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Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

When Emiri told Jaakuna that he was having a panic attack, he didn’t want to believe her, but perhaps it made sense. He remembered being on his bed and the next thing he remembered was feeling something and then here he was asking Emiri what had happened. So, it definitely wasn’t totally out of question. If Jaakuna needed more proof of that, Emiri smacked him. When she told him that, Jaakuna gripped his cheek and the tingling feeling was there. Obviously she slapped him really hard. Jaakuna looked to Emiri and he saw the look of relief on her face. Whatever did happen, it put her in such worry and now that he was okay, she was relieved. “Do you know what caused me to have a panic attack?” He asked her.

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They were drawn in closer to each other. It was either Wesley’s own doing as he wanted her more the longer this continued or it was her pulling on his coat and as a result of that, pulling him closer to him. All the while that went down, their kissing wouldn’t stop and Wesley didn’t want to just as she didn’t. She ran one of her hands through his black and white hair and her other hand took one of his own and ran it across her thigh. In the very instant that it had happened, Wesley felt a longing for her unlike before. This longing would manifest itself in raw desire for her. He would do all he could with his free arm to take off his coat, revealing a bare, masculine chest. As he would successfully get the coat off — albeit some slowing of the kissing, but he got it off regardless — Wesley would grip her thigh confidently, and would start kissing her neck. It was deeper than anything before. Just doing this brought passion to the forefront of Wesley’s actions.

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Savayna smirked when Grant had said — granted not knowing what he said, but he said it — that he still thought about the time that he saw her(Savayna) in her bra and panties that one time. Savayna, interested to tease him a bit about it, would get up from the couch, and seductively climb on the table. As she did this, she made sure that her tits were showing slightly through the openness of the tank top she was wearing She would be on all fours at this point, her ass up in the air. “So, you still think about it huh? Maybe you would like a refresher?” She said winking quite seductively and mischievously.

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Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

Jaakuna couldn’t hear anything she was saying. He was away, not in the present. Only thing he could hear was the faint whispers. He didn’t know where they were coming from. He couldn’t feel where they were coming from. Jaakuna was just so lost in himself, much like Emiri was that one time when they were arrested by Wesley before all of this began. He was remembering back all of this before he met Emiri, before he made all of his friends. His mind was going back to the place before anyone he would dare meet would be brought into his world of crazy. Jaakuna was remembering to a time when he didn’t have to be the reason his friends and loved ones would be in danger of losing their lives.

And then he felt it.

Jaakuna’s face was slapped as hard as Emiri could do it and he snapped out of it. He saw her hovering above him. He saw her face, her eyes, and how she was so worried about him. Jaakuna didn’t understand. Did something happen? The last thing he remembers was her telling him that Vincent had her as his guest. And then, here he was, looking at her as she did the same, but all worried like. “What happened?” He asked, grasping his cheek and he it tingled. It felt like someone sucker punched him hard. Jaakuna was a little confused on what just happened.

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They were close, they were super close. Yes, they were so close that their bodies were touching, faces were mere inches away from each other and both could hear each others hearts. Both hearts were beating fast and surprisingly, in sync with one another. Wesley was taking the charge and as Nadeline would whisper to him, he smiled at her, not before taking her hand around his face and kissing him lightly. The kiss was magical, it was wonderful, and it would get deeper. Well, not at first at least. Wesley would return the favor of him kissing her. It started as pecks, but then it would grow into something more deeper, more passionate. Wesley would embrace her as he would throw all of his emotions into this kiss. He would gently, but with confidence and boldness, lift her up by gripping her waist and hoist her onto the counter and all the while still kissing her. However, now the kiss upgraded into a make-out session.

