hey everyone alchemists here, sorry for the long wait for this chapter but it finally came together, It took awhile but i got it done and my very good friend ChaosomeganovaI was a big help. Really happy for all the reviews it has gotten so far and hope for more. Have other story ideas in my head and hope to post them here soon but after I finish this one. Remeber review and be nice but if you flame you will be blizzagaed to death. I do not owe any final fantasy characters Square Enix does.
Sazh and Wakka ran into the kitchen praying that no one had wound up severely injured enough to send them to the hospital. As they rushed through the door, they found Fang clinging to the roast in the middle of the table nawing away at it. Lightning and the rest of the kids looked at the roast their mouths watering as their gaze turned to anger as Fang growled a warning.
Hope reached out slowly to snatch away a piece of the roast, only to have his hand smacked away by Fang.
"Mine!" Fang snarled and continue to naw and chew on the meat again.
Sazh sighed a groan escaping him as he looked at the kids, "Another lunch to the Wild Beast."
Wakka cracked his knuckles and grabbed a hold of Fang and tried to pull her away from the roast but to no avail she held firm. In a show of strength, Fang dug her fingers and teeth into the roast and growled again. When Fang had managed to get a hold of the food that was meant for everyone, NO ONE ate. Not even the adults could stop her and if she was starving, it was best to stay out of her way. Even her partner in crime, Lightning couldn't get near the food without the fear of losing a finger or too. Unfortunately this crazy event happened at least once a week. Sazh went to the fridge in search of food for the rest of the kids and his stomach sank. Short of the baking soda and a pitcher of water, there was nothing to feed them.
Lightning tsked angrily and stuck out her tongue at Fang, "HOGGER!"
With that she punched Snow in the arm nailing him in a healing bruise causing him to whimper and hold his arm in pain.
"Whaddya do that for?" He snapped rubbing his arm, "It's Fang's fault we don' got lunch!"
Vanille smiled and nudged Snow, "It's cause you make it easy for her to hit you, silly!"
"Nuh uh!" Snow pouted crossing his arms.
Sazh closed the fridge, "All right, everyone back into the playroom and leave Fang alone. In the meantime, Wakka and I will go get you kids something to eat."
There was a soft murmur of "okay" as the others shuffled back into the playroom. Snow immediately wandered over to a wooden practice dummy and began to take his frustrations out on it. He wasn't as skilled as Tifa, who always seemed to kick his butt any time he challenged her. Each time he struck the dummy he muttered something about "Lightning and Fang are lucky, I don't hit girls."
Sazh left Wakka to watch the kids while he informed Jihl of the situation that had just occurred. With a soft chuckle she gave Sazh the go ahead to head to the store as she patted him on the back sympathetically.
She turned to the rest of the adults and asked, "Any ideas on how we keep them distracted until Sazh and Wakka get back?
Lulu smirked, "We could always start the magic lessons and then when lunch arrives, let them eat.
Aerith smiled clapping her hands together, "That could work! It'll keep their minds off being hungry and allow them to blow off some steam!"
"Very well then, Magic class it is then." Jihl nodded and headed into the playroom to inform the kids and tell Wakka he was to help Sazh in finding lunch.
Lulu, Aerith, and, Zack went into the backyard and set up the dummies for the kids. Inside they heard the children cheer about magic class as Jihl lead them out of the playroom. Lulu smiled as the children rushed out of the backdoor and nearly knocked her over in their excitement.
"Everyone ready for today's lesson?" Lulu asked ruffling the each of the childrens hair her smile never faltering.
"Yeah!" They all cheered.
Lulu looked over to Aerith and Jihl, "Okay, time to break into groups."
"Cloud, Vincent, Tifa, Sephiroth, and, Yuffie. Come with me please." Aerith waved them over to where she was standing by the tree.
"Snow, Vanille, Hope, Lightning, Maqui, Yuj, Gadot, Lebreau, and…" Jihl turned to the building and called, "Fang when you're done eating come outside for magic practice!"
