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Paths of
the Heart
Chapter 1- Dimension shift
A laugh echoed
though out the crumbling almost abandoned temple, it was an eerie laugh,
however not an evil one.
Quite the opposite actually, this laugh reeked of sadness and defeat.
The god emperor stood in the
center of the disintegrating temple, long white hair flaring out slightly, due
to the wind that swept around the place.
His name: Fou-Lu the
Endless.
“So, defeated at last…”
Fou-Lu spoke softly and let out another hollow laugh “What irony, I hath been
beaten by myself!” He said while trying to stop laughing so much that he could
breathe. In front of him the winged princess cringed, she did not like that laugh.
She turned to the blue-haired dragon next to her, to see Ryu’s emerald eyes
sparkling with resolve.
‘A beautiful emerald color…’ she thought, her
eyes went wide ‘beautiful? Where did that come from!?’
Nina quickly dismissed it; she’d worry about that later. There were more
important things to think about now.
At Nina’s side stood Cray
chief of the worens, Scais of the Grassrunner tribe, Ursula former captain of
the empire, the mysterious Ershin and of course her dragon friend- Ryu.
Ursula stepped forward, and
pointed her gun at him “There is no where left to run God emperor!” she shouted
in her arrogant voice, Fou-Lu smirked.
“Thou are correct… but I hath
no intention of running.”
Ursula blinked, “What?”
Fou-Lu ignored her and turned to Ryu,
“So my other half, how does
it fell to be outsmarted?” Ryu growled in confusion and clutched the hilt of
his sword tighter. “Thou art bepuzzled?” Fou-Lu asked in mock dismay.
“w-what are y-you
talking about?” Scais asked, Fou-Lu laughed softly.
“I hath more powers than you can imagine! If I
cannot join with you Ryu… then I’ll get rid of thee!
Dimension shift!”
“WHAT!”
“Ugh?” Nina
groaned as she opened her eyes, and tried to painfully herself off the floor. ‘Floor! I don’t remember being on the floor.’
Only then
did she realize her surroundings “eh? She said when she looked around. ‘Where
am I…’ Nina asked herself. What could she see… grass
birds, trees and swings. ‘I’m in a park… but what
would a park be doing in Chedo?’
Just then a little girl human
girl came up to Nina. “Wow, are you an angel?” she said pointing to Nina’s
wings.
Nina blinked “Uh, no.” The girl looked
disappointed.
“Oh OK then bye.” And she ran off to the
slide.
‘That was odd, an angel… maybe she’s just
never seen a wyndian before, and after all we are in the Empire.’ Nina thought
she shrugged it off, when she remembered her friends “Ursula! Scais! Ershin!
Cray! Ryu!” Nina bellowed as loud as she could, but no
one came, well except a policeman.
He tapped Nina on the back “Anything the
matter miss?” it was then he noticed her wings, he raised an eyebrow, Nina
noticed.
“What, never seen a wyndian
before?” she asked the policeman’s eyebrow went higher. Just then Nina
remembered she was looking for her friends “ oh yeah,
by the way have you seen my friends, one looks like a dog, another like a
mobile-dustbin, two with tails and a blue-haired guy.” Nina finished, if the
policeman’s eyebrow could go any higher it would be in space.
“Yeah, whatever kid.” He said as walked off.
Nina jumped up and down in
frustration “Yeah what have you seen them or not!” She growled and turned
around… only to come face to face with Ryu “Ryu!” Nina screamed in shock and
fell onto the grass, Ryu offered her his hand, she took it and suddenly hugged
Ryu, “oh, Ryu, I thought I was all alone!” Ryu blinked and his face went beet
red, it is safe to say to say that he isn’t hugged often, especially by a girl.
Just then realization dawned
on Nina as she noticed she was hugging Ryu, her face went as red as His.
“Uhhhh…” they said in unison
“let’s just forget that happened OK?” Ryu nodded, still as
red as ever.
Nina tried to start a
conversation with Ryu, though of course he can’t speak “uh, so where are we
Ryu?”
Ryu shook his head, signaling
he didn’t know, Nina sighed and looked to the sky. The sun was setting , Ryu started walking towards the top of a rather
small hill, “huh?” Nina said in a note of confusion, he stopped, his eyes
slightly rounder than usual, Nina followed his path and walked up to him, to
see what caused his expression of shock.
Millions of tiny lights
sparkled from buildings below, reflecting the dying evening sun.
“Ryu… I don’t think were in
Chedo anymore.”
They failed to notice the
pair of eyes in the shadows.
Chapter III: lurking in the shadows
“I got em.” Said a shadowed figure, talking into a mobile phone.
“Are you sure it’s them? the boss doesn’t want any slip-ups Dawn.” Said a monotone voice from the phone.
The woman named Dawn replied “How many guy’s wit’ blue hair an’ angel look-a-likes are there Bolt?” she said sarcastically.
“Shut up! Just watch them, don’t let them out of your sight!” Bolt spat.
Dawn rolled her eyes “Kay, Kay, whatever, keep that mop you call hair on.” A growl was heard at the end of the line, but no more was said. Dawn shoved the phone into a large pocket of her white trench coat, and brushed away a strand of loose jet black hair behind her ear with her gloved hand, as she slid into the shadows nearer Ryu and Nina, to spy.
“Yeash! Look at all those lights, that’s one big town!” Nina said half in amazement half in shock. Ryu nodded in agreement, but then narrowed his eyes and pointed to the shadows in which Dawn lay. She herself then started to sweat, realizing she’d been caught.
Ryu plodded over to her, eyes still narrowed, with Nina trailing him, and glared at Dawn for spying on them.
“What are you doing here?” Nina asked naively.
“J-just just staying in the shade it’s sure hot out today, eh?” Dawn said quickly coming up with an excuse, it didn’t fool them, seeing as the sun was setting. Ryu certainly didn’t look impressed, she, seeing that her excuse had failed made another.
“Actually… you folks looked lost and I wanted to help ya… uh but ya know I thought it would be more polite ta wait for you to finish talkin’ ya know”
They fell for it.
“oh! That’s nice of you… actually we are we are lost, maybe you could tell us the name of this town, and country and maybe… the planet?”
Dawn was puzzled, ‘aliens maybe? Now dat would be intrestin’ hm…” she thought, Nina noticed and quickly made up something, this was soon becoming the war of lies.
“I have amnesia… and so does he!” Nina said.
Dawn blinked but answered anyway “ yer’
in merspring in
“Earth eh?” Nina said, Ryu too had his finger on his chin in thought.
“Well bye!” Dawn said abruptly, eager to leave, and promptly ran off.
“Uh well… that was odd. Hey Ryu what she said, were on the planet earth, How?” she asked.
Ryu looked deep in thought then strangely enough spoke. “ Fou-Lu has thrown us though a portal that he summoned to another dimension, though he most likely planned only me to come here, I wonder why?”
Nina’s mouth literally dropped “you-you can speak, I thought you were mute, why didn’t you say something before?” she choked out.
“Strange… you remember when in battle, if I cast a spell I shout out the name of it, hm?” he chuckled
“Well I had to concentrate on the enemy, not you, no matter how good you look.” Nina said, then she realized what had slipped out of her mouth “uh-um” she stuttered blushing and trying to cover her red face from Ryu, fortunately he didn’t notice what she had just said, or was it unfortunately?
“You seem not to notice many things Nina, like me transforming to a dragon in battle at the start of our quest.” He said arms folded, no expression gracing his face.
“Oh yeah… well, nevermind, but why didn’t you speak out of battle?”
Ryu shrugged “I’m not a rather talkative person, or rather not a talkative dragon.” He said a small smile on his lips, as the sun disappeared under the horizon, leaving them in soft moonlight.
Paths
of the Heart
Chapter IV: First strike
“It’s getting dark.” Nina said nervously.
“Hm” Ryu grunted in reply, not really paying attention, he was admiring the town, or rather city, it was the largest he’d ever seen.
“It’s getting dark.” He said bluntly, not realizing he was copying Nina.
“ Hey! That’s what I said, you mimic!” Nina said jokingly, Ryu said nothing he appeared to be looking for something, Nina blinked and asked, “ What are you looking for?”
“Shelter.” He replied
“ Oh…” the wyndian princess said
quietly and looked at the floor ‘he’s right, he is not very talkative.’ She
thought, then a ‘brilliant’ idea, If this was a cartoon then a lightbulb would
have magically appeared right over her head, but alas that is not so. “Why
don’t we go down to the big town surely there must be an
“Best idea you’ve had all day…” Ryu said smiling, Nina looked proudly at him, “ I’m glad I thought of it.” He ended cheekily, the big smile on Nina’s face slowly wilted.
“HEY! I thought of it! Me, not you!” Ryu started walking off, “don’t you dare run off I’m speaking to you, Stand here and face me you coward! Are you a man or a whelk?!”
“I’m a dragon actually.” Ryu said smugly, listening to the sound of Nina running after him, shouting various insults, it was quite amusing actually, or that was what he thought.
“Whelk! Fairy! Horse! Dog!” Ryu had to laugh at the simplicity of her feeble insults. But that second she grabbed Ryu painfully by the arm, sharp nails digging into him, and let a high pitch shriek to get his attention.
“What is it?!” He said sharply, getting rather annoyed.
At this Nina folded her arms and puffed up her lower lip, “ you’re so mean! You were nicer when everyone thought you were mute, Ryu!” She growled.
Ryu was about to make a smart comment back, when he felt really bad and had a strange urge to apologize. “What is this magic has Nina cast a spell on me?’ he asked himself.
“Nina, I don’t know why I’m saying this… but I’m sorry.” He said softly.
“Huh?” came the very confused reply of a certain wyndian princess, but her mouth then curved into a smile “ I win Bing! Bing! Bing!” she said dramatically, and doing a strange victory dance which kind of looked like an ancient Egyptian boogie.
“C’mon we’ll be here all night if we don’t go down to the town soon.” Ryu said, slightly amused with Nina’s ‘dance’
“Oh, right.” Nina said, skipping off, Ryu chuckled and followed her.
“Everything looks so big!” Nina cried in amazement, Ryu could only mouth “wow” the blonde haired princess started running everywhere, trying to look at everything at the same time, with Ryu trailing her, lights flashed everywhere blinding them with colors.
‘Lucky pound casino’
‘Half price sale’
‘Ginny’s fashion’
Were just a small percentage of them.
“Whats a casino?” Nina asked, Ryu shrugged, they both then noticed everyone was looking at Nina strangely, though it was dark, her pure white feathers were illuminated quite nicely with all the lights around them.
“I think we should find an
“I do decree that this place could use a makeover.” Said Nina, but not a laugh was heard, and for some reason it seemed rather darker than usual “S-shall we ask someone then?” said Nina quietly, Ryu nodded and walked over to a ‘reasonably’ friendly looking man.
“Whacha want?” he asked, maybe this wasn’t quite such a good idea, as he seemed to be looking at Nina very closely, too closely if you know what I mean, Ryu sharp-eyed as he is noticed this, and stood protectively in front of her.
“We was wondering if there was an
“yeah turn left an ye’ll find a place called ‘the armored furball’ it has a rather memorable name dun it? Say missy, yer mighty cute, whatcha say bout-“
But whatever he was about to say they never found out for at that second Ryu grabbed his sword by its hilt, and in a flash the man found himself against a wall with a sword pressed against his throat, in a record of 0.83 seconds.
“Shut up.” Ryu hissed dangerous, Nina stood there with wide eyes as the frightened man legged it as fast as pudgy little legs could carry him.
“Fraidy cat!” Nina yelled at the man running off, it was actually quite funny, he
kept bumping into people and stumbling over his own feet.
“…And
don’t come back!” She added watching him disappear out of sight.
“Inn, Nina.” Reminded Ryu, and the blonde haired girl giggled, Ryu altogether was
puzzled.
“You’re
SO- brave Ryu, It was very Noble of you to save
me from that bad man…” The brave and noble one so appointed by Nina felt a
light blush grace his face.
“…Are
we going? Or am I going to have to carry you to this ‘Armored Furball’ hm?”
Nina
giggled for what seemed the 10,000th time “Well that would be very Noble of you…” Ryu rolled his eyes and grabbed Nina
then slung her over his shoulder like a sack, She
immediately started to flail her arms and legs trying to get free. “Let me go
Ryu!”
“All right.” He said casually, dropping Nina on the hard concrete floor
“Oof.”
Was all that was heard from the wyndian princess.
“What
was that for!?” she said angrily
“You
told me to let you go.” Nina growled and stormed off in the direction of the
‘Armored furball’ Ryu shrugged, smiling lightly and ran on after her.
The
creaking rotten door swung open; as the pair from (dimension X… no not really)
the other dimension stepped silently inside, though silently was not an
adjective that could be used to describe the
“What
the hell are you looking at, never seen a wyndian before?!” he bellowed and
glared at anyone who dared to look their way.
Ryu
led Nina over to a small table and sat down.
“Why
does everyone keep looking at me?” Nina whispered
“I
gather that there are no wyndians in this dimension, you might want to cover
your wings Nina or-…” however we never found out why Nina should cover her
wings for at that moment they were approached by a scantily clad woman.
“Hi
there Hon, what’s you’re name?” She said winking as well as placing her hand on
his. Nina growled feeling a rage grow inside her.
‘How
DARE she touch MY Ryu!… ugh I wish I’d stop thinking things like
that I wonder why… oh nevermind I’m just going to whip her butt.” She thought
angrily.
She
stood up glaring at he woman, and while doing so, she accidentally knocked over
her chair and sent it to the floor with a loud clatter, attracting more stares
than usual.
“Listen
to me buster, you leave him alone, he’s mine.” She
said surprising even herself.
“Humph
I’m no buster.” The woman said throwing a strand of fiery red hair behind her
shoulder “I’m Satire.” She added smirking “And besides, you can share can’t
you?” Satire said in a mock child’s voice as if they were arguing over a toy.
Nina
growled and lurched forward attempting to ring Satire’s neck, however she just
stepped backwards, allowing Nina to fall flat on her face.
The
Wyndian princess lifted her face off the ground rubbing her teeth together,
making a horrible grating noise.
“That’s
it… you’re really gonna get it now…” she said, you could almost see the fire in
her eyes, she grabbed her staff from the table, and lifted herself off the
floor with it and pointed it at Satire dramatically “Now you’re going to pay.”
“OH,
my save me I’m being attacked by a girl with wings and a stick, oh woe is me.”
She said sarcastically, she never saw what hit her.
SMACK
Nina
had just rammed her staff into Satire’s face; She was…
how to put it not very happy.
“AHHHH! My face, my beautiful face!” She screeched,
pulling out a mirror and inspecting the damage: a giant purpling bruise.
Satire
made a noise that strangely reminded Nina of a hawk, the entire pub was silent
now, and had gathered round to watch the action.
Satire
reached into her pocket and pulled out a silver glinting dagger.
“You…
are so… dead…” She said leaving large spaces in her sentence to pant. She took
the dagger in her hand and held it above her and…
SLICE
Gasps
of shock issued from all around.
She
was gone.
“Where
is she? Where is that little worm?!”
“I
would prefer bird actually.” Came a reply from above.
“What?
How can this be?!”
All
looked to the ceiling, and lo behold their was Nina
hovering, smiling but unharmed.
“Missed
me?” she asked.
Steam
was practically issuing from Satire’s nostrils.
Nina
looked down from above, windswept hair in her face, a smile playing on her lips
“Sorry, but playtime… is over.”
“TYPHOON!”
Satire
was lifted into the air up the chimney and into the sky,
she then got caught on top of a skyscraper.
Later
it was reported on the news that “There have been sightings of a flying woman
on top of the ‘happybunny’ corporation building tower.”
