Hey Readers... I know... This chapter has been really slow to update... and I think it's kinda lame, but I had to let the characters breathe in order to do some other things, right guys? (-All the characters nod-). So as I said the chapter isn't so good as the last ones... Well, I sure hope you read it anyways... (you would like to skip what I wrote in the beginning... oops too late). Disclaimer please, and let's end this.
Kiomi: I got bored... let someone else do it.
Me: Fine. Let's call... Serya! And do it in Al Bhed, for the fun of it.
Serya: Teclyesan: Dra yidrun vnus drec cduno uhmo ufhc uhe lrynyldan (Ztal). Ra ufhc ½ uv sa yht dra udran ½ ec SsAnImE, dra ufhan uv KiomiZeph, so suhdugeu, ec uv leirbag10. Stricken (E veht ed ybnubbeyda du lymm bancuhc po draen hysac yht hud bcaotuhosc, pid yidrunc yht najeafanc yna y tevvanahd lyca) MedicinerViktor ec uv CogaRayne ec uv AnerkeyNanta ec uv Bushi Tenshi Katsumi. Yht dre haf kio ec uv y vneaht uv dre fnedan.
What's there to like?
Fine! She saves us and then goes with Kiomi to heal Stricken. So what about us? We let her go that easy!? Hello! How can we trust her!? What if she decides to kill Kiomi. Right now I wouldn't believe in anyone else than the seven that are left... And I would still have my doubts.
"Rayne are you okay?" asked Viktor, who was looking at me... but It wasn't a hentai look. "You're thinking to much. What are you thinking about?"
"It's none of your business" I answered him as a reaction.
"Now I need to know. Come on what's bugging you?" he asked me as we all continued walking towards Tipa.
"It's just that... tell me, Viktor... Do you trust that girl?" I asked him lowering my voice so the others wouldn't hear me.
"What's wrong with her?" he asked... and I noticed he hadn't thought about the same things I had.
"Don't you think she's too... goody-goody...? You know what I mean, right?" Viktor looked at me, as if I was talking to him in another language. "That she is too good to be true" I tried to get that in his mind, which didn't work from time to time... and it didn't this time so I told him everything I had thought.
"Don't you think you're exaggerating things?" was what I got for an answer.
"Fine! Don't understand..."
So it seemed that I was the only one that thought like that. (-Sigh-) It isn't right. In fact I feel like I'm not part of the group. The road was too silent... I did notice that Kiomi wasn't with us... nor Zeph... What the heck is he doing as a Montokio?!? Maybe he just wants to take care of us... he's always been so good. I wish nothing had happened to him. Ugh! Stop! Now... you're going to show to everyone that you don't feel okay... And what about...?
Nanta was hiding herself in her cape. If I had learned something from her it was that she felt sad or something like that when she hid herself.
"It's sure a nice weather..." I told her... maybe to make her thing of something else. I didn't recieve an answer. "Uhm... Forget it" I said starting to imagine the thoughts that could be in Nanta's head. Having to kill her brother must have been hard for her... especially because she was orphan, but it was because of a strong reason. But I did notice she was okay when that girl was here... Does she have powers to soothe a persons ache? It can't be... She looks so naive, even if she had them she wouldn't know it.
"Rayne... do you think he'll come back?" Nanta asked me, taking me out of my thoughts.
I shook my head and gave her a small smirk, maybe that would cheer herup a little bit.
"Yeah... I think that too. But, he said something of a Gemini... and Waleska" Nanta said hiding more in her hood.
I returned to my thoughts... 'Yeah... Waleska, the evil moon. There must be a connection with all of these. And if there isn't... Oh! Come on, this just has to have some meaning. The moon, as the legend says, was the evil one, so... it revived Syroth, because...' I remained with that last thought. It didn't have any meaning at all. But the Gemini thing sure did catch Viktor's attention.
"Don't you think that it all starts with the Geminis...?" asked Viktor getting nearer to Nanta and me.
"In a kind of weird way, yeah. And, they started by following you. Why would they start by following you?" I told and thought trying to find the why of the events.
"Maybe it's because of the abilities us Nordics have" Viktor answered me, then he stopped. He walked to the end of the Myrrh crystal's protection.
"What are you doing!?" yelled Nanta getting her head out of the hood.
Viktor walked out towards the Miasma. He kept walking with us, but outside of chalice's protection then I remembered... Nordics can...
