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{The Legend of Nanaki} [Chaper 2: The visitor]







Nanaki had already woken up that morning. He didn't enjoy sleeping in late, but he hated waking up early as well. He sat on the canyon's highest point, Bugenhagen's lab. From there, he could spot any moving object from any direction, plus, he enjoyed sitting on that cliff, it brought back memories.

He began to think about last night. "Even though I remember the dream, I guess I forgot about the part where he WAS a brave warrior, not a coward." Nanaki looked into the rising sun. He knew the rising sun was best to see in Wutai, but he never had saw it himself. He had wanted to, but never wanted to leave the canyon, for he sensed great danger from time to time.

He quickly sensed something. His full body whipped around to search the area from which the presense had come from. He had seen nothing.

"What was that...?" Nanaki asked himself. "It didn't feel evil....It felt...wierd." Nanaki looked around the plains. "It wasn't human, that's for sure..." he continued to search. "And yet...it felt strangly familiar..."

Nanaki decided to shake it off. "Probably just a squirrel or something...."

"Hey! What's that?!" a man's voice came. Nanaki looked down to where the voice had come from. There, he saw a group of people looking and pointing at him. "Tourists..." Nanaki hated tourists. Everytime they'd come into the canyon, they'd be told about the protector of the town, Nanaki. So the tourists would always want to come see this so called 'Nanaki' and they'd be led right to the red-furred beast. They'd ask him questions and pet him and treat him like his job was the easiest of them all. They'd also treat him like a cub. Except one day....

~~~Flashback~~~

Nanaki would protect the canyon like always. It had been about 1 year after the defeat of Sephiroth and more and more tourists would come and go. They'd pet Nanaki and want info about him. Nanaki hated to be petted, didn't they know HE was one of the rebel group called AVALANCHE? Didn't they know HE was Seto's son? And didn't they know HE helped saved the world? No...no they didn't....until one day....

Nanaki was getting petted by tourists, until a man with a long grey beard pushed though the other tourists. He also had long grey hair that went down to his knees. He reminded Nanaki of Bugenhagen. He didn't know why...

He pushed through the terrorists until he reached Nanaki. The person whom was petting Nanaki was pushed by the man. The man kneeled down to where Nanaki was laying.

The other tourists got mad at the man and began to shout at him. The man turned around to the tourists.

"Can't you see? This poor creature is the last of his own race!" the man had a old, yet somewhat gruff voice. The other people gasped. They had not known....

Nanaki's head raised a bit. The man turned back to him. The man looked deep into Nanaki's eyes. He stared deep into his eyes. The man gasped and almost fell back. "Those eyes....you're the son of Seto!" the man laughed.

Nanaki quickly got up. "How do you know this?!" he growled. The man got up. "Nanaki, you are special, you are of special blood."

"H-how??" Nanaki was a bit frightend of the man, for he had know what his name was and his father's name.

"Haha! Come with me!" the man led Nanaki out the door and up to Bugenhagen's cliff. "Wait...how do you know all this? Who are you? And where did you come from?" Nanaki asked. "Haha, you silly beast! You know who I am!"

"No, I really don't..." the man and Nanaki reached the top of the cliff. "I have to tell you something...." the man sat down as did Nanaki. "What is it?" "You see, you are your fathers son, the son of Seto, the brave and courageous warrior. You cannot be killed so easily."

"Why does everyone keep telling me that?! I can be killed just as easily as anyone!" Nanaki argued. "No you can't! You have your fathers blood! Haha, Nanaki, did you know your father is a legend?!"

"Well, I have heard of him being a great hero and warrior, but not a legend..." Nanaki said. "Well....you are a legend too you know..." the man laughed. "NO WAY!!!"

"Yes, it's true and it's not because you saved the world." "What!? Then what for?!" "It's because you are of the blood...and because...well I'll tell you later when I come back. It'll be a suprise." the man winked and put his hands together and disapeared. Nanaki jumped back. "A-a wizard...?"

~~~End Flashback~~~

Yes, Nanaki had waited over a year now, he had really wanted the man to come back. Though the man had writen a letter to him the next day after his presense. It said stuff about Seto and Bugenhagen. Nanaki truly knew that this guy really DID know all of his secrets. It also said that he needed to put an end to the evil presense. That REALLY frightend Nanaki for he thought only he, his father, and Bugenhagen knew about the evil.

Nanaki jumped from the cliff to the people's feet. It was a long, far jump, but he managed to refrain from harming himself. The people gasped as they saw him. The tour guide laughed. "This is Nanaki, the brave warrior, he protects this canyon and does many other things. He's almost like the mayor of the town!" he laughed. The tour guide left for a breif break.

The tourists bent down and ruffled his mane. Nanaki especially hated this, he only liked it when he was a cub. More tourists petted his mane, this time harder. Nanaki backed up some. "Aww look mommy...the kitty cat is scared of us!" a little girl about Marlene's age said. Nanaki backed up so far until he was cornered by tourists.

People continued to pet him as if he were an animal of the petting zoo. Nanaki tried to back up more, but ran into the cliff's wall. A boy about 8 years old jumped on his back and tugged on his mane really hard. Nanaki lightly shook the boy off his back as to not hurt him.

More people continued to treat him like a cub, not a legend or hero. Soon, Nanaki's mind began to play tricks on him, turning the images of the people into demons and enemies. He closed his eyes.