Ryu’s
mouth was hanging open from watching this display of action as he silently
thought ‘remind me never to annoy her too much.’ But he didn’t have much time
to think for Nina dragged him to the front desk, slamming her hand down on it.
“Um…
y-yes miss?” the attendant asked, rather frightened and for good reason too.
“How
much is it for a room for two?!” Nina practically shouted, still heaving with
anger.
“Um…
10 p-pounds a night.” he said stuttering.
“I
only have Zenny!” Nina shouted.
“U-um uh h-have it on the house.” He said quickly running away as fast as he
could; Nina dragged Ryu up the stairs, bashing his head with every step.
Ryu
thought ‘I’ll never understand women…’
Chapter VI:
Of Kidnappings and hair dye
A Yawn.
A groan.
And a scuffle.
The Blue haired Dragon god (well partly) has just roused from his slumber.
He remembered the events of last night (stop thinking dirty thoughts readers)
After Nina had dragged him upstairs:
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“Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.”
“Quit your wining, Ryu!”
“Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.”
“Now… where’s that room?”
“Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Ouch.”
“Ah, here we are!”
Plop!
“Ouch.”
“Goodnight Ryu!”
“…”
“ZZZZZZZZZZ”
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Yes, Ryu painfully remembered how Nina had dragged him up the stairs, and then dropped him in the middle of the room to be eaten by vicious wolves… Well he would have except there were no wolves in the room, plus even if there was I’d have to right a long fight scene, with involves Ryu chopping the heads off those POOR wolves, however that would be too violent for the lil kidies out there so… I won’t.
“Your just too lazy.” Says Ryu, humph I am not… hey wait a minute your not surposed to speak to me, I’m narrating!
And this isn’t even in the humor section!
Uh, so readers just ignore this paragraph OK?
So Ryu sat up, still rather afraid of Nina, speaking of which, where was she?
He looked over to Nina’s bed to see…
She was gone, yet again.
“Nina?”
“Nina!”
“NINA!”
Ryu looked frantically around.
Where could she be?
Ryu stood silently, clutching his sword by its hilt, looking solemnly round the room, checking for any clue, anything to help him find Nina.
“Maybe she’s just downstairs…” The idea came to him.
So he scurried downstairs as fast as a tree monkey, and stood in front of the desk, gasping for breath.
“Have… you seen… my friend…Nina?” he gasped out.
It was the same attendant as yesterday Ryu noted; though he looked a lot less terrified now.
“Nina? Oh you mean that witch-girl?” Ryu nodded.
“Yeah, I’ve seen her, a man and a woman dragged her away… She put up quite a fight, made a racket she did, all that screaming…I’m rather surprised you didn’t hear, had a hard day yesterday?” he asked
“I’ve had an adventure and a half yesterday…” Ryu answered ‘…then again I always do…’ he thought afterwards.
“Anyway… where did they take her?” the attendant shook his head
“I dunno but they left this.” He said handing Ryu a wrinkled piece of paper, and walking off to clean, while muttering “I tell ya round here things are getting weirder and weirder…”
Ryu glanced at the
note:
Dear: blue haired
one
Your friend is
certainly very interesting with her bird like appearance and strange powers,
that we observed last night, so in the name of science we took it apon
ourselves to find… more about her.
Love
Dawn snow & Bolt
Blueberry
XXX
PS: Don’t bother
looking for your little feathered friend; you know you won’t find her.
Ryu growled, Nina had been kidnapped and he couldn’t do anything about it. She could be anywhere in this god-forsaken world, what’s a dragon to do in a situation like this?
“You might want to check the Crestville research center, that’s the kind of place that would kidnap a girl and experiment on her.” A voice called over from the other side of the room- The attendant. Ryu raised an eyebrow as characters in my stories do, he shrugged.
“What? Not my fault I couldn’t resist taking a little peek at it.” He said referring to the note, at this Ryu rolled his eyes.
“Humans…” he muttered, the attendant looked at him strangely.
“Pardon?” he asked, Ryu waved his hand dismissing it
“Nevermind…” he murmured, the man sighed.
“Some people are weird.” As he went back to his ever so important job, cleaning the tables.
Ryu walked outside though the door and into direct sunlight.
‘Good thing I’m not flammable.” He thought.
It was much different in the day than at night Ryu discovered as he explored, these people looked less likely to beat the crud out of you when you were not looking.
‘Now where’s that place… Crestville?’ Ryu thought anxiously ‘hmm… I’m not going to find it this way, Maybe I should ask someone.’ Ryu then agreed with this statement, and walked up to a woman with a young child by her side.
“Excuse me Mam do you know where the Crestville research center is?”
The woman studied Ryu from this red socks to his bright blue hair, at this she frowned lightly, she was just about to reply when…
“Geez mister you have COOL hair! How did you get it blue that’s my favwite color (I spelt that wrong on purpose, remember she’s little) did you dye it like mummy?” at this the woman slapped her hand over her daughter’s mouth lightly though, blushing furiously at her secret, that wasn’t so secret anymore.
“Uh… no I don’t even know what this ‘dye’ is, my hair has always been this color…” The little girl looked amazed while her mother doubtful.
“Cool!” the girl squealed.
“Um… anyway Mrs. do you know where it is?” Ryu asked again trying to get the subject off his hair.
“Of course I know where that spooky place is, everyone does, it’s on the other side of town on lilyflower row, here have this map.”
She said handing Ryu the said item. Why did she give it Ryu for free? Well minor characters in RPG’s have a habit of giving our protagonists free stuff.
“So mister, where do you come from?” The tiny girl said snuggling her teddy, Ryu didn’t know how and what to answer.
“Uh… I don’t know…” The woman looked critically at Ryu “I Uh… have amnesia!”
The woman now looked at Ryu like he was insane.
“Sure… Bye!” she said quickly running off dragging her daughter behind her, but not before hearing her say:
“Mummy, can I have pretty hair like that?” and a swift “No dear.”
‘Amnesia… pah that’s one excuse that didn’t work.’
He thought when they were gone, when he suddenly remembered exactly where the excuse had come from.
Nina.
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Nina noticing Dawn’s look of confusion made an excuse, this was soon becoming the war of lies. “We. Uh. Have amnesia, yeah.”
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‘Nina’ Ryu thought
‘Although having wild mood swings… you were my best friend’
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“Ryu?”
“Hey Ryu!”
“Ryu why are your always so…”
“Come on Ryu!”
“Your SO noble Ryu…”
“Ryu… whether you’re a dragon or not… your still my friend.”
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‘Oh Nina… I know what I must do now…
I will rescue you and KILL anyone who gets in my way!
Nina… why am I falling in love with you…?
Chapter
VII: The march to Crestville
“Now… where am I?” Ryu muttered looking at the map the woman had given him, “Hollybranch road… got it, now where is Lilyfield row?” he murmured tracing his finger along it “AHA!” he shouted in glee, causing many to look at him in confusion, but then dismiss him as a punk.
“Hmm…
along here… down there, left…” Ryu said to himself ignoring people looking at
him like he was a nutter.
“Ahh!”
he cried watching a car rush by, “What are those!?” shouted the flabbergasted
dragon, “Uh, excuse me, but what are those things? They look like metal whelks
on wheels!” He said to a random guy, this guy looked at him, his left eye
twitching slightly and replied.
“Those
are cars, you nut job!” he said as he stormed off obviously having a bad day,
Ryu scratched his head, and this was seriously NOT his day either.
‘Lets
review the day shall we,” He thought sarcastically ‘Nina’s been kidnapped, we
are still in the wrong dimension and I’ve been branded a “Nut job” plus, I have
no idea where my friends are, can my life get any better?”
Speaking
of friends…
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“You’re
still up?”
“Just…
thinking…”
Cray
turned to Ursula, who at that moment was situated in front of a blazing fire,
gazing misty-eyed into the flames.
“All
that thinking could be bad for you… you know.” Cray said quietly,
Ursula
closed her eyes and replied.
“It’s
been… a day now…”
“Do
not give up hope just yet, destiny has just decided to kick our butt’s a bit,
but it has not defeated us yet… you dummies.”
Both
Cray and Ursula turned around, and there in her full transparent glory was Deis.
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“Bah!
Stupid Car-monsters, why wont they let me cross?…” Ryu
said angrily to himself, attempting to cross the busy main road.
“Maybe
they are guarding something…” Ryu said thoughtfully when it came to him, why
not use ‘shift’ (the skill you get from the the puppet girl, to warp across the
map.) And in 2 seconds flat Ryu found himself on the other side of the road,
nobody seemed to have noticed anything.
‘Gotta
loooove that ability…’ he thought.
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“Deis?”
“The
one and only… well except in the other destined cycle’s…”
“Eh?”
Deis
shook her head.
“Nevermind…”
Cray
and Ursula were confused, but decided to drop the subject.
“What
do you mean we haven’t been beaten yet, is there hope that we can get Ryu and
Nina back?” Cray asked.
“…
Well you know we saw them disappear into a warp hole?”
They
nodded,
“Well
I read some ancient text about a millennia ago…”
“And…”
said Ursula eagerly
“I
forgot.”
They
sweatdropped,
“But…
I’ll look it up again, see you morons.” And she vanished with a wink.
Cray looked to the spot where a see though Deis once stood, thoughts floating though his head like ‘I
wish just her dress was transparent.’ Then he asked “Where do think she’s
gone?”
“Ershin
thinks that Ershin has gone to Caren Parsere`ne the ancient library under the
sea of mud.” Said Ershin, Deis’s host.
“It’s
Deis, you are Ershin!” a familiar female voice called, scolding her host.
Scais
scratched his head,
“G-goddesses…”
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And
so Ryu continued his march, his urgent quest to save the wyndian princess (and
having a feeling of Déjà vu) hoping it would not have such bad consequences as
the last.
Past
the grimy, the posh, the colorful houses he went, following the instructions of
the map, which currently resided in his hand, striding forward,
Forward,
Forward, Forward.
Then…
he stopped.
Why
not use his shift ability again, he swiftly bashed himself over the head for
his foolishness, then thinking he was turning into Fou-Lu for that choice of
word, and then disappeared in a flash.
… Then reappeared in front of a moldy slimy gray building.
“Well,
this place needs a makeover…” he noted as climbed the slippy dull steps to
Crestville.
“I’m
here, and I’m coming for you… Nina.”
Chapter
VIII: The rescue part 1
The
door creaked ominously as Ryu carefully slid it open,
He
was in, that was step one completed, just about ninety-nine left.
“Nina…”
he whispered, head turning left and right, she was obviously not here. He
proceeded cautiously though the room, it was not a nice room, the white
wallpaper was peeling off the walls the gray carpet was ripped in various
places; it gave the feeling of an abandoned warehouse.
Ryu
opened another door, and then closed it quickly, there was a guard, but this
was the only door- he’d have to sneak past or fight him, Ryu chose option
number one.
He
looked round hoping for another door to magically appear, but alas such things
do not happen, not even for a cool dragon dude named Ryu.
Instead
he saw an air vent,
“Perfect…”
he hissed, Ryu took out his sword and jammed it into the air vent causing the
grating to fall off, he smiled and climbed into the vent, or rather he would
have if he was not interrupted.
“What
do you think you’re doing?”
Ryu
turned round and groaned, he had been so busy with the air vent, he hadn't’
seen a rather scrawny looking woman with glasses come though the door.
“Ugh…”
Ryu said at loss of words to say, looks like he would have to fight after all,
though this woman was so wimpy-looking, he didn’t think it would take long.
“Um…
can I… help you?” She said, eyes flicking to the grating on the floor to the
air vent, to Ryu.
“Well…”
Ryu said trying to make an excuse, but then gave up remembering the last. “…
I’m here to rescue someone.” He ended lamely.
“Oh…
they haven’t kidnapped someone again have they… they do that a lot.” She said
placing her hands behind her back and looking to the ground.
“They
do?” Ryu said getting a little more relaxed, this
woman did not look like the type to jump in front of you with a machine gun.
“Yes…
that’s why I’m here.” She said quietly obviously upset about something.
“How come? Who are you anyway?” Ryu asked confused.
“My…
my name is Erma, they kidnapped my brother two years ago, in
exchange for him back I have to work here for ten years… I still haven’t got
him back; I don’t know what they wanted him for, probably an experiment…”
“Oh…
my name’s Ryu…” Ryu had now gathered that this ‘Erma’ was not dangerous at all
and so he decided to ask her. “Um… have you seen a woman… well a girl really
with wings?” he asked.
“A
girl with wings… yes, they brought her in yesterday.” Erma said nervously in a
low squeaky voice.
“They…
haven’t done anything to her have they?” Ryu asked.
“No…
I don’t think so, they haven’t had time, but you better be quick or…” She left
her words hanging.
“…
I’ll tell you what Erma, I’ll help rescue your brother
as well if you keep quiet about this…” Ryu said, ‘why not rescue two instead of
one, its no biggy.’ He thought.
Erma
practically jumped down with happiness, “Oh thank you, thank you!” she said.
“All
right then lets go, before someone else comes.” Ryu said thoughtfully.
“Right,
let’s do it.” Erma nodded.
Ryu
using his sword lifted himself into the open vent, and grabbed Erma by her
frail arm and lifted her up as well.
“Thank
you…” Erma muttered.
They
carefully crawled though the vent, trying to make as little noise as possible.
“Do
you know where your brother or my friend is?” Ryu whispered to Erma.
She
shook her head.
“I
haven’t seen your friend since yesterday when they moved her, and I don’t know
where my brother is either.” Erma said quietly, Ryu frowned; this would make
things a bit harder.
Voices
floated up to the vent, and Ryu sensing the noise moved forward to another
grill with Erma following him, they both lent over to catch the voices.
“This
is so… boring, I’ve got to watch that guy who keeps trying to escape, why does
the boss even bother to keep him, I mean we aren’t
even using him for an experiment, what’s the point of watching this ‘Steve’
guy?” Erma gasped.
“I
dunno, I heard that the boss made an agreement with
his sister, or something…”
“Well
bye, see ya at lunch.”
The
two men who were speaking split up in different directions, leaving the
corridor empty.
“Hey
Ryu, Steve is my brother, we have to follow him!” Erma said eagerly, Ryu nodded
as they climbed down from the vent into the empty corridor, and went though the
door the man talking about guard duty had gone though.
“We
have to hurry or we’ll lose him…” Ryu said in hushed whisper.
“OK…”
Erma said hurrying after Ryu though the next corridor, Ryu then stopped.
“What’s
the matter?” she asked.
“I
can’t remember where he went…” Ryu said though clenched teeth, slightly angry
with himself for losing him, in front of him there
were two corridors.
“That
way.” said Erma pointed to the right, and dirtier corridor.
Ryu
looked puzzled.
“How
do you know?” said Ryu even more confused than before ‘is she just guessing’
thought he.
“I
have a good sense of smell; it smells of donuts down there, the guards here are
really lazy.” She said tapping her nose and smiling,
Ryu raised his eyebrow but ran down the corridor anyway, with Erma in the lead.
Past
many doors they went,
Doors,
Doors,
Doors,
But
none were the one they wanted, still they carried on, getting slightly more
tired with each, but then Erma stopped.
“Look!”
she whispered excitedly pointing to the door straight in front of them, it was
open and the guard they saw talking earlier was sat in a rather hard looking
chair munching donuts and staring, or rather drooling at a picture of a naked
woman in a magazine.
Erma
rolled her eyes “Men…” she whispered quietly, but apparently not quietly
enough. His eyes immediately flicked from the magazine to Erma then Ryu.
“What
the hell do you think you’re doing here, this is a restricted area!” He said picking up a machine gun.
