Surrounded by danger and blinded by love.
Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and the rest of the Gullwings are owned by Square Enix. I own Ignitus, Serene, Farrina, and the Seraph. They are my own sphere hunter group. Takes place after Yuna finds the sphere that starts her journey.
The first chapter is the background for the rest of the story and is told from the point of view of Ignitus.
Pairings: Ignitus X Serene (OC X OC)
Summary: Ignitus is the leader of the Seraphs, a somewhat successful group of sphere hunters. He travels with Farrina and her sister Serene and is considered one of the most dangerous people in Spira. Even though Serene is with him most of the day every day he still doesn't realize how much she cares for him. Rated M for language and light gore.
Chp. 1
On the Seraph
I slowly climb the stairs to the captains quarters, my own room, and when I reach the door I sigh and say "Serene, if you want to be around me you have to stop sneaking up on me."
"I'm sorry Ignitus I just wanted to talk to you in private." She says hurriedly while resuming her nervous habit of twirling her brunette curls.
"Come on then." I say opening the door to my room and letting her in. I walk into the room and sit down at my desk while I go over the report for the day and I say "So what did you want to talk about?"
"There is something I have wanted to ask you." She says looking at me pleadingly.
"What is it?"
"Why ... don't...you...realize the way I feel about you?" she blurts out nervously. Realizing her mistake almost instantly.
"If you want to know then ask Farrina about my past and see if you still care about me then!" I scream slamming my hands on the table and standing up. I stand at my full height of 6"4 and look down at her and point to the door.
She runs from the room and I think I can see a tear on her cheek. "What did I do?" I ask myself. "I know she is intimidated by me why do I have to do this to her." I scratch my head and look at the mirror seeing the scars on my face and the blond hair covering the worst one.
"Farrina can I come in we need to talk."
"Of course come on in." She says turning around looking worried. "Why are you crying, and why did I hear screaming?"
"What happened to Ignitus?"
"Come here there is something I need to show you." Says Farrina as she leads Serene to the bridge. "He had me hide this sphere two years ago." She opens a container retrieves the sphere and sets it up so they can watch it.
3 years ago
"Please leave them alone they didn't do anything wrong." pleads a women standing at the gates to a small village in the Bikanel Desert
"They are as much traitors as the man you are hiding" Ignitus says pushing past the woman while pulling out a large sword. "Where is he?" He asks grabbing the shirt of a man and holding his sword to his throat.
Present day
"The sphere is damaged so that's all there is but when he was found he was soaked in blood and he was the only one alive in the camp."
"That's not possible he wouldn't do that." Serene whispers as she starts to cry harder.
"The only reason he isn't rotting in an Al Bhed prison is because of me. I broke him out and we have been friends ever since. He owes me his life and you should be glad he does."
"Why would I be glad?"
"If I hadn't done that he would never have let you join us. I had to beg him to let me bring you with us."
"It was one of the best choices of my life." I say walking into the room. "I am sorry I yelled at you but now you know why I am the way I am."
"Come on sis you need to sleep." Farrina says practically dragging Serene back to their room.
The next day
"Farrina have you seen Ignitus I can't find him?" Serene asks sleepily.
"He's off-ship right now we got wind of something big going on in Besaid."
"Take the Seraph down I want to be on the ground in three minutes!"
"If you weren't my sister I would probably shove you out the door myself." Farrina complains quietly.
"Come in Seraph!"
"Ignitus what's going on down there?"
"Just get the hell down here there are fiends swarming from every direction and everyone that knows how to fight is inside the temple."
"Serene you better hurry up we are both going off-ship."
In Besaid
"Are you kidding me when is this gonna stop?" I yell to myself as an iron giant smashes through the blockade set up to keep the fiends out.
"Ignitus take this!" Farrina screams as she throws me a sword after getting on the ground. I swing it at the giant slicing it in half.
"Heeeellllpppp Ignitus!" Serene screams in terror.
"You brought her with you!" I say as I rush towards her as three flans start to charge their attacks. I swing destroying them. "Get her back on board and drop the ultima blade for me."
"Don't you remember what happened the last time?"
"I don't care, this needs to end now."
"Serene lets go you can't be here for this." Farrina screams at her sister.
"No I won't leave him down here on his own!"
"Serene, go now I won't last long without the ultima blade."
Farrina grabs her by the shoulder and finally gets her back on the ship.
"What happened the last time he used the ultima blade?"
"Three miles of Bikanel desert became a crater." She starts to type a set of commands into the computer and when she finishes the ship drops the blade. "I think you should prepare yourself because the last time he did this he almost died."
