I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic.
I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade master Fira
Kuro Suzaku is
owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun
herself
I own Kiako (That's ME!) When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.
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"Okay I dunno about you guys but I'm getting tired of seeing the same dirt over and over again..." I said looking at the tall grass, the brown dirt road and the broken down ruins. Course, it was the SAME grass, SAME dirt and the ruins were just put in another location and had a few fiends hiding behind them. I reached into my back pack taking out my camera. It was old though, the ones that use film, not the high tech slow digital cameras.
I paused for a moment.
Man, Kuro was right. I DO live under a rock...
I rose the camera and snapped a picture of the road slowly narrowing. Might as well get some memories. I tucked the camera away and sighed.
"Hey guys, maybe we should take this time to train and hone our skills in battle." I suggested pillowing my head with my hands while walking.
"You're bored aren't you?"
"Of course I'm bored! I'm tired of walking and seeing the same thing over and over again!" I cried kicking at the dirt road, "Tidus's adventure was so much fun! He got to use Auron, and Power Break, and kill fiends... I WANNA DO THAT TOO!"
"Looks like you'll get your chance." Zero said taking out his giant shuriken and crouching into a fighting stance.
"A Mi'ihen fang, a Raldo and a white elemental. Perfect!" Kel jumped forward too, " Chichiri takes the elemental, Hei-man takes the Raldo and the rest of us take the Fang!" I looked at the Fang and I could just imagine it's glowing red eyes turning into giant white anime circles of shock that three of us would be fighting it all at once.
"Doesn't seem like a fair fight but ok." Heihachi said drawing his sword and taking his samurai stance.
"Hold on, don't many RPG's fight with only 3 party members? Not all 5?" I asked thinking back to FF X battle system.
"Why do I have to fight the giant turtle thing alone?" Heihachi asked and dodge rolled to the side as the Raldo helm tried to ram into him.
"And why do I have to fight something that floats in the air no da?" Chichiri said and yelped when his foot was frozen to the ground, "Uh, Help?" Kakashi did a quick hand seal.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu! (Shadow clone!)" he shouted and three of his clones appeared. All at once they started to attack the elemental slashing at it from all directions. I did a seal too and jumped to where the elemental was.
"Kakashi, move!" I called and my sensei jumped clear, "Katon: Gokakyuu no jutsu! (Grand fireball!)" I blew and the flames branched out hitting the Elemental and Raldo.
"Whoa! Careful you almost set ME on fire!" Heihachi cried batting the small flames from his pants.
"Impressive tactic." Kakashi said as his clones disappeared.
"Just remember, those are weak against fire attacks, some of the fiends here have elemental attributes." Kel explained and attached a red disk to his lance, "Like this, HYAAA!" he jumped into the air and stabbed the elemental from above causing it to send out an ear splitting shreik.
"Ah, I understand now." Kakashi said rubbing his chin.
"How about some tips here huh?" Heihachi said and dodged to the side again, "OW! It ran over my foot!"
"You've got a sword in your hand, USE it." Zero said and launched his giant shuriken at it. It sliced at the Raldo's hide like it was an orange peel.
"Normal attacks like Kel's lance and my punches don't work on enemies with hard shells like this one, youon the other hand, havea handy sharp sword in your hand." I explained. Heihachi seemed to understand and took his stance. The Raldo charged at him and Heihachi slammed his hand on it's head and used the momentum to flip himself over it's shell. Landing behind the Raldo he slashed his sword at it and stabbed it through the top of it's shell.
"I get it!" he said happily.
"Great! Now, for the Fang." we all glanced at the Fang and it began to slowly back away.
"It's all yours Kiako." Kel smirked melting the ice around Chichiri's foot with a Fire disk.
"Jee I dunno..." I said reluctantly scratching behind my head.
"It was your idea in the first place." Zero said
"I know but, sure killing a fiend is easy in games but in real life, it's kinda weird." I said and drew a kunai. Man, it's been a long while since I killed a fiend, I don't even think I wanna!
"Then why not summon something to do it? You ARE a summoner after all." Kel said. I sighed and scratched behind my ears.
"Zero, you can kill it. I don't have the heart to anymore."
