All righty. I've just finished In need of Light, and I really wanted to do some more stuff with Light and Fang. So here goes.
There is the tiniest bit of gore to start with, and Light isn't insane. Just, um... repressed.
Enjoy!
We were in trouble.
Snow, Vanille, and Sazh had stayed at camp, while Fang, Hope and myself went out hunting. We found substantially more than we were bargaining for when a Zirnitria swooped out of nowhere and attacked us.
Hope didn't last long, no surprises there. Fang got a bit unlucky, as she jumped up to hit the bloody thing it attacked, hard. The force of it sent her flying backwards to hit the ground with a terrifyingly hard thud.
Needless to say she wasn't getting up.
Now I was facing the flying demon on my own, already tired from previous attempts to take it down, I figured I was on my last legs.
So, I summoned Odin. I switched to medic and healed myself while Odin took a few hits with his shield. I tried reviving the others, nothing going.
Damn, you really need to work on that.
All right, no backup, and Odin was running out of steam. Time to show this bloody thing the sharp end of a very big sword.
Odin transformed into his horse form, giving me two new shiny blades to swing around. The Zirnitria, the smart little shit, flew high into the air, well beyond any conventional attacks.
Conventional, Ha! You conventional! Don't sell yourself short.
Odin takes a run up and leaps into the air with me on his back, the Zirnitria was still too far away, so I jumped the last little stretch...
To rocket well beyond the now gaping, (I'm sure it was gaping) Zirnitria.
Oh well.
I flipped my self around, and spread my arms wide so the two blades are like one big Zirnitria styled guillotine. As I begin to fall back down I throw one blade ahead of me, the avion dodges, and looks to me for my next move.
Wait.
My eyes seek out its neck, and ready my arm to bring my second sword right through, in the hopes of cleaving its head from its shoulders.
At the last instant I flip, sending my blade on its given trajectory towards its neck I fall straight for the monsters wings.
It pulls its neck up...
Good
The force of my landing sends its right wing earthward disorientating the beast by flipping it upside down...
Odin for the win!
Odin has leapt back into the air, in his human form and brings his blade right through the Zirnitrias neck. I let go of its wing, and fall to ground in tandem with Odin, landing softly thanks to his gentle arm.
The beast flapped its wings one last time after its head was severed and began to fall, hitting the ground just behind me with an almighty roar.
"Hmph. Thats what you get for messing with me."
Odin left, his job done, and I rushed to the still unconscious Hope and Fang.
"Hey guys, wake up, fights over. C'mon."
Argh.
I figured Hope was out of it for a while, so I focused on Fang.
"Fang get up! Now! It wasn't that bad."
Wait, what was that...
It sounded like a very annoyed Zirnitria...
It wasn't. The bloody thing was still dead where I left it. Its blood just beginning to congeal at the messy stump of its neck.
It was Fang snoring.
"For fucks sake Fang."
I kicked her, hard.
"Hey, what it is it? Fight over?" She sounded delirious.
"YES! Thanks for the hand! I thought you were really hurt, but no! You slept right through the battle!"
"Oh. Sorry. I um, meant to help, I just, well I guess I must have been tired."
"Tired! I was worried! I figured you must have been really hurt when you didn't get up!"
Silence. Wha...
"Worried?"
Crap.
"What about Hope?"
All right, time to gain some lost ground.
"What about him? He practically fainted when the bloody thing appeared, I knew he wasn't hurt. You got a hit that sent you flying a couple dozen metres. And if you were dead I would have to be the one to tell Vanille. And she would just cry and cry..."
All right shut up now, you are babbling.
"Hmmm." She looked at me, shit those eyes are gorgeous...
Stop thinking about her eyes!
"I guess that would be a chore." That bloody smile! Every time I think she is trying to kiss me...
No she isn't! She is smiling! You know smiling, that thing you never do because you are too bloody nervous...
Shut up now.
"I guess we better get Hope back to camp."
What? HOPE!
I ran from Fangs side to check on Hope. Yes! He was still breathing.
Fang sauntered over, finally getting off her ass to help. She placed her hand on my shoulder, and leaned in to pick him up with the other, slinging the boy over her shoulder effortlessly.
"What are you doing? I'll carry him back."
"No you won't, you're buggered after fighting that thing. You wouldn't be able to carry him halfway back to camp."
"What do you mean, I'm fine..."
I fell down on my face as I tried to get up from a crouch, my legs just wouldn't carry me.
Fantastic. Never going to be a dancer were you?
"C'mon, up you get."
She grabbed my belt and hauled me up on my feet. And I mean she did, I and my lazy fucking legs did no work whatsoever.
"Can you walk?"
No.
"No."
You listened! Hooray! Do that more often will ya?
Shut it.
"All right then, give me your arm, I'll get ya back."
I did, and she placed my arm around her shoulder, with hope slung over the other side.
Thankfully the walk back to camp was in silence, I don't know what else I would have said given the opportunity.
Worried, huh? Smooth one.
Ohhhhh... This was going to be a long day.
What d'ya think? Please leave reviews, I'm sure there is something I can improve on. Or if you juts want to say it was awesome, I wont be insulted :)