drabble #9
Subject: Final Fantasy VIII
Character/Pairing: Selphie Tilmitt
Themes: #15 “Born under a waxing moon, wide-eyed and waiting.”
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, Gore, the senseless destruction of many a Grat, nudity etc. etc.. xD Personally, I think it sucks...and I'm really bad with endings...
Destroyed; gone and never coming back. Selphie sat in her shower letting the hot water bead down her back and massage the tenseness out of her shoulders in the process. The battles lately were getting longer and harder to win. The perky brunette slept deeply every night from exhaustion. Soggy brown hair fell in front of her green eyes as tears fell from the usually happy pearls to mingle in with the water at the drain.
That’s how she felt really, drained. It wasn’t her squad’s fault at all. In fact it was entirely hers. She hadn’t been thinking of the consequences as any good leader would’ve done but rushed in headlong. They took on a monster that was too strong even for four Seed’s of high rank.
It was time to do something about this problem. It had been happening entirely too long.
So Selphie gathered her squad members in the entrance of Balamb Garden’s Training Centre. Decked out in their training clothes and weapons in hand, Selphie said, “We’re going to train and we’re gonna get stronger. This is the last time that we get trounced by some silly monster. We’re gonna go in there, two at a time and train as much as we can.”
There, in the light of a waxed over moon was born anew the determination that Selphie thought she had lost. There was no way that she’d ever lose to a monster as pitiful as a Funguar. They had been lax in their training and that was about to change.
Walking into the jungle environment of the training centre, Selphie and her partner stood there waiting for the SeeD’s and other students to move on ahead.
“Look over there.” The partner, a blue haired female bearing daggers designed for throwing pointed toward a hidden pathway that led into the underbrush of the area.
“Let’s go.” Selphie nodded and off into the brush with her partner. It didn’t take the two long to find some action as they were plagued by a steady swarm of Grats.
“Looks like fun.” Selphie’s partner pointed to the largest T-Rexuar she’d ever seen. “We should give it a shot.”
Selphie eyed the T-Rexuar suspiciously as it was acting rather strange. Instead of attempting to eat the Grats around it, the large dinosaur type monster appeared to be gathering them together and delegating orders.
“That’s odd…it looks like it’s giving out orders.” Selphie observed out loud. “We should head back to the main training area and report this to the Training Centre staff.”
“And miss out on an opportunity to take out the rumoured ‘sentient’ T-Rexuar, are you outta yer mind Selph?”
“No way, we’re not going in there without Guardian Forces.” Selphie shot back sternly as she attempted to grab her blue-haired partner by the collar and drag her out of the underbrush they were trouncing about in.
“Looks like we might not get the chance to get them.” The blue-haired girl replied quickly readying her daggers to fend off their enemies. The Grats were coming at them full force with the so-called sentient T-Rexuar bearing its yellow-toothed grin at them.
“Here it comes.”
The partners looked up as the T-Rexuar roared loudly enough to crack the panes of the windows above them. The Grats that had been stampeding past them stopped dead in the tracks and surrounded the two SeeD’s.
“Selph, whatta we do now?”
“What we came here to do.” Selphie spat angrily, readying her nunchaku in order to summon. “We fight.”
The blue-haired SeeD watched as Selphie began to glow with a strange light. “What do I do?”
“Hold them off!” Selphie bellowed, hoping that the other two in their squad would hear her and come help them. For now all the perky brunette could do was prepare to summon their most powerful Guardian Force from her days in the Sorceress War. The wind rustled and what few birds lived in the training centre flew away. The sky grew steadily darker and darker as great black clouds formed outside.
“Get behind me.” She ordered quickly as she summoned forth Eden to take care of the so-called sentient T-Rexuar. The two vanished to be protected from the brutal attack as wave after wave of energy attacked all the monsters in the surrounding area.
The summon was over in a few seconds as Selphie and her partner reappeared before a mass of Grat carcasses and severely wounded T-Rexuar. Green eyes narrowed in concentration as Selphie knew that one attack from Eden wouldn’t be enough to take out this great beast. Running forward at full tilt, Selphie leapt into the air and cast three power magic spells one after the other and came back down to earth and watched as the T-Rexuar twitched and spasm through its last moments in life before walking out of the Underbrush slowly.
When the two partners emerged from the underbrush covered in Grat skin and blood, the other two SeeD’s in Selphie’s squad were waiting for them. “Is everthing all right Selphie?” a black-haired lanky young man asked quickly.
“You bet!” Selphie grinned, giving her teammate a thumbs up in approval.
