Swordian speech

Thinking

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I wonder if Marian can see the snow right now…

Phandaria… It was, of course, snowing and the group was wandering about looking for something to do.

"Leon? Hey, SLACKER!" Rutee yelled at me from a little ways away.

She snapped me out of my thoughts. "HEY! I do more than you do in a day than you could ever hope to do in a year!" I rushed up to give her a piece of my mind. "And, furthermore--"

"Rutee, aren't you cold in that outfit?" Philia asked completely out of the blue.

Rutee looked down at her clothes. "You know, I hadn't thought about until now…" she started to shiver, "thanks a lot, Philia!"

"I-I'm sorry!" Philia stammered.

Aren't the other girls cold, too? Well, other than Philia… Maybe they just learn to deal with it… Hm… What would Philia look like in that type of outfit? Her hair down… glasses off…

Must think of something else! Something repulsive! Hm… Stahn's hair! Ew… (WHAT? It's funky!)

After that little… "adventure"… we continued to try and find something to do…

Suddenly, Stahn reached down and grabbed some snow. He packed it into a ball and, when Rutee wasn't looking, pelted it at her!

Audible gasp! … I mean, HA!

Everyone was quiet. Rutee brushed off the snow. We all watched her as she bent down, grabbed some snow, and threw it at Stahn.

Next thing I knew, it was an "every man for himself" type of snowball fight. My kind of snowball fight. Well, any my kind of fightfor any fight, really…

I threw all I could at Rutee and Stahn. Rutee was trying to get me back, but I was attacking in rapid succession so she didn't have a chance to. Stahn just threw one at everybody. Oh, he's so thoughtful! Blech! Chelsea used Garr as a fort as she threw her collection of snowballs. Philia tried to hit anyone she could, but was unsuccessful. Johnny was using his mandolin as a bat to pack some extra force into his snowballs. Mary was trying to hit Chelsea, since she had a fort and that is CHEATING!

Stahn hurled a snowball at Philia. She reacted by covered her head with her hands and squeaked a bit. But, right when the snowball was about to hit her, I rushed up, caught the snowball, turned around, and flung it at Stahn. (Sorry, I just HAD to put that in! XD Sakakiiiii!)

Wait, why did I do that?

Stahn fell to the ground. It seems that I had packed more force into that snowball than I knew… "Ow…"

"Wow, that was cool!" Chelsea squealed.

Rutee looked at Stahn for a while, then shouted "SNOW FORTS! SEPRATE TEAMS! Pick yer teams, guys!"

"No ice magic, though, Rutee!" Philia pointed out

"Yeah, yeah, alright!"

"Who're the captains?" Mary asked.

"Hm… Leon and Stahn!" Rutee decided.

Stahn got up from the snow after hearing his name. "Ok! I call… Rutee! And--!"

"My pick next! That's how it goes!"

Or so I hear, I never really played with many other children…

"I pick… uh…"

I looked over at Philia. She was looking at me with wide eyes.

I bet she's never been picked first for sports before…

"Philia! You're with me!" I pointed at her then over to the spot next to me.

"Yeah, ok!" She trotted over to my side.

"My turn!" Stahn said happily. "Hm… how about… Garr!"

Garr walked over to Stahn. Chelsea looked abandoned. "GARRRR! DON'T LEAVE ME!"

Garr looked pleased to be away from Chelsea.

I can't blame him. At least I don't have any fangirls… (Riiiiiiiiiiight, you keep on thinking' that, three-names-boy!)

"Alright, my turn then!" I looked around. "Hm… Mary!"

Garr looked disappointed.

Mary was looking up at the sky. It seemed like something was troubling her…

Meh, she always gets like this around snow…

"MARY!" I yelled slightly louder.

"Hmm? Yes, what is it?"

I sighed. "You're on my team!"

"Team?"

"Yes, my team. For the snowball fight."

She had a blank look on her face for quite some time, but finally sheknew what I was talking about. "Ok!"

Stahn's turn. " I pick… Johnny!"

Chelsea was furious. "NO! YOU PICK ME NEXT! I STAY WITH GARR!"

"But I want Johnny…"

"Yes, my mandolin is worth more than your bow!" Johnny taunted.

"Uh, my turn!" I jumped in before Chelsea could go ballistic. "Well… Chelsea is the only one left, so… Chelsea."

Chelsea looked close to tears. "But, but!"

I tuned her out. I was already trying to formulate a strategy.

Chelsea has good aim, Mary is strong, and Philia… well… Philia can make the snowballs… Wait, how did I end up with only girls? (A very good question, three-names, but it just happened that way! Seriously!)

"Chelsea!" I barked since she was still complaining. "Be quiet and help Philia and Mary build the fort!" Not that they were actually building the fort. Noooo, they weren't doing ANYTHING productive.

"Phooey!" But, she did as she was told.

We eventually had the fort built and it was… um…

Well, it'll support any attack from those fools!

"Are you guys done yet!" Rutee demanded.

"Yes, but the question is, are you done yet!" I retorted.

"What the heck are they doing, Chaltier?"

"I don't know, Clemente, but be quiet."

"Don't you tell me to be quiet!"

"Be quiet, Clemente." Philia chided.

"Yes, mistress…"

"Five…" Stahn started to count down.

Philia's glasses flashed as she pushed them up her nose.

"Four…"

Chelsea eyed the competition and chose her target.

"Three…"

Mary's grip tightened around a snowball.

"Two…"

I pushed my hair back and locked on to my victim.

"Um… one? It is one, right?"

The battle started.

Mary and Chelsea where unrelentingly hurling their snowballs at their chosen marks. Philia continued to make snowballs and, when there was a surplus, would try her hand at throwing them. She only made one hit… My prey was Rutee, Mary's was Garr, and Chelsea's was Stahn. We had picked our targets on our own.

