Part Two: Three best friends plus one
Chapter One: A start of a small yet grand journey: Chapter Eight
Third person
Celsius woke up that morning with a slow start. She arched her back upwards and sat up, staring with her eyes half closed at the sun that shined directly onto her bed. Before her eyes could even adjust to the sunlight, she grabbed the shade that was above the window and pulled it down while falling back down trying to sleep. The clock on the wall read 12 noon.
A loud knock on the door re-awoke Celsius, this time she couldn't ignore it. "Damn, Dan is really persistent on getting his mail to me on time." She said under her breath while putting on her robe and slippers. She tied the light blue sash around her, covering whatever underwear she was wearing. The wood floors were always cold, so she always had a pair of blue slippers to put on as she woke up. Her eyes finally adjusted to the sunlight and her house. She stood in one corner of the house where her bed was rested firmly against a window. The blue shade now curled upwards to reveal the wooden bed with a blue covering. In the middle, the table was made of a hard wood, and next to it was a small trap door. Before she could notice anything else, another knock woke her up even more. "Alright, alright, I'm coming. Not like your not used to this by now."
A voice came from the other side, it sounded deep, a male voice of a person about nineteen. When she finally made her way to the door, she stretched her arms and moaned loudly. "Okay, anything good today?" she asked as she opened the door.
The man behind it was somewhat short, maybe the same height as Celsius. Which was short. He had short black hair and dark green eyes. A strange combination when Celsius thought about it. He wore a green shirt with blue jeans and a package of mail around his shoulder. This was the only mailman who was brave enough to wake Celsius up, maybe the only one who had only managed to get only a broken nose. The last two got a broken arm and leg. Celsius was a horrible morning person when she stays up all night fishing for the next day's meal.
"Catch anything good last night?" Dan asked, taking off his now empty mailbag and staring at the bag behind Celsius.
Celsius looked unfazed. "I'll tell you once you give me my mail." she said rather harshly.
"Fine, fine. Only two letters. One's a bill from my employer." he started, handing her one piece of mail. When she opened it, it only said "Fifty-three days. I'm still waiting for you to get rich!" She smiled, Celsius knew everyone in town well, so they don't really care if she's late with payments or off her normal schedule
"And the other one?" She asked, placing the letter back into the envelope and putting it on the nearby table.
"Oh yeah, this other one is from a person in Iselia." Dan handed her another normal looking letter. But this worried her, she hasn't heard from anyone from the adventure in a long time.
"Oh, okay. Thanks." she placed the letter on the table, trying to look unworried. She then picked up the bag that was sitting next to the table.
Dan stared at the bag, "That yesterday's catch Celsi?" he asked.
She smiled, now fully awake. "Yep! I got a good catch yesterday. Looks like I can invite you guys over sometime." she opened the bag and revealed two large tuna fish.
"Nice! Seems your getting better!" Dan smiled. It was already an unofficial rumor that Dan and Celsi were going out and already were well acquainted with each other. But in reality, they were just good friends. Insepreable along with the rest of the people she frequented in town. "Well, I have to be going now. I can come over tommorrow if you want. Let's say, eleven maybe?"
Celsius laughed heartily, "You know I'm never awake that early! Make it three!" She waved goodbye to her friend and shut the door. Her expression then turned serious as she sat down and opened the letter. It was addressed to her alright, but the writing on the cover seemed rather quickly written in haste. A funeral maybe? She pulled the actual letter out the envelope and opened it. Her light blue eyes carefully scanned the paper, and a smile emerged on her face. It wasn't a funeral, it wasn't anything of the sort. It was an invitation. Celsius knew that Dan wouldn't be able to join her the next day, only cause she won't be there for a long time to come.
Celsius knew that what would happen would take a long time, so she carefully placed the letter back into the envelope and began to make the fish that would be my breakfast. Afterwards she packed everything she ever needed, assuming from the letter they're going to visit Flanoir again, Celsius packed a thick jacket. Even thought Celsius was a lot more tolerant then everyone else in the cold, she could no longer stand half-naked in below zero temperature and be fine. But for some odd reason, she still had the power to control ice and snow. After she finished placing everything in a wing pack, Celsius decided to wonder about town. She had so many stories to tell Colette and Sheena.
Celsius
That letter did freak me out for a minute there, I thought something bad had happened. Well, that's just me being overacting. The letter said that Colette and Sheena were planning to go on a trip around Symphonia to visit old friends starting in Iselia and they wanted me to come along as well. Heh, they should know my answer by now. Anyways, I'm going to head off tonight to Iselia, from here to there shouldn't take that long.
I looked in the mirror at myself, i really haven't changed that much in the last several months. My hair was still short, but just a bit longer so you could see the back of my hair from the front. My figure hasn't change at all, which is a good thing, i always wore small outfits becasue i was often too hot. My body had gotten so used to the cold in Flanoir, tha it's hard to get used to anything else. I changed quickly and put on my normal halter top and skirt.
