Love Bites
"Rise and shine, Felix, rise and shine!"
Felix rolled over in his bed, groaning aloud and trying to block out the sound roaring in his head. It was the awful sound of a certain Lemurian waking him up. Picard was opening the curtains, but there was little light coming through since it was still so early.
"Picard..." Felix sat up with an effort and yawned wildly, shooting a tired glare at Picard who was now grinning evilly, his hand glowing blue as if he was about to cast Water Psynergy. "What the hell are you DOING? Nobody gets up at this time! Let me get back to sleep, you evil person!" He promptly fell back on the pillow and buried his face in it.
"Uh-uh," Picard shook his head and sharply pulled Felix's pillow out from under his head. Felix yelped in complaint and reached out for the pillow, but Picard held it away from him. "Don't you remember what you've got to do this morning?"
"Oh yes, I know what I have to do this morning," Felix spoke in a sinister tone, pulling his duvet up around his shoulders and somehow managing to rest his head on a corner of the duvet. "I have to devise a way to get rid of you without anybody knowing after you've just committed the heinous crime of waking me up too early."
"No, wrong," Picard wagged his finger and then he pulled the duvet as well. Felix exclaimed as he promptly hit the floor and glared at Picard who was now holding the duvet hostage. "That's not it at all. You may recall blowing Kraden's cottage up yesterday. In fact, because you blew his cottage up, you and Isaac are required to go to his cottage early today morning to clean it up or face dire punishment. I believe now would be a very good time to go and do it."
"I hate you," Felix scowled and picked himself off the floor, going to pick out some clothes to wear today. "I am never going to forgive you for waking me up. Why do I have to go and clean up Kraden's cottage? Isaac blew it up, not me! I am perfectly innocent... this stinks."
"Yes, I am quite sure," Picard nodded sagely. "Well, have a nice time at Kraden's, I shall be going back to bed now." As he spoke, he threw himself back on his bed and pulled the duvet over his head, drifting off to dreamland. Felix glared evilly at the lump as he got dressed, dreading the prospect of cleaning up Kraden's cottage, but he just couldn't think of any way to get out of it without being punished.
"Isaac! Isaac! It's time to get up!" Isaac blearily opened his eyes and wondered who was trying to get him up. He was so tired, he just didn't feel like he could possibly stay awake any longer than five seconds. Through his hazy vision, he saw a blue-haired angel.
"I'm seeing angels," Isaac mumbled thickly, rolling around so that his face was in the pillow. "G'night..."
"Isaac," Mia spoke again, sterner this time. "You have got to get up, and calling me an angel isn't going to put me off however sweet that was. Although I don't think I'd really want to be an angel, they are supposed to be dead you know."
"Huh?" Isaac turned over again, staring sleepily up at Mia. "What? Why do I have to get up?"
"Kraden," Mia said simply, and she couldn't help feeling sorry as she saw the horrified expression that was on Isaac's face. He looked so pitiful, she considered just going around to Kraden's and knocking him out for a while, but she wasn't sure if she could do that without killing him since he really was just a frail old man.
"Oh no..." Isaac whimpered. "Uh, Mia, I don't feel so good... I think I shouldn't go, because I might throw up all over the floor or something and I don't think Kraden would be very happy. I should stay here and rest."
"Poor baby," Mia tutted pityingly and then she glowed with Psynergy, holding her hands out towards Isaac. Her hands glowed blue and Isaac watched in horror as a little fairy danced over him and showered him with sprinkles. Mia had just used Ply psynergy, a healing Psynergy, so now Isaac really had no excuse. "You feeling better now?" Mia asked hopefully.
"Yeah," Isaac nodded, sitting up and smiling fakely so that Mia's feelings would not be hurt. She had done it in her best interests so it wouldn't be fair to act displeased with her for it. "Thanks, Mia... well, I guess I'd better get ready and go to Kraden's even though I don't really want to."
"I know," Mia grinned and then she turned, walking towards the door. Before she was completely out of the room, she looked back over her shoulder and winked. "Good luck, Isaac, don't let the scholar bite." Then she was gone.
