Desclaimer: I do not own Zelda... but there's not much Zelda in it... I do own all of the new characters you see here. I spank all those who oppose me!
Author's Note: Review damnit, I need to know if I should head in a different direction, or if I should give up altogether.
The Beast Strikes
The girl stroked her tail slowly as she waited for the mouse to crawl out from it's burrow in the tree. She knew it was starved by the way it walked in. A small yowl escaped her lips, hunger getting the best of her for an instant.
This girl lived alone in the Great Forest of Fanelia. She wasn't exactly a girl, either. She looked mostly human, but she had cat-ears, extendable claws, and a tail. She also tended to move like a feline. Her meals were scarce if any in her current days. She occasionally stole from faraway villagers, but only if she was desperate, the girl was against stealing.
Her kind was not usually uncommon, but was definitely an odd sight in this country. She spoke to herself quite often, out of boredom and to fight off solitude, "Come to mommy Ayane, I won't bite... We can have lunch together." She licked her lips as she spoke.
No response came from the hole, not even a squeak, and the scent of it told her the mouse had passed into death. She growled and became angry, but a sudden shiver ran over her body, "I sense something... what's that?"
Tiffa and Xen finally reached the forest, and were flying over it, searching for any 'beauty within beasts' of any kind. All they noticed was an odd-looking cat, and lots of trees. After a few sweeps of that area of forest, they began to doubt the village woman's story.
Just as they began to leave, a black-and-white blur burst from the trees, cought xenSity in the middle, and brought him to the ground.
Tiffa hardly reacted quickly enough, and the catgirl had him pinned, his face against a tree, her hands holding his behind him, and her tail with steel blades on it to the side of his neck.
"Who are you?" She asked, a growl slowly grinding in her throat, "And why are you in MY forest?!"
Her breathing suddenly stopped in fear as the cold steel of a sword was pressed against her neck. In that instant, xenSity was free and a few steps away, nursing his wrists.
She stuttered in fear, "Wh-what are you two?"
Tiffa kept her blade against the front of Ayane's neck from behind, "How rude... asking our species before our names, and even after attacking us without reason. I should tear your head off right now."
Ayane's eyes flashed a cold silver and Tiffa stepped back. Ayane had somehow been replaced by a particularly oversized white tiger. It's paws had massive steel claws on each toe and it's tail had vicious blades arranged around the end. It's body was five feet high to it's shoulders.
A bluish aura surrounded it, and the eyes of the beast were calculating, intelligent. Tiffa showed it no fear, and kept her blade at the ready.
"Looks like we've found number one of three..." Xen spoke, his voice revealing to the cat that she had enemies on both sides.
Tiffa nodded, "You're coming with us. We need your help."
The cat's body shifted back, it's steely gaze turning to a mere sky hue. Ayane, in her catgirl form, looked at Tiffa with curiousity, but it was clear her anger had not completely faded.
The trees around them became silent as the three warriors stood in silence, awaiting for the next to speak.
"Okay," Ayane said, "My name is Ayane, and I guess I can go with ya. I mean, why not?"
Both of the others raised eyebrows appropriately, xenSity speaking with his usual wisdom, "Wha?"
"Don't misread me, I don't go wandering off with anyone that comes along, I'm just particularly bored nowadays and you guys seem like fun." Surprising xenSity, but Tiffa understood.
"Yes..." Tiffa grinned, "But can you dance?" Tiffa snapped her fingers in the air, moving her legs in a small dance. Her humor further shocking Xen, but Ayane merely laughed.
They set up camp there, and xenSity gathered firewood while the girls waited at camp. Tiffa told Ayane the story so far:
[-Vicious suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She attacked him, but he remained polite and mysterious, a familiar trait for her. How she came to know he had been hunting Tiffa's former love and his disciples. Just how exactly Din's plan went, and went wrong. All the things they went through together before the final relevation and the end of the mystery of the warrior.
Her former love had been his own hunter and even tried to unknowingly destroy their dimension, their realm. Nearly nothing could stop him, and nearly nothing was all they did. A noble robotic knight and a sweet, but naive vampiric angel died at his hands, both friends, both for his own life to be saved as well as their own.
Tiffa didn't actually inform Ayane of her past with him, just that he had been her close friend from when even her closest friends abandoned her.-]
Ayane listened, commenting little, and afterwards spoke loudly, "I know FDW! I met him before! He was called Vicious like you said!"