“Oh
crud…” Erma said, Ryu glared at her for giving them away, she winced, it looked
like he would have to fight after all, he grabbed the
hilt of his sword and swung it in front of him, eyes full of concentration.
The
man laughed “You think that you can get past me with THAT thing?”
“Is
that a rhetorical question?” Ryu said, eyes narrowed, as he jumped forward,
sword in front of him.
SMASH
“Ohhhhh…”
the man said as he collided with the concrete wall, “My stomach…” The man got
up glaring at Ryu.
“That’s
it punk, time to burn!” he snarled ramming forward towards Ryu,
He
just side-stepped to the left and let the man crash into the bars of the cage
in which Erma’s brother appeared to kept, wedging his
head between the bars.
“Yeow! Ah my heads stuck Ahhh! Someone’s going to pay!” he cried.
But
then another voice spoke up, one on the other side of the bars, a man’s voice.
“Well,
I hope its not going to be me, I’m afraid my good sir I don’t have any cash
with me at this precise moment in time.”
“Steve!”
Erma cried in joy.
“Why,
Erma you are looking absolutely smashing today, speaking of smashing…” Steve
took out a brick from the side of the cage and smashed the man over the head
with it, knocking him out, and un-wedging him from the bars.
“Oh Steve! I thought I would never see you again!” Erma Said with glee running to
the bars to greet her brother.
Steve
chuckled adjusting his glasses “now why would you think that Erma, anyway who
is that fine fellow you have with you?” he said his gaze lingering on Ryu.
“Oh,
Steve this is Ryu he’s here to rescue his friend too, he said he’d help me.”
Erma said bringing Ryu over to shake his hand.
“Well
hello, my good chap how corking to meet you!” Ryu raised his eyebrows but shook
Steve’s hand anyway.
“Uh
hi, Erma’s told me… all about you.” Ryu said studying Steve, he certainly
looked like Erma’s sister they both had round glasses and brown hair though of
course Erma’s was longer and she had green eyes while Steve had blue.
“Oh
yes we have to rescue your friend now too, don’t we Ryu, what’s her name
anyway?” said Erma.
“She’s
called Nina.” Ryu said sheathing his sword again.
“Uh,
you might want to draw your sword again Ryu…” said Steve, and indeed Ryu felt
someone breathing down his neck; he gulped, turning around slowly.
“Ready
to die, punk?” said the man from before pointing his gun at Ryu’s forehead,
Ryu
gulped.
Chapter IX:
The rescue, part 2
The
man sneered “Crud indeed, now any last words?” he said pressing the gun flat
against his forehead.
“uh…” Ryu didn’t know what to do, this looked like the end,
he would never rescue Nina, he would never get back home, he
would never see Cray, Ursula, Scais and Ershin again…
“He
might not have anything to say but I do!” Erma said surprising everyone.
“Goodnight!”
she said smashing a flowerpot over his head, the flowerpot once resided on the
table, bringing a little colour into the room, though the flower was wilted and
not looked after. Anyway let’s get off the subject of the flower and onto the
man, he was effectively knocked out, slumping to the ground in a heap.
“Erma?”
asked Ryu completely and utterly puzzled.
“What,
I couldn’t just stand there could I?” Erma said putting her hands on her hips.
“Hello,
is anyone going to help me?” Steve asked, still stuck in the cage.
Erma
and Ryu turned to each other smiled, and answered simultaneously
“No.”
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“Warps…
warps… warps…” Deis muttered,
sitting at a wooden desk, books strewn in front of her, she herself looking
very frustrated.
“…
oh that’s it I give up, why should I help dragon-boy anyway, I could be having
a lovely beauty sleep now, for another 100 years!…”
She shouted in anger, she raised her fists to the sky (or rather ceiling,
seeing as she was underground.) and shouted.
“If
there is any other god out there, give me a sign, a hint, anything!” as she
slammed her fists down on the table, as a book fell on her head.
“YEOW! Oh hey this is it…”
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“Thank
god, it was getting stuffy in that cage, but you know I had ALMOST
finished my plan to escape.” Steve said brushing the dust off his brown jacket,
Erma rolled her eyes.
“Sure,
I expect all you needed was another two years.” She said sarcastically.
Steve
shook his head, fixing his glasses afterwards from their disheveled state, “No,
I’m not that optimistic, I’d say about 4…” Erma
slapped her hand to her head.
“Brothers…”
she muttered.
“Say
Ryu, didn’t I hear something about you trying to rescue someone as well?” Said Steve, trying to changing the subject.
“Huh?
Oh yeah, Nina…” Ryu said coming back from a bout of intense thinking.
“Well
I must say, that unless I am mistaken, new subjects are usually taken to the
top of this drab complex, I have learned a few new things here.” Said Steve,
Ryu was starting to get the idea that Steve was the brain of the family.
“Well
then, Erma, Steve I must go and find her, goodbye.” Ryu said turning round in a
flash of blue and walking back towards the corridor.
“Wait!”
Erma bellowed sprinting after him, Ryu blinked and turned.
“Well…
I… uh… um… let us come with you, we’ll show you the way, It’s the least I can
do for helping you save my brother, even though we argue, I still love him.”
She said switching back to ‘shy’ mode.
“Hmmm…”
said Ryu in deep thought, true they could show him the way, but that would put
them in danger as well.
“Please…”
Erma said desperately.
“Well…
all right, but don’t get killed OK?” Ryu said smirking.
“Yes, sir.” Said Erma raising her hand to salute Ryu.
A
snickering was heard behind them.
“Oi! Don’t forget about me old chap!” Steve shouted jogging towards them.
Still smiling, Ryu noticed something on the wall, just about them and turned to
it: a map of the complex.
“Ah,
I see that’s where we are.” Ryu said pointing to a Red Cross signaling the
where abouts of the corridor.
“And
that is where your friend is.” Erma said pointing to another cross, with a
rough line marking ‘top secret area’ on the last floor.
“Good,
let’s go!” Ryu said with enthusiasm running to direction of the stairs the map
had portrayed.
“Yeah!”
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“Colour
warps… tree warps… day warps… Blah blah blah…Space and time warps, yes this is
it.”
Deis
said skimming the contents page of the book that had ‘fell’ on her head.
“Page 206, right.” She said turning to that precise page, and found
herself staring at a picture which looked suspiciously like the warp she had
seen Ryu and Nina disappear into just yesterday, and began to read the text at
the side of it, she had only two words to say at it.
“Oh
my…”
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We
last left Ryu and CO shouting ‘yeah!’ dramatically, however now we find them
sprinting up a VERY long spiraling staircase, seemingly never-ending.
“ How- long… is this- staircase?” Erma asked out of breath.
Ryu
replied not at all tired, “looks endless.”
Erma
shook her head, still running. “But- nothing… is endless.”
“…”
“You
don’t… agree?” Steve added, joining the conversation.
Ryu
stopped, the others almost smashing into his back.
“You
do not believe in the Unfading ones, in this world?”
“What?”
Erma said, getting her breath back. “What do you mean the unfading ones?” she
added.
Ryu
shook his head, smiling slightly. “No matter.”
Erma
tilted her head “well… If you’re sure…”
Ryu
nodded “Let’s press on.”
“Good
Idea, but Maybe we should find a quicker way, I’ve been cramped up for two
years, and my legs aren’t used to such exercise.” Steve said stepping next to
Erma, rubbing his legs.
“There
is another way, though it does take longer.” Erma said pointing to a door on
the left.
“Right,
lead the way.” Said Ryu swiftly, as they set off again, though this time at a
walk seeing as all of them were now rather tired, not
that Ryu would ever admit that though. Past more and more and more dingy
corridors they went looking all the same, like one of those fun houses where you
always smash into mirrors and hurt your nose. It was all very tiring work,
apparently according to Erma they were looking for a lift, this agreed Steve
was a much better plan than running up miles of stairs, however even with
Erma’s guidance they were now officially lost.
“Now
we go left… or was it right… or maybe straight
forward… um,” Steve slapped his head and whispered quietly into Ryu’s ear.
“She
always had a bad memory, not me though, mine’s spiffing.”
Apparently
not quiet enough.
“STEVE!”
“Oh
dear…”
Then
came a long argument.
“How
dare you! I don’t have a bad memory, I’d like to see
you find your way around here! And I think that-“ Ryu
blocked out their voices and sighed, leaning against the wall, closing his eyes
and folding his arms.
“AH!”
Ryu screamed in surprise, the wall sliding back to reveal a secret passageway.
“Huh?”
Steve and Erma both said simultaneously, both turning round.
“What
the…” Ryu muttered, picking himself off the floor, and turning round to gaze at
the gloomy narrow passageway that had just appeared behind him, he turned round
to Erma and Steve.
“Looky
what I found.”
Erma
scratched her head “I didn’t know about that,” She said coming round to inspect
the gap,
“Looks
like a secret passageway.” Erma said, pointing out the obvious.
Steve
rolled his eyes, “Well duh…”
“What
was that!?” Erma said, her voice rising, Ryu once again sighed.
“Oh
don’t start again…” They both looked at him surprised.
Ryu
said nothing, walking forward into the darkness.
“Uh,
isn’t that a bit dangerous it looks… a bit dark…” Erma said
nervously, obviously afraid of the dark.
“Just
come on.” Ryu said simply, starting to disappear from Erma and Steve.
They
both looked at each other, and then ran after him.
Chapter X:
“Eeep… where do you think we are Ryu?” Erma said quietly as they sidestepped though the dark passageway (seeing as it was not wide enough to walk)
“…”
Nothing was said.
“Indeed
I do agree with Erma, Ryu where are we?” Steve piped
in.
“If
I knew then I would tell you wouldn’t I?” Ryu hissed in annoyance,
They
both shut up.
And
so they continued in silence, until of course Erma fell into a giant pit.
“Ah!
Help!”
“Erma!”
said Steve and Ryu simultaneously as she continued to scream,
“Hold
on!” Steve said throwing out his hand for her to grab, which luckily she did.
“Got you…” he said lifting her up.
“You all right?” Ryu asked, leaning down next to her
“I-I-I
am O-okay… I t-think…” She stuttered, hands shaking.
“I
think we should rest for a while…” Ryu said, they both nodded agreeing that
that would be a good course of action for that moment, and sat down, though
Erma’s eyes kept darting nervously back to the pit, as though it would swallow
then all up.
“W-why
do you think there is a pit there anyway?” She asked still rather shaken.
“Who
knows, more likely than not it crumbled from use and instead of fixing it, they
just closed this route.” Ryu said shrugging, as he stood up, dusting his butt,
from the dirt on the ground.
“Eakkk!” Erma screamed, both Ryu and Steve (who had
been surprisingly quiet for the last few minutes) turned to her again.
“What’s
wrong? Did you fall down that pit again?!” Steve shouted sounding worried.
“N-no…
It- It’s much worse than that…” Said Erma, absolutely
terrified.
“Then
what is it?!” Ryu then said, frustrated.
“It’s-
It’s- It’s! -“Erma stuttered.
“It’s
what!” Ryu shouted.
“A spider!”
Ryu
and Steve were not impressed at the sound of the ‘terrible’ creature.
Steve
sighed and pulled a torch from his backpack, and shone it on the spider, picked
it up and stuck on a spider web.
Ryu
gasped, “A stick that shines light! Amazing!”
Steve
looked at him “It’s called a torch, mate.” Ryu scratched the back of his head.
“Uh…
I knew that.” He said.
“Hello,
anyone going to pay any attention to me? I could be scarred for life,” Erma
piped in, as Steve whispered into Ryu’s ear.
“She’s
terrified of spider’s she is, very shy too, when she meets someone she doesn’t
know.”
Ryu
rolled his eyes.
“I
could tell that,” Said Ryu quietly, and then out loud “Can we please go now? Enough pits and spiders.”
Erma
moaned, “But… can’t we stay here for a bit longer, I want to rest.” Ryu looked
at her, deep in thought for anyway to get her to hurry up.
“…
What about him?” he said pointing to the spider “Don’t want to get eaten do
we?” Erma’s eyes widened, and she quickly hurried up, though slowing down
slightly when passing the spider.
“What’s
this…” Ryu murmured as they came to something solid,
“Steve, give me your glowing stick.” He said holding out his hand, beckoning
for Steve to give him the torch, which he did. “How do you work this
contraption?” he asked handing back to Steve.
Steve
flipped the switch, “Like this,” no light came out, “Uh… out of power…” Ryu
rubbed his forehead in frustration, he would have to…”
“BURN!”
A
flame shot up, blinding both Steve and Erma, setting fire to a stick lying
dormant on the ground.
“Wha?”
was all Steve’s mouth could muster.
Ryu
shot him a look that said ‘ask and die’ so he said nothing, Ryu then picked up
the burning stick from the ground, and explored the wall, “It’s…”
“A
lift…” Erma finished for him.
“But
why would there be a lift here?” Steve asked, Ryu shook his
head.
“Let’s
just go up.” Said Erma pressing the ‘open’ button.
“I
hope it works…” Said Steve, and to all their delight the Lift opened revealing
(the very rusty) inside. They all stepped in, Ryu discarding the flaming torch
just outside before he burnt his fingers.
Steve
pressed the up button.
“So…
this ‘lift’ takes you up the building, right?” he asked, Steve nodded.
“Say,
Ryu where do you come from anyway? I can tell you aren’t certainly from around
here.” Steve asked, his curiosity now at a dangerously
high point from walking around with the blue haired dragon.
“I’m
from… a very far away place…”
Steve
said nothing thinking his answer very suspicious, so instead Erma asked, “Do
you miss your home?”
“…Yeah.”
‘Bing’
the lift remarked,
Ryu glanced to the side where the words ‘top floor’ were now highlighted.
‘We’re
here.” He thought happily.
The
lift slid noisily open, not used to being used as they stepped out at what
seemed an abandoned corridor. Note the ‘seemed’ in my sentence readers, as it
usually means a fight of some sort, as indeed it will incur in a short time.
“I
never liked the top floor, it’s too clean compared to the rest of the
building…” whispered Erma “It’s too quiet… this floor is usually the busiest,
there should be someone here…”
“Should. Would. Could. Is.” Sneered a voice, echoing round
the corridor.
“Who’s
there?” Ryu asked bravely stepping in front of Erma and Steve, drawing his
sword, the Dragonslayer.
“I’ve
been watching you for quite a while now ‘Ryu’ and I think it’s time I put an
end to this game, don’t you think.”
“What
Game? Who are you?!” Ryu shouted.
“This game.” Something silver shot towards Ryu and he sidestepped barely missing it
by inches, he turned and his eyes widened as he saw a single silver shiny
dagger embedded in the wall.
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“Okay
guys, I’ve got good and bad news,” Deis said casually
as she warped back right in front of Ursula, frightening the living daylights
out of her, “Which news do you want first?”
“Hey!
Don’t just warp right in front of me! I thought you were Fou-Lu! You should say
when you are about to do that!” Ursula shouted, Deis
and Cray completely ignored her.
“Good
first.” Said Cray.
“OI! I’m talking to you don’t ignore me!” Ursula shouted again.
“Well
the good news is that I found how to get Ryu and Nina back,” Deis said, still not listening to Ursula’s Ranting in the
background.
“DON’T YOU DARE NOT LISTEN TO ME, I’M TALKING TO YOU!” Ursula
voice reached a verrrry
“And
w-whats the bad ne-news?” asked Scais.
“The
bad news is that we need Fou-Lu to do it…. And Ursula is about to explode.” She
said, and indeed, Ursula seemed a bit more purple than usual.
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“Don’t
be a coward! Show yourself!” Ryu shouted snapping back from his bout of shock.
