Comments | puppy_fair: En Route to Midgar (A-la-Reno-and-Elena, still), Friday Morning

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En Route to Midgar (A-la-Reno-and-Elena, still), Friday Morning

Dec 31, 2010 16:17

It had been a bit of a roundabout trip out of Junon for Zack and Ino, yes. They'd managed to thumb a drive as far as Fort Condor, and the walk to the cave from there hadn't been terrible. Actually, Zack had been pleasantly surprised to see that at least that much hadn't changed. Caves were going to be caves no matter what year he was wandering ( Read more... )

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flowering_mind December 31 2010, 20:28:26 UTC

"It looks scary," she admitted, with a bit of a laugh. "But once we fought him, he weren't that scary at all."

Which was a bit depressing. Really, if you looked that scary weren't you supposed to be super hard to beat?

puppy_fair December 31 2010, 20:31:15 UTC

Seriously. The stupid thing was like fifty feet tall when it reared up, and could have swallowed either of them whole, and Zack had... one-hitted it.

Jeez, at least give him time to activate Combat Mode before dying, giant snake.

"If we see another one, I might almost be tempted to throw it a few potions, just to give it a fighting chance," Zack laughed. "Against, like, baby birds and other fierce things like that."

flowering_mind December 31 2010, 20:45:38 UTC

"Now, now," she said, smiling as she walked with him. "It could surely kill baby birds. They'd have a heart attack when it reared and bam, no problem for the giant snake."

puppy_fair December 31 2010, 20:57:56 UTC

"Oh..." Well, now Zack was just going to pout at the thought of it. "Okay, no baby birds. But I bet a Toad could totally take it on."

It was sad because it was not far from truth.

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flowering_mind December 31 2010, 22:45:27 UTC

Ino was a little fussier with her bag than she might otherwise have normally been but, really, with everything that they were approaching she didn't think that her nervousness was going to be noted as anything other than... about that.

"We're almost there," she said anxiously. "I've told you before 'bout it, yeah?"

Yes, Ino. Yes you have. If Tseng had been angry yesterday, he'd have been livid about this.

Reno was going to--kill her, maybe. Ino wondered, with nervous, scattered thoughts, if he might be relieved on some level. Easier to go forward when nothing was hidden.

puppy_fair December 31 2010, 22:54:38 UTC

"You have," Zack replied, shrugging a little. "You're not the only one who has, either."

So... Really, it wasn't like he didn't know to expect something huge.

"I'm ready for this, Ino."

He had to be.

flowering_mind December 31 2010, 22:57:56 UTC

Yeaaah. And for all her brave words to Tseng she was feeling like no one could ever really be ready for something like this and what had she done?

And yet, she was going forward.

"Okay," she murmured. "I--we can take our time, to look. It's a lot to take in."

And Zack called Midgar 'home'.

puppy_fair December 31 2010, 23:08:47 UTC

"No hurry," Zack agreed, keeping his chin up. Keeping one foot moving in front of the other. "I'm really in no hurry."

He might be, once they crossed over this one last dune, once they had a view.

He was holding his breath.

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puppy_fair January 1 2011, 23:54:28 UTC

Somewhere else, Ino had said. And so somewhere else, they'd gone. Not Fandom, not that broken excuse for a Gaia that they'd been wandering through for the past week, not Konoha.

Zack's own Gaia. Home, the way he remembered it. The way it should have been.

The ridiculous amount of Gil that had been in his bank accounts was gone, but that was fine. He still had more than enough to buy their admission into the Gold Saucer, and then, while he'd let Ino go and rest, he'd left her a note and then made a beeline for the Battle Square.

He needed to beat the living crap out of things. Even if it involved paying good Gil to do it.

flowering_mind January 2 2011, 00:10:50 UTC

Ino slept not well, or long, but the deep, dreamless sleep of the truly exhausted.

When she woke up, the sun was down and the chicobo was fluttering around her head, cheeping at her. That earned a faint smile.

It was hard to not smile at it. "You're ridiculous," she informed it, rolling over and realizing that Zack wasn't in the room. Her smile faded as she sat up, cold fear sinking into her.

He wasn't there? Where was he? She stood, shakily, and closed her eyes with relief when she found the note on the table. Battle Square, right. She had no idea where that was but he was still here.

A look in the mirror said she looked a fright and feeling cold, feeling tired, feeling bruised on the inside, Ino slipped into the shower.

Maybe then she'd be ready to face the world.

puppy_fair January 2 2011, 00:18:00 UTC

Another fight, another handicap. Already, Zack's summon materia were temporarily broken, he'd dropped five levels, and his speed had been cut in half, and now he was holding his breath and waiting for the reel to stop spinning its counterpoint to his own DMW.

His armor cracked around him, and he heaved a sigh of relief. It would have been way worse. He'd take broken armor over something like sealed items or mini, any day of the week.

A little grin on his lips as he threw himself bodily into the next challenge, and go!

Whatever else had been eating at him, it was a thousand miles away. He'd worry about it when his reel stopped spinning. For now? It was just the fight.

It was the monster in him that enjoyed it, perhaps.

flowering_mind January 2 2011, 00:30:26 UTC

A shower didn't really make her feel less like curling up and crying more but it gave her something to focus on and when she got out of it, clean and feeling slightly less frail, Ino thought she'd best go find Zack ( ... )

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