paixaorpg | Someday the Dream's Beginning Will End (Complete)

Character(s): Yuna and Hades
Content: Yuna gets lost in the Elephant Graveyard... /jaws theme
Setting: Pride Lands - elephant Graveyard
Time: Early Week 30
Warnings:....... Hades

Yuna hadn't made any actual plans to go to the new floor, especially not by herself. It had just sort of... happened. She'd taken steps towards the gate leading to the church... and when she next stopped to think about it, she was in Spira again. She hadn't really wanted to go through the whole place again. Trekking through the fake world she knew would take another week and she didn't want to keep Tidus and Rikku waiting that long. The appearance of the teleport pads was both nice... and a little annoying. With them there, her curiosity perked up and she wondered where they would lead.

Taking a deep breath, she stepped on the first one and told it to take her as far as it could. She opened her eyes again... and she was in Zanarkand.

Emotions swirled around inside her, threatening to burst again, but she shoved them down. They wouldn't confuse her now. Hurrying forward, she made her way to the door... and through it as quickly as she could.

The darkness of this new world she'd been prepared for, though it still unnerved her. Suddenly finding herself as a bird unnerved her just as much this time, but she managed to shake it off, taking a few steps forward into this unknown place. She probably didn't need to be here. It was probably really dangerous. But some part of her wondered... what if her father was here? What if she-

No... don't think that, Yuna. It's better for him not to have to suffer here anymore. Let the poor man rest.

When she finally turned back around with the intention of heading back home, she realized she'd wandered too far. The door was nowhere to be seen. Flapping her wings didn't do anything but stir the dust and bones around her. She wasn't used to the finer points of learning to fly yet.

Uh-oh.... this wouldn't end well, would it?

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From one bird to another, Hades had plenty he could say. Not that he didn't have to be a bird - he was a god! - but he found there was something fitting as he ruffled his mottled blue feathers and hopped from bone to withering branches.

Yes, Hades had taken on the form of a vulture (http://www.honoluluzoo.org/hooded_vulture.htm), though his coloration was abnormal, and there was his signature flame flickering from the top of his head.

He stays hidden, fluttering to another branch.

"Look at that, someone is lost," he chides. "Perhaps even left behind. In such a place! At the end of the road?"

That voice... Yuna spun around, flapping her wings with as much grace as she could manage in the circumstance. She took in the view of the vulture and would have bypassed him completely if not for that familiar flicker of flame at his head.

No... it couldn't be... he was gone!

Yuna completely ignored his chiding, going straight for the name.

"Hades!? What are you doing here!?"

The bird bobs its head as it laughed and feathers ruffle as he moves again to another branch.

"What am I doing here?" he repeats with a click of his beak. "I should think that be obvious."

Don't you, Yuna? Maybe he's just checking out the new floor, finding his way to the top just as everyone else. Maybe he's bored. Or maybe, just maybe, he's here for you.

"I'm not going to do anything for you," Yuna snapped in response, fluttering backwards a little. She wanted nothing to do with him ever again and if she could manage to escape this place, she would. And fast.

"There's nothing I'll tell you." Or do or any way she'll be of use to him and she hoped he would understand that.

“Oh~? Does that mean the little lady bird has something to tell?” the vulture’s squawk dwindles into a gargled, retched cackle and with a flutter of his wings he swoops a circle overhead Yuna and lands down, shaking his feathers and raising up and out to his fullest, making himself bigger than her than he already was.

"No!"

Despite the strength of Yuna's assertion as she fluttered backwards again, the whole thing was a lie. She had a lot she could say, but she would never say any of it to someone like Hades.

"Except for how much I dislike you."

The familiar tuft of flame on Hades' vulture head dances larger, spreading down his blue furred back.

"Yuna, Yuna, Yuna. Am I hearing this right? I think I am. Are you -" chuckle "lying to me. Me? Hades, Lord of the Dead? Yuna. I thought better of you."

Hades made her feel sick to her stomach. And not just because she was pretty much trapped here. His presence, taunting her like this, brought up memories of her kidnapping. What if he wanted to do something similar again? She wouldn't let him. Plain and simple.

"I'm not going to help you, Hades. And I'm not going to let you hurt anyone."

He rakes a talon through the dirt and a ring of shadowy flames dance out from the spot and circle Yuna, then bounces forward, his beak pushing through the flames and laughing at her, unaffected by their burn. "Oh Yuna, you do delight me. Marvelous defiance, really. But your toughness - how long can that last? You're all alone here. Where are your friends to rescue you again?"

He clacks his beak close to her flesh and then takes to the air, resituating himself in the branches while his flames still flicker close to her.

"I will make you my puppet, Yuna," he drawls darkly. If she attempts to fly out of the ring of flame, they will grow to surround her. "You can count of it."

Yuna did actually try to fly out of the ring, but she stopped and settled on the ground once she realized the fire was rising with her. The glare on her face was enough to wither flowers, but she knew it wouldn't have any effect on someone as heartless as he was.

"They aren't here." Obviously. "I won't let you hurt me or them. And I won't be your puppet. No matter where I am."

Her defiance could clearly last until either he got tired, he got bored, or he killed her. She would rather die than become his toy, but she would do everything possible to make sure he never hurt anyone. That was all she could do.

"Keep thinkin' that, doll. Wait until we meet again."

The flames smother into the ground and pitch black, oily smoke billows up from the dust. A maniacal laugh tumbles from Hades' beak and he spreads his wings and bows mockingly, before he, too, is gone in wisps of smoke and shadow, but his laughter echoes through the dead and decay of the graveyard.

(( Annnnd exit stage left for Hades 8) ))

Yuna couldn't help flinching at his laughter and the smoke that takes him away with it. The ring of fire around her faded soon after, but she waited a long time before she moved, just to be sure she couldn't see or hear him. Once she was sure he was gone, she fled for the exit as quickly as she could find it.

He was wrong. She would never be a pawn for him. Never.

Someday the Dream's Beginning Will End (Complete)

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...........SORRY STELLA.

♥!

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