Hiya! As scheduled I said I was going to update this weekend, so I keep my
word. Ugh, I got so fat over Easter, too many eggs, I feel so sick, I
haven't even finished them all...anyway.
Disclaimer- I don't own any Square-Enix characters.
Thanks for all your reviews by the way!
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I clamped my eyes shut to try and stop the sun waking my peaceful, dreamless sleep. I groaned and eventually opened them, reluctantly. It was just past dawn and a fresh smell lingered in the air. I stared out to the endless fields and sighed, this place was great and everything, but I wanted to see Riku. I remembered what happened yesterday and I wasn't so happy to be here. I looked around, where was Glenn?
I couldn't see him, but once I looked into the branches of the oak tree, I saw him sitting on the tree, one leg dangling over the edge, the other bent with his foot on the branch, staring into the distance. I looked away. That was how Riku always used to sit on the paopu tree. That was where my last happiest moment had been and I didn't want to recount it to anyone quite yet.
"Oh, you're awake!" Glenn jumped down from the tree, landing softly on the ground, it wasn't that high up, or I would have been amazed, "I was looking in the distance, and it looks like the road splits up ahead, I think we'd better get going." He wasn't mentioning our conversation either, good.
After walking down the road for a while, I noticed something, "Hey, my ankle and my arm don't hurt any more." Glenn turned around and looked at my foot,
"I guess not, must be temporary, seeing as how you're dead already, it can't really hurt you." I nodded, not liking him talking in such an off- hand way about being dead.
The fields became less green as we walked onwards, often with weeds growing instead of flowers and crows watching us from gnarled trees rather than sparrows dancing merrily in the breeze. After what felt like a few miles of walking, we reached a crossroads. One path led into a dead looking wood with bats and fog ridden paths and the other looked like it went on forever, probably eventually taking us back to the hill at the beginning.
Glenn was silent. I guess I had to make the decision. I wanted to get to the end, and I definitely didn't want to have to pass through that monster again, "We're taking the wood." I walked past Glenn who looked into the wood cautiously, then followed me, with seemingly new confidence.
"Why did we have to come in here?" Glenn asked after a while, looking cautiously around. A chill breeze whipped around our ankles and the path ahead was obscured by fog. The trees seemed to watch our every move, creaking and groaning. Wolves howled in the distance and bats fluttered past our eyes more than a few times.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time..." I was starting to get a bit freaked out now, the rustling in the bushes was getting closer and I didn't want to be faced with a pack of snarling wolves. The path kept twisting through the woods, so we didn't know what to expect, I half expected something to come and rip my neck open any minute, but as we went further in, the woods became more silent.
I glanced at Glenn and guessed he was afraid of woods by the cautious way he walked and kept looking over his shoulder. I heard a faint cry and stopped in my tracks. Glenn stopped too, as he saw me halt.
"What is it?" he asked, scurrying over to where I was, due to more movement from the bushes,
"I heard something," I heard the faint echo of 'help' again and rushed off in the direction of the source.
"Hey! Wait up!" Glenn called, following me. I ran along the path, sometimes tripping over loose stones and brushing tangling cobwebs out of my face that obscured my vision. Eventually, with a lot of difficulty, I turned a corner and saw a kid standing in the middle of the path. His eyes were full of tears underneath a purple hood and his tattered trousers signalled poverty to me. He looked completely helpless.
I was about to approach him, when Glenn grabbed my arm and pulled me back. Panting, he whispered, "Look...over there," creeping up on the boy from behind were 3 gigantic wolves, looking extremely hungry. "You think you can talk to them?" I remembered then that I was supposed to think things through before rushing in. Glenn looked grim, then walked up to the wolves, drawing the bat-wing sword.
I guess he was trying to make up for the fact that I had to talk to the monster yesterday when he could have probably beaten it easily. Glenn approached the wolves carefully with sword held in both hands, he ushered the boy to the side with a wave of his hand, and stood his ground, ready to fight.
To tell you the truth, he wasn't actually that great. I know you're supposed to be put at a disadvantage here, to test you or whatever, but Glenn looked like he had learnt how to fight out a textbook and had never even practiced the actual techniques first-hand. I wasn't about to tell him that though. After a while, he had managed to win, not without getting scratched on the face twice, bitten on the arm and having half his trouser- leg torn off. Which in an amusing way reminded me of Tidus.
Once the wolves were lying on the ground, Glenn sat on top of their bodies and stared at the floor, obviously worn out. I looked around for the kid, but he was nowhere to be seen. Some gratitude. I walked over to Glenn, who was panting as if he were a wolf himself.
"Well done," I said, patting him on the back. He nodded in appreciation, but didn't say anything, as he shouldered his sword and walked onwards. I followed him slowly. The woods began to thin out after a while, with gaps of moonlight escaping through the branches of the trees and the fog gently dispersing.
