Casting Shadows

[Mini_Bert]

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Chapter 7 - Life Alone
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As the cleared the hangar and the walls of Pey, Veron fell flat on his face with a loud crash. Gaia laughed quietly at him, Idris fought back the laughter, but a small smile broke through. Veron got up, hand on his beet red face, and looked at his two chuckling allies.

"Why didn't you two fall??" Veron said angrily, still holding his face. Gaia continued to laugh softly, Idris pointed at a belt around his waist. Veron shook his head and let his hand drop to his side. Veron walked quietly away from the other two, and fell backwards as Zent popped down from the stairs, upside down. "Watch it Zent!!!" Veron yelled at the upside down pilot, Zent looked at Veron apolegitcally.

"Veron, why don't you come up here, there's a much better view....and I think you've already suffered enough...." Zent suggested, Veron nodded and boosted himself up from the ground. Zent flipped back up, and Veron walked up the stairs two at a time until he was out of sight. Idris turned to Gaia.

"Back outside my house.....you said you lost your parents...." Idris started, Gaia looked at him, as though he stepped on a nerve.

"Yes....I lost my parents recently....they went out one day, and three days later I got a letter saying they had passed on in battle...." Gaia unstrapped himself from the chair, got up and walked over to a window in the back, "I felt alone, no one to turn to, nowhere to go...." . Idris unstrapped himself, and went and leaned against the wall beside the window. He crossed his arms and put his right leg against the wall, and looked over his shoulder out the window.

"I know that feeling all to well. When I came over that hill, and saw my parents bodies, I was in denial. I refused to believe that my parents were done in, they were too strong..." Idris let a single tear fall through, "I had no siblings, no other living relatives...." Idris continued, Gaia looked at him sympathetically.

"I wish my brother was still with me...." Gaia started a new thought, Idris looked at him as he wiped the tear from his cheek.

"Your brother?" Idris said, suprised. Gaia nodded.

"Yes, I had an older brother, he was lost one day. It was raining, we were all on a cliff, going home....when lightning struck....I jumped, and he fell....I don't even know if he's still alive...." Gaia looked at his feet, "I am responsible for his disappearance...." A tear hit Gaia's foot, Idris shook his head.

"No, its a natural reaction. You weren't responsible for anything...." Idris looked at Gaia, he was still upset, "What was he like?" Idris asked quietly, Gaia looked up.

"Well....he was very gentle....loved nature, and everything about it....he had the deepest eyes of anyone I knew....when you looked him in the eye, you would be lost in them, as if he was reading your mind...." Gaia explained quietly. Idris smiled.

"He sounds like a good man....You can take comfort in knowing you have someone out there....you'll find him eventually....all I have left of my family...." Idris moved his right hand onto the impressive sword, "is this, the KaoKara....it's a sword forged by Kao, the first knight in the family....its passed down from father to son, or daughter....but it's not that easy..." Idris shook his head, "That's a story for another day...." Idris looked away from the window, Gaia nodded, understanding.

The ship shook a little as it hit something, and Zent could be heard yelling from the bridge. "IDIOT! Watch where you're steering! You want to kill us all???"

"Shutup! It's my first time!" Veron yelled back.

"I don't care! Give me the wheel you clutz, before you drive us into the ground!" Zent yelled, the sound of Veron's armour clinking against the ground came from upstairs. Gaia and Idris laughed at the scene. Idris set his foot down, and went up to look at the two "pilots". Gaia stood in the center of the large window, looking as they left the land and water took the place of ground. Gaia leaned against the side.

"I'm coming for you, brother, and we'll finally know what my powers are about...." Gaia turned away from the window and went up to the bridge with the others.