Tiffa stared at her, "So... he must've remembered that little memory...that fake name...from when he knew you..."
Tiffa's eye twitched and she shouted at the sky, "REMEMBERED THAT SHIT BEFORE ME!!!"
"Uhhh... I guess," Ayane giggled a little, "He was funny, and nice, but a little too quiet. We had tons of adventures like yours!"
Again, her eye twitched, "AND you were with some NEKO girl in some god-forsaken FOREST!"
The next morning, Ayane sat alone, near camp in a tree. She was still half-asleep and remained where she had slept. XenSity walked below and looked up, "You gonna sleep ALL day? We need to get going, Tiffa's getting impatient. Apperently his suffering matters to her now."
"I heard that!" Came a familiar distant voice.
Xen winced, "I knew she'd hear me... damn her senses. Anyway, we need to pack up and get going."
A stomach-turning growl was his only response. He raised both hands defensively, "Okay, okay, thirty minutes, then we're gone."
"You know... waking up this early sucks... I kinda regret that Vicious' goal of destroying the universe didn't work out. Ah well..." She landed next to him, a very small sack hanging over her shoulder.
"Uhh..." XenSity's eyes on the bag, "Don't you wanna get the rest of your stuff?"
Ayane shot him a hardened glare, "This... IS my stuff."
XenSity blushed slightly, realizing that she lived alone and without money. Her clothes looked tattered and worn, and definitely self-made.
Tiffa brushed her hands together with a contented sigh, "Well, all the food is packed away... actually, eaten... I ate it, fed the rest to animals. The camping equipment is packed up in those tiny capsules for ya, xen. Don't know how you made those nifty packing devices, but they're damn handy."
XenSity nodded, "Yeah, whatever, picked that little trick up from Trunks. He's that odd fellow with purple hair. Turns it yellow and calls himself a 'super saiyan'. He may be primitive with energy, and ignorant with magicks, but he's a scientific genius."
"Oh, not that science BULL again. That crackpot stuff isn't worth listening to. If I wanted 'science' I'd go visit all the Megaman wannabes." Tiffa scoffed indignantly.
Author's Note: Review damnit, I need to know if I should head in a different direction, or if I should give up altogether.
The Beast Strikes
The girl stroked her tail slowly as she waited for the mouse to crawl out from it's burrow in the tree. She knew it was starved by the way it walked in. A small yowl escaped her lips, hunger getting the best of her for an instant.
This girl lived alone in the Great Forest of Fanelia. She wasn't exactly a girl, either. She looked mostly human, but she had cat-ears, extendable claws, and a tail. She also tended to move like a feline. Her meals were scarce if any in her current days. She occasionally stole from faraway villagers, but only if she was desperate, the girl was against stealing.
Her kind was not usually uncommon, but was definitely an odd sight in this country. She spoke to herself quite often, out of boredom and to fight off solitude, "Come to mommy Ayane, I won't bite... We can have lunch together." She licked her lips as she spoke.
No response came from the hole, not even a squeak, and the scent of it told her the mouse had passed into death. She growled and became angry, but a sudden shiver ran over her body, "I sense something... what's that?"
Tiffa and Xen finally reached the forest, and were flying over it, searching for any 'beauty within beasts' of any kind. All they noticed was an odd-looking cat, and lots of trees. After a few sweeps of that area of forest, they began to doubt the village woman's story.
Just as they began to leave, a black-and-white blur burst from the trees, cought xenSity in the middle, and brought him to the ground.
Tiffa hardly reacted quickly enough, and the catgirl had him pinned, his face against a tree, her hands holding his behind him, and her tail with steel blades on it to the side of his neck.
"Who are you?" She asked, a growl slowly grinding in her throat, "And why are you in MY forest?!"
Her breathing suddenly stopped in fear as the cold steel of a sword was pressed against her neck. In that instant, xenSity was free and a few steps away, nursing his wrists.
She stuttered in fear, "Wh-what are you two?"
Tiffa kept her blade against the front of Ayane's neck from behind, "How rude... asking our species before our names, and even after attacking us without reason. I should tear your head off right now."
