Chapter 10

The Poisonous Ditch

Richard

Last chapter reviews were Great you guys, keep it up ;3 this is the so far one of the best chapters I've ever written INTRODUCING A NEW GREAT BEAST CHILD! Can you guess who his parent is? More hints in the chapter ;) Hint Hint: Fall of the Beasts: Broken Ground

"Wow, I haven't really been on a boat before..." Richard said glancing over at the side of the boat, Jack shrugged.

"Its probably my second time today" he joked as Richard rolled his eyes, they managed to sneak aboard a ship taking people to Eura. It was quite crowded with Greencloaks, people, Market men and some spirit animals.

One Greencloak stood out though, he had dark skin and pink cheeks, he had a black hair braid going down his back and a greencloak placed on his shoulders, he seemed to be looking around at certain things and spirit animals, but Finn noticed him glancing fairly more at a boy who sat across the boat with his head down, looking fairly depressed and saddened.

"Someone's got the blues" Richard commented looking at the boy who refused to move.

"We should probably leave him alone, that greencloak seems to be glancing at him quite a lot" Jack replied as Richard shrugged.

"I'm going to find out what's wrong" Richard decided getting to his feet.

"No your not" Jack said in the same tone and grabbed his shoulder and yanked him back into his seat. Richard sighed.

"We may have known each for only a few hours but I assure you I got this" Richard said assuringly but Jack just gave him the blank stare.

"My sister said the same thing when she wanted to steal something"

"Really? And did she do it?"

"She got a few bruises a black eye and her spirit animal lost a tail feather"

Richard blinked and let out a breath

"Well I'm not your sister now am I" Richard smiled and gave a smug nod and nudged Zimon.

"Zimon, I need a distraction, you see that Greencloak?" Richard pointed to the greencloak he saw earlier

"Yeah you know what to do" Zimon shook himself and made a small noise of delight, he jumped off the seat and stalked away.

"What is he doing?" Jack asked worriedly, while Richard just sat back with a sly smirk on his face.

"Watch"

Suddnely one of horses went hey wire, they bucked up there front feet and rose into the air, giving out a powerful sound, the horse Kicked its powerful from feet up in the air, before starting to panic, the horse kicked its back legs as a pile of crates fell over, Zimon scurried back and disappeared into passive mode as Richard flinched at the chaos, and Jack just covered his eyes.

Men and Greencloaks rushed to calm down the horse, before finally calmling it down. Richard patted Jacks back.

"I've been threw a lot" he replied getting to his feet, patting jacks back and walking toward the boy.

"Hey" he said to him, standing in front of him, the boy didn't even move when the horse panicked.

Slowly the boy looked up and Richard looked at his features. He had slick shiny black hair that went over his right eye and crystal blue eyes that shown strong in the sunlight, Richard blinked.

"W-What d-do you want" the boys voice seemed shaken and fearful and he looked to be about the same age as him. His one eye that was showing looked up at Richar.

"Drop the act, it doesn't work in me smart guy, plus your supervisor is distracted so we have time" Richard reasoned as the boy glanced over before returning his gaze to Richard, he leaned back and cracked his neck and knuckles.

"Thank Tellun, I couldn't even move under his pitiful gaze without him telling what or wha not to do" he replied coldly, his voice changing from shaken and fearful, to deep and a but gruff, he leaned back with his arms crossed over his chets tightly. Richard sat next to him.

"The names Richard, I'm an orphan from Cornacobra, Amaya. I'm traveling with my new founded buddy over there to Eura" Richard motioned to Jack, the boy looked at Jack who watched what was going on.

"Listen, we don't have time to chat that much, so tell me your name, where are you off too and why the act around Mr Stare over there" Richard leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees and looking at the boy. He glanced over at the Greencloak before speaking with a deep sigh.

"The names Zane, and that Greencloak is Anda summoner of Tellun who has been set to be my supervisor, it's annoying, I can't go anywhere without him so I've learned to put up this act so slowly he leaves me alone, but now I'm being delivered to Nilo to get watched by the bratty Kirat the so called great because he summoned Cabaro" Zane ranted with a huff. Richard nodded in understanding.

"Looks like you've done a lot of thing to get the Great Beast summoner be your supervisor" Richard said firmly thinking.

"My mother is a Great Beast summoner and she's not the reason I'm here, it's my spirit animal, but now it just sounds like it's my spirit animals fault" he huffed.

"No I get where your coming from, let me make a guess here, you summoned your spirit animal, you and your spirit animal are apparently trouble and so do the Greencloaks, so you fake the attitude, keep your spirit animal in passive form, are not able to bond with your spirit animal one to one and so life sucks" Richard explained, Zane thought about what he said.

"Hm, sounds about right, that's the outline of the story, the complex one is much more... interesting, but my mother cares and she cares too much, between you and me everyone thinks I'm the new Zerif" Richard gagged on nothing and Zane chuckled at his action.

"I know, that's why I have the fake act, if they can't see me for who I really am. Then they can see me for what I'm not" Zane shifted and sighed, Richard couldn't help but frown.

"Besides, I look nothing like my mother anymore" Richard looked at him.

"And why is that?" Richard inched closer and Zane pointed to his hair.

"When I summoned my Spirit Animal, I was too young, ten years old, and I'll tell you something Richard, when you summoned a spirit animal at that age, you change" he explained and Richard slowly sat up straight. Awaiting to here more.

"My hair turned black and has the texture of a cobweb, I'm now blind in my right eye and my blue eyes are paler blue then the sky" Richard knew he wasent wrong, and had an instinct he wasent lying, so that's when he spit it out.

"Come with us" he stated firmly. Zane stared at him.

"I just met you and share my life story, and you expect me to join you?" Zane demanded.

"I mean you don't got any other option" that was Jack talking now and Richard looked to his side were the older male stood and sat next to Richard.

"I've bonded with Max enough to focus on the art of easdropoibg from a distance. And if you think about we have a hole group, of misfits, Me, Richard, You and Kaitlin" Jack explained as he leaned forward and put his elbows on his knees.

"Wait who's Kaitlin?" Zane asked raising a brow

"Well explain later but the question is, will you go to Eura with us and have a nice change in scenery and have the nice farm alnd out in front of you orrrrrr, rot away in the warmness of Nile and get ordered around by a bratty 25 year old, so will you ditch or skip?" Richard asked holding out his hand as Zane scoffed.

"I'll ditch but only if you get me the space I deserve." he replied and shook Richards hand as Richard nodded.

"When we get to the docs, I'll have Zimon knock over some more crates and that way we can book it" Richard explained as Zane nodded.

"Sounds good, now you might want to get back to your seat, Tellun over there is about to give me the responsibility talk"