Summary: One day, while flying around in the airship, the Returners each encounter embarrassing moments.
A's Notes: This oneshot is really long! 4000 words! But it had to be done. More one shots are ah coming! Please review! :D
Chapter: Truth or Dare?
The Returners were heading to Doma, for the celebration of the kingdom's revival, when the adults of the group decided to play a little game. Locke, being as stiff-tongued as he is, vetoed Edgar as the person to get people to play. And by people, Locke meant the girls. The game? Truth or Dare. One of Edgar, Locke, Setzer and Sabin's favorite games.
Edgar knocked on the door belonging to Celes. It was twelve thirty in the morning, he knew she'd be asleep. The tall woman opened the door and demanded an answer to her "Why have you've woken be this early!". Edgar spent the next ten minutes convincing her to play. Edgar's specialty was to find out what bothered the missing players and get them to play. How he got Celes? He told her everyone - the males - were saying she was too "chicken" to play. And of course this got to Celes. She growled and said she'd be out in a minute, slamming the door on Edgar.
Smiling to himself, Edgar turned and headed down the hall way, taking a left turn he knocked on the very last door, waiting. He knocked again and again until he heard movement inside the room and stood up straight, trying to hold back his grin. The door slowly opened and Terra stood before him, rubbing her eyes to get a better view of him. He gently smiled.
"M'lady."
"E-dgar?" she asked, confused. "What are you doing? Its...late, shouldn't you be asleep?"
"I should, I'm not tired, m'lady. The gang and I were wondering if you'd like to join a little game we are playing."
"A game?...this late?" she turned her head to the clock. Edgar peaked into her room. He could see Mog sleeping soundly on one of her giant pillows and smiled, looking back down at her. She was wearing a simply, purple sleeping gown and no slippers. Her hair was down.
"Yes, this late. Will you play? We'd really love it if the midnight angel would join." he tried his best to put on his pleading face and voice, but she shook her head.
"Its late, Edgar...and I'm really tired-"
"Please," he said again, frowning. "We won't have much time at Doma, nor after. Everyone will be on their way with their lives...who will I play with then?" she sighed. "Please, Terra?" she bit her lower lip and nodded.
"Alright..." she said, defeated. "I'll play. I'll be out in a minute..." she waited for him to turn and then closed the door gently.
"Did you get the girls to come and play?" Locke asked, as if he couldn't really believe in Edgar's skill. He knew Celes and he knew Terra. Celes was easy, Terra's was easy. Terra didn't like to feel as if she is harming friends, and Celes didn't like looking weak. His plan was genius. The king nodded as he sat down.
"Yes, the girls are coming, I assure you, Cole. We must wait."
"Wait?" Setzer called. "I want to put some dares on the girls already."
"Neh, truth is better." Sabin chuckled.
"No, Setzer is right." Locke laughed. "Dare is a lot better."
Edgar hushed them when the first girl appeared. Celes came in, dressed a little better than a nightgown. She eyed them as she came around the table to "conveniently" sit next to Locke and Sabin. "What are we playing?" she demanded, impatient. Edgar told her to wait. A few minutes later, Terra appeared at the door, still rubbing at her eyes. She was dressed in lighter clothes Edgar and Setzer bought her after Kefka's fall. Brown, baggy shorts and a red tank top. Celes nodded to Terra, as if it were a "the boys are up to something. Get ready.".
She didn't see, so she just sat down between Setzer and Edgar. Her back was against the ship's wall, making her in he middle of everyone. She rubbed her eyes one last time before blinking and looking around. "What are we playing...?"
"You have to promise to play." Sabin said, frowning.
"Okay." Terra muttered, but Celes frowned.
"What is this?"
"Just do it, Celes! Jeez!" Sabin sighed.
"Alright...fine. I promise." she said, defeated, crossing her arms. They all looked at Terra, raising an eye-brow.
