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Hey, it's Myl again; I just now found a good idea for this story, so enjoy
pleez!
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Chapter Three: Last chance.
Everyone ran outside to see what the scream was for when they saw Clariesse facing this oversized, lightning Behemoth. It used Thundaga on her, making her flinch as she used death on it. Wakka ran over to her, wondering what the heck she thought she was doing. Auron followed after him, then Rikku, everyone else headed back inside a little shaken by the whole scream thing. Wakka hugged her shaking body as Auron approached her.
"What in the name of Zanarkand did you think you were doing?" Auron asked, as if scolding a child who had broken his window.
"I was coming to talk to you about something when I was lead outside by," Clariesse hesitated a bit, "by some strange force." She gave him this look that just whimpered at Auron. "Funny thing is, it felt like. . ." she paused and looked at Wakka briefly. "Icicle." Auron took a step back with a look on his face that would purely scare the living daylights out of anyone.
"I think you should go back to bed, Clariesse, Wakka." Auron said, nodding at both of them, walking stiffly back inside.
"What was that all about? And who is Icicle?" Wakka questioned. Clariesse led him back into their room and sat down shaking her head worriedly.
"Wakka, you must promise not to tell anyone." Clariesse started as Wakka sat down, hugging her. He nodded simply and she began. "When I left Besaid, I went to Zanarkand one thousand years ago, yes, it's true, that's where Tidus came from. While I was there, I watched over him with Auron and eventually, in a small just created temple." She paused "Wakka, I'm a one of the Fayth and Icicle was my keeper, you don't know what a keeper is, do you?" she asked laying her head on his shoulder.
"Not really."
"It's almost like summoner, however you are practically a slave of your keeper and he can call upon your Aeon self or your human self when wanted."
"Oh." Was all Wakka could say. "But, doesn't that mean that when Yuna lets go of the Fayth and releases them forever, that." He stopped right there.
"I'm sorry, baby." She frowned and got up preparing to go into a different room, he grabbed her wrist and spun her back around, kissing her deeply.
"I don't mind, like Tidus says, I'm sure we'll find a loophole in the whole darn thing." He said, pulling her back into bed and holding her until she fell asleep.
~ The Next Morning ~
"Wakka? Hello?" Wakka heard two voices say in unison. He opened his eyes and realized that Clariesse was sitting on top of him dressed fully and Rikku was standing beside the bed near her sister.
"Am I the last one to get up or something?" he asked alarmed.
"No. Actually, you're one of the first if you count us." Rikku said in her usual bubbly voice. Clariesse smiled at hr sister as Rikku turned away and leaned down kissing Wakka on the cheek.
"Let's go outside!" Rikku proclaimed turning around with her arm in the air only to find Clariesse and Wakka kissing. "Ackhem!"
"Oh.sorry, Rikku, I never thought that you might be a bit.you know to this whole me and Clariesse thing." Wakka said grabbing Clariesse's hips and moving her while he sat up to stretch. "You guys are going to have to turn around as I get up.I'm only wearing boxers."
"Big deal.they're like swimming trunks. Come on Wakka!" Rikku said grabbing one arm as Clariesse grabbed the other and they heaved him out of bed. "See! Now what's so hard about that? Hmm???"
"Fine! I'm gonna go get dressed now." they watched him walk into the closet shutting the door loudly. Rikku decided she was gonna get Tidus up and Clariesse followed telling Wakka where they were going.
"Wake up Tidus!" Rikku hissed in his ear.
"I can't! I'm wearing boxers!" he complained back.
"Oh, here we go again!!!" Clariesse moaned. Rikku grabbed one arm and Clariesse grabbed the other, and like with Wakka, they heaved him out of bed.
"See now what's so hard about." Rikku had intended to repeat herself but she only smiled, looking away covering her eyes.
"Tidus, look down." Clariesse said smiling and turning away with her eyes clamped shut, Wakka came in and almost choked on the hot dog he was trying to eat. Tidus glanced down expecting the worse and shot back into the bed, under the covers. Clariesse watched Wakka and his food, her eyes twinkling with silent laughter as Rikku was shaking, trying to keep herself from rolling on the floor.
"Guys.don't laugh at him, ya? It's not that funny, just wait, one of these days one of you will be walked in on without a shirt on and you won't think it's very funny, ya?" Wakka said, throwing the hot dog into the trash. Tidus was under the blankets and he had shoved Yuna out of bed, fully dressed.
"What did I miss?" she asked, looking very confused at all of them.
