hey people it me again just happy to have chapter three over and done with. Took some time to think of what to write but here it is and i hope you all like it. ChaosomeganovaI and i hope you will review just dont read and not say anything i love to hear what you have to say and what your opinions are and what you think i could do better on. again no flame or be blizzaga to death. so read, review and have fun in that order. i do not own final fantasy square enix does.
The morning sun beamed through the window of a quaint bedroom waking a couple who were sleeping soundly. A woman with black hair, red eyes, and pale skin stirred rubbing the sleep from her eyes, her unkempt hair flowing over her shoulders and down her back as she rose from the bed. She turned to her sleeping fiancé and sighed.
"I swear Wakka, you can sleep through a typhoon." She said quietly rising out of bed and entering the bathroom to get ready for the day. Wakka awoke to the sound of running water as his fiancée entered shower and rubbed the stubble on his chin before running his fingers through his flaming orange hair.
"Eh, Lulu what time is it?" Wakka called out slowly sitting up and stretching.
Lulu sighed calling back from the bathroom, "Time to wake up, Wakka."
Wakka stumbled out of bed and into the bathroom, "Lu, it's too early to be awake."
"Any time of day is too early for you, Wakka." Lulu chuckled softly as she began to wash her hair.
"You're right, Lu." Wakka smiled and grabbed his toothbrush.
Thirty minutes later they were both dressed and ready for work. As they quietly ate breakfast Lulu stared at the pictures of children that adorned the walls of the dining room. She sighed, they had an hour before they had to pick up their wards from the park, that in of itself was always a battle she had hoped to get used to. Finishing breakfast Wakka began the ritual of stretches and quick warm ups while Lulu stared at her wall of dolls and chose one for the day.
Choosing the stuffed moogle Lulu turned to Wakka who was doing a quick set of push ups, "Wakka we need to hurry."
"I know, ya." Wakka said standing grabbing his blitz ball and the car keys.
The headed out the door making sure to lock up behind them and made their way to a large van with Fantasy Daycare on the sliding doors and the motto on the back doors. Within minutes they were on their way to pick up their charges. As they waited at a red light, Lulu pulled out her cell phone and dialed the daycare.
After a few rings the line was picked up and a male voice answered, "Fantasy Day Care, Sazh speaking."
Lulu said, her silky voice smooth as ever, "It's Lulu, has the fun begun yet?"
"No not yet, still waiting for the first one to show up." Sazh answered sounding tired.
"They're not all bad, you know." Lulu chuckled as the light changed green.
"I know, it's just that…" Sazh said with a sigh.
"Just what?" Lulu asked inquisitively.
Sazh began to explain the problem that was Lightning and Lulu gave a soft chuckle. Shortly after Sazh had to end their conversation to tend to the children as they arrived. As she hung up, Lulu noticed that they were almost to their destination; the park. Every day, she and Wakka would meet the children and their parents at the park and then drive to the day care once everyone was safely on board. As they pulled in to parking lot, Lulu unbuckled her seat belt and got out of the van as it slowed to a stop.
Wakka sighed turning the van off and got out of the van just as Lulu made her way over to the large fountain in the middle of the park. It was their standard meeting place to pick up the kids, for as long as Lulu could remember this park was always a fun place for kids. As Wakka walked over juggling his blitz ball with his knees, fond memories of the times she had spent in the park as a child flickered over her minds eye. She smiled, now glad to be passing on such fond memories to the children, a large splash drew out of her revere and she sighed shaking her head.
"Wakka." She groaned.
Wakka ducked his head fishing his blitz ball out of the fountain, "Sorry, Lu."
Lulu gave Wakka a look that could freeze beer, "What have I told you about that ball of yours?"
"Not to play with it when you're standing by the fountain." He replied sheepishly.
Lulu stooped to set her stuffed her moogle on the ground and watched it scurry over to Wakka and whack him in the middle of his forehead. Wakka cried out in pain, putting his hands to his face as the stuffed moogle scurried back over to Lulu who bent down to pick it up. As much as she loved Wakka she couldn't help but chuckled as he cursed under his breath about how a stuffed moogle shouldn't be able to hit that hard.
Sitting down at the edge of the fountain Lulu smirked, 'Serves him right for nearly getting my dress wet.'
