Chapter 7: Aprivera Ambush!
Mattius2k04: Yes, yes, here it is, the first action scene. Hope you all enjoy it (and I know you're all enjoying my shorter commentaries XD)
It was about five minutes into the train that Tidus noticed Yuna had fallen asleep on his shoulder. He looked at her beautiful sleeping face before thinking quietly to himself.
Okay, well, I guess it's safe to assume I have a chance. Tidus pondered. I guess I should make my move. At this, Yuna made a small sound of comfort. But, er, after she wakes up.
Another ten minutes passed, but Tidus realized something was wrong. The train was making strange noises, like metal tearing on metal. He gently moved Yuna's sleeping body, placing her head on his seat as he stood up. He looked behind himself, and was glad to see Yuna was still sleeping. She was still wearing his leather jacket, and he remembered he hadn't taken it off of her. He left it with her, and walked to the front of the train.
It took him a full five minutes to see what was wrong. The train was running smoothly, but he realized that there were fiends. Fiends on the ROOF! He thought quietly. He started to panic, but realized he had to handle the situation. No one else was on this train. Not even a driver; the train was automated. He looked quickly for a brake, and found it. Pulling it, the train, rather quietly, stopped. He watched as several fiends tumbled off of the hull. Looking up, he noticed dents in the ceiling that were positively not there five minutes ago. The doors opened, and Tidus unsheathed his weapon.
He took three steps out of the door, and a fiend leaped on his back. SHIT! He thought. Forgot about the damn fiends on the top! Grunting, he reached behind and flung the struggling monster off of his back. He had a couple moments to notice what they looked like. They were actually somewhat small, ape-like monsters. Kind of cute, save for the fact they had evil, snarling faces. There was, in total, at least two dozen. Some were not moving, having been tumbled off the train and probably being killed in the process. Looking around himself, he noticed they had circled him, hooting wildly.
"Shit!" He exclaimed quietly. "Wait a second, I know what they are!" He thought quickly to himself. They were wild aprivera's, primitive ape-like monsters. They attacked in packs, scavenging, but thankfully, they rarely attacked en masse, for an odd reason. He remembered reading about them somewhere. They would circle their prey, then send the weakest of the pack to deal with it. If the weakest were dispatched, the next strongest one would attack, and so on and so on.
"So if I'm correct, they'll attack me in-" Tidus never finished his sentence, as one of the aprivera's leaped at him. Side stepping, he brought his sword down. The monster disappeared in a wave of multicoloured, beautiful strands of light. Pyreflies? Tidus realized. They must be fiends, not monsters!
The second leaped at him, and was almost as easily dispatched. The crowd seemed to hoot even louder, and more wildly. The process continued for several more creatures, until Tidus realized his limbs were tiring out. It was late, and his body was starting to get tired.
He looked around, realizing there were still a dozen of the hooting, snarling beasts. They had gotten much stronger, taking more hits and actually dodging his own attacks.
Like some kind of disgruntled game! Tidus thought. Another creature leaped, knocking him over, and its own momentum carried it a few feet away. Tidus closed his eyes as his back collided painfully with the ground.
How the hell is Yuna sleeping through this?! Tidus thought. He stood up, and realized he was no match. He was too tired, and the monsters were just getting too strong. He realized he shouldn't have pulled the brakes, and realized he shouldn't have kept Yuna sleeping. No, I can't let them attack her! Tidus thought. Even if I have to. die, I will NOT let them hurt her! Maybe she can keep me alive, but I have to keep her alive to do that!
He was about to struggle to his feet, grunting, when he watched as the creature went flying, pyreflies disappearing from its body all the while it was flying. Turning, he saw Yuna, her eyes focused, her staff raised.
"I'm here!" cried Yuna.
"Yuna!" Tidus shouted back.
"We have to fight them!" Yuna shouted back. The aprivera pack had regrouped, forming a kind of sick organizational regiment. They were now hooting angrily, jumping up and down. The leader, or at least who seemed the leader, was beating the ground with his fists. Tidus realized he wouldn't hold out much longer, but all of a sudden, a blue light enveloped him, and he felt the whole world changing as his body healed. His lungs recovered, as if he had a full nights sleep in just a moment.
"W-what?" He whispered. He turned, and saw Yuna pointing her staff at him, eyes closed. A moment later, she opened her eyes, looking down at her staff.
"I healed you!" Yuna replied. "Let's beat them!"
