Surprises of Life Chapter 7 Trouble with the Yellow Bell
"Finn, wake up...Finn!" I said shaking the little sprite.
"Huh...wha...Kayla, what do you want?" Finn said sitting up while rubbing his eyes.
"It's time to get up!" I said walking towards the kitchen.
Finn flew to the clock, "It's only four...why are you so happy so early in the morning today?"
I shrugged, "I don't know...I guess since we're one step closer to saving the island I'm happy because soon I can leave this place and these people and be myself."
"Yeah...but won't you miss them...?" Finn asked.
I turned to face him with a plate of eggs and bacon, "To tell you the truth, Finn, I wouldn't miss this place whatsoever or the people."
"Ohh...I see..." Finn said with a frown landing on the table.
I sat down his breakfast in front of him, "You can start on your breakfast while I go do the farm work and then we can go look for info on the next bell." I said as I went over to my wardrobe to change into an orange t-shirt, a pair of my dark washed jeans and my boots.
"You can come out when you're done, Finn!" I said as I grabbed my rucksack before heading to the door.
"Um...okay..." Finn muttered.
I stopped in the open doorway to turn back to look at Finn.
Why is Finn all of the sudden so sad?
I watered my potatoes, turnips, and my two cabbages before heading inside to see George. After I finished with George and let him out I realized that Finn should have finished already, but he never came out.
I sighed before walking back inside my house to see what's keeping Finn.
I didn't realize that Julius was walking towards my farm.
I closed my door before I spoke, "Finn, where are you?" I called out looking around my house for the harvest sprite.
I heard a sigh before Finn uncovered himself from his sanctuary of blankets.
"What do you want?" Finn said with anger, surprising me.
"You had me worried when you didn't come outside." I said.
"Why do you care?" he growled flipping away from me.
"What's gotten into you, Finn?" I asked very confused and somewhat pissed.
Julius's POV
I was walking towards Brian's farm to head back to the Accessory shop from taking a morning stroll before work.
I was going to say hi to Brian, but he didn't look to happy when he went inside his house.
I stood outside for a second that's when I heard Brian say, "Finn, where are you?"
Finn? Who the heck is Finn?
There was no response from this Finn guy, he must not be home.
"You had me worried when you didn't come outside." Brian said like he got a response from someone.
Woah what the heck, he's talking to himself. He is truly freaking insane."
"What's gotten into you, Finn?" Brian said clearly confused and frustrated.
I need to get help from someone, but who should I ask?
"There's no reason for you to be acting like this! If I did something just tell me so I can fix it!" Brian said angrily, you could hear that he was crying by his intake of breaths.
"FINE BE THAT WAY, FINN! I'll DO IT BY MYSELF, I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP!" Brian yelled stepping angrily towards the door.
Oh shit, I need a place to hide. Um...run!
I ran behind the shipping bin and sat down in the grass.
Brian walked out of his house towards the shipping bin...oh shit...
The grass crunched underneath his boots getting closer and closer in seconds. I should have hidden in the barn...
I closed my eyes waiting to be caught...when the crunches stopped on the other side of the bin, the side facing the house. The bin opened and I scrunched myself down farther when a cow came lumbering up to me and started sniffing me...great.
"Whatcha doing George?" Brian asked the cow, it answered with a whistle of air into my face, it had the worst smell I've ever smelt in my life.
"Ah, thanks Georgie for the advice, your right I should let Finn cool off. Well, I'll see you later I have to go look for the yellow bell myself." Brian sighed before closing the bin and leaving, walking straight pass me.
As soon as he was too far away to hear me I sighed in relief. That was really close. Too close...
Brian's POV
I was thinking about going to town, but I felt like going to Flute Fields plus I needed to buy some more feed and seeds and plus I now had enough money to buy a chicken.
I walked on the path leading towards the bridge I have to cross to get to Flute Fields, luckily it is a stone bridge.
I looked towards the open sea for the first time as I walked past and I saw down below a beach.
