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Memories	By : Asirainis Category: +A through F > Dragon Quest/ Dragon Warrior Views: 1615 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Quest VIII, nor the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Memories
Chapter Thirty Three: The Isolated Continent
"This is all that the treasure was Red."
She glowered as she shook her head. "Huh! That ain't somefin' I wanted ya to see. And ya gone an' got the bounty to boot! But 'ang on! Is that all it is? That scraggy ol' bit o' paper!? That's pathetic!" She touched the edge of the parchment as her cheeks flushed red with anger.
Releasing it, she spoke again, "If I'd known it was as naff as that, I'd never 'ave bothered! Since I was forced to give you part of my bounty, I s'pose I'll just 'ave to make do with the ten thousand gold coins I picked up on the way…" She fled the cavern before Yangus could say anything to her, angry tears trickling down her cheeks. Airlia's lips drew tightly closed as she knew instantly what the matter was. They left the cove by using Draco's magic to bring them back to the entrance of the cove. Once they were up there, they saw that Red's boat was gone as they approached Trode, holding the map happily.
She laid it over the world map Marcello had given them so long ago as she realized, "We need to get to Neos as to cut our time in half."
Once they were out of under the bridge, Airlia focused her magic, whisking them to Neos. Hurrying back to the boat, they sailed west as Airlia kept an eye out for the rock formation it indicated. "We need to look for a bunch of rocks clustered together; it forms an 'X' of sorts." The trip took relatively little time as they came into the starting point. The moon just started to come into full height when they reached the formation when suddenly the outcropping of rocks suddenly began to glow as did the map.
Airlia let out a startled cry as she looked around wildly to see the glow create a path to follow Airlia looked back at Draco, "Follow the path, and don't break from it!" He nodded as he began to steer the ship on the path of light that had hit the stone wall of the continent, shimmering there for a minute before the light died away.
They did follow the path exactly, well as much as one could with the water becoming still. As they approached the side of the island, Airlia paled. She ran to the others as they braced themselves for impact. However, as quickly as they approached, nothing happened. Blinking, they turned to look at one another as they saw they were no longer going to hit the island, but they were inside the island. Raising an eyebrow to one another they gaped at the beach before them, with a rising slope to the upper land that they had seen from the other side of the closeted continent. Walking off the ship, they had stood for no more than a moment when a giant shadow flew overhead. However, upon looking up, they saw nothing…
Airlia raised a brow as Draco said, "Did anyone else see…"
Jessica nodded, "That giant shadow?"
Alistair nodded, as he spoke, "It was like a giant bird…" Oddly enough though as everyone looked around, there wasn't a sign of the bird was to be found, not even a feather.
Draco pulled out the world map as he looked at where they were, touching it to enlarge the location. "There's a pathway over here, if we follow it all the way, and continue in the southeastern direction, there should be a village or something there." They nodded as the group formed a circle around Airlia, Jessica and the wagon.
Walking up the sandy beach they found themselves on a grass hill soon enough. Following the curve all the way around, Alistair pointed in the direction that Draco mentioned earlier. "Hm… Should be over there somewhere right?" Draco nodded as they walked slowly, keeping their eye open for any sign of that giant bird.
As they made their way, they saw a lot of palm trees until they reached a village protected on all sides but a small area for an entrance. They looked at each other as Airlia said to Trode, "You may want to wait here with your hood up Trode. I don't want either of you outside of the village, but I don't know how they'll react to your appearance with them being so isolated…" He knew what she said without her actually saying it as he nodded. Pulling up his hood, they slowly approached the village. Entering the village, everyone was dressed rather strangely, wearing a peculiar robe over a second robe. The exterior robe was tribal, a light tan with a darker brown laying over the sleeves and bottom edge with strange markings that meant nothing to any of them, but they knew it was for their culture.
The under robe was a simple green color, and a cord around their waist, with a leather hat, tan pants and simple boots to finish off the outfit, they looked around curiously. A man smiled as he came over to them. "You're not from this island, are you?"
Draco nodded as he said, "Where are we?"
He grinned widely as he spoke, "Welcome to Empycchu, home of the famous Godbird, Empyrea!"
Airlia nodded as he continued, "We surrounded by steep cliffs. I am shocked to see outsiders at our village. Gojoshar! Welcome to Empycchu. In our native tongue, 'Empycchu' means 'those who venerate the Godbird Empyrea.'"
Airlia grinned, "We need Empyrea's help, the dark one wants to break free and we need to find him, but he took to the skies."
He nodded as a grave look on his face. "The home in the back leads to our elder. He can tell you more of Empyrea and where to find her."
Smiling, she nodded as she looked around the village; it was a simple modest village with thatched roofs, built from pine trees no doubt, the wood looking familiar to her. The village homes had a simple cloth in place of a door, no doubt unneeded since it was so small and peaceful. They saw a platform in the center of town, undoubtedly for when they needed to do announcements as they continued to the largest home along the back, dawn breaking over them.
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