Yep, you got that right! Chapter 7 is up and running! Hopefully some of you people out there are still reading this story...anyway, this chapter is being randomly dedicated to gamegirl07 for reviewing almost every chapter of this story. Thank you! If you want a twist in your story, or are a Ziggy fan, she's got the right stories for ya. She's the only Ziggy fan I know. lol. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter gamegirl07!
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN XENOSAGA! ...One day...I will find out that I was related to someone who owned Xenosaga and inherit it from them...okay, so maybe that will never happen, but I wish it would.
Chapter 7
"Professor! I want you to get them out of there immediately! It's been way too long and…well, I'm starting to get worried." Shion requested, only getting a shrug from the Professor.
"Weren't you all ready worried Shion?" He retorted, receiving an evil glare from Shion.
"Get them out of there now…or else I'll…"
"Shion, calm down! It'll be all right." Chaos said laying his hand on her shoulder, restricting her from unleashing her wrath on the old man.
"Professor…I think we have a problem…" Assistant Scott retrieved the attention of the whole room. The Professor turned to him.
"W-what do you mean?"
"Umm…well, if we don't get them out soon, then…"
"Then?" Shion butted in.
"Then they'll be stuck in the time period they're in. The longest one can stay in the future or past or where ever they're going, is about four months. It's been about three months now, so we need to get them out soon." Shion's expression changed to worry in seconds. Not only hers, but chaos, Jin and Ziggy also became worried.
"Then…that means…"
"We only have a few more weeks…" Chaos finished.
"Well, what are we waiting for! Get them out of there!" Assistant Scott exclaimed as the Professor went to the control board and began the process. Suddenly, a loud spark sound came and the power flickered. "Umm…Professor?"
"Ah! We won't be able to get them out unless we fix this in time! Oh, shoot…" The Professor immediately went to a closet that opened and some mechanical things were stuffed in there. Everything immediately fell on top of him and buried him under loads of metal.
"Professor!" Assistant Scott rushed to his side and began unburying him. When the Professor was uncovered, he was sitting down and searching through a red tool box. "Are you okay?"
"Of coarse I am. I'm going to have to fix it the old fashioned way." He immediately pulled out a wrench and a screwdriver and some nuts and bolts. Assistant Scott sighed.
"Will it be done on time?"
"Maybe…it might cut it close…but I think we can manage…but I'm going to need all of you to help me." Everyone nodded, even KOS-MOS who unleashed a drill from her arm.
While everyone was getting prepared, Shion walked up to Assistant Scott. "Do they know about this?" She asked worriedly. Assistant Scott looked up at her and then shamefully down at his feet.
"I'm…afraid not…" Shion sighed and continued getting ready for the 'big operation'.
Jr. and MOMO had retraced their steps to the flower field. MOMO immediately began picking flowers and then constructed them into a headband. She placed it on her head and laughed.
"Does it look okay?" She giggled. Jr. laughed slightly and then nodded.
"Yeah, sure does." MOMO looked at him and then closed her eyes and smiled. Then she went off and picked more flowers, making them into a bouquet. She sniffed them and was transferred back to the Elsa in her memories. When she opened her eyes, she saw a patch of orange flowers.
Jr. wasn't sneezing as bad as he was when they first founded the huge playground of color and was able to tolerate it. He watched as MOMO lied down in the middle of a small hill that was there. He eventually decided that he would go and join her.
"It's so much fun here!" MOMO said as she noticed he arrived.
"It looks like it. I'm glad you're having fun." Jr. replied. She sat up and looked up at him.
"I think that this was the best place in this whole trip." Jr. sat down next to her and nodded. "Maybe we should visit this place everyday…" MOMO added. "Let's just hope…that those people don't find out about this place, even thought that might get hard because of it's size, but I don't want them to damage it in anyway."
"Sure. We'll make it our secret camp, how about that?" Jr. suggested. MOMO inhaled in excitement and nodded hastily.
"That sounds wonderful!"
"All right then, it's done. We'll check in on it every once in a while." MOMO laid back down, causing some flowers to fly up from their resting place.
"Come on Jr. You should lie down too, it's very relaxing." Jr. sighed and did what she said. "You know…I wonder what this place looks like at night." MOMO said as she dazed off into the blue skies. Jr. remained silent and watched as the white and unthreatening clouds hovered above. 'I'm glad we found this place. It really makes her happy…' He thought to himself. They stayed there for a while before deciding to leave again before the Nanman showed up.
"It's boring in the jungle…" Jr. said randomly as they walked through sunlit paths. MOMO nodded in agreement. "Do you still have the keychain?"
MOMO searched her pockets and then realized that she had forgotten it way back when Jr. broke down. "Ummm….I-I think I left it somewhere!"
"Are you…looking for this?" A strong feminine voice rang out behind them. MOMO's head turned quickly, expecting to see Zhu Rong standing there throwing the keychain up and down in her hand. Jr. gulped as he thought the same thing. He eventually turned around to see a different woman standing in front of him.
She had short brown hair with a red bandana, a shirt with a type of Poinsettia flower on it and circular weapons carried in her hands. She was holding both weapons with one hand and in the other the keychain was hanging from her forefinger. Much like Zhu Rong and her men, she had a few soldiers clad in armor standing behind her.
