¡OVERGROWN!
DISCLAIMER: I OWN THE THREE GAMES. I WANT THE REVAMP OF THE FIRST COMING OUT. I HAVE THE ENTIRE SERIES. BUT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DO I OWN THE RIGHTS TO WA.
A/N: Thank you for reviewing, Teefa85,and Hypes (I don't really know what a town hall/ inn really is. I wonder why I put it there in the first place now.).
The sun carefully sets at twilight. A refreshing welcome of night is made. As the orange hue of the sun paints the grounds. Jet and Virginia along with Clive come to the ruins just outside the town.
"There is a team of scientists above the ruins." Clive notes. He found out as much as he could.
"What are they looking for?" Virginia wonders.
"The same as the council of seven. Just not in the same way. They are looking to use plants to save our world. At the time I hear they are concentrating on making the growth of Heal Berries." Clive explains.
Jet stares up at the small camp the scientist must have made. "Why are we here?" He groans.
"I want a look see for myself of what's in these ruins." Clive mentions. "I heard that the key to the scientist's whole theory exists within here."
"Then what are we waiting for. Lets go!" Virginia exclaims and charges off without much thought.
Jet looks to Clive who shrugs in response and the two reluctantly follow.
"What's the point of this?" Jet grumbles. Two hours without any sign of anything. Not even a monster to fight. A really boring ruin. Clive was even losing steam as they went on. Nothing to interest the scientist in him at all.
"Wait," Virginia stops the two. "We've passed this same wall before. More than once too."
Jet groans. "Don't tell me we've been going around the same path for two hours!"
"Hmm, I wonder where the intersecting path is." Clive looks the corridors up and down. The faint orange glow of torches throughout places enough light for him to see. "Keep an eye out for any wall that seems out of place."
"Keep eye? You have the better set." Jet mumbles as he takes lead. He really did not want to be stuck back there with the other two and get caught in some conversation or theory he did not want to be in. "Ah!" Jet jumps into a wall frantically moving his left arm on his right until stopping.
"Are you okay?"
"Uh, yeah, I thought there was something on it." A bewildered Jet replies. It was just an itch. Just an itch.
"I wonder if the scientists have had similar troubles with the ruins." Clive interjects. "Maybe their project is taking long because they can find no sign of the actual ruins."
A sound. Two shadows ahead of them. "Clive, cover me." Jet draws his gun. He still had just enough bullets to take out two people.
"Hold on." Virginia worms her way beside him with her weapons drawn as well. She always had to take the initiative.
The wait seemed forever, but it was only less than a minute before the two figures rounded the corner. Maya and Todd. Jet lowered his gun and Virginia fired.
"What? Oh, it's you." Maya scoffs. "Bad aim."
"You should be lucky that I was so startled I missed." Virginia put away her guns.
"What are you three doing here?" Maya wonders. "Last I heard you were wanted."
"So, then catch us." Jet sternly replies.
"No, you're not worth the trouble, and besides, I'd probably need my full party and not just Todd and I." Maya returns. "Back to my question."
"Hey, we fired. You tell us why you're here." Virginia argues. "There's no treasure."
"Treasure is not the only valuable thing on this planet." Maya states in a sage-like manner. "You're here about the scientist's theory correct?" By Virginia's look she knew she was on the right track. "I've come for the same reason."
"Not to sound rude ma'am," Todd interjects. "It was my idea to come here and to look into this."
Maya stares at the afro-wearing samurai. "Does that really matter?"
"Not really."
"Hey, look." Virginia spoke up. "Obviously we're here after the same info so how about a truce."
Jet looks away. "No matter what the truce is still fragile."
Maya scoffs. "You think so little of my honor? I will accept that truce." A challenge was what she wanted to hear.
Virginia leans into Jet. "Thanks."
He glares aside. "I didn't do nothin'."
"Listen," Clive whispers. The clamor of the scientists rang out in the halls. "We better get out of here."
"There's no way out beside the one." Jet recalls. "And, there is only wall. No place to hide."
