Sisterhood (Chapter 1) - Final Fantasy V
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inked_eidolonTitle: Sisterhood
Fandom: Final Fantasy V
Characters/Pairings: Lenna, Faris, Bartz, Galuf
Rating: G
Summary: Lenna notices a few things about their new pirate friend.
"Oh, my stars and garters! He's a she!"
Lenna had a hard time falling asleep that night. That exclamation of Galuf's had opened an astonishing door of possibility. At first, she had assumed that Faris had gotten his hands on a royal pendant through any of the ways a pirate could get his hands on anything. But the question of how she had gotten her hands on it... the answer to that could be something else entirely. Something unlikely, something she wasn't sure she dared imagine, but a possibility nevertheless....
The ship graveyard wasn't exactly the best place to sit down and talk about childhoods, but Lenna kept her eye on the other woman as they fought and waded through the chill, splintered hulks. At first she saw only differences: a coarse voice from years of shouting, the way she laughed in triumph when she struck the final blow on a monster, her constant bickering with Galuf. But that was just the surface. They had the same eyes--maybe Faris didn't notice that, because pirates probably didn't look in mirrors that often, but Lenna knew it. And the more she glanced over to Faris in battle to check on her or say something, the more familiar her profile seemed: Father's straight nose, Mother's sharper chin. Now that Lenna knew Faris was a woman, half a dozen oddities were falling into a distinct pattern. By the time they finally reached a solid shore, she had formed a definite suspicion... but she stopped suddenly when the light went out of the sky. Bartz held out a hand uneccesarily. None of them moved forward.
"Something's fishy about this place," he muttered, and then added, in typical Bartz fashion, "and it ain't cod...."
But he lowered his arm slowly a moment later as a strange image wavered and became solid: a woman who looked not unlike him. "Bartz... come closer..."
"Mom?" He took a step forward, then another--then he collapsed onto the sand. They stared at him blankly. Lenna felt that she ought to do something, perhaps, but...
But then Father appeared and nothing else was important. "Come here, honey..."
"Father!" Her thoughts stayed back as she ran towards him, but they tried to register another pair of footsteps and Faris' voice behind her, and then... then... then Galuf was smacking her around the head and yelling. The vision was gone and for the hundredth time they had to fight.
They didn't linger after that long battle with the Siren, hurrying on to Carwen as quickly as they could. None of them spoke of it, not that Lenna particularly wanted to bring it up either. But she soon felt quite certain that Faris had been next to her in those moments before they fell.
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They split up in Carwen after they heard the rumors about Hiryu--Bartz off to buy supplies, Galuf off to the pub, and Lenna stayed outside to keep talking to the town's citizens in case anyone else could give them more information about what had happened. Nobody could tell her how badly Hiryu had been hurt or if he'd had a rider. She fiddled with her pendant for a moment, trying to quell her anxiety so she could think straight. Everything was getting tangled up in this--Father's disappearance, Hiryu, the Crystals. What if came to a choice between Hiryu's life and saving the Water Crystal? She recalled her trip to Walse a few years ago. There had been no talk of using any kind of machine on the Crystal then, not even a rumor.
"There you are--" Lenna started at Faris' voice behind her. "Been askin' some of the sailors here what they know," said the pirate, looking over at the trading cogs stranded at their piers. "Damn, this air is getting to me. Those ships might as well be in bottles for all the good they are right now."
"The sailors all seem restless," Lenna agreed. "It must be hurting trade all the coastal towns."
"That's so," Faris said, crossing her arms. "My men won't be able to get their hands on near about a seashell without that Wind Crystal. Not that we could get through the canal too often...."
Lenna gave her a puzzled look at first. Then comprehension dawned: Faris was talking about robbing these ships. It had been barely more than a week since she had them all tied up in her ship, Lenna reminded herself. If she was right, if Faris hadn't been born a pirate, that was still fifteen years of living among them, and not just that, but becoming their captain. Of course it would take more than a Crystal's words and a recent companionship to change a lifelong brigand into an honest person. It would be naive to think otherwise.
It wasn't the right time to speak up about their connection in any case. Things were far too urgent right now. "Let's go find Bartz and Galuf," she said. "They must be done by now. We need to get to North Mountain as quickly as possible."