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As Grant would answer Savayna’s question, she didn’t expect it. Even more so, she didn’t expect that he would be so open about how he felt — or rather how he thought he felt — about Emiri. He would reveal that when his mother died from her illness and when his brother killed his father, Grant was losing control of his life. At this point, Savayna gasped as she couldn’t believe it. As he would reveal other tidbits, she put it together. Why he was so cruel to them all before? Why he pursued Emiri so villainously ? It was cause he wanted to have control in his life and that’s why he did the things he did. Savayna felt that she and Grant were the same in that aspect, but she wasn’t as bad off as Grant was. Sure, losing her brother and not hearing from him for a long time did a lot against her, but it was the countless men she fucked through her teen years and just the abuse said men gave her that really sent her over the railing. Savayna just didn’t know that Grant was on a similar boat as she was.

That’s when he would ask her a question about whether she still has feelings for Jaakuna. “Oh dear..” She said nervously. She ran her hands up her thighs(they were at her knees beforehand), and as they neared her waist, she slowly clenched them into fists. “That’s a very complicated answer.” She stated. “It’s true that he and I, at one point, were married and in love, but I guess when he left Archadia after killing his father — he did it for me by the way, but that’s another story for another time — I realized that he really did care for me. Now, of course he loves Emiri now and I’m happy for him. I guess, there’s some part of me that still has feelings for him. Hell, I might always have feelings for him, as you will for Emiri, but just a day ago, I realized that my feelings for him are more of wishing him good luck in everything and not wanting to be with him.” She continued, “I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I consider him one of my best friends and as you know, best friends simply don’t cross that line.” She laughed, “So, I guess to answer your question, yes I still have feelings for him, but none of them are romantic or sexual. It‘s more friendship than anything else” She admitted.

Savayna would lean forward a bit. “I got one for you now.” She said, “Do you still think about the time you saw me in my bra and panties?” She asked, smirking quite flirtatiously.

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Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

When he gave his reason, Savayna just smiled and she actually sort of laughed. Though, just by looking at him, Savayna could tell that Grant was indeed the kind of person that much rather stay at his home and not go out venturing throughout the world. She would just keep laughing at this and Savayna’s laugh was happy and a little teasing to Grant. Then, he asked her about her family. Savayna’s laughter stopped.

“I-I don’t speak to them. Or rather, they don’t speak to me.” She said lowly. “I resent my father for marrying me to the Darcone family. I mean, I don’t hate them, the Darcone House. But at the time, they just wanted to save their own asses. And my mother, well she died just shortly after my wedding to Jaakuna. I never knew what or how she died. The whole thing was dropped for the sake of the Darcone House.” Savayna said gripping her pants tightly. “I do have an older brother. His name is Nicolas. He defected from Archadia and my homeland when I was thirteen. We were really close and as you can imagine, I didn’t take it very well.” Though she wondered what happened to her brother, she smiled. “You two would have gotten along, I think. He was very serious of what I remember. Though, he did have a love for nature and adventure. Actually, I remember getting a postcard from him about seven years ago and that was when I was sixteen. He wrote that he was in Stigma, actually. He told me that he loved the way the city was on water and that he wouldn’t mind showing me it someday.” She said smiling. “That was the last I heard from him. I don’t even know if he’s alive or not.” Savayna shamefully admitted, starting to show tears.

As she would wipe the tears away from her eyes, she would put on a smile. “But anyways, I guess it’s my turn huh?” She said. “Have you ever been in love? I mean, legitimately in love. Like, how Lorenzo and Karolina are.” She asked him.

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When Nadeline would go on to name the group’s flaws, she would note that Jaakuna and Savayna are crude, and how Emiri liked to keep her secrets. She would state that Grant was as expressionable as a tree. Wesley couldn’t help but laugh at that. It was a pretty loud laugh too. However, his laughing stopped when she would state that his flaw was being too rational. In his mind, he’s thinking, Since when is being rational a bad thing? Wesley would smile to her. “You’re right, I am too rational.” Wesley looked at her rather mischievously. “Perhaps I should do something that’s, oh I don’t know? Is more unpredictable and illogical.” He said grabbing Nadeline close to him. “Perhaps I should just throw all caution to the wind and take you right here in the supply room.” He said bringing her in, arms wrapped around her, and she was in so close that their bodies were pressing against each other and he could hear her breathing so clearly. “What say you to that?”

