Chapter 2 Aspio, Flynn and Sierra
"I'd like to join Brave Vesperia, Yuri." And this is how the faces went. And why I said this was a 'WTF Moment'.
[That's how my face went too.]
Yuri, being him, his face didn't falter. But he was genuinely surprised.
Estelle just smiled. She was happy that she had suggested it in the first place.
Karol? Don't let me even start with him. He was just like… over the moon.
Rita, who really didn't care. She just read her book.
Judith just smiled, and laughed.
Repede just barked.
Flynn smiled and laughed, just not as extravagant as Judith did.
Patty clapped as she hugged Yuri shouting 'Yuri-sama!', for yet again, some unknown reason.
[Because you said she was "half-japanese".]
And last but not least, Raven had those dramatic hearts in his eyes, but she clearly ignored him.
"Say your vows." Was all Karol said, once everyone had calmed down. She didn't know any vows to add, so she really, made one up. Actually, she never ended up saying it anyways, so it really didn't matter.
[Then why is this even included?]
"I, Sierra Corlese, vow to follow Brave Vesperia's laws, as I lend them my blade, in honour." She said, as she took out her blade and shook it in mid air.
[Shaking a sword around doesn't look silly in the slightest.]
You might be wondering something along the lines of…
"WHAT THE HECK IS FLYNN DOING HERE?"
I can explain.
[Oh please do.]
Flashback.
A little after the aqua blastia was recovered, and everything was fine at the Knights, Flynn was called to the board, out of nowhere. He obliged, and followed the group who had called, and was met with one seat, a spotlight on the seat and well, nothing else. He fidgeted a little as she shuffled himself to the seat. He broke a small bead of sweat, slightly afraid. If this was Yuri, then he wouldn't really be this… afraid in this situation. But, yes, it happened.
[He shuffled himself to the seat.]
"Captain Flynn Scifo. Please sit down." She finally sat down on the seat and looked around the empty looking room.
[And the room looked back!]
"I'll just get to the point. You have been stripped of your rank, and we no longer need you in the Imperial Knights." He jumped, and shouted, an unspeakable word. He sat himself down and asked.
[Somehow, I can't see Flynn ever swearing.]
"Exactly why?"
[Why exactly?]
"You were given direct orders by Master Ioder himself to recover the aqua blastia, by yourself. But you disobeyed his orders and used a GUILD to help recover it." He looked around, confused. All of the sudden, a window was in front of him, Ioder looking at Flynn sorrily. Flynn, who looked at him, ultimately bewildered, sighed as he continued to ask.
[If you pretend that an actual window appears at this moment, it makes it more interesting to read.]
"And exactly who gave you this sceptical evidence?"
"It was caught on tape by one of our knights. I hereby strip Flynn Scifo's rank of Captain and expel him from the upper quarter of Zaphias." And he calmly walked out of there. Somewhere, he *thought* he heard something like…
[He was caught on tape...]
"He deserves to be with Yuri, free, not be shackled by us. Sorry, Flynn." But he didn't hear who said it, as he just kept walking.
[You like shackling people don't you?]
It was night time. They were on their way to Aspio, since Judith had explained about the Hermes blastia and stuff, and Rita wanted to go there to find out more about the Hermes blastia. It was night time, so they just stayed onboard. And then a messenger, who was on a Rabtor (wink, wink, see the similarities?) jumped aboard. And then Patty flipped out her gun fancily, just about to shoot the poor messenger, but Sierra had stopped her.
[I get the idea. It was night time wink, wink.]
"Patty, there is no need to shoot at a messenger. I think I know who it's from, anyways." She said, as she walked up to the scared little boy and took the letter from his hand. As she had suspected, the envelope was addressed to her. She smiled, giving the boy a pat on his shoulder.
"You can go now." And the poor timid boy was out of there, immediately jumping onto the Rabtor and flying out of there. Just then, Yuri and Flynn walked out of the cabin, interested at the 'flapping' noise.
"What was that?" Flynn asked. Sierra smiled and made a 'nothing' shrug.
"Just a message." She said, as she disappeared into the darkness, beside the cabin. She opened the letter. And it was MOST definitely what she had thought.
