Kayako of Aridon, Damein of Suteron
"You're awfully optimistic." I said, sitting back down since she didn't seem to be leaving. The platinum-blond Vail turned and raised an eyebrow.
"I like to look at the real side of things." She replied curtly. She sighed and sat down as well, and I smirked. Me, one, her, none.
"We're not dead yet." She snickered, refusing to believe that we'd get back to Lailah before one of us died.
"Are you kidding me? You look like you'd croak at any minute now!" Gee, I wonder whose fault that is.
"At least I could hold them off while you were unconscious." I shot back, and noticed that I'd have to clean my axe again sometime soon. And while I was doing that, get it repaired. Etaine knows I need it...
"Hn..." She crossed her arms and glared at a creature in the distance. I smirked, knowing that she'd have very few comebacks for that one. "...So did those Lightie bastards happen to drop anything useful?" I grinned, feeling accomplished, and started to dig through my backpack.
"Yup. A Lightie map. Seems we're in this Erina place. Would explain as to why they've all been so bloody weak, since I heard that Erina is where they all start from." I replied, chucking the rolled up map at her, which she caught easily.
"If they're so easy then why do you look like that, huh?" She asked as she stretched the map out and started to look at it. "This is rather painful to look at..."
"I happened to face a party of the bastards, if you must know." I defended, crossing my arms and hoping she'd get done with the map soon.
"Damn, Teos is really weird. Not at all organized like Lailah is. And with this huge river, we could be anywhere!" Kayako complained, and I rolled my eyes. Aren't Vail suppose to be scholars or whatever? Sheesh...
"I think we're up near Aelbeague." I replied, shrugging. "I saw some Kappa earlier, and heard one of those Lighties call it a Sealakel."
"Or we could be near Keolosseu, since there are those thingies near here, too." Kayako argued, glancing at the monster key at the bottom of the map. I sighed, seeing that this wasn't really getting us anywhere.
"Whatever. We just need to head east until we hit the mountains, cross them, and we'll be in Lailah again."
"You make that sound so simple, but I know it's not going to be that easy."
"We're probably near the starter villages, so if we do come across any Humans or Elves we can easily kick their asses." I replied, getting up. Who knew when the party I got rid of would come back here, hunting for us, or tell one of their higher ups? We needed to get out of here, and sitting around wasn't going to help.
"Yeah, but what about the monsters?" She argued. I rolled my eyes, patience wearing out.
"We'll kill them. Two Fury against these weak monsters?" Kayako rolled her eyes, before getting up.
"Your optimism is going to get you killed. I suppose we might as well try it, but if we get in over our heads I'm blaming you." I shrugged nonchalantly, before starting to walk east.
"Fine with me. By the way, do you have any healing items? I kind of used all mine up." I asked, feeling a bit annoyed at having to ask her.
"Pfft...Yes, I have some, but they're mine. I barely have any left, anyways." Oh, wonderous. Stupid selfish Vail...
And so we trekked on, ocassionaly stealing the map from each other to check our location. Eventually, however, we got bored. "I spy with my little eye...Something pale." Kayako started. I rolled my eyes, but really hoped it wasn't an Elf or a Human.
"A Human?" I guessed, hoping I was wrong.
"Sadly, correct. Doesn't seem to have noticed us yet, though. Your turn." And hopefully the Human continues to not notice us...
"Don't want to play."
"Too bad. I'm bored." Kayako replied angrily.
"I thought you liked the silence." I shot back, snickering.
"The damned birds here won't be quiet, in case you haven't noticed, so it's futile." True. Lailah birds rarely ever made a peep, while the birds in Teos were all singy and crap. Kind of annoying, once you thought about it.
"Fine...I spy something brown." I said, looking at my axe and reminding myself I needed to get it fixed soon.
"Tree?" Kayako guessed, looking around for objects that were brown.
"Nope."
"Ground?"
"No."
"You?" I glared at her, at that moment wanting her to get struck by lightning or something to that effect.
"..."
