-The Missing Chocobo-
Part II out of II
by:GoldenSilence
A/N=Hey, to the reviewer that was saying something about drawing a picture they got in their head from my story..if you ever finish it, send it to my e-mail adress!I wanna see it!:)Oh yeah, and this is the last chapter, but I was wondering if you guys might read a sequel if I made one?
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Zell was trying to T-Board quietly down the halls..or more quiet than he usually did anyway. T-boards were about as silent as a T-Rexuar when it got bitten. Thank Hyne the Balamb faculty were such sound sleepers, thought Zell as he zoomed around the place in circles, narrowly avoiding hitting a trashcan.
He was just congratulating himself on his suave recovery when a little yellow and brown blur crashed into him, full force. When the impact of the creature hit him, Zell went flying head over heels into a move that would have been quite an astonishing gymnastic feat if he had meant to do it on purpose, and landed promptly and neatly in the potted begonias.
Of course Zell didn't care that he was scratched up and had ruined the Doctor Kadowaski's best plants, his first thought was for his T-Board.
Scratched and disheveled, he tried to get out of the bed of begonias, but to no avail. He was most definitely stuck. In fact, his struggles had only served to his back half even more firmly wedged in the small pot.
"Ooh, Zell. I'm soo.*sniffle*..sorry. Are you okay?"
Zell stopped his squirming to get out for a second and looked around for the owner of the voice, surprised when he found it belonged to a certain bouncy, hyper figure in a short yellow dress..none other than Selphie. So that's who had rammed into him like she was a defensive lineman making a tackle. Zell could have sworn it was a chocobo. It was an easy mistake, Zell figured- after all, they both wore yellow.
"Absolutely peachy." Selphie was to wrapped up feeling worried about her chocobo to detect the sarcasm in Zell's voice. "Glad you're alright-" Selphie's voice, which had been wavering unsteadily up 'till now, suddenly broke down completely-"because I'm not!"
She began sniffling and trying to wipe her overly bright eyes with the back of her hand. "Aww..Selph", said Zell, temporarily forgetting his was uncomfortably stuck in a bed of begonias, "DON'T cry.."
His words had far from the intended comforting effect..instead, Selphie started pratically howling. Zell was worried, all the typical things he would do in a situation like this had nada effect now. He couldn't exactly go and hug her unless he dragged the blasted plant pot he was stuck in with him, and he wasn't exactly sure how to go about comforting her when he didn't know the problem. Aha!Zell brightened. He could always ask her what was the matter. No way it could make her any sadder..right?
Wrong. At Zell's questioning, Selphie burst into an even more steady stream of tears.
"Oh, Zell..it's B..b..b.."
"Boko?" Zell asked. Selphie just nodded, tears rolling off her chin as she did. Inside, Zell was positively exuberant..YEEEES!I get to be the one to comfort Selphie!Maybe I can get a couple of extra hugs while I'm at it!
Outside though, he tried to assume he most serious and caring expression, sending off tons of "I'm here for you" vibes; no easy feat when you're practically jumping up and down in little circles on the inside. No easy feat either when you're STILL stuck in a pot of flowers. Zell decided to take the risk of sounding uncaring and cruel by changing the conversation. Hey, he wanted to hear Selphie's story and all, but his butt was starting to get seriously itchy from all those tickly begonias..
"Umm..Selph?Hate to change the subject and all..but would you mind helping me get out of here?I'm kinda stuck."
Selphie's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "Mega bummer!I'm sorry..I didn't realize you were.. I feel so selfish!"
"No need to apologize-" Zell mumbled,"-just get me out of here, will ya?"
"Right." Selphie took a hold of both of Zell's feet, which were flailing in the air and tugged.. HARD. Damn, she was strong for someone that tiny. Zell spoke through gritted teeth as she pulled.
"Selphie, I told you to help me, not pull off both of my legs!"
Selphie stopped and put her hands on her hips, looking a good deal like an emotionally distraught version of Quistis. "Do you want to get out of there or don't you?"
