Chapter 4- The Rat
Its been two days since the last discovery. Its really messing with my nerves, this whole curse thing! I believe Kent was the last person to be found out. That would make Florina the first.... Yah... That's it! Well poor them... how embarrassing... Number one they get turned into an animal, second when they come back there naked. No wonder Kent can't talk to Fiora... I don't think I could. Still can't help but laugh. He turned into a chicken! A CHICKEN! Well... technically a Rooster, but its funnier when you say chicken. We eat chicken.
"Day dreaming?" asked the voice I knew to well. Matthew stood behind my smirking his usual, annoying smirk.
"What do you want?" I asked back, with an annoyed tone.
"Oh... You should pay better attention... You may lose something of yours..." Matthew said back. Then I noticed he had money.
"DARN YOU MATTHEW!" I yelled, pulling my sword out of the hilt.
"So short tempered! You should watch that Guy!" Mathew said, laughing.
"You better pay better attention Matthew... Or you'll lose something of yours...eh?" came another voice.
"Eh?" Matthew grunted, turning around. "Now, what are you doing sitting in a tree?"
"heheh... Getting money for breakfast..." He said. Yah, it was him. The other thief. Legault sat on the tree branch just about Matthew. Waving two bags of gold tauntingly.
"You tell me to pay attention! Now he's got both of our money! STUPID!" Guy yelled, hitting Matthew in the back of the head with the butt of his sword.
"OW! Damn it Guy!" Matthew yelled, holding his head.
"Nothing more then you deserve..." Legault said, using his usual tone.
"I can't believe you! Give us back our gold! Don't make me tell Lord Hector or Eliwood! WHY YOU!" Matthew yelled. Legault just sat in the tree, paying no mind to him.
"Your no better!" Guy yelled, waving his sword around.
"heh... OH you guys now all about that Curse thing right?" Legault asked, suddenly interested in the two.
"Yah... 12 people cursed by the Chinese Zodiac. The Zodiac all being different animals..." Guy answered, putting his sword away.
"That's about what I know too..." Matthew said.
"Heh! There's more to it! I've been think the whole thing over... for quite some time so I think I understand how the transformation happened." Legault answered, sitting cross-legged in the tree.
"How then?" Guy asked, trying to be smart with him.
"When a member of the opposite gender hugs a member of the Zodiac! That's how the transformation happens." Legault said, smiling.
"Hug? That's silly... Rath didn't hug Florina, and Fiora didn't hug Kent... Rath caught Florina and Fiora fell on Kent..." Matthew said, angrily. He near hated Legault. Mostly because he was once a member of the Black Fang...
"Well... maybe not necessarily hug... Embrace would be a better word... but Hug sounds funnier." Legault said, cackling after.
"That... would make a bit more since... So, should we be wary of women who get to close...?" Guy asked, putting his hands behind his head.
"Probably! But, of course if we never find out who has the curse.. we'll never be cured of it..." Legault said, he leaned back against the tree. "No women for the rest of you life because some curse? I'm not going for it... If I'm cursed, I better just go off hugging every girl I can, in attempts to get rid of it..." he added, laughing after. He threw us our money and dozed off in the tree. Matthew just left seeming completely uninterested in the whole thing.
The next day, Guy wondered around the camp. The group had set the camp up quickly the last night so nobody took into account that they had to walk almost a mile to the nearest water source. Guess who was to go get the water?
"Darn it... why do I have to go too?" Matthew asked, as he followed Guy threw the forest.
"Because I alone can't get enough water for everybody...." Guy answered, with an agitated tone.
"Whatever... whatever..." Matthew answered. He held the two water buckets over his shoulder, while Guy had every bodies water bottles.
"Come on, lets hurry up... I wanna get back before everyone eats all the breakfast..." Guy said, quickening his pace. Matthew sighed and followed along until the finally reached the river. They filled the water bottles up and headed back. Half way back they meet up with a certain horse back riding healer.
"oh... hello..." Priscilla mumbled, smiling.
"Hay..." Matthew and Guy answered.
"Oh, good you got the water.. and before breakfast too..."
"Hm... What are you doing out here alone Priscilla?" Matthew asked.
"Just out for a trot..." She answered.
"You... You shouldn't travel around the woods alone... its...uh...dangerous... for a lady like yourself..." Guy muttered, blushing a bit.
"oh... yes of course..."Priscilla answered, with a soft smile.
"Well, lets get back to camp... my arms hurt..." Matthew said, continuing on his way.
"Your arms? I have twice what you have..." Guy yelled, angrily.
"yah...yah... just a technicality..." Matthew answered. Guy followed after Matthew huffing and puffing. While Priscilla followed behind him, giggling a bit.
"W-what's so funny?" Guy asked, turning around.
"Oh, just you two..." She said, continuing to giggle.
"heh...hehe...." Guy muttered, blushing. They reached the camp and everyone was running around frantically.
"eh? What's this then?" Matthew asked, grabbing the arm of a frantic Rebecca.
"Oh! We're under attack! Somebody caught the right of the camp on fire, were trying to put it out..!" She yelled, running off to her tent.
"Come on we're the only ones with any water!" Guy yelled running of the direction of the fire. Priscilla following.
"Such a PAIN!" Matthew yelled, heading in the same direction.
