Suikoden VI

Chapter Twelve: Part One

Note I'm still working on the Bath Scenes, but the Investigations are fully completed and you can read all 107 of them (minus Daunte of course) on the Investigations page. I'll try to finish the Bath Scenes within the next week or so.

In any case, welcome to Chapter Twelve. The FINAL chapter of my Suikoden VI fanfic. We're in the homestretch, and I expect to have this story completed before Suikoden I & II Remaster is released (which is projected to be in March). I'll probably be saying this a lot in the upcoming chapters, but thank you all for sticking with me for the last seven and a half years.

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Chapter Twelve: Part One

Daunte had never eaten so much food in his life. Well, he'd never been to a wedding either so he supposed eating a lot of food was part of a wedding reception. He kept getting interrupted by people asking him to dance with them, but he was happy to engage for one dance.

Kibbeh was proving to be a problem, though. Everything time Daunte looked up he was the little dog beside his chair, looking up at him with a doe-eyed expression. "Kibbeh, no," he scolded the dog. "This food would be bad for you."Kibbeh responded with a pathetic whimper. Daunte looked for the other dog owners to see how they were handling their dogs, and to his horror they were indulging their dogs. Eamon had Jasira in his lap and was feeding his dog from his plate, Esther and Ciana were placing a plate piled high with food in front of Tiara, and Chinmaya was teasing Hagan with a kebab.

It's impossible to be a pet owner. I bend the knee too easily to this dog. Daunte sighed heavily and grabbed one of his own kebabs, pulling the vegetables off it and leaving the meat. Then he held it out to Kibbeh. "Here. Happy now?"

Kibbeh snatched the kebab and took off running with his tail wagging high. Daunte shook his head. Well, if I'm only weak to a dog I guess that's okay.

"Hey."

Daunte looked up and saw Pesmerga standing to his left. The Black Knight was wearing an amused smile. "You should come with me, my Lord," he said.

"Is something wrong, Pesmerga?" Daunte asked him. "Why don't you grab a plate—"

"I'm not hungry," Pesmerga said. "But Yuber has stolen the girl with the Blinking Rune. You should probably do something about it."

"Yuber took Viki?!" Daunte exclaimed, jumping out of his chair. "Why?!"

Pesmerga shrugged. "I'll be right back," Daunte told Arin.

"Okay!" Arin responded with a mouth full of food.

Daunte hurried back to the central building, with Pesmerga placidly following him. He raced up the stairs to the landing where Viki usually stood, and it was empty except for a white garland resting on the carpet. Daunte picked up the garland in his fist and stood. "YUBER!" he hollered.

Yuber appeared before him in an instant, looking highly irritated. "What do YOU want?" He said sharply.

"Where is Viki?!" Daunte snapped, shaking the garland at her. "What have you done with her?!"

Yuber snapped his teeth. "I don't know what you're talking—"

"I saw you grab her and teleport her away," Pesmerga said as he ascended the stairs.

"Well, what of it?!" Yuber snapped.

"Bring Viki back here NOW!" Daunte hollered.

"She could always teleport herself here," Pesmerga said thoughtfully. "I wonder why she hasn't?"

"I need information from her!" Yuber snapped. "She did something to me, and she acts like she doesn't remember!"

"Bring her back here," Daunte said. "That's an order!"