Zell sighed. "I do."
On the third try, Selphie looked fairly murderous. To save himself the pain, Zell was about to tell her he could probably just get out on his own, when Selphie went ahead and yanked anyway, a little too overzealously. Zell and the entire pot of begonias fell over on to the floor.
Picking himself up from the dirt and scattered debris, Zell stood in speechless horror as he surveyed the damage. Selphie's expression was about the same. They would be doing push ups against the walls for months..if Dr. Kadowaski didn't just kill them on the spot when she found out.
The Dr. Kadowaski in question's voice spoke tiredly from around a corner, causing both Zell and Selphie to jump. "What's going on out there?"
"We better move it" Zell whispered to Selphie, who agreed. "Yeah..but where to?"
Zell grabbed her wrist and started tugging her along the hall. "The secret area." Selphie couldn't help a little watery grin.And here I was thinking that we wouldn't go there until we started dating..booyaka!
They walked along silently through the lush greenery of the training center, the only noise Selphie's occasional hiccup as she thought about the fate of her beloved chocobo. When they finally reached the secret area and were both leaning over the rail, Zell was the first to talk.
"So, what happened to Boko, Selph?"
"Just a little while ago, I ran into Irvine..."-this made Zell shoot his eyebrows up and interrupt her. "At six o' clock in the morning?"
Selphie sighed. "Loong story. Anyway, he told me that..boko..boko..was missing!and I was just teaching him how to talk!" She finished this statement dramatically by wailing the last part of it out.
"..That's terrible!" Zell tried to arrange his face into a look of righteous indignation instead of cracking up like he so desperately wanted to.
"Yeah.." Selphie said sadly. "And it's all my fault cause I forgot to check on him yesterday.."
Zell shook his head. "Come on, Selph. I'm sure that's not true!He's probably just,oh, I don't know-wandering around the training center somewhere."
Zell realized what he had said too late as Selphie broke into what was starting to become the regular ol' waterworks. "Poor Boko!I bet a Grat is munching on his remains right now.."
"Don't worry about it, Selph. I didn't mean it like that!"- Zell cut in quickly, trying to amend his mistake- "Why, it's probably the other way around...Boko's getting tough and strong from fighting all those monsters."
Selphie's big green orbs twinkled in the dark up at Zell and he felt his stomach twist in a way that had nothing to do with nerves. "You really think so?"
Zell nodded nonchalantly as if a twenty pound chocobo could beat the crap out of an a hundred pound T-Rexaur any day. "Yeah, sure. Of course he is!"
Selphie wasn't to be comforted so easily, though her tears were a good deal more silent now.
"You know what else? Nida said if he caught Boko he would make him into a hotdog." Selphie frowned medetatively. "I think he was joking. I mean..you can't make a chocobo into a hotdog..can you?"
"No way!" Zell said vehemently. "Chocobos don't go into hotdogs!Only cows and stuff.. I know 'cause I eat them all the time" he added needlessly,trying to stare at a fixed point above Selphie's head instead of into her eyes; which were altogether to disconcerning for him.
Selphie was down now to just a couple of sniffles instead of an all out bawling. She giggled. "Well, duh." Though, the last part of her sentence came out as a yawn, so it was more like "Well, duuuhhh." "Heey!" Zell said weakly in his defense, giving a little yawn himself.
The fact that Selphie hadn't slept for twenty four hours was finally catching up with her. Zell felt a smile creep across his face. He couldn't help it. She looked so cute there, rubbing her eyes and trying to keep from yawning again.
The smile became frozen in place and Zell's body became rigid as Selphie lowered her head onto his shoulder. After a few minutes, he relaxed, listening to the sound of her quiet breathing. Another few minutes, and Zell's shoulder was sore..very sore. Much as he enjoyed being this close to Selphie(though he had really been hoping for a kiss at the end of this whole thing) Selphie's head was starting to get slightly uncomfortable.