"We just saw Tidus' equipment." Rikku said looking at Yuna then running out of the room, blushing. Clariesse only smiled as Yuna left after her, her face redder than Wakka's hair. A noise came from under Tidus' blankets and Clariesse walked over giving a look to Wakka who moved a bit closer upon that noise. Clariesse picked up a corner of the blanket only enough to stick her head under and saw Tidus curled up in a ball crying silently.
"Oh, Tidus, I'm sorry, if you had said something.me and Rikku wouldn't have." she disappeared under the blanket completely, sitting Tidus up and holding him in her arms, rocking back and forth slightly to calm him down.
'He's seventeen, he shouldn't be crying.' Wakka thought to himself as he heard Tidus give another small whine. He walked out the room only to find Yuna and Rikku chattering to each other in the hall. "What are guys talking about?"
"Nothing!!!" Rikku yelped, jumping up as if she had been trying to sit on a porcupine. Wakka sighed and sat in a corner, meanwhile Clariesse was trying to convince Tidus to get up.
"Clariesse! No!!! Rikku saw my, you know, I mean you saw it to!!!"
"Like I didn't see it in the baby pictures on the mantle in your house back in Zanarkand. Anyway, Rikku won't take it as something funny, thing is, she fancies you anyway."
"WHAT!?!?" Tidus said a little too loudly. Clariesse nodded letting him out of her arms, he stared at her, getting up and getting dressed. "Well, Clariesse, thanks, but know I'll feel like she watching my every step and I'll get nervous and know I'll want to impress Yuna AND Rikku in battle, and, and."
"Tidus, calm down, Rikku will probably pretend like it didn't happen.let's go." as soon as they walked out Wakka grabbed Clariesse wrist and drug her outside. "Wakka? What is it???" she questioned oddly watching Rikku come outside too.
"You wanted to go fiend fighting and Yuna is going to go back to bed and as gonna take Tidus with her." He said, frowning as he started to stretch.
"What's with the sour face Wakka?" Clariesse asked, worried that he was mad at her.
"He's just jealous of Tidus and Yuna, he wants some lovin'." Rikku said though giggles as she sprinted back inside incase Wakka decided to murder her there on the spot. Sure enough Wakka did spin around ready to follow her inside when Clariesse stopped him, looking with wide eyes behind Wakka. He turned back around to see a guy standing there. He was around his age, a little shorter with ice blue hair and eyes. He had pale skin and was wearing all black.
"Icicle."Clariesse whispered, looking at the ground.
"Come, Clariesse, come." He said, and Clariesse walked forward and kneeled down in front of him. Wakka watched as a glyph appeared under them and they disappeared, Wakka ran forward and jumped unto the glyph, him too disappearing he guessed. He blacked out. He woke up to the sound of someone struggling and Icicle laughing lowly to himself. Wakka opened his eyes to find him chained to a wall and on the wall to his right Clariesse's ankle was chained to a chair that Icicle was sitting on. She was wearing a black sleeve-less dress that fell past her ankles and had silt on the side that went up to right below her hip; she was wearing a black bikini bottom under it.
"Look, the tag-along is finally waking." Icicle said in a cold drawling voice. Wakka stood up, his wrists still chained to the wall, he tried hopelessly to release himself and Clariesse tried to go to him, only falling down from the chain around her ankle. Wakka realized finally that warm blood was oozing lightly from his mouth and that it was a tiny bit hard to draw a breath. Icicle laughed as Clariesse continued to struggle to get to Wakka.
"Icicle, please." Clariesse stopped when Icicle drew a whip out and prepared to hit her. "Master, please, I'm begging you." Clariesse said looking to Icicle pleadingly. Icicle whipped the chain that bound her and she was freed, she ran to Wakka. "Wakka, are you okay, do you feel okay?"
"Clariesse, calm down, I'm fine. I would hold you if my arms were free." He said quietly in her ear. As tears started to flow down her face he had a brainstorm. "I'm going to tell him the truth." Clariesse looked up at him questioningly. "Icicle. I will give you one reason to let her and I go and never bother her again."
"Oh really? And what's that?" Icicle asked in an amused voice and Clariesse gave this look to Wakka, her eyes pleading him not to do it.
