A/N: Oh man, the other day I had a really scary dream. It was like I was in a scary movie. There was a killer, and the killer kept calling this drunk teenager guy who was at the time, driving in his car. But the guy kept hanging up on him. Then the killer finally got ticked off and said, "If you hang up on me one more time I'm going to kill you." But the dude was drunk and stupid, so he hung up on him again. Then the killer called back and started saying all these random words like: Cold, sharp, blade, hard, dark etc. The teenager was confused and then he drove over a bench and into a frozen river, ya know him being drunk and all. The car sunk into the river but the teenager swam to the surface and managed to swim all the way to land. He rolled over on land, panting hard and wiping the water from his face. When he rolled over on the ground, the killer grabbed him; took a rusty blade and slit his throat and then dumped his body back into the frozen river ( How could he do that if it was frozen? XP) But the killer was saying all those random words showing how he would kill the teenager. Cold-the season was winter in my dream, Sharp and Blade-the blade he used to cut his throat and Dark-it was night time. The killer was describing the setting and stuff that he would kill the teenager in my dream. Now isn't that freakin' freaky? 0.0;
It's kinda weird though. I mean, usually the killer calls and keeps hanging up, and the victim is the one to yell at him saying stuff like, "why do you keep calling and hanging up? You cock sucker!" But the killer wanted to talk and the victim was the one who kept hanging up on him! Now isn't that a spin?
Lol. Okies, I got way too carried away in that little dream of mine. Just thought I'd share the scariness with you all :)
Well, pleasant and non-scary dreams to you all! Enjoy da story :3
Disclaimer: Wouldn't it be nice if me and/or Yukina owned ff9 and ALL of the characters in it? Yea, it would. It would also be nice if we were all older. Then we wouldn't have to wait so long. And wouldn't it be nice to live together? In the kind of world where we belong?XD I love ya Beach Boys
♣ A New Start ♣
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"All passengers aboard!" A man in a blue suit shouted. Garnet looked around to see if her train had come yet. She couldn't tell which one was hers! All of the trains looked almost exactly the same. Then she remembered that her train number was 110.
"All aboard!" The man shouted again.
Garnet paced up to the man, "Excuse me, is this the train that takes you to the city?" She asked as she pulled her bag up her shoulder to achieve balance.
"Yes ma'am! This is train 110." He stood and spoke just like a robot.
Garnet smiled pleasantly,"Ok then. Thank you." She took a step onto the train but looked back to get one last glance at her homeland. She wouldn't be away from home that long. Maybe for a couple of weeks at the most. The city jobs are suppose to pay a lot of money, right?
"You're welcome ma'am!" He replied and shouted other things at people, before he stepped back onto the train.
Garnet scanned for an empty seat. The only one available was one which a strange looking girl was sitting in. She had short purple hair and a mysterious horn sticking out of her head. Garnet quietly took a seat next to her.
"Hi what's your name?" The little girl asked, as soon as Garnet sat down.
"My name is Garnet Alexandros," she said setting her bag onto her lap, "What's yours?"
The girl grinned, "Eiko Carol's the name!"
Garnet offered her, her hand. "Pleasure to meet you." She smiled. Eiko nodded and shook her hand.
"So whatcha goin' to the city for?" Garnet thought for a second after Eiko asked that question. It wouldn't hurt to tell the truth. What could a little girl use against her?
"To find a job," she said; her response raising Eiko's eyebrows in curiosity." A job?"
Garnet smiled, "That's right. Why are you going?" Eiko reached in her pocket and popped a gum ball in her mouth and started chewing, "To see my family." Eiko bit down harder on the yellow ball.
"You mean….you live by yourself?" Eiko spit her gum on small wrapper and put it in her pocket.
"Yep! I visit them on the weekends sometimes."
"But… Wouldn't your mother want you to live with her?"
Eiko reached into her pocket again revealing a gummy worm. "Well, yeah." She bit the head of the colorful worm, struggling to break a piece of it off.