"I-I already said okay..." they shook their head. "Okay...okay. I promise."
"Alright then!" Locke cheered, slamming his fists down on the table. "Setzet, get the drinks. Sabin, get the chips and dip. Edgar...um, get the rule book?" Edgar taped his head. "Alright, I'll make the girls comfortable." he smiled, wrapping a arm over Terra and Celes' shoulders. "and then we can play!"
Once everyone gathered the needed objects, they sat around the table. Edgar sat a empty beer bottle on the table and the girls looked confused. "What is it?" Terra asked, but Celes scoffed, about to stand up when Sabin grabbed her hand.
"You promised to play!"
"As if I would knowing what we were playing!"
"Wait...what are we playing?" Terra asked, looking up at Celes. The blond rolled her eyes and sighed.
"They tricked us into playing Spin the bottle, Terra."
"Spin the bottle?"
"Its a game we play," Edgar smiled tenderly at her. "Where a person spins the bottle until it stops. Who ever it stops on is asked by the spinner 'Truth or Dare'. If the person picks Truth, they will have to answer a question given to them truthfully. If they pick Dare, the person will have to do something they were dared to."
"It sounds boring." she said, bluntly. Celes growled and sat down.
"It will be. Just stick with Truth, Terra."
"Okay." she muttered, sitting up straight.
"Alright then! Let the game begin!" Locke said, reaching for the bottle. Edgar slide a cup of water toward Terra and Setzer after he finished pouring and then called out a player order.
"Locke will spin first, then the following: Sabin, Celes, Terra, Setzer and then me, of course. Does everyone understand?" they all nodded. "Okay then, Locke, you may spin first." The eager thief smiled as he spun the bottle around. It sped rapidly until it slowed and stopped on Setzer. Locke growled, he heard the snicker of Celes.
"Truth or dare, Setzer?"
"Dare."
"Hm..." he rubbed his chin and thought about making him kiss Celes, but shook the thought away. He always enjoyed teasing Terra, anyway. She was like his baby sister, plus, she looked cute when she was upset over something. Her face would get all red and she'd pout. "I dare you to...ask Terra to kiss you." Terra gasped, looking over at Locke with a disappointed look on. Setzer shrugged, and Edgar glared angrily at Locke.
"Terra," Setzer smiled at her. "will you kiss me?" she blinked and swallowed.
"Um...I..." she looked over at Celes for a answer. The blond nodded. "O-okay...?" Setzer smiled sheepishly while Sabin, Locke and Edgar's mouths hung open. Terra leaned over the table and pecked his lips gently and then quickly pulled away, sitting down with a giant blush on her face. Locke chuckled and poked her red cheeks.
"Someone is mighty easy to embarrass." she slapped his hand away and looked down at her hands, which were fiddling with her baggy shorts. Edgar coughed, gaining the next roller's attention. Sabin, while still chuckling, spun the bottle. It landed on Setzer again and the gambler winked at Terra. Her blush got deeper.
"Alright, tr-"
"Dare." he smiled at Terra and Celes. Celes rolled her eyes and Terra avoided glances, yet again.
"Alright, I dare you to...to...propose to Terra." Edgar's furious look was missed by Sabin. Setzer laughed.
"Is everyone wanting me to tease Terra this badly?" Terra made a confused face.
"Why am I being picked on?" she asked frowning.
"You aren't." Sabin said, laughing.
"Then why didn't you pick someone else?" she asked, feeling attacked. "I don't want to play if I'm going to be the punching bag..."
"You won't." Edgar said, getting her attention. "When you get your turn, make them pay." he winked at her and she smiled softly. Sabin coughed and leaned over to take Terra's hand. She stared at him as he spoke.
"Terra," he started to laugh. "Will you marry me?"
"No." she snapped, ripping her hand out of his. "Hurry up and roll, Celes." she pouted, crossing her arms when everyone started to laugh. Celes spun the bottle and it landed on Edgar. Celes corked an eye brow.