“Very well.” Said the voice as a man dropped from the ceiling like a bat, he did
not look very friendly thought Ryu, almost everything he wore was black and
silver, from his boots to his earrings, which thought Ryu made him look like a
woman.
“I’ll
help you Ryu.” Said Steve also stepping forward,
“Here!”
said Ryu throwing a scramsax from his item list that had just magically
appeared to Steve.
The
man smirked “Lovely, I get to kill two birds with one stone, or rather dagger!”
He smirked letting out a rather insane laugh.
“By
the way my name is ‘Bolt’.” He added.
“And
why would you tell us that?” Steve asked.
“So
you can tell everyone about how I beat you… Everyone in hell that is, cause
that’s where you’re going!”
Ryu’s
eyes narrowed,
“Buy
a joke book.” He said before he launched himself at Bolt.
Ryu
quickly dodged all the daggers that Bolt threw at him as he rammed towards him.
SLICE
Ryu
had stabbed him in the shoulder, Bolt glared at him clutching his wound, aiming
another dagger and shouting, “Get another hair style!”
Ryu
smirked, “No thanks.” Dodging it. However
unfortunately he didn’t notice the other dagger.
Time
seemed to slow down as the dagger approached Ryu, he stood there frozen to the
spot as if Scais had cast Ice blast, there was not much time left now, he
closed his eyes…
CRASH
Then
opened them, then blinked, Steve stood there, he had miraculously deflected the
dagger with his own sword, even though he had never used one in his life. And
the dagger… it was deflected right back, to Bolt, there was sickening crunch,
and everyone knew what that meant, Bolt fell to his knees, “I… have failed… you
win… Boy.” He said as he slumped to the ground.
Ryu
smiled “No one makes fun of my hair. Thanks Steve, now let’s go rescue Nina.”
Steve
nodded mutely stunned by his own skill, walking towards Ryu, Erma following, the same expression on her face.
They
walked towards a massive door saying:
Test
Lab
Staff
only
“This
is most likely where your friend is Ryu.” Erma said,
Ryu nodded happily pushing the door open to find…
“RYU!” Squeaked a happy familiar voice, Ryu turned to the
source to see Nina in a glass cylinder looking well… very excited.
Ryu
ran over to her, and they both stared into each other’s eyes for minutes though
to them it was like seconds until Steve called out.
“Aren’t
you going to let her out then?”
Ryu
blinked and blushed “oh… yeah.” He said walking over to a control panel and
pressing the open button, and it seemed as soon as he did that he was smothered
by a mass of blonde hair.
“Oh Ryu my hero! I thought I was stuck there forever!” she only let go of him when he
started coughing from lack of air. “Sorry…” she muttered letting go.
“No
it’s me who should be sorry Nina, I should have got
here yesterday.”
“Well…
actually I’m kind of glad you came today.” Nina said.
Ryu
blinked “Why?”
“They
were strip-searching me yesterday for anything I could use to escape. Ummm… I don’t think you’d want to see that.” The notorious
blush had returned.
From
the back Steve snickered “Ah, young love…” he said placing both his hands over
his heart.
Now
both of them were blushing.
“Oh,
come on, it’s so obvious, admit it.” said Steve
eagerly.
They
turned to each other, looked into the other’s eyes, then simultaneously turned
round with their arms folded and said:
“Nahhh…”
Chapter XI:
Dragon’s flight
“Can we go now?” Nina asked, still bouncing with excitement.
Ryu
smiled “Yes, let’s go, I don’t want to spend any more time in this dump.” She
giggled and looked over Ryu’s shoulder, as her expression turned to puzzlement.
“Who
are they?” She asked.
“I’m
Erma,” Erma said pointing to herself, “And this is Steve.” She said pointing to
the said person.
“Hey!
I wanted to say my name!” Steve shouted, and so began another row…
Nina
giggled “Nice to meet you both.”
“And
nice ta meet you too.” A mysterious voice called.
Ryu
sighed and muttered, “Not again…” The person stepped out of the shadows, “Don’t
I know you?…” Ryu asked, the person seeming vaguely familiar,
the person, or rather the woman, slowly circled round Ryu.
“Why…
ya, we have met once, however I have always been watching ya… Ryu.” Ryu gasped at his name, how did she know it?
Nina
then decided to jump into the fray, “How do you know Ryu’s name, tell me or
I’ll flatten you like Buster!”
“Buster?” The woman said putting her finger on her chin, “Oh! You mean Sattire.”
She smirked, “But you can’t flatten me, you don’t have a rolling pin, unless O’
course if you have a ‘magic spell’ ta flatten me.” She
said coolly as Nina growled at her.
“Just
tell me, who are you!?”
Ryu
took a step back; Nina was a sweet poilite naïve (Though slightly annoying)
girl, however as he had learned you do NOT want to make her mad.
“Me?”
The woman asked flipping a strand of jet black hair over her shoulder, then
smirked, “I’m Dawn.” Something jogged in Ryu’s memory, a woman with black hair
spying on them and… the letter…
“You! You were the one who kidnapped Nina!”
“Well…
Bolt help’d too speak’in O’ which, where is e’? He should have headed ya off
earlier…” She muttered quietly, but Ryu still heard it.
“Bolt
went bye-byes.” He said nonchalantly, Dawn’s eyes almost popped out of their
sockets.
She
gaped like a fish for a few seconds before managing to murmur quietly “Y-you…
killed him?” Ryu nodded smirking, Nina blinked, Ryu
was acting very nasty today. She wondered why.
Meanwhile we find Dawn slumped on the floor
crying her eyes out, awwww… isn’t that sad?
“M-My
p-partner is-is dead?” Dawn spluttered, Ryu was still
wearing a smirk when he replied.
“Yeah,
you can see his mangled corpse in the other room if you like,”
Nina
frowned, “Ryu… that’s not very nice…”
Now
it was Ryu’s turn to splutter, “Wha?” ‘I’m just teaching her a lesson for
kidnapping Nina.’ he thought dully, but was denied more time to ponder by Dawn,
she had rose to her feet, a new fire burning in her
eyes.
Meanwhile in the background…
“You
think these fight scenes are getting a little repetitive?” Steve turned to his
sibling.
“Yeah,
but the authoress has said that she’s trying to make them all different so they
don’t get repetitive.”
“Oh… good.” Uh… back to the story.
“I
will avenge my partner! Ryu! You will suffer!” She hissed the last word out
with so much venom in her voice that Ryu was sure that she would transform into
a giant snake.
Ryu
sighed, “I was hoping to avoid this, but it looks like I have no choice…”
Nina
gave him a faint smile. “Yeah, but this time were together again!” Ryu nodded
and turned to Steve and Erma.
“You
guys want to help?”
Erma thought for a second but seeing the blaze
in Dawn’s eyes said “Uh no thanks… me and Steve will just stay here and watch…”
Steve nodded nervously to this statement.
“Suit
yourselves…” Ryu muttered turning to Nina. “You ready?” he asked.
“Yeah!” Nina shouted, Ryu smiled, and turned back to Dawn, or rather he meant
to, however she was gone, he blinked.
“Over
there Ryu!” Nina called, pointing to a corner where Dawn stood casually leaning
against the wall, smirking.
Ryu
though bepuzzled at Dawn’s quick movement was not deterred as he drew his
Dragonslayer and leapt forward gracefully, however his sword met hard concrete
as he accidentally jammed it into the floor, struggling to get it out.
Dawn
took this time to strike, in a flash she kicked Ryu in
the back to the leg, hard. Causing him to keel over slightly, then she punched
him in the face making a small stream of blood to trickle down from the corner
of his left eye “Oh…” he murmured feeling like he was going to throw up.
Nina
growled, “Ryu! Combo attack!” she bellowed, Ryu nodded slowly, picking himself
up. Then finally managing to release his sword, he lifted it up into the air
and shouted.
“BURN!”
Followed
by Nina…
“CYCLONE!”
And together…
“SIMOON!”
But
all that was lifted was dust… Ryu took a deep breath, “It’s no good Nina she
keeps moving, we can’t hit her, we must retreat!” Nina
nodded, “Come on Steve, Erma we’ve got to go!” He yelled desperately, they
quickly heeded his words and ran after him.
Suddenly
Nina stopped gasping at something.
“What’s
the matter, Nina?” Ryu asked, she wordlessly pointed to the far side of the room, Ryu followed her vision and saw what had disturbed her
so much…
Fire.
‘Crud, crud, crud, crud.’ Was all Ryu
could possibly think. He had accidentally set the building on fire with his
failed ‘burn’ spell. ‘Crud, crud, crud, crud.”
Then
he remembered.
Ryu
once again lifted his sword into the air.
“Rainstorm!”
Nothing
happened.
“Rainstorm!!”
Still nothing.
“RAINSTORM!?”
Grrrrr….
Why isn’t it working?” Ryu growled utterly confused.
“Uh…
Ryu? Pung Ryong lives in our world,
he can’t be summoned by you to here…” Nina pointed out.
‘Crud, crud, crud, crud.’ “Let’s get out of here then.” He said.
“Right.” All of them replied, they would have to get out quickly though, the
fire was spreading, everything touching turning to cinders, and if they didn’t
get out soon, so would they.
“You
haven’t lost me yet you fools!” an oh-so-familiar voice called, though Ryu
noticed that she looked rather different, her hair was burnt and frazzled, her
clothes in tatters and her eyes held that mad look.
“We
gotta get out of here!” Nina said loudly though her voice was laced with panic,
and she screamed when a flaming pillar collapsed, almost on top of her.
They
began to run, but Dawn was catching up with them, mostly because of Ryu’s limp
(which he had acquired when Dawn kicked him) and so Dawn was only a little way
behind them and speeding up.
Though
the white sterile corridors they went (Though they were now covered in flames)
but Dawn was now closing in, and there was no time to stop and fight her, and
the fire… well it was spreading like crazy.
There
was only a few inches between Dawn and Ryu now…
There
was only one thing he could do…
Just
one…
“AHHHHH!” Ryu screamed, feeling wings burst out of his back and horns out of his
head. Dawn skid to a stop to gape.
Erma and Steve were about to as well but
before they had a chance to, Ryu in his hybrid dragon form grabbed their hands
with his own claw shaped ones and pulled them off with so much speed, that if
you asked Erma afterwards she would say that she was beginning to feel sick.
Nina
uncurled her long wings and took to the air, propelling herself gracefully
forward, managing to go at the speed of Ryu, only spluttering when her golden
hair got caught in her mouth because of the wind.
Dawn
finally had the sense to stop gaping and continue the chase. She was now going
the same speed as Ryu and Nina, though they were now quite a bit in front of
her.
It
was all seemingly going quite well for Ryu and the rest, however fate once
again, decided to intervene.
“EAAAKKK!” Erma screamed coming face to face with a large drop, luckily Ryu had
stopped just in time though. Erma wiped away the sweat from her brow with her
sleeve and said, “By the time this is over I’m going to have a fear of pits as
well…”
Nina
unlike Ryu fluttered down gently beside him and frowned. “Ryu… what are we
going to do?” She asked, for the pit was also a dead end, and also was the only
way out.
Dawn
came back into vision, the fire racing behind her like a tidal wave, like
before there was only one thing he could do…
And
like before, he took it.
Ryu
grabbed Nina with his dragonish hand and jumped into the pit pulling her in
with him, Erma and Steve looked nervously into it,
then jumped in as well.
They
fell lower and lower and lower, it seemed that this ‘pit’ would lead them to the bowls of
the earth. (Though of course it just leaded to the 1st floor) Now
why you ask is there a giant pit in the middle of a 60 story
building? Well this was another abandoned lift shaft, this time with no lift.
You
could tell it had been abandoned for a long time, as the sides were covered in
moss, and Nina took great time to pronounce her “Ewwww…”
Then
it became apparent what exactly was at the bottom: a thick layer of glass,
barricading the exit to the lift shaft.
Ryu
had about 2 seconds to react.
“Ahhhhh!”
“Wha?”
said all in reply, and found that their half-dragon companion was now a full
purple dragon.
Aura…
Ryu
(or Aura) speeded up smashing though the glass, it of course not hurting him
because of his tough dragon-scales, and landing on the shard-scattered 1st
floor, the others landing on his back and letting out an “Oof.” Sound.
Nina
turned round, Dawn was no longer following them, had
the fire consumed her? She was given no more time to think for Ryu flapped his
powerful wings lifting them all up into the air, and sped out of the window, as
the building erupted in shades of red, orange and yellow behind them as they
flew into the glorious sunset…
Chapter
XII- A Sad Goodbye
Erma
looked stunned.
Steve
looked flabbergasted.
Even
Nina looked a little shocked.
“Calm
down Erma, calm down. You’re only riding a dragon that has just escaped from an
exploding building… Ahhhhhhhhhh!” Erma said to
herself, or rather screamed to herself, noticing the
rather large drop before her.
Ryu
let out a large growl welcoming them to get off, as he flew gracefully to the
ground. Erma, voice hoarse from screaming, and body shaking,
quickly jumped off landing in heap on the floor, while Nina and Steve did so a
bit more carefully, managing to not slip.
In
a large flash of light, Ryu found himself back in human form panting (Erma gave
another little shriek) and clutching his leg. (Where he injured it)
Steve
stood there; mouth almost touching the floor, with lopsided eyebrows, pointing
at Ryu in a humorous way, Nina had to laugh.
“Wha…
eh?… uh?” was all his tongue could pronounce. Nina clapped a hand on his shoulder.
“You’ll
learn when you’re older.” She said in a uncanny
imitation of someone’s mother.
Ryu
shook his head, leaning on one knee to support himself, “…No, they… deserve to
know…” He said taking deep breaths in the middle of his sentences, Nina
frowned.
“Let
me heal you first then, Ryu. You look bad…” She said slowly.
Ryu
nodded weakly, carefully sitting down, wincing slightly. Nina smiled.
“OK,
huh… where’s my staff?” She asked, her frown wilting.
Steve
spoke up. “You mean this thingy? I found it on the top floor.” He said holding
up her staff.
Nina’s
smile bloomed again (making Ryu’s face feel rather hot) as she took her staff
and lifted it into the air, a white light collecting all around her…
“VIGOR!” She bellowed, as the white light swirled round Ryu, making Ryu’s leg
heal itself, as he clambered to his feet, gratefully thanking Nina, she smiled.
“That’s
better…” He muttered, coming to face Erma and Steve, “Well… you want to know
what’s going on don’t you… very well, I will explain.
Nina
and me… we aren’t from this world,” gasped issued from around, Erma made to
speak, but Ryu interrupted.
“Let
me finish first Erma. Where shall I begin… Well I
surpose the best place to begin, is the beginning.
300
years ago, in the world me and Nina come from, a god was summoned, His name:
Fou-Lu.
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“You
mean… we have to find Fou-Lu? But he disappeared right after he warped Ryu and
Nina." Cray said anxiously.
Deis nodded, “Unfortunately, yes.” Cray scratched his head.
“But…
how are we gonna find him?” He asked.
“Use
a tracking spell of course.” Deis said, as if it was the
simplest thing to do in the world.
Ursula
scoffed, “But none of us know a tracking spell.”
Deis
rolled her eyes. “ I DO know some spells you know, I’m
not completely useless.”
Ursula
folded her armed and let out a “humph” sound.
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“-And so we were warped here.” Ryu said ending his tale, Erma and Steve
were flabbergasted.
“OK….
I am officially freaked out now.” Erma said.
Ryu
shrugged, “It’s the truth.”
“Except the part about him single handily taking on a three-headed
dog.”
Nina added.
Ryu
blushed, “Well… you know… uh.”
