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Chapter 8: Love and Faith

It had been 8 days since Rene had woken up after the fight. Things had pretty much returned back to normal except Rene kept his sword with him at all times, Filden kept his SMG, shuriken and kunais with him and Abby, who was a white mage, kept her 5 foot long oak staff on her back. Rene hadn’t seen much of Faith since he had woken up and the brief times he had they had been with other people. He closed his locker and felt the long bump where his sword was hidden inside his trouser leg. You weren’t allowed weapons in school but Rene had figured out a way to keep it hidden but easily accessible at all times. He rested his head against the locker and thought deeply about what he should do. After a few minutes he lifted his head up and realised the hallway was empty.

“You know you’ll freeze your brain if you put your head on these damned lockers too long.” A young blonde woman he had never seen before spoke. She had deep brown eyes and flawless skin. “I take it you’re Rene huh?”

“Yeah… Who’re you?” Rene asked

“That doesn’t matter. Hmm… Maybe I was wrong about you. You seem stronger than I expected.” She walked around him as if inspecting him “Know this. You have a great strength inside you. Greater than all warriors this world has ever known. I’ll see you again soon I should think.” With that she turned and walked through a door. Rene chased after her but when he opened the door she had gone through she was gone.

“What the… Well, that was weird.” Rene said as he grabbed his bag and headed off home.

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“Oh c’mon Faith!” Abby shouted at her best friend as they neared her house

“No! He’s my best friend! I don’t want to ruin that…” Faith replied sombrely. They had been talking about Rene. Abby was the only she had admitted her feelings toward Rene.

“Oh but Faith! He likes you the same way too!” Abby argued “Look you’re upsetting him. He’s barely seen you since he woke up!”

“He’s seen me plenty of times!” Faith replied angrily. Why couldn’t Abby just drop it.

“Yeah but you haven’t been alone with him once. He wants to talk to you!”

“Abby, just drop it please.” Faith said “Besides how’s it going with you and Filden?”

“Oh well umm…” Abby stuttered. She liked Filden a lot and was surprised when Faith had told her that Filden liked her back. Faith smiled and went up to her front door.

“I’ll see you tomorrow! We’re still going out right?” Faith shouted back to Abby

“Yeah of course! Rene gonna be there, take my advice and talk to him.” And with that Abby went her own way.

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“Yo Rene!” Filden shouted waving his hand in the air getting Renes attention.

“Oh hey Fil.” Rene said mind wandering

“Don’t call me that! You know I hate that.” Filden said angrily

“Oh yeah sorry.” Rene said looking at the ground

“Hey. What’s up buddy? I ain’t seen you this down for ages. You thinkin’ about Faith?”

“Yeah, her and other stuff.” Rene replied sadly

“Well I can’t help you out with Faith as that’s yours and her business but I may be able to help out with other stuff.” Filden said smiling “So tell me what’s up?”

“You wouldn’t happen to have seen some blond wandering about would ya?” Rene asked

“Uhh… Nope can’t say I have.” Filden then looked at Rene “Why?”

“Well this blonde came up to me in school and said some strange stuff.” He then told Filden what she had said

“Wait a minute. You? Stronger than all the warriors of this world?” Filden laughed manically “As if!”

“Shut up.” He said pushing him lightly. Filden smiled and they carried on walking “Hey you still coming out tomorrow?” Filden asked. They had been planning to go out to the woods on the edge of town.

“Uhh… Yeah sure.”

“Good I’ll see you later.”

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Knock, knock, knock.

“I’m coming.” Abigail shouted as she went to the front door “Who the bloody hell would be up this late!” Noticing the time on the clock she immediately got angry. It was 2 o’clock in the morning. She pulled the door open and stopped in her tracks.

“Good evening Abigail.” Alex said as he blasted her in the stomach with a ball of fire. She was thrown backwards by the impact and smashed into her coffee table.

“A-Alex?” She said as she looked at the 17 year old in front of her

“No. My name is not Alex. My name is Vrael Liner.” She put his hand inches away from her hand and summoned another fireball “Goodnight.” She then screamed as the fireball struck her.

