Here is the first chapter of the fic, and to be honest, I rushed it somewhat. :/
~Chapter 1: The Transfer of Odd~
Her mood was not enjoyable today, that was for sure. Being forced to put on a dress, and then get a random photo shoot? Definately not the kind of fun that Beau imagined, rather, that wasn't fun at all. Especially since she was forced into a few more outfits, and in her eyes, more torture. Why she even allowed her sister to do these things to her was unknown. Beau sighed, and in her left hand, she held a nice, purple stress ball. Suddenly though, the girl began to furiously squeeze it repeatedly, getting off some rage on the poor, defenseless, inanimate object. She could have just screamed loudly for a while, if it wasn't for the fact that her family would think of her as a raving lunatic. In any case, the whole dress ordeal was yesterday, and Beau finally relaxed. Setting the stress ball down on her desk, she sat in her chair, and stared at the computer.
"Maybe I should just find something random on the internet.", the girl thought to herself.
Without further hesitation, Beau typed something with her keyboard, and then hit the 'search' button. Since she was in her room, nobody would unexpectedly jump next to her and inquistively ask what Beau was looking at. However, someone would still take advantage of the quiet moment and barge through the door with some random nonsense directed at Beau. Hopefully nobody would, as that would just ruin her mood more than it already was. Knowing her family though, someone would just barge right on in. The girl began to click through and read various web pages, most of them of no interest to her. On one of them, however, she was greeted with a pop up ad. A scowl appeared on her face, and Beau promptly exited out of the ad. Returning to her previous, random task, she went through the page she was on. A few moments later though, the same pop ad returned. She actually saw what was on it though, and it was filled with strange symbols. Rolling her eyes, Beau exited both the ad, and her internet browser.
Turning around to find something else to do, the familiar noise of the pop up ad turned up again. It was then greeted with an irritated Beau, "Really? REALLY?! I'm going to break this stupid thi--" She stopped, as the ad now began to glow a weird light. Soon, the light extended to the entire computer screen, and a portal had appeared on it. The portal then used a great amount of force, and started to suck Beau into it, "Wait a minute, what's happening?! AAAH!" With a flash of light, the girl was now gone, having been sucked into the now normal looking computer.
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Normally, someone would be aggravated by the thought of having to work late for any job. There were a few exceptions to that rule, Bjorn being one of them. He worked at the local dive shop, helping out anyone that need to go into a reyvateil's cosmosphere. All he had to do was set it up and get it working, which required almost no effort. Then again, the man did know what he was doing, having worked here for a few years. It was empty for now, and luckily for him, he was allowed to sneak in a few sips of alcohol here and there. One of the few things he worried about was getting fired, considering that even Bjorn knew that having no money wasn't a good thing. Especially since that meant no more alcohol for him to buy. The Swedish man sat in his chair, and waited patiently for someone to eventually come in through the door. The downside of working here, was having the machinery not used at all. Doing something was better than nothing after all.
As mean as it might have seemed though, Bjorn didn't care for whether or not a reyvateil would allow someone to go into her, or in special cases, his cosmosphere. Relationships weren't something he was big on, and had no interest in fixing someone's life. Problems like that aside, he simply looked around the place, wondering why so many wires and tubes were needed for this. Shaking that thought out of his head, Bjorn would only have given himself a headache as to the workings of this machine. The quiet room didn't remain quiet for much longer, as the control panel behind him glowed and beeped a few times. Raising an eyebrow, Bjorn turned around in a confused manner, "What the.... I didn't turn it on!" The man, as much as he didn't want to, got out of his chair, and took a few steps towards it. Pressing a specific button a few times, it was supposed to turn it off, but the panel kept on glowing.
"Now this is odd. This thing just had maintenance a few days ago.", Bjorn said out loud, knowing fully well that nobody would hear him. After the panel beeped a few more times, a spark of electricity acted up on the tower of tubes and wires in front of the overweight man. Looking up at it, he just started dumbfounded at what was going on, and out of nowhere, a portal of sorts appeared on the tubes. Before he said anything, the portal sucked the man in with a flash of light, and then, nobody was standing there. The portal had disappeared, and the control panel returned to its off position.