"She's owned by someone else. She came to Besaid on Braska's pilgrimage and became Chappu, Lulu, and my friend. More than a friend to me, more like someone who could see everything through my eyes and had been dragged down the same road I was. As she left with Braska and his other guardians, she promised I would see her again, and so I did. One year later I found her struggling against a merchant who sold Al Bhed. She didn't belong there. So I stepped forward and asked that he let her go. He said he 'would not unless she made him money off of going.' And so, I put 100gil in front of him and bought her. Not for my own pleasure, but so that an innocent young Al Bhed girl could walk free, without knowing in the back of her mind that she would have to return to her 'master' later that same day. I asked as her first and last duty to me, to forget it ever happened and pretend I had just found her walking around on Besaid. To forget it ever happened and stay friends."
"You own her?" Icicle said taken back from the entire thought of it. Clariesse was crying silently as Icicle un-chained Wakka, Wakka however swung a fist at Icicle, knocking him back into the ground.
"STOP!" Clariesse yelled and Wakka looked back at her, surprised. "If anyone is to finish him off, let it be me." She said, frowning as Wakka backed away. Continuing to cry, she started to perform the sending. Wakka watched as she did this without a staff, he ran forward to hold her as she stopped and Icicle's body was turning to pyreflies.
"Clariesse, I thank and honor you above anyone else. Let you walk free." Icicle said as he faded completely. Clariesse cried into Wakka's chest, him rocking her sideways comforting her as her sobs continued to pierce the cold dark room they were in. She walked over to a corner and started to dress into her normal clothes.
"So, where are we?" Wakka asked as she came out, putting her other shoe on.
"Underground tunnel, glyph over there takes us back to our room. Nobody will have noticed we disappeared it's only been an hour. So shall we go now?" she asked, looking at him.
"I have a better idea, how about we stick around and be left here to die." He said, humor in his voice. She grabbed his wrist and started to lead him to the glyph. "Wait, wait, wait." Wakka said, using his wrist to turn her around and kissing her tenderly on the lips.
"Wakka." She said, pulling away. "Let's go, there's a lot that has to happen, Yuna needs to talk to Mika. Come on." She said, walking towards the glyph and disappearing, Wakka followed.
"There you are! What happened?" Rikku asked, running towards her sister, Auron peering over Rikku's shoulder, Clariesse mouthed 'Icicle' and no more.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Is Icicle gone for good? Will Wakka really find a way to keep Clariesse alive when Yuna lets go of the Aeons? Well you'll just have to find out! ---Myl ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Chapter Three: Last chance.
Everyone ran outside to see what the scream was for when they saw Clariesse facing this oversized, lightning Behemoth. It used Thundaga on her, making her flinch as she used death on it. Wakka ran over to her, wondering what the heck she thought she was doing. Auron followed after him, then Rikku, everyone else headed back inside a little shaken by the whole scream thing. Wakka hugged her shaking body as Auron approached her.
"What in the name of Zanarkand did you think you were doing?" Auron asked, as if scolding a child who had broken his window.
"I was coming to talk to you about something when I was lead outside by," Clariesse hesitated a bit, "by some strange force." She gave him this look that just whimpered at Auron. "Funny thing is, it felt like. . ." she paused and looked at Wakka briefly. "Icicle." Auron took a step back with a look on his face that would purely scare the living daylights out of anyone.
"I think you should go back to bed, Clariesse, Wakka." Auron said, nodding at both of them, walking stiffly back inside.
"What was that all about? And who is Icicle?" Wakka questioned. Clariesse led him back into their room and sat down shaking her head worriedly.
"Wakka, you must promise not to tell anyone." Clariesse started as Wakka sat down, hugging her. He nodded simply and she began. "When I left Besaid, I went to Zanarkand one thousand years ago, yes, it's true, that's where Tidus came from. While I was there, I watched over him with Auron and eventually, in a small just created temple." She paused "Wakka, I'm a one of the Fayth and Icicle was my keeper, you don't know what a keeper is, do you?" she asked laying her head on his shoulder.
"Not really."
"It's almost like summoner, however you are practically a slave of your keeper and he can call upon your Aeon self or your human self when wanted."
"Oh." Was all Wakka could say. "But, doesn't that mean that when Yuna lets go of the Fayth and releases them forever, that." He stopped right there.
"I'm sorry, baby." She frowned and got up preparing to go into a different room, he grabbed her wrist and spun her back around, kissing her deeply.
"I don't mind, like Tidus says, I'm sure we'll find a loophole in the whole darn thing." He said, pulling her back into bed and holding her until she fell asleep.
~ The Next Morning ~
"Wakka? Hello?" Wakka heard two voices say in unison. He opened his eyes and realized that Clariesse was sitting on top of him dressed fully and Rikku was standing beside the bed near her sister.
