A New Beginning.

Well here's chapter 4. First I want to say a BIG thank you to everyone who has reviewed so far!!! It's really great to know people are reading and enjoying my fic!!! And thanks to Falco for the help! Oh I guess I should tell you now there will be a slight lemon at the end. Nothing too bad though, it's only PG-13!!! Anywoo, read on and I hope you all enjoy chapter 4!!

*Disclaimer* I don't own Skies of Arcadia Legends or any of the characters, items or places associated with it. I do own this story and all of my own characters.

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Vyse and Aika sprinted back to the Delphinus, both eager to tell their young Silvite friend about Eric. Upon boarding the huge, shining silver battle-ship they ran down to the cabins taking the stairs two at a time. Vyse reached the metal door to Fina's room first and bent over with his hands on his knees, trying to catch his breath. Aika caught up with him and took a moment to adjust her pink goggles on her head, which had gone askew in her run. She knocked on the door, even though it was her cabin too, and waited for Fina's reply of, "Come in." Aika entered the room first, followed by Vyse, both still panting heavily.

Are you two okay? It looks like you've run a marathon!" commented Fina, smiling at her two best friends. Aika crossed the room and threw herself onto her yellow and orange bed, "We're fine!" she assured, "We just ran back because we were dying to tell you some great news!!" "Yeah," cut in Vyse, "We may have just found your soul-mate!!" "He's got cute red hair and freckles!" exclaimed Aika, and Vyse added, "He's nice and polite and-" "He's got beautiful, bright green eyes!" Aika cut across again. "and sweet and well mannered," continued Vyse, then they both excitedly shouted, "You'll LOVE him!" in unison.

Fina giggled at their enthusiasm. Vyse and Aika were looking at her expectantly, "He sounds just my type!" said Fina happily, "So does my soul-mate have a name?" "Eric." Answered Vyse as he crossed the room to sit on the end of Aika's bed. "I'm really looking forward to meeting him!" exclaimed Fina excitedly. "Well you don't have long to wait! He's picking you up at Cresent Isle tomorrow evening at seven!" Aika told her. "Oh you guys are so great!" Fina told them in a loving tone, "I don't know where I'd be without you! You are always showing me so much kindness and if there's ever anything I can do to repay you-" "Fina you are our friend! You don't owe us anything!" said Vyse gently.

Aika looked at the small clock on the wall above Fina's bed and gasped, "It's almost two in the morning! We should get some sleep. Fina has a big day tomorrow!" "You're right." agreed Vyse, "We can stay docked here for the night and sail back to Cresent Isle in the morning." "Good plan!" yawned Aika. Vyse said goodnight to Fina and gave Aika a good night kiss before retreating to his cabin where he fell asleep the moment his head touched the soft, feather pillow.

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Vyse woke up the next morning to gleaming sunlight streaming in through his small, round bedroom window. He sat up rubbing his eyes groggily and threw his legs around, off the side of his blue bed. He was woken up by the unexpected cold of the floor on his bare feet. It was only then that he remembered that he had spent the night on his ship. The Delphinus, being a battle ship, had no proper cabins. One long narrow room, far below deck had fifty or so hammocks piled into the corner that sailors would have used if it was necessary for them to spend the night on the ship. After acquiring the Delphinus, Vyse, with some help from Enrique, had cleared out three small storage rooms and fixed two single beds to the metal floors of each. The only other items in Vyse's room were, a small, square metal table with a matching metal chair, a moonstone powered lamp and a small clock hanging on the bare wall. It was half past nine and Vyse wanted to start sailing home as soon as possible.

After getting dressed in his usual blue tunic, scarlet scarf, black leggings and light brown boots and belt he made his way up to the bridge. Pow was sitting outside the door to the bridge, which was slightly ajar, and, at the sight of his master, he waged his tail furiously, begging to be petted. Vyse knelt down to rub his pet huskra's white, furred belly. It was then that Vyse noticed voices drifting out through the open doorway, "But what if I do something wrong? Maybe he won't even like me." Came a young, gentle, female voice that Vyse recognised as Fina's, "Don't worry, he'll love you! Who wouldn't?!" Vyse recognised this bubbly voice as Aika's. "But what if he kisses me? Should I let him? I don't even know how!!" Vyse didn't want to eavesdrop on a private conversation so he stood up clearing his throat loudly before entering.

