(Pre-story) A/N: Heh heh heh! Got some news for you guys on the bottom of this story. Give love to my Beta Mitchell foo's! THIS CHAPTER IS NOT BETA'D
Disclaimer: Do I have to tell you again? Go to the first chapter to see it! Gosh.
---The Black Chocobo: The Rewrite---
Zack had woken to another day. Another day of leaning on Noodle but this time being woken up by sharp pecks of his beak. Very unpleased. So now we have this grumpy black chocobo who was staring hatefully at his breakfast. A bunch of greens. He really needed to eat something that wasn't green.
"My young Zack, do you want your greens going over to the big living dumpster over there?" Zack just kept on looking towards the greens, now contemplating if he should eat it or not. He then sighed and started to eat the greens slowly. He didn't feel like going hungry for the day, cause at the end of it, there will be more greens not some delicious cake waiting for him to eat. Noodle sat on the hay stack bad and watched Zack finish his greens. Noodle finished his before he to eat his greens.
"Zack, I still wonder why you lean on me and why you don't wake up early when the sun comes up."
'Maybe it's because it's just way too early, you damn yellow feather duster.' Zack thought annoyed. "I don't know. I just like to sleep I guess and you're just so comfy." The Ebony chocobo replyed.
"Yes Zack, but there is still the fact for a young chocobo such as yourself to be sleeping in so late." Noodle tried to negotiate.
Zack just grumbled it off. The yellow chocobo didn't push it. The other chocobo was clearly not in the mood. When Zack finished, he moved towards the window and looked out. He saw Chocobo Bill coming. Zack smirked when he saw that Bill was wearing a hat. Served him damn right! Damn penis pervert.
Zack moved back and sat next to Noodle. Zack started a conversation of how Noodle got here in the farm and all that. Apparently Noodle was born on the farm. Poor yellow chocobo. Zack felt pity for him and spread his wing closest towards Noodle like he was putting a hand on someone's shoulder. Zack bet Chocobo Bill looked at his penis too. A lot.
Bill came to the shared pen and looked towards Zack. He opened the gate. Zack stayed where he was.
"Now come on Onyx, I ain't gwonna hert yer. I just movin' yer to a females pen, yer dope." Zack glared at Chocobo bills wording. He'll show him who's a dope!
Zack got up and looked towards Noodle. Noodle choco-smiled towards Zack.
"Go on young Zack. I am sure after you do your thing with a lovely female, he will move you back in here with me. You might even get your very own pen." Noodle spoke.
"I is gwonna move yer ta Flurry. I'm sure yer gonna love it." Zack looked over to the pen Bill was pointing at. He saw a yellow Chocobo. Noodle squarked to grab Zacks attention. It worked.
"Zack be careful. She is one of the most temperamental female chocobos in this farm. Do not do anything drastic to make her nip your eyes out. Last chocobo that bill sent to her lost a good patch of his feathers. Hopefully that does not happen to you." Noodle warningly said towards Zack as Bill closed the pen off Between Zack and Noodle.
"Come on. She can't be THAT bad. I just won't go near her and I will be fine right? I'll stay on the other side of the pen." Zack tried to reassure Noodle and Bill moved Zack towards Flurry pen.
"Not unless Bill feeds her a nut." Noodle warked back. Zack just lost all his confidence.
'Crap I totally forgot! Nuts are like aphrodisiacs to chcocobos! SHIT! And if I remember what Angeal said about chocobos and nuts, is that they have a heaps larger affect on females then they do on the males.' Zack whimpered at his thoughts.
"Well here's yer new pen. Hope yer like its owner. Heh heh heh" Bill laughed evilly while ushering Zack inside. Zack got a good look at Flurry and she did the same to Zack. Bill closed the pen and put two nuts on the pen still. The rancher soon walked off to tend to other chocobos.
Zack felt tiny under Flurrys stare. She soon walked off and ate her nut. Zack just maneuvered around her when she walked over to eat her nut. She soon turned around to look at Zack.