"Am I the last one to get up or something?" he asked alarmed.
"No. Actually, you're one of the first if you count us." Rikku said in her usual bubbly voice. Clariesse smiled at hr sister as Rikku turned away and leaned down kissing Wakka on the cheek.
"Let's go outside!" Rikku proclaimed turning around with her arm in the air only to find Clariesse and Wakka kissing. "Ackhem!"
"Oh.sorry, Rikku, I never thought that you might be a bit.you know to this whole me and Clariesse thing." Wakka said grabbing Clariesse's hips and moving her while he sat up to stretch. "You guys are going to have to turn around as I get up.I'm only wearing boxers."
"Big deal.they're like swimming trunks. Come on Wakka!" Rikku said grabbing one arm as Clariesse grabbed the other and they heaved him out of bed. "See! Now what's so hard about that? Hmm???"
"Fine! I'm gonna go get dressed now." they watched him walk into the closet shutting the door loudly. Rikku decided she was gonna get Tidus up and Clariesse followed telling Wakka where they were going.
"Wake up Tidus!" Rikku hissed in his ear.
"I can't! I'm wearing boxers!" he complained back.
"Oh, here we go again!!!" Clariesse moaned. Rikku grabbed one arm and Clariesse grabbed the other, and like with Wakka, they heaved him out of bed.
"See now what's so hard about." Rikku had intended to repeat herself but she only smiled, looking away covering her eyes.
"Tidus, look down." Clariesse said smiling and turning away with her eyes clamped shut, Wakka came in and almost choked on the hot dog he was trying to eat. Tidus glanced down expecting the worse and shot back into the bed, under the covers. Clariesse watched Wakka and his food, her eyes twinkling with silent laughter as Rikku was shaking, trying to keep herself from rolling on the floor.
"Guys.don't laugh at him, ya? It's not that funny, just wait, one of these days one of you will be walked in on without a shirt on and you won't think it's very funny, ya?" Wakka said, throwing the hot dog into the trash. Tidus was under the blankets and he had shoved Yuna out of bed, fully dressed.
"What did I miss?" she asked, looking very confused at all of them.
"We just saw Tidus' equipment." Rikku said looking at Yuna then running out of the room, blushing. Clariesse only smiled as Yuna left after her, her face redder than Wakka's hair. A noise came from under Tidus' blankets and Clariesse walked over giving a look to Wakka who moved a bit closer upon that noise. Clariesse picked up a corner of the blanket only enough to stick her head under and saw Tidus curled up in a ball crying silently.
"Oh, Tidus, I'm sorry, if you had said something.me and Rikku wouldn't have." she disappeared under the blanket completely, sitting Tidus up and holding him in her arms, rocking back and forth slightly to calm him down.
'He's seventeen, he shouldn't be crying.' Wakka thought to himself as he heard Tidus give another small whine. He walked out the room only to find Yuna and Rikku chattering to each other in the hall. "What are guys talking about?"
"Nothing!!!" Rikku yelped, jumping up as if she had been trying to sit on a porcupine. Wakka sighed and sat in a corner, meanwhile Clariesse was trying to convince Tidus to get up.
"Clariesse! No!!! Rikku saw my, you know, I mean you saw it to!!!"
"Like I didn't see it in the baby pictures on the mantle in your house back in Zanarkand. Anyway, Rikku won't take it as something funny, thing is, she fancies you anyway."
"WHAT!?!?" Tidus said a little too loudly. Clariesse nodded letting him out of her arms, he stared at her, getting up and getting dressed. "Well, Clariesse, thanks, but know I'll feel like she watching my every step and I'll get nervous and know I'll want to impress Yuna AND Rikku in battle, and, and."
"Tidus, calm down, Rikku will probably pretend like it didn't happen.let's go." as soon as they walked out Wakka grabbed Clariesse wrist and drug her outside. "Wakka? What is it???" she questioned oddly watching Rikku come outside too.
"You wanted to go fiend fighting and Yuna is going to go back to bed and as gonna take Tidus with her." He said, frowning as he started to stretch.
"What's with the sour face Wakka?" Clariesse asked, worried that he was mad at her.
"He's just jealous of Tidus and Yuna, he wants some lovin'." Rikku said though giggles as she sprinted back inside incase Wakka decided to murder her there on the spot. Sure enough Wakka did spin around ready to follow her inside when Clariesse stopped him, looking with wide eyes behind Wakka. He turned back around to see a guy standing there. He was around his age, a little shorter with ice blue hair and eyes. He had pale skin and was wearing all black.
