Eivexst: So who wants me to get to work on the pairing thing?
Marche: I would appreciate it.
Shara: I second that.
Eivexst: Okay then I'll get to the chase, I do not own Final fantasy tactics advance. Also sorry if any of you want to kill me after this chapter.
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Marche's POV: We stood at the out side of the inn and we were all ready to go I just had a couple things to do before we could depart, I stepped into the lobby and saw Shara and Umbra along with Nelly sitting at one of the tables, Umbra was drinking a cup of that same amber liquid that Shara had yesterday as Nelly and Shara were eating what I assume is dinner.
"So are you guys going to miss us?" Umbra looked up with a odd twinkle in his eyes and Nelly shrugged with a small smirk as Shara smiled.
"Try to be careful." I nodded and she was satisfied with the response as Ritz came in with a annoyed expression on her face.
"Come on Marche how long are you going to keep us waiting, we've got to start going now or we won't make it in time." I sighed and scratched at the back of my head before waving to the others and running after Ritz to where the others were.
"So, kupo are we ready to go?" The other members of the clan seemed to be in a exasperated state having waited so long.
"Yes we're ready to go now, though I still don't get why we were told to be careful this shouldn't be too hard." We got the caravan moving after I got behind the reigns and as we started out onto the road towards lutia (which was a day away) I felt a small amount of anxiety.
Nelly's POV: It was close to time for them all to go, I watched from the window of the inn and observed as the members of clan nutsy got moving, me and the other members of clan Ritz stayed behind.
"Nel." I turned around to see who it was that used my nick name but no one was behind me, that was when I realized the voice came from the other room, in fact there were two of them.
"Oh come on, this." I placed my ear against the wall straining to hear who it was, it sounded like the voices were from Umbra's room.
"Why persist?" [That was Umbra's voice!] I continued to listen and couldn't make out who the other voice was but I could still hear what they were saying.
"Let me, please?." I thought I could hear movement and then something hitting the wall. "W-what are you?" The voice was muffled then, and it was Umbra I heard, with that I ran out of my room and burst the door open.
"N-Nel!?" I saw something I would never expect, one of the members of Marche's clan Marsha their viera archer had Umbra pinned to the wall, there was some of her pink lip stick stuck on his lips and I thought I heard something break as I slowly walked out of the room.
When I got out side I used my magic to call out Carbuncle who formed a shield around where I was blocking every one from the small pond I was currently at. "Oh Exodus, please hear me, I want you to hear me, please just this once!"
I felt a breeze before a pair of arms wrapped around me pulling me back onto a chest that felt slightly dampened. "You fool, it's okay to cry in front of others, right, Nelly." I shifted to look up and see Umbra, his lips were clean and the cast keeping his arm from moving to much was gone and the damp feeling came from a red spot where his wound is supposed to be as he also was sweating likely from the pain of chasing after me.
I put my face against his chest and cried slightly. "I-I'm going to smack you f-for causing pain to your self a-and seeing me cry." He smiled a genuine smile that any one could see as he put his lip down on the top of my head with his eyes closed.
"Sure thing, but let me enjoy this moment a little longer." I was glad for the fact his eyes were closed as I continued to cry, after a few seconds he started to scratch the back of my ears making me begin to purr.
And as I felt my head lean into his hand before I grabbed it and looked up at him I sighed. "Umbra, remember how I needed to talk to check something with you?" He nodded as a sign for me to keep going. "Well, in order to find out..."
He lifted an eye brow in confusion before making me look him in the eyes. "What do you need to do?" I felt my face get slightly warmer before I averted my eyes.
I swallowed a lump in my throat as he continued to stare at me. "I-I need you to um... Take off all the clothes on your torso." I looked back over at him to see he had a slightly shocked look on his face.
"W-why?" I fiddled with the ear ring he had given me before I responded with a nervous grin and screamed in my mind.
[Damn it Nelly, what are you doing stop acting like such a, such a GIRL!] "W-well I just need to um, check your wound." I lied with that damned grin on my face before I saw him look around a little before sighing.
"Fine, but don't you tell any one about this." He said with a serious tone in his voice before he sat down on a near by log and removed the robe he was wearing.
