Chapter One: The Beginning
Copyright: All Final Fantasy X characters is used, and is property of
Square-enix Corporation. Story is purely fiction and any plot that relates
to a real life person's experience, dead or alive, is purely coincidental.
Author's Notes: Okay, here is a revamped (and shortened) version of the
Journey of Ordeals. Hope all of you can enjoy this story.
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The Beginning
A vast grass plain stood before me. Using my childhood memories, I recalled that these were the Calm lands. The sky was blue, and dandelions seeds flew together with the breeze. I felt two gloved hands wrap around me coyly.
"We will return here," I heard his manly voice, turning behind to see the man's smiling visage. "But together, with triumph. I promise..." Without thinking twice, I took his hands and put them onto my chest. I turned and pushed myself against his sturdy but soft crimson coat, locked in a warm embrace. His raven colored ponytail flew in the air as a strong wind blew in our direction.
From the strong sea of passion in my heart, I came back to my senses. Who was this man and what was I doing here? Further more, I was not wearing my usual clothing. Instead, a beige tube and shorts covered me, complemented with braids and on my hair, which was wrapped in a blue bandana.
A strange spell of dizziness came to me. As I began to collapse, everything around me blurred before I lost consciousness.
***
"You're...not dead?" I heard a familiar voice sound as I came round. I heard the soft splashing of water and felt the soft muddy ground. It was rather peculiar; it seemed as if I had gone through this before. However, my mind was a blank when I tried to recall anything.
With my strength, I got up and opened my eyes. I saw a familiar friend through my goggles, whom I met at the ancient Baaj temple and helped to retrieve an ancient machina but was lost when Sin attacked us then. Feeling the rubber suit on me tightening from exposure to the dry air, I proceeded to take it off. I felt my back for the zip where I pulled it down gently, revealing my orange top and green shorts. Pulling down the suit, I felt comfortable from the cool air of the Moonflow. With recent memories of my mission to save Yunie, I looked at the ground, feeling sad that I had failed.
"Though I was done for, back there," I mumbled to myself, falling to my knees and hands. I saw the star player of the Zanarkand Abes approach me.
"Rikku! You're Rikku!" He exclaimed, excited to see me once again. Deep inside, I was angry with him. He had been my enemy previously, from trying to save Yunie from the machina which I operated. "Hey! You're okay! How you been?"
"Terrible!" I shouted, shaking my head. What had happened earlier was a life-and-death experience; I had tried to swim to safety while avoiding the exploding machina behind me.
"Yeah, you don't look so good." He crouched down on me, trying to find out the truth. "What happened?"
"You beat me up, remember?" I pointed angrily at him, wanting to make him guilty for nearly killing me. He fell back and gave a 'huh?' sound, and stood up again.
"Oh! That machina..." he asked, a little remorseful. "That was you?" I gave a nod, and stood up to place a hand on my forehead, glad that he had indirectly apologized to me.
"That really hurt, you know!" I scolded back to Tidus. "You big meanie!"
"W-wait!" he stammered, trying to reason with me. "But you attacked us first!" He clearly did not understand my intention for kidnapping Yunie.
"Nah-uh," I answered back at him. "It's not exactly what you think." Before we could continue our little 'controversy', I heard a voice from another man. This time a much bigger man than Tidus; he was probably a blitzball player, judging from his body frame.
"Yo!" he shouted out to us as a group followed him behind. I noticed that Yunie was in the group as well. All the members of the group somehow seemed familiar too, but I could not remember where I had met them. The big man came up to us. "Friend of yours?"
"Uh," Tidus paused for a moment. "You could say that." I looked at the group and hopped in front of them. Yunie seemed to recognize me, even though we had not met for about a decade.
"Pleased to meet you!" I introduced myself to the group. "I'm Rikku!" Tidus came up front to the group.
"Yuna...Lulu...I told you about her, remember?" he introduced me to Yuna's group of guardians. "She was the one who helped me before I was washed up on Besaid! She's an Al Bhe...beh..." he stopped suddenly, refusing to disclose my identity. At that instant, I knew that someone in this group was against the Al Bhed. An intuition within told me that this person was the big man whom we talked to earlier on. In my mind, I prayed that he would not try to finish Tidus' unfinished word.