A second later, the creatures dashed forwards. This time though, Tidus was ready. The first three collided with him, and were easily dispatched by his swinging blade. Another creature leaped at him, but Tidus ducked, and as the creature landed, it found itself trapped under the swing of a hard staff from Yuna. Stunned, it swaggered forwards before Tidus ran and kicked it. It went flying, screaming, before disappearing in a wave of light. Tidus turned as the final several apriveras lunged at him. He was bowled over by the strongest of the bunch, and found himself struggling to keep its gnashing teeth off of his throat. He reached for Firestarter, lying a couple feet away, and with his other hand at the monsters throat, kept it away for enough time. He reached, grabbed Firestarter, and impaled the gurgling monster. It fell off of him, disappearing in a wave of light. The other monsters hesitated, their battle cries turning to shrill sounds of fear. Turning, they dashed off into the night.
"Tidus! Are you alright?" Yuna cried, dashing to Tidus' aid. He was bleeding a little from several smaller wounds, which Yuna easily healed.
"Uh, yeah, I think so." Tidus replied. Standing up, he stretched to see if anything was wrong. Nothing was hurt or broken. "Yeah, I am. Thanks."
"What were those?" Yuna asked.
"Fiends, I guess." Tidus replied. "Don't know how or why they attacked the train, though. We are the only two in it."
"Well, let's get back on." Yuna spoke quietly. The night was dark, strange, even terrifying.
"Yeah, this place gives me the creeps." Tidus replied. They were on some kind of field, because Tidus could see long grass a little while ahead. There were some grouped trees beyond that, or he thought, it was a little too dark. But of course, the always-present mountains loomed, towering over all.
They made it back into the train, started it up, and before they knew it they were at Balamb Garden again. They stepped off the train, and realized the Garden was asleep. Nothing made any noise, save for the rustling of the wind on bushes and trees.
"Woah! What time is it?" Whispered Tidus. Yuna giggled, looking down at her watch. Tidus noticed she still had his leather jacket, and was wearing it the same way as before. Also, he started to really realize just how beautiful she was. Not just physically, but now because he'd gotten time to know her better. She wasn't just another pretty face to Tidus. He'd seen girls beautiful before, but not with such a great personality. Most of the girls he'd seen that were anything close to Yuna were too preoccupied with makeup and accessories, but Yuna wasn't anything like that. She was so down to earth, so caring, and she was just beautiful, on the inside and outside. He found himself staring at her, the whole planet seeming to go in slow motion as she looked down to find the time.
Yet there was something else about her, something inside that she couldn't seem to uncover even herself. On the outside, she seemed soft- spoken, polite, and shy, but Tidus could see an inner strength, like a young tiger. The ability to be extremely powerful, which is what Tidus saw. Not physical strength, but the emotional strength that leaders were made of. His eyebrows narrowed, as he stared deeper into her beauty.
"It's. 12:30.I think." Yuna whispered. She looked up at Tidus, smiling, and noticed he seemed entranced. "Tidus?"
What should I do? Tidus thought. The whole world seemed to pause as he thought. Should I kiss her? What should I do!? What if. what if she doesn't like me.? No, no way, no girl has ever acted this way to me and not liked me. But Yuna's.different, somehow. No, no, no. I shouldn't risk it. I don't want to do it. yet, at least.
"Um, Tidus?" Yuna waved her hand in front of his face. "You there?"
"Y-Yeah, I'm here!" Tidus exclaimed. "Sorry. I just zoned out." Looking at you.
"Well, we should go. We have to wake up soon!" Yuna smiled, laughing softly. Tidus laughed a bit himself.
"Hey, what class are you taking tomorrow?" Tidus asked.
"Oh, I'm taking Fiends and Creatures." Yuna replied.
With a look of surprise, Tidus replied "Hey! Me too!"
Yuna grinned, and bounced up once before laughing. "Hey that's great! We can study together!"
"Yeah!" Tidus replied enthusiastically. They had actually begun walking, and were nearing the elevator inside, and had not even noticed it. "That'd be great, huh?"
"Yeah, I bet we'll do great!" Yuna replied. She'd grabbed Tidus' hand, and was jumping up and down excitedly. Tidus joined in.
"Hehe, you know, maybe we should calm down?" Tidus replied. "We're gonna wake everybody up, you know!"
"Oops, um." Yuna giggled softly. "You're right. I'm sorry."
"It's alright. I guess we're both really happy, that's all." Tidus answered.
"So. I guess we're finished, for the night?" Yuna asked.
"Yeah," Tidus replied as they came across the entrance to Yuna's room, "but I had a really good time."
"Me too!" Yuna whispered.
"So I'll talk to you later, tomorrow?" Tidus answered. "We'll try to sit together, okay?"