"Uh... okay..." Isaac blinked in confusion and then he got out of bed and grabbed his clothes, hurriedly getting dressed. If he had to go and clean Kraden's cottage, then he might as well get an early start as Kraden had requested. The earlier he and Felix started, the earlier they would be finished. Isaac just hoped that Felix was going too, because it wouldn't be fair if he had to do it alone.
"Ahh, I am very pleased to see you two," said Kraden ominously, sitting on his burnt doorstep. "These hours residing in a roofless establishment has left me in a state of cold that is almost unbearable and..." He continued to go on and on, his words of doom flung at the two miserable, shivering Venus Adepts, both of them blinking tiredly and wanting to go straight back to bed rather than listening to Kraden. "... so now you two should proceed to begin. Get to it or else I shall be going to your parents."
"Uh-huh, okay," Isaac nodded quickly, unable to stifle a yawn and then he clapped his hand to his mouth, his eyes widening. "Oops... I'm not tired at all."
"That is a pity," Kraden said, giving Isaac a stony glare which only made Isaac shiver even more and wonder why it would be a pity to Kraden if he was not tired. Unless of course getting him and Felix up had been a way of Kraden's to torture them. It made perfect sense.
"Well, we should start now," said Felix brightly, grabbing Isaac's arm and forcefully pulling him into the ruined cottage. "This place will be looking spick and span in no time at all... oh, and roofless too, but we can't really do anything about that."
"Well, just tidy up," Kraden ordered grouchily, sitting on a stool and watching Felix and Isaac intently. They realised he was going to be watching them the whole time and possibly talking a lot too, and that thought alone was intensely horrifying.
'Oh no, anything but that!' Isaac started dropping glass and burnt paper and random other bits of rubbish on the floor into the bins that were prepared specially. 'I want my mommy!'
Felix sighed and grabbed a mop and pail of water. He started mopping up the spilt liquids that decorated the floor, actually somewhat entranced by all the different colours they came in, and wondered what they were, but it probably wasn't a good idea to ask Kraden since he would only go and name the elements and their molecular structures and proton and atomic numbers or whatever all that Chemistry gobbledegook was about.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!" Jenna howled in rage as she looked in the bathroom mirror, staring in horror at her reflection. Her hair was a bright auburn colour now, looking just like Garet's hair, and it was mortifying. "WHO TOUCHED MY HAIR?" Jenna screamed again, running her hands over her barnet protectively as if that would wash the nasty orange colour away and revert it to normal.
In the not so far distance, Jenna heard the front door slamming and then she had a very good idea of just who had committed the heinous crime of dying Jenna's hair. It was bad enough to touch Jenna's hair, but they had dyed it as well and now she was extremely mad.
"SHEBA!!!" Jenna howled. Of course it was Sheba, that explained why she had gotten up before Jenna and Jenna knew that because when she got up, Sheba was not in her bed, so Sheba must have just made a quick getaway to try and avoid Jenna's wrath. Well, Jenna wasn't going to rush out with orange hair, not like this. There was no way she was going to let Sheba win.
Jenna rushed to her bedroom and proceeded to pull her clothes on in a rush, then she ransacked her wardrobe, pulling out a little green beret style hat. It was a bit odd looking, but anything was better than facing the world with orange hair. Jenna scrunched her hair together, making sure that every newly orange strand was in place then she tucked it under her beret and fixed it securely on her head. If that little green hat came off, Jenna swore that she would burn it... and then put it in Sheba's bed or something. Maybe while still burning. While Sheba was in the bed.
Jenna strode out into the hallway, whistling a jaunty tune as if pretending that nothing was wrong, and she almost bumped into Picard who was coming in the opposite direction.
"Good morning, Jenna," Picard said cheerfully. "Oh, and I love your cute hat, it really suits you. You should wear it more often."
"Shut up and die," Jenna growled, shoving him aside and marching off towards the front door. She was in a terrible mood and in no mood to talk about her hat.
"Touchy," Picard raised an eyebrow. "Well, it's probably just her time of the month or something." He was about to go to the bathroom, then something stopped him and he frowned in confusion. "Why is Jenna wearing a hat when she's never worn one before?"