Erma
giggled, then looked at her watch, “Oh my! I was surposed to have been at my
mother’s half an hour ago!” She shrieked.
“Ya,
and I got to catch up on my life, do they still make that shampoo I like Erma?”
said Steve getting no answer.
“Looks
like this is goodbye then, eh?” Ryu said sadly.
Erma
sighed “Looks like it… it’s been really nice meeting you Ryu, Nina, I’ll never
forget you and our adventure, but it looks like it’s time to take our leave…”
“Me
too, I’ll miss ya, thanks for rescuing me, I owe you one governor. But… maybe,
we’ll see you again, but until then… well I’m no good at these corny good-byes,
but you know what I mean.” Steve said giving them a wave and walking off with
Erma into the now moonlight lit street.
“So…
do they?”
“Do
they what?”
“Make
that shampoo I like?”
“How
the heck should I know?”
“Well
you should.”
“No
I shouldn’t.”
“Oh,
shut up.”
“You
started it.”
Ryu
shook his head, as their voices slowly faded as they walked…
“So…
what are we going to do now Ryu?” Nina asked from behind him. Ryu shrugged
shivering from the cold,
“We
should find some place to rest.” He suggested after a long while.
“…
But we can’t go to an inn now you’re secret is out, loads of people must have
seen you as a dragon, they’ll be looking for you soon, I know what people in
this world are like…”
Ryu
once more shrugged dropping down to the floor,
suddenly he sprang to his feet again. Nina blinked. “What’s wrong, Ryu?” She
listened carefully, hearing a rustling in the bushes around them, “What’s
that?” She whispered.
Strange
mad laughter erupted around them and a man (or rather a boy) jumped out of the
bushes. This boy had raven black hair and round glasses and looked strangely
familiar… Egad! It was Harry Potter!
“I
expect you’re thinking I’m Harry Potter aren’t you?” he said in a mocking
voice.
“Uh, no. Who’s Harry Potter?” Ryu said eyebrows in the air.
The
boy didn’t even seem to hear him. “Well actually I’m not Harry Potter… I’m
Michael Hill, the best mugger in the world!” he shouted, erupting into a fit of
mad laughter once again.
“He’s
nuts.” Nina whispered into Ryu’s ear.
Once
again Michael didn’t seem to hear and said, “Well enough talk…
Pie-chopping-action!” he said, and the last thing Ryu saw was a metal pipe
smashing down on his head…
*
“Owwww…”
Ryu muttered feeling a large bump that was growing on his head; it appeared
that he had been knocked out for quite some while as now sunlight was now
pouring in.
He
leaned over to speak to Nina, but she was no where to be seen, “Nina?” he
asked.
He
got no response, “Nina!” he was getting a bit worried now. “NINA!?”
He bellowed.
“I’m
over here Ryu.” Muttered a small voice from behind the bush, Ryu sighed in
relief.
“Come
out then.” He said.
“I
can’t….”
Ryu
blinked wondering why, suddenly a cool blast of wind went by, chilling Ryu, he
looked down…
Only
to discover he was only wearing his underpants, he blushed.
He
then got why Nina was hiding, this ‘Michael’ had stole almost everything they
had, and when I say almost I mean ALMOST.
Nina
then walked slowly out of the bush, only wearing… well… the bush.
Ryu
turned away, blushing.
‘This
place gets seriously weirder every day…” He thought.
Chapter XIII: Quest for the clothes
thief
“Uh… Ryu?” Nina asked timidly clad in Bush and… well that’s it.
“Yes?”
“Well… Uh… do you think we
should find that mental kid ‘Michael’?” Ryu looked at her thinking. (while trying to ignore the fact that she was wearing a bush)
“… Good point…. But we have
no weapons… and you have no clothes.” He said.
“So? You’re only wearing your
underwear.” Nina pointed out, smiling slightly.
Ryu looked down again.
“…Crud. That’ll make things more difficult.”
………………………………………………………………………………
“Nay, I will’st not help
thou.” Fou-Lu said stubbornly, Deis using what was left of her magic had
tracked down the location of Fou-Lu, who was hiding in a bean field… don’t ask.
Deis cracked her knuckles,
“Look the sooner you help us the sooner I can get back to the strip club!” Cray
looked at her.
“Can I come?” He asked
drooling.
“…I was kidding.” Cray sighed
unhappily.
Fou-Lu folded his arms “There
is’st none that thou can do to me, which will’st change mind.” Deis growled and
moved her arm into a slapping position.
“Wanna bet?”
Fou-lu shook his head,
obviously scared. “There is seldom things that can’st frighten mine self… but
women be’est one of them.”
………………………………………………………………………………
“Now… If I was a mental kid called
Michael Hill, where would I be…” Nina said
thoughtfully.
“I dunno… Maybe-Ouch! What
was that!?”
CLANG
“It looks like… a sword…”
Nina said, picking up the said item from the ground, and looking to the sky,
where it appeared to have come from.
“Ouch…. I’m dying…” said Ryu
rubbing his head.
“Hey look, there’s a note
attached!”
We caught Fou-lu and are planning to get you back.
However he seems to have ‘forgotten’ how to make a warp gate, therefore I
foresee that much torturing in the way of strapping him to a chair and making
him watch Cray put on a strip show… and you really don’t want to see that.
Oh yeah, and the sword is called the ‘Dragon-blade’
just don’t ask why I’m sending it to you, I just needed something to drop on
your head to get your attention.
Love Deis.
XXX
Ryu looked closely
at the sword “Well at least I have something to fight with now…” he said
ignoring the pain from his head.
Nina giggled. “Poor Fou-Lu,
Having to watch Cray stripping… I feel sorry for him.”
Ryu scratched his head.
“Yeah…”
“Well… let’s go then, he left
footprints in the mud.” Nina said pointing to the ground.
Ryu looked down “Uh… I never
noticed them before…”
………………………………………………………………………………
“Nooooooooooooooooooo! Not’st that! Anything but that!”
Fou-lu screamed, strapped to a chair as he watched Cray pull off frilly pink
knickers and swirl them round his hand seductively.
How did Deis get him to do
that, well… She’s very persuasive.
Uh… now back to the story, I
think I’ve disturbed you all enough.
………………………………………………………………………………
And so we
find our heroes in the quest for their clothes, searching the search-able and
following the footsteps… or whatever.
“Look!
The footsteps lead here!” Nina proclaimed, standing at a doorway on a small
street.
“Let’s go
in.” Ryu decided, Nina nodded, knocking on the door which was answered quickly
by a thin woman wearing a long black cape.
“Yes?”
She asked, eyebrows raised to the fact that they were
almost naked.
“Um… does
Michael Hill live here?” Nina asked politely.
The woman
nodded “Yes, I’m his step-mother, are you his friends? I’m afraid you can’t
come in, he’s been stealing underwear from the neighbors washing line’s again.”
She said unhappily.
Ryu
blinked “Uh… well actually… he’s stolen our clothes and stuff, we came to get
them back.” The woman sighed.
“Not
again, this is the 3rd time this week… he’s being a very naughty
boy, I shall have to smack his bottom. Come in then.”
They both
stepped in, and immediately saw Michael, he was drawing a picture of him
setting the washing line on fire, and he was also laughing insanely. Oh and he
was wearing Nina’s knickers on his head too.
Michael’s
stepmother stepped up to him. “MICHAEL!” She screeched “What have I told you
about stealing people’s clothes!” Michael’s evil smile faded.
“Oh man…
I’ll go get them….” He said running up the stairs and coming back with the
stuff.
“Here you
are… oh I sold the sword though, I got 5 quid!” He said dumping the stuff in
Ryu’s arms.
Ryu
sighed knowing his sword was gone. “Let’s get dressed Nina…”
“Not at
the same time though.” Nina said smirking.
Ryu went
red. “I meant that.”
“…This is getting very… stupid, I thought we were supposed to be getting back to our world, now chasing some 13 year old for our clothes.” Ryu said sighing.
“That boy was weird, he challenged me to a game of strip poker.” Nina said distractedly. Ryu’s eyes widened considerably.
“WHAT!”
Ryu bellowed. “You… didn’t take up his offer… did you?” He said left eye
twitching.
Nina
giggled, “Of course not.” Ryu’s face deflated from its purple shade.
“…C’mon
let’s get outta here before that idiot-” Ryu pointed to Michael who was inside
his house eating a pie “Tries to steal our stuff again.”
“Good
point, we have to get out of here. How do you think Deis
and the others are getting on?”
………………………………………………………………………………
“Now…
Will you help us get them back, or do you want to go though that again?” Fou-Lu wasn’t
stupid; he knew what Deis meant.
“Very well, I will’st help thou.” Deis smiled seductively.
“Good…
Now do it! Bring them back!”
“…
I can’st not…”
“But
you said you would!” Deis shouted, seeming to double in size as she towered
over Fou-Lu and leered at him.
“I
am’st tired!” Fou-Lu said shrinking seemingly.
“Grrrrr…..”
………………………………………………………………………………
Nina sat down on the side of the road, putting her head in her hands, Ryu followed her movement. “Do you think Deis managed to get Fou-Lu to help us?” She asked, Ryu looked up.
“Well she must have, I don’t think anyone could survive the torture Deis was planning on putting Fou-Lu through. I even kind of feel sorry for him, but not really. He is the evil-bad guy after all.”
Nina suddenly went quiet.
“Nina, you okay?”
“Ryu… there’s something I need… to tell you…” Nina said quietly, her hair obstructing the view from her face.
Ryu turned to her. “Yes?” he asked slowly, not knowing what she was about to say.
“Well… the thing is… I think… I’m in l-“
Crunch
The noise interrupted Nina’s sentence.
Crunch
The noise became louder.
Crunch
The person’s footsteps became louder.
Crunch
The person stopped.
“Dawn!” Nina and Ryu exclaimed together.
And indeed Dawn was back, though this time her hair was sizzled and a large bleeding scar graced her once beautiful face.
“…” Dawn just stared, just stared into Ryu’s eyes, her own burning with hatred and destruction.
“Ya killed him…” She choked out, her voice raspy and hoarse.
“What is she talking about?” Nina whispered to Ryu.
“Her partner… I think… Bolt…” Ryu replied quietly.
“Ya killed him!” Dawn shouted, balling her fists, madness dancing in her eyes.
“YA KILLED HIM!” If looks could kill Ryu would have fallen down a cliff into shark infested water strapped to a nuclear bomb.
“…I think we are in trouble Ryu…” Nina whispered clinging on to his arm.
“Nina…I agree…”
“How could ya?! I loved ‘im!” Dawn shouted furiously.
Nina blinked. “You… loved him…”
Dawn nodded, “Yes I loved ‘im. But ‘dat thing,” She pointed to Ryu, “Killed him, he’s a monster!”
“Ryu isn’t a monster! He’s the gentlest person I know!” Nina defended as Ryu looked down to the concrete pavement, slightly annoyed, he didn’t enjoy being called a monster.
Dawn stomped over to Nina and practically lifted her up by the front of her dress. “Do YOU know what it is like to lose someone you love?!” She screamed.
Nina shook her head quickly “I-I’ve never b-been in love…” Dawn raised an eyebrow then smirked.
“What bout ‘im?” She asked nodding her head in Ryu’s direction.
“I… uh…I-I…” Nina stuttered her face slowly turning as red as a tomato.
“I thunk as much.” She smirked. “Now lil’ missy, I’ll show YOU what it’s like ta loose someone you love!”
Nina’s eyes widened. “No!” she shouted as Dawn threw her against the wall.
Dawn turned to face Ryu. “Let’s dance pretty boy.”
Nina lifted herself slowly off the ground, only to fall back down again clutching arm, where a large gash from where she hit the wall was.
She looked up “Don’t… let her… win… Ryu…” and she fainted.
Ryu’s eyes widened “Nina!” he called.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!” laughed Dawn. “Now it’s your turn!” She said.
“Not likely.” Ryu drew his new sword and lifted it into the air, placing his palm in front of him.
“Magic ball!” he shouted watching a swirling black ball materialize and crash into Dawn who didn’t have enough time to dodge it.
“Argh!” Dawn screamed, glaring at Ryu.
Ryu smiled lowering his sword, but that was his mistake as in that two seconds Dawn rushed up and stabbed him in the chest.
Ryu almost toppled over but managed to steady himself and cast another spell.
“Flame pillar!” Ryu bellowed as a giant pillar of flames rose up, but
unfortunately missing Dawn. “Grrr…” growled Ryu.
Dawn
sped forward towards Ryu, but just as she had reached him he jumped into the
air grabbing onto a pole hanging from a street lamp, swung round and landed
kicking Dawn in the back, she growled attempting to punch him but he just
caught her fist in his hand.
Ryu
lifted his sword again intending to finish her with one last spell.
“Eddy!”
he called as a sudden blast of wind blasted her into the sky, but alas as she
came down, she grabbed the same pole Ryu did. She drew her knife and jumped down stabbing Ryu again in
the chest again. He doubled over feeling weak, his vision was blurring, he felt like he could throw up.
Dawn
was approaching “Time to die.” Her voice echoed it seemed for eternity. He
almost couldn’t stand the ringing in his ears, this was it. This was the end.
Dawn
started to blur as she came nearer and nearer, his body started to numb, then
suddenly Dawn fell over as somebody, Ryu couldn’t make whom. Tackled her and
knocked her out.
The
person came closer and closer and closer; it was no good though, Ryu could bear
no more, the person looked now more like a blob than a person. Ryu blinked
attempting to clear his vision, struggling to open his eyes. He saw that the
person was kneeling down face to face with him.
He
stared into their blue eyes, hearing a voice.
“Ryu…?”
It played again and again in his mind, slowly becoming fainter and fainter
until…
He
heard no more.
Chapter XV: Sapphire eyes
He was dancing
He was flying.
He was free.
He twirled round the dance
floor with her in his arms.
They were alone, dancing,
just dancing, his arms round hers.
There was nobody to
interrupt them.
Nobody.
They moved closer as they
danced.
Their lips almost meeting,
He gazed into her beautiful
blue eyes,
Their lips drew closer…
And then…
Ryu
woke up in a cold sweat.
“Where…
am I?” He whispered.
“Oh
good, your finally awake!” a cheerful voice called.
Ryu
knew that voice anywhere. “Hello Nina.” He said, managing a wincing smile.
And
indeed it was Nina, smiling happily. “How are you feeling Ryu, the healing
people here said you wouldn’t have made it if you wasn’t brought here as fast
as you did…”
Ryu
frowned. “But… couldn’t have you just used you healing spells?” he asked,
rather confused.
“That’s
the funny thing… they wouldn’t work…” Ryu turned sharply to her.
“Not
work?” He asked seriously.
Nina
shook her head. “No…I learnt about warps at the castle when I was younger, I’d
completely forgotten until now. If you are stuck in a non-magic world, then… your
aura loses it’s magical essence…” Ryu blinked. “It
means Ryu, if we stay in this world any longer our magic won’t work any more…”
Ryu’s eyes widened.
“WHAT!?” Nina nodded silently. “… We need to get out of here…”
Ryu
sat up suddenly, wincing at the pain.
“Ryu…
you should rest…” Nina frowned.
Ryu
gave her a wincing smile “I’ll be fine, I’ve had worse.”
Nina
shook her head in a motherly way. “OK…” Ryu carefully stood up, looking around.
He was in a hospital, however right now it was pretty empty as Ryu had woken up
in the middle of the night. You could hear the snoring from the other patients
in the room.
“Let’s
go.” Ryu whispered, tiptoeing his way to the exit with Nina trailing after.
Slowly
they inched their way to the exit.
“Who’s
there!?” a man with a torch shouted. Nina’s eyes widened as Ryu grabbed her and
pressed up against the wall.