The two girls were sitting beneath the huge blue flag that was bearing a skull and cutlass which Vyse had designed. When Aika saw the brown-haired boy come in she got up to give him a kiss and discreetly whispered in his ear, "Fina's a bit anxious 'bout the date, try and keep off the subject, okay?" So, for the rest of the journey, the three friends chatted happily of how they could help Enrique and Moegi rebuild Valua to make it a better place for everyone, no matter how rich or poor, to live.

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Back at Cresent Isle Vyse was left alone as Aika and Fina had disappeared into Fina's room, locking the door behind them. He first strolled around the island trying to pass the time. The sky was once again a cloudless, bright blue and the sun was shining down on the small island. Once again most of the inhabitants of Vyse's base were outside basking in the gorgeous weather. Vyse was only sitting in his spot by the pond for a few seconds before he came up with a brilliant idea. He got back onto his feet and went to Osman's stall to pick up a few items before heading to the meeting room.

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After seeing Fina off onto Eric's small air ship, Aika returned to her room. She was surprised to find Vyse sitting on her bed beaming up at her." What're you doing here?!" she asked, taken aback. "I've got a little surprise for you!" He said, "But don't get too excited, it's only small!" Aika wasn't at all de-spirited, "cool what is it?! Tell me!! Is it in here?!" she asked, sweeping her eyes over her bedroom. Vyse didn't answer her question but just smiled sweetly and said, "Follow me and I'll show you."

The red-head followed her boyfriend all the way up to the wooden door of the meeting room, where he turned to face her and said, "Okay, now close your eyes." Aika obediently obeyed, a curious smile playing on her lips. Vyse placed his strong hands on Aika's shoulders and gently guided her into the room. "Okay...open!"

Aika gasped as she took in the room. Vyse had covered the ceiling in different shades of pink and red streamers, there were pink, white and red balloons tied to some of the chairs and different pieces of furniture around the room. The only light in the room was provided by an array of red candles of all shapes and sizes, scattered along the floor, lining the four walls of the room.. But Aika's favourite were the red rose petals, scattered all over the floor and the table.

Aika stared for a few moments with her mouth open and her eyes wide. She finally managed to stammer, "Wow! Vyse...this is amazing! Thank you!" Vyse smiled at her and said in a put-on posh voice, "Well, miss Aika, your table awaits.

The table was set for two and Vyse showed the pretty red-head to her seat. In front of her plate was a piece of paper, folded horizontally which Vyse had made and written her name on. At the side was a little drawing of Aika with a gold tiara replacing her goggles on her head, she was standing in the middle of a heap of treasure and gold. Aika laughed at the picture and then reached over to the one that said 'Vyse'. On this one there were two stick figures, one sitting on a throne with braids, and one bowing on the ground with a cutlass next to him and a scarf around his neck. A little speech bubble coming from his mouth read, 'All hail Aika!' Aika replaced the paper and looked at Vyse who was sitting next to her and said, "Why did you go to all this trouble? It's gorgeous!! But it must've taken you ages to do!!"

Vyse simply stated, "It was no trouble and I did it for you. Now I was planing on cooking the dinner myself but I didn't think that it would be very romantic to give you food poisoning so I got Urala to help me out. Well she did most of but I helped too see? I have a battle scar from it!" Vyse said, showing Aika a long cut down the side of his left index finger. "Oh, poor baby! I'll kiss it better!" Aika said, gently kissing his injured finger. "Wow. That worked! But now my lips hurt. Really badly!" Vyse said in a pretend whimper, making puppy eyes at Aika, who smiled and gave him a quick kiss on the lips. Vyse just squeezed his eyes shut from the make-believe pain and whined, "Ow..owww..I..I think..it's....getting worse. Help.."

Aika put her hand on his cheek pushing her fingers behind his ear and through his chestnut-brown hair. She then began to kiss his bottom lip teasing it with her tounge, sometimes sucking it gently. She then tilted her head to the side pressing her whole mouth against Vyse's, letting her tounge slip into his mouth to massage his tongue with hers. When Aika pulled back to ask, "How 'bout now?" Vyse gave her the smile that always made her heart melt and said, "That's definitely fixed it for now, but you just can't tell how long it will last for now, can you?" the sound of the door opening made the two Blue Rouges turn around to see who was coming in.