"Wow, so you like, owe her your life! What luck meeting here, ya?" he exclaimed happily instead to my guess. "Praise me to Yevon!" He did the normal prayer gesture of a hardcore Yevonite. I concluded that this man was definitely one of much faith that he would treat all Al Bhed with disdain. "So...uh...Rikku..." he spoke to me. "You look a little beat up! You okay?" I looked at him and recalled that he, together with Tidus, was fighting me in the machina which I controlled to kidnap Yunie. I was giving him an irritated look too. As I gave him my look, the mature-looking lady in a black dress came up to him. Her appearance seemed calm and one who had a lot of life experience.
"Uh, Wakka..."
"Huh? What?"
"There's something we need to discuss," Yunie came up to Wakka, as he was called. He turned to look at her and gave an agreeing signal.
"Oh, go ahead," he agreed, still wanting to remain there with the three of us. It was obvious that I had been offended by not only him attacking me earlier on underwater, but also on probing in our conversations.
"Girls only! Boys please wait over there!" I snapped back at the male section of the group, directing them with my hand.
"Right," she agreed with me. "Sorry, Wakka." This guardian gave a huh and what as we walked away from him. He responded with an 'Ahhh' in disappointment. Somehow, Lulu seemed familiar, like as though I had seen her before. But we had never met since I have never stepped on Besaidian soil.
"Rikku!" Yunie hugged me, unaware that I had kidnapped her previously. "It's been a long while since we met." I giggled as we embraced, looking at Lulu giving us a warm smile back.
"Sorry Yunie," I replied sadly, looking at them. "I'm sorry that I kidnapped you earlier on...."
"It's okay," she replied back with friendliness. "You were just trying to save me."
"Rikku," Lulu interrupted. "Since you kidnapped Lady Yuna, that means you are a....?" I nodded back, disclosing my true identity. The mature woman gave back an 'um'. "Don't tell Wakka your true race; he does not have much love for them."
"Okay, no problem!" I responded enthusiastically. 'Fro tuh'd oui tu cusadrehk vun Yunie pavuna cra kuac?' my conscience suggested to me. Able to decipher what it meant, I turned to her. "Yunie, mind if I become your guardian?" Lulu answered in hesitation.
"Sure, why not?" my cousin of a summoner replied instantly. "But we have to get Sir Auron to approve of you first?" I looked at dismay at her 'condition' for becoming a guardian.
"Sir Auron?" I asked back, his name was super-familiar but I could not remember who he was. "Which of these boys is he? That one in red?" Yuna responded with a nod.
"He's not a boy," she advised. "He's over thirty."
"Is he still available?" I joked, giggling at his stoic behavior, which I observed before returning back to Yunie and Lulu.
"I don't think so," she replied solemnly. "I always saw that he was single but has no interest in love, except to protect his summoner, which was my father. Why? Are you interested in him?"
"Nah!" I answered back humorously. "I already have someone back in Home." I remembered Gippal back then, when we were close friends before he was sent on far-away missions to salvage machina as well.
"I think the boys are getting impatient," Lulu butted in on our small talk. "Both of you can catch up in future." Yunie nodded before the three of us returned to the group.
"Sir Auron..." she went up to the red guardian. "I would like Rikku to be my guardian." He came up close to me. Judging from my frame, he was like a giant to me, one with sunglasses, a bright crimson coat and with a high collar. He looked so dominant and mysterious to me. Trying to avoid his piercing stare from one of his eyes, I looked down at his black boots.
"Show me your face," he bellowed, sounding in a deep, manly voice any woman would want her soul mate to have. I replied with a 'huh?' pretending to ignore his instruction. "Look at me."
"Oh, okay," I replied, looking up with my eyes shut, trying to avoid his penetrating stare.
"Open your eyes," he ordered. I opened one in defiance, still trying to avoid his cold stare. His expression was a little startled before returning back to its original cold form. "As I thought."
"Um...no good?" I asked him, hoping that he would agree to my dutiful request.
"Are you certain?" his voice was cold, but had somehow become a little warm.
"A hundred percent!" I exclaimed back at him with enthusiasm. I could notice a small smile behind his high collar, even though it covered more than half his face. "So anyway...Can I?"
"If Yuna wishes it," he replied, looking at my cousin.
"Yes, I do," she replied at instance. 'Oui feh!' my mind congratulated me for passing the Guardian Approval Test. I noticed Wakka give an Hmph sound before Auron moved away.
