Warming Up.
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue. Every information on how the characters looked like except for my OCCs are taken from final fantasy wiki. So it does not belong to me.
Snow panted as he regained his breath. The last battle had not been too kind on him and he found that it was harder than all of the other battles he had ever faced. When Lightning saw his dilemma, she had quickly summoned Odin, who easily disposed them monsters, especially when he was in his Gestalt Mode, where he had transformed himself into a horse.
"Don't sweat it." Lightning exclaimed as she stared at Hope. The 14 year old boy slowly dropped to his knees before he positioned himself as he sat on the ground.
"I'll look around. You rest up." Said the ever solitary Lightning before she started to roam around, trying to find any monsters, dispatching them every time she encountered them. After making sure that the area around them was safe, Lightning headed back to where she last saw Hope, only to see that the young boy had fallen into a deep slumber.
Lightning opened her mouth, ready to wake Hope up only to decide against it when she saw how peaceful Hope looked like with the wind caressing his face every now and then. She walked silently as to make sure that Hope did not wake up. She then placed herself in the same position Hope was in, holding her gunblade by her side, ready to attack if needed.
Hope tossed his head slightly as he grunted.
"Mom?" Hope whispered loud enough for Lightning to hear.
Lightning scoffed lightly before giving a whisper of her own.
"Not by a long shot..." she said as she watch Hope fall into a sleeping position. Unknown to Lightning, she had smiled. A small smile...
(Scene Change).
"Okay! Good night!"
Sazh sighed as he watched Vanille lay down on the blanket she had found somewhere in the clearing.
"Not a care in the world." Sazh mused as he started walking towards Vanille. However, before he could reach the cheery girl, the said girl suddenly sat up.
"Oh!" With that said, Vanille picked up a random stick. She then drew a line between her blanket and Sazh.
"Do not cross this line. Understood?" Vanille said, looking at Sazh.
The afro headed man sighed.
"Grow up." He said only to have Vanille bid him good night again.
"Would you just go to sleep already?"
Sazh felt another sigh come out of his mouth again as he laid on the ground in a sleeping position.
A few moments later, Sazh opened his eyes as he had heard sobs. He turned his head around and was surprised to see that Vanille had removed herself from her blanket and instead, had decided to sleep next to him.
'She's having a nightmare...' Sazh thought. He couldn't help but wonder when did Vanille sleep next to him.
"She got there right after you fell asleep." Came the cold voice of Agana. Sazh felt himself startle as he stared at the killer. Her hair was dripping wet and she did not have her jacket on.
"Where's Trine?" Sazh asked.
"Sleeping."
"Where?" Sazh scanned his surroundings, trying to find for the white haired child.
Agana pointed her thumb towards one of the stable boulders that was strangely rectangular in shape...There, Trine was asleep with Agana's jacket draped around her.
Sazh chuckled at what he saw. Deciding that he had nothing to do, he took it upon himself to irritate Agana.
"Getting soft, eh?"
Agana glared at the afro headed man, while the little chocobo decided that he had enough of being unnoticed as he flew and perched himself onto Agana's shoulder. Sazh saw this and immediately tried to stop the bird from doing so, only to find himself shocked when h saw the killer ruffling the yellow feathers lightly.
The bird chirped slightly as he leaned towards Agana's touch. The killer smirked when she saw Sazh's shocked state.
"Don't be surprised."
"I...I...Arghh!" Sazh mumbled when he found that he had no words to say. That was when another shocking sight came. A musical laughter reached his ears delicately as he stared at the laughing Agana.
"You know what? I think I'm having illusions...Don't bother about me...I'm going back to sleep..." Sazh groaned as het set himself onto the ground once more. Agana chuckled at this before she walked towards the sleeping Trine. She gazed at the slumbering girl.
"Agana..." Trine whispered softly in her sleep receiving a surprised state from the woman.
Sighing, the crimson eyed woman perched herself on the highest boulder there was, holding her scythe closely. For once in her life, she decided to let her eyelids cover her entire eyesight as she too, fell into a deep slumber.
(Scene Change.)
"Hoo-hoo-hoo! Look at you!" Snow said, as he bent forward, trying to take a look at the monstrous airship hovering above his much smaller airship.
"Wonder what's under the hood of that thing?" Snow questioned himself in curiosity.
An unknown voice decided to ring out.
"Keep your pants on." It was quite feminine and yet, it had a rough edge.
"You'll get a peek soon enough..." the same voice rang out again.
"I'm not going to make any promises." Snow said as he walked towards a black haired woman.
"Cheeky boy aren't you? We'll see how long that lasts." The woman said. Her name was Fang. She had fairly bronze skin, wavy dark brown hair, piercing green eyes with a mole underneath the right one, pierced ears adorned with purple claw-shaped earrings, scars on her right arm and shoulder, and she wore blue clothing that closely resembled the traditional Indian Sari adorned with tribal accessories. She also wore a short black top underneath, black sleeves over her forearm, tan leather open-toed boots, and two fur pelts hanging from a cord beneath a belt that held her spear behind her.
Snow stared as the little airship was being loaded into the big airship.
(Scene Change).
"Arghh!" With that, Hope casted a Fira spell towards the Aster Protoflorian they had been fighting with for almost an hour. The monster was extremely hard to beat as it could change it weakness and it did. Lightning saw a chance to destroy the monster off as she charge towards the monster with her gunblade licked with fire.
With the swing of her gunblade, the monster fell down as Hope gave a sigh of relief. Lightning took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.
Shyly, Hope looked up towards Lightning, hoping to be praised. Lightning glanced at him and nodded.
"You did well..."
Hope grinned at this, happy that he was able to help Lightning and not be in her way.
Lightning chuckled softly.
'It would seem that I am warming up...' Lightning thought wistfully.
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