Search in Kirtos Chapter 1: The Coin

‘Are we there yet, mom?’ Lotte was looking over the edge of the ship.
‘Just one more moment darling, and then we’re really entering the harbor of Olympica.’ Porom lays an arm around her daughter.
It was a few days ago since the family left Mysidia. Porom and Kamil had planned a vacation with the kids. It was the first time that Lotte was allowed to make a long trip to a complete unknown continent.
‘Please be careful, Lotte. Will you?’ Kamil hold little Alphonse near him and looked worried to his daughter, ‘You will fall overboard otherwise.’
‘Pfooh, if that happens, mommy will take me out of the water’, Lotte turned around and smiled to her parents, ‘Mom is the best mage in the entire world, so she can do it for sure!’
Cam sighed, Porom chuckled. Every now and then Lotte could be smart.
‘Just let her enjoy the trip, Cam’, she whispered to her husband, ‘We are for the first time with the family on a vacation. I’m sure she will remember for years to come.’
‘Hopefully nothing bad will happen here.’ Kamil hold Al closer to him and walked over the deck, between the other tourists.
Porom sighed. She understand his protectiveness towards their children, but sometimes she felt that he needed to be more...relaxed.
‘Mommy look! A giant man on a rock!’ Lotte pulled at the hem of Poroms.
She looked up, her daughter was right! In the distance she saw that there was something that looked like a giant made out of stone, wearing armor. It was holding a large torch that burns, in its right hand.
‘Lotte, that is not a man. That is the Colossus from Olympica! Now we are almost there.’
Lotte looked in amazement towards the giant statue as the ship came closer. Even though it didn’t move, Porom noticed her daughter moved closer to her.
After the ship passed by the colossus, they arrived at the harbor. Porom saw many white houses and buildings, with red roofs. It was beautiful!
At the top of a mountain, in the distance, she saw a large white building. The roof got supported by large white columns. That must be the palace of Olympica for sure.
‘Yaay, we are here!’ Lotte jumped up and down out of enthusiasm. Kamil walked back towards Porom and smiled. They are finally at their destination.
 