I decided that my errands could wait a few minutes while I go look around on the beach.
I walked down onto the dry coarse sand. Yep, definitely a beach...at least it seems like a good place to fish for some quick cash if I ever need to.
I looked towards the left to see a sea urchin and a shell of some sort farther down. I walked over to pick them up, free money. Thank you Mr. Sea Urchin!
I walked over to the pink shell and bent over it careful to pick it up...a Sakura shell? It's really pretty even though it's shaped weirdly. I guess whenever I do find one of these shells it always has to be shaped weird...
I sighed, that's one of my wishes is to have a perfectly oval shaped Sakura shell.
I put it in my rucksack before heading in the other direction. I kept walking when I saw something yellow protruding from the sand up further ahead.
I walked closer it was the...yellow bell...
When I got close enough to it, a yellow harvest sprite appeared.
"Finn, is just a crybaby that's worst than the crybaby of the year, he's crybaby of the century...hahaha..." the yellow sprite laughed before disappearing.
Apparently I didn't realize that Finn kind of left the house after I did and was following me...
"HOW DARE YOU SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT ABOUT MY FRIEND WHEN HE ISN'T HERE AND THEN YOU FREAKING DISAPPEAR! YOU'RE THE LOSER OF THE CENTURY!" I yelled stomping my foot in the sand in anger and rage before I took a couple of deep breaths to calm down.
I bent over to pick up the yellowish looking bell.
"It has a hole in it and is cracked and it doesn't even look yellow anymore because of the rust..." I said with a sigh.
I put it safely in my rucksack before walking over and across the bridge not scared one bit to do my errands.
Gill's POV
Last night talking to Brian about my problem kind of help, but now I'm not too sure if he's right. Luna can be a little bit obsessive at times.
I was trying to get some paperwork done when the town hall doors opened. I sighed thinking it was Luna, again...
"Luna, please I need to get these papers done..." I said sitting down my pen and looking up towards the door to see that it wasn't Luna that came in, but Julius.
"Sorry, I thought you were Luna..." I trailed off.
I noticed after I was safe from Luna for a little while that he was really pale and looked kind of freaked.
"What's wrong, Julius?" I asked with a raise of my eyebrow.
"B-Brian i-is f-freaking insane!" Julius yelled slapping his hands down loudly onto my desk and leaning into my face, making me jump slightly.
I cleared my throat nervously, "Um...what did Brian do...this time...?" I trailed off.
"I was walking home from the morning stroll I took this morning and I saw him walk inside his house." Julius said with his eyes wide.
"He walked inside his house...?" I asked, Julius nodded.
"Well, I can't do anything if he just walked inside his house." I said.
Julius gave me a scared look like he was being chased by a chainsaw equipped monster trying to kill him.
"You have to put Brian in an asylum! Or send him back to the city, I don't care which one as long as he isn't here!" Julius yelled pulling me up out of my desk chair by the collar of my shirt.
I pulled my collar out of his hand, "Okay, calm down and tell me exactly what Brian did and I'll see what I can do, okay?" I said, Julius nodded quickly.
"He was yelling at himself about the behavior of some Finn guy...he could be a serial killer and kill all of us in our sleep." Julius said a mile a minute starting to freak out.
"Just calm down and I'll see what I can do, just go to work and go about your day. Don't tell anyone about this just try to stay away from Brian for the time being, we don't want everyone to freak out and we don't want Brian to know either." I explained, Julius nodded quickly before leaving and heading to work.
I sighed. Well, hopefully Brian doesn't hurt anyone or figures out that I'm hunting down info to bring him down and to get him off the island to save everyone.
I sighed again and looked at my watch, it's time for a well needed break even though I haven't finished any of my work yet.
I got up and put a sign on the front desk that said I'll be back after my break. I walked out of the town hall, let's see where should I go...well I could go home, but father could be there and he's been on Luna's side trying to get me to ask her out saying I need a woman's touch, whatever that means. Or I could go to the Brass Bar to relax.
