Tales of a Journey

By: Rogue White Dragon (aka Dragoness)

Disclaimer: I don't own TOS

Chapter 19 – She's gone

(Lan's POV)

We had taken care of most of the elves, in a 'they're not dead, but they'll be sore when they wake up' kind of way, by the time I was able to race back outside to where Siena was. She was alone with her father now, and I really doubted that was a good thing.

Though, I didn't quite think that the extent of the two meeting could be quite so…bad.

She was trying to kill him.

Kill him with my dagger.

Oh, and fire, there was plenty of fire around.

"Siena!"

I called, as her father dodged one of her lunges, barely missing the blade aimed at his chest. He threw some lighting at her, and she fell with a shriek.

"Siena, stop!"

I tried again. She ignored me, and picked herself up off the ground. She turned towards her father; one of her arms hanging at her side, the fabric of her shirt looked a little scorched. The others came up behind me, and stared in shock as Siena lunged, once again, at her father. Only this time, she ducked at the last minute, rolled behind him, and stood up while thrusting the blade towards the middle of the Elder's back. Had he not put a shield around himself, the blade would have done more than graze his spine.

"Siena, stop this now."

I said while taking a few steps towards her. She laughed when her father turned around, glaring at her.

"Oh come on, dad, you've been waiting for me to snap, haven't you?"

She used her good shoulder to body slam him into the wall of the Inn. I got the impression that it had been quite a while since the Elder had fought someone.

"I hate you!"

She screamed at him, she raised her blade again, fully intent on killing him. I wasn't sure if she'd be happy about killing him, or not, but I couldn't just let my friend do something like that. So, I did what I had done the last time had done something semi-stupid. I tackled her to the ground, wrestling the dagger from her, and holding her good arm behind her back. She let out a furious shriek, and tried twisting out form underneath me. I glanced quickly at the Elder, who was still standing near the outside of the Inn, staring at us with this dumbfounded look on his face.

"Lan, get the hell off me now, or I swear I'll kill you."

She hissed, glaring at me over her shoulder. She really was out for blood, wasn't she?

"Siena, I'm your friend. I'm not going to let you do something that you could possibly regret later on. It's what friends do."

I told her calmly, looking again at the Elder. He hadn't moved at all. Lloyd and the others had all stepped out of the Inn, looking from the Elder then to Siena and I.

"I hate him, why would I regret it?"

She sent a glare towards her father, before suddenly using some of her mana to push me away. It wasn't exactly gentle, either. Felt like someone just hit me with a wall.

(Siena's POV)

Lan gave a small groan as he stood up, stepping in between me and my father. I glared at him defiantly, and began gathering mana in my good hand, getting ready to cast a spell. If he won't get out of my way, all the better. Stupid human.

"Siena, you told me just today that killing anything would be wrong. That there has to be another way of doing things."

I stiffened slightly, before I relaxed with a chuckle

"Lan, you too ignorant of the world, aren't you? No matter what you do, you can't stop people from killing each other."

"So what was that all about in the tree? Were you saying that for no reason? Did you mean anything you said?"

Hmm, so now I'm a liar?

"I was thinking out loud, Lan. I do that sometimes."

I shrugged, trying to hide my wince when my left shoulder protested the movement.

"Apparently."

Lan said dryly. I had the over whelming urge to laugh again.

"Move Lan, this is my last warning."

Lloyd and the others were making no move to stop what was going on. Maybe they figured Lan could stop me. Too bad my sanity level's just not good enough to keep me from hurting him too.

"No."

Lan moved into a fighting stance. He was protecting my father. Why did that feel like such a betrayal? He said we were friends, right? Shouldn't he understand this? Well, too late now. I felt my body move before I realized what I was doing. I thrust several balls of fire towards him, picking the dagger up off the ground in the process, before following the balls of flame. Lan put up a shield to stop the fire, but was caught off guard when I ended up in front of him. The dagger in my hand thrusting into his side before I could stop it. I froze, starring wide eyed at him. Lan gasped slightly, and I jerked my hand away from the dagger, taking a few steps back. What had I done? I began shaking, starring at him in a kind of horror-filled-shock.

