Okay then, uhh there are a few ideas for this chapter, so even I'm not too
sure exactly what's going to be in it, but psilo will appear, and chimpus
may or may not, on the subject of chimpus, c'mon people read his fic, its
well worth the time. And I thought I covered this in the first chapter? But
oh well here goes again. I OWN NOTHING, I STEAL IT ALL, except characters
and plot concept, those are mine.
Ryzada hurled the remote at the TV, yelling it in sheer frustration. How could they do this? This was TOTALLY unfair! They just couldn't stop broadcasting matches! What if something happened to Crimson or Alice? She wouldn't even know, oh and if Tatsu got hurt, that would be bad too. Ryzada yelled at the TV some more and composed some hate mail to the president of the broadcasting network then huffily sat down in her favorite chair.
How was this fair? Without the news covering matches Ryzada had no way of knowing what was happening at the coliseum, sure Crimson sent her updates, but she needed to be able to see that he was fine. Crimson was not above lying to her. There had to be a way she could watch his matches. Spectator seats! That was it, she just had to get tickets. But they were expensive and she had no money, she needed to find a job. But the chair was getting awfully comfortable, maybe just a short nap before she left? Yes that would be nice. Ryzada curled up into a ball and fell asleep. Elsewhere on pioneer, somebody was only just waking up.
"Magus? Are you awake?" Mei asked in the dreamy, half asleep voice of somebody only recently awoken.
"No"
"Okay then, tell me when you do wake up, because I need to talk to you."
Magus sighed, a shocking percentage of houseplants could beat Mei in a battle of wits. "I'm awake Mei, what is it you wanted to talk about?"
Mei sat up, which meant she was straddling Magus' stomach, Magus tried to switch his brain to the off position.
"Well I had this really strange dream, there was a man in it and he was wearing a dress."
"You mean he was a force?"
Mei nodded empathically which caused her to bounce a little, Magus averted his eyes. "Anyway it was really strange that I was dreaming about a person because normally I dream about bunnies and things, and he said something to me and I didn't understand at all."
"What did he say?" Magus believed in dreams acting as signs so his interest was genuine.
Mei frowned "he said, Light makes darkness, a pair exists, but it doesn't always exist. Reincarnation goes forever. I really don't understand it Magus, but you're so smart, I thought you might know what it means."
"Not a clue, sorry Mei." Magus said propping himself up on his elbows "Now how about you get off of me and I'll make some breakfast?" He kept his tone casual and slightly cheerful, but inside he was troubled, "Reincarnation goes forever" His master had said that to him, he'd also said he would explain it when Magus was ready. Dammit old man, why did you have to go and get killed? No use worrying about it now, asking questions of dead people had never resulted in an answer. Magus decided to forget about Mei's dream and concentrate on the breakfast, he didn't really fancy scorched sausages this morning.
Crimson wolfed down his breakfast, he wasn't hungry, it was so he didn't have to taste it so much. Alice was in a match this morning and Tatsu had volunteered to make breakfast, Tatsu was not a good cook. Dropping his empty plate into the sink Crimson hurried back to the small room that was probably designed for storage purposes. He grabbed a few wires and components off of the table on his way and then locked himself in the cupboard.
Tatsu sighed, the whole secrecy thing was really starting to annoy him, what was Crimson doing that he wouldn't even share with his best friend? Stupid question really, he was making something, It was easy to tell because Crimson was swearing frequently as he worked. Tatsu cleared the table of junk and breakfast leftovers and sat himself down in front of the TV. So far the tournament was boring him, but he knew that was going to be the case. The first few matches it was very likely that the opponent would be a wimp who only entered for the hell of it. Now that those first few fights were done with things should start to get interesting, Tatsu was sure of that, why else stop the news coverage? It was to make people buy tickets to watch the fights live.
Alice entered the room and crashed out on the bed, her breathing was ragged and her clothes were covered in dirt, Tatsu was immediately worried about the bed sheets, and then Alice.
"Are you okay?" he asked "It looks like that match was rather rough on you."
"Oh I'm fine" Alice panted "Don't worry so much Tatsu, I'm a big strong girl I can handle myself." At the present moment she didn't look big or strong, she looked rather small and exhausted. Tatsu pointed this out to her
"I told you I'm fine." Alice said with slight irritation "I just need to rest a little, that's all, I don't know how you and Crimson do it, you both come back looking like you just went out for a short walk."