"Then why don't you?" Garnet asked as she turned her head to a sign on a window of a building that said "Help Wanted." Maybe they were almost there, she thought to herself.
"Because I ran away." Eiko stated, slurping up the rest of the worm and began chewing it like a maniac.
"What? You ran away and you still visit them?" Eiko nodded at Garnet's question, smiling and managed to swallow the rest of the worm hanging from her mouth.
Garnet felt so curious to ask her the reason but, she didn't want to sound like…some kinda…..stranger…which she kind of was already. But, she didn't want to seem more strange.
"May I ask why you ran away?" Garnet asked. She could probably hear the curiosity in her voice by now. She coughed to cover it, but it didn't work.
"I dunno, cuz…I wanted to!" Eiko stated in a proud manner, as if she had achieved her first goal.
"Why?" She asked again, "Didn't you like living with your mother?"
"Errrm, sometimes….but I like living by myself better. Don't you?" She asked turning to Garnet; her eyes widening for some odd reason.
"No, I live with my mother and my younger brother.." This reminded her of home and how bad condition Vivi was. Then a huge knot came together in her throat, she swallowed the knot until she felt that it was completely out of her system.
"Oh…" She replied lowering her eyes to the ground, seeming a bit disappointed.
"Eiko I--" Garnet tried to say, but was interrupted by the train's halt, causing both her and Eiko to crash into the seats in front of them. Garnet caught her bag just before the contents in it spilled all over the floor.
"Heh, guess we're here." Garnet said, wiping some sweat from her forehead. Eiko had all of her candy in her hands, as if she were protecting it.
"Yea, that was a close one.." Eiko muttered, also collecting her stuff.
"Eiko, it was a pleasure to meet you!" Garnet exclaimed with a smile as they exited the train.
Eiko smiled back, "Yea, I really hope we can meet again someday. If I find any jobs who need workers, I'll be sure to tell you!"
"Thank you Eiko. Um, are you sure you're going to be ok on your own?" Garnet's voice sounded a bit worried again.
"Yessum, it's a short walk from here!"
Garnet sighed and reached in her pocket, pulling out change. She took Eiko's hand and placed a couple of gil in it. "Take this and buy some food with it. Too much candy is bad for you."
Eiko's face lit up. "Oh, thank you so much! I'll never forget this!"
Garnet smiled and nodded, "Now you be safe and get home right away, before it gets dark."
"Mmhmm! I will! Bai Bai!" They both waved and Eiko disappeared through the crowd of people.
Garnet really wished that pollution and over population wasn't such a big problem in the city. Then again, many people cause many problems and she was just adding to the population. She sighed. The air was so thick and it was getting darker and colder by the second. She already began to hate it here. It had been 4 hours since she had arrived here and she still had no idea where to go. She set her heavy bag on the ground and pulled out a crumbled paper from her pocket.
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When you get off the bus, there should be a long road ahead of you, that connects to Pillsbury street. From there you go to 100 Parkway Avenue on Melrose street. Your uncle Cid should be waiting for you!
Good Luck!
♥Mommy♥
P.S. Tell Cid I said hello and don't forget to call me as soon as you get in!
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Garnet sighed and put the paper back in her pocket. She wished that her mother had been bit more specific. Her mother should already know how horrible she was at following directions. Dark clouds began to form in the sky, indicating rain would soon fall.
"Aww, oh no!" She picked up her bag and ran underneath a porch. What am I doing? She thought. You can't just go running on people's porch in the middle of the night. Then again...'she rethought. She knocked lightly on the door.
It took a while for someone to answer the door, but Garnet thought that it was better than nothing. "Who is this?" a woman's voice yawned.
"Hi, I am deeply sorry for waking you up at a time like this...but I'm lost." said Garnet sadly.
"Oh! Please come in, a storm is about to come." the lady said, her feminine form shown by the door light above the doorbell. Silver hair was hanging from her shoulders, a few strands coming across her eyes. She had hazel eyes, the kind that would warm a persons heart and would throw away the tension.