"Icicle."Clariesse whispered, looking at the ground.
"Come, Clariesse, come." He said, and Clariesse walked forward and kneeled down in front of him. Wakka watched as a glyph appeared under them and they disappeared, Wakka ran forward and jumped unto the glyph, him too disappearing he guessed. He blacked out. He woke up to the sound of someone struggling and Icicle laughing lowly to himself. Wakka opened his eyes to find him chained to a wall and on the wall to his right Clariesse's ankle was chained to a chair that Icicle was sitting on. She was wearing a black sleeve-less dress that fell past her ankles and had silt on the side that went up to right below her hip; she was wearing a black bikini bottom under it.
"Look, the tag-along is finally waking." Icicle said in a cold drawling voice. Wakka stood up, his wrists still chained to the wall, he tried hopelessly to release himself and Clariesse tried to go to him, only falling down from the chain around her ankle. Wakka realized finally that warm blood was oozing lightly from his mouth and that it was a tiny bit hard to draw a breath. Icicle laughed as Clariesse continued to struggle to get to Wakka.
"Icicle, please." Clariesse stopped when Icicle drew a whip out and prepared to hit her. "Master, please, I'm begging you." Clariesse said looking to Icicle pleadingly. Icicle whipped the chain that bound her and she was freed, she ran to Wakka. "Wakka, are you okay, do you feel okay?"
"Clariesse, calm down, I'm fine. I would hold you if my arms were free." He said quietly in her ear. As tears started to flow down her face he had a brainstorm. "I'm going to tell him the truth." Clariesse looked up at him questioningly. "Icicle. I will give you one reason to let her and I go and never bother her again."
"Oh really? And what's that?" Icicle asked in an amused voice and Clariesse gave this look to Wakka, her eyes pleading him not to do it.
"She's owned by someone else. She came to Besaid on Braska's pilgrimage and became Chappu, Lulu, and my friend. More than a friend to me, more like someone who could see everything through my eyes and had been dragged down the same road I was. As she left with Braska and his other guardians, she promised I would see her again, and so I did. One year later I found her struggling against a merchant who sold Al Bhed. She didn't belong there. So I stepped forward and asked that he let her go. He said he 'would not unless she made him money off of going.' And so, I put 100gil in front of him and bought her. Not for my own pleasure, but so that an innocent young Al Bhed girl could walk free, without knowing in the back of her mind that she would have to return to her 'master' later that same day. I asked as her first and last duty to me, to forget it ever happened and pretend I had just found her walking around on Besaid. To forget it ever happened and stay friends."
"You own her?" Icicle said taken back from the entire thought of it. Clariesse was crying silently as Icicle un-chained Wakka, Wakka however swung a fist at Icicle, knocking him back into the ground.
"STOP!" Clariesse yelled and Wakka looked back at her, surprised. "If anyone is to finish him off, let it be me." She said, frowning as Wakka backed away. Continuing to cry, she started to perform the sending. Wakka watched as she did this without a staff, he ran forward to hold her as she stopped and Icicle's body was turning to pyreflies.
"Clariesse, I thank and honor you above anyone else. Let you walk free." Icicle said as he faded completely. Clariesse cried into Wakka's chest, him rocking her sideways comforting her as her sobs continued to pierce the cold dark room they were in. She walked over to a corner and started to dress into her normal clothes.
"So, where are we?" Wakka asked as she came out, putting her other shoe on.
"Underground tunnel, glyph over there takes us back to our room. Nobody will have noticed we disappeared it's only been an hour. So shall we go now?" she asked, looking at him.
"I have a better idea, how about we stick around and be left here to die." He said, humor in his voice. She grabbed his wrist and started to lead him to the glyph. "Wait, wait, wait." Wakka said, using his wrist to turn her around and kissing her tenderly on the lips.
"Wakka." She said, pulling away. "Let's go, there's a lot that has to happen, Yuna needs to talk to Mika. Come on." She said, walking towards the glyph and disappearing, Wakka followed.
"There you are! What happened?" Rikku asked, running towards her sister, Auron peering over Rikku's shoulder, Clariesse mouthed 'Icicle' and no more.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Is Icicle gone for good? Will Wakka really find a way to keep Clariesse alive when Yuna lets go of the Aeons? Well you'll just have to find out! ---Myl ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