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Tonight was a sleepless night for Lulu, having worried about the condition of her troupe and what not. She has experienced this a couple times before, so it wasn't new to her. Besides, the things she thought about were important, especially since aside from being gypsys, the group was a mix of humans a couple reyvateils. Having been one of the lucky ones with some sort of education, Lulu brought it upon herself to take care of each person's specific needs, unless said person was fine on his or her own. What worried her the most though, was having found out Pali had stolen money from someone, even worse that Lulu didn't know who the money belonged to. The woman knew fully well that gypsys were known as thieves, but her troupe had never stolen money, and didn't want them to start now. Still, Lulu took pride in what she was doing, and although she had doubted at one point the worth of remaining here, it was her family and home.
A bit of fresh air would ease her worry, and so Lulu decided to talk a step out onto the small balcony that the building had. The building was more or less abandoned, and it was nightfall by the time the troupe had arrived here. Staring out into the distance, Lulu breathed in slowly, and then released a breath of air. It was rather chilly outside, but she could manage that. From what the woman could remember, she had been here before during a past travel, but couldn't remember much of it. Lulu had been to far too many places to remember each and every one, though it clicked once a few things came her way. The specific memory had started to become clear, one from her younger days. She was in her mid teens at the time, and the night was just as cold as this one. Her blanket had been lost, and Lulu had to sleep without one that night. However, one of the kinder people with them had offered her their own, which filled Lulu with joy. Now in the present, a small smirk appeared on the woman's face, and despite the rumors about gypsys, knew the kind hearts they all had.
Returning back inside the building, Lulu stopped for a moment. She had spotted an odd light in an empty room, the rest of the troupe were sleeping downstairs, and looked around for a moment. Nobody else was there, as far as she knew, and fearing the safety of everyone, Lulu walked over to the entrance of the room. Her head turned to scan the room, and her dark eyes came upon a ball of light. Curious as to what it was, she cautiously stepped towards it. Lulu stopped in her tracks though, as the ball of light suddenly turned into a portal. Eyes widening in surprise, Lulu loudly said, "What on earth-", but was cut off. A flash of light had occurred, and within no time at all, the portal and woman had vanished.
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Her eyes slowly opened up, and an aggravated moan came from her mouth. Rubbing her eyes, Beau sat up, and took a peek at where she was. A vast plain, definetely not what she was used to, was around her, and it bothered the girl. "Huh, I did want a vacation, but this is not what I would call a paradise..", she muttered to herself. The teenager's head turned to see what was in store, until her eyes caught sight of two adults. One was a fat man, and the other, a dark skinned woman. Seeing as Beau was lost right now, she decided that it was best to see what was going on. Walking up to them, Beau said, "Hey! What's going on here?!" Her mood was irritable, and her tone showed it.
He thought it somewhat lucky that he found this woman, Lulu, as Bjorn was just as confused as any of the three people there. The man had his walking stick out, really for no reason at all, happy that it came along with him. It was then that he heard another girl's voice. Turning to see what the ruckus was, Bjorn, with a not so serious smirk, replied to her, "Well now, I don't think that yelling will help us, since neither of us do know what's going on." It was the simplest answer, and in all honesty, Bjorn partially didn't care where they were. This place intrigued him, as although it looked as if they were still on earth, something was different about this place.
This was rather awkward for her, coming to a strange place such as this, but didn't mind the open fields. Lulu was used to the natural environment, so she would comfortable with that. However, Bjorn wasn't on her good side. She didn't like him that much, though hadn't been too troubling so far. It was the smell of alcohol though that was the first obvious thing that came to her. Sighing, Lulu turned to see a rather loud girl, much younger than either of the adults, and before she could say anything, Bjorn had spoken up. Letting him respond, the woman had decided to thrown in her own thing, "For now, I think it might be best if we stick together, since none of us are familiar with this place. Now let's see.." The woman turned her head to look around, and since she didn't know where to go, decided in a random direction, as much as she didn't want to.
