Clara: Who IS the mystery person, Eika?
Eika: Oh, so you're speaking to me again?
Clara: Yup. Catalina's keeping quiet until she's out too.
Eika: How sad. I don't plan to let Catalina know who it is ever.
Clara: And me?
Eika: Only when you're too far away to tell her anything.
Clara: Does that mean I'm in range?
Eika: You will be.
Clara: So who is it?
Eika: Well, _________ and __________ were wrong.
Clara: Who?
Eika: Exactly.
Clara: Grrrrr. . .
Eika: If it's any help, I have another chapter somewhere with a pov part from that character.
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I wake up suddenly, completely alert, muscles tense and coiled in my cell. For the past day I've been living off water, trying to ignore the brief 'chats' every hour or so. I close my eyes and try to guess how long I've been sleeping. . . about five or six hours since I lost consciousness around sunset, what they call eight o'clock. I smile to myself. Time to put my plan in action.
Stepping off the platform without bothering to be quiet, I grab the small covering and attach a corner of it to the hooks that hold the chains to the wall, one corner on the side with the window, two- both directly across from the first in the rectangular device- to the one facing the main part of the building and, more importantly, the guardhouse. I attach the last free corner to the hook that's on the platform end. That accomplished, I examine the platform more closely. As I suspected, It merely rests against the wall at the bottom, nothing holding it in place. I lie on the floor, put my knees under it and give a hard thrust with my legs.
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~*Three Hours Ago*~
Fratly and Malakanya walk into the guard house. "What a day!" Fratly's saying. "No sleep last night due to that kid, interrogation the moment she wakes up five minutes AFTER we get back from the hospital, filing a report and sending it to Alexandria took two hours, and then guard duty until nine!"
"I know. It's a full time job," Agrees Malakanya. "Let's just head straight to bed."
"I can agree with that statement," Agrees Uedalayla, heading from the center room into the female dorm. Fratly heads to the male's and flops onto bed, asleep without even taking off his clothes.
~*Present*~
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! Fratly sits up in bed with a start. What in hell was THAT?!?!
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! It comes again, startling everyone who managed to sleep through the first blow out of sleep. This time he recognizes where it's from: The prison!
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! It comes again. Cursing, Fratly jumps out of bed and runs to the prison, more specifically to Catalina's cell.
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This is going even better than I imagined it could. It sounds like Clara put an amplifying spell on my head and a stampede of wild yans is going on right on top of me. The blanket, acting like an amplifier, is working beautifully; I stuck my ear between the bars and my ear turned red , I can feel it even if I can't see it. EXELLENT! Even if they try to get near me to shut me up, they won't have an easy time of it at all. Using my knees to push up on the platform once more, it booms against the stone and, falling back, causes the chains to crash insanely when it resists them even more than usual.
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! I kick it again, listening to the echoes. No way I'm gonna let any guard get any sleep tonight, or for as long as I'm in here! Tired guards make mistakes.
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! I pause and listen to the sweet echoes once more.
"Enjoying yourself, Catalina?"
I freeze, grin on my face dying instantly. I kick it again. BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"Well, I'm not. Could you please stop it? You're interrupting all of our sleep."
I kick it again, BOOM-CRASH!!!!! In an effort to drown out his words.
"I'm guessing that's the whole point isn't it, Catalina?"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"You're trying to keep us from sleeping-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-making lots of noise so you-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-escape. Am I right?"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"Well, it's not going to work. In-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-few days time you'll be shipped to-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-where you'll be in the prison cell-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"Do you actually think-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-let you out so we can sleep?"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"When you get out you're going to try-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-free your sister, aren't you?"
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cell shakes slightly under me. I kick it again, and once more before realizing: I'm not kicking anything. Opening my eyes, once shut tightly, I cough in the dust. When the smoke clears I see what happened: The platform has dented the wall, and fits perfectly into the spot without even a crack to show what was once the platform.
"I'm guessing your sister is a subject you don't want discussed, correct?" Asks fatly (not a typo) quietly. "Well, at least you're quiet now." Turning he leaves. Does he expect me to give up THAT easily?
Standing up, I grab the chains still protruding from the wall. Leaning back, I pull with all my- currently weak- strength. The platform falls back down. Getting back into my position, I kick it again.