Ivan nervously tiptoed to Garet's door and peered through the gap he had left. He saw that Garet was just getting up, blinking sleepily and yawning and looking like he wanted to go straight back to sleep. Ivan sighed in relief and then he darted off speedily in case Garet saw him or something.
Garet thought he had heard something like a Jupiter Adept running along the landing, but he decided to think nothing of it and eased himself out of bed, stretching himself thoroughly then proceeding to get dressed. It was day 2 of his chores week, and he was definitely not looking forwards to it, but it was probably better than Isaac and Felix having to clean up Kraden's cottage.
'I'm so hungry,' Garet thought as he lumbered towards the door, thinking of breakfast and smiling as he hoped that it was something good. 'I want my breakfast... mmmm... I want pancakes...' Garet of course did not look up, which was a big mistake, because if he had then he would have known to squeeze through the gap and not pull the door wide open. Of course, he pulled the door wide open and promptly found himself drenched with a bucket on his head.
"IVAN!" Garet roared, pulling the bucket off his head and throwing it furiously, shouting a few rude words. "I'm going to kill that evil midget even if it's the last thing I do!" He was not very happy at all, now he was wet and Garet did not like being wet at all. Even worse, he still had to do his chores, he knew that Kay would not think that being wet was a suitable excuse to get out of doing chores, she would probably try to roast him dry or something.
"Garet!" Jenna hollered, strolling into the kitchen where Garet was currently mopping the floor, an unpleasant task considering that Ivan had been careful to get some food on the floor. Garet put the mop against the table and spread his arms wide, but Jenna was not in the mood for hugs. "Look!" She pulled off her hat and let her newly auburn hair fall down to her shoulders.
"Wow..." Garet's mouth dropped open and he stared fascinatedly at Jenna as if she had grown an extra head or something. "Why did you dye your hair? I liked it better before."
"I didn't dye it!" Jenna screamed, clenching her fists angrily and looking so furious she almost broke a new record. "It was that evil Sheba, she dyed my hair in the night or something!"
"Ivan's been evil too!" Garet cracked his knuckles. "You know what he did? He put a bucket on my door and I got soaked this morning! Evil, evil midget... if he was here, he would be dead right now."
"Hey," Kay strolled into the kitchen and stopped. She looked at Jenna, then Garet, then at Jenna again and shook her head with an exasperated sigh. Jenna glared at her evilly as if daring her to even mention her hair. "Goodness," Kay blinked and stared at Jenna even more. "Look, Garet, Jenna, I know that you two are in love and probably will get married someday or something..." Garet paled visibly as Kay bought up the subject, and he prayed that she wouldn't be evil enough to let his biggest secret out. After all, he was doing the chores, wasn't he? "But now you've got to have matching hair?" Kay sighed again and threw her arms up in the air. "I give up, you are officially the craziest couple out there." She strode out of the house, giggling loudy.
"Huh!" Jenna tucked her hair back under her beret and sulked. "That wasn't funny. Your sister is so mean."
"Yeah," Garet chuckled nervously. "She's evil."
"Married?" Jenna rubbed her brow with index finger and thumb as if she was having a headache or something. "Seriously, are we going to get married soon? Is she kidding?"
"Hahahaha..." Garet laughed and grabbed the mop, chuckling as he started vigorously knocking aside chairs with it and collided with the table, rubbing his head. "Hahahahaha..."
"You are so crazy, Garet," Jenna told him and then she too left the house, hellbent on figuring out how to get her own back on Sheba, while Garet was now thinking about how he could get his own back on Ivan.
"Ahh," Isaac sighed in relief as he was finally excused from Kraden's cottage, along with Felix. The cottage was still roofless but at least it was clean and tidy. Kraden had considered giving Isaac and Felix a lecture, but then decided he didn't want to put himself in danger again so he opted out, although it was dismaying to think he had missed a prime chance to lecture people about useless things as he always did.
"I never want to do that again," Felix declared, looking immensely relieved. "Kraden was awful, he kept telling us what to do, like 'put that in that bin', and 'the bin is over there' even though there were about a dozen bins all over the cottage."