"Oh come on Pent, you need to remove those too." I said pointed at the bandages he has always kept wrapped around his upper body before he frowned and rolled his eyes as he covered his hand in a blue glow before his fingers turned green and tore through the bandages.
"There satisfied?" he asked in a annoyed tone.
"Very." I said with a grin as I look at his back closely to try and find what I needed too.
Umbra's POV: I sat there on the log feeling self conscious for the first time in years as Nelly examined my torso as if trying to find a clue for a mystery. "So, Pent, mind telling me what the situation with Marsha was about?" I felt a small ping in my chest when I heard that question.
"No, I don't mind, it's sort of odd in my opinion."
FLASH BACK.
I sat in my room reading from the book the inn keeper gladly gave me, he was a very nice old man and I certainly enjoyed reading about the dragon Ogma, before long day turned to night and I heard a knock at my door. "The door isn't locked you know."
I looked up from the book and marked the page before shutting it, but it wasn't Nelly who came in, rather Marsha. "Um, hello Umbra-kun." I tilted my head never having heard that before.
"Umbra, kun?" She blushed slightly at what I assume was the realization that I did not know what "kun" meant.
"O-Oh, well you see Umbra-kun, um, that is a word from a part of the world my mother is from that you use for some one you have a close relation too, i-is it okay for me to call you that?" I held my chin in thought before nodding, after all I didn't like to disappoint a woman and that nod made a smile come to her face.
"Thank you, now then, is it okay if we talk?" I didn't see how it could be so bad to talk, even though I didn't know her all that long. "Very well, so what is it you would like to talk about Marsha?"
She started to shift from one foot to the other before I kicked a chair over it spun a couple times before landing in front of her perfectly so she could sit near the bed I was on. "W-well, you see, I was wondering why it is you stay so far from us all?"
I tilted my head and gave her a closer look as she kept on a stare I couldn't place the emotion of but it was hitting something in the back of my mind.
She appeared to be the same age as me and she came up to my forehead if she were standing, she also had a small yet still feminine figure, she wore a gold hair pin and was wearing pink lip stick that added a alluring appeal to her face that was rounded as if like a heart, her hair was also a very silver color that looked more white then grey, she had on a yellow colored shirt with a hood on the back and a long zipper going to the end of it on the front, she also had on a long skirt that revealed a pair of very nice tan colored legs and a pair of red sandles finished her out fit.
"I don't see how that is your business." She placed her hand over her chest when I responded in my usual emotionless fashion.
"But, it is my business, I-I mean, why does that girl get you all to her self?" I tilted my head and gave a confused stare as she stood and came slightly closer.
"Her? Do you mean Nel?" She nodded at this and sat down next to me as I started to get a strange feeling that made my head swim slightly. "Yes, why does she get you to her self?"
I gave her a stern stare. "Marsha, where are you going with this?" She placed her hand on my cheek before giving me a odd grin. "Umbra-kun, I would like you to return these feelings."
I inwardly gave a small shout as she tried to kiss me and I backed away. "Marsha, stop this now, I need to go speak with Nel!" I stated as I saw the time was on when we were to talk.
She pulled the zipper on her jacket down exposing a small bit of her chest do to the zipper getting stuck half way down, much to my relief that it couldn't go farther, yet I still felt my face burn. "Oh come on Umbra-kun, you can't say that you don't want any of this."
I backed up a bit more now fully aware of what that odd feeling was trying to warn me about. "Why the must cliches happen to me, do not persist!"
She grabbed my arms and kissed me a couple times. "Let me do this, It's to much Umbra-kun just give me this please!" I backed up and hit the wall as she pinned my hands against the wall. "W-What are you-" Before I could finish she muffled my voice with a very rough kiss and I actually felt my self become terrified for what was going to happen if I couldn't stop this as she fumbled with her skirt.
I heard the door slam open and felt mortified by her presence as she had a look of pure shock on her face. "N-Nel!?" She stood there for a few seconds before slowly walking out and when she was out of sight I heard running, then... when I looked over at Marsha she had a look like she was happy with what happened.
"Well then, where were we?" She looked down at me with a seductive stare before it turned to a shocked gaze when she froze as I glared at her, I yanked my foot out from under her and kicked her off before she realized making her yelp as I ran after you.