Zell reached over with his other hand and shook her gently. "Selph?Selph?Wake up!"
Selphie blinked her eyes sleepily at him, obviously still half asleep."Why?"
She completely floored Zell with that question. He couldn't very well say his shoulder was getting tired. That would ruin whatever romantic feeling there was right then.
"Umm..'cause I have to tell you something." Zell panicked. Why in Hyne's name had he said that? The only thing he had to tell her was something he may have practiced in front of a mirror thousands of times, but was more likely to faint than say it to her face.
"Weeell?" Selphie prompted, fully awake now and hoping that what Zell was going to tell her was what she thought it was.
"You've been such a good friend to me and all.." Zell stopped, unable to go on. He bravely tried again. "What I mean is, you are such a good friend that it's a little hard to tell you.."
Selphie put a stop to Zell's suffering to try to get to the point. She was positive of what he was trying to say now. Or 99.9 percent positive, which was pratically the same thing.
"Oh, well if that's all it is. I like you too, Zell."
Zell's jaw dropped and he gripped on to the railing to keep from losing in completely. "You do?"
Selphie nodded shyly. "Tee-hee. Yup."
At this admission, Zell's common sense took a sharp nosedive as he grabbed her in the tightest hug he could manage. Zell spoke, her voice muffled into Selphie's hair. "Thank goodness you got that out. I don't think I ever would."
Selphie's dimples appeared in her cheeks. "You've liked me that long,then?"
Zell smiled and pulled her still closer. "Almost as long as I've known you."
Incircled in his muscled arms, Selphie tut-tutted. "Really, Zell..you've been working up your courage for so long to tell me and all you've wanted to do is this?"
Zell's grin turned mischevious. "Well, when you put it that way..."
Exhilarated beyond belief that this little interlude was going to end the way he had hoped it would, Zell lowered his face to Selphie's as she tipped hers up towards his and..
"Warrrk!Wark!Wark!Warrrk!"
Boko the chocobo had been found. Landing on Zell's head, he had quickly jumped off and was now proceeding to run around the couple in circles, much to Zell's chagrin. Stupid thing would have to spoil his special moment. The "stupid thing" in question had just narrowly escaped with his own neck from a T-Rexuar, which was snapping it's jaws at him through the secret area's door.
Zell's ears turned as pink as Selphie's face. So much for us being a couple, thought Zell miserably. She'll be so estatic over the chocobo, she'll forget all about me.
The opposite proved to be in effect. Selphie was gazing up at Zell rapturously, looking a good deal like a little fairy of some sort with her eyes sparkling and her mouth in the biggest smile it could afford.
Zell cleared his throat, ignoring the chocobo as completely as Selphie seemed to be doing.
"So, you wanna go to the cafeteria for some hotdogs?"
Selphie giggled again. "Oh, Zell!For breakfast?"
"Umm..yep." Zell scratched the back of his neck.
Selphie stifled another giggle. "I'd love to."
And with that, Selphie and Zell walked off, her tiny hand clapsed in his own bigger one, completely ignoring the little chocobo's cries of distress. Humans, Boko thought disgustedly, always lose whatever temporary sanity they have when they get around the opposite kind..Hmph. Don't see us chocobos having that problem, no siree. We just..
But whatever the chocobos did never became apparent as Boko was rudely awakened out of his thoughts by a bite on his derriere. Spinning around, he came face to face with none other than the T-Rexuar who had been torturing him earlier.
"Warkkk?????WARRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKK!"
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Last minute disclaimer:I in no way support the harming or abusing of chocobos and am in fact a member of B.R.F.C.F. C(better rights for cute, fluffy chocobos)*shows her little minature chocobo toy*..see?My official badge of service.;)
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A/N=Whoa, writing about chocobos puts you in a good mood. Hope you guys like this chapter as well!Pleasee review..(and feel free to join the B.R.F.C.F.C)
Chocobos and Zelphie forever!..woohoo!..*ahem*..yeah.