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And with that, his heart sank. Jaakuna didn’t hear anything else. He didn’t hear her say that Vincent was placed her in a guest room he didn’t hear her ask him a question as to who Vincent wanted her to heal. No, Jaakuna’s hearing briefly stopped cause his world came crashing down once she said that Vincent was going to kill her. Jaakuna knew that she was in a lot of danger on that day, but he didn’t know just how much. Vincent was going to just use her and kill her and he was going to do it in front of Grant. He was going to kill two birds with one stone. He just couldn’t believe it. Jaakuna was shaking. His hands were the start of this and then his entire body.

And then he went numb.

Jaakuna started to hyperventilate, breathing in short breaths. Such short breaths that the beat of his heart and the rate at which it would beat would increase more and more up until the point Jaakuna fell to the ground, convulsing. No doubt by this point, Emiri was screaming at him, but he heard nothing. Jaakuna was in a state of shock that he felt all of this was unreal and he felt so detached by everything in his surroundings.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

Grant brought up the idea of just asking each other questions back and forth to get to know each other. That actually was a good idea; though his first question was a pretty big one. He would go on to ask Savayna if she missed Archadia. Yeah, that one wasn’t what she was expecting right off the bat. She would answer it regardless. “Sometimes, I do find myself missing it. I mean, no shit; it’s my home. Despite everything, it’s my home. It doesn’t matter if I’m wanted by the crazy emperor that runs it or whatever, but yeah, I miss it. Sometimes, I think it would be worth getting caught just to smell the air of it one more time.” She admitted. Now, she would ask him a question. “How about you? Are you going to miss your home of Rozarria?” She asked.

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As Nadeline would speak, Wesley thought about every single word she said. He agreed with her on the fact that the remaining espers were indeed in some of the most dangerous places that Ivalice had to offer. Even more so, Wesley too wondered whether or not the group’s power had caught up to the level they needed to venture into places such as Giruvegan. “Yeah, I hope our power levels are up there as well.” He said.

Wesley was just thinking about that and on the note she made about the numbers of the group increasing, she would ask who was the leader of the group? It’s safe to say that this caught Wesley off by surprise. He did ponder about it sometimes, but he didn’t stop to think about it seriously. However, now he was and Wesley couldn’t help but think of one person. “When I look back at everything that has happened and how we were all brought in, in some aspect, Jaakuna has been that very sole reason we’re all here.” Wesley said, “I mean, he was the one who had Emiri originally and then you jumped in(I’m guessing at least). And then he got me on board. Following myself, Savayna joined up, which is his ex-wife. And of course, Grant was the last.” Wesley realized he wasn’t making much sense, but he would further his reason. “I just think that everything is the way it is cause of Jaakuna. I don’t know, but if you ask me, Jaakuna is the leader of our group when it all comes down to it all.”

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Everything Emiri said about Vincen was true. He was powerful, he’s also courteous, but most of all out of anything else, he is scary when he wants to be. Jaakuna knew this growing up and even when he beat the living snot out of him, Jaakuna always knew this. There was one thing that caught him off-guard, however. He brought Emiri over to Archadia to heal someone. In all that he knew about Archadia, Jaakuna didn’t know that there was someone so important to Vincent’s black hole of a heart that he would need someone to heal them.

Jaakuna looked to Emiri. “Did he say who it was that he wanted you to heal?” He asked her. This had Jaakuna’s attention by the freaking nose.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

Savayna looked at Grant as he actually looked confused as to what exactly they needed to talk about. Either that, or he was nervous about what it was that Savayna wanted to talk to him about. Still, she wouldn’t stray away from it just cause he would be confused or whatever. “You know what I mean.” She sighed, expressing that Grant was just playing dumb. “There was no possible way that we discussed all that we needed to last night.” She said sitting back, legs crossed. “Besides that, I want to talk to you. Hell, maybe get to know you a little better in the process.” She said sort of blushing.

