And I'm back. After a very long holiday with hardly any sleep I'm back. Thanks for all your reviews, though I was given no suggestions of what could happen to the two on the island. I've been hacking at my brain and I think I've found a good suggestion. Any ways, I hope you enjoy. Oh, and I apologise for not mentioning my holiday in this story, it just didn't occur to me that I wouldn't have the time to write another chapter before I left.
"Finally, a tree with fruit!" yelled Lloyd, after about 30 minutes of constant walking.
"Yeah, I'm starving." Agreed Sheena, but then noticed something, "Uh, Lloyd, we have no weapons, how do we get the fruit?"
Lloyd paused for a while, thinking, "Well that's obvious! We climb the tree!"
Sheena felt a bit embarrassed by this. Of course it was the best thing to do. "Right. Ok I'll do it."
And with that, she jumped up to the lowest branch, and started to climb the rest of the way.
"Make sure you're careful!" shouted Lloyd, voice full of concern.
"Don't worry mom!" she replied jokingly, though was very pleased at how much he cared for her when just doing the simplest of things. She finally reached the fruit and started to pick the ripest she could see.
All Lloyd could see of her now was her lower half, and he started to blush as he noticed how perfect it was. How smooth her legs were. How cute her but was. 'Stop it Lloyd.' He thought to himself, shaking off the train of thoughts.
"Ok I'm coming down now!" cried Sheena from above. As she jumped down, a branch caught the side of her swimsuit, however she didn't notice this.
She landed, as usual, gracefully, but as she looked up, she was surprised that Lloyd had stepped back, blushing furiously. He closed and covered his eyes, not daring to speak.
"Lloyd?" she asked, almost laughing, "What's wrong?"
Lloyd, who didn't trust himself to speak, just pointed towards her.
Still confused, she looked down, and suddenly gasped. The branch had cut through the straps on her right side. This made her right side of her body completely visible.
"Lloyd!" she yelled angrily, yet apologetically, using her arms to keep the fabric to her body, covering herself up again. She tried to tie the straps together again, but couldn't do both things at the same time. "Uh, Lloyd?"
"Sheena I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to look." He answered, still covering his eyes.
"No, I need your help to tie the straps back together." She said, blushing a deep crimson.
"But, what about..."
"Listen, I give you permission, besides, I'll be holding the parts together, so you shouldn't see...anything."
Slowly, nerves overpowering him, he removed his hands, and opened his eyes. Sure enough, she was holing down the loose parts of her costume. He walked towards her side, gulped, and started to tie the cut straps back together.
A couple times, Sheena giggled, but all she said in response was that she was ticklish, as she blushed. Obviously, this made Lloyd blush as well. After what seemed to be a lifetime, he finally finished tying the last of the straps.
"Th-There you go." He said, still nervous as hell, "Good as new."
"Thanks Lloyd." She answered, "Well anyway, lets eat shall we!"
"Yeah!"
And they started to eat the fruit, but they were surprised how tasty and filling they actually were. In fact, they couldn't finish all of them, even though they must of been out a day.
"Well that was surprisingly good." Stated Lloyd.
"Yeah," agreed Sheena, "The ground here must be full of nutrients and such, but I wonder how?"
"Oh well, as long as it's good and filling!"
Sheena giggled, "You don't care as long as its safe to eat do you?"
Lloyd laughed along apologetically. "I guess you're right."
They laughed for quite a while, before Sheena asked, "Hey Lloyd, can we go in deeper? You know, to find a river, or stream, or something, for a drink."
"Sure, I'd like to see what else this island has to offer anyway." He sounded really excited, like a little kid.
"You make it sound as if we're here on a holiday." She laughed, "Remember we need to find out where we are and how to get off it." Her voice suddenly gained a slight bit of fear, "Besides, we don't know if there are any strong monsters here and we don't have our weapons either."
Most people would even notice the small trace of fear in her voice, but Lloyd could sense it, could see it in her eyes.
Without thinking, he embraced her in a tight hug, "Don't worry we'll be fine, and I won't let anything hurt you." He said soothingly.
Sheena returned the hug, "Thanks Lloyd, but it's not me I'm worried about. I don't want anything to happen to you." She answered.
It wasn't just Lloyd who was surprised by this statement, Sheena seemed to be surprised by what she had just let out.
"W-What do you mean?" he asked, blushing slightly.
"W-Well...I...you see..." she could see no way of getting out of this. She always hoped he would catch on to her hints instead of her blurting it out, but it looked as if there was no choice now. "Lloyd I...I..." 'Oh just say it girl!" her mind told her. "Lloyd, I love...I love you." And without waiting for an answer, she kissed him on the lips, a fairly quick one, but one that showed all of her love in one go.
After pulling pack, she looked into his eyes, and started to say, apologetically, "I'm sorry, I..." but before she could finish, Lloyd had pulled her into a deeper kiss. Sheena was completely surprised by this. Was Lloyd really kissing her?
After a while, Lloyd had finally broke the kiss, and whispered into her ear affectionately, "I love you too Sheena."
Sheena broke into tears of joy at this, and started to hug Lloyd even tighter, "Do you, really mean it?"
"Of course I do. I'd never lie to you."
"Thanks Lloyd." And she kissed him again, with greater passion than before.
They remained in each other's embrace in silence for a few minutes, savouring the moment, before Lloyd said, "Well, why don't we go look for that water?"
"Yea, lets go." And they started to walk again, hands entwined.
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"So, where exactly could they be?" Regal asked the captain of one of the lifeboats.
"Assuming they're alive," he started, not seeming to care that this first part wouldn't bring much hope to the worried travellers, "They shouldn't be too far outside Altamira. So we just have to search all the small islands surrounding us, and possibly the larger continents."
"No problem," exclaimed Zelos, trying to keep the party's spirit up, but on noticing Colette's on going sadness, he put an arm around her and said, "Don't worry my innocent little angel, they'll be fine. We'll find them."
They all split into groups, and started their search.
There you have it; finally they're together. Hope you enjoyed. I must warn you though, I may start concentrating on Concerto's back before continuing this, but I'm not sure yet. Anyway, please review.