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Knock, knock, knock

“Hello?” Faith called out as the person at the door knocked

“Uhh… Hey Faith it’s Rene. Can I come in?” Rene said as he saw Faiths shadow cross the window

“Umm… Sure.” Faith answered as she unlocked the door and looked at Rene. He was in his usual clothing and looked freezing “Jeez Rene come in quick!” She grabbed a blanket off the sofa and wrapped it around Rene. She then ran around the house getting things to make Rene better

“Wait… no… FAITH!” He shouted trying to get Faiths attention. When he shouted Faith stopped and turned to look at Rene. He noticed she had tears in her eye and Rene went up to her. He hugged her. “What’s wrong?” She sniffed

“I… I don’t know… I’m just so confused…” Rene hugged her tightly

“Talk to me Faith.” Rene said bending down so he could look Faith in the eyes

“I just… I…” Faith decided to just come out and say it. “I really like you Rene… More than I’ve ever liked anyone and these feelings are confusing me. “

“I… I feel the same way about you Faith.” Rene said finally admitting his feelings towards her. They embraced for what seemed an eternity when Faith let go and smiled at Rene. He smiled back. “I’ll see you tomorrow… Right?”

“Yeah, of course” They both walked to the front door. Rene turned when he was in the doorway and hugged her again lightly. They moved apart slightly and Faith looked at him. She kissed him lightly on the lips. “Goodnight Rene.” And with that he left and she shut the door.
Chapter 9: Where the hell’s Abigail?

“Where the hell’s Abigail?” Filden shouted as he saw Faith hurry towards him without Abby.

“Don’t know” Faith said quickly “Where’s Rene?”

“Said something about having to get something… Not really sure. You know what he’s like when he’s in his own little world. He refuses to tell me until later.” Filden sat down on a nearby bench wearily. He sighed and looked at Faith “You got any idea what’s going on?”
Faith smiled. She knew exactly what was going on and she felt just like Rene. “Not a clue.” She said with a smile that just made Filden even more suspicious.

“Fine fine. Don’t bother to tell the side-kick. That’s me, just some bad-ass sexy side-kick.” Filden said half angrily and half jokingly.

“Hey! We don’t think you’re a bad-ass sexy side-kick!” Faith smiled as her words sank in “Here’s Rene.”
Rene was running towards them very fast. When he arrived he and Faith smiled at each other.

“Hey Faith. Hey Filden. Where’s Abby?” Rene said breathlessly

“We dunno.” Filden said angrily. “Can someone call her or can we go round her house?”

“I’ll call her.” Faith said as she took out her cell phone. She input a number and waited for a few seconds before speaking, “Hey Abby. Where are you? We’re waiting for you.” Faith listened for a few seconds and then closed her phone. “I got her voicemail. Maybe she‘s ill?” Filden looked down sadly.

“Damn,” Rene exclaimed “Maybe we should go find her?”

“Nah I‘m sure she‘d want us to go on ahead.” Faith answered Rene “We may as well get going then.” Filden and Rene nodded and headed towards there destination, Kilom forest.

I've got up to chapter 17 on my comp (I had more but it was deleted when I had a virus thank god for external hard drives) I'll post more later when my comp isn't lagging like mad

Faith one of your least liked chapters is coming up

Chapter 10: Kilom Forest

As they neared the forest the buildings started to become less and a lot more dilapidated.

“Y’know every time we come here I never get used to it hehe” Filden said as he looked at another smashed up house. “So you two gonna tell me what’s up? Or am I gonna have to force it outta ya?” When he said this Rene grinned at Faith who returned by nodding

“Hmm I suppose we could tell you…” Rene said mischievously. He looked at Faith who had moved beside him. He wrapped his arms around her and looked at Filden who finally understood.

“About bloody time!” Filden shouted suppressing a grin “Well then lovebirds! Let’s get our arses outta here and go into a crazy forest!”

“You make it sound sooooo fun” Faith said sarcastically also trying not to grin. She was the happiest she had ever been and hugged onto Rene tighter. “Let’s go!” She let go of Rene and raced after Filden who had run off towards the forest.

“And as usual I’m here all alone.” Rene said to himself grinning helplessly. He raced after them both quickly overtaking Faith

“Well let’s get searching!” Filden said enthusiastically
They entered the forest. At first the path was straight but then it split into several other paths. They had explored almost all of them except one. They turned to the far right and entered the last path. As they walked along they started talking about everyday things like homework, school, family (even though Rene didn’t have any and Faith and Filden barely had any), they then started slagging off all the arseholes in there school especially Alex and Cooper.

