Vieraslayer

Here comes another chapter! It won't get to the really good stuff for a while. Now, this is a few months after Viera Actress, so Myko will get mentioned a few times in the story. This is the real beginning of the story itself. I know, it sucks. I don't know how to play this out. Fran is way OOC in this. At least, until Alvyne appears.

The Unsure Salve-maker

Alja had had it. Rael and she had never gotten along very well, and even worse since their mother had died. Rael had always gotten along better with their blind sister Kira and everything. And besides, Alja didn't even like Rael's stupid male friend Rush!

Sure, Rush's charms worked on Mjrn, who was two months younger than Alja but seemed so much more mature. Mjrn even had twin children, one of them Rush's. Alja was a virgin and was intending to stay that way.

Well, unless she found somebody like Vaan.

Not only was Vaan cute, but he and friends had helped Alja for no reason. Sure, it was Nera who asked, but it was Alja who needed the Vorpal Bunny tail, and it was still nice, considering how the Viera treated the Humes. Yeah, Rael and Jote told her that if she didn't stay away from Humes, she'd be in serious trouble with the Wood, but she had began to not care anymore. Rael had been really nasty lately, also for no reason in the Wood.

"No. It's not a good idea. You are not going and having a… a MYKO!! Yes, that's what we'll call it! A filthy half-Viera piece of trash like Fran's brat!" Rael yelled when Alja had said something about liking Vaan.

"I didn't say I was going to pursue him. I just think he's cute and wouldn't mind being with him" Alja whined.

"I think it's a good idea. I have never regretted being with Janzyn." Said Mjrn.

"Yeah! Find a male Viera like your good friend Mjrn did! That doesn't sound half bad." Rael agreed.

"I mean, I would've left the Wood if I hadn't found Janzyn. We want to have more children."

"This from the one who was with Rush and Janzyn in the same night!"

"Rael, be nice to me. It's not like Rush is your private mate like Marl is to Jote or my brother Delf is to Jyna. Janzyn was worn out. I had to find another. He had three girls over that day. Hardly got one good round with the man."

"Great, Mjrn is addicted to Lord Janzyn. I figured one of Sylva's daughters would be like this, but I always imagined that it would be Fran." Rael complained.

"Viera leave all the time. Janzyn himself has left the Wood multiple times. Tarva Village, his home village, isn't as strict about the isolation. Most Viera who leave are Tarvan, though. I'm serious, if I hadn't had sex with Janzyn the night Myko was born, I would have left. Maybe even found my sister and joined her. I still don't know what my path is. Jote doesn't understand why any Viera would want to leave, so I can't talk to her about it."

"That and the fact that she's so moody that you're afraid she'll yell at you like she kept doing last time she was pregnant. She has Hala and Marl looking after her now. Damn that Marl. He came from the male's village and knocked Jote up TWICE. And he sticks around just so he can make Jote act even more irritating."

"Rael, she loves him. I don't understand love myself, but I do know that Viera do feel it to a point. You seem to love Rush." Alja stated.

"I know what love is. Janzyn and I are in love. Viera don't seem to feel love to the same extent as Humes do, but we do know what it is and what it feels like." Mjrn said.

Outside of the Wood, Viera behaved a lot like Humes, and Fran had found herself love. Love that she wanted all of the time, she just didn't say it. Love for Balthier so strong that Fran found herself thinking of how wonderful it would be… no. Last time she had been reckless with Balthier in the fall she soon found herself with child. Fran had to keep her mind on something besides mating. Yes. It was only because of the time of year and the fact that she was in heat, like all female Viera in the fall. Myko Bunansa alone required the constant attention of half the Viera in Eruyt Village since she began fancying herself an actress and would cause major problems for all of the Viera. Fran could not inflict another illegitimate half-Viera on her sisters, especially since Jote was pregnant. No. If she had another child, she was going to take care of it.

Balthier was nearby, polishing his gun yet again. The two were alone, and Fran had just gotten an interesting letter from an old friend of her's who had moved to Bhujerba. Tare was a Viera herself, and used to live in Rabanastre with her twin sister Raya and her husband Tyrone. In recent years, Tare had left and began trying to have children with her Hume husband. Apparently, she had finally succeeded in having a child. Fran thought it odd, since Viera were generally born in the springtime after a year and a half gestation. Jote's daughter certainly wasn't due until April.

"Must you make that so perfect? We need to fly to Bhujerba, but instead we are out here shooting wolves." Fran said.

"Yes. Everything must be perfect. You are already perfect, so I won't worry about that…"

"I despise Viera mating season."

"You want what you shouldn't have?"

"Precisely. You should know. It is autumn, and you must remember how we conceived Myko. You know, I got a letter from Mjrn saying that Myko's rabbitpox cleared up nicely, except for a few scars on her arm where she decided to bite herself from the itch. Jote's Sylva is getting better too. I think they should've waited to deliberately infect little Sylva. Rabbitpox killed my mother. Jote would fall apart if anything happened to her child. You remember when she got that therapy and uncovered what made the Wood angry at my mother? I don't want anything to happen to my niece."

A howl echoed through the desert. Fran's ears pricked. That didn't sound like the howl of a regular wolf. It sounded like… no. The Viera's sharp ears had to be playing tricks on her. It was impossible, wasn't it?

The Reena-Kaana had been extinct for decades, hadn't they?