Garnet smiled widely and bowed. "Thank you very much! I owe you."
"No need for the formalities.." muttered the woman, allowing Garnet to step in the apartment.
"Frey, who is it?" muttered a man's voice from another room.
"Frey? Your name is Frey?" Garnet asked.
The woman nodded. "My name is Freya, but my boyfriend calls me Frey sometimes."
"Oh."
"It's just someone from outta town, Fratley!" she shouted, her head facing in another direction of the room that her boyfriend probably was in.
"Oh.. What's their name?" he asked, stepping out the room and his eyes locked onto Garnet's. "Hi."
"Pleased to meet you." Garnet smiled.
"Why are you roaming around the streets? It's raining and there's a lot of speeding cars around here." He asked, cocking a brow.
"Oh...well... I just came here from home, and I'm looking for my Uncle Cid." Freya and Fratley stared at each other for a while with wide eyes.
"You don't mean...Cid Fabool?" Freya asked, turning her head quickly to Garnet.
"Yes." Garnet nodded happily.
"That man helped me recover my foot. One day I was out jogging, then I twisted my ankle, and there he was.." Fratley explained.
"Wow.." Garnet said.
"Thanks to Fabool, Fratley was able to continue running the next week."
"Oh! Speaking of which, I must call him. May I use your receiver?" Freya nodded and handed the phone to Garnet, which was lying on the couch.
"Thank you" She said taking the phone and walking into the kitchen with it. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the same crumbled paper; turning it over to see her uncle's number on the back.
Ring Ring
Ring...Ring
Ring...Rin--"Hello?" A friendly voice answered.
"Hello. Uncle Cid? It's Garnet."
"Garnet! That you? I've been waiting all day for you! What's the hold up?"
"Well, I was on my way to your house but, a storm was starting up, and I've been kinda of lost since I got off my train. So, these nice people let me stay with them until the storm cleared up."
"Oh, is that so?" he chuckled, "I'm sorry that you had a hard time. Do you know where you are? I could come get you."
"Uhh yes. Hold for just a moment" Garnet said and put her palm on the speaker part of the phone.
"Excuse me, Freya?" She called into the other room.
"Yes dear?" Freya replied from the other room.
"Um, what street is this? I need to tell him where I am so that he can pick me up."
"1059 south Moogle Drive" She yelled so that she could hear her clearly enough.
"Thanks you!" She shouted back and took her hand off the phone. "I'm on 1059 south Moogle Drive"
"Oh that's great! I know exactly where that is. You must be at Freya and Frately's house then!"
"Y-yes. They are very nice people, they told me all about how you've helped them."
He chuckled. "Well, I just happen to be there when they needed help. But anyways, I'll be there in 5 minutes. You're not far at all."
"Ok, I'll be waiting. Goodbye"
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Garnet grabbed her stuff the minute you heard a honk from outside. Freya showed her the way to the door and opened it for her. Before Garnet left she bowed and said, "Thank you very much for your hospitality. I probably would have been still wondering around the city if not for you"
"Anytime dear. It was a pleasure having you as a guest."
Garnet smiled and nodded, as she walked down the steps and got into the car.
Freya and Frately were both on the steps waving. "Goodbye! Good luck! And...have fun!"
"Thanks again! Goodbye!" She waved back as the car took off.
It was a cool and humid night. The storm didn't last more than 10 minutes. But there were still storm clouds in the sky. Cid drove with the car windows opened wide so Garnet's hair was blowing all over the place.
"So how was your trip?" He asked keeping his eyes on the road.
Garnet flipped her long hair out of her face.
"What?" She yelled trying to speak over the loud wind blowing.
"I said! How was your trip?" He raised his voice a little.
"Oh! It was fine. I made a new friend on the train coming over here!" She yelled back.
"Oh really? That's nice!" He replied turning a small corner, rather fast.
