A/N: Hey guys, I need some help. It's with my story and I need help on two very specific things.
1. As I said previously, DeMerio and I are making a TOV 3 or project of some sort, where our characters collide. But there's the thing. I have a total of 14 people in my story who will be in the party, and then combine to probably 16. Here's where it gets tricky; the cast is 9, my OCs equals 13, but I'm having trouble on who should be the 14th person. Should it be Duke (the hero of the Great War where I can do some sort of plot where his hope in humanity is regained and after all, he has his own mystic arte and fighting style), Clay (the awesome justice and dark guy from the sidequest dark enforcer which Yuri can gain his costume as a title), or make another OC?
2. As I was playing TOV, I realized one of Repede's titles (Nirvana Dog) says he can actually speak the human language, but choose not to. So, here's my question: Should Repede be able to speak a few human lines now and again in my story or stay true to the game and not communicate?
Please PM/Review/some kind of message me and let me know by saying the name of your choice for question 1 and yes or no for question 2. ... Good Lord, I sound like the United States voting commericials. XD Please let me know.
Also, 2,000 views! Guys and Girls, this is incredible; thank you so much! ^^
Now to the story...
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After calming the little pirate down, she begged Yuri into getting her some dumplings on a stick, one of her favorite foods that she always seemed to be sticking in her mouth. Patty humming happily about the delicious taste, she sat on a bench near the two and looked at Yuri.
"Yum, yum, dumplings!" she said childishly.
A simple chuckle arose from Yuri. He simply just looked up into the sky with a smile on his face. It was kind of a busy chore yet fun privilege of taking care of this little girl. First time he met her, she tried to barge right past those obnoxious guards of Ragou's mansion, soon outsmarting them and Yuri with a smoke bomb and a fake doll replica of herself. Then, somehow, she got captured and tied up in a rug, hanging by rope from the ceiling in one of the rooms of the basement of the same mansion. Then, she was in Kiev Moc being carried by a beetle, being vomited out of a merman right before the ghost ship, appeared in the Weasand of Cados behind them, and then finally joined the party while swimming in the Sands of Kogorh. Man, this little girl was impressive at getting into situations that Yuri wouldn't have believed that he himself could get into.
"So, Patty, you been keeping out of trouble?" he asked, catching her attention.
"Uh-huh, of course I've been, Yuri! I've made extra-extra-super-duper sure that I don't go where monsters are by myself and that I don't cause trouble! Besides," Patty said, then hugging herself happily with over-hyperactive joy, "I've been so happy since I got the Fierta!"
The Fierta was the ship that Fortune's Market used to own, but after fighting off the mermen and getting away from that ghost ship, the gang were given the boat for free. But after the team went their separate ways after the Adephagos battle, Patty claimed dibs on the ship, and thus has been using it happily.
"Must be hard to man the ship all by yourself, right? Since there's no more blastia to work the ship and all," Yuri questioned to just keep the conversation going.
"Oh, you gotta believe me! It was so hard at first, but luckily, that nice Kaufman lady helped me get one of those new things called engines, and it runs real great!" the pirate cheered, but looked up with a funny and talking aloud face, "However, it's hard to breathe when you stand so close to the engine when it's running. But, that's okay!"
Fighting the urge to let a laugh slip out, Yuri nodded and looked away, "Well, it seems you got yourself all handled out. Guess it was a waste of time to worry about you."
"Ah! You worried about me?" Patty's eyes glittered and glistened with sparkles as she shimmied over closer to the man, a part of her past dream of marrying him awakening, "Oh, it's so lovely to have a man like you worry about me! Heehee! You're making me blush..."
Slight annoyance was on the part of Yuri. Like stated previously, it wasn't as bad as before when they first met, on how Patty announced to the world that she and Yuri would be a couple. But there were those times that it just made him irritated to where he might just start complaining. Maybe not as bad as when the old man is... being the old man, but maybe around where Estelle constantly just goes off in different directions because of her whims, or when Flynn lectures him on right and wrong.
"Yeah, sure... anyways, what are you doing here in the harbor?" he asked, looking back at her.
"Well, ya know I like sailing around for adventure, but it's just bad, Yuri! Bad! I can't even find anything to do! So, I thought I'd come visit you!" she cheered clapping, flinching as a piece of dumpling almost fell off the stick.
"Huh? Why me?" he asked, blinking.
"Because we know your luck, Yuri," Patty said, grinning slyly and raising an eyebrow, "Trouble and adventures always get you involved."
"Gee, thanks," Yuri smiled incredulously up into the sky, a bit tired of how fate always seemed to knock on his door and how what the pirate said couldn't be argued.
"So, come on! Tell me! You gotta be in the middle of some kind of situation, right? Lemme help; what's going on?" Patty said, leaning closer towards him.
Yuri, after taking one good look at Repede's nod of agreement, sighed and then began to say, "Okay... here's what's happened so far..."
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In actuality just outside of the port city, Flynn had just finished sending the Aiheap twins back to Zaphias in order to help Sodia train more soldiers. Originally, he was going to bring the Flynn Brigade over there and recruit them to come along, but after the massive Orochiberus blood fest, he decided to play it safe. Sighing, he closed his eyes and clenched his fist close to his chest. He was still remembering the horror that took place...
"Flynn?"
He turned to see that Estelle and Rita were walking towards him and out of the port near him.
"Lady Estellise, what are you doing outside Nor Harbor?" he asked.
"Well, Rita was given some new information about a brand new type of element spell," Estelle explained smiling, "So I decided to come and watch her try it out."
