Chocobos and Porcupines

Prolouge

Chocobos and Porcupines make a perfect friendship. The porcupines always getting in to trouble and the chocobo, well the chocobo just want to relax.

A porcupines always on edge, care free, and to put it plainly...fair.

And a chocobos always has worries, and to this plainly...has his strifes.

And when I refer to a porcupine, Im refering to a cheerful person we all know as...Zack Fair.

And as the chocobo is put, I refer to him as...Cloud Strife.

Zack was strutting down the hall, in his normel cheerful way, when he spotted something...something spikey and...yellow. Straining his mind to think what coul POSSIBLY be yellow and spikey...

"Think, think, THINK you fool! What is yellow and spikey?"

His eyes widen, a dreadful look on his face, and as before you could realize it he dashed. He dashed to the nearest firealarm, screaming out: "CHOCOBO! CHOCOBO! THERES A CHOCOBO IN THE BUILDING!"

Everyone opened their doors, rubbing the tiredness out of their eyes, to see what all the ruckus was. "What the hell, Fair?!" A infantryman shouted over the blaring alarm. "Its 2:00 'oclock in the freaking morning!"

Zack only pointed in the direction where the yellow was. "Theres a chocobo in the building!" Everyone leaned out of their doorways to see this so called 'disaster'. A suprisingly, there was nothing there. They turned and glared at the jaw-dropped idiot. "What? Were you out partying again?!" Zack only studder the words: "Choco-there-wa-right-chocobo-yellow...and it was...spikey?" They all slamed their doors as soon as the alarm came to a stop, the result to another infantryman slamming his fist against the button.

Zack stood there, blinking. He shook his head, and rolled his shoulders back. "I only had...one drink..."

He sighed and turned to walk away. "Zack?" He whoosed his head up abruptly, to see a familair face. First off he noticed the blonde spikes, and the cystal blue orbs and then he realized this face...was angry.

"I thought you said I didnt look like a chocobo?" The face melted into a hurt, pitiful, face, watery eyes included.

"Uhn...what?" Then the realization, knocked into him, like someone banging at your glass door.

"CLOUD! Um-I-dont-I-I, I only saw a blur of yellow, and-and-thats the first thing I thought of and it pretty much scared the crap outta me!" He fumbled out to the pitiful face.

"But...you...pulled the alarm?" His eyes turned even watery-er. And his lips puffed out forming a sure-fire pout.

"Aw, I just wan-ed to wake those grunts up, just for the heck of it!" He smiled brightly.

"But wont they be mad? Or worse, the might think you're manic!" He over dramaticly pointed out.

"Oh, who cares what those low class losers think!" He grinned when Cloud's face turned neutral.

"Im the same class as them. So...Im a loser?" He turned his head sideways, and flicked his eyebrows.

Zack waved his arms in the air, fumbling again. "NO! You! Are SOOOOO NOT a loser!" He clapped him on the slumped shoulders. Cloud's eyes brightened, and smile weaved, gently across his face. "Really?"

"For sure! AND! Besides, your my bestest bud. Friends dont slam on other friends!"

Cloud grinned ear to ear, as they began walking to their dorm. (Especialy since Zack was out drinking and partying)

'El Casa, Cloudo and Zacka' or: The Dorm

Zack began un-lacing his tightly knotted boots, which usually took a long time. "Hey, Cloud?"

Cloud was apparently brushing his teeth. "Wha-ntttt?" He slurred from the closet sized bathroom.

Zack sighed as he took off his tight boots. "You remember that girl I was talking about?"

Cloud shut the mini-medicine cabinet, and rinsed out the hand sink. "Yeah, Aerna?"

Zack laughed and corrected. "No, Aer-ith! Well, she-"

Cloud glanced out the door at Zack's unhappy face, which was NOT normal, because it was a fact, Zack...Zack was always smiling. Always. "Whats wrong?"

Zack didnt look up. "Nothing, 'forget." Cloud noticed something in Zack's hand, it was just a peice of paper though.

"Whats that? That paper in your hand?" He walked over to the ladder that lead to his bunk. Halfway up something caught his leg. What-the?

"Nooooo!" Zack yelped. "What?" Cloud searched Zack's terrified face.

Zack pulled Cloud to the ground. Zack sank down next to him. When Cloud opened his eyes he saw...well...Zack. And furrowed his eye brows, screaming in a quite whisper. "Whaaaaattttttt?!"

Thats when he realized how close Zack was to him, his face, his body, him, himself. Me.

Zack got real close to Clouds face extending his arm in the direction of his legs. He could feel his breath on his neck. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.

He sqeezed his eyes shut, the most dreadful thoughts filling his recent mind. He didnt want to think what was gonna happen next. He didnt want to, but the thoughts filled his head.

"Spider"

He blinked his eyes open to realize that Zack was pointing to a spider on the wall, and was in the feedle position against Cloud's side. With his head burrowed in Cloud's shoulder. Spider?

"Spider! Gettim Cloud!" Zack remained bundled against Clouds upper body. Zack...is...afraid of spiders?

Cloud raised himself up and stepped over Zack, he tiptoed over to the wall. Grabbing the peice of paper Zack had earlier. He raised it and SLAM! Smacked the spider upside the head, squashed him in the paper and threw it in the over-piled trash can, that they hadnt emptied for months.

When he turned around Zack was huddled mid air across the ladder. "Check around to see if theres anymore!" He cried shakily.

Cloud nodded and searched every corner of the room, checking behind the T.V., behind the dressers, and any other things they may have been hiding under or behind.

By the time he finished Zack was sitting cross-legged in the center of the lower bunk. Terror in his eyes.

Cloud forced himself not to laugh or smile at the scene.

Zack silently lifted the sheets, ofcourse checkind for spiders, and slipped under them after a thourough run-down.

Cloud climbed the ladder and settled into his bed too. Silence remained, until Cloud decided the funniest decision. It was hysterical, hilarious, it was about Zack.

"Porcupine." He whispered.

"What." Zack's voice sounded weak and still terrified.

"Porcupine." He stated simply.

"What about it?"

"Thats what it looked like, a porcupine."

"Did what look like?" He sat up and leaned to see Cloud up above.

Cloud looked down at the shaky, breathless Zack. "Nevermind."

"Kay, nite!" His voice sounded halfway cheerful as he slipped back into the blankets.

...

"Thats what you look like when you're scared, a porcupine." He whispered as quietas possible.

Unfortunatly Zack's mako enhanced hearin picked it up. "WHAT?!" He sat up, slamming his head against the top bunk. "WHAT DID YOU SAY TO ME?!" He was swirling with poutiness and frustratrion, as he zipped up to the top bunk and started 'attacking' the 'asleep cloud of innocence'.

"HOW DARE YOU!" He was smacking Cloud's arm. Cloud laughed and shoved Zack off the bed after a moment. "OW!"

He got up and slumped in his bed. Pretending like it didnt hurt, although he was silently sucking his thumb and rubbing the sore spots.

"Yeah? Well atleast I dont look like a chocobo!" He shouted, upward.

Cloud ignored him, and contiued his desicion.

"Cute, like a little frightened pocupine, shaking and shivering included." He sang out.

Zack just grunted. "Fat Chocobo !"

End of Chapter 1: Spiders, Chocobos, and Porcupines, OH MY!

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