"Rikku's a good girl," Tidus put in a good word for me to a somewhat dissatisfied Wakka. "She helped me a bunch!"
"Well, I'm for it!" he replied enthusiastically, accepting me as a co- guardian. "The more, the merrier!"
"Then I'll just have to me the merriest!" I exclaimed back at him, knowing that we could hit it off with our bubbly characters. I felt a bad premonition about this, like something had happened and that we had gone through this before. "Rikku, at your service!" I saluted. We began to proceed down into the path leading to Guadosalam.
***
"Hey, a treasure chest," Tidus exclaimed as he prepared to reach for it. Knowing that no ordinary unskilled person could open it with ease, I stopped him.
"Let me," I spoke as I used my skills, opening the chest easily while avoiding its explosive nature. It opened innocently. With my agility, I grabbed up its precious contents -- an elixir.
"Wow Rikku, how d'ya do that?"
"Skills that we learn," I winked at him, indirectly telling him that we Al Bhed knew how to handle such trivial tasks. I turned to the fiend beside it. "Let's finish it off~!"
Tidus nodded as he lunged towards the fiend, and sent it off with his swiftness and offense. Before it was defeated, I rushed towards it and mugging off another precious item. I turned back to the group. Somehow, I could notice that Auron was smiling behind his collar once again, but quickly returned to his frigid attitude as soon as I caught his eye.
'Fuhtan fro ec ra csemehk du rescamv?' I thought to myself, wondering why I was somehow 'bonded' to this red-clad elder guardian. 'Syopa ra'c syt,' I concluded in my mind, returning to my senses and continuing on the dirt path.
***
It was now night. We would only reach Guadosalam tomorrow, as mentioned by the all-experienced Lulu. Encircled around a campfire, the group joined together to have a quick supper before turning in to arise for an early morning. Yunie, Lulu and I sat together.
"Lulu," I asked the guardian whom I looked up to as a role model. "Was there...any Al Bhed who became a guardian?" The black mage looked at me, and came close to me.
"Yes..." she replied softly, taking a quick glance at the opposite direction before turning back to me. "There was one, ten years ago."
'Dah oaync yku? Fych'd dryd Yunie'c vydran'c bemknesyka?' I asked myself in shock. "If it was ten years ago..." I gave a signal to symbolize Auron. "That means...?"
"You had better not ask him," she warned me. "He's been through a lot."
"Okay then," I responded to her warning. "But what happened to this guardian?"
"I have no idea," she gave her answer, still calm and giving me a good impression as a role model for all guardians. "People said she was killed by the Final Aeon because of her race." I shuddered at her eerie reply. Would that mean that I would be killed too when we arrived at Zanarkand? "Don't think too much," she gave some comforting advice before turning back to see the campfire.
'Yunie...' I looked at my cousin summoner as she sat on the log, her sadness beneath her smiling visage. 'Fa femm tea dukadran...' I turned back to the campfire too, hoping that the fact of summoners dying after calling out the Final Aeon could be proven wrong.
***
The campfire had been extinguished. Assuring everyone that I wanted a few moments of peace before turning in, I sat on the log, appreciating the bright starry sky. A stone's throw away from me, I saw the big crimson guardian leaning against one tree trunk.
"Hey Auron!" he did not respond. This guardian was an introvert sort, refusing to talk to anyone. "Hello?!? Can you hear the words that are comin' out of my mouth?" I bellowed to him, encircling my mouth with my hands in his direction. He finally responded by turning to me.
"Just leave me alone," he snapped back coldly. I stood up and approached him.
"It's not nice to be mean, ya know?" I replied back at him, irate by his frigidity. I gave him a friendly punch on his stomach. His body was not only stiff but physically firm as well. My fist hurt upon impact on his large red coat. A strange shiny hairclip fell from his coat onto the ground, making a slight sound.
"Wow, what's this?" I scrutinized the hairclip as I picked it up. The red- clad man snatched it back with abruptness. "Hey! You don't have ta' be mean!"
"This doesn't concern you," he answered coldly. "A child like you needs rest." I was infuriated at this man. How dare he called me a child, when I was nearly becoming an adult.
