Tale of siblings… Travelling tales…
This time the story will be told by Remy…
"Remy, you know what kind of flower is this?" Mother says gently holding a beautiful flower in her hands… Those colors…
"It's a Catleia Isabella"
"Like sister!"
"That's right, and like this flower, she is very fragile"
"That's not true, sister's very strong!"
"That's what she wants you to believe, but the truth is, she is fragile; please Remy, take care of your sister when I depart…"
"Mother?"
"… Wake up…"
"He's waking up!" Mother…
"Are you feeling alright?" What happened? My body feels heavy… Someone is besides me…
"Good, your fever is gone" Huh…?
"Mother…?"
"What…?" Wait… she… she isn't mother, who is she?
"Did he just call you mother?" Who is that guy?
"I think he did… What's your name kid?"
"My name… Remy" She looked just like mother… Was I imagining things?
"That's a cute name" …Her voice sounds just like…
"My name is Mina" It's too hard to swallow, she looks exactly like her, except for the eye and hair color…
"Uhm… is something wrong?"
"NO, nothing I just… you look just like… like mother…"
"… Like your mother…?" She is a bit confused… maybe I shouldn't have said that…
"Anyways, tell us, what did those men wanted with you?" She suddenly asks, I only stare in a daze as I try to remember, my head pounds so hard just trying to put everything together... They… Isabella… They wanted us to…
"They need my sister and me for a… experiment…"
"What kind of experiment?"
"They wanted to 'enhance' our powers"
"Your sister? And where is she….?"
"They hold her captive somewhere inside Father's manor…" That man… he was the one who saved me, isn't it?
"It's decided, after you get better, we'll go and rescue your sister"
"For real?"
"Yup" It seemed he could care less at first… he seems laid-back and all that... can I really trust him?
These guys are amazing, a complete band with 2 Laguz, a healer of sorts and a thief; it's just like those mercenary bands… Come to think of it… We'll they make me pay for their services…?
"You look a bit doubtful… Is something wrong?" This guy... Koel, I think, he isn't annoying but something about him rubs me the wrong way…
"… Uhm… Are you some kind of… mercenaries?"
"Say what? No, nothing like that, it just looked like you needed a bit more of help, so here we are" So they aren't mercenaries…
"Remy… Which one's your house?" Mina says, coming to a stop, I think Father's place is around here, but I never walked out this far… now was it left or right… Hmm, I can't remember
"Perhaps it's the big one on the hill…" The child Laguz says with a mischievous smile… Why, she is right!
"Remy's scent came from that direction, so it was only deduction…" She giggles a lot… a bit annoying if you ask me…
"That's the house, indeed"
"Fine, you just wait here; I'll get your sister" What?
"Not a chance. You'll get lost inside the manor; you must take me with you!"
"… Fine, as long as you stay out of troubles" He finally says with a long sigh, as he lifts his glare at the manor house. I feel a bit uncomfortable though... I can't shake the feeling something's not right...
"How are we supposed to break into the building?"
"We'll figure that when we arrive there…" … Is he for real? Something like this shouldn't be taken so lightly, if anything goes wrong...
"I'm back" Koel says as he comes from one of the grass walls to the manor
"It's exactly as I expected, those guys are stationed all around the entrance, only 2 soldiers are guarding the sides, I alone could easily break from the back, but..." Why is he staring at me like that…
"I think we can make it from the sides, but Remy, you'll have to follow closely, got it?"
"Got it" With that said, he quickly jumped the wall flowering swiftly, I put my arms in front to cover my face as I walk through the hedge which surprisingly doesn't resist at all, it's like the flowers were making a path for me to cross…
"Stay low" Koel suddenly whispers slowly as I come out, the first thing I spot is Koel, holding with a hand a stunning dagger… just like… the one... he... was holding…
"Hold on a bit, I'll take care of the guard" He adds, as he tightens his grip on the dagger and creeps silently into the distracted soldier, only imagining what he is about to do make chills run down my spine… I close my eyes for a moment; as a painful grunt is let loose…
"Alright, the coast is clear" Koel says bare moments before jumping through the window… That guard… Koel didn't kill him…?