I catch the blade and say "This is the true power of my soul." I lift the sword and bring it down over my head. The slash creates a blast that creates a large trench and instantly destroys all the fiends in front of it. I swing the blade once more cutting down any fiends that remained and when I try and swing the blade a third time my body freezes up and I fall to the ground. Serene and Farrina disembark and rush towards me running through clouds of pyreflies so thick you can't see through them. They grab my body and carry it back to the Seraph.
1 day later
"Serene you need to let him rest. He will wake up when he heals up more."
"I just hate to see him like this." Serene sobs.
"Go get some rest I will stay with him."
3 days later
I finally wake up and stumble out into the hallway and when I hear voices I stop and listen. "Farrina I don't want to lose him I don't think I can bear it."
"Serene, you love him don't you?" Farrina asks her crying sister.
"I love him more than anything in the world."
I collapse from the strain I put my body through. I wake up lying back on the bed and I see Serene asleep in a chair next to me. I sneak out of the room and stumble to the bridge. When I reach my station I sit down and go over a diagnostic of the ship.
"What the hell are you doing out of bed." I hear and I realize I'm gonna get it. "You haven't even attempted to let your body heal you have no idea how much damage you are causing to yourself. Also, have you even considered Serene because she hasn't left your side."
I am about to respond when my monitors pick up on treasure waves
"Let's finish this later." I say as I set down the ship near the Youth League and say "Go on ahead and see if you can get any info on the sphere while I deal with Serene." She storms off the ship and I make my way back through the ship and I find Serene just where I left her. "Serene, it's time to wake up." I whisper as I place my hand on her shoulder.
"Huh... Oh Ignitus what is it?" She quietly asks as she wakes up.
"We are going after a sphere and I need you to come with me." I say as I stand up and grab my gear off my desk. "Come on lets go we need to hurry."
"Ok, let's go." She says walking after me.
Youth league Head Quarters
"What do you mean we have to stay here!" Serene complains.
"We can't have another repeat of Besaid. You need to be able to fight if you are gonna go with me next time." Ignitus says to both Serene and Farrina. "Listen you two stay here and I will be back soon and then we can have that talk Farrina." I say to convince them to stay and when they finally agree I start to walk out and tell a guard "Tell Mevyn Nooj that they are gonna go through the basic training and also tell him that I want to talk when I get back." He acknowledges my request and I leave to find the sphere.
Mushroom Rock Road
I walk down the Road towards Djose Temple and I soon run into a group of Bully Caps and I pull out my sword. "Here we go, time to see if I still got it." I think to myself as I rush towards one of them. I swing and hit the fiend hard but when I do the other hits me with a blast of spores and start to feel the poison in them take effect immediately. I hit the fiend again and cause it to become a cloud of pyreflies. I swing at the other one bringing my sword down hard against its head. I watch it die and pull out an antidote quickly gulping it down to counteract the poison before it can spread. "These things are so annoying." I say to nobody as I continue my walk and I soon discover a cave hidden by a large boulder. I slowly enter the cave and am instantly swarmed by Coeurls. I start to swing cutting them down. I take them out but I know I won't last long so I pull out a potion. I continue through the cave without finding anymore fiends but when I find a large room I hear something above me. I turn around and look up to see a King Behemoth and three Behemoths asleep on a ledge. "You have got to be kidding me how am I supposed to kill those things." I whisper trying not to wake them. I slowly back up and make my way across the room keeping my eyes on them. I find my way out of the room and notice a glow on the wall down a side hallway. "What the made these tunnels?" I ask out loud as I run towards the light. When I turn the corner I stop and see the sphere on a pedestal. "Finally, I found it."
"Hheeeyyy, that was supposed to be our sphere." I grab the sphere and turn around to see none other than Rikku, Yuna, and Paine.
"Of all the places I have to run into you in." I say as I glare at Paine. The next thing I know she has me pinned against the wall by her sword. "Ha! you still don't think things through do you?" I ask as I slam the blade down and pull a dagger from my belt and force her back to where she was.
"So I take it you two know each other." Rikku asks jokingly.
"Let's go you three we are going back to my ship."
Youth League Head Quarters
"What is that?" Serene asks as she looks out over the path to the headquarters.
"There are four people. One of them is Ignitus. Oh no please tell me he didn't do this again?"
"Didn't do what again?"
"He's got them at knife point." Farrina screams as she bolts towards the lift.
"Paine how many times do I have to kill you before you stay dead?" I hiss at her moving them forward with my dagger.
"How do you know this guy, he is insane." Yuna whispers to Paine.
"Ignitus, what the hell are you doing?" Farrina screams grabbing the dagger from my hand. "I'm sorry he did this to you."
"Don't worry about it we were gonna come here soon anyway." Yuna says with a bubbly attitude.
"Were you three trying to wake up those behemoths?" I ask looking extremely pissed off.
