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BE SOMEBODY - THOUSAND FOOT CRUNCH

AVALANCHE - BRING ME THE HORIZON

CHAPTER 2

D'axon waves to Z'eris wishing him a farewell as the chocolate lilac-haired boy closes the door behind him. When walking back home, upsetting emotions surround D'axon with a guilty feeling for punching Maple and scaring off Alfie. More or so D'axon was upset that he will get suspended or worse expelled from his position in the gladiator guild. Sighing he walks up to his place seeing Kurry's chocobo in the driveway pecking at the seed along with his chocobo. He opens the door to their 3-bedroom house filled with feminine décor and with neatly organized furniture. Everything inside the house always had a place no matter the object, there was never something just lying there without a purpose. She had vases of flowers and planted pots around the house as well as beautiful pieces of art such as paintings, sculptures and sketches from her favorite artists.

Kurry is a short and outgoing Miqo'te who has a caring heart and a hobby for glamour. She has beautiful long dark dirty blond hair, fair pale skin, and beautiful blue eyes. She is also known for her white mage DPS class and being one of the strongest healers in her hometown of Gridania. She is very feminine with her sense of taste but don't that let fool you she is very feisty and can have one of the scariest moments of your life when she gets mad. In previous relationships she was always rejected, people constantly left her and made her feel alone. However as one of his promises, D'axon would never leave her. He loved her and would do anything to protect her from harm, especially harm created from himself.

He sniffs the air smelling the aroma of what seems to be Chinese takeout.

"I'm home". D'axon sets his sword and shield down stretching his arms and walking towards the kitchen.

"Hey! I hope it's okay but I picked up Cactaur Express for tonight! Oh my god! D'axon what happened to your cheek?". The dark dirty blonde walked to meet him full of excitement and joy.

"It's nothing just had to deal with some beginner gladiators, that's all." He walks towards her embracing her closing his eyes happy to be home and enjoying the moment of her presence. His hand rubs her shoulder and back proceeding to sit down at the table and open the package of chow mein and orange chicken. He begins digging into the delicious sweet poultry and stir-fried noodles.

"You should start being more careful y'know. Also, I went shopping I hope you don't mind and I got these seriously cute red shoes". She giggles pulling them out of the closet presenting D'axon with her glamour. "Also, D'axon, I can smell the whiskey again, don't have it too much. It is so bad for your liver".

D'axon smiles feeling relieved as he is finally home and able to relax, he can finally let go of these thoughts about the battles, teammate drama and work. "They look nice, and don't worry I'm not drinking too much". He finishes his plate walking to the kitchen and setting it in the dishwasher.

"I'm going to take a shower; I'll meet you in bed alright". He walks up to her grabbing her gently by the shoulder placing a sweet kiss on her forehead. "Would you be able to patch up my wounds after?". Kurry nods along with a small rose blush along her cheeks as she watches the gladiator walk towards the bedroom taking off his armor.

D'axon sighs walking into the bathroom of their shared bedroom, the bathroom walls are colored with a sky-blue paint and a beach theme. It calmed him down after battles, the ocean aesthetic made him feel like he was walking along the beach of Limsa Lominsa. It's the closest thing he can get to paradise. He started taking off his armor, next the cloth underneath and his undergarments. His body was covered in scars, bruises, and dried blood. The Miqo'te turned on the water as it rushed from cold to a nice lukewarm setting, D'axon stepped in feeling the pressure of the water hit his scars and wounds along with his muscles relaxing. He picked up a bottle of cedarwood scented shampoo and began scrubbing his hair, hoping to clean the impurities of war.

After the shower was done Kurry came in to dry him off and apply different type of bandages and muscle relaxant cream along his body.

"Thank you". He smiles.

"You welcome my love". She smiles giggling and walking to the bed along with D'axon following her.

After closing the door on D'axon, Z'eris smiles blushing a bit from being rescued by his captain. It wasn't really like a crush but more of a feeling of adoration and admiration towards his looks as well as the brave personality of his. Z'eris enjoyed his courage and for once being stood up from bullies. As continuing walking inside his studio apartment, he turns on the kettle and began making a sweet black tea. Switching from his battle armor to a light blue pajama set with blue carbuncle slippers to match. After missions, one of his favorite ways to relax was by making a black milk tea, turning on his radio with a mixtape of different songs and during special occasions he would even cook himself a small meal to just suffice his hunger. The Miqo'te hears the kettle make a clicking sound, indicating that the water has been boiled and ready. He places the tiny tea bag into a ceramic purple mug along with the hot water and cold milk from the fridge. Z'eris walks towards the radio and pushes the button to play a CD of relaxing and calming music for one to enjoy. He sets the mug down on a nearby center table of his living room and grabs the bottle of lotion, squirting it on his legs and arms as he begins rubbing it in. His mind flashes back to the incident that happened an hour ago, the gentle hold which D'axon grabbed ahold of his hand and the reassurance he gave him after being scared.