"Yes, I'll try my best." Yuna answered. "We'll have to meet up again sometime." Tidus nodded in reply, and before he knew it, Yuna stepped forwards, and quickly kissed him on his cheek. He saw her smile, brown hair twisting, and he thought he may have seen her blush and smile mischievously, like a kid who had done something bad, but liked it and gotten away with it. She stepped away, and closed the door quietly.
"Sure." Tidus whispered to himself, putting a hand on his cheek. "Guess that makes two things I'm never washing." He said sarcastically.
"Where the hell YOU been?" Wakka asked sheepishly. "Catchin' ladies?"
"Aw come on man," Tidus replied, "I was just out, met up with Yuna."
"Oh, so hey brudda, how'd it go?" Wakka laughed, softly hitting Tidus in the shoulder.
"It went fine, we talked and stuff." Tidus answered.
Wakka raised one eyebrow, then spoke in a taunting tone. "Yeah sure you did. I bet you were liplockin' like crazy, ya?"
"No, no we weren't." Tidus answered, holding up both hands and shaking his head. "I was gonna, but I hesitated."
"Oh man, YOU hesitated?" Wakka gasped. "What's this world coming to, eh?"
"Well, I won't next time." Tidus answered, holding up his index finger.
"Well man, I got something to tell you," Wakka said, his tone changing to a serious voice. "Maybe. maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves with this university chick thing, ya?"
"What?" Tidus asked. "What are you talking about? Did you hit your head?"
"No, I just." Wakka hesitated. "I just got to thinkin' once you left."
"What?" Tidus asked, still confused.
"I just. think that maybe we should be careful, worry more about dying."
"Why do you think we should worry about that?" Tidus answered, then came to a realization. "Oh, I see. you think I shouldn't get involved with Yuna, in case one of us dies?"
"Yeah man, because if one of you died, that would crush the other. I seen you both, you both got that happy couple look in your eyes. If one of you died, then what?" Wakka explained.
"So, you're saying I shouldn't?" Tidus asked, one eyebrow cocked. "Well, what about you?"
"It's not that I'm sayin' you shouldn't," Wakka replied, "just that you should be careful. I'm still goin' for the chicks, ya? Just I'm gonna concentrate on trainin' more, is all."
"I understand. I'm doing well in my class though, I think I'll be fine." Tidus answered.
"Yeah well, I was just warnin' you." Wakka answered. "Night, brudda."
"Sure." Tidus answered.
Mattius2k04: Yes, yes, here it is, the first action scene. Hope you all enjoy it (and I know you're all enjoying my shorter commentaries XD)
It was about five minutes into the train that Tidus noticed Yuna had fallen asleep on his shoulder. He looked at her beautiful sleeping face before thinking quietly to himself.
Okay, well, I guess it's safe to assume I have a chance. Tidus pondered. I guess I should make my move. At this, Yuna made a small sound of comfort. But, er, after she wakes up.
Another ten minutes passed, but Tidus realized something was wrong. The train was making strange noises, like metal tearing on metal. He gently moved Yuna's sleeping body, placing her head on his seat as he stood up. He looked behind himself, and was glad to see Yuna was still sleeping. She was still wearing his leather jacket, and he remembered he hadn't taken it off of her. He left it with her, and walked to the front of the train.
It took him a full five minutes to see what was wrong. The train was running smoothly, but he realized that there were fiends. Fiends on the ROOF! He thought quietly. He started to panic, but realized he had to handle the situation. No one else was on this train. Not even a driver; the train was automated. He looked quickly for a brake, and found it. Pulling it, the train, rather quietly, stopped. He watched as several fiends tumbled off of the hull. Looking up, he noticed dents in the ceiling that were positively not there five minutes ago. The doors opened, and Tidus unsheathed his weapon.
He took three steps out of the door, and a fiend leaped on his back. SHIT! He thought. Forgot about the damn fiends on the top! Grunting, he reached behind and flung the struggling monster off of his back. He had a couple moments to notice what they looked like. They were actually somewhat small, ape-like monsters. Kind of cute, save for the fact they had evil, snarling faces. There was, in total, at least two dozen. Some were not moving, having been tumbled off the train and probably being killed in the process. Looking around himself, he noticed they had circled him, hooting wildly.
"Shit!" He exclaimed quietly. "Wait a second, I know what they are!" He thought quickly to himself. They were wild aprivera's, primitive ape-like monsters. They attacked in packs, scavenging, but thankfully, they rarely attacked en masse, for an odd reason. He remembered reading about them somewhere. They would circle their prey, then send the weakest of the pack to deal with it. If the weakest were dispatched, the next strongest one would attack, and so on and so on.
