Hey people alchemists here. here is chapter 2 and i hope you all like it. Chaosomeganova and myself have be working hard to get the chapters up and running. Please, please, please leave reviews. they inspire more ideas and make the chapter come out faster. Well classes are over and it summer going to write more of this story and might write another it will be a naruto fan fic with the one of the follow pairings Naruto/Ino, Naruto/Karin, Naruto/Anko and Naruto/Temari. Tell me which pair you would like and i think of something. Well enough of that. please read review and have fun with this story.
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Chapter 2
Sazh watched the door open as a streak of lightning raced across the sky and thunder boomed shaking the windows. Suddenly, as if summoned by the storm, there was a family standing in the door way smiling brightly. That is, except for one. Sazh felt his mood wilt a little as his eye sight returned to normal after being temporarily blinded by the flash of lightning. The Farron's were the nicest people he knew, but the oldest of their two daughters was the most difficult of his kids (Fang being the exception.). He spent more time trying to keep the oldest girl from ending Snow's life before it had even begun.
The Farron family's two daughters Claire and Sarah almost looked like twins, until you looked past the apparent similarities. Sarah was the nicer of the two, with wavy pink hair tied into a pony tail at the side of her head, blue eyes, and the most adorable smile that could melt anyone's heart. Claire on the other hand was colloquially known as the "Little Violent Guardian". She had the same pink hair as her sister but work it in an asymmetrical fashion, with one side long and wavy with curls and one side short and straight. Her eyes were blue, but matched more of a storm blue, had the polar opposite of her sisters' sunny disposition.
Claire's favorite past time was abusing Snow in any way imaginable, Sazh deeply feared that one day the boys luck would run out. Sazh smiled at the Farron's and received a firm frowning glare from Claire. Mr. Farron gave Sazh a tired smile and shook his head.
"She's been acting up again," Mr. Farron said his shoulders slumping as he sighed, "It took me at least an hour to come out of her room and then another two chasing her around the house trying to get her ready to come here."
"She's been talking about Pulse for days and I honestly don't know where she got the idea. But she refuses to let the subject go." Mrs. Farron said with a deep sigh.
Sazh gave a lop sided grin, "I think I know where she got it."
"Gran Pulse." Claire said softly her young voice was slightly deeper than her sisters.
Mrs. Farron bent down to hear what Claire had said, "What was that Claire?"
"I said Gran Pulse mom and my name is Lightning!" Lightning frowned some more looking angrily at the wall.
Mrs. Farron gave a sympathetic look at her eldest daughter, "Okay, Gran Pulse, Claire. I'm sorry, I forgot."
Lightning huffed crossing her arms and muttered, "You always forget."
Mrs. Farron planted a kiss on Claire's forehead and stood, to which Lightning groaned.
Fang hearing Lighting rushed over a hug smile on her face and glomped Lightning, "Light!"
Vanille hearing Fang shout ran over and hugged Serah.
"YAY Serah's here!" Vanille shouted with joy and dragged her best friend to the playroom.
Mr. Farron chuckled nervously, "I guess that solves it then. We'll be back to pick up the girls at the usual time."
"Claire you better behave and no abusing poor Snow." Mrs. Farron gave her eldest daughter a stern look.
Lightning looked up at her mother with a surprisingly innocent look, "I make no promises."
Mrs. Farron sighed yet again and shook her head, "I swear, Claire, what am I going to do with you?"
Sazh chuckled and gently guided Lightning and Fang to the playroom, "Don't worry, I'll try and make sure she stays out of trouble."
"Good luck with that." Mr. Farron smiled.
"I'll need all the luck I can get at this point." Sazh muttered quietly to himself.
"Bye girls!" Mr. and Mrs. Farron called as they left for work.
"Bye!" Both called, Serah's voice drowning out Lightning's.
