Moonbay sat behind a computer typing away with everything that she had. All
she came up with was very little. Nothing. Or things that she already knew.
It was driving her to the brink of insanity.
"Eleven months, eleven freaking month!" she yelled slamming her fist down upon the desk that the computer was situated on. "Where the hell are they!" she yelled again as she looked at the blank screen that she hoped would turn up clues to their location either dead or alive but she hoped it wasn't dead.
Eleven months had passed since Van and Fiona fell off the cliff. Nobody has seen or heard from them that many already believed that they were dead. Moonbay knew not to put it past them. They thought the same about Van until he turned up in the horrible shape that he was in. She refused to believe it and Irvine was exactly the same.
Instead of looking for the two of them the same way that Moonbay was, Irvine took a more direct approach to finding them. It got him in trouble a lot of the time because he ended up getting in a lot of fights. 'Who would have thought that Van had so many enemies,' Moonbay could remember Irvine once said a few months before. Last time she saw him a day before, he came back pretty bruised up. That was where he was now, getting some treatment for it.
They found Matt or at least what was left of him and his zoid. It was a very gruesome scene. The fall was much larger than they anticipated but what shocked them was that the blade liger was nowhere to be seen. That gave them hope but then there was also the problem that Matt didn't fall all of the way, there was still a large fall left that they couldn't get to the bottom of. That made it worse but Moonbay refused to believe that they were dead. She knew that Van would have some way of getting out of the situation they were in.
"Ouch, damn it! Take it easy," yelled Irvine while a doctor bandaged his very seriously injured arm. There was a huge gash on his arm but it had long since stopped bleeding. It still hurt like hell though.
"You are such a whiner. This isn't even all that bad. I have seen far worse then this and he didn't complain as much as you are now. So just sit down shut up and let me do my job!" the doctor was getting annoyed with all of the complaining.
"How exactly can it get any worse than this?" grumbled Irvine as he leaned against his good arm but winced when he accidentally touched a small cut just under his left eye. He was beginning to wish he had just fought them in zoids rather than hand-to-hand but he didn't get a chance to get to his lightning saix. He did end up beating all of them though.
"Easy, if there was any more damage to his arm then it is very possible that he would have ended up losing any use he had with his left arm. Sure he had other injuries but none were as bad as that. I don't even think he minded though. He seemed more occupied with the beautiful woman that was with him; I would be too. They made a fit when I tried to get him alone to fix his arm," he said with a slight chuckle.
Irvine couldn't help but chuckle as well. "I can imagine that the two of them must have been more deeply in love than anyone else I know. Well, maybe not. I know two that went through so much just to be with each other. We lost them though and now we are wondering if they are alive or not," said Irvine sadly.
"So you think that they are either dead or just trying to avoid you?" asked the doctor with a chuckle. "The one I treated that I told you earlier, they seemed like they wanted to get away from society as well. Didn't stay long. They were in, and out as quickly as they could. I would want to be alone to with a woman like her. If only I were a few years younger I would go for her as well. Lovely blonde hair pulled into a low ponytail, Crimson eyes, the marking on her forehead. I envy him," he said with a pout but anyone could tell that he was just fooling around.
As soon as he heard that description, Irvine's thoughts immediately jumped to Fiona. Description wise, it sounded almost exactly like her. He knew that he had to make sure though. "The man that was with her. Did he have spiky black hair with a rattail in the back? About the tall?" asked Irvine putting a hand up to where he remembered Van being as tall to him as. He was hoping beyond hope that it was actually them because he was tired of looking and he actually missed them.
"Yes, I think so, his hairs wasn't too well kept at that moment but it looked like it had fallen from a spiky hairstyle," the old man said he then noticed the smirk that was forming on Irvine's face.
'Got them,' he thought with a smirk. "Listen, I was wondering if you could tell me where they went?" asked Irvine trying to be as nice he could but all he received from the doctor was a shaking of the head. "Why not?" he asked getting slightly annoyed.
"It is a doctors responsibility in keeping his patients files confidential. So I am sorry but there is no way that I..." he started but he couldn't finish because Irvine brought out the guardian force badge. He hated to admit it but he was stuck with them. "Oh, now that you put it that way... no," said the doctor with a smirk.
"Then what do you say about this?' asked Irvine with a smirk that didn't really make the poor old doctor feel too comfortable. "He has gone missing a few months ago and I need to find him and you are going to help me," said Irvine, he didn't care if he had to do this illegally; he was going to find them no matter what I took.
"Argh!" groaned Moonbay as she slammed her fists down on the table after yet another failed search "Why is it that we can't find our own two best friends? Could they really be... dead?" she asked while she was close to being on the verge of tear out of both frustration and sadness.