"Er...H-Hi…Umm my n-name is…umm…heh…Z-Zack" He studdered with little confidence. Flurry huffed.
"Well ain't yo gonna eat yo nut? I ain't got all day." Zack just looked towards her dumbfound. "God males are sure ass stupid. Hey Wire, check out this male. His more pathetic then the last male you had. And that chocobo was a freaking tart." Flurry yelled to the pen next to her. A green chocobos head popped in. Wire looked up and down Zack before letting out a snort laugh.
"Sure is dumb looking but sure is cute." Wire was still laughing but lightly. When had finished she rested her on Flurrys pen door. Zack just looked at her with his beak opened, offended. Sure he was cute, but dumb? If a chocobo thought he was dumb, how many people thought he was dumb? Zack feared the number.
Flurry walked around the opposite side of the pen, and Zack mirrored her movements. So now Zack was at the front of then pen while Flurry was at the back. The ebony chocobo looked to his left and noticed Wire was gone. He then fully turned his head towards the stall where Noodle resided alone. Noodle head was poking out of the pen. He had a sympathetic look on his face for Zack.
Zack took a quick glance back at Flurry who was staring at him like he was a piece of food. Zack quickly turned his head right back around to look at Noodle and whimpered. He soon stood to his full height and tried to be a man…a male chocobo…with balls and not back down at Flurry's' glare.
"Yo fart head, come over to Flurry and she'll make all your worries go away." She spoke seductively. Zack meep and scurried to the closest corner tried to back away as Flurry moved closer.
"I'm sure w-we are…I mean can sort this, umm, heh, out like civilized chocobos?" By the time Zack said 'chocobos', Flurry was right up to him and his voice sounded like an adolescent male going through puberty. Gosh this chocobo made Zack want to wet himself.
"Sort what out honey?" God, she using the sweet cute talk with him. She even added a nickname! A nickname? What type of chocobos gives out nicknames?
"Heh, you know, I'm sure you…" Gulp " you…umm…don't wanna," She moved her head so it was leveled with Zacks. He gulped again. "y-you really don't," She narrowed her eyes…well out it comes "don't want to mate with me?" There.
She Scoffed. Zack right about there almost wet his feathers.
"Ya might be a dumb ass of a chocobo, but that don't mean yo ugly." She soften her glaze and looked flirtatious towards Zack.
"I'll tell ya want I wanna do to you."
"W-wa?" Goddess he couldn't even speak properly. She moved her beak towards Zacks ear.
"I wanna have yo babies." She whispered.
Zack let out a loud squark and got up and pushed Flurry away who also let out a squarky wark. He tried to jump the pens door.
"I think I've been here too long." Zack spoke with haste as he successfully opened the pen door with his beak after he realized he couldn't jump it. He quickly dashed out and locked the gate so Flurry couldn't follow him.
"Yo, Dumb ass! Where you going? Come back here and screw me senseless! I want yo babies dork!" She warked out to Zack. He only glanced back at her.
The stopped in front of Noodles Stall, ignoring Flurry's warks towards him to come back. Noodle looked up towards Zack.
"Ahh Zack, I haven't heard dear Flurry warks of pleasure. Why are you here?" Noodle asked Zack as he got up.
"She scares the hell outta me! I'm getting out of here. Want to come with me?" Zack spoke in a hurry, jumping on one foot to another. He soon felt his heart race faster then it already was. In the corner of his eye, he saw the shadow of Bill coming towards barn. He needed to hurry.
Noodle thought for a bit before answering.
"No young Zack. I've been here most of my life. I do not know much of the outside world so I believe it is best that I stay here." Noodle smiled towards Zack. The ebony chocobo just looked uneasy towards Noodle but nodded his head. He could understand, even though he didn't want to be leaving Noodle alone. After all, the chocobo had taught him how to be, well, a chocobo.
Zack said a quick farewell before dashing to the door. He came to a halt before exiting. The problem? Chocobo Bill was standing at the front of the barn with what looked like a tranquilizing gun in his hands.
Bill glared…
…And Zack glared right back into his eyes.
