Title: Mixing Love with War
Author: Rageful Fairy
Rating:R
Warnings: Violence, bloody scenes, death, m/m romance, sexual m/m events. Most of that for later.
Summary: How can an outrage between New Yevon and the Machine Faction be settled without a sentimental relationship being destroyed along the way? [Gippal x Baralai]
Author's Notes:I really wanted to write a Gippal/Baralai! I thought of a lot of dumb ideas, but I love this one! I love to write about combat. I love to write about romance. Perfect fit for this fic! Please enjoy!
[ [ [ MIXING LOVE WITH WAR ] ] ]
[ [ [ PART ONE OF MANY ] ] ]
[ [ [ THE MAJORITY RULE ] ] ]
Many New Yevon warriors stand in an organized line, in front of the Djose temple entrance. All of the warriors held up their guns, planning on using them to do their farther negotiating. Uniforms of orange and green symbolized their alliance to New Yevon. Enough to disgust Gippal, for the task at hand was truthfully out of New Yevon's ignorance of Machine use.
"Look kiddies, Machine's are not for play. It isn't my fault you guys tampered with them without a professional," Gippal told the followers of the opposing, with the word professional ending his sentence in a sing-song voice. His ability to be laid back in serious situations would prove to be a minor set back in this case.
Guns clicked. This was even a higher level of threat, causing Gippal to want to hear the New Yevon 'scum' out before he'd reject their somewhat commands to repair the Bevelle Temple.
Bevelle Temple recently recruited machina assistance in order to research the depths of their temple to a degree in which nobody could. Using the machina, the New Yevon council believed that secrets of the past could be revealed from old Yevon secrets that were known to be kept, but those secrets are not known themselves. The New Yevon council basically only knew there were more secrets within the temple, but they did not know what they were.
In order to make total peace with the Youth League, Bevelle was then making an effort to aid with the recovery of Spira's past. Having Baralai been a comrade of Nooj, the project was ultimately accepted, and that is when Baralai resorted to asking Gippal to lend machina in order to help with such efforts.
Gippal, tied to Baralai on a relationship basis, also had no hesitation of aiding in with New Yevon's peace proclaiming project. Three thousand small machina equipped with video and audio spheres were deployed to Bevelle for use.
Kind of similar to the Mi'ihen highroad incident, the Machina went haywire inside the Bevelle temple depths. The malfunction resorted to killing off many New Yevon priests and followers once they were excavated from the temple depths.
The source of the problem was obvious. One of the New Yevon followers had tampered with the settings of a machina. Having no experience with machina, in total ignorance, the follower snipped a wire. All of the machina have been set to copy one's setting modifications, and snipping the wire which has been snipped disposed of the behavioral and safety features of the machina, causing it to malfunction. The rest of the machina lost such traits since of the easy programming system of the machina. Change one, change all.
These malfunctioning machina are destroying Bevelle, eating away at the temple and the city. The citizens are also being attacked. Rampant machina have also scampered into the Calm Lands and the remnants of the Macalania forest, doing damage to whatever is in the it's path.
Gippal, not one to deal with other's mistakes, rejected to aid New Yevon in something that was out of their own ignorance. Baralai seemed to understand Gippal, and began looking to the Youth League for help.
By then, without Baralai's consent, the New Yevon members aim to destroy the Djose temple as well as the Machine Faction as a whole just as the machina have done to Bevelle.
This is the reason why infuriated New Yevon members are alligned outside of the Djose temple.
"We, as members of New Yevon, take it in our rights to defend our city with pride. That city is being torn down with your contraptions, and we demand you fix this problem altogether. In much respect to the Praetor, he has not allowed us to go through with this operation. But it is the majority rule aspect that makes New Yevon so great. At once, we order, that you'll repair our city. We will launch an all out assault, if you disagree."
"Look. I am not fixing your damn city. That's your problem, and it's your fault. You Yevon kids need to learn how to take care of what is yours. If it becomes a problem for the rest of Spira, sure, I'll take care of that. It is Bevelle I won't touch. Now, shoo," Gippal told them, nonchalantly.
"My love...," you could hear a soft, but infuriated all the same, voice came. The crowd of New Yevon followers split directly into half, at the coming of the Praetor. "I understand why you will not aid New Yevon. However, I do see some partial faults on the Machine Faction's side of this disagreement. I cannot rely on you to solve the problems of Bevelle... but your machines is what destroyed Bevelle. Most of the New Yevon council cannot bear that you will not take any responsibility. So it is the majority rule. I cannot break such a rule, so therefore..." Baralai began, almost beginning to preach.
"I'm going to have to..."
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I think I didn't make the problem significant enough for New Yevon and Machine faction going to war so much yet. It is more complicated than what the 3rd person can explain, so therefore the details are lacking. I am going to lend this to 1st person next chapter, to go farther in depth about what is going on! Eventually, this will lead into a Gippal/Baralai fic! Yay!