"Don't remind me," Isaac shuddered. "Well, I'm going to go to the plaza, I might as well spread the word Kraden needs a new roof or something in case he decides we really can give him a new roof or something."
"Good idea," said Felix thoughtfully. He noticed Jenna marching around and screaming while wearing a green beret and blinked. "I, on the other hand, shall ask my sister why she is currently running around and yelling with a hat on her head."
"Good idea," Isaac nodded, smiling, and then he rushed off to the plaza as Felix nervously approached Jenna, being very careful not to suddenly provoke her just in case.
"Kraden needs a new roof!" Isaac announced out loud to everybody in the plaza. He was a little disheartened to see that nobody had suddenly rushed off to go and get a roof, but then again where would they get one from? Isaac noticed Ivan and Sheba standing behind a building and whispering, but he had no time to go and ask why they were standing behind a building and whispering.
"Visitor!" A Valean screamed and yelled frantically, jumping up and down by the gate as if he had ants in his pants or something. "It is a visitor!"
"Right..." Isaac sweated heavily and approached the gate, wondering why a visitor was making the poor Valean act as if it was the coming of the Apocalypse or something. But then again, some Valeans did tend to be nervous about visitors after all that had happened in the past. He swung open the gate and then he was shocked.
"Hi, Isaac!" exclaimed the purple-haired girl as she stepped into the village, her green eyes sparkling with happiness. "It's great to see you again!"
"Feizhi," Isaac forced himself to smile. It wasn't that he was disappointed or anything, but she was the last person he would have expected to see. And why was she looking at him like that?
Mia was just walking around Vale, doing nothing in particular since it was nice just looking at the flowers and everything. Actually, there wasn't much to do in Vale, but it was such a nice place she wouldn't mind living here forever with Isaac.
'If he ever realises I love him,' Mia thought glumly. 'And with any luck he'll feel the same way about me.'
"Hi, Mia," Somebody spoke from behind her and Mia turned to see the last person that she would have ever wanted to see on Weyard. She would rather have seen Kraden about to start reading out loud from a very thick book, but she just wasn't that lucky.
"Alex," said Mia coldly, glaring at him.
"Rise and shine, Felix, rise and shine!"
Felix rolled over in his bed, groaning aloud and trying to block out the sound roaring in his head. It was the awful sound of a certain Lemurian waking him up. Picard was opening the curtains, but there was little light coming through since it was still so early.
"Picard..." Felix sat up with an effort and yawned wildly, shooting a tired glare at Picard who was now grinning evilly, his hand glowing blue as if he was about to cast Water Psynergy. "What the hell are you DOING? Nobody gets up at this time! Let me get back to sleep, you evil person!" He promptly fell back on the pillow and buried his face in it.
"Uh-uh," Picard shook his head and sharply pulled Felix's pillow out from under his head. Felix yelped in complaint and reached out for the pillow, but Picard held it away from him. "Don't you remember what you've got to do this morning?"
"Oh yes, I know what I have to do this morning," Felix spoke in a sinister tone, pulling his duvet up around his shoulders and somehow managing to rest his head on a corner of the duvet. "I have to devise a way to get rid of you without anybody knowing after you've just committed the heinous crime of waking me up too early."
"No, wrong," Picard wagged his finger and then he pulled the duvet as well. Felix exclaimed as he promptly hit the floor and glared at Picard who was now holding the duvet hostage. "That's not it at all. You may recall blowing Kraden's cottage up yesterday. In fact, because you blew his cottage up, you and Isaac are required to go to his cottage early today morning to clean it up or face dire punishment. I believe now would be a very good time to go and do it."
"I hate you," Felix scowled and picked himself off the floor, going to pick out some clothes to wear today. "I am never going to forgive you for waking me up. Why do I have to go and clean up Kraden's cottage? Isaac blew it up, not me! I am perfectly innocent... this stinks."
"Yes, I am quite sure," Picard nodded sagely. "Well, have a nice time at Kraden's, I shall be going back to bed now." As he spoke, he threw himself back on his bed and pulled the duvet over his head, drifting off to dreamland. Felix glared evilly at the lump as he got dressed, dreading the prospect of cleaning up Kraden's cottage, but he just couldn't think of any way to get out of it without being punished.
