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My sister played SO3 and I just loved Fayt's and Albel's ending! It was so funny!
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Nyalbel
Chapter five: Kitty of the forest
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"Ahhh! My… pant… body… pant" the Noble man panted as it staggered along the small path in the dark forest. Its body was battered and ripped from running into trees and stumbling over stones in panic.
Albel was tired. No scratch that. He was exhausted. His big black ears were hanging and he had lost all feeling in his tail. "Nyaaaa…." he wheezed out before dropping to the ground, to tired to torture the poor monster any further.
The Noble man looked back at the cat and smiled… just before vanishing into the air, to battered to survive any longer.
Albel opened his ruby red eyes and looked around. Ok, no more monsters, he would be safe to get some rest here.
AUUUUUOOOOOOOOO!
Guess not. Sitting up he watched as a wolf like monster came into the small clearing he were in. After a few more creatures came into the clearing, their golden eyes stuck on the cat before them.
The biggest of the group moved in closer and sniffed the air between them. Opening its wide jaws it let out a loud growl. The other monsters licked their muzzles and moved in closer to the cat. Dinner was served. On the menu? La scared kitty cat, fur and all.
Albel's left ear twitched. He wasn't scared by their display. Looking at his right paw he inspected his small claws. They were nothing compared to theirs, but who was he to pass up the chance to teach these foul animals a lesson?
The leader wolf-monster didn't know what hit it. All it saw was small ball of fur head straight at it.
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Cliff grumbled as the branch Fayt had pushed out from his way smacked him straight in the face. "How far could they have gone? I mean, a Noble man isn't that fast" he said and helped Peppita when the little girl got tangled up in a small bush.
Fayt looked back and smiled. "Well you usually they don't have Albel stuck on them. Haven't you noticed that monsters run away a lot faster when Albel is after them?" he asked and came into a clearing. There was only a small amount of light that managed to break through the darkness in the woods. The blue haired teen looked around, hoping to spot the small cat.
Cliff huffed when he finally managed to get to the clearing. He helped Peppita out and stretched his back. "Man! It is a miracle that the fiend managed to get here so fast when it has taken us about twenty minutes"
Peppita looked up at Cliff, confusion written on her face. "What do you mean?"
Cliff looked back to where they had come. "It took us twenty minutes to walk fifteen meters that's what"
Peppita looked back and then giggled. "I hope that Mirage, Sophia and Nel are ok. Do you think it was safe to leave them by the wagon, Fayt? What if they are attacked again?"
Fayt shook his head and smiled. "I don't think we have to worry. Mirage and Nel can fight on their own, besides, the monsters around here aren't that strong. If they do get wounded Sophia knows how to cure them"
Peppita nodded. "You're right! I managed to defeat two on my own without getting hit once but Cliff defeated only one and got hit twice" she said and pointed to said blond.
"Hey, hey! I was worrying for the wagon so I lost my concentration, ok?" Cliff defended himself.
Fayt watched the two and sighed. They didn't have time to discuss that! They had to find Albel and move on!
"WHIMPER, WHIMPER!"
"What was tha…!" Fayt exclaimed just as a pack of wolf-monsters burst out from the forest and almost ran over them. Fayt landed on his bum and watched as the monsters ran away from the clearing with their scab eaten tails between their legs.
Cliff pulled Peppita to the side and left the monsters pass them. "Whoa! What's with them? It almost looked like they were scared!"
Peppita pulled herself from Cliff's arms. "They SOUNDED scared! Didn't you hear them whimper or are you just turning old?" she asked.
Cliff fumed. "Of course I heard them but I saw them also!"
"Oh, you don't say!"
"You guys we don't have time! Whatever scared them must be around here somewhere! We have to find Albel quick before he is killed!" Fayt cut into the argument.
Peppita bowed her head and drew a circle on the ground with her left foot. "I'm sorry, Fayt"
Cliff muttered something before looking at the blue haired boy. "Are you sure that the thing that scared them isn't Albel himself?" he asked.
Fay rolled his eyes. "Of course it can't be him. Cats and dogs don't like each other and dogs can easily beat up a cat. Especially a pack of them" he said and looked into the black forest. "I hope we find him in one piece"
Cliff sighed. "I bet everything I own that it was Albel who did that" he said.
Fayt frowned and took a step forwards the forest. "I told you that…? What?" he stopped himself as a small branch landed before his feet, almost smacking him in the head on the way down. He looked up and tried to see what it had been who had made the branch fall. Sea blue eyes scanned the trees above him, trying to locate the intruder. A small movement caught his eye.
