Sorry everyone, I know it's been long and its no excuse.

I was busy with many things, school, Sakura con a bit, but mostly writers block. This chapter was the hardest to write with my character not being a 'sue' and interacting with canon characters from a series. It was very difficult to write this whole thing out. It's a bit rushed, but I wanted to upload it so badly.

I don't own Tales of Vesperia, just my OC.

Meeting Rita

Upon entering Mordio's house, the group stood in awe and one thing came to their minds.

It was a disaster.

Books were lying everywhere, papers skewed on the tables and floor, and looked like the house cleaner never came in for years.

"What, did a tornado just come through here?" Amaya said in shock, never had she seen a mess like this.

"So this where Mordio lives" Yuri casually said while looking at the place.

"Who would live in a place like this?" Karol said as he looked at the condition inside.

"You kidding me it looks like no one could ever live in a place!" Amaya exclaimed as she tried to avoid tripping over the books.

"It shouldn't be difficult no matter how you live" Yuri said casually not minding the mess one bit.

"Yuri haven't you forgotten something?" Estelle reminded him of why they were inside Mordio's home in the first place.

"Oh yeah, hello we are coming in" he said, Amaya sighed at this.

"A little too late for that Yuri" she said to herself.

"Oh and Karol used your door here" he added in receiving a look from the boy.

"Oh Yuri, umm excuse us is there anyone home?" Estelle asked if the owner was available. After a few minutes of silence, it seemed like nobody was home. The total silence felt eerie to Amaya and quickly turned to Yuri.

"So what are you going to do now?" she asked him and he looked at her.

"We look for evidence" he replied as he looked around.

"These books shouldn't be lying around here like this," Estelle replied as she tried to pick them.

"Here Estelle let me help you" the girl said as she helped the pink-haired girl pickup the books.

Karol, Yuri and Repede looked around the cluttered shack for any evidence of stolen blastia.

"Hey Yuri, was there any other information about Mordio besides the blastia theft?" she asked.

"He stole the blastia from the lower quarter, and skipped town before we could find out" he said.

"You sure there wasn't any other suspicious activity or maybe it might be another mage?" she said to him.

"You're quick to defend a thief," he said to her as he continued to look around.

"I'm not defending Yuri, I'm just saying…" was all she said as she heard Repede suddenly growl and alert.

"Repede," Amaya said as she suddenly saw what he had seen.

Something or someone came out from a pile of books next to her.

"Aagh what is that?" Karol shouted in shock.

"What the…" Amaya said as the figure turned its head.

"Shut up," said a small voice from the cloaked figure placed its hand in front of itself and light began to form.

Amaya noticed the others getting out of the way and she followed too. However, she noticed Karol stood still in his place.

"Hey wait, hold on!" he said as he saw them get way.

"Karol what are you doing, get out of the way!" she shouted at him. "Thieves," said the cloaked figure, Amaya could tell that this person was going to launch something at the boy.

"Karol duck!" she yelled, but it was too late "Be gone" the figure launched a red ball at the scared boy.

A quick flash of light blinded Amaya as she heard the boy screams. The light faded and she opened her eyes to see Karol slightly smoking.

"Why me?" he said while coughing, Amaya sighed at this happy to know he was not truly on fire. She then remembered his attacker and turned to face him.

However, she discovered 'he' is actually a she. With the hood down, she could see clearly that Mordio was a girl, possibly a year younger than she was.

"She's… a girl?" she heard Estelle spoke up.

"This is something," Amaya said at the situation.

Yuri brought out an axe and held it at the girl's neck "If you can do tricks like that, why did you bother skipping town back in Zaphias?" he interrogated her.

She quickly turned her head to face him "Skipping town, why would I need to skip town?" she answered him as if she didn't know what was going on.

"For stealing the core of a blastia from the lower quarter what else?" he said not letting the axe stray from the girl.

The girl looked annoyed at what he had said. "What you're calling me a thief?" she said "Have any of you ever heard 'common sense?"

"Sure" he and Amaya said at the same time, they stared at each other for a while he then shrugged that bit off and continued to hear out Mordio.

"You break into a home, call the owner a thief, and wave a sword in their face…," she said, but Amaya intercepted "Actually it's an axe."

"Whatever!" Mordio exclaimed at her before calling off Yuri "What the hell kind of sense is that?"

Repede started walking about to the mage and she quickly turned around and yelled at him "Hey dog, you stay back you… you dog!"

"That wasn't much of a comeback," Amaya muttered to herself after what she saw.