"...I'll take that as a no...Eheheh..." Gee, you think? "Umm..." At that moment, a squirrel fell from a tree and landed on her face. I snickered at her luck. So maybe it wasn't a bolt of lightning, but it was still satisfying. "...A squirrel?"
"Bingo." I replied, grinning. The squirrel scampered off her face and onto another tree.
"Damn...I am never, ever coming to Teos again! I don't understand why Mitsuku would even want to explore this place." I raised an eyebrow, not knowing about this.
"Mitsuku actually wanted to come here? Why?"
"I dunno. It's been her dream for quite a while now, but seriously, as to why she'd want to come here is beyond me." Kayako replied angrily, eye twitching as she glared at the wildlife.
"Maybe she wants to come here because she hasn't seen how weird it is here." I suggested, randomly pointing at the trees.
"Ehh...I dunno...Wait, is that a road?" Kayako asked, staring at an obvious dirt path. Actually, three dirt paths. Kayako grinned and dug out the map, and started to see where we were. "We're in between Aelbeague, WindTail Forest, and the Fanseleneon Institute. Sheesh, these names are near inpronounceable."
"See, I told you we were near Aelbeague." I said, also grinning. Kayako rolled her eyes.
"Whatever. How long have we been travelling?" Kayako asked, looking towards the sun which was getting close to the horizon.
"Enn...'Bout three hours or so. Why?" I answered, swinging my axe a bit.
"Oi, watch it..." Kayako took a few steps closer to a tree, not wanting to get decapitated (not like I'd do it, anyways), before she continued," we could probably get back to Lailah today if we kept going and didn't sleep."
"That'd be a good idea. I'm not too keen on being discovered again, and I doubt any Humans or Elves would be out this late." She nodded in agreement, and we checked to make sure there were no Elves or Humans before trekking on. We couldn't stay on the road, but we could stay near it. So we did. Two hours later, we found another road, and Kayako checked the map again. "Shouldn't be too much longer..." I muttered, missing the quiet of Lailah. At least there weren't retarded birds that sung during the night there...
"Yup. Only a few more hours 'til we reach the mountain range, and after that we're home-free." Kayako agreed, walking on. Home-free, eh? What was home? Lailah? Suteron? "Hey, you smell smoke?"
"Hn?" I sniffed, and I did smell smoke. We were in a pretty forested area...Was it a forest fire? "Yeah, I do. Where d'you think it's coming from?" I asked, both of us stopping to look around to see it.
"I dunno, but I do know one thing: smoke rises, and the best way to see where it's coming from is up a tree." Kayako replied confidently, before walking over to the nearest tree, and climbing up it with the help of her claws.
"Oi, I don't think you should--" I started, but she cut me off.
"You don't want to get caught up in a forest fire, right?" Kayako asked, and even though I couldn't see her face I could tell she was smirking. She reached a branch and used it to get up off the trunk of the tree.
"No, but..."
"Then shut up, will you? Damn, I still can't see it..." She jumped from one branch to a higher up branch, almost missing. "Dang, that was close! Need to be more careful..."
"Which is exactly why you should come down!" I argued, crossing my arms.
"I can't hear you..." She replied in a sing-song voice. "Ooh, I think i see it. One more branch should do it..." She hopped up to another higher branch, this time not screwing up. "Yup, I see it! I don't think it's a forest fire! Some El--"
Crack...
"Oh, hell..." I heard her say, before cursing myself. Stupid, fat Vail...
The branch snapped out from under her, and she started falling. She avoided the branch below by diving sideways a bit, just barely missing it. "Oh, mother of..." I heard a loud thud, and started running in the direction that I heard it. I only ran about ten meters before a saw a large hill, and at the bottom of the hill was the camp of four Elves and two Humans. Kayako had landed on a on the hill, and was now attempting to get up.
"Well, whaddywe have here?" An Elf asked, getting up. "A little Vail spy."
This wasn't going to turn out well...
I didn't know what Kayako's name meant until I looked it up, but apparently it means small misquito net. Which is quite fitting, actually, since she happens to run into annoying people most of the time. Mainly Nordeins. P