In a review for my last chapter, I got asked a question, and whenever I get asked a question I always try to reply to it. Anyway, I got asked by Dragonwings whether or not this story would mostly revolve around Colette and Lloyd and whether or not it would turn into a Colloyd. I don't write romance, so that ends that possibility. I will say that the story revolves around Lloyd and a character, but I'm not going to tell you who that character is. (but it should be obvious in the next couple of chapters) Thanks Leppers and Dragonwings for reviewing! Please keep the reviews coming!
By the way, the site's being weird and doesn't like it when there is more than one question mark, so if you see a "?" that looks out of place, it's supposed to be four ?'s. You know, the way they concealed an unknown person's identity in the game? So when you read something that says something like "'Pleased to meet you,' said ," just remember there are supposed to be four question marks after the word 'said'. Does that make sense?
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Lloyd and Colette continued to walk through the jungle after just searching it over for a little bit. They already knew there was food there, but they didn't know where to find water.
After searching for water for a short amount of time, they found some and had several gulps of it. Even after a short meal of just bananas and water, the two felt satiated.
The sun had now gone down and pitched the entire sky into black night. The stars were shining and there was a very bright glow of the moon that illuminated the beach, making the already-pale looking sand even brighter.
Lloyd and Colette didn't have any beds made or any huts built, so they instead decided to just spend the night sleeping on the ground. It was surprisingly comfortable, and the fact that the chilled night air made it cool made sleeping on the ground even more comfortable.
Lloyd and Colette lay awake for a while, mostly thinking about how long they were going to be on this island before they got off of it. Both of them were worried that their supplies wouldn't last, but they were also concerned about everybody else. They just disappeared on the ocean without a trace, and everyone would surely be worried about them if they never came back to the mainland. Everyone would definitely be worried about the two…
Then another fear popped into Lloyd's mind: what if that weird monster came back and attacked them when they weren't expecting it? Yeah, they could easily beat it, but what if there was an entire colony of them living in a deep part of the island?
Lloyd and Colette slowly drifted off to sleep with several thoughts ringing through their head. It was only their first night on the island, but it felt like they had been on it for the longest time.
The next morning, Lloyd woke up to the smell of the salted water and the soothing sound of the waves crashing on the shorelines. He slowly sat up and made a few grunting noises. He took quick glimpses at everything around him, making sure there were no monsters or anything like that around.
The swordsman got up onto his feet and started walking around to stretch and to help wake himself up. It wasn't the greatest night's sleep that he had, but it definitely reenergized him.
Not knowing what to do now, he sat back down and started drawing swirls and random pictures in the sand while he waited for Colette to wake up. Minutes later, a small yawn was heard from her. Lloyd looked up and saw the former Chosen open her eyes.
"Good morning, Lloyd," Colette said with a smile on her face as she rubbed her right eye with her corresponding arm.
"Good morning," Lloyd replied. "Did you sleep well?"
"Yeah," Colette said, standing up.
Lloyd made a small moaning sound as he looked out at the water. He expected to just see the sun reflecting on the clear water, but he saw something he would never have expected to see.
"Colette!" Lloyd yelled, his voice rising with excitement and anxiousness. "Look!"
Lloyd pointed out onto the water, and a large metal boat was slowly trudging its way across the sea.
"Quick Colette, get its attention!"
Colette, not knowing what to do, started stammering. Random sounds were coming from her mouth as she did the only thing she thought about: reaching into one of her pockets and pulling out her chakrams.
Colette got ready to throw one of her chakrams, but being the klutz she was, slipped and fell on to the sand. At that moment, the spinning blades got released from her hands. They went flying through the air and out onto the ocean, flying right in front of the giant iron ship as it rolled by.
The ship stopped when the chakram flew in front of it. Thinking it caught the ship's attention, Lloyd instantly threw his arms up in the air and started screaming at the top of his lungs for the ship to come to pick them up.
It seemed to have worked, because the ship slowly started turning itself so it was facing the island now. It then began steaming towards the island, apparently ready to rescue the two short-time castaways.
After what seemed like an eternity, the boat finally rolled on to the side of the island's beach. A small walkway was dropped out onto the sand, and Lloyd and Colette hurried up onto the boat.
They were greeted by some of the people on board the boat. It was obviously built for military purposes, as there were valves and metal doors all over the place. The floor was made of solid concrete, just like the painted white walls. The most obvious give-away was the fact that everyone on board was wearing some sort of military suit.
"What happened to you guys?" asked , one of the soldiers.