I walked out of my house, and took a good look around, like most of the time, it was sunny. This was a small village, barely one hundred people large. The architecture was similar to that of Luin's, stone buildings, some carts, but other then that, there's not much here to do except fishing and hunting. My house was located over-water, supported by several pillars, at any time I could open the trap door in my house and start fishing, but that was mostly on rainy days. Most of the time when I'm catching food, I go out to the small pier behind my house, and that's the way my days would roll around.
I began to wander around town like I always did, people here were always friendly, nor was there an overabundance of people who were too young or too old so there was always someone to talk to for everyone.
"Celsius! Over here!" it was Roy, among him, Dan, Collie, and Alice were the people I always gathered with. We were all about the same age, at least in appearance, I was nineteen, as well as Dan and Roy, while Collie was twenty and Alice was Eighteen.
"Hey guys!" I yelled, running quickly over to them. Like always we would sit on the nearby docks and just fish all day, well, that's really what we planned to do today. I guess I'll have to tell them later.
"So, heard you got a nice catch Celsius. Enough for the rest of us?" asked Roy, he was a half-elf who found this village on accident, no one really cared what race he was, so he was welcomed without a problem. He had long silver hair with blue eyes, common of half-elves. He was the tallest, standing 6'3, over a foot taller then me. He was always active in village activities, maybe not a playboy, but he always knew how to make a friend.
I laughed a bit, "Yep! Enough for the whole town!"
Collie giggled a bit, "So not much then. What did you catch? A minnow?" Collie was the eldest, but acted like the youngest, she had this personality that would never grow up, but that's what we like about her. She's purely human, with strawberry-blonde hair and blues eyes, she was taller then me, but not by much.
"Oh funny! Two nice sized tuna. It'll keep me away from the docks for a while." I sat down in the nearby boat and leaned against the wooden railing. "Well, are we going or what?"
Alice found her normal spot, which was at the back of the boat, she was the quietest, but always managed to leave a helping hand when needed. Her hobbies were resting, sleeping, napping, taking long breaks, resting her eyes and well, you get the idea. Her light brown hair was tied back and her brown eyes told of a need for more sleep. So she placed her rod on the boat with the string in the water, and laid down on the boat, keeping the rod between her arms at all times.
"Well, now that Alice has found her spot, I guess I'll goto mine" Roy sat at the very front of the boat and took his rod. Following him was Dan, who sat opposite of me, and Collie who sat next to me. Overall, this is what we did all summer, fish and talk. For some reason, we never ran out of subjects to talk about, we'll talk about the most important things like how were summon spirits connected to the world and stuff, (I never told them about my involvement in it, not that they cared.) To the most mundane stuff like why I'm so short. As Roy pushed the boat out into the river, Dan mentioned the ruins of Asgard and if any of us had ever been there, that seemed to be today's conversation.
The day, like always passed by quickly, we caught some fish, nothing out of the ordinary, though it did pop up how I caught two salt water fish in fresh water, maybe they just got lost. Dammit Fenrir, messing with my mind again. If your gonna send fish my way, at least tell Undine to make them more impressive! I thought to myself, knowing the real reason how I caught them. I hoped this day would go by quickly like any other day, but it didn't. Someone decided to pay be a visit.
"Celsi!" Yelled a lighthearted high pitched voice. I glanced over, I caught notice of those signature bright blue eyes, and blonde hair. Couldn't Colette be any quieter? Not to mention everyone knows her face.
I smiled, "Hey Colette." I glanced over, no sign of Sheena, maybe she's late. I swear she's acting more like Lloyd more and more.
"Colette…" Roy began, looking at my oddly.
"The Chosen…" Continued Dan, looking at me, equally astounded.
"…of Regeneration. I was tempted to mess it up, but that would ruin the surprise." Finished Alice with her eyes closed. Everyone just looked at me with strange looks on their faces seeing that I knew Colette.
"Hehe, yep, she's a friend of mine." I smiled nervously, hoping they wouldn't kill me.
Dan moved closer to me, "Hey, is she single by any chance?" he asked, eyeing her with envy.
I began to feel the urge to hit him, but if I did, I might kill him. Thank goodness someone else answered the question.
"Nope, she has a boyfriend from Iselia." in a wonderful puff of smoke, Sheena made a grand entrance. She looked different then when I last saw her, due to that Mizuho no longer needs to be constantly hidden, Sheena let her hair down and braided it. While she dressed a bit less…Mizuho. She wore pants similar to those you'd find the tour guides wearing in Asgard, but she still wore a kimono. Around her neck was the Flanoir flower she got from Lloyd many months ago, and her sash was no longer her long pink one, this time it was a shorter white one. Similar…wait. No. It is Lloyds.
"Hey!" Roy jumped onto the pier, "please tell me your single…miss…" Before he could do anything else stupid and embarrass me. I interjected.
