paixaorpg | It's Dark In Here (Complete)

Character(s): Lightning and Terra
Content: ~~not!date~~ a spar between friends
Setting: Outside their apartment? idk, somewhere with space
Time: Week 33
Warnings: cute? idk, they're like bricks

Well, it was a normal day for Lightning and a normal day involved combat training. She needed to keep her strength up, especially if she was to keep protecting the city from crazy lions and hyenas. It seemed like every time she turned around, something else was showing up to kill them all and she hated it. Toying with people's lives, shoving them into life-threatening situations, or making them do things they didn't want to do. It was awful and it needed to stop.

So, it was with a little more vengeance than normal that Lightning chose an out of the way place and began to practice. Her gunblade flicked around like it weighed nothing at all and she cartwheeled and backflipped like she'd been doing this her whole life. She didn't use magic while she was practicing, but she did flip her gunblade between its two modes, remembering its versatility and how it was supposed to be used.

With any luck, this would get a lot of her excess energy and anger out.

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A normal day for Terra also tended to include training, so in that respect, he and Lightning were like minded individuals. It was a really good way to get out stress out, and Terra had a lot of it built up. However, Terra was surprised when he came across her training today in the same area that he had decided to.

"Oh, I didn't realize anyone else was out here today"

Lightning stopped at the sound of another person walking over and by the time Terra spoke, she'd turned around and leveled her blade at him. Once she realized who he was, she lowered it and tilted her head just slightly in thought.

"I always am. A good soldier never stops practicing."

She paused, wondering if he'd come out here for the same reason she had.

"Do you train every day, too?"

"Yes. I have to if I want to become a..." He hesitated, of only just slightly, "Keyblade Master."

Though he wasn't sure he'd ever fulfill that goal, not after everything that's happened. But that wasn't any reason to break the habit of training every chance that he got. It was the only real constant he had in his life.

That seemingly random title made Lightning's expression darken just slightly, more out of confusion than anything else. She'd never heard of that before, but judging by the shape of Terra's weapon, she figured it had something to do with that.

"What's that?" she asked. Better to know for sure.

"It's a..." He paused for a moment to collect his thoughts, since he never really had to explain what a Keyblade Master was to anyone before. "It's a title that shows I've mastered the discipline of wielding the Keyblade" He held out his hand and summoned Ends of the Earth.

"It's a great honor to become a Keyblade Master."

Lightning took note of the weapon as it was summoned again. She'd seen it before, just once, when Terra had helped her and Hope fight Alexander. To see it again, without having to worry about a fight was better. It gave her a better idea of what the thing actually was.

She nodded in response. "I was a soldier back home, one of the Guardian Corps who protected the city of Bodhum, where I lived." But she'd never started really training like this until she'd become a l'Cie.

"Do you spar?"

Even though he had never met one before, Terra wasn't surprised that she was a soldier, he could tell she was a warrior the moment he met her. It was her demeanor, and the way she carried herself, there wasn't anything else she could have been.

"Yes... though I haven't had a chance to in a while" And he'd never sparred with someone who wasn't Aqua or Ven.

Lightning turned, looking Terra over for a few minutes before she brought her blade up and pointed it at him. "Do you want to? It helps me stay on top of my game."

Which was true. But she also wanted to see how good he really was.

"No magic. Just our blades for now." Maybe later, they could add more than simple swordplay.

"It's better than training alone," He replied.

Terra nodded at Lightning's instructions and got into his battle stance. "Right."

Lightning nodded in agreement, settling into her stance with her left arm bent protectively in front of her. She waited for a moment before striking. Their "fight" seemed to go on forever, but in the good way. They traded blows for quite some time before weariness cut their sparring time short.

Lightning hopped backwards a few paces, her blade pointed down as she tried to catch her breath. "I think that's enough for now. You're pretty good."

Terra dismissed his keyblade, and placed his hands on his knees as he tried to catch his breath. He hadn't sparred like that in ages, and it felt good to train like that again, it was satisfying.

"I could say the same about you."

"Comes with being a soldier." And then a l'Cie. But she'd enjoyed this venture. "We should do this more often."

In typical Lightning fashion, she wasn't suggesting so much as stating her preference, but her expression was far gentler than normal. This exercise had done much to calm her down.

"We should," he replied in agreement. He wasn't entirely sure what is was, but there was something about the look on Lightning's face that made Terra feel like he had suddenly been filled with dozens of butterflies, trying to break free.

"I... I look forward too it."

It's Dark In Here (Complete)

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