Chapter Five -- A Peculiar Dream
Author's Notes: Okay, here's one more installment of this story. I hope that you can enjoy it. Anyway, I was choosing to keep my story original, that's why I did not inserted Al Bhed translations for the story. By the way, the story below has a bit of FFVIII influence.
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A Peculiar Dream
I looked everywhere to find myself in a room. As I prepared to leave it, the door swung open to reveal a man in summoner clothing, complemented with his braided silvery hair.
"Could you do a favor for me?" he requested.
"What favor?" I asked.
"Would you mind going to the Grand Hall?" he explained. "We need to leave Bevelle tonight."
'Bevelle?' I thought to myself in shock. 'Ruf tet E kad rana?' I looked out at one window, showing a bright full moon emanating its light over the great city, capital of the Yevon religion.
"Would you mind?" he asked again. At this moment, I looked down to see that I was wearing something different. Instead of my orange top and green bottom, a purple gown covered my body. I looked back at the summoner, and pointed to my eyes.
"I understand," he spoke, taking out a shiny green mask with a grey material covering the eye-holes. "Wear this on and nobody will be able to recognize you." I nodded and put it on, enveloping my sight in light grey.
"And yes," the summoner spoke behind me as I prepared to exit. "The person I'm looking for is a man in red." I gave another nod and scurried out of the room. As I exited, a great corridor appeared in front of me. The floor was of black marble tiles, and revealed the Bevellen skyline on one side.
'Drec ec vecro,' I thought again. 'Syh eh nat...gehty' vysemeyn...' I hurried across the corridor before I fell down. At this time, I noticed that I was wearing shoes that raised my feet at the heel. It was practically troublesome to run. Removing the shoes and holding them, I ran across the cold hard floor with my strong legs and bare feet. Reaching a door that spanned a height up to the ceiling, I put back on my shoes before giving the door a slight push.
A magnificent large room showed itself. In it, people were dancing and enjoying themselves. The mystery of me wearing such clothing was solved; every woman in the place was wearing just like me. As I walked along the walls of the room, a feeling of being watched filled me. My sight caught the target I had wanted.
The man was wearing a red coat; his coat looked the same as Auron's. He showed an expression of boredom through his round, brown eyes. A neatly- tied ponytail, from his hair, lay on his shoulder. Sure that this was the man, I approached him.
'Hmm...Hud y pyt bancuh...' I decided to 'appraise' this refined-looking person. 'Ra syo pa faynehk mega Auron pid ra'c cu silr tevvanahd vnus dryd sayhea!' He saw me as I came closer to him.
"Hey hi!" I stretched out my hand. He looked elsewhere.
"If you are looking for a partner," he spoke coldly. "Please search for someone else." He was obviously playing tough to get.
"Someone...a summoner with silvery hair," I gave him my reason for coming, which made him turn back to me. "He needs to see you."
"Summoner with silvery hair?!? he spoke, in which I froze at his words. "Where is he?"
I pointed to the door exit, and to my dismay it was guarded. This man was definitely trying to get away soon. As he began to move away, I pulled him back.
"Not so fast!" I dragged him back. "How are ya' going to exit?"
"I'll force my way through!"
"That's stupid," I shook my head. "We have to find another exit, but discreetly of course." I scouted the room for another exit and found one at the other end of the room, in which people posed as an obstacle.
"I'll just go," he replied, moving away again. "Thank you for your help."
"Wait!" I accosted him. "There can be a better way."
"What's your proposal?" he responded in an irritated way. I began to brainstorm for a while before I had an idea.
"Blend with the crowd," I gave my proposal. "Then we can make our way to the exit!"
"I-I can't dance," he spoke, rejecting my idea of dancing and blending into the dancing group of people. I felt real annoyed at his pessimism. Without due warning, I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the crowd.
((For this scene, you could imagine FFVIIII's 'Waltz for the Moon'))
As we danced in the middle of the room, I could sense that he was something like that of Auron. From the way he danced, stiffness was always the way he did that. From the movement of his steps, this man was definitely one who caught the eyes of others with perplexity. In no time, we made our way to the door. With a slight push, I opened it and pulled the crimson man through it. The summoner greeted us as we exited the large room. My 'partner' came over to the summoner.
"My lord!" he exclaimed. "It's good that you are here."
"It's good that you came out," the summoner answered with a smile. "Thanks to this fine lady for bring him out. I knew that he would never shirk his duty of watching the celebration."
"Don't mention it!" I replied with a smile while giggling.
"Young lady, what's your name?" the summoner asked me.
"Oh, it's nothing much...further more I'm just a nobody," I replied before running back into the room. As I looked behind, I could see that the crimson man had actually wanted to stop me from returning. As I re-opened the doors, a blinding white flash blinded my eyes.