I decided the Brass Bar is the best option so I walked down the sidewalk to the Bar, I opened the door and went inside.
Luckily, it seemed like Chase came in early today for work. I casually walked over to him and sat down on my usual stool that I sit on when I come here to hang out with Chase.
"Hey." I said.
"Oh hey Gill, what can I get you?" Chase asked turning around cleaning a glass with a cloth.
"Come on dude, do you really need to ask?" I questioned.
"Yeah...I don't know why I asked just thought maybe you would change it up today." Chase said putting down a glass of tomato juice in front of me.
"Like that would ever happen." I said when Luna, Maya, Selena, Kathy, Luke, and Owen came out from the back room to a table across the room.
"Oh, there you are, Gilly!" Luna said cheerfully rushing over to hug me.
"Uh...Hi...Luna..." I said, giving Chase a help me look, he shook his head chuckling while the others were snickering watching Luna choke me to death.
Luna was talking a mile a minute about goddess knows what when the door opened. We all turned around at the sound of the door closing, that's when we saw Brian standing there being the person that just came in.
I guessed he realized that Owen, Luke, Maya, Selena, and Luna were glaring at him while for some reason Kathy was blushing. He saw her blush when they locked eyes, but she turned her head away to try and hide her blush.
Brian gulped before walking forward to us, this is a great time to mention that Chase is the only one actually working right now with Kathy helping out during her break.
He walked up next to Luna and I, she glared at the reddish brown haired guy like he was going to take me away from her...?
"Um...can I have a glass of tomato juice?" Brian asked Chase, everyone just stared at him in shock including Chase and I.
"What...?" Chase asked his eyes as wide as saucers.
"I asked if I could have a glass of tomato juice to drink." Brian said.
"Do you not have enough money to buy actual beverages?" Luna asked with a snarky attitude while I glared at the back of her head for saying that tomato juice isn't an actual beverage.
"Um...I-I h-have p-plenty o-of m-money...I-I j-just l-like t-the t-taste o-of t-tomato j-juice..." Brian stuttered, making Kathy blush even more and apparently he's captured Maya and Selena with his cute little stutter.
Owen and Luke shot Brian death glares and Chase just shrugged like it was no big deal that the girls like this...this...monster.
Chase sat down a glass of tomato juice in front of Brian, "Here. Be aware that the only person that drinks that stuff on this island is Gill."
"Chase." I said with a glare, he shrugged in response.
"Um...that's nice to know I guess, don't worry Gill, I won't take all of your juice...I just needed some to help me think and calm down..." Brian said before he drank his juice like it was a shot of alcohol.
"I'll see you guys around..." Brian said before leaving us staring off after him.
All of the girls sighed happily except for Luna, they walked over to their table to giggle and gossip probably about Brian.
I sighed before taking a drink from my tomato juice. Today is going to be a long day...
Brian's POV
That was seriously the awkwardest conversation in my life.
I sighed before walking towards the dock, I walked over to the lighthouse and sat down on the bench to think.
"Kayla..." I heard a voice say.
I snapped my head up to figure out how someone figured out my real name.
"Kayla...I'm sorry for being a douchebag..." Finn said coming into my line of sight.
"Oh Finn, it's fine..." I said looking down into my lap to watch my hands.
Owen, Luke, Selena, Kathy, Maya, Chase, Luna and Gill walked out of the bar to see that Renee, Toby, Jin, Anissa, and Irene were watching Brian at the lighthouse.
"Is he talking to himself?" Renee asked.
"It looks like it." Jin said, Irene nodded in agreement.
"No, it's not fine, Kayla. I shouldn't have acted the way I did." Finn said landing in my hands on my lap.
"I was being rude for yelling at you, saying I didn't need you...when I do need you Finn. I don't know what to do next..." I said.
"It's fine, we need each other, and I wanted to thank you for standing up for me when Collin said I was the crybaby of the century..." Finn said looking down in his lap.
