Me: I'm finally back! Did you guys miss me! Hale; who would ever miss you? Me: you're mean! Hale: I'm supposed to be mean. Me: yeah but you're even meaner ever since you kiss and made-up with Li! Hale: (blushes) I did not kiss Li! We just apologized to each other! That's it! Me: … that was just a figure of speech… Hale: oh… I knew that! Me: (rolls eyes) right… anyway, here's chapter 5 guys!
Chapter 5: Poison Spores
As soon as the gang finished eating their dinner they started their mission to find the following ingredients that Hayveene needed. "Must we go right after dinner! Shouldn't we wait for like um… 5 minuets or something!" Kaina complained.
"Kaina, if we don't go as early as possible who knows what'll happen to Hayveene's friends?" Keishi said, mounting on his Pecopeco.
"But…" Kaina said but was interrupted.
"Just shut up and get on your damn Pecopeco!" Hayveene bit, mounting on her Pecopeco too. Hers squawked. The hot-tempered alchemist softened and patted her Pecopeco gently. "Of course you're not one of those damn Pecopecos, Cherry; you're the greatest Pecopeco yet!" Hayveene said.
"Hmp, my Gale can beat her so called 'greatest Pecopeco' in any race in anytime…" Kaina murmured mounting on her Pecopeco.
"What was that you said!" Hayveene hissed.
"Nothing my oh so hot-tempered queen," Kaina said. The two glared at each other angrily.
"Please you two, we must rescue those twins, Keishi's right, if we don't start early who knows what those rogues might do to those twins," Aika said, in a sudden sad tone. Kaina silenced herself. She knew Hayveene's case did sound a little like hers. Except that Aika's case ended tragically. The pretty blonde priestess felt a sudden ache on where her scar was. She held in tightly as images and Haiko and Hisha's screams of pain made a noise in her mind. She held her head trying to stop the noises in her head. 'Please… I can't take this anymore…' Aika thought. She nearly fell off of Jule, when Kaina managed to balance her back into the Pecopeco.
"Easy there Aik, we don't want a very important member of our party get hurt," Kaina said with a comforting smile. Aika smiled back.
"Thanks Kain," Aika said.
"Poring," Pan-chao said.
"I'm all right Pan-chao," Aika said.
"Y-you're side is bleeding," Kaina said, noticing blood on her best friend's left side.
"Nothing a little change of bandages would do," Aika said. "But don't mind that, we should start to look for the ingredients," Aika said. "Let's go Jule," Aika said, commanding her Pecopeco to start walking, when Kaina caught up with her and stopped her.
"Aika, no best friend of mine is gonna walk… or ride around bleeding," Kaina said. "Let's go to the restroom for a while, I'll put the new bandages on you," Kaina said. Aika nodded. The two girls got off their Pecopecos and made their way to the girl's restroom. "You guys will have to wait for a little while," Kaina said.
"All right, but make it quick," Airuko said. In the restroom…
"Ah!" Aika said yelling in pain.
"I'm sorry Aika, was that too tight?" Kaina said. Aika smiled at her.
"It's all right Kaina," Aika said. There was silence for a while. "Kaina," Aika said, breaking the silence.
"What is it Aika?" Kaina asked.
"If… you were in the same place as I am… having lost very close friends and all… would you still like to live even if your life is filled with unbearable misery? Or just die and join your friends?" Aika asked.
"Well… of course I would still continue living, even though the reminiscence of departed friends may contain a painful amount of misery, up above I believe they want you to live, it's not good to kill yourself you know," Kaina said and something hit her as she turned to her blonde friend. "Aika… don't tell me you're…" Kaina said but she was cut-off.
"Of course I'm not gonna do that Kaina, I was just asking," Aika said with a smile. Kaina sighed, relieved.
"That's good, for a moment there I thought you were gonna do that, I would never forgive you if you do that you know," Kaina said. Just as she finished bandaging her best friend's wound.
"Thanks Kain," Aika said, and then someone entered the room. It was Hayveene.
"Come on girls, let's get going," Hayveene said. The two just nodded. On their way…
"What should we get first Hayve?" Keishi asked.
"A Heart of Mermaid, from an Obeaune," Hayveene said.
"Aren't Obeaunes from Byalan Island?" Aika said.
"Oh! I'd like to visit Izulde again!" Kaina said.
"I agree with Kaina," Keishi said with a smile. Then all of the sudden Airuko stopped in his tracks. Keishi noticed this. "Anything wrong Airuko?" Keishi asked.
"Shh…" Airuko said, shushing the spiky haired crusader. Suddenly a Poison Spore jumped out of the bushes and was aiming to attack the silver haired assassin. "SONIC BLOW!" Airuko said and attacked the Poison Spore slicing it into half, unfortunately, that Poison Spore didn't leave any droppings. Then more came out of the bushes, to avenge the dead Poison Spore. Everyone got off of their Pecopecos and positioned themselves ready to attack.
"Support us Aika," Hayveene said.
"All right," Aika said. "MAGNIFICAT! GLORIA! IMPOSITIO MANUS!" Aika yelled.
"Thanks Aika! SPEAR STAB!" Kaina said attacking a Poison Spore, instantly killing it. "Take that damn Poison Spore!" Kaina said. But she didn't notice anther Poison Spore trying to make an attack on the unwary knight. Aika noticed this though.
"Kaina! Look out!" Aika said. Kaina turned and saw the attacking Poison Spore. "INCREASE AGILITY!" Aika yelled which helped Kaina evade the Poison Spore's attack quickly.
