Entry 4-Excitement Quickly Fades
It seems I was really bitter about my wedding yesterday. Weddings don't suck…its just the planning. I'm so excited! It seems the days just fly by now…
Phaidra woke me early the next day. We'd be traveling a lot by foot, which takes a while, especially with four people. So an early start made sense. I stretched and rolled up my sleeping bag. I took a quick shower and put up my hair in a ponytail…and I also remember wearing make-up, which confused me. I never did, but today just seemed special.
I walked down the stairs and grabbed a piece of toast since I was already running late. "Ready to go?" I asked Colette, who was bobbing on the balls of her feet, seeming excited; and Kratos who was leaning on the door with his arms folded, looking serious as always. They nodded and so we left to find Raine…who was sitting outside on the front stoop.
"I-I was too excited to wait," she said blushing. What a group we were.
The thirty minutes went by without a hitch, but soon after my feet hurt. "Are we breaking soon?" I asked.
Kratos turned around to face me. "Breaking? We're not 'breaking.'"
"We should. We don't want to wear out Colette," Raine said as she looked at her.
"I-I'm fine," but her face was red from the sun overhead.
"Triet's nearby," I said, looking at the map Phaidra gave me before leaving.
Another ten minutes went by and we arrived at the Triet, breathless. I was in a new town…it felt so surreal. The culture was different, the adobe houses and turbans…
"An i-inn!" Colette cried out and walked as fast as she could to it. Kratos simply rolled his eyes.
"I'm going to go look around," he said and turned around.
"I'll go get food…" I said. I knew from the beginning that Raine wanted me to come as a cook and to read the map. They were my specialties.
After buying enough food to feed us spaghetti that night I headed back to the inn. Colette was asleep, Raine was studying some kind of artifact and Kratos wasn't back yet.
"So we're not leaving anytime soon? I wanted to see this seal thing," I said as I collapsed on a nearby bed.
"Well Kratos, Colette and I am going to fight it later. You'll see it."
"Why do you guys get to fight and I don't?" I asked, even though I had a gut feeling from the beginning that I wasn't going to participate in the fighting.
"I know spells, Kratos has fought all his life and Colette has to, to prove she's cut out to be an angel. You're here to study and guide us around…no offense."
I sighed and looked up. I knew how utterly helpless I'd feel just watching them. At that time there was a brief tap on the door. Raine stood and opened it to find…
"Noishe? What are you doing here?" I asked and sat up to pet him.
"Raine! Parker! Lloyd was captured by desians!" Genis came gasping up the stairs of the little inn.
"Do you know where he is exactly?" I asked as Raine awoke Colette. Genis nodded and pulled on my hand to go.
As we exited Kratos was conveniently waiting outside, looking at passers by.
"We have to go. I'll explain on the way," he said as he pushed Kratos along.
After what seemed hours of navigating through the desian's hideout we found a well-furnished room, very different from the factory-like rooms before.
"I see the resemblance," a man said, who was confronting Lloyd. His hair was blue and pulled back in a loose ponytail. Lloyd seemed very surprised to see us come.
The man left, leaving 'Botta,' as he called him. Soon Lloyd, Colette, Genis and Kratos attacked him. And I did feel very helpless. I just sat down nearby occasionally saying 'Good shot Colette' or 'Excellent spell, Genis!' But after that comment I realized Raine wasn't with us. Had she gotten lost along the way and we didn't notice?
"I underestimated you," Botta whispered as he put down his weapon. He walked through a door and left. Very abrupt.
Raine walked in afterwards.
"Where were you!" I asked, relieved.
"Examining their technology. Its amazing!" she exclaimed and picked up Botta's staff.
We explained to Lloyd about Genis and Noishe's rescue plan. We gathered our things and simply walked out. No other desian's bothered us. It seemed the blue-haired man called them off. We headed back to the inn for the night.
"So Lloyd and Genis are staying with us?" I asked Raine hopefully.
"We can't just send them back," she said simply as she studied our newly acquired monster list. "You best study this tonight. Think of it as homework and try to fill in the blanks."
I took the list and sighed. Lloyd came in later with the exsphere and key crest for Raine. I was slightly jealous, but I knew I wouldn't make a good fighter. I couldn't stand hurting people, even enemies.
Raine took it graciously and I left to return to my room with Colette. She was once again sleeping. She was so tired lately, I felt sorry for her. She was so young for this big of a quest. I yawned and tucked myself into bed. My 'research' started tomorrow…
Entry 5-Let Me Know That I've Done WrongI'm rushing this entry so forgive the handwriting. My fiancée doesn't approve of me writing this story. He says it wastes too much valuable time…
I examined the map early next morning, finding the best way to go to our first seal. Colette yawned and stretched, reminding me of my baby sister. I hadn't thought of her at all yet! It was surprising me that after only one day she was already slipping from my main focus. I had to keep my priorities straight.
Colette and Genis rode on Noishe on the way to the seal.
"I'm sick of this desert!" Lloyd exclaimed as we walked up to the ruin.
Raine ran up to it as soon as she saw this was our destination. She went on and on about how this rock was made in the great Kharlan War. Scary thing is that I understood everything she said.
"…Colette, put your hand on this," Raine, almost commandingly, pointed toward the 'oracle stone' as she called it.
Colette put her hand on the stone and an underground passageway appeared. I could see Raine controlling herself from jumping down those stairs and examining everything in sight.
Eventually I was soon ignoring moans of battle wounds of my colleges and concentrating on the monster's battle tactics as we were down there.
After the seal was broken, with ease mind you, Colette was faced with her father, again as Lloyd told me. Colette told some complicated prayers that I don't remember to this day and she was given wings. Wings! It was so amazing. All these ideas about angels…but they really do have wings.
We walked out of the ruin, talking of our next destination: Palmacosta. Now I was crossing the ocean! I'd never even seen the ocean before. But our hopes of completing the Osso Trail that day was shattered once Colette collapsed. Raine suggested hospitalizing her, whom I agreed with, but Kratos disagreed.
"It's part of the trial of her becoming an angel. Let's just rest for the night."
As we gathered around the fire and ate, Colette was feeling a bit better, but a little irritable which wasn't like her. She requested being left alone, which we did. Soon everyone was asleep, but the thought of the ocean kept me awake. Kratos was night watch so he was awake as well.
"What's the ocean like?" I asked him.
"It's just a big puddle of water," he said bluntly.
"It has to be more poetic than that. Does it shine? Is it clear blue and can you see fish swimming amongst reefs without a care in the world?" I asked dreamily.
He looked up from his sword, which he was shining. "Not everything is like you fantasize it to be. Believe me."
"Well you never let yourself fantasize about anything I'm guessing with that attitude," I said a little heated.
"I don't think of those things so I won't be disappointed…but I should let you learn that on your own. Forgive me."
"You say that a lot. Perhaps you should think before you talk. Then you won't have to apologize for your meanness."
"I'm not being mean, just truthful," he sighed and stood to put his sword into his sword cane.
I looked at him strangely. He was so negative for being so young. What made him that way? I got up and did something so weird and unlike me I still don't know why I did it. I hugged him.
He just stood there in shock, not doing anything. I pulled away and looked at his startled face. I smiled a little, seeing the usual look of despair in his eyes vanish for a minute. I walked to my sleeping bag, an unnoticeable spring in my step.
"Next time I say something 'mean' warn me so I won't have to go through that again," I turned around and saw him smile a little, joking.