“I swear to god if I ever see Alex again I’ll kick his arse all the way to…” Filden stopped in mid-sentence. The forest had become quiet. Far too quiet. They turned around and saw the person they all hated most. Alex was standing there smiling evilly at them with a long slender but powerful looking sword.

“Why hello there Rene.” Alex said smartly as he twirled his sword and thrust it into the ground. Rene and Filden moved forward and drew there weapons. “Oh really now. There’s no need to fight.”

“What do you want Alex!” Rene shouted at him.

“I only wish to talk dear Rene.” Alex said taunting him.

“The talk and get the hell out of here!” Filden shouted

“That’s not very nice so shut up!” Alex said his voice suddenly turning venomous. Filden quickly quietened though he did not want to.

“What do you want?” Rene asked again

“Believe it or not Rene I need you.” Alex said smirking “So whether you like it or not you’re coming with me.” Rene tensed.

“No. I won’t come with you. You’ll die before you have a chance.” Rene shouted

“Oh I don’t think we’ll need any violence” As he said this Rene felt a large heavy blunt object hit his head. He fell to the ground unconscious. Chapter 11: Choices

“Wakey wakey.” A deep elderly voice said as Rene felt someone kick him in the stomach. He jerked awake and found himself in a large white tent. He looked up and had to stop himself gasping. Emperor Jeod Liner was standing in front of him smirking. He jerked forward and found himself thrown backwards by two armoured soldiers.

“Urgh. What the hell do you want with me!” Rene shouted angrily. He had no idea why an emperor of an entire country would want with a normal kid like him.

“Hmm… I want you for I need you.” The Emperor said cryptically.

“Stop dicking around and tell me what you want!” Rene shouted as loud as he could. The Emperor moved over to a large chair and sat. Rene looked around properly and spotted a fallen pile on the other side he recognised as Filden. He looked for Faith. She was nowhere to be seen.

“You are special Rene.” Rene was surprised he knew his name “We believe you are something called a Neo-elemental.”

“A Neo what? I’ve only ever managed to use a fire spell and I was unconscious for a while afterwards. No way! I am not special! Just leave me alone to go home!”
Filden had woken and got up slightly. A soldier walked over to him and kicked him in the side. He heard Filden groan.

“You ARE a Neo-elemental Rene. The spell you used was high level and would have left most magic users dead, yet you were only made to be unconscious.”
The soldier kicked Filden again and heard Filden swear at the man causing him to kick him harder.

“Leave him alone!” Rene shouted. The soldier looked at the Emperor, who nodded. The soldier lifted Filden to his feet and threw his head in disgust. Rene suddenly remembered something. “Who’s Vrael?”

“Ah! Vrael! I hoped to talk of him soon!” The powerful man smiled and Rene staggered to his feet. “He is my son. He is also a Neo-Elemental, a powerful one at that, but alas he is not as special as you. He has limits to his power but you do not.”

“Then what do you want with me?”

“We wish to train you.”

“Rene don’t listen to him! He’s our enemy!” Filden shouted. Liner looked to the soldier and waved his hand. The soldier punched Filden in the stomach.

“Fuck you.” Rene shouted at the Emperor.

“Don’t you dare disobey me!” He punched Rene three times in rapid succession and laughed as Rene fell to the ground “Blindfold them.”
Rene struggled as the blindfold was forced onto him. All of a sudden he heard the flap of the tent open and two sets of footsteps enter.

“Ah Vrael! You have our guess I see!” Liner sounded extremely happy and Rene wondered who the “guest” was. He wished he could talk to Filden to hatch some sort of escape plan

“Yes Father. She was slightly reluctant to come at first, but I managed to persuade her.” Vrael sounded please and kicked Rene harshly in the sides as he walked past.

“Ah why is that madam?” Liner asked the person, evidently a woman.

“I believed it would be unwise whilst they are here.” Rene recognised that voice.

“And why Miss Faith Crest would that be?”


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Chapter 12: Run

Faith?

“I felt that, due to our past, it would be unwise to be in the same room as them.” Faith said calmly. Rene felt anger boil inside him. He wanted to scream till his lungs burst. He felt something touch his mind and instantly recognised it as Faith trying to speak to him

Rene please…! Faith said desperately

How could you!? All these years I believed you were our friend! But all along you’ve been playing us for fools! Rene shouted at her through his mind. He blocked off her mind

“Hmm… I suppose that’s a good enough reason.” Liner said calmly. Rene heard him pace the room slowly. “Tell Rene what will happen if he does not comply with us.”

