Why I haven't updated:
Alana: ARGH!!! THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL ME!
Alryune the Heartless: Smirk -Come along, little writer. Aku wants to have a word with you. Or, perhaps... We should kill Jak-tachi?-
Alana: NOO! Let me go, you evil thing! Experimental can wait a day!
Alryune: - Fine, then. You leave me no choice.- : )
(Swarms of Heartless appear to try and drag me back to Kingdom Hearts)
Alana: ACK! ITAI! NOO!
(Alryune stands to one side, smirking, as the NeoShadows and LupeShades drag me back. Until...)
Alana: Glare You are mindless drones, murkying up my reader's interest! In the name of Interesting Stories, Original Characters, and Yaoi, I shall punish you! Does a little shoujo-transformation thing, sans stripping in favor of morphing and lots of gold bubbles Rei... Enpitsu... POWER!
(Millions of miniature mechanical pencils, all glowing gold and pearl, shoot out in all directions, and the Heartless evaporate)
Alryune: -Drat you, Sailor Creativity! I'll get you next time!-
Yami no Alana: Pops out of a Plot Hole and grabs Alryune's ear No you don't. Let Mou Hitori no Ore-sama write, or she'll yell at me.
Alryune: -Fudge and darnnation... - Gets dragged off-screen
Alana: Phew. Sighs I'm starting to regret creating her...
Multiverse Policeman: Walks up to Alana Excuse me, would you be Alana 'Hikari-chan' Deckert?
Alana: Er... Yeah?
Policeman: Holds up a folded piece of paper I have right here the fines and debts for destruction of property, body, and mind your muses have inflicted. Until everything is paid, your muses will be imprisoned on Misty Island, and we request that you do not aid in their escape by writing until debts are paid off.
Alana: Takes paper Er... Meaning?
Policeman: Enforced Hiatus.
Alana: Oh... Unfolds the paper, watching it stretch out... and out... and out... Oh, Kami-sama, this is gonna take a while...
A couple months later...
Alana: Wahh! I'm broke! This means I can't buy the new YuGiOh manga! ;;... Sighs Well then, I better update or something... Sits down at her computer
Dad: Pops out of the woodwork No ya don't, not 'till you clean your room! Unplugs the keyboard and wanders off with it
Alana: ... Well, bleep. Sighs and wanders off to RP
One summer vacation later...
Alana: I WILL update SOMETHING this summer! Shakes her hand at the sky No matter what anyone does to stop me! Finally cleans her room
Dad: Good job, Alana! Plugs keyboard back in
Alana: Yay! - Starts to update-- but becomes engulfed in a mountain of textbooks KYAAAA! x#
A few weeks later...
Alana: Digs hersself out Hu... hu... huff... Stumbles to the computer and hits "Upload" Finally... Dies
And hence, this chappie is very late.
Warnings: Heh... Gaia being bouncy, pointless small talk, and general funness. I really needed to get away from all that darkness Alryune's trying to drag me back to... Smacks away Heartless, Angst, and other dark things
Reviews: Amandaxter (Thanks, I will) nobinoir (YES! I got it just a few days after you left this review. ) kiz (You have been? Yay! And... actually, no I don't get the point, but that's okay. And Jak... He's gonna get a fangirl. Heh. ) darkleena (Thank you! Updating!) Shark (Grin) Jak's Gal (Because I'm a fanfiction authoress, and yes, it is cool, isn't it? Grin)
Disclaimer: Faye-Faye, Mol-baka, Gaia-koi, and Simi-sweet all belong to me. Huggles - Aren't they kawaii? And I also own anything else I came up with-- Like Flutabos, Fincayra, and the lyrics to "Always On My Mind". Otherwise, ain't mine, so don't sue... like you'd get anything. Pokes the twenty dollars she got for returning a broken FFIX to Software, Ect.
Blah : Thoughts
-,--: Break in time/POV change
'whatever': Translation of whatever Jak's saying.
-,-Flowers---
part two: New people, New places
Little Flames
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Journal:
Life seems a LITTLE chaotic right now. I can't get "Always On My Mind" OUT of my mind, Kira is playing matchmaker between me and Gaia, Molindriana is constantly gushing at Jak- Apparently that thing Daxter said about White Eco was true, although I still find it hard to believe- I haven't gotten paid, and Simi keeps on snatching Molindriana's hybrid Ecos. I can't wait for everything at Nut Hut to be finished up so I can just LEAVE all this. It's very... Disturbing.
I want to go HOME, where people don't act as if I'm either tainted or nonexistent, and being an assassin is something you learn in school. I miss political intrigue, and fat, rich elves running around wasting money, and the NORMAL sort of excitement of daily life-and-death situations. I can't deal with all this... SMALLness.
