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Xaria winced as Pyri was released from the jaws of the T-Rexuar and thrown backwards and somersaulted once before collapsing into a heap on the dirt. She steeled her nerves and turned away from Pyri's body. Ainsley, so intent on calling her new GF, Leviathan, didn't notice Pyri fall. Ainsley raised her hands above her head, fell to her knees and felt the familiar floating, near conscious sensation of drawing a GF. This time, however, it was as if she was the one flying towards the sky and summoning the waterfall. Instead of staying detached from Leviathan, she felt as if she were Leviathan. Ainsley didn't have time to worry, however. As she returned to her normal state of consciousness she noticed Pyri's body lying facedown on the ground. Screaming she ran to Pyri's side and attempted to rouse her. She didn't have any life spells on her, but she tried Cure and Esuna. Xaria watched Ainsley's frantic attempt to revive her friend and opened her mouth to yell at Ainsley. She should know, as every SeeD was taught, that you should always focus on the battle at hand rather than repeatedly trying to revive a fallen comrade. Xaria gritted her teeth and bit her tongue. She reminded herself that Ainsley was still very young, no matter what age she usually acted. After releasing another series of rapid fire punches on the attacking dinosaur, she yelled to Ainsley over the din of his roar,
"Focus on the battle, we'll take care of her later!"
"But…" Ainsley began and then turned away from Pyri. She rose up off of the ground and began to summon Leviathan once more. Xaria nodded and focused on summoning Ifrit. Suddenly the T-Rexaur darted out and gripped Ainsley in it's jaws, thrashing her around and then depositing her on the ground as it had with Pyri before her. Xaria screamed and lost her summoning concentration. Forgetting what she had said to Ainsley moments before, Xaria rushed to Ainsley's side and tried to revive her. Failing, Xaria pulled herself up off of the ground and glared at the attacking monster.
"So you want to play that way do you?" she gritted her teeth and threatened, rather out of character. Suddenly she felt come foreign power rising in her. She crossed her arms over her chest and lowered her head a moment, feeling the power coarse through her body. Raising her head she looked at the T-Rexuar with a glint in her eye. Yelling,
"FISTS OF FURY!!" she proceeded to release a barrage of lightning fast punches on the dinosaur. After doing so, she watched as the dinosaur collapsed to the ground, finally defeated. Falling towards the dirt herself, a mysterious figure flashed quickly across her eyes, slowly lifting Ainsley's body from the ground. Reaching out and trying to speak, Xaria went limp and crumpled into a heap on the dirt.
Pyri watched as the cool, salty breeze ruffled the stiff curtains above her head. She sighed, blowing a strand of dark hair from her forehead. For what seemed like an eternity, all she had been able to do was lie in the infirmary bed and watch the soft, ocean breezes of Balamb rustle the curtains.
"It hardly rains here," said Pyri out loud to herself, assuming that she could not be heard, "I wonder why." Suddenly the door opened and a taller girl with strawberry blonde hair entered. Pyri looked up and smiled. Pushing her hair back, the girl sat on the edge of Pyri's bed.
"You haven't been in here a day yet and you're already going insane and talking to yourself?"
"I don't get it," Pyri said, not bothering to answer Ainsley's first question, "Why are you already okay, Xaria didn't even have to stay in here more than an hour, and I have to stay here overnight?" Ainsley quickly pointed to the small bandage on her head.
"I only have a concussion, and there's not much more that Doctor Kimuri can do, but give me a bandage and tell me that I can't do anything until my headaches stop." Ainsley shrugged, "It kind of sucks though, I mean, I'd better get rid of them before the SeeD test." Pyri's eyes widened,
"The test! Shit! We need to study!" sitting up quickly in her bed, Pyri tried to stand up. Yelping with pain as she began to move her legs she fell back onto the sheets. Ainsley laughed.
"You have a broken leg! How do you think you're going to go out and train with that?" Pyri glared at her. Ainsley shrugged, "Hey, I happen to think that taking on a full-grown T-Rexuar is training enough for the SeeD test. It's unlikely that we'll face any kind of monster that is that powerful. So now the only stuff we need to go over is tactics." Pyri stopped to ponder this, and finding it reasonable, slowly nodded.
"Well then," said Pyri, gesturing to the chair next to her bed, "You might as well make yourself comfortable. I'm bored out of my skull and have nothing better to do." Laughing, Ainsley pulled out a small SeeD history book and moved to the chair that Ainsley has pointed to.