A New beginning
A/N: Hi everyone! Thanks for all the reviews and enjoy the story!!!
Chapter 7: A Date with Destiny
"Any luck!?"
"No, nothing. I looked all over Ixa-taka."
Aika's hopeful smile faded. It had been almost two weeks since Fina had disagreed and Vyse had all the Blue Rouges he knew looking out for her. He and Aika were really getting worried and Vyse was sure that Aika was blaming herself. Well he knew the feeling.
Aika sighed in frustration, kicked at the ground and mumbled,
"It's all our fault. We drove her away."
Vyse looked at Aika and put his hand on her shoulder,
"Hey it's okay. We'll find her.." He couldn't bring himself to say 'It's not our fault' because he knew it was his. Fina opened up to him leaving her dignity, pride and future on the line and to stomp all over that by rejecting her and going out with Aika. But he loved Aika. It was all such a mess!
"Well I'm not going to sit here all day. Let's do something!"
Aika said as she played with her necklace restlessly.
"How 'bout we go to the market in Nasrad and pick up a few things? It'll give us something to do at least." Vyse suggested.
"Yeah sure.lunch is on you!"
Vyse turned back and followed Aika back up the ramp and boarded the Delphinus.
***
The two teenagers barely spoke to each other for the whole trip, both too busy scanning the skies for sign of a young silvite on the deck of a passing ship or even on the small islands as they flew past.
As Vyse docked his ship in the Nasrad port, he felt a growing disappointment. He wasn't expecting to see Fina but still was mad that he didn't. He sensed Aika was feeling the same so he put on a cheery exterior, grabbed her hand and ran into Nasrad with her.
The two Air Pirates wandered the streets examining the different stalls and picking out weird and exotic fruits. Soon all their worries were forgotten as they raced around the stone paved streets trying to find a more peculiar looking fruit than the other.
They met back at the agreed place by the big fountain in the middle section of the large city. Aika was there first with a strange fruit clasped in her hands. The fruit was about the size of Cupil with a spiky, luminous pink shell. Huge shiny leaves of all colours came from the top of the fruit and trailed along the ground by Aika's feet. She looked up and laughed at Vyse's shocked face and explained,
"It's called a 'googoberry'. They grow under-water in Ixa- taka."
"Um, yeah.it looks yummy.well my fruit's way better, see?"
From behind his back Vyse produced a small round, smooth black-purple fruit and sang triumphantly,
"Ta-daaaaaaa!"
"Where's the rest of it?"
"This is it! The salesman told me 'bout it. It's called a 'ventemelacumtor', I think? Anyway there's only 'bout six left in the whole world and this one came from the Dark Rift."
"Vyse, love, that's a plum. We have those growing back home on Cresent Isle."
"What!? It cost 1500 gold! Stupid salesman!"
Aika bent double with laughter clutching her side while Vyse mumbled, turning the fruit in his hands inspecting it closely. When Aika finally stopped laughing, her cheeks wet from tears of laughter, Vyse inquired,
"You done yet?"
Aika didn't answer because she was jumping up and down and calling to someone. Vyse followed her line of sight to see Gilder leaning jauntily against a shop wall seemingly chatting up some blonde Nasrean girl. He ignored Aika's calls at first but then the girl slapped him hard across the face and stormed off. Gilder then strided over to his two fellow Blue Rouges seemingly unaffected by his encounter with the girl.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Gilder asked.
"Nothing really. Vyse is buying me lunch, you wanna come? I'm sure he'll pay for you too!" Aika offered.
"Yeah sure! I'm always up for a free meal!"
***
After they finished their dinner they all pushed back in their chairs and started chatting. Gilder finished animatedly recounting his latest escape from Clara and the laughter was just subsiding when Gilder asked,
"Any news from Fina?"
Immediately the mood swung back to gloom as thoughts of their lost friend flooded back to Vyse and Aika.
Vyse shook his head and mumbled,
"No. We're still looking.."
Gilder left and Aika slumped forward, resting her chin in her hands, and quietly said,
"We'll never see her again will we?"
"Don't say that. C'mon let's go home."
Vyse walked around to Aika's side of the table and as she stood up, wrapped his arms around her waist and the two returned through the busy town to the Delphinus.
***
It was a silent trip home again, Two pairs of eyes scanning the skies for sign of their missing friend.