After they checked in at the hotel they are staying at, the family took a walk through the city. The baggage had been left in their room, so the walk should be easier.
Porom liked how the people were dressed on the streets. The women were wearing long white dresses, some of them had their hair braided. The men were wearing long white or blue togas, some of the men looked muscular or had small black beards. Porom felt that they better not get in trouble with them.
Luckily the people were friendly towards the tourists. At the market where they can buy delicious fruit, the salesmen were really helpful, even though Porom had difficult with the language.
She walked further, maybe she can buy an Olympican dress for herself. Maybe some clothing for Cam.
She giggled at the idea of him wearing a toga, she wasn’t sure if he could appreciate it.
There were also a lot of games played on the square. Many tourist took an attempt at Highstriker.
She watched, while shaking her head, how a young guy slammed the hammer at the steel on the steel beam. He failed to manage to get the block halfway the neck of the machine. With a disapproving look of his girlfriend, he slunk off.
Porom look aside from her to see where Lotte was, to her shock she was no longer there!
‘Lotte! Lotte where are you?’ Panic was heard in her voice. She doesn’t know the city. A kidnapper might had taking her daughter to a bleak alleyway, she thought.
She began to search hastily, through the big crowd she couldn’t find her daughter for sure.
‘Kamil, Lotte is gone!’ Porom went to her husband, ‘We must split up!’
‘Oh, she may have found something that got her attention.’ Kamil laughed. He quickly stopped when he saw his wife angry face.
He decided to walk back toward the stands where we has before. Porom walked further on the square.
She saw a bunch of people standing around a large archery range. Maybe Lotte did crawl between the legs of the crowd.
The crowd was looking at a young woman that stood next to one of the tourist. Porom though she looked really pretty.
The girl had a brown skintone and long black wavy hair reaching her waist. Though, she did wear not much clothing, Porom thought.
The young woman wears a bra made out of cloth, that was held together by a golden choker. A long white loincloth with the belt made out of gold. A golden circlet with a blue stone, golden bracelets around her arms and sand colored sandals.
She aimed with her bow, that was almost as big her her body length, towards the target. The opponent did the same, while being far more nervous than her.
Someone blew the whistle. The tourist and the archer shoot almost their arrows at the same time. It was clear that the girl had far more experience than the man. His arrow landed far off the target, while the arrow of the girl landed exactly in the middle of the bullseye.
‘I’m sorry, but better luck next time.’ She said towards the disappointed tourist, ‘Alright, we is next in line?’
The line! Porom looked up at the people that were waiting for their turn.
Most of them were locals, but also a few tourist dare to challenge the young archer.
Porom walked through the line and looked if her daughter was waiting there as well.
‘Oops, pardon me...Sorry...Please forgive me.’ She said to the people that looked annoyed to her. She didn’t want to cut the line, but she had to know if her daughter was there.
‘Oh hello. You look like a cute girl. What’s your name?’
‘Lotte. My name is acutally Lieselotte, but everyone calls me Lotte.’ It sounded from the end of the line, ‘I am a White Mage from Mysidia.’
Porom rushed forwards. So there she was going to! She felt that it was time to set her straight, for her disobedience.
‘Ooh, you came from far away,’ The archer sat on her knees and smiles, ‘Tell me, do you like to try to challenge me. It does cost you one gold piece, though.’
‘Aha, there you are!’ Porom grabbed Lotte by her arm, ‘I told you many times to not walk away from me.’
‘But mommy, I really want to try shooting arrows.’ Lotte looked unhappily to her mother, ‘I saw the woman and maybe she can learn me how to do it.’
‘You had to ask me first before you wander off.’ Porom looked angry to Lotte, ‘You know that we do not want to lose you.’
‘Mommy please, just one time. I will never walk away from you.’ With puppy-like eyes Lotte pleads to her mother.
‘Ah madam. One time can’t hurt, right? I will learn her to shoot.’ The young woman stood up and looked apologetic to Porom, ‘I am sorry that I have made your daughter walk away from you. We only want to enjoy the tourists, we only ask for one coin from all parts of the world.’
Porom looked from the girl towards her daughter. She sighed and caved in. She should be less strict and not let her motherinstinct control her.
‘Alright, you can shoot Lotte. But after this we are going to our hotel.
‘Yippy yay!’ The little girl raised her arms in the air from happiness. She wanted to pick up a bow, but noticed that it was too big for her.
The woman giggled, ‘What a cute daughter you have.’
‘Oh yeah, and a son. Me and my husband have their hands full of the family.’ Porom laughed, ‘My husband is searching for Lotte, with his son. I think the search is over really soon.’
She waved at Kamil that walked on the square, seeming hopeless. He looked relieved after he saw that his wive  put her thumb up.
‘What is your name, by the way?’ The girl reached out, ‘My name is Solyana. Princess Solyana from Tanïro I.’
‘P...princess?’ Poroms eyes grew wide. She hadn’t met much princesses during the time when she traveled with Cecil. She would never expect that in her life, she will met a princess that set up a archery range, and was scantily dressed.
She looked into the eyes of the girl, they were gold colored. She also saw that she had a golden piercing in her nose and in her navel. On her bare, flat belly she had placed a tattoo in the shape of a sun.
‘The name is Porom, your majesty.’ She bowed a bit for Solyana, the girl giggled.
‘Just call me Solyana. All that politeness is not for me. I am here being free of the aristocracy and together with my friends.’ She pointed towards two other young ladies.
