Chapter 11
FTP: And here are the votes for fav OC and/or character ^^
Carly: 2
Jack: 1
Alex: 2
Kairi: 1
Alex: woot we makin' em eat our dust sis! *hi5 pose*
Carly: yeah *returns hi5*
Kairi: its all still open loose screw *grumbles*
Alex: you're just jealous icy =P
Jack: *cool pose* hmph
FTP: okay I'm sorry it took long for the update I had some stuff that needed to be taken care of and my other stories and life in general etc plus I lost my muse :/ but its back now ^^ thank you everyone for your kind reviews and
Bluespiritfire1: yeah I'm not too good with punctuations I'll try to be more careful and when im done I'll go through the story once more to arrange it ^^ thanks for pointing it out =
"Bingo, she was right, they're here," Sora grinned triumphantly juggling with the two gems that were a red and whitish blur.
The Dark signers' old headquarters hadn't been touched yet, everyone feared it was haunted by the spirits who possessed them and nothing the signers could say would reassure the civilians. Faust and Sora however were unperturbed and quickly found what used to be their cousins room.
Faust shook his head, "Dark signer or not, she never loses her ideals does she?"
"It's Carly we speaking about dude! She anything but ordinary, and maybe if she could still grasp her objective as a dark signer, maybe, she could, you know, lead us to the glorious victory we deserve,"
"And then we could live a normal life?"
"Yeah, it would be awesome," Sora shouted enthusiastically
Faust snorted politely, if anyone could, it was him, "Sora, we Fortune thieves have two missions, to protect the world from Hikari's group and their master and to give back what was unrightfully taken to the true owners,"
Sora pouted gazing away from his partner while Faust sighed in defeat at his stubbornness.
"As fortune Bamboo you have your duties and as Fortune Datil yucca I have mine don't forget that, it goes for all of us, we…,"Faust sighed moving a hand through his soft hair, "we will never be free from our legacy, come on, let's go,
Carly relaxed the moment she got Faust's message,
'Be home in an hour or so, found your journals,'
Journals being codename for gems, they had found them both. But most importantly Faust and Sora were safe, not that she didn't trust them, however they had grown together all of the fortune thieves learning new tricks and stunts, all of them had been her family, if she lost them…
Carly shook the thoughts that threatened to take hold of her and enjoyed the fresh night air on the balcony, closing her eyes for maximum relaxation. They had transferred to their new headquarters along with the signers; aka Kairi's villa in Neo domino city. So her hunch had been right. She felt relief flowing like warmth in her veins.
"Hey-"
Warm strong arms wrapped around her waist, but, they were too gentle.
"-pweety girl," and then laughter, it took all of Carly's patience not to grit her teeth.
"I is Jack, I the master of faster shall race in the highway of love to win your hearts,"
"It's not funny sis," Carly freeing herself from her sisters grasp.
Alex proceeded to roll on the floor laughing, "You thought I was Jack hahaha, man, sis, you're soooo hooked!"
"What? Oh Alex come on be serious for once,"
"Me? Serious?"
"Touche…"
A smile graced Alex lips, Carly gave her a warning glance but to no avail, "Carly and Jack sitting on a-,"
Carly clamped Alex's mouth shut before she could continue her singing, "pfft like you can talk! What about Faust?"
Alex gave her a very annoyed look.
"It's so not different," Carly responded letting her go.
"Fine spoilsport, I think I'm gonna go play with ice queen, might as well give her the good news, and iv gotta tell the cook to prepare a grand meal, those two are bound to be ravenous,"
"How did you know?"
"One we're twins I read your mind," Alex laughed raising her eyebrows in satisfaction, "Two, you finally relaxed," and then she was gone after she stuck her tongue out playfully at Carly.
Turning back to the view of the lit city which was still bustling with life even late at night like a beacon of light in the darkness Carly felt glad and finally at peace. Alex was back, she finally could believe it and she had Jack.
