Star Fox Adventures and all it's characters are property of Rare and Nintendo.
Now, before we begin there is something I have to say. I don't have a GameCube, thus neither do I own Star Fox Adventures, while I've played it a while I haven't finished it, the rest of the story I missed was told to me, even though the game story won't have an actual bearing in this story (for the obvious reason of me not knowing it completely), Dinosaur Planet will probably also be mentioned, and used as well... Anyway, just ranting over how can't I play (at free will at least) the game I most want to play for GameCube... *Crosses fingers waiting for a GC emulator*...
Anyway, if you can't assume from the title of the story, this is a romance fic about Fox and Krystal, with a side of adventure and action as well...
The Fox and the Vixen - Chapter 1 - Epilogue of an old tale... And the Beginning of Another!
I still and will always remember that day... Saving the Lylat System was pleasant yes, but nothing compared to my time in Dinosaur Planet, and none of my other missions could compare as well... And the start of all? A beautiful vixen, a distress signal, and me landing on the planet...
Her voice started it all, of course, I didn't knew it was hers at first, since it only echoed on my head, but it was a soft, melodic tune on my head nonetheless...
The tests of the Krazoas were tricky, to say the least, and dangerous at points, but it paid off... In one of my trips to release a spirit I saw her, the most (A/N: Perhaps the only...) beautiful vixen I've ever seen, and I could have stayed there but Peppy woke me up, it was from that point onwards that I gave it all my best to save her, and finally, I did... Saving her from a giant fall she stole my staff, which was actually hers and dashed to face the "Krazoa God", who just turned out to be Andross... Trying to control the Lylat System was something, but this, was unspeakable, I jumped into my Arwing and got rid of him... Once again...
Unfortunately for me, Krystal... Krystal... Sorry, wandered off there, her name always makes me wander off... As I was saying, she had other plans, and we parted our ways that same day that Dinosaur Planet was saved, the last glimpse I saw of her was when she waved me off as I returned her staff, a couple of seconds later, out of her vision, a tear flew it's way down, and the shutters closed...
And what happened next? Well, by the next day I had waited as much as I could when I suddenly jumped into my Arwing without warning and left the Great Fox back to Dinosaur Planet...
The green land of Dinosaur Planet was quiet, unlike the time I previously spent there... Fox landed his Arwing just a couple meters away from where he had last seen Krystal. He jumped out of his Arwing and took in a long breath of the fresh air. A hint of hope flashed on it's face as he set off...
He had spent most of the day searching as much ground as he could and with every step, his hope faded little, by little, by little...
The sun was already setting, and with a down face he sat on the edge of a rather small cliff looking at the sun... He probably spent a while there, not caring about anything else, various dinosaurs have already walked by, and the last he heard was a stampede of Cloud Runners. He let out a long sigh...
"Why the gloomy face?" asked a well-known voice by Fox behind him. The feminine, soft voice echoed in his head just before he turned around and saw her, to say that happiness filled him would be an understatement as he quickly got up and smiled at her.
"I-I... Just remembering the time I spent here" he answered back at the blue vixen, and an obvious lie she detected easily, but decided to play along. She sat down, and motioned Fox to follow, as he sat down next to her... With a little distance anyway...
"It has become quite boring in here... There is nothing to do..." she said and Fox nodded. They gazed at the last minutes of the sunset together in silence.
Finally breaking the silence Fox said, "Yeah, there's nothing to do in the Great Fox as well... Slippy and Falco are the only things that can make one laugh up there... And Pepper hasn't called us with any new missions..." and they kept talking with a lot of silent gaps for the remainder of the day, Krystal had laid down while at night, and before Fox knew, he was talking to himself. He got up and carried Krystal just a little away from the cliff so that she wouldn't fall, muttered a silent "Goodbye" and took slow, silent steps as he walked back to his Arwing in ThornTail Hollow, he opened the cockpit and jumped in, and just as he was about to close it he heard a voice in the distance...
"Wait!" the voice echoed and Fox's eyes lighted up, he twisted inside the Arwing to look behind him and saw what he expected. Krystal was running at him, Fox jumped out of the Arwing and walked forward to meet her. Krystal reached him panting, and when she recovered she spoke up...
"Fox... I.. thought it over... while we talked... a while ago..." she managed between breaths, she was about to speak again when Fox motioned her to just recover before continuing and so she did...
"This place is safe, and it brought me no closer to my past than when I started, the EarthWalkers should be alright on their own..." she started, and with each word Fox's face filled with more and more joy...
"So I though if it would be alright for me to come with you? I might find something about myself out in space" she asked. Fox's tried his best to hide his overwhelming happiness as he nodded, "Of course it would be. I can't promise anything; but we can try" he said a little to enthusiastic. "One thing though. My Arwing is a one-seat type..." he said, Krystal thought it a couple of seconds. "Is there any problem if I go with you?" she asked with her usual naive ness and Fox blushed a little below his brown fur. He shook his head and Krystal smiled, Fox jumped in, and so did Krystal. After closing the cockpit Fox was basically sweating due to the awkwardness of the moment, and Krystal as naive as usual, just enjoyed the trip back to the Great Fox... And never before had Fox found the universe so.. distracting...
Ok, first chapter, prologue, small... I believe those 3 ideas have the same meaning...
I hope the characterization wasn't out of place, especially of Krystal, but she will probably have the most radical change to her personality during the course of this story...
At first the fic will just probably go around romance, later on the adventure and action might, and probably will kick in...
Star Fox Adventures and all it's characters are property of Rare and Nintendo. They are used without their consent and well.. *shrugs*
Signed as usual,
Alan "Gray Fox" Quirino - grayfox_2510@hotmail.com
Until next time!
Chapter 2: Love can't be stopped... And neither can instincts!