Tales of a Journey
By: Rogue White Dragon (aka Dragoness's Rage)
Disclaimer: I don't own TOS in any way.
Chapter 4 – Lan
The approaching men stopped within five meters of where we stood. Their leader stepped toward us, saying
"Our master orders your surrender."
I gave them a blank stare. How did they know we'd be here? How did they know who we were?
"Give me a break, like we'd surrender to the likes of you."
Zelos arrogantly replied. The man glared at him, and replied
"Then we'll have to use force."
Without further word, half a dozen men attacked us. Like this'll be hard I thought to myself, easily disarming the two men who attacked me. I moved past them, and attacked their leader. With guys like this, there was only one way to get answers from them. We would find Sheena.
The leader drew his sword, and smirked.
"You're Lloyd, aren't you?"
I grinned, and replied
"Who are you to ask for my name?"
May have sounded arrogant, but I enjoyed saying it. The man glared at me in reply, and lunged, thrusting his sword towards my stomach. I parried it with the sword in my left hand, and used my foot to kick him in the stomach. Didn't want him dead yet, after all. He grunted, before slashing upwards towards my chest. This time I used both swords to block it, in a scissor like fashion. I twisted my swords, with his caught in between. Without a weapon, and my swords pointed to his stomach and throat, I muttered
"Pathetic. How'd you expect to beat us?"
He glared at me, and replied
"We didn't think there would be this many of you."
"Where have you taken Sheena?"
He raised an eyebrow at me, and replied
"The Summoner?"
I could hear the others approaching behind me. No doubt they'd defeated the other men. My friends stood beside me, each staring intently at the man.
"Yes, where is she?"
He stared at me for a long moment, before saying
"Now if I went and told you that, I'd be good as dead anyway."
Zelos glared at the man and said
"If you don't tell us, I'll-"
Before Zelos could finish his sentence, I slammed the hilt of my sword against the side of the man's head. He crumpled to the ground unconscious. Zelos glared at me, and demanded
"Why did you do that?"
I pointed the way our would-be-attackers came from. We could retrace their footsteps easily enough. Right now, I wanted answers of a different kind. I turned my attention towards Raine and Genis
"You guys are leaving me in the dark about something, what is it?"
The pair winced, and glanced at the others for help. Zelos spoke up for them, and said
"I was supposed to marry Sheena today, Lloyd."
I stood there for a moment, digesting that bit of information. That would explain a little bit, but what about the strange stares that Genis and Raine keep giving me?
"Lloyd, we can't just stay here, we have to find Sheena!"
Genis insisted before I could ask more questions. I nodded, sighed in defeat, and our group set out, following the oh-so-obvious-foot-print-path. This is all just a little too easy… I thought to myself, feeling a little on edge.
Several hours later, we found ourselves in the middle of no where. The foot prints stopped quite abruptly. It was almost like they sprouted wings and flew away. I shook that idea out of my head. Angels weren't here.
"Lloyd, what do we do now?"
Zelos demanded, looking around, before turning to me and waiting for my reply. I frowned, and said
"It's getting late; we should set up camp a little ways from here, and start over in the morning."
"You shouldn't have let that guy go free."
Zelos was glaring at me now, I sighed, and replied
"He wouldn't have told us a thing, Zelos."
He looked about to reply, but Presea broke in,
"Let's just get some rest."
We did just that.
Regal and Raine had taken first watch. Sometime in the middle of night though, they woke us up, pointing something out urgently in the dark.
"Lloyd, something's over there."
I blinked a couple times, and looked around. Something where?
Raine was busy waking up the others still, so Regal clarified
"Some sort of reihard just flew over there,"
Regal indicated the direction where the foot prints ended with a nod of his head,
"and just disappeared."
My blank stare caused him to continue further.
"We found it, Lloyd, it's just cloaked."
Maybe my brain was just fuzzy still from sleep, but that made no sense. Raine and the others came over, as I asked
"You want to say that in English?"
Regal sighed, and replied
"It's invisible. Had we walked further, I'm sure we would have found something similar to a human ranch."
"What makes you say that?"
Genis asked curiously
"Raine checked it out."
All eyes turned to Raine.
"The technology used to hide it is all quite marvelous. They used magitechnoloy to-"
"Professor!"
I said, not wanting to hear her rant about it. She sighed, and said
"Imagine a base of some sort, with shield around it, making it invisible. Is that simple enough for you, Lloyd?"
I chose to ignore that last part. She was probably making fun of me, or something.
"Well, let's get going!"
Zelos was already packing up camp while he spoke. As the rest of us moved to help, I heard Raine mutter to herself
"But why would they be so close to Mizuho?"
With camp packed, we followed Raine, who had discovered an entry way into the invisible enemy territory. My jaw dropped as a building, and cement walls suddenly came into view. Genis grinned, and said
"You're gonna catch flies like that."
That earned him a blank stare from me. What was that supposed to mean?
"C'mon guys, before we're spotted."
I said, leading the way to what looked like a back entry. Lucky for us, the guards that had been posted were all fast asleep. It was past midnight, after all, but it still seemed kind of…pathetic.
We went through long winding hallways, fought and defeated some men, unlocked doors, and went deeper and deeper into the core of the base-like-building. Just like old times, when we would sneak into Human Ranches.
Raine hacked into the computer system from a small computer built into a corner, when we found ourselves at a dead end, only the locked door in front of us. With a 'beep', and a flash of some blue lights, the door opened. We entered, and found ourselves in what looked like a dungeon. Well, a small dungeon, it had only a few jail cells. We had barely entered the room when someone's surprised voice asked
"Genis, Raine, what are you guys doing here?"
Turning to where the voice was coming from, I saw a youth in one of the cells. He couldn't have been more than sixteen.Standing close to the bars,he wasstaring at us in surprise as he looked our group over. His eyebrows narrowed suddenly, and he glared past me. Iglanced over my shoulderto see Zelos, wincing, and giving a weak wave in greeting to the boy.
Raine crossed the room, to where a small computer desk was. After a few seconds of fast typing, the cell door opened, and the boy stepped out. He had black uncontrollable hair, tied back in a ponytail at he base of his neck, his eyes were brown, and he wore a blue sleeve-less shirt, with baggy black pants, and red gloves on. The boy's glare turned to me, and changed into curiosity. Something was oddly familiar about him.
"Who're you?"
He asked, shooting another quick glare toward Zelos.
"Lloyd, and you?"
I responded, feeling a little pity for Zelos. If looks could kill, Zelos would be pushing up the daisies.
"I'm Lan."
Raine was suddenly standing beside me, and she asked
"Anything familiar about him, Lloyd?"
Lan gave her a weird look, but didn't say anything. I gave Raine a curious look, she sighed, and said.
"That's Sheena's son."
Was it me, or did everyone suddenly find me very interesting? I don't know why they'd look at me like that. Again with the weird stares.
I always take sooo long to update, don't I? Blah, its summer, so I'm gonna try to update more. Pleaze leave a review!
- I re-updated it to make a change or two :P