Chris/Fayte

And Their Off!

Disclaimer

This fanfiction is filled with the wonders of Final Fantasy XI. I dont own any rights to the game, I dont even play it anymore, but the memories of it are with me now, and will be for a long time. Anyhow, copyright stuff. This story is copyright to myself, however all "Final Fantasy" references are copyright to Square Enix. Also these characters are those that I knew in the game, I had relations with each and every one of them. I consider the players behind the characters very important as friends. However, the characters have little relations with the people who play/played them, there are some simliarities, but they are in short supply. I dont steal, and this is completely fiction, if any of these events occured in yours, or anyone elses life its mearly a coincidence. Thanks for reading! You may notice relaps and basically rewritings of previous chapters, however they are from another characters perspective, these pieces are going to play very important roles in the overall series story, therefore I would suggest reading them regardless of whether or not they sound like one you read earlier.
Chris

"So! Where are we headed first?" Tomha asked the group excitedly.

"Well we could go to Windurst, or perhaps San'doria" Styrth answered.

"I wanna get me a piece of them beastmen!" Tornex said followed by a laugh.

"Well I think we should go get stronger first, we dont know much about fighting, probably best to practice with one another or against things that arent very strong" Fayte suggested.

When an adventurer starts their journey they are very new to everything, they may have trained a bit when they were younger, but not enough to get by against any strong foe. Training requires a lot of time and effort, practicing aiming with bows, casting zones with spells, all of it takes time, but with that practice, you can become very skilled. The stronger you are, the better off you will be in Vana'diel.

"Thats a great idea!" Tohma said as she jumped up on Faytes back.

"Ok, I suppose we should pick a partner to spar with then" Styrth suggested.

"Well im a summoner so I think it would be better for me if I strengthed my carbuncle summon up" Tornex said.

"Ok well then I guess Tohma, Styrth and myself will have to trade in and out against one another for practice" Fayte said.

After having some difficulty getting Tohma off Fayte they began to train. Tornex went off to kill off some rabbits squirrels, they needed food and this was probably the best way. Tohma and Styrth began to practice sword stances with one another and various different striking motions.
Fayte watched the two strike one another with the wooden swords they had to practice with. The calm air of Gustaburg was soothing.

"Ok...you win" Tohma said without much breathe.

She was tired, Styrth had always practiced with a sword, even when he was little he would.

"Ok Styrth, lets go!" Fayte said as he jumped to his feet, rearing out his two hand crafted wooden swords.

Tohma sat and watched cheering for one or the other, whoever wasnt doing to good. Tornex arrived shortly after the training between Styrth and Fayte began, he crept up behind Tohma only to be scared himself when she turned around and yelled at him. He had caught himself a heft load of rabbits too, a couple dozen, enough to last for lunch and dinner.

"Not bad!" Styrth said as he blocked one of Faytes lower strikes.

"I've been practicing too!" Fayte said as he slammed one of his swords into Styrth left leg.

The duel went on for a few mor minutes until in an instant they both went down, gasping for air. Tohma gave a final cheer as she ran up and lept onto Styrth who was already laying on the group with his eyes closed panting. Tornex got up and helped Fayte up as Tohma rolled around with an unwilling Styrth, who was already half dead by the looks of him.

"We had better get camp up soon, we should probably travel down to the Dangruff before we do though" Fayte said to Tornex.

"Thats a- pretty good ide-" Styrth tried to remark as he was tossed and turned by Tohma who was laughing.

"Yah!" Tohma got up, "lets go!" she giggled.

Tornex began to pick up his share of gear from the area they were in, Fayte got up, walked over to Styrth and helped him up, Tohma was already loaded with her gear and 30 paces ahead of them.

"Good job Styrth" Fayte said, "we're both getting better."

"Heh, your right" Styrth managed to say.

They both packed up the gear that was left and began to job towards Tornex who had already caught up with Tohma. As they walked they saw the airship again, it was going to San'Doria by the direction it was headed. They all stopped to look at it, so high up.

"I wonder what its like" Tornex questioned.

"Probably scary" Tohma said after a shiver went down her spin.

Tohma always had a profound fear of heights, every since she was but a girl she would never be to far from the group, getting her onto one of the airships was going to prove quite difficult...

"Maybe, but not if you stay below deck" Fayte tried to comfort her fear.

"Yea, it wouldnt be that scary unless you spent your time looking over the edge" Styrth said.

"I hope so..." Tohma squeeked out.

As the warm summer day began to turn into a cool summers evening the group arrived at the Wadi, they were planning to set up camp, get a fire started and cook the rabbits Tornex had caught so they could eat dinner. After a long search they found the perfect place to set up camp.

"Here! This looks good, nice and flat, perfect for the tents!" Styrth shouted across one of the ponds towards Fayte.

"K'ay! Ill find the others and let them know!" Fayte yelled back as he headed towards Tornex.

"Hey Tornex, we found a good spot. Over there were Styrth is." Fayte told Tornex.

"Awsome, Tohma is over there somewhere, you might wanna go grab her" he said comically.

As Tornex ran towards Styrth Fayte ran in the direction Tornex said Tohma was hoping he wasnt in for a long search for her. With quick feet and quick eyes he spotted her, sitting on a rock looking towards one of the ponds.

"Hey there!" Fayte yelled as he came closer to where she was sitting.

"Hi" Tohma replied.

"Whats wrong, you sound a little dissapointed" Fayte asked concerned something had happened.

"Nothing, im just worried about that airship still" Tohma said.

"Really?" Fayte asked.

Fayte jumped up next to here and sat with his feet next to hers.

"Its not that scary is it?" Fayte asked.

"Well not for you, but I dont like being up to high, I get edgy and sometimes even sick" she said.

Fayte laid back, he looked up at the dark blue sky, it would be night soon, and it looked like the stars would be abroad.

"So, if say I was to carry you up onto that mound there and made you look over you might get sick" Fayte joked.

"I might" Tohma said as she looked back at Fayte.

Fayte stood up and gave her a look, a look that she knew wasnt good. He was going to take her up there, and she knew it, she didnt have time to escape either. In a quick motion Fayte had his arms under her and was jumping up onto the mound that stood before the pond. It wasnt to high up, a 10 foot drop, nothing dangerious.

"Cmon, stand up, if you face your fear you wont be scared anymore" Fayte said as he stood up.

"You jerk! Why would yo-" Tohma didnt have time to finish, Fayte had grabbed her arm and helped her up.

She looked around, it wasnt all that bad. Then she looked down, within seconds she had clung herself to Fayte. As Fayte laughed he pryed her off him.

"Dont look down silly, thats when it gets scary! You need to look forward, always forward." Fayte said.

"O..ok" Tohma wimpered as she opened her eyes and looked over and the direction of the camp.

"Looks like they got a fire going, we ought to get back" Fayte said.

"Ho...how do we ge..get down..." Tohma stammered.

Fayte walked to the edge, turned to look at Tohma. He looked at her eyes, she was quite a beautiful girl.

"You jump" Fayte said, followed by him jumping off.

"What! I...I cant jump!" Tohma cried out.

"Jump down to me, ill catch you if it looks like your going to land badly" Fayte said.

"O..k" Tohma wimpered as she mustered her courage and crawled to the edge.

Fayte was on the group arms out waiting, Tohma had but to slide off the edge and land on the group. She did just that, she slide off the edge and landed in Faytes arms. He didnt catch her, just steadied her.

"Now, that wasnt so hard was it?" Fayte laughed as he ran off towards camp.

"You wait, ill get you for this" Tohma said as she chased after him.