"Quit whining Moonbay. It doesn't really suit you normally tough personality," said Irvine walking into the room with a smirk on his face. "We can never stop looking for them and you know that," he said sternly.
Moonbay could only stare at him in shock because he seemed so calm about something. "What the hell are you smiling at? It isn't like we haven't been able to find anything!" yelled Moonbay trying to take all of her frustration out on Irvine.
"Humph, who ever said I didn't find anything out?" asked Irvine with a smirk as Moonbay's head shot up to look at him. He felt like he could tease her a little bit with it but he was in a hurry. "I didn't get any specific detail but apparently two people that looked like Van and Fiona were last seen heading eastwards about ten months ago, it would be close to the same time that they disappeared. It doesn't mean anything though. There might be a chance that it might not be them, so don't get your hopes up," said Irvine but he had this good feeling like it was really them. He was not going to think negatively because as some say, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Moonbay was happy that they at least had something to go on and she also was feeling very optimistic about all of it. she had a gut feeling like it could very possibly be them and she was not going to let go of it until they were positive that they were wrong and Moonbay doesn't settle for being wrong.
"Well, what are you waiting for? The longer we wait the more time they will have to get away from us," said Irvine trying his best to be able to get moving as soon as possible he was up for a little vacation as it was so he couldn't wait to get away.
"Yeah!" yelled Moonbay jumping up and down for joy while Irvine just shook his head with silent laughter. 'Van and Fiona did a good job hiding to keep away from being seen by others, but not good enough,' thought Moonbay with a victorious grin.
The two of them left almost immediately. They wasted little time in heading in the direction that Irvine had pretty much forced out of the old doctor. He felt bad about it but he also thought that it was for a good cause.
"Irvine, what makes you think that they didn't move in a different direction?" asked Moonbay from the gustav to Irvine in his lightning saix. It was a very good question that had been bugging her from the beginning.
"I honestly have no clue if they are even still there after all of this time. It is the only lead that we have and with hope, we can only hope that they didn't make too many moves in different directions. I hope that maybe someone would have seen them and can tell us what we need to know of their location," said Irvine sadly looking towards the horizon.
"I guess that you are right about that. Listen, there is a town up ahead, I want to stop there to look around before we go any further," said Moonbay turning the gustav slightly so that it faced in the direction of the town before she got moving a little faster to get there faster. Before they were going slightly slow so that they didn't miss a clue to use but they didn't see any and it was getting dark anyways.
Irvine pulled up a map in the lightning saix to find out what town it was that they were coming up to. When he saw the name he could have sworn that he had heard about it before but he wasn't sure where. 'Hm, Ruby town, where have I heard that name before?' he asked himself while rubbing his chin. He was so deep in thought that he didn't realize that he had fallen a good deal behind Moonbay.
"Irvine!" screamed Moonbay knocking him back to his senses and he rushed to catch up to her. Her voice sounded very scared and he wondered what it was that she yelled out to him for.
It was then that he realized where he had heard of this town. A very large portion of the town was completely decimated. He remembered about ten and a half months ago he saw a report that described the event that took place here. The town was attacked and explosion occurred that killed all that were in the area.
"What happened here Irvine?" asked Moonbay in a shaky voice and Irvine reluctantly told her the entire story according to what he had read. She was shocked by this and saddened even more to hear of all of the deaths that had occurred as a result of some idiot.
The two of them hopped out of their zoids and started to walk into the town to see that it was very close to empty. "Ah, it is good to be able to see visitors once again," said someone that looked to be a priest. He had a sad expression on his face as he approached the two of them. "Ever since the incident that occurred, no one has bothered to come here anymore," he said while looking towards the ground.
"We are sorry about what happened to this place. It is horrible that this had to happen," said Irvine with a frown as he started to walk around the town. He didn't know anyone that lived here but he felt it in him that he should pay some sort of respect to those that died before they got back on the road to look for their friends.
Irvine and Moonbay walked into a graveyard and were not really surprised when they saw the amount of graves that were scattered all throughout the place. A testament to ones own flaws of being a human that craved power. The ones responsible may have been caught and punished properly but that could never return the dead back to life.
"Many bodies couldn't even be recovered form the explosions so a number of these graves are empty. So many children were caught in the blast as well. How could this have happened?" the priest asked covering his face with his hands.
"I don't know," muttered Moonbay as she stared at all of the tombstones that were scattered all over the ground. Something caught her eye at that moment and she wondered off from the small group. She couldn't help but stare at many of the names that were written on all of the tombstones and the year that they were born and died. Many of them were so small of a time distance that it hurt to look at. She came to one specific though, "Irvine!"
When Irvine heard his name called he immediately rushed towards Moonbays side to see her shaking all over. She was staring at something and when he stepped forward to get a look he knew exactly why. It was a tombstone that read, 'Van Flyheight and Fiona Alisi Lynette'.