"Trade secret" Tatsu smiled "Or maybe its just we know our limitations and are a little more careful on the battlefield, I've seen you fight Alice, you're a little reckless."
"Sorry mother, I'll be more careful next time. Now if you'll excuse me? I need to sleep a little." With that said Alice quickly fell into a light doze. Tatsu decided to leave her to it, though her clothes were going to be a real pain to get clean again.
Crimson opened his cupboard door "Is that Alice just got back?" he asked poking his head through the opening, obscuring Tatsu's view of whatever lay within.
"Yes and she's sleeping, so be quiet" Tatsu warned
"Well maybe I should stop working for a bit?" Said Crimson "I'm not too sure on this next part and it may be quite loud."
"Quite loud?" Tatsu winced at the horrible memories of Crimson developing the sonic grenade, the "slight noise" that occurred then had shattered glass. Quite loud was definitely not going to be a fun experience.
"Umm yeah." Crimson grinned "Quite loud, as in may explode violently and without warning."
"Well then give it a break and perfect the theory before putting it into practice, I would rather not have a repeat of handgun upgrade incident."
Crimson smiled "That was a good one, such a pity it didn't work. Made a nice bomb though."
"Just sit down and watch some TV please?" Tatsu begged, he had no wish to be in the room when Crimson got to the dangerous part of whatever he was doing. Thankfully Crimson also didn't want to be in the room when he got to the dangerous part and so they both ended up watching a game show and complaining about the stupidity of the contestants.
Ryzada sat back in the uncomfortable plastic chair, she missed her armchair back home. But the wait was necessary until the client arrived. The job looked to be rather interesting. A hunter was searching for their missing friend, there were a lot of mysterious disappearances lately, but this one didn't seem to fit in with the others. So far all of the missing hunters were from pioneer 2. This "Skyla" person was on the roster of pioneer 1, Alice would have found this fascinating, to Ryzada it was merely interesting. Where was these client?
The client burst through the doors not 3 minutes later, looking rather out of breath "Sorry, to, keep, you, waiting." She panted taking a few deep breaths
Ryzada blinked "That's okay." What was this ranger wearing? Purple and black were not really complimentary colors
"Well my name is Psilo and thank you for answering the ad, I'm sure the three of us will get along just fine"
"Three?" Asked Ryzada puzzled, then she noticed the other ranger by the door way. "Oh, are you sure it's alright to bring children along? Ragol is kinda dangerous."
"I am not a child!" the ranger by the door stamped her foot "And you're hardly taller than me, so you can just shut your mouth!"
"Never mind Kilili" Psilo said half smiling "She may be a little on the short side, but she does well enough in a fight, and besides did I ever say we were going to go to Ragol?"
Ryzada was confused "I thought we were looking for a missing friend of yours?"
"We are" Said Kilili scathingly "But did it ever occur to you that Pioneer might be big enough to get lost on?"
Ryzada said nothing, the midget had a point, Pioneer was definitely not the safest place in the worlds.
Finally she spoke up "So where are we going? Do you have any clues as to Skyla's whereabouts?"
"None actually" Psilo said with a grimace "All we know is she was meeting a friend at the Shattered Shield and we haven't heard from her since."
"The Shattered Shield?" Ryzada asked "What was she doing there exactly?" The Shattered Shield was a tavern favored by lowlifes and degenerates, all in all it was a very unfriendly pub in a very unfriendly part of pioneer.
"We don't really know that either, but there was nothing shady about it I assure you." Psilo's tone was practically daring Ryzada to challenge this statement.
"Umm okay, so where do we start looking?" Ryzada was a little unnerved by this pair of rangers.
"Where else?" Kilili rolled her eyes "We're going to the Shattered Shield to ask a few questions."
So Ryzada set off with her two new "friends". She had a bad feeling about this job, but she needed money to get her ticket so there was no use in complaining.
Bit of a short chapter really, sorry but I'm tired, and oh I lied Chimpus is not in this chapter, most likely to be in the next, uhh I did intend to answer a few things in this chapter, failed a little didn't I? Just more questions for you readers to ponder, What is Crimson doing? What was Mei's dream all about? Where is Skyla? Did Magus burn the breakfast?!? All these questions and more, not answered in the next exciting chapter!