“Hm…
I must have been seeing things…”
“Whew…”
Nina breathed in relief her face going red at the close proximity of her and
Ryu. Then they ran as fast as they could through the exit.
“Drat…”
Ryu muttered. “It’s raining…”
Nina
growled. “This place is like Ludia, it’s ALWAYS
raining.” (They’re in
“C’mon,
let’s get some shelter.” Ryu said gently tugging her arm dragging her under a
bus stop.
They
sat in silence, watching the relaxing splatter of rain on the roof of the bus
shelter.
“…”
“…Nina…?”
Ryu asked remembering something.
“…Yes?”
she asked quietly.
“Remember
when I fought Dawn… you fainted… but who rescued me? I… remember blue eyes…
these beautiful blue eyes… like sapphire’s…”
Nina
said nothing, obviously thinking.
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The
person came closer and closer and closer; it was no good though Ryu could bear
no more, the person looked now more like a blob than a person. Ryu blinked
attempting to clear his vision, struggling to open his eyes. He saw that the
person was kneeling down face to face with him.
He
stared into their blue eyes, hearing a voice.
“Ryu…?”
It played again and again in his mind, slowly becoming fainter and fainter
until…
~ ~
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That
was all Ryu remembered, he had blacked out after that.
“Those
eyes…” Ryu whispered.
“Those
eyes…”
Nina
looked away, and all was silent.
“Ryu…”
Nina said quietly. “It was me. It was me who rescued you… I had woken up just
when…
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“Ugh…”
Nina muttered lifting her head off the ground, rubbing it and feeling a large
bump.
“Time to die.” A voice called. Nina looked to her left and her eyes widened as she
saw Dawn slowly approaching Ryu, who was situated on the cold tarmac. Ryu
certainly didn’t look very healthy, Nina thought and her heart filled with
dread when Dawn raised her silver dagger.
She
stood up not feeling pain, she couldn’t, all she could
think about was Ryu.
Nina
leaped forward rage filling her eyes as she jumped on Dawn and clamped her arm
with her teeth biting down as hard as she could. While at the same time
punching Dawn in the face, leaving her with stars in her eyes as she fell over,
obviously knocked out.
Nina
smirked; turning to Ryu on the ground as she carefully leaned over to him
kneeling.
“Ryu…?”
She whispered anxiously. Ryu slowly opened his eyes looking into hers and then…
fainted.
A
few minutes later an ambulance picked Ryu and Nina up, after having a phone
call from a man passing by.
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Ryu listened to her story with wide eyes.
“Nina…?”
She
looked at him. “Yes?”
“You…”
Ryu began. “Did… that… for me?” he asked, fighting unexplained tears. He wiped
them away with a finger, then stared at it, watching
how the moonlight reflected on them.
“You
know… I’ve never cried before… and yet…” Ryu stared into Nina’s eyes. “You make
me.”
………………………………………………………………………………
“Aw…
how touching…” Deis said smirking, an orb of light in front of her, showing
what was happening in the other world.
“Hey
Cray, Ursula, come here you really want to see this!”
As
soon as Ursula saw what was happening in the orb she started sniggering. while Cray didn’t even look, as he was busy trying to peer
down Deis’s dress.
Fou-Lu
stood, his arms folded. “When is’st thou going to let’st me get thee’s friends back’st? I thought that thou wantest them back?”
“Oh
let’s wait a while, I want to enjoy the drama.” Deis said smirking sticking her
thumb in the direction of the orb.
Ursula
sniggered.
Scais
said nothing.
Fou-lu
started jabbering again.
And
Cray was lying on the floor still hoping to get a good view up Deis’s dress.
………………………………………………………………………………...
“Do
I?” Nina whispered silently, tears falling gracefully down her cheeks too.
Ryu
carried on “…I always thought… that crying was a babyish thing to do… when your sad… and yet… I’m not sad… I’m happy… so happy…and…
yet…”
Ryu
moved dangerously close to Nina.
“And
yet…” Ryu repeated again.
“And yet?” Nina whispered, inching closer to Ryu.
“…I
think I’m in love.”
Chapter
XVI: The Final Duel
“You…
do?” Nina asked quietly, tears like waterfalls raining down her cheeks, but
they were happy tears.
“I…
have from… the very second I saw you… I knew that you…” Ryu trailed off,
feeling nervous.
Nina
smiled. “You don’t need to tell me Ryu, I already know. Your face could tell me
more than words ever could… and Ryu… I love you too.” Ryu’s nervous face broke
into the largest smile that Nina had ever seen as they both lent forward, and
at that moment Ryu knew that the woman in his dream was Nina.
“Sorry
ta break up dis “Touching” scene, but I believe we have a duel ta continue
Ryu?” Dawn hissed Ryu’s name with pure anger and hatred, but that didn’t faze
Ryu. He shook his head.
“This
is the end Dawn, I’ve had enough with fighting you, and this time we will
finish this, once and for all.” He said calmly.
Dawn
smiled in an insane way. “Look’s like ya finally got some sense boy.” She
looked at Ryu. “Shall we begin?” She said waving her hand at the clear space of
the field. Ryu nodded but suddenly Nina shouted out.
“Why
do you keep fighting us Dawn!? Why can’t you go away?! You already look
horrible!” certainly, Dawn looked absolutely atrocious. Her hair was matted and
her face was singed and bruised, and her clothes were all ripped. But… this
isn’t the best thing to say to an already fuming mad insane psychopath
determined to rip Ryu’s head off and stick on her mantelpiece.
“Why, you little brat! How DARE you say that about me!? Now your BOTH are
going to die!”
Dawn
wasn’t happy. That was an understatement.
Dawn
charged towards Ryu, almost frothing at the mouth. Thankfully Nina took to the
air and lifted Ryu out of the way with great difficulty.
“Thanks
Nina.” Ryu said while dodging another dagger attack from Dawn.
“No
problem.” Nina panted out, trying to get her breath back.
But
Dawn took this opportunity to attack Nina; stunned, Nina shut her eyes hoping
she would disappear.
CRASH
She
carefully opened one of her eyes, then the other. She was expecting a “slash”
and lots of pain, but she felt nothing.
But
her eyes widened at the scene in front of her, Ryu had stepped in front of her
and took the hit. Nina took no time summoning a healing spell with all her
concentration, praying it would work.
“Vigor!” She bellowed frantically and to her relief a large spiral of white
light flew round Ryu magically healing his wounds.
“Are
you OK?” Nina mouthed to him.
“Uh…
I think so-“
“Watch
out Ryu!” She shouted in dismay as Dawn lunged for Ryu once again. Nina swooped
down, wishing her wings were larger and grabbed Ryu by the back of his shirt
and lifted him into the air, parrying the attack.
Dawn
growled “Come back down here!” She screamed in rage.
Nina
mouthed a “No.” not managing to get her tongue to pronounce the words. Nina
quickly found the nearest roof and set Ryu down on it, collapsing in a panting
heap.
“Nina?
Nina? Are you all right?” Ryu asked shaking her.
“Huh?”
a feeble voice replied “Yeah… I just need to rest a while….”
Ryu
heard a scream of anger and peered down over the tiled roof seeing Dawn fuming
around, Ryu smirked. “Having fun down there?” he asked.
“You
jus’ wait! I’ll bay up dere in a sec!”
Meanwhile
at the heap that is Nina…
‘Oh,
I wish my wings were stronger… then I could fly… I could fly to the moon!’ Nina
wished in her mind. What she didn’t know, is that wishes sometimes, just
sometimes come true…
Suddenly
Nina was surrounded in a large ball of white light that nearly made Ryu slip on
the tiles. “Nina!” Ryu yelled his eyes wide, but not as wide as Nina’s…
Nina
had a weird feeling on her back that made her turn around, and made her nearly
faint. ‘My wings… they’re growing…” And indeed they were,
they were no longer the tiny wings on her back but the large wings of an angel!
They almost reached the floor.
The
ball of light surrounding Nina slowly vanished revealing her to Ryu. “Wow…” he
muttered staring at her. “Wow… wow… wow…” Nina flexed
her wings and closed her eyes, wondering how it had happened.
She
saw a figure in her mind and her eyes snapped open.
Dawn tapped her nose “I have me ways…” She said being unhelpful, the stepladder at the side of the house was more of a clue.
“Now… Ryu… Nina. Are we gonna finish our duel?”
Ryu nodded at Nina as they joined hands and flew into the air with ease using Nina’s new improved wings.
“Burn!” Ryu shouted.
“Typhoon!” Nina shouted.
“Gigaflare!” Together they roared as a spiral of fire flew up into the air.
Leaving Dawn rather singed and unhappy, It wasn’t over though.
“Burn!”
“Cyclone!”
“Simoon!”
“…Ouch…” Dawn said wobbling around a bit.
“Burn!”
“Sever!”
“Firewind!”
Dawn fell over.
“…Did… we… do it?” Nina asked peering over at Dawn.
“… I think so….” Ryu replied. Nina smiled jumping into the air and giving Ryu a high five.
“…I think we should finish this though however…” Ryu said quietly stepping towards Dawn holding his sword above her.
Nina turned round closed her eyes and put her fingers in her ears, she didn’t really want to see this. She waited for something, anything, then she heard it.
A muffled scream from Ryu.
Not quite what she had expected.
Nina swung round to see what was going on, Dawn more frazzled than ever holding her dagger to Ryu’s throat.
“Ready ta say bye-byes to yer boyfriend?”
Nina shook her head furiously. “NO!”
However they were interrupted by four pillars of dazzling light appearing around them.
“We thought you could use some help.” Ursula smirked.
Chapter
XVII: Last Chance
Nina’s
mouth dropped. “Ursula, Scais, Ershin, Cray!” She called, flabbergasted.
“Ershin
has given Ershin instructions to rescue Nina and Ryu.” The suit of amour said.
Ursula
smiled “Not that you need it of course.” She said sarcastically.
Dawn
clutched the dagger nearer to Ryu’s throat “lo?” She asked the others raising
an eyebrow, obviously annoyed that they had stopped paying attention to her.
“O-Oh
dear…” Scais stuttered shaking his head.
Ursula
rolled her eyes, and not even facing Dawn pressed the trigger of her gun and
fired it.
BANG
And
it knocked the dagger out of Dawn’s hand leaving it to be smashed into a million
pieces on the floor, Dawn growled at Ursula. “That was Bolt’s knife.”
Ryu looked at Ursula with pity from the floor
mouthing “you’re in trouble now.”
And
indeed Ursula felt something hit her hard in the stomach almost toppling her
over. “Ugh…” she said clutching her stomach.
“U-Ursula!” Scais stuttered and quickly drew his sword and attacked Dawn with
Shining Blade, which of course did not work, Dawn was very fast.
Ershin
had an idea as he (or she) took a rather strange stance and shouted, “Stand
out!” Dawn turned to him and instead of attacking Ursula again, charged at him.
Ryu
took this time to transform.
“ARHHH!” He screamed feeling the transformation.
Dawn
turned round, noticing Ryu’s scream.
“Oh
crud, not again…” She muttered, and determined not to let Ryu win again charged
at him, Nina saw.
“Cray!” She mouthed.
Cray
raised an eyebrow, Nina pointed to Ryu and his eyes widened. “Shield!”
He shouted summoning a barrier to help block the attack.
“GRGH!” Dawn grunted in rage, her fist having bounced off an invisible wall
surrounding Ryu.
“Supercombo!” Ursula shouted, steadying her gun.
BANG
BANG
BANG
BANG
BANG
Only
one of those shots hit though. “EAKK!” Dawn bellowed
as a bullet pieced her shoulder, she dropped to the floor holding it.
Nina
giggled coming closer to Dawn “We got her!” She shouted in glee, the smile was
thrown violently off her face as Dawn reached up and grabbed Nina by the foot
and tripped her up. Nina was thrown straight down to the floor. “My nose!” She shouted as it gushed
blood.
Dawn
jumped to her feet laughing evilly, so evilly that she didn’t notice a dragon
hybrid sneak up behind her. Ryu grabbed Dawn by the arms and jumped on top of
her shoulders and put his claws over her eyes. “AH! Where am I? Where has the light gone?!”
“There
is no light left for you Dawn, only darkness, you should have realized that
when you embraced it.” A deep voice spoke. It was Ryu.
“What
are ya talking bout!? Who are ya?” Dawn said frantically.
Ryu
smirked “I’m you.” He said mysteriously.
“WHA?! I’m me! Yer’!… Wait a darn minute, you’re
Ryu!”
“Ah…
found out at last, oh well.” Ryu said giving the others the thumbs up. Ryu
quickly jumped off Dawn’s shoulders giving the others a clear range.
“Wild Swing!”
Ershin beeped, jumping forward and swinging
his arm at Dawn, however she jumped into the air and on top of Ershin, Ershin himself ran round wildly attempting to throw her off.
“WOO!
Ride ‘em cowboy!” Dawn shouted smirking while hanging on for dear life on
Ershin. Suddenly Ershin opened his lid (Or head rather) and catapulted Dawn
right on top of a lamppost. “Ha ha ha!” Dawn laughed
arrogantly, believing herself out of reach of harm. She’d forgotten about Nina.
Nina
flew up (While holding her nose with one hand) and landed on the lamppost as
well, she held out her staff like a sword and said, “Let’s fight.”
Dawn
gave her a cold sneer and reached into her pocket, pulling out yet another
dagger. “Think yer up to it?”
“You
bet.”
Dawn
lurched forward attempting to stab Nina but missed, only just stopping herself
from falling. (They’re on the bent bit of the lamppost by the way) Nina lifted
her staff into the air and brung it down smashing it over Dawn’s head. Dawn
wobbled slightly seeing stars float round but managed to steady herself and say, “Give up! Ya know I’ll win in da end!”
while swinging her dagger again.
“You
wish.” Nina said hovering in the air to evade the attack, but as she came back
down Dawn swiped again.
SLASH
Right
on her left wing.
THUD
Nina
was left hanging from one hand on the lamppost, above her she saw Dawn
sneering, below- the very hard looking concrete. Honestly, she didn’t know
which one was worse. Her hand was sweaty from the battle before and slowly was
sliding off; there was no escape this time she thought.
None.
But
down from below she thought she heard chanting.
“Go,
Nina, go.”
It
got louder.
“Go
Nina Go!”
And louder.
“GO
NINA GO!”
Nina
looked down, their standing there chanting was her friends. It was as though
their cheering had awakened something powerful inside her as she reached up
with her other hand ignoring her gushing nose and gripped the lamppost swinging
herself round and kicking Dawn in the stomach sending
her flying off it.
“YEAH!” The others cheered as Dawn was thrown to the ground; she weakly tried
to stand.
“Guys!” Nina called, “I understand now, we have to work together to beat her!” They all nodded.
“Magic Ball!”
“Shining blade!”
“Blizzard!”
“Earthquake!”
“Inferno!”
“Typhoon!”
“Gigaflare!”
Dawn
was send flying into the air frozen, singed, and bruised all at the same time.
Then Dawn was sent flying back down again.
Where
did she land?
Inside Ershin of course.
Ryu
then shut Ershin’s lid laughing after reverting back to his human self.
“So….
What are we gonna do with her?” He said pointing to inside Ershin.
“Throw
her off a cliff?” Ursula offered.
“Barbecue
her?” Asked Nina.
“E-Eat her?” Said Scais.
“Leave
her to rot in Ershin?” Ryu smirked.
“Look
up Deis’s dress?” Said Cray.
Everybody
stared at him.
“Uh…
I mean… Make her smell Ryu’s socks.”
“…”
Was the answer.
