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[littleblkpuppy]

Title: Adventure and Monsters
Characters: Zack Fair [Child] (littleblkpuppy), OPEN
When: Late morning
Where: Zanarkand Ruins, Outside the Dome
Warnings: Little Zack is in danger!
Summary: A child Zack finds himself in the Ruins, and decides to see it as an adventure, but adventures have their dangers, even for kids.

Comments

Here she comes to save the day~!

[chocobowark]

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAARK!"

A blur, a flash, a streak of feathers, as Chocobo leapt from her perch at the monster that was sneaking up on the poor, defenseless chicobo. She wouldn't let it!

Stab! Slash! "WARK!" She pinned it under her weight, raking at it with talons vengefully. Wouldn't hurt the chicobo!

LMFAO!

[littleblkpuppy]

The sounds of the chocobo made Zack turn around in an instant as he heard the scuffle going on behind him between the two. For a moment, he could only see a flurry of monster and yellow feathers, but the moment she pinned it, he looked down at the monster, his eyes wide. It had surprised him, and also scared him a little to think that the monster had been behind him, although he would never admit to being frightened to anyone. No, as far as everyone knew, he was brave and fearless just like a future SOLDIER should be.

Victoly music get!

[chocobowark]

She stomped down one last time with an engraged battle-screech, and felt the monster corpse beneath her talons still. Satisfied, she slicked her feathers back into place, stepping off of the corpse almost daintily before heading over to make sure the chicobo was alright.

[littleblkpuppy]

Zack stood there just staring at the scene until the chocobo came over to him, and he threw a smile back on, letting the fear and shock he had felt pass.

"Hey, thanks. I guess this means I owe you now." He told the chocobo, fishing around his pockets to see if he had anything for her and pouted when he didn't find anything. He wanted to thank the chocobo somehow for helping him out, but what could he give her other then...well, it would have to do right? With a confident hand, he reached out his hand to give the chocobo some petting. Or atleast he pet where he could reach. "Thank you for your help."

[youwillmakeit]

Well, this was new. No more snow, but now ruins. It almost reminded her of the Forgotten City or the Northern Crater with the atmosphere that this place held.

What she didn't expect to hear was the sound of a monster. In defensive mode already, Tifa pulled out her leather gloves, slipping them on. She was only a few feet away... when she came up on the monster, she was taken aback by the sight of the little kid. Immediately she thought back to Denzel or Marlene, and her eyes narrowed.

A cry of force, two punches and a well-placed roundhouse kick sent the monster flying back, landing on the ground motionless.

[littleblkpuppy]

Zack had heard the scuffle, and had shot around instantly, spotting what was left of the fight, and looking at the display with amazement. To think that this girl had taken down the monster so easily.

"WOAH! That was so cool!" He exclaimed, the grin on his face bright. He wondered if this woman could teach him a thing or two.

"Can you show me how to do that too?"

[youwillmakeit]

Dusting her hands off, she smiled to herself. It had been some time since she had taken out a monster - at least her skills weren't rusting over.

It was then that she turned to the little kid, leaning over to look at him. He did look familiar, black spiky hair reminding her of someone long ago. "Maybe... you really want to learn, hm?"

[littleblkpuppy]

"Yeah, because it was really cool!" He attempts to mirror her moves from the fight with the monster, or atleast the ones he had seen, though it obviously is far from perfect form. "See. That's what you looked like, and it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen." He had yet to see a SOLDIER in action, so seeing the woman fight like that was like the next best thing.

"So can you teach me, huh? Please?" He asked, putting on his best puppy dog face with pout and all, and even putting his hands together in that pretty please manner. It was a tactic he had used on adults many times, and in most cases it seemed to work.

[mustlovebugs]

Well, then that would make the two of them for lacking in this particular kind of scenery, wouldn't it?

Christmas Town had been great! Snow, lights, all sorts of really interesting things! Well, it had been fun, just... maybe not as fun as it could have been with a certain couple of other people. Raijin would admit. He missed them already. And was more than a little confused as to what was exactly going on. One minute there was snow, and the next there was... um... stuff. Ruins. And most certainly not a clue as to what was going on.

