Woohoo! My first story. I am so nervous. I hope this turns out okay! Landis is one of my favorite characters from Suikoden III and I felt a need to write about him. And Apple -- well, she has glasses and she gets to be with Caesar all the time so we like her. Landis needs a woman, too. Although I really don't think I have all that much taste for the Landis x Apple coupling right now...however, I do find it incredibly amusing to have Landis have a crush on her. Heehee. I'm also aware it's kind of weird for Landis to have a crush on some one -- and I'll try to keep him as in character as possible! Hah hah...hah...oh...please don't flame me.
Okay, so, first of all, I have to give some credit to my friend Erica; without whom, this Suikoden story could not have been born.
None of the characters in this story belong to me. uu They belong to the Suikoden creators and Konami. How I passionately envy them and love those guys all at once. Wait, wait! Don't click the back button! I'm done blabbing, I promise!!
Alright, here we go!
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Chapter 1: Borrowing a Silverberg
The cackling sound of thunder exploded into the deepest, darkest parts of the Budehuc dungeons. The young strategist Caesar Silverberg tensed and shrieked at the booming. He placed his hand over his chest in which his panicked heart began slowing its pace, sighing in relief -- not to the fact that the thunder had subsided, but there was no one in the dungeon to hear him scream like a little girl.
How very wrong he was.
Grunting, he frowned in annoyance, bending down to scoop the massive load of books he had dropped back into his arms. Green, bored eyes scanned around him, squinting for some sign of the old shelves that resided down there. It did him no good, as one could barely make out the shadows in the nearly pitch black darkness of the underground chambers. The boots he wore made thumping clops on the ground, usually quiet, but exaggerated in the stillness and quiet of the dungeons. He didn't like the dungeons. They made him feel uneasy and reeked of death. However, he preferred this uneasiness rather than being lectured by his tutor, Apple. When the opportunity rose, Caesar grasped it by offering to take Apple's old books down to storage in the dungeons -- with or without her consent. He smirked to himself, envisioning the furious teacher he would return to after goofing off so much. Drifting in these lazy thoughts, Caesar hardly noticed where he was aimlessly walking and bumped roughly right into his destination, the storage shelves. Cursing, the books tumbled out of his arms and flayed themselves out before him on the hard stone ground once more. Scratching his mass of ruby hair and grumbling, he bent down to pick them up once more.
"Yuh huh huh..."
His senses sharpened and his body froze, all his muscles tense and alert. What was that? He could have sworn it was a cackle -- an ominous, low, amused cackle. He shivered and waved these thoughts away, slowly placing a few of the books on the bottom of the shelf. Relaxing, he smiled to himself. The darkness was playing tricks on his ears. That, or he had been deprived of caramel crunch bars a bit too long.
Swoosh.
Caesar swirved around in immediate deffense, eyes widened in shock and terror at what loomed before him. Before he was able to utter a single yell for help, he fell to the ground in a state of unconsciousness. But it was only moments later that he rose again, like a ghoul rising from the grave. The soul within him was not Caesar, however.
It was Landis.
"Yuh huh huh..."
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Um. Yeah. That was really...really short. ;; Pleaaase dont give up on me now though. I promise it goes uphill from here! If you guys are awesome (even though if you've actually read this you already are), then you'll post a review and give me some tips and suggestions on how you think this should turn out. Couplings? A character you would like to show up? Anything to motivate me to keep this story going.