Hello again! Kazane here. I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter. :3 This chapter centers around Flynn and Rita and what they do after they fall into the world of Abyss.
*edit* I redid the ending so if you read it before I changed the ending, you may want to re-read it.
I don't own Vesperia or Abyss.
Please Read, Enjoy, and Review. :3
"You remember that blue dog and that girl who acted all crazy?" One man in a silver helmet and armor asked his friend who had a similar outfit on. The two of them stood at either side of the entrance to a large city.
"Yes, I do Bob," the knight replied. "She acted like she out-ranked us when we've never seen her face. Whatever happened to her?"
"I think some of the other knights took her into custody. She kept yelling about how she was looking for the commandant." Bob said, holding his sword hilt. The other knight nodded, acknowledging the statement.
Suddenly a girl with short brown hair, who was dressed in red and wearing goggles, ran towards the two.
"Hey knights! Your knight friend collapsed! Come and help!" She beckoned with her hand forward. Bob and his knight friend exchanged a glance.
"We better help, Fred," Bob told his friend. Fred nodded and they walked over to help the girl.
"Nice outfits," the girl sarcastically mentioned. "You knights just keep getting weirder and weirder outfits." She smirked and then went back to her usual expression. "Come on, I'll lead the way." She said before rushing off to show the knights her fallen comrade.
Fred and Bob approached the field where the girl dressed in red had led them. She sat beside a blonde boy dressed in strange armor.
"Hey isn't this...?" Fred asked as he saw the blonde boy. His friend nodded.
"I believe so," Bob replied. He remembered their leader Mohs saying something about a blonde servant serving princess Natalia. The face of the boy on the ground matched the picture that he had seen. Bob moved his helmet close to Fred's to whisper something in his friend's ear.
"He probably came to rescue the princess and the Fon Master. We should probably capture him."
"What about the girl?"
"Leave her; she doesn't seem to pose a threat."
Fred nodded and the two of them turned to the brunette girl who was still beside the blonde boy.
"Miss, we'll have to take your friend to a secure location to take care of him," Bob said.
"Fine," she replied grudgingly. Bob and Fred moved forward and picked up the unconscious boy.
"You just wait here; we'll be right back with your friend." Bob promised, though he knew that he and Fred wouldn't return.
"He's not my friend, he's Yuri's friend!" The girl denied, her face turning slightly pink before she took a deep breath.
"We'll bring him back by the end of the day," Fred snickered. The girl looked up, slightly confused.
"He's one of you, why would you need to bring him back to me?" She asked. Fred took a step back, very confused.
"Uh... we want to make sure that you know he's well," he replied. The girl nodded in understanding.
"You're smart to not make an enemy of Rita Mordio," she said as she crossed her arms. Fred and Bob shared a look, still confused. Rita looked stunned; why wasn't her name inflicting mortal terror like it usually did?
"Why don't you get an inn room, Miss Mordio?" Fred suggested. Rita angrily nodded in agreement and left Flynn to be cared for by his knights. She sighed; he would be all right.
Rita walked into town to get an inn room and looked around. A giant chapel stood over the entire city, something she had never seen before.
"Weird. I've never heard of a city like this one..." Rita mused, her eyes narrowing in suspicion. Everything had seemed weird since they were enveloped by that light onboard the Fiertia... She looked around to notice even more strange things: the city was quite busy, so she should have known about it, priests preached some weird religion every block of the city, and many knights, in the same outfits as the two Rita had conversed with, were everywhere.
Suspicious, Rita took out the world map (that she had conveniently swiped from Karol) out of her pocket. As expected; there was no city with a large chapel on Terca Lumireis. Did this mean that that book she had found was right; there are worlds other than their own? Shaking her head, Rita noticed that she had a slight headache from the fall. She had to make sure she didn't get a concussion and totally forget about a city that had a chapel like the one she saw before her.
Thinking quickly, she stopped a young girl on the street. The girl had a pink outfit that stood out from among the crowd, thus why Rita's eye was drawn to her. She also had brown pigtails that bobbed in the air and a stuffed animal clung to her back.
"Hey! What city is this?" Rita asked with authority in her voice. As the girl squirmed to get away, the brown haired mage clutched her shoulders.
"This city is Daath, of course," the girl smiled politely as she noticed she couldn't get away. "What kind of idiot doesn't know where the Fon Master's home resides?" The girl was now angry since she still wasn't free from the stranger's grip. "Would you let me go now? I have better things to do than deal with people who don't respect the Fon Master."
Rita opened her mouth to give the girl a piece of her mind, but the girl used the opportunity to squirm away before that could happen.
