stopped on Yuna's Pilgrimage," Rikk added. "See you in a little bit..."
They all walked off.
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Ri glanced back as they left Rikku-san behind. "Uhmmm, shouldn't we..." she mumbled to Rikku-sama, taking her hand and tugging to get her attention.
"Rikku-chan!" Rikku-sama shouted, not paying attention. "We're leaving now! There's no need to fear the Thunder or LIGHTNING! Soon we'll be safe in Macalania!"
She turned towards Ri, "What's wrong?"
"We've probably shouldn't just -" she said, voice further muffled by the mascott dressphere they still hadn't gotten her out of.
"Rikku-chan!" the other girl shouted, cutting off the muffled remark. "We need to find Rikku-chan, if it doesn't have to do with that, then let it wait until we're in Macalania, okay?"
"O-okay..." Ri stammered.
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Rikku-chan was running, tears seeping down her face. She needed to get out of the Thunder Plains; however, every turn that she made spilled her deeper into the cursed land.
She tripped over rocks, banging her palms and knees against wet stones. She was completely soaked now and trembling with more then just the cold. Fear nibbled at her mind, awake and firmly in control.
Distently she could hear the thunder calling out her name... coming after her. She picked up the pace. Only to run into a problem.
Standing a good two feet taller then her, stood a cimeria. It's forest green snake head hissed at her, calling a jagged lightning bolt to strike the ground she was standing on. It's lion head roared, it's bird head cawed, it's ram head snorted. Rikku-chan screamed.
They had split the dressphere up, approximently two a piece, as an additional means of identifing themselves. Rikk had declared both Warrior and Dark Warrior to be hers. Rikku-sama opted for the Alchemist and Gun Mage. Ri had made it clear that she wanted the Mascot dressphere and maybe the White Mage. Rikki had, of course, choosen to be Lady Luck all the time... Rikku-san was going with Gunner, having muttered something about shooting from afar... and she had also taken the Trainer dressphere. Rikku wanted her usual Thief costume and had been oddly adamant about becoming a Berserker. That had left Rikku-chan with Black Mage and Songstress.
Right now she was dressed in the Songstress dressphere; however, she was sobbing so bad that she couldn't sing... and she couldn't dance. What was worse was the fact that she couldn't seem to spherechange either...
The chimera started gathering flames in one hand. If flung them towards her with a terrible roar. She didn't move in time - didn't even try. The flames bit into her, sending her crashing to her knees. She tried to reach for a potion, but it wasn't working. She couldn't make her hand move that far...
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Rikku winched slightly. "I feel really bad for Rikku-chan - I'm really such a failure... I really thought that I was completely better, you know?"
Rikk's eyebrows shot up. "How are you a failure? Besides the obvious?"
"Hey!" Rikku exclaimed. Then she sobered up. "I failed to completely eradicate fear from my mind."
"What do you mean?" Rikk asked in a deadpan voice.
"Rikku-chan is part of me... and she's afraid of lightning... still. I was so certain that I didn't fear anything anymore. I was wrong, you know," Rikku whispered, holding herself tight.
Rikk started laughing. "And yet, you're not afraid. Maybe we're not as similar as we thought. Maybe we're not versions of you... rather, we're versions of who you could have been?"
Rikku made a face. "Now you sound like Rikku-sama."
"Heaven forbid," Rikk answered. "I find it hard to believe that I'm related to her. She's so bossy and always saying something - WHAT?" she demanded, seeing Rikku barely surpressing a smile.
"I think the same thing about you... and," Rikku hesitated. "Well, I can't wait to see Paine's face when you go up against her, ne?"
"Why would I go up against Paine?" Rikk asked, completely baffled. "She a completely sensible girl -"
"If you're me, you'll clash over something she says... only for once, Paine won't be garunteed victory."
The Travel Agency came into view. "Do you really think Rikki's in there?" Rikku asked, previous comments forgotten.
Rikk nodded. "But it gets worse, either she's bathing again or she's getting her beauty sleep."
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Rikki climbed out of the bath feeling silken and clean. She stood in front of the mirror, starring at herself naked, looking for any flaws. Seeing none, she smiled at her reflection, satified.