Once again someone decided to embrace her from behind while she was lost in her thoughts however this time she had a remark read to be fired as Carly had expected Alex to come back albeit it had been too quickly. So she tuned round and spoke her thoughts.
"You think-," before she could finish the sentence warm, rough lips collided with hers and she closed her eyes on instinct but not before her brain registered the messy blond mane of the man who stole her heart. When they broke away she was left breathless but much to her satisfaction Jack was also panting trying to hide it unsuccessfully since his head was on her shoulder.
"Been wanting to do this for a while," he muttered in her ear his breath tickling her neck before he kissed it.
Carly sighed contentedly listening to the now slowing heartbeat of her boyfriend. She could call him that right?
"You're being uncharacteristically silent," he pointed out, which of course meant in Atlas language to which Carly had become accustomed to: Speak up girl and tell me what's wrong.
"Just thinking of the future I guess,"
"Hmm," this meant go on for those who aren't as fluent as the ex-dark signer.
"I mean all my life we have been trained for this one moment what if we fail?"
Jack just shrugged letting her go and joining her in admiring their cities beauty but still held a protective arm round her waist, "I know you'll do you best, if that's not enough, we fail, we can only hope after all that's part of being human,"
"What if we win then?"
"Then your job is done, you can finally go find a new destiny,"
"it's not that simple, our legacy, we must still keep on fighting give back stuff to the rightful owner and-"
"You're babbling," jack smirked in his own way cutting her frantic speech.
"Sorry,"
"I want you to know this," he said in a husky yet serious voice, "I will follow you anywhere after this, if we survive that is,"
Carly felt her face heat up but gave him her brightest smile, "Good to know, plus you still got to ask me something right?"
"Right, but only after everything's wrapped up nicely,"
Pouting Carly brought jack closer for yet another passionate kiss until of course they were interrupted by a whistling pair.
"Damn Carly you found yourself a hunk!" Kairi cheered
"Woowoowoo, look who's in L-O-V-E,"
"Jack, I'm so sorry about this," and with that Carly bent down shook her boot of and threw it straight and the giggling pair. Before she could get the other boot of they were gone, she looked back at Jack laughing sincerely which made his breath stop and went after the two. Chuckling to himself Jack thought that he sure was a lucky man and vowed to himself that he would always protect Carly's true smile, a smile untainted by responsibility, pain and guilt it once had been
That evening they all dined together celebrating the retrieval of the gems.
"A toast everyone, to finding the gems, to being once again all together, and to our new friends," Carly said trying to stop the tears from flowing. Everyone cheered and her speech.
"To having Alex back safe and sound," Faust added as he and said girl locked eyes sitting next to one another and unbeknown to the rest holding hands.
"To family," Kairi went on raising her own glass.
"To victory," Yusei and Akiza said in unison and blushing crimson red when they noticed to the amusement of the rest.
"You mean to kickin' their butts to the furthest galaxy!" Sora corrected with Leo giving him a high five and a goofy grin. Luna smiled at him laughing wholeheartedly earning her a big grin and a faint pink blush to which she responded with her own.
"To our new and unbreakable bonds," Sherry finished
"Okay eat up, we have a long way to go, them not attacking Faust and Sora when they got the diamond and ruby could only mean that they have a plan, we gotta be prepared for everything!"
Alex once again interrupted Carly to which her sister gave her an annoyed look, "Yeah but now is the time to fill our bellies and relax! Celebrate we must and FYI this is going to be nothing compared to our We-saved-the-world party
FTP: once again sorry for it being so late and enjoy, keep o voting for your fav oc and/or character if you haven't already =D cant promise a fast update since exams are coming up ^^'
Jack: R&R or else taste my dust!
Alex: and please keep on rooting for our victory
Also pop quiz, why? cuz i can =P -The names of the fortune thieves have all been revealed who can tell me what they are?
Carly: Alex...*sigh* see you everyone!