Then Bill spoke.
"I ain't letten a bloody chocobo go! Specially a black one! So yer just be going nighty-night haha!" Bill explained to Zack as he aimed the gun towards him. Zack just tensed up even more and hardened his gaze.
Zack just waited to the right moment to come…
Bill fired.
Zack dodged to the right.
And Floss was the one shot with the tranquilizer.
…poor fat chocobo…
Zack didn't waste anytime getting up and dashing for the wide opened plains toward Kalm before Bill reloaded his gun and tried to fire again.
"Gaia dang it! Ya made meh hit that Floss there! You damn Black bird made me shot me pride and joy! Why you…!" Bill didn't finish his sentence because he was aiming at Zacks shrinking figure disappearing in the fields. He fired again.
Zack was slighty panting when he heard another shot go off and quickly dropped to the ground just in time to hear the dart go right pass his ear. Gaia must be on his side. He quickly got back up and started running again.
The last thing he heard was Bill yelling his head off before dashing off again, laughing as he did so.
Matt was wondering why he never decided to join something exciting like being an adventurer or join the army. But no, he had to become a bus driver, something not dangerous as being chomped down like fresh meat being fed to wild tigers.
Now he had to get up early because his timetable said he had to go to Kalm. Seriously, he was a bus driver for Egde only. Why did the bus company suddenly change his position to traveling between the town and the city was unknown for him.
Right now he was driver his bus to his first stop near the popular 'Seventh Heaven'. He had heard that the hero Cloud Strife had lived there. But he guessed it was too early for him to come out.
When Matt opened the door, an outrageously strange redheaded looking girl walked quickly on the bus with a stretched right across her face, showing off her multi-coloured braces. She just stood in front of him, smiling without blinking.
"Gil please." Matt said to her. Why was she staring at him like that for?
She quickly handed him the gil. "Kalm please."
"That's the only place this bus is going miss." Matt gave her an annoyed look. He wasn't really in the mood to deal with this…thing that was in the form of a female human.
She gave him a dirty type of look at walked further on the bus and took her seat…it was right behind the drivers seat.
Twenty minutes in the ride to Kalm and Matt was desperately wishing he had argued harder not to take this bus, or maybe a couple of headache tablets. This redhead just didn't shut up! He had to listen to her repeat the same lame, well-known words 'Are we there yet?' continuously. He wanted to tell her to shut the hell up, but he just didn't have the heart to.
Because he didn't have the heart, he just had to listen to her over and over again. So freaking monotonous.
'Moments like this, I wish meteor did fall on us…' he wishfully thought. Pity, really.
"Are we there yet?" Matts' eye twitched.
"No."
Two minutes later…
"Are we there yet?" Stress level rising. No reply.
Four minutes later…
"Are we there yet." The stress dam broke.
"NO!" Breath Matt…just breath "Just wait until we get there, okay. Now get behind the yellow line and sit down." Matt spoke softly trying to take deep steadly breaths in. Matt was bleesed that Melinda moved back to her sit right behind him.
Finally, some peace and quiet…
"Are we there yet?"
And everything repeated again.
Cloud had a pleasant trip to Kalm. A fight or two, but other then that, just peaceful driving. As he looked up he saw the cliff where the buster sword stood. He decided to drive towards it. A couple of late delivery's isn't going to kill anyone…right?
Well…if someone gonna die, they should of went to the hospital.
He hopped off Fenrir and walked calmly towards the rusting sword. As he got there, memories of the man that had saved his life ran though his mind. Good memories, sad memories, happy, horrifying, hilarious, exciting, depressing, and most of all, heartbreaking.
He was there for a while till he saw a speeding bus go by on the road. He then spotted the small figure of the driver. The guy looked like it was about to burst a vein. Then the blond haired man noticed something orange at his side…why did that orange thing look so familiar? Then it hit him like a feather getting blown away by a jet engine. His eyes widen.
'Oh my goddess MINERVA?! WHAT IS SHE DOING HERE!!' Screamed Clouds brain, making his body wince in response.