"Good morning, Lulu and Wakka." A large ronso said walking up to the pair a sleeping girl in his arms, "Khimari has brought, Yuna, she still sleeps."
Lulu smiled at Khimari and took the sleeping girl from his arms. Yuna was a five year old girl with short brown hair, one blue eye and one green eye(proof of her Al bhed heritage). Her parents were away all the time and Khimari was her guardian. She was a very caring girl who loved to help other people, play with her friends, and spend time with her best friend Rikku who also happened to be her cousin. As the three adults sat and talk, they saw a pair of young teens coming their way with a spikey haired blonde little boy.
"Zack, Aerith! How are you doing this fine morning?" Lulu asked with a small smile.
Zack ran his fingers through his hair, "Tired, Cloud didn't want to leave his home this morning."
Lulu looked and Cloud and bent down, "Aww, you didn't want to come see Aunt Lulu this morning?"
The small boy looked down at his feet and kicked an imaginary rock, "I wanted to stay home."
"Why's that?" Lulu asked tilting her head curiously.
Cloud looked off to the side, "I just wanted to stay home."
Lulu sighed a sympathetic smile on her face as she patted Cloud on the head pushing some of the spikes down. Cloud groaned and ran his fingers through his hair to fix what Lulu had demolished in a matter of seconds. Lulu turned to Aerith Gainsborough, a brunette with long hair pulled back in a ponytail and a sweet disposition. She was a favorite amongst the children who loved spending as much time with her as she did them and she was almost never without her boyfriend Zack Fair.
Zack was a spiky black haired young man who was an ex-Soldier who took to working at a daycare to fill his days and found that he enjoyed it. He was a carefree guy and spent a lot of time with Cloud acting as a surrogate big brother, but nothing could beat his love for Aerith. No one could've guessed that Cloud was a brooder. He had his moment where he seemed to be a normal kid, but then for no real reason he'd go into a corner and brood.
Everyone was sitting and waiting for the other children to arrive when the sound of little footsteps reached their ears. They looked over just in time to see a blonde girl with green eyes, running toward them at full speed. She jumped and landed in Wakka's lap earning a loud "OOF!"
"Wakka!" Rikku said hugging Wakka tightly.
"Rikku! What up, kid?" Wakka laughed returning the hug and patting Rikku on the head.
Rikku was a young Al Bhed girl with long blonde hair and green eyes, she was hyper and perky, and absolutely loved to play with her best friends Yuna, Serah, Vanille, and Selphie. She was forever stealing food from the kitchen when no one was looking and hardly ever got caught.
"Nothin', jus' wanna play with Yunie and the others." Rikku smiled hopping off Wakka's lap.
"Well as soon as everyone gets here, you'll get to play soon enough." Wakka laughed.
"But I wanna play now, come on Wakka let's play!" Rikku grabbed Wakka's hand and pulled trying to get him to stand up.
Wakka smiled at her ruffling her hair, "Maybe later, Rikku, Lu'll kill me if I run off to play with you kids again."
Rikku sighed and pounted crossing her arms as she sat down next to Lulu who was still holding a sleeping Yuna. Rikku began to twirl her hair on her finger in an attempt to remain entertained, but Yuna began to slowly wake up yawning cutely.
"Yunie!" Rikku exclaimed as Yuna rubbed her eyes.
"Rikku!" Yuna turned around smiling.
Lulu smiled and chuckled as the two girls hugged each other and began to talk rapidly about their favorite things, that is of course, until the eyed Wakka's blitz ball. Smiling mischievously they grabbed the blitz ball and scampered off to the sand box.
"Thanks for letting us play with your blitz ball, Wakka." Rikku shouted as she and Yuna began to play.
"Ey! You girls becareful now!" Wakka called realizing too late that the girls had the ball.
The others laughed as they watched the two girls play and squeal with delight every time they managed to volley the ball between them. Another fifteen minutes passed and a few more children had joined the group. Approaching from Lulu's left was Tifa Lockheart and her mother and approached from Lulu's right was Sephiroth with his more than crazy Scientist father Doctor Hojo, who was closely followed by Lucretzia(Who was rumored to be Sephiroth's mother).
Tifa was a young girl with long black hair, brown eyes, and had a deep love for the martial arts of which she practiced ritualistically every day. Tifa wasn't your typical girl, while most girls her age were playing with dolls; Tifa was training in the ways of martial skill. She had a crush on Cloud, but if Cloud liked her back he was too scared to say anything.