"Truth or Dare, Edgar."
Edgar looked around the table. If I pick dare, she could make me do something I'll regret. But truth is equally bad. Hm. "I'll take Truth, m'dear."
"Alright then," Celes leaned back. "Is it true you wear boxes with little hearts on them?"
Edgar blushed, but held his head up high. How did she know that? "Yes, its true." the table laughed, except Terra.
"What's wrong with that?" Terra asked. "Sabin has one with little tiny flowers on them." Sabin blushed.
"Terra! What the hell!" everyone started to laugh, but Terra felt confused and sad.
"I'm sorry, Sabin. I didn't know...I'm sorry."
"Yea, yea." he muttered. Celes gave the bottle to Locke, he handed it to Terra. She smiled, feeling like she triumphed over them. She leaned toward the table and spun the bottle, as fast as she could. It spun and spun until it slowly stopped on Locke. Terra giggled.
"Truth or dare?"
"Truth!" Locke said, feeling proud.
Terra sat down, frowning. She wanted him to pick dare. She pouted again and sighed. Hm...what can I ask? She looked at Celes and then back at Locke. "do you like Celes?" the room gasped, falling silent as Locke's face turned bright, bright red. He glared at Terra and muttered something.
"Well...what do you-you mean by l-like? Exactly?"
"Answer the damn question, Cole." Edgar snapped. "You either don't, or you do. You know perfectly well what Terra means." The thief's blush was now turning red with rage. He took a deep breath and turned toward Celes.
"...Yes..." Celes' eyes went wide as her own cheeks turned red, she scoffed.
"Big deal." she growled, turning her head. Terra giggled.
"That's for making them tease me, Locke." he muttered at her and crossed his arms, now in a sour mood. Edgar pushed the bottle toward Setzer who paused.
"Alright ladies, get ready." he winked at them again and then spun the bottle. It spun fast, but ended quickly. It stopped on Terra. She gasped.
"Alright, deary, truth or dare?"
She remembered what Celes said. "Tru-"
"Go with dare, Terra." She muttered. "Its safer, anyways." the blond woman held back a smile.
"Oh...okay, dare."
Setzer grinned, leaning back. "Alright, now I need something to dare you to do. But what?" Setzer thought over humorous situations over and over again. "I dare you to kiss..." her face paled. " on the lips, for a whole minute," Everyone was waiting, watching Setzer. The gambler grinned. "Edgar." the room gasped, especially Edgar.
"W-what? W-why?" she asked, flustered. "W-what did I do to you?"
"Nothing, deary, its a game. No one will think anything of it, right Edgar?" the king would strangle Setzer after this. That damn fool knew how Edgar felt, he told him after Kefka's fall. The king nodded. "Alright then, go on Terra. And make sure its a kiss, not that sissy ass one you gave me. I'm sure Edgar will instruct you how to do it." he chuckled and so did everyone else.
"W-what happens if I don't?"
"You have to, by the rules since you promised to play, run through the ship for ten minutes butt-naked." he knew she wouldn't. She blushed and looked at Edgar with a concerned face.
"A-alright." she sat up on her knees and leaned toward Edgar, shutting her eyes when she was close enough. She gently put her lips on his, but didn't know what else to do. Thinking quickly, Edgar started to kiss her gently. He put his hand behind her head and kissed her thoroughly, showing that it was in fact a kiss, so they wouldn't make her repeat it again. When a minute passed, she pulled away quickly and looked down. Sabin chuckled while Locke whistled.
"Get a room, you two!" Edgar glanced over at Terra and saw her eyes gently misting over with tears.
"Alright, give me the damn bottle!" Edgar roared, snatching the bottle, he spun it around. It landed on Locke. A evil grin appeared.
"Truth or dare." he demanded, angry.
"Dare." he said, knowing truth hurt too much.