"Wait a minute, there weren't any fiends around."
"Yeah there we're, in the large room on the ledge there were three behemoths and a king behemoth." I say as I grab my dagger back and put it back in my belt.
"Ignitus, you're back!" I hear Serene scream and she runs towards me and traps me in a hug that is chocking the life out of me.
"Serene, *gasp*, I can't, *gasp*, breath." I manage to get out before she strangles me.
"I'm so sorry I didn't mean to." she says looking down at the ground with a sad face.
"It's fine but I need to go talk to someone so I will be back soon. As for you three we still need to talk so just join Serene and Farrina on the ship and we can take you back to your airship."
"Alright but then we talk." I hear everyone but Paine state not giving me much of a chance to object. I nod yes and then walk towards the main building.
Inside headquarters
"Damn you Nooj I thought you dealt with her four months ago."
"We did alright I took the shot myself but I guess she got help with the bullet through her stomach."
"Nooj she saw my face and now she is on my god damn ship, do you have any idea what she could do to me if she found out I had anything to do with the Crimson Squad?"
"Relax, it can't be traced back to you I made sure of that."
"Fine but if she does find out she not gonna be the only one that dies." I say as I storm off towards the ship.
The Seraph
"So you have been looking for him ever since you saw that sphere?" Serene asks.
"Yep I fell in love with him when I first saw him and when he was taken from me I vowed to find him." Explains Yuna with a sad look towards Serene.
I open the door to the bridge slamming it closed and say to myself "Why didn't I force him to let me do it. If he had it would have been over then and there." I see the looks I am getting from everyone and say "I will be in the maintenance bay if you need me." quickly leaving I wander down the corridors and when I finally reach the maintenance bay I grab a long piece of metal and some tools.
"I'll go after him someone just needs to make sure he doesn't work himself to death." Farrina explains as she stands up. She walks to where I am and when she comes up behind me I spin a screwdriver on my fingers and throw it at her lodging it in a beam next to her head.
"You and I both know I don't miss unless it's a warning." I say coldly as I continue to make a new dagger from the metal.
"I know that but we need to talk. Do you have any idea what you are doing to yourself? Your body isn't unbreakable, you should know that from your scars."
"I don't care alright I won't stop until I can find it." I scream at her ripping the handle of the dagger off the piece of metal creating a jagged blade.
"What do you mean, 'It'."
"Nothing alright." I say as I grab the blade and squeeze my hand. Blood starts to flow down my hand.
"Ignitus, please stop this." Farrina screams as she stands there watching in shock. "There is something that you need to realize and I can't be the one to tell you but if you are set on fighting until you die I won't stop you!"
I drop the blade and fall to the ground "I have done more than you will ever know and as soon as we can get Paine off this ship I will be able to relax." I say as I grab some cloth from in front of me and wrap my hand in it.
"Come on let's go we are all gonna sit down and have a talk." I walk with her to the bridge and everyone stops talking as soon as I walk in. Serene notices my hand and gasps then she runs towards me grabbing my hand and looking it over.
I pull my hand away from her and say "Leave it, my hand isn't important." I realize as soon as I say it that I am speaking more harshly than I mean to. I see tears begin to form but when I try and say I'm sorry she pulls away and walks to the chair she was sitting in.
"Alright, answers, now." Paine states in a tone that would freeze hell.
"Why did you attack us you crazy asshole?" Rikku asks giving me a look that I had never expected from someone so care free.
"You seem to forget that it was Paine that pinned me to the wall."
"You what! You crazy mute." Serene yells as she suddenly walks up to Paine and slaps her hard.
"Alright that's it you two back to your quarters!" I say looking at Serene and Farrina. They walk off as I turn and glare at Paine. "I am dropping you three at your airship right now."
"No I want to know what you were talking about."
"You don't get to ask questions." I say taking off and heading towards the coordinates they gave me. "If I see you three again I won't give you any chances to get ahead. From now on we are enemies."
The next day
"Ignitus open up I want to talk." I hear Serene say as she pounds on my door. After I got rid of the Gullwings I went straight to sleep locking my door, which I don't usually do, to insure nobody could disturb me.
"Serene, calm down." I tell her as I open my door. She walks in and jumps onto my bed stretching out before she sits up."
"So what do you want to talk about?"
"Can we talk outside?" She asks as she points to the door that leads to a platform where I can jump down to the ground without letting anyone know. I agree and we walk out onto it. "I have wanted to tell you something for a long time now." I see her start to twirl her hair and she finally says. "Ignitus...I...I...l." I instantly realize what she is going to say so I walk over to her, stop the hand that is twirling her hair, lean down and kiss her. She hugs me close and returns the kiss. "Ignitus I love you." She says holding me close to her not letting to.
"I love you too, Serene."