Usual Disclaimers at the ready! APPLY! Konami own Suikoden. I do not. That makes me angry.
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Kahri's Story - Chapter Ninteen & Malcolm's Story - Chapter One
Castaway, His Name Is Kahri
(Location – Un-named Island)
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"Poor kid...he cried himself to sleep last night."
It was the first thing Kahri heard that morning. He managed to open his eyes, but wished he hadn't as the sunlight just about blinded him. Kahri turned away from the sunlight, and saw Bonaparte playing with that guy. He was also frying eggs...Kahri suddenly found himself extremely hungry again.
His stomach gave him away...
The man turned around, Bonaparte bounded over and landed on Kahri's head. "Good morning. Eggs? Bacon?"
Kahri simply nodded, which meant Bonaparte slipped down off of Kahri's head and onto Kahri's lap. Bonaparte curled up in a cute lil' ball and fell asleep. Kahri elicited a small chuckle, as a plate of eggs and bacon was set down before him.
"Eat up. The weather conditions are almost perfect again. Meaning you'll finally be able to get to Kuskus. Hopefully somebody there will know what happened to your friends."
"Can't talk...*scoff*...eating...*scoff*..."
The man simply raised an eyebrow, but left Kahri alone to eat his breakfast. Watching Kahri eat is not recommended, you'd end up with a migraine at the intense speed. Kahri finished it off in seconds, happily taking a couple slices of bread and the man's leftovers...
"Seriously, I've never met anybody who eats so damn quickly..."
A thought ran through Kahri's mind. "Oh, you know...I don't even know your name yet."
The man smiled briefly before gazing out of the window. "My name isn't important...what the hell?"
Kahri put Bonaparte down on the bed and joined the man. Kahri looked out of the window, but saw nothing, until the man pointed out something coming over the horizon.
A boat...
"How did a boat get out from Coronet like that?" The man said, completely perplexed.
"Must've sneaked past the soldiers...*burp*...oh, excuse me."
The man grabbed his whip off the wall and walked outside. Kahri picked up Bonaparte and followed him. Kahri watched as the man pushed a boat into the water.
"I'm going to head them off. Coming?"
Kahri didn't hesitate, he grabbed his Spatula and jumped onboard. The man grabbed an oar and started to row.
"Maybe they'll know your friends from Muse." The man pondered, looking over his shoulder at the ship on the horizon.
Kahri looked too, hoping he could recognise someone on board. He turned back to the man. "I'm Kahri, by the way. Thank you so much for all your help."
The man nodded. "It's okay. I did what anybody would've done...Malcolm...that's my name. Looks like that boat is heading for Kuskus too."
Kahri looked over. "Malcolm...well, thanks anyway."
Malcolm nodded, as a blue glow suddenly eminated from the front of his boat. The whip was violently glowing blue.
Kahri gulped..."That means a storm is coming...doesn't it?"
Malcolm nodded again, before pointing over to the other boat. "Looks like another tsunami."
Kahri looked too, fearful for what he'd see. "All I see is...oh no, a giant wave!"
Malcolm narrowed his eyes, and slowly said, "A tsunami IS a large wave. Hang on, I think I can do something..."
Malcolm stood up on the boat, causing it to shake slightly. Kahri held on to Bonaparte like a security blanket, and watched as Malcolm raised his hand in the air. Kahri saw he was holding the whip in the other hand. Suddenly Malcolm's raised hand was glowing as blue as the whip was. Kahri chanced a look at the wave...
It had suddenly stopped, and it seemed to be decreasing in size too...Kahri thought back to what Malcolm had said in the cabin...
"It's nothing special, just a Water Rune. It's mainly used for healing magic."
Key word in that sentence..."mainly."
"You...you're actually holding the wave back...how on earth are you doing it?" Kahri asked, stumbling over his words.
Malcolm was too busy concentrating on maintaining the Rune's magic to answer. Kahri noticed Malcolm's breathing had become erratic, his eyes had closed over. Kahri suddenly felt very afraid, and squeezed Bonaparte tighter. Bonaparte let out a small "squeak!" and Kahri eased up a bit. Kahri turned back to see the ship, it had sailed away from the tidal wave and was now safe. Kahri let out a small sigh of relief, but it turned to horror as he turned back around.
Kahri watched as Malcolm's limp body fell into the water. Kahri screamed, then managed to get his act together. Using his Spatula, he managed to fish out Malcolm from the water. Malcolm coughed, and some water sprayed everywhere. Malcolm's eyes flashed open, they eminated an eery shade of blue light for a second, then resorted to their natural blue colour. Malcolm sat up, looked in the direction of where the wave was...so did Kahri.
It had completely gone.
How the hell did he manage to cause a massive wave to calm down, stop then disappear like that?!? What power must he have?
"Did the boat...get away in time?" Malcolm asked, shaking his head of cobwebs.
Kahri nodded, knowing he looked totally dumbstruck. "That was amazing...I'm guessing you're not gonna tell me how you did that."
Malcolm silently thanked Kahri. "Yeah, well...that would take away a lot of my misteeq wouldn't it?"
Kahri decided not to ask what "misteeq" meant. Instead he used his Spatula as a makeshift oar, and started to sail after the boat Malcolm somehow saved. Malcolm rested for a couple of minutes, before retaking his oar and rowing with Kahri. Malcolm looked over at the boat.
"They're gonna reach Kuskus before we can catch them. Let's hope they don't stray too far away."
"Yeah, the might know exactly what happened in Muse." Kahri added.
"Squeak!" Bonaparte yelped.
"What's up Bonaparte?" Kahri asked.
"Squeak!"
"Um...I think it might be sensing someone it knows on that boat." Malcolm said, looking at the little groundhog. "It's staring right at the other boat, and whimpering...maybe it's sensing its master onboard."
Millie....?
"You think so? That would be great if it was...I hope you're right." Kahri said, trying to rid his voice of the gloom.
"Well, we'll find out when we get to Kuskus, won't we Kahri?"
"I guess so...oh, I hope it's them..."
"You mean your friends? Well, I hope it is them too then." Malcolm said.
"Yeah...let's hope so..."
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Is it really Kahri's friends on that other boat? Well, who knows...but we'll go back to see what they are up to in the next chapter!
