The Platinum and the Wolf
Ch.2
Confessions and Tests
Disclaimer : once again, I don't own any of the FF8 characters, nor do I own ff8(for those of you who may not know, FF8/ff8, both stand for Final Fantasy VIII) I made up the character known as Josh, any resemblance he may have to any characters in any other fics is purely coincidence
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"EXPLAIN." Fujin said to Josh, who had removed the float spell, and was now reviewing at his panel.
"Explain what?" Josh didn't take his eyes off the panel, and this was getting on Fujins nerves. She wanted him to look her in the face, and talk to her.
"WHY LEFT."
"I'm right handed...not left" Josh said comically, Fujin could see that this was going to be difficult.
"NEGATIVE, YOU UNDERSTAND MEANING." Fujin decided to let him know she was serious, so she unplugged his panel and looked at him with her good eye.
"So...you want to know why I left when you and the others were going to come over to my table?"
"AFFIRMATIVE"
"Negative" Josh said, catching Fujin off guard. She didn't like the idea of having her own way of speech used against her.
"EXPLAIN"
"I don't want to talk about my personal feelings."
"WASN'T REQUEST."
"Well well, aren't we little miss bossy this morning?" josh said, getting up to leave
"NEGATIVE, CONCERNED."
"Your concerned about me? that's very kind of you, but you don't have to."
"POSSE, PROTECT FRIEND."
"I don't need protection from anyone. I can take care of my self." Josh said, heading for the door. "Now, if you'll excuse me....."
Fujin stepped in front of him. "WON'T EXCUSE"
"Your being pretty bold Fujin. I told you I don't want to talk about it, now you can either move, or be moved." Josh had a look in his eyes that said that it wasn't an empty threat.
"NOT MOVE. EXPLAIN."
Josh's face contorted, and his anger exploded "LOOK YOU LITTLE PEST, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT WHAT SO EVER TO BE NOSING AROUND IN MY PERSONAL BUSINESS. IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT CONCERNS YOU, I'LL TELL YOU, OTHER WISE KEEP OUT OF MY LIFE!!"
Fujin knew he hadn't meant what he just said, so she didn't let it effect her, she just blinked and said, " EXPLAIN. PLEASE"
"Your pretty persistent, aren't you? Fine, I have alto of emotional baggage from a relationship that went wrong. I'll tell you more later, but it'll have to wait until after the Exam, or else we'll be late, agreed?"
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"then let's go." They started towards the door, and Josh stopped, " Hey, Fujin.........I'm....well ....sorry 'bout blowing up on you."
"ACCEPTED."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In front of the Garden~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Congratulations to all of you for making it this far, now, you will move, on foot, to Balamb, your path, fights, and actions will decide which teams your placed on." Cid was standing just outside the gate, and speaking to the 15 SeeD candidates which were going to be taking the exam. "This exam is going to be different, because a trained SeeD will be the leader in each of the teams. That is all, now go."
The candidates quickly scattered about, and ran towards Balamb. Most followed the road, since it was the safest path, but Seifer, Fujin, Raijin, and Josh made a b-line through the plains and got to balamb first.
Since most of the candidates moves separately, they had to fight their own battles, but the four teens had split into 2 groups, Seifer and Raijin were in the first group, and Fujin and Josh were in the second. If one group got caught by an enemy, the other one would wait for them.
Since they were the first ones there, the newly expanded Posse was placed into the main team. the team was lead by none other, than Xu herself. Once inside the ship, they were briefed. "Welcome, I'll get straight to business, you will be the main force in driving out a large group of invading monsters from a town we have built. this will be conducted as a true mission, and the goal is the complete liberation of Firesmith, with as little damage as possible. Any questions?"
"I have one." Josh said "Why were the four of us chosen to be the main force?"
"In getting here, you showed a tremendous amount of team-work, a crucial element in battle. for this reason, we expanded the group, we had planned on having only 3 in the main force, but even though you were in 2 teams, you worked as one, and got the job done fastest. Your speed and efficiency convinced us to allow all four of you into the group."
"I see," Seifer said, "so, where is this 'city', and what kind of monsters can we expect to face?"