"Eleven months, eleven freaking month!" she yelled slamming her fist down upon the desk that the computer was situated on. "Where the hell are they!" she yelled again as she looked at the blank screen that she hoped would turn up clues to their location either dead or alive but she hoped it wasn't dead.
Eleven months had passed since Van and Fiona fell off the cliff. Nobody has seen or heard from them that many already believed that they were dead. Moonbay knew not to put it past them. They thought the same about Van until he turned up in the horrible shape that he was in. She refused to believe it and Irvine was exactly the same.
Instead of looking for the two of them the same way that Moonbay was, Irvine took a more direct approach to finding them. It got him in trouble a lot of the time because he ended up getting in a lot of fights. 'Who would have thought that Van had so many enemies,' Moonbay could remember Irvine once said a few months before. Last time she saw him a day before, he came back pretty bruised up. That was where he was now, getting some treatment for it.
They found Matt or at least what was left of him and his zoid. It was a very gruesome scene. The fall was much larger than they anticipated but what shocked them was that the blade liger was nowhere to be seen. That gave them hope but then there was also the problem that Matt didn't fall all of the way, there was still a large fall left that they couldn't get to the bottom of. That made it worse but Moonbay refused to believe that they were dead. She knew that Van would have some way of getting out of the situation they were in.
"Ouch, damn it! Take it easy," yelled Irvine while a doctor bandaged his very seriously injured arm. There was a huge gash on his arm but it had long since stopped bleeding. It still hurt like hell though.
"You are such a whiner. This isn't even all that bad. I have seen far worse then this and he didn't complain as much as you are now. So just sit down shut up and let me do my job!" the doctor was getting annoyed with all of the complaining.
"How exactly can it get any worse than this?" grumbled Irvine as he leaned against his good arm but winced when he accidentally touched a small cut just under his left eye. He was beginning to wish he had just fought them in zoids rather than hand-to-hand but he didn't get a chance to get to his lightning saix. He did end up beating all of them though.
"Easy, if there was any more damage to his arm then it is very possible that he would have ended up losing any use he had with his left arm. Sure he had other injuries but none were as bad as that. I don't even think he minded though. He seemed more occupied with the beautiful woman that was with him; I would be too. They made a fit when I tried to get him alone to fix his arm," he said with a slight chuckle.
Irvine couldn't help but chuckle as well. "I can imagine that the two of them must have been more deeply in love than anyone else I know. Well, maybe not. I know two that went through so much just to be with each other. We lost them though and now we are wondering if they are alive or not," said Irvine sadly.
"So you think that they are either dead or just trying to avoid you?" asked the doctor with a chuckle. "The one I treated that I told you earlier, they seemed like they wanted to get away from society as well. Didn't stay long. They were in, and out as quickly as they could. I would want to be alone to with a woman like her. If only I were a few years younger I would go for her as well. Lovely blonde hair pulled into a low ponytail, Crimson eyes, the marking on her forehead. I envy him," he said with a pout but anyone could tell that he was just fooling around.
As soon as he heard that description, Irvine's thoughts immediately jumped to Fiona. Description wise, it sounded almost exactly like her. He knew that he had to make sure though. "The man that was with her. Did he have spiky black hair with a rattail in the back? About the tall?" asked Irvine putting a hand up to where he remembered Van being as tall to him as. He was hoping beyond hope that it was actually them because he was tired of looking and he actually missed them.
"Yes, I think so, his hairs wasn't too well kept at that moment but it looked like it had fallen from a spiky hairstyle," the old man said he then noticed the smirk that was forming on Irvine's face.
'Got them,' he thought with a smirk. "Listen, I was wondering if you could tell me where they went?" asked Irvine trying to be as nice he could but all he received from the doctor was a shaking of the head. "Why not?" he asked getting slightly annoyed.
"It is a doctors responsibility in keeping his patients files confidential. So I am sorry but there is no way that I..." he started but he couldn't finish because Irvine brought out the guardian force badge. He hated to admit it but he was stuck with them. "Oh, now that you put it that way... no," said the doctor with a smirk.
"Then what do you say about this?' asked Irvine with a smirk that didn't really make the poor old doctor feel too comfortable. "He has gone missing a few months ago and I need to find him and you are going to help me," said Irvine, he didn't care if he had to do this illegally; he was going to find them no matter what I took.
"Argh!" groaned Moonbay as she slammed her fists down on the table after yet another failed search "Why is it that we can't find our own two best friends? Could they really be... dead?" she asked while she was close to being on the verge of tear out of both frustration and sadness.
"Quit whining Moonbay. It doesn't really suit you normally tough personality," said Irvine walking into the room with a smirk on his face. "We can never stop looking for them and you know that," he said sternly.
