Journey to Engeve

Luke was walking through Tear's Garden in Yulia City. "Huh… I wonder where Tear is? She said she'd meet me here…" He said, looking around.

"Luke!" Tear's voice came from behind him.

"Hey, there you are!" Luke said with a laugh.

"Sorry for taking so long…" Tear said with a smile.

"Hey, for you, I'd wait for an eternity if I had to…" Luke said, stepping towards her, "So why did you want to talk to me here?"

"Well… because…. I wanted to spend some time with you, alone…" Tear said, a gentle blush growing.

"Oh really…? Well that's fine with me" Luke said, taking another step towards her and embracing her in a hug. "You know that I lo-"

A loud crash woke Luke and Tear from their dreams. "Ah dammit… It was only a dream…." Luke whined.

"So… we both fell asleep this time…" Tear said, blushing when she noticed she was still laying her head on Luke's shoulder.

"I wonder what that crash was?" Luke asked, looking outside.

"You there! In the coach! Get out of the way before you get caught in the crossfire!" a man on a landship called out to the coach driver.

"Hey, it's the Tartarus! Jade must be on it!" Luke said, sticking his head out the window.

"Luke!" Tear shouted out, grabbing Luke and pulling him back in just as a fonon blast shot by where Luke's head was, "You almost got cooked by that blast…"

"Eh heh heh… Thanks Tear" Luke said, sweatdropping.

Suddenly there was another loud crash, and Luke and Tear both knew what it was. "There goes Rotelro bridge…" both of them thought.

'Oh well… it doesn't matter anyway…' Tear thought to herself, "Excuse me, could you let us off here? We actually have some business in Engeve, but we want to walk" Tear asked the coachman.

"Sure thing. Just watch out for monsters, you two" the coachman warned as he stopped the coach.

"Thank you, we will" Luke said as he hopped out of the coach, then helped Tear out of it.

"Take care!" The coachman said as he rode off.

"So, Engeve is east of here, right?" Luke asked.

"Yes…" Tear answered, sounding kind of worried.

"Okay, let's- Hey… Why do you look worried? Nothing bad happened last time we were there, remember?" Luke reminded.

"You're forgetting the reason Jade and Ion met us in the first place…" Tear said, sighing.

"Huh? Like- Ooooh….. oh shit…. I have to act like a snobbish idiot again, don't I…?" Luke asked.

"Yeah… but we have to do it so we can come across Jade and Ion again…" Tear said.

"Dammit! I really feel like an idiot for ever doing anything like that…" Luke complained, "But... I guess I have no other choice…"

"We still have to get to Engeve, though. Maybe we can think something else up…" Tear suggested as she began to walk along the dirt road.

"Yeah… maybe is the key word though…" Luke said as he walked alongside her.

They continued to walk for about three hours, exchanging ideas on what they could do instead of having Luke look like and idiot, when they finally saw Engeve… and… A Cheagle?! "Hey! What's a Cheagle doing here?" Luke asked.

"That must be the one who is stealing food…" Tear suggested, "Let's ignore it now… Hey wait… I think I just found a way for you to still get in trouble without acting like an idiot…."

"Really? What do you have in mind?" Luke asked.

"Alright… You…"

A/N: Long time since I did an author's note. Okay, I'm sorry all these chapters are so short. I'm having a bit of a writer's block, so I'm losing all creativity. By the time Luke and Tear enter the Cheagle Woods, I should get it back to being long, interesting and entertaining chapters, okay? That's all for now I guess.