CURRENT TIME.
"Along the way though I hit a door frame which is what probably opened the wound a little." I looked up to see Nelly was staring at my shoulder with a confused look. "It's not there?"
I tilted my head in confusion. "What's not there?" She placed her hand down on both of my shoulders. "The blue marks, why aren't they here any more?" This made me even more confused as Nelly seemed to be a lost on this.
"Nel, are you feeling okay?" She seemed to shake out of it as she smiled at me and poured a tiny bit of a high potion onto the wound making me hiss at the pain from it before it turned to a soothing sensation as the wound started to close at a faster rate.
"Yes, I'm fine, though I want to kick Marsha's ass now for how she tried to pretty much rape you." She giggled and I felt my self get embarrassed by this.
I placed my hand over my mouth to keep from yelling some choice words that would have landed me 6 feet under. "Yeah, yeah just keep laughing your ass off Nel." She did just that as she continued to laugh making a small smile come to my face as I slammed my hand as a fist side ways on my palm and slowly pulled my open palm back to reveal bandages appearing out of a blue glow.
"Oh that's right, I forgot you could make that stuff, magic thread right?" I nodded and handed it to her as I sat back down. "I can't wrap my self up, so could you help with that a bit?"
I heard her walk closer before the cold feeling from the new bandages started to spread as it started to get put around me and it still hurt a little when it was tightened to keep from un raveling. "Thank you, I appreciate the help Nel."
She nodded as she called back down Carbuncle, it gave a nother shine from it's tail and that odd presure dispersed and was no more except in the shape of small shimers on the ground. "Let's head back to the inn, I'm sure Shara is worried about us." I nodded and followed her along the way.
Shara's POV: I sat there in the lobby trying my best to not chew on my nail as I waited for Umbra nd Nelly to come back, I was sitting next to Marsha who seemed like she was close to tears. "It's okay Marsha, don't cry, I'm sure they'll be back soon."
And just as I finished the showed up in the window, Umbra had apparently forgotten to put his robe back on for we could see the bandages wrapped around his torso and down on his arms to his elbows when they came in they both looked over at me with a worried look.
"Pent, Nel, come here." I said pointing at the table we were at and the moment they sat Marsha wrapped her arms around Umbra who seemed to frown.
"Now then, Marsha, you tell your side of the story first." Before she could start speaking how ever there was an odd bursting sound like an explosion, we all bolted out of our chairs and out side to see that there were bombs all over the place, four in the four different corners of this part of Ciril.
"Umbra, you and Marsha take the ones on the right, me and Nel well take the ones on the left!" they all nodded and we rushed to our positions as the bombs locked their sights on us, I started off launching a poison arrow at the higher blue bomb, also known as a chily but the arrow froze before it even hit its mark.
"Shara!" I jumped out of the way of a fireball as Nel called down Shiva, she launched a blue pillar of Ice down onto the monster killing instantly as I looked over to see how Umbra and Marsha were doing, there was a large blasting sound and I saw Umbra go flying out of the smoke covered in frost, the chily had exploded on him.
"Every one, we need to defend Umbra!" He was down on his hands and knees shivering from how cold he was now as Marsha launghed a arrow with a blue aura around it making the chily no longer able to launch Ice I ran over and gave a pheonix feather to help warm him up a bit.
Nelly walked over with a odd yellow color coming off of her and after she hugged Umbra she started to walk towards the bomb that was left, I saw it expand signaling it was going to blow up but it froze as Nelly seemed to fade away, a few seconds later I saw a odd multi colord burst appear around it, a blast of Fire, Ice, Lighting, and Holy magic blasted it before she reappeared with that yellow color starting to disapate before she walked over to Umbra and collapsed with him catching her.
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Eivexst: Okay that part in the middle was hard for me to write, the end of this chapter was much easier for me to deal wth, and I got a little bit of work on the OC pairing too.
Marche: I thought for sure you meant me and Shara when you mentioned work with the pairing.
Eivexst: Tough, you'll need to wait till next chapter Marche.
Shara: Well either way I'm looking forward to what happens next, please leave a review for the next chapter.
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