Stepping out of the bathroom, she pulled on a pair of lacey black panties and a matching bra. "I wonder where those other six are," she murmured out loud.
"We're teaming up to take you back to the Moonflow and drown you," Rikk said. She'd gotten the room number and a spare key off of the desk clerk. How was he to know that she was a different person, and he was violating his guests privacy?
"Yuck," Rikki said, her voice honey-combed. "Where's the rest of you?"
"Rikku-chan ran off and the others followed her," Rikku explained. "Come on, we're going to Macalania -"
"What about the missing Rikku-chan?" Rikki asked. "Shouldn't we help find her?"
"We already made arangements. If you see her on the way over to the pavelian, let us know and we'll retrieve her, if not, we're just going to wait," Rikk said.
"Why don't we wait at the Travel Agency then? It'll be a lot more comfortable..." Rikki started to suggest.
Rikk cut her off by picking her up and climbing out a back window with her. "Rikku, why don't you go out the front door?"
"Huh? Sure," the orginal version of the seven said. She stepped into the hallway and marched towards the front desk.
"RIKKU!" she heard someone exclaim. "Where did you find her?"
"She was lying motionless by one of the lightning towers!" came the shouted reply. "Do you know her Rin-san?"
"She's Cid's little girl," was the response from Rin.
Rikku peeped around the corner, spotting the gunner outfit on Rikku-san. "Baka!" she murmured angrily. She raced back and leapt through the window.
Rikki was sitting on top of a disgruntled looking Rikk. "What's with that look?" she asked.
"What happened with...?" Rikku asked before she could stop herself.
"Rikk put my hair in the mud and I got even. What's with that look?"
Rikku-san got picked up by Rin. We're going to have to lay low a bit, ne?"
"How about lets not and say we did?" Rikki suggested, she glanced at the muddy ground disdainfully.
"Get your butt back in there and spy on them!" Rikk snapped from the mud. She stood up, spilling Rikki into the mud. "We need to know what story she's explaining, and what they're going to do with her."
"Right," Rikku agreed and dove back through the window, getting away from Rikki's retaliation to the mud.
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"I contacted Bevelle and they're coming to pick her up," Rin was saying. "It looks like she just passed out from exaution -"
Rikku stiffled a snort. Rikku-san had been sleeping for hours, there was no way that she had passed out from exaustion. She sighed, looking at her sleeping counterpart. They were walking toward the back room when Rikku-san spoke up. "Don't leave me alone!" She looked directly at Rikku and mouthed, 'I'll contact you from the Celcious, ne?
Rikku nodded and slipped out of the room.
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"There she is!" Ri exclaimed, pointing towards the crying blond girl. They were still some distence from the battle, no where near enough to effect things. "She's in trouble!"
"We've got to help!" Rikku-sama exclaimed. They both ran forword, fearing that they weren't going to get there in time.
Rikku-chan was on her knees, both hand touching the ground. She was frozen shock still with the crashing and flashing, and the combined force of the chimera's attack.
A pulse of light shuddered through the clearing and she feel down unconcious. A figure outlined in white stepped towards the chimera with a long jagged sword.
Then Rikku-sama and Ri arrived. The chimera was fading along with the glowing figure. "W-who w-w-w-w-was that?" Ri stammered.
"It looked..." Rikku-sama murmured. She glanced down at Rikku-chan. "She's going to need a healing spell.
"Hai!" Ri agreed. She spherechanged into White Mage and cast Full Life.
"Where's Tidus?" Rikku-chan stammered instantly. "He's around here somewhere -" She looked around wildly. "Isn't he? Aren't we not supposed to be seen together?"
"Tidus isn't here," Rikku-sama announced. She glanced at Ri, willing her to be silent. Discussions about the mysterious man who had saved Rikku-chan could and would wait until they were in Macalania. It wouldn't be wise to spook her again.
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Author's notes; Uhhmmmm...... I don't really have anything to say except next week's chapter might be a day late depending on when I get back into town so don't hang me, ne?
Next Chapter; With the events of the Thunder Plain weighing the girls down, they arrive in Guadosalm. Paine catches Rikki flirting with a blitz player and things get hectic!
Thanks for reading,
Kissa-chan