Well, at least I'm Fayendri Nimukashna again. Yamikai the Assassin was getting on my nerves, I'm afraid.
Also, I need to brush up on my Precursor Glyphs, but I can't find my book anywhere. That is ALSO getting on my nerves. Along with the constant echoing of 'Don't you leave mee, darkness falls! Please protect me beyooond!" as sung by Mikaru, and Gaia's just as constant habit of calling me 'Chan' even when I ask him not to. And the mood swings are getting worse- both the moods themselves and the frequency.
By Enma and purple Precursors, my problems are trivial! I want to go home!
I'll stop whining now...
-,--
"FAYENDRI! YOUR SISTER! SHE HAS DONE IT AGAIN!"
Faye winces at the all-too-familiar screeching of an angry Mol and closes her journal. "YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIL LIKE AN ANGRY FISHWIFE!" Faye calls back, wishing SHE had a fish so she could smack Mol across the face with it.
Mol slams open the rather flimsy wooden door to Faye's small apartment, breathing heavily, a bokken of Precursor metal clutched in her hands. "Siminoch HAS TO GO!" screams the older elf. "This is the FIRST TIME I've been able to meld the R-G Eco, and she steals ALL OF IT!"
Wincing again at the grating tone of a very angry Mol, Faye throws her journal at the woman. "Well, it's not my fault if you can't keep an amateur thief out of your supposedly secure lab! I can't control my sister anymore than the rat can fly!"
Mol glares. "Well then, you'd better get Daxter to start flappin'! You WILL get that DEMON under control!" She spins around, pulling the door shut as hard as she can in a dramatic exit.
Faye grins venomously as the wood breaks, half the door falling on Mol. "Serves her right" is muttered under her breath as the other elf swears colorfully.
After a moment, Mol shakes the remains of the door off of her, glares again at Faye, and storms down the hall. Then, a minute of silence.
"FAYENDRI!!!"
-,--
Kira and Gaia talk animatedly over lunch, Jak absently nibbling on some roast drumstick as he reads a book, and Daxter remains amazingly bored. So bored, in fact, that an appearance by the gushing blond Jak-fangirl demon (AKA Mol) would be welcome as something to break the monotony of being ignored.
Scratch that- Nothing would make Daxter wish Mol was there.
Suddenly- amazingly- shockingly!- well, apparently normally... Screams ring through the oversized hut.
Well, not really screams.
Screeches, perhaps.
Daxter nods to himself. Yep, definitely screech. No doubt.
Also apparently normally, Faye's little sister skitters through the small dining room, over the table, between Kira and Gaia, past Daxter, and out the door, a jar glowing a sort of sickly dull brown clenched in her hands.
Daxter decides that following Simi might be a way to get rid of boredom, if not the state of Ignoredness he's currently hovering in. And anyway, any direction Simi heads is likely to be a direction Mol is NOT in.
Directions Mol is not in are GOOD directions, in general.
Daxter scrabbles under the table and off behind Simi, thankful (for once) for the speed and agility of his fuzzy two feet of self.
Jak raises an eyebrow, then looks back down at his book.
-,--
"Where does that brat GO?!"
Mol rants at her nodding brother, Gaia tracing his fingers over the rounded Precursor Glyphs.
"I mean, there's only so many places she can take my Eco, and she HAS to stay in the hut! I mean, there're all those nasty Lurkers, she can't go outside, right?"
"Right... Oi, hand me that book you're sitting on..."
"And I BUILT this place, I know ALL of it, but does that help me find her? No!"
"Ahh, calm, calm. It's not so bad, Sis. She doesn't steal all the ordinary Eco you collect." Gaia taps one of the Glyphs, then frowns. "Hey, let's go up to the roof... Bring your goggles."
"Meh... You weren't even listening, were you?"
"'Course I was."
-,--
Jak blinks, his ears twitching as a resounding boom echoes through the house, followed by a even louder "YEAH!" and the thumps of feet the roof. Heavy thumps. In circles. As of a really silly victory dance.
Three guesses who it is, Jak thinks to himself, shaking his head in amused tolerance.
The footsteps thud away, and a moment later, Gaia bounces into the large center room. "Jak-kun! Guess what?"
A green eyebrow twitches up. 'What?'
"I figured out an ancient-Precursor-glyph! I figured out an ancient-Precursor-glyph!" Grinning, Gaia bounces off, sing-songing those words over and over.
About five minutes later, Gaia shouts, "I AM GREAT! FEAR MY WICKEDLY GOOD LINGUISTICAL SKILLS!"
Daxter jumps up to Jak's shoulder, whispering, "If you do, I'd seriously have to worry about you."
Jak grins.
-,--
"FAYENDRI MIZAKAOSHINTE NIMUKASHNA!"
