Disclaimer: As much as I like Bahamut, and would absolutely love to own him as a pet, I don't. Nor do I own Final Fantasy. And Ultima Nexus is Piccolo Sky's.

Title: Brothers

Summery: Even the Brothers have a normal brotherly relationship... of sorts... Sacred/Carbuncle friendship

Note: This is based on me and my brother's relationship with each other. Sadly, where he once worshiped the ground I walked upon (something I remember hating. It's annoying when he loves a certain piece of food, but when he hears you say you hate it, he suddenly hates it too), he is now a chav, and with my attitude, chavs don't like me... including my brother, and excepting a few circumstances, our most common form of communication is to yell at the top of our voices at each other.

"Shut up and get out of MY CAVE!" A deep voice yelled.

"We have to share this cave, so until I find my own, you're stuck with me!" An even deeper voice shouted back.

This yelling had been going on all day, and the ground surrounding the cave that housed the two brothers was shaking violently. Poor Carbuncle, who's sleeping place wasn't far from the cave, was having difficulty standing up, and was quickly coming to the point where his dinner was going to return to the world, back from the way it had left.

"WANT TO TEST THAT IDEA THEN!"

Carbuncle crawled across the ground, trying to get away from the loud and very destructive pair, going slowly because he was pulling his ears down and holding them in a way that should block the deafening noise. It wasn't working. Another crash sounded from the cave and the smaller, yet older of the brothers went flying from the cave, crashing down before Carbuncle, who squeaked in fear. Sacred looked dazed for a moment, before shaking the cobwebs from his head. He stood up and shook a fist at the cave, yelling a few curse words that Carbuncle had never heard, even in his Previous Life. He wasn't entirely sure he wanted to hear them again either.

"YOU'RE JUST AN INSIGNIFICANT CHAV!" He roared. "AND NO-ONE LIKES CHAVS! SO GO, BE ALONE, AND SEE IF I CARE!"

Sacred stood there for a full minute before slumping to the ground, letting a dejected sigh escape his lips.

"Who needs you anyway?" He muttered, staring at the ground.

Carbuncle gave a mental sigh of relief that the fighting was over, and that peace and quiet had returned. He made to move to his prior destination, to return to sleep. The older brother turned and saw the cute, fuzzy green creature and smiled.

"Hey, Car... May I bunk in with you tonight?"

The rabbit-like creature stared at the smaller of the brothers and gave a nervous laugh.

"Erm... you see, my sleeping place was caved in due to you and your brother arguing. I was just going to see if I could sleep with Bahamut, or at the least Griever." Carbuncle explained.

Sacred sighed again.

"That bad, huh?" He asked.

"My dinner almost came back up, the ground was shaking so bad."

Another sigh, and Sacred looked around, trying to remember where everyone slept.

"I'll go see if Titan is willing to have me around." He told Carbuncle, moving towards a cave further down the cliff face. "See you around."

"Wait." Carbuncle ordered the Earth Elemental.

Sacred stopped and turned back to face Carbuncle again, confused.

"Do you want to talk about it?" The green creature asked. "It might make you feel better."

Sacred sighed once again and sat down, looking at his neighbor. He frowned in thought before shrugging.

"I don't know... Minotaur just seems to get more aggressive each day. I still remember when he wouldn't let me leave his sight; now, all he does is start fights. If I so much as look at him wrong, he gets violent. And he's never the one in the wrong... he smashed some of my things and he acts like he did nothing wrong, but if I were to do that to any of his stuff, he'd throw a hissy fit and start trying to attack me. He just threw me out because supposedly, I was flipping the bird at him."

"Flipping the bird?"

"Oh, that's right, your Previous Life was during the 80's. Flipping the bird is giving someone the finger. An offensive gesture, though during my Previous Life, its significance had dropped because it was used so much."

"And what gave Minotaur the impression that you gave him the finger then?"

"Apparently, he saw it from my shadow. That's how bad it is though; he assumes something and makes a big deal out of it. So far it has simply been around me, but sooner or later, he's going to start a fight with one of the others. And can you honestly tell me that his starting on the likes of Odin would have good results?"

Carbuncle shook his head, already picturing it. Odin was one of the oldest and strongest amongst them; any attempt to start a fight with him would not end well, for whoever started on him that was. Same went for a couple of others. Hopefully he'd leave Bahamut be, since he was technically under the protection of the oldest of them. Even after their round of 'hunt the dragon that wants to ravage the fair maidens', the Knights still held Bahamut under their protection. It was hard to tell whether Bahamut was still under Shiva's protection though, a couple of days ago, something had happened, and neither spoken to each other since then.

"Unfortunately, I have a feeling that he'd start on the weakest first, and, no offense, that includes you."

"None taken." Carbuncle reassured Sacred. "But you're stronger then Minotaur... right?"

"I am... not in brute strength, but in a proper fight I can probably beat him. Why, you asking for my protection?"

"Partially. But I also don't want you getting hurt."

"Naw, don't worry about me. I may be smaller then my brother, but I happen to have the brains to go with the strength." Sacred said, though he was glad that somebody was worried about him. "Heh, I feel better now, you were right."

Sacred stood up and yawned loudly, looking into the night sky.

"It's late... we really should be getting to sleep." He told Carbuncle, who yawned widely.

"Yeah. I'll see you around."

Both smiled at each other before going their separate ways.

-End