Lam was trudging her way back to New Atlantis, really, her head down to keep her face out of the wind when she felt something thump into her back. She whirled and tried to figure out where it came from and then crossed her arms and frowned just a bit, crouching to make her own snowball just in case.
"Was that a declaration of war?" she called out and looked around for a place to hide. She ducked behind a boulder and knew she was probably going to come out of this frozen solid. Lam set to work making her own ammunition.
Ninjas didn't go around declaring war. They did as they pleased, and it just happened to please the Greatest Ninja in the World to throw a buttload of snowballs at people.
Of course, it would have gone easier if the chocobo hadn't poked his beak out out the snow hedge she had made specifically to hide him.
Lam closed her eyes. Weird magic Islands had...large very strange birds. If she kept repeating that, she'd feel better. Or maybe she was just hallucinating. She could be hallucinating all of this, right? No. No, no, no. Not in the least. She was cold, the snow was went, and there was a very large beak. In the snow. Yes, it was a bird beak...which just meant that bird was huge.
...birds didn't throw snowballs. People did.
She lobbed a snowball in that direction and heard it explode wetly as she peered tentatively around her boulder. And then lobbed another at the beak...just in case. God, this was not her forte.
"HEY!" shrieked Yuffie, and she was out from her hiding spot as quickly as any of the snowballs. Her scarf flapped indignantly, and she put her hands on her hips. "You don't hit civilians! That's unacceptable in a ground war! Or any other kind..."
Banky, dutiful WHATEVER THE FUCK HE WAS TO MAMET that he was, was currently tromping his ass along the path to Hidden Hamlet. His hands were full because he was double-fisting two steaming cups of hot chocolate he'd taken from the kitchen. He didn't think the chick at the counter was too happy about him taking glasses out of the kitchen but he didn't exactly GIVE A FUCK. It was cold as fuck outside and, even though Mamet's hut WAS kinda warm even if it looked like some fancy tipi, Mamet would likely need the chocolate.
But then a snowball hit Banky in the back, startling him to the point where he lurched forward and spilled half the hot cocoa on the ground. "MotherFUCKER," he swore loudly.
Yuffie began to laugh, spilling out from behind her tree and landing in the snow. "Ahahahaha, I fucked your mother!" Since she had the second snowball made and everything, she fired that too. "I'm your daddy!"
Crouching down, Banky deftly shoved the two now half-empty mugs into the snow. Not bothering to see if they were secure or not, he quickly began to form a snowball. Snapping up to his feet, he lobbed the ball in Yuffie's direction.
"Yeah, I can see the fuckin' resemblence," he called.
Whatever happened to a hello? A handshake? Seth would have even tolerated a hug so long as he could keep his ribs in tact. No. No, instead he gets hit in the side of the head by a snowball. Who ever heard of snow on a tropical island anyway? Sure, he had a would be girlfriend who had never wrote the mermaid poem and was the source of his current daydreamy state, and there were two Marissas here, but snow? That was the real mystery.
Seth, minding his own business, fell victim to the snowball. He stopped and nodded as the clumped snow dripped from his head. "Well, that's more like home," he mumbled, spitting a few flakes away from his lips. He turned towards where the snowball had come from, palms up in mock defense. "Okay. I surrender. Whatever I did, I'm sorry and I'll never do it again." He rumpled his hair to get some flakes from it. Really, he should have been in better spirits. It was Chrismukkah season after all.
"My gawd," Yuffie complained, swinging down from her branch so that she could hang upside down and look at him. "What's with you? It's a perfectly friendly ball to the face." She began to laugh. "Never taken a ball to the face? You coulda fooled me!"
Not only was the girl (who looked strangely familiar) hanging upside down from the branches, she was also being not very funny, thank you.
"Okay, first," said Seth, trying to piece together where he'd seen her before. "No, I don't usually take balls in the face. And, second, those words should never be used together in a sentence."
"Jeez, talk about a buzzkill," Yuffie complained, and let herself backflip neatly to the ground. "You know, all sorts of Planets have jokes about balls." She looked him up and down. "Consider it a privilege. You were hit with a snowball by the Greatest Ninja of All Time."
Neville was somehow not surprised that the snowball that hit him smack between the shoulderblades had come from Yuffie. At least she wasn't hurling herself at people this time. While he wished he still had his magic so that he could hurl a barrage of snowballs back at her, he did at least still know how to make them by hand and sent one back in her direction that way, though she was stealthy and he wasn't sure he hit.
When one skimmed her arm, it only made her shriek with delight, climbing up into the tree for better cover. The ability to make snowballs there was almost non-existent but it was made up for by shaking the branch to make the snow fall off the leaves.
"Surrender now and I won't harm the women and children!"