"Oh joy... Leftovers." Zero said casually tossing his shuriken behind him and it stabbed the Fang from behind. Pyrafles drifted around and into the sky.
"What're those no da?" Chichiri asked.
"Pyraflies. They're kinda like the dead souls of- well, the dead." Zero said folding his shuriken back together and tucked it into a small sheath on his back.
"Yeah, whenever there's death in this world the pyraflies appear and drift around until someone sends them." I explained and watched the small balls of light floating around me, "Now that I think of it, I should probably send these too."
"Oh come on, you're such a sap..." Zero said and began walking ahead.
"How would you send them?" Kakashi asked
"Yeah, Yuna at least had a staff, you don't really have much." Kel said, "Unless..."
"Hm?"
"Do you remember you're how to do draw a transmutation circle?"
"Of course, what do you think I draw in my notes when I'm bored in class?" I said
"You should use a transmutation circle to send them." Kel suggested.
"But, wouldn't that merge them together to form something new then?" I started imagining all the pyraflies merging together into one giant pyrafly bouncing around the Mi'ihen Highroad for eternity and crushing all who get in it's path.
"Only if you channel you're chakra into it. If you don't then you should be able to send." Kel handed me a piece of fresh chalk, "Give it a try."
"Wow, what a cute chibi! Is it suppose to be Kel?" Heihachi asked peering over my shoulder
"You're not suppose to doodle on the ground with it!" Kel shouted as I drew little chibi's of the group in the dirt near that weird statue of the Crusader dude.
"Opps, sorry. Habit." I said rubbing behind my head as a giant sweat drop slid down my head.
"Urg, ok, now draw a circle that you'd be able to stand in." Kel instructed
"WHOA!"
"Huh?"
"Man that's one BIIIGG circle!" I said, "Have you seen my cat feet? THEY'RE HUGE!"
"... I give up..." Kel sighed turned on his heel, "We'll try it tomorrow or something."
"EH? W-Wait a second!" I quickly drew the circle and jumped into it, "Ok, now what do I do?"
"What did you do to send Ifrit?" Kel called over his shoulder. I scratched my head and remembered something from when we went to Kilika. Hmm, what were Kuro and I doing?
"Weren't you both singing a song?" Heihachi said
"Oh! The Hymn of the Fayth!" I recalled, "That's a bit odd..."
"Then try something else, I can't think of everything for you." Kel said. I ran my hand through my hair with a sigh and put my hands out in front of me. Lifting them up I swirled them in a circle and bowed. The transmutation circle glowed with the Pyraflies and they both disappeared dissovling into the air.
"Well, what do you know, the prayer still works." I said.
"If you don't wanna be left behind I suggest you all keep moving!" Zero shouted
"Hey wait for us!"
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"Agency...Shelter...Food..." Kel groaned dragging himself along the ground. Everyone walked into the agency and I held the door open for Kel to crawl in. Damnn he's a slow crawler when he's hungry... I grabbed his foot and dragged him inside despite his protest's that he was getting gravel and sand up his nose.
"So, this is the famous Rin agency." I said looking at shelves full of different items and weapons along with an occasional dried food.
"We better rest here, who knows what'll happen." Zero said and tossed up our bag of gil, "I think I"ll go reserve one for later."
"One? Don't we get our own rooms?" Kakashi asked
"No, it cost 100 gil for one room, if we all got our own room it'd cost almost 700 gil." Zero reasoned, "I don't wanna spend THAT much gil."
"You cheap-" I was ready to go all Cid Highwind on him until Kakashi coughed.
"We should get 3 rooms then."
"Why get3 when we all fit in one?" Zero asked.
"Kiako's the only girl so because of thatshe'll get her own room, I get my own room because I say so and you four share a room."
"No way old man! I ain't sleeping in the same room as Vale!" Zero protested
"I feel kinda the same way," Heihachi said, "I have a feeling he might strangle me in my sleep..."
CRASH!
I rubbed the bump forming on the back of my head and winced. It's gonna take a while for the swelling to go down on THAT hit...
"What happened?"
"Help!" the door to the agency flew open and an Al Bhed girl with goggles tried to run in, "It's the choco- EEEK!" The girl was suddenly dragged from the door and there was a strange growl.
