Sorry if I haven't udated so often on this fanfic... I needed to find time since school was weighing me down. All my reviews ROCK and all flamers can suck on the end of my Machine Gun.
Tom lay in his subconscious while he notices that dark bodies walk around in his head. Since fiends are either alive or dead, Tom was stuck in a trance where he was unable to move so he could gain enough energy to get up. After losing to those girls and getting knocked out, he wasn't able to move. Why did he let them go to begin with? He doesn't know, so he flashed back to when the battle began…
After doing pointless training to ensure he was not rusty in his ability to fight, Tom went back to the cave he protected. No humans ever came for a while and he decided to relax. The shiny sphere lay on its place where it hadn't moved for quite some time. Life was getting too boring for Tom as he drank a Potion he left behind to recover some health.
Suddenly, he heard a thump outside. Tom quickly got up and looked around cautiously to see what was his new foe. He heard voices coming from outside the cave. He then leaped into a row of stalactites and hid there to see what the thing wanted. He heard tons of fiends howl in pain as they slowly die while gunshots and cutting sounds from blades were heard from a distance.
Tom knew that these foes must be powerful, since the fiends in this cave weren't so easy to beat. He then sees three shadowy figures from a distance and hid even more in the rocky formations to wait for them to come closer to take a better look.
When the three figures came closer, he saw that they were three girls looking for something. There was a dark looking one with a sword that was checking around for fiends. She gripped her sword close to her in case a fiend was to attack.
Another one of the girls was a blond, cheerful lady. She had two hand blades and had green eyes, which was obvious to Tom that she was an Al Bhed.
What caught Tom's attention the most was the girl in the center of the two, who was obvious to him she was their leader. She had two hand pistols and Gunner clothing. Her brown, long braid swishing around her back as she walked closer to the sphere Tom was protecting.
As the girls were talking to each other, thoughts of what to do raced around Tom's head. What was he to do? He had to stop them from taking the sphere, which was rightfully his. He also remembered that his master told him that you should be nice to a lady and it was wrong to use his powers to slay one. After all these years, he always killed the men and let the girls run away in cower. The guys were always with the girls, so it was easy for him to make them run. This time it was different. There were no men to kill first to scare them off. What was he to do?
He then heard over their conversation, learning their names. The one with the sword was known as Paine, the Al Bhed one was Rikku, and the Gunner was Yuna. This was fascinating to Tom since he was in the presence of the one who beaten Sin instead of his master. She seamed too pretty and too nice to be fierce enough to take on a monster like Sin. He then came to a conclusion. He'd only hit them enough to make them cry and run away.
He then hid in the shadows and went toward the girls. He thought 'If I'm going to look like the 'big bad fiend,' I might as well do it in style.' He then remerge from the shadow in a primitive technique Tonberries know how to do. He then warned them to go away and never come back again, mentally giggling as he act out of personality and how they might be super scared at this moment. Rikku then told him they'd never give in, so he had no choice but to break into battle with them.
The first to attack was Paine. Tom fought his master and knew some of the ways to fight back against a Warrior. She then ran face first into Tom, which didn't surprised him. In fact, this was the first move he tried against his master back two years ago. He then decided to do the same technique his master taught him. He took out his knife, still stained with the blood of his last opponent, and used it as a shield. He then placed enough force on one end and slid the blade of Paine's sword to his side (more specifically the right side). Since his knifing hand was the left, he had enough strength to keep the sword to his side and elbowed Paine on her spine. He could here her cry of pain as she fell to the ground. He then kicked her to flip her over, standing on top of her belly. He then placed the blade back into its case and started to punch her rapidly. He saw the tons of points depleting as her continued his fist brigade. Finally, Paine's HP dropped to zero as he checked to see her damage. Her face was covered in bruises and her nose had a bleed from the large amounts of punches inflicted on her. Tom then got up and brushed the dust off his shirt, saying, "One Down, Two to Go…"
The two had shocked faces. He must've taken out the strongest of the three out so easily. They must be ready to run for their lives by now.
Instead, Rikku changed into a Black Mage. He thought that they were going to run away, but they must be braver than he thought. He took out his blade; ready for anything they might throw at him. He then felt a purple aura around him, which only meant one thing. That Yuna girl was scanning him! At first he felt stupid for letting his guard down, but then he knew this might scare them off. He then noticed that Rikku was charging up her attack, and by the looks of it the spell is almost done. He quickly cast Reflect at the last second. The attack, which was Firaga, was bounced back from his invisible shield and hit the user, Rikku. She then fell to the ground, partially burnt from the experience as she fell unconscious like Paine.
Why won't they leave? They're going to get their butts kicked. At least now Yuna could leave, which was the one he wasn't planning to hurt. After all, Summoner's are nothing without their Guardians and/or their Summons, and she had neither. Instead of running like a coward, Yuna changed back into her Gunner clothes and armed herself with her two pistols.
'So be it…' Tom thought as he took out his knife in another defensive position.
Yuna then fired away rapidly with her guns. Tom had expected more from her. He then leant backwards, dodging all the bullets by moving his arms rapidly around while bullets wiz past him. He then heard the clicking sound of an empty gun, which meant that Yuna ran out of bullets. He then hurried up and ran at her, while she reloaded one of her guns. He kicked the useless gun quickly into a rock, shattering it into tons of pieces. He then quickly picked up the loaded gun and aimed it at her head.
He knew this fight was going to be easy, but her never thought this easy. Tom expected more from the High Summoner. He was going to finish her off when he noticed something when he looked at her.