One of the girls had long dark-blonde hair reaching her back, wearing a golden leaf crown. She wears a purple navel top with a red bow tied to her back. A short puple skirt and long purple boots. Around her neck she wears a chain with a blue stone.
The woman next to her seems a bit older than her friend, around her late twenties. She had long black hair, tied in a ponytail. She has brown almond shaped eyes, and she wears a long pink hanbok, with the sleeves cut off. Underneath her hanbok she wears an armor, and she wears black slip-on shoes and white socks.
‘Miss archer, can you help me? I don’t know what to do.’ Said Lotte who holds a bow that was too big for her.
‘I’m coming Lotte.’ Solyana said, she walked upon Lotte and picked up a smaller bow that fits her better.
‘You guys are on a holiday in Olympica?’ Asked the blond haired girl to Porom, ‘I noticed a lot of tourists visiting our city, and I was wondering if you also traveled with them.’
‘Yes, we are on a holiday.’ Porom didn’t understand why the lady asked her that question.
‘Well...I don’t want to be rude but...’ The girl looked that Poroms clothes, ‘You seems like you are a mage, and a very good one too. There are many travelers entered Olympica with a mission, so that’s why I’m curious.’
‘Oh...Yes, that’s true!’ Porom was surprised, ‘But we weren’t visiting Olympica with different reasons. We just want to relax, that’s all.’
‘Oh, that’s nice.’ The girl smiled, she reached out to Porom, ‘My name is Karima Kyriakou, princess of Olympica.’
Another Princess?! Porom looked from Karima towards Solyana, who was explaining her daughter how to string the bow.
‘What about you? Are you also a princess?’ Porom looked at the woman with the pink hanbok, she began to laugh.’
‘No, I am a good friend of Karima and Solyana.’ Porom heard she spoke with a light accent, ‘My name is Ra Young-hee, just call me Young-hee. I was one of the bodyguards of my king, from Yeonnam. Now I am traveling with my friends.’
‘Nice to meet you, great to see that you girls becoming friends.’ She shaked her hand, then she looks at how Lotte got a good explanation from Solyana.
She looked at the archer, for some reason she had to think about two other girls she had met.
Years ago, when she was a little girl, two young woman traveled to Mysidia, two sisters. They came from Laissez Fayre, or it was called Monbaraba, Porom remembered. One of the sisters corrected the other.
Both of the girls had long purple hair, and had a brown skin color. One of the sisters was wearing a long orange dress, and carried a crystal ball. The other one was wearing way less clothing, a silver bra, and a long orange loincloth.
Porom remembered the names of the two, Maya and Meena! She was amazed when she looked into Meena’s crystal ball, it showed an future image of her going on her first date with Kamil!
‘Palom, look! Look!’ She called out towards her brother, ‘The woman in the ball looks like me!’
But Porom didn’t payed attention towards his sister, he only had the attention of the beautiful Maya. To Maya changrin he asked her many, many times to go on a date with her.
‘Wow, your daughter is good at this!’ Porom heard Karima saying to her. She snapped out of her thoughts.
Lotte did manage (with Solyana’s help) to shoot an arrow in the bullseye. The little girl cheered after she succeeded.
‘Well done Lotte!’ Porom clapped her hands and hugged her daughter after she ran back to her.
‘Mommy, I am a natural talent!’ Lotte shouted happily, ‘Because of miss Solyana I am now an archer too!’
‘You are really something, ‘Porom laughed, ‘But now we really have to go, otherwise your father doesn’t know where we were.’
She took a coin out of her purse and wanted to give it to Solyana. The woman raised her hand.
‘No, you don’t have to, I am doing this out of kindness of your daughter. I’m already rich, by the way.’
‘I am doing this as a compensation for your lesson, towards this talent.’ Porom held the coin in front of her.
‘You really don’t have to. If it is a Leonic Franc, I really don’t need it. These are worthless anyway, since the fall of the Marquis.’ Solyana smiled uncomfortable.
‘I insists that you accept my gift.’ Porom pushed on, ‘This is a Mysidian Goldling. I don’t know how much they are worth here, but I am sure you want to get one.’
‘Mysidian...Goldling?’ Solyana’s eyes began to shine, ‘These are really rare here. That must be a lot of worth. Alright...you win.’
The girl took the coin from Porom and put in into a big jar.
‘Eung?...Mwo?...What do you mean?’ Said Young-hee all of the sudden. She was looking around the range and seems completely confused.
‘I am giving her a gift?’ Porom raised her eyebrow. Young-hee was staggering on her legs and had a hazy look on her face.
‘Is someone coming here? How...when?’ The woman looked in the far distance, it seems like she was talking to an imaginary person.
‘Young-hee, do you see a ghost? What does he say?’ asked Karima to her friend. She went towards her and lay an arm around her.
Porom started to feel anxious, the woman who seemed confident at first, was now breathing heavily and irregular.
Young-hee swallowed for a moment and looks at Karima sweaty.
‘Soon, wizards from another world will come towards Olympica. They will take the thing...that has been delivered at the moment.’
Porom looked at the jar where she dropped the coin just a moment ago. Shall she take it back, or not?
Solyana looked angry, ‘If they wanted to take my coins, then I recommend to not find them here. Olympica is well defended, and we will do our best to make the tourist feel safe here!’
‘That’s right, Young-hee. You know that we have a very secure vault in the palace.’ Karima said.
Young-hee looked at both of her friends, her expression was normal again, but also worried.
Porom felt really unsure about her donation, should she have listen to Solyana?

A fanfic gift for my friend Magedusted, Happy Birthday!! 🥳🥳
I had the idea of her Final Fantasy OC Lotte and her mother Porom, meeting up with my Olympica OC's, so I worked the first part out during my holiday.
Hope you like it! 😇

Lotte by Magedusted
Karima, Solyana & Young-hee by TBRde90ste
Porom (c) Square-Enix
Kamil (c) Natsune

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