"I can withstand miasma" Viktor said. "I can stand miasma for about a week... but I'm supposed to develop that ability to the point that I may be able to live the rest of my life in it"
"There must be something more..." I said searching in my memory.
"Well, I do remember that Kiomi and I found Viktor on a road... and after taht we separated, I went to the woods, then I met you Rayne" said Ztal. Yeah, that did have a little bit of sense.
"Yeah... and Kiomi and I went to Althena and we all met there. We could say the caravan was established there" Viktor continued.
After that I think I did get the point of the Geminis hunting Vktor down Ztall, because then he would have gone with Kiomi to Althena, and I would have stayed waiting for a hopeless caravanner to pass by to steal his items with my ex-partner. Also we wouldn't have had so many adeventures... but what's most important... we wouldn't be here, as I already wrote.
"And Rayne, what don't you like of the new girl" asked me Ztal, then I knew he was listening to the whole conversation.
"There's nothing to like" I said, not going to explain to him my thoughts and at last I saw a huge wooden sign that read: "You're getting closer to Tipa, only 10 Km left".
I kept walking and sighed... then I started wondering how Strike was.
"Hasn't anyone seen a wandering spirit before?"
We finally got to the town! And somehow... I had the weird feeling that they had been waiting for us. I mean, we just established foot on Tipa and people were running towards us. Some Clavats and Yukes, dressed as Doctors, came with a stretcher to carry Strike to the hospital. I looked at Serya, I think she felt somehow... without space. Well, since all the crowd was going nuts near me and Serya (especially me... I think because the caravanners from Tipa told them about their encounter with our caravan) I decided to fly towards the hospital, leaving Serya under Boko's protection... but when I looked back, they weren't going nuts because of me... it was because of Zeph... Aww, I thought they liked me. Well... Yukes, Selkies, Lilties and Clavats (all the races that lived in Tipa) where surrounding Zeph. Thank goodness he is a montokio now, or he would have never, and when I write never... I mean never, gotten out of that one... On the other hand, maybe if he wasn't a montokio he wouldn't be in that situation. Silly me!
Zeph traspassed every single person of the town and went walking to the hospital, when he reached me a complete silence disturbed me. I looked at Zeph.
"What? Hasn't anyone seen a wandering spirit?" he asked going into the hospital. (As you can see... I liked that phrase). I just laughed and went towards Serya, she was still shocked. Maybe she wasn't used to those kind of situations. I dragged her out of her thoughts and we went to the hospital (how many times have I written hospital? 6 times?). There was complete silence in it.
"So, where are they?" I asked, listening to my echo. "Cool!" I said and "-ool" was heard again and again.
"Would you stop that?" Serya said kind'a annoyed... I think. "Let us see. The map here shows that broken bones are treated in the tenth floor. Shall we then?" she said now calmly.
Serya and I went to the stairs (or so I thought) and began to go to the tenth floor. When I looked backwards she wasn't behind me... Where coul have she gone? Well... I kept going to the tenth floor when suddenly-
"Are you okay?" asked a guy with a fair skin, determined brown eyes, blue-greenish hair... (he also had some weird spiral symbols on his cheeks... I coul barely notice them... but I did). "I didn't see you, sorry" he said helping me to stand up.
"I'm fine..." I managed to answer.
"So, where are you going?" he asked me, and now I was watching his white and long ripped shirt with blue shoulders, short baggy pants above the knee, and his white shoes with its white shoe-laces.
"To the... the... the... bone repairing" I answered.
"You mean the broken bones floor right?" he said giving me the weird look.
I nodded to him and then he kept me company until we reached the floor.
"Well, we're here, gotta go" he said.
"Wait... umm... What's your name?" I asked him not knowing what I was doing.
"Cypros, it's been a pleasure" he said going down the stairs.
I kept repeating that name for a while. That giy didn't seem normal in Tipa... and I would have continued thinking but-
"There you are! Why did not you take the elevator with me?" Serya asked me with here unpeccable English accent. I just looked at her...
"There was an elevator?"
"Just come over here, the black mage has been cured" she said taking mo to the room in which Strike was. "Fryd ec fnuhk fedr ran"
Me: Dred'c ed... hu suna Al Bhed... Phew... Finished! Oh that Al bhed got my brain to get squashed up... Well... did you like it? It isn't a cliffhanger... I hope. And what do you think happened between Kiomi and Cypros? Do you think she likes him? Oh, and if you're wondering... Ztal's still in the sewer... yeah...
C-ya
Cheers! Lraanc!
