Chris/Fayte

Awakening

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

As dusk shadowed the rocky plains of Gustaburg/ Karrick had set up camp by the Dangruf Wadi, it was a common place to set up camp, Clean water,
reasonably protected area, good weather conditions, and it was always warm. Not to mention there were always fresh crab in the ponds that covered a large portion of the area.

As Karrick set up his tent he couldnt help but notice the fire in the campsite next to his. It was Styrth, and Tornex!

"I wonder" Karrick thought to himself, "I wonder if I could go over and spend some time with them."

He dicided it was worth a shot, so Karrick got up and began to walk over to the campsite. As he was entering the area he saw Fayte come running in at full speed. Fayte jumped into his tent laughing, Karrick then saw what he was running from, or, in a manner of speaking, who.
Tohma came running in yelling;

"Im gonna get you back for that Fayte!"

Karrick assumed Fayte had done something to upset her, although she did seem to be happy, and she was laughing for most of the way. Tohma however didnt go into the tent, she found a place to sit and sat down warming herself near the fire.

"Hello there!" Karrick said as he came out from behind one of their tents.

Everyone turned to look at him, they didnt seem to know who he was, but Karrick noticed their faces change to smiles.

"Hey Karrick!" Fayte said as his head, followed by his body came out of the tent, "your spending the night down here to huh?"

"Yeah, im in the spot next over, I was wondering if I could come over and enjoy the fire" Karrick asked.

"Sure" Styrth said, followed by the rest of the group agreeing.

"Thanks! Kinda Lonely, I dont have anyone with me..." Karrick said.

There was a dead silence and Fayte had a grin bigger than a behemoth.

"Why dont you come with us!" Fayte said.

"Oh, I dont think I could intervine like that...It woul-" Karrick tried to say but was abruptly interupted by Tohma.

"Thats a great idea!" Tohma said, "I hear your a cross, Black Mage, and White Mage, right?" Tohma asked.

"We could really use a white mage, and a blackmage would be nice too" Styrth said.

"I dont have a problem with it" Tornex said.

Thr group had decided! If Karrick wanted to join their group he was free to, they had plenty of room as Karrick could see, but he didnt want to intrude. Even when they offered him to join he had to seriously think about it, this was part of who Karrick was, always questioning what he did, he didnt want to cause any trouble.

Karrick thought to himself;

"Well...they are inviting me...I suppose its not bad if they invite me to join them...ya, I think I will!"

"If you all have no problems with it I would love to join you" Karrick said happily.

Later into the evening after Karrick had brought his gear from his campsite to the groups one they all sat around the fire. Tohma was clearly trying to get closer to Styrth, every few minutes she would act as if she had sat on a rock or something and shuffle closer to him. If she got any closer she could lay her head in her lap, knowing Tohma, she just might.

"So where are we headed anyway" Karrick asked.

"We dont really know, we were thinking about going to one of the other nations" Fayte said.

"Cool, I need to go to San'Doria if we are headed that way" Karrick said.

"Well, we dont really know yet. I thought we might go to the Wadi tommorrow and see what its like, then head off to, well San'Doria I guess"
said Styrth.

"Carbuncle is aching to kill some crabs, so im all for that." Tornex said.

"Ok, well then I guess thats the plan" Tohma said, she smiled, she enjoyed being together in this group.

"Its getting pretty late though...we should consider going to bed, we are going to need our strength for the wadi, I here there can be some nasty goblins in there..." Fayte said.

After helping Karrick set up his tent they all got ready to sleep, 3 tents, 5 people. Karrick would naturally have his own bed, he wasnt part of their sleeping arrangments, the other 4 had to set theirs up. Because Styrth had a thing for Tohma and Tohma for Styrth it was thought best that they didnt share a tent.

"Ok then where do we sleep!" Tohma stammered.

"Well I dont mind if you sleep in my tent Tohma" Fayte said.

"Styrth can sleep with me" said Tornex.

"Or Tohma with Tornex and me with you Fayte" Styrth said.

After some decisions it was thought that the sleeping arrangments would be best if Tohma and Fayte shared a tent and Tornex and Styrth shared a tent. Fayte was polite, or at night he was, he would go to sleep on his side and wake up on his side. Tornex is a rough sleeper, he tends to do a lot of rolling, so does Styrth. Why put the two most restless sleepers with two that arn't, they would all be up all night!

