A/N: You all know Snow Villiers isn't my favorite character. I do enjoy making the 'hero' suffer through torment. Teach him to be so arrogant. So now, Snow is camping out with Fang and Vanille, since he lost the bet on that game of poker. I feel bad for Maqui for being so hopeful just to have it die. The poor kid. If only Fang cared.

Day 8

Lightning and Hope are doing better. Lightning's still a little sick and Hope was able to move around a little, but his mouth still hurt. Serah was finally able to rest since they are well enough to take care of themselves.

Now, Fang, Vanille and Snow are riding down the rides on Chocobos. It's bright and early, the sun starts to seep through the dark skies. Snow is riding with Fang since he hardly has any experience riding on Chocobos. Snow can't believe this is really happening, he's going camping with a sassy warrior women and a silly young girl. And worst of all: He can't bring Serah or team NORA along on this little trip.

By morning, they arrive at the beautiful wilderness of Sunleth Waterscape. Now Snow really wishes he could bring Serah here. In the middle of the field, the chocobos stopped, and Fang and Vanille hops off, then Snow joins them.

"Well, home sweet home." Fang turns to face Snow, holding her arms out. "Welcome to Sunleth Waterscrape."

Snow looks around the wild land he's in. "It's quite a sight to see." Snow says.

"It a land of beauty!" Vanille says, spinning around with her arms wide open. "You ready to have some fun, mr. Hero?"

Snow smiles and pounds his fists together. "All right! Let's dot his...so, where are we staying in?" Fang and Vanille just laughs at Snows question. "What?"

"If you want shelter, you gotta make one." Fang says. "That's the way it goes in Sunleth Waterscrape. You live off the land."

Snow's pride drops. "Oh...well, sounds interesting. Let's give it a shot."

So Snow tries to live off the land like Fang says. He isn't really sure how to make shelter. Already, Vanille and Fang have make shelter out of big sticks, leaves and rocks. Snow is already shameful, two girls are already doing better at making shelter then he is. What he doesn't know is that they have experience in the wild, they grew up here.

Snow finds a near by cave. He walks up to it, takes a look inside. He doesn't say anything, nothing but darkness. Snow looks back at Vanille and Fang and shouts. "Hey! I found a nice cave in here."

Snow walks right in. Vanille runs up until she can't see him anymore. "Snow! Wait! That cave! It's a..." Snow starts screaming and runs out. A loud roar echoes right out of the cave, then a Behemoth rushes right out. "Behemoth...cave."

Snow runs back to Fang and Vanille, he looks back at the Behemoth that's coming at them. "Okay, okay, okay." Snow cracks his fists. "Let's do this!"

Snow yells and charges at the Behemoth. The hero and the beast charges at each other. When they're face to face, the Behemoth snaps its jaw, Snow grabs the Behemoths face, holding its sharp teeth away from him. Snow holds the Behemoth back with his full strength. The Behemoth growls at Snow, mr. hero can smell the foul stretch of the beasts breath.

Snow gags at the smell of the beasts last meal. Snow yells and used all of his force to push the Behemoth back, tosses the beast on its side. While the beast was down, Snow rushes towards it, pounding the beast hard with his mighty fists.

The Behemoth gets back on its paws, it hurls Snow, knocking him in the air. Snow lands back on the ground, he looks up to see the Behemoth is standing on top of him. The behemoth roars, then roars in pain when Fang landed on it's back with her lance jammed on its back.

The Behemoth collapses on top of Snow, it's dead.

Snow crawls his way out of the dead beast then stands up. "Whoa. That wasn't to tough." Snow raises his arms, showing off his muscles. Vanille giggles at his heroic arrogant.

"Don't get cheeky, boy. You're little 'hero' act is gonna make you an easy pray out here." Fang says, spinning her lance while talking to Snow.

"Well, the good news is we have enough food to last for the day." Vanille says.

Fang cracks her knuckles. "Right. I'll take care of tendering this creature. Why don't you and Snow go find some berries?"

Vanille nods, agreeing. So she grabs Snows arm and starts dragging him.

While Fang is taking care of the Behemoth meat, Vanille takes Snow around the Sunleth Waterscape, while they're searching for some fruits and berries. They harvested some from a couple of bushes and trees, of course Vanille had to warn Snow about the poisonous ones that he picked.