Ayane's eyes flashed a cold silver and Tiffa stepped back. Ayane had somehow been replaced by a particularly oversized white tiger. It's paws had massive steel claws on each toe and it's tail had vicious blades arranged around the end. It's body was five feet high to it's shoulders.
A bluish aura surrounded it, and the eyes of the beast were calculating, intelligent. Tiffa showed it no fear, and kept her blade at the ready.
"Looks like we've found number one of three..." Xen spoke, his voice revealing to the cat that she had enemies on both sides.
Tiffa nodded, "You're coming with us. We need your help."
The cat's body shifted back, it's steely gaze turning to a mere sky hue. Ayane, in her catgirl form, looked at Tiffa with curiousity, but it was clear her anger had not completely faded.
The trees around them became silent as the three warriors stood in silence, awaiting for the next to speak.
"Okay," Ayane said, "My name is Ayane, and I guess I can go with ya. I mean, why not?"
Both of the others raised eyebrows appropriately, xenSity speaking with his usual wisdom, "Wha?"
"Don't misread me, I don't go wandering off with anyone that comes along, I'm just particularly bored nowadays and you guys seem like fun." Surprising xenSity, but Tiffa understood.
"Yes..." Tiffa grinned, "But can you dance?" Tiffa snapped her fingers in the air, moving her legs in a small dance. Her humor further shocking Xen, but Ayane merely laughed.
They set up camp there, and xenSity gathered firewood while the girls waited at camp. Tiffa told Ayane the story so far:
[-Vicious suddenly appeared out of nowhere. She attacked him, but he remained polite and mysterious, a familiar trait for her. How she came to know he had been hunting Tiffa's former love and his disciples. Just how exactly Din's plan went, and went wrong. All the things they went through together before the final relevation and the end of the mystery of the warrior.
Her former love had been his own hunter and even tried to unknowingly destroy their dimension, their realm. Nearly nothing could stop him, and nearly nothing was all they did. A noble robotic knight and a sweet, but naive vampiric angel died at his hands, both friends, both for his own life to be saved as well as their own.
Tiffa didn't actually inform Ayane of her past with him, just that he had been her close friend from when even her closest friends abandoned her.-]
Ayane listened, commenting little, and afterwards spoke loudly, "I know FDW! I met him before! He was called Vicious like you said!"
Tiffa stared at her, "So... he must've remembered that little memory...that fake name...from when he knew you..."
Tiffa's eye twitched and she shouted at the sky, "REMEMBERED THAT SHIT BEFORE ME!!!"
"Uhhh... I guess," Ayane giggled a little, "He was funny, and nice, but a little too quiet. We had tons of adventures like yours!"
Again, her eye twitched, "AND you were with some NEKO girl in some god-forsaken FOREST!"
The next morning, Ayane sat alone, near camp in a tree. She was still half-asleep and remained where she had slept. XenSity walked below and looked up, "You gonna sleep ALL day? We need to get going, Tiffa's getting impatient. Apperently his suffering matters to her now."
"I heard that!" Came a familiar distant voice.
Xen winced, "I knew she'd hear me... damn her senses. Anyway, we need to pack up and get going."
A stomach-turning growl was his only response. He raised both hands defensively, "Okay, okay, thirty minutes, then we're gone."
"You know... waking up this early sucks... I kinda regret that Vicious' goal of destroying the universe didn't work out. Ah well..." She landed next to him, a very small sack hanging over her shoulder.
"Uhh..." XenSity's eyes on the bag, "Don't you wanna get the rest of your stuff?"
Ayane shot him a hardened glare, "This... IS my stuff."
XenSity blushed slightly, realizing that she lived alone and without money. Her clothes looked tattered and worn, and definitely self-made.
Tiffa brushed her hands together with a contented sigh, "Well, all the food is packed away... actually, eaten... I ate it, fed the rest to animals. The camping equipment is packed up in those tiny capsules for ya, xen. Don't know how you made those nifty packing devices, but they're damn handy."
XenSity nodded, "Yeah, whatever, picked that little trick up from Trunks. He's that odd fellow with purple hair. Turns it yellow and calls himself a 'super saiyan'. He may be primitive with energy, and ignorant with magicks, but he's a scientific genius."
"Oh, not that science BULL again. That crackpot stuff isn't worth listening to. If I wanted 'science' I'd go visit all the Megaman wannabes." Tiffa scoffed indignantly.