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
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I race along the trees, still wishing for my tail, doing flips here and there among the branches. I haven't had so much fun in AGES! My arms are tiring after three hours intense work, so I flip, using my legs and the bare feet of my costume to hang on and flip me from one branch to the next. I must be nearly to the sea by now, and when I get there I'll- "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I launch myself from a branch off a cliff I hadn't noticed in my haste! Turning in midair, I scrabble desperately, arms and legs trying to grasp the now nonexistent ground, hurtling to the sea hundreds of miles below-
My wildly groping leg hits something, and I try to snag it with my arm: a branch. . .
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-oof!"
Well, swinging myself from various points in Ipsens Castle into little nooks and crannies of various sizes had its advantages apparently. I slide from the branch into a cave half as tall and twice as wide as I am. Bending myself in half at the waste, I manage to squeeze into it. Not comfortable in the slightest, afraid of what I might need to do in the dawn, I settle down to sleep.
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"Ouch!" Zidane opens his eyes. He can see through them it's not even light out yet. "What was that for?" He asks Garnet, who has her leg drawn back to kick him again. Her mouth twitches in a smile.
"Clara will be up when the sun rises, which should be in a few minutes. Who knows what type of havoc she'll wreak on our guards if we're not up."
"Maybe so, but did you have to kick me THERE?!?!?!? It's still sore from yesterday."
"And not broken because of all the extra padding you have. Rise and shine."
In response Zidane pulls the top of his sleeping bag over his head, and receives another sharp rap. "OW! Ok, ok, I'll get up." He grumbles, reaching for a vest and pulling it on over his sleeveless white shirt. Slipping out of the sleeping bag, he grabs the tough pants he brought with him and pulls them on, attempting to do up the button with very little light. Yanking open the tent flap, he crawls out.
"So the UNmorning person finally got out of bed," Announces Eiko to everyone else the instant his head pokes out of the flap. He growls in response.
"WHEN will I be allowed to sleep in again?"
"Actually, I kind of like watching the sun rise, so I think I'll keep doing this to you," muses Garnet out loud, to giggle softly at the staring look on his face.
"Please tell me you're not serious." He begs, but at just that moment the sun clears the horizon. Yawning, an armor-covered Freya walks into Clara's tent to wake her up. Everyone can guess what'll happen as Freya leans over and shakes her. Surprisingly, Freya isn't immediately attacked. Frowning, she shakes harder. "Rise and shine, sleepy head," She says brightly, and whips off the top of the sleeping bag covering her head. "SHE'S GONE!"
"WHAT?!" Screeches Zidane, jumping to his feet, now completely awake. In response Freya empties the sleeping bag of the tangled chain and everyone stares for a few minutes. Until. . .
"Tomy, Kat, the woods in the east! Vincent, Gerard, Everything west of here! Freya, Vivi, South! Eiko go with Tomy's group, and we'll search north!" Everyone is now staring at Garnet. "NOW!" They move.
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Clara: Well, that was entertaining.
Eika: I agree.
Clara: Now, about the mystery person-
Eika: I'll send an e-mail to any1 who's right, telling them.
Clara: Sent any e-mails yet?
Eika: No. And I'll be busy with some other stuff for a while, too.
Clara: Such as?
Eika: An idea for a new FF9 story, to post in between this one and the sequel- just to annoy people, but I need new info so I've got to play the game again.
Clara: I'm sure they'll be dying for it.
Eika: They won't. Then I've got ideas for about 7 originals I need to spruce up for fictionpress.net
Clara: Touching up the ones barely read instead of working on something popular.
Eika: I'll also take a few things down on both sights-
Clara: Finally getting rid of things you'll never finish?
Eika: Shut up. Finally, I'll work on a story I think might get published later. Not sure whether or not to put it up.
Clara: Don't.
Eika: I've also finally worked out the bugs for their language, and will have to go back through the chapters changing the words according to a code soon to be posted over another, older chapter that's nothing but an apology.
Clara: Ok, that's worthwhile.
Eika: I'm also determined to defeat at least ONE of the Super Nintendo games my parents brought up. There's a hint to get to the end immediately in level 4 part 1, but first I have to GET to it, and if you lose ur last life in, say, 2-3 of the 3 parts, you have to restart from 2-1.
Clara: Annoying. Review!
