Notice: I have decided to stop naming my chapter as it takes to much creativity and time and I have run dry on names.
Chapter 13
I could see her, clear as day, Rikku. She was just standing there. I ran towards her but didn't seem to move any faster, so I stopped trying to run. I continued to move however, was this a dream, it felt real though. I felt love flowing throughout my body and happiness. Just then though I began feeling tired and sad, and Rikku began to change. She now looked like one of those things from Bevelle. It could drain the life from anyone just looking at it. It smelt of rotting flesh, and their faces looked like a monster who's flesh had been rotting for years. They had long boney fingers and floated appearing to have no legs. They wore old ratched robes with holes and so thin that any light could shine right through, if not for their horrid rotting insides. As it continued to come closer I felt sick and when it was almost close enough to touch, it changed one final time. It now was an unidentifiable shadowy figure with green glowing eyes. It took a lot to scare me at anytime, but right now I was scared so much that I wanted to move and hit my ever nearing fear but my mind had frozen in fear.
Suddenly I sat up and swung my arm to the right and thought I felt it connect with something. I sat there panting for a moment, Just a dream, I questioned myself. "What the hell did it mean though, and what was that last figure," I said to myself and finally taking the time to scan around remembering that I thought I had hit something. I then looked behind my bed on the right side and saw a man who's face was completely hidden besides his eyes. I leapt up and picked him up by his throat. "Who sent you here, nevermind, you won't answer even if you are still conciouss, and I don't need you to either, it was probably Baralai, or Stella, son of a..." I was cut off when the man took a swing with a dagger he had in his hand. I moved my head out of the way and threw the man into the wall. He wouldn't be getting up for a while now. I left without any word to the innkeeper or anyone else in town.
I had no time to stop, there was probably gil on my head, lots of it. I continued on to the Moonflow and found one of Rin's assistants. I payed him the money and told him to give it to Rin. The hypello shoopuf drivers were still asleep so I was forced to wait a while. When one finally awoke I payed him and he took me across the Moonflow. I met a couple of early rising travelers like myself on the other side. Well, I didn't so much meet them as I did overhear their conversation. "Did you hear that Lady Yuna is having a concert," the one man said. "Really, when, where, I might be able to catch it," the othe man said. "Luca, tommorrow I think it was, neither of us will probably catch it, unless we turn around right now," the first man said and I decided I had listened to enough. Something was off here, Yuna didn't seem the type to just randomly throw a concert, unless there was some alternate motive.
Well I had a new goal, get to Luca by tommorrow to catch that concert. Come to think of it, back on Earth I never saw any concerts, to loud and crowded, I thought walking down towards Mushroom Rock road. It was a calm walk for most of the trip, till I noticed something out of the corner of my eye, it was small and quick. I decided to run after it and see what it was. I reached the spot I had seen it and spotted it moving out of sight again. I followed a little faster each time it went out of sight until it went into a hole in a cave wall. "Hey, come back little guy, I'm not gonna hurt you," I said into the hole, surely looking like a total fool to anyone else. Luckily no one was around. Suddenly I heard something just above my head. I looked up to see a strangly shaped thing falling towards my face. I rolled to the right and it fell to the ground. I quickly drew my sword and sliced the thing in two.
I sheathed my sword and made my way back to the road, "Well, that was a good waste of an hour or so, and what did I get from it, almost got slimed or something by that thing, I gotta go," I said running onwards now. The game made everything smaller then it reallly was I had travelled about an hour before seeing the thing then wasted and hour and now I had another hour to go or so before I reached the end of this road and the begining of the Mi'ihen Highroad. Then the Mi'ihen Highroad was about a five hour trip on foot. I decided I would run for as long as I could until I reached the travel agency on Mi'ihen. There I would stop for some food and try to get a faster mode of transportation, like a chocobo or something. Running it still took me some time, about half the time though. I was worn out and hungry.
I went into the travel agency and saw how much food I could get for the gil I had, it was quite a bit, so I ordered how much I thought would fill me. To my surprise I saw someone familliar, it was Rin. "Oh hey Rin, wait, how did you beat me here," I asked suddenly realizing that even if I had slowed down the only way he could have beaten me here was if he had travelled all night. "Oh, hello there, I was soon to be picked up by my company airship when you talked to me," he said as someone brought me about half of my order. "Well, I'm here to eat and try to find speedy transport across Mi'hen Highroad," I said stuffing about half a plate of food into my mouth. Rin decided to give me a ride across Mi'ihen on his new machina transport, but he had some stuff to finish up so I had just enough time to finish my meal. I was eating a lot more then I used to, which is saying a lot since I used to eat enough food to feed about three people or so, now I ate enough to feed about three families of four. By the time I actually reached the stair case at the end of Mi'ihen the sun had began to set.