"So if I'm correct, they'll attack me in-" Tidus never finished his sentence, as one of the aprivera's leaped at him. Side stepping, he brought his sword down. The monster disappeared in a wave of multicoloured, beautiful strands of light. Pyreflies? Tidus realized. They must be fiends, not monsters!
The second leaped at him, and was almost as easily dispatched. The crowd seemed to hoot even louder, and more wildly. The process continued for several more creatures, until Tidus realized his limbs were tiring out. It was late, and his body was starting to get tired.
He looked around, realizing there were still a dozen of the hooting, snarling beasts. They had gotten much stronger, taking more hits and actually dodging his own attacks.
Like some kind of disgruntled game! Tidus thought. Another creature leaped, knocking him over, and its own momentum carried it a few feet away. Tidus closed his eyes as his back collided painfully with the ground.
How the hell is Yuna sleeping through this?! Tidus thought. He stood up, and realized he was no match. He was too tired, and the monsters were just getting too strong. He realized he shouldn't have pulled the brakes, and realized he shouldn't have kept Yuna sleeping. No, I can't let them attack her! Tidus thought. Even if I have to. die, I will NOT let them hurt her! Maybe she can keep me alive, but I have to keep her alive to do that!
He was about to struggle to his feet, grunting, when he watched as the creature went flying, pyreflies disappearing from its body all the while it was flying. Turning, he saw Yuna, her eyes focused, her staff raised.
"I'm here!" cried Yuna.
"Yuna!" Tidus shouted back.
"We have to fight them!" Yuna shouted back. The aprivera pack had regrouped, forming a kind of sick organizational regiment. They were now hooting angrily, jumping up and down. The leader, or at least who seemed the leader, was beating the ground with his fists. Tidus realized he wouldn't hold out much longer, but all of a sudden, a blue light enveloped him, and he felt the whole world changing as his body healed. His lungs recovered, as if he had a full nights sleep in just a moment.
"W-what?" He whispered. He turned, and saw Yuna pointing her staff at him, eyes closed. A moment later, she opened her eyes, looking down at her staff.
"I healed you!" Yuna replied. "Let's beat them!"
A second later, the creatures dashed forwards. This time though, Tidus was ready. The first three collided with him, and were easily dispatched by his swinging blade. Another creature leaped at him, but Tidus ducked, and as the creature landed, it found itself trapped under the swing of a hard staff from Yuna. Stunned, it swaggered forwards before Tidus ran and kicked it. It went flying, screaming, before disappearing in a wave of light. Tidus turned as the final several apriveras lunged at him. He was bowled over by the strongest of the bunch, and found himself struggling to keep its gnashing teeth off of his throat. He reached for Firestarter, lying a couple feet away, and with his other hand at the monsters throat, kept it away for enough time. He reached, grabbed Firestarter, and impaled the gurgling monster. It fell off of him, disappearing in a wave of light. The other monsters hesitated, their battle cries turning to shrill sounds of fear. Turning, they dashed off into the night.
"Tidus! Are you alright?" Yuna cried, dashing to Tidus' aid. He was bleeding a little from several smaller wounds, which Yuna easily healed.
"Uh, yeah, I think so." Tidus replied. Standing up, he stretched to see if anything was wrong. Nothing was hurt or broken. "Yeah, I am. Thanks."
"What were those?" Yuna asked.
"Fiends, I guess." Tidus replied. "Don't know how or why they attacked the train, though. We are the only two in it."
"Well, let's get back on." Yuna spoke quietly. The night was dark, strange, even terrifying.
"Yeah, this place gives me the creeps." Tidus replied. They were on some kind of field, because Tidus could see long grass a little while ahead. There were some grouped trees beyond that, or he thought, it was a little too dark. But of course, the always-present mountains loomed, towering over all.
They made it back into the train, started it up, and before they knew it they were at Balamb Garden again. They stepped off the train, and realized the Garden was asleep. Nothing made any noise, save for the rustling of the wind on bushes and trees.
"Woah! What time is it?" Whispered Tidus. Yuna giggled, looking down at her watch. Tidus noticed she still had his leather jacket, and was wearing it the same way as before. Also, he started to really realize just how beautiful she was. Not just physically, but now because he'd gotten time to know her better. She wasn't just another pretty face to Tidus. He'd seen girls beautiful before, but not with such a great personality. Most of the girls he'd seen that were anything close to Yuna were too preoccupied with makeup and accessories, but Yuna wasn't anything like that. She was so down to earth, so caring, and she was just beautiful, on the inside and outside. He found himself staring at her, the whole planet seeming to go in slow motion as she looked down to find the time.
