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Disclaimer: I don't own Xenosaga, Namco and Monolith Soft do. I don't own the songs I'm listening to right now either. Disclaimers are so dull…
Another Side, Another Story
Chapter Three: The Beginning of It All
Back at the Durandal, Gaignun walked back and forth in the bridge waiting for the Elsa to arrive. He looked up at the ceiling and thought gloomily, 'Why hasn't he come back yet? He should have been here hours ago! And the link doesn't work…' Just then, one of the 100-Series Observational Realians spoke up:
"Master Gaignun! We have just detected that the Elsa has crash landed somewhere in Second Miltia! It was hours ago, but the atmospheric particles interfered with our signals, so we just received the information."
"What?" Gaignun murmured as he curled his hands into a fist. "Can you detect where they are now?"
"No sir, the Elsa's tracking device only works when the ship's computer system is on normal mode. I think it's on lockdown now." Another realian replied.
"What the- What moron would do that on a ship?" Gaignun shook his head.
"Um, you did sir," A realian spoke in a low but audible voice. "Remember a few months ago? There was this electricity problem in Sector 13 and we had a little problem with money because you and that lady…"
"Al- Alright, that's enough." Gaignun interrupted. How the heck did these realians find out that woman and him? And he called himself a moron…"Check again where the Elsa might have landed and not another word about that…that 'thing' again, understood?"
"Chiiiieeeff! I'M TIRED! Can't we rest?" Allen panted as he and Shion made their way through the thick trees in the island. It hadn't even been an hour, but it felt much longer since the tread around the forest was extremely tedious and boring. They kept walking through the trees until there was a small circular clear area in the midst of the forest.
"Stop whining, Allen! And think of where we can find food and water!" Shion snapped. She didn't hate Allen or anything, but for some reason, she's been having the urge to boss him around since the Woglinde was destroyed. "Ahh…Where to go next? It feels like we've been going around in circles."
Just then, a dark, mysterious, and evil sounding voice was heard from the southern part of the area. Allen stepped back near Shion as it spoke, "You who was entrusted by 'Light'…Must be destroyed by the 'Dark'. You will never escape this place for as long as the 'Dark' remains hidden behind your shadows! Hahahaha!"
"Chief," Allen faced the brunette next to him. "Did the 'dark remains hidden behind your shadows' make any sense to you?"
"Uh, it's hard to say since when you put it literally, it almost makes sense, Shion replied. "When you take it figuratively, it sounds as if an evil person is plotting against us."
"Yeah, you're right." Allen nodded.
"HEY! I can hear you, you know!" the dark, evil voice said again. "I WILL be back, I just have to go somewhere for now, mwahahahahahaha!" The laughter echoed around the surrounding area and eventually drifted away.
"It sounded mysterious and evil, but for some reason I don't feel scared or threatened. As if I shouldn't care at all…" Shion said. Allen nodded again. "Oh well, time to go look for food again." And with that the two headed off north in search for more food, ignoring the evil-ish voice from before.
Meanwhile, Jr. and MOMO were walking on a clearer forest path than the other two, so they covered more ground easily. They hadn't really been talking much, since there really wasn't anything to talk about. So far they had found nothing, until they heard the rush of water flowing down a river.
"Is that the sound of water? It might not be too far ahead, let's go MOMO!" Jr. waved her to come ahead with him and they ran off to the direction of the noise. And so they did find water, both screamed happily and jumped around.
"We found wateeerr, we found wateeerr!" the two sang in unison repeatedly. After they finished their liittle song, the two got several huge leaves from various trees around the area and used them to scoop up water.
"This is great! All we have to do is go back to camp and wait for the others now!" MOMO exclaimed. Carefully, the two made their way back to the camp. Everything was going well until…
"Ahh!" MOMO screamed as she clenched the leaves in her hand tight.
"MOMO! What's wrong! MOMO!" Jr. said with a hint of worry in his voice.
"My- My programs, they're...AHH!" MOMO choked, but unfortunately she didn't finish the last part of her sentence as she dropped the leaves in her hand and gripped her head tightly. Water splashed on the ground as Jr. screamed for help as he tried to comfort the small realian with words. And then, after a few minutes, MOMO stood up again with her usual posture as if nothing happened.
"Are- are you ok!" Jr. stuttered. He'd go off and hug her, but he was still carrying the water.
"Yes, I'm fine Jr., thank you." MOMO giggled.
'What the heck? Something's DEFINITELY not right.' Jr. thought as he stared at her. "Are you sure you're alright MOMO? You were screaming back there."
"Of course I am! What are you waiting for, Jr.? Let's go back to the meeting area." MOMO said happily as she skipped towards the direction of the Elsa.
"MOMO, wait- wait up!" Jr. chased after her, carefully trying his best not to spill the water. When he caught up to her, he looked at MOMO with intense eyes and calmly he said, "Are you sure you're alright? You can't just scream 'my programs, are' and everything else is alright! What happened?"
"It's…" MOMO whispered. It seemed like she had two personas at that time for her eyes flashed purple for and then she…
ARGH! I have author's block, so it's short, not exactly funny (a little bit more serious), and a cliffhanger! Ahahahahaha! Annnywaay, Expect the next chapter to be much longer and (hopefully) better since I have a lot of time (spring break! Yaay!)...Damn I hate author's block, I haaateee iiitttt!