"Fine! Suit yourself!" I shouted back, hoping that no one would be woken. As a final resort, I stamped on his hard black boot, causing him to fold a little. I smiled as I returned to my sleeping back, having my sweet revenge against this meanie.
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Okay, end of Chapter One~!
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The Beginning
A vast grass plain stood before me. Using my childhood memories, I recalled that these were the Calm lands. The sky was blue, and dandelions seeds flew together with the breeze. I felt two gloved hands wrap around me coyly.
"We will return here," I heard his manly voice, turning behind to see the man's smiling visage. "But together, with triumph. I promise..." Without thinking twice, I took his hands and put them onto my chest. I turned and pushed myself against his sturdy but soft crimson coat, locked in a warm embrace. His raven colored ponytail flew in the air as a strong wind blew in our direction.
From the strong sea of passion in my heart, I came back to my senses. Who was this man and what was I doing here? Further more, I was not wearing my usual clothing. Instead, a beige tube and shorts covered me, complemented with braids and on my hair, which was wrapped in a blue bandana.
A strange spell of dizziness came to me. As I began to collapse, everything around me blurred before I lost consciousness.
***
"You're...not dead?" I heard a familiar voice sound as I came round. I heard the soft splashing of water and felt the soft muddy ground. It was rather peculiar; it seemed as if I had gone through this before. However, my mind was a blank when I tried to recall anything.
With my strength, I got up and opened my eyes. I saw a familiar friend through my goggles, whom I met at the ancient Baaj temple and helped to retrieve an ancient machina but was lost when Sin attacked us then. Feeling the rubber suit on me tightening from exposure to the dry air, I proceeded to take it off. I felt my back for the zip where I pulled it down gently, revealing my orange top and green shorts. Pulling down the suit, I felt comfortable from the cool air of the Moonflow. With recent memories of my mission to save Yunie, I looked at the ground, feeling sad that I had failed.
"Though I was done for, back there," I mumbled to myself, falling to my knees and hands. I saw the star player of the Zanarkand Abes approach me.
"Rikku! You're Rikku!" He exclaimed, excited to see me once again. Deep inside, I was angry with him. He had been my enemy previously, from trying to save Yunie from the machina which I operated. "Hey! You're okay! How you been?"
"Terrible!" I shouted, shaking my head. What had happened earlier was a life-and-death experience; I had tried to swim to safety while avoiding the exploding machina behind me.
"Yeah, you don't look so good." He crouched down on me, trying to find out the truth. "What happened?"
"You beat me up, remember?" I pointed angrily at him, wanting to make him guilty for nearly killing me. He fell back and gave a 'huh?' sound, and stood up again.
"Oh! That machina..." he asked, a little remorseful. "That was you?" I gave a nod, and stood up to place a hand on my forehead, glad that he had indirectly apologized to me.
"That really hurt, you know!" I scolded back to Tidus. "You big meanie!"
"W-wait!" he stammered, trying to reason with me. "But you attacked us first!" He clearly did not understand my intention for kidnapping Yunie.
"Nah-uh," I answered back at him. "It's not exactly what you think." Before we could continue our little 'controversy', I heard a voice from another man. This time a much bigger man than Tidus; he was probably a blitzball player, judging from his body frame.
"Yo!" he shouted out to us as a group followed him behind. I noticed that Yunie was in the group as well. All the members of the group somehow seemed familiar too, but I could not remember where I had met them. The big man came up to us. "Friend of yours?"
"Uh," Tidus paused for a moment. "You could say that." I looked at the group and hopped in front of them. Yunie seemed to recognize me, even though we had not met for about a decade.
"Pleased to meet you!" I introduced myself to the group. "I'm Rikku!" Tidus came up front to the group.
"Yuna...Lulu...I told you about her, remember?" he introduced me to Yuna's group of guardians. "She was the one who helped me before I was washed up on Besaid! She's an Al Bhe...beh..." he stopped suddenly, refusing to disclose my identity. At that instant, I knew that someone in this group was against the Al Bhed. An intuition within told me that this person was the big man whom we talked to earlier on. In my mind, I prayed that he would not try to finish Tidus' unfinished word.