"Speaking of the Fon Master, I have to go help him!" The girl said with a smile before running off at a speed Rita assumed wasn't normal. The mage sighed and looked at the map again. She had been right; there was no Daath on Terca Lumireis.
'If we're on a different world', Rita thought. 'That means I sent blondie away with knights that were not under his command. Why did they agree to help him then? A feeling of dread crawled over Rita as it occurred to her that she had no idea where Flynn was or what the knights wanted with him.'
"I knew something was up with those two knights," Rita muttered as she moved to speak to one of the knights to who looked just like the two who had carried Flynn off.
"Hey, you! Have you seen two knights carrying a blonde man?" She demanded from the unsuspecting knight urgently.
"My orders are to not converse with citizens about the orders of the Grand Maestro," the knight replied, standing completely still. Rita's face flushed in anger. Meteor Storm or Tidal Wave; which way did this guy want to die? Rita decided just to teach him a short lesson and began casting a fireball.
"Oh flickering blaze burn. Fire-" Before she could finish the spell, the little girl in pink interrupted the conversation.
"Big Sis! I've been looking everywhere for you!" The girl lurched forward, hugging Rita around the waist.
"Get away freak!" Rita wildly tried to bat the girl away.
"Big Sis, don't be like that..." The girl pouted, burrowing her face into Rita's hair next to her ear. "Be grateful; I'm trying to save your life." She whispered.
"Huh?"
"There are thousands of knights in this city; if you blast one, the rest will destroy you before you can cast another spell. The fact is they outnumber you. So be smart and play along as my big sister. And then I'll tell you how to get to the knights," the girl whispered.
Rita felt like fireballing the girl rather than the knight now, but she saw the logic in her words and grudgingly played along.
"Sis, how many times do I have to tell you not to interrupt me while I'm talking? Someone's going to get punished."
"Eep! Well, we better get going. Bye-bye Mr. Knight!" The girl waved, dragging Rita around a corner.
"How do I get to the knights?" Rita asked immediately when they were alone.
"Why are you so bent on getting the knights?" The girl asked in reply.
Rita sighed before explaining that a friend of hers had been taken by the knights. What was it with everyone around this girl's age that annoyed her so much?
"Well, you're in luck; I also need to rescue a few of my friends." The girl said. "I'm Anise Tatlin, Fon Master Guardian."
"What's a Fon Master anyways?" Rita asked, annoyed there was so much she didn't know about this world.
Now it was Anise's turn to explain things. "The Fon Master is the highest leader in the order of Lorelei."
Rita sighed, still confused. "Guess that's good enough for now. Now where would they be keeping blondie?"
"They'd probably keep him with my friends below the main cathedral. There're a lot of knights there but I have backup coming so it'll be best to wait for them."
"Backup?" Rita asked. "That'll take too long. Thanks for your help, girl, but I'll be going now." With that, Rita turned and walked towards what looked like the main cathedral.
"Hey, are you okay?" A girl with short blonde hair asked the blonde haired man lying on the ground.
"Huh," the man blinked in confusion as he sat up. The last thing he remembered was falling through the blue sky and-. "Where's Ms. Mordio?"
"Ms. Mordio? Who's that?" A person with green hair asked.
"The person I was with."
"There wasn't anyone with you when the Oracle Knights brought you in. Apparently they thought you were Guy since you look so similar." The blonde-haired girl explained. "You're obviously not though, since you haven't freaked out with a girl so close."
"Where am I anyways?" The man asked, wondering why that 'Guy' would be so scared of girls. "This doesn't look like Zaphias."
We're below the main cathedral in Daath." It was the green-haired boy that answered this time. "What's this 'Zaphias' you're talking about?"
The blonde man looked surprised at this; who wouldn't know the name of the empire's crown jewel? "Zaphias is the capital of the empire."
"Surely not the Malkuth Empire," the girl pointed out. "Their capital is Grand Chokmah."
The blonde man thought over this for a little bit before he remembered something that had come up earlier in the conversation. "Who's Guy?"
The girl seemed surprised at the change in subject but went with it. "Guy is the servant of my fiancé. Oh, right. I'm Natalia and this," she held her hand towards the green-haired person. "This is Fon Master Ion."
"Nice to meet you Natalia, Ion. I'm Flynn, Flynn Scifo." The armored man replied as he stood up. "Do you know why we're being held here?"
"We-" Ion started with a glance at Natalia. he looked like he was going to continue but everyone's attention was taken away as they heard an explosion outside.
"-and take that!" The angry voice echoed through the hall as yet another fireball knocked its target out. The commotion was drawing the knights away from their positions and gathering them all around the female intruder. A glow of power came from the girl and yet another magic circle drew itself around her feet.
