Review Last Chapter: Serra got into a jealous rage with Priscilla. They gave each other a slap, but at the end, Erk was on Priscilla's side. At the end of the battle, lots of people wrote in their diaries. In turns out, Rebecca has a new tent partner name Sain. Serra and Erk make up. Now here continue Rebecca's story.
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Chapter VII: Raven, the Mercenary
Serra and Erk walked out of the tent, knowing it is time to meet up with the three lords and Lady Ada to save Lyndis's grandfather. Rebecca saw Serra and Erk and wanted to greet her good friends, when interfered by Sain.
"Oh, Rebecca, it must be destiny we meet again on this lovely sunny day." Sain said with amuse in his voice.
Rebecca rolls her eyes, "I barely met you today, Sain. It's not destiny that I meet you again, I think you stock me or something…"
Sain smiled even broader, "Yes, it is. It is such a lovely day with a gorgeous maiden by my side. Nothing is better than living life like this. Maybe two maidens." Sain looked up in time to see Rebecca leaving, and walking towards Erk and Serra. Sain hurries to catch up to all three.
"Oh my! Another lovely beauty has come to see me!" Sain exclaimed, looking at Serra and not noticing she was holding on to Erk's arm.
Serra shrieked. "No, Sain. You come to see me! I am honored! You must envy me so much! Erky, look who it is! Sain!" Sain was now frozen- Erky? He, now, saw her arm around Erk's and back away a bit.
"Nice to see you too, Serra. But Rebecca and I need to go meet up with Lady Lyndis." Sain said in a hurry and grabbed Rebecca and walked on ahead. He was pretty smart when he saw that look on Erk's face when he tried to flirt with Serra. Not to self, Sain, do not hit on Serra or Lady Ada.
Rebecca was looking at Sain in an annoyed expression. "Don't take me with you! It's not like I did anything!" Rebecca shouted, missing the easy days with Serra already.
Sain pulled Rebecca onto his horse and replied with a smirk. "It's because you're my tent partner and you have to go with me wherever I go. That means we're battle partners as well!" Rebecca's jaws dropped, when Lady Ada and the three lords went out of the castle after seeing the castle's surroundings. Lady Ada saw Sain and Rebecca arguing.
"Sain, you met Rebecca already? Rebecca, you met Sain already? I am now happy that I set you guys as tent and battle partners." Lady Ada said, without seeing the annoyed and confused look on Rebecca's face. Now, Lady Ada was off talking to the other three lords about getting the castle back.
Rebecca sighed. There is nothing she can do; it is under Lady Ada's orders. Sain was delighted to hear this and started talking about how they would make a great couple and that he was a great knight and all. Rebecca was getting sick of this, but also, interested of what he had to say about noble houses.
Lady Ada decided to leave Rebecca, Sain and Kent to guard Merlinus in case of reinforcements. Rebecca sighed again. She should be happy that she didn't have to go inside that creepy castle, but she's not. Serra said good-bye to Rebecca and left with Erk. Rebecca sighed a third time. It is too weird for her to see Serra all goody-goody with Erk around now.
Rebecca was sitting at the tent with Sain, who is now deep in thought talking about how lovely she would look with her hair down and such. Rebecca was glad when Kent can't take it anymore and hit him hard on the head. Sain is now disputing with Kent about stuff when Rebecca noticed reinforcements arrived.
Rebecca said, "Hey, you two. Look, reinforcements have arrived."
Sain jumped up and grabbed his lance immediately. "We, knights, will protect you fair maiden, Rebecca." He climbed up on his horse and started heading towards the enemy.
Kent and Rebecca stared at each other. Rebecca climbed up Kent's horse, after he offered to, and headed straight toward the line of enemies against Sain. Sain was fighting them all by himself and getting hurt very badly. Rebecca was trying to shoot all the enemies that Sain had weakened already without falling off Kent's horse. Rebecca cannot aim well on that annoying horse. She got off and helped Sain.
Sain is now injured quite badly for his foolishness. "I'll take the last 3, Rebecca. Take my partner back to the tent. He needs some vulnerary." Kent ordered as Rebecca obediently listened.
"No fair…I was about to wipe out those enemies by myself…" mumbled Sain under his breath while leaning on Rebecca for support. Rebecca ignored him and started to bandage him quickly to help Kent. Sain was delighted to see Rebecca helping him like this.
