Caught!

"Heh, heh, heh..." Terran laughed uncomfortably as he absently rubbed the back of his neck in a nervous habit. "I was...going for a walk...because I couldn't get any rest."

"Uh-huh..." The Elderly man looked at his grandson in disbelief. I may be old but I'm not so old I can't tell when he is telling me a falsehood The Elder thought to himself.

Shoot! He did not buy it! Terran thought as he heard his grandfather's thoughts.

"So tell me Terran, do you know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the morning, to check up on your grandson that is supposed to be sleeping in his warm bed only to find that he's missing?!" His voice thundered "DO YOU!?! I'll tell you this much, if I'd've had a weak heart, you would have given your poor grandfather here, a heart attack a long time ago! Heh, a walk, MY FOOT!! I bet you went to see your friends, huh? I even bet you went to meet them at the falls again, didn't you?! They are from the same village for crying out loud! Can't you meet them anywhere safer?! I've told you time and time again, not to got there and what do you do? You disobey me! When I was your age, I always listened to my parents and grandparents. I--"

SNORING

The Elder looked at this grandson and saw that he was fast asleep. He then went up to Terran's ear and yelled...

"WAKE UP YOU, LAZY IDIOT!!"

With that Terran shouted from being startled and his eyes popped open. He sat up straight, waiting for another tiring lecture to begin.

"Fall asleep while I'm talking, huh?" The Elderly man grumbled to himself. "We shall continue this conversation tomorrow and I will state your punishment then. Good night!"

The instant that Terran's elderly guardian was out of sight, he stuck out his tongue and replied sarcastically, "If I wanted to learn about ancient society, I could of gone to school today or the rest of the week for that matter and heard this lecture from the teacher!"

Then his grandfather's head poked in through the doorway just counting on his grandson's smart allelic attitude to kick in so there can be more punishments to give out and answered with: "I heard that and that will add to your list of chores for you to do tomorrow!"

Terran slipped under his covers of his bed and sulked the rest of the night. The next morning, Terran's grandfather woke him up a couple of hours earlier than usual and gave him two lists.

"Here! One list is for your chores and the other is for the errands I want you to run for me. I want everything done TODAY!

"Aww...that will take me most of the day!" Terran complained.

"I know! HA! Oh, I almost forgot, I told some of the store clerks of the village that you would deliver things for them." Ha! I guess being the Elder of a village does have an upper hand in it. Especially when it comes to giving out punishments to my grandson.

"I heard that!!" Terran yelled.

"Huh? But how...? Oh, how can I forget? I have been living with him for 16 years and he has been able to do that ever since he was little. Humph! No more privacy that a gold fish! Mumble mumble

Terran also mumbled and complained with tending to all the chores he was given. He has to tend to the animals, work out in the field, house cleaning, and more. He was a fast worker but was very exhausted by the time lunch came and was glad to rest during that period of time. After he ate, he continued to finish his chores and started his errands. He had to pick up a lot of things from the stores and drop them off at home continuously, which he thought was a pain in the butt, but he also had to deliver thing for the clerks as a favor from the Elder.

Three hours past before he finished everything but he felt as if he had forgotten something so he sat down and tried to remember what it was he forgot to do. Then suddenly, it hit him like a ton of bricks.

"Damn! I was s'posed to meet the guys a long time ago!" Terran shouted as he just remembered what was to be done.

Now running through the forest and zigzagging through trees, he then followed a stream from the waterfalls and followed it all the way up. When he arrived he noticed his two friends sleeping against their own tree.

"H-hey guys!" Terran yelled to wake them from their slumber.

"(YAWN!) You're late... again, Terran." Xeth said still half asleep.

"I couldn't help it!" Terran tried to explain. "Last night, grandfather caught me sneaking in and he gave me chores and errands to run for him and not to mention almost everyone else in the village. He wouldn't let me go till I was completed with everything. I'm not supposed to here and neither should you guys, so I say we hurry and search for the flashes and get out of here before they start to suspect anything."

"Speaking of flashing..."Saffron, added, "...why can't we see them now?"

"Maybe they flash only during a certain time of the day," Xeth proposed.

"Well let's got and search for it in a specific area and see if there is any treasure to be found!"

"Alright let's go then!"

Terran's two friends starting off with out him leaving him in the alone in the middle of the long narrow bridge. He struggled across the treacherous bridge and watched his friends leave without him. Desperately trying to catch up, he walked on a slippery part of the log and found himself dangling on a broken branch.

"Heeeeeelp!!!"

His friends turned to help but couldn't because the log is skinny and narrow to walk across. Terran started to loosen his grip but it really didn't matter because the branch was giving away.

(SNAP!)

"GYAAA!!"

The two boys stared in horror as their companion fell to the base of the falls. They then couldn't see him as he disappeared in the mist. Each looked at each other with fear in their eyes and ran towards the village.

Author's Note:

Sorry for the delay and the bad format everyone. I'm just getting to learn how to use the program for editing and pulling out lots of hair in the process. A warning ahead of time: I'm not going to strictly stick to the plot of SoM and add some storylines from other RPG's, mainly BoF (Breath of Fire) I & II. I appologize if you were all hoping for it to purely be SoM and only SoM but, I wrote this story for an assignment and pretty much had the majority of the plot in my head already.