Thank you guys for all of the reviews. Keep sending in all of those characters. I will try to use all of them but I might not be able to use some of them. I am going to have to change this character just a bit though so she fits a bit better. Anyway on to the story. Oh I don't know if they had running water in the game but in this story they do. I mean I'm pretty sure they did but…. Just in case. Oh and they have like normal lights not just candels. Oh and I just made up the names of the books so don't go looking for them.
Oh and apparently some people didn't quite understand what I meant by Seth and Genis not realizing they liked each other. coughRencough What I meant was that they knew that they liked each other but they didn't know the other liked him… That was confusing its like Genis knows he likes Seth but he doesn't know Seth likes him. Just wanted to make that clear for those people. coughRencough
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Seth.
A Tale of Two worlds
Ch. 3 Triet
Seth and Genis met Lloyd by the edge of Iselia Forest.
"I can't believe we got banished from Iselia," Genis said sadly.
"Yeah it sucks," Lloyd said. They headed towards the southern part of the Isshan continent, towards the Triet region. Seth and Lloyd were both carrying a pack. Lloyd had brought his dog Noishe with him where they put the packs which had clothes, food, a map, a compass, and some books Seth brought. Noishe was a very large white dog with bluish green spots on him. He had extremely large ears and was terrified of monsters.
The group walked for a until noon, luckily not encountering monsters as they usually stayed clear of the paths, and sat down for lunch.
"Ok we have some sliced chicken and bread…," Seth said looking through his pack.
"Chicken sandwiches it is," Lloyd said. Quietly they eat put together a sandwich and put ate slowly.
"We're going to need to get more food," Seth pointed out and it was true this food would only last them about two more days. Genis pulled out the map from Seth's pack.
"Um… look Tienna is only about a days walk from here," he pointed out, "We can get supplies there!" The group agreed and packed up there things to head out for the town. The rest of the day passed without any interruption and then the next day to until about an hours walk from the city in a decent sized clearing. They were walking until Seth suddenly stopped. He put out his arm to stop Genis and grabbed Lloyd from the back as he was walking behind Lloyd.
"What are you doing?" Lloyd asked loudly.
"Shh. I thought I heard something," Seth whispered. A wind blew across the clearing and Genis listened intently and heard rustling in the leaves surrounding the clearing. Seth and Lloyd grabbed there weapons. Genis grabbed his and they stood back to back. Suddenly Noishe shot away into the forest. The rustling grew louder and from every direction monsters jumped out into the clearing. There were at least twelve monsters. Seven were wolfs and the other five were tentacle plants.
"There are too many!" Seth shouted.
"We won't be able to take them all," Genis said worriedly. The wolves snarled loudly and Seth moved over to protect Genis more. The monster's suddenly jumped out attacking them. Out of the blue a voice yelled something loudly.
"Slumber song!" a female voice yelled from behind the ring of monsters. A soft melody played through the clearing from what seemed like a harp. As soon as the sound hit there ears the three boys began to feel drowsy. It hit the monster much harder however. The monsters almost instantly stopped attacking and fell into a deep sleep.
"Woah who did that?" Lloyd said rather loudly. He was instantly shushed by someone putting a hand over his mouth.
"Shush you. Do you want them to wake up?" the same female voice from before said. Lloyd quieted down and the girl led them to out of the clearing and a bit closer to the town. She sat down and motioned for the others to do the same. This mysterious girl had pale aqua hair pulled into a tight bun. Her eyes were the same color but covered by red glasses which she periodically pushed up onto her nose with her index finger. She had a pale aqua green shirt and long skirt on and she sat neatly with her back up straight. On her back was the harp she had been playing earlier and she had a small dagger on her waist. She was probably only a bit older then Seth and Lloyd but her appearance made her seem older. "Well aren't you going to introduce yourselves?" she asked impatiently.
"Oh sorry, I'm Seth Wright," Seth said sitting down.
"I'm Genis Sage," Genis said sitting beside Seth.
"And I'm Lloyd Irving," Lloyd said sitting opposite the girl.
"It's very nice to meet you," the girl said, "I am Melody O'Connell. It is a pleasure to meet you."
"Thank you so much for saving us," Genis said politely.
"Ooh you're so adorable! Think nothing of it!" she exclaimed excitedly and wrapped her arms around Genis. Seth got a look of jealousy on his face. Melody pulled back from the slightly flustered Genis. "If I may ask what were you doing out here in the first place?"
"We were heading towards Triet. But we need to stop at Tienna for supplies," Seth explained.
"Oh I live in Tienna I can bring you there. You can stay with me for the night! I was just collecting some plants for some patients of mine. I'm a psychiatrist," she said quickly.
