flikstoryc2

     Seyona and Leli sat at a table in the bar, bragging to each other about their recent victory and the large amount of cash it had brought in.
      The door swung open and a man, all dripping with soapy water, red eyes, ripped clothes, a huge lump on the back of his head, and a bucket on his foot stumbled into the tavern.
      He collapsed on a stool and solemnly asked the bartender for a drink.
      "Yeah, sure, Flik, no prob--great holy mother of god, what happened to you?! You really should take a break...look what your job's doing to you!"
      Flik clutched the glass so tight his knuckles went white, and he sighed. "It's not the job--these two...thieves took my sword!"
      "Oh, well, what do they look like, then?" The bartender asked, trying his best to help.
      "Well one of them was a girl-average height, with medium length blonde hair and grey eyes, and the other was a little taller, bronze colour, with a really weird hairstyle-long in the front and short in the back-and she had green eyes..." Flik rambled off, his voice weak and wavery.
      "Well..." the bartender pointed to the two girls trying to look inconspicuous in the corner table. "You mean them over there?"
      Life immediately seeped into his body and Flik stormed over to the table and glared down at them-red eyes and all.
      "Now!" Seyona threw a bowl of peanuts at him, and she and Leli made a break for it. The peanuts managed to slow him down--a little.
      Adrenaline rushing through their veins, they ran full speed for the castle gates which would be their escape route. To their despair, the gates were locked shut for the night.
      Leli panicked. "Oh no, what do we do now?!"
      "Keep running!!" Seyona screamed, changing course.
      They ran through the castle in their attempt to evade the enraged Flik, but to no avail.
      They quickly ran into a store and slammed into something hard, crashing into the counter
      Flik and his friends entered the room as Luc's staff (that's the guy the two girls crashed into) began glowing a menacing red. Obviously out of control, it blasted the whole group with a pillar of fire, leaving them all scorched.
      Seyona and Leli stared in shock at the staff the guy held in his hand, still smoking from its last attack.
      Seyona spoke up. "Can I keep him?"
      "What are you, nuts?!" Leli replied.
      "Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaase??"
      They each took hold of one of his shoulders and ran, the unconscious guy's shoes dragging on the ground.
      With a weak groan, the guy started to wake up.
      "Aah!" Leli screamed. "He's waking up! We have to do something!"
      "Head for that sign!" Seyona exclaimed, changing direction.
      The guy's head hit the sign and he fell unconscious once more.
      "Good thinking." Leli congratulated her friend as they made their way toward the docks, Flik and his mob after them again.
      Spotting a good ship, they ran forward, but were stopped by a big man with a tan.
      "Hey, you two! What are you doing with Luc?!"
      They looked at each other, then Seyona pointed the guy's staff at the offending man. A huge centaur with a lance appeared, let out an inhuman scream and charged for the guy.
      "Holy crap!" The guy leaped off the side of the docks, leaving Seyona and Leli to take off with the ship, with the unconscious guy, and leaving an enraged Flik having a temper tantrum on the docks.
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      "Wow, I can't believe we got away..." Leli stared over the side of the ship. "But what do we do with him?" She pointed at the inert light brown haired guy.
      Seyona blinked and then smiled. "Well, we can put him down below."
      "Good idea!" Leli smiled back and made her way to the lower quarter's door, dragging the poor guy with her.
      Seyona flung the door open and helped her friend toss him inside, on something soft, of course.
      With that business over with, the two returned to the deck of the ship to look at their new treasure -more specifically- the guy's staff.
      "I wonder how we'd use this thing..." Seyona asked, turning it around in her hands.
      "Um, I don't know... he kinda held it like this..." Leli held her hands up to the sky.
      "Like this?" Seyona mimicked her movements.
      Suddenly the staff exploded with a flash of light, and seconds later a huge bolt of lightning struck the ship directly behind the two girls. They looked behind them, watching as the water began to bubble up.
      "Uh... think we should leave?" Leli asked her friend.
      After a great amount of consideration, Seyona replied: "Yes, I think that would be a good idea... but shouldn't we get that guy first?"
      "Stupid guy..." Leli mumbled as she ran down below to fetch him. They opened the door to find the guy very waterlogged, very awake, and very angry.
      "Who the heck are you?" He demanded. "Where the heck am I? What the heck..." He didn't have time to ask any more questions... Leli and Seyona had picked him up and were dragging him back up the stairs as the water started to fill the cabin.
      They stared over the side of the boat, watching the water come closer.
      "At the count of three..." Leli suggested.
      "Hey, wait a minute..." The guy tried to say something.
      "THREE!" Seyona yelled and pushed the guy into the water, jumping closely after. Soon they were followed by a screaming Leli. They swam out as far as they could to avoid being sucked under. They watched from a safe distance as the ship quickly sank underneath the waves.   "I'm confused..." The guy tried to keep to the surface, but was not having much luck. He grabbed a floating piece of debris and clung to it for dear life. "What the heck is going on here?" "Wait until we get to land..." Leli gasped, clinging to the same piece of wood as the guy.
      "Yeah..." Seyona clung to the piece of wood on the guys other side, nearly making it sink.