Once they were out of sight of Sazh, Fang smiled and gave Lightning a mischievous grin, to which the Violent Little Guardian returned it. Sazh smiled waving to the Farron's as they drove off and hoped nothing bad would happen.
Then like every morning for as long as he could remember, he heard Snow scream.
Five Minutes Earlier…
Lightning and Fang watched as Snow and his friends headed out the back door to the playground. Lightning had a plan to hurt Snow in more ways than one.
Lightning turned to Fang a smile on her face, "So have you heard of the game; pin the tail on the Behemoth?"
"No," Fang smiled brightly, "But I'm a fast learner."
Lightning smile turned to that of pure evil and patted her friend on the shoulder, "Okay then, here are the rules."
Lightning spent the next couple of minutes explaining the rules to Fang, whose smile grew wicked with each passing second. With the rules explained the two trouble makers made their way to the victim and hid behind a tree.
Lightning picked a stick up off the ground, "Ready?"
"You know it, Light." Fang replied moving out from behind the tree and strolling over to Gadot.
Gadot looked at Fang and frowned, "What do you want?"
Fang sneered, "Gadot, you should really stop eating all those cookies, they're making you fat. You're starving your poor sister."
Lebreau glared and hissed, "Scuse me?"
"Care to repeat that?" Gadot fumed.
"You heard me," Fang snarled, "And the other two are as weak as Gremlins."
Yuj and Maqui jumped to their feet, "Wanna bet?"
"I can take you all on and not even break a sweat!" Fang shouted planted her fists against her hips in defiance.
"GET HER!" Gadot roared and charged Fang followed by his siblings.
Fang's smile turned to a wild grin as she began to do battle with the Nora siblings. Lightning smiled as she watched Fang take on the four idiots with ease. Once everyone was pleasantly distracted she made her way over to Snow, stick hidden behind her back.
"Hey, Snow, you wanna play a game?" She asked a playful smile on her face as she closed her eyes to hide the malice that showed.
Snow looked to Lightning with caution, but in his mind anyone with such a nice smile couldn't be THAT bad.
"What's the game?" He asked walking towards her.
"The game is called; pin the tail on the Behemoth." Lightning answered tightening her grip on the stick.
"How do you play?" He asked stopping a few feet from her.
"Like this!" Lightning shouted and began to wail on Snow with the stick, leaving welts with each blow. Snow screamed so loud, it startled Hope awake from his peaceful slumber and alerted Sazh to the assault. Sazh ran out to the playground barely missing Hope as he emerged from the nap room rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
Hope heard the familiar voices of Vanille and Serah and ran over hugging them both, "Vani, Sewah!"
"Morning sleepy head!" Both girls cried in unison hugging Hope.
The moment was interrupted as Sazh dragged both Lightning and Fang in by their collars, grunting as they kicked and screamed in protest.
"You two are in a whole lot of trouble now." Sazh growled as he dragged them into the main office and sat them down.
"But…" they started, but Sazh shook his head and held up his hand, silencing their protests.
"No excuses, you knew what you did was wrong." He gave them his best stern look.
"We was only playin'" Fang said quietly, trying to weasel out of a harsh punishment.
"Playing? Fang, Playing doesn't leave Snow covered in welts and crying bloody murder!" Sazh snapped.
"But…" Fang began.
"NO EXCUSES, both of you are going to be in time out until lunch." He pointed to the corners of the main office.
"WHAT?" They both cried out in unison and tried to explain themselves.
However Sazh wouldn't hear any of it and with a huff placed them in opposite corners of the room, so the two couldn't collaborate their next attack against Snow. He stand long enough to know they wouldn't move and them left to go check on Snow and the Nora siblings who were now sporting new black eyes, scraps, and bruises from the Wild Beast herself.
An ear piercing wail filled the air and Sazh knew it was Snow, "Why…why…di…did…she..Att…attack…ME WAAAAHHHH!"
Grabbing the first aid kit, he went over to where Snow was holding his knees to his chest and sat down, "I don't know kid."