"We have to go help her!" I said and ran to the door.
"Eh, why?"
"Cause it's the right thing to do!" I said with determination. Kel and Zero looked at each other.
"PFFT! AHAHAHAHAA!" Zero burst out laughing, "That's exactly what Tidus said!"
"Urrg..." I growled and went to the door, "Then I'll go save her myself!"
"Kiako wait no na da!"
I ran outside and looked around. What the, where is everything? A yellow feather floated down and landed on my shoulder.
"Eh?" I glanced upwards and the Al Bhed girl crashed on top of me.
"I'm sorry!" she cried jumping up, "We have to save the chocobos!"
"Choco-wha?" I asked still a bit dazed from the impact. There was a roar above me and I looked up again, "Watch out!" Tackling the girl down the giant Chocobo Eater jumped from the top of the Agency and roared at us with it's two tongues.
"See? We have to go save the Chocobos!" the girl said.
"You go save the chocobo's and get any bystanders out of here, I'll distract it long enough so you can." I said
"But-" I flashed a grin at her and did the Rock Lee famous Good Guy pose.
"I'm a summoner, I can take it." I said giving her a thumbs up, "Hurry and go!" The girl nodded and ran off.
"ROAR!" The Chocobo Eater ran clumsily at me swinging it's massive arms. I cracked my knuckles and ground myself to catch it's arm. Sure it was insane but I was a half demon, Inuyasha could do it too so why can't I?
"GUAAAAH!" I slammed into a wooden fence knocking it over. Oh yeah I forgot, Inuyasha's bigger then I am... The Chocobo Eatter ran at me and swung it's arm at me again. I put my arms in front of me for protection. A giant disk flew past me slicing the Chocobo Eaters arm and making it stumble backwards.
"Jeez, you're such a hassle to guard..." Zero said with exasperation catching his shuriken.
"I thought you were going to stay inside?" I scoffed jumping to where they were standing.
"We're your guardians remember? Where you go, we go." Heihachi said
"Except into the shower, we all know that." Kel snickered.
"Well then, we better get rid of this... Thing." Kakashi said
"Yeah, and I know just the people to help." I grinned and bit my thumb so it bled. I kneeled in the dirt and drew a circle on the ground then placed my hands near the edge, "From ancient times of metal and bronze, those noble and chilvalrious I summon you! Knights of the Round!" I slammed on the circle and my blood glowed. Two armoured gloved hands gripped the edge of the circle and two knights climbed out.
"Come now Galahad, do not behave like this." one of the knights was saying while the other was fixing his helmet.
"No! You're rightful duty was to the court! I am ashamed to call you my father!" he shouted.
"Guys, couldn't you save your argument for later? We have problems that need help." I said stepping between the two knights.
"Ah, t'is nice to see you again Lady Summoner." the silver knight said taking my hand, "I shall not forget your face anytime soon." He growled when Vale suddenly came flying out of nowhere kicking Lancelot in the head.
"SHE'S MINE! YOU ARE NOT TO FLIRT WITH MY BRIDE TO BE!" Vale shouted angrily. Galahad sighed,
"Yes... my father..." he groaned then turned to me, "What is your request?"
"Just some help with a giant thingy that eats Chocobos." I said with a shrug.
"Very well then, we shall deal with this monstrosity!" Galahad said then grabbed the back of Lancelot's cape, "Come, we have work to do."
"Yeah that's right! You better run!" Vale shouted angrily shaking his fist, "Pulling on my hair... Hoolagen!"
"WHAT WAS THAT!"
"AH! NOT THE FACE!" Vale cried hiding behind Chichiri. Galahad sighed and drew his sheild and sword.
"Shall we?" He and Lancelot charged at the Chocobo Eater banishing their swords at it. Galahah used his shield to block and attack while Lancelot drove his sword into the Chocobo Eaters arm. It roared defiantly and slapped Lancelot on the ground leaving a Lancelot shaped indent. Galahad skidded backwards to where we were standing and held his sheild firmly.
"Lady Kiako, please stay behind me! I shall protect you!" Galahad shouted.
"I thought that was our job...?" Heihachi said almost just to himself. The Chocobo Eater smacked it's lips and punched at Galahad's sheild. The second it's fist hit the polished surface a dark energy exploded from it.
