In Vino Veritas

In Wine there is Truth

...A Rippal Fic...


Gippal woke up half naked and with a horrible hangover sometime in the late afternoon. His head throbbed and his breath smelled like something crawled in his mouth and died. Rising from his bed, he tried to remember where he was. It took a while but eventually he came to the conclusion he was in Bevelle.

He vaguely remembered starting out flirting with some girl while in the Sanubia Desert, drinking at a bar with Baralai, and ending up with some local hottie. Something or other along those lines.

Trudging to the bathroom he grabbed the hotel's complimentary toothbrush and toothpaste and scrubbed his vile smelling mouth like there was no tomorrow. Only satisfied after having brushed 4 times, he splashed water on his face only to notice a change in his hands.

His left middle finger was now adorned with a silver band that he had no idea of were it came from. As he stared at the ring signifying marriage he thought, No way. Baralai's just screwing with my head. He probably slipped it on while I was drunk and not paying attention because there's no way in Hell I'm mar-

"Mornin' hubby," swooned a sultry and seductive voice.

Turning in horror he looked at the woman in his bed. It was none other than High Summoner Yuna!

"What the Hell!" he exclaimed.

"That's no way to say hi to your woman, is it?" Yuna began to crawl like a tiger to its prey and continued her seduction. "What? You don't remember the passionate, lustful, rough sex we had last night?"

"I don't remember anything of last night," he whimpered scared of what really happened.

"Let me recreate the scene for you." At that Yuna crouched and then she lea-

Gippal burst up from the bed and started to gasp, eye wide open and sweat dripping from his brow and covering his entire body. His first instinct was examine his left ring finger, but a bit scared to do so. He didn't look but instead rubbed it over and over again relieved at the absence of a ring. He hoped that this was the last of that nightmare.

He noticed it was nighttime and it was a bit cold. He got up and closed the window. He stood there gazing out at Bevelle, City of Yevon, and his enemies. But his best friend was here and that couldn't be helped. While he was gazing out at the city, a stir arose from the bed.

Startled Gippal spun and found himself looking at the lithe, beautiful, and naked form of… Rikku. Two thoughts raced through his mind:

Firstly he was joyous he had sex with the one woman who wouldn't give in to him, the hottest man in Spira. She also happened to be the one woman who he liked most in the world.

The second thought sobered him, for it was fear. If her dad, Cid, King of the Al Bhed, learned that he had sex with Princess Rikku, he'd probably kill both him and her. But all the same, Gippal made love to Rikku, his childhood sweetheart, crush of his life, the reason why he left to join the Crimson Squad, so that he could protect her,his beloved.


A/N: Ok the story, which happens to be my first, is gonna go like this. This is the Prologue, although it's actually in the middle of the story. The next three chapters will be flashbacks, and then the three after we'll be proceeding with the story...