As Sazh cleaned Snow's wounds and wiped away his tears, the bell above the front door sounded and Rygdea, one of the other caretakers, came barging in.
"Sorry, I'm late," Rygdea said with a smirk, "I…uh…destroyed my alarm clock again."
Rygdea was tall, with long flowing brown hair and blue eyes. He was the type of person who was perpetually late to everything, but somehow managed to keep his job. He looked around the room and noticed Fang and Lighting were missing, but one look at Snow and he knew they had been put into time out again.
"Aww, I missed the party." Rygdea said jokingly.
Sazh turned to tell Rygdea off , when suddenly the room was filled with blood lust. Rygdea sensing his impending doom, slowly turned to find Jihl glaring angrily at him an intense killing aura surrounding her.
Jihl looked at him with hellfire in her eyes, "Rygdea, in my office, NOW!"
Rygdea felt his flight or fight mechanism suddenly fire up and then shut off as Jihl grabbed his collar and dragged him into her office before he could protest. The door slammed shut and the screams of agony began, Sazh ignored it as did all of the children. Rygdea's punishment at the hands of Jihl was a normal occurrence and thus didn't warrant any particular attention.
The door opened twenty minutes later and Rygdea stumbled out of the office his face covered in blood as he passed out on the floor.
Jihl exited and smiled at Sazh, "Lulu called, her group will be here in time for lunch. So will Aerith and Zack, apparently there was an escape attempt."
Sazh only grunted a response along with a nod as he dragged Rygdea to the front counter where the floor was tiled, in order to avoid staining the carpet. He made sure Rygdea was awake and ready to work, before going and making sure the kids were all right.
Lucky for him Snow had stopped crying and was covered in Band-Aids and was building a fort with the Nora siblings. Vanille, Hope, and Serah were outside tending to the garden that they had helped plant a few months ago. Vanille and Serah both had watering cans in their hands and Hope was following them like a puppy with a huge dopey smile on his face.
"Vani, can I water the greenies?" Hope asked looking up at Vanille.
Vanille smiled and hand him the watering can, "Sure!"
The trio continued to water the plants, while Sazh watched a smile on his face, at least these three never gave him a problem. Lightning and Fang remained in their corners, and Lighting was growing more and more agitated. Her ways of killing Snow without being caught were becoming more and more outlandish. Fang groaned holding her stomach, she hadn't eaten breakfast, and was starving. She glanced at the fancy clock on the wall and groaned, thirty more minutes until lunch.
Rygdea finally was coherent enough to check on Lightning and Fang and chuckled as he heard Fang grumble about being hungry. He pulled out a granola bar and handed it to her motioning for her to be quiet as she ate it. Fang smiled and nodded as she took the bar and began to munch away.
The last half hour before lunch past quickly and the trouble makers were let out of their corners but were given warnings that next time the punishment would be more severe. Sazh ushered the kids into the lunch room and made sure, Lightning and Fang were well away from Snow. When everyone was settled and eating their lunch, the bell rang and the rush of small feet filled the air. Sazh went to go check to see if the others had arrived and was greeted by an unfamiliar sight.
The adults save for a few, looked like they were about ready to pass out from sheer exhaustion.
"What took you guys so long?" Sazh dared to asked.
Wakka, a tall man with flaming orange hair and blue eyes, panted trying to catch his breath, "Children….*gasp* running *pant* around."
Sazh thought it odd that a man who played Blitz ball every chance he got would be so out of breath.
"That was your own fault, dear." Lulu said gave him a slight grin.
Lulu was a woman with black hair and red eyes, she wore dark lipstick and make up and looked a whole lot like what the teenagers would call a "Goth". She was a very wise and stoic person, many found her to be insensitive, but those who knew her knew better.
"What exactly happened?" Sazh raised a brow curiously.
Lulu chuckled, "Well…it started when…"
End Chapter 2