Snow is starting to getting the hang with taking on the wilderness here, but he still has much to learn to survive. When they're done berry picking, Snow offers to get some firewood.

"Can you find your way back?" Vanille asks.

Snow gives Vanille a thumbs up. "Don't worry, I can take on mother nature."

Vanille laughs. "Just be careful."

Vanille puts the berries in the basket and then skips off, back to camp. Snow makes his way around the wildlife of the Sunleth Waterscape, for some firewood. He didn't have an axe or anything, so he would just have to find some sticks and loose logs.

Snow arrives at a dense woods, deep within the Sunleth Waterscape. There are a bunch of loose sticks and logs, this would be a perfect spot for finding some firewood. Snow picks up the logs. While he's picking them up, Snow spotted a field of strange purple flowers.

Snow goes up to the flowers, taking a close look at them. He picks one of them up. The flower seems a bit strange, but it looks pretty. Snow picks some of the flowers, so he would give them to Serah when he returns tomorrow.

When Snow's done picking flowers, he grabs the logs and heads back to camp.

Vanille returns with the berries. Fang is ready to cook the meat, but she's still waiting for that firewood. Fang sits on a large rock, waiting impatiently for Snow.

"Where is that blockhead?" Fang asks.

"Don't know." Vanille says.

"I'm thinking he got lost." Fang stands up. "We should go look for him."

Vanille looks up and then she spots Snow. "No we don't, there he is."

Fang walks up to Snow. "It's about damn time."

"Sorry. Got a little held up." Snow says.

"You mean lost?" Fang says.

"Yes, but not just that." Snow sets the logs down, and then he shows the purple flower to Fang. "I found these."

Fang flinches back and looks shocked with horror at the sight of that flower. "Snow, you blockhead!" Vanille looks up and reacts the same seeing the flower. "You shouldn't have touched that."

Snow seems confused. "Why? It's just a flower, isn't it?" Snow asks.

Vanille shook her head. "No it's not. It's Vemon Blossom. It's just like Poison Ivy, only a whole lot worse!"

Snows eyes widen open and then he drops the flower, and then empties out his pockets of all the other flowers he picked. But, that doesn't change anything.

Snow's body starts to break out in purple hives. Snow starts to look irritated and in pain, then yells and starts scratching uncontrollably. "IT BURNS! IT BURNS LIKE FIRE ANTS!"

Vanille and Fang looks pretty worried. "We need to get the medicine!"

Fang salutes. "I'm on it." Fang hops on her Chocobo and then takes off.

Vanille just watches Snow, she feels bad for the guy to suffer vemon blossom. "Help me! It! Burns!"

"I can't do anything to help." Vanille says.

Snow runs up to Vanille, his back turn. "Scratch my back!"

Vanille flinches back, arms retreated. "No! No! I can't touch you! Vemon Blossom is highly contagious."

Snow looks around as he scratches. He looks at the lake and sprints towards it. "I can't take it!"

Vanille watches Snow and soon realizes what he's doing. "Wait! Snow! Don't! Water would only-" It was too late, he just jumps into the lake like a fish that's gasping for water. The moment he was in the water, he burst out of it, yelling in agony. "Make it...worse."

Fang arrives at Oerba, it's a small village that lives in a hidden cave with a skylight. Fang arrives at the medical vender. "Hey, I need a bottle of Widow Liquid, stat."

The vender looks at Fang. "Hey Fang. Haven't seen you in a while." The vender looks around his shelf of potions and antidotes. "Widow Liquid? Did Vanille touch the Vemon Blossom again?"

Fang shook her head. "No, just some idiot we brought on our campout." The vender looks at Fang with confusion. "Long story."

The vender takes out a concealed bottle of the Widow Liquid. Fang takes it, gets back on her Chocobo and rides off.

Meanwhile, Snow's having a miserable time with his burning rash. Vanille just sits back, watching the poor Snow suffer. She's just hoping that Fang will get back soon, cause she can't take anymore of this. After about five minutes, Fang returns. She sees Snow spinning around on the ground by his side, scratching and yelling in pain.

Fang sighs. "Hey, cheeky boy." Snow looks at Fang as she tosses the medicine to him. Snow catches it wither clumsy. "That'll fix you up."