"Isaac! Isaac! It's time to get up!" Isaac blearily opened his eyes and wondered who was trying to get him up. He was so tired, he just didn't feel like he could possibly stay awake any longer than five seconds. Through his hazy vision, he saw a blue-haired angel.
"I'm seeing angels," Isaac mumbled thickly, rolling around so that his face was in the pillow. "G'night..."
"Isaac," Mia spoke again, sterner this time. "You have got to get up, and calling me an angel isn't going to put me off however sweet that was. Although I don't think I'd really want to be an angel, they are supposed to be dead you know."
"Huh?" Isaac turned over again, staring sleepily up at Mia. "What? Why do I have to get up?"
"Kraden," Mia said simply, and she couldn't help feeling sorry as she saw the horrified expression that was on Isaac's face. He looked so pitiful, she considered just going around to Kraden's and knocking him out for a while, but she wasn't sure if she could do that without killing him since he really was just a frail old man.
"Oh no..." Isaac whimpered. "Uh, Mia, I don't feel so good... I think I shouldn't go, because I might throw up all over the floor or something and I don't think Kraden would be very happy. I should stay here and rest."
"Poor baby," Mia tutted pityingly and then she glowed with Psynergy, holding her hands out towards Isaac. Her hands glowed blue and Isaac watched in horror as a little fairy danced over him and showered him with sprinkles. Mia had just used Ply psynergy, a healing Psynergy, so now Isaac really had no excuse. "You feeling better now?" Mia asked hopefully.
"Yeah," Isaac nodded, sitting up and smiling fakely so that Mia's feelings would not be hurt. She had done it in her best interests so it wouldn't be fair to act displeased with her for it. "Thanks, Mia... well, I guess I'd better get ready and go to Kraden's even though I don't really want to."
"I know," Mia grinned and then she turned, walking towards the door. Before she was completely out of the room, she looked back over her shoulder and winked. "Good luck, Isaac, don't let the scholar bite." Then she was gone.
"Uh... okay..." Isaac blinked in confusion and then he got out of bed and grabbed his clothes, hurriedly getting dressed. If he had to go and clean Kraden's cottage, then he might as well get an early start as Kraden had requested. The earlier he and Felix started, the earlier they would be finished. Isaac just hoped that Felix was going too, because it wouldn't be fair if he had to do it alone.
"Ahh, I am very pleased to see you two," said Kraden ominously, sitting on his burnt doorstep. "These hours residing in a roofless establishment has left me in a state of cold that is almost unbearable and..." He continued to go on and on, his words of doom flung at the two miserable, shivering Venus Adepts, both of them blinking tiredly and wanting to go straight back to bed rather than listening to Kraden. "... so now you two should proceed to begin. Get to it or else I shall be going to your parents."
"Uh-huh, okay," Isaac nodded quickly, unable to stifle a yawn and then he clapped his hand to his mouth, his eyes widening. "Oops... I'm not tired at all."
"That is a pity," Kraden said, giving Isaac a stony glare which only made Isaac shiver even more and wonder why it would be a pity to Kraden if he was not tired. Unless of course getting him and Felix up had been a way of Kraden's to torture them. It made perfect sense.
"Well, we should start now," said Felix brightly, grabbing Isaac's arm and forcefully pulling him into the ruined cottage. "This place will be looking spick and span in no time at all... oh, and roofless too, but we can't really do anything about that."
"Well, just tidy up," Kraden ordered grouchily, sitting on a stool and watching Felix and Isaac intently. They realised he was going to be watching them the whole time and possibly talking a lot too, and that thought alone was intensely horrifying.
'Oh no, anything but that!' Isaac started dropping glass and burnt paper and random other bits of rubbish on the floor into the bins that were prepared specially. 'I want my mommy!'
Felix sighed and grabbed a mop and pail of water. He started mopping up the spilt liquids that decorated the floor, actually somewhat entranced by all the different colours they came in, and wondered what they were, but it probably wasn't a good idea to ask Kraden since he would only go and name the elements and their molecular structures and proton and atomic numbers or whatever all that Chemistry gobbledegook was about.