Seth was about to protest but Lloyd cut in, "Yeah that would be great!" Seth sighed in defeat and nodded his head.
"Well then I think we should get going lot's to do before we go," Melody said while getting up. "Oh I have patients too…," she added as an afterthought. Seth rolled his eyes. She headed towards the town and they arrived in about a half-hour. They met Noishe at the entrance to the city and left him at a nearby stable to be taken care off.
People waved to Melody as she passed by. It was rather annoying to Seth at least to be constantly stopped by someone. The other two didn't mind that much.
"Oh look it's a food store we should get supplies there!" Genis said pointing out the store.
"Come on Genis let's go get some food," Seth grabbed Genis's hand and began to lead him into the store. "Lloyd why don't you and Melody buy some blankets and stuff," Seth suggested.
"Ok sure,"
"Let's meet at my office across the street ok?" Melody said pointing to a small blue building. Seth nodded and headed into the store with Genis. The two got enough food for several days, a bit more then it would be to get to Triet just in case.
Seth and Melody had just gotten to her office and were in the process of entering it when Seth and Genis met them there.
"Did you finish?" Melody asked. Then not waiting for an answer, "That's great but I have a patient now so please make yourself at home." She walked them over to a room off of the hallway and into a small office. She left quickly afterwards.
The room was a decent size and obviously an office. It had wooden floors and a dark red paint on the walls. There was one window over looking the street. There were shelves of books on the walls and a painting stood behind her wooden desk. A tall chair was perched behind the desk and some crystal items were on the desk. One was a small goose and another some kind of bird in flight.
"Look at all the books!" Seth said excitedly and ran over to the shelves and started to pull out random books.
"Oh joy books," Lloyd said sarcastically. Seth stuck his tongue out at him and Genis slapped him on the head.
Genis walked over and looked at the books Seth was holding, "They're all about psychiatry…"
"Yeah I guess. That stinks I don't like to read text books and stuff like that," Seth said disappointedly. Ten minutes passed and Lloyd was sitting in a chair very bored while Seth was desperately checking every book to see if any of them weren't like a textbooks. Genis had now picked up the crystal bird and was studying it a bit.
All of a sudden the door burst open with Melody in the doorway. Genis jumped a bit and accidentally dropped the bird.
Melody gasped and stalked over to Genis slightly angry. "You should not have been touching that!" her voice was louder then usual.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean-," Genis was cut off by Melody slapping her hand across Genis's head. A small whimper escaped Genis's lips. Seth glared angrily at her. He roughly put the books on the desk and angrily stalked over to Melody who had raised her hand again.
Seth roughly grabbed her hand, "Don't you touch him again," he said menacingly. She lowered her hand and Seth let go. She pushed her glasses up onto her nose, "Yes, well… I was going to say that I'll be making dinner and it will be done in about ten minutes." With that she left through the door.
"Geez overprotective?" Lloyd asked sarcastically. Lloyd ignored him and walked over to Genis.
"Are you ok did she hurt you?" He asked him
"No I'm fine. Thank you," Genis said looking blushing slightly.
"Good," Seth smiled and went back to searching through the books. Ten minutes past with Lloyd groaning about how hungry he was every second.
"Augh what's taking so long?"
"God shut the hell up Lloyd!" yelled Seth his temper finally snapping. Lloyd went quiet and Melody entered the room.
"All right dinner! Come this way," she had gained back her perkiness. She led them to a room in the opposite of the room. Like the rest of the house it had wooden floors and dark red walls. There were small wooden tables in the corners with a plant on each one. There was a large chandelier in the center of the wooden table. There were six seats at the table four of them had a plate of pasta with a fork at them. Melody sat at the head of the table. To her right was Seth and next to him Genis. Lloyd sat across from Seth.
"So what do you need to do in Triet?" Melody asked as they began to eat.
Lloyd who was shoveling food into his mouth answered, "We have to go see the cho-,"
Genis cut him off, "Our friend in Triet. She left Iselia a few days ago and we have to meet her there." Lloyd unaffected by Genis cutting him off continued eating.
"Oh that's nice," Melody replied. They finished eating ten minutes later. Seth looked out the window at the sky. Slowly it was darkening as night fell upon the world.
"We had better get to sleep we have a long journey ahead of us," Seth suggested and stood up from the table.
"Oh yes of course," She stood up and clapped her hands together, "Well please follow me." She left the room and went back into the hallway. Melody led them up the stairs to another hallway with three doors. "I only have to rooms. But one has two twin beds. These are the ones," She pointed to two doors across from each other. She opened one room and Seth briefly saw one bed before Lloyd hurled himself inside it.