"A new spell type...?" Flynn couldn't help but say aloud.
"Apparently, the spell type is Lightning; something even I haven't heard of," Rita said, getting a bit further away, "It's a totally new element, unlike my Thunder Blade arte. I want to master it, just in case things demands it come in handy."
"Rita's training aside, is there a particular reason you're out here, Flynn?" Estelle asked.
"...I'm just recalling my failure back at Halure, your highness," Flynn said, closing his eyes, turning away from Estelle's sudden frown, "I've been very troubled by my lack of proper leadership that costed me those lives."
"Flynn, there was nothing you could do more; Yuri has already told you that," Estelle said, sounding a bit sad.
"Yuri doesn't know what it's like right now to know your mistake cost the lives of good men and women that will never be obtained again, Lady Estellise," the knight said rather darkly, then perked his head up, shook it a bit, then turned to her, "M-My apologies for that behavior."
"It's all right... and, I think you're right in a sense, Flynn," Estelle said, holding her hands in front of her stomach, "Yuri may not know what it's like to make a bad mistake that ends up taking lives, but he does know that making a decision can affect the people around him. You know that after he killed Ragou and Cumore behind our backs, it caused some problems for Brave Vesperia."
"That is indeed true, and it does kind of bother me still that he was the cause of those deaths," Flynn said, but instead of continuing a pointless never-ending argument on whether his best friend's actions were justified, "But besides that, maybe I do need to come to terms that stuff like this can happen. It'll be very difficult, I know for sure."
"But you have us that can help you," the girl said happily, which caused the knight to nod and thank her for the talk.
"Okay, I've got the formula down," they both turned their attention to the mage after she spoke, "Now, to test it...!"
Getting into her classic spell casting pose, the orange circle appeared underneath her as she began to chant her incantation.
"O, thunderous electricity that crackles shatteringly, come down and paralyze my foes! LIGHTNING!"
Suddenly, tiny sparks from the sky came down and formed pathetically shaped bolts. Grunting in frustration, Rita honestly tried to fight the urge to blast Flynn with a fireball as he began guffawing at her bluff for a good two and a half minutes. Estelle tried to silence him and even convince her friend the knight was laughing at something else, but that was so not working.
"I'm sorry! I really am, haha!" Flynn finally regained himself, to Estelle's liking for he lightened up again (A/N: Hehe, pun!), "It's just I've never seen you mess up a spell before."
"Rrrgh, this spell is harder than I thought... How did that moron do it...?" she said, the latter part under her breath.
"You just gotta practice again until you get it, Rita," Estelle tried to innocently encourage her.
In a fit of impatience and doing a shortened spell cast, the mage yelled, "Blah blah blah! LIGHTNING!"
Well, that was a sucky move on the genius' part. Not only did the lightning bolt pretty much come out too fast and bulky, but it went way off course and happened to strike a certain black-haired teenager who was training way far from them.
"YYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEOOOUUUCH!" Akihiro shrieked as he jumped up and twitching coming down onto the ground.
"...Whoops..." was all Rita could say, as she had the look of just backing up and walking away, hoping no one would notice.
"Akihiro! Hang on!" the princess yelled, rushing over to him.
"If I may borrow a sarcastic line from Karol, 'Way to go, Rita'. No offense," Flynn said, teasing a bit as he hurried over, only to have the mage snort at him and rush over too.
As the two got over, Estelle finished healing the teen as he shot up to his feet and glared angrily at the mage.
"The HELL was that for!? You almost cooked me from the inside out!" he shouted at her.
"Awww, almost?" Rita said, smiling as she teased, but sounding serious as it caused the teen to flinch in fear of her.
"Rrrgh, well, I'm fine now," the boy grumbled as he jumped back up.
"Akihiro, you can't be seriously training after what happened eariler today, are you?" Estelle asked, wide-eyed.
"Sure am, Estelle! I gotta get stronger so I can beat Yuri next time we spar! Then, I'll challenge Tai, and then the coliseum of Nordipolica!" he cheered impishly.
"You know, Yuri will become steamed at you if he catches you again, trying to kill yourself," Rita said, folding her arms.
Cupping his chin in his hand, the commandant raised an eyebrow at the young man, "Come to think of it, has Yuri even talked to you yet about your behavior?"
"Naw!" Akihiro grinned evilly, "I snuck out behind him after you guys finished talking with the Aiheap twins. He totally forgot all about me! Bonus training time for me."
Suddenly, a giggle came from the princess. The trio accompanying her all glanced over with curiosity and suspicious wonder as she smiled.
"In that case, I better go tell Yuri myself," she said, teasing the teen who suddenly paled and his eyes became huge in fear.
"Wh-Whoa! Hold on, you ain't serious, are you, Estelle?" he said, scared that she was actually being truthful.
"I am, but I might not tell, if you catch me!" she laughed as she began running back to the port city.
"N-No way! This ain't funny! Estelle, wait up!" Akihiro called out after her as he began running after her.
It left the commandant and mage completely confused on who said what and what just happened. They blinked at the same time and then looked at each other. Soon, both had a smile on their face.
"Wow, she beat me to it," Rita said, almost chuckling.
"It embarrasses me to say this, but I want to see what happens. Come; let us go after them," Flynn said, and with a nod from his friend, all four ran back towards Capua Nor.
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Please, Japanese fans and English translating fans of the PS3 version of the game, forgive me if I misrepresented Patty's behavior wrong. I just thought since she's a 14 year old girl, I could make her innocent and excited like. And just a fun goofy chapter here. I hope you like it, and keep reading!