Sierra,
I did give those orders. I mean, both of our parents were killed by the Entelexeia, so I avenged them. Don't try to stop me. Avenge your parents. If you don't, see you on the battlefield.
Linda.
PS: Sorry about the kid. Was the cheapest one I could find.
[Child labour is supported in Terca Lumireis. Sorry Terra Lumineris]
She frowned at the letter, scrunching it up and throwing it in a random direction. Which just so happened to be Yuri's face. He flinched at he felt the sharp pain on his face before the piece of crumpled paper fell helplessly onto the deck. Flynn snorted, and tried to keep in the laughs, while Sierra was already laughing. The letter, or now, the soggy and crumpled piece of paper, was left, forgotten.
And strangely, no one asked what the contents of the letter were about.
[How did the paper get soggy? Nevermind, don't answer that. I don't want to know.]
By morning, Patty had travelled a few more kilometres close to Aspio, since it took both Rita and Sierra half of the afternoon to get it back to how it worked, until they figured that they could just replace it with a normal blastia, which she (Sierra) had in her bag, for some unknown reason. She (yet again, Sierra) sat on the edge of the Fiertia, watching the waves, as her sword chimed in the wind. It was truly peace for the twenty year old new guild member.
[She (Sierra) has found true peace because she (yet again, Sierra) has a plot device bag.]
"Do you think she's alright?" Yuri asked Flynn, as the two watched her watch the waves.
"Yeah, probably. Lady Estellise, do you have an idea?" Flynn had asked Estelle, who wasn't really paying attention. She was too mesmerised at the fact of some urging feeling telling her something that she knew about her. Her, being, again, Sierra. It was all silent for a little bit, before she answered, confused.
[Everytime "she" or "her" is mentioned, feel free to assume it's Sierra.]
"What did you ask, Flynn?" She finally responded. But by the time she had responded, Sierra had gotten up. She didn't turn around as she walked towards the rails of the boat, hair flying all over the place. It was when the three noticed something wrong, they acted. Well, two, but yeah. The tears fell from her face, into the salty water.
Flynn stood behind her, rubbing her back in small circles, while she hiccupped. Yuri was going to do the same, but saw the, ahem, metal fingers already doing the job.
Did I forget to mention what Flynn's currently wearing?
[I thought he was stripped ): ]
He was wearing a light blue long sleeved tunic, with metal plate, and his bodhi blastia in the middle of the plate. His metal gauntlets, he still wore. He wore normal black pants, and black boots, and of course, his cape, which was white. He still had his fondness for the colour light blue.
Sierra still cried, as they approached the coast of Aspio, but when Rita shouted it out, she stopped and finally turned around, her eyes all red and puffy, but still she smiled.
"What's up, Sierra?" Flynn asked. But she never responded. She felt a tinge of something in her head that something was up. It wasn't that she couldn't speak. It wasn't that she couldn't be bothered. She just... couldn't. Well, she could, but didn't know how to.
[Something was up and she knew it was something.]
"Was it the letter?" Flynn asked, Yuri walking up to the two, with a smirk. She finally opened her mouth. And words finally decided to flow out of her mouth.
"...Yes." Was all she said. She took her sword out and let the wind chime the bells. She expected nothing to happen.
But, something did.
A bright light engulfed her and she fell into a deep sleep. Flynn looked at her, and so did Yuri.
"What happened?" He asked Flynn. The said didn't have a darn clue.
[The said? I don't have a darn clue either.]
But he had a gut feeling.
That something bad was going to happen.
[I never would've guessed 'something' was going to happen.]
The uninterestingness of finding out where Myorzo was, took majority of the afternoon, though in reality, it only took several minutes to do the job. It took the remainder of the time they spent in Aspio dragging Rita out of her hut.
[Took the majority of the afternoon but in reality it took several minutes... what?]
Though there was one thing concerning the whole group.
Sierra was still knocked out unconscious. So they decided to delay their journey a night. This allowed Rita some time on her own, doing who knows what.
[Playing with whatever was in her drawer.]
Yuri, who was partially worried, couldn't really care less, due to the bold words of Karol, saying that everyone had to be punished.
