A week in Flanoir
By Fenris Amon

Day Six: Falcon Cherry Blossoms falling on two in love

Lloyd

Sheena and I woke up early, I couldn't tell if it was night or daytime, the cave was pitch-black. Maybe it was morning, maybe it wasn't. I felt the body heat of a person in front of me me, she wasn't wearing much, the combined body heat, plus the strange heat emanating from the cave was very warm. She managed to take off her kimono before losing anything else, but I doubt she had anything else in mind.. I managed to stand up, and take a good look around the cave, frozen walls, cold interior, but no wildlife. I walked towards the entrance of the cave, just our luck. It's covered by snow and rocks. We're stuck.

"Lloyd…What's wrong?" asked a groggy Sheena from behind me, sitting up straight.

I smiled nervously at her, "We're stuck inside this cave." Sheena fell backwards onto the mattress, exasperated, "So, what should we do?" I asked.

She streached her arms out, cracking her neck at the same time, "Well, the only thing we can do is explore the cave. This was also a nest for Silvers, so it probably goes quite deep." she added.

"I guess your right. Get dressed and let's get a good start." I handed Sheena her kimono as I remembered she wasn't wearing much. "And about last night…"

She blushed as she took the Kimono from me, "hehe, I know, it's all kind of sudden. But…I'm better at acting then saying." She put on the kimono and then her pink sash, she also draped the coat she had around her shoulders. "One question though."

"What is it?" I asked, wondering what she was planning on asking, well, duh. Silver nest? A nest for silvers? Ah man, I forgot.

"What if we run into a Silver or three?"

"Then I'll cut them down myself!" This sounded so familiar with the fight at Volt's temple. She smiled as she placed her short sword on her back and her two cards in her sash. Like Sheena, I took my own weapons and placed them around my waist. I actually have two completely different swords now, my right is the Muramasa, a gift from Mizuho for letting them move to Sylvarant. It's a long katana with an ornate design, I realized that my technique with swords is very similar to the way Mizuho uses swords. My other sword on my left is the Enchanting, a hand and a half sword from the Asgard ruins, mainly a gift from Iselia. "Let's get going." Sheena nodded.

"It's getting kind of dark, I better get some kind of light source." Sheena looked around, squinting while picking up a piece of wood that was on the ground in front of her.. "I summon the flaming inferno. Efreet. Cast your flame into this branch." a bright flame suddenly appeared at the tip of the branch, much brighter then it's size. Sheena looked back at me, "Let's get going."

On a wall I noticed a small plaque, written in normal language, Ye who cast aside the darkness and became the light. Proceed. Then it disappeared. I felt a bit disturbed, but still continued onwards behind Sheena.

As we proceeded further and deeper into the cave, more and more magi-technology artifacts appeared, "Any idea what this place is, Sheena?" the professor would love this place.

She looked around, "Not sure, but it reminds me of Welgaia… Wait, what the hell?" Ten giant tubes surrounded us, a mixture of blue and pink liquid appeared to glow inside. Inside each of them were worms, each varying in size, but each of them possessing the traits of a Silver. It all came together, this was a… "Silver manufacturing building." Sheena finished my thoughts.

"What should we do? We can't just leave these things here."

"Well, your guess is as good as mine. But I have an idea what's going through your head. Cause I have the same idea."

"Destroy them?"

"Exactly." Sheena smiled a strangely devious smile. But before we could do anything, it seemed that our presence was already known, the tubes broke. Each of the worms crawled out of the tubes. "Dammit, we're known."

Sheena and I stood back to back watching as each of the worms encircled us, as if waiting for something to happen. The smallest of the worms was the same size as Sheena and me put together, while the largest was a full grown one. We stood in the center of the giant facility, we noticed that the lights were flickering on and off. This was not a good situation. A worm began to rush towards Sheena, then I felt one quickly approaching me. "Sheena! Look-"

"-out!" She finished, timed slowed to a stop as out minds seemingly connected with each other, she wanted to protect me form a worm behind me, I wanted to do the same for her. Then it stopped completely. "Get ready Lloyd!" she yelled with her lips unmoving.