The three of them, rather Beau was reluctant to go at all, had walked off into the plains, being cautious of what was there. Nothing abnormal had happened yet, but perhaps they were being too hasty with their actions. However, they did have an excuse, being trapped in some crazy light show and being transported somewhere else.
In the distance though, after the plains had become more flat, a boy was on both knees over a tub of water. Tomonari had decided that it was time to wash his clothes, and due to the few trees that were there, he could hang them up to dry. At the moment, he was shirtless, much to his displeasure, and was busy washing his dark blue coat. Pausing for a moment, he reached his left had to behind his right shoulder, rubbing his installer port for a moment. It was actually in the shape of a lion's head, with the mouth open, that mouth opening was where certain crystals could be inserted into his body. Tomonari disliked reminding himself of the pain involved in life extending agents, though he had no real choice. He went back to washing his coat, and for a moment, forgot he was still alone. The knowledge that he was still nearby his village helped quite a bit as well. He stood up after a while, and hung up his trench coat on the line he set up. The male reyvateil then looked at his light blue, long sleeved shirt, wondering if it was dry.
Having followed the two weird adults for quite some time, Beau was becoming irritated.
"This is getting us nowhere..", she thought to herself, and turned her head as the trio walked on. In time though, she saw someone up ahead. The person in sight was human, and as they got closer to it, Beau had seen the person's back. She saw the odd tattoo, and from the looks of it, an installer port, on the person's back, and knew the person was a reyvateil. At first though, Beau thought the reyvateil was a girl, but no matte what, she quickly walked up behind the person, ignoring Bjorn and Lulu, and said, "Hey you! Where the heck are we?!" The person had jumped and spun around, and it become known that this reyvateil was a boy.
Tomonari had dried his hands, and after feeling his shirt, found out that it was dry. Taking it down from the line, another's voice had came out of nowhere, and it was right behind him. Jumping in fear in response, the teenager turned around in shock and shouted at that same time, "AAaah!" It was a rather loud yell, possibly enough for somwhere in the village to hear. He was shaking a little now, and holding onto his shirt tightly, didn't know what to respond. Tomonari gulped, seeing the angered expression on the girl's face, "U-U-um........ well..." He wasn't sure what to do in this situation, espcially due to one crucial detail- these people were humans, who Tomonari has not encountered for seven years.
Lulu and Bjorn were next to them, having decided to stay out of this little mood that Beau had on her. However, it was too suspcious, and the scream that Tomonari had made attracted the wrong attention. At least, for the three humans. A roar had echoed in the group's direction, and it wasn't long before something else had shown up. One that was definately odd for Beau, Bjorn, and Lulu. A large, muscular, bipedal lion had rushed to the scene, and the three humans had stepped back in surprise. The lion was not happy, and standing at his full, massive height, separated the lone reyvateil from the three humans. "Who the hell are you, and what have you done to my son?!", the beast snarled, wanting a direct answer now, and not later. Becoming irritated by how long the answer took, the lion reached his left hand to the sword on waist, and began to pull it out, "How many times must I say it?! ANSWER ME!"
Just in time, another voice had called out to them. This time, it was also demanding, but had an older, wiser voice, "Fonso! That's enough, sheath your sword." The lion man had hesitated, but listened to the voice. In view came a much shorter creature, whose face was covered with gray hair, and had a strange staff. This was a Jijimon, and the chief of the nearby village. "Please forgive Fonso, he was merely protecting the boy.", the creature said to the three humans. After examining them for a few moments, the Jijimon knew that these three were not familiar with this world. Nodding to himself, it continued, "Please, come with me so we can get this all settled." Turning to the teenage boy, the Jijimon said, "Gilabno, come to my hut after you've checked in with your father." With that, the old man looking creature had given a motion for Beau, Bjorn, and Lulu to follow him.
As strange as this whole set up was, namely the lion man and old looking creature, the three humans decided it was best to do as they were told. The male reyvateil had quickly put his light blue shirt on, and afterwards, began talking to the lion man. A strange turn of events this was, but hopefully, everything would be explained.
