Okay.... I'm back.... and in a different section than anime! Yah!
This actually was the first story I ever wrote, I just didn't know how to post on fanfiction yet, and ended up deleting it. It wasn't that good, anyways. So I'm thinking about rewriting it. And that is where you guys come in. You give me positive feedback, I'll continue... sooner or later. You give me negative feedback, I won't continue. Simple as that.
So.... welcome to Gigas, my new story. Please keep all hands and feet inside the story until it has come to a complete stop. Thank you very much.
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Vyse leaned against the ship's railing, having nothing else to do. His hands where bound, his feet were bound, and he had awoken to find himself lying on the ground where he currently was now. 'This... is a problem...' he thought, looking up at the sky. Neither of the moons where in sight, so he had no idea where he was. And Aika and Fina weren't anywhere nearby, but he knew they had also been taken aboard the ship; he had seen them being knocked out by shady figures before being knocked out himself. 'This.... sucks.... so.... much....'
"Hey, you!"
Vyse didn't even bother to look up at the speaker, instead, he stared at the boots in front of him. They looked like something Fina would wear, only a bit more masculine. "What?" he replied.
"You're the one from Crescent Isle, aren't you?"
He shrugged. "Maybe. Depends on who's asking."
"Is it true that you're the supposed King of Rouges?"
"Again, it depends on who's asking."
The man grumbled something before walking away, leaving Vyse back to his thoughts. 'I wish I had my cutlasses... then all I could just summon up a Pirate's Wrath and free myself, and attack them all.'
The sudden impact of a boot in his side jerked him out of his daydreams. "Come on, kid, we're going to go to business, now." The boot kicked him even harder, causing him to fall. Vyse's control snapped in an instant.
"You just wait until you untie me! First thing I'll do is crush your neck with my bare hands!"
The man snorted. "Yeah, right. When we untie you, you'll be powerless to do anything. Now get up, we have work to do."
"I can't."
"What do you mean you can't?"
Vyse showed his bound feet. "I am not hopping all the way to wherever you want me to go. You'll have to take these off, first." He smirked. "Or, you could always carry me."
The man groaned, bending down with to undo the rope. "No funny stuff, okay?"
Vyse stood to his feet, staring around him. There wasn't much to see. Blue skies, all around him. 'I'm not going to try anything until I know where the heck I am,' he thought, looking at the man for the first time. He looked somewhat similar to Fina in a way..... almost like a distant cousin or something..... only much, much meaner.
"What are you gawking at, kid? Come on, follow me."
Vyse followed the man off of the deck slowly. "Can I ask a question?"
"What is it, brat?"
Vyse bristled a bit at being called a brat. "Where are my friends?"
"Your friends? You mean those two pretty girls? One red head, one blonde?"
Vyse nodded. "Yes. Where are they?"
The man snorted. "You have no reason to worry about them. I think you should worry more about yourself than anything.
"Why should I?" Vyse asked. Something down in his gut told him that something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong....
"Let's just say you'll find out later." The man opened a door, shoving Vyse inside. Vyse looked around. It looked almost like an operating room, only different. And more high-tech. As the man gestured to the table, the little pit of worry in his stomach grew larger. "Sit there."
Vyse shook his head. "I have no idea what you're going to do."
"Come on, brat. We won't do anything. I just thought you would like to sit."
Vyse glared at him. "I'll be fine standing, thank you."
The man shrugged. "Suit yourself. Just hang tight here for a few minutes, okay?" He walked by him, turning at the last second to chop Vyse in the neck. "Sorry kid. This would've gone a lot smoother if you had just done as you were told." Vyse crumbled to the floor in an unconscious heap. The man picked him up and laid him on the bed, then left the room to find his boss.
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Aika opened her eyes quickly, sitting up. "Where am I?" she asked.
A groan came from beside her. Aika looked down, noticing Fina was also lying in the bed with her. Fina's eyes fluttered open, taking in her surroundings. "What happened?"
"I don't know," Aika replied, looking around. The room was extremely plain, but there was something familiar about it that she just couldn't put her finger on...
Fina gasped. "This looks like one of the rooms at the Great Silver Shrine!"