Once we emerged at the other end of the woods, a gigantic city loomed ahead of us. It was huge, with high-rise buildings, towers, flats, offices and flashing lights. I grinned and began to jog towards the city, overtaking Glenn, who was walking along slowly, inspecting his bite from the wolves. The moon lit up the roofs of the town, giving it a mysterious glow. I reached the city entrance, way before Glenn, who appeared a few minutes later, looking exhausted.
We both walked into the city, amazed by the noise, compared to a nearly silent wood we had just been through. The streets were bathed in advertisements and people walking to and fro. A nearby bench looked like a safe haven, so we sat down, watching the people wander by. I looked at all the shops, which lined the streets, clothes, food, cameras, but none of them were somewhere we could stay. Not that we had any money for a hotel anyway.
"Look at that," Glenn pointed to a poster. He had obviously got his breath back. I looked at the poster depicting a pretty young woman with long brown hair, big brown eyes and long beaded earrings. I read the text underneath.
'Take part in the concert of a lifetime. If you think you have what it takes to sing, dance or even do the lighting come and join in. Accommodation and meals provided. Salary- 250-500 munny a night. (The concert lasts 3 days. Jobs given on a first come, first served basis) Auditions held in the city centre at 17:00. Don't be late!
Added bonus- Meet Lenne, our special guest appearance.'
"They must be really desperate." I sighed, looking away from the poster, who would want to work there anyway?
"No, I mean if we get jobs in that, then we can rest up a while, and earn a bit of munny." Glenn looked as if he really wanted to work there. I looked him in the eye.
"We don't need any money and we can sleep outside." There was no way I was going on stage.
"Ok, you may not want that, but what about food?" he had got me, I was starving. I didn't want to admit it, but by the way Glenn was grinning, he already knew he'd won.
"Fine, but only cos we might need to eat something." I stood up and ripped the flyer off the lamppost and looked at the writing again. A clock face on the tower nearby said it was 16:30. So that meant we had half an hour to find the city centre.
"C'mon Sora, let's go." Glenn walked ahead and I followed him, rather grudgingly. I really hoped this wasn't going to end in embarrassment.
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There we go! Another. Sorry, I couldn't resist putting Lenne (FFX-2) in it. I won't put too many FF characters in it anyway, they have to be dead to be here and there aren't that many really.
Feedback is always appreciated.
xxx The One-winged Pegasus xxx
Disclaimer- I don't own any Square-Enix characters.
Thanks for all your reviews by the way!
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I clamped my eyes shut to try and stop the sun waking my peaceful, dreamless sleep. I groaned and eventually opened them, reluctantly. It was just past dawn and a fresh smell lingered in the air. I stared out to the endless fields and sighed, this place was great and everything, but I wanted to see Riku. I remembered what happened yesterday and I wasn't so happy to be here. I looked around, where was Glenn?
I couldn't see him, but once I looked into the branches of the oak tree, I saw him sitting on the tree, one leg dangling over the edge, the other bent with his foot on the branch, staring into the distance. I looked away. That was how Riku always used to sit on the paopu tree. That was where my last happiest moment had been and I didn't want to recount it to anyone quite yet.
"Oh, you're awake!" Glenn jumped down from the tree, landing softly on the ground, it wasn't that high up, or I would have been amazed, "I was looking in the distance, and it looks like the road splits up ahead, I think we'd better get going." He wasn't mentioning our conversation either, good.
After walking down the road for a while, I noticed something, "Hey, my ankle and my arm don't hurt any more." Glenn turned around and looked at my foot,
"I guess not, must be temporary, seeing as how you're dead already, it can't really hurt you." I nodded, not liking him talking in such an off- hand way about being dead.
The fields became less green as we walked onwards, often with weeds growing instead of flowers and crows watching us from gnarled trees rather than sparrows dancing merrily in the breeze. After what felt like a few miles of walking, we reached a crossroads. One path led into a dead looking wood with bats and fog ridden paths and the other looked like it went on forever, probably eventually taking us back to the hill at the beginning.
Glenn was silent. I guess I had to make the decision. I wanted to get to the end, and I definitely didn't want to have to pass through that monster again, "We're taking the wood." I walked past Glenn who looked into the wood cautiously, then followed me, with seemingly new confidence.
"Why did we have to come in here?" Glenn asked after a while, looking cautiously around. A chill breeze whipped around our ankles and the path ahead was obscured by fog. The trees seemed to watch our every move, creaking and groaning. Wolves howled in the distance and bats fluttered past our eyes more than a few times.
