Finally I finished Chapter 5 of Childhood Memories! I tried to make it as dramatic as possible, so tell me what you think!
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Childhood Memories
Chapter 5: The Missing Necklace
"Cinna, are you sure he said to meet him here?" Marcus asked looking down onto Evil Forest and seeing nothing but stoned trees.
"Of coarse I am!" Cinna said panicking.
"Maybe he's waiting for us in Alexandria" Blank suggested.
"Maybe? Let's go check" Baku said already heading towards Alexandria.
"But-He-said-Oh…Just forget about it" Cinna said in one breath. Cinna then ran after the group and continued to make there way towards Alexandria.
A couple of hours later…
Missy's P.O.V
Zidane slowly opened his eyes and blinked a couple of times before realizing I was sleeping on his shoulder. Zidane let out a smile but that smile soon turned into a frown when he saw the most horrifying sight. Zidane gasped in shock. 'Why does everything bad happen when it always gets to the good parts?'
Zidane then started to shake me for me to wake up. I lifted my head from Zidane's shoulder and looked up at him still a little drowsy. I then rubbed my eyes and yawned.
"What is it?" I asked still tired. But he just rushed over to Saul and shook him so hard that the raft kind of shook. Saul bolted straight up and looked around him only to see Zidane.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?" Saul yelled.
"Hurry! We need to jump off! The river's increasing. And you know what river's lead to right?" Zidane asked already waiting to see when we could jump off. Saul and I quickly stood up and ran over to Zidane.
"Alright when I count 3 were going jump" He said looking at me and Saul. I nodded my head.
"1…" Zidane said getting ready jump off.
"2…" I said getting ready to jump too.
"And…3-3!" Saul stuttered. We then jumped off the raft and landed into the water. I quickly swam back up to the surface and grabbed onto the rock next to me. I looked over to see Zidane hanging on to the rock next to me.
"Where's Saul?" I asked Zidane worried. Zidane and I looked around and saw Saul getting carried away by the current.
"HELP ME! I CAN'T SWIM!" Saul yelled with his head nearly above the water. Zidane and I swam to ground level and poured our selves out of the water onto the land. We then quickly stood up and started to run towards Saul. We kept on running till Saul was next to us but he was still in the middle of the river.
"HURRY! GRAB ONTO A ROCK!" Zidane yelled as he ran on land. Saul then tried to grab onto a rock but missed it. I then started to panic because that was the last rock but I looked farther ahead of me to see a…BRIDGE!
"Zidane there's a bridge! Hurry you have to make it over there before he passes it!" I told Zidane. Zidane then nodded his head and ran way ahead of me.
Zidane finally reached the bridge and leaned over the side of the bridge and tried to touch the water with his hand but couldn't.
"I CAN'T REACH SAUL FROM UP HERE!!" Zidane yelled as Saul was right about to reach the bridge.
"HELP ME! HEL-," Saul got cut off when Zidane grabbed onto Saul's hand.
"I GOTCHA!" Zidane yelled down, hanging from his tail that was wrapped around the railing of the bridge.
"Climb up!" Zidane ordered to Saul. Saul then used Zidane's body to climb onto the bridge. When Saul got onto the bridge he dropped down to his knees and started to take in deep breaths. Zidane then climbed up onto the bridge and took in deep breaths also.
I then showed up and ran up to Saul and dropped to my knees, and started to hug him really tight.
"Saul, I was so worried! You could've died! I'm never letting you out of my sight again!" I said letting go of him.
"Why are you so worried?" Saul said shivering.
I just smiled and said "You're like my younger brother. You have no parents, so I'll parent you." Saul just stood there shocked.
"That's nice to hear and all, but what do I get?" Zidane asked staring at me. I then walked up to him and put out my hand.
"Thank you!" I said smiling. Zidane then slowly grabbed onto my hand and we gave each other a hand shake.
Oh my gosh…this is so dumb! A stupid handshake!
A handshake? Maybe she's just taking it slow or she just wants to be my…friend Zidane thought sadly.
We then broke the handshake when Saul said "Look! Over there! It's a village!"
I shot my head to the direction he was pointing at and saw a village. The village was kind of big but not as big as Alexandria.
"Let's check it out!" Saul said, already running off the bridge and towards the village. Zidane and I then chased after him.
When we finally reached the village which wasn't that far, we walked into the entrance to see a whole bunch of people walking around. There were tents selling all kinds of goods all over the place.