Like a lighting bolt, Cloud dropped to the ground, fearing he was too late and that the demon saw him.
He moved one hand up to flatten and hopefully cover his trademark yellow hair. He then moved his head up enough to see the bus drive by, then quickly scooted around to see it drive by.
It looked like she didn't see him otherwise the bus would of swerved around or she would jump out the window.
Cloud soon got up when the bus was a speck in the distance and walked cautiously closer to Fenrir. How did she know where he was going? But was it really her? Or could it have been someone that looked like her? Even so, he still needed to take the deliveries to the waiting clients. Damn this all!
The Swordsmen soon hopped on his beloved Fenrir and road towards Kalm, thinking of a strategic plan to avoid the crazy fangirl, if it was her, that was.
By the time Zack got to a lake, he was about to drop in exhaustion. So much running. He didn't think he could run so much. But when running as a chocobo, it actually makes you feel free and powerful. Maybe that's why chocobos love to run so much…but running too much can tire a chocobo out. Like Zack has proven.
Instead of simply letting his legs give way so he could slam onto the ground, he slowing lowered to the ground so he didn't further hurt his body. He exhaled.
As soon has he regained his breath, he got up and walked towards the water. The black chocobo looked around to see any indication that the water might be poisoned. None, good. He opened up his beak and very quickly stuck his tongue out to lap the water to see if it was fresh or salty. It was fresh.
Zack quickly dunked his whole beak into the water and inhaled it. He soon came back up coughing that sounded like he was hacking up something, and water pouring put his nose. He soon took in deep breath and exhaled hard out of his nose to get rid of the excess water, then he shook his head like a dog.
He then lowered his head and started to drink the water like an actually chocobo.
After he was finished he started on his journey to Kalm…after some food and sleep. Firstly his food. Those horrid greens, if he could find some.
Cloud stopped Fenrir outside of Kalm and took it so it was covered underneath a nice bunch of spacey trees. Even though he felt like it was safe there and it was hard to spot, there was always the chance it could be. He took the packages with him so he could take them in and without being spotted.
As he came close to the gate he saw Melinda walk into the Inn he was going to stay at. Cloud cringed.
'Oh no…it's her! How did she know that I was going here? And how did she know I was going to stay at that exact Inn?' The man almost screeched in horror as she walked back out to grab her bag and almost saw him. Cloud quickly jumped behind the closes wall before she spotted him. After a few painful moments, he looked back. She wasn't there.
He soon dashed into Kalm and to his first client. Then the next, and then the next, and then a few after that. And in that time period, he was looking out for outrageous red hair that could be following him.
After his last one, he ran into an alley way. He soon took the quickest route to the gates that lead to Kalm outside. On his way there, he tripped over a couple of bins and successfully made a cat screech and run off. But in the end, he still turned out okay…mind a bit of garbage juice that had stained his clothes, and he looked pretty presentable.
When he was going to leave the last alleyway that lead to the gate, he saw Melinda talking to an ice cream man. She ordered a waffle cone that was double scoop of vanilla and rainbow ice cream with had a flake sticking out of it. That was Clouds favorite! The blond man looked down pitifully. She was eating something that he loved to eat…
But on the other hand…
Maybe she copied him! She's eating something that was his favorite! Cloud felt hatred run though him as he glared at Melinda. When she soon turned the corner she ran out of the alley way and out of Kalm to Fenrir.
He started it up and dashed off in the direction of the chocobo farm. He needed somewhere to hide! And he needed somewhere to hide fast! Since Chocobo Bill knows him, maybe he could let Cloud stay for a couple of nights.
But getting there usually takes a day or so, then he decided to hike out for a night.
It was getting darker and darker as he drove alone to get to the Chocobo ranch. He decided to stop for the night.
As he slowed down, he saw a green forest at a foot of a mountain and a perfect tree to sleep under. He drove closer to it and got off Fenrir.
He noticed that he forgot to pack his camping gear, and also food in cases just like these. He groaned but then though of an idea. He watches 'Man vs. Wild' with the kids when he was home and picked up a few tips from Bear Grylls.
