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Author's notes : Finally, I made it. I had some writer's blocks from this chapter, but now I finally did it. I'm also glad there's people that like it. Still, it would be great if Riviera could becomes more popular. This game needs all the good fics it can get.Oh well, on with the story!
Disclaimer : I don't own Riviera.
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The Water Demon
Morning came, the sun rising slowly in the sky. Birds could be heard in the forest, and light finally passed through the tree, awakening the two travellers.
Fia awoke first. She stirred a little, opened her eyes, and blushed immediately when she saw "where" she slept.
Of course, when she awoke, she woke up Ein as well, and it wasn't long before they were both staring and blushing at each other.
Both said nothing for a while, not knowing what to say. Fia was thinking about how she ended up on him, but also how comfortable she was before waking up. Ein, while knowing that Fia was on him when he fell asleep, didn't expect her to wake up first, and blushed as well when he saw how flustered she was.
"Hmmm... Ein? I you can... remove yor arms, I'll get up..." Fia said, still blushing.
"Huh? Oh... Hmmm, sorry..." Ein answered, taking a while to realize what she said.
They both sat up, still not knowing what else to say.
"So..." Ein said "Are you ok? I mean, about..."
"Yes... I'm feeling well now, thank you Ein..." Fia said, still flustered a little.
"Good... I think we can Reach Tetyth this afternoon if we don't encounter any surprise"
"Then let's eat first, then we'll depart." Fia finished, now acting normally again.
After packing their camp, they departed again towards the ancient city. As they hoped, they didn't encounter any threat, and it wasn't long before they reached their destination.
Well, except for one "minor" problem in the way between them and the cathedral...
"Ein..." Fia asked "How are we going to cross the water?"
Apparently, the water that flooded the city hasn't gone anywhere, and the only parts of Tethyth that weren't sunk were the Mizel bridge and the Flaybell cathedral.
"Well... We're going to figure a way..." Ein said, not knowing what to do.
Fia gave a small smile, confident that he would find a way, then looked around for anything that could help them.
"Well, let's set up camp for now, at least..." She said, not finding anything.
Ein agreed, and they found a clearing that wasn't too far away from the lake. However, while they set up camp, they weren't aware of two pair of eyes spying them...
"What are they doing here?" A male voice said, whispering.
"Why would I know? I can't read minds, you know!" A feminine voice said, whispering too.
"Hey, do you think they could help us with our problem? It would be much more easier with them." The first voice said.
"Why would they help us? Remember what we did to them?" The feminine voice responded, sounding a little angry.
"Well... It can't hurt to ask, at least..." The boy's voice said, while going in the direction of the camp.
"What the...? What are you doing?" The other one shouted, following him.
Of course, the shouting didn't go unnoticed. Ein and Fia both turned towards the direction of the voice, weapons drawn, but they lowered them as soon as they saw who it was.
"Blue Fool! Red Sage! What are you doing here?" Ein asked, in a greeting voice.
Indeed, it was them. Blue Fool arrived first, followed by Red Sage who proceeded to whack him on the head for doing something stupid.
"Owww... Well, how it's going? We haven't seen you in a long time, you know." Fool said, still wincing from the hit.
"Well, we're fine. From the look of things, were you going to ask us something?" Fia answered, in a polite manner.
"Well... If it's not too much trouble... A big demon made his home here recently, and we can't drive him off with just the two of us." Sage explained.
"Is that so?" Ein said "But does he threaten anyone? If there's no one around..."
"It's an underwater one. He attacks the Undines whenever they get out of theirs homes." Fool answered.
"We became friends with the Undines some time after you left. Now that the water's level have rose, they started to expand a little, since there's much more space to swim around the city. But now that big bully came here and won't leave!" Sage finished angrily.
"Well... Let's go see it first, before deciding what to do" Fia said. She and Ein started to move but...
"Wait. By any chances, were you planning to return in the cathedral?" Sage asked.
"Yeah, why?" Ein said, worried.
"Because unless you can fly or float like us, he's going to attack you too." Sage answered.
"That means he's too dangerous to let loose. We have to beat it if we want to reach the cathedral, Ein." Fia said.