As they all climbed into their tents they said goodnight to one another. The tents were set far enough apart as so no one in eachothers tents could be heard, lest they yell. This was the main reason they didnt want Styrth and Tohma together. It wasnt likely they were going to have sex but if they did they wouldnt be heard, unless, as Fayte put it;

"One or both of you have earpopping orgasms"

As the lights went out and the eyes began to close Gustaburg was silent, there was a wisk of wind every now and then, but for the most part silence echoed over the rocky plains. This was the adventure they had all hoped for, and now, a new member is coming on it with them...

As the sun began to crawl over the mountain tops Fayte woke. He was lying faced in the exact position he was when he fell asleep. He yawned,
rubbing his eyes to further awaken him. As he turned to where Tohma has slept he saw that she was right next to him, still in her sleeping bag,
curled up snoring softly. He smiled, got up, got dressed, and left the tent to get some breakfast. Tohma had always liked sleeping in groups,
it kept her warmer and feel safer. It made her look timid, but aside from that and her fear of heights, she had a dark side...

It was early in the morning and the crabs would still be sleepy from the cool night sleep. Fayte snuck up to one of the ponds, he saw 5 crabs on the bottom blowing bubbles.

"Gotcha!" Fayte wispered as he plunged both hands into the water and grabbed two of the crabs.

He threw them at a nearby rock smashing their heads, this killed them so they could snap him, and he could now clean them, but first, he needed to get more of them. As he walked around the ponds he saw and caught as many as he could, but after that first attempt, if you didnt get one,
you were almost out of luck. Overall a grand total of 16 crabs, a good number, enough for breakfast for everyone at least...

"Cookin on an open fire..." Fayte was lightlying singing as he boiled some water for the crabs he had already cleaned.

"Hi there" said a voice from behind Fayte, " your up pretty early".

"Hey Tornex, how did you sleep?" Fayte asked the groggy version of Tornex.

"Pretty good, I think ill get ready, whatcha cookin there anyhow?" he asked.

"Fresh crab!" Fayte said.

"Mmmmm... cant wait for them to be done" Tornex said as he turned around and got his gear on.

A few minutes later the whole group was wide awake and fully clothed.

"Lets eat!" Fayte said as he took the large pot of boiling water filled with crabs off the metal stand that was over the fire.

"Did you catch these this morning?" Tohma asked as she grabbed one of the juicy crab legs off the rack were they had been taken out and set on.

"Yea, right here in these ponds, I think I checked 9 of them, I only got 2 per pond" Fayte said.

"They're so good!" Styrth said with a mouth full of fresh crab meat.

"Yea, they are, really fresh, never had crab this good before" Karrick said as he also grabbed another leg.

"Well eat up, we got a big day ahead of us" Tornex said with a smile on his face.

"I think we should make it to the enterence of the Valkurm Dunes if we dont spend to much time in the Wadi" Fayte said.

"Probably, but who knows what we will find in there!" responded Tohma.

As they finished eating everyone helped pack up their own tent. Everyone seemed pleased with the sleeping arrangments, so it was set that they would be perminent. The clean up went pretty fast, everyone had packed their tents and sleeping bags up. They were ready to head for the wadi.
But first an important thing must be done, it was brought up by Tornex;

"Before we go I gotta go to the washroom..."

Everyone thought it was a good idea to do this before they left, so the guys went off in one direction and Tohma in another, however she had a plan...Fayte had made her face her fears without her wanting to, and she WAS going to get him back, and this was just the time to. Would she do something to disturb him while he was soiling the earth? No. She had something even better. As they guys were walking away Tohma dug up 2 buckets of water from one of the nearby ponds, she thought to herself;

"I wish I caught a crab in one of these"

After that she went behind the large rock formation she saw Fayte go behind. Slowly she climbed up, waiting to see the look on his face. After was at the top she went to the edge, Fayte was there, facing in the opposite direction clearly "going". with her true love for pranks and jokes she took the first bucket and then waited. Fayte seemed to be finishing when all of a sudden...SPLOOSH! She had soaked him with the first load of water. Fayte fell over and looked up at her. Tohma was sitting ontop of the rock laughing, she almost rolled offf. It would have been a nasty bruise if she fell, she was up at least 15 feet off the ground. Fayte had gotten up and climbed up the rock formation, Tohma could see he thought it was funny but he wanted to get her back, so she jumped down and ran. Fayte was going to grab the other bucket and get her back, but he didnt need to. She probably hadnt noticed, but she just climbed and jumped off a 15 foot hight rock.