Aika looked around. "You're right... it does look like your room, doesn't it? Does that mean that we're at the Great Silver Shrine?"
"I don't think so... the air... it's different... it's not artificial... it's real."
Aika chewed her lip. "Well, that still leaves us with a couple of big problems.... where are we, how did we get here, and what happened?"
Fina opened her mouth to respond when the door was thrown open. "Ah, I see you two girls are up. Lovely."
The girls looked up at the man. He had silverish blonde hair, like Fina, and wore dark armor, and a long black cape. Behind him were two guards, carrying a limp form between them. Aika gasped. "Vyse! What have you done to him?"
"Calm down," the man said. "He's just unconscious." The two guards threw Vyse at the base of the bed. "Are you two girls hungry?"
Aika was caught off guard at the question. "Um... I could eat."
"Fine. I'll have someone bring you food in a few moments." He bowed, then retreated with the three guards outside of the room. The moment the door closed, Aika hopped out of the bed, rushing over to Vyse. She slung one of his arms over her shoulder, carrying him to the bed. She laid him down next to Fina, then sat beside him.
"Do you think he'll wake up soon?"
Aika shrugged. "I don't know."
"We could always use Riselem...."
Aika nodded. "I've never perfected it.... you go ahead and try."
Vyse chose that time to groan. "I'm alright...." He tried to push himself up from the bed, only to fall back down. "I'm just really, really tired."
Fina put a hand on his head, stroking his hair. "What did they do to you?"
"I don't know. I was unconscious for a while, and when I woke up, I was being carried to this room. Whatever happened completely drained me of my energy."
"Do you even know where we are?"
Vyse shook his head. "No... I looked around when I was outside, and all I could see was the sky... I couldn't even see a moon..."
Aika frowned. "This could be a problem... does anyone remember what happened? Because I was caught completely unawares."
Fina nodded. "Yes. We were in Maramba, walking back to the docks from then inn, and-"
"-someone obviously came behind us and clonked us on the head," Vyse finished. "Next thing I knew, I was on the deck of a ship, bound hand and foot. Then there was this guy, different from the one you just saw, and he led me to this room. Then he knocked me out for a while. You know the rest."
Fina clutched her hands against her heart. "Do you think that whoever kidnapped us will let us go?"
Aika leaned back against the headboard. "Are you kidding? Vyse is the probably the most wanted man in all of Arcadia! How much do you want to bet that our kidnappers are some stupid Black Pirates that just want to say they killed Vyse?"
"You have a point..."
Vyse tries once again to push himself up. "Wow... I feel like sleeping for a year..."
"Tough luck, Vyse. We're going to get out of here!"
He looked at his childhood friend skeptically. "And how do you propose that? We have no ship, and we don't even know where we are."
Aika smiled. "That's easy. A ship like this is bound to have some lifeboats. We can sneak on one, and go to the nearest island we find. As to where we are, well, we know where everything is. If you head in either direction, we're sure to run into someplace we are familiar with. We can find our way back home from there. Knowing the crew, they've probably taken the ship back to Crescent Isle when we didn't come back... either that, or they're still at Maramba... how long have we been here?"
"Aika, we told you everything we knew. We could have been here for maybe a week or something, I don't know."
She tapped her chin. "Well.... it doesn't matter. We can still go home. All we'll have to do is sneak around a bit."
Vyse smashed his face into a pillow. "Whatever. You two can go on without me. I'm going to go to sleep..."
"Vyse! You can't go to sleep on us! We need-" But it was too late. He was already snoring softly. Aika groaned. "Great. Just perfect. We can't get out of here without him."
Fina started to stroke his hair again. "I... I must admit, though, Aika, the plan sounds somewhat.... risky. We haven't seen anything but the inside of this room. We don't know how large this ship is, and what'll happen if we get lost?"
Aika flopped back down on the bed. "I guess you're right... we really have no choice, do we? Our weapons have been stripped of us, and now we're stuck here, waiting for whatever happened to Vyse to probably happen to us. I guess we are really stuck here..."