Eika: Oh, so you're speaking to me again?
Clara: Yup. Catalina's keeping quiet until she's out too.
Eika: How sad. I don't plan to let Catalina know who it is ever.
Clara: And me?
Eika: Only when you're too far away to tell her anything.
Clara: Does that mean I'm in range?
Eika: You will be.
Clara: So who is it?
Eika: Well, _________ and __________ were wrong.
Clara: Who?
Eika: Exactly.
Clara: Grrrrr. . .
Eika: If it's any help, I have another chapter somewhere with a pov part from that character.
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I wake up suddenly, completely alert, muscles tense and coiled in my cell. For the past day I've been living off water, trying to ignore the brief 'chats' every hour or so. I close my eyes and try to guess how long I've been sleeping. . . about five or six hours since I lost consciousness around sunset, what they call eight o'clock. I smile to myself. Time to put my plan in action.
Stepping off the platform without bothering to be quiet, I grab the small covering and attach a corner of it to the hooks that hold the chains to the wall, one corner on the side with the window, two- both directly across from the first in the rectangular device- to the one facing the main part of the building and, more importantly, the guardhouse. I attach the last free corner to the hook that's on the platform end. That accomplished, I examine the platform more closely. As I suspected, It merely rests against the wall at the bottom, nothing holding it in place. I lie on the floor, put my knees under it and give a hard thrust with my legs.
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~*Three Hours Ago*~
Fratly and Malakanya walk into the guard house. "What a day!" Fratly's saying. "No sleep last night due to that kid, interrogation the moment she wakes up five minutes AFTER we get back from the hospital, filing a report and sending it to Alexandria took two hours, and then guard duty until nine!"
"I know. It's a full time job," Agrees Malakanya. "Let's just head straight to bed."
"I can agree with that statement," Agrees Uedalayla, heading from the center room into the female dorm. Fratly heads to the male's and flops onto bed, asleep without even taking off his clothes.
~*Present*~
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! Fratly sits up in bed with a start. What in hell was THAT?!?!
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! It comes again, startling everyone who managed to sleep through the first blow out of sleep. This time he recognizes where it's from: The prison!
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! It comes again. Cursing, Fratly jumps out of bed and runs to the prison, more specifically to Catalina's cell.
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This is going even better than I imagined it could. It sounds like Clara put an amplifying spell on my head and a stampede of wild yans is going on right on top of me. The blanket, acting like an amplifier, is working beautifully; I stuck my ear between the bars and my ear turned red , I can feel it even if I can't see it. EXELLENT! Even if they try to get near me to shut me up, they won't have an easy time of it at all. Using my knees to push up on the platform once more, it booms against the stone and, falling back, causes the chains to crash insanely when it resists them even more than usual.
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! I kick it again, listening to the echoes. No way I'm gonna let any guard get any sleep tonight, or for as long as I'm in here! Tired guards make mistakes.
BOOM-CRASH!!!!! I pause and listen to the sweet echoes once more.
"Enjoying yourself, Catalina?"
I freeze, grin on my face dying instantly. I kick it again. BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"Well, I'm not. Could you please stop it? You're interrupting all of our sleep."
I kick it again, BOOM-CRASH!!!!! In an effort to drown out his words.
"I'm guessing that's the whole point isn't it, Catalina?"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"You're trying to keep us from sleeping-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-making lots of noise so you-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-escape. Am I right?"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"Well, it's not going to work. In-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-few days time you'll be shipped to-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-where you'll be in the prison cell-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"Do you actually think-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-let you out so we can sleep?"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"When you get out you're going to try-"
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
"-free your sister, aren't you?"
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cell shakes slightly under me. I kick it again, and once more before realizing: I'm not kicking anything. Opening my eyes, once shut tightly, I cough in the dust. When the smoke clears I see what happened: The platform has dented the wall, and fits perfectly into the spot without even a crack to show what was once the platform.
"I'm guessing your sister is a subject you don't want discussed, correct?" Asks fatly (not a typo) quietly. "Well, at least you're quiet now." Turning he leaves. Does he expect me to give up THAT easily?
Standing up, I grab the chains still protruding from the wall. Leaning back, I pull with all my- currently weak- strength. The platform falls back down. Getting back into my position, I kick it again.
BOOM-CRASH!!!!!