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As Wesley had asked about if Nadeline knew who this Lola character was, Nadeline would express that royal families sometimes get help from the outside. This was something that Wesley knew all too well about. His family was among some of the royal families that did that and sometimes even just a bit too much. She would then go on to say that her Aunt Reia wasn’t the first to do this and that she wouldn’t be the last to use these people for their own intentions. As Wesley listened more, she would state that Nadeline had to learn about these groups only to know what to expect from them. Wesley would nod his head slightly as he would agree with Nadeline there. He would also agree how she would say that Lola is probably a code name of some kind.

Nadeline would further attack this topic by saying how she feels troubled how Jaakuna and Savayna compared her to Levi and Wesley just chills down his spine when he thought of the snake lady(as Jaakuna had called her). Just the fact that the two of them would be compared was never a good sign. Nadeline also stated that added to all of the other people who after them — Vincent, the Archadian Judges, and Reia — now they have the Assassins Creed after them. Wesley also didn’t like this one bit. Though, he would speak now.

“I don’t think we have the judges to worry about right now. Hamut seems to be on our side for now and I really don’t think they’ll go out of their way to pursue us.” Wesley stated. “However, I think you’re right. We do need to consider all of our options really carefully from here on out. I fear that even Rabanastre won’t be safe for us much longer.” Wesley said as now this whole thing got him to thinking about where his sister would stand on this. He didn’t think she would deny him sanctuary in Rabanastre, but with things going the way that they are, there’s a slight worry in the back of Wesley’s mind. “In any case, I think for right now we should worry about the journey to Giruvegan.”

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When Emiri spoke, Jaakuna seemed to be wrong in some aspects when he assumed that she was afraid of Lola. Emiri would actually state that she was very much disturbed by the woman. She would further elaborate on the fact that this Lola character seemed to know so much about her, Jaakuna, and their friends. Jaakuna could definitely understand that. Though, this got him thinking on how much exactly this woman knew. However, as Emiri would speak more about it, Jaakuna cut those thoughts for the moment and listened. She would say that Lola asked her how would she react if she had hurt Jaakuna. Emiri would further say that Lola made her feel mortal, despite her feeling that her power was something from the gods or something like that.

“She really is that weird huh?” Jaakuna merely mused aloud. “She won’t hurt me. I am INVINSIBLE!” Jaakuna roared out in proud confidence. Then he calmed down. “But seriously, no one is going to hurt me. We got each other and besides, even if this Lola person is super creepy, we’ll get her and anyone else that comes after us.” Jaakuna said standing up, taking Emiri’s hands. “I won’t let anything happen to any of us.” Jaakuna said, but then thinking about all of that, for some reason brought him to that vision he had when he almost died. When Jaakuna released Emiri from his grip, he would sit back down, head looking down, and then he looked up to Emiri. “I’ve been meaning to ask.” Jaakuna said, “What was it like meeting my brother?” Jaakuna asked slightly nervous.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

When Nadeline had thanked Wesley for the gift, he would actually motion her to follow him as he just wanted to talk to her for a while. Plus, they both could help each other with preparing for the trip. It would be two hours and that was something that Wesley would use to his advantage. Meanwhile, Jaakuna and Emiri headed to his room. Two hours was still ways away, they would use this time to also prepare. Now, that just left Savayna and Grant alone.

Savayna still sat at the lounge couch. She didn’t really need anything else, she was pretty much ready. She felt like the odd one out as everyone else was doing stuff. She looked to Grant. Her cheeks slightly blushed, but that was only cause of how good she thought he looked. Though, aside that, they were alone. Jaakuna and Emiri were in Jaak’s room, Nadeline and Wesley went off to prepare for the trip ahead of them and that left Grant and Savayna just alone. She felt a little awkward with Grant. There was just some things left to be said. She looked to him once more. “You know, we still have things to talk about.” She said sort of blushing.

In the supply room, Wesley and Nadeline were there organizing everything. They were making sure that all six of them had equal amounts of the supplies and that they were all set. Wesley was actually enjoying this. To some it might be boring labor and if it were with any other person, Wesley would think the same, but with Nadeline, nothing is ever boring labor. The two of them were growing closer and closer as the days passed on. Even as they would keep on doing what they were doing, Wesley would speak. “So, have you ever heard of this Lola person?” Wesley asked.

