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Wyvern
0 ReviewsThe Turks find a newly hatched dragon-like creature. It takes a liking to Reno, and learns his mischievous ways.
Chapter 1
Years ago... "Look at this!" Reno, the new rookie at the Turks called. He held a strange egg.
"Leave it, we need to focus on our missing," the leader replied.
Reno looked at the egg curiously. He wondered what kind of animal would hatch from it. But he knew, that taking it along would be impossible. "Good bye little one." He walked over to a pile of leaves to place the egg there, but tripped on some protuberant tree roots and fell, the egg escaping his grasp. "Oh, no! Come back here!" Miraculously, the egg did not break but it rolled away and fell into a crack on the ground. It sounded as if it landed on water. Reno peeked into the crack and saw a green glow. "Life stream? Sorry little onr..."
"Reno! Hurry up!"
The young Turk rushed to meet his team, certain that whatever was in that egg, had not survived.
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Present day... "It's over there!" Elena called as she shot tranquilizers at the creature, but the small dragon-like animal swiftly avoided the projectiles.
"We have to catch that thing before it causes more damage!" Tseng led the pursuit, with Rude and Elena close behind.
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Reno had just finished taking a shower after staying at Shinra overnight; he usually slept though most of his night shifts. It was not until after he was fully dressed, and after adjusting his goggles to sit on his forehead exactly the way he liked them, that he finally answered the insistent ringing of his cell phone.
"Reno where are you? We have an emergency situation! Report to the cafeteria immediately." Tseng did not give Reno enough time to answer before a voice in the background called him and Tseng had to hang up.
Reno wasn't sure what this was about. How serious could a cafeteria emergency be? Maybe it was a food fight... and he just got out of the shower. He shrugged and grabbed his electro-rod from his locker, then headed to the elevators.
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"Reno, look out!" Rude's warning came a second too late. The strange miniature dragon had already jumped on Reno and... licked him.
"Hey little guy! Stop, what are you a dog? Dragon things aren't supposed to lick," Reno patted the creature's head and it emitted a combination between growl and purr, but it was in a happy tone so Reno guessed it was purring more than growling. "Rude, where's the emergency?"
"You're holding it," the thing, whatever it was, had been very hard to catch for Tseng, Elena and Rude, but Reno caught it effortlessly and Rude didn't know why.
"Rude, the creature?" Tseng rushed over followed by Elena.
"There is it!" The funny thing was, Elena was pointing more at Reno than at the little animal he was holding.
"I hope you're talking about this guy," Reno petted the happy little animal again; it seemed to have taken a liking to him.
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"A why-ren?!"
"It's a wyvern, Reno," Tseng corrected. They concluded that the creature was not a baby dragon but a wyvern.
"I've heard about them, the legend says that wyvern eggs need to be kept in the life spring to hatch," Elena recalled.
"Life spring... Could it be life stream?" Rude asked.
"Yes probably, the life stream has received various names over time," Tseng agreed.
"Well, it did come out of a crack in the basement, and there's that underground cavern bellow," Elena added.
"So there's life stream under Shinra and this little guy came from there..." Reno held the little wyvern. He wasn't sure why the baby trusted him, but didn't appear to trust any other humans.
The life stream was all over the planet, and by coincidence or destiny, the currents of life had brought the egg from its resting place, to the life stream river that flowed bellow Shinra, where it hatched. Reno didn't remember that it had been him who, accidentally, placed the wyvern egg on the life stream, thus allowing the baby to grow and hatch over the years after recovering from its long hibernation. The baby wyvern somehow recognized Reno by instinct and trusted him as his hero, protector and daddy.
"This little guy is pretty cool. I think I'll keep him," Reno received a collective look of disapproval from the other Turks. "What? It's better than abandoning him in the city?" He did have a point.
Tseng took a deep breath and came to a decision. "Reno, I will give you the mission to watch over the baby wyvern and keep him and yourself out of trouble. This is an official Turks mission and I expect you to take it seriously..." Tseng was already regretting his decision.
Reno had not been listening at all; he was playing with the wyvern. "We need to name him!"
"We need to fix the mess he made," Tseng tried to set the priorities straight but he knew it wouldn't work on Reno.
Elena pulled out her cell phone and made a call. "We need a clean up crew in the gym, halls, kitchen and cafeteria, that's an order from the Turks." She shut her cell phone before whatever unimportant employee had the chance to reply. "It's fixed."
"Good, now we can get to the important part, like naming the wyvern," Reno waited for a few name suggestions, though he would most likely end up choosing the name himself, unless someone came up with a name he really liked.
Tseng tried to remember if there was anything else that they needed to do, but could not think of anything. "It is the only wyvern; why not just call it wyvern?" It sounded logical to him, but it was too obvious no one else approved.
"That wouldn't be very original, he deserves a better name." Reno petted the little wyvern who was dozing off in his arms.
Elena decided to participate in the naming process. "How about Chibi Turk, or Blueberry, or..."
"Dragoon," Rude voiced.
The little wyvern emitted a high pitched happy squeal that the Turks did know if it was approval or a yawn. "Dragoon it is!" Reno agreed.
To be Continued
Disclaimer, I do not own Final Fantasy VII. This was inspired by a scene in Final Fantasy II for the Gameboy Advance, where Firion has to take a wyvern egg to the life spring. It's obviously not the same egg from this story, but the concept is that there was another egg that remained hidden underground and had not hatched but a few drops of life stream occasionally reached it, enough to keep it alive.