Chapter XVIII- Jagged Reflection
“Geez,” Nina muttered, “She’s been out for hours…” She rapped a fist on Ershin’s head, receiving a beep in annoyance. “Hello?” She called, opening the lid and calling in, however, she only got an echo back.
They
had relocated to the small forest outside the city, dragging Dawn with them.
They were hazy about what to do with her. It didn’t seem like a rather good
idea to leave her unconscious in the middle of a forest. So they had all
decided to sit down and have a barbecue and wait till she waked up.
Ursula’s
voice penetrated Nina’s thoughts, “Nina…?” She asked staring at her strangely.
“Yeah?” Nina replied brushing a small
spider off her dress.
“…Were
your… wings, that big before?”
“Uh,”
Nina didn’t know how to explain, “Well… Pung Ryong wanted to help me… I guess.”
She said rather lamely.
“I
whought wu waid wa wagowns wewe whell win wa wother
world Wiwi?” Ryu said in a indecipherable voice
because a juicy pork chop was stuffed in his mouth.
“Eh?”
Cray asked, his mind finally off Deis and what was
down her shirt.
“I
thought you said the dragons were still in the other world.” Ryu repeated after
a few seconds of wrestling the pork chop down his throat.
“I
know,” Nina said, “But somehow… His powers reached me, I guess it’s cause he’s the guardian of the wyndians, I don’t really
get it myself…” She shrugged.
The
others exchanged doubtful looks, but didn’t reply.
“Uh…”
A muffled voice came from inside Ershin, and immediately Ryu, Nina, Ursula,
Scais and of course Cray crowded round the robot.
“Dawn?”
Nina asked in a sickly sweet voice.
“Whuh?” Dawn replied numbly.
“If
we let you out will you behave?” Nina asked in the same horrible voice.
“Eh…?”
Came back as the reply. Nina just sighed while tipping
Ershin over, causing Dawn to fall out in a heap on the patchy grass.
“Maybe
she bumped her head?” Cray asked scratching his own.
“Wha
goin’ ‘non?” Dawn said slowly.
“We
knocked the stuffing out of you, remember?” Cray asked rather smugly.
“Knock…?
Stuffing…? Remember…?” Dawn mumbled looking blank.
“She
can’t remember…” Nina whispered. “What’s your name?” She asked Dawn.
Dawn
scrunched her nose up as if trying to remember a memory a long time ago. “Uh… D…
Something beginning with D… I know! Dawn!”
She cried happily, remembering her name.
“And
who am I?” Nina asked.
“Melissa?”
Nina shook her head.
“Catherine?”
“Rose?”
“T…Tina…?”
“Close.” Nina said simply. Then she turned round to face the others, “Amnesia,”
She said as if giving relatives news on a patient.
Dawn
sighed lying back and fiddling with the junk in her pocket. Suddenly she
winced, bringing out some silver shards that had once formed to create a knife.
Dawn
stared at the shards as if entranced by them, completely unaware of the crimson
liquid dripping down her own hand.
“Bolt…” She whispered dreamily, her
breath’s ragged. Nina cringed.
“B-Bolt?” Scais asked quietly.
“Yeah,
it’s a person. That knife belonged to him. She was rather… Attached to him, if
you know what I mean.” Ryu said looking bored.
“Belonged?”
Ursula asked grimly.
“Yeah,
he’s dead.” Nina said bluntly. Ryu grunted in response.
Ryu
itched his nose, “That guy was a complete nutter, acted like a giant vampire bat.”
“…Nutter…
Dead… Bolt…” Dawn muttered to herself
shivering.
“Uh…
Dawn?” Nina asked timidly.
However
the rest of her words were drowned in a blood curdling scream.
“No…
Can’t… lies… no… no… no…”
“Uh,
guys, I think we better go… She’ll be fine, I think.” Ursula said losing her
usual nerve and slowly backing away.
“Yeah,
C’mon, let’s go.” Ryu said ushering Nina forward.
“Uh…
Well, Bye Dawn…” Nina said.
Dawn
just raised a bloodied hand and gave them a lopsided smile continuing to
mutter.
The
gang hurriedly walked away until they could no longer hear the ramblings of
Dawn’s madness.
*
“Right.” Ursula said, “You remember what Deis said guys?” Cray, Scais and the new Dawn-free Ershin nodded. “Get into a circle then everybody and hold hands. Nina made sure she was next to Ryu, giving him a small smile of confidence.
‘We’re
going home…’ He thought happily, ‘All this… Will finally be over… Then maybe-‘ He glanced at Nina, ‘we can be alone.’
They
stood silently in the circle as Ursula instucted for a few minutes before Ryu decided to
ask. “What exactly are we waiting for?”
“Fou-Lu,
he’s going take us back.” Ursula replied. Her eyes closed concentrating.
Five
minutes past…
Ten
minutes past…
Fifteen
minutes past…
“Uh…
Ursula?” Nina questioned.
Ursula
growled, “Oi Deis!” She shouted into the sky. “Hurry up and get us home! This
place is too freaky!”
At
once Deis’s voice filled the clearing that the group
was using, like god was calling down to them. “Oh shut up, I’m working on it.
Fou-Lu’s taking a shower.”
“Oh…”
Nina said, “You’re waiting for him to finish taking his shower, right?”
“No,”
Deis replied, “I’m trying to get him to stop him singing, you wouldn’t believe the noise here. It’s dreadful,
those angels can hark and sing as much as they want but they can’t do it
here.”
Everybody
blinked.
“Fou-Lu
taking a shower…? That’s one nasty mental image…” Cray said looking a little
disturbed.
“Ah,
finally… He’s stopped singing… Here he comes now. I’ll go get hi- Oh… My… God…”
“What’s
the matter Darl- I mean Deis?” Cray asked worriedly.
“Fou-Lu…My
god is he sexy.” Deis replied growling. Cray glared jealously.
“I
hath been’st cleansing thyself, clad now in robe.”
Fou-Lu’s voice joined Deis’s.
“Eh?”
Nina asked.
“He
says he’s only in a towel.” Ryu translated boredly.
“Oh…”
Nina then started bashing her head on a tree nearby, “Bad Nina, Bad Nina, Bad
naughty mental images!” Ryu couldn’t help but feel a small twinge of jealously
as well.
“Uh…
Anyway, let’s get this thing over and done with, all close your eyes. Now
Fou-Lu, do your stuff.” Deis said.
“Verily.” Fou-Lu said simply, and then he began to chant some strange foreign
words.
A
shining arrow of light shot towards the middle of the circle Nina, Ryu, Scais,
Ershin, Cray and Ursula had made. It spread around in a pillar of blinding
white light covering them. They felt themselves be lifted into the air.
And
at last, they were going home.
As for Dawn?
She
was picked up by some nice men in white later for a nice long natter with the very nice psychiatrist.
Paths of the Heart, Chapter XIX:
Indecipherable Words
Ryu span round, and around, and around like he was being sucked down a kitchen drain. He timidly opened one eye, then the other. He immediately shut them, he now understood why they were told to keep their eyes closed- ripples of millions of colors had flashed before him, it was very pretty. Yet extremely dizzying, Ryu felt sick.
And
it seemed as soon as it had begun, it stopped.
Ryu and the others crashed down onto a hard
stone floor; it was lucky they landed on something soft.
“Hey!”
The ‘soft thing’ shouted.
“Uh…
Whoops, sorry…” Nina said climbing off what now appeared to be a rather chunky
Wyndian guard. They had landed in one of the secret basements in Wyndia castle.
“You little brats! What do you think you’re do-“ The
guard stopped in mid sentence, “Princess
Nina!” She shouted in realization, “I’m so sorry, I did not recognize you my
highness, I must tell the king of your triumphant return!” And he hurried off,
obviously embarrassed at shouting at the heir to the throne.
“Oh,
yeah,” Nina remembered, putting a finger on her chin, “I must tell father that
I’m back.”
Cray
pulled himself off the floor, as he did so he noticed Deis. A huge dorky smile
worked its way up Cray’s face, but it disappeared just as fast as a look of
shock and horror replaced it. For in front of him was the most vile and horrid
scene he could have imagined: Fou-Lu was sitting in Deis’s
lap. Not only that, but Fou-Lu was covered in Lipstick kisses, his hair seemed
rather messed up too.
‘Well,’
Ryu thought with a raised eyebrow, ‘they look like they’ve had some fun.”
Cray’s
eyes almost popped out as his heart shattered in 4 different fancy color coded pieces. Everyone was too lazy to pick them up
for him. “NOOOOOOOOOOO!”
He screamed in agony, eye lids twitching as he rushed up to Deis
and teared Fou-Lu off her lap.
“How could you betray our
love?!” He shouted as he began weakly hitting Deis.
(Though meaning no harm.)
“Wait
one darn second…” Deis said trying to understand what the heck Cray was on
about, “You think I and Him,” She
pointed to Fou-Lu, “did that? How
dare you?!” Deis shouted in fury, slapping Cray with so much
power that it left a hand mark that would probably be there for the rest of his
life.
Cray
fell to the floor sobbing, “B-b-b-but… You said… earlier, that… h-he looked…
sexy” He stuttered in a Scais worthy way.
“Honestly…
You humans…” Deis said exasperatingly. “He is like SO... 3 minutes ago.” She said waving
an elegant hand.
“B…
B… But… You’re…”
“What
I do pussy cat, is my business. If I
want to comfort Fou-Lu after his brutally attacked by rabid fangirls, then that
is what I do.” She said sternly.
Cray’s
mouth curved into a sigh of relief. But it wasn’t over yet.
“Anyway…”
Deis began, “What do you mean, ‘betray our love…?’” Cray gulped.
~
“Father!” Nina cried in joy running up to embrace him.
“My
daughter…” The king said in relief, “How glad I am to see you safe and sound
again.” He said hugging Nina.
“I
missed you too father.” Nina smiled the rest of the group behind her, including
A rather sulky red-cheeked Cray.
“To
celebrate the joyous occasion of you’re return daughter, we shall have a feast,
I believe your friends would like some time to relax
too, yes?” The king said happily.
The
rest of the group nodded, liking of the idea. “That’s a wonderful idea Father! But… I wish to do something first…”
“Very
well, Nina, the feast shall we held tonight, just be back before then.” The
king said curiously.
“Don’t
worry, I won’t be long.” Nina said walking out the door. Ryu decided to follow
her, he caught her arm.
“Where
are you going?” He asked.
“To thank Pung Ryong.” She said mysteriously, unlatching her arm from his
and walking away, leaving Ryu to revel in his confusion.
She
climbed to the top of Wyndia castle, where she sat, gazing at the sky. “Now…
Where are you…?” She muttered to herself squinting at the sun. But she had seen
what she had been looking for, “Thanks, Pung Ryong.” She said grinning like a
Cheshire cat. And, although she was not sure if it was for real or not, she
heard a whisper of reply come back.
No problem.
Later
that day…
Ryu
stood in front of the rather large mirror in the guestroom that had been given,
scrutinizing himself. He was dressed in what could
only be described as one thing- a suit. And boy was it uncomfortable, however
he had been told to wear it. Ryu always did as he was told. ‘Who am I kidding.’ Ryu said throwing it off and rummaging around in
the cupboard for something better.
“Aha!” He cried pulling out some plain black
trousers, a blue shirt and a rather fancy elegant red cape.
He
quickly put them on, ignoring the drooling fangirls outside the window that had
jumped on Fou-Lu earlier that day.
Ryu
looked in the mirror again while combing his hair. It took half an hour of
struggling, but at last he had finally got it straight, He thought he looked
rather handsome.
Knock
“Come in.” Ryu said straightening his cape out.
It
was a Wyndian guard, “Sir, the party’s starting, please follow me to the great
hall, it you’re ready that is.”
Ryu
nodded, “let’s go.” The guard led him down to a room that Ryu had never seen
before, and he immediately gasped.
The
room was beautiful, painting of cherubs on the roof and floor, gold pillars,
but most stunning of all was the rows and rows of food, every sort you could
imagine.
“Where’s
Nina?” Ryu thought, except he said it out loud.
“The
princess is over there sir.” The guard said pointing to the corner of the room,
where Nina sat wearing a fur coat, shivering. Ryu had to admit, it was pretty
cold.
“Thanks…”
Ryu muttered walking carefully round the dancing floor, and taking a seat,
after grabbing a chicken leg that is. That food was just too tempting.
While
munching the chicken leg he could not avert his eyes from Nina, he wished he
could dance which her, ‘But why would she want to dance with me?’ He asked
himself blushing.
Just
at that moment Ursula strolled into the room wearing an elegant red dress and
sat down with Ryu.
“Why
aren’t you with Nina?” She asked bluntly.
Ryu
just mumbled in reply.
“Oh
come on Ryu, you know she likes you.” Ursula smiled, “And I know you like her.”
Ryu’s face went red, “C’mon, why don’t you ask her to dance?”
“She
doesn’t want to dance with me… I can tell… Look how cold she is.” Ryu replied.
Ursula
laughed, “Then… Why don’t you get close and warm her up.” And with that Ursula
pushed Ryu forward across the dance floor and right into Nina- Who screamed and
spilt her Punch all over her coat.
“Uh…”
Ryu said nervously, “Ursula did it.” He added.
Nina
just looked at Ryu dubiously.
“Uh…
Sorry about that Nina…” Ryu muttered.
“Don’t
worry about it…” Nina said, “I wasn’t going to drink that anyway, I think Scais
spiked it.”
“Why
would Scais spike the punch?” Ryu asked curiously.
“Well…
Who knows how his mind works… I think that he’s quiet all the time because…
He’s plotting…” Nina said laughing.
“Plotting
what?”
“To spike the punch of course.”
They
all broke out laughing at the joke, knowing that Scais would never really spike
the punch.
They
never knew how wrong they were…
“God,
my coat’s soaking…” Nina muttered.
“Sorry…”
Ryu said quietly.
“Don’t
worry,” Nina said, “I’ll take it off anyway, I’m
feeling a bit warmer now.” She said removing it.
Ryu
gasped. Underneath Nina was wearing the most beautiful item of clothing Ryu had
ever seen. It was long, gold and had had real roses stitched into it. (Though
they had the thorns removed) And with her large wings protruding from the back,
she looked like a real angel.
‘No,’
Ryu thought, ‘She is an angel.’
Nina
caught him staring and blushed, “Do you like it?”
“Yeah…
It’s amazing… You must have to change the roses a lot in that.”
Nina
shook her head, “They’re blessed roses, they never
wilt. This dress was… My mother’s it’s passed down though the women’s side of
the family. You see the brown stain?” She pointed to a small brown stain at the
hem of the dress; “My great-great-grandmother spilt coffee there.”
“Uh…
Nina…?” Ryu asked.
“Yes?”
Nina asked questioningly.
“Um…”
Ryu gathered up his courage, but somehow looking at Nina, he had enough for
88.9 life times.
“Nina…
May I have the honor of this dance?”
~
“And
then, can you believe, she said ‘I don’t date animals, humans and especially not Pussy Cats.’ and then, she slapped me AGAIN!” Cray wined, Ershin
beeped in reply, wearing a tuxedo.
“Then
she said ‘I’ll date YOU when pigs fly.’ And I said ‘ So
that’s a pretty good chance then.’ And do you know what she did then? She
slapped me AGAIN!” Ershin beeped and ran off.
“The NERVE! I just told him how Deis slapped me 55 times,
I hadn’t even said the last 45.” Cray said sulking.
Deis
sighed sitting down next to Cray, “Cray… I’ve been listening to you and…”
“You here to slap me again?” Cray said grumpily.
“No,
but if you don’t hold you’re tongue, I will. Now… I’ve
been listening to you, and… If it means so much to you…
I’ll go out with you.