Vyse docked his ship in the small port of his island base and walked, with Aika, upstairs intending to go to his spot by the pond he stepped outside as Aika kept walking forward towards Osman's shop. Vyse raised his arm over his face to shield his eyes from the bright sunlight hearing his name being called he squinted to see a slim figure running towards him. He just saw who it was before the girl jumped at him and wrapped her arms tightly around his neck.
"Fina? Fina!"
"Hi Vyse! Oh I missed you!"
Vyse lovingly returned the hug and then stood back to look at his Silvite friend. Cupil was delighted to see Vyse again and flew up to him licking his face.
"Wow Fina, you look great!" Vyse exclaimed as he eyed his friend.
It was true. Fina was beaming broadly and was hopping up and down on the balls of her feet in excitement.
"Aahhhhhhhhhh!!!"
They both looked to the right as they heard a scream and the next thing they heard a scream and the next thing they knew Aika was clung to Fina tears streaming down her pale-skinned face.
"F-Fina! I'm sorry!" She wailed, "I'll never ever let you go again!"
"It's so great to see you!"
Vyse smiled at his two female friends. He vaguely noticed that Cupil had stopped licking him and looked around to see where the morphing creature had got to. His mahogany eyes landed on the playful creature now circling the head of a forth figure. In Vyse's excitement of having Fina back he totally over looked the new addition. He was a young man about two or three inches taller than Vyse with tanned, sallow skin, baby blonde hair falling over his forehead above startling blue eyes. He wore grey jeans, brown boots peeping out at the bottom, and a sky-blue shirt left open exposing a toned chest.
Vyse had a strange feeling that he knew him from somewhere but couldn't put his finger on where. Fina noticed the man curiously and prised herself from Aika's strong grip. Aika, still with tears staining her face, just noticed the man too and raised an eyebrow. Fina walked to the blonde man and, taking his hand in hers, announced.
"Vyse, Aika, this is Cody, my boyfriend."
"Nice to meet you both!" said Cody in a cool, soft voice.
Aika squealed, "Boyfriend?! Where'd you meet?! When?!"
"He was staying at the same inn as me after I left. We started talking and soon became friends." Fina explained.
Recognition suddenly struck Vyse and he said, "but you meet before that, you're the guy who caught her when she fell at the ice rink in Valua."
"Yeah, that's right, I couldn't stop thinking about her since then." Cody said putting his arm around Fina.
Vyse thought that Aika was going to burst from excitement, grabbing Fina's hands she cried,
"Oh, oh let's go to the meeting room and we can catch up!"
The four teenagers squashed onto the small lift and Vyse pressed the button causing it to rise.
In the meeting room Vyse and Aika sat next to each other with Fina and Cody opposite them at the long wooden table. After chatting for nearly three hours Vyse had come to the conclusion that Cody was a sound guy and worthy enough to go out with his friend. Vyse had never seen Fina looking so happy. Her emerald green eyes looked like they could burst into tears of joy at any second.
Similarly Aika looked like a six year old on Christmas morning. Whenever Fina and Cody touched hands or looked each other in the eyes she would nudge Vyse, smiling like a maniac.
Cody was eighteen and lived alone in an apartment above his grandfathers weapon shop in Marmamba which he ran on his own. He was born and raised on a small island village under the green moon, but when he was fifteen his grandfather got seriously ill and was unable to run the weapon shop alone so Cody went to live with him. Then last year, when Cody was seventeen, His grandfather got so ill that Cody couldn't mind him anymore and his grandfather went to live with Cody's parents while Cody chose to stay in Marmamba running the weapon shop.
He had been staying at the inn in Horteka to do some trading for the business when he met Fina. The two of them stayed there for one week and Fina went with Cody to Marmamba for the second.
On Aika's request Polly brought enough food to feed about twelve hungry men and they all tucked in happily. After dinner, when Aika was describing how Vyse, Fina and herself had saved the world to Cody, Fina asked to see Vyse outside.
On the balcony Vyse spoke before Fina had a chance to open her mouth,
"You don't need to apologise I realise you got caught up with stuff.just promise you won't ever leave us again?"
"I promise! But I was going to ask if Cody can stay here for a while?"
"Corse he can! I'll make up a spare bed in your room."
"Thanks Vyse." Fina said, kissing him on the cheek.
She turned to go but turned when Vyse called,
"So how'd you like this one?" pointing a thumb at Cody through the meeting room window.
Fina smiled sheepishly and said,
"You know what I think I love him."
***
This is bout the 2nd or 3rd last chap, hope you liked it! Don't forget to review!! Thanks everyone!