Part of being a cadet, if not SeeD was, at least, to look out for people. That was the first priority. And some kid about to get snacked on? So not Raijin's idea of what needed to happen.

"Duck, kid!" the boy shouted, barreling down the bridge intersecting, volleying off a thundaga to strike the thing, if nothing else, back. Which worked and left enough time to come flying down on it with a well-placed strike of his staff. The thing didn't seem real tough.

[littleblkpuppy]

The voice had surprised him and twirled around with wide eyes, only to find himself doing exactly as the man had demanded of him when the thundaga struck, throwing his hands over his head at the same time. The sound of the strike was loud to his ears, but he ignored it.

When the strike had finished, he slowly looked up to see what had happened.

[mustlovebugs]

Pulling out of it with one downed fiend in a smoke-whirl of pyreflies, Raijin half-grinned to himself, thumping the end of his staff down against the cracked and ruined concrete.

"Alright! Not too shabby!" Then his head was turning to glance at the kid. "Hey, you shouldn't be by yourself, ya know! Could get hurt."

[littleblkpuppy]

Of course those words only hurt Zack's pride, and he couldn't keep himself from quickly standing up and jutting his chin out as if he were the bravest person in the world. "I can be out here by myself if I wanna because I'm all growed up."

[deserteddream]

Well, as if things couldn't get stranger. Rain wandered about the ruins in awe, just how he had gotten there was just another question to add to his ever-growing list. However, finding a way home would have to take a back seat right now. A ahriman was sneaking it's way up to a small kid and Rain swore.

He didn't have anything other than the knife he carried just in case, but it would have to do. The training he received from his days in SOLDIER took over and he leap up, knife stabbing deep into the monster's body. It shirked madly, trying to throw Rain off but he got another few stabs in and it fell still. Well, at least he wasn't getting rusty.

"Gaia, what are you doing out by yourself?" Rain asked, wiping the gore off his knife. "You need to be more care---" The words died in his mouth and his mako-blue eyes widened in shock. Dear Gaia, there was no way this was happening.

[littleblkpuppy]

Oh, but it was happening. The little Zack had watched the whole display with shock, and now he looked up at the man with blue eyes. Of course, with the man's eye so wide in shock, it wasn't hard for the young boy to notice the difference. This man was a SOLDIER. He had to be with eyes like that, and it made Zack excited to think about it, but before he could allow the grin onto his face, the man's question had registered, and the little Zack's pride took over.

"All I did was go outside. I don't know how I got here, but I can take care of myself, cause I'm gonna be a SOLDIER someday!" After getting that out of his system, the little Zack could no longer hold back the grin that wished to invade his lips.

"You're really a SOLDIER, aren't you?" He pauses to take in the man's outfit. "Hey, if your a SOLDIER, why are you dressed like a hobo?"

[deserteddream]

Rain blinked a few times, as if meeting a younger Cloud and a not-insane Sephiroth wasn't bad enough. Gaia, he forgot about how he was when he was a kid. So many hopes and dreams...

"You're not a SOLDIER now and you could get killed if you're not careful!" He replied with a slight eye roll. Kids always thought they were unstoppable. The two questions out of his younger self's mouth made him sigh out in annoyance. "No I am not a SOLDIER or a hobo."

[littleblkpuppy]

Zack pouted at hearing the man's words. "But you've got mako eyes. Only SOLDIER have eyes like that, right?" He asked curiously, not understanding any of this. He had been so sure that this man was a SOLDIER, but if he wasn't really a SOLDIER, then why did his eyes look like that, and how could he fight so good. Yes, his younger self had certainly watched him take down the monster.

[rydia_of_light]

Rydia had little interest in beating up nearby monsters, mostly because she was tired of that sort of thing. She had to do it daily before arriving in the ruins anyway, so the excitement had long since worn off. Besides, the last thing she wanted to do was run into another Dark Flan again. That last one had been vicious.

But...she wanted to explore, and told herself that if she was careful and didn't wander too far, that Terra wouldn't have anything to worry about. She just wanted a look around, that's all.

At some point, she spotted a boy up ahead...and a monster that was stalking him. Eep. "Look out!" Quickly, she headed over until she was within range, then cast Hold. After that, she raised her Ice Rod and sent a powerful blast of ice magic toward the beast.