So, Flynn stayed by her side all day, fretting over the sudden change of temperature. Though, Yuri had enough brains to know not to trust Flynn too much on housework. That's when Flynn noticed she was wearing a locket. He knew immediately not to touch it, but he did. But before he could, a hand stopped him. Or, correction, two hands. One from the person behind him, the other from the person beside him.
"Flynn, curiosity killed the cat?" The voice behind him said. He could evidently hear the smirk and the humour in the person's voice. She flinched and pulled back, turning to the smirking face of Yuri and Raven, who was looking behind him.
[She flinched... SHE.]
"Flynn." The other voice beside him spoke. Sierra was finally awake, pale white. She pushed herself up. Before Flynn could push her back down again, she was gone. All that was left was a strand of blue hair and a patch on the blanket, soaked with tears.
The two evident evidences weren't Flynn's.
[I thought the evidence was going to say she was a ghost for a moment then.]
Since Sierra was awake during the afternoon, they changed their plans, aborting their second plan, and going on with the first. Sierra learnt from Judith that the door to Myorzo was located in the Egothor Forest. So they left the instant they figured she was fine.
But she was far from fine.
It was more, emotionally sick, but she tried to cover it up, with over happiness.
Never worked.
"Sierra, are you alright? You've been acting funny ever since you woke up." Karol asked, clearly concerned. She said nothing, as she looked out to sea. She had taken the bells off her sword and put them in the locket, as there was a space between the picture and the back of the locket.
[How the hell would bells fit inside a locket?]
"Sierra?" Another person asked. She yet again ignored it, as she looked at sea. The plans were now, they were to stop at Nordopolica and leave for the forest in the morning, since Patty didn't want to go to the forest in the middle of the night.
"Sierra-sempai?" Patty had already named her with the prefix of -sempai, for some unknown reason, but Sierra had gotten used to it.
[SUFFIX. Or did you mean to write Sempai-Sierra?]
"Sierra Corlese!" A person finally barked. She flinched, and turned around, her face still as pale as when she ran off. Yuri smirked as he had gotten her attention.
"I-I'm sorry. My head seems to be in a different place today. Rita, would you care for a fight?" She asked, out of the blue. Rita smiled, cracking her knuckles (I know it's not healthy, but I do, and I have long fingers!) and getting her whip out.
[I can't think straight, big whoop, wanna fight about it?]
"Sure. Over there?" Rita answered, pointing to the other side of the ship. Sierra smiled.
"Sure." And the two walked off to the other side of the ship, where explosions could be heard. Estelle and Karol decided to go into the cabin to get something out of their bags, though it was probably a conversation opportunity. Patty went in the Captain's cabin and sat there. All that was left was Yuri and Flynn, who were concerned.
[For the record, there's no Captain's Cabin on the Fiertia.]
"She's hiding something." They both said at the same time. Just as they had simultaneously said that, after a moment's silence, they could hear...
"YOU CAN HEAL?" Coming from the end of the ship. Immediately, the rest of the group ran up to where the two were sparring. Rita stood there, shocked. Sierra looked confused.
"Huh? Yes, I can heal. I've been learning these artes for a while now."
Estelle looked at her, curiously. Phaeroh's other words ringing in her ears.
You and that other person. You are both an insipid poison to this world.
[Flynn can cast First Aid and he isn't a Child of the Full Moon. Oh right I forgot, this is a mary-sue in denial.]
Me: Hello, again!
Yuri: Didn't you say that you'll reveal the couples?
Me: Yes. Yes I did. The first couple-
Sierra: First?
Me: Yes. I've written it in my NOTEBOOK so you can't see it.
Sierra: I see.
Flynn: I get this bad feeling it involves me.
[Me too Flynn.]
Me: You, Flynn Scifo, is correct. Flynn x OC (aka, Sierra)
Flynn, Sierra: WHAT?
[My thoughts exactly.]
Me: ....Moving along. The second and last couple-
Yuri: I think I know what it is.
Me: Is Yuri x Estelle!
Yuri, Estelle: I thought so / WHAT?
Me: I don't own anything. Review? I better scram to studio 15.
Her (being Sierra :D) name appears 26 times total in this chapter.