***
I stirred to find myself out in the open again. Heaving a sigh of relief that it was just a dream, I turned to see Lulu was still asleep. The sky was a deep blue, indicating that dawn would begin soon. Feeling restless, I got up to see that Auron was still standing guard.
'Tuach'd ra ajan vaam denat?' I thought to myself, still looking at the red- clad guardian. As expected, he turned to look at me.
"Why are you up so early?" he interrogated me.
"Excuse me?!?" I was shocked at his nosiness. "A human has the right to decide the time of waking or sleeping!" He remained silent, returning his gaze back to detect any nearby dangers. As I looked at him, I began to feel nostalgic. Feeling like getting him to open up socially, I came near him.
"Is there a need to come that close?" he spoke coldly.
"Yes," I decided to oppose his 'commands'. "Whether you like it or not."
"I'm busy," he declared, returning his gaze to detection.
"You know Auron," I began to speak. "Your lone eye remind me of one guy back home," I began to think of my close buddy Gippal, who had always wanted to oppose Yevon's anti-machina teachings.
"Does it concern me?" he replied harshly.
"Maybe," I decided to speak to him in all sorts of silly ways. "So Auron, could you tell me about this Lady Lyna?"
"She does not have anything in relation to you," he answered. "Why should I tell you?"
"Because we are from the same race?" I replied back, making his face light up. "Just tell me!" I demanded as he looked down.
"Okay," he replied. "She's an Al Bhed who's mature although she's only two years older than you. And a whole lot better than your childish behavior!" I was once again inflamed by his mention of calling me childish.
"Aren't you more childish?" I decided to fight back his indirect insults. "You're just a guardian who simply builds himself a social wall so that he can imagine that he would be with a dead person."
"Don't..." he gave a threatening look at me. "...call her dead." I took a step back while trying to get back at the scarlet-coat meanie.
"Aww...fine!" I rolled my eyes backwards. "You're such a killjoy!" I was angry unable to find out more about this mysterious Lady Lyna everyone had respected. Everyone seemed familiar except for this Lyna. With that, I proceeded back to sleep in my sleeping bag, noticing that Auron was constantly staring at me. As I began to continue my sleep so as to cool my anger, I could feel that something mysterious was within and everything here was more than it met to the eye. Soon, I was once again in deep sleep.
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Sorry for the short chapter! But the next one will be a major one, 'cause it has been one of the famous places for Aurikku pairings -- the Thunder Plains! =)
Author's Notes: Okay, here's one more installment of this story. I hope that you can enjoy it. Anyway, I was choosing to keep my story original, that's why I did not inserted Al Bhed translations for the story. By the way, the story below has a bit of FFVIII influence.
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A Peculiar Dream
I looked everywhere to find myself in a room. As I prepared to leave it, the door swung open to reveal a man in summoner clothing, complemented with his braided silvery hair.
"Could you do a favor for me?" he requested.
"What favor?" I asked.
"Would you mind going to the Grand Hall?" he explained. "We need to leave Bevelle tonight."
'Bevelle?' I thought to myself in shock. 'Ruf tet E kad rana?' I looked out at one window, showing a bright full moon emanating its light over the great city, capital of the Yevon religion.
"Would you mind?" he asked again. At this moment, I looked down to see that I was wearing something different. Instead of my orange top and green bottom, a purple gown covered my body. I looked back at the summoner, and pointed to my eyes.
"I understand," he spoke, taking out a shiny green mask with a grey material covering the eye-holes. "Wear this on and nobody will be able to recognize you." I nodded and put it on, enveloping my sight in light grey.
"And yes," the summoner spoke behind me as I prepared to exit. "The person I'm looking for is a man in red." I gave another nod and scurried out of the room. As I exited, a great corridor appeared in front of me. The floor was of black marble tiles, and revealed the Bevellen skyline on one side.
'Drec ec vecro,' I thought again. 'Syh eh nat...gehty' vysemeyn...' I hurried across the corridor before I fell down. At this time, I noticed that I was wearing shoes that raised my feet at the heel. It was practically troublesome to run. Removing the shoes and holding them, I ran across the cold hard floor with my strong legs and bare feet. Reaching a door that spanned a height up to the ceiling, I put back on my shoes before giving the door a slight push.
A magnificent large room showed itself. In it, people were dancing and enjoying themselves. The mystery of me wearing such clothing was solved; every woman in the place was wearing just like me. As I walked along the walls of the room, a feeling of being watched filled me. My sight caught the target I had wanted.
The man was wearing a red coat; his coat looked the same as Auron's. He showed an expression of boredom through his round, brown eyes. A neatly- tied ponytail, from his hair, lay on his shoulder. Sure that this was the man, I approached him.