The door opened again to reveal the same man who had delivered Vyse, along with the same guards, who were carrying trays with bowls on them, steam rising from the dishes. The man's eyes narrowed. "So, he's asleep, eh? I guess that's to be expected." He smiled charmingly at the two girls, bowing slightly. "I brought soup for you two." He turned his head slightly to look at his guards, and, as if that was the cue they were waiting for, they marched up to opposite sides of the bed, placing the trays onto the girls' laps. Aika caught the scent of Grule, and smiled. Though a grotesque fish, it had to be her favorite. The man noticed her smile and chuckled. "I suggest you eat every last drop of the soup. You'll need your energy for this trip, I feel." He bowed again, the charming smile still on his face. Aika and Fina couldn't help but blush slightly. He turned, walking out of sight. The guards followed him, and the door closed, blocking all view.
Aika sighed, staring down at her soup. "It smells so good..."
Fina nodded, wincing. "We shouldn't eat it, though. Who knows what's in it?"
Aika looked around the room, spotting a little round window on the wall that was open. "It would be rude to just leave the soup in the bowl." She took both of the girls' bowls and dumped the soup out of the window. She placed the now empty bowls back on the trays, setting the trays by the door. "Well, there goes our food."
"We shouldn't eat anything that is offered to us..." Fina stated sullenly.
Aika nodded. "You're right. Even if it means starving ourselves. Though," she glanced at the sleeping Vyse. "In his condition, I'm not sure starving would be a good idea."
Fina started to stroke Vyse's hair again. "Silver moon... please, keep us save..." -------
Vyse awoke abruptly. The room was dark, but he could make out the sleeping forms of his two female companions. 'I must have slept the day away,' he thought. His stomach growled loudly, demanding that it be fed. Slowly, as to not disturb the girls, he got off of the bed. He felt his way to the door, groaning when he found that it was locked. "Dammit," he cursed as his stomach grumbled once more. "Open, you stupid door."
Suddenly, white sparks flew from the doorknob, and the door opened slightly. Vyse blinked, but decided to make use of the situation. He opened the door a bit more and looked around. When he spotted no one, he opened the door all the way and stepped out into the hall. He chose a random direction and followed it, hoping that he would find the galley somewhere. The growling of his stomach grew louder and occurred much more frequently as he wandered the halls. "Damn... where is the kitchen, for crying out loud?"
"Hey!"
Vyse turned around, spotting one of the guards that worked on the ship. The guard hurriedly tried to make his way towards him. "Crap," Vyse muttered as he began to run in the opposite direction.
"Hey, stop!" The guard was now sprinting towards Vyse. "How'd you get out of your room? Did you hear me? Stop this instant!"
But that only encouraged Vyse to run faster. 'This has just been my lucky day,' he thought bitterly. 'Being kidnapped, having something strange happen to me when I was unawares, and now, I can't even get a bite to eat.'
He was tackled at an intersection by four other guards. Vyse vainly struggled as the guards weighed him down, bounding his arms and legs with a type of rope that felt as if it was burning off his flesh. He cried out in pain, causing the guards to back away quickly. Vyse looked down at his wrists, trying not to cry out again. The rope was silver, with little specks of gold intertwined in it. 'What the hell is this?' he thought, biting his lip in pain. Somewhere in the background he heard the guards conversing.
"How did he escape?"
"Didn't we lock the door?"
"I know it was locked! I did it myself!"
"A better question is why didn't he stop when we commanded?"
"You're right. Didn't the captain say that he would obey our orders?"
"Well, it was the first experiment we did. There are obviously some glitches we haven't worked out yet."
"That's not good. With this guy on the loose, our whole lives are in danger."
"Our lives? That's not the worst of it. Let's just say he could probably destroy a good sized island."
"Think what would happen if all six of our experiments work out?"
"The captain is one suave man."
Someone kicked Vyse in the side- hard. 'Great,' he thought. 'I'll just add broken bones to the bruise on the back of my neck and the new burns that I'm going to have.' "Worthless brat," the guard said. "Shouldn't someone go get the captain?"
"No need. I am here."
Vyse craned his neck up, glancing at the man that had appeared. He couldn't see the man's face, but he recognized that black armor and cape. Vyse struggled to move his hands apart, but only resulted in burning himself more. The man looked down at Vyse at his cry of pain. "How did you get out of your room?"