"Lan!"

Lloyd called. The next thing I new, Lan collapsed onto his side, the dagger protruding from his other side. That wasn't a mortal wound, right? He wasn't going to die, right? Lloyd was cursing, and the others quickly went to the fallen youth. None of us even realized that my father and the elves (who must've just woken up) were exiting Asgard.

Raine wasn't here, what were we going to do about Lan?

(Lloyd's POV)

I hadn't expected Siena to actually attack Lan like she did. If I'd known it was going to happen, I would have stopped it. I took the blade of my son's bleeding wound, and Zelos had taken off his jacket and was pressing it against Lan's wound. Without Raine here, I didn't know what to do. I didn't even know how bad the injury was. I spared a glance at Siena, who had fallen just a few feet from us. She was on her knees, staring at Lan. She looked terrified, and grief stricken. I glared at her, before saying

"The only doctor I can think of is in Flanoir."

I glanced over at my father, who looked a little worried

"Do you think he'll make it there?"

Kratos was silent for a moment, before crouching beside me, and trying a first aid spell. Lan groaned a little, and said quietly

"What do you mean 'make it'? I'm not going to die from this."

Looks like that first aid spell helped a little.

"We should still go to Flanoir, to have the doctor look at it. What I did was only temporary, and will probably start bleeding again soon."

Kratos straightened up, and with Zelos's help, we got Lan on his feet. Though, he couldn't exactly stand properly. Sheena stalked over to Siena, and glared down at the elf, before saying

"I can't believe you did that. I thought the two of you were friends."

Siena was still staring at Lan, her facial expression never changing. Angrily, Sheena slapped the young elf across the face,

"You shouldn't even be traveling with us. Elf."

Sheena said it so coldly, that for a moment, I couldn't help but gawk at her. Siena had just injured our son, after all, and slapping her was one thing, but…

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."

Siena slowly stood up, her head bowed so that none of us could see her face. She turned around, and bolted. She just ran away from us.

"Siena, wait…"

Lan began weakly, he groaned slightly, before glaring at his mother. How could he not be angry with Siena?

"Come on, we've got to take Lan to that doctor."

Sheena said, ignoring the glares coming from Lan. We made our way towards our Reihards, which were hidden in a small forest just outside of Asgard. I stayed with Lan just outside of Asgard while the others went to retrieve the Reihards.

"Lan? How are you feeling?"

I asked, feeling a little worried, he was quiet for a moment, before saying

"I'm fine."

He was silent for another minute, then said

"Mom didn't have to do that, it wasn't her fault."

"Lan, better she left now, than later, right? I mean, the elves were able to track her down some how, so…"

Lan obviously didn't like hearing this. He glared at me sharply, and said

"She's my friend, and I'm worried about her."

You friend who just stabbed you and fled. Right

"Lan, she'll be fine."

"No she won't!"

Slightly taken aback by my son's outburst, I waited a moment for him to calm down. He didn't have much time to do that, though, because the others arrived with the reihards (we had four, but we could always pick the other one up later). Zelos hopped down from his reihard, and helped me bring Lan towards Sheena's reihard. He glared at his mother, and said

"I want to ride with Lloyd."

Sheena stared at him for a minute, looking a little stunned. Lan was still glaring at her, after all, so she was probably confused as to why he was angry.

"Lloyd, take Sheena's, she can ride with me."

Zelos said, as Sheena opened her mouth to speak. I gave a nod, and we helped Lan up the reihard. Lan grimaced, and said

"You know, my wounds not that serious, I don't think we need to do this."

"We're not taking any chances."

Zelos replied, walking back towards his reihard with Sheena. I glanced at Lan once, before saying

"You didn't have to snap at Sheena that way. She's just worried about you."

Lan scowled at me, and I grimaced. This whole thing was going from bad to worse. We still had to rescue Colette and Mattrim. Why couldn't these 'save the world' journeys just be easy? Grr.

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sorry for taking so long to update. I meant to do so sooner, but school's starting, and I've been busy. Well, hope you liked it. I'll try to update before Friday with a more…back to the plot and longer chapter.

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