Xenoblade: Rebirth

Chapter Forty Four

When the two made their way back the first thing that they saw was Grithiff leaning against the wall near the entrance of the Clinic watching a number of children of various races and ages playing a game with a ball on the desert ground as the parents of the children cheered them on.

Grithiff smiled warmly while watching this before noticing them. "You two took your time getting those materials. I began to wonder if I should go after you."

"We took a bit of a detour." Meyna said softly her gaze shifted away from his. "Sorry about that."

"No it's fine I'm not mad, but are you alright? You're not still tired are you?"

With a sigh Meyna shook her head. "No it's not that," she glanced at Rei.

"Oh, uh yeah you guys can talk I'll give this stuff back to Ethon, and whatever money was left. See you a bit later then."

When Rei had left Grithiff frowned to his sister. "Meyna? Did something happen?"

"Well..." she looked to him with a worried gaze. "You told me that our father hated Zanza right?"

He folded his arms across his chest. "Yes, he hated that prick of a man who called himself a god. I remember a few times where our father went on an angry tangent of venting when talking about him and those who followed him. We even had a few supporters of Zanza's in the Colony and even..." he stalled and looked away. "Even threatened to kill you."

Meyna looked horrified. "What? Why?"

Grithiff shook his head, telling her that he didn't know even though he did but as of now he couldn't just go and tell her something that she couldn't understand since many of her personal memories were still lost to her from the incident of the Colony.

"Then if that's true what happened to them? These supporters of Zanza's?"

"They were banished from the Colony," he said simply. "There weren't many, maybe three or four; our father personally threw some of them out when they threatened you."

"Was this before or after I was kidnapped?"

Grithiff sighed. "Both, it's..." he stalled again. "It's not something I'd like to talk about. But, there aren't many of these kinds of people thankfully."

Meyna frowned, he was being slightly vague and it didn't sit well with her. "What kinds of people are you talking about?"

He sighed. "Homs and High Entia, it was like dealing with believers of the defunct Bionite Order, even now there are those that still believe in it. They'd go on and on about something involving or resurrecting a..." His eyes went wide when he recalled his father's journal.

"To bring forth a god."

"Grithiff?" Meyna's voice brought him back to reality. "Did you think of something?"

Shaking his head he said. "Those people were crazy. That's really all I can tell you about it. But why ask this about our father?"

Meyna fidgeted in place, Grithiff merely waited as he continued to watch her. "Um..." she said after a moment. "Do you remember while we were traveling to Colony 4 and I mentioned about Mira?"

Grithiff frowned slightly. "That Homs woman? Yes I remember."

"Well she was the one who told me those things, about our father and Zana but after what you told me it makes me wonder if she was confused about it."

His frown deepened but he did not speak, his gaze shifted to the side, he didn't know why but now that he thought about it he felt as if he had heard that name somewhere before. "You shouldn't dwell on it." he said finally as he moved closer to her so that he could pull her into a hug. "Even if she was wrong you know our father well enough that he would never side with that murderous monster."