raspberryturk | Western Mideel, Gaia, Thursday

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Western Mideel, Gaia, Thursday

Chocobo Lure Materia? Check.

Sylkis Greens? Friggin' expensive, but yes, Check.

Weapons? Reno gave his baton a tap against his shoulder, checked his Materia over, and smirked. Check.

Worm-skinned dude from Arrakis? Yep, Reno had that, too.

"So, the trick is, we follow the tracks," he informed Leto, looking down to make sure he didn't miss any as they walked. "An' then we hunt around for monsters when we find 'em. Chocobos love hangin' around monsters, yo."

Somebody had asked for Chocobos, and Reno planned to deliver.

[NFB for distance, for that worm-skinned guy, and I have no idea why half of this post vanished into the ether so that I had to re-type it. Wtf, LJ.]

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"I see." This was clearly going to be entertaining. "I haven't been hunting in a long time."

"Makes two of us," Reno mused, smiling out at the landscape. Plains, mostly, with some cliffs behind them, and a forest off in the distance the other way... Kind of made Gaia look like it wasn't in as rough shape as the Midgar continent made it blatantly obvious that it was in.

Reno kind of liked Mideel. In small doses.

"We'll probably run into a few monster packs before we even see our first chocobo. An' we might wanna be choosy. They got some decent birds down here, only other wild ones that are better are up in the Icicle area, and there ain't no way I'm draggin' ass through the snow for a giant chicken, but that don't mean they're all great, here."

Leto shuddered at the thought of ice. Nothing could kill him now, but anything watery caused pain. "A good decision. So we look for good birds."

He had prepared a place for them in Sietch Tabr, back on Arrakis. The first meeting between Fremen and chocobos would be interesting.

"So what kind if monsters are we likely to meet?"

"Around here, it's mostly Head Hunters, kinda like big scorpion, prayin' mantis crossbreeds, and Spirals. So... more bugs. Mideel's good at bugs, man. A little farther out, and we'd be trippin' over Land Worms like nobody's business, yo."

Reno loved Mideel. Because he was a big kid, and totally the type that once enjoyed pulling wings off of flies.

"So, bugs." Leto grinned. Fremen children knew how to play with scorpions. "What are those worms like?"

Because, you know, worms.

"Huge," Reno smirked, turning a knowing grin toward Leto at that. "Friggin' huge. The ones around here like hangin' out near beaches, mostly. Come right up outta the sand to try an' give you hell if you stomp through their territory. Technically we call that breed Sea Worms, but I ain't never actually run into one of them anywhere but dry land."

Also, they were fun to face off against. But Reno had never tried to ride one, before. Reno was not that crazy.

Not that crazy, eh?

"Can you ride them?" Leto raised an eyebrow.

It took a special kind of crazy to ride a giant worm around!

Unlike, you know, a giant chicken. That was completely normal, Leto.

"You know, I don't think nobody around here's ever tried?" Reno shrugged. "Chocobo are way easier to reign in, so there wasn't ever really any point. Plus if you breed up the best chocobo, you got birds that can handle any terrain, and they ain't big enough to swallow you whole after knockin' your ass around with an earthquake."

"I see your point," Leto admitted.

But, you know, worms!

"Earthquakes?"

"And sandstorms," Reno agreed easily. "You let a worm from Gaia get the upper hand, and he'll mess you up good."

That wasn't including when they just got fed up with shaking the ground and spitting sand in your eyes, and they went ahead and tried to flatten you with their bodies, instead.

"Really?" Leto raised an eyebrow. "Now I definitely want to meet one."

The worm might be in for a surprise.

Reno couldn't help but bark out a laugh at that request, turning a grin Leto's way and giving his baton another tap against his shoulder.

"Before or after we find your giant chickens, man? Wouldn't want the worm to spook 'em off if we go usin' our greens to catch 'em, but we're gonna have to detour a bit to get to where they usually hang out, yo."

They were going to end up perched atop a giant blue worm, weren't they? Gods help them.

"Before would probably be advisable." Leto would make sure Reno survived. He'd miss the man if there was an accident and Ghani wouldn't easily forgive him.

"Well, then," Reno laughed and spun on his heel, directing his march toward the sand of Mideel's shoreline, "I'd say you were crazy, man, but this is shapin' up to be the most fun I've had in months, yo."

Reno wouldn't be that easy to kill. He'd survived the end of the world, what, three times now? Four? One measly worm was going to have to get in a damn lucky shot to do him in, all things considered.

"Well, I intend to make the most of it," Leto replied cheerfully. "Politics is a completely different kind of violence."

He'd have to invite Reno to Arrakis some time. Ghanima might even want to return for a brief visit.

"Yeah, can't say I really miss bein' in the thick of that kinda mess," Reno snorted, still smirking as he pushed onward, glancing down on occasion to see if he could spot any sand that looked like it had been kicked up more than the rest. "But at least when it gets dirty, you know it's gonna keep you on your toes, yo."

"It does," Leto agreed. He too studied the environment, but he wasn't going to make the mistake of assuming his knowledge of other planets would be entirely applicable here.

"What's that?" he asked, pointing at a spot far ahead where the ground had a different texture.

Reno squinted in the direction that Leto was pointing, and then broke into a full-out grin all over again. If there was one thing he could say for his travelling companion, it was that the guy had a good eye.

"That'd be paydirt, man. Looks like the ground there's been pushed up by a worm recently, yo. Tide won't be in for a few more hours yet, but whenever it does come in, it washes shit like that away."

So you better believe that he was picking up the pace a little, moving along in that direction.

Leto followed, letting Reno lead the way. "Are there any movements to watch our for?"

Reno's shoulders lifted a bit in a nonchalant shrug.

"Not really. You mostly know when they're about to pull somethin' because ~~your turn will be over~~ it takes 'em a few seconds to really get movin', yo. That much bulk to throw around don't wanna move easy, you know? We're quick enough to handle it, but careful you don't get smacked around too much if one breaks up the ground around you, yo."

Leto shot him a quick grin. he could move fast enough, and he didn't doubt Reno couldn't either.

See? That was what Reno liked to see, right there.

"Ready to go drum up a worm, then?"

Reno wasn't even going to wait for an answer, Leto. Reno was going to take off running toward that disturbed earth up ahead. Because, dammit, he was reckless. But reckless was fun.

Leto wasn't goint to object. He reached the spot before Reno ~~unless you object to the modding in which case I edit~~, even if that might be a little showing off. But this was fun, yes, and he needed fun.

Oh, man, it had been a damn long time since somebody had managed to beat Reno in a foot race, and he was practically cackling as he caught up, a split-second later.

"Don't let my buddies in the Turks see you do that," he called, darting hard and fast to the right as the ground under their feet began to tremble, "they'll never let me live it down, man!"

Yeah, Reno was so going to start training harder once he got back to the island. His speed was his pride.

[The mod is totally legit! No worries!]

"They're not here now, are they?" He didn't make a habit of freaking people out unless it was necessary. Or possibly entertaining. He expected Reno not to be bothered. He was Ghani's student, after all.

He then looked at the ground beneath them. "Here."

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