"For a small village they sure have a lot of people." I said looking at the crowds.
"Let's find a place to rest first." Zidane said.
We then went looking for a resting place but instead we found a whole bunch of good food as we passed by. I looked behind to see Saul staring at all the food set out on the tents. So I quickly caught up with Zidane and whispered to him "I think Saul's hungry."
Zidane then looked behind him to see Saul looking down at the ground with a saddened look on his face So Zidane let out a grin and walked up to one of the tents leaving Saul and me behind.
Zidane came back a couple of minutes later holding a bag in his hand. Zidane took something out of the bag. I wasn't really sure what it was though. And he passed the whole entire bag to Saul. Saul then gasped and took out a carrot.
"T-Thanks!" Saul said still surprised. He then started to chow down on the carrots.
"Hey Missy!" Zidane yelled. I turned around and he tossed me a box of chocolates. "You look hungry yourself." Zidane said smiling.
A box of chocolates? For me? I started to blush, but I was still able to speak.
"Thank you! Zidane I-," But my sentence was interrupted when a guy behind one of the tents was yelling at a girl.
"AHA! I CAUGHT YOU STEALING MY FOOD AGAIN BUT THIS TIME YOU WON'T ESCAPE!!!" the man yelled to a girl a little younger then me and Zidane. She had short brown hair that was put up into two ponytails. She also had on a sleeve-less top that looked like it was made out of rags and she had on a mini-skirt that also looked like it was made out of rags.
"I'm sorry sir! I promise I won't steal from you again!" the girl said.
"Then do you have my money?" he asked.
"Um…no!" she said.
"THEN YOUR GOINT TO COURT!!!" he yelled pulling her away by the wrist.
"Please! I don't want to-," But Zidane interrupted her sentence.
"I'll pay for her." He said running up to the guy. Zidane held out a whole bunch of money. "Is that enough?"
The guy smiled. "T-That's more then enough! Thank you sir! Thank you!" the guy said. The guy then let go of the girl's wrist and walked back to his tent happier then ever.
The girl smiled and ran up to Zidane and hugged him. Zidane got kind of startled when she jumped into his arms. She then started to cry on his shoulder.
"Thank you! I thought I was going to stay in a cell for the rest of my life!" she cried.
"A…Um…Sure!" Zidane said kind of blushing.
She lifted her head and stared into Zidane's eyes. Her eyes were still kind of watery. "Who are you?" she asked kind of desperate.
"Um…Zidane!" Zidane said calmly.
Saul and I walked up to them. I just smiled and said "You could sleep with us tonight if you have no where to sleep tonight." I said still smiling.
The girl took her eyes off Zidane and looked at me. "Who's that?" she asked Zidane.
"Oh, this is Missy…and that's Saul!" he said to her.
"Oh…" she said kind of dully and moved out of Zidane's arms.
"Anyways, I'm Celia!" she said looking at Zidane and completely ignoring me and Saul.
"It's nice to meet you." Zidane said.
"Don't you think we should find a resting place?" I asked Zidane.
"Oh…right!" Zidane then started to walk and I walked beside him with Celia and Saul behind us.
"Zidane…I-I have to tell you something really important." I said looking down at the ground as we continued to walk.
"What is it?" he asked looking down at me.
"Well I-," But my sentence got interrupted when Celia squeezed herself in between me and Zidane and wrapped her arm around Zidane's arm.
"So Zidane, tell me about yourself!" She asked. She then looked back at me and rolled her eyes. I looked at her stunned.
Oh no, she did not just push ME!? Oh that's it! If she wants to play her game, I guess I just have to play along…
I just gave out a grin and continued to walk behind them. When we finally found a place to rest. We paid the guy at the counter and waked up to the stairs to our room. Saul opened the door to our room revealing 4 beds and a small table on the side of the beds. Saul walked up to the bed in the lower left side. I took the bed in the upper right; Celia took the bed in the lower right corner. And Zidane took the bed next to me.
"Hey Zidane!" Celia said walking over to Zidane's bed and sitting on it. "Do you mind if I-," But she stopped talking when she saw that he wasn't paying any attention to her. Zidane got off his bed and walked to my bed and sat next to me. She rolled her eyes and went back to her bed.
I looked at him to see he was looking at my necklace I was taking off.
"You still wear the necklace I gave you 10 years ago." He said.
"Of course! Do you still remember that day?" I asked placing the necklace in his hand as he examined it. His face kind of turned red as he remembered that day. "Yeah! That reminds me, why didn't you come back?" he asked now looking at me.
