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Cid/Shera maybe more later on.
Summary: He had been afraid to tell her, all of them, what he really was. But now he has to...
Rated M for language
Golden Wings
Chapter 1
"Stupid, fucking, piece of Shit!"
It was no surprise, at that volume, that Shera could hear Cid's cursing from their kitchen even though he was in the hanger out the back of their house. She knew he had done something wrong but refused to admit it. Instead he would blame the object in question for his failure. This time it was the engine of the Tiny Bronco.
"Please don't break it too much, Captain," Shera called out to him.
"Stop calling me captain, Shera, we're married damnit, it's Cid!" the pissed off voice yelled back at her. After a few seconds the voice yelled again. "I'M NOT FUCKING BREAKING ANYTHING!"
"Whatever you say Cid," She said to herself. She laughed to herself and carried on with the dishes, humming as she went.
The Bronco's new engine was really getting to him. It refused to move off the bench and back into the small plane. With all the new parts he'd just finished putting in it, it seemed to weigh a couple of tonnes. A vast amount more than he could ever carry...
While he was in his human form anyway...
He thought about it for a while.
"If I do this, I gotta be quick or else someone'll see an' I sure as hell don't want that",
"What if Shera comes out, I don' want her to see me like that, she'll get scared an' think I'm a freak",
"But fuck, I am a freak, I just don' want her to leave me",
"No, I just be quick, the bronco ain't that far away, no one'll see",
"But what if they do?",
"Well they're nuts, they didn't see anything, that's what I'll tell 'em."
Internal debate out of the way, Cid changed his form to the hideous monster that was his other.
He shut his eyes and felt his body change. He felt his pores open wide to allow for the thick fur to rip through, his bones snapping as they changed shape and grew, his teeth growing and ripping through his gums, his ears growing to points on top of his head like a wolf, his body changing into the beast that he truly was.
Shera could hear a strange gargling noise coming out of the hanger as she approached with a tray of tea.
"Cid, are you Ok in there?" she called only to hear the noise stop and a loud crash emit within the large building.
Shocked, she dropped the tray and ran toward the sound.
"Cid, are you Ok in there?"
"WTF?" Cid's newly changed body ceased its strangled sounds as it dropped the heavy engine and swerved to the source of the noise. The engine made a loud crash as it hit the hanger's floor.
His eyes lay upon the sight of Shera running through the doors and immediately stopping when she saw a strange beast wearing Cid's clothes, in front of Cid's new engine, smoking one of Cid's multiple cigarettes.
"Oh dear," she almost whispered. She couldn't move. She couldn't take her eyes of the beast. The creature's blue eyes seemed so familiar to her as if she had seen them before.
"Um... hello?" her voice was soft but the beast heard her none the less.
"Shera," he said "I didn't think you..."
"Who are you? How do you know my name? Where is Cid?" she cut him off.
The beast averted his eyes to the ground in shame, shifted his feet and began transforming back to his human form.
"Shera," he reluctantly continued "I am Cid." He still wouldn't meet her eyes.
"What, No. But how? I don't understand."
His transformation over, he sat down heavily on the abandoned engine and motioned for Shera to sit down with him.
"It's a long story, Shera" he sighed "you sure you want to hear it?"
"Well I don't understand things now so I guess. Yes, Cid, I do want to hear this long story of yours and it better make this situation make sense" She crossed her arms as if to appear angry.
"Love, Fear and Anger in less than five minutes," Cid thought to himself "That's a new record for her."
He scratched his head as he tried to remember the entire story.
"Alright, where the hell do I begin?" he asked
"The beginning is usually a good place to start."