The next chapter is ready for expectation. Hopefully this chapter is a little better than the first one. My best friend finally gave me back my game back, now I just have to wait for him to give me back my Suikoden I. It seems no one understood my joke in the first chapter, go figure. Anyways I hope you enjoy this.
Suikoden VI- My Present to You Too
The sun light poured into his window, his hand falling off the side of the wooden mattress. A soft moan escaped his lips, his body refusing to comprehend the information in his brain screaming for him to get up. His limp body felt sore from yesterday's training. That monstrous crab from the desert island attacked his party out of no where when they had been revisiting the island for any forgotten treasures.
The chaotic battle left him in such a state of pain, though he didn't know what hurt the most. The wounds that he suffered from the savage beast or the aches in his chest forming due to the over use of his rune. The curse of that damn rune of punishment slowly taking his life with each passing moment in this war.
His hand slightly shaking upon remembering his near death experience at the Kingdom of Obel. His eyes slowly closing trying to forget the painful memory. But his thoughts shifted, who would care if he died? He had no family, hardly no friends unless you counted some members of his crew. Would they grieve for him if he were to die? Some would, some wouldn't, while others would just be glad that they didn't suffer his fate.
"Hero, wake up." His mind awoke from his mid-thought nightmare upon listening to the distance sound of his name being called. The sight of a hunched Nay-Kobold holding his hands nervously together, stood above him. His light golden eyes shinning directly at Hero, the brown fur differentiated from the other two Nay-Kobolds on the ship.
"Oh hello Chiepoo," Hero softy muttered. Chiepoo slightly turned his head at his leader puzzled. "Is something the matter?" Hero didn't replied until he heard the question seconds later in his mind. "It's nothing. What is it?"
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The two girl waited for the longest time. The lobby almost seemed decimated, everyone on board was either still asleep or eating breakfast.
"Do you think Rene will be here?" Noah commented towards her partner with full boredom, both girls had agreed to temporary closed down their game businesses for the morning. She thought finding Hero a girlfriend would be fun, but this was not fun at all. She was losing out on valuable potch doing this.
"Have patients, besides only Hero plays our games enough for a profit." Rita stated, she bet the boy was still peacefully sleeping in his bed, her thoughts would sometimes turn to him, it happened ever since he beat her at her own game Rita-pon. Though she really didn't know why she always thought of him like this.
"Yeah, Yeah…" Noah pouted almost yawning slightly. As her fake paw came closer to her mouth, she could see the treasure hunter dashing down the stairs with a notebook in hand. Noah somewhat shook her head angrily for waiting so long, while Rita breath a sigh of relief.
"Sorry I'm late," Rene shouted coming up towards the two, Noah stood tapping her foot impatiently. Rene held her green notebook out, "these are the names of some of the candidates, I thought would be suitable for Hero." Before Noah even had the chance to look at the book, Rita quickly snatched it. Her curiosity getting the best of her as the pages unfolded, her fingers flipping through each page vigorously.
Each of the females described by Rene in the list were well…
"Are you kidding, practically all of these girls are bad choices." Rita screamed enraged, Rene couldn't help but take a step back in shock. "You have to be worst relationship planner I have ever seen!" She shouted pointing at the Rene.
Noah somewhat blinked before scratching her head nervously, "Come on Rita, you can't be serious," Before she could say anymore, Rita shoved the book into her face, as Noah glanced at the first few pages in her close range state. Her mouth was at loss for words for Rene defense. "I'm afraid she's right, you are the worst Rene."
Rene almost broke down crying. Her tears now visible as both girls sighed. They hated saying that to her, but like the fake Nay-Kobold girl said, it was true. Upon finishing his breakfast a young man dressed in green street clothes with a circlet below his dark brown hair stood strolling up to the three girls.
"What's going on, what's wrong Rene?" He asked concerned seeing the girl now in tears. Of all the times for the street gambler to come to the lobby, this was sure the best time out of all of them.