"I-I had a lot of things to do." I said trying to ignore his eyes. I didn't want to tell him the truth or he would hate me for sure.
"Oh…" he simply replied and put the necklace back in my hand.
"Zidane…what did you do for the past 10 years?" I asked now making contact with his eyes. I really wanted to know what he did. I was so desperate to find out! He looked at me and noticed I had a serious face on.
"Well, right after you left I…"
Zidane then told me his whole story about all his adventures. Just listening to him made me want to explore Gaia even more. I felt so bad that I wasn't with him in his adventures. He pretended he had a dagger in his hand and swung it around as he told me about his fights. He then went on and on and I wasn't a bit bored. I could listen to him forever. I laughed, gasped, and smiled as I listened to his stories. This went on all night.
Later on in the morning…
I opened up my eyes to see no one in the room. So I quickly bolted up out of my bed.
"Where did they go?" I asked myself. I quickly ran up to the mirror and checked myself before going to my dresser to grab my neckla-
"My necklace! I-It's gone!" I said in shock. I dropped down on the floor to check if it dropped on the ground but it wasn't there. I then started to panic. So I stood back up and started to search my bed and drawers. I searched every where. But I didn't find it!!
I then started to run for the door in hope to find Zidane outside in the village. I slammed open the door and continued to run but bumped into Zidane knocking both of us down to the ground.
"Zidane!" I yelled still on top of him. I quickly moved off of him. He sat up and rubbed his head.
"Zidane my necklace! It's missing!" I said hoping he would answer.
"You mean the necklace I gave you?" he said getting up. I nodded my head.
"You have to help me find it!" I said.
Zidane let out a grin a little surprised. "It's that important to you?"
I then kind of blushed realizing where this was leading. So I put my head down. "Yeah!"
Zidane got kind of startled and smiled down at me. He then quickly grabbed my hand and started to pull me down the stairs. "Come on!" he said pulling me out of the door.
"Zidane, where are we going?" I asked as I tried to catch up with him.
"We're going to find your necklace. But let's ask Saul and Celia first." Zidane said as we ran through the crowds. We kept on running till I saw Celia by a tent that was selling jewelry.
Zidane and I walked up to her but she was to busy talking to the guy selling jewelry to notice us. The guy then passed her money…a lot of it.
"Hey Celia!" Zidane yelled as we ran up to her. Celia quickly hid the money behind her back. But I already saw it!
"Have you seen my neckl-," But my sentence got cut short when I heard a big WHAM! I turned towards the man in the jewelry tent holding a hammer in his hand. It looked like he just smashed something.
"Thanks for the necklace! I'm reckoning these broken pieces will make a fortune!" he said holding up small pieces of broken purple diamonds.
My eyes widened. I quickly ran up to see what it was he just smashed…m-m-my necklace!
"E-E-Excuse…me! B-But was that a purple diamond star you just smashed?" I asked stuttering.
"Why yes! That lady over there gave it to me." The man said pointing to Celia. "I'm going to make rings with the broken pieces but I'm afraid it's going to take 1 week."
"C-C-CELIA!" I yelled with my head down and my fists clenched. Zidane looked at me wondering why I was so mad. I brought my head up but my eyes were full with tears this time.
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW COULD YOU!! I KNOW WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!! THIS IS ABOUT ZIDANE GIVING ME THAT NECKLACE RIGHT!? I MEAN YOU COULD TAKE MY CLOTHES, STEAL MY MONEY, BUT NEVER EVER TAKE MY NECKLACE!! HOW COULD YOU SELL IT TO MAN EVEN IF THAT NECKLACE WASN'T YOURS!?" I screamed at the top of my lungs that everyone around us heard and stopped to see what was going on.
"I-I HATE YOU!!! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! IF YOU WANT ZIDANE THE BADLY THEN TAKE HIM, CAUSE I DON'T WANT HIM ANYMORE!!!"
The tears flowed harder then ever before. I never ever cried in public, but in this case I didn't have a choice.
"Missy…" Zidane whispered to himself with saddened eyes.
I've never seen her cry like this before…
I looked at everyone around me to see they were staring at me all worried. I was so ashamed! So I covered my eyes and pushed my way through the curious crowd. I heard Zidane yell after me but I didn't feel like seeing him right now. Everything was inside the necklace! My childhood, my feelings, my heart…
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