A/N: Hi everyone! Thanks for all the reviews and enjoy the story!!!
Chapter 7: A Date with Destiny
"Any luck!?"
"No, nothing. I looked all over Ixa-taka."
Aika's hopeful smile faded. It had been almost two weeks since Fina had disagreed and Vyse had all the Blue Rouges he knew looking out for her. He and Aika were really getting worried and Vyse was sure that Aika was blaming herself. Well he knew the feeling.
Aika sighed in frustration, kicked at the ground and mumbled,
"It's all our fault. We drove her away."
Vyse looked at Aika and put his hand on her shoulder,
"Hey it's okay. We'll find her.." He couldn't bring himself to say 'It's not our fault' because he knew it was his. Fina opened up to him leaving her dignity, pride and future on the line and to stomp all over that by rejecting her and going out with Aika. But he loved Aika. It was all such a mess!
"Well I'm not going to sit here all day. Let's do something!"
Aika said as she played with her necklace restlessly.
"How 'bout we go to the market in Nasrad and pick up a few things? It'll give us something to do at least." Vyse suggested.
"Yeah sure.lunch is on you!"
Vyse turned back and followed Aika back up the ramp and boarded the Delphinus.
***
The two teenagers barely spoke to each other for the whole trip, both too busy scanning the skies for sign of a young silvite on the deck of a passing ship or even on the small islands as they flew past.
As Vyse docked his ship in the Nasrad port, he felt a growing disappointment. He wasn't expecting to see Fina but still was mad that he didn't. He sensed Aika was feeling the same so he put on a cheery exterior, grabbed her hand and ran into Nasrad with her.
The two Air Pirates wandered the streets examining the different stalls and picking out weird and exotic fruits. Soon all their worries were forgotten as they raced around the stone paved streets trying to find a more peculiar looking fruit than the other.
They met back at the agreed place by the big fountain in the middle section of the large city. Aika was there first with a strange fruit clasped in her hands. The fruit was about the size of Cupil with a spiky, luminous pink shell. Huge shiny leaves of all colours came from the top of the fruit and trailed along the ground by Aika's feet. She looked up and laughed at Vyse's shocked face and explained,
"It's called a 'googoberry'. They grow under-water in Ixa- taka."
"Um, yeah.it looks yummy.well my fruit's way better, see?"
From behind his back Vyse produced a small round, smooth black-purple fruit and sang triumphantly,
"Ta-daaaaaaa!"
"Where's the rest of it?"
"This is it! The salesman told me 'bout it. It's called a 'ventemelacumtor', I think? Anyway there's only 'bout six left in the whole world and this one came from the Dark Rift."
"Vyse, love, that's a plum. We have those growing back home on Cresent Isle."
"What!? It cost 1500 gold! Stupid salesman!"
Aika bent double with laughter clutching her side while Vyse mumbled, turning the fruit in his hands inspecting it closely. When Aika finally stopped laughing, her cheeks wet from tears of laughter, Vyse inquired,
"You done yet?"
Aika didn't answer because she was jumping up and down and calling to someone. Vyse followed her line of sight to see Gilder leaning jauntily against a shop wall seemingly chatting up some blonde Nasrean girl. He ignored Aika's calls at first but then the girl slapped him hard across the face and stormed off. Gilder then strided over to his two fellow Blue Rouges seemingly unaffected by his encounter with the girl.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Gilder asked.
"Nothing really. Vyse is buying me lunch, you wanna come? I'm sure he'll pay for you too!" Aika offered.
"Yeah sure! I'm always up for a free meal!"
***
After they finished their dinner they all pushed back in their chairs and started chatting. Gilder finished animatedly recounting his latest escape from Clara and the laughter was just subsiding when Gilder asked,
"Any news from Fina?"
Immediately the mood swung back to gloom as thoughts of their lost friend flooded back to Vyse and Aika.
Vyse shook his head and mumbled,
"No. We're still looking.."
Gilder left and Aika slumped forward, resting her chin in her hands, and quietly said,
"We'll never see her again will we?"
"Don't say that. C'mon let's go home."
Vyse walked around to Aika's side of the table and as she stood up, wrapped his arms around her waist and the two returned through the busy town to the Delphinus.
***
It was a silent trip home again, Two pairs of eyes scanning the skies for sign of their missing friend.
