Hey this is the next chapter to my story! By the way Freya, Steiner, and Amarant are the ones I took to Oeilvert when I played it. CrimsonCobwebs Thanks for the suggestion I'll try to do that! StrawberryHill I'm glad you enjoy the story! To add more detail I'm gonna have to stop playing FFVIII and play IX again. Yeah um, so Let's just get to the story!
Chapter 2
Secrets of Oeilvert
They soon arrived to the outside of Oeilvert; Ali stood trying to catch her breath. Zidane looked away from the moogle, Mimoza, to look at Ali, he shook his head and turned back to the moogle. Freya and Steiner tried to help her recover, Zidane set up a tent for them to rest in, Ali still panted for breath.
"Hey is some thing wrong?" Zidane asked her
"You guys aren't scared of those monsters?"
"Why would we be?" Steiner asked
"I dunno the fact they attack you! Back home there is nothing like that, all the animals are afraid of us….Either that or we just really stink to them."
"I take it life where you come from is really different," Freya said
"Yeah," Ali took her CD player out of her pocket, "That thing broke my CD player!"
It fell into pieces on the ground in front of her, she stared at it as if it had been the love of her life that died. Everyone just stared at her as she wept over her lost CD player, Amarant picked up a piece of it.
"What kind of material is this made out of?"
"Mostly plastic, any ways um, what are you guys going to do?" Ali said digging in her bag
"First, we are going to rest, then we'll go in and find that stone thing," Zidane said sitting on the ground
"What the hell is that?" Amarant asked Ali
"Dried ramen! I love my ramen," she unwrapped it and started to eat it, "People say it ain't good to eat it dry like this though,"
"Why?"
"It's dried noodles and noodles expand and people say it will kill ya or something like that."
Ali held some out for them to try but they all turned it down, she shrugged her shoulders and continued eating. Freya sat and watched Ali, she was an interesting girl, she claimed to be know Kuja, but acts as if she has no clue what he's been up to.
"Ali I must know, what is your connection with Kuja?"
"Well…" Ali looked at the ramen in her hand and her smile faded away, "It's really hard to say, I mean we have our different outlooks and all, you could call us brother and sister or acquaintances I suppose, but I'm not entirely sure. The same man created us, but we look and act differently, I sort of want to forget all of this."
"You really sound confused about this," Steiner said
"Yeah that's because up until recently I would've never guessed that I wasn't of Earth." Ali sighed, "Hey did you know that Gaia means earth?"
"Really?" the asked surprised by the sudden mood swing
"Yeah, because Gaia is the goddess of earth 'n stuff!"
"So, why did you go from serious to hyper in like two seconds?" Zidane asked
Once again her smile faded away, her sapphire eyes focused on him, "It has been through my experience that if you are not in any sort of cheery mood people will ask you the two questions every time, 'what's wrong?' or 'Are you okay?' So I've made it so people don't ask me those questions."
"I think there's more to it then you're leading on," Amarant added
"You really need to have more faith in people," Zidane said smiling at Ali, "She'll tell us when she's ready."
Don't be so sure of yourself, Zidane-san. Ali thought as she laid on her back gazing at the clouds.
"Say Ali," Zidane said
"Hm?"
"You don't have any weapons do you?"
"No."
"Here you can have this," he tossed a dagger at her, "I've got a stronger one so you can use this one."
"Um, thanks?" Ali said looking at it, What the hell! Why would I need this? I'm not fighting any thing.
"It's a mage masher."
"I'm not going to be mashing mages am I?"
"What? no! One of my friends is a mage, I wouldn't want you to hurt him."
"I see," she smiled, he's friends with one of Kuja's creations?