"Come here. boy". He calls his little courel calico kitten named Asteroid to come sit on his lap and accompany him with to relax for the rest of the night. Slowly sipping his tea and turning on the tv to watch a documentary about marine animals during the winter, however the long day has made him tired, which in the end he fell asleep on the couch with Asteroid still in his lap. Z'eris is pretty much the opposite of Kurry, he isn't really organized and some objects don't always have a place to be. His apartment isn't messy but a bit more realistic to what someone actually lives in.

D'axon shoots up from one of his nightmares regarding the future state of U'ldah and the rest of the planet if they don't happen to win this war. He jerks his head looking at the alarm clock on Kurry's night stand which reads 3:00am. The groggy redhead stands up slowly making sure to not wake Kurry up and especially her sound asleep Poogie. He starts putting on one of his hoodies and sweatpants set which was given to him from the beginning of his basic training years. He sees Kurry turn around facing towards him as her eyes slowly open mumbling his name. D'axon bends down to her placing a gentle kiss along her lips making sure to not truly disturb her.

"It's okay I'll be back. Go back to sleep". He whispers walking out of the bedroom door following along to the front door. He stops immediately feeling a presence behind him, looking around he then looks down seeing Poogie at his feet in his own pajama set.

"Yeah, you can come with, but if you're too slow I'm leaving you behind". He looks down at the pampered pig raising his right eyebrow. "You're lucky you aren't bacon yet".

Putting on his running shoes he closes the front door, walking into the dark cold streets with not a single soul to be seen. D'axon begins running at a pretty slow speed around 15 minutes per miles, hoping that this will fix the memories that follow from his dreams. He thinks about the past and remembering the basic training he had to go through, how he became a nobody to a somebody, working harder every day in order to please his instructors and the other captains that trained him. He remembers his first battle which was 6 years ago when he was just 15 years old, new to everything. He wasn't supposed to enter battle that early but they needed gladiators and the choice wasn't his so he was forced to enlist. D'axon watched people get murdered, raped and tortured, some were his own people and some were the enemies. He remembers when he first met Kurry was during his 4th battle when he was 19 years old, she saved him from almost being killed. He didn't look behind himself during one of his weak moments and one of the opponents was inches away from slicing his neck off. However, Kurry was able to quickly step him and blow the guy hundreds of yards away from young D'axon's reach. That was the day he instantly fell in love and was enchanted by her.

Alas, Poogie started slowing down and grunting as his fatass could barely keep up from D'axon's jogs. D'axon stops looking back as the pig was about 10 feet away from where he was, just a figure in the distance who was breathing heavily. "Come on, I told you to keep up". The Tank walks back and scoops the pet up in his arms, carrying him back up to their house, dropping him off at the front door. D'axon opens the door, slowly walking in not wanting to wake Kurry up from her slumber. He hears Poogie immediately throttle to the water dish and gulp down whatever water and food was left in his bowl. "God slow down it isn't going anywhere".

He climbs back into bed, looking at the time as it is now 5am, realizing he only has two more hours left before heading to work. As going under the sheets and innocently holding Kurry from behind making sure she feels safe and secure too.

As the time comes and her alarm rings with a soft yet loud tune waking them both up for their day at work. Kurry works as a fashion designer and part-time model around the shops of the Sapphire Exchange Avenue, on Tuesdays and Thursdays she also teaches young children how to use different spells and especially train young healers. "Morning". She wakes up giving D'axon a kiss on the cheek.

"Morning". He gets up heading towards the bathroom getting ready to brush his teeth along with combing his hair. He looks down at the fast asleep Poogie laying on the bathroom mat and scanning the toilet with appears to be an open lid. "Dammit Poogie drank out of the toilet bowl again". He grunts nudging the pig to wake up.

"That wouldn't have been a problem if you filled his water bowl last night you know." She giggles giving a snarky remark.