"The location of the city in in the Galbadian Desert, and as for the monsters, not even I know exactly what will be there."
"DESERT. CACTAUR. WATER."
"Don't worry Fujin," Raijin said with a sly tone in his voice, "I brought plenty of Water spells, although I didn't have this in mind, Ya' know."
"Good thinking, Fujin, Raijin, tell me, what other spells do you all have?"
"Lets see, does everyone have their usual spells?" Seifer asked, looking around.
"AFFIRMATIVE. WIND. AURA." Fujin said.
"I got my Water of course, and the Firaga and Blizzaga spells you suggested. Along with the usual Thundaga, Ya' know"
"I got my status effect magic, Pain, Haste, Slow, Sleep, Scan, etc." Seifer said, and turned to Josh. "Hey, by the way, Josh, what's your speciality anyway?"
"Little of everything, lets see, I got Quake, Curaga, Holy, Meteor, Ultima, and, oh yeah, my favorite, Meltdown."
"Wow, sounds like we picked the right group to be out main force, you've got nearly every area covered. what are your GFs?"
"PANDEMONIA."
"Ifrit, Ya' know"
"I have the Doomtrain GF." once again, Every one looked at josh and wondered what he had up his sleeve.
"I have a GF you probably never heard of before. It told me that I was the first person to use it in along time."
"Your GF talks to you?" Raijin nearly jumped out of his seat.
"A new GF? How did you find it?" Xu was very excited to hear that there was something she didn't know about
"Actually, it found me." Josh began to tell them his story He told them that he was originally from Winhill, and that he loved to be outside the town. "One day, I found a cave and decided to explore it. That was a big mistake. The cave was actually a tunnel leading to the Island closest to Hell, and A group of Grendals were inside. They didn't like Winhill, because it's climate was so much different than where they lived, I guess, although I'm not really sure why they were there in the first place. The Grendals quickly surrounded me, and attacked. Of course, as we all know, the 2 islands are famous for having very high leveled monsters. I suddenly heard a voice inside my head. It said that it would save me if I would allow it to be juctioned to me. I agreed, and when the battle started, The GF summoned it's self. I've never felt a power so great, it's attack took out 3 of the Grendals, and the others ran. I know it sounds hard to believe, but it's true."
"NAME."
"Your not going to believe this, but her name is Lunos."
"Lunos!!!!!!!! The LOST GF?!?!?!" Xu shouted?
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
All eyes were now on Xu, as she began her story. "Through out History, The Great GF Lunos has been said to appear to the strongest warriors before the most challenging time of their lives. Lunos always prepares them to fight a great fight, as long as they accept her. But no one has attained this GF in centuries, so it has been called the LOST GF."
An alarm went off, and caused everyone to jump. "Well, were here, time to change transports." Xu commanded, and the group disembarked from the boat, and walked a few hundred feet to where a large, open bed, military truck awaited them. "We're the first wave, proceed to the practice grounds." Xu was taking her role of leader seriously. "You should all know, I'm going to be giving Cid the report that will be the deciding factor in your success, or failure." they had already gotten half-way there when she told them this, and she received angry looks from all around.
It was Josh who spoke up next, "Look, no offence, but you're the one who thought that we were exceptional, you said so yourself. You don't have to worry about making sure that the mission is a success, we'll handle that. And don't say failure around us, we NEVER fail."
"AGREED. NOT FAILURES."
"We'll get your job done for you, Ya' know."
There was a pause, "Don't you have anything to say Seifer?" Xu asked, she had expected a smaller reaction than this, and so she knew that they were all keeping a tight leash on their emotions.
"They all said what I thought, no need to be redundant." Precise and to the point, Xu was starting to think that she might have been wrong about Seifer never becoming a SeeD, because they were all acting like they already were SeeDs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Battle Field, 2 Hours Later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The Perimeter is secure Xu." Josh said, after checking it for the 5th time."
"Fujin, do you see anything?" Xu asked the platinum beauty.
"NEGATIVE" Fujin had been placed as look out, because hers was the only weapon capable of distance attacks. "NO ACTIVITY."