So Cloud started to make a makeshift tent from what nature has provided him. When he was finished, he stood back and admired his work. When was good about it was that it was nearly invisible to the surroundings and what was even better was that he could fit in it.
Even though Cloud was hungry, he wasn't up to the task of eating anything he could find, so he just left it to that. He didn't feel daring enough to eat grasshoppers, snakes, maggots, larva or anything of the sort.
So instead he gathered wood and started a fire that would hopefully keep away stray animals or monsters.
When the sun went down, Cloud just looked towards the small campfire and thought. He just thought of blasphemy. Just small little things that came to mind. Such as what he did yesterday, what he was going to do tomorrow, what chicken and chocolate spread taste like together and other stuff. Mostly about his past though like how much he looked like his mother, how he should of improved in his training and how he didn't notices the door behind the Nibelheim reactor since he always went up there when he was younger.
Some time has past as light wind blew across the landscape and softly tossed Clouds blond spikes around. He found it comforting some how. A small smile placed itself upon his face. Cloud soon looked up towards the moon and decided it was time to go to sleep.
He got up and got under his natural tent and fell asleep with his tuff of yellow hair sticking out. The fire, which Cloud had put more wood on, was burning strong and had its orange reflection shining on Cloud hair.
A stronger wind blew passed.
A strong wind blew passed. But that wasn't what had woken him up. It was the scent that was carried with the wind that woke him up. Zack shot right up and narrowed his eyes in the direction it was coming from.
He used all strength he could muster up and ran towards it. Only one person had that unique scent and he was determined to see him! Zack didn't care if he was headed in the direction of the chocobo ranch, he just ran…
And ran…
And ran…
But the smell got stronger and stronger. There was also the scent of burning wood mixed in. Zack started to panic and run faster. In the distance he could spot a small light source. Once noticing it was a campfire he calmed down. He looked around the campsite.
The first thing he had noticed was the impressive sleek black motorcycle that just looked like it could eat you up. It looked much more stronger and faster then the Hardy Daytona. He coo'ed at it in appreciation. He soon looked at the dieing fire. But, the question was, if the large motorcycle was here and the small fire there, then where was the person who did this. The place reeked of Cloud so where was he?
Zack looked around and noticed that the fires reflection was shining on something. The black chocobo quietly walked closer and looked closer at it. Blond hair, no, more like blond spikes. Then it clicked in his chocobo sized brain.
'Cloud!'
Said blond man was tucked away in a tent made out of things the mother Gaia had provided. Instead he looked at Clouds innocent sleeping face. A piece of stray hair was irritating Clouds nose. How did Zack know? Cloud was slightly twitching his nose.
Zack softly grabbed the piece of stray hair in his beak and moved it out of the way.
Clouds face soon shined with such beauty that took Zacks breath away.
Zacks soon moved away and went towards the campfire and sat himself down and started to preen himself. He wanted to look presentable for Cloud when he wakes up. After Zack finished preening himself, he soon went to sleep.
---The Black Chocobo: The Rewrite---
A/N: Hows that everyone! You like? I know I'm happy to finish this haha. Things are starting to move now. Yay.
Firstly my long story about why this wasn't updated sooner. Firstly when I updated the last chapter, I did a couple of days of planning and then trying before I went to a holiday to Indonesia for three weeks. Oh and if you're wondering, it was great fun and our driver (cause my family is rich over there) name is orgy. Epic right? Well anyway when I got back, I was swamped with heaps of assignments that I'm still trying to finish. Being in Year 12 (Grade 12. In Australia (more like NSW) we call it Year 12) is hard and all I can say to people who are still in school is that, try your freaking hardest! Cause when you get in your last year, it's really crazy!
I actually am using time I stole from studding and all that to finish this, so you guys better gimme some loving otherwise I won't feel the loving and you won't see another chapter in a while cause remember...Assignments narhahaha!
Oh and I LOVE watching 'Man vs Wild'. Freaking epic! Seriously, go watch it! Bear Grylls is freaking epic!
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