"Get back!" Galahad's giant hand shoved me back from the dark energy's range and he was on his knees on the ground. When the energy stopped Galahad tried to use his sword to stand. The Chocobo Eater grinned and wrapped its giant hand around the knight.
"Damn you!" I cried pulling out a kunai and tossing it into the Chocobo Eaters gaping mouth. Suddenly 4 disks guided my kunai into the Chocobo Eaters mouth exploding on contact and it roared jumping around and tossing Galahad behind us.
"Galahad!" I rushed to where he was slowly getting to his feet, "Are you ok? Knight-san!"
Galahad chuckled dryly, "T'was a long while since you called me that, you've grown quite a bit since we last met." I smiled and pat his armour.
"Take it easy for a little while," I said softly and ran to join the others, "We'll handle this now!"
"Sorry, but you've already got too much iron in your diet!" Kel shouted at the Chocobo Eater.
"That was one of the lamest battle cries I've ever heard..." Zero muttered and did a quick hand seal, "Katon: Housenka no Jutsu! (Fire element: Phoenix fire no jutsu!)" he pulled down his red scarf and spat out a horde of tiny fireballs out at the fiend. It used it's giant arm as a sheild and snarled ar Zero.
"You're Next!" The chocobo eater rushed at us with both it's arms spread out.
"When it gets close enough, everyone hit it!" Kakashi ordered, "Heihachi, Stab your sword into it's left arm. Vale you stab your Rapier into it's right arm. Chichiri and Kel you both ram your weapons down it's throat!"
"Understood." Heihachi said bracing himself.
"Well what do I do?" I asked.
"You hold it's mouth open long enough for Chichiri and Kel to attack!"
"Aww man... Mouth opening duty again...?"
"Ready, NOW!" Heihachi and Vale pierced the giants arms and I lept for it's open mouth holding it open with my whole body.
"Hurry up! This thing's jaws are heavy!" I shouted trying not to get saliva in my fur. Kel and Chichiri's staffs both had fire dancing on the tip as they shoved them into it's throat. The Chocobo Eater gurgled up blood that rushed up to hit me square in the back.
"EEK!"
"ARG!" The C.E. (A/N: I'm getting tired of writing it over and over again...) slammed it's two hands together and I audiobly heard both Heihachi and Vale going,
"Oof!" Kakashi jumped up on it's back and using a kunai in each hand stabbed out the C.E's eyes. Suddenly the C.E. fell to the side almost crushing Chichiri.
"Dirty oaf..." Lancelot panted inside his helmet lifting his bloody sword from the ground, "Galahad! Take care of the other arm!"
"You think too slow Lancelot, perhaps you are getting, what's the word. Old?" Galahad said chopping off the other Chocobo Eater's arm. Because of the lack of balance from it's arm lose, the Chocobo Eater fell backwards and was rolling around on the ground. I jumped out of it's mouth and looked at my blood splattered back.
"That, was disgusting..." I groaned, "I'm never going in another thing's mouth as long as I live..."
"Good thing we're in front of the agency eh?" Zero said jerking his thumb behind him.
"Is anyone hurt at all?" Galahad asked sheathing his sword and putting his shield on his back.
"Just a few crushed ribs, but we'll live." Heihachi smiled wryly. Vale was fixing his hair, again...
"No real pernament damage, maybe a little frayed but no real damage." he was saying and looking at the ends of his long purple hair. I bowed to the knights.
"Thank you for your help." I said
"The pleasure was ours." Galahad said going on one knee and kissing the back of my hand with his helmet still on. I already felt my face turn hot and red.
"Please summon us if you are ever in need of more assistance." Lancelot said and bowed, "Farewell for now M'lady."
"Good bye, give my regards to the other knights!" I called waving happily, "Take care! And, try not to fight so much."
"We will." Lancelot said then turned to Galahad as they re-entered the summon circle, "What was the comment on me being OLD?"
"Well you are."
"Take it back or so help me dear god I shall report you to King Arthur!"
We all had sweat drops over our heads as we watched them disappear.
"So, anyone but me in need of a serious shower?" I asked scratching behind my head.