Ryzada hurled the remote at the TV, yelling it in sheer frustration. How could they do this? This was TOTALLY unfair! They just couldn't stop broadcasting matches! What if something happened to Crimson or Alice? She wouldn't even know, oh and if Tatsu got hurt, that would be bad too. Ryzada yelled at the TV some more and composed some hate mail to the president of the broadcasting network then huffily sat down in her favorite chair.
How was this fair? Without the news covering matches Ryzada had no way of knowing what was happening at the coliseum, sure Crimson sent her updates, but she needed to be able to see that he was fine. Crimson was not above lying to her. There had to be a way she could watch his matches. Spectator seats! That was it, she just had to get tickets. But they were expensive and she had no money, she needed to find a job. But the chair was getting awfully comfortable, maybe just a short nap before she left? Yes that would be nice. Ryzada curled up into a ball and fell asleep. Elsewhere on pioneer, somebody was only just waking up.
"Magus? Are you awake?" Mei asked in the dreamy, half asleep voice of somebody only recently awoken.
"No"
"Okay then, tell me when you do wake up, because I need to talk to you."
Magus sighed, a shocking percentage of houseplants could beat Mei in a battle of wits. "I'm awake Mei, what is it you wanted to talk about?"
Mei sat up, which meant she was straddling Magus' stomach, Magus tried to switch his brain to the off position.
"Well I had this really strange dream, there was a man in it and he was wearing a dress."
"You mean he was a force?"
Mei nodded empathically which caused her to bounce a little, Magus averted his eyes. "Anyway it was really strange that I was dreaming about a person because normally I dream about bunnies and things, and he said something to me and I didn't understand at all."
"What did he say?" Magus believed in dreams acting as signs so his interest was genuine.
Mei frowned "he said, Light makes darkness, a pair exists, but it doesn't always exist. Reincarnation goes forever. I really don't understand it Magus, but you're so smart, I thought you might know what it means."
"Not a clue, sorry Mei." Magus said propping himself up on his elbows "Now how about you get off of me and I'll make some breakfast?" He kept his tone casual and slightly cheerful, but inside he was troubled, "Reincarnation goes forever" His master had said that to him, he'd also said he would explain it when Magus was ready. Dammit old man, why did you have to go and get killed? No use worrying about it now, asking questions of dead people had never resulted in an answer. Magus decided to forget about Mei's dream and concentrate on the breakfast, he didn't really fancy scorched sausages this morning.
Crimson wolfed down his breakfast, he wasn't hungry, it was so he didn't have to taste it so much. Alice was in a match this morning and Tatsu had volunteered to make breakfast, Tatsu was not a good cook. Dropping his empty plate into the sink Crimson hurried back to the small room that was probably designed for storage purposes. He grabbed a few wires and components off of the table on his way and then locked himself in the cupboard.
Tatsu sighed, the whole secrecy thing was really starting to annoy him, what was Crimson doing that he wouldn't even share with his best friend? Stupid question really, he was making something, It was easy to tell because Crimson was swearing frequently as he worked. Tatsu cleared the table of junk and breakfast leftovers and sat himself down in front of the TV. So far the tournament was boring him, but he knew that was going to be the case. The first few matches it was very likely that the opponent would be a wimp who only entered for the hell of it. Now that those first few fights were done with things should start to get interesting, Tatsu was sure of that, why else stop the news coverage? It was to make people buy tickets to watch the fights live.
Alice entered the room and crashed out on the bed, her breathing was ragged and her clothes were covered in dirt, Tatsu was immediately worried about the bed sheets, and then Alice.
"Are you okay?" he asked "It looks like that match was rather rough on you."
"Oh I'm fine" Alice panted "Don't worry so much Tatsu, I'm a big strong girl I can handle myself." At the present moment she didn't look big or strong, she looked rather small and exhausted. Tatsu pointed this out to her
"I told you I'm fine." Alice said with slight irritation "I just need to rest a little, that's all, I don't know how you and Crimson do it, you both come back looking like you just went out for a short walk."
