Chapter 13: Forming a Party…
Sky wrapped the last part of the cloth around Nathalie's head while tending to her wounds on the head gently. The warrior girl figured the first thing to do is to find her companions and finish up with the cleansing of Lia. She looked around to see if they were around and they were. They were all crushed by the boulders when the monkey had created a minor earthquake previously. All three were dead, a horrible one too, one had his head crushed to the brains revealing a red splattered brain. She had just a rough fight and now this seen has made her vomit.
"Hey, go check on Lia if she is done or not." Sky said to the warrior girl. She stood up and walked to the entrance to the cleansing and to Sky's surprise she said, "My name is Beryl Leoneheart!" She walked into the cleansing room with Sky staring at her silver hair with a surprised look. Sky really did not expect her to tell him anything due to her highly sophisticated aura that surrounds her that makes talking to her very hard. The reason behind Beryl telling Sky her name, was that she admired powerful people that don't act arrogant.
After 10 minutes, Nathalie had finally awoken, her first reaction to her body being in the arms of Sky was her blushing really hard but she had pretended to still be unconscious then Sky's sound made her feel embarrassed. "I know you are awake now, who even pretends to be unconscious when their eyes are shut a bit too tight that they look unnatural? I know my arms feel really comfortable but nows not the time is it?" Nathalie's eyes shot open to stare at Sky's familiar evil smirk on him as she plop herself out of his arms like a baby trying to get out of a crib. She realized that she was still injured pretty badly when she had tried doing this but failed. Sky sensing her pain hurried to help her up.
"Where's the monkey?" Nathalie asked with a slight anger in her tone. "Over there!" Sky pointed to the corpse of the monkey that looks like it had been dissected and gutted by a crazed animal. Nathalie looked frightened by the remains of the monkey almost fainted again looking at it. Gods, girls, if you are not ready for blood don't hold those bloody knives up to someone! Sky thought. Then as if just realizing something, Sky stood up and walked over to the monkey's remains looking for something. "Where are the flowers?" He mumbled to himself. He lifted the huge arms of the monkey up and flipped it over not knowingly shocking Nathalie again.
"There it is!" The flowers were stuck between the thumb and the point finger. He pried it open with sheer strength and managed to save a few flowers from being crushed by the gigantic hands. "Quest complete!" Thinking back to what he had done just to get this flower he put on a wry smile again, almost getting killed by a bunch of mercenaries because of a girl, getting involved with an elf girl, and fighting a huge perverted monkey for some flowers.
Lia and Beryl walked out of the cleansing room with Lia looking a bit "fresh" she now has the elegant and unattainable feeling to her that it felt like she completely changed. Sky didn't mind them as he helped Nathalie up while she still is vomiting over the corpse of the monkey. Lia was told about the monkey event by Beryl and had thanked Sky personally for his trouble as she handed a ring to Sky. The ring was a symbol for trust amongst the elves, any elf that sees that ring was supposed to be friendly and respect the person that owns the ring. Through Lia's explanation of the ring, it is a ring that was from an elf hero that saved the elves from extinction 5 thousand years ago, the ring magically boosts the wearer's magic affinities exponentially due to the power enchanted into it by the hero. Sky was very grateful to Lia, after all, all he did was holding up to his beliefs that monkey and human girls don't go together.
Now due to this ring, he is one more step closer to his vengeance towards the Emperor of Flias. After Lia prayed for the dead companions of theirs, Sky escorted Lia and Beryl out of the Holy Divination Grounds with Nathalie still limping a bit. Soon when they returned to Mercredius City they went the separate ways but Nathalie had forced Sky to accept her "stalking" of him official which means she has forced Sky to accept Nathalie's help of in a party. Of course after getting stalk a few times taking a bath in a lake by a girl does not feel very comfortable and that was the main reason why.
Nathalie had tried to even use a very bold move against Sky when he was in the lake taking a bath by taking his change clothes on the river side to threaten him to let her join his party. Unfortunately that backfired, when Sky started to look for clothes, he stood up in the water looking for his clothes and in a distance Nathalie suddenly appeared with his clothes not knowingly that Sky stood up instead of sitting in the lake. She had dropped his clothes right into the lake dirtying them and started to blush really hard when she saw what she isn't supposed to see resulting in her running away screaming. Sky was also embarrassed by this but not as much when he didn't expect Nathalie to suddenly appear out of nowhere and …looked at him naked…
"Heeeeeyyy, come back you gotta take responsibility of this!" Sky shouted at Nathalie's back with his usual smirk when he tries to mess with someone. Nathalie ran as fast as she could, blushing even more when she heard Sky shouting those words at her.