"Why?" Vyse retorted out of clenched teeth. "Why should you care? And what's this experiment you where talking about? What have you done to me?"
The man ignored his comments, turning to one of the guards. "Go inspect the door. My guess is that he broke the lock. And make sure that those two girls haven't woken up. I don't want them escaping, either."
"Hey, jerk! Answer my question!"
The man looked back down at him. "Your name is Vyse, correct?"
"Answer my questions first!"
The man nodded. "So then, Vyse. What were you trying to accomplish by leaving your room? Escaping? Jumping overboard? Tell me when I'm getting warm."
Vyse growled. It looked like that only way he could get information out of this guy was to succumb to his wants. "I was trying to find my way to the galley. How about we strike a deal? You untie me and give me something to eat, and I'll answer all of your questions."
The man chuckled. "I don't see any harm in it. But know this: Those ropes that are tied on your ankles and wrists? All of my men carry whips made out of that same exact material. Should you even blink the wrong way, I'll have them whip you until your whole body is covered in burns. Are we clear?"
Vyse nodded. "Just get me out of these things."
At a glance from the man in black armor, one of the guards came forward, cutting the ropes that bound Vyse with a small pocket knife. Vyse looked sullenly at the burn marks that were left. They still throbbed slightly, and he thought he could see some blood well up at different spots. Sighing, he got to his feet, wincing at the sharp pain that spread through his ankles.
The man took no notice of Vyse's pain, but instead walked right past him. "We'll go to my cabin, and one of my servants will prepare a meal for you. Then we can talk turkey."
Vyse looked down at the ground. "Whatever" 'What in six moons have I gotten myself into?'
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And... cut! That's it. Pretty good, eh? It took me so long just to finish it... I feel good about it. But something tells me the plot is a little... strange... but hey, I don't care! Like I said, I may end up deleting this. But I still do not care!
I had to play the game again just so that I could remember the basics of this story (actually it's on right now in front of me. Just defeated that blue Gigas.... Bluehiem? Yeah, that sounds right.) It's been so long since I played. I was really worried that I would get some of the names messed up, but I don't really care right now. I guess I'm just lazy like that.
Please review!
This actually was the first story I ever wrote, I just didn't know how to post on fanfiction yet, and ended up deleting it. It wasn't that good, anyways. So I'm thinking about rewriting it. And that is where you guys come in. You give me positive feedback, I'll continue... sooner or later. You give me negative feedback, I won't continue. Simple as that.
So.... welcome to Gigas, my new story. Please keep all hands and feet inside the story until it has come to a complete stop. Thank you very much.
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Vyse leaned against the ship's railing, having nothing else to do. His hands where bound, his feet were bound, and he had awoken to find himself lying on the ground where he currently was now. 'This... is a problem...' he thought, looking up at the sky. Neither of the moons where in sight, so he had no idea where he was. And Aika and Fina weren't anywhere nearby, but he knew they had also been taken aboard the ship; he had seen them being knocked out by shady figures before being knocked out himself. 'This.... sucks.... so.... much....'
"Hey, you!"
Vyse didn't even bother to look up at the speaker, instead, he stared at the boots in front of him. They looked like something Fina would wear, only a bit more masculine. "What?" he replied.
"You're the one from Crescent Isle, aren't you?"
He shrugged. "Maybe. Depends on who's asking."
"Is it true that you're the supposed King of Rouges?"
"Again, it depends on who's asking."
The man grumbled something before walking away, leaving Vyse back to his thoughts. 'I wish I had my cutlasses... then all I could just summon up a Pirate's Wrath and free myself, and attack them all.'
The sudden impact of a boot in his side jerked him out of his daydreams. "Come on, kid, we're going to go to business, now." The boot kicked him even harder, causing him to fall. Vyse's control snapped in an instant.
"You just wait until you untie me! First thing I'll do is crush your neck with my bare hands!"
The man snorted. "Yeah, right. When we untie you, you'll be powerless to do anything. Now get up, we have work to do."
"I can't."
"What do you mean you can't?"
Vyse showed his bound feet. "I am not hopping all the way to wherever you want me to go. You'll have to take these off, first." He smirked. "Or, you could always carry me."
