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He nudged me awake saying,
“C’mon Akhy, wake up!”
I woke up slowly, and stifled a yawn as I stretched and opened my eyes. I looked around, my mind clicking into gear a lot faster than usual.
“Damn. It’s ten, we missed a good hour.” I stood up and pulled my backpack on saying, “We have to hurry.”
Cloud pulled on his backpack saying,
“Sounds good. Sure you don’t want to find the others first?”
“We don’t really have a choice, Rei and Celes are capable fighters though. I don’t know about Phyress though.”
“She passed the tests to get this high in Exodus.”
“Still. A person has to be able to put aside all emotion to fight sometimes, I don’t know if she can do that.”
I peaked out form around the broken wall and saw the cost was clear. I had my katana drawn, and Cloud had his sword in hand too. We got to the back staircase in ten minutes or so, and started upward. We couldn’t go very fast, since we had to make sure we weren’t heard. I looked over and saw light rising from over the hills. Twi-LIGHT had set up camp on the forest’s edge, but you could be sure they had guards posted around the city. They’d had nearly three hours to get set up. There was hardly any moonlight, and we couldn’t use flashlights so we were feeling our ways along.
I tripped over something, and few forward with a thud. I cursed and for a second, I tough I saw the body of Trenxi, even though when I blinked he was gone.
“Are you alright?” Cloud asked quietly.
“Yeah…” I said and got up. “Let’s keep going.”
Other than that odd incident, nothing happened. Even though the hairs on the back of my neck never stopped prickling. I had a major bad feeling, I didn’t know if it was about getting out or what. I hoped it wasn’t Rei, Maaya, and the others, but I didn’t think it was. To be truthful, my bad feeling revolved all around Trenxi. Than again, what’s new?
It was getting to be about dawn when looking down became dizzying. We stopped on the side of the mountain that faced away from where Twi-LIGHT set up camp, and I flopped down saying,
“We’re in the dead center of the valley.”
Cloud sat beside me, closer than I’d of appreciated, saying,
“Think Twi-LIGHT will send soldiers up the mountain?”
“It’s hard to say. They might just wait to try to flush us out when we try to escape.”
“Or they’ll wait a day than come up the mountain to box us in completely.”
“There’s always that.” I said dryly. “Let’s just hope Maaya and the others are okay.”
“If they were taking prisoner, you think they’d lie about where we are?”
“It’s hard to say, I don’t think they ever got a good look at who was who. If they were caught, they cloud come up with some kind of lie, like it was Celes and Phyress who broke away from the main group. The only two that might have been able to help are dead now. They could just say they continued onward and we were lost in the forest. It’s hard to say how long they’d buy that, but it could cut their forces in half if they sent half up Neivila and half into the forest. Even though, we don’t want to hope any of the others are caught.”
“Aside from that, what’s on your mind?”
“Not counting how much I want a shower right now, not much.”
“You should probably sleep awhile, I’ll keep watch.”
“Don’t start acting like gentlemen, the entire act really pisses me off.”
“What doesn’t piss you off?”
“Not much when I know we’re boxed in and escape from this hell-hole is slim. Well, escape in one piece.”
“Multiple pieces is highly probable when dealing with Twi-LIGHT.”
I gave him a disturbed and bemused look and he smiled slightly at my scowl saying,
“Alright, bad joke. At least I’m not talking about genie asses, crab asses, and the other things you love chatting about.”
“That’s damn right, Crab’s Ass.”
“Can’t forget Spongy-Circus-Peanut-Ass, right?”
“Spongy-Circus-Peanut-Ass-chan. Not just Spongy-Circus-Peanut-Ass, there’s a -chan too.”
“And -chan is Nohinog for what?”
“Well, it usually refers to somebody smaller than one’s self, or a good friend. It usually refers to girls, and added the suffix -kun to a name is the male equivalent, although I was only using it to insult you, but since you’re so dense it didn’t work.”
“Charming, so basically you’re calling me a fag on top of the spongy circus peanuts stuff, eh?”
“Sounds about right.”
“Such a kind-hearted soul you are.”
“Arigato gozaimasu.”
“And gooshie-gooshie to you too.”
I burst out laughing at his reply, and couldn’t stop laughing to reply when he asked defensively,
“Hey what’s so funny?”
I stopped laughing long enough to say,
“I said ‘thank you very much’ in Japanese, it’s go-ze not gu-she!”
I stopped laughing after a few second, and he said,
“Sounded like gooshie-gooshie to me.”
“You’re such an idiot.” I said with a smile. He smiled too, and I added, “Try saying it, it’s ah-ree-gah-toh goh-zye-mahss. Arigato gozaimasu.”
“Ah-reegeto goh-sye-mashie?”
“No, it’s gah-toh, it’s zhye not sye and it’s mahss. You’re enamored with ie’s.”