"Good, looks like we're going to be ok. I guess I shouldn't have doubted your ability to control the situation." Xu was very proud of all the members of her squad, they showed excellent team work, and had gotten the job done quickly.
"INCOMING." Fujin was hunched down, so as to prevent being seen. The others looked in the way she motioned, to see Rinoa running their way.
"Xu? Xu? Where are you Xu? Seifer? Raijin?" Rinoa looked around desperately as she ran, but she didn't see the monster that her shouting had attracted.
"BEWARE!" Fujin shouted, jumping up, "ENEMY!" she threw her shirkin towards Rinoa.
"Wait!!, I'm not an...." Rinoa stopped as the shirkin flew past her, and hit the Beul that was flying behind her. She dropped on her back, and held up her arms, to scared to scream. Luckily for her, and as I'm sure we all know, Beuls are weak against physical attacks, so this one died fairly quickly. "Thanks Fujin, I'm lucky you were there." Rinoa said, when she had gotten to safety.
"AFFIRMATIVE. CARELESS."
"Fujins right Rinoa, your should have been paying full attention to your surroundings." Xu was wandering what had possessed her to come running after them, alone no doubt.
"My Squad had to pull back, all of them did. There has been an unexpected monster. A dragon of some sort, it nearly wiped out one of the SeeD Commanders.
"Xu, Seifer, Fujin and I can take care of the monster, we need at least 3 people to stay here."
"Right, Josh, Your in charge, go and show me what you've got, I have seen all your abilities, and have faith in all of you."
"Won't let you down." Seifer said, Glad to have some action for once. "Lets go have ourselves some fun."
"AFFIRMATIVE." Fujin said, she had wiped her shirkin off, and was ready to fight.
"Lets rock this town." Josh said, Grabbing his bo-sai from off a wall.
"Good luck, and watch out." Xu said, Saluting them as they hurried to where Rinoa had told them the dragon was. They had expected a small dragon, Blue, maybe a Hexa-, because that would have been strong enough to take on a SeeD, but not so challenging, that it could take out the 3 of them. They were wrong. Very, Very wrong.
As they turned the corner to get to where Rinoa's group had been stationed, they say it. the black horns, huge wings, massive body, and the red color. "A Ruby Dragon!!!!" Josh looked worried for a minute, but quickly gained his confidence back. "This is going to be fun, Fujin, get your aura spells ready."
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"Lets do it." Seifer said, "I got some Heros incase we need them."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Balamb Garden, two hours later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the second floor, the candidates were lined up, waiting to hear who got the position of SeeD. Every one seemed nervous, except for Josh and Seifer.
"How can you be so calm?" Rinoa shouted. "I'm about to fall apart wanting to know."
"If I become a SeeD, I be come a SeeD, if I don't, I don't. Fretting and carrying on like you all won't change the outcome of the test, so why worry?" Josh said. He was indeed, not concerned. He was sitting down, with his legs crossed, his head down, and his eyes closed.
"Attention please, we will now call off the names. Rinoa Heartily, please come forward. Seifer Alamsay, Fujin, Raijin, please come forward." The four of them walked forward, and proceeded to the elevator. Fujin looked at Josh before she left, he was sitting in the exact same position. "Grandia Falentino. Josh Wolfmind." Josh got up, and with no small smile on his face, walked to the office. he heard behind him, "That is all."
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Well, it looks like Josh and his friends are doing quite nicely, aren't they? The next chapter has a few bumps in it, please review and tell me what you think.
Man, this fanfic stuff is hard, I kept looking over it, and finding more mistakes, then I had to include my comments about the reviews. I think I've uploaded this chapter 3 or 4 times in one day.
These are my thanks to my reviewers
Faultering Hues- Glad you liked the name, I'm working on more stuff, and I am thinking about a pairing of those two. not sure yet.
Divine Warrior- Thanks for the nice comment, I hope you like the second chapter, I know i skipped some scenes, but I didn't want to keep you and the other's waiting.
To all the rest of you who are reading this.......PLEASE REVIEW. I can't write a good fic without a good audience.