On the other team Stahn was pelting snowballs in our general direction. He never has such great aim. Rutee, on the other hand, had pretty good aim and made several hits. Garr gave snowballs to Johnny sohe could use his mandolin to hit them harder.

That's cheating!

Anyway, after many spectators had gathered and the snow around us was, surprisingly, diminished we called a truce.

Both sides were beaten pretty badly. Well… soaking wet, cold, and tired…

"Let's rest for a minute…" Chelsea panted.

The spectators wandered off in a disappointed huff.

"Let's go to a restaurant!" Philia proposed.

"Food? And warmth?" Stahn was more than happy to pay good gald for that!

"Let's go!" (ARGH! HAROLD SPEAK!)Mary yelled and ran towards the nearest building.

"Achoo!" Rutee sneezed.

We all stared. Even Mary paused as she advanced to civilization.

"Are you ok, Rutee? You sick?" Stahnwas concerned.

"I'm fine!" Rutee looked stubborn until she sneezed again.

"Here, let me take you to the Inn to get some rest and we can meet up with the group later!" Stahn grabbed her arm and led her towards the Inn.

"We can go now, right?" Mary shouted from fifteen feet away.

"…yes…" I replied.

We started looking around for a restaurant. As I was looking I spotted something in a shop window.

It looks like a skull of a lizard or a bird… with… feathers coming out of it? Huh… How odd…

"Leon! What are you doing? Come on!" Philia yelled at me.

"Hm? Oh, yes, of course! Coming!" I ran up next her and we continued to look for place to eat.

"Hey, this place looks good!" Johnny declared, "Misc. Restaurant Number 79!"

"… Catchy name" Garr said.

We went inside. A sever lady (whatever they're called) came and showed us our table. After a minute or so our waitress came to the table.

"Hello! I am Meredy!" the purple haired woman spoke slowly.

She must be a foreigner…

"What would you like to drink?" She asked.

"Milk." Philia answered.

"Water." I replied not really caring.

"A vanilla milkshake!" Mary said enthusiastically.

"Water…" Garr looked uncertain.

"Chocolate milk!" Chelsea exclaimed.

"Coffee." Johnny said all mature-like.

Meredy wrote our orders down and then repeated them. "You bet!" and with that, she wandered off.

Chelsea asked, "what was that thing on her forehead?"

"Fashion accessory?" Garr guessed.

"Maybe something religious?" Philia contributed.

"Her skin was dark, too… She must not be from around here." Johnny pointed out.

"Yeah, she seemed to have trouble speaking…" I added.

"Hm…" we collectively muttered.

She came back with our drinks. "Here you are! Have you decided what you'll have to eat?"

We gave our orders and she rushed away to fill them.

There weren't many people in this restaurant, so we soon saw our lunch coming towards us, but it was a different waitress.

"I'm sorry, Meredy left early! I'll be yourwaitress from now on. My name's Farah!" A girl with short green hair said. "Here you are! Your orders!" She handed us our food while she spoke. When she left we started talking about her.

"--not a foreigner--"

"--was pretty--"

"--had a ribbon around--"

"--wonder why--"

"--relative of yours, Philia?"

Hm… she does look like Philia somewhat.

"Can we just be quiet and EAT?" I growled.

Apparently, we couldn't, so I had to deal with their stupid questions the whole time.

When she passed by again, we were almost done with our meal.

"Did you like everything?"

"Yes, it was very nice!" Philia beamed

"Can we have the check, please?" I needed to know how much this was going to cost.

"Yeah! No problem!" she said and she ambled over to the counter. I noticed that she stpped to talk to a red haired cook. (RID!)

"Who's gonna pay the bill?" Mary asked randomly.

All eyes were suddenly on me.

"Me? Just because my father has a lot of money, doesn't mean that I do!" I protested.

"Yes it does! I mean, I have a lot of money!" Johnny proclaimed.

"You pay it then!"

"Me?"

"Why don't you just split the bill?" Philia tried to help.

"I think that the guys should pay! Split it three ways, you know…" Chelsea added.

"Why shouldn't the girls pay any?" Garr asked.

"Because… you're taking us out to lunch! Girls don't take guys out to lunch!"

It was quiet.

I sighed, "fine…"

"Yeah, alright!" Johnny agreed.

"Sure…" Garr submitted.

"Here's your check!" Farah popped up suddenly.

"Ah… yes, thank you." I looked at it.

Meh, not that much.

Afterwe had figured out how we could split the amount into three evenly we paid the bill and walked outside.

"Now what?" Johnny was bored, apparently. That's just like him.

"Let's go to the Inn and see how Stahn and Rutee are doing!" Mary proposed.

There was a murmur of agreement and we headed towards the Inn. Mary at the front, Chelsea and Garr next, then Johnny, then Philia and me.

"Wait…" Mary started, "which Inn?" Mary turned to look at the rest of us.

"I didn't think to ask when they left..." Garr admitted.

Damn…

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P84: I hoped you liked it! I'm not very good with angst and stuff like that so, I didn't really get into Three-names' character… oh well…

Three-names: What's this "three-names" business? I'm Leon!

P84: But, you're also Emilio and Judas!

Three-names: Judas?

P84: You'll get it later! The you'll look back and be glad that Kyle didn't name you Timmy!

Three-names: Yeah… whatever…

P84: HA! I PUT MEREDY IN THERE! I can imagine her to be a waitress for whatever reason… I think she's like doing that… Farah, too… you see I played ToE before I played ToD.

Meredy: You bet!

P84: I'm very glad that you people like my fanfic. Well, I only know that Shai-shai likes it, but no one said that they hated it! Yay!