"Blah Blah Blah," she started the simplified chant as more and more knights surrounded her. A light blue magic sphere created itself around her before disappearing in a flash as the spell was complete. "Tidal Wave!"
A deadly swirl of water surrounded the girl, pulling the unsuspecting knights into its wrath. Those knights that survived the Tidal Wave were decimated as a red colored flash came from yet another completed spell and meteors rained down from above.
With the knights out of the way (and the part of the hall her spells had hit partially destroyed), the girl ran down the hall, checking each room along the way for her missing rescuer. Room after room was empty other than maybe a few items that she picked up and put in her bag.
As she ran towards the next room, the girl noticed that there was actually a knight that she hadn't taken out standing guard at the door. 'Perfect' she thought. This was probably the room Flynn was in since such important people should be with him. The girl stopped and pulled out her weapon, an extendable sword, and casted a quick fireball to knock the guard out. She grinned as she put away her weapon and walked over to the unconscious knight to check if he had any items she would want.
After retreiving some Gald and other items from the fallen knight, the mage turned her attention to the door. With her spell book in her hand, in case there was a knight inside the room, she pushed the door open to reveal its inhabitants. There was a girl with short blonde hair, a kid with green hair who looked like a girl in the robes they wore, and a tall blonde haired man. All of them had been watching the door expectingly once they had heard the explosion.
"Ms. Mordio!" Flynn called as he recognized the genius mage.
"Stop calling me that, you stupid knight. My name is Rita!" The girl fumed.
"In return, you have to call me Flynn."
"Fine, fine," Rita agreed as she turned her gaze to the two other people in the room. "I guess you're Princess Natalia and Fon Master Ion."
"How do you already know our names?" The blonde girl asked with a tone that annoyed Rita.
"I met an annoying little girl who was planning to rescue you two." Rita rolled her eyes as she remembered the pink-clad nightmare.
"So Jade hasn't returned with Guy yet then," Ion sighed. "And who are you, Miss?"
"I'm Rita Mordio." Rita said.
"As you seem to already know, I'm Natalia."
"And I'm Ion."
"Nice to meet you and all but can we get going?" Rita asked impatiently.
"Yeah," Flynn agreed. "I would like to find Yuri and Lady Estellise soon."
However, before they could leave, the knight that Rita had knocked out in the hall attacked the brown-haired mage from behind. Flynn saw the movement before the knight had time to do anything and ran forward. He didn't have time to block the attack with his armor and took the full blunt of the oracle knight's swing. This made him fall back, knocking Rita back as well.
Still after payback for the treatment the mage that given him earlier, the knight made to attack again. Rita was fed up with this knight already and casted a quick Fireball that hit the knight and caused an explosion. Since they were so close, the force of the explosion sent Flynn and Rita flying.
Rita hit the locked window of the room, making it crack under the force then Flynn hit right next to her, shattering the already weakened window. Both of them fell as the window gave way behind them.
Natalia and Ion had attempted to run over and help but were sorely reminded that they didn't have their weapons and were unable to fight. All they could do was watch as their two new accaintances fell from the window. Even that right was denied them as the knight attacked once again, knocking Ion out of the way and making Natalia fall back against the wall next to the window.
"If we can't keep you confined here, princess, you may as well really die!" The knight yelled and brought his sword up for an attack. The princess's eyes widened as the sword descended straight towards her.
Aaaand a cliffy. :3 At least, the best of a cliffhanger that I could make out of the situation in my hurry to finish. :3 Hope you enjoyed it and please review :3
Review responses:
741852AuthorNicolaStarlaLili: Thanks as always for being the first to review. Thinking back, it was probably not a very Yuri move to tell other people about his sword, but its done now. :3 I'll try to work on making him more Yuri-like.
*edit* Thanks for pointing that out. :3 I fixed it as much as I can for now and I'll work on not slipping up like that again. :3
Rainbowkittyblossumwings: I know you'll enjoy this chapter since it has a little more romance in it. :3 Also, I'm glad its your favorite, it is one of my favorites as well :3
RunwithscissorsXXXbattlescars: As I told you earlier, there is no RavenXJudith in this chapter (that chapter will have to be later) and I hope you don't mind if I play around with GuyXNatalia :3
WildfireDreams: Thanks so much for the review. :3 I hope you'll continue to review and enjoy Vesperia's Abyss.
Thanks for reading. :3 I hope I'll be able to update soon (once I finish the next chapter) and that you'll all still be there to read and review (enjoying it is good too. :3). 'Till next time!
-Kazane