Kent came back a few moments later. "I finished the reinforcements. We must go inside the castle to assist the others." Kent said as he waited Rebecca to climb onto his horse.
Rebecca complimented Kent, "You are so good, Kent! Not even a scratch on you!" and this set Sain into a jealous rage. Sain is now complaining why Rebecca have to sit on Kent's horse instead of his. Rebecca just rolled her eyes.
Deeper into the castle, the hallway broke into two directions. After convincing Kent all day, Rebecca went off into one of the corridors by herself without any of them. Rebecca carefully walked into the thin hallway when she heard loud rumble. It was magic! Someone was shooting magic at her from opposite side of the wall!
Providentially, a mercenary jumped and save her in time. He was on top of her, his breath was breathing hard. She was breathing hard as well. She can hear a voice from afar, "Rebecca, are you ok?"
The mercenary on top of her got off and now; she saw Priscilla and Guy running towards her. Rebecca disliked Priscilla (because of Serra), but Guy is a very nice person. The mercenary pulled Rebecca to her feet. He told her immediately, "Concentrate and then aim for those mages opposite those walls." Rebecca nodded and concentrated and then shot all the mages on the other side of the wall.
"Good job, Rebecca!" Priscilla complimented, but got no response from Rebecca. "This mercenary here is a childhood friend of mines. His name is Lord Raven. It's a good thing we meet here! You took out those mages well, Rebecca!"
Apparently, Priscilla cannot tell that Rebecca does not want to talk to her. Lord Raven talked in a not amused-voice, "My companion could have also taken out those mages with ease without you."
Now, Rebecca noticed that Priscilla, Guy, and Lord Raven were not the only ones there. There was this blonde-hair monk right behind Priscilla. He bowed and said, "Nice to meet you, Rebecca. My name is Lucius." He was very polite, indeed.
The five moved their way through the route that Kent and Sain had taken earlier. Soon, they saw the rest of the group around the throne. Lyndis was looking around for her grandfather. Serra and Erk were the ones that take out boss. (Erk attack, get hit, Serra heals him, Florina carries her away, Hector drops her, and Sain gets jealous). Matthew was the last one to get back to the group. He was off, stealing treasure somewhere.
It turned out that Lady Lyn's grandfather was ok and is now, getting special medication. Everyone met this Ostian spy name Leila, who was Matthew's girlfriend. Serra was still giggling about how Leila has no sense of fashion when Leila left. No one can shut her up but Erk. To Rebecca, everyone seems to be restless and cheerful.
"Party! Let's celebrate!" cried out Bartre and Dorcus in unison. All the other men nodded in agreement and started doing the puppy face to Lady Ada. Lady Ada, of course, couldn't resist and agreed to it. Everyone started heading out except Lady Lyndis and Lord Eliwood.
Lady Lyndis hugged Lord Eliwood immediately, with tears rolling down her bright green eyes. He was patting her back and said, "Your grandfather is still alive. You should be smiling, not crying Lyndis."
Lady Lyndis was still hugging Lord Eliwood tightly. "I thought I was going to lose my grandfather. I cannot lose him again…"
Eliwood quickly said, "Calm down, Lyndis. Everything is good now. I like it when you smile, not when you're frowning."
Lyndis wiped her tears and got off of Lord Eliwood. "Thank you, Lord Eliwood. Just at the time I thought I was going to lose him forever, you came and help me. Thank you!"
Lyndis's eyes were getting watery again as Lord Eliwood pulled her chin up, "You're crying again, Lyndis."
"No, Eliwood. These are not tears of suffering, but tears of joy. I missed you." Lyndis answered, now hugging Eliwood again.
"I missed you too." Was Eliwood's response.
That night was one busy night. Rebecca, Lady Ada, and Lowen were cooking as fast as they could for everyone and setting up all the alcohol for the men. The men insisted on this. Rebecca saved a good meal for herself and went to her tent to eat in peace. It turns out that there were two guys who didn't drink that night. One was Lucius, who was busy praying in his room, and Lord Raven.
Rebecca was delighted to have Lord Raven come over for dinner. "I still can't thank you enough for saving me this afternoon, Lord Raven." Rebecca said, sitting on the opposite direction of Raven.