'Hmm...Hud y pyt bancuh...' I decided to 'appraise' this refined-looking person. 'Ra syo pa faynehk mega Auron pid ra'c cu silr tevvanahd vnus dryd sayhea!' He saw me as I came closer to him.
"Hey hi!" I stretched out my hand. He looked elsewhere.
"If you are looking for a partner," he spoke coldly. "Please search for someone else." He was obviously playing tough to get.
"Someone...a summoner with silvery hair," I gave him my reason for coming, which made him turn back to me. "He needs to see you."
"Summoner with silvery hair?!? he spoke, in which I froze at his words. "Where is he?"
I pointed to the door exit, and to my dismay it was guarded. This man was definitely trying to get away soon. As he began to move away, I pulled him back.
"Not so fast!" I dragged him back. "How are ya' going to exit?"
"I'll force my way through!"
"That's stupid," I shook my head. "We have to find another exit, but discreetly of course." I scouted the room for another exit and found one at the other end of the room, in which people posed as an obstacle.
"I'll just go," he replied, moving away again. "Thank you for your help."
"Wait!" I accosted him. "There can be a better way."
"What's your proposal?" he responded in an irritated way. I began to brainstorm for a while before I had an idea.
"Blend with the crowd," I gave my proposal. "Then we can make our way to the exit!"
"I-I can't dance," he spoke, rejecting my idea of dancing and blending into the dancing group of people. I felt real annoyed at his pessimism. Without due warning, I grabbed his arm and pulled him into the crowd.
((For this scene, you could imagine FFVIIII's 'Waltz for the Moon'))
As we danced in the middle of the room, I could sense that he was something like that of Auron. From the way he danced, stiffness was always the way he did that. From the movement of his steps, this man was definitely one who caught the eyes of others with perplexity. In no time, we made our way to the door. With a slight push, I opened it and pulled the crimson man through it. The summoner greeted us as we exited the large room. My 'partner' came over to the summoner.
"My lord!" he exclaimed. "It's good that you are here."
"It's good that you came out," the summoner answered with a smile. "Thanks to this fine lady for bring him out. I knew that he would never shirk his duty of watching the celebration."
"Don't mention it!" I replied with a smile while giggling.
"Young lady, what's your name?" the summoner asked me.
"Oh, it's nothing much...further more I'm just a nobody," I replied before running back into the room. As I looked behind, I could see that the crimson man had actually wanted to stop me from returning. As I re-opened the doors, a blinding white flash blinded my eyes.
***
I stirred to find myself out in the open again. Heaving a sigh of relief that it was just a dream, I turned to see Lulu was still asleep. The sky was a deep blue, indicating that dawn would begin soon. Feeling restless, I got up to see that Auron was still standing guard.
'Tuach'd ra ajan vaam denat?' I thought to myself, still looking at the red- clad guardian. As expected, he turned to look at me.
"Why are you up so early?" he interrogated me.
"Excuse me?!?" I was shocked at his nosiness. "A human has the right to decide the time of waking or sleeping!" He remained silent, returning his gaze back to detect any nearby dangers. As I looked at him, I began to feel nostalgic. Feeling like getting him to open up socially, I came near him.
"Is there a need to come that close?" he spoke coldly.
"Yes," I decided to oppose his 'commands'. "Whether you like it or not."
"I'm busy," he declared, returning his gaze to detection.
"You know Auron," I began to speak. "Your lone eye remind me of one guy back home," I began to think of my close buddy Gippal, who had always wanted to oppose Yevon's anti-machina teachings.
"Does it concern me?" he replied harshly.
"Maybe," I decided to speak to him in all sorts of silly ways. "So Auron, could you tell me about this Lady Lyna?"
"She does not have anything in relation to you," he answered. "Why should I tell you?"
"Because we are from the same race?" I replied back, making his face light up. "Just tell me!" I demanded as he looked down.
"Okay," he replied. "She's an Al Bhed who's mature although she's only two years older than you. And a whole lot better than your childish behavior!" I was once again inflamed by his mention of calling me childish.
"Aren't you more childish?" I decided to fight back his indirect insults. "You're just a guardian who simply builds himself a social wall so that he can imagine that he would be with a dead person."
"Don't..." he gave a threatening look at me. "...call her dead." I took a step back while trying to get back at the scarlet-coat meanie.
"Aww...fine!" I rolled my eyes backwards. "You're such a killjoy!" I was angry unable to find out more about this mysterious Lady Lyna everyone had respected. Everyone seemed familiar except for this Lyna. With that, I proceeded back to sleep in my sleeping bag, noticing that Auron was constantly staring at me. As I began to continue my sleep so as to cool my anger, I could feel that something mysterious was within and everything here was more than it met to the eye. Soon, I was once again in deep sleep.
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Sorry for the short chapter! But the next one will be a major one, 'cause it has been one of the famous places for Aurikku pairings -- the Thunder Plains! =)