[open] Catch-All for the Remainder of August

[tempredmental]

who: Keith & YOU
what: Various things... training, exploring town, Perimeter Guard stuff, whatever! Open to backdated amnesia stuff if desired, just let me know.
when: Can go all the way back to the beginning of August if desired, but definitely carries through until September 1st.
where: Around town!
warnings: None right now, but will edit and add if needed.

Top levels below for things I already know are coming. Feel free to make your own if you want something specific! Hit me up if you want to plot. I'm open! duches77

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[thegreatninja]

"Why would it worry you? Leviathan is awesome."

She put her arms behind her head as she walked, her eye flicking between Keith and the path in front of them. Yes, he did almost throw her but that had been at a party with Yuffie wearing a dress. She wasn't planning to give him the chance to do that again.

"What sort of fighting do you do?"

[tempredmental]

"Mm... if you say so."

Keith wasn't really up for the discussion about his worries, so he was glad when she moved on.

"Hand-to-hand... and I have a sword." Well, technically two. He tended to stash both his blades on him lately. It came in handy to have both. He might not be a full-on ninja warrior, but he was definitely a fighter.

[thegreatninja]

"Neat. You are like a hero-type, aren't you?"

It made her miss Cloud and for the first time Yuffie looked unsure. Her smile fell and she wondered if she could really live here, without Wutai and without her friends. She wasn't very good at making friends.

As if snapping out of her thoughts the smile returned easily to her lips. "Well, so far this trip is boring. So it looks like you get to keep your swords to yourself."

[tempredmental]

"Type?" Keith frowned a bit. But her comment about it being boring bothered him. It was a bit quieter than the trip to the temple.

"We shouldn't let our guard down just because you're bored," he grumbled.

[thegreatninja]

"Who said my guard was down?" Yuffie teased with her usual bright grin pulling at her lips. "I mean, you are super cute and it's very distracting but I won't let anything happen to my favorite partner." She winked at Keith as she turned and began walking backwards.

He might not believe that she's paying attention but she is. Yuffie takes her work very seriously, she just wants to have fun while doing it.

[tempredmental]

What was it with girls calling him cute around here?

Granted, he had gotten attention like that before because he'd been the top pilot in the fighter class, but it was weird coming into a situation where there wasn't a specific draw like that. It made him a little confused and definitely wary. Things happened. It could lead to trouble.

"Your favorite partner?" He quirked an eyebrow at her. "Since when?"

[thegreatninja]

If he didn't want to be called cute then he should stop being cute.

"Since about five minutes ago." Her opinion had the tendency to change quickly but she had a good feeling about Keith and she liked being around him. Even! When he's trying to throw her across a room.

Yuffie's steps are light though as they make their way along the perimeter she notices a flash of movement out of the corner of her eye. Her body language doesn't change as she turned back to Keith. "Did you see that?" She asked in a lower, more serious, tone.

[tempredmental]

Keith gave her a tolerant look, like, 'okay sure whatever'. However, the movement caught his attention, too. His hand moved to hover near his thigh, just above two cyan colored lights at the top of the upper leg armor, but he didn't do much beyond that.

"Yeah..."

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie's wrist flicked and a long blade appeared in her palm. She was watching the underbrush only to notice that whatever they had seen had moved. They only had a seconds warning before a worm like creature with claws jumped from the right side towards Keith.

"Look out!" She called as she threw her blade. The blade circled around Keith, striking the creature and then returning to Yuffie's palm though the creature, now bleeding, continued his forward assault.

[tempredmental]

At the same time Yuffie threw her blade, Keith called his bayard, which caused those two cyan colored lights just below his hip to blink in sequence. The semi-circle handle of his weapon appeared in his hand with a flash of light, and he shifted it into a sword as he dropped and rolled back, out of the way of both Yuffie's own blade and the creature's lunge. He was back on his feet quickly, though, swinging his bayard to finish the job Yuffie started.

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie wasn't going to hit him if he had stayed still though she was thankful that he didn't misjudge and roll towards her spinning weapon of doom.

"Got him!" She declared before turning to put her back to Keith. "Let's make sure he's the only one out there." Yuffie was used to monsters roaming in groups. Only the powerful ones were on their own and this one didn't seem that powerful.

[tempredmental]

Keith was smarter than that, at least. Give him some credit, Yuffie!

He straightened up quickly, thinking the exact same thing. While he wasn't used to random monster encounters like some JRPG ahem, he was used to there being more than one Galra sentry to take care of at a time, so the idea of an enemy being alone was weird to him.

Sure enough, there was rustling off to his left, signaling the approach of another creature. It sounded fast, and Keith immediately shifted into a ready stance, back to back to Yuffie.

It was the same as the last one, and it launched itself into the air for a jump attack from above. Keith took a step to line up, and then threw his bayard, the weapon straightening itself out quickly to spear into the creature's stomach.

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie felt comforted by the soft pressure of Keith's back against her own. She didn't know him past the flirting and teasing but she trusted him to have his shit together and she was happy to see that her trust hadn't been miss placed.

She let him deal with the monster on his side and focused on watching the area behind him. A soft rustling began to circle to Yuffie's right side as Keith struck the monster that was jumping from the bushes. She didn't want to see where it was going to go. She gathered the power of her Materia and directed it at the creatures hiding spot.

Ice Level 3

Frozen piers appeared from the grass, spearing another one of the creatures in several points, killing it instantly.