Ch.2
Confessions and Tests
Disclaimer : once again, I don't own any of the FF8 characters, nor do I own ff8(for those of you who may not know, FF8/ff8, both stand for Final Fantasy VIII) I made up the character known as Josh, any resemblance he may have to any characters in any other fics is purely coincidence
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"EXPLAIN." Fujin said to Josh, who had removed the float spell, and was now reviewing at his panel.
"Explain what?" Josh didn't take his eyes off the panel, and this was getting on Fujins nerves. She wanted him to look her in the face, and talk to her.
"WHY LEFT."
"I'm right handed...not left" Josh said comically, Fujin could see that this was going to be difficult.
"NEGATIVE, YOU UNDERSTAND MEANING." Fujin decided to let him know she was serious, so she unplugged his panel and looked at him with her good eye.
"So...you want to know why I left when you and the others were going to come over to my table?"
"AFFIRMATIVE"
"Negative" Josh said, catching Fujin off guard. She didn't like the idea of having her own way of speech used against her.
"EXPLAIN"
"I don't want to talk about my personal feelings."
"WASN'T REQUEST."
"Well well, aren't we little miss bossy this morning?" josh said, getting up to leave
"NEGATIVE, CONCERNED."
"Your concerned about me? that's very kind of you, but you don't have to."
"POSSE, PROTECT FRIEND."
"I don't need protection from anyone. I can take care of my self." Josh said, heading for the door. "Now, if you'll excuse me....."
Fujin stepped in front of him. "WON'T EXCUSE"
"Your being pretty bold Fujin. I told you I don't want to talk about it, now you can either move, or be moved." Josh had a look in his eyes that said that it wasn't an empty threat.
"NOT MOVE. EXPLAIN."
Josh's face contorted, and his anger exploded "LOOK YOU LITTLE PEST, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT WHAT SO EVER TO BE NOSING AROUND IN MY PERSONAL BUSINESS. IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT CONCERNS YOU, I'LL TELL YOU, OTHER WISE KEEP OUT OF MY LIFE!!"
Fujin knew he hadn't meant what he just said, so she didn't let it effect her, she just blinked and said, " EXPLAIN. PLEASE"
"Your pretty persistent, aren't you? Fine, I have alto of emotional baggage from a relationship that went wrong. I'll tell you more later, but it'll have to wait until after the Exam, or else we'll be late, agreed?"
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"then let's go." They started towards the door, and Josh stopped, " Hey, Fujin.........I'm....well ....sorry 'bout blowing up on you."
"ACCEPTED."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~In front of the Garden~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Congratulations to all of you for making it this far, now, you will move, on foot, to Balamb, your path, fights, and actions will decide which teams your placed on." Cid was standing just outside the gate, and speaking to the 15 SeeD candidates which were going to be taking the exam. "This exam is going to be different, because a trained SeeD will be the leader in each of the teams. That is all, now go."
The candidates quickly scattered about, and ran towards Balamb. Most followed the road, since it was the safest path, but Seifer, Fujin, Raijin, and Josh made a b-line through the plains and got to balamb first.
Since most of the candidates moves separately, they had to fight their own battles, but the four teens had split into 2 groups, Seifer and Raijin were in the first group, and Fujin and Josh were in the second. If one group got caught by an enemy, the other one would wait for them.
Since they were the first ones there, the newly expanded Posse was placed into the main team. the team was lead by none other, than Xu herself. Once inside the ship, they were briefed. "Welcome, I'll get straight to business, you will be the main force in driving out a large group of invading monsters from a town we have built. this will be conducted as a true mission, and the goal is the complete liberation of Firesmith, with as little damage as possible. Any questions?"
"I have one." Josh said "Why were the four of us chosen to be the main force?"
"In getting here, you showed a tremendous amount of team-work, a crucial element in battle. for this reason, we expanded the group, we had planned on having only 3 in the main force, but even though you were in 2 teams, you worked as one, and got the job done fastest. Your speed and efficiency convinced us to allow all four of you into the group."
"I see," Seifer said, "so, where is this 'city', and what kind of monsters can we expect to face?"
