Hey there, everybody. Like I promised, here's the English version of my fic. Took me a while to finish it, but it was worth it, and now, I'm ready to share it with my English-speaking friends. My first attempt at the romance, so try going easy on me, since I'm still a rookie in that field. Also, I only have one week left before the class term begins, so I'll try and get this story translated in that time.
OK, before we start, some points about the story itself. This fic takes place after the Star Wolf Returns ending in Star Fox Command. The ending only told us that Fox and Krystal (now under the name of Kursed) met in planet Kew several years after Wolf and his team defeated the Anglars, but we didn't know what happened between the two foxes after they met, an so this story was born. For those who have not played the game, or haven't unlocked that ending yet, the prologue of the story will be narrated from Krystal's POV, and so she will explain what happened (at least part of it), so be warned, there will be spoilers for those who have not unlocked the ending and have planned to do it. The rest of the story will be narrated in third person. Well, nothing else to say, enjoy the fic.
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A Second Chance
By FoxMcCloude
Disclaimer: Fox, Krystal/Kursed and all the Star Fox series belong to Nintendo.
Prologue
"Is love capable of surviving distance, time, and treason? Can you live grasping to the feelings you keep in the deepest part of your heart, even when they cause you more harm than good? Is there any hope to go back and recover what you lost?
Those are questions I keep asking myself, day after day. For about five years, the nightmares keep tormenting me, more and more often, the weight of the guilt for all the mistakes I made continues to increase, and there are times I wonder if I'll be able to keep my sanity.
My name? I used to go by the name of Krystal, but no more. Now I'm called Kursed. Because I carry a curse with me. A curse I consciously imposed on myself. I made several wrong decisions in the past, and now I'm paying the price. I decided to leave behind everything, and everyone, erase my own existence from the face of the universe, but no matter where I go or what I try to do, my past still continues to haunt me. No, it's not my past haunting me. It's HIM.
Fox McCloud. In retrospective, I can't believe what happened between us. He was the person I loved the most, and I know he felt the same for me. He had done so many things for me in the past. We swore we would be together forever. But one thing led to another, and one day, he said perhaps the best for us both was to separate. I was crushed. I started thinking he had stopped loving me. But I was wrong. He did that because he cared and was worried about what could happen to me. He knew the risks of his work and he didn't want me to be exposed to them. But no, I let myself get carried away, and fled. And where did I end up?
After that time I was furious, agitated, confused. It was then when I found his rivals, Team Star Wolf. They took me in, they accepted me, they made me part of their group. But did any of them ever love me? Ask Panther. Yeah, in front of me he always said he loved me. But it wasn't hard for him to say the same thing to any other woman when I wasn't looking. Frankly, how could I end with someone like him?
Finally, everything came to an end. It was my idea, we would make Fox obtain for us the device to purify the oceans of Venom, then we would take it, we would finish off the Anglars, and we would be the heroes. It worked out wonderfully. Except many people were not very pleased with the fact I used Fox as a stepping stone to achieve the victory. Nobody was afraid of calling me a traitor in my face, and the worst part, they were totally right. I betrayed Fox, the person who ever loved me the most in my life, all because of a payback for something worthless. From that moment on, Krystal no longer existed, and Kursed took her place.
I became a bounty hunter. I'm quite selective with my targets; I always go after the lowest scum in the galaxy. I won't ever touch my heart to give them what's coming to them, and many respect and fear me for that. I can be very cold, cruel and ruthless, and if I have to end their pathetic lives, I'll do it. Why do I do this? I don't know for sure, but maybe, this way, somehow , is how I try to make up for the mistakes I made in the past.
I decided I wouldn't ever get involved, sentimentally, with anyone. It might appear to be stupid, but even after all what happened, I still love Fox. In fact, admittedly I never stopped loving him, except I was living in denial and I refused to accept that fact. Occasionally I catch myself wishing to see him again, and to have the chance to tell him. But then, my rational part steps in. The possibilities I have to find him are practically zero. And even if I did, what would I tell him? Would he ever forgive me for all the things I did to him?
Fate rarely gives you second chances… and I doubt mine will come any time soon.
End of the Prologue.
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Author's notes.
OK, that's it. Forgive me if it's not very good, but it wasn't easy for me to get inside Krystal's skin to make this. Even so, I think this is good enough to start the story. See ya!