"Trade secret" Tatsu smiled "Or maybe its just we know our limitations and are a little more careful on the battlefield, I've seen you fight Alice, you're a little reckless."
"Sorry mother, I'll be more careful next time. Now if you'll excuse me? I need to sleep a little." With that said Alice quickly fell into a light doze. Tatsu decided to leave her to it, though her clothes were going to be a real pain to get clean again.
Crimson opened his cupboard door "Is that Alice just got back?" he asked poking his head through the opening, obscuring Tatsu's view of whatever lay within.
"Yes and she's sleeping, so be quiet" Tatsu warned
"Well maybe I should stop working for a bit?" Said Crimson "I'm not too sure on this next part and it may be quite loud."
"Quite loud?" Tatsu winced at the horrible memories of Crimson developing the sonic grenade, the "slight noise" that occurred then had shattered glass. Quite loud was definitely not going to be a fun experience.
"Umm yeah." Crimson grinned "Quite loud, as in may explode violently and without warning."
"Well then give it a break and perfect the theory before putting it into practice, I would rather not have a repeat of handgun upgrade incident."
Crimson smiled "That was a good one, such a pity it didn't work. Made a nice bomb though."
"Just sit down and watch some TV please?" Tatsu begged, he had no wish to be in the room when Crimson got to the dangerous part of whatever he was doing. Thankfully Crimson also didn't want to be in the room when he got to the dangerous part and so they both ended up watching a game show and complaining about the stupidity of the contestants.
Ryzada sat back in the uncomfortable plastic chair, she missed her armchair back home. But the wait was necessary until the client arrived. The job looked to be rather interesting. A hunter was searching for their missing friend, there were a lot of mysterious disappearances lately, but this one didn't seem to fit in with the others. So far all of the missing hunters were from pioneer 2. This "Skyla" person was on the roster of pioneer 1, Alice would have found this fascinating, to Ryzada it was merely interesting. Where was these client?
The client burst through the doors not 3 minutes later, looking rather out of breath "Sorry, to, keep, you, waiting." She panted taking a few deep breaths
Ryzada blinked "That's okay." What was this ranger wearing? Purple and black were not really complimentary colors
"Well my name is Psilo and thank you for answering the ad, I'm sure the three of us will get along just fine"
"Three?" Asked Ryzada puzzled, then she noticed the other ranger by the door way. "Oh, are you sure it's alright to bring children along? Ragol is kinda dangerous."
"I am not a child!" the ranger by the door stamped her foot "And you're hardly taller than me, so you can just shut your mouth!"
"Never mind Kilili" Psilo said half smiling "She may be a little on the short side, but she does well enough in a fight, and besides did I ever say we were going to go to Ragol?"
Ryzada was confused "I thought we were looking for a missing friend of yours?"
"We are" Said Kilili scathingly "But did it ever occur to you that Pioneer might be big enough to get lost on?"
Ryzada said nothing, the midget had a point, Pioneer was definitely not the safest place in the worlds.
Finally she spoke up "So where are we going? Do you have any clues as to Skyla's whereabouts?"
"None actually" Psilo said with a grimace "All we know is she was meeting a friend at the Shattered Shield and we haven't heard from her since."
"The Shattered Shield?" Ryzada asked "What was she doing there exactly?" The Shattered Shield was a tavern favored by lowlifes and degenerates, all in all it was a very unfriendly pub in a very unfriendly part of pioneer.
"We don't really know that either, but there was nothing shady about it I assure you." Psilo's tone was practically daring Ryzada to challenge this statement.
"Umm okay, so where do we start looking?" Ryzada was a little unnerved by this pair of rangers.
"Where else?" Kilili rolled her eyes "We're going to the Shattered Shield to ask a few questions."
So Ryzada set off with her two new "friends". She had a bad feeling about this job, but she needed money to get her ticket so there was no use in complaining.
Bit of a short chapter really, sorry but I'm tired, and oh I lied Chimpus is not in this chapter, most likely to be in the next, uhh I did intend to answer a few things in this chapter, failed a little didn't I? Just more questions for you readers to ponder, What is Crimson doing? What was Mei's dream all about? Where is Skyla? Did Magus burn the breakfast?!? All these questions and more, not answered in the next exciting chapter!