"I dare you to kiss Celes for three minutes and admit your love for her." the room stopped all activity to watch. Locke growled.
"Why is that any different than Terra's? You can't reuse the same ones!"
"They aren't the same. Now do it." Locke turned to Celes.
"I...I love you, Celes." and then they started to kiss. The king looked over at Terra. She wasn't watching. When the time was up, Locke snatched the bottle and spun it. It landed on Celes, her face was still red from the kiss.
"I dare you to dare Edgar, into confessing his love," the thief's angry eyes flared with rage. The game just turned into a petty fight amongst friends. "to Terra and take her to his room for the rest of the night!" Terra looked up, angry.
"No! I don't want to play this stupid game anymore! Everyone has been picking on me!"
"You can't back out now, Terra!" Locke cried out, frustrated.
"Well, if you guys didn't turn this into a "pick on Terra game' then she wouldn't be so angry!" Edgar snapped. "This was suppose to be for fun, but you wanted to embarrass Terra, so you got everyone to make their dares related toward her!"
"Guys, guys," Setzer shrugged. "Its just a game. We're friends, we should be having fun. The girls didn't wake up this early to be in the middle of a war among friends. Calm down."
"Easy for you to say, Setzer," Locke snapped. "You didn't get anything bad!"
"You're right, I didn't." he said, smiling at Terra. "I got a few kisses from a beautiful young woman, but why turn this into something nasty?" he asked, looking over the table. "One thing happens and now everyone is out to embarrass the other."
"That's the point of the game though," Sabin muttered. "I don't get how kissin' someone for a dare, is embarrassing."
"Well, it was, but everyone likes to see Terra's reaction and quiet frankly," Edgar said, his eyes on Locke. "It wasn't very fair to pick one person to single out."
"I only did it 'cause Terra's reactions are adorable!" Locke replied, defending himself. "She took it like I wanted to hurt her or something..."
"That's still not a reason, Cole." Edgar muttered. He looked over at Terra. "Let's go Terra, we can get some sleep. I'm sure you wish to forget about this night."
"I..." she got up. "Okay."
Edgar waved a hand to the rest of his party. "Have fun, you guys." he walked off with Terra beside him. Sabin sighed.
"The fun is gone now." Setzer sighed.
"Yea...It was pretty fun to see Terra's reactions," the monk replied, smiling.
"So, who will be the spy?" Setzer asked, frowning.
"I won't!" Sabin and Locke said at the same time. They all glared at Celes.
"Alright...I'm in!"
The young blond haired woman had snuck up on the king's door the best she could without making sounds. She gently laid her ear against the door and listened. For the longest moment, she heard nothing. It was over fifteen minutes ago that they had headed to the king's room together.
Terra was sitting at the end of the bed, kicking her feet as she watched Edgar make a bed on the floor. She had insisted that he get the bed, since he was a king and the owner of the room, but his generosity and kind nature, didn't allow it. "Besides", he said, smiling as he made a straight line of blankets on the floor. "I promised you before we fought Kefka I'd never allow you to sleep on the ground again. I intend to keep that promise."
So she sat there and watched, feeling like an idiot. How rude and inconsiderate she looked right now... "I'm serious Edgar, I will take the floor..."
"No, no, m'lady, please." Celes strained, pressing her ear against the door a bit harder. "I must insist on you taking the bed, please. No less, no more."
"But it seems so unfair...this is your room."
"And that it is, so I make the rules." he winked at her. "Now, let's get the king's bed ready for you!" Celes sighed, rolling her eyes.
"This is boring," she whispered, running back to the game room. When she reported what she was hearing, they moaned.
"Well, when is the stiff gonna make a move? He usually does by now." Setzer remarked. "And here I thought we made this game to actually work against them."
"I guess," Celes said, frowning. "our trick didn't work."
"Go back and listen!"