One of Raven's eyebrows rose a little and then answered, "No problem. Just call me, Raven. I would have help anyone, not just you." Rebecca was delighted to hear this. She thought of him as a handsome and modest gentlemen.
"Well, I am glad you can make it to dinner." She added, while adding more meat into his bowl. He ate slowly and then answered.
"I have to repay you back somehow. I just hate to owe someone anything." He replied as he finished up his bowl. He stood up and said "good-night" to Rebecca and left the tent. Rebecca was satisfied. She walked outside to see Raven going to his and Lucius's tent.
Then, she saw Erk leaning against Serra's shoulders as they walked towards their tent together. "Hey, Rebecca! Erk got a little drunk, I better get him to back to rest." Serra said as she passed Rebecca.
"Ok!" Rebecca answered back.
"Oh, also, I think Sain is drunk as well and he needs someone to take him back to his room. Lady Lyndis already took Lord Eliwood back to his room, while Lady Ada took Lord Hector back to his room. That Priscilla took Guy and Matthew back to their rooms. So, you should get Sain." Serra added.
"How about Kent?" asked Rebecca, wishing not to touch a drunk Sain.
"Kent is now helping Wil and Lowen back to their rooms. He has no time to take Sain. You have to do it, Rebecca. Take Lowen also." Serra answered, walking farther away from Rebecca every minute.
Rebecca shook her head and cried loudly for Serra to hear: "Why do us ladies have to suffer for what men do?" She can see Serra shrugging in the distance. Rebecca walked towards the dining tent.
From a distance, she can already smell the fresh scent of alcohol. She saw Lowen immediately nearby. She grabbed Lowen and took him to his shared tent with Marcus. Marcus was already snoozing happily inside when Rebecca deposited Lowen on his bed. Now for Sain.
Rebecca looked inside the dirty tent. There were only Bartre, Dorcus, Oswin, and Sain left. It seems that no girl or guy wanted to "claim" those three. Rebecca went over and got Sain to lean on her shoulder for comfort.
Sain seems to be half awake for a duration of the walk. "Rebecca, my love? Is that you?"
Rebecca rolled her eyes and answered, "Yes, it is Sain. You know how cold it is to walk in the middle of the night to get you back to the tent?"
Sain smiled crazily and said, "Rebecca, you care for me huh? You like me huh? I am so attractive huh?" Rebecca tried to ignore these remarks because he was drunk.
"Here's our tent, Sain. Do you want to go in yourself or I have to take you in?" Rebecca asked as Sain smirked. She knew she didn't have to hear his answer.
Rebecca dropped Sain on his bed. He looked pretty awake at this moment. "Rebecca, how come our beds are so distant apart??? And what's with the curtain?" He asked strangely, looking at this big curtain blocking his view from Rebecca's bed.
"Because I'm a girl and you're a guy and I have to stay I distance away from you. I am made this curtain just in case." Rebecca tried to answer as calmly as she could.
"That's why? Well, no matter I am going to sleep where I want to sleep!" He started to get up and lay right next to Rebecca's bed. Rebecca sighed, she did not want to start making Sain talk about her looks and stuff again.
"Sain, what can I do to change your mind?" Rebecca asked, now hoping he would just give up and go back to his bed. But he didn't, he was thinking.
He quickly scribbled something on a piece of paper and handed it to Rebecca. "As long as you signed that you'll marry me." Rebecca eyed the paper suspiciously. Maybe Sain won't remember any of this when he woke up tomorrow morning.
Rebecca signed it and said, "Happy now? I am going to sleep. Go back to your bed!" Sain smirked and went back to his bed, leaving the paper near Rebecca's bed. Rebecca cannot believe what she was doing. Did she really want to sign that paper??? Is she having feelings for Sain??? What should she do now??? Must ask Serra or something…Must break these unwanted thoughts…
Here ends Chapter 6, I think. Poor Rebecca. The story is going to take place during the time towards the port and then on the ship and then Dread Isle. Next chapter, I am going to make Priscilla a little evil. Sorry to all you Priscilla fans out there, but it is interesting to see a "cute, quiet, and sad" person, who everyone never suspects, become all evil and stuff. So, anyways, it's going to be mostly these two groups' interactions- Sain, Rebecca, Raven, Priscilla & Serra, Erk, Lucius, and Lady Ada.