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I race along the trees, still wishing for my tail, doing flips here and there among the branches. I haven't had so much fun in AGES! My arms are tiring after three hours intense work, so I flip, using my legs and the bare feet of my costume to hang on and flip me from one branch to the next. I must be nearly to the sea by now, and when I get there I'll- "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I launch myself from a branch off a cliff I hadn't noticed in my haste! Turning in midair, I scrabble desperately, arms and legs trying to grasp the now nonexistent ground, hurtling to the sea hundreds of miles below-
My wildly groping leg hits something, and I try to snag it with my arm: a branch. . .
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-oof!"
Well, swinging myself from various points in Ipsens Castle into little nooks and crannies of various sizes had its advantages apparently. I slide from the branch into a cave half as tall and twice as wide as I am. Bending myself in half at the waste, I manage to squeeze into it. Not comfortable in the slightest, afraid of what I might need to do in the dawn, I settle down to sleep.
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"Ouch!" Zidane opens his eyes. He can see through them it's not even light out yet. "What was that for?" He asks Garnet, who has her leg drawn back to kick him again. Her mouth twitches in a smile.
"Clara will be up when the sun rises, which should be in a few minutes. Who knows what type of havoc she'll wreak on our guards if we're not up."
"Maybe so, but did you have to kick me THERE?!?!?!? It's still sore from yesterday."
"And not broken because of all the extra padding you have. Rise and shine."
In response Zidane pulls the top of his sleeping bag over his head, and receives another sharp rap. "OW! Ok, ok, I'll get up." He grumbles, reaching for a vest and pulling it on over his sleeveless white shirt. Slipping out of the sleeping bag, he grabs the tough pants he brought with him and pulls them on, attempting to do up the button with very little light. Yanking open the tent flap, he crawls out.
"So the UNmorning person finally got out of bed," Announces Eiko to everyone else the instant his head pokes out of the flap. He growls in response.
"WHEN will I be allowed to sleep in again?"
"Actually, I kind of like watching the sun rise, so I think I'll keep doing this to you," muses Garnet out loud, to giggle softly at the staring look on his face.
"Please tell me you're not serious." He begs, but at just that moment the sun clears the horizon. Yawning, an armor-covered Freya walks into Clara's tent to wake her up. Everyone can guess what'll happen as Freya leans over and shakes her. Surprisingly, Freya isn't immediately attacked. Frowning, she shakes harder. "Rise and shine, sleepy head," She says brightly, and whips off the top of the sleeping bag covering her head. "SHE'S GONE!"
"WHAT?!" Screeches Zidane, jumping to his feet, now completely awake. In response Freya empties the sleeping bag of the tangled chain and everyone stares for a few minutes. Until. . .
"Tomy, Kat, the woods in the east! Vincent, Gerard, Everything west of here! Freya, Vivi, South! Eiko go with Tomy's group, and we'll search north!" Everyone is now staring at Garnet. "NOW!" They move.
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Clara: Well, that was entertaining.
Eika: I agree.
Clara: Now, about the mystery person-
Eika: I'll send an e-mail to any1 who's right, telling them.
Clara: Sent any e-mails yet?
Eika: No. And I'll be busy with some other stuff for a while, too.
Clara: Such as?
Eika: An idea for a new FF9 story, to post in between this one and the sequel- just to annoy people, but I need new info so I've got to play the game again.
Clara: I'm sure they'll be dying for it.
Eika: They won't. Then I've got ideas for about 7 originals I need to spruce up for fictionpress.net
Clara: Touching up the ones barely read instead of working on something popular.
Eika: I'll also take a few things down on both sights-
Clara: Finally getting rid of things you'll never finish?
Eika: Shut up. Finally, I'll work on a story I think might get published later. Not sure whether or not to put it up.
Clara: Don't.
Eika: I've also finally worked out the bugs for their language, and will have to go back through the chapters changing the words according to a code soon to be posted over another, older chapter that's nothing but an apology.
Clara: Ok, that's worthwhile.
Eika: I'm also determined to defeat at least ONE of the Super Nintendo games my parents brought up. There's a hint to get to the end immediately in level 4 part 1, but first I have to GET to it, and if you lose ur last life in, say, 2-3 of the 3 parts, you have to restart from 2-1.
Clara: Annoying. Review!