Keira raises an eyebrow at the other elf. "Mizakaoshinte? What sort of middle name is that?"
"One you get from over-enthusiastic parents. But it's better than Simi's- hers is Forsythintsukinishuyinlaxniakcinthilicturtiumony."
Keira blinks a few times. "Wha... How do you REMEMBER that?"
"You write it down, and then you sing it. And sing it again. And again, until it becomes automatic, and you can take out the melody." Faye shrugs. "Pretty basic, if you know how to do it."
"... My middle name is Levlin, nice and short and boring."
"I once knew a Levlin. Sweetest, most boy-crazy girl in my village. You just wanted to smack all those giggles out of her, most of the time."
"Er." Keira glances guiltily in Jak's direction, where he stands patiently attentive (Sort of) to Gaia's ramblings.
"Oh, don't worry. You're not quite as bad as she was." The grin Fayendri sends Keira's way is anything but reassuring.
-,--
"Faye-chan?"
Faye looks up at Gaia, tilting her head at his pleading expression. "What is it?"
"Erm. I was thinking."
"Very amazing, I'm sure."
Gaia looks blank. "Well. I sorta need the hut to myself, and I was wondering if you could take everyone out to Fincayra proper so I could work without distraction?..."
Faye smiles. "Sure, Gai'. How soon do they need to be gone?"
"Er... Now?"
"They'll be gone before you can say Forsythintsukinishuyinlaxniakcinthilicturtiumony."
"Wha-" Gaia blinks. "For-syth-in-huh?"
Faye grins, darting around him to collect all.
-,--
Daxter scampers along next to Simi, chattering cheerily to the silent girl.
"Ah, what a BEAU-tiful day! Did I ever tell you about the time I saved the world? It was easy, really- except for this one time, with these TEN Lurkers! There I was, standing in all my furry beauty, as these nasty creeps surrounded me, and I barely had enough time to push Jak out of the way as all FIFTEEN jumped us at the same time! And BANG! All I had to do was grab some of the Red stuff, twitch, and all TWENTY were down, but another FIFTY came at us just as those few fell! So with my uber-super-great Eco powers, I jumped at the SEVENTY new ones, and before you could bat an eyelash on a hip-hog with a nervous twitch, there were TWO HUNDRED Lurkers lying at my glorious orange feet! Not counting the few hundred from earlier."
Simi giggles silently, scratching the ottsel behind the ears, as Jak rolls his eyes in an incredibly vocal way. AKA, 'That lie is bigger than Snowy Mountain.'
Keira watches the two silent members of their party with curiosity. "Faye?"
Faye turns from her fight with Mol, absently grabbing a sharp-nailed hand before it can swipe across her face, and smiles pleasantly. "Yes, Keira?"
"Is your sister completely mute?"
"Yup." Faye turns away, hissing a insult to the blond elf trying to kill her with Fury Swipes, releasing the hand so that Mol can back away hastily. Glancing back at Keira, Faye notices a curious gleam still lingering in the green-haired elf's eyes.
"Do you know why she's mute?" Keira twirls a lock of hair around her fingers, head tilted inquiringly. "I mean, we never found out with Jak, since no one knew him before he came to Sandover, but you sister is younger than you..."
"Ah." Faye gazes reminiscently into the distance. "Well, funny thing is, she just stopped making noise one day. I wasn't there, out on a side mission to this big thing I was working on at the time, so all this I heard from other people. But she went out to see Anala, and came back without her voice." She taps her chin thoughtfully. "Lessee, she was staying with... Oh, that's right, the Feza clan. Nas said there was nothing wrong with her, besides that she never spoke again."
"Huh." Keira, dissatisfied but knowing that's all there would be, quickens her pace to join Jak.
Because of this, they are the first to turn the last corner, crest the last hill, and see Fincayra.
Woah.
Below them, spread like a jewel-toned rug lays a rambling cliff-side village, a sparkling creek winding though the center to tumble like a million diamonds over bright sandstone towards the ocean. Curved tiles of the impossibly resilient Precursor metal roof the brightly painted houses and the beaten path widens into a cobblestone road as it reaches the first house.
"Hey, Mech girl, keep moving!"
The magic of that first suspended moment vanishes as a bristling Keira turns on Mol, and a proper catfight ensues.
'WOMEN.'
Daxter sighs, patting Jak's leg comfortingly. "I know, pal, I know. It's amazing how things that beautiful can be so exasperating."
Jak nods, sighing as girlfriend and fangirl battle it out. Then, Daxter scrambling up onto his shoulder, our favorite hero sets off down the hill to the sparkling village of Fincayra, Fayendri following a few steps behind and pulling an angry Mol along behind her, Keira and Simi tailing the group.
YES! DONE! It took me forever, but here's the next chapter! -