"I call this one goodnight!" he said and closed the door quickly. He smirked when the door closed and thought to himself This should get them to tell each other hopefully.
Melody bid the others goodnight and went into her own bedroom which was at the end of the hallway. Seth and Genis entered there bedroom and looked around. Immediately noticing the bookshelf in the room Seth practically flew over to it. "Ooooh look! The Immortal Being and Server!" Seth exclaimed practically glowing. Genis laughed. He knew how much Seth loved books. In fact from what he knew the only thing that could take his attention away from a book was Genis… I like him so much…
Genis tore his eyes away from, the know reading, Seth to look at the room. Again it was all red with wooden floors. There was a bedside table between the two beds, which were placed in the center of the room. The book case, which Seth was still at, was on the wall across from what was probably a bathroom. On closer inspection the door in fact said bathroom. "Did she really have to put it there?" he muttered. "Seth I'm going to go take a shower," he told him.
Seth lifted his head from the book he was reading and flashed a smile over at Genis, "All right I'll take one later. It will probably be a few days until we get another chance to. I just hope Lloyd takes one too," he added with a smile. Genis giggled silently.
"Just make sure you take one ok?"
"Ok ok I will,"
Genis entered the bathroom and sighed. He knew Seth would forget while he was reading. Whenever Seth would get into a book it was like he was in another world on that only Genis could bring him back from. Surprisingly the bathroom wasn't red but a light shade of blue. The shower curtain was blue and the walls a light sky blue. There was a blue marble sink and golden faucets. They were just painted gold but if anyone else saw it they would probably think it was real. Finally there was a white toilet.
Genis pushed his hair out of his eyes and began to undress himself. With just his boxers on he realized he had forgotten to grab clothes. Quickly he dashed out to the bedroom. Seth looked up from his book and, seeing Genis standing there in just his light blue boxers, immediately blushed a deep red and hid behind his book. Genis himself blushed even deeper then Seth, he had forgotten Seth was in the room. "Um I-I forgot to get c-clothes," he said and quickly grabbed them from the pack and ran back into the bathroom and shut the door.
"Oh my god I can't believe I did that!" he said still blushing. "Ok just calm down," he took a few deep breathes and finally stripped himself of his boxers and went into the shower.
"Oh my god I can't believe that just happened!" Seth said practically squealing. Still sitting in the same spot when Genis had entered he had put down the book. "Ok just calm down or he'll know I like him," he took a few breathes and went back to his book as he heard the water get turned on.
A while later Genis exited the bathroom, fully clothed, to find Seth still reading. Judging from where he was in the book he had only put it down once for only a bit. Probably when I came out oooooh. Walking over to Seth he tried to act normal which he, thankfully, did.
"Um you can take your shower now," Genis said a bit of nervousness shown in his voice.
"Ok I will later," Seth said, again trying to act normal, his nose still in the book.
"No you are going to take one now or you never will," Genis told him sternly.
"Yes I will I promise!"
"No you'll forget while you're reading!" Genis quickly grabbed the book Seth was reading holding it out of reach, subconsciously holding his thumb in the page.
"But!" Seth complained, pathetically reaching out to get the book back.
"No go on take a shower," Seth sighed and got his clothes and headed towards the bathroom. Seth took a quick shower so he could get back to his book, which he had almost finished seeing as it wasn't that long. He entered the bedroom to see his book lying on the bed with a bookmark in it. Genis was already fast asleep on the other bed.
He walked over to the side of Genis's bed. He's so beautiful. Seth reached out and pushed a strand of ivory hair out of Genis's face. He strode over to the light switch and flicked it off keeping the bedside light on and began to finish his book.
After breakfast the next morning they all bid good-bye to Melody.
"Thank you so much for letting us stay," Genis said politely.
"Oh it was nothing. Good luck finding your friend," She called back to them as they lead Noishe out of the town. "Ok we have to go south from here,"
"We should hit the desert by nightfall right?" Seth asked him.
"Umm yup,"
"Great let's go!" Lloyd shouted excitedly. And so night fell and by then they could see the mountains surrounding the desert up close and the grass was gradually turning into sand. And so they set up camp and went to sleep. The sun burned hotly on Seth's skin as it woke him up.
"Ugh it's so hot and we're barely in the desert…," he said lazily sitting up. The heat always made him lazy and not want to do anything but sit. It would even stop him from reading. He stretched lazily the effects of the heat already hitting him full on. "Lloyd wake up," he kicked the other boy in the gut.
"Ow!" Lloyd bolted up. "What the hell was that for?"
