The Tale of Two: Thief and Magician
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Chapter 9: The Problem with Parents (Or Parent Problems)
Waking up on the cold ground is never a great way to greet the morning. To Jade, being on the cold ground was like realizing how cold his own life was- and he was only alive for twelve years. He rubbed his head which would not stop thumping. Wha-what happened last night? He wondered. The campsite that he had built was absolutely ruined- the firewood was charred and scattered all over the place, the tent was in shreds, and Aoi's leaf bed looked like burnt lettuce. Maybe Yumi will know what happened…then it hit him- Yumi! Shit, he thought, I remember now. Some guy took Yumi! He felt a little tug on his shoe and instinctively he took out a throwing star.
"Ee!" Jade looked down to see it was Yumi's 'pet' snail, Aoi.
"Sadly, they didn't take you too." He said to the slimy little pest. Aoi just looked sad and stared at Jade, as if asking him if he was going to do anything.
Jade sighed, "Do you miss Yumi?"
"Eee!" The snail cried. Tears came out of Aoi's big white eyes; at this sight Yumi would've squealed and grabbed Aoi trying to comfort her. Jade glared at the pathetic snail.
"Crying isn't going to solve anything stupid snail." Aoi did a little sniffle and stopped crying.
"Good." Jade started. "Now, you want to rescue Yumi right?"
"Sque!" Aoi cheered, as if in her own way saying 'yes'.
"Okay. Then it's you and me." He began to walk away until he added, "Snails can talk to pigs and stumps right?"
"Ee!" She squealed, nodded her small light tan head.
"Great, now we are getting somewhere. Aoi, are you ready to get Yumi back?"
"Squee!" the snail cheered again. Jade picked her up and the two started to walk left, the direction that Jade saw the man drag Yumi.
"We'll get you back Yumi…I know we will…"
Yumi did not have the fortune of waking up on the cold ground like Jade did. To her, being on the cold ground would've confirmed that she was still at the campsite with Aoi and Jade. But she felt herself on another hard surface- a chair. A chair? Yumi quickly opened her eyes and held back a gasp. Where is the campsite? Where is Aoi? Where is Jade? And most importantly, she took look around- the place she was held in looked very familiar, with it's wooden table for four, shelves and cabinets, stairs that were glowing with fairy dust and covered with spell books, but Yumi could not figure out why the place was so familiar- where am I? She tried to get up, but was quickly pushed back into her chair by glowing rope.
"A little bit of fairy dust on a rope can keep any person of any class- including magicians- bound to a chair." An un-familiar voice drifted casually into the room.
"W-who are y-you?" Although Yumi wanted to be brave, her voice stuttered and gave a dead hint to her captor that she was indeed scared.
"Why are you shaking little gem?" Her captor laughed his was voice deep and manly. From what Yumi could tell, he was about five feet and seven inches; at such a height he toppled over Yumi and left her in his shadow. He was pretty built; Yumi guessed that he probably would look good with his shirt off. And, Yumi concluded, his rusty red hair and jade-green eyes were very enticing to look at. Then it hit her: she was taken from Jade and Aoi and it was because of this man.
She glared at him as she tried to break free from the ropes. When her attempts became futile, she quickly moved her arms to try to reach her pocket. When she finally did reach her pocket, she gasped. Her wand was not in her pocket, and, as she scanned the ground, it looked like it was nowhere in the vicinity.
"Where's my wand?" she cried.
Her rusty-colored hair captor laughed, "Oh, it must have dropped when I took you. Your little friend gave me a little scare. Threw something at me, I quickly deflected it though. Knocked him out, I did."
Yumi was speechless. She tried to comprehend every thing that had happened to her. I was kidnapped…and then…Jade…Jade tried to…save me? And this guy…hurt Jade?
"You are probably confused right? Ah, where to start, where to start. First of all, this is your house. What a better surprise for your family when they come home than an unconscious and bound 'little jewel' and a ransom note?" He laughed as Yumi grimaced. He's out of luck then, she thought, glaring at her rusty-haired captor; my family is in Sleepywood, trying to find my sister. They won't be home until they truly find her- a void suddenly appeared in her heart- I wish they care about me as much as they care about her.
"Won't they just untie me?" Yumi asked.
"No knife or spell can break a fairy-dusted rope." He answered smugly, "That rope is my own creation and only I know how to break it."
My family will definitely be no help, so I have to believe in Jade. But I doubt he even knows where I am.
Yeah, she thought, this situation is looking hopeless.
Jade was never a great jumper. Even though thieves were supposed to be great a jumping, Jade was just great at missing a platform. While he couldn't concentrate because he was too busy thinking of a plan to save Yumi, Aoi's extra weight didn't help his jumping much either. But after falling to the ground over twenty times, Jade had finally got on to the platform that would lead him to Ellinia.
Soon enough, Jade would be in Ellinia. Soon enough, Jade would ask Grendel to help him find where Yumi was hidden. And soon enough, everything would be back to normal- or at least that was what Jade thought.
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: okay, throw whatever you want at me- I'm sorry I took so long. But look- its chapter nine! Then it's chapter ten- the end of the "Meeting" saga and the beginning of the "Shadows" saga! Please review- reviews give me the energy to write