Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ FLight Shots ❯ Regrets (part one) ( Chapter 1 )

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FLight Shots
By
Zona Rose

Chapter One - Regrets (Part One)

I stagger away from the Behemoth King unsure if I'd actually killed it or severely wounded it. My injuries are too great to stick around to find out. I needed to get away from it, far away, so when the other carnivores sniffed around I wouldn't be too close and end up being their dessert. There are some caves not that far away hopefully I'll be able to make it before collapsing.

The beast's claws had gotten me good as it collapsed to the ground after my final strike. Fang always told me to never go out on a hunt without backup. That was always her rule number one, her second one was never to go out on the hunt angry. I had just broken both of those rules.
Looking back on it now I knew that it was a stupid argument one that should never have taken place. The argument had started with Snow over upsetting Serah. When I was done with him, he was unconscious on his living room floor. When Serah had gotten home and saw Snow sprawled out on the living room floor bleeding and unconscious, she turned on me and demanded that I leave the house and not come back again until I could control my temper.

On my way home I ended up running into Sazh and Vanille while they were having an argument. Trying to calm the two of them down I ended up getting into their argument and having the two of them turn on me in the process.

When I walked into my house it looked like a tornado had gone through and its name was Fang. Clothing and boxes were everywhere; what was normally a well orderly house was nothing but chaos. Grabbing my gunblade I stormed out looking for something to beat up and take my frustrations and anger out on. That's how I ended up finding the Behemoth King and the situation that I find myself in now. Staggering into a cave I pull out a locator light and drop it at the entrance. Going to the back of the cave I finally collapse and slowly lose consciousness.

...~*~...

After getting the house back in order I'm waiting patiently for Light to come home, so I could apologize for the mess I had made earlier. Sitting on the couch Vanille, Sazh and I are discussing how our day had gone. That's when I found out the two of them had gotten into an argument with Light earlier before she had gotten home. That explains why she was so angry before I could explain what the mess was all about.

"Tell soldier girl I'm sorry," Sazh went home and Vanille started to make supper. She planned on making Light's favorite meal. I'm watching the news and notice we have a bad storm that is going to be rolling through within the next couple of hours. I'm really hoping that Light will make it home before it starts.

Someone starts to pound on the door in an urgent manner. When I yank it open I am about to yell at whoever it is until I saw a battered Snow and a worried Serah. I wave them in and have them sit on the couch while I went to the chair.

"Is Claire home? We need to apologize to her for what happened this afternoon." Serah said while twisting her hands.

"No, I haven't seen her since she stormed out of here a few hours ago." I look between the two of them.

"She's not answering her communicator. I know that's not like her, she always answers when I call." Serah looks down at her hands with guilt, "even if she is angry with me."

We are interrupted by someone pounding on the front door again. I am really starting to get irritated with everyone pounding on our door. I storm up and yank it open and saw a frantic Hope standing at the door.

"There's an injured Behemoth King and it's gone on a rampage on the outskirts of town. I didn't know if you or Light want to help the Guardian Corps take it down." Hope said in between his painting breaths.

"Light's not here, but I'll go." I ran into the other room to grab my spear. On my way back through the living room I saw Vanille. "If Light gets home before I get back don't let her go anywhere I really want to talk to her when she gets back." Vanille nodded her head once, Snow starts to get up to follow me. "And you stay here Snow you're in no shape to take on Behemoth King." Then I'm out the door with Hope tight on my heels.

I didn't wait for an invite and start attacking the Behemoth King as I want to take it down as fast as possible. It took us five minutes to finally bring it down. As we are inspecting it Hope and I notice some strange wounds.

"It looks like someone used a sword to try and take this one down, but they didn't finish it off that's blood irresponsible of whoever tried taking it down." I said in frustration.

"Yeah, but I've got some bullet holes over here too." Hope observed.

Sure enough there were combinations of both sword wounds and bullet holes that has nothing to do with Guardian Corps or my spear. There's only one person that I know of that would use this combination and she's missing.

"Captain it looks like human blood on its front claws. I'm guessing it killed whoever tried to take it down." One of the soldiers observed.

The captain went over and examined the claws in question. "Yes that definitely looks like human blood. I feel sorry for the poor sap who got hit by these."

Hope and I look at each other with worry in our eyes. "Hope I want you to head back to the house and tell Vanille that I'm going out to look for Light." Hope nodded his head and heads back to my house.

I turn to the Captain, "Do you have a med kit with you? I'm going to go out and see if I can find the person that tried to take this beastie down."

"Yeah we do, not that I think it's gonna do you much good. I'm guessing whoever went up against this beast isn't with us anymore. I'll give it to you anyways just in case."

