The Start of it All

[acetalon]

"Do it then."

Order held his wrist in front, his fist facing the sky.  

"Take it off.  I don't care anymore.  Do what I can't.  If it'll get you to just LISTEN to me then do it."

[Kwokinator]

"Why don't you take it off yourself, you lazy bum?" Kwok smirked. "Quit the dramatics and do it yourself.  Face pain like a man."

[RyderHakubi]

"I doubt you should worry 'bout such things right now..." A voice asked, as the point of a golden spear pressed against the back of Kwok's neck...

"Not when you have to deal with me..." the voice muttered as a gust of wind shifted by.

"Kwokie-chan"

[RyderHakubi]

Meanwhile, in the city of Bayla, a meeting took place...

Sitting in an ornate and raised chair was a sharply dressed young man with slivery hair and a pair of yellow sunglasses partially hiding his green eyes.  Beside him sat a half-full glass of wine...

And in front of him hailed a slim, well tanned girl with long blonde hair, sharp blue eyes, and a open white t-shirt and shorts, over a black and blue swimsuit...

"Yamiko, this world is in chaos..." The man begins... to which the girl, Yamiko, starts dancing happily.

"Wars between Yevon's followers and the Al Bhed are destroying the land... Corrupt leaders are sending innocent people to die to defeat Sin.  Shameless traders sell defective products to young travelers in the search for gold pieces.  And, that, my wastefully excited agent, is where we come..." The man continued, ignoring Yamiko's happy flag dance... until the thrusting began.  The man pulled out a gun and shot Yamiko in the head... Yamiko tumbled backwards a few rolls and landed stretched out with her eyes rolled back.  This would have made a great death scene had there been a hole where Yamiko was shot...

"Rubber bullets Yamiko... would I really liquidate our only member?" he added as Yamiko attempted to play dead on the dusty floor.

"We... really... need to hire... a janitor..." Yamiko muttered as she shakily began to rise, knowing that she wasn't fooling anyone with her B-Movie death act.

"Ahem... As I was saying, this is where BESIDE comes in... we will conquer Spira... but first, to not stretch our resources too far, we'll start here, in the province of Meva." He grandly proclaimed to his audience of one, who was still rubbing her head from the impact of the bullet.

"And now, Yamiko, this brings me to your mission for today... and probably tommorow as well, since this is a rather complicated mission, even for an 'experienced' agent such as yourself." He stated, eloquently disguising the sarcasm within, while standing up and putting a holo-generator on the ground...

Yamiko bounced with joy and sprouted, with a mile a minute voice, "Yamiko is so happy to serve Lord Keril-sama!  If Keril-sama wants coffee, he will get it with cream and the two little sugar cubes he loves so much!  If he wants assassinations, I'm there and the heads will roll world records!  If he wants me, I'll happily give myself up!  Just say the word and Yamiko is ready!  I'll be down there faster than you can shoot m..."

>>>BANG<<<

"Yamiko, if you would allow me to finish... Recently, I have noticed several strange energy signals throughout the area.  2 of them have traveled too far away from here to be of importance, however, 4 remain." He began as the holo-generator showed a picture of Kwok, Ace, Ryder, and Carthrat walking along in the desert.

"Yamiko, your mission is to observe this group, and determine thier alliegence, and whether or not they could be used for our cause." Keril declared as Yamiko crawled off to aquire ice for the growing lump on her head from the repeated rubber bullets.

[acetalon]

"Didn't you just hear what I said, or are you completely deaf Kwok?  I-AM-AFRAID!  At least I didn't pin myself up as a martyr yet, which you seem to want give the impression of.  All ya do is whine, but when someone give advice you ignore it and keep whining, crying out like a big baby that no one cares.  Well I did care for about 10 seconds, and you couldn't care less that I did, so screw you.  Besides, you offered to take this bracelet off anyways."

Ace turned away in disgust.  Kwok wasn't exactly facing his own pain like a man, bitching that his women weren't there for him to order around.

Kwok probably didn't hear a damn thing he said, what with that spear at his neck.  Ace didn't know  why he tried anymore.  Was it someone else who pretended they read the book on an Aspect's life?

[Kwokinator]

The familliar name broke Kwok out of his argument with Ace.  Only one person in the entire multiverse called him that...

"A-Angela...?" he croaked, not daring to turn around, fearing that if he did, it would all be just a product of his all-too-active imagination.

[RyderHakubi]

"Tell me something... Why did you leave?  Were you afraid of the commitment?  Couldn't stand being a one woman guy?" Angela asked while slowly pushing the point of the spear into the back of Kwok's neck...

"You don't know the kind of pain I went through... no, you were out having fun... like we used to." she added, her anger dropping with the last statement, but still keeping the same amount of pressure on the spear point...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok barely flinched with the added pressure to his neck.

"No..." he said softly. "I left because I wasn't good enough for you.  You deserve someone better, Angela... someone that'll treat you right... not someone that can't even decide on a girl..."

His voice started to choke. "Not someone... like me..."

[RyderHakubi]

Taking the pressure off the back of his neck, Angela walked around until she was face to face with Kwok...

SLAP SLAP!

"Do not give me that bullshit!  You know how I feel about you... I know how you feel with me... and yet, you keep RUNNING AWAY!" Angela shouted with divine wrath...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok held a hand up to his blazing-red cheeks.  That was... one of the hardest times he's ever been slapped.

"I'm sorry..." he sighed. "I don't know why I left you... why I'd want to.  I don't know, maybe I got scared or something..."

[RyderHakubi]

"Maybe you wanted to chase my counterpart and not have to worry about me?  You always liked Cynthia better than me... why..." Angela started with fury, but ended whimpering on Kwok's shoulder... again.

[RyderHakubi]

Meanwhile, the exuberant, ditzy, and all around hyper 1st and only minion of Keril Palazzo's BESIDE, Yamiko Yamiko, proudly walked through the countryside with her bag of "spy gear" bouncing wilding on her left shoulder...

"YAMIKO HAPPILY PERSUES VICTORY AT ALL COSTS!!!!  Through downpour, blizzard, and dry weather, Yamiko will dutifully persue her mission for the glory of Lord Keril Palazzo-sama!" Yamiko nonsensically rambled as she drew nearer and nearer to where Ryder and Carthrat were playing poker...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok wrapped his arms around the crying goddess in a hug, and gently stroked through her white hair, trying to comfort her.

"That's not true..." he whispered. "I admit, I liked Cynthia, but she's not as important to me as you are... not even close."

[Carthrat]

"Full house," smirked Carthrat, displaying his hand proudly.

"...Two of a kind," replied Ryder, frowning.

"That put's me... seven chips in front of you," Carthrat said, taking the chipps from Ryder's pile.

"YAMI-.. PER...LCOS..S!"]

Carthrat blinked. "What was that?... Hmm. I'm gonna go check it out."

So saying, he stood, made sure his gun was loaded, and walked off in the direction of the voice...

[RyderHakubi]

"Then... why Kchan?  Why did you always... make me feel... like she was better?  I would love you... and you would love her back..." Angela cried out