The man groaned, bending down with to undo the rope. "No funny stuff, okay?"
Vyse stood to his feet, staring around him. There wasn't much to see. Blue skies, all around him. 'I'm not going to try anything until I know where the heck I am,' he thought, looking at the man for the first time. He looked somewhat similar to Fina in a way..... almost like a distant cousin or something..... only much, much meaner.
"What are you gawking at, kid? Come on, follow me."
Vyse followed the man off of the deck slowly. "Can I ask a question?"
"What is it, brat?"
Vyse bristled a bit at being called a brat. "Where are my friends?"
"Your friends? You mean those two pretty girls? One red head, one blonde?"
Vyse nodded. "Yes. Where are they?"
The man snorted. "You have no reason to worry about them. I think you should worry more about yourself than anything.
"Why should I?" Vyse asked. Something down in his gut told him that something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong....
"Let's just say you'll find out later." The man opened a door, shoving Vyse inside. Vyse looked around. It looked almost like an operating room, only different. And more high-tech. As the man gestured to the table, the little pit of worry in his stomach grew larger. "Sit there."
Vyse shook his head. "I have no idea what you're going to do."
"Come on, brat. We won't do anything. I just thought you would like to sit."
Vyse glared at him. "I'll be fine standing, thank you."
The man shrugged. "Suit yourself. Just hang tight here for a few minutes, okay?" He walked by him, turning at the last second to chop Vyse in the neck. "Sorry kid. This would've gone a lot smoother if you had just done as you were told." Vyse crumbled to the floor in an unconscious heap. The man picked him up and laid him on the bed, then left the room to find his boss.
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Aika opened her eyes quickly, sitting up. "Where am I?" she asked.
A groan came from beside her. Aika looked down, noticing Fina was also lying in the bed with her. Fina's eyes fluttered open, taking in her surroundings. "What happened?"
"I don't know," Aika replied, looking around. The room was extremely plain, but there was something familiar about it that she just couldn't put her finger on...
Fina gasped. "This looks like one of the rooms at the Great Silver Shrine!"
Aika looked around. "You're right... it does look like your room, doesn't it? Does that mean that we're at the Great Silver Shrine?"
"I don't think so... the air... it's different... it's not artificial... it's real."
Aika chewed her lip. "Well, that still leaves us with a couple of big problems.... where are we, how did we get here, and what happened?"
Fina opened her mouth to respond when the door was thrown open. "Ah, I see you two girls are up. Lovely."
The girls looked up at the man. He had silverish blonde hair, like Fina, and wore dark armor, and a long black cape. Behind him were two guards, carrying a limp form between them. Aika gasped. "Vyse! What have you done to him?"
"Calm down," the man said. "He's just unconscious." The two guards threw Vyse at the base of the bed. "Are you two girls hungry?"
Aika was caught off guard at the question. "Um... I could eat."
"Fine. I'll have someone bring you food in a few moments." He bowed, then retreated with the three guards outside of the room. The moment the door closed, Aika hopped out of the bed, rushing over to Vyse. She slung one of his arms over her shoulder, carrying him to the bed. She laid him down next to Fina, then sat beside him.
"Do you think he'll wake up soon?"
Aika shrugged. "I don't know."
"We could always use Riselem...."
Aika nodded. "I've never perfected it.... you go ahead and try."
Vyse chose that time to groan. "I'm alright...." He tried to push himself up from the bed, only to fall back down. "I'm just really, really tired."
Fina put a hand on his head, stroking his hair. "What did they do to you?"
"I don't know. I was unconscious for a while, and when I woke up, I was being carried to this room. Whatever happened completely drained me of my energy."
"Do you even know where we are?"
Vyse shook his head. "No... I looked around when I was outside, and all I could see was the sky... I couldn't even see a moon..."
Aika frowned. "This could be a problem... does anyone remember what happened? Because I was caught completely unawares."
Fina nodded. "Yes. We were in Maramba, walking back to the docks from then inn, and-"
"-someone obviously came behind us and clonked us on the head," Vyse finished. "Next thing I knew, I was on the deck of a ship, bound hand and foot. Then there was this guy, different from the one you just saw, and he led me to this room. Then he knocked me out for a while. You know the rest."