Then there was Sephiroth, he was an interesting and brilliant child with long silver hair and mako green eyes. He always seemed to stare Aerith with some sort of bizzare yet unexplainable hatred and had made it his goal in life to end hers.
Tifa walked over to Cloud and gave him a hug, "Hi, Cloud."
Cloud blushed his voice barely above a whisper, "Hi, Tifa, How're you?"
Tifa smiled clasping her hands behind her back swaying from side to side, "I'm great; I've been learning a lot of new moves. You wanna spar some time?"
Cloud nodded and ran over to the sand box, Tifa following as they began to spar. Sephiroth huffed and glared doom at Aerith.
Aerith smiled brightly at Sephiroth, bending at the waist her hands on her knees, "How are you today, Sephiroth?"
Sepiroth stared right at Aerith his face completely serious, "I will destroy you."
Aerith laughed and patted Sephiroth on the head, she was used to his threats. Sephiroth slapped her hand away and puffed his cheeks angrily. Aerith stood and rejoined the adults, as Tifa's mother and Doctor Hojo headed off to work. Sephiroth wandered off to his usual sulking spot under neath a tree and continued to mutter to himself about how; "One day, I will kill Aerith."
Zack looked at Sephiroth and sighed, "That kid….worries me."
Wakka nodded unsure of what to say about Sephiroth.
"Auron and Paine are here." Lulu said quietly.
Paine's hair was short and silver, her personality was a bit frigid for a girl her age, yet her best friends were Rikku and Yuna. She was often found assisting Lightning and Fang in their daily abuse of Snow, yet she hardly ever got caught, she was the "Ghost" of Fantasy Daycare. She nodded to the adults before heading over to her friends. Lulu nodded in response her face as stoic as ever and Wakka groaned, he had a feeling that today was going to be tougher than most.
Suddenly a wooden shuriken flew through the air and hit Wakka in the head and a young girl jumped onto Wakka's shoulders.
"Give me all your materia!"
Wakka shouted in pain and tried to pull the girl off, "Yuffie, how many times do I gotta tell ya? I don' have material!"
Zack stepped over and pulled Yuffie off holding her up by her collar, "Yuffie, stop jumping Wakka."
Yuffie was a young girl with short black hair, a bubbly yet abrasive personality, brown eyes, and a crazy obsession with material. She was always stealing Aerith's or Zack's whenever they weren't looking. Zack set her down and she ran off to play with the others.
Soon all the kids were playing blitz ball and the game pretty much had turned into a game of who could hold the ball the longest. Which of course meant that Yuffie was winning, she pretended the ball was material and that was the end of the game.
The adults watched closely as the children played, the laughed as Yuffie was declared the winner of round two.
"What's so funny?" a young yet dark voice asked, forcing the adults to turn around and see the young boy with black hair, wearing a suit with a red tie.
Aerith smiled and walked over to the young boy offering him her hand, "Vincent, so glad you could make it."
"I can't say the same thing, but how are you today Ms. Gainsborough?" Vincent gave a slop sided grin as he took Aerith's hand.
Aerith smiled and slowly walked with Vincent towards where the other children were playing, "I'm doing well and thank you for asking."
"Sephiroth giving you any trouble?" Vincent asked staring at the silver haired boy who had successfully swiped the blitz ball from Yuffie.
"Other than his random threats to end my life in the future? No, but that's nothing you need to worry about Vincent. I appreciate your concern, however why don't you go play with the others?" Aerith put a caring hand on Vincent's head as he peered up at her.
Vincent nodded his long dark hair falling into his eyes as he released her hand and ran off to play with the others. Out of nowhere a blonde haired boy with blue eyes and tanned skin bum rushed Sephiroth and jacked the blitz ball.
"Mine!" He smiled running off with the blitz ball.
His name; Tidus he was cheerful, friendly, courageous, and absolutely obsessed with blitz ball. His father Jecht, was always bringing home gear from the team, and for Tidus it was like he had hit the jackpot. It was a little known fact the Tidus had a huge crush on the little summoner in training, Yuna. Lulu checked her watch and smiled, it was almost time for them to load up the van and head over to the Daycare. Rikku noticed the smile and instantly formed a wicked plan in her head.
"Hey guys!" She hissed waving them over to join her.