Part II out of II
by:GoldenSilence
A/N=Hey, to the reviewer that was saying something about drawing a picture they got in their head from my story..if you ever finish it, send it to my e-mail adress!I wanna see it!:)Oh yeah, and this is the last chapter, but I was wondering if you guys might read a sequel if I made one?
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Zell was trying to T-Board quietly down the halls..or more quiet than he usually did anyway. T-boards were about as silent as a T-Rexuar when it got bitten. Thank Hyne the Balamb faculty were such sound sleepers, thought Zell as he zoomed around the place in circles, narrowly avoiding hitting a trashcan.
He was just congratulating himself on his suave recovery when a little yellow and brown blur crashed into him, full force. When the impact of the creature hit him, Zell went flying head over heels into a move that would have been quite an astonishing gymnastic feat if he had meant to do it on purpose, and landed promptly and neatly in the potted begonias.
Of course Zell didn't care that he was scratched up and had ruined the Doctor Kadowaski's best plants, his first thought was for his T-Board.
Scratched and disheveled, he tried to get out of the bed of begonias, but to no avail. He was most definitely stuck. In fact, his struggles had only served to his back half even more firmly wedged in the small pot.
"Ooh, Zell. I'm soo.*sniffle*..sorry. Are you okay?"
Zell stopped his squirming to get out for a second and looked around for the owner of the voice, surprised when he found it belonged to a certain bouncy, hyper figure in a short yellow dress..none other than Selphie. So that's who had rammed into him like she was a defensive lineman making a tackle. Zell could have sworn it was a chocobo. It was an easy mistake, Zell figured- after all, they both wore yellow.
"Absolutely peachy." Selphie was to wrapped up feeling worried about her chocobo to detect the sarcasm in Zell's voice. "Glad you're alright-" Selphie's voice, which had been wavering unsteadily up 'till now, suddenly broke down completely-"because I'm not!"
She began sniffling and trying to wipe her overly bright eyes with the back of her hand. "Aww..Selph", said Zell, temporarily forgetting his was uncomfortably stuck in a bed of begonias, "DON'T cry.."
His words had far from the intended comforting effect..instead, Selphie started pratically howling. Zell was worried, all the typical things he would do in a situation like this had nada effect now. He couldn't exactly go and hug her unless he dragged the blasted plant pot he was stuck in with him, and he wasn't exactly sure how to go about comforting her when he didn't know the problem. Aha!Zell brightened. He could always ask her what was the matter. No way it could make her any sadder..right?
Wrong. At Zell's questioning, Selphie burst into an even more steady stream of tears.
"Oh, Zell..it's B..b..b.."
"Boko?" Zell asked. Selphie just nodded, tears rolling off her chin as she did. Inside, Zell was positively exuberant..YEEEES!I get to be the one to comfort Selphie!Maybe I can get a couple of extra hugs while I'm at it!
Outside though, he tried to assume he most serious and caring expression, sending off tons of "I'm here for you" vibes; no easy feat when you're practically jumping up and down in little circles on the inside. No easy feat either when you're STILL stuck in a pot of flowers. Zell decided to take the risk of sounding uncaring and cruel by changing the conversation. Hey, he wanted to hear Selphie's story and all, but his butt was starting to get seriously itchy from all those tickly begonias..
"Umm..Selph?Hate to change the subject and all..but would you mind helping me get out of here?I'm kinda stuck."
Selphie's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "Mega bummer!I'm sorry..I didn't realize you were.. I feel so selfish!"
"No need to apologize-" Zell mumbled,"-just get me out of here, will ya?"
"Right." Selphie took a hold of both of Zell's feet, which were flailing in the air and tugged.. HARD. Damn, she was strong for someone that tiny. Zell spoke through gritted teeth as she pulled.
"Selphie, I told you to help me, not pull off both of my legs!"
Selphie stopped and put her hands on her hips, looking a good deal like an emotionally distraught version of Quistis. "Do you want to get out of there or don't you?"