As I make it through the window I notice Koel, who is now looking from right to left… I can only imagine what he is going to say as he turns back
"Alright Remy, where to?" Koel finally says, rubbing his head in a total confusion as he looks down at me… Well, we entered from the left garden… Um…
"To the right, I guess"
"You sure?"
"Huh… Not really" Koel's eyes already show hesitation, what if we wander into a trap because of me…!
"C'mon Remy, don't fall behind" Mina suddenly reaches my hand with her's… Walking through the hallways in the dim light of the few candles is a bit hard without tripping on anything… All the shadows here seem to be dancing around us… is awfully creepy…
"Someone is coming! Quickly, this way" Koel suddenly says, pulling me hastily from my wrist as we enter into the nearest room… Panting and gasping, all of us quickly look for a hiding, I quickly dive below a table and, in matter of seconds, Mina hid under the table just at my side… the thundering sound of a pair of footsteps made themselves clear through the deathly silent night… Father's library… It was here…
"Huh… Father? What are you looking at?"
"Oh, Remy, I didn't see you standing there, did Elise finished playing with you"
"Yes" Father's holding something in his hands… It's a book…
"What are you reading father?"
"Hmm, this… it's a magic tome, I though I could use some magic to make things easier around the house"
"But things are already easy in the house with Elise, Flint, Herring, and Janice around!"
"That's right… but I just… hmm… Remy, would you like to learn magic too?"
"That would be splendid, father!"
"Then come here, and pay attention…"
You wanted to prevent all of this, isn't it… Father?
"I though I heard something… It must have been a rat…" An old looking soldier grumbles as he closes the door…
"Looks like he is gone…" Mina says crawling out from under the table… It's weird… Father, did you try to…?
"Enough for toady, you did great Remy" Father says, patting my head playfully, still… he looks kind of sad…
"Is there anything wrong father?"
"Oh, it's nothing…" He says letting out a long sigh… "Remy, can you…"
"Master Remy!" A voice shouts from the afar, it appears to be Janice…
"Go Remy, when you finish your tasks, go see me at the library"
"Alright Father"
"It might be just a hunch, but I think there was some kind of battle in here" I snap out of it at Koel's words, he is staring at some black spots that dots all the floor and the library's walls as well…
"Do you know what happened Remy?"
"I… I don't know…" It was here... My father… and that blue-haired man…
Oh shoot, I'm late… I hope father doesn't get mad at me…
"I already told you… I won't do it" Huh? What's happening…? There's my father… but who is that man…
"If that's your final decision…"
"It is" Father says defiantly at him, slowly reaching with his hand something under his coat
"It can't be avoided then…"
"Bring it…"
It was because all those cursed seals… how do those seals relate to Isabella and I?
"Hey, what's this?"
"Wow, it's a magic fire tome!" That's father's tome… what is it doing here? I though it was… outside…
"What the…? These spells are way too advanced!" Mina sounds… Father learnt all and every one of the spells in this book… He barely used any, though
"Father!" Fearfully I scream, looking as my father is knocked away again by that blue haired thug.
"It's as I said… You'd die because of that promise of yours…"
"I won't let you take my children! I know what you are going to do to them; you're going to change them as those 2 laguz folks back in Gallia, that heron gal and the beast lad… I know what you and those alchemists of yours are doing, cursed double-crossing scum!"
"I'm not stopping, I'll take both kids whether you like it or not"
"You…!"
"Be gone…" F…father…! Father's death! That monster just killed him… I… I…
"I see you came back…"
"Huh?" That voice wasn't them's... I slowly turn around, as my neck clenches up, I can feel it, something bad is going to happen...
"It's time for you to become a seal too…"
"Wha…!" I can't move! He's caught me… and I can't even… cry for help this time…
"KOEL! Remy is…!" Mina suddenly cries, finally noticing the man lifting me into the air
"What?! You come back…" Koel suddenly jumps into the air and stretches his arm at me… He's… disappeared? What happened? Where am I? It's so dark I can't see anything… I'm starting to feel tired… It's so cold here… Is this what it feels to die?
End of "Tale of siblings"