Fandom: Final Fantasy V
Characters/Pairings: Lenna, Faris, Bartz, Galuf
Rating: G
Summary: Lenna notices a few things about their new pirate friend.
"Oh, my stars and garters! He's a she!"
Lenna had a hard time falling asleep that night. That exclamation of Galuf's had opened an astonishing door of possibility. At first, she had assumed that Faris had gotten his hands on a royal pendant through any of the ways a pirate could get his hands on anything. But the question of how she had gotten her hands on it... the answer to that could be something else entirely. Something unlikely, something she wasn't sure she dared imagine, but a possibility nevertheless....
The ship graveyard wasn't exactly the best place to sit down and talk about childhoods, but Lenna kept her eye on the other woman as they fought and waded through the chill, splintered hulks. At first she saw only differences: a coarse voice from years of shouting, the way she laughed in triumph when she struck the final blow on a monster, her constant bickering with Galuf. But that was just the surface. They had the same eyes--maybe Faris didn't notice that, because pirates probably didn't look in mirrors that often, but Lenna knew it. And the more she glanced over to Faris in battle to check on her or say something, the more familiar her profile seemed: Father's straight nose, Mother's sharper chin. Now that Lenna knew Faris was a woman, half a dozen oddities were falling into a distinct pattern. By the time they finally reached a solid shore, she had formed a definite suspicion... but she stopped suddenly when the light went out of the sky. Bartz held out a hand uneccesarily. None of them moved forward.
"Something's fishy about this place," he muttered, and then added, in typical Bartz fashion, "and it ain't cod...."
But he lowered his arm slowly a moment later as a strange image wavered and became solid: a woman who looked not unlike him. "Bartz... come closer..."
"Mom?" He took a step forward, then another--then he collapsed onto the sand. They stared at him blankly. Lenna felt that she ought to do something, perhaps, but...
But then Father appeared and nothing else was important. "Come here, honey..."
"Father!" Her thoughts stayed back as she ran towards him, but they tried to register another pair of footsteps and Faris' voice behind her, and then... then... then Galuf was smacking her around the head and yelling. The vision was gone and for the hundredth time they had to fight.
They didn't linger after that long battle with the Siren, hurrying on to Carwen as quickly as they could. None of them spoke of it, not that Lenna particularly wanted to bring it up either. But she soon felt quite certain that Faris had been next to her in those moments before they fell.
They split up in Carwen after they heard the rumors about Hiryu--Bartz off to buy supplies, Galuf off to the pub, and Lenna stayed outside to keep talking to the town's citizens in case anyone else could give them more information about what had happened. Nobody could tell her how badly Hiryu had been hurt or if he'd had a rider. She fiddled with her pendant for a moment, trying to quell her anxiety so she could think straight. Everything was getting tangled up in this--Father's disappearance, Hiryu, the Crystals. What if came to a choice between Hiryu's life and saving the Water Crystal? She recalled her trip to Walse a few years ago. There had been no talk of using any kind of machine on the Crystal then, not even a rumor.
"There you are--" Lenna started at Faris' voice behind her. "Been askin' some of the sailors here what they know," said the pirate, looking over at the trading cogs stranded at their piers. "Damn, this air is getting to me. Those ships might as well be in bottles for all the good they are right now."
"The sailors all seem restless," Lenna agreed. "It must be hurting trade all the coastal towns."
"That's so," Faris said, crossing her arms. "My men won't be able to get their hands on near about a seashell without that Wind Crystal. Not that we could get through the canal too often...."
Lenna gave her a puzzled look at first. Then comprehension dawned: Faris was talking about robbing these ships. It had been barely more than a week since she had them all tied up in her ship, Lenna reminded herself. If she was right, if Faris hadn't been born a pirate, that was still fifteen years of living among them, and not just that, but becoming their captain. Of course it would take more than a Crystal's words and a recent companionship to change a lifelong brigand into an honest person. It would be naive to think otherwise.
It wasn't the right time to speak up about their connection in any case. Things were far too urgent right now. "Let's go find Bartz and Galuf," she said. "They must be done by now. We need to get to North Mountain as quickly as possible."
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