"The location of the city in in the Galbadian Desert, and as for the monsters, not even I know exactly what will be there."
"DESERT. CACTAUR. WATER."
"Don't worry Fujin," Raijin said with a sly tone in his voice, "I brought plenty of Water spells, although I didn't have this in mind, Ya' know."
"Good thinking, Fujin, Raijin, tell me, what other spells do you all have?"
"Lets see, does everyone have their usual spells?" Seifer asked, looking around.
"AFFIRMATIVE. WIND. AURA." Fujin said.
"I got my Water of course, and the Firaga and Blizzaga spells you suggested. Along with the usual Thundaga, Ya' know"
"I got my status effect magic, Pain, Haste, Slow, Sleep, Scan, etc." Seifer said, and turned to Josh. "Hey, by the way, Josh, what's your speciality anyway?"
"Little of everything, lets see, I got Quake, Curaga, Holy, Meteor, Ultima, and, oh yeah, my favorite, Meltdown."
"Wow, sounds like we picked the right group to be out main force, you've got nearly every area covered. what are your GFs?"
"PANDEMONIA."
"Ifrit, Ya' know"
"I have the Doomtrain GF." once again, Every one looked at josh and wondered what he had up his sleeve.
"I have a GF you probably never heard of before. It told me that I was the first person to use it in along time."
"Your GF talks to you?" Raijin nearly jumped out of his seat.
"A new GF? How did you find it?" Xu was very excited to hear that there was something she didn't know about
"Actually, it found me." Josh began to tell them his story He told them that he was originally from Winhill, and that he loved to be outside the town. "One day, I found a cave and decided to explore it. That was a big mistake. The cave was actually a tunnel leading to the Island closest to Hell, and A group of Grendals were inside. They didn't like Winhill, because it's climate was so much different than where they lived, I guess, although I'm not really sure why they were there in the first place. The Grendals quickly surrounded me, and attacked. Of course, as we all know, the 2 islands are famous for having very high leveled monsters. I suddenly heard a voice inside my head. It said that it would save me if I would allow it to be juctioned to me. I agreed, and when the battle started, The GF summoned it's self. I've never felt a power so great, it's attack took out 3 of the Grendals, and the others ran. I know it sounds hard to believe, but it's true."
"NAME."
"Your not going to believe this, but her name is Lunos."
"Lunos!!!!!!!! The LOST GF?!?!?!" Xu shouted?
"Yeah, how'd you know?"
All eyes were now on Xu, as she began her story. "Through out History, The Great GF Lunos has been said to appear to the strongest warriors before the most challenging time of their lives. Lunos always prepares them to fight a great fight, as long as they accept her. But no one has attained this GF in centuries, so it has been called the LOST GF."
An alarm went off, and caused everyone to jump. "Well, were here, time to change transports." Xu commanded, and the group disembarked from the boat, and walked a few hundred feet to where a large, open bed, military truck awaited them. "We're the first wave, proceed to the practice grounds." Xu was taking her role of leader seriously. "You should all know, I'm going to be giving Cid the report that will be the deciding factor in your success, or failure." they had already gotten half-way there when she told them this, and she received angry looks from all around.
It was Josh who spoke up next, "Look, no offence, but you're the one who thought that we were exceptional, you said so yourself. You don't have to worry about making sure that the mission is a success, we'll handle that. And don't say failure around us, we NEVER fail."
"AGREED. NOT FAILURES."
"We'll get your job done for you, Ya' know."
There was a pause, "Don't you have anything to say Seifer?" Xu asked, she had expected a smaller reaction than this, and so she knew that they were all keeping a tight leash on their emotions.
"They all said what I thought, no need to be redundant." Precise and to the point, Xu was starting to think that she might have been wrong about Seifer never becoming a SeeD, because they were all acting like they already were SeeDs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Battle Field, 2 Hours Later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The Perimeter is secure Xu." Josh said, after checking it for the 5th time."
"Fujin, do you see anything?" Xu asked the platinum beauty.
"NEGATIVE" Fujin had been placed as look out, because hers was the only weapon capable of distance attacks. "NO ACTIVITY."