Jr. and MOMO didn't answer in fear that she was like the demented lady from the Nanman tribe. The woman cocked her head to the left and sighed.
"I'm not going to do anything to you, so don't worry about that. I asked if you were looking for this thing here."
"Um…yeah." MOMO answered shyly. The woman walked up to her, but she backed away slightly. Jr. jumped in front of her protectively and the woman leaned back a little bit.
"Don't come near her, you hear me?" Jr. shouted.
"Listen, I'm not here to hurt anyone. I just wanted to give this back to you." She lifted the keychain up to his face. He blinked a few times and then relaxed a little bit. "I'm guessing you met up with the Nanman tribe?" the woman asked sweetly.
"Yeah."
"No wonder why you're so protective and she's so shy. We're not with them; we're actually fighting against them." MOMO reproached the group, hoping to join in the conversation. "Oh, and here. You can have this back."
"Thank you…ummm…"
"Sun Shang Xiang." The woman introduced.
"What the heck is with all the weird names in this place?" Jr. said after the introduction.
"What do you mean by that?" She retorted. "If our names are so weird then let me know yours."
"I'm Jr. and she's MOMO." He introduced. Sun Shang Xiang tilted her head and placed her hand on her chin.
"And you thought our names were weird." Jr. looked at her as she laughed for a second. MOMO tilted her head in confusion. After Sun Shang Xiang stopped laughing, she looked over at MOMO.
"Well, have you guys been living in this jungle?" She asked, tilting her own head. MOMO nodded in agreement. "Hmm…I see…well, why don't you come with me? We can give you some food at the palace of Wu." Jr.'s expression changed to happiness when she said food.
"All right! Food!" He exclaimed.
"Shelter too!" MOMO added. Shang Xiang laughed a little bit and then led them to the Wu palace.
On their way to the palace, they met up with a few other men. Shang Xiang stopped to talk to them and introduced them to her newcomers she found wandering in the forest.
"Hey Gan Ning!" She greeted as a muscular pirate looking man walked over with a group of troops behind him. He grunted his greeting but then looked at Jr. and MOMO.
"Who are they?" He said in his gruffy voice. "And where in the world did they come from?"
"Well, this little girl is MOMO and the little boy is Jr." Shang Xiang introduced without noticing the glare she got from Jr. for calling him a little boy. Gan Ning looked at them with an odd look. Then he looked back up at Shang Xiang, shook his head and sighed.
"You truly find the strangest people…or…uh, well, kids in this situation." Gan Ning walked off, his troops following close behind. Shang Xiang giggled and then continued walking MOMO and Jr. to the palace.
After a few hours of walking, they had arrived. Jr. looked at the castle in front of him and examined it. MOMO watched as troops came in and out of the doors along with men on horses.
"Are you two going to just stand there or what? Hurry up!" Shang Xiang said as she continued toward the palace. Jr. and MOMO nodded and then caught up to her.
They entered and everything was collaborated of different swords, halberds, spears and any other weapon you could imagine. Jr. didn't care because he didn't see any type of guns, but MOMO was bespectacled by the different jewels that were placed in the handles of swords or in the blades.
"This is the weapon hall. Don't touch anything if you know what's good for you. Right now I have to present you to my father, Sun Jian and maybe my brothers would like to meet you too! I could tell everyone about you!" She continued on and on, not knowing that only MOMO was listening.
They past through a few more hallways, running into a group of men before getting to a highly decorated room.
"Here we are. Father? Where is he?" Shang Xiang began to search the room for Sun Jian. While she was looking, Jr. looked around and noticed a vase with a bunch of golden designs.
"What's the point in having a vase if there aren't any flowers in it?" He asked, picking it up care-free. He lifted it higher to where he could see the vase from the bottom view. Suddenly Shang Xiang shrieked as her father caught her in a headlock from behind. MOMO began to laugh but soon everything was interrupted by a crashing sound.
"What was that?" Sun Jian asked as he turned to MOMO. She was frantically looking around, noticing that Jr. wasn't anywhere near where they were. Shang Xiang was released and she looked to the corner of the room.
"Uh….oops…? Heh…" Jr. said as he looked down at his feet. When Shang Xiang shrieked, it had startled him and he dropped the golden vase that he was looking at. MOMO sighed heavily while Shang Xiang looked at her father nervously.
"I-I-I forgot to introduce you to these two! The girl's name is MOMO and the other one's Jr.! Well, I have to go now so I'll talk to you later!" Shang Xiang nervously ran to the door by MOMO. "Umm…have fun! Bye!" She said aside to MOMO and then left immediately.
So? Whatcha think? I think it was okay, but I can't wait until the later chapters! This was another funny chapter at the end...man, why do I put all of the funny parts at the end? Then again, I'm sure there is a lot of funny parts, for I am a comedian...or wish to be. That would be my side job though, cause I would really want to be a game designer or a veterinarian...but yeah. I shouldn't be posting that stuff here...it should be on my bio...wow...I'm really strange. Hope you all liked it, especially you gamegirl07! -Jr The Red Dragon-