"They come from that way." Todd directs his sword to the path the people could be heard. "I doubt they will go both ways. We should go this way and beat them out."
"No, wait." Clive fixes his glasses. "Why would they come in if it was a circular path? They obviously know where the real ruins lie. We should go this way that Todd has mentioned, but we will not leave. Instead we watch."
The four others nod their heads in understanding. All of them move ahead quickly and watches carefully as four scientists' come to the wall they stood next to earlier.
The lead one speaks in a rage. "What are you thinking Botan?"
"I agree. Your theory is outrageous Dr. Botan." The second concurs.
"Why? You think it to be crazy?" Ryu Botan, a doctor of genetics and botany. An expert on each. "It is not, and I will show you it is possible."
"Even if possible, it is a horrible idea."
"You idiots!" Jet clutched his gun. Ever since he saw Botan, a man of usual appearance, he felt sick. The same sort when he thought something to be on him earlier. The man in his lab coat and thick glasses seemed the example of a scientist. Why did he give Jet a weird vibe?
"Looks like an argument." Clive whispers.
"Jet?" Virginia places her hand on his hand that held his weapon. He looks to her hand and withdraws both his gun and hand. As he returns to watching the three scientists Virginia stares at his head. Had his face always been so pale?
"You two will see the truth about this planet. What it hides. Soon enough, and when you see its' power you will die!" Ryu went on to say in a maniacal manner. Was it true that geniuses are always insane?
"That's enough Botan!" The lead scientist said. "Pack up and go home. We will no longer need you here."
Ryu stares at the man ready to strike. It seems like he even will, but instead he grins. "If you think so, but soon you will see how wrong you are." Ryu returns to the dank hall the three came from.
Silence is all they hear. Finally the two other scientists open a section in the wall previously hidden by an image of a wall placed before the opening.
"I thought there was a draft there." Clive mutters as the five drifters disband from behind the wall seeing that the two scientists went on into the ruins.
"What are we waiting for?" Maya wonders as no one seems to move. "Lets go knock them out and look at what they found."
"No, not yet. Later." Clive suggests. "You will wait right?"
"Fine." Maya groans with puffed cheeks. That really annoyed her keeping up truces. She just wanted to see what was worth seeing and be on her way.
"You okay Jet?" Virginia questions.
"Just fine." He grits.
"What were they talking about?" Todd wonders with Clive.
"That man was Ryu Botan." Clive confirms. "From what I understand he is," he looks aside. "WAS a part of this project. An expert on genetics, a relatively new science, and botany, a science not often studied."
"A man who is an expert on two such fields that study relatively unknown items." Todd replies. "Why work on such a hard study?"
"From what I also heard from my inside source he has a theory." Clive continues.
Maya recalls the fight. "The two said his theory was outrageous. What was it?"
"He had a theory that man could be like plants. That the two things were similar enough in some form that they were close to being of the same origins." Clive explains.
"In other words?" Jet returns with grief. His arm was itching a whole lot.
"He wanted to make a hybrid. A Chimera if you will. A being both plant and human."
"What? That's crazy!" Virginia flips.
"Who's to say that it is impossible?" Todd remarks.
"Exactly. It may sound crazy, but we can not really say if it is possible or not." Clive notices Jet scratching his right shoulder. "Something the matter Jet?"
"Just an itch."
"On the same arm that you said something was on?" Clive wonders.
"Yeah." Jet replies trailing off. Were the two connected?
"Let me see." Clive suggests as he comes to Jet.
"Whatever." Jet moves his clothes enough to show his shoulder blade. "What's there?"
"Green?"
"Green?" Jet wonders.
Clive inspects the green mark on Jet's arm. "What is it?" He pokes at it and a small vine comes out. "What the?"
"I don't like that 'what the?'." Jet looks at his arm. "What the Hell!"
"Calm down Jet." Clive holds Jet in place. "Lets get outside."
Nervous for once Jet humbly agrees as the five leave the ruins behind.