Zell sighed. "I do."
On the third try, Selphie looked fairly murderous. To save himself the pain, Zell was about to tell her he could probably just get out on his own, when Selphie went ahead and yanked anyway, a little too overzealously. Zell and the entire pot of begonias fell over on to the floor.
Picking himself up from the dirt and scattered debris, Zell stood in speechless horror as he surveyed the damage. Selphie's expression was about the same. They would be doing push ups against the walls for months..if Dr. Kadowaski didn't just kill them on the spot when she found out.
The Dr. Kadowaski in question's voice spoke tiredly from around a corner, causing both Zell and Selphie to jump. "What's going on out there?"
"We better move it" Zell whispered to Selphie, who agreed. "Yeah..but where to?"
Zell grabbed her wrist and started tugging her along the hall. "The secret area." Selphie couldn't help a little watery grin.And here I was thinking that we wouldn't go there until we started dating..booyaka!
They walked along silently through the lush greenery of the training center, the only noise Selphie's occasional hiccup as she thought about the fate of her beloved chocobo. When they finally reached the secret area and were both leaning over the rail, Zell was the first to talk.
"So, what happened to Boko, Selph?"
"Just a little while ago, I ran into Irvine..."-this made Zell shoot his eyebrows up and interrupt her. "At six o' clock in the morning?"
Selphie sighed. "Loong story. Anyway, he told me that..boko..boko..was missing!and I was just teaching him how to talk!" She finished this statement dramatically by wailing the last part of it out.
"..That's terrible!" Zell tried to arrange his face into a look of righteous indignation instead of cracking up like he so desperately wanted to.
"Yeah.." Selphie said sadly. "And it's all my fault cause I forgot to check on him yesterday.."
Zell shook his head. "Come on, Selph. I'm sure that's not true!He's probably just,oh, I don't know-wandering around the training center somewhere."
Zell realized what he had said too late as Selphie broke into what was starting to become the regular ol' waterworks. "Poor Boko!I bet a Grat is munching on his remains right now.."
"Don't worry about it, Selph. I didn't mean it like that!"- Zell cut in quickly, trying to amend his mistake- "Why, it's probably the other way around...Boko's getting tough and strong from fighting all those monsters."
Selphie's big green orbs twinkled in the dark up at Zell and he felt his stomach twist in a way that had nothing to do with nerves. "You really think so?"
Zell nodded nonchalantly as if a twenty pound chocobo could beat the crap out of an a hundred pound T-Rexaur any day. "Yeah, sure. Of course he is!"
Selphie wasn't to be comforted so easily, though her tears were a good deal more silent now.
"You know what else? Nida said if he caught Boko he would make him into a hotdog." Selphie frowned medetatively. "I think he was joking. I mean..you can't make a chocobo into a hotdog..can you?"
"No way!" Zell said vehemently. "Chocobos don't go into hotdogs!Only cows and stuff.. I know 'cause I eat them all the time" he added needlessly,trying to stare at a fixed point above Selphie's head instead of into her eyes; which were altogether to disconcerning for him.
Selphie was down now to just a couple of sniffles instead of an all out bawling. She giggled. "Well, duh." Though, the last part of her sentence came out as a yawn, so it was more like "Well, duuuhhh." "Heey!" Zell said weakly in his defense, giving a little yawn himself.
The fact that Selphie hadn't slept for twenty four hours was finally catching up with her. Zell felt a smile creep across his face. He couldn't help it. She looked so cute there, rubbing her eyes and trying to keep from yawning again.
The smile became frozen in place and Zell's body became rigid as Selphie lowered her head onto his shoulder. After a few minutes, he relaxed, listening to the sound of her quiet breathing. Another few minutes, and Zell's shoulder was sore..very sore. Much as he enjoyed being this close to Selphie(though he had really been hoping for a kiss at the end of this whole thing) Selphie's head was starting to get slightly uncomfortable.