"I had to wake you up," he said simply. Seth walked over to the sleeping Genis and knelt down on the mixture of grass and sand, "Hey Genis time to wake up." Seth gently shook the younger boy.
"How come you wake him up nicely but kick me?" Lloyd asked angrily.
"Because," Lloyd sulked over the Noishe to wake him up and make some breakfast.
Genis's eyes slowly opened and focused on Seth's face in front of him. "Is it morning already?"
"Yup and its really hot today too," Seth got up to help with breakfast. As they sat and ate, sandwiches, they began to discuss there trip.
"Well we should reach Triet in by nightfall," Genis said as he placed the map down in front of him.
"Good I'm glad the desert isn't that large," Seth said happily.
And so the day passed slowly and Triet finally came into view at twilight. The three boys and Noishe walked slowly into the town. Genis, being forced by Seth, was on top of Noishe and had fallen asleep. Triet was a small town surrounding a large oasis. It was probably the only town in the desert. Many of the houses were made of wood with large overhangs in front where people would sell things. There was a large inn and in front of it a little place where horses stayed. They two boys led Noishe to that place and tied him up there so he wouldn't leave.
"We have enough money for the Inn right?" Lloyd asked Seth.
Seth grabbed the bag with the gald in it and checked. "We should. We'll ask people if they've seen Colette in the morning," Lloyd nodded sleepily and went into the Inn. Seth grabbed the bag that was left and slung it around his back. Carefully, as not to wake him, Seth picked up Genis in his arms cradling the younger boy against his chest. He carefully made his way to the door of the Inn. "Oh damn I can't open the door," he cursed quietly. Both hands were busy holding Genis and he couldn't reach out for the door. With his feet he knocked on the door and Lloyd opened it.
"Great load of help you are," he muttered darkly and walked right past Lloyd.
"Well at least I got us a room,"
"Good which one," Seth sighed struggling to climb the stairs. Lloyd ran past him into the first room at the top of the staircase. Seth sighed. Eventually he made it inside the room. There were three beds to one side of the room with a closet at one end. Beside the door was a small desk and a window was across from the beds. Next to the last bed was a door leading to what Seth assumed to be a bathroom.
At the first bed he saw the Lloyd had already falled asleep not bothering to change into the clothes, the inns always supplied, to sleep in. At the second bed he placed Genis down and blushed at the thought of changing him. He decided against it and fell onto the third bed immediately falling asleep.
The next morning after breakfast the three boys had asked around town if anyone had seen Colette, Raine, or Kratos. After an hour of they had no luck. None of the vendors or townspeople had seen hide or hair of them. It was then that they fell across two vendors. One that sold weapons the other books. Seth, of course, ran over to the vendor that sold books as soon as he saw it. Lloyd ran over to the weapons vendor.
Genis decided to follow Seth to the book vendor. As he got there he saw that Seth had grabbed several books in his arms and was rapidly adding more. "Seth we don't have enough money for all of those. We need to save it."
"But Genis I've already read all of the ones I brought a ton of times," Seth whined.
"We need to save money,"
"Just one? Pleeeeeeease?" Seth begged.
"All right just one," Genis said giving in.
"Yay you're the best Genis!" Seth exclaimed happily and hugged the elf. Genis blushed and turned away to hide it as Seth let go. Seth immediately turned to the vendor and took a while to pick out a book to buy. Eventually he picked a thick one and paid for it. It was then that Lloyd ran over to them happily. "Did they have anything good?" Seth asked him as he clutched his book tightly to his chest.
"Yeah they had these great swords and they were really cheep..,"
"Oh no, you didn't did you?" Genis said angrily.
"So I bought them,"
"Lloyd we needed that money!"
"Yeah but I mean I can't go on forever just smacking monsters with wooden swords," The two elves sighed but they had to agree Lloyd wasn't much help with just wooden blades. And he couldn't use Demon Fang all the time since it took mana to use and, being a human instead of an elf, he didn't have nearly as much as Seth and Genis did. Genis however had a lot more then Seth did since he had a higher intelligence and the amount of mana someone had depended on there intelligence. But even if Lloyd were an elf he still wouldn't have much mana.
"Well I guess it's ok since you do need it," Seth said while reading the back of his book.
"Seth do you need arrows?" Genis asked. Seth quickly checked his quiver. "Nope I still have a bunch."
It was then they heard screaming. They turned around and saw several Desians running at them.
I'm sorry this took so long to put up but I had finals to study for and my computer crashed when this was nearly done and I had to re-write it all. The next chapter should hopefully be up in like two weeks after the update to Kingdom Hearts: A Story Retold. Again I'm so sorry.