"Thanks," grabbing the med kit I attach it to my belt and slide it around behind me. While I still have some daylight I start tracking the blood trail back to its origin, hoping against hope that I find Light or whoever it was that tried taking it down in one piece and alive. I look up at the storm clouds and they look like they are moving in faster than what has been predicted. I probably only have about a half-hour before the storms hit. If it starts raining before I get to the site of the battle then there is a good chance I won't be able to find the person that is injured.

...~*~...

There is a flash of light that came through my eyelids that are too heavy to open. Not too long after the deep rumble of thunder shook the ground. Prying my eyes open I look around, there's not much to see except dirt and some wood. There is a stone circle with blackened earth in the center. Apparently hunters use to use this cave as shelter. Now it looks like it will be my tomb.

The storm that's coming will wash out any trail that I have left. The only sign of where I possibly could be is the light that I left at the entrance of the cave. I check my burning side the bleeding seems to have stopped, but I can tell that an infection has already set in. When I first came into the cave I could feel that it was cold, but now it's extremely warm which is probably due to the infection.

I close my eyes again which heightens my sense of hearing. I can hear the monsoon coming it sounds like a herd of horses thundering over the land. I can also hear an animal moving around in the underbrush. Hopefully it doesn't decide to use this cave to get shelter from the storm.

Thinking over my life I know I have a lot of regrets. The ones dealing with my sister and not spending enough time with her as she was growing up into the young woman that she is now. Maybe if I had she would've made a better choice of someone to spend her life with instead of that idiot.

I won't be able to watch Hope be a good strong man like his father. I know he wants to be a doctor so that he can help people. I think that takes him back to when he wasn't able to save his mother. What I think I regret the most with Hope is feeding and fueling his anger towards Snow. I'm just glad that he was able to look past his anger in the end.

Snow that idiot; there's not much that I regret with him. Only I wasn't there to stop him from taking my sister away. Although maybe it was me that pushed her to him in the end. Isolating myself from everyone around me being the cold and indifferent person that I had to become, so that I could support her. I guess he makes her happy and who am I to take her happiness away, even if he is an idiot.

Sazh, what I regret the most with you is dragging you around old man. I thought you were nothing but extra baggage that just tagged along for no reason. But you did have a reason your son was made an l'Cie like Serah had been. You had no hope of saving your son until you met me and my determination to save my sister.

Vanille, my regret with you is my jealousy with how close you are to Fang. I don't know if the feelings you have for her are sisterly or ex-lover turned friend. All I know is when Fang said that she would tear down the sky to save you, I wanted her to say that about me.

Fang, you are my greatest regret because I never got a chance to tell you, that I love you. From the moment that I saw you sitting behind Snow on that bike saving Hope and I. My heart started doing strange things in my chest. Then when we would fight together it was like we were dancing. We complemented each other in battle we were each other's strengths where we had weaknesses. There was no beating us in battle. At first I didn't know what it was, so I took my frustrations of not knowing out on you as well as everyone else.

And when you started to call me Sunshine, I secretly liked it but I couldn't show it. I had to keep my indifference up so I continue to be irritated every time you would call me by that nickname. Our little group become such a team that I started to accept you and Vanille as my friends. It was only when we had gotten to Gran Pulse that I realized what these feelings are. When I finally accepted my feelings for you, you left me and turned into crystal with Vanille.

Granted we had all been turned into crystal as well and after twenty years we came out of the crystal stasis. And we waited five years for the two of you to come back to us. Over the past six months I've wanted to tell you how I feel, but every time I think about bringing up the subject I get scared that it'll ruin the friendship that has grown between us. Only now that I'm dying does that fear leave me and I would give anything to be able to utter those words into your ear, even if it is my last breath.

...~*~...

I finally came upon the fight scene and it looks brutal. The gouging of turf, the breaking of trees, the crushing of the bushes. Whoever was fighting the Behemoth King I think was winning, then something must've happened that turned the tide.

I found a trail of human blood heading towards the low-lying mountains when I saw a white light I knew it has to be the person that is injured. Running full out I had to try and get there as soon as possible. The person is bleeding profusely and could possibly already have passed.

Crashing through the underbrush I climb my way up to the cave. The monsoon of rain is almost upon me and hits just after I step into the cave. Breathing heavily I slowly make my way into the cave the blood has gone less and has almost stopped. When I see a body at the back of the cave. My heart seizes as I realize that it is Light covered in blood and dirt. I rushed to her side and see she's barely awake. "I'll get you out of here Sunshine don't you worry."

"Tell everyone that I'm sorry." Lightning says in a weak voice.

"You can tell them that yourself." I try smiling at her for encouragement.

She reached her hand up threading them through my hair to the back of my head. Pulling my head down she brings her lips up to my ear and whispers three little words that I've been wanting to hear since I first laid eyes on her.

"I love you."