Vrael laughed harshly “I pray he does refuse. I might actually have some fun.”

“Rene please.” He heard her crouch in front of him. He jerked forward and heard her fall backwards. He felt hands tighten around his shoulders and throw him backwards “Rene, please if you don’t help them they’ll kill you and Filden!”

“Let them kill me! It’s got nothing to do with Filden! Let him go!” Rene shouted

“If they kill you Rene they have to kill me!” Filden shouted before being struck by a guard. He felt someone take the blindfold off his eyes and he blinked a few times before getting used to the light. He looked at Faith, who was wearing a white robe and her hair tied back loosely. She looked at Rene deeply and he glared at her.

“Don’t look at me!” He snarled. She stood and turned and he thought he saw tears in her eyes. He quickly dismissed the thought, there is no good in her for tears. “Kill me.”

He heard the scrape of blade come from Vrael and saw a flicker of annoyance in Liners eyes

“One word father and it shall be done.” Vrael said to his father happily

“So be it.” Liner waved his hand and Rene felt the cold of steel touch his neck. He stared at Vrael and smiled. He saw the flick of annoyance on Vraels face and Vrael lifted up the blade.

Boom!

The entire ground shook. Filden was the first to react. He jumped up and kicked his guard in the balls before he could react. He grabbed the sword and quickly slashed through the bindings on his wrists. Rene kicked out with his feet and knocked Vrael over. He jumped up and beckoned for the sword. Filden through and Rene cut his own bindings. Somehow Faith was knocked out and he quickly found out how.

A 17 year old man with black hair and dark clothing with a long blade was standing in the doorway

“If you want to live come with me!” He shouted. Filden and Rene nodded and ran after the man. As soon as they were outside Rene felt someone tug at his neck and turned around and surprisingly saw Abby. She was bruised and badly hurt but other than that completely fine

“Abby!” Filden shouted in happy surprise “What happened to you!?”

“Those bastards got me… Where’s Faith?” Abby asked, obviously she didn’t know about her yet.

“She’s a traitor Abby” Rene said solemnly

“Hem hem! In case you haven’t noticed we’re in the middle of the Imperial base and have no visible way outta here!” The man shouted. He chucked some things to Filden who caught them easily and Renes blade to Rene. Obviously the guy had got his stuff for him.

“How do we get out?” Rene asked him as he trailed after the man with Filden and Abby in tow.

“I have a helper waiting 3 kilometres from the base.” He shouted. “I’m Kamui by the way.”

“Thank Kamui for helping us. I thought we were screwed” Filden shouted as another explosion happened just 100 metres form them. “What did you do?”

“Only a few bombs. To attract attention to those areas instead of us.” As soon as he said this though 5 imperial soldiers appeared out of a tent. They looked like they had just woken up and were only in there light clothing, so it was easy to take them down. Filden threw 2 kunais at the soldiers and killed 2 of them. Abby smacked one of them over the head with a staff. Kamui locked blades with another one and Rene spin-slashed the 5th decapitating him.. There weren’t many more soldiers after that but the alert had been risen that the prisoners had escaped, but by the time any big reinforcements came they were over 2 kilometres away from the camp.

“Should see her any second now.” Kamuis said as he sheathed blade. The others copied him and stowed there weapons away. After about 4 minutes they heard a loud charging sort of noise and a minute later they all saw 5 large yellow birds. Rene smiled. Chocobos. As the chocobos got closer Rene saw the rider on the lead one. It was the woman he saw at the school!

“C’mon get aboard. Bulletins have been put out on you and soldiers are scouring the country looking for you.” The woman said

“Dawn. Is the camp ready for us?” Kamui said as he got onto the Chocobo. Rene got onto his and smiled as he remembered his first ride on a chocobos. He broke his leg. Dawn kicked the chocobos lightly and headed off. Rene didn’t need to as the chocobos went on it’s own.

“The camp’s ready but I had to move it out further.” Dawn shouted over the noise of the chocobos.