Urala entered the room and placed a large silver dish in he middle of the table. She gave a small bow to the two teenagers and said, "This is a Yafutoman speciality called 'Kalsa'. It's a salad with pieces of chicken and a home-made dressing. I hope you like it!" Aika smiled at the young Yafutoman girl, "It looks delicious! Thank you very much." Urala walked to the door and turned to bow at Vyse and Aika, and Vyse could have sworn that he saw her give a wistful look around the room before leaving.

His attention was brought back to the dinner which Aika had started pilling onto her plate hungrily. Vyse stared open mouthed and said in amazement, "I don't know how a girl can eat so much!!" Aika just shrugged and continued to fill her plate. "Well your not going to eat more'n me!" said Vyse, stuffing his mouth, taking the food directly from the serving plate. An eating race then took place, both seventeen-year-olds trying to eat more than the other one.

Urala came back three more times, each time bringing with her huge servings of various foods. Vyse took a last mouth-full of his strawberry ice-cream, dropped his silver spoon back into the bowl, slumped back into his chair and said, "Boy I'm stuffed!" Aika also gave up and pushed her bowl away from her to the other plates with bits of food that they weren't able to finish. She picked up a half-eaten piece of broccoli and started absently playing with it in her hands. Vyse gave her a sly look and started groaning, "Oh...ow...help..my lips....they're....so sore....think they ate too much...!"

Aika laughed, flicked her piece of broccoli at him and warned, "Don't push your luck, mister!" Vyse put on an appalled look and said, "Well! How dare you!!!" and threw a fistful of peas back at her, but Aika was ready for him and dodged the peas, grabbing some mashed potato and flinging it at him. This carried on, all the while getting more frantic, until Vyse raised his hands in the air calling a truce. Aika took the opportunity to throw some spinach at Vyse's chest but then flopped onto the floor, sending rose petals flying into the air. She caught one in her palm and took a deep breath, inhaling the beautiful aroma of the flower.

Vyse sat next to her, leaning back on his elbows. Aika too lay back leaning her head on Vyse's shoulder as he kicked off his boots and stretched out his legs. "I think I won that!" Your tunic's filthy!" Aika commented looking at his blue tunic which was now stained with a multitude of different foods. Vyse threw off his dirty tunic letting it fall on top of his boots. Aika replaced her head on Vyse's now bare shoulder and whispered to him, "Vyse, this is the sweetest thing that anyone's ever done for me. I love you." Vyse turned to kiss the top of Aika's head and whispered back, "I love you too."

Vyse rolled onto his side, placing each of his hands on the floor on either side of Aika's neck. Aika joined her hands behind Vyse's neck and lay back fully onto the petal covered floor, pulling him with her. Vyse put his mouth on hers and slipped his tongue between her lips, this time he massaging her tongue with his. Aika removed one hand from Vyse's neck to let it run up and down his spine tracing circles around his shoulder blades and at the base of his neck. Vyse pulled back and looked at Aika seriously to ask, "Are you sure you want this?" Aika just nodded and closed her eyes again, pulling Vyse's head back down to continue their kiss, at the same time kicking off her own boots. Vyse rolled over so that he was lying on top of her between her parted legs. Vyse slowly ran his hand up her leg and brought it to rest on her toned stomach brining her dress with it. He then stopped the kiss for a second time to remove her blue belt and pull the dress off over her head. Kissing her again he pulled off her pink goggles and pulled out the blue ribbons that were holding up her braids, letting her long red hair fall gracefully over her bare shoulders.

Aika took off her own glove from her left hand and removed Vyse's scarf and sky seer. Vyse then slid off Aika's armlet and tight brown shorts. Aika rolled over so that she was lying on top of Vyse and moved her lips to his chest to kiss his strong pecks, using her now free hands to pull down his black leggings and kicked them off, down to the pile that was growing steadily larger near the table.

Now both teenagers were wearing nothing but their underwear. Vyse took a moment to look at the beautiful girl lying on top of him. It was still hard to comprehend being in such a situation with Aika. But he knew one thing for sure. He loved her.

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So there it was. My first lemon. Or almost lemon. Anyway I'll try and have chap 5 up as soon as possible, it's going to have a lot more Fina/oc than the rest so far. Please review!!!! I'm dying to know if you liked it!!!!! Bye for now. Aika o