[here's a story about Kibishii and Flippy for Ovid's Sorrow. ButterflyBabyBlue had this request tucked away and passed it to me. Anyways, hope you all like it!]

The wind rustled over the hilltop making the grass wave as if water on a lake. Clouds in the sky deflected much of the sun's light and the air felt somewhat humid yet a bit chilly. From her seat at the very top of the hill sat a Eurasian lynx donned in a SPECTRA camo outfit gazed over the horizon at the town below. She sat for an hour yet all the while watched as the town went about it's business and she moved very little. From behind she heard something, footsteps in the grass. She didn't have to look to know who had come and for the first time since she sat down her expression changed.

"I'm glad you came Flippy" said the lynx.

The bear approached and sat a distance from her to her right to where hw was just out of her peripheral vision.

"It would have been rude of me not to" said the bear.

The lynx took a deep breath.

"Do you know why I called you here?" asked the lynx.

"Only a guess… I knew we would meet like this eventually… so then. It's true that you hate me" said Flippy.

The Lynx was silent.

"I don't blame you Kibishii, I deserve to be hated" said Flippy.

The lynx looked down at her hands.

"He was mine Flippy" said Kibishii.

Flippy was silent as he looked town to the grass.

"My friends were lost thanks to that bastard. Then the general orders you, instead of me who begged him to let me go, to lead the assault on the tiger general" said Kibishii.

"I'm sorry" said Flippy.

"It's thanks to you Flippy, that I've forever lost the chance to avenge the lives of my friends. You had nothing to gain by killing him, that was for me, for my friends and he was slain by you" Kibishii said, her tone growing evermore intense.

"It was never my choice, I never asked to be sent. I wanted the tiger general dead, but I was scared shitless with the thought of attacking him. The order was given at very short notice to take him down, and you were in the medical center the whole time. The squad was scrounged up from the camp but you weren't in any condition to fight. I-" Flippy was saying before being interrupted.

"I could fight! I was a soldier, it was my job. I would have poured the last ounces of my shitty life into bringing that bastard to his knees. The general knew that, yet he sent you, a failure to attack him head on. What difference would it make if he sent me over you. You had no reason to kill him yourself" said Kibishii, tears coming to her eyes recalling the events of the war.

"So then, what was your real reason to call me here, it certainly wasn't to chat about the war" said Flippy.

"Flippy… I called you here to kill you" said Kibishii.

"You did huh? I shouldn't act surprised, I knew this after you planned us meeting here. But if you don't mind, why do you wish to kill me exactly?" Flippy asked.

"Because, you killed the tiger general, his life ended by your hands. As a soldier his legacy as a fighter ended with you, by killing him, it becomes a part of you. It may not be the same as killing him in person, but if you defeated him, and I defeat you, then I will have bested him as well. And maybe my friends can finally rest easy" said Kibishii.

"Are you sure then? From the sounds of it, there's no way I can talk you out of this. Fine, if it will satisfy you then we are going to fight. I'm sorry about all of this by the way" said Flippy.

The two stood up and Kibishii tossed a knife to Flippy's feet. The bear read the gesture and picked it up while Kibishii drew another. After a brief stare down Kibishii charged at Flippy as if he were the tiger general. Flippy's eyes changed but something seemed different about his flip out this time and he charged back. The knives met one another and then slid apart. Kibishii spun away and slashed at Flippy's shins which he managed to dodge. Flippy managed to bounce back and rush Kibishii with a powerful punch to the gut. Kibishii managed to wrap her arm around the bear's head and throw him to the ground, attempting to slash him as he fell but missed and fell somewhat off balance. Flippy used his momentum to get back up and block another strike from her knife.. She reacted by striking him between the eyes with her palm, stunning him. As she growled and lunged with her knife the bear adopted a purely defensive stance ant made wide dodging moves until his senses returned. Kibishii slashed at his throat but Flippy leaned back and staggered giving Kibishii an opening to charge and gore him launching him onto his rear. From here Kibishii leaned over him and pressed the knife to the bear's throat but froze as the bear's senses returned to normal.

"What's wrong? Don' you want to kill me?" Flippy asked.

Kibishii found herself frozen and her eyes widened with surprise. They stared at one another but Kibishii couldn't bring herself to cut his throat. Flippy made no attempts to struggle or resist. After a moment Kibishii finally removed the knife from the bear's throat.

"Something the matter?" Flippy asked.

Kibishii stared at the knife and dropped it.

"I… don't want to kill you…" said Kibishii staring down at the ground.

"Why not, I ruined your chances at revenge. Isn't it my fault that you will never recover?" asked Flippy.

"Well, I can't say that you didn't ruin my chances for revenge… but killing you isn't going to help either. We were on the same side in the war, to blame you for doing your job… I just can't stand it. The thought of my friends having died in vain… I just kind of lost it" said Kibishii.

"You know… you are taking this much better than you usually do, not trying to kill yourself this time" said Flippy.

Kibishii was silent for a moment.

"Well… maybe I'm just glad to be able to talk about it for once" said Kibishii.

"I see… I… have a confession to make… in the war, our superiors were desperate to wipe out the tiger general. As such they were going to send everyone to fight him, including you… I told the commander you were already traumatized to see your friends die, and on top of that, you were injured. If you survived the fight, you'd have only seen more death or you'd have just died and left your friends sacrifices to be in vain. You'd have been broken even more than you think you are right now. You didn't deserve that so they just sent me and a few others. I came back in the same boat as you… I'm just glad that I was able to keep you from having a worse life" said Flippy.

Kibishii looked up at the bear, she was surprised to hear what he was saying. She would have been able to get her revenge if it wasn't for him… but… was he right? Would her life have only been made worse if she had gone rather than stayed? The battle also appeared in her thoughts. Flippy never attacked her with the knife, nor did he seem to have really flipped out. She didn't have the energy to think right now but she found herself feeling calm.

"Flippy… I… really don't know what to say… maybe, maybe you're right. But that's over now. My friends are dead, the tiger general is dead, and nothing is going to change that… I'm sorry Flippy, please go home, you should never have wasted your time with me… bye Flippy" said Kibishii.

Kibishii turned and began to make her way down the hill back into town.

"Live for them Kibishii, that's all you can do. Live and be happy, they died in place of you so that you may live. It is a gift only great friends could give. Keep the gift that they gave you and use it to it's fullest. That is all any friend could ask" Flippy shouted.

Kibishii slowed down to listen to the bear's words, then continued on. Live for them? Something the Lynx had never thought about, it sounded strange yet she could feel some measure of truth to it. Flippy's words milled around in her head as she looked forward and headed home.

[Well there you go Ovid's Sorrow hope you liked it!]