Yuna, who was closing her eyes, had something on her face that made Tom feel like some unknown force was holding him back from pulling the trigger. Tears were falling down her closed eyes, which Tom never saw in his life before. Every time he was going to finish his opponent off, they always had a face of some form of evil. He learned to tell the impurity of one person or being by merely checking their expression before death. Always, he killed those with the face of greed, darkness, evil, etc. They went to get the sphere by force and had no intension of sparing anyone who was in their way. This was the expression that drove Tom over the edge and to put the person out of the miserable guilt of whatever dark deed they pulled onto another living thing. They were the type of people who had innocent blood on their hands at one point of time.
This time it was different. Yuna had a look he hadn't seen for over two years: Purity. She hadn't done anything purposely wrong in her life, which he could tell by expression. She had been one who tried her best to help others no matter what, even if it meant death to herself. She was the type who would spare one who could have a second chance and would forgive those for doing wrong. She was one who would avenge the death of an innocent and would not rest until that poor soul is avenged.
This was a look Tom hadn't seen for two years, when his master spared his life and taught him everything he knew. He then thought 'why not spare her? After all, she was a good person. Also, I should let her friends go as well, so they are all safe.' Then, he caught site of another Tonberry.
At first, he didn't mind the other one, until he saw in horror what was happening to it. The Tonberry was clutching his heart, which was being slowly entered into by pyreflies. This only meant one thing: the Oversoul disease. Oversoul might look like a fiend going berserk to another thing, but fiends knew what Oversoul really was. When a fiend or human is infected, which do battle wounds carry, they are taken over by pyreflies and controlled for nothing but pure chaos. Since the Fayth lost to Yuna, Oversouls occur more frequently since pyreflies are now under no command. The only one place that Tom saw Oversouled humans are in that weird cave known as the Den of Woe.
Tom had to act quickly. An Oversoul Tonberry is so dangerous; it could destroy the whole cave and kill everyone in it, including crushing the sphere. Tom then fired at the Tonberry before it could complete the Oversoul, sending blood all over the place. Yuna then looked up a few moments later in confusion, expecting to be dead. She then looked up at Tom, in a still confused manner. Tom smiled, since he feels good helping someone else instead of killing them and to show he means no harm. Suddenly, Tom fell off guard and a rock from above fell on top of him, which leads to this predicament of where he was now.
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Hours later, Tom recovered his strength as his vision blurred back. He then saw he was in an inn like area with a fancy airship setting. By looking up the window, he saw that the clouds were moving quickly by him, which meant he was really in an airship. He saw that his wounds had bandages on them and his leg was in a cast. He was about to get up to see what was going on when pain returned to his leg, which made him yelp in pain for a brief moment.
Yuna then went up the stairs, with an ice patch. She was smiling and no longer covered in blood, indicating that the battle he fought with her was hours ago. She then placed the ice patch on his leg, asking, "Are you ok?" Tom nods, looking back onto the ground ashamed he almost done harm to her. "I'm… Sorry for what I done to you and your friends."
Yuna smiles, telling him, "That's ok, no need to feel bad. We never knew the sphere belong to you, Tom." Tom was surprised and asked how did she know his name. "We saw the sphere you guarded. It told us everything. I'm sorry what happened to your master."
Tom looked down to the ground; sadden because he missed his master so much. Yuna looked at Tom with a sad face. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know he meant that much to you…" "It's ok," Tom told her. "What happened in the past can't be changed. No matter how hard we try."
Yuna wondered why did Tom spare her when he could've killed her. "You never done anything to harm someone on purpose. That's all the reason to let you continue life. All the other people I killed were full of greed and evil," Tom told her. Yuna smiled and gave him back his sphere, which was still in good condition. Suddenly, Paine, Rikku, and Brother came in. "So this is the 'big bad fiend' that gave Paine such a whooping," Brother taunted. Rikku and Yuna giggled, but Paine merely glared at Brother and Tom. Rikku then asks what's Tom going to do now that he has his sphere back. "You can't go back to the cave, you'll get hurt from all the wounds."
The gang thought about it for a while. Then Brother came up with a great solution (I'm surprised!). "He can stay with us! He could live here and help around the Celsius! What'd you think Tom?" Tom thought about it for a while. He can't go back to his cave; the fiends are too fit to fight back. Tom agreed and everyone welcomed him into the Gullwings.
Paine then asks, "Is your leg still wounded?' Tom checked and told her, "No, It's pretty ok no-" Before he could finish, Paine elbowed him straight into his leg. Tom yelled in agony. "What'd you do that for?" Paine then started to walk away, saying, "It was for knocking me down so easily." Everyone laughed for a moment. Rikku and Brother then continued back to the Bridge, leaving Tom and Yuna behind.
Yuna then sat next to Tom, looking at him with a kind smile. Tom then blushed a little, telling her, "I'm sorry for making you cry." Yuna looks at him with confusion for a while. "It's ok. I thought that I would die. It just happens sometime." They both laughed out loud for a little moment, then stopped to look at each other again. Tom then tells her, "I promise, as long as I can still fight, to make sure you would never cry again." Yuna smiles her radiant smile like last time. She then hugged Tom for a little while, making the Tonberry turn red more than ever. "Thank you. You just rest now." She then leaves the Cabin to the Bridge, leaving Tom to rest back in bed. 'I think I'm going to like it around here.'
Nice, isn't it? I think I'm horrible at making fluff, so don't flame me. I like to thank all the people who are bothering reading this fanfic right now. For without you, I'm nothing.
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