Moonbay could only stare at him in shock because he seemed so calm about something. "What the hell are you smiling at? It isn't like we haven't been able to find anything!" yelled Moonbay trying to take all of her frustration out on Irvine.
"Humph, who ever said I didn't find anything out?" asked Irvine with a smirk as Moonbay's head shot up to look at him. He felt like he could tease her a little bit with it but he was in a hurry. "I didn't get any specific detail but apparently two people that looked like Van and Fiona were last seen heading eastwards about ten months ago, it would be close to the same time that they disappeared. It doesn't mean anything though. There might be a chance that it might not be them, so don't get your hopes up," said Irvine but he had this good feeling like it was really them. He was not going to think negatively because as some say, anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Moonbay was happy that they at least had something to go on and she also was feeling very optimistic about all of it. she had a gut feeling like it could very possibly be them and she was not going to let go of it until they were positive that they were wrong and Moonbay doesn't settle for being wrong.
"Well, what are you waiting for? The longer we wait the more time they will have to get away from us," said Irvine trying his best to be able to get moving as soon as possible he was up for a little vacation as it was so he couldn't wait to get away.
"Yeah!" yelled Moonbay jumping up and down for joy while Irvine just shook his head with silent laughter. 'Van and Fiona did a good job hiding to keep away from being seen by others, but not good enough,' thought Moonbay with a victorious grin.
The two of them left almost immediately. They wasted little time in heading in the direction that Irvine had pretty much forced out of the old doctor. He felt bad about it but he also thought that it was for a good cause.
"Irvine, what makes you think that they didn't move in a different direction?" asked Moonbay from the gustav to Irvine in his lightning saix. It was a very good question that had been bugging her from the beginning.
"I honestly have no clue if they are even still there after all of this time. It is the only lead that we have and with hope, we can only hope that they didn't make too many moves in different directions. I hope that maybe someone would have seen them and can tell us what we need to know of their location," said Irvine sadly looking towards the horizon.
"I guess that you are right about that. Listen, there is a town up ahead, I want to stop there to look around before we go any further," said Moonbay turning the gustav slightly so that it faced in the direction of the town before she got moving a little faster to get there faster. Before they were going slightly slow so that they didn't miss a clue to use but they didn't see any and it was getting dark anyways.
Irvine pulled up a map in the lightning saix to find out what town it was that they were coming up to. When he saw the name he could have sworn that he had heard about it before but he wasn't sure where. 'Hm, Ruby town, where have I heard that name before?' he asked himself while rubbing his chin. He was so deep in thought that he didn't realize that he had fallen a good deal behind Moonbay.
"Irvine!" screamed Moonbay knocking him back to his senses and he rushed to catch up to her. Her voice sounded very scared and he wondered what it was that she yelled out to him for.
It was then that he realized where he had heard of this town. A very large portion of the town was completely decimated. He remembered about ten and a half months ago he saw a report that described the event that took place here. The town was attacked and explosion occurred that killed all that were in the area.
"What happened here Irvine?" asked Moonbay in a shaky voice and Irvine reluctantly told her the entire story according to what he had read. She was shocked by this and saddened even more to hear of all of the deaths that had occurred as a result of some idiot.
The two of them hopped out of their zoids and started to walk into the town to see that it was very close to empty. "Ah, it is good to be able to see visitors once again," said someone that looked to be a priest. He had a sad expression on his face as he approached the two of them. "Ever since the incident that occurred, no one has bothered to come here anymore," he said while looking towards the ground.
"We are sorry about what happened to this place. It is horrible that this had to happen," said Irvine with a frown as he started to walk around the town. He didn't know anyone that lived here but he felt it in him that he should pay some sort of respect to those that died before they got back on the road to look for their friends.
Irvine and Moonbay walked into a graveyard and were not really surprised when they saw the amount of graves that were scattered all throughout the place. A testament to ones own flaws of being a human that craved power. The ones responsible may have been caught and punished properly but that could never return the dead back to life.
"Many bodies couldn't even be recovered form the explosions so a number of these graves are empty. So many children were caught in the blast as well. How could this have happened?" the priest asked covering his face with his hands.
"I don't know," muttered Moonbay as she stared at all of the tombstones that were scattered all over the ground. Something caught her eye at that moment and she wondered off from the small group. She couldn't help but stare at many of the names that were written on all of the tombstones and the year that they were born and died. Many of them were so small of a time distance that it hurt to look at. She came to one specific though, "Irvine!"
When Irvine heard his name called he immediately rushed towards Moonbays side to see her shaking all over. She was staring at something and when he stepped forward to get a look he knew exactly why. It was a tombstone that read, 'Van Flyheight and Fiona Alisi Lynette'.