"Well, this worked well then I guess," I said quietly to myself, taking my first step down the staircase. I felt a little tired though and lost my footing. I somehow ended up falling face first onto the steps. Unfortunately the stairs were just the right distance apart that I could slide down them like that. Also against my hopes my face was hit by every step on the way down. "Ow," I groaned wiping my now bloody nose. "Dammit that hurt," I said getting up and noticing at least ten people were staring at me. "Uhh, just slipped, I'm fine," I said causing everyone to return to their original activities. I sighed and checked my face for any other bleeding, but that was no good, I needed a mirror. I decided to spend the night at the inn here if I could find it and catch the concert the next day. When I got tot he inn I found out that if I bought this room I would then be completely broke. I sighed and paid them, when I got up to my room I pulled down the hood of the cloak. I locked the door and found a mirror, I was amazed, not only was my face barely scratched but my eyes had changed, they had been brown and then red but now my entire eye was red, no black pupil no white, just all red.
I was tired but didn't want to sleep. If I slept I might have a horrid dream or get attacked again. I sighed and decided to sleep "on the wall" I stuck both of my swords in the wall and managed to tie a blanket btween them like a hamoc. I was actually able to relax now and sleep. Thankfully I didn't have any bad dreams that night, I slept peacefully that was until someone in the next room started being rather loud. This inn was near the entrance to Luca, the only way in was located shortly after the stairway. It was also the cheapest one in town. The walls must have been thin because I could hear my room neighbours almost as clearly as I would had they been standing right next to me. I was about to bang the wall and tell them to shut up and let me get some sleep but I recognized the voices. It was Rikku, Paine and Yuna. "What are they doing here," I whispered quietly to myself. I put my ear right up against the wall and tried to listen. It was to muffled though and sounded like gibberish. I doubt Rikku would recognise me even if she saw my face, I had to leave before they did. I pulled out one the swords and hung from the other hilt, wiggling it out. It came out and I dropped surprisingly lightly to my feet. I pulled the blanket off my swords and sheathed them.
I opened the door and was greeted by a voice in the same direction as Rikku's room. "You, I thought you were dead," I heard her shout, and for a brief second I thought that she had known who I was, but then I remembered something. I was wearing the cloak, she probably thought I was the evil me guy. She charged me anyways but I jumped backwards into my room. She chased after me and I managed to stand in front of an open closet and have her charge me. My plan actually worked and after dodging her useless attack attempt I turned and shut the closet door, quickly baracading it with whatever I could, which ended up being a large dresser. I ran back out into the hall and closed that door. Just as I pulled my hand away from the door, a sword fell where my arm had just been. The hair on the back of my neck was standing straight up. I looked over and saw Paine who obviously was a little pissed off about me shutting her friend in a closet since she tried to chop my head off. I did a limbo under her sword but my hood fell down. I rose back up and hit Paine hard with a headbutt. She fell down, I hadn't hit her too hard, she should only be out half an hour or so. "Chris," I heard a voice say questioningly from in front of the door to the girl's room. I looked up and saw Yuna standing there astonished. "Shh," I hushed her, "I can't let Rikku know its me yet, so you can't tell her, but umm she'll find it strange if your the only one not attacked so either fake pass out or I'll have to tie you up." "I'm no good at lieing, or faking anything," she said just standing there. I sighed and walked over and picked her up.
I stuffed her in the closet in their room and piled everything I could in front of the door. I walked out and saw Paine already getting up. Then I noticed her sword right by my feet, I picked it up and gave her a whack over the head, "Sorry, you can't wake up quite yet," I said dropping the sword right next to her and walking out. Just before going outside I remembered that my hood was down so I put it back up and walked out, closing the door as quietly as I could behind me. "Let's see if there's any more tickets for Yuna's concert. Oops, I just locked the star in a closet, hope she gets out in time," I said noticing that the sun had now already begun to rise. I walked down to the old blitzball arena and found out exactly where and when the concert was going to be. Now all I had to do was wait for the concert to start.
HA I HAD TIME TO FINISH ONE MORE CHAPTER, rather long one too. Please review, now I'm seriously busy though, I have stuff to do.