Gaia's Hidden Craziness
OR
Never Buy Sugar Cubes From a Cute Moogle.
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy
Setting: Alexandria, Treno, The Ice Cavern, Dali, Gizamalukes Grotto
Main Characters: Zidane, Garnett, Steiner, Blank, Eiko, Vivi, and Stiltzkin
Note from the Authoress: Poor Vivi! He's had a bit of an ordeal through this story! Still at least the others like him!
Part 8
In Which Brains Start To Melt
OR
How To Squish A Vivi
Vivi sat down, rather self consciously, on the steps to the palace. He had visited the tailors shop but all his measly amount of Gil could buy was a silk shirt. Now, he just felt stupid. He gazed vaguely across the courtyard, watching people bustling about their everyday business. A splodge of purple caught his attention. He turned to get a better look, only to have Eiko throw herself at him with a shriek.
"Vivi!!" Eiko hugged Vivi. Vivi hit Eiko's arm.
"Can't…. breathe!" He gasped. Eiko giggled and released her grip.
"You silly!" Vivi, gasping for air, shook his head. Two more cries of "Vivi" caught his attention, and, before he could turn properly, Blank and Zidane had launched themselves at him and were now hugging him in slightly less of a bear hug than Eiko had but in a bear hug nonetheless. Eiko jumped on Vivi's head and proceeded to kick both Zidane and Blank over their heads.
"Stop it! He can't breathe!" Zidane and Blank let go of Vivi, and he collapsed to the ground, Eiko still standing on his head. He groaned in agony.
"What'd you say buddy?!" Eiko asked, jumping off of his head. Vivi rubbed his hand on his head.
"I said: you're standing on my head!" Eiko gave Vivi a blank glance.
"No I'm not! I'm standing right next to you silly!" Vivi shook his head in defeat.
"Well, at least theirs no one else to throw themselves at me!" The group fell silent, staring in all directions, waiting for someone else to launch themselves at Vivi. Vivi blinked in surprise when no one appeared and tried again.
"Yep, there's no one else who can throw themselves at me!" The group stared round again. Still, no one threw themselves at Vivi. Vivi blinked.
"Well, I'll be damned! I guess there really isn't anyone to throw themselves at me!" He stood up, closing his eyes in despair when suddenly a shriek reached his ears.
"VIVI!!!!" Next thing he knew, Garnett had flung herself at him, pulling him in a tight bear hug. Vivi gave an exasperated sigh. Eventually, Garnett let him go and he was able to see Steiner standing a little way away looking annoyed at Garnett's public display of affection. Vivi turned to him.
"What, your not gonna throw yourself at me too?" Steiner jumped up and down in annoyance.
"Why would I want to throw myself at an annoying little boy? That would be worse than throwing myself at the thief!" Zidane blinked his eyes in surprise.
"Why, Rusty! I didn't know you cared!" Steiner stopped leaping about in rage.
"What?! You despicable creature! How dare you find meaning in my words" With that he launched himself at Zidane, who nimbly dodged to the side. Unfortunately he was standing right in front of Vivi, resulting in Vivi getting squished by Steiner. But just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse, an after rush of the sugar came along. The group started jumping around, gibbering mindlessly, and, in an amazing feat of strength Vivi lifted Steiner and threw him across the courtyard! Then, still gibbering, the sugar high caused the group to run into the palace.
It would be to terrifying to describe exactly what happened in the palace, but I can say that it involved a lot of trauma to people whose brains hadn't been melted by sugar. But I can say that the mad rush ended in the kitchen, with chefs fleeing for their sanity, our heroes collapsed in a comfy sofa that was there for no particular reason, and gorged themselves on the food that lay all around. It was a scene of pure contentment.
Meanwhile, disturbed by the fact that he had just been thrown across the courtyard by a nine-year-old boy, Steiner had donned a long cloak, possibly as a disguise, although the creaking of his armour told everyone who it was. He fought his way through the evil forest, battled harsh storms to arrive at the ice cavern, and hauled himself through the ice cavern. He fought his way up to Dali, before staring around. A bright tent caught his eye. He ran as fast as he could to the tent before entering it. Sitting inside, smoking a miniature pipe, was Stiltzkin. Steiner threw himself to the ground.
"Oh great Moogle! I have fought my way from Alexandria to find you! I have fought my way through the Evil Forest, battled harsh storms to arrive at the Ice Cavern, hauled myself through the Ice Cavern, and fought my way up to Dali!" Stiltzkin held up a hand to silence Steiner.
"You did all that just to find me? Kupo, why didn't you just give me a ring?" Steiner blinked.
"A…ring?"
"Yeah Kupo! A ring, a call, you should have phoned me!" A little tune that sounded like battle music started playing. Steiner stared in amazement as Stiltzkin picked up a small oblong thing, flipped it open and started talking into it.
"Talk to me Kupo! Uh-huh. Yeah. Right. Cool. Ok I'm with a customer right now…NO not that sort of customer! That's sick Kupo! I'll be there as soon as I can. Right. Earth? don't worry, I'll find it! Ok Kupo. Bye!" He flipped the "phone" shut and turned to Steiner.
"Ok Kupo, talk to me!"
END OF PART 8