Garnet reached out and grabbed her bag, just before it went flying out the window. She looked back at her uncle and sighed. He chuckled and said sorry.
"Don't worry, we're almost there!"
Finally...
The car came to a halting stop in front of a average looking house. Well built, a nice height and a large brown porch.
"Here, I'll carry your bag for you" He offered taking her stuff.
"Thank you uncle" She smiled and opened her door to get out the car.
Cid continued behind her until a screaming voice came running up behind them.
"Hey Cid!" A young boy yelled running.
Cid put Garnet's bag on the ground and turned his attention to a young teenager with dirty blonde hair. He had crystal blue eyes with a rounded face. And poking out the back of his paints, was a long brown tail.Garnet squinted her eyes a little. How...unusual. First a girl with a horn, and now a boy with a tail.
"Well hello there Zidane. What can I do for you?"
Garnet couldn't help but stare at the boy. She had never seen anyone like him before. His blue brilliant eyes and his long brown tail. Was she the only one who thought this was abnormal?
"Oh I just came to get our stuff that we left here the other day."
"Of course," Cid said, picking up Garnet's bag again, "it should be in the living room still." He pointed to the door way with his chin.
Zidane nodded and walked up the stairs.
When he walked past Garnet, she thought it would be rude not to say anything.
Zidane ran his fingers through his hair, making his bangs fall on top of his head until, he noticed Garnet standing there.
"G-Good evening" She mumbled feeling invisible
"Evening." He said politely and walked past her into the house.
Garnet just stood there staring at the ground, as if she were trying to find a specific dot to her satisfaction.
She looked up when the boy came back out carrying a bunch of bags, which Garnet supposed was the stuff he came for.
"Oh by the way," Cid spoke up and made his way up the stairs, "this is my niece Garnet. Garnet, this is Zidane, a friend of mine."
"Nice to meet you." Garnet offered her hand but, Zidane didn't take it, he just smiled nervously at her.
"Heh, I would shake your hand, but I'll end up dropping all this stuff, sorry." He said trying not to fall down the stairs.
"Oh, that's ok." Garnet said, feeling intimidated by this boy for some reason.
"It was nice meeting you!" He shouted before he turned the corner and was out of sight.
"You...too" She replied, even though he didn't hear her.
"Well Garnet, I'm sure that mother of yours is waiting by the phone for you to call. I'll put your stuff in the living room, the phone's in the back hallway."
Garnet smiled, "Thanks uncle, but I'm pretty beat. I think I'll just go to bed and I'll call my mother in the morning."
"Ok then, I'll show you to the room you'll be staying in."
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Cid led Garnet into a room which reminded her of her room at her house. It was small, but not too small. Definitely no where near big. There was a window by the bed, a bunch of empty picture frames that hung from the wall, and a lamp that sat next to the comfortable looking bed.
"I'll see you in the morning. Good night." Cid said before he closed the door.
"Good night!" She said getting under the covers and making herself comfortable.
She laid on the bed on her back and put her arms behind her head.
"I wonder what mother and Vivi are doing right now..." She said closing her eyes.
Well, I made it this far, and tomorrow I will start working. A step closer to helping out mother and Vivi. She yawned, then hummed a song over and over until she fell asleep.
A/N: Hmm, Besides the fact that I got 2 wisdom teeth pulled and I've been throwing up everywhere, I'm pretty darn happy to update for those who reviewed and maybe even more people will come along and enjoy the story just as much as you guys are. What I'm trying to say is...thanks so much for those who reviewed. It could just be one review and I'd be crazily energetic. :)
Heh, I'm sorry that this update took over 2 weeks. I really meant to post it sooner but, um me and Yuki were having "technical difficulties" u.u;
So, who do you think wrote most of this chappy? Me...or Yukina..? Tell ya what, if you can guess who wrote most of it, then you get the breath taking prize in the next chappy! And believe me, that's definitely something you wanna win!
Until then, take care and keep smiling!