"No one asked you!" Mordio exclaimed at Amaya who flinched at bit at her voice.

"And kid give him back!" she yelled at Karol, who he and Amaya looked confused.

"What do you mean?" she asked not understanding what the mage wanted.

"The blastia, give him back to me!" she yelled in exasperation similar as child wanting a certain toy.

"Karol did you do something?" Amaya turned to him, believing he might have taken something from the mage earlier.

Estelle came up to the mage and bowed to her in apology "What's with you?" the mage said.

"We are sorry for intruding your home my name is Estellise, this is Amaya, Karol, Repede and Yuri," she said to the mage. "Come on, you guys please apologize," she said to them.

"Sorry" said the boy as his head faced down.

"So what do you want?" Mordio said to the group, Amaya observed this moment to see how it played out.

"Well you see Yuri has been following a blastia thief all the way from the imperial capital," Estelle explained to Rita.

"And?" she replied seemingly impatient and Yuri interjected "The thief was short…wore a cape… and his name was Mordio."

"Well Mordio is certainly my name, Rita Mordio, to be exact" she confirmed him.

"And the height matches up too," Karol added in, Amaya felt something that is too sudden.

"What do you have to say for yourself?" Yuri said accusingly.

"I told you I no idea what you…" she said but then stopped as if an idea had come in her thoughts.

"Hmm I never thought of thought?" she muttered to herself.

'Thought of what exactly?' Amaya thought to herself because of the sudden turn point.

"What do you mean by that?" Karol said the same thing similar to what Amaya had thought.

"Just follow me," Rita said as she walked ahead, Yuri however kept talking "We weren't finished here."

"Yuri lets listen to her for a bit," Amaya spoke up, Karol looked up at her as if she had grown another head.

"You're sure about this?" he asked her.

"Come on guys, there are different versions of a story let's hear what Rita has to say before we can jump to conclusions," she explained, nearly everyone looked at her as if she was crazy.

'When I try to be logical this is what I get' she inwardly thought to herself, before shifting the attention to Rita "You were saying Rita?"

"As I was saying, there have been rumors going on lately; some thieves have turned up in the Shaikou Ruins," she said as she continued walking into the back of the shack.

"Thieves, you're sure?" Yuri asked her with skepticism in his voice.

"This source came from an Imperial Knight who asked me for help it should be trustworthy," she said as she walked out of sight.

"Wait Imperial knight?" Amaya said to herself as it was piecing together in her mind.

"Do you think that knight might have been Flynn?" Estelle asked.

"Possibly she must have shot him down though," Yuri said to Estelle.

"Hey, remember what that guy outside said about someone vandalizing the ruins?" Karol added in, the others agreed though Amaya was confused.

"Sorry, Karol I missed a bit on that," she said to him.

"Oh sorry," he said to her, "It's no problem," she replied.

"So the person who stole the blastia core could be there," Estelle said and Amaya nodded in approval.
"Finished chatting, let's go" said Rita and the group turned around saw her.

"Whoa," Amaya said to herself as she noticed how different Rita looked without a cloak on. She was wearing a red outfit with goggles.

"All right, but don't even think about making a break for it," Yuri warned her.

"You don't have to follow me, I can just call the guards," she casually said to them and they were a bit shocked at the thought of getting caught.

"It's possible Flynn might be there," Estelle commented and they all agreed on it.

"Fine if you want to go to jail, make a run for it or follow me it's your option" Rita said to them.

"I vote on the latter," Amaya spoke up fast, she did not want to be caught or in a worst-case scenario in jail. "I'll go with that one too," Karol added in.

"Yuri I think we should try this," Estelle said to him, realizing that he was outnumbered a bit and his friends seem to trust the mage.

"Okay, okay we'll go with you" he relented Karol and Amaya smiled a bit at his decision.

"The Shaikos Ruins are even further to the east, once you leave the city," Rita said to him.

Something came up in Amaya's mind when she heard Rita say that and realized something.

"Wait so you're helping up after all?" she asked the mage.

Rita turned her head around to get a look at the Earth girl. "Why wouldn't I be?" she replied.

"I-I mean we just met and you're willing to help us," Amaya stammered a bit, but Rita did not seem like she cared that the girl was stumbling.

"I am not going to let your friend accuse me of being a thief," she said to the girl and now understood what the mage is saying.

"Come on, let's go to these ruins so we can find that blastia thief," Yuri said as they all agree and left Mordio's house, and walked to the plaza.