Vyse docked his ship in the small port of his island base and walked, with Aika, upstairs intending to go to his spot by the pond he stepped outside as Aika kept walking forward towards Osman's shop. Vyse raised his arm over his face to shield his eyes from the bright sunlight hearing his name being called he squinted to see a slim figure running towards him. He just saw who it was before the girl jumped at him and wrapped her arms tightly around his neck.
"Fina? Fina!"
"Hi Vyse! Oh I missed you!"
Vyse lovingly returned the hug and then stood back to look at his Silvite friend. Cupil was delighted to see Vyse again and flew up to him licking his face.
"Wow Fina, you look great!" Vyse exclaimed as he eyed his friend.
It was true. Fina was beaming broadly and was hopping up and down on the balls of her feet in excitement.
"Aahhhhhhhhhh!!!"
They both looked to the right as they heard a scream and the next thing they heard a scream and the next thing they knew Aika was clung to Fina tears streaming down her pale-skinned face.
"F-Fina! I'm sorry!" She wailed, "I'll never ever let you go again!"
"It's so great to see you!"
Vyse smiled at his two female friends. He vaguely noticed that Cupil had stopped licking him and looked around to see where the morphing creature had got to. His mahogany eyes landed on the playful creature now circling the head of a forth figure. In Vyse's excitement of having Fina back he totally over looked the new addition. He was a young man about two or three inches taller than Vyse with tanned, sallow skin, baby blonde hair falling over his forehead above startling blue eyes. He wore grey jeans, brown boots peeping out at the bottom, and a sky-blue shirt left open exposing a toned chest.
Vyse had a strange feeling that he knew him from somewhere but couldn't put his finger on where. Fina noticed the man curiously and prised herself from Aika's strong grip. Aika, still with tears staining her face, just noticed the man too and raised an eyebrow. Fina walked to the blonde man and, taking his hand in hers, announced.
"Vyse, Aika, this is Cody, my boyfriend."
"Nice to meet you both!" said Cody in a cool, soft voice.
Aika squealed, "Boyfriend?! Where'd you meet?! When?!"
"He was staying at the same inn as me after I left. We started talking and soon became friends." Fina explained.
Recognition suddenly struck Vyse and he said, "but you meet before that, you're the guy who caught her when she fell at the ice rink in Valua."
"Yeah, that's right, I couldn't stop thinking about her since then." Cody said putting his arm around Fina.
Vyse thought that Aika was going to burst from excitement, grabbing Fina's hands she cried,
"Oh, oh let's go to the meeting room and we can catch up!"
The four teenagers squashed onto the small lift and Vyse pressed the button causing it to rise.
In the meeting room Vyse and Aika sat next to each other with Fina and Cody opposite them at the long wooden table. After chatting for nearly three hours Vyse had come to the conclusion that Cody was a sound guy and worthy enough to go out with his friend. Vyse had never seen Fina looking so happy. Her emerald green eyes looked like they could burst into tears of joy at any second.
Similarly Aika looked like a six year old on Christmas morning. Whenever Fina and Cody touched hands or looked each other in the eyes she would nudge Vyse, smiling like a maniac.
Cody was eighteen and lived alone in an apartment above his grandfathers weapon shop in Marmamba which he ran on his own. He was born and raised on a small island village under the green moon, but when he was fifteen his grandfather got seriously ill and was unable to run the weapon shop alone so Cody went to live with him. Then last year, when Cody was seventeen, His grandfather got so ill that Cody couldn't mind him anymore and his grandfather went to live with Cody's parents while Cody chose to stay in Marmamba running the weapon shop.
He had been staying at the inn in Horteka to do some trading for the business when he met Fina. The two of them stayed there for one week and Fina went with Cody to Marmamba for the second.
On Aika's request Polly brought enough food to feed about twelve hungry men and they all tucked in happily. After dinner, when Aika was describing how Vyse, Fina and herself had saved the world to Cody, Fina asked to see Vyse outside.
On the balcony Vyse spoke before Fina had a chance to open her mouth,
"You don't need to apologise I realise you got caught up with stuff.just promise you won't ever leave us again?"
"I promise! But I was going to ask if Cody can stay here for a while?"
"Corse he can! I'll make up a spare bed in your room."
"Thanks Vyse." Fina said, kissing him on the cheek.
She turned to go but turned when Vyse called,
"So how'd you like this one?" pointing a thumb at Cody through the meeting room window.
Fina smiled sheepishly and said,
"You know what I think I love him."
***
This is bout the 2nd or 3rd last chap, hope you liked it! Don't forget to review!! Thanks everyone!