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I took a deep breath and slowly exhaled. Man, the showers at this agency suck... I had to stay in there for almost a whole hour! Thankfully the agency was kind enough to wash my clothes for me and let us stay for free for getting rid of the Chocobo Eater. PLUS we got one free ride to use the chocobos!
I looked out at the sunset over the horizon and snapped another picture. I looked at the film counter. Hmm, so far I've only taken two pictures. Too bad I couldn't get any shots of Kilika or Luca. I checked in my backpack to see how much film I had left.
"Eh? AH!" I snatched up the package, "I only brought one extra? AWWWRRRGG!" I fumed almost throwing my backpack over the cliff edge and screaming like Charlie Brown.
"Is this seat taken?"
I looked up seeing Heihachi's squinty face.
"No, it's still free." I smiled and scooted over. Heihachi sat beside me with his legs dangling off the edge of the cliff.
"So, what're you up to?" he asked. I explained to him about the film shortage and he laughed.
"What's so funny?" I asked almost insulted.
"Nothing, just you're reactions are funny when it comes to surprises." Heihachi chuckled and looked out at the glittering water, "It's almost..." he trailed off and if in a trance. I poked him in the side and he yelped.
"Almost...?" I said trying to wave him on. He rubbed his chin for a moment then ruffled my hair.
"It's kinda cute, when you overreact." he said with that childish smile of his. I felt my face turn red. I don't even think my fur can hide my traffic light face. Sure, I've had plenty of stuff happen to me that makes me go red besides seeing shirtless bishounen and getting embarrased from my lack of sense of direction.
But being called 'Cute'? That's a new one...
"T-Thanks, no ones ever told me that." I said rubbing my arm.
"Really? That's a bit hard to believe." Hei-san said in almost a surprised way. He chuckled again rubbing behind his head, "Heh heh, here I am making you go red while I know you already have a boyfrend."
"I do?" I raised an eyebrow at him. When he noticed I really had no idea who he meant he cleared his throat and pointed behind him. I turned around and watched something in purple arguing with something in silvery white. Apparently Vale and Zero were fighting over something near the front door and it was scaring away the other travelers.
"Vale was it?"
I covered my mouth and started laughing.
"You're kidding me! Vale and I aren't a couple!" I giggled, "He and I don't get along too well."
"He's always saying how much he loves you, why don't you return it?" Heihachi asked.
"Trust me, if someone who you never met suddenly walked up to you and said, "Will you marry me strange cat girl?" Wouldn't you think that was a tad bit scary?" I asked. Heihachi looked like he was thinking it over and made a small space as if measuring between his fingers.
"Just a tad." he grinned.
"A tad can be an awful lot!" we both laughed for a while and Heihachi sat back with a sigh.
"The sunset's beautiful."
"Yeah." We stayed silent for a while and I glanced at Heihachi. He had that funny smile of his and his eyes weren't in a squint anymore as the golden bits of sunlight lit up his brown eyes. I slowly aimed my camera at him and pressed the trigger.
"Hey you should conserve your film!" Heihachi said startled, his face color almost matching his reddish orange hair.
"I am." I smiled.
"Ahem." We both looked up seeing Kel behind us.
"AH! Kel-san!" I cried almost falling off the cliff side.
"If you two are done exchanging vows and such, you think you could get inside the agency beforethey completely forget about our free stay? We ARE kinda short on money." Kel said with a playful grin, "Don't worry, I won't tell the others about you two."
"Kel-san damn you!" I shouted jumping to my feet and chasing him into the chocobo stables, "I'm gonna get you!"
"Oh man now for SURE I'm gonna stay quiet! But you two look so cute together!"
"AWWG!"
Authors notes: Chapter 3! Thanks for the reviews from last time! (And here I thought only Fira-san and Kuro-sama reviewed this fic XD
Note to Who's Asking: I'd be happy to give you some help! I'll take a look at some of your fics and think a bit (Who knows? If any of your OC's impress me I might add them into the fic )
Kel: Dude, you've got way too many characters in this fic already Kiako...
Well, the only reason this story's a bit confusing is because it leaves off from one of my older fics Through The Fireplace (Which is so poorly written it brings me to shame...)
Thanks for reading everyone!