Besaid, Friday Morning (NFB-distance)

[the_merriest]

Rikku and her little sib Momoko had spent the night in Besaid, in the small hut that was still, technically, Rikku's. She didn't really live here, but it made for a nice home base when she needed a place to crash

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[heromaniac]

"Okay!" Momoko's excitement over being on a different planet!!! was lessened this morning only by the reminder that she was here to help kill.

The fiends here were totally different from her monsters, she knew that already. From anything on Fandom, even. What was it Reno had said that day? 'Different worlds, different rules'? But she was still the same person, no matter what world she was on. Even when she changed into Blossom!

Which, oh yeah, might be a good thing to do.

A quick transformation and Blossom was rushing after Rikku again. She could do this! The fiends here couldn't just be jailed or knocked unconscious and tossed off into the distance or even sealed. They had to be destroyed or more people would be killed. And she wanted to do this - to help these people! This was a hero job, right?

Right?

[the_merriest]

Rikku, for her part, was cracking her neck and loosening up. She hadn't had a good scrap in way too long.

Okay, nothing on Besaid was capable of giving her a good scrap, but this was just the introduction. She hoped, anyway.

"Here," she said, nodding to a yellowish creature that was further down the path. It looked almost like a dog, or a wolf, except with a meaner face. It also had yet to notice them, content instead to sniff the plants and growl menacingly. "A dingo. You want this one, or should I go first?"

She was watching her friend's face carefully. Saying you were okay with killing monsters was one thing. Facing down the monster -- who happened to look relatively harmless, even despite the growling -- and deciding to take it out, that could be another story.

[heromaniac]

"Dingo?" If you squinted, maybe it looked like a dingo? But it totally didn't look like the fiends she'd been imagining. Blossom blinked in confusion at it a moment, and then looked up at the other girl. "And you're sure that's a monster?" It was smelling the flowers, Rikku!

[the_merriest]

"I'm sure," Rikku said. They'd killed enough to be sure about it. "Do you trust me?"

Straightening up, she put a finger over her lips. Quiet. Momoko should hang back, and watch. It was all going to be okay.

And then, Rikku was going to saunter down the path as if she hadn't the least care in the world.

It only took a few steps for the dingo to hear her, and the change was instantaneous. Its head snapped up, and the growling was louder, now. The dingo bared its fangs and approached Rikku, slowly.