Interlude: Karol's Thoughts

On Baul: (2:30PM)

The party has been on the skies traveling to their next destination. After the battle in Aurnion, everyone was quiet to reserve energy for the next confrontation.

Karol looked around and found that everyone had something to occupy them. Estelle was sleeping next to Yuri, Judith was talking to Baul, Flynn and Raven seemed to be deep in thought and Rita was working at another makeshift blastia.

Karol sighed. He then lies on his back. He looks at the sky and began to think back at the events that led up to this big quest that has the world involved again.

Ever since his fateful meeting with Yuri at the forest of Hallure, he's always looked up and found him to be his role model – well, since the Don died. He always marveled at Yuri's courageous feats and the demeanor to never give up. Yuri even decided that they should make a guild, which without hesitation, he wanted to be apart of. Oddly enough, Yuri had no plans on becoming the guild master, but decided to make Karol the guild's guild master. He was of course against this in the beginning but Yuri insisted. And despite that it was both Yuri's idea to create the guild and he was the appointed guild master, Estelle was the one that formed the actual Guild Name, even though she wasn't part of the guild. Nevertheless, the name that Estelle suggested was something that he wholeheartedly agreed to, "Brave Vesperia."

The first actual mission of Brave Vesperia was to defeat Alexie (though it wasn't a guild request, but rather a whim of the whole guild, including himself). That first mission was also the time that they nearly lost Yuri.

Karol then looked at Yuri's general direction and found that he was still lying down sleeping with Repede and Estelle beside him. A few hours ago, he displayed a show of skill that he thought he'd only see when blastia was still around or from Estelle, the Child of the Full Moon. The skill that Yuri used however, made him lose Vesperia No.2. Yuri explained before that he can do that skill without the said sword, but it's a lot more straining.

Karol shook his head and looked at the sky.

A lot of things has happened since then, who would have ever thought that they'd be thrust in a situation again where there very success would be what determines the state of the world. The only difference from the previous incident was that it was plainly visible to everyone in Tecra Lumiries, and everyone worked together to achieve the same goal, but in this incident it was relatively unknown to everyone. Brave Vesperia just hoped it would remain that way.

After the whole Adephagos event, he pressed on with his guild and accepted any requests that came their way. Usually a guild would have a focus of what kind of requests they accept, but Brave Vesperia seemed to take any request earning them the nickname the 'all rounder' guild. He's also gotten into good terms with his secret crush (well, not so secret since Estelle kept blabbing about that he should tell her his feelings), and he hoped that eventually he'd be able to tell his true feelings.

Of course, things weren't always that simple.

A testament to this is that now they're in a quest to defeat a man before he awakens an ancient monster that can possibly destroy the world. He wasn't sure if the man was a crazed lunatic, but judging by what he saw when the party met him for the first time, the man was a lot like Alexei. The man seemed analytic and very set on achieving his goal. He wasn't too sure if the man knew what he was doing or why the man is doing such a thing, but Brave Vesperia made it that he had to be defeated.

Karol then smiled. He wasn't worried, though he was obviously nervous, but he had the optimistic feeling that they'll get through this like they did with the Adephagos.

"Hey Karol!"

Karol then got up and looked at the direction of the voice. It was Yuri.

"What is it Yuri?" Karol asked as he got up from his position.

"Just came to warn you that Rita has just completed another makeshift blastia." Yuri said with a smirk. "And she's relatively bored."

This of course meant one thing… He's the target.

Author's Notes:

This is the first interlude of my story. This acted more as a recap than an informative chapter.

Tell me what you think of the interlude, I just decided to add this just to expand what one character thinks about the whole events and as an information compilation for you readers. As mentioned before, this first one is more of a recap, but the next few ones would be more in-depth. Depending on who the interlude is about, a different set of information would be given out. And as far as I've watched in walkthroughs, Karol isn't the one to see through things like Yuri and Judith which explains his optimistic look in the whole events that has happened.

Thank you for your reviews and correction. Corrections really help me as a writer to improve. Yeah, I know that school is first priority so I'm just making the most out of my current time as I know that further down the year I'll be flooded with school work, thank you for your concern. Speaking of which, the next chapter might be late due to several assessments I face in the next two weeks.

Reviews and constructive criticism will be helpful!