"Understood. Let's take some items with us and let's go." Ein answered.
It wasn't long before they reached the water's border. Upn reaching the place, they set up a plan. They would attract it near the border and force him to come out, giving Ein and Fia a chance to attack it before it submerged again. Fool then took some rocks, and threw them as far as he could to disturb his rest and makes him come here.
Sure enough, a shadow was soon approaching, and the four of them readied themselves.
"By the way..." Fia asked "How does he look like?"
"Don't worry that much. It's just one big, big octopus. We couldn't beat him because we were just two." Sage answered, his eyes still set on the water's surface.
"Good" Ein said "Then we only need at least to cut his tentacles so he can't attack anyone."
"Yeah. But the spiked ones seem more tough, so it may be a little difficult." Fool said.
Ein and Sage slowly looked at Fool, eyes widened. Sage looked at him like she wanted to kill him on the spot, and Ein looked between him and the shadow still approaching. Fia, not knowing what happened, wondered what the problem was.
"You...IDIOT!" Why didn't you told me that BEFORE angering him?" Sage shouted, angry.
"Ein? What's the problem? Is there somethin..." Fia started, but...
Ein tackled her to the ground, away from the water,s edge when a huge tentacle came out of the water and slammed strongly the ground where the two of them were the moment before. Sage and Fool warped near them, and faced the tentacle with theirs chain maces in theirs hands.
"That's not an octopus!" Ein shouted to her while setting himself and Fia up again, ready to battle. "It's a Kraken!"
"Wha..." Fia started, but she was interrupted again, as another tentacle rose from the water.
It slammed again towards Ein and Fia, but they saw it and dodged just before it was too late. Ein then proceeded to hack the tentacle, Einherjar in hand. Holy energy burning the Kraken's flesh, he cut it with ease. The creature dragged back in the water the uncut tentacle still connected to him, and a enormous cry was heard from the water.
"The Kraken is a mythical monster. Legends say that they attack and sink ships who come near their homes. No one is said to have seen them fully and lived to tell about it." Ein explained quickly before the Kraken attacked again.
This time, all seven remaining tentacles came to the surface, but the beast still stayed underwater. All of them threatened to attack in a second. Another normal one came down, targeting Sage this time. She warped out of harm's way, and Fia was the first to attack it. She thrust the Rosier in the tentacle, made and upward motion to get it out while cutting it, and finished the limb with a downward slash.
"Another down, only six left rem...Ahhh!" Fia shouted.
While the others were distracted with the others tentacles, one of them took the time to grab Fia's leg, and started dragging her towards the water's edge. The Kraken stop slamming the ground, now knowing it wouldn't work, and now attacked Ein, Fool and Sage with sweeping motions.
"Fia? Fia!"
Ein heard the scream and started to run to free her. One of the spiked tentacle tried to stop him, but he jumped over it and, sword drawn, made short work of the tentacle holding Fia.
"Are you okay Fia? Can you move?" Ein asked, forgetting the fight for a moment.
"Don't worry, I'm... Ein, behind you!"
"Huh?"
Ein looked behind him, only to get slammed by a tentacle. The sheer force of the impact sent him on a tree, and Ein started to bleed, not moving.
"Ein! No!" Fia shouted, running towards him.
She went next to him and quickly took a potion from her bag in her hand. She then wasted no time in forcing Ein to drink it. The wounds closed, and he awoke, the potion taking effect.
"Ughhh... Fia..." Ein said.
"Don't talk right now, and save your strength. It's still not over." Fia answered.
"No... Fia... Behind you!" Ein shouted, as much as he could right now.
The Kraken saw the opportunity, and with one tentacle, took both of them within his grasp. They tried to squirm out of his grasp, but gave up for two reasons : Te tentacle was too strong, and they were a little too close to each other to try squirming.
"Nightmare Waltz!" Two voices shouted.
Fool and Sage were attacking mercilessly the tentacle holding Ein and Fia, and the tentacle, while not being cut, was bleeding so much that it dropped the pair and slowly dragged itself in the water.
Now only four tentacle remained, and the two spiked one were still here. Bubbles coming to the surface, the Kraken finally appeared on the surface, eyes resting on the demons and the two warriors.
