The Tent Incident
by Usa~BishieChaser~
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I do NOT own Final Fantasy IX (hehe, I WISH!)
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The mismatched group of heroes (Ok, maybe not heroes just yet) had
just escaped from the newly petrified forest.
"Poor Blank," Thought Zidane, while staring into the depths of the
forest. Then a new thought popped into his head, "I hope Garnet is ok."
Garnet had been out cold since they had rescued her from that plant
monster. But then she started to recover, slowly but surely. The problem with their party was that they only had three tents, and Garnet had to have her own (for obvious but not appealing reasons) so that left the three guys to share two between them. Vivi got the smallest tent, so he didn't have to share, but Steiner and Zidane got the biggest tent. Steiner was furious, having to share a tent with 'that THEIF,' as he put it. But he was too small to fit in the smallest tent and Garnet had the medium sized tent, and there was no way she would share with anyone, even Vivi.
Zidane wasn't too happy with the arrangements either, but saw no way
out of it, so he accepted it with little complaint.
One of the reasons Steiner didn't like to share a tent with Zidane
was because he, well, to be perfectly blunt, he cuddled in his sleep. Which
totally horrified 'poor' Steiner the first time he realized it.
It annoyed him so much that he started to threaten Zidane.
"Grrr! If you snuggle up to me in your sleep one more time, I'll
throw you in the Princess's tent!" He growled one evening.
"Really?!" Zidane practically squealed in delight, but which sounded
like fear to the aggravated Steiner.
"Yes!"
That night Zidane totally glomped Steiner's arm while pretending to
be asleep.
"Grrr! Stupid thief!"
So Steiner pulled Zidane up by his arm, marched over to the
princess's tent, opened it and practically threw Zidane in. Then, finally
satisfied, he went back to his own tent and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, Zidane was grinning a wolfish grin, but didn't want to
wake the princess up, so he just went to sleep too.
"Princess!" Called Steiner from outside to tent. "I'm gonna go to the stream to wash up!"
"Ok," Garnet called sleepily.
When the princess woke up fully, she felt all warm and fuzzy, like
she hadn't felt the day before. 'Must just be my imagination,' she thought,
drowsily. But then she noticed that she had an extra arm, 'WAIT A MINUTE!'
she thought. 'I DON'T HAVE TWO ARMS!' Because it was true, she had two right
arms.
Garnet abruptly sat up, causing Zidane to grumble sleepily.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Shrieked Garnet.
Zidane practically jumped out of his skin, out of the tent really,
ripping a big hole in the roof.
When Garnet finally got out of the tent, she turned to Zidane.
"Zidane! What the hell were you doing in my tent!?"
"Steiner threw me in there last night!"
"Yeah, right!"
"It's true, even ask him yourself!"
"Ok, I will. When he comes back from the stream!"
"You might wanna give him this truth potion, he might try to lie,"
Zidane held out a neon pink liquid in a vile.
"Good idea," she said as she took the vile from him.
When Steiner got back from the stream, the Princess stopped him.
"Steiner, drink this," Garnet held out the truth potion.
"Why Princess?"
"Don't disobey orders!"
"Ok, ok," Steiner drank the potion down.
"Steiner, did you throw Zidane in my tent last night?" Garnet asked.
"Yes," Steiner replied, as if in a trance.
"Why?"
"He snuggled up to me in his sleep."
Garnet snickered. "Ok Steiner, you can go."
"Thank you, your highness." And Steiner walked off.
Zidane popped up right beside Garnet, "See, I told you. Forgive me?"
He smiled his most charming smile.
"This time," she warned him.
"That's all I ask for," he replied.