"It seemed like a good idea at the time..." I was starting to get a bit freaked out now, the rustling in the bushes was getting closer and I didn't want to be faced with a pack of snarling wolves. The path kept twisting through the woods, so we didn't know what to expect, I half expected something to come and rip my neck open any minute, but as we went further in, the woods became more silent.
I glanced at Glenn and guessed he was afraid of woods by the cautious way he walked and kept looking over his shoulder. I heard a faint cry and stopped in my tracks. Glenn stopped too, as he saw me halt.
"What is it?" he asked, scurrying over to where I was, due to more movement from the bushes,
"I heard something," I heard the faint echo of 'help' again and rushed off in the direction of the source.
"Hey! Wait up!" Glenn called, following me. I ran along the path, sometimes tripping over loose stones and brushing tangling cobwebs out of my face that obscured my vision. Eventually, with a lot of difficulty, I turned a corner and saw a kid standing in the middle of the path. His eyes were full of tears underneath a purple hood and his tattered trousers signalled poverty to me. He looked completely helpless.
I was about to approach him, when Glenn grabbed my arm and pulled me back. Panting, he whispered, "Look...over there," creeping up on the boy from behind were 3 gigantic wolves, looking extremely hungry. "You think you can talk to them?" I remembered then that I was supposed to think things through before rushing in. Glenn looked grim, then walked up to the wolves, drawing the bat-wing sword.
I guess he was trying to make up for the fact that I had to talk to the monster yesterday when he could have probably beaten it easily. Glenn approached the wolves carefully with sword held in both hands, he ushered the boy to the side with a wave of his hand, and stood his ground, ready to fight.
To tell you the truth, he wasn't actually that great. I know you're supposed to be put at a disadvantage here, to test you or whatever, but Glenn looked like he had learnt how to fight out a textbook and had never even practiced the actual techniques first-hand. I wasn't about to tell him that though. After a while, he had managed to win, not without getting scratched on the face twice, bitten on the arm and having half his trouser- leg torn off. Which in an amusing way reminded me of Tidus.
Once the wolves were lying on the ground, Glenn sat on top of their bodies and stared at the floor, obviously worn out. I looked around for the kid, but he was nowhere to be seen. Some gratitude. I walked over to Glenn, who was panting as if he were a wolf himself.
"Well done," I said, patting him on the back. He nodded in appreciation, but didn't say anything, as he shouldered his sword and walked onwards. I followed him slowly. The woods began to thin out after a while, with gaps of moonlight escaping through the branches of the trees and the fog gently dispersing.
Once we emerged at the other end of the woods, a gigantic city loomed ahead of us. It was huge, with high-rise buildings, towers, flats, offices and flashing lights. I grinned and began to jog towards the city, overtaking Glenn, who was walking along slowly, inspecting his bite from the wolves. The moon lit up the roofs of the town, giving it a mysterious glow. I reached the city entrance, way before Glenn, who appeared a few minutes later, looking exhausted.
We both walked into the city, amazed by the noise, compared to a nearly silent wood we had just been through. The streets were bathed in advertisements and people walking to and fro. A nearby bench looked like a safe haven, so we sat down, watching the people wander by. I looked at all the shops, which lined the streets, clothes, food, cameras, but none of them were somewhere we could stay. Not that we had any money for a hotel anyway.
"Look at that," Glenn pointed to a poster. He had obviously got his breath back. I looked at the poster depicting a pretty young woman with long brown hair, big brown eyes and long beaded earrings. I read the text underneath.
'Take part in the concert of a lifetime. If you think you have what it takes to sing, dance or even do the lighting come and join in. Accommodation and meals provided. Salary- 250-500 munny a night. (The concert lasts 3 days. Jobs given on a first come, first served basis) Auditions held in the city centre at 17:00. Don't be late!
Added bonus- Meet Lenne, our special guest appearance.'
"They must be really desperate." I sighed, looking away from the poster, who would want to work there anyway?
"No, I mean if we get jobs in that, then we can rest up a while, and earn a bit of munny." Glenn looked as if he really wanted to work there. I looked him in the eye.
"We don't need any money and we can sleep outside." There was no way I was going on stage.
"Ok, you may not want that, but what about food?" he had got me, I was starving. I didn't want to admit it, but by the way Glenn was grinning, he already knew he'd won.
"Fine, but only cos we might need to eat something." I stood up and ripped the flyer off the lamppost and looked at the writing again. A clock face on the tower nearby said it was 16:30. So that meant we had half an hour to find the city centre.
"C'mon Sora, let's go." Glenn walked ahead and I followed him, rather grudgingly. I really hoped this wasn't going to end in embarrassment.
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There we go! Another. Sorry, I couldn't resist putting Lenne (FFX-2) in it. I won't put too many FF characters in it anyway, they have to be dead to be here and there aren't that many really.
Feedback is always appreciated.
xxx The One-winged Pegasus xxx