Chapter 3 – Explanations and Phone Calls
Sayako Nightbringer
When I looked at the clock again, an hour had already passed, signaling that I had probably dozed off. It was irritating, but a usual thing for me. I stayed curled up and contemplated bugging Leon for a moment. I didn't have to bother though. Because he contacted me.
Remind me to throw the country boy into the ocean. He growled at me, making me stiffen in surprise.
'Um... I'll do that.' I replied dumbly. 'Are you okay?'
No.
I laid there, waiting for him to continue. When he didn't, I decided to speak again. 'What's wrong with him that irritates you so much?'
Everything about that moron annoys me. Same with the Lens thief. He half-snarled.
'Lens?' I asked, having to hide the fact that I already knew what they were. Leon sighed in my head, probably with growing frustration.
Lens are objects carried by monsters that are used to make a lot of items, weapons, and other things. Right now we have to go off to find a large Lens from the old war a long time back. He explained.
'What's this large Lens called?'
The Eye of Atamoni. Leon answered.
I nodded before remembering that he couldn't see me at all. 'Um... I don't really know what to say to that...' I told him sheepishly.
Idiot. Whatever, just keep quiet. There's something odd going on. And with that he left me alone again. I huffed a little under my breath and sat up. There was nothing to do and he just wanted me to keep quiet?
Muffled buzzing nearly made me bang my head into the top bunk from being so startled. I looked back at my cell phone and picked it up with a soft glare.
"Now wha- oh..." I answered the call with a sigh. "Hello?"
"Erica? You okay?" A familiar voice answered from the other end.
"I'm fine, Becky. Just some stupid things going on lately." I replied, debating on if I should tell her or not. Things were quiet for a moment before Rebeccah spoke up again.
"Care to tell me? Or is it another of those 'it's my business' things?" She sounded offended, but I didn't really blame her for it. I'd been distancing myself from her for a while. I just couldn't agree with her on some points anymore.
"I wish I could tell you, but I don't understand it much myself. That and you wouldn't believe me."
"Yes I would! I'd believe anything you said. You know I would, girl!" She replied.
I just shook my head, resigned. "I know. But if I told you, you'd go telling him about it all."
"Would not!" Rebeccah protested.
"Becky." That was all I needed to say for her to get my point. I always had to remind her that we didn't think the same anymore. She was willing to wait for eternity for her wish.
I wasn't.
-x-
I'd ended up talking to Becky for a full three hours. By the time we'd hung up, I was ready to bang my head into the nearest wall. She just drove me so nuts sometimes! I tossed my phone onto my pillow and stood up, looking around for one of my books. I needed to clean up my room one of these days...
A knock at my door made me look up. "Yeah?"
"Erica, phone for you." My brother's voice answered from the other side of the door. I groaned and walked over, opening my door.
"Who is it now?" I half-whined, not quite ready to answer to anybody right now.
"Angel."
"AH!" I snatched the phone away from him and shut my door quickly, pulling the wireless up to my ear. "Sorry if you heard that! It's only been minutes since I got off the phone with Becky."
"Oh. I'm sorry." Came the usual response to my irritation.
"Stop apologizing, Emil." I teased. We often teased each other with the names 'Emil' or 'Colette' depending on who apologized most that day. Of course, she had cosplayed at Emil for Kumoricon just before school started. Which I found ironic at times.
"So what did she talk to you about?" Angel cut into my thoughts.
"Just the usual, but there is something I didn't tell her that I should probably tell you. Just don't flip out, kay?"
"Okay."
"Remember the dream I mentioned?" I leaned against one of the posts on my bunk bed, staring at the wall blankly.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Well, I got a strange necklace in that dream. But it was left behind when I woke up."
"Wait, left behind? Do you mean to say you have it with you now?"
"Yeah. This old woman yesterday after school gave it to me and said some really cryptic stuff. I don't know if she was all there or not, but if she's to be trusted, I'm probably going on some sort of adventure."
"Aww... I wish I could go."
"Believe me, I wish I could bring you. But that's not the strangest part. This necklace connected me to and anime character's mind. We can think either to each other or to ourselves apparently."
"Go on..."
"This necklace connected me to the mind of my favorite game character: Leon Magnus."
"No way! How did that work out?"
"You're asking the wrong person that question. I have no idea."
"That's so weird... You're lucky though."
"I am not! This is embarrassing as hell! You try having awkward conversations with the guy!"
Oi.
"WAH!" I nearly dropped my phone in shock, but caught it in time.
"Erica? What happened?"
"He just spoke to me again! Hang on. Let me calm down and find out why he's talking to me." I told her, taking a few deep breaths before poking the necklace harshly.
What the hell? I thought I told you to stop doing that!
'Well too bad!' I snapped at him. 'You scared me!'
How the hell did I scare you? Leon asked, probably raising an eyebrow if his tone was anything to go by.
'I was talking to my friend and you scared the hell out of me. Thankfully I already explained things on my end of this odd story.'
Why did you tell them about this? Isn't it a better plan to keep this quiet until we figure it out?
'She knows a lot about me and we share these types of things. She'll be able to help in the long run; she always has when we're writing stories or things like that.' I replied. 'Now what do you want?'
Chaltier wanted to say hi.
I almost felt the impulse to try and stare at the necklace like it's grown a head. The Swordian wanted to say hi? Did I just hear that right?
'Um... tell him I say hi back. And please don't startle me again. I'll get back to you when I'm done talking to my friend.'
"Angel?"
"Still here. You alright?"
"Yeah. I think I'm going to hang up and try to sleep some more. This day has been way too weird. That and I need some answers out of Leon. Chal for some reason wanted to say hi to me."
"That's odd. Okay. I'll see you Monday. Bye."
"Bye." I hung up and took the phone back out to the dining room to hang it up before returning to my room. Things just kept getting weirder and weirder didn't they?
Sayako: Tales of Destiny is owned by Namco, and whoever else. My friends own themselves. It'd be just odd if I did.