Fina clutched her hands against her heart. "Do you think that whoever kidnapped us will let us go?"
Aika leaned back against the headboard. "Are you kidding? Vyse is the probably the most wanted man in all of Arcadia! How much do you want to bet that our kidnappers are some stupid Black Pirates that just want to say they killed Vyse?"
"You have a point..."
Vyse tries once again to push himself up. "Wow... I feel like sleeping for a year..."
"Tough luck, Vyse. We're going to get out of here!"
He looked at his childhood friend skeptically. "And how do you propose that? We have no ship, and we don't even know where we are."
Aika smiled. "That's easy. A ship like this is bound to have some lifeboats. We can sneak on one, and go to the nearest island we find. As to where we are, well, we know where everything is. If you head in either direction, we're sure to run into someplace we are familiar with. We can find our way back home from there. Knowing the crew, they've probably taken the ship back to Crescent Isle when we didn't come back... either that, or they're still at Maramba... how long have we been here?"
"Aika, we told you everything we knew. We could have been here for maybe a week or something, I don't know."
She tapped her chin. "Well.... it doesn't matter. We can still go home. All we'll have to do is sneak around a bit."
Vyse smashed his face into a pillow. "Whatever. You two can go on without me. I'm going to go to sleep..."
"Vyse! You can't go to sleep on us! We need-" But it was too late. He was already snoring softly. Aika groaned. "Great. Just perfect. We can't get out of here without him."
Fina started to stroke his hair again. "I... I must admit, though, Aika, the plan sounds somewhat.... risky. We haven't seen anything but the inside of this room. We don't know how large this ship is, and what'll happen if we get lost?"
Aika flopped back down on the bed. "I guess you're right... we really have no choice, do we? Our weapons have been stripped of us, and now we're stuck here, waiting for whatever happened to Vyse to probably happen to us. I guess we are really stuck here..."
The door opened again to reveal the same man who had delivered Vyse, along with the same guards, who were carrying trays with bowls on them, steam rising from the dishes. The man's eyes narrowed. "So, he's asleep, eh? I guess that's to be expected." He smiled charmingly at the two girls, bowing slightly. "I brought soup for you two." He turned his head slightly to look at his guards, and, as if that was the cue they were waiting for, they marched up to opposite sides of the bed, placing the trays onto the girls' laps. Aika caught the scent of Grule, and smiled. Though a grotesque fish, it had to be her favorite. The man noticed her smile and chuckled. "I suggest you eat every last drop of the soup. You'll need your energy for this trip, I feel." He bowed again, the charming smile still on his face. Aika and Fina couldn't help but blush slightly. He turned, walking out of sight. The guards followed him, and the door closed, blocking all view.
Aika sighed, staring down at her soup. "It smells so good..."
Fina nodded, wincing. "We shouldn't eat it, though. Who knows what's in it?"
Aika looked around the room, spotting a little round window on the wall that was open. "It would be rude to just leave the soup in the bowl." She took both of the girls' bowls and dumped the soup out of the window. She placed the now empty bowls back on the trays, setting the trays by the door. "Well, there goes our food."
"We shouldn't eat anything that is offered to us..." Fina stated sullenly.
Aika nodded. "You're right. Even if it means starving ourselves. Though," she glanced at the sleeping Vyse. "In his condition, I'm not sure starving would be a good idea."
Fina started to stroke Vyse's hair again. "Silver moon... please, keep us save..." -------
Vyse awoke abruptly. The room was dark, but he could make out the sleeping forms of his two female companions. 'I must have slept the day away,' he thought. His stomach growled loudly, demanding that it be fed. Slowly, as to not disturb the girls, he got off of the bed. He felt his way to the door, groaning when he found that it was locked. "Dammit," he cursed as his stomach grumbled once more. "Open, you stupid door."
Suddenly, white sparks flew from the doorknob, and the door opened slightly. Vyse blinked, but decided to make use of the situation. He opened the door a bit more and looked around. When he spotted no one, he opened the door all the way and stepped out into the hall. He chose a random direction and followed it, hoping that he would find the galley somewhere. The growling of his stomach grew louder and occurred much more frequently as he wandered the halls. "Damn... where is the kitchen, for crying out loud?"