They soon reached the flaming area. Three tents had got it already and the rest of the forest was about to go up. The horsemen and Warriors where fighting off the attacks on the other side of the flames while many other were left helplessly on the other side.
"This should do!" Guy said throwing some of the water on the flames. Almost immediately after the small area was drenched flames took it over again.
"We can't win against this fire... its growing to fast..." Priscilla said, backing her horse away. She pulled out her staff and cast a barrier spell over the flames.
"That should keep them in place for a bit...right?" Matthew asked.
"I hope so..." Priscilla answered. The others were trying as hard as they could to help out. Archers firing threw the flames in attempts to help the stranded soldiers on the other side, magic users trying to put the flames out. Suddenly the barrier around the flames broke and sent a wall of heat out in every direction. Priscilla's horse freaked out and threw her backward.
"Priscilla!" Guy yelled, reaching out to grab her. Only as he did he was taken away in a puff of smoke. Priscilla was left coughing on the ground, Guy's cloths sitting under her.
"Are you ok? Priscilla... G...Guy!?" Matthew said, waving the smoke away. Noticing Guy had puffed himself away.
"Oh I'm... I'm ok... but... Guy? Where's Guy!?" Priscilla yelled, looking around. She frantically pushed her way threw the mess of Sacaein clothing till she found a rather confused bluish, green mouse. Both Matthew and Priscilla's eyes widened as Priscilla picked the poor little thing off the ground.
"o....ow..." the creature gasped, Guy's voice coming out of its cute little mouth.
"EEK!" Priscilla yelled, dropping it onto her lap.
"Guy...? GUY! Oh saint Elimine..." Matthew gasped, covering his mouth, oh, but not in worry. He was just trying not to burst out into uncontrollable laughter.
"...what...happened..?" asked the mouse. As dazed as you could imagine.
"OH MY GOD! GUY!? It really is you! Ah! I feel and you caught me! And! You turned into a mouse!" She yelled, holding him in her hands.
"please... don't yell..." the mouse answered, falling over in her hands. Oh... if you were wondering, Matthews in the corner laughing his head off.
"B-but! What should I do!? Should I tell-" her sentence being interrupted by the re-transformation puff of smoke. An "EEK!!!" Came after this, yes being Priscilla's... probably would have been Guy's to if he wasn't so dazed. Matthew busting a gut slightly off to the side. As soon as Guy got his mind straight, he turns deep red and grabbed his cloths, running off into the forest in hopes of not being seen.
"G-Guy... that... was great... hilarious..." Matthew gasped out of laughter. Guy peeked out of the forest, now fully clothed, yet still red.
"I HATE you..." He yelled, looking as if he was ready to murder the Thief.
"Oh hah...haha... I think you traumatized poor Priscilla.... ahaha... she took off the minute you came back..." Matthew answered, practically laughing between every word.
"oh...no... she saw!" Guy gasped, turning even more red, swallowing hard. He knew what came next. Priscilla would run off crying to Lucius... Lucius would tell Raven and Raven would beet him to a bloody pulp and never allow him to go near Priscilla again.
"I totally believe in all that stuff Legault was talking about! Oh man... this is great... Guy reduced to a squeaking rat... NICE!" Matthew burst out into laughter once more. Yet Guy didn't seem to be listening anymore... He was more worried about the impending Doom he would face in the form of Raven.
"Um... oh! GUY! Thank goodness! Your back!" Priscilla said, walking up to him. "You-Your not hurt are you?"
"N-NO! Oh...I'm sorry... I should be the one asking if your OK... " Guy replied, looking away, trying not to show her how embarrassed he was.
"I'm glade... I thought I might have hurt you... you were... so small and..." her timid,qiute voice, but understandable.
"And what?" Guy asked, finally looking at her directly.
"Cute! You were just so very cute... and fuzzy!" She answered smiling. Guy's sweat dropped.
"uh...hehe... thanks... I guess... How's the battle going!?" He asked, frantically, being they had forgotten all about the battle going on.
"Its over man... once the fire was out the mercenaries were easy to take care of..." Matthew answered.
"We better tell the others... what happened... and such..." Guy said, looking away.
"Hehe... We can leave some things unsaid..." Priscilla said, with a giggle. Guy's eyes widened.
"OF COURSE!" He yelled, looking very flustered.
Saisu: HAHA! I win! Chapter four is completed! –evil laugh- -read review-
Sarah: finally... I thought you might have given up...
Saisu: I can't give up now... Even though I almost forgot completely about this fiction... stupid school... stupid Learning...
Sarah: Well now you get to start on the next chapter!
Saisu: oh boy... Ok Time to reply to some reviews! –reads- Hm... Wait... Kent and Lyn pairing?
Sarah: I thought you were a Hector Lyn supporter....
Saisu: I am... GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT REVIEWER! –points-
Sarah: hehe... where would anyone get that idea... They only interacted like... once...
Saisu: I was worried it seemed so obvious that I liked KentxFiora... weird... Oh Well Thanks for all the reviews! And PLEASE Review this chapter aswell! Much appreciated...
Sarah: I think there the only think that keep her writing anyways...
Saisu: most likely –sweatdrop- THANK YOU ALL! HOLD ON TILL CHAPTER 5! Hope you enjoyed and all other stuff...