"Not my fault that pig has an empty stomach, dude drink the entire bowl in less than 3 seconds". He chuckles putting on his cleaned and repaired armor that Kurry apparently fixed for him during his shower last night. "Want me to make breakfast?". He asks heading towards the kitchen, opening the fridge to start frying some turkey bacon and eggs. Kurry won't let me cook swine bacon in the house as she is afraid how the smell will affect Poogie's anxiety.

"That would be great!", she begins walking to her closet to pick out her outfit for today's event at the avenue while also taking out the ruby red shoes she bought yesterday. "Also, I'm staying later today, I need to work on training the new DPS we have, he lacks in some of the necessary strengths". Kurry agrees nodding her head as she scoops up the cooked breakfast packing it along with her, the couple both left the house for their work.

D'axon enters the training field setting his swords and shield aside on a bench along.

As the bell rings he sees seven students enrolled lineup, counting and soon realizing that one of them is missing. Student number eight is Z'eris Tia. "Where could he be at? He is never late during missions" D'axon states muttering under his breath. Scanning the room making sure no one has a guilty look on their face, Z'eris runs just in time for the second bell to ring indicating that class has officially begun.

"Alright everyone we are beginning training for combos today; I assume pretty much every one of you has learned the first hit. We are going to learn the second hit today and how we can combine those two in order to create a greater attack on our enemies. Do I make myself clear?!".

"Yes sir!". As the class screams out to him standing up straight and ready with their wooden weapons attached to them.

D'axon models the second hit teaching them what posture and strike they should be doing, as well as inviting a couple of the students to the front and slowly guiding them to doing the hit combo on each other correctly.

"Alright you saw those models, it is your turn to begin. Grab a partner and get started". As everyone teams up with everyone, D'axon turns his back taking attendance on his sheet of paper.

Z'eris nods hearing D'axons strict yet guiding words being told to the class. He looks up seeing that the infamous class bully Markus. Sighing he raises his wooden sword and starts thinking in his head the steps he needs to take to complete and perfect the second ability. However, while he is thinking Markus begins striking him with his own wooden sword, beating his against his side. "This is so such a simple move! You are so weak Z'eris. I can't believe that you have the same last name as the crystal family. No wonder why you are adopted they didn't want a weakling". Markus laughs after taunting and picking on the Miqo'te.

"I have no clue what you are talking about, I'm not adopted and there are a bunch of different Tias out there". He speaks out upset over the fact that people were picking on his weaknesses and family's name. Honestly, he had no idea where he had come from other that his mom and dad were there since he was a child, they never talked to him about the possibility of him being adopted.

"Whatever, now you're going down". The sword strikes towards Z'eris's neck but is stopped by another larger wooden sword coming from behind Markus.

"Hey! Number one of class rules is that I will not tolerate bullying or belittling towards each other. Markus drops your weapon and go run a mile; training is suspended until tomorrow for you". The human bully cries out in frustration how that is not fair and his father will make him pay when he hears about this.

D'axon rolls his eyes looking down at Z'eris, "Hey you got this alright. I'll be your partner from now on. We are going to go slow until you grasp this". The captain picks up his own wooden sword and raises it up assuming the attack position. "Just follow my lead, mirror me". Z'eris blushes a small amount thankful for his help and kindness. He raises up his sword and starts off slow, mocking every move carefully until he can pick up the pace, as now he has mastered the skill. With having fun teaching Z'eris, his captain forgets that the time is already up.

"You did good, I'm proud of your improvement. Some things are still needing to be fixed like your posture but you are getting the hang of it". He smiles looking at him walking towards the end of the field heading to the locker rooms.

While Kurry is at work, she begins slowly sewing up a empire waist red dress to match her red heels, perfect for designing her new lining of clothing. She starts hearing a hitched pitched sound ring through her ears almost like a dog whistle being blown, as she begins crouching down, she begins to hear a man talk in a different accent, as he begun repeating a name. A name she has never hear or may recognize hearing.

Suddenly D'axon ears start ringing with a high-pitched scream as he crouches down covering his ears curing up into a ball. He hears a man talking with some sort of noble and different accent unable to register who or where he might have heard this voice before. However, it is left unknown to him. The students around him start falling and passing out, except for Z'eris who was freaking out standing still with fear. "D'axon!". He screams out worried about his captain's condition.

In the distance fire and smoke is seen burning throughout the Thanalan desert, citizens are screaming and the Eorzea is officially at war. D'axon stand up seeing the tragedy around him hearing all of the innocent screams and bombs behind heard in the distance. "Z'eris lets go, I have to go get my girlfriend. We are at war we need to get people safe". Z'eris nods with tears in his eyes at the two cat boys run off to U'ldah.