"Hey!"
Vyse turned around, spotting one of the guards that worked on the ship. The guard hurriedly tried to make his way towards him. "Crap," Vyse muttered as he began to run in the opposite direction.
"Hey, stop!" The guard was now sprinting towards Vyse. "How'd you get out of your room? Did you hear me? Stop this instant!"
But that only encouraged Vyse to run faster. 'This has just been my lucky day,' he thought bitterly. 'Being kidnapped, having something strange happen to me when I was unawares, and now, I can't even get a bite to eat.'
He was tackled at an intersection by four other guards. Vyse vainly struggled as the guards weighed him down, bounding his arms and legs with a type of rope that felt as if it was burning off his flesh. He cried out in pain, causing the guards to back away quickly. Vyse looked down at his wrists, trying not to cry out again. The rope was silver, with little specks of gold intertwined in it. 'What the hell is this?' he thought, biting his lip in pain. Somewhere in the background he heard the guards conversing.
"How did he escape?"
"Didn't we lock the door?"
"I know it was locked! I did it myself!"
"A better question is why didn't he stop when we commanded?"
"You're right. Didn't the captain say that he would obey our orders?"
"Well, it was the first experiment we did. There are obviously some glitches we haven't worked out yet."
"That's not good. With this guy on the loose, our whole lives are in danger."
"Our lives? That's not the worst of it. Let's just say he could probably destroy a good sized island."
"Think what would happen if all six of our experiments work out?"
"The captain is one suave man."
Someone kicked Vyse in the side- hard. 'Great,' he thought. 'I'll just add broken bones to the bruise on the back of my neck and the new burns that I'm going to have.' "Worthless brat," the guard said. "Shouldn't someone go get the captain?"
"No need. I am here."
Vyse craned his neck up, glancing at the man that had appeared. He couldn't see the man's face, but he recognized that black armor and cape. Vyse struggled to move his hands apart, but only resulted in burning himself more. The man looked down at Vyse at his cry of pain. "How did you get out of your room?"
"Why?" Vyse retorted out of clenched teeth. "Why should you care? And what's this experiment you where talking about? What have you done to me?"
The man ignored his comments, turning to one of the guards. "Go inspect the door. My guess is that he broke the lock. And make sure that those two girls haven't woken up. I don't want them escaping, either."
"Hey, jerk! Answer my question!"
The man looked back down at him. "Your name is Vyse, correct?"
"Answer my questions first!"
The man nodded. "So then, Vyse. What were you trying to accomplish by leaving your room? Escaping? Jumping overboard? Tell me when I'm getting warm."
Vyse growled. It looked like that only way he could get information out of this guy was to succumb to his wants. "I was trying to find my way to the galley. How about we strike a deal? You untie me and give me something to eat, and I'll answer all of your questions."
The man chuckled. "I don't see any harm in it. But know this: Those ropes that are tied on your ankles and wrists? All of my men carry whips made out of that same exact material. Should you even blink the wrong way, I'll have them whip you until your whole body is covered in burns. Are we clear?"
Vyse nodded. "Just get me out of these things."
At a glance from the man in black armor, one of the guards came forward, cutting the ropes that bound Vyse with a small pocket knife. Vyse looked sullenly at the burn marks that were left. They still throbbed slightly, and he thought he could see some blood well up at different spots. Sighing, he got to his feet, wincing at the sharp pain that spread through his ankles.
The man took no notice of Vyse's pain, but instead walked right past him. "We'll go to my cabin, and one of my servants will prepare a meal for you. Then we can talk turkey."
Vyse looked down at the ground. "Whatever" 'What in six moons have I gotten myself into?'
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And... cut! That's it. Pretty good, eh? It took me so long just to finish it... I feel good about it. But something tells me the plot is a little... strange... but hey, I don't care! Like I said, I may end up deleting this. But I still do not care!
I had to play the game again just so that I could remember the basics of this story (actually it's on right now in front of me. Just defeated that blue Gigas.... Bluehiem? Yeah, that sounds right.) It's been so long since I played. I was really worried that I would get some of the names messed up, but I don't really care right now. I guess I'm just lazy like that.
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