A young Maiden's journey 8

A young Maiden's journey


Disclaimer: I don’t own Blood, Ariel, Kleude, Rose, Bian, Nate,Aquilla, Pooly, Mari, Kleude’s mother and Kleude’s brother they belong to Tamsoft, I own everyone else though
Warning: A bit of cursing, violence
Pairing: One sided Ariel/Blood
Note: When I was a kid I only managed to complete Adina Island until I was killed by the first boss in Holy Valley, actually I’m still stuck there. What are the names of the area in order anyway?

Story

“Whoa I never knew rats are that huge” said Blood.

“What do I do!?” Ariel cried.

“Try shaking it off your leg.”

Ariel began shaking her leg about, however the rat was persistent.

“Ouch that hurts! I don’t want to lose a leg!” she cried.

“How about kicking it with your free leg?” Blood suggested.

Ariel swung her free leg, striking the rat and falling on her own butt.

“Ouch!” she noticed the rat is on the ground dead.

A bottle of red liquid is on the floor.

“Hey what’s that?” Kleude asked.

“Poison” said Blood.

“Oww my leg…” Ariel moaned rubbing the injured leg.

“Let me see it” Blood approached the girl, pulling up her pants a little.

Her ankle was red and had a rather deep gash.

“Oh dear! Let me tend to your leg.”

Kleude watched the two, sitting on all four like a cat. He could say something, but he might get slapped again.

Ariel cheeks went pink as Blood, rubbed her ankle with oil before wrapping bandages around it.

“There we go” said the boy.

“T-thank you Blood…”

“Can you walk?”

Ariel shrugged, getting up. However she found it painful to walk and sat on the floor again.

“Guess we should take a rest then.”

“Not when there’re rats in this place!” Kleude swung his tail swatting a rat behind him.

“Good point” said Blood he turned to Ariel “Should I help you while we head to a safer place?”

“N-no I’ll try to walk!”

Blood gave a pitiful smile at her and walked while Kleude ran.

After climbing some stairs and Ariel crying from pain they are in an area that had no rat in sight.

The boys set up the tent while Ariel prepared tea and stew.

During the meal Ariel, looked at Blood, eating the stew, her face soulful and longing.

Kleude silently snickered, drinking tea.

“Hey” said Blood facing the blonde.

“Huh?” Kleude went.

To the blonde’s surprise, Blood offered him, his bowl of stew.

“This one has a lot of carrots so I thought you might like it.”

“Okay…” the cat boy took the bowl, sipping the stew quietly.

Tonight because of Ariel’s injury she slept inside the tent. Kleude decided to sleep outside, at first Blood wanted to head in to comfort the poor girl but the cat boy took him out and said funny things might happen if he stayed in.

Ariel sigh as the spiky haired boy was dragged out.

The next day Kleude woke up earlier than the others, the other two were still sleeping.

The blonde looked inside a book about creatures, looking at a bird that was flying nearby.

He got up to sneak to the bird, striking it from behind.

The bird collapsed, writhing on the ground, grabbing the bird, he headed back to the camp, dropping the bird on the ground, slicing the bird in half, opening a can of stewed tomatoes with his fangs, pouring the content into the sliced bird.

After pouring the content he got out a piece of paper to write something and went over to the edge of the island.

Blood woke up twenty minutes later, he noticed Kleude is absent and there was a dead bird stuffed with tomatoes with a  letter nearby.

He picked up the letter.

‘Thanks for giving me the nicest part of the stew last night. Here’s something for you.
Kleude Nemu’

Blood smiled, it was nice helping people and to know Kleude did like his offer.

He picked up the bird, sticking a skewer into it, wrapped the bird in foil and started a fire to roast the bird.

Once the bird was on the spit roasting, he got out a knife and some plates, cleaning them with a cloth.

Ariel woke from the smell, exiting the tent.

“Good morning Ariel” said Blood, waving to her.

Ariel smiled, sitting next to him, she smelled the meat.

“Smells good…” she said.

“You’ll love this, this bird is known to be delicious.”

Ariel nodded as he turned the spit about.

She looked at him from profile. He was so handsome with those large brown eyes, upturned nose and full jaws…

Her cheeks went pink thinking about this. Is she really in love? Maybe Kleude and his mom are right…

She still hated that rude obnoxious boy though!

“Hey, Ariel?”

She turned her head, Blood had prodded her shoulder with the wooden end of the knife.

“It’s ready.”

“Oh!” She looked at the roasted bird, glistening on the larger plate.

He cut open the bird into slices, the stewed tomato spilling, putting them into three plates, handing one to Ariel and took the other two heading to the edge of the cliff.

Kleude was sitting on top looking about. There wasn’t much to do other than hanging around with the other two and he didn’t want company from a wimpy girl and a spiky haired boy unaware of what other people are thinking at times.

“Oy Kleude!” Blood called.

The blonde sigh, turning to the brunet.

He was holding a plate of roasted bird, putting it next to the cat.

“Here have some food” said Blood.

“Huh b-but” Kleude stammered.

“You found it for us, you should have some of it.”

“Look I didn’t hunt this to get a reward Bloody.”

“Helping is what I do best!”

“Whatever Mr Nice Guy.”

To his surprise Blood, sat next to him by the edge of the cliff.

“I love the sea, my hometown is by the sea as well” the brunet said.

“Hmm…”

“Mom loved the sea too and so did my father.”

“Where’s your father anyway?” Kleude’s voice was flat as if he was just stating it.

“Dad? He left on a long journey and after that, I don’t really know…”

The blonde looked at him, this boy doesn’t seem to notice he wasn’t actually interested.

“Ahh you are so lucky to have a sister, Kleude.”

The cat boy frowned, burying his chin on his knees “You don’t want to know how annoying she can be or how much Mom had to struggle to raise all of us.”

“Oh but I would so love a sister!”

“…”

“Kleude… even if we only met a few days ago, I like you.”

“Huh?”

“And I hope we can still see each other once we finish exploring this place.”

The cat boy looked at the spiky haired boy, cocking his head. He sees him, Kleude the guy who rarely speaks to him even when he’s around him as a friend.

He kept quiet, getting up and walking away.

Blood turned his head around to look at the blonde. Why did he just walk away?

Ariel was in front of a bridge, wondering how to get it to lower, there was a crank nearby but it didn’t budge an inch with a keyhole on the handle.

“Hello frogface” said Kleude, frowning.

“Hello…” Ariel frowned back.

“So how do we get past this bridge?”

“I don’t know.”

Both of them looked about.

“Ah!” Ariel yelled.

On the lower part of this island a rat was holding a key.

She struggled to rush down with her injured leg, squeaking as she almost stumbled down.

“Gees woman…” Kleude sigh, jumping down, running to the rat, killing it and grabbing the key rushing up.

Ariel watched him, gasping as he caught up to her “Kleude!” she followed him back up limping all the way.

“Hey what are you two doing?” Blood asked as Kleude inserted the key, turning it on the crank before turning the crank to lower the bridge.

It was still pretty tight, making the blonde grunt and sweat.

The other two went closer to help him.

The bridge went with a creek, all three rushing across.

Blood rushed to the map nearby.

Adina Island.

To be continued