Meanwhile up in Jaakuna’s room, Jaakuna and Emiri walked in. He still was a little mad at her for going to Reia’s. He couldn’t voice his opinion in front of everyone cause the things he had to say would be a little too embarrassing to speak to them all. Plus, Jaakuna wanted to address this to her in private anyways. Jaakuna sat down at the edge of his bed and looked to Emiri “I couldn’t say this down with everyone else, but be honest with me.” He said, “You’re scared of Lola, aren’t you?” He asked.

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As the morning dragged on, Hamut walked through the halls of the Emperor’s Palace, mainly on the sixth floor where his office was. He had summoned the three judges within his plan to overthrow Vincent. As he would open his door of his office, he found Isaiah, Francis, and Levi all sitting down around the room. When he himself entered, all three of them turned to him. They looked to him with a nod of some sort. Hamut would then walk down the center, trail around the left side of his desk, and sit in his chair. He would scoot the chair in so that he can sit up straight. He then placed his arms on the desk, bent in right angles, his hands locked together, and head resting on them. His eyes looked to the judges and with those very same eyes he would motion them to sit down and so they did.

Lifting his head up just ever-so slightly, Hamut would talk. “I have gathered you three here this morning to give you updates on our plan.” He said, “Yesterday, I ventured to The Skycity of Bhujerba and met up with the Marquis and my grandson, Roman.” He continued, “I told him that he was needed to come to Archadia and rule as its Emperor.” He finished.

Though they were indeed shocked, they understood. Well, two of them were shocked. Levi was just happy things were proceeding. Ixion was the one who had a look of disbelief on his face again. “But Roman is of bastard status! Surely you don’t expect him to right out come as the Emperor. I would be much more suited for the role.” Ixion exclaimed.

Francis and Levi looked to Ixion. Francis with a look of ‘how dare you’ and Levi just smiled at Ixion. She liked the fire this boy had. However, Hamut was not happy with Ixion’s display of words. “Quiet boy! You know that due to your obligations and responsibilities as a Judge, you are not permitted to take the throne. If that were the case, then I would jump at the chance. “He stated lifting his head up all the way from his hands. “Besides, Roman’s bastard status will not be a factor. He has the Darcone blood flowing through his veins, despite whatever kind of slut his father — my son and your uncle — fucked to make his existence to happen.” Hamut said. Ixion didn’t like this one bit, but he didn’t have a choice in the matter.

Francis would be the next one to speak. “So, what did Roman say to this?” He asked.

Hamut smiled. “He accepted after some motivating on my part. He, of course, will have to move some things along, but in two days, we will have a new Emperor.” Hamut stated.

The reactions to that were indeed mixed, but they all knew this was for the better, so Ixion would stay silent, Francis just nodded as he approved, and Levi, well she would smile. She was planning something, but none of the judges knew what it was.

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Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

It had already been decided. The Feywood was their next stop as that’s the closest that the Ifrit could get without being affected by the Mist in a severe way. Of course, it would take them a couple of hours to get there. Jaakuna would just stand up from the portion of the couch he was sitting on.

“Iris, can you set a course for the Feywood?”
“Yes Master Jaakuna, but due to the weather and other conditions, the farthest I can take the ship is right where The Feywood and The Gilmore Jungle meet.”
“That’s fine.”
“Very well then. Arrival in two hours.”

And it was settled. The group would have two hours to prepare all that they could for their trip to Giruvegan. After Iris would inform of that, Wesley would stand up. He actually would approach Nadeline. He took the rapier that he bought Nadeline(Grant bought it, but she doesn’t know that). He would present it to her as he held it in a horizontal position. One of his hands had that hilt and the other supporting the blade. “I figured that you were missing your rapier, so I got you this one. I thought you would like it as it’s elegant, beautiful, and perfect, just like you.” Wesley said smiling at her.