Curriculum 08: Green With Envy

"Thank you." she said to him softly as she held out her hand to help him to his feet. She smiled at him. "My name's Arie, Arie Suin Kalctev. I'm grateful that you helped me back there."

"Pssh, it was nothin'. Don't worry so much. Arie, was it?" he began as he took hold of her hand and got back to his feet. As he let go of her hand he took a few steps back and gave himself a thumbs up in confidence. "The name's Gareas, Gareas Elidd! Nice to meet ya'!" he said cheerfully, winking to her.

She laughed and was happy to have met someone so confident and outgoing for a change. Though she stopped her laughter as a strange feeling overcame her. Then she stood quietly gripping onto her right arm and looking down to the floor. 'Huh..?' Gareas thought to himself.

"Hey, somethin' the matter, Arie?" he asked as he walked closer to her, moving his hand towards her. He had never met anyone before who could change their personality so dramatically so fast.

"Gareas... Do you know which place on this transporter is the most deserted right now?" she asked him quite abruptly as she looked up at him.

"I.. uh..." he stammered again as he tried to regain his balance which he nearly lost from reaching out to the girl. "Yeah, sure... I'm pretty sure that the hanger is cleared out, seeing as this ship is being occupied by civilians right now." he said, pointing to the other end of the hallway then pointing

downward.

"Ah-! Thank you!" she said hastily as she dashed to the other end of the hallway but was halted from the firm grip of Gareas.

"Hold on there, I'm not letting you go anywhere around here alone just yet. Especially after that whole drama!" he said to her sternly as he looked at her with concern. At first Arie was a bit pestered by the boy's persistence but finally agreed to his help with a simple nod as they both made their way to the docking bay.

Rusai was still in the room moping about what had happened earlier and griped in slight pain as the wings and claws retracted back inside his body. He was filled with exhaustion from both the battle and from using his EX to it's fullest extent. He was about to get himself out of the room, but as he stood up he was hit with a wave of fatigue and ended up back on the floor.

"Damn..." He muttered, wanting to get out before anyone decided to come in. All of a sudden, the pendant that had been fused to his hand all this time came loose and fell with a slight clang to the ground. Rusai tried to stay awake, but he passed out due to the physical strain that had been forced onto his body earlier, hoping that no one would stumble upon his chosen hiding spot.

"Why are we in such a rush?" Gareas shouted to Arie who was dashing hastily behind him.

"There's something I need to check out." she shouted back to him, though the truth was she herself didn't exactly know what she was looking for. She nearly ran into Gareas as he stopped suddenly in front of her. "Huh..?" she questioned, a bit dazed from the near collision.

"We're here." he said as he punched in a code and opened up the door. It was sort of haunting how empty the bay was, everything was cleared out besides a few random parts and pieces of equipment. Arie and Gareas made there way down the stairs as Arie wandered away from Gareas and scoured the area. "Hey, don't mess with anything!" he yelled to her. "I don't need to get in trouble with the staff here anymore than I already have..." he muttered to himself.

"What was that?" she shouted back to him curiously.

"Uh-... Nothing, nothing at all!" he answered swiftly. 'Smooth one, Garu... Real smooth...' he thought to himself as he scratched the back of his head in dismay. Something caught his eye as he saw something glisten in the corner of his eye. Curious as to what it was he made his way towards the light.

Rusai was abruptly woken up by noises coming from outside.

"Oh great...just what I need..." Rusai muttered, trying to keep his voice and his frustration to a minimal level. "Everything's going so wrong! And in just one day too!" Rusai grumbled, very unhappy about the turn of events. He had made up his mind and told himself that he was gonna run for it. Gathering whatever nerve he had left in him, he burst through the door and was about to make it into the hallway that was conjoined with the docking bay when he happened to trip on a piece of equipment lying there on the ground and ended up getting a face-full of ground. He growled, picking himself up off the ground. Embarrassed to his maximum limit, Rusai continued to on his way, but it seemed that he was going to go nowhere as he collided with a green haired candidate sending them both tumbling to the ground. Luck, as it seemed, was not with Rusai...

"What in the- Ah!" yelled Gareas as from out of nowhere he was knocked down by someone. "Dammit, what's wrong with you? Watch where you're going you asshole!" he shouted in his face as he picked him up by his shirt collar. "Huh..?" he muttered as he looked into his eyes and saw them to be two different shades. "What the-...?"

"Gareas!" yelled Arie from all the way from the other side as she heard, what she assumed, to be a faint call. She was some distance away so she couldn't make out where exactly he was, she was just following his voice.

"Damn..." Gareas said as he looked towards her. 'How in the hell did she get over there so fast..?' he thought as sweat dropped down the side of his face.

Rusai, who had been through enough trauma already, had just about had enough. He tried to get free, but found himself too weak to do anything about it since he was still in a fatigued state. 'Crud, if I'm lucky, I may end up getting out of this with a black eye...' Rusai thought. He was just not in the mood for these kinds of things, but just reluctantly hung his head, expecting the worse of the worse...

"Gareas! Gareas what are doing?" she shouted as she walked her way over to him and noticed that he was with someone else.

"Just... Taking care of something..." he hollered back to her, as he tightened his grip on the other person. He gave a slight glare to him but then stopped as he noticed the guy had begun to hang his head. Gareas sighed as he stared blankly at him.

"Gareas, who's that with you?" Arie shouted as she began to accelerate her pace somewhat. Curious as to what Gareas had gotten himself into now.

"Huh..? You say something, Arie?" he said, dazed, as his attention was given everywhere else but to her speech.

Rusai looked up when he heard the Arie's name mentioned, although he still kept the gloomy expression on his face. 'I've leaped out of the frying pan and landed right in the boiling pot...' Rusai thought, trying to contemplate about the jam he had gotten himself into and weather he would make it out of that situation in one piece.

"Oh boy...I've got a lot of explaining to do..." Rusai muttered under his breath as he saw Arie getting closer.

Arie rushed over to Gareas side, as she grabbed onto his back and used him as somewhat of a support. Her breathing was completely unsteady, and she was out of breath way too quickly.

"Gar-... Gareas... Can you lend me a-... hand..?" she barely made out as she began to fall.

"Ah-! Arie!" he shouted as he let go of the other person and threw him aside, somewhat, as Gareas dove down to help her up. "Damn, Arie... You've really got to stop scaring me like this..." he sighed to her.

"I'm sorry... I've been... a burden..." she whispered to him, as her eyes sparkled with her fatigue. Her hair pin slowly slid down her hair and fell. Gareas caught it in his hand as he let her lay on his lap.

"You're no burden to anyone. I promise you that much, Arie." he told her as he moved her hair to the side and placed the pin back. All the while Arie never did not truly noticed that Rusai was there all along, watching the incident as she slowly went to rest once more. This time, next to another...

Rusai was speechless, not to say appalled, but morally shocked. He couldn't believe what was happening, and right before his eyes too. He felt like nothing once more after rising from his current position on the ground and left the pendant where Arie could clearly see it and walked off. He wanted to feel no remorse for these types of things like he had done so many times, but this time, that emptiness was replaced with a different feeling. Rusai couldn't quite explain what the feeling was, but it was a hurt that was eating him from the inside. He walked down corridors and hallways, not caring about anything or anyone. He managed to wander to an empty room in which no one was occupying so Rusai wandered in and sat down. He didn't want to feel this way, he wanted to feel nothing again, but he knew he couldn't go back. He didn't know how to stop the pain he felt, so he did the only thing he could at the moment...he sat there, sobbing once again, with no one to hear his lonely cries...