"No problem your my friend...wait...you saw that?" I asked, Finn nodded. "So you know that I found the yellow bell." I said pulling out the yellow bell from my rucksack.
"Yeah...you know it doesn't look yellow, right?" Finn said staring at the rusty bell.
I laughed, "That's what I said when I saw it too." we both started laughing hysterically.
The people watching just stared at the laughing crazy person by the lighthouse.
"Kayla, you know people are watching you?" Finn asked.
I nodded, "I know they are, they probably are trying to get me off the island because they think I'm weird, gay, and mentally insane." I said.
"But you're not any of those things!" Finn semi-yelled.
"We both know that, but they don't." I said.
"Why don't you tell them who you really are?" Finn suggested.
I shook my head, "Not now, it's not the right time." I said averting my gaze from the group of people watching me.
"When will be the right time, Kayla?" Finn asked.
I got up and walked away with Finn following behind me as I walked towards the group of people staring at me.
I stopped in front of them, they still just stood their in shock and fear.
"Kayla...!" Finn whined.
"Good afternoon..." I muttered to them before walking past them not meeting any of their eyes.
"Kayla!" Finn yelled again flying up to me.
I shrugged, "I don't know..." I muttered as they stood there watching me go still thinking that I'm mentally insane.
We walked out of town, "Finn, let's go see the Harvest Goddess maybe she can help us fix the yellow bell." I said, Finn nodded in agreement as we walked up to the Garmon Mine District.
We walked down the path that leads to the Goddess Pond and over to the divine tree.
"Harvest Goddess, we found the yellow bell." I said.
The Harvest Goddess appeared, "Hello Kayla, Finn, let me see the bell."
I pulled out the bell to show her, "Oh dear, this is awful..." she said with a hand to her mouth in shock.
"How do we fix the bell, Harvest Goddess?" Finn cried.
"Hm...Kayla, you'll have to bathe the bell in collective moonlight." she said.
"Collective moonlight?" I asked with a tilt of my head in confusion.
The Harvest Goddess nodded, "There are three moonlight stones on Castanet where moonlight converges, you must take the bell to these three spots between six and midnight to restore the power of the bell."
"Where are the three spots at?" I asked.
"I'm sorry, I don't know..." she said.
"Okay, thanks for the information, Harvest Goddess." I said with a bow.
"No, thank you, Kayla. Good luck!" she said before disappearing.
"Let's go look for these moonlight stones!" Finn said, I nodded as we left.
"Where should we check first?" Finn asked.
"Um...let's look around here first." I said as we walked towards the mine.
"Where could it be?" Finn asked as he looked in the mine cart.
"Um...Brian, are you looking for something?" Bo asked.
I turned around, "Um...yeah, I was wondering if this mine cart works?"
Finn glared at me for lying so I just shrugged slightly.
"Sorry, it's not working right now, but if you wanted me to, I could fix it for you." Bo stated.
"Um okay, thank you." I said with a bow before awkwardly walking away.
"But you'll have to give me lunch everyday until it's done." Bo said, stopping me in my tracks and making me turn to face him.
"Um okay...here then, you can start now." I said handing over a mushroom.
"Okay, I'll get started right away." Bo said getting straight to work.
"I don't like that guy, Kayla..." Finn said.
"It's because you never talk with him or see him." I said as we walked by Ramsey's shop.
"Hey Kayla, there's some steps that lead up!" Finn said pointing to the steps.
"That must be where one of the moonlight stones are because we've been everywhere else!" I said as we rushed up the steps.
When we got up there, Calvin was up there looking at a huge stone in the ground. He heard us walk up to him so he stood up and turned to face us.
"Oh hello Brian." Calvin greeted.
"Hi Calvin, I was wondering what you were looking at just now?" I asked, Finn gave me a 'duh it's the moonlight stone' look but I ignored it.
"I found this lithograph about the location of three of these stones, but I have no idea what they do." Calvin said pulling out the said lithograph to show me.
