Rain sat her dark hair over her eyes, she had slept through the
wedding ceremony and had only just woken up to the nudge from her
friend Ice, "Whadai miss?" she muttered slowly opening only one eye fully.
Ice rolled her eyes, "Only the entire wedding."
Rain brushed the hair from her eyes, "Oppsie…" she said childishly,
"…well can't be helped…"
Ice shook her head and looked over to Tontzo who was standing talking
to his younger brother, Fal, Fal had lately been quite infatuated with
Lord Artek, suddenly she turned round scanning for Guarda, "Where is he?!"
"Where's who…oh him Guarda…I think I saw him with Diamond before I
fell asleep they were talking about something…seemed important." Rain
yawned, "Maybe he left with her." She managed to muster through the
yawning.
Ice wavered her hand in front of her, "Phew morning breath…lovely. Put
those fangs away missy I smell something."
Rain put her hand to her mouth and breathed on it then sniffed, "Hey…I
do not have morning breath, the nerve!" she turned her back on Ice and
folded her arms huffily.
"Oh c'mon don't go in the huff. I smell something! It could be
baaaaaaad…..""
Rain turned round to face her a grin spread across her cheek, "I'm not
in that bad a mood with you. Besides I smell something too it smells
new…..or renewed."
"Wanna check it out?"
"Hey that's my line! But yeah lets go!" the two ran out their weapons
up and ready, Rain's nose leading the way. They had only gotten so far
when they were attacked by a few monsters, Rain stood slouched "C'mon
you over grown buzzards!" she lunged forward slicing one of the large
bird-like creatures in half with her katanas.
Ice stared as two more took its place, "I should've slept in this
morning!" she ran forward jumped up slammed her right foot on one of
the creatures head jumped once more spun around in the air and slashed
two in half while returning gracefully to the ground. Tossing her blue
hair from her eyes she watched as her friend attacked the `last' of
these creatures but as soon as it hit the floor ten more flocked
around them.
"Where are they coming from?"
"Must be a nest, don't see why they attack now though…or why they
chose to attack us." She narrowly avoided a wind blast from one of the
creatures, "I really wish I had stayed in bed this morning."
"INCOMING!" a booming male voice sounded from above and the two looked
up in time to see fireballs hailing from the sky. The girls avoided
each one with ease but the large bird-like creatures had no chance
they fell to the ground smouldering.
The two stood and glanced around wearily at the sky looking for the
voice, Rain sniffed at the air, "Guarda." She muttered lazily and
wandered away in search of the owner of the smell.
Ice stood staring at the large red dragon, quickly transforming into a
tall red outfitted man, before her, "Thanks. We didn't really need the
help but thanks anyway."
"You didn't need help huh?" he muttered smirking at her.

Rain hadn't gotten far when someone blocked her way, she looked up to
see Tontzo, "What do you want?" she looked up at him curiously, as he
grabbed her by the arm, "Let go!" she struggled to get free.
"I just want to talk to you."
"Well you don't need to touch me to talk to me. What's the big deal?!"
she shouted at him in anger. He sighed and opened a black portal with
a black crystal he produced from his pocket, he pushed Rain forward
and still gripping her arm he stepped in behind her.
When she walked through she noticed Fal was tied up thrashing about
like mad, "Okay I don't wanna know." Pulling free of his grasp she
walked over to a couch and threw herself backwards into it, "So why am
I here?"
"Try and snap him out of whatever state he's in."
"Fal, what's making you act like this?" she asked him relaxing into
the couch.
"I want to see him!" Fal screamed.
""Who?" she asked politely.
Fal ignored her and tried to get free, Tontzo shook his head and sat
down beside her, "It's Lord Artek, I caught him trying to knock out
Sephiroth…" he placed his face in his hands, "He's totally besotted
with him, it's quite freaky…he never even acted like this with Ice."
"Maybe you should let him go."
"No way he'll go find Artek."
"Maybe that's a good thing…maybe he'll see how pathetic his attraction
is once he sees how close Artek and Sephiroth are."
"A lot of maybes." He sat back on the couch looking down at her.
"Trust me." She muttered quietly.
Tontzo leaned down, "Sorry what did you say?"
She whispered again, "I said trust me." Suddenly realising how close
they were she pulled away cleared her throat and hurriedly moved over
to Fal, unsheathing her katanas she sliced through the ropes binding
him, "Go."
Fal stroked his sore wrists, "Thank you." For some reason he felt his
urge leave him a little possibly due to the fact he was released as if
it wasn't forbidden.
"Leave."
"Thanks." Fal opened a portal using a dark blue crystal and walked
through to go find Artek, but before he completely disappeared through
the portal he heard Rain shout.
"Find yourself before you do anything stupid." With him gone she
turned back to Tontzo, "I want to go back to the others, open a portal
for me oh and you better wait for Fal." Tontzo sighed and stood up
slowly bringing out the black crystal, "What?" she asked flatly.
"I just don't want to sit around here myself driving myself crazy in
the silence."
"Fine I'll wait until Fal comes back, besides we have a bit to catch
up on." They sat and chatted about their experiences over the years
well into the night…