'So we have another member to our group, why do I have a feeling that we need more later on?' she thought to herself, before grabbing the blade Yuri loaned to her the other day and the blastia in the other.

"Hey Yuri, guys" she said to the group and they turned to look.

"Amaya is there something wrong?" she asked her, and she nodded a bit.

"So what is it that you want?" Rita said to her, Amaya inwardly flinched she had not gotten used to Rita's voice from earlier.

"I was wondering if there is a weapon shop around here," Amaya asked and the group looked at her as if she had gotten something wrong.

"Why do you need a new weapon, aren't you okay with the one you have?" said Karol.

"I know, but it is Yuri's sword not mine," she said as she held the sword towards Yuri.

"It's okay you can keep it for training and up-coming battles," he said to her as he pushed the sword back to her.

"Still I want to get my own weapon, I saw you use an axe and sword earlier so why can't I?" she replied to him.

"No one is stopping you there, if you want to we can get it before we leave," he said and she smiled.

"Thank you," she said as she turned around to move, but stopped to realize something.

"Umm… where is the shop again?" she asked and nearly everyone face faulted.

"It is near the front entrance when we entered here," Karol said, and now Amaya felt inwardly awkward at the situation. They went all the way to find Mordio's place and the weapon shop was near the entrance of the city where the guards who rebuffed them earlier are located.

"Maybe we should go now," she said and everyone agreed.

After several minutes of walking, they made it back to the entrance where Amaya was looking for a stand that sold weapons.

"So where is it anyway?" she asked looking for a sign.

"Amaya, you should try over there," Estelle asked as she pointed out to a person near a desk.

"Um… Estelle?" she said a little confused.

"That's a stand for Fortune's Market, it's a merchant guild so you can buy your weapon there," Rita said pointing out the obvious.

"Okay then, let's take a look," she said as she went over to the guild stand.

Amaya could not believe her eyes as she had her sights on what was on sale.

"Wow, these look really good," she whispered in awe, until something caught her eye in one of the cases.

A set of twin sai, one silver and black, and the other one was silver and white. She was amazed at the detail and design.

"It's so beautiful," she said and one of the members of the guild came forward.

"So you like this kind of weapon huh?' said the merchant and Amaya looked up.

"Huh, oh yes how much for it?" she asked him, and he held his chin.

"Well let me see here, the quality of this twin dagger set here is one of a kind and craftsmanship," he muttered before thinking through.

"I say about 1,500 gald" he said casually, and the group had a shocked look on their faces.

"What…" she said in a whisper, and followed by Karol "That's expensive!" he said.

"Sorry that is the price of work," the man said to them.

"I didn't know that it was so much," Amaya muttered to herself. She felt a little guilty for wanting something like that, while she kept looking at the expensive twin sai weapons.

"How much do you guys have?" she turned around and asked them. The group looked at each other before putting the money (which Amaya now knew its gald) into their respective hands.

"By adding all the gald we own, we have about 1,300" Yuri said before turning to Rita realizing she didn't add her gald into the party.

"What? I'm not going to use my money for something trivial like that," she said to them.

Now that felt like a turn-off to everyone. 'I guess I'm being selfish for wanting something,' she thought about realizing her teammates.

"Oh Amaya what about the gald you received?" she heard Estelle ask.

"What do you mean?" she said to the pinkette.

"You know the money the monsters dropped after you slayed it," Karol added in and the Earth girl nearly had a blank face.

'What you receive money for slaying monsters? This place is getting weird' she thought about how she received money.

"Amaya is there something wrong?" Estelle asked in concern for the otherworldly girl.

"No, it's nothing Estelle," she said to the pinkette not wanting to worry her.

"It's not worth it okay, I'll just do with this for now," she said not wanting to use the people she just met.

"If its fine with you then," Yuri said to her and she looked back at him.

"Let's get going," he said as everyone motioned forward.

"I hope this trip may change your mind," Rita said as she followed them.

"About you being a thief?" Yuri said back to her and she got angry at him.

"I'm telling you I'm not a thief!" she said as the whole argument continued until they went through the door that they snuck into the city.

"Something tells me this is going to get interesting," Amaya said to herself as she wondered how she would manage in this world.

There its finish. I know in one of the scenes Yuri uses a sword, but he has an axe because he gave it to Amaya. He'll get his sword back eventually.

I hope you enjoy this.

Auhtoress' notes: I don't own Tales of Vesperia

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Oh and Happy Earth Day.