A Clear Melody
Team 1: Chapter 1
"The Mission on the Board"
Serena Melody was quiet, the guild mostly empty. It was quite early in the morning, and most of the guild members were asleep. Well, except for Raiden, who was staring intently at a mission on the board. Now, this is not an abnormal occurence, if one were barely accquianted with Raiden, but her teammates would know that Raiden staring at mission board long enough, means a mission. A mission that's she is willing and going to do. So, in an effort not to be left behind, her teammates had everything packed and ready to go. Sometimes they wondered why they choose such an annoying teammate.
"...A Circlet?..." Raiden whispered, her eyes making an oddly blank look. " Yes, A circlet!" Ikki exclaimed. "Oh, wow!...Now, can we please go on a mission?" Brandy sat there quietly, she was not going to side with Itsuki even though she agreed with him. There's two things Brandy didn't like about him, his pervertedness and over confidence. Ikki was sitting on a table to the right of Raiden and sitting on the left table, was Brandy.
Raiden still sat in her crouch, staring intently at the board, the only indication she heard him was the titled her head abit to the right. "... Should we take this one?..." Raiden whispered. Raiden's voice was so low, if her teammates didn't know what to look for, they'd never hear her. " I would like to do it some time soon." Brandy replied. " Sometimes I wonder why I joined your team." Raiden didn't reply to that, but instead took the piece of paper, stood up and walked to the main bar.
The only other person awake at this time, other then team Raiden, was Melchi, the bartender. Brandy hoped off the table and tripped in the proccess, hitting her head against the table. Ikki though, was staring intently Brandy's breasts, which had bounced with the fall. Before he had a chance to comment, Brandy stood up and punched Ikki, not liking the way he looked at her. Ikki just sat there, a bit dazed from the hit.
"...Melchi..." Raiden whispered, as she pushed the piece of paper towards the bartender. Melchi carefully brushed a piece of her purple hair out of her face before taking the mission request. Melchi nodded, as she wrote down the request before she waved her hand. indicating that they cold go. Raiden grabbed the piece of paper and started walking towards the guild entrance. Brandy was already waiting outside by the tube, with Ikki making perverted comments at her, Brandy was just ignoring him.
"Tubing" was a strange process in itself. It was literally a long tube, which went under and in to the water. It allowed no water to come through and the tube itself felt like some sort of plastic. There was a flat platform in the tube, which allows people to stand on. If it were in our world, it would've been called an underwater elevator that went very fast. If the person didn't have a strong stomach, they'd end up regurgatating all their food. It was fast as a roller coaster, but the station could set the speed and due to complaints, set it to 0.5 speed, which was between slow and super fast. Normal elevator speed. To be able to use the tube, a person needed to have a mark on their skin, either the guild mark or town mark. There was even a mark for visitors.
Being under Lotus lake was an experience for itself. There was many coloured fish and octopi. The lake had beautfil coral growing everywhere and the water was a rich, dark blue. There were small twinkling lights coming from the bottom, where all the houses of Lotus Town was. The houses themself were carved into the lake bottom, the roofs and the street ways were made with the same stuff as the tubes. " I can never get tired of Lotus Lake..." Brandy said outloud. There was a hum if agreement from Ikki, as his eyes darted around from fish to fish. Raiden was silent throughout the ride.
When the group arrived at the end of Rhohedron Forest, the sun was already in the sky. The train station was sitting there innocently, looking more abandoned then ever, due to no one ever getting off at the Nameless Station. There were no times for train departure or arrival, but sitting at the end of the tracks was the trains. Every day, when night has already set, three of the trains going to different parts of Fiore would stop at the Nameless Station. It was considered a small train outpost.
The group made their way towards the first train, it would go to Hargeon then Osyren, which is where their mission is. They sat down silently in the train, Raiden and Ikki on one side and Brandy on the other. " I wonder why anyone would want such a stupid thing." Brandy said outloud, reading the guild request. Raiden justed frowned from her postion, while Ikki perked up, quickly taking his attention from Brandy's breasts. " Oh? And what, may I ask, is strange about this mission?"
" ... An ugly circlet with no economic value or power..." Raiden cut in, voicing Brandy's thoughts. " ...It is strange that someone would want something so apparently worthless. " Brandy justed stared at Raiden blankely. " It's creepy how you can voice my exact thoughts." The witch muttered under her breath. " Ok, so we need to find a practically worthless Circlet and give it to these people?" Ikki said, as he laid back against the wall. " Because, why would anyone want this?" Brandy exclaimed in frustration as she waved the request paper around. Raiden shaked her head, as if it was obvious, but didn't say anything. Ikki just shaked his head and relaxed. Osyren town was quite a way away, and would be maybe a couple hours journey. All in all, they are looking at one long train ride. Raiden curled up in a ball and started crying, the train was moving and she was not an exception to the dragonslayer-train rule. Brandy and Ikki ignored it, the train ride was spent in silence.
AN: I'm gonna end it there for now, don't think it's a good story idea though, but it's all part of a bigger picture. Hmm, anyways,
There is only one space left in Vlad's Team, while Raiden only has two people. If there is anything you would like me to change, please point it out. :)