“Damn. So it’ll be nightfall when we get there.” Kamui said to himself.
Rene looked at Filden and Abby and felt the same as them

“Umm guys mind filling us in… Who the heck are you?” Filden shouted

“Oh sorry. I’m Kamui.” Kamui said pointing at himself “And this is Dawn. We’ve been following you guys for a while.

“Hiya!” Dawn said happily. “Guess you remember when I freaked ya out at the school huh?”

“Yeesh you can say that again.” Rene said. He had to get a few things clear. “Why did they want me? Why is Faith helping them!?”

“We’ll talk when we get to camp.” Kamui said as he stared forwards.

“No! You tell us now!” Filden shouted. He stopped his chocobos. Abby stopped as well.

“Why the hell is Faith helping them!?” Abby demanded. The others had stopped as well and Dawn stopped in front of Abby.

“I’m sorry, but we honestly do not know. C’mon, please, we’ll talk more at the camp.” Dawn said sadly. Abby nodded and kicked her chocobos slightly and started heading off again. Everyone else did the same.

7 hours later after a long hard ride north. The others were mere outlines in the dark.

“We’re almost there!” Rene heard Kamui shout. Rene strained his eyes and could make out the outline of the camp. He sighed. Safety at last. Chapter 13: Unforgivable

“So what do you wanna know?” Kamui said as he sat down on the floor. Rene took off his top because he was extremely hot but kept his blade close by. Filden did the same and Abby collapsed. Dawn was outside settling the chocobos

“Why the hell is Faith helping them?” Filden asked

“Like I said earlier I honestly do not know.” Kamui said, he sighed slightly and appeared worn out and annoyed with the same question being repeated over and over again.

“But, there must be some reason!” Abby said with a tone of desperation in her voice.

“You must believe me. I do not know. I wish I did but I don’t.” Kamui said sadly. Filden and Abby looked to the ground sadly. Rene had been silent for quite a while now and started to speak.

“What do they want with me?” Rene said to Kamui. He heard someone come in and turned. Dawn was standing in the doorway and looked at Rene.

“They wanted you because you’re the chosen one.” Dawn said half smiling, she walked over to a corner and took off her jacket showing off her smooth and slender back. She picked a top off the ground and put it on

“What do you mean I’m the chosen one?” Rene said more confused than he had been in a long time.

“Liner said you’re a neo-elemental right?” Kamui said, Rene nodded “Well, what Liner doesn’t know is that you’re not just a neo-elemental, but one of the 7 guardians.”

“The 7 guardians?” Filden asked

“Yeah. It’s actually just the one guardian but they thought that the name “The 7 Guardians” sounded cool” Dawn informed them with a smirk. Rene laughed. It felt good so he laughed a lot more, it felt strange laughing at it but it felt extremely good to have all the stress just leave him.

“So I’m a guardian huh? And what exactly am I guarding?” Rene asked jokingly

“A key.” Dawn told him

“A key?” Filden said sarcastically.

“A key to what exactly?” Abby said smiling

“The key to Destruction.” Kamui told them

“God, how cliché.” Filden exclaimed. He looked to Rene.
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“So what do you need me for?” Rene asked Kamui and Dawn.

“We’re taking you to the castle in Rosalia” Dawn told him “Me, Kamui and a few others will be teaching you how to control your power.” Rene nodded then pointed at Filden and Abby and beckoned them outside. They followed.

“I want you guys to go home.” Rene told them immediately. The last few inches of sun had disappeared now and the only reason they could see anything is because Kamui and Dawn had made a fire.

“No chance” Filden said quickly

“We’re not leaving you. Faith is our friend as much as she is yours, remember?” Abby said sincerely. Rene smiled to them both.

“I just… I don’t want you to be in danger because of me.” Rene told them sadly. Abby walked up to him, acted like she was going to hug him then suddenly slapped him powerfully.

“Ooh.” Filden said wincing “That’s gotta sting” Rene clutched his face in agony and groaned loudly.

“I’ll slap you again if you ever say that once more!” Abby whispered harshly “You KNOW me and Filden can handle ourselves! We want to help you! “
Rene smiled despite the pain in his face.

“Thanks guys. You’re the best.” Rene then collapsed in a heap.

“I think I hit him too hard” Abby said worried.

“Probably, but oh well. He’ll just have a killer headache in the morning” Filden said yawning “Let’s drag him inside and go to bed.”