As Fayte walked back to where the gear was he saw Tohma rolling on the group laughing.

"I told you I would get you back" she said as she laughed.

"You did. But did you noticed how you jumped down 15 feet..." Fayte asked.

Tohma stared at Fayte for a second. Then back at the rock. Her face went pale.

"Your...right I did..." Tohma said with an ill tone.

"Well, arent you proud! You faced your fear!" Fayte said proudly.

"Ok lets get going" said Karrick as he walked up behind Fayte with Tornex and Styrth next to him.

"Haha! What happened to you Fayte?" Tornex asked.

"Tohma." Fayte answered.

They all laughed. Fayte got some new cloths out and they head off to the wadi. It was a nice place, canels linking ponds and paths to one another. Easy to get lost in, luckily they had a map.

"Ok...Well we can go right here, then we will end up at a pond, lots of crabs there" Fayte said holding up the map.

"Ok, well lets see if we cant catch some so we have some food for later" Tohma suggested.

"Good idea!" Karrick said.

They all headed down the right road, when they got to the pond they saw their first real threat. A goblin. It was about 5 feet tall with its gear on its back, it held a knife in one hand. Everyone was a little frightened, they had never encountered a actual beastman before.

"shh"
"dont make noise"
"that things gross"

The group wa keeping quite, when out of no where Karrick lept out from behind the edge of the rock. The goblin reared around and came running at him.

"Fire!" Karrick shouted out and a flame errupted from under the goblins body engulfing it in flames.

"Get it!" Styrth yelled and the group came out from behind the rock to attack it.

After the battle everyone was pretty proud. They had defeated their first enemy that could have seriously injured them. Fayte went up to the goblin and checked through its pockets to see if there was anything in them. He pulled out a bomb, already lite, he looked at it and then tossed it across the pond into the rock formation on the other side.

"Get down!" Fayte said.

Everyone got down to the ground and waited for something. The bomb exploded sending a shockwave through the ground over to where the group was laying. Everyone got up and watched as the dust cleared. There was now a gaping hole in the rock.

"Whoa!" Styrth said.

"That was a pretty powerful bomb" Tohma said a little woozy from the shockwave.

"Yeah, im still feeling that" Karrick stammered.

Everyone crept up to the hole, it was a sheer drop down the cliffside, it looked like there was a pond of water at the bottom. Still not the greatest thing to be falling off. Tohma threw up after she looked over, she couldnt handle that. Fayte was looking over when out of nowhere another goblin get around the corner.

"Another one! Everyone run!" Tohma yelled.

The goblin came running at them as fast as it could, as Fayte turned around he saw the goblin coming. Karrick turned to see it was headed in their direction too. Fayte and Karrick were standing next to eachother when it happened. The Goblin hit head on with the two throwing them over the cliff edge. Everyone else who was running stopped as the goblin had thrown himself over as well.

"NO!" Tohma screamed as she ran to the edge.

"Oh my god!" Tornex was right next to here looking over the edge, followed by Styrth.

A small splash in the pond or small lake at the bottom. And silence. Tohma began to cry.

"Fayte!" Tornex screamed down the cliffside, "Karrick!"

Styrth had gotten up and walked over to Tohma who was on her knees crying. She needed someone.

"Its ok" Styrth said trying to comfort her.

"No its not!" She yelled, "Their dead!" she stammered.

"We dont know that for sure" Styrth continued trying.

Tohma grasped onto Styrth. It felt like she wouldnt ever let go.

"FAYTE, KARRICK!", Tornex yelled as he began to sob.

"Their gone..." Tohma said as she stopped crying, "Their really gone..."

After a few moments of silent she began crying again. They couldnt wait any longer, if more goblins came they wouldnt be able to handle them.

"We have to get going guys" Styrth said.

"What!" Tomha yelled out, "How can you say that" tears running down here eyes.

"If we dont leave more goblins might come, we need to get to a safe place" Styrth explained.

"He is right" Tornex said, "we have to go".

As they left the wadi Tohma looked back one final time.

"Wake up..."

"Wake up Fayte"