Yet there was something else about her, something inside that she couldn't seem to uncover even herself. On the outside, she seemed soft- spoken, polite, and shy, but Tidus could see an inner strength, like a young tiger. The ability to be extremely powerful, which is what Tidus saw. Not physical strength, but the emotional strength that leaders were made of. His eyebrows narrowed, as he stared deeper into her beauty.
"It's. 12:30.I think." Yuna whispered. She looked up at Tidus, smiling, and noticed he seemed entranced. "Tidus?"
What should I do? Tidus thought. The whole world seemed to pause as he thought. Should I kiss her? What should I do!? What if. what if she doesn't like me.? No, no way, no girl has ever acted this way to me and not liked me. But Yuna's.different, somehow. No, no, no. I shouldn't risk it. I don't want to do it. yet, at least.
"Um, Tidus?" Yuna waved her hand in front of his face. "You there?"
"Y-Yeah, I'm here!" Tidus exclaimed. "Sorry. I just zoned out." Looking at you.
"Well, we should go. We have to wake up soon!" Yuna smiled, laughing softly. Tidus laughed a bit himself.
"Hey, what class are you taking tomorrow?" Tidus asked.
"Oh, I'm taking Fiends and Creatures." Yuna replied.
With a look of surprise, Tidus replied "Hey! Me too!"
Yuna grinned, and bounced up once before laughing. "Hey that's great! We can study together!"
"Yeah!" Tidus replied enthusiastically. They had actually begun walking, and were nearing the elevator inside, and had not even noticed it. "That'd be great, huh?"
"Yeah, I bet we'll do great!" Yuna replied. She'd grabbed Tidus' hand, and was jumping up and down excitedly. Tidus joined in.
"Hehe, you know, maybe we should calm down?" Tidus replied. "We're gonna wake everybody up, you know!"
"Oops, um." Yuna giggled softly. "You're right. I'm sorry."
"It's alright. I guess we're both really happy, that's all." Tidus answered.
"So. I guess we're finished, for the night?" Yuna asked.
"Yeah," Tidus replied as they came across the entrance to Yuna's room, "but I had a really good time."
"Me too!" Yuna whispered.
"So I'll talk to you later, tomorrow?" Tidus answered. "We'll try to sit together, okay?"
"Yes, I'll try my best." Yuna answered. "We'll have to meet up again sometime." Tidus nodded in reply, and before he knew it, Yuna stepped forwards, and quickly kissed him on his cheek. He saw her smile, brown hair twisting, and he thought he may have seen her blush and smile mischievously, like a kid who had done something bad, but liked it and gotten away with it. She stepped away, and closed the door quietly.
"Sure." Tidus whispered to himself, putting a hand on his cheek. "Guess that makes two things I'm never washing." He said sarcastically.
"Where the hell YOU been?" Wakka asked sheepishly. "Catchin' ladies?"
"Aw come on man," Tidus replied, "I was just out, met up with Yuna."
"Oh, so hey brudda, how'd it go?" Wakka laughed, softly hitting Tidus in the shoulder.
"It went fine, we talked and stuff." Tidus answered.
Wakka raised one eyebrow, then spoke in a taunting tone. "Yeah sure you did. I bet you were liplockin' like crazy, ya?"
"No, no we weren't." Tidus answered, holding up both hands and shaking his head. "I was gonna, but I hesitated."
"Oh man, YOU hesitated?" Wakka gasped. "What's this world coming to, eh?"
"Well, I won't next time." Tidus answered, holding up his index finger.
"Well man, I got something to tell you," Wakka said, his tone changing to a serious voice. "Maybe. maybe we're getting ahead of ourselves with this university chick thing, ya?"
"What?" Tidus asked. "What are you talking about? Did you hit your head?"
"No, I just." Wakka hesitated. "I just got to thinkin' once you left."
"What?" Tidus asked, still confused.
"I just. think that maybe we should be careful, worry more about dying."
"Why do you think we should worry about that?" Tidus answered, then came to a realization. "Oh, I see. you think I shouldn't get involved with Yuna, in case one of us dies?"
"Yeah man, because if one of you died, that would crush the other. I seen you both, you both got that happy couple look in your eyes. If one of you died, then what?" Wakka explained.
"So, you're saying I shouldn't?" Tidus asked, one eyebrow cocked. "Well, what about you?"
"It's not that I'm sayin' you shouldn't," Wakka replied, "just that you should be careful. I'm still goin' for the chicks, ya? Just I'm gonna concentrate on trainin' more, is all."
"I understand. I'm doing well in my class though, I think I'll be fine." Tidus answered.
"Yeah well, I was just warnin' you." Wakka answered. "Night, brudda."
"Sure." Tidus answered.