I somehow manage to speak, out minds connected, "Alright Sheena, let's do this!"

I closed my eyes, then our lives flashed before our eyes.

Third person

The sun was setting at Meltokio, it was a beautiful sight, but Lloyd still had to go inside into the dance party. The day before, they had to rescue the Princess from the clutches of the Ex-Pope, and in doing so, they were invited into a celebration of her safe return. A dance party to be exact. It was a grand hall located in the ritzy district in Meltokio, many paintings by obscure artists and tapestries lined the walls with an excellent array of food. Lloyd walked rather clumsily into hall, dressed all regal-like and such. His two swords hanging in cloth sheaths instead of the leather ones Dirk had given him. He immediately spotted some of his friends, but they were too busy talking, so like instructed; he walked over to the terrace.

"…hey there slowpoke!" Sheena playfully hit him in the shoulder. She was dressed beautifully in a dark crimson dress.

"Haha, hey there Sheena. Wow, you look great." Lloyd responded rather cheerfully.

"Um, thanks" Sheena blushed ever-so-slightly. "Say, want to dance? There's a slow-dance coming up and I'd…"

"Sure thing Sheena, I was looking for you for the same reason!" Lloyd smiled as he took Sheena by the hand. He guided her down the stairs and into the dance hall,

By the time they got down there, a soft serenade was playing, Lloyd instantly dragged Sheena with him. She placed her arms around his neck, and Lloyd's hands were already on her hips. This song would someday be much more important.


The sun was far below the horizon in Flanoir, the black sky jettisoned the release of the stars that lay above them. Lloyd laid down in his bed, as in waiting for someone to happen. He was nervous. He heard a knock at his door, he wanted to say 'leave' but that wasn't like him. "Come in, door's unlocked."

"Oh, sorry, did I wake you?" It was the person who he was waiting for, in fact he planned to go see her.

"Oh, Sheena…no. I was just thinking. I'm happy to see you Sheena." Lloyd sat up and smiled softly at her, she approached him slowly and smiled. She didn't realize it yet, but she really ad deep feelings for him.

"I'm happy your were still awake this late at night. C'mon, let's go outside. Celsius is still awake, she couldn't sleep either, so she's playing a soft flute song." Sheena smiled as she dragged Lloyd outside.

"B-but I need to get changed! It's cold outside!" he tried to get his hand back, but to no avail. Lloyd decided that they were both gonna freeze to death.

Sheena laughed, "It's okay silly! Celsius made sure it's warmer outside! Don't forget who she is!" Lloyd suddenly remembered, Celsius had power over the cold, she could change the temperate easily.

Lloyd couldn't help but agree, he lost the argument, They both ran to the terrace, where a soft serenade was playing, it was the same song played at the dance, but only with a single flute this time. But it was still as beautiful as ever. As soon as they reached the terrace, Sheena pulled Lloyd close to her and held his neck. Lloyd did the same and wrapped his arms around her waist, they both failed to notice Celsius who was playing the song, the pastor who was with Celsius and the child who was drawn to the commotion.


The sun started to rise slowly in Heimdall as Sheena came to Lloyd's door. He heard her knock and enter. Their wordless promise they made that night lasted forever. At least in their hearts, even if they were only words.

"Lloyd…" Sheena walked up the Lloyd who was sitting at the edge of the stairs, staring at his mother's exsphere.

"Sheena, I'm so glad to see you" Lloyd looked up at her, smiling.

"The elven serenade is playing as it always does every night in Heimdall. Want to talk a bit ?" Sheena had grown accustomed to the elven serenade, it was their song that they first danced to at the Dance hall, the song that Celsius played on her flute, this was their song...

"Lloyd...promise me you'll come for me?"

"Of course Sheena, I wouldn't leave you hanging like that."

"...What do you plan to do after we defeat Mithos?"

"I don't know, maybe gather up all the exspheres in the world."