"Wow, so you like, owe her your life! What luck meeting here, ya?" he exclaimed happily instead to my guess. "Praise me to Yevon!" He did the normal prayer gesture of a hardcore Yevonite. I concluded that this man was definitely one of much faith that he would treat all Al Bhed with disdain. "So...uh...Rikku..." he spoke to me. "You look a little beat up! You okay?" I looked at him and recalled that he, together with Tidus, was fighting me in the machina which I controlled to kidnap Yunie. I was giving him an irritated look too. As I gave him my look, the mature-looking lady in a black dress came up to him. Her appearance seemed calm and one who had a lot of life experience.
"Uh, Wakka..."
"Huh? What?"
"There's something we need to discuss," Yunie came up to Wakka, as he was called. He turned to look at her and gave an agreeing signal.
"Oh, go ahead," he agreed, still wanting to remain there with the three of us. It was obvious that I had been offended by not only him attacking me earlier on underwater, but also on probing in our conversations.
"Girls only! Boys please wait over there!" I snapped back at the male section of the group, directing them with my hand.
"Right," she agreed with me. "Sorry, Wakka." This guardian gave a huh and what as we walked away from him. He responded with an 'Ahhh' in disappointment. Somehow, Lulu seemed familiar, like as though I had seen her before. But we had never met since I have never stepped on Besaidian soil.
"Rikku!" Yunie hugged me, unaware that I had kidnapped her previously. "It's been a long while since we met." I giggled as we embraced, looking at Lulu giving us a warm smile back.
"Sorry Yunie," I replied sadly, looking at them. "I'm sorry that I kidnapped you earlier on...."
"It's okay," she replied back with friendliness. "You were just trying to save me."
"Rikku," Lulu interrupted. "Since you kidnapped Lady Yuna, that means you are a....?" I nodded back, disclosing my true identity. The mature woman gave back an 'um'. "Don't tell Wakka your true race; he does not have much love for them."
"Okay, no problem!" I responded enthusiastically. 'Fro tuh'd oui tu cusadrehk vun Yunie pavuna cra kuac?' my conscience suggested to me. Able to decipher what it meant, I turned to her. "Yunie, mind if I become your guardian?" Lulu answered in hesitation.
"Sure, why not?" my cousin of a summoner replied instantly. "But we have to get Sir Auron to approve of you first?" I looked at dismay at her 'condition' for becoming a guardian.
"Sir Auron?" I asked back, his name was super-familiar but I could not remember who he was. "Which of these boys is he? That one in red?" Yuna responded with a nod.
"He's not a boy," she advised. "He's over thirty."
"Is he still available?" I joked, giggling at his stoic behavior, which I observed before returning back to Yunie and Lulu.
"I don't think so," she replied solemnly. "I always saw that he was single but has no interest in love, except to protect his summoner, which was my father. Why? Are you interested in him?"
"Nah!" I answered back humorously. "I already have someone back in Home." I remembered Gippal back then, when we were close friends before he was sent on far-away missions to salvage machina as well.
"I think the boys are getting impatient," Lulu butted in on our small talk. "Both of you can catch up in future." Yunie nodded before the three of us returned to the group.
"Sir Auron..." she went up to the red guardian. "I would like Rikku to be my guardian." He came up close to me. Judging from my frame, he was like a giant to me, one with sunglasses, a bright crimson coat and with a high collar. He looked so dominant and mysterious to me. Trying to avoid his piercing stare from one of his eyes, I looked down at his black boots.
"Show me your face," he bellowed, sounding in a deep, manly voice any woman would want her soul mate to have. I replied with a 'huh?' pretending to ignore his instruction. "Look at me."
"Oh, okay," I replied, looking up with my eyes shut, trying to avoid his penetrating stare.
"Open your eyes," he ordered. I opened one in defiance, still trying to avoid his cold stare. His expression was a little startled before returning back to its original cold form. "As I thought."
"Um...no good?" I asked him, hoping that he would agree to my dutiful request.
"Are you certain?" his voice was cold, but had somehow become a little warm.
"A hundred percent!" I exclaimed back at him with enthusiasm. I could notice a small smile behind his high collar, even though it covered more than half his face. "So anyway...Can I?"
"If Yuna wishes it," he replied, looking at my cousin.
"Yes, I do," she replied at instance. 'Oui feh!' my mind congratulated me for passing the Guardian Approval Test. I noticed Wakka give an Hmph sound before Auron moved away.
"Rikku's a good girl," Tidus put in a good word for me to a somewhat dissatisfied Wakka. "She helped me a bunch!"