"We must kill it now... Aim for the eyes.If he get away, he'll be able to regrow his tentacles..." Ein said, now recovered from the earlier attack
"But how?" Fia asked "We don't have any bow with us, and we can't risk falling into the water by going too close of him."
"Talk later! He's trying to get away!" Sage shouted.
The Kraken had dragged his four remaining tentacles in the water, and slowly started to swam away.
"What? It's now or never! We must try to jump on it and kill its eyes!" Ein shouted, starting running.
The four of them were nearing the water,s edge when, in a last attempt, the Kraken attacked them with his spiked tentacles. Fool and Sage were knocked away, but the spikes didn't injured them too much. Ein and Fia were now ready to jump, and Ein was the first to do so. However, being in the air made him unable to dodge another attack, from a normal tentacle. He was sent back on the ground, but was too far to jump again.
Fia already jumped when she saw Ein getting knocked back. But the Kraken didn't noticed her until it was too late. Landing on it, she quickly got out the rosier.
"My resolve shall prevail! Cadenza!" Fia shouted.
The Kraken's eyes were nothing more than a bloody mess in just a few seconds.
Satisfied with the sinking Kraken, Fia found herself with a problem : How was she going to get back on the ground?
As if it wasn't enough, the Kraken wanted to drag Fia to her death with itself, wrapping a tentacle around her leg. Fia couldn't get away, and she was going to drown if she didn't get help fast.
Ein, seeing all of this, quickly discarded anything heavy on him and plunged into the water, swimming rapidly towards Fia. She tried to stay on the surface, but she was dragged underwater by the now dead Kraken.
Fool and Sage, bleeding a little from the battle, held their breath when they saw Ein plunging after Fia underwater. A few seconds passed, and nothing happened. Another few seconds, and still nothing. They were starting to worry when bubbles finally broke the water's surface.
Ein and Fia emerged, both gasping for air. Ein then dragged Fia near the border, and they finally reached the edge, both panting heavily.
"We... We made it" Ein said, exhausted.
"Thank you... Ein... If you hadn't been there..." Fia added, exhausted too.
"Don't mention it. I couldn't... I would never have let you die, Fia..." Ein added, recovering his breath.
They made their way towards Fool and Sage, worried about them. Fortunately, their wounds weren't bad, nothing a potion couldn't fix.
"Well... Now what?" Fool asked.
"I think we should get back to camp, Ein. We're too tired for the rest of the day to try to the cathedral." Fia said.
"Good idea. But what are you going to do now?" Ein asked.
"Well... We'll warn the Undines about what happened. After, I don't know." Sage answered
After saying farewell, Ein and Fia returned to their camp. The rest of the day was spent there, having nothing else to do but think.
Night came, but being so close to a water spot made the night really cold, and the fire wasn't enough to keep them warm.
"Ein, it's too cold! We're going to get sick if this keep up!" Fia said, shivering.
"Let's take out the rest of the covers we have, then we'll see." Ein answered.
They divided the covers between them, and they waited a little to see if a change would pass.
"...Ein-n, it's not enough-h!" Fia added, shivering even more than before.
"...You know-w what this mean, then-n?" Ein said, a little shy about this.
"...Well... We don't have any other choice..." Fia answered, realizing the facts.
In her mind, thought, she was shouting her joy. She actually enjoyed the feeling of sleeping in Ein's arms, thought she would never admit it to someone else. Then, in a bold idea, she quickly put her covers with Ein's ones, and she swiftly made her way so she would sleep in the same position as before.
"Much better..." Fia said softly, blushing from what she just did.
Then, without warning, she went to sleep, a smile on her lips.
Ein was currently blushing madly from what just happened. What he had in mind was them sleeping close, but not THAT close. He would never dare to ask Fia to do this. When he noticed she was already asleep, he smiled too, then went to sleep.
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Author's notes : Wow... Alhought it's my second fic, I can't believe I wrote that much for one chapter. Well, it's up to you to tell me if it's bad or not.
Again, pleaser/r, and warn me about mistakes if I made some, especially major ones.