"Sheena, isn't that Lloyd's? I thought you gave it back to him already?" I asked, eying her 'new' sash.
Sheena smiled and blushed a bit, "After I…said good bye to Lloyd, I stole it from him. I don't think it matters anymore!" She tried to end the subject again, but Colette wouldn't let that happen.
"She also still has the picture of Lloyd!" Colette took out a the picture that was taken in Sybek and waved it around proudly. "She also has another one…" Colette pulled out another picture of Sheena about to kiss Lloyd.
At this point, Sheena was burning up, "Hey! How did you get those! I was looking for those!" She nearly tore the picture out of Colette's hands and placed them quickly in her kimono. I noticed Roy's heart sink as he backed away.
"I can't believe you never told us you KNEW the heros of regeneration!" Yelled Collie, already out of the boat and in my face.
"Hehe, Celsi doesn't just know us, she was with us!" Colette smiled and giggled as if what she was doing was innocent. It was killing me.
By this time, all my friends from this town were around me, asking me a ton of questions. I could see Sheena and Colette laughing. "Quiet!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. Within an instant, they all stopped talking. "We'll talk this over at my house."
"Your house? It's only been a few months and you have your own house?" asked Sheena, looking around.
I nodded, "Yep, I'll explain more once we get there." after a fairly quiet walk, we finally made it to my house, thank goodness all in one piece.
"Is this it?" asked Colette, eyeing it.
"Yep," I opened the door, nothing had changed about it. Same messy blue bed, same messy table with letters on it, it was common knowledge that my favorite color was light blue. I noticed a wolf sitting quietly in the corner, gnawing on a fish. Collie and Alice backed away while Roy and Dan were about to try to scare it away. Then I got a better look at it, blue fur, external fangs. Yep. Fenrir all right. This is going to be the worst day of my life.
I sighed as I approached the spirit of ice. He probably was having fun with the fish he made me catch, at least I know why every time I leave the house I'm missing a fish or two. I sighed, as I picked him up by the collar. "Fenrir. How long have you been doing this?" everyone looked confused. Fenrir just chuckled.
"Well, a few months now. Great fish around here." Fenrir looked around and noticed the small crowd. "Well master Celsius, seems you have a fan club."
I set him down and sighed, "Dammit. If I wasn't human, I'd beat the living daylights out of you."
"Oh dear me. I don't want to get beat up by the strongest women alive." he lied.
"And don't forget it." I looked at the half eaten fish, "Fine, finish it, we have one left." he happily went back to the fish and continued to gnaw on it. I eyed the other one and invited everyone in. "I'll explain everything over dinner…" I looked at the clock, "Dinner I mean." everyone smiled and walked it and took a chair. I sighed, I need to take some of my anger out on Fenrir, "Dammit! Eat a little quieter!" I yelled as I prepared the fish.
After about thirty minutes, I finished making the fish, it was still a bit hot so I let it cool on the stove before serving it. I sat down between Colette and Dan, and looked at all of them. "Alright, now then. I might as well explain everything that I haven't told you guys yet." I began, I knew I was in for a long day. "Yes, I was once a summon spirit…"
"No, I was. You were just my guardian." I sighed, dammit Fenrir.
"Yea, I was his guardian…"
The day seemed to drag on, and on, and on. Finally we finished eating. Fenrir begged for scraps but I told him I'll have Sheena summon Efreet on him. He backed down quietly.
My friends from this town seemed very amazed, before long I explained to them why Colette and Sheena was here to their disappointment. I encouraged them that I'd be back, which seemed like a long time for them. Well, at least I get to be with Sheena and Colette. Before long, I said my final goodbyes to Roy, Dan, Alice and Collie, hugging them each. Before they left. And I made sure Fenrir was out as well. (meaning kicking him, threating, tempting to bring Yutis over)
I sat down on my aqua blue couch and looked out the window at the setting sun. "Well, are we planning on going to Iselia first?" I asked, looking back at Colette and Sheena, who were both standing around.
Sheena stretched her arms out "Yea, let's defiantly goto Iselia first." She then realized the mistake of what she said, "I mean, yeah, I miss Raine and Genis."
"No, you just want to see you boyfriend again." Colette told the obvious truth, but it was still funny to see her smile and seem so innocent.
"He's not my boyfriend! I had to give him some support because he was depressed!" Sheena always tries so hard to win a battle she can't hope to win.
"Then why do you kiss him so often? And on the lips?" I accused. Sheena just gave up.
I guess once again, I'm with my two best friends. Colette and Sheena, I'm already anxious to start our little journey again.
Author's notes: Well, there's chapter one for you! Well, chapter eight since this is still a 'continuation' of part one. How did you guys like it? Too slow? Too fast? Also, the four new characters I introduced, are pretty much gonna disappear until the end of part two and in part five. R &R like always!