Author's Note: This is an extremely short short story of mine that I wrote back when I was looking at prompts to write. I've been in a really hardcore slump the last few years, so I was doing writing exercises. This is actually a little longer than my other prompts, which is kind of sad, I guess. I'm kind of back in my slump, but I'm hoping to try and get out of it. I'm trying to be brave, posting my stories up for the public to see. Please be kind, but if you see anything I can improve on, let me know. Oh yeah, and incase you're wondering, the prompt was "secondary".
I don't own Final Fantasy and don't wish to own Final Fantasy. This is just a work of fanfiction.
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Faris peered over at the sleeping form of Lenna. They had just come through some of the Ship Graveyard, alive thankfully, if not worse for wear. Faris had been more than hesitant to get wet, for fear she'd be discovered for what she was. A woman. Being raised by pirates, she had quickly adapted to a man's lifestyle and wore man's clothing so that no one would have reason to think she wasn't what she was pretending to be. She sighed. So now, her new comrades had figured out who she was. Well, that was alright, she supposed, as long as no one told anyone about it. Her career as a pirate depended on the veil of deception she had planted so long ago.
So why was she going along with Bartz, Lenna and Galuf? She had originally taken them prisoner for trying to steal her ship. That was when she had noticed though, that Lenna was wearing the same pendant she had been wearing all of her life. Was this a coincidence? She believed in coincidence, but some things were a stretch for that. What likelihood was it that they had the same pendant? If it were a common design, she'd brush it off. But she had never seen it in all her years traveling the world. So, if this wasn't coincidence, it had to be destiny.
It was funny to think of destiny... After all, was it destiny that had brought all four of them together to the Wind Shrine just in time to see the crystal shatter and see the King of Tycoon speak of protecting the crystals before he vanished into thin air? Faris had agreed to go along. After all... it seemed like the right thing to do. But watching the Princess of Tycoon sleeping, she felt something within her tug at her soul. She was curious. She needed to know what all of this meant. So in that, protecting the crystals became secondary.