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!" Jenna howled in rage as she looked in the bathroom mirror, staring in horror at her reflection. Her hair was a bright auburn colour now, looking just like Garet's hair, and it was mortifying. "WHO TOUCHED MY HAIR?" Jenna screamed again, running her hands over her barnet protectively as if that would wash the nasty orange colour away and revert it to normal.
In the not so far distance, Jenna heard the front door slamming and then she had a very good idea of just who had committed the heinous crime of dying Jenna's hair. It was bad enough to touch Jenna's hair, but they had dyed it as well and now she was extremely mad.
"SHEBA!!!" Jenna howled. Of course it was Sheba, that explained why she had gotten up before Jenna and Jenna knew that because when she got up, Sheba was not in her bed, so Sheba must have just made a quick getaway to try and avoid Jenna's wrath. Well, Jenna wasn't going to rush out with orange hair, not like this. There was no way she was going to let Sheba win.
Jenna rushed to her bedroom and proceeded to pull her clothes on in a rush, then she ransacked her wardrobe, pulling out a little green beret style hat. It was a bit odd looking, but anything was better than facing the world with orange hair. Jenna scrunched her hair together, making sure that every newly orange strand was in place then she tucked it under her beret and fixed it securely on her head. If that little green hat came off, Jenna swore that she would burn it... and then put it in Sheba's bed or something. Maybe while still burning. While Sheba was in the bed.
Jenna strode out into the hallway, whistling a jaunty tune as if pretending that nothing was wrong, and she almost bumped into Picard who was coming in the opposite direction.
"Good morning, Jenna," Picard said cheerfully. "Oh, and I love your cute hat, it really suits you. You should wear it more often."
"Shut up and die," Jenna growled, shoving him aside and marching off towards the front door. She was in a terrible mood and in no mood to talk about her hat.
"Touchy," Picard raised an eyebrow. "Well, it's probably just her time of the month or something." He was about to go to the bathroom, then something stopped him and he frowned in confusion. "Why is Jenna wearing a hat when she's never worn one before?"
Ivan nervously tiptoed to Garet's door and peered through the gap he had left. He saw that Garet was just getting up, blinking sleepily and yawning and looking like he wanted to go straight back to sleep. Ivan sighed in relief and then he darted off speedily in case Garet saw him or something.
Garet thought he had heard something like a Jupiter Adept running along the landing, but he decided to think nothing of it and eased himself out of bed, stretching himself thoroughly then proceeding to get dressed. It was day 2 of his chores week, and he was definitely not looking forwards to it, but it was probably better than Isaac and Felix having to clean up Kraden's cottage.
'I'm so hungry,' Garet thought as he lumbered towards the door, thinking of breakfast and smiling as he hoped that it was something good. 'I want my breakfast... mmmm... I want pancakes...' Garet of course did not look up, which was a big mistake, because if he had then he would have known to squeeze through the gap and not pull the door wide open. Of course, he pulled the door wide open and promptly found himself drenched with a bucket on his head.
"IVAN!" Garet roared, pulling the bucket off his head and throwing it furiously, shouting a few rude words. "I'm going to kill that evil midget even if it's the last thing I do!" He was not very happy at all, now he was wet and Garet did not like being wet at all. Even worse, he still had to do his chores, he knew that Kay would not think that being wet was a suitable excuse to get out of doing chores, she would probably try to roast him dry or something.
"Garet!" Jenna hollered, strolling into the kitchen where Garet was currently mopping the floor, an unpleasant task considering that Ivan had been careful to get some food on the floor. Garet put the mop against the table and spread his arms wide, but Jenna was not in the mood for hugs. "Look!" She pulled off her hat and let her newly auburn hair fall down to her shoulders.
"Wow..." Garet's mouth dropped open and he stared fascinatedly at Jenna as if she had grown an extra head or something. "Why did you dye your hair? I liked it better before."
"I didn't dye it!" Jenna screamed, clenching her fists angrily and looking so furious she almost broke a new record. "It was that evil Sheba, she dyed my hair in the night or something!"
"Ivan's been evil too!" Garet cracked his knuckles. "You know what he did? He put a bucket on my door and I got soaked this morning! Evil, evil midget... if he was here, he would be dead right now."