"Really!?" I asked in awe, he nodded.
"I'm trying to figure out what it does and who put it here." Calvin said.
"Um...I was actually looking for these stones too..." I said.
"Wait...are you an archeologist too?" Calvin asked with a bright smile.
I shook my head, "No, I'm not an archeologist, but I need to find the two other stones."
Calvin tapped his chin in thought before speaking again, "Here Brian, you need this more than I do." Calvin said handing over the lithograph.
"What! I can't take this, it's yours!" I said in surprise and shock.
"Please take it, you can give it back to me when you're done with it." Calvin said with a smile, making me blush.
"Um...thank you...I'll get it back to you as soon as possible." I said putting the lithograph in my rucksack.
"Don't worry, take your time." Calvin smiled before leaving down the stairs.
"Kayla, we found one of the moonlight stones! Where does it say the other two are located?" Finn asked as I pulled out the lithograph again.
"One up high with the view of the moon and the other is next to a bright candle." I read from the lithograph.
"You sure that is what it says?" Finn asked, I nodded.
"A view of the moon..." Finn said.
"I looked at my watch, it's almost six." I said.
We stood their looking at my map while we waited for it to turn six.
"A bright candle could be the lighthouse..." Finn suggested.
"Yeah, and the one about being high in the moon's view. It could be at Moon Viewing Hill!" I said cheerfully.
"Kayla, it's six!" Finn said with a bright smile, I nodded before I pulled out the yellow bell.
"Um...how does it work...?" I asked as I stepped closer to put the bell in the circle.
A bright light appeared before disappearing and the bell looked a little better.
"It worked, Kayla!" Finn cried out happily, I nodded with a smile.
"Let's go, Finn!" I said as we ran down the steps and to the other two locations, the moonlight stones were exactly where we knew they would be.
"Kayla, it's almost midnight!" Finn yelled flying ahead.
"I know, I'm the one that has to run!" I said running across the bridge to the lighthouse.
"It's over here, Kayla, hurry!" Finn semi-yelled.
I ran over as I pulled the bell out of my rucksack and slid into the circle with the bell.
Finn sighed in relief when a light flashed and the bell looked in perfect condition.
"WE DID IT, FINN!" I yelled happily.
We started laughing, not caring if we woke anyone.
Finn yawned, "Let's go home!" I said as we walked towards the town hall.
Gill hid out of Brian's view as he walked by holding a yellow bell in his hands.
Why does Brian have a yellow bell?
"Finn, now all we need to do is find the yellow bell frame and we'll be down one more!" I said happily as I skipped over to my doorway.
Finn didn't say anything, "Finn...? What's wrong?" I asked turning to face him with my hand on my door knob.
"We'll be one step closer to you leaving the island..." Finn muttered sadly with a sigh.
"Is that what this is all about?" I asked, Finn nodded with another sigh.
"Aw Finn, that's why you were all depress and mad with me this morning too, right?" I asked crossing my arms.
Finn nodded.
"You think that I wouldn't miss you when I leave, right?" I asked, Finn nodded again with tears dripping down his tiny cheeks.
"Aww don't cry Finn, you would be the only person I would miss from this island." I said hugging Finn.
"Really...?" Finn asked looking up to me.
"Yes Finn, you're one of my best friends and to tell you the truth if I could take you home with me I would, that is if you wanted to and that you were allowed to by the Harvest Goddess." I said pulling away from Finn to see his face.
"Really! You would let me come with you!" Finn said surprised with a big bright smile.
I nodded with my own smile, "Yep, even if you didn't want to go I would put you in my luggage and kidnap you." I stated, walking into the house.
"Wait...you wouldn't actually force me in your bag would you, Kayla?" Finn asked me as I grabbed a white tank top and a pair of black shorts and headed into my bathroom.
"Kayla?" Finn yelled after me pounding on the bathroom door with his tiny fists, I just laughed evilly.
Torturing Finn is so much fun...