"Gale!" Kaina said. The Pecopeco understood what his master wanted. Gale ran towards the pretty brown haired knight as Kaina mounted on the Pecopeco. "BRANDISH SPEAR!" Kaina yelled killing the Poison Spore and some other Poison Spores. After that Kaina patted her precious Pecopeco. "That's a good boy Gale," she said.
"SPHERE MINE!" Hayveene yelled putting hidden mines on where there were tons of Poison Spores. Some Poison Spores noticed her and made an attack on her.
"Look out Hayveene!" Aika said. Hayveene did manage to attack the Poison Spore with her axe. But there were more coming. Hayveene just kept on attacking growing very tired. "HEAL!" Aika said. Hayveene gained more energy by that time.
"Thanks Aika! Increase my agility please!" Hayveene asked. Aika nodded.
"INCREASE AGILITY!" Aika yelled. Hayveene then, quickly ran from the Poison Spores, watching them as the unwarily stepped on the mines the pretty long-light-brown haired alchemist placed. Hayveene smiled slyly
"Bye, bye Poison Spores, huh?" Hayveene said when she noticed that Kaina was backing away from the large amount of Poison Spores that were trying to attack her and Gale. The thing is, she was heading right for the mines.
"SPEAR BOOMERANG!" Kaina yelled attacking the Poison Spores that got too close.
"Kaina!" Hayveene said. Gale sensed the mine and panicked running off letting his master drop. Kaina was about to fall on the mine when Airuko swiftly caught her in his arms and ran from the mine explosion. Kaina held on to the assassin, frightened by the explosion. Airuko stopped beneath a shady tree.
"Are you all right?" he asked, concerned. Kaina looked up to the assassin's chocolate brown eyes, full of concern.
"You… you saved me…" Kaina said.
"I couldn't let a human being die, we are party members," Airuko said. Kaina nodded. Their eyes met. Their faces neared each other ready for a kiss when…
"Airuko! Kaina!" Keishi said. The two turned and saw a Poison Spore that nearly attacked them when…
"DEVOTION!" Keishi said, protecting the two while getting hurt himself, grunting in pain, he still managed to get up though. "HEAL!" he said healing himself. Then he readied himself to attack. "SHIELD BOOMERANG!" the violet haired crusader said and attacked the Poison Spore, killing it. Everyone looked around their surroundings.
"I think that's the last of the Poison Spores," Aika said, seeing no Poison Spores in sight.
"Oh! Look! There are so many poison spores!" Hayveene said happily picking up the poison spores. "I could sell the extra poison spores so I could get more money!" she said, putting the items in her bag. Gale ran up to his master, squawking.
"Gale!" Kaina said, Airuko let her down. Kaina patted her Pecopeco. "I'm glad you're all right!" Kaina said and turned to the silver haired assassin. "Thank you Airuko, for saving me," Kaina said, blushing a little.
"Um… yeah… sure…" Airuko said, also blushing. Hayveene noticed what was going on.
"Hey guys, look over there," she said to Aika and Keishi, pointing to Airuko and Kaina. Aika smiled.
"How sweet," Aika said.
"And I thought Airuko never had time for girls," Keishi said.
"They do make a cute couple, don't they?" Hayveene said. Kaina mounted on Gale and Airuko was about to walk away from her when he felt a sudden pain.
"Ah!" he said, falling down in pain. He looked back to see a half-dead Poison Spore that had bitten his left foot.
"PIERCE!" Kaina yelled killing the Poison Spore for good. She got off of her Pecopeco and went up to the injured assassin. "Are you all right Airuko!" she asked, worriedly. They both looked back at Airuko's injured foot and noticed it was all kinda purplish in color. The other three ran up to the two just as they saw that Airuko had fallen.
"What happened!" Keishi asked.
"He's poisoned!" Kaina said.
"I'll fix that! CURE!" Aika said but nothing happened. "CURE! CURE! CURE!" she kept on saying but still, nothing happened. "I must've ran out of special power (if that's what 'sp' means…)," Aika said.
"You'll need this Aika," Hayveene said, offering a blue potion to the priestess.
"Please hurry Aika!" Kaina begged. Aika quickly drank some of the blue potion.
"CURE!" Aika said, curing Airuko's poisoned spot.
"Thanks," Airuko said and got up.
"Are you sure you're all right Airuko?" Kaina asked, still worried. The silver haired assassin just smiled at her.
"I'm fine, don't have to worry," Airuko said. Kaina smiled. Making eye-contact again, both the knight and the assassin's faces drew nearer each other, attempting for a kiss when Keishi cleared his throat. The two averted from each others' gaze and turned to the spiky haired crusader, who was smiling teasingly at them.
"Come on guys, you could do that in a room," Keishi said, teasingly. The two blushed in ruby red.
"Keishi!" the two said.
"I was just joking," Keishi said. The two other girls, the alchemist and the priestess giggled.
"Let's just go guys," Hayveene said.
"Yeah, it's a long way to Izulde, excluding the trip to Byalan Island," Aika said. Hayveene, Aika and Keishi were already mounted on their Pecopecos. Kaina mounted on hers. Then they were off to Izulde.
Hale: why can't Aika just make a warp portal? Me: then it wouldn't be an adventure anymore, would it? Hale: oh yeah… Me: I miss Johnny… can I bring him back? Hale: no. Me: aw… kill-joy… anyway, here's a person who reviewed!
the Goth priestess: yehey! chocolate! me like you! hmm... me still miss johnny... get over it, why don't you just shut up kai?i'll read her fucking story.