“Ah-ree-gah-toh goh-zye-mahss?”
“Exactly! And normal thank you is just ‘arigato’. It’s spelled A R I G A T O G O Z A I M A S U. Ignore the su at the ending in the spelling.”
“Sounds like Nohin is a big pain in the ass to learn.”
“Yeah, but can people names and they’ll never know what it means. Think you’d even know what -chan meant if I hadn’t told you?”
“True.”
“For example, if I called you ‘furui chiizu’ you’d never know I was calling you ‘old cheese’. It’s quite the advantage in an argument.”
“So what’s ‘hello’ in Japanese?”
“Konnichiwa, not spell ‘knowichiwa’ like it sorta sounds like.” I replied, “Although it means hello or good day, the Japanese almost never say ‘konnichiwa’ at night, for they’re really picky with when to use ‘good evening’ or konbanwa.”
“Konnichiwa is hello and konbanwa is good evening then, right?”
“Yeah, and good morning is ohayo gozaimasu, or oh-hah-yoh goh-zye-mahss.”
“So ‘gozaimasu’ has two meanings in Nohin?”
“Yeah.” I replied. “Good night is oyasumi nasai. oh-yah-soo-mee nah-sigh.”
He nodded saying,
“Oyasumi nasai, I can remember that. What’s goodbye?”
“Sayonara.” I replied. “You’ve probably heard it though, it translated text it means ‘goodbye forever’. Very few Ragnarokains know it’s true origin, and that it’s simply goodbye in Nohinog context. It’s pronounced, sah-yoh-nah-rah.”
“I think I have heard that one before. What’s ‘you’re welcome’?”
“Do itashimashite. Doh ee-tah-shee-mahsh-teh. Anything else?”
“What about ‘yes’ and ‘no’?”
“Hai is yes, said exactly like hi, and no is iie said ee-eh. Please is kudasai or dozo. Koo-dah-sigh and doh-zoh. Although, the phrase that would help you most is ‘Ragnarokain hanashimasu ka?’ Or ‘Do you speak Ragnarokain?’”
“Such a faithful teacher. Although you’re probably right with the last one.”
“I’m always right with the last one.” I said with a mischievous smile.
“I’ll start keeping a record, you’re one and zero as of now.”
“Wise ass.”
“I though I was a genie ass, or a Spongy-Circus-Peanut-Ass-kun. Am I forgetting any?”
“Crab’s ass. And I said -chan, not -kun. Complete the insult, furui chiizu!”
“Ahhhh yes, good old crab’s ass.”
“We must sound absolutely insane.”
“I don’t recall ever saying neither of us weren’t a little insane. And statistically, you’re the one that started with all the animal asses.”
“Spongy circus peanuts are animals?”
“Crabs are, what would you qualify genies?”
“Genies or chocolate genies?”
He wrinkled his nose saying,
“When you say ‘chocolate genies’ why do I think you mean genies composed of shit?”
“Because you’ve got some brains after all. Although I never would of guessed just by seeing you.”
“Well, at least I know why you make up your own ass phrases, since wise ass and smart ass must be so familiar to you need to some up with something new, right?”
“Perhaps. I may just leave you to wonder though, it’d be more fun.”
I pulled my cell phone out of my pocket to see what time it was.
“It’s only eight AM. We’re almost high enough just to continue onward, what do you say?”
“Sure we won’t be seen?”
“Well, Twi-LIGHT’s guns stop working once they enter Neivila City and is all they can do is fire from the hills their bullets won’t be able to reach. The city is huge, there’d be no point in trying to fire at us now.”
“I suppose than we should head onward.” He said standing up.
I stood up too, and stretched saying,
“Sooner we can get up there the better, we have to be outta here in two days.”
“Why the ultimatum?”
“Because I gotta win the bet!” I said with an evil smile and raced onwards. He followed saying,
“Unfair start!”
“It’s only an unfair start if you can catch up.”
I stopped after three complete revolutions around the mountain, each one got a tiny bit smaller since we were getting higher, and I stopped to catch my breath, Cloud catching up after a few seconds.
“Guess I didn’t catch up very well, did I?” He asked between pants.
“No.” I replied withdrawing a bottle of water from my backpack.
“You always say that things eats your stuff, but you always seem to pluck out exactly what you’re looking most of the time.”
“I’ve gotten stern with it.” I replied handing him the bottle after I drained it over half way. When he lifted it up to take a sip, I smiled evilly and grabbed the bottom of the bottle and jerked it away and upward, making the cold water spill all over him.
“Hey!” He yelled as I laughed. “You had that stuff on ice didn’t you, it’s freezing!”
“You’re such an idiot, I can’t believe you fell for that!”
“Who in their right mind would expect that?”
“Anybody who knows me a while.”
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