Zell reached over with his other hand and shook her gently. "Selph?Selph?Wake up!"
Selphie blinked her eyes sleepily at him, obviously still half asleep."Why?"
She completely floored Zell with that question. He couldn't very well say his shoulder was getting tired. That would ruin whatever romantic feeling there was right then.
"Umm..'cause I have to tell you something." Zell panicked. Why in Hyne's name had he said that? The only thing he had to tell her was something he may have practiced in front of a mirror thousands of times, but was more likely to faint than say it to her face.
"Weeell?" Selphie prompted, fully awake now and hoping that what Zell was going to tell her was what she thought it was.
"You've been such a good friend to me and all.." Zell stopped, unable to go on. He bravely tried again. "What I mean is, you are such a good friend that it's a little hard to tell you.."
Selphie put a stop to Zell's suffering to try to get to the point. She was positive of what he was trying to say now. Or 99.9 percent positive, which was pratically the same thing.
"Oh, well if that's all it is. I like you too, Zell."
Zell's jaw dropped and he gripped on to the railing to keep from losing in completely. "You do?"
Selphie nodded shyly. "Tee-hee. Yup."
At this admission, Zell's common sense took a sharp nosedive as he grabbed her in the tightest hug he could manage. Zell spoke, her voice muffled into Selphie's hair. "Thank goodness you got that out. I don't think I ever would."
Selphie's dimples appeared in her cheeks. "You've liked me that long,then?"
Zell smiled and pulled her still closer. "Almost as long as I've known you."
Incircled in his muscled arms, Selphie tut-tutted. "Really, Zell..you've been working up your courage for so long to tell me and all you've wanted to do is this?"
Zell's grin turned mischevious. "Well, when you put it that way..."
Exhilarated beyond belief that this little interlude was going to end the way he had hoped it would, Zell lowered his face to Selphie's as she tipped hers up towards his and..
"Warrrk!Wark!Wark!Warrrk!"
Boko the chocobo had been found. Landing on Zell's head, he had quickly jumped off and was now proceeding to run around the couple in circles, much to Zell's chagrin. Stupid thing would have to spoil his special moment. The "stupid thing" in question had just narrowly escaped with his own neck from a T-Rexuar, which was snapping it's jaws at him through the secret area's door.
Zell's ears turned as pink as Selphie's face. So much for us being a couple, thought Zell miserably. She'll be so estatic over the chocobo, she'll forget all about me.
The opposite proved to be in effect. Selphie was gazing up at Zell rapturously, looking a good deal like a little fairy of some sort with her eyes sparkling and her mouth in the biggest smile it could afford.
Zell cleared his throat, ignoring the chocobo as completely as Selphie seemed to be doing.
"So, you wanna go to the cafeteria for some hotdogs?"
Selphie giggled again. "Oh, Zell!For breakfast?"
"Umm..yep." Zell scratched the back of his neck.
Selphie stifled another giggle. "I'd love to."
And with that, Selphie and Zell walked off, her tiny hand clapsed in his own bigger one, completely ignoring the little chocobo's cries of distress. Humans, Boko thought disgustedly, always lose whatever temporary sanity they have when they get around the opposite kind..Hmph. Don't see us chocobos having that problem, no siree. We just..
But whatever the chocobos did never became apparent as Boko was rudely awakened out of his thoughts by a bite on his derriere. Spinning around, he came face to face with none other than the T-Rexuar who had been torturing him earlier.
"Warkkk?????WARRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKK!"
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Last minute disclaimer:I in no way support the harming or abusing of chocobos and am in fact a member of B.R.F.C.F. C(better rights for cute, fluffy chocobos)*shows her little minature chocobo toy*..see?My official badge of service.;)
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A/N=Whoa, writing about chocobos puts you in a good mood. Hope you guys like this chapter as well!Pleasee review..(and feel free to join the B.R.F.C.F.C)
Chocobos and Zelphie forever!..woohoo!..*ahem*..yeah.