Character/Pairing: Selphie Tilmitt
Themes: #15 “Born under a waxing moon, wide-eyed and waiting.”
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence, Gore, the senseless destruction of many a Grat, nudity etc. etc.. xD Personally, I think it sucks...and I'm really bad with endings...
Destroyed; gone and never coming back. Selphie sat in her shower letting the hot water bead down her back and massage the tenseness out of her shoulders in the process. The battles lately were getting longer and harder to win. The perky brunette slept deeply every night from exhaustion. Soggy brown hair fell in front of her green eyes as tears fell from the usually happy pearls to mingle in with the water at the drain.
That’s how she felt really, drained. It wasn’t her squad’s fault at all. In fact it was entirely hers. She hadn’t been thinking of the consequences as any good leader would’ve done but rushed in headlong. They took on a monster that was too strong even for four Seed’s of high rank.
It was time to do something about this problem. It had been happening entirely too long.
So Selphie gathered her squad members in the entrance of Balamb Garden’s Training Centre. Decked out in their training clothes and weapons in hand, Selphie said, “We’re going to train and we’re gonna get stronger. This is the last time that we get trounced by some silly monster. We’re gonna go in there, two at a time and train as much as we can.”
There, in the light of a waxed over moon was born anew the determination that Selphie thought she had lost. There was no way that she’d ever lose to a monster as pitiful as a Funguar. They had been lax in their training and that was about to change.
Walking into the jungle environment of the training centre, Selphie and her partner stood there waiting for the SeeD’s and other students to move on ahead.
“Look over there.” The partner, a blue haired female bearing daggers designed for throwing pointed toward a hidden pathway that led into the underbrush of the area.
“Let’s go.” Selphie nodded and off into the brush with her partner. It didn’t take the two long to find some action as they were plagued by a steady swarm of Grats.
“Looks like fun.” Selphie’s partner pointed to the largest T-Rexuar she’d ever seen. “We should give it a shot.”
Selphie eyed the T-Rexuar suspiciously as it was acting rather strange. Instead of attempting to eat the Grats around it, the large dinosaur type monster appeared to be gathering them together and delegating orders.
“That’s odd…it looks like it’s giving out orders.” Selphie observed out loud. “We should head back to the main training area and report this to the Training Centre staff.”
“And miss out on an opportunity to take out the rumoured ‘sentient’ T-Rexuar, are you outta yer mind Selph?”
“No way, we’re not going in there without Guardian Forces.” Selphie shot back sternly as she attempted to grab her blue-haired partner by the collar and drag her out of the underbrush they were trouncing about in.
“Looks like we might not get the chance to get them.” The blue-haired girl replied quickly readying her daggers to fend off their enemies. The Grats were coming at them full force with the so-called sentient T-Rexuar bearing its yellow-toothed grin at them.
“Here it comes.”
The partners looked up as the T-Rexuar roared loudly enough to crack the panes of the windows above them. The Grats that had been stampeding past them stopped dead in the tracks and surrounded the two SeeD’s.
“Selph, whatta we do now?”
“What we came here to do.” Selphie spat angrily, readying her nunchaku in order to summon. “We fight.”
The blue-haired SeeD watched as Selphie began to glow with a strange light. “What do I do?”
“Hold them off!” Selphie bellowed, hoping that the other two in their squad would hear her and come help them. For now all the perky brunette could do was prepare to summon their most powerful Guardian Force from her days in the Sorceress War. The wind rustled and what few birds lived in the training centre flew away. The sky grew steadily darker and darker as great black clouds formed outside.
“Get behind me.” She ordered quickly as she summoned forth Eden to take care of the so-called sentient T-Rexuar. The two vanished to be protected from the brutal attack as wave after wave of energy attacked all the monsters in the surrounding area.
The summon was over in a few seconds as Selphie and her partner reappeared before a mass of Grat carcasses and severely wounded T-Rexuar. Green eyes narrowed in concentration as Selphie knew that one attack from Eden wouldn’t be enough to take out this great beast. Running forward at full tilt, Selphie leapt into the air and cast three power magic spells one after the other and came back down to earth and watched as the T-Rexuar twitched and spasm through its last moments in life before walking out of the Underbrush slowly.
When the two partners emerged from the underbrush covered in Grat skin and blood, the other two SeeD’s in Selphie’s squad were waiting for them. “Is everthing all right Selphie?” a black-haired lanky young man asked quickly.
“You bet!” Selphie grinned, giving her teammate a thumbs up in approval.