"...Can I come with you?"

"Of course! Actaully, I was going to ask you that."

"Hehe. It's a promise then, and if you don't come through, I'll invoke the Mizuho punishment for lying by making you swallow one-thousand needles!"

"Whoa, okay. Okay, it's a promise."


Lloyd

I felt my hands waver over my swords, slowly unsheathing both of them, time began to move faster, a magic circle appeared around Sheena and I. I felt power at my feet and my hands. My swords began to glow with all colors. Sheena was in front of me, chanting something quickly. Were there ten of them? There all mine. I raced to the Silver that was attacking Sheena, I took both of my swords and swung at the worm, I looked quickly to my left, it was Undine half of her was inside me, half was outside. One of my swords looked like the one she used. It sliced clean through one of the worms. I turned around, the worm behind me was gaining fast.

"Go, go, go!" Yutis yelled, her arrow's pummeling into the worm.

"I shall assist." Sephie brought her giant sword next to me, smiler to Undine, Fairess pushed back the worm while both me and Sephie did an 'X' type of slash into the worm, decimating it.

I continued to run though the worm, and into the next one, my swords ablaze with hellfire from Efreet. Within ten-thousand slashes, it was dead. I turned to my right, the smallest of the worms was next. I took the Enchanting and flipped it over and held onto the bladed part just right so it wouldn't cut my hand and I smashed through it's head, lightning striking down the moment I hit it. I took the sword back by the handle and ran to the next worm. As I swung the muramasa into the worm, the ground came up beneath it, impaling it. I ran to the next worm, moving faster and more swiftly. A beam of light appeared in front of me, a wolf ran next to me, and the 'sled fang' connected with much more power.

The next worm was behind me, I was a short run to it, but when I did managed to slice through it, six other spears hit it as well. One from each side and two from the top. That was Origin's help. Sheena then finished up the last one with the combined power of all the summon spirits into her own 'mana cannon' which disintegrated I was exhausted, too tired to notice the last one approaching quickly from behind me.

"Lloyd! Look out!" I heard Sheena yell. I turned around quickly. I felt like I was going to die.

"NO YOU DON'T" a voice echoed throughout the halls. A spear of ice impaled it from the top, then another from the bottom. Trapping it. Then another spear finally was ran though it from the back. Killing it. "Finally caught up with you guys!"

"Celsius!" Sheena yelled, I caught a glimpse of her before falling unconscious.

Celsius

Thank goodness Noise found me, I completely forgot about the Desian testing facility here. I looked at the dead worms slowly disintegrating back into ice mana. I looked at Sheena, who was sweating bullets. "How are you guy's doing?" I asked as if nothing happened. In fact, I saw everything, Lloyd attacking with the summon seals on his swords, Sheena summoning each summon spirit rapidly one after the other, not even I had the power to summon Fenrir many time in one day. Let alone all of them. I snapped my fingers and the giant spears of ice disappeared.

"We just had to fight with all these things, had you arrived a few seconds later, I would of lost him" Sheena was the verge of crying, but managed to keep it held up. She ran to Lloyd and held him close to her.

"I see. Noishe found me, and led me here." I said, Noishe coming up behind me and whining. I kneeled down and petted him behind the ears. Noishe may be some kind of legendary animal, but to me he's still a dog.

"Noishe! I forgot about you!" Sheena yelled over, still holding Lloyd.

I smiled, "Let's get out of here, everyone is worried about you two."

Sheena nodded and picked up Lloyd. She placed him in on Noishe's back and Sheena sat behind him. I sat in front of both of them and Noishe led us out. As we rode, I saw a light shine from behind me. I could swear I saw Verius smiling at Sheena. We finally passed a plaque, it read for a moment, those who found that the Cherry blossoms with the Falcon's crest. Ye worthy of thine love. I have no idea what it means, but maybe Sheena does. I looked back at her, she was already asleep. So I rode them back to Flanoir, and out of the cave, which I had to blast through. It was midnight.

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