Jihl then led her group in the direction of the fence.
"Yuna, Rikku, Paine, and Tidus with me please." Lulu smiled leading her group to their station near the dummies.
Aeriths' Group, a.k.a. The Final Fantasy VII kids
Aerith sat down with her back to the tree and looked at her group. Cloud was sitting near Tifa and kept stealing glances at her. Vincent was staring at her ready to begin the lesson. Yuffie was slowly inching closer to Aerith in hopes of stealing her material. And once again Sephiroth was just looking at Aerith plotting her death. With a deep cleansing breath, Aerith prayed to the Ancients that nothing bad would happen.
Smiling she waved to all of them in order to gain their attention, "Okay everyone. Today we are going to try two materia today. Fire material and healing materia, who wants to go first?"
As she pulled out the healing material, a little blur dashed past and snatched the materia right out of her hand. She looked around to see if she had dropped the materia or who had taken it and found nothing. But the shaking of a tree limb above her made her look up.
"Yuffie!" She sighed a smile playing on her lips.
Yuffie stood on the branch shaking the healing materia in victory, "What's this do?"
Zack, who had silently followed the group to the tree, grabbed a long branch that had fallen on the ground and hooked Yuffie's shirt. As she was hoisted into the air, Yuffie began to flail about trying in vain to dislodge herself. Aerith chuckled as Yuffie was lowered enough to be face to face with her and with a deft hand, plucked the healing material away from Yuffie.
"Thank you, Zack." Aerith smiled turning back to the others as Zack held the stick up right and kept Yuffie under his watchful eye.
Zack smiled softly, "Your welcome."
Lulu's Group, a.k.a The Final Fantasy X kids
Lulu looked at her group of kids and crossed her arms thoughtfully. Only Yuna was good at magic, but her strongest was white magic. That was until the three girls put on their Black Mage dress sphere's. However the major complaint was that the dress sphere transformations felt funny and thus were rarely used. Tidus had no aptitude for magic at all and preferred to play Blitzball with Wakka then attempt to try magic. Tidus and Rikku began to argue over which game was better; Blitzball or Sphere Break, Paine stood by a practice dummy looking extremely bored, and Yuna began to practice her summoning dances.
"All right, Rikku you and Paine are going to help Yuna with her summoning dances. Tidus you can practice your Blitzball techniques. " Lulu waved the kids over.
"How?" Rikku asked curiously.
"Use your dress sphere's for the White Mage configuration and cast protect on yourselves."
Tidus laughed and ran off to where the Blitzball's were stored and began his practice as Rikku and Paine activated their White Mage dress sphere's with a sigh.
"Ready, Yuna?" Lulu asked as both girls had finished the change and cast protect.
"Ready!" Yuna waved and begun her summoning dance.
No sooner had she begun, Yuna tripped on her dress and fell face first into the dirt and began to cry. Lulu moved over to Yuna and helped her up, calming her down so that she could begin her summon dance again. Yuna calmed down and began her summoning dance again and successfully summoned Valefor.
Lulu noticed Yuna pale a little as a sheen of sweat had formed on the little girls face. Yuna smiled and danced around Valefor. Everyone cheered and Rikku hugged her cousin fiercely, causing a grenade in her pocket to jar loose and roll away before exploding. Everyone jumped and turned to Rikku looking surprised and angry at the same time.
"Sorry," Rikku laughed nervously, "Forgot I had that in my pocket."
Tidus turned white, "You keep grenades in your pocket?"
"Yeah, where else am I gonna keep them, dummy?" Rikku looked at Tidus a confused look on her face.
There was a cacophony of thuds as everyone face planted, except for Valefor who flew happily around Yuna's head and landed on her shoulder.