"What?" They all asked in varying degrees.
"Let's play hide'n'seek." Rikku said with a wicked grin.
"Oh no." Wakka and Zack said at the same time as the kids darted in all directions.
"Catch us if you can!" Rikku shouted over her shoulder as Wakka and Zack darted off after the nearest kid.
Sephiroth hmphed and walked over to the fountain and sat on the edge, plans for Aerith's demise spinning in his head.
Wakka groaned as he lost track of the kids, "Why does she do that?"
Lulu sighed setting her stuffed moogle down and ordered it to locate the hiding children. Khimari sniffed and followed Yuna's scent, while Zack and Aerith split up to locate the kids.
Wakka began to search the area north of the fountain where the blitz ball water sphere's were located. He looked around for the other children and could not find any, until he saw a familiar yellow blur swim past. When Wakka didn't come after him right away Tidus thought he was home free, but was surprised when Wakka jumped in and grabbed his ankle. Tidus squirmed and could not free himself, in a last ditch effort he slammed the ball into Wakka's face forcing him to let him go. Wakka grunted releasing a stream of bubbles as Tidus swam off, he was gonna make that little fish pay.
Wakka exited the sphere knowing the Tidus could only hold his breath for so long and waited until he had to come out for air. Securing Tidus under his arm he went to go look for the next child and hoped his colleagues had fared better than he had. As he walked back towards the fountain he saw a little blur of Rikku out of the corner of his eye and turned.
"I coulda sworn I just saw her." Wakka muttered scratched the back of his head.
Wakka felt the world shift as his head was forced forward by a sudden addition of weight as someone used his head as a spring board.
Wakka regained his equilibrium just enough to see Rikku jump down a few feet in front of him, "Get back here you little, Malboro!"
Tidus anticipating Rikku's ttack pulled his hood over his head and tied it shut. Rikku laughed as her well time smoke bomb exploded in front of Wakka, covering him in black powder. Wakka began to sneeze and cough as his eyes began to burn and tear up,he almost dropped Tidus, almost.
Wakka coughed, "I'm gonna kill that little, Malboro!"
Khimari fared better than Wakka and easily Located Yuna and Paine who had been hiding with her, behind the tennis courts. He snuck up behind them and quickly grabbed them, holding a girl under each arm as he walked back toward the fountain. Aerith located Vincent, who once he had been found, came quietly without a fuss. Zack located Cloud and Tifa hiding up in a pine tree and got them down without too much trouble, save for a couple of scrapes and a shirt full of pine needles.
He had just managed to get Cloud and Tifa to Aerith, when a black blur whizzed by and stopped just out of his reach.
"Got your materia!" Yuffie yelled running away throwing a wooden shuriken to cover her escape.
Aerith's hand fluttered to her mouth, "Oh no, Zack which one did she get?"
Zack patted all his pockets and checked his slots, "Ummm."
"Zack!" Aerith pointed at an empty slot in his arm guard.
"Oh no…" Zack turned slowly to Yuffie who was laughing maniacally.
A bolt of thundaga streaked out of the heavens and struck the ground between the two. Picking up Tifa, Cloud, and Vincent, they scattered barely dodging the random thundaga bolts that were raining down from the heavens courtesy of Yuffie.
Meanwhile Wakka had returned to the fountain his eyes red from irritaition, "Lu, I can't catch her."
Lulu cast scan and located Rikku hiding in a bush and pointed to where she hid and cast slow. Wakka quickly ran over and picked up Rikku, who looked dejected that she had been caught. With the other children secure, The adults quickly cast silence on Yuffie and wrestled the material away from her before anymore damage could be done.
Finally with the mornings fiasco behind them, they loaded up the van and drove toward Fantasy Daycare. Where upon entering, Wakka and Zach collapsed from sheer exhaustion.
Rygdea looked at Wakka and Zach, "You too look like crap."
Wakka coughed his voice hoarse and glared at Rygdea, "You try taking a Rikku grenade to the face and dodging Thundaga bolts!"
Sazh chuckled sympathizing with Wakka and Zack; he knew exactly how they felt. The story of their morning sounded exactly what he and Jihl had gone through before purchasing the building for the daycare. The sound of broken glass drew the attention of the adults to the lunch room.
"Not again." They all groaned rushing towards the lunch room.
Chapter 3 Complete