Lloyd and Colette turned their attention towards him. ? had fiery orange hair, but the same attire as everyone else in the room. Obviously, he wasn't very high ranked. His, as well as everyone else's uniform, consisted of dark blue pants that went down to the ankles and a shirt of the same color that was tight and went up to the wrists. The ends of his pants and sleeves were curled upwards, showing their white underside. In the side of his belt was a slot that a boomerang fit in. Going down the front of the shirt was a column of brass buttons.
"We got shipwrecked," Lloyd answered. "We were fighting this pirate, and we got lost at sea and this storm came and just washed us up on the shore of that beach."
"Well, at least we got you guys off," ? said with a smile on his face. "By the way, what are your names?"
Lloyd immediately got defensive. Even though his ship had just saved them, he still didn't want to go trusting him. "Give me your name, and I'll give you mine!"
"Lloyd!" Colette said with a plea in her voice, "please, don't be so angry! They just saved us!"
Lloyd made a small opening between his lips, making his grit teeth visible.
"My name's Colette," Colette said cheerfully with a huge smile on her face, "and this is Lloyd."
"Pleased to meet you," said ?. "My name is Kayne."
"Kayne, huh?" Lloyd asked. "Well, uh…nice to meet you, Kayne."
"Same to you," Kayne said.
Lloyd looked around and saw that the kind of uniforms the people on the ship were wearing didn't look familiar at all. He got the urge to ask, "By the way, what country are you guys fighting for?"
"Country?" Kayne asked, confused. "Oh, we're from another world."
"You are?" Colette asked. "But, the worlds have been reunited now, so…"
"No, you misunderstand me," Kayne said, looking serious. "This is a ship in the Tiberian army."
"The Tiberian army?" Lloyd asked. "Never heard of it."
"We come from another world called Tiberia," Kayne explained. "We're currently at war with someone from this world."
"Wait a minute!" Lloyd said, drawing his material blades. "If you're at war with this world, then that makes you an enemy!"
Colette gasped and started slowly backing away, afraid of Lloyd and his temper. Kayne, however, stayed relatively calm.
"Let me rephrase that," he said coolly. "It's your world that's at war with mine!"
"It doesn't matter; you're still an enemy!" Lloyd yelled angrily, sounding more vicious with each passing second. Sweat started building up across his forehead.
"You are threatening to destroy our world!" Kayne yelled. "It's your military fleet that wants to destroy Tiberia!"
Lloyd slowly lowered his material blades but never took his eyes off Kayne, and the determination and suspicion in his eyes never changed.
"We aren't here to destroy you!" Kayne insisted. "We're only here to stop you from destroying our world!"
Lloyd still kept a very close eye on Kayne. Then, he finally just closed his eyes and sheathed his material blades. A loud sigh of relief came from Colette when he had backed down.
"I'm sorry," Lloyd said, looking at the floor. "It's just after working so hard to reunite Sylvarant and Tethe'alla, I don't want to see someone go and destroy them all over again!"
Kayne's face dropped. He suddenly looked very surprised, and even slightly scared. He stared open-mouthed. "You're one of the heroes that reunited the worlds?"
"Yeah, that's right," Lloyd said in a cocky manner.
Kayne looked like he was about to say something, but he just said, "Impressive," instead.
The entire room went quiet until a loud siren sound was heard. Instantly, all the soldiers on the boat started running into a panic, leaving Lloyd and Colette looking around, nervous about what exactly was going on.
One of the higher ranked officers on the ship was running by, and just by looking at him you could tell he was superior to the soldiers. His suit was black with two silver stripes parallel to each other on the sleeves, and he had quite a few badges on his chest.
"Sir!" yelled one of the lower soldiers, "we're getting an incoming signal from the enemy!"
"Play the transmission!" ordered the superior soldier.
The lower-ranked soldier ran into the control room and hit a button. Instantly, an older, grouchy sounding voice started to fill up the inside walls of the warship.
"Attention!" said the voice through the loudspeakers, "This is General Stromm! Your ship is only a few hundred yards from ours! Surrender yourselves, and we will spare your lives! If not, prepare to be overtaken!"
Lloyd and Colette looked at each other very nervously. What rotten luck for both of them! Of all the ships that could have been passing by and see them, they just had to get on the one that was currently in the middle of a standoff against an enemy ship.
No one on the ship seemed to know what to do. Lloyd looked out one of the portholes and saw that the enemy ship was coming closer and closer to their boat, with no one being able to do much to defend it.