“…”
Cray replied.
“…”
“…”
“…”
“…”
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
~
“Yes.” Nina accepted as she gave Ryu her hand and he lifted her to her feet.
Ryu
lead Nina to the dance floor, putting one hand round hers and the other round
her waist as the music began to play.
If words could say my
feelings,
My words would be
Indecipherable,
A song of love.
Nina
began to hum along with the tune, her mind blank and calm. She didn’t really
enjoy dancing, but when she was with Ryu, she enjoyed everything.
Glide over sparking sand,
Ryu sighed holding her closer, her breath smelled of roses, while he was sure his smelled of chicken. But it didn’t matter, as long as she stayed with him.
Hold you in the
darkness,
Never let go of your
hand.
‘Don’t let this end, it don’t want it to end.’ Nina thought desperately as they twirled round and round, Nina closed her eyes and sighed, the sigh of love.
Even it my words
weren’t tangible
You would still know
what I mean,
They passed by Ursula, she grinned at Ryu, seeing Nina resting her chin on Ryu’s shoulder as they danced and gave him the thumbs up. Ryu smiled back.
Singing loud and
clear
A mirror of emotions
– You’d know what to hear.
“Ah!” Nina let a soft scream as she nearly tripped over Ryu’s leg; ‘sorry’ she mouthed, Ryu just smiled pulling Nina to him again.
I could fly up to
the moon
Glide over sparkling
sand,
Ryu felt like he was gliding, and it felt great.
Hold you in the
darkness
Don’t let go of my
hand.
If Ryu wanted holding, Nina vowed she would do it.
If words fibbed my
emotions
Would you stand by
me?
‘Of course I would.’ Ryu thought, ‘I will always stand by you, Nina’
Just a reflection,
But what would you
see?
They were completely ignorant of the staring, half the hall was looking at them. They were in a world of their own, and they weren’t going to come out of it any time soon.
I could fly up to
the moon
Glide of sparkling
sand,
They were so close now, Nina could smell the chicken, and their noses were almost touching.
Hold you in the
darkness,
Embrace you in the
light.
The king watched the couple dance happily, ‘looks like we may have found our new prince…’ He thought.
If my heart could
speak,
What would they say
to you?
Believe me it would
say…
Together they whispered the last words of the song.
“I love you.”
They leaned forward as Ryu’s sweet lips claimed Nina’s in their first but certainly not last kiss.
~~The*End~~
~Chapter XX: Epilogue~
<>
Ursula
returned to Chedo to take up her Grandfather’s position as general. But she
didn’t expect what she found there.
“WHAT?!” Ursula cried, “What do you mean the general’s position is already
taken!?”
“I’m
sorry captain, but someone with tremendous skill claimed the job this morning,
someone with the name of E-“ The guard at the palace
gate said, but was cut off.
“Shut
up! I’ll get my grandfather’s position back, whether you like it or not!” She
said stomping off.
The
guard yawned and turned to his partner, “You wanna go out for a drink?”
“Yeah, sure. I could do with a couple dozen glasses of Whisky.”
Ursula
growled while prowling the palace searching for her next victim. ‘How dare he!’ She thought, ‘nobody is better than me, nobody can
replace me!… Can they?’
“Where the HECK is he?!” She cried in frustration, attracting a few of the
stares belonging to the palace guards. One tapped her on the shoulder,
“Can
I help you captain?” He asked.
“Yes
you darn well can! Where is that impostor of a general?!” Ursula shouted, spit spraying out of her face.
“The
general,” He stopped a minute to wipe the spit of his face with a hankie, “Is
in his chambers, in the east wing.” Before he could say any more, Ursula
stomped off leaving dirty footprints in her wake.
Ursula
stormed into the room muttering dark things that shall not be repeated, when
she got the shock of her life. Standing in front of her, was Ershin.
“Ershin?” Ursula asked, stunned. “What are you doing here?”
Ershin
bleeped, “I am here to be general.”
Ursula
gaped, “NOOOOOOO!” But she quickly gained her composure.
She
drew her gun from her belt, “Say… Ershin, what do you say to a friendly competition? A…
Fight, you know. The winner takes the title of general?”
Ershin
bleeped in affirmative.
“Let’s
get ready to rumble.” Ursula said.
She
lost miserably and was demoted to palace window-washer.
<>
Deis and Cray’s relationship had been going surprisingly well. That is until they had an encounter with a familiar, (Though not to them) Black haired young lad. And they discovered they couldn’t snog, due to the fact that Deis didn’t have a body.
The said goddess was currently residing in her room in Worent, having moved in with her boyfriend. She stood beside her dressing table putting on a diamond necklace, while humming a tuneless song. She was getting ready for her hot date with Cray, she grinned at the thought.
Deis strolled over to the wardrobe at the other side of the room to remove her ten-centimeter mini skirt and very very small top for her date later that day. She didn’t expect what was found there.
“AHHHHH!” She screamed in shock falling backwards.
The cavalry, Who happened to be Cray, charged in through the door. “What’s the matter, my honey-bunch!?” He cried.
Deis just laid on the floor feebly pointing at the wardrobe, “S…S-Sweety-pie… I-I-In….
T-There….”
Cray blinked and went to explore the wardrobe. He slowly opened the latch and let the door creakily slide open. He had to restrain his jaw from dropping to the carpet.
Inside, the boy who Nina and Ryu had met in their time on Earth sat. The boy who I might add had a rather strange obsession with eating people’s clothes. For he sat nestled in a pile of half-eaten laced underwear.
“M-M…. My…Clothes, my precious clothes!” Deis sobbed in the background. Cray’s eyes hardened nobody upset his girlfriend. Nobody.
“Who the heck are you?!” He shouted angrily at the thirteen-year-old.
“I,” Said Michael a bit pompously, while stuffing a bra in his mouth, “Mam Mipa Mwill.”
“Eh?” Cray asked tapping his foot impatiently on the floor.
“I am Michael Hill, and I’m pleased to meet you too.” He said swallowing the last of Deis’s bra.
“W…Why are you eating a bra?” Asked Cray in alarm.
“Well,” Started Michael, “If you are going to speak English my good friend, then do at least speak it properly, The question is ‘Why were you eating a bra,’ not ‘Why are you eating a bra’ After all, I have already finished eating it.” He laughed a bit before continuing, “Anywho, these garments,” He pointed to the now small pile of clothes, “Yours? I must say they are mighty tasty.” Cray slowly went red in anger.
“I. Don’t. Wear. Women’s. Clothing.” He said slowly.
“Hm…” Said Michael deep in thought, “Well then, the new question is, who’s are these then?”
Cray pointed to a pile of chewed socks, “They belong to my girlfriend.” He said, “And now your gonna die!” He shouted jumping inside the wardrobe to attack Michael. However, the door slammed shut just after and the latch fell back down.
There was a lot of movement from the wardrobe and it seemed a full-scale war was resonating from inside. For the wardrobe rocked and walked as though it was a contestant in a three-legged race.
This went on for quite a while, until Deis had the sense to open the door. As soon as she did, Cray went flying out, skidding right to Deis’s feet.
Michael stepped out dusting his hands. “Well, that was jolly good fun, but I must catch the next teleport back home.” And he walked right out of the room.
Cray sighed feeling a bruise come up on his forehead. “Oh well…” he said.
“What do you mean ‘Oh well’ you lost! You can’t lose, you just have to have a rematch!” Deis screamed down to Cray. (Who was still on the floor)
“No, not that.” He said, staring upwards, a grin slowly working up towards his face, “There’s a nice view from down here.”
SLAP
Despite all that, Deis and Cray stayed together, and eventually in many years to come, they got married. Unfortunately since Deis was only a spirit, they never had any children, so the girl who kept beating up her brother took over Worent.
<>
Scais? Well he moved to Shikk to get a job since he spent all his money
losing a bet on two men playing strip poker. Once there, he found his calling
in life: Scrubbing the deck on Zigg’s boat.
W-where can you find
pleasure
Search the world for
treasure
Learn science t-technology
Where can you begin to make
your dreams all come true
Scais
sung one happy day on Zig’s boat.
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study 0-ocean-nography
Sign of for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others
meet
In the navy
Yes, you can s-sail the
seven seas
In the navy
Yes…you can put your mind at
ease
In the navy
Come on now, fall in 'n'
make a stand
In the navy, in the navy
Can't you see we need a hand
In the navy
Come on, p-protect the…
motherland
In the navy
Come on and join your fellow
man
In the navy
Come on people, and make a
stand
In the navy, in the navy, in
the navy (in the navy)
They want you,t- they want you
They want you as a new
recruit
If you like…Uh… adventure
Don't you wait to enter
The recruiting office fast
Don't you hesitate
There is no need to wait
They're signing up new
seamen fast
Maybe you are too young
To join up today
Bout don't you w-worry 'bout
a thing
For I'm sure there will be
Always a good navy
Protecting the land and sea
In the navy
y-Yes, you can sail the seven s…s…s…Seas!
“SCAIS!” Screamed Zig, “Will you SHUT UP?! I’m trying to spy out naked chicks with my new
telescopee-thingy!”
Scais threw his paw to his forehead in a salute, “Y-Yes s-s-sir!” He cried happily continuing his cleaning. After all, he loved the smell of dish-washing powder.
He stayed there for twenty happy years before he got sent to the Pound for being accused of being a ‘stray’.
<>
Dawn was still in the same position we left her, except this time, she was in The Wayside mental hospital due to running around naked in the police station.
Now, there’s not much to say about her, only that she was going to be there for a very very long time.
<>
Erma and Steve, Ryu’s companions on his quest to save Nina carried on with their lives as normal. Of course though, Erma was much happier with her brother back, unfortunately it caused many more arguments. Today’s argument, was television.
“I tell you Steve, you watch too much TV!” Erma shouted at him.
“What’s it to you?” Steve replied grumpily.
“I want to watch it!” She shouted back folding her arms and sticking out her tongue at him. Steve rose out of the sofa and stood against Erma trying to appear tall. It didn’t work though; Erma was excellent at that game.
“You looking for a insult fight?” Asked Steve.
Erma gave him a smug look. “Maybe I am.”
“Stupid,”
“Twit,”
“Git,”
“Idiot,”
“Pompous moron,”
“Fat cow,”
“Dung-covered toothpick,”
The rest of the conversation was certainly too rude to pin down in words. All I can tell you is that many arguments were to come. But never in their lives did they forget their encounter with the angel-like girl and the dragon-boy.
<>
And of course, who can forget Ryu and Nina, our main characters in this story, and in many others. Some of you may be wondering what happened to them, some of you haven’t thought about it, and some of you most likely don’t care. But this is what happened to them, and this, is the truth.
“Ryu?” Nina asked thoughtfully, putting a finger to her chin, “ How long do Dragons live for?”
Ryu turned to her an eyebrow raised. “We’re Endless, remember?”
Nina blinked, “Oh yeah, sorry. I forgot.” She giggled.
Currently they were in the royal gardens of Wyndia, a most beautiful place only accessed by members of the Wyndian royal family. However, Nina had invited Ryu to look at the flowers.
After they had returned from Earth, the king- Nina’s father had invited all the gang to stay in Wyndia. But Ryu was the only one who took up his offer; after all he didn’t have a home. Plus he was eager to get some private time alone with Nina. (Not for what you’re probably thinking though)
Nina giggled harder, suppressing a snort- after all, it was not like a princess to snort. But her face was slowly going red.
“Uh, Nina, What’s so funny?” Ryu asked, his mind completely boggled.
She didn’t reply but rather continued to giggle.
“Nina?”
She snapped out of her trance of laughter. “Huh? Oh sorry, I was just thinking,”
“About what?” Ryu asked.
“Deis’s letter,”
“Deis’s letter?”
“She just sent it me earlier, here look,” And with that, she shoved the piece of post, with the royal wyndian emblem as the stamp under Ryu’s nose.
“Hmm…”
Dear Nina
How are you?
I’m fine, you don’t
need to ask. Cray and I just came back from our date before I write this
letter. He has a wicked sense of humor; he spiked the punch at the party we
went too. Mind you, I did too. I spiked the Elder’s drinks, they were singing
‘Old MCDonald had a farm’ naked for hours. I wore my ten-centimeter skirt
there. All the boys were absolutely falling
over for me. Problem was, they kept getting under
my feet. Kept looking up, for some reason. Cray seemed
jealous though…
Wishing you the
best,
The most ravishing
and beautiful, Deis.
Ryu snickered, “falling over eh?”
Him and Nina then fell into a bout of laughter, they were almost rolling around on the floor. The sound seemed to echo, even thought they were outside, there was no other noise. Apart from the constant sound of the sprinklers.
It seemed too quiet, and after a few moments, they fell silent.
Sniffle
Sniffle
Sniffle
‘Huh?’ thought Ryu, ‘where’s that sound coming from?’
Sniffle
He realized where the noise was coming from, “Nina? Nina? What’s the matter?”
She sat down on the wooden bench behind her, brushing the tears away with her sleeve. But if was no good. More continued to fall, cascading down like a waterfall.
“Nina?” Ryu asked again, he didn’t like to see her like this. It made him feel sad too.
She wiped the tears away again, her sleeve getting rather stained. “I-I’m sorry… I’m… I’m being silly.” She stuttered.
Ryu shook his head, “You’re not silly Nina, you’re the least silliest person I know. Now, what’s the matter? Tell me, and I can help you.”
Nina gave him a small smile, “You know Ryu, you’ve changed.”
Ryu shook his head, ‘I know I have, thanks to you.’ He thought, but he said something different, “What is the matter?”
“You’re a lot… Nicer now, don’t you think? But you’re still very noble. You think of everyone before yourself…”
Ryu rolled his eyes.
“Well that would be
very Noble of you...”
“Enough reminiscing Nina, now what is the matter?” Ryu repeated, getting slightly annoyed.
Fresh tears sprang out of Nina’s eyes again.
“…Well, Dragons… they live forever, right? So…” She stopped to sob, “One day, I’m going to die… and you’re… you’re going to forget all about me…”Nina was stopped by Ryu placing a hand over her mouth.
“Nina…” He sighed, “That is very true, I will live on after you… but believe me, never will I forget you, never. I couldn’t possibly forget you. You’re the first person I met after coming to this world, you were the one who was kind to me, and wanted to help me regain my memories. I will never forget what a kind beautiful soul you are.”
Nina lifted her head, stunned by Ryu’s words, “But…I…”
Ryu smiled, “It’s sad that we won’t be together forever, if I could have one wish, it would be exactly that…. I don’t ever want to lose you. I love you too much to say goodbye to you…”
For a moment Ryu looked as if he was about to cry as well, but the tears never left his eyes.
“Nina, we have to spend the time we have now together… we don’t have forever. But… We have now, this second, this minute. This moment is so very precious that it can never last forever. But… this moment is enough for me.”
Nina smiled through her tears, wiping them off with her sleeve, “I…I understand. You’re right Ryu, I can’t waste this precious moment on tears and wondering. I really love you, you know?”
Ryu kissed her softly, “I know, I love you more than anything else in this world. Which… is why…” He leant down onto one knee and held one of her hands, “I want to make this moment even more special.”
“Nina, my sweet angel, will you marry me? I have no token or object to offer you, but I do offer you my love, my trust and my heart.”
Nina knelt down with Ryu, gripping both his hands furiously, giving him the biggest smile he had ever seen, “Yes, Ryu. Yes!”
It seemed at those words, the garden came to life, birds chattered and squawked as if they were happy too. The planted shined and sparkled in joy and even the roses danced with happiness.
But, nobody could have ever been happier at those moments than Ryu and Nina.
…
…
…
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