"Good, looks like we're going to be ok. I guess I shouldn't have doubted your ability to control the situation." Xu was very proud of all the members of her squad, they showed excellent team work, and had gotten the job done quickly.
"INCOMING." Fujin was hunched down, so as to prevent being seen. The others looked in the way she motioned, to see Rinoa running their way.
"Xu? Xu? Where are you Xu? Seifer? Raijin?" Rinoa looked around desperately as she ran, but she didn't see the monster that her shouting had attracted.
"BEWARE!" Fujin shouted, jumping up, "ENEMY!" she threw her shirkin towards Rinoa.
"Wait!!, I'm not an...." Rinoa stopped as the shirkin flew past her, and hit the Beul that was flying behind her. She dropped on her back, and held up her arms, to scared to scream. Luckily for her, and as I'm sure we all know, Beuls are weak against physical attacks, so this one died fairly quickly. "Thanks Fujin, I'm lucky you were there." Rinoa said, when she had gotten to safety.
"AFFIRMATIVE. CARELESS."
"Fujins right Rinoa, your should have been paying full attention to your surroundings." Xu was wandering what had possessed her to come running after them, alone no doubt.
"My Squad had to pull back, all of them did. There has been an unexpected monster. A dragon of some sort, it nearly wiped out one of the SeeD Commanders.
"Xu, Seifer, Fujin and I can take care of the monster, we need at least 3 people to stay here."
"Right, Josh, Your in charge, go and show me what you've got, I have seen all your abilities, and have faith in all of you."
"Won't let you down." Seifer said, Glad to have some action for once. "Lets go have ourselves some fun."
"AFFIRMATIVE." Fujin said, she had wiped her shirkin off, and was ready to fight.
"Lets rock this town." Josh said, Grabbing his bo-sai from off a wall.
"Good luck, and watch out." Xu said, Saluting them as they hurried to where Rinoa had told them the dragon was. They had expected a small dragon, Blue, maybe a Hexa-, because that would have been strong enough to take on a SeeD, but not so challenging, that it could take out the 3 of them. They were wrong. Very, Very wrong.
As they turned the corner to get to where Rinoa's group had been stationed, they say it. the black horns, huge wings, massive body, and the red color. "A Ruby Dragon!!!!" Josh looked worried for a minute, but quickly gained his confidence back. "This is going to be fun, Fujin, get your aura spells ready."
"AFFIRMATIVE."
"Lets do it." Seifer said, "I got some Heros incase we need them."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Balamb Garden, two hours later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On the second floor, the candidates were lined up, waiting to hear who got the position of SeeD. Every one seemed nervous, except for Josh and Seifer.
"How can you be so calm?" Rinoa shouted. "I'm about to fall apart wanting to know."
"If I become a SeeD, I be come a SeeD, if I don't, I don't. Fretting and carrying on like you all won't change the outcome of the test, so why worry?" Josh said. He was indeed, not concerned. He was sitting down, with his legs crossed, his head down, and his eyes closed.
"Attention please, we will now call off the names. Rinoa Heartily, please come forward. Seifer Alamsay, Fujin, Raijin, please come forward." The four of them walked forward, and proceeded to the elevator. Fujin looked at Josh before she left, he was sitting in the exact same position. "Grandia Falentino. Josh Wolfmind." Josh got up, and with no small smile on his face, walked to the office. he heard behind him, "That is all."
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Well, it looks like Josh and his friends are doing quite nicely, aren't they? The next chapter has a few bumps in it, please review and tell me what you think.
Man, this fanfic stuff is hard, I kept looking over it, and finding more mistakes, then I had to include my comments about the reviews. I think I've uploaded this chapter 3 or 4 times in one day.
These are my thanks to my reviewers
Faultering Hues- Glad you liked the name, I'm working on more stuff, and I am thinking about a pairing of those two. not sure yet.
Divine Warrior- Thanks for the nice comment, I hope you like the second chapter, I know i skipped some scenes, but I didn't want to keep you and the other's waiting.
To all the rest of you who are reading this.......PLEASE REVIEW. I can't write a good fic without a good audience.