"Well, I'm for it!" he replied enthusiastically, accepting me as a co- guardian. "The more, the merrier!"
"Then I'll just have to me the merriest!" I exclaimed back at him, knowing that we could hit it off with our bubbly characters. I felt a bad premonition about this, like something had happened and that we had gone through this before. "Rikku, at your service!" I saluted. We began to proceed down into the path leading to Guadosalam.
***
"Hey, a treasure chest," Tidus exclaimed as he prepared to reach for it. Knowing that no ordinary unskilled person could open it with ease, I stopped him.
"Let me," I spoke as I used my skills, opening the chest easily while avoiding its explosive nature. It opened innocently. With my agility, I grabbed up its precious contents -- an elixir.
"Wow Rikku, how d'ya do that?"
"Skills that we learn," I winked at him, indirectly telling him that we Al Bhed knew how to handle such trivial tasks. I turned to the fiend beside it. "Let's finish it off~!"
Tidus nodded as he lunged towards the fiend, and sent it off with his swiftness and offense. Before it was defeated, I rushed towards it and mugging off another precious item. I turned back to the group. Somehow, I could notice that Auron was smiling behind his collar once again, but quickly returned to his frigid attitude as soon as I caught his eye.
'Fuhtan fro ec ra csemehk du rescamv?' I thought to myself, wondering why I was somehow 'bonded' to this red-clad elder guardian. 'Syopa ra'c syt,' I concluded in my mind, returning to my senses and continuing on the dirt path.
***
It was now night. We would only reach Guadosalam tomorrow, as mentioned by the all-experienced Lulu. Encircled around a campfire, the group joined together to have a quick supper before turning in to arise for an early morning. Yunie, Lulu and I sat together.
"Lulu," I asked the guardian whom I looked up to as a role model. "Was there...any Al Bhed who became a guardian?" The black mage looked at me, and came close to me.
"Yes..." she replied softly, taking a quick glance at the opposite direction before turning back to me. "There was one, ten years ago."
'Dah oaync yku? Fych'd dryd Yunie'c vydran'c bemknesyka?' I asked myself in shock. "If it was ten years ago..." I gave a signal to symbolize Auron. "That means...?"
"You had better not ask him," she warned me. "He's been through a lot."
"Okay then," I responded to her warning. "But what happened to this guardian?"
"I have no idea," she gave her answer, still calm and giving me a good impression as a role model for all guardians. "People said she was killed by the Final Aeon because of her race." I shuddered at her eerie reply. Would that mean that I would be killed too when we arrived at Zanarkand? "Don't think too much," she gave some comforting advice before turning back to see the campfire.
'Yunie...' I looked at my cousin summoner as she sat on the log, her sadness beneath her smiling visage. 'Fa femm tea dukadran...' I turned back to the campfire too, hoping that the fact of summoners dying after calling out the Final Aeon could be proven wrong.
***
The campfire had been extinguished. Assuring everyone that I wanted a few moments of peace before turning in, I sat on the log, appreciating the bright starry sky. A stone's throw away from me, I saw the big crimson guardian leaning against one tree trunk.
"Hey Auron!" he did not respond. This guardian was an introvert sort, refusing to talk to anyone. "Hello?!? Can you hear the words that are comin' out of my mouth?" I bellowed to him, encircling my mouth with my hands in his direction. He finally responded by turning to me.
"Just leave me alone," he snapped back coldly. I stood up and approached him.
"It's not nice to be mean, ya know?" I replied back at him, irate by his frigidity. I gave him a friendly punch on his stomach. His body was not only stiff but physically firm as well. My fist hurt upon impact on his large red coat. A strange shiny hairclip fell from his coat onto the ground, making a slight sound.
"Wow, what's this?" I scrutinized the hairclip as I picked it up. The red- clad man snatched it back with abruptness. "Hey! You don't have ta' be mean!"
"This doesn't concern you," he answered coldly. "A child like you needs rest." I was infuriated at this man. How dare he called me a child, when I was nearly becoming an adult.
"Fine! Suit yourself!" I shouted back, hoping that no one would be woken. As a final resort, I stamped on his hard black boot, causing him to fold a little. I smiled as I returned to my sleeping back, having my sweet revenge against this meanie.
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Okay, end of Chapter One~!