"Hey," Kay strolled into the kitchen and stopped. She looked at Jenna, then Garet, then at Jenna again and shook her head with an exasperated sigh. Jenna glared at her evilly as if daring her to even mention her hair. "Goodness," Kay blinked and stared at Jenna even more. "Look, Garet, Jenna, I know that you two are in love and probably will get married someday or something..." Garet paled visibly as Kay bought up the subject, and he prayed that she wouldn't be evil enough to let his biggest secret out. After all, he was doing the chores, wasn't he? "But now you've got to have matching hair?" Kay sighed again and threw her arms up in the air. "I give up, you are officially the craziest couple out there." She strode out of the house, giggling loudy.
"Huh!" Jenna tucked her hair back under her beret and sulked. "That wasn't funny. Your sister is so mean."
"Yeah," Garet chuckled nervously. "She's evil."
"Married?" Jenna rubbed her brow with index finger and thumb as if she was having a headache or something. "Seriously, are we going to get married soon? Is she kidding?"
"Hahahaha..." Garet laughed and grabbed the mop, chuckling as he started vigorously knocking aside chairs with it and collided with the table, rubbing his head. "Hahahahaha..."
"You are so crazy, Garet," Jenna told him and then she too left the house, hellbent on figuring out how to get her own back on Sheba, while Garet was now thinking about how he could get his own back on Ivan.
"Ahh," Isaac sighed in relief as he was finally excused from Kraden's cottage, along with Felix. The cottage was still roofless but at least it was clean and tidy. Kraden had considered giving Isaac and Felix a lecture, but then decided he didn't want to put himself in danger again so he opted out, although it was dismaying to think he had missed a prime chance to lecture people about useless things as he always did.
"I never want to do that again," Felix declared, looking immensely relieved. "Kraden was awful, he kept telling us what to do, like 'put that in that bin', and 'the bin is over there' even though there were about a dozen bins all over the cottage."
"Don't remind me," Isaac shuddered. "Well, I'm going to go to the plaza, I might as well spread the word Kraden needs a new roof or something in case he decides we really can give him a new roof or something."
"Good idea," said Felix thoughtfully. He noticed Jenna marching around and screaming while wearing a green beret and blinked. "I, on the other hand, shall ask my sister why she is currently running around and yelling with a hat on her head."
"Good idea," Isaac nodded, smiling, and then he rushed off to the plaza as Felix nervously approached Jenna, being very careful not to suddenly provoke her just in case.
"Kraden needs a new roof!" Isaac announced out loud to everybody in the plaza. He was a little disheartened to see that nobody had suddenly rushed off to go and get a roof, but then again where would they get one from? Isaac noticed Ivan and Sheba standing behind a building and whispering, but he had no time to go and ask why they were standing behind a building and whispering.
"Visitor!" A Valean screamed and yelled frantically, jumping up and down by the gate as if he had ants in his pants or something. "It is a visitor!"
"Right..." Isaac sweated heavily and approached the gate, wondering why a visitor was making the poor Valean act as if it was the coming of the Apocalypse or something. But then again, some Valeans did tend to be nervous about visitors after all that had happened in the past. He swung open the gate and then he was shocked.
"Hi, Isaac!" exclaimed the purple-haired girl as she stepped into the village, her green eyes sparkling with happiness. "It's great to see you again!"
"Feizhi," Isaac forced himself to smile. It wasn't that he was disappointed or anything, but she was the last person he would have expected to see. And why was she looking at him like that?
Mia was just walking around Vale, doing nothing in particular since it was nice just looking at the flowers and everything. Actually, there wasn't much to do in Vale, but it was such a nice place she wouldn't mind living here forever with Isaac.
'If he ever realises I love him,' Mia thought glumly. 'And with any luck he'll feel the same way about me.'
"Hi, Mia," Somebody spoke from behind her and Mia turned to see the last person that she would have ever wanted to see on Weyard. She would rather have seen Kraden about to start reading out loud from a very thick book, but she just wasn't that lucky.
"Alex," said Mia coldly, glaring at him.