"Please...please stop...." Nanaki shook his head back and forth to try to lose the images.

"Whoa! He can talk?!" A teenager shouted. That made the people love him even more.

*No....why? Why did I come down here?!* Nanaki thought. *Yes I wanted to see the old man, but I never thought the tourists would do this to me! Why did the tour guide leave?! If he saw this, he'd get on to them....*

People began to tug on his ears and make baby faces. "He's even got tattoos!" Another teenager shouted. Someone then noticed an ear ring. "Cool, one of his ears is pierced!" they tugged on his ears more.

*My tattoos...evil memories from Hojo...* he thought.

Nanaki was about to go crazy. He tried to risist the evil images in his head and tried to ignore the people. Another bunch of kids jumped on him and lightly punched him. They were laughing and screaming.

Nanaki made a low, quiet growl. Nobody heard him over the kids laughter and the people's conversations. Nanaki made a bit higher growl. He didn't want to scare them, just warn them off. Yet, nobody heard this growl either.

A smaller boy, about 7 years old saw Nanaki's necklace. He saw it's pretty colors of red, white, black, orange, and yellow. He also saw it had a bit of green, blue, and purple, but not much. It also had triangular shaped stones that glowed once and a while. The boy walked up to the red-furred beast and grabbed the necklace. He began to yank as hard as he could on the necklace.

Nanaki hadn't seen the boy, for his eyes were closed the whole time, yet he felt the yanks from his necklace. Soon, the boy gave one last final yank and the whole necklace came off. It had broken the strings in three different places. The boy fell backwards with the broken necklace in his hands laughing.

Nanaki's eyes were full of rage and sadness. He roared so loud that everyone could hear it, even the other towns people. All the tourists became frightened by the beast. Even the boy was shaking in his boots. He lunged for the boy, while his instincts came over him.

'Kill the boy' his mind told him.

'No, think Nanaki, don't kill him'

Nanaki landed from the lunge and grabbed the necklace out of the boys grasp with his fangs and stepped back a bit.

"GRR!!" Nanaki growled. "THIS NECKLACE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I OWN!!! NOBODY IS TO TOUCH IT!! NOW, GET OUT OF MY CANYON!!!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.

"AND I AM A LEGEND! NOBODY TREATS ME LIKE A CUB, NOBODY!!!!!!" Nanaki jumped about 10 feet in the air and extended his claws. He barely reached a rock on the side of the cliff and scraped his way up. Parts of the necklace began to fall in his pathway. Nanaki could feel tears clouding his eyes. He continued to make his way up the cliff.

As soon as he reached his destination, he howled into the sky and ran off. The tour guide ran out of the restraunt and to the people. He asked what had happened, and the people told him. The tour guide looked furious. Before he left to go catch Nanaki, he told the people to never treat him like that, he is an animal that is not to be treated so childish-like.

15 minutes later, Nanaki was in his room. It was located near behind the cliff.

The tour guide ran in.

"Nanaki, what in the heck were you thinking!?!?!" he shouted. Nanaki got up quickly. "Hey! They broke my necklace, ruffled my mane, and mistreated me! It's not like I hurt any of them!"

"You hurt them mentally. Those parents of that boy were worried sick and were terrified!" the man shouted. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!!! THEY'RE THE ONES WHO DID THIS TO ME!!!" Nanaki looked back down at his necklace. The man looked at it too and gasped.

"They broke that necklace?! Wasn't that---?!" Nanaki cut him off. "My father's...yes...."

"Oh my...I didn't know it was that one...and about your mane?" the man was worried now. "Yeah, it hurts, they ruffled it pretty hard...." the man decided to change the subject back to the tourists. "But Nanaki, that was no reason to get upset." "I told them to stop though! They wouldn't listen!" "Nanaki, you are still in trouble for that...we'll think of a punishment for it later..." the man walked out of the room.

Nanaki was furious. Why did they need to punish him? He didn't do anything! Plus, he's the one who saved their butts from being dead right about now! Nanaki laid down. He put his head on his paws and went to sleep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Someone opened the beaded and feathered door to Nanaki's room. "Hey, hey Nanaki, wake up! It's time to be executed! That's your punishment!

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"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" Nanaki jumped up and was sweating all over. "Another bad dream?!" he calmed himself. He layed back down on his deerskin/feather bed. "Heh heh heh, that was pretty funny though...." Nanaki was pretty good at cheering himself up.

Someone opened the beaded and feathered door to his room. A villager's head popped in. "Hey, hey Nanaki----" the man was cut off by Nanaki's yelps. "AHHHH! AHHH!" he ran around his room. "Uh...okay, all I was gonna say is there is someone here to see you..." Nanaki stopped dead in his tracks. "Oh...okay...then let them in..." "Okay, they're out front....I'll go get them." The villager's head disapeared.

Nanaki started laughing at his foolishness and walked over to his mirror. He cleaned himself up a bit as he felt a strong presense. He whipped around to see who it was, yet there was nobody in his room. "You're here somewhere...." he waited. The presense got stronger. The visitor entered his room. Nanaki closed his eyes before they entered.

"So you must be..." Nanaki opened his eyes. "WHOA!!!!!!!!!"







Hehehehe, sorry, couldn't write more. Hope you like this chapter and please R&R!