"Thanks!" With mega haste, Snow pops open the lid and drinks the medicine, just chuck it down.

Fang is surprised to see that. "No! No! No! You're not suppose to drink it!" Snow stops drinking and looks at Fang with worry.

Vanille however looks at Fang with confusion. "What happens if he drinks it?"

Fang leans her face close to Vanile, whispering with her eyes still on Snow. "You're about to find out."

Just then, Snow's hives multiples and his skin turns sunburn red. Vanille gasps at the sight of that, she can tell it's not good. Snow screams so loud, like he just received an Atomic Texas Wedgie. He starts running around, screaming.

"BURNING! BURN! BURN! BURN!"

Snow runs to the lake. "Snow! Not the-" It was too late, he dives into the lake. "...Lake."

"He does know water only makes it worse, right?" Fang asks.

Just like that, Snow bursts out of the water, yelling. As if the lake is really molten lava. "Tried to warn him." Vanille says.

Snow crashes on the ground, then resumes running, screaming and scratching. Fang sighs with annoyance. "Well, time to go get another bottle of Widow Liquid, and then a bottle of Frost Oil and a jar of Anti-Sahagin Oil."

Fang walks to her Chocobo and hops on. Vanille looks at Fang with confusion. "Anti-Sahagin Oil? What for?"

"In case he rubs the Frost Oil on his skin." Fang says.

Fang takes off, heading back to Oerba and leaving Vanille with the suffering Snow. Another five minutes have passed, and Fang arrives at Oerba, picking up the Widow Liquid, Frost Oil and Anti-Sahagin Oil. The vendor questions why Fang wants them, but she doesn't explain. She just wants to pick up the stuff and hurry back before Snow hurts himself even worse.

After picking the stuff up, Fang hurries back to the campsite. Another five minutes, Fang returns and gives Snow the medications. This time, she drives him into the right direction. Snow wipes the Widow Liquid on his rashes, drinks the Frost Oil. In no time, he starts to feel better.

"Feeling better?" Vanille asks.

Snow lays down on the ground, sighing in relief. "So much."

"Good. Now quit goofing off like a manic." Fang says.

Night time comes by quickly. Snow had a rocky start with facing the wilderness here, but he's doing fine...other then running into a Behemoth Cave, catching Vemon Blossom, jumping into the lake while under the affects of the Vemon Blossom twice and drinking the Widow Vemon.

Yeah, Snow should really stay away from the wilderness. He wouldn't last five minutes out there on his own.

Now Fang, Vanille and Snow are sitting around the campfire, chewing down on their meal of Behemoth Meat, berries and fresh fruit.

"Well...this wasn't so bad." Snow says. "Maybe when you girls come here next time, I'll join."

Fang and Vanille instantly says "No!" together, and Snow agreed as well.

"Well good, cause it stinks camping out here." Snow says. "How did you two survive out here?"

"We grow up here." Fang says.

"Well, Fang grow up here, I just spent years living here." Vanille says.

"Right." Snow takes a bite of his Behemoth drumstick.

After eating, Fang stands up. "Well, time to call it for the night."

Snow and Vanille agrees, mostly Snow since he's exhausted from all that screaming and scratching and running around in pain. Fang walks towards the large rock and lays against it. "Get some rest you two, we're leaving first thing in the morning."

"Okay. Good night." Vanille walks off from the campfire.

Snow stands up and watches Vanille. The girl takes out a blanket from the pouch on her Chocobo, she lays it on the ground, then lays down on it.

Snow walks up to Vanille, when he's beside her, Vanille sits up, realizing something. The girl gets up, grabs two big rocks and a couple of sticks. She returns to her spot, placing the two rocks beside her on both ends, and then lays the sticks in between the rocks, making a line.

"What are you doing?" Snow asks.

When Vanille was done, she looks up at Snow, pointing down at the line. "Do not cross this line, understood?"

Snow sighs and shook his head. "Would you just go to sleep?"

Vanille giggles. "And good night again."

Vanille lays down and falls asleep. "What does Hope see in you?" Snow whispers to himself.

Snow walks away from Vanille. He just finds the softest spot of grass and lays on it, going to sleep. He honestly cannot wait for morning to come so he can get out of here.