"Nya"
"Albel!" Fayt called. He was so happy that Albel was alright after all. Did this mean that…?
"Alright! I was right! It was Albel!" Cliff said and punched a fist into the air. "Who's the man? Hu, who's the man?"
"Not you at least" Peppita said and clapped her hand together. "There you are Nyalbel! We were worried about you!"
Cliff threw the girl a glare but let the comment slip, just this once. "Come on. Let's get him down and head back. We have a schedule to keep" he said and turned back to where they came. "The monsters opened up a better path for us so getting back should be quick and easy"
Fayt nodded once. "You're right. Albel, come on down. We must go" he called up to the cat.
Albel looked down at the trio below him. Get down? Did he mean jump? Ha! No chance! Sitting down on the rotten branch he looked down while rubbing his left front paw behind his ear. If they wanted him, they had to come and get him.
Cliff placed his hands on his hips and frowned up at the neko. "I don't think he can come down"
Fayt looked at the blond. "If he got up there he can come down the same way. Come on, Albel! We must go!"
Albel yawned and lied down. He hadn't gotten a chance to rest after the Nobel man incident and the wolf-monsters had shown up… let just say the kitty was tired.
Fayt noted that the cat didn't make a move to come down on his own. "What shall we do? We can't climb up there like he did and I can't see a way to reach him from the ground" he said and looked at the other two.
Peppita rubbed her chin. Tilting her head to the side she smiled. "Hey, Nyalbel!" she called up to the cat.
Albel wrinkled his nose looking down at the girl. He was a bit irritated. Why couldn't they just let him be? "Nya?" he called back.
Peppita closed her eyes and smiled even wider when she got a response. "If you stay up there you'll be all alone when we go. Don't you want to follow us to Airyglyph? What do you say, Nyalbel?" she asked sweetly.
Albel's ears perked up on the familiar name. Airyglyph? Now why did that name make his little heart beat faster? The neko stood up and looked down once more before trotting off.
Fayt watched as the cat disappeared into the forest. Sighing he turned back to the two behind him. "Let's go back to the wagon. We can take a quick break and have lunch. Albel will come if he feels like it" he said and moved to the newly created path the wolf-monsters had made in their hurry to get away from Albel.
Cliff rubbed the back of his head as he looked at the blue haired boy. "Are you sure that we can leave him here? I mean…"
Fayt smiled at Cliff and walked down the path. "Believe me, he will come" he said simply and vanished in the direction of the wagon.
Peppita skipped behind him and looked over her shoulder at Cliff. "If you are worried you can always stay behind and wait for him. I'll not save you any lunch though. I'm pretty hungry" she said and vanished after Fayt.
Cliff sighed and hunched his shoulders. "I'm not sure… what weights more? Albel's safety or lunch?" he asked himself.
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Nel and Mirage looked up as Peppita skipped out from the forest followed closely by Fayt.
"Did you find him?" Nel asked.
Fayt nodded. "Yeah, we found him. He was in a tree so we didn't get him down before he left again. Say, did you run into a pack or monsters? Albel scared them out from the forest"
Sophia poked her head out from the back of the wagon. "We defeated them a couple of minutes ago" she said and brought out a large basket. "It's lunch time. Say, where is Cliff?" she asked as she looked around. "Don't tell me that you left him in there!"
Fayt sat down beside Mirage while Peppita flopped down on his other side. "He'll come. I haven't seen him miss lunch once since I met him" he said and took a offered sandwich.
"OUCH! OW OW! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP DOING THAT FOR!" Cliff's voice echoed through the forest, scaring all flying types of monsters out form the trees.
Peppita took a huge bit of her sandwich and laughed. "I think he'll be here any minute now!"
The group faced the path entrance and laughed hard when Cliff stepped out form the forest.
Mirage laughed the hardest and had to wipe a tear from her eye. "Nice hat there, Cliff! Suits you!"
Cliff growled and sat down by the group and grabbed a ham sandwich. Plucking a bit of the ham he lifted it above his head. "Want some, Albel?" he asked.
Albel, who was clinging to Cliff's head, gave him a "Nya!" before digging into the piece of ham. He was hungry and that was the reason he had come down from the tree. Using Cliff's head as a landing spot he had jumped the three meters that separated him from the ground. Cliff had of course tried to rip him of but his small claws once again proved to be useful.
Now he sat there and munched on whatever Cliff offered him. For being such a bonehead sometimes Cliff's head was quite comfortable. Maybe it was all that blond hair?
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