Okay, I figured that I should write another chapter to this story to bring a little humor back into the Storm series for the time being. You know, there isn't all that much at the moment. Oh, and this story isn't, hopefully, going to be all humor. Hopefully, it will begin to get more angsty. Anyway, I hope you enjoy and here's the next chapter.
Chapter 3: Peeping Tom
After realizing that Lloyd's newly made Key Crest wasn't going to work on Colette the group managed to convince Zelos to take them back to Sylverant to gain the aid of Dirk. Of course, it was only Raine and Storm that really managed to convince him. How could he say no to them? He was still trying to win them over, and it wasn't as easy as he hoped it would be.
Unfortunately, the Papal Knights heard what Zelos said as well and they accused him of treason against Tethe'alla and the king. Everyone was forced to take a blood test to see what race they were, revealing that Raine and Genis were half-elves. Storm's test came up as abnormal, revealing no clear race. She looked the most like a human so they decided to let her go. Zelos looked over at Storm strangely when her test came up. He could see the feelings that had been buried rise to her surface before quickly disappearing as fast as they appeared.
Raine and Genis were taken away to be executed while the rest of the group was thrown into one of the labs in the basement run by a couple of half-elves. Before they knew it they were escaping to save their friends, with help from Sheena who returned just in time.
The group had to crawl out of a tunnel to get back to the surface from the prison. On the way up, Storm was offered a helpful boost from none other than Zelos.
"Here, let me help you up my sexy hunny," Zelos said as he held out his hand. Storm looked at him suspiciously before taking his hand as he gave her a boost up the small space. Storm was impressed, he wasn't doing anything perverted, but rather, was being very gentlemanlike. She didn't know what to think.
Suddenly, her hopes were all lost as she felt Zelos groping her down below.
"Zelos you pervert, get off of me before I come down there and beat you," Storm screamed at him from above.
"Sorry, my hand slipped," Zelos explained, she could see the smile on his face in her mind as she kicked at him with her foot. "Ow...that wasn't very nice...I was trying to be helpful," Zelos complained after his head made contact with her foot.
"Yeah right...stupid Chosen," Storm muttered as she lifted herself out of the basement laboratory.
After the group had managed to rescue Genis and Raine from their fateful end, they decided to set up camp for the night. The others in the group all sat around the fire as they waited for dinner to get ready. Storm was still going over what the Papal Knights had discovered about her earlier. She was still having a hard time coping with the fact that she didn't match for human, elf, or half-elf. What was she then? Where did she belong? Her thoughts were interrupted as Zelos sat down next to her.
She was hiding something and he knew it. He wanted to find out because the two of them seemed to both be dealing with something that the others just wouldn't understand. Would she understand him? No one else ever did. Of course, no one else every tried to understand him. He looked into her eyes, trying to search through her. She was beautiful in the moonlight with the glow from the fire lighting up her face slightly. He wished that he could be someone else than what he'd already made himself out to be. He didn't want to be the perverted Chosen all the time. But, he wouldn't be able to hide his darker feelings without that mask. But...maybe he could try a little compassion...just for her.
"Are the results from the blood test bothering you?" he asked her, seeing what was bothering her, but not knowing why.
"No, why would that be bothering me? It's not my fault that their tests are messed up," Storm replied defensively. Zelos cocked an eyebrow at this comment, knowing that he'd found the problem from her touchy reply.
"Storm, those tests are never wrong. There's something that's bothering you," he told her. Storm considered what he was saying for a moment, then snapped out of it after remembering who she was talking to exactly. She knew that he was using this conversation as some sort of weird pick-up line or something. She looked around to give him a piece of her mind when she looked at him for the first time since the conversation started.
His eyes, the were shining from the mixture of moonlight and firelight, but there was also a hidden pain behind them. Zelos was hiding something. He wasn't as happy and carefree as he pretended to be, but she didn't know what it was exactly that was bothering. She assumed that he was probably as stubborn as she was and wouldn't tell her anything about what he was hiding. She had to admit, when she looked at him, he was very handsome. She shook the sudden thought out of her mind, not wanting to get close to the Chosen, or anyone in the group for that matter.
"Well, it doesn't matter because I know that I'm in fact a human. My father was and my mother was. That's a fact and you can't tell me any different. Besides, there's a first time for everything, right?" she said as she got up and went over to the others for dinner.
"Yes...there is a first time for everything," Zelos said quietly as he got up and followed Storm back over to the others. He figured that he'd have to do something more like himself to make up for that moment that he'd just had.
Later that night Storm was getting ready to take a bath in the nearby river. It had been far too long since they had a place to bathe, and she didn't want to be as smelly as the men in the group so she went off to bathe in privacy.
Storm removed her clothes and left them on the bank with her towel as she waded into the river. She sank down into the water, covering everything but her head. She sighed as she began to let her mind wander on what had been going on the last couple of days. Things seemed to be moving so fast, and she wasn't sure where she fit in the whole scheme of things.
Suddenly, Storm heard a snap that sounded like a twig. She sat up a little and began to look around. After listening and not hearing anything else she decided to sit back into the water. She heard a few more rustles a few seconds later, but decided not to react, hoping to draw whatever it was closer until she could see it. Soon, her wish was granted when she saw a shadow in the distance spying on her. She knew exactly who it was and he was going to die. Storm jumped out of the river and ran over to where her towel and clothes were. She wrapped the towel around her body and grabbed her sword.
"Zelos! Get over here you stupid Chosen! You're going to wish you'd never been spying on me!" Storm screamed as she began to run in the direction he began to move. They ra straight through the camp with Zelos in front, a huge smile spread over his face, and Storm not far behind with a death glare and her sword waving high as she chased him.
"I'm gonna run you through the nearest tree and leave you there for the monsters to find!" she yelled as she ran out of the camp after him.
"Well...at least I'm not the only he spies on," Sheena said as she continued to look at the fire.
Zelos soon came back to camp as Storm went to find her clothes. Zelos sat down next to Raine and Sheena, hoping for some sympathy at his new wounds.
"Did Storm give you all of those lumps on your head?" Raine asked him.
"Yeah, but I think it would feel better with a kiss from one of my hunnies," Zelos said. Sheena and Raine both shot him their own death glares.
"Well too bad because that's what you get you Stupid Chosen!" Sheena yelled as both Raine and she beat him on the head, adding to his new lump collection.
"Oh...every other girl has been so much easier to sway. Maybe I'm losing my touch," Zelos groaned.
"You never had a touch," Sheena mumbled. They saw Storm walk by, avoiding any sort of eye contact with Zelos as she held her head up in a snobbish way while walking by him and sitting by Lloyd.
"You look at me and you'll die Zelos," she warned him as Zelos immediately put his head down in submission.
"I'm surrounded by demonic banshees," he mumbled under his breath.
Well, that's the end of this chapter. I know it was kind of stupid, but Zelos was pretty stupid at this point in the game. I hope that you all don't mind skipping the other parts of the story, but they're all in my first story and this is about Storm and Zelos, right? Well, tell me what you thought and please review. Thanks!