"I haven't got any women or children," said Neville, who was perhaps more familiar than expected in the tactics of war. He aimed another snowball into the tree, though the angle was more difficult this time and it shattered against the trunk.
If she were being crass, Yuffie might have had a different answer for him. Mentally, she just locked the possibilities for comebacks away to lob at Cloud or Lee. It was different when you weren't planning strategy around possibly doing someone.
Lily hadn't seen snow like this since before she'd moved to New York, and she'd been enjoying every second of it. Especially after a week of heat like they'd had, this couldn't have come at a better time; things had been looking up before, and now they were even moreso. A part of her still had reservations, of course, but it was nothing to dwell on. After everything she'd been through, it seemed only fair that she was finally so content here.
The snowball that hit her square in the back came as a surprise, but all she did was let out a laugh before quickly bending down to make one of her own with mittened hands. She whirled around, prepared to throw, but found herself facing a tree. "I know you're back there," she announced. Trees didn't throw snowballs, after all; people did. "You can't hide forever, you know."
Ah, so the fly was finally stepping into her parlor. Her wintery outside parlor. Also, Yuffie didn't like spiders since that one time Shake dared her to eat one and she did and threw it up.
So she made a grand, sweeping entrance, dropping out of the branches.
"I don't need to hide forever. I am the shining jewel of the West! The white rose of Wutai! I am Yuffie Kisaragi, the greatest ninja in the world!"
The first part of what the girl had said didn't make any sense. Her name, though, rang a bell, and though it took a moment's thought, eventually Lily gave a slow nod of realization. "Yuffie," she repeated, as if committing it to memory. "You're Cloud's friend, aren't you? I think he's mentioned you."
What he'd mentioned was to be careful of her, that she'd be interested in getting to know her now that they were dating or whatever, but Lily saw no reason to add that part.
"And you're Lily. Don't worry, I don't watch you when you're asleep," Yuffie said in what she hoped was a reassuring manner. "I was raised better than that." She grinned. "Not by much, though."
Her eyebrows lifted up as she leaned back against the tree. "What did Cloud say?" she said, a bit suspicious.
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"Was that a declaration of war?" she called out and looked around for a place to hide. She ducked behind a boulder and knew she was probably going to come out of this frozen solid. Lam set to work making her own ammunition.
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Of course, it would have gone easier if the chocobo hadn't poked his beak out out the snow hedge she had made specifically to hide him.
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That was some sort of bird.
Lam closed her eyes. Weird magic Islands had...large very strange birds. If she kept repeating that, she'd feel better. Or maybe she was just hallucinating. She could be hallucinating all of this, right? No. No, no, no. Not in the least. She was cold, the snow was went, and there was a very large beak. In the snow. Yes, it was a bird beak...which just meant that bird was huge.
...birds didn't throw snowballs. People did.
She lobbed a snowball in that direction and heard it explode wetly as she peered tentatively around her boulder. And then lobbed another at the beak...just in case. God, this was not her forte.
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Cloud, the chocobo, warked loudly in agreement.
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But then a snowball hit Banky in the back, startling him to the point where he lurched forward and spilled half the hot cocoa on the ground. "MotherFUCKER," he swore loudly.
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"Yeah, I can see the fuckin' resemblence," he called.
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Seth, minding his own business, fell victim to the snowball. He stopped and nodded as the clumped snow dripped from his head. "Well, that's more like home," he mumbled, spitting a few flakes away from his lips. He turned towards where the snowball had come from, palms up in mock defense. "Okay. I surrender. Whatever I did, I'm sorry and I'll never do it again." He rumpled his hair to get some flakes from it. Really, he should have been in better spirits. It was Chrismukkah season after all.
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"Okay, first," said Seth, trying to piece together where he'd seen her before. "No, I don't usually take balls in the face. And, second, those words should never be used together in a sentence."
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"Surrender now and I won't harm the women and children!"
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"I didn't say they were yours," Yuffie called.
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The snowball that hit her square in the back came as a surprise, but all she did was let out a laugh before quickly bending down to make one of her own with mittened hands. She whirled around, prepared to throw, but found herself facing a tree. "I know you're back there," she announced. Trees didn't throw snowballs, after all; people did. "You can't hide forever, you know."
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So she made a grand, sweeping entrance, dropping out of the branches.
"I don't need to hide forever. I am the shining jewel of the West! The white rose of Wutai! I am Yuffie Kisaragi, the greatest ninja in the world!"
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What he'd mentioned was to be careful of her, that she'd be interested in getting to know her now that they were dating or whatever, but Lily saw no reason to add that part.
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Her eyebrows lifted up as she leaned back against the tree. "What did Cloud say?" she said, a bit suspicious.
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