"It's a long story Basil, but it's a secret." Rita groaned rubbing her head, the last thing she needed to do was explain their plan to him especially if he couldn't keep a secret, if he spilled then they would never be able to find Hero the perfect girlfriend. "Okay…" Basil replied still not understanding. "Too bad I hate secrets," with that said he quickly grabbed the notebook from the girls.
"It's a list of women names on the ship? What is this?" His puzzled look told the girls they had little choice now. "Please don't tell anyone, but we are planning on getting Hero a present. We want to find him the best girlfriend, so we wrote down a list of names or rather she did." Rita stated once again pointing at Rene. The mention of her action caused her to cry out loud again.
"Interesting, count me in. Ever since I knew him on Razril, I thought he could use one." Basil stated giving them a thumbs up on the plan. Rene regain her senses as she stood only to grab her book from Basil. The question of what was wrong with her candidates plagued her mind.
"Okay, tell me what's wrong with Adrienne as a choice?" Rene asked politely. "She doesn't seem to be into his type." Rita countered. "Or any other man's for that matter. If you know what I mean." Noah commented winking at the group, then nudging her elbow in Rita's shoulder. "Are you serious, Adrienne is a female?" Basil practically screamed bewildered, this was of course new information to him.
"Okay, tell me what's wrong with Agnes as a choice?" Rene asked politely again. "Her bossiness is worse than Rita's. Noah couldn't help but burst this comment out load. "Hey, I resent that!" Rita shouted back at Noah angrily. "Both girls would kill Hero, before his rune did the job." Basil said adding to Noah joke, as he started laughing. Only to see the hammer in Rita's hand, which quickly shut him up.
"Okay, how about any of the mermaids?" Rene asked. "They would need to be consistently watered everyday." Rita reasoned. "You have to be a drunk loser pirate to fall in love with one of them." Noah said crossing her arms. "They are beautiful, especially Lilan." Basil confessed with anime style hearts for his eyes as drool can be seen dripping out his mouth.
"Well I also made a list of men on the ship, just in case…" Rene admitted quietly.
"Hero is not like that!" Rita shouted in protest. Noah giggled slightly upon hearing this, silently reading her choices for the males. "I do have to agree with your taste for the males in Hero's case. If anything we could stick him with Reinbach or Aldo. I'm sure that Ted guy would be glad to get rid of that stalker. And this last guy…priceless." Noah chuckled, before breaking down into heavy laughter.
"I forgot that, my maps…bye." Rene quickly spat out as she was half way up the stairs.
The book dropped out of the Noah's hands, as it laid by Basil's feet open. Basil's eyes turned pure red, his eyes would have even made Graham Cray's eyes seem normal in appearance. Upon looking at the book, he saw what made the girl laugh so. His name in bold print.
"COME BACK HERE, CALL ME THAT IN MY FACE!" Basil screaming running up the stairs after Rene. His figure disappearing through the upper hall, now both girls felt uncomfortable. "Maybe giving him this Wooden Amulet, would be a better idea?" Noah offered holding up a beautiful hand made craft. But Rita sighed. The damage was already done, it would be best just to get this over with and stick with their crazy plan.
"Well, maybe all of Rene's females choices weren't crazy, these eight seem decent enough. How about if Rene is still alive tomorrow, we interview them personally." Noah suggested.
"Fine." Rita agreed her glaze lowering to the ground. She feared this was only going to get worst. But she wondered what became of Hero, as he was schedule to be around in the lobby at this time.
TO BE CONTINUED, MAYBE WITHOUT RENE ; )
Hopefully this was a little better than the first chapter, thanks for all the kind reviews. But before beating the game for the first time, I did made sure to get all the box comments. Yes, Yes, I did think of Millay as a possible crush, but it's hard to say, since she wasn't important storyline wise nor we have a lot of info on her, she could also like Reinbach. Who knows, maybe in Rhapsodia. We could only wish for more information in the future.
So you see why I do not count her as one. Usually girls with crushes on the heroes have to at least play some role in a story like Krile said previous.