Terra sighed, watching the roof when Edgar blew out the candle to his room. She was confused. She didn't know why she didn't want to kiss Edgar in front of her friends. She kissed Setzer, it was embarrassing, yes, but why would she still do it and not to Edgar? She rolled her head over to look at Edgar on the floor. His back was to her. She sighed and closed her eyes, thinking over their kiss. She blushed and pulled the blanket over her face, sighing sadly.
She didn't know how to deal with these new feelings...she's never had them, except when she told Locke she liked him a lot more than a brother. That day stung her and she knew she said it wrong and it came out sounding like she liked him as a brother. She started to think about the light feeling she got around Locke and started to match them up with Edgar. She silently gasped when she realized she liked him.
What should she do? She didn't want to say it wrong, again, and ruin it all. She swallowed. What if he sees me as a child? Something to be taken care of...? She pulled the blanket down to stare at Edgar again. Five minutes went past until she found some courage and said, whispering. "...Edgar..."
The king rolled over, clearly not asleep as well. He sat up and frowned. "Something wrong, Terra...?" she shook her head.
"I...I wanted to ask you something."
Celes smiled, hearing Locke and the others heading up the hallway.
"Yes?" he asked, gently.
"...C-could..." she took a deep breath. "I was wondering...if you and I could...play tr-truth or d-dare...alone...?" the king's eyes went wide just a bit as a smile appeared on his face.
"I would love to, Terra."
She smiled at him and got out of the bed to sit near him. "Thank you Edgar..." she whispered.
Celes giggled as they all left the hallway.
The next morning Locke and the crew creaked the door open to the king's room and saw the two laughing amongst themselves, sitting too close to each other to classify as "friends". There wasn't any bottle to spin, so the gang assumed something else. Edgar smiled. "Okay...hm, I guess I'd be that embarrassed if I had been caught wearing it."
Terra giggled. "Okay, your turn."
"Truth or dare?" she said truth. "...Did you find playing the game with everyone a fun idea at first?"
"Yes." was her answer. "I love spending time with my friends.
"That's good..." he looked down, at his hands. "um...I know its not my turn, but can I ask another question?"
Terra blinked, but nodded. "Sure. But I get an extra one too, okay?" she smiled at him with the sweetest smile and waited.
"Do...how do like Setzer or Locke?"
She froze. "What do you mean?"
"Well...I mean, do you like like them?" she frowned.
"They are my friends..."
"Okay then."
"Do you like like anyone else?" she whispered so silently, he wasn't even sure she spoke. He shook his head.
"N-no! I mean, I...don't have anyone I like like..."
Terra blushed, fiddling with her fingers as she thought over something. She subconsciously pulled at the ends of her baggy shorts. "E-edgar...?" he looked up at her. "C-can...Edgar," she bit her lower lip. "Edgar, I like you." she rushed it and closed her eyes tightly.
"You...like me?" he asked, staring at her. "You mean...like like?"
"...y-yes..." she replied, chewing the her bottom lip. "I...wanted to tell you..." Edgar leaned over and pulled her over by her back and kissed her, softly, but longingly. After a few seconds, the gang laughed.
"Oooh! Get a room you two!" the two love-birds pulled away, blushing when they saw all their friends gathered at the door, laughing and pointing. Setzer rolled his eyes at Sabin.
"They do have a room! What they need is a bed." Locke and Celes chuckled, but Terra covered her face, embarassed. Edgar smiled.
"Alright you guys, get out! Get out!" He got up and started to push them out. "Get...out!" he pushed his giant brother out the door and then locked it. He sighed and turned to get a chair and stuck it under the door, hearing Locke groan and say 'Damn you, Edgar!' and chuckled, looking back at Terra.
"Where were we?" his lips pulled up into a sloppy grin as he walked over. Terra giggled.
~The End~
I had this on my PC for a year now. I will defiantly need to do a check over the grammar. I know I made a few mistakes...well, it would be very appriacted if someone could review ^.^
Thanks for reading! :D