Jihl's Group, a.k.a. The Final Fantasy XIII kids
Jihl looked at her group and gave a smile, secretly praying that today's lesson would go well. Lightning as well as Fang (Who had finished the roast and come outside) stood closest to her, while Snow was the furthest away. Snow looked at Serah smiling broadly only to find himself leveled by Lightning's fist.
"I told you to stop staring at my sister!" Lightning pointed an angry finger at his face and kicked him for measure.
Hope looked on in horror as Vanille covered his eyes and Fang laughed so hard she fell over. Jihl looked on in shock, surprised at Claire's ability to cover ground so quickly. 'definitely holds up to her nickname.' Jihl thought as she moved and pulled Lightning away from Snow before he wound up with broken ribs.
"Claire, you need to stop hurting Snow." Jihl scolded Lightning firmly.
Fangs' laughing slowed as she stood, wiped tears of mirth from her eyes and stealthily moved over to Snow and kicked his foot.
"OERBA YUN FANG, DON'T YOU DARE START!" Jihl yelled fixing Fang with her gaze.
Fang froze and slowly moved away from Snow, her smile fading away.
"Come here," Jihl pointed next to her, "Now."
Fang quickly obeyed her head hung at the shame of being caught. Jihl walked over to Snow and helped him up while Vanille cast cure on Snow without being asked.
"Good Job, Vanille." Jihl smiled and patted Vanille on the head.
Jihl turned to Lightning and Fang and stood towering over the two girls.
"If I EVER catch you girls hurting Snow during class times again. You will severely punished, understand?"
"Yes, ma'am." Both girls said refusing to meet Jihl's gaze.
Once everyone was spaced evenly (Lightning and Fang far away from Snow), Jihl clapped her hands to get everyone's attention, "All right today we are going to learn the Ravager's role in the paradigm shift today. Can anyone tell me what being a Ravager is good for in a battle?"
Fang raised her hand.
"Yes, Fang?"
"It's good for attacking idiots from a distance." Fang answered giving Snow and evil look.
Lightning just gave Snow a blank stare to make sure he wasn't looking at her sister.
Jihl gave them a stern look and turned to Vanille who had raised her hand, "Yes, Vanille?"
"A Ravagers job is to quickly stagger an opponent while the Commando beats the bad guys up with physical attacks."
"Very good." Jihl tossed Vanille a piece of candy, "Now let's get started with the Fire spell."
The kids nodded and began casting fire at the practice dummy's by the fence. Vanille however managed to skip Fire altogether and casted Fira nearly obliterating her dummy. Jihl smiled and gave her another piece of candy. Hope tried to cast fire but only managed to get a small portion of the dummy to ignite. Jihl patted him on the back and told him to keep trying.
Gadot,, Lebreau, Maqui, and Yuj casted a standard Fire spell, earning each a piece of candy. Snow took a deep breath and thought 'Fire' but instead unleashed a Blizzard spell.
"Go clean off the target and try again." Jihl sighed placing a hand on Snows shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
Lightning and Fang had managed to cast standard Fire spells but not nearly as strong as Vanille's. Snow trugged to the dummy and began to dust the snow off from his mis-cast. As Jihl turned to focus the other students, Lightning looked at Fang an evil glint filled her eye as she began to charge a Thunder spell in her hand.
Taking aim at Snow, Lightning extended herhand and muttered, "Thundaga."
A bolt of lightning came down and struck the ground next to Snow, where a puddle of water had formed. Snow began to shake violently and scream as the electricity surged from the water up through his body. Hearing Snow scream, Jihl spun around and yelled for Aerith and Lulu to come to her aid mid run.
Sazh and Wakka saw the Ambulance roar by as they finished packing the groceries into Brunhilde's trunk.
"Wanna bet Lightning struck Snow with Thundaga?" Wakka asked as they closed the trunk and got in the car.
"Wouldn't surprise me one bit." Sazh said slamming his foot on the pedal sending Brunhilde into a spin and rocketing out on to the road.
Chapter 4 End