timeandtides_backup | Daring rescue missions.

Characters: Warrior of Light, Firion, Tifa Lockhart, (Tidus if he is coming?)
Progress: Incomplete
Summary: Firion got himself trapped in the Ice Caverns, but his friends are finally coming to rescue him.
Location: The Ice Caverns
Date: July (Not long after
Warnings: Hopefully there won't be any need.

The journey from the swamp where he had appeared to this place had been wearying, after having just (in his timeline, anyway) defeated Chaos, but he drove himself to continue. He was still needed, so he would not falter until his task was finished, no matter how tired he was. After all, simply walking there was not any great feat, simply one that took determination. He had done more difficult things for that in the battle against Chaos.

He had made the journey as quickly as he could, and once he arrived, he paused to rest while he waited for Tifa and Tidus to appear. It might have been more productive to begin the search for his lost friend, but he was tired, and it would be better for him to wait until he had others with him. He had already told Firion of the foolishness of going off on his own, and to then do so himself would be hypocrisy, especially if, in his weariness, he became injured. So instead of starting to search, he took a seat on the ground and stayed there to rest.

While he stopped to regain his energy, he caught sight of a glint of metal from among the rocks. Curiosity piqued, he stood and walked over. It only took a moment to shift away the small rocks covering it to reveal a blade, reddish in color and familiar. It was Firion's sword, with his other weapons piled underneath it and mostly hidden from view.

Carefully, the Warrior of Light began to remove each one, checking them for damage or dulling to the blades. Firion had said at one point that most of his weapons were taken, but this might as well be all of them. He was stuck in the Ice Caverns with only a knife to defend himself. At that realization, the Warrior began to search for the entrance to the Caverns. This was even worse than he had thought.

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Tifa got the implication. She looked horrified for a moment before managing to control herself. It was all too easy to imagine Marlene or Denzel in the same situation.

"Who would do something like this?"

The Warrior gritted his teeth when Tidus suggested that they split off and search, though he listened to Firion's next words as well. He wanted to go and search- he would not wish this place upon anyone- but Firion spoke wisely, and there was also the chance that they would be caught in the cave again if they went off to search. So, as much as he might wish to do otherwise, they could not go off to search the caverns just to be sure.

He had meant to be silent, since his short time on Gaia had not allowed him to meet many people, let alone figure out who might have a grudge against Firion, but a memory of Sephiroth responding to him when he first arrived prompted him to speak. "Tidus, Firion. Are any of those we faced in the Void present in this world as well?" he asked.

For a brief moment, it looked like Tidus was going to argue - but he shut his mouth again after Firion spoke. If it had been several days...

"Come on, we need to get you some food."

Tidus was about to pick up and carry his friend to get him out of there. Who cared that Firion was the taller of the two, he needed to get out of the damn ice. The blitzer turned around and started walking back the way they'd come as he thought about Light's question. "Uhhh... A couple. Sephiroth, but he seems ...okay here, and Kuja and Garland and Kefka. Garland's supposed to be the one messing everything up over here and Kuja's supposed to be helping him, but I don't think any of them've been there. Like Zidane."

As if on cue, his stomach growled. Firion's cheeks colored brightly and he his his face is Light's cloak in embarrassment. To move on from that, he followed Tidus and nodded at Tidus' answer. "Though we do not know where any of them are. Kefka is careful to disguise his whereabouts. Kuja and Garland do not make contact."

Tifa followed too, though her mind was still on the missing child.

"It could be any one of them," she mused. "It's just the kind of crazy thing Kefka would do..."

If Firion had faced all three of them, then he did have enemies on Gaia. Kuja and Garland at least seemed to have some goal in mind from what Tifa could tell, and she couldn't think what reason they would have to trap Firion. Kefka, on the other hand, delighted in random chaos.

"This does seem to be the kind of act Kefka delights in," the Warrior agreed with a frown. "Could it be possible that he knows us from the Void? Or do you think that he does not remember that time?"

It would not make too much of a difference, of course- Kefka would cause destruction no matter what period of time he came from- but if Kefka knew them specifically, and was singling them out, then they would have to be wary, and warn the others who had fought for Cosmos in the Void, whether they remembered their time their or not.

"I don't think so, but anything's possible." Tidus' face was very, very dark at mention of the madman - he still hadn't forgotten, and never would, all of Kefka's acts against him and his friends. Torturing Yuna. Stealing Vidina. Torturing Braska. If there was anyone on this world Tidus honestly wanted to kill, it was the clown, and his face easily said as much.

"Whenever we see him, he's dead anyway. Doesn't matter whether he remembers us or not."

Daring rescue missions.

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