"Help Me..." {Zack Fair}

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"Oh joy..." he grumbled at Zack's reply. Ah well...At least she had stopped pulling and biting his ear. But when she started to poke his nose, that was a little much. The nose twitched, and then he sneezed loudly; turning his head away from the girl to avoid getting stuff in her hair. But, it turned out he had sneezed all over Zack, and he snorted with laughter. "Here Zack." He said, holding the girl with one arm as he withdrew a pack of tissues from his pocket. "You may wanna clean yourself off. Plenty of weird things get in my nose."

Still laughing to himself, he shifted the girl to his other arm, and followed Zack. His eyes, serious once more, flashed around to stare at their surroundings. He resumed being on the alert, ears and nose twitching. The building which Zack went toward looked unwelcoming, and his instinct was screaming at him to go somewhere else. But if something dangerous was about to happen, he was quite sure that it would be no problem. After all, he had retained all his Turk training, even though he no longer followed Rufus or other Shin-ra personnel. And Zack of course, was ex-SOLDIER.

He walked into the building slowly, pupils widening as they adjusted to the dim lighting. The putrid stench made him gag and cough quietly until he adjusted to the smell. Ugh... One of th not-so-good things about his animalistic self. His gaze focused on the many strange characters in the tavern, noting carefully that they all shot shifty glances his way; most seemed to be ignoring Zack. But of course... Zack was human, easy to remain discreet. But he stood out like a black sheep in a flock of white.

He settled himself into a rather torn up booth, and set the girl down as close to the wall as he could. Then he turned to Zack, tail swishing nervously. "You couldn't have picked a better place, could you?" He stated shiftily, eyes flicking around the tavern. His fur was beginning to stand up, making his head and neck look too big for the suit he wore. The tail now resembled a fox's, puffed up and constantly moving.

[insanity]

Aria puffed her cheeks up as she tilt her head, watching as the puppy-man make a funny sound with his nose, she recognised it, she had done such a thing a while ago, on Zack's hand. She let out a giggle as she proceeded to nuzzle into Raze's fur, it felt so nice and soft, she wondered why it made her feel fuzzy on the inside.She then looked up, watching his ears twitched, he looked silly! A light giggle escaped her, she still remained making strange sounds and attempting no vocabulary, what was she supposed to say? Upon entering a rather smelly tavern, Aria whimpered and buried her face in Raze, nuzzling him, obviously not liking the smell. It was then she was set down at a booth, though she didn't know why she was put on here, why couldn't he hug her anymore? He was hugging her, right? That's why he opened his arms out to her. Why'd the hug have to stop?

Aria pouted sadly as she sat there, looking at the bandages that were wrapped around her naked body. What were these things? They were a little too itchy and uncofortable for her. She soon found a loose piece and began to pull at it, rather quickly did the bandages unravel, exposing her body completely.

She cried out rather cheerfully as she jumped up from the booth and climbed over the table, Zack's jacket falling off her. Aria's hair was long enough to hide her behind from everyone, but from what everyone else could see, they thought some sort of dirty show was occuring, despite her childishness.

It wasn't long until she stood in the centre of the room, a look of unknown worry appeared on her face as she hugged her arms, lightly jogging on the spot eagerly, she wanted to do something, but she didn't know where to go. She truly was like an infant, unknowing of the world and such other things. Still, she didn't know how much longer she could hold this in, she was so eager.

She whimpered as she jogged on the spot, growing more and more impatient, the naked young woman felt so scared yet she couldn't tell anyone why.

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"Gah! Yuck man!" Zack groaned, flinging bits of snot off his arm before grabbing the napkins from the dog-like man. "Yea, I'll take that... don't know what kind of disease could come from there."

"You couldn't have picked a better place, could you?"

Zack blinked, cocking his head to the side as if he had no idea what Raze was talking about. "What's wrong with this place man?"

Scratching his head, he looked about the place. It really wasn't that bad, was it? Maybe he had just gotten used to it, having crawled about Midgar and Edge's dirt for quite some time now. To be quite honest, Zack was quite comfortable here.

"You alright man?" Zack questioned, seeming completely obviously to the hybrid's nervousness. However, that thought process was long gone as the girl suddenly jumped onto the bar table, completely void of any clothing whatsoever.

Eyes narrowed as cheers and jeers rang out across the bar, the lust of alcohol glazed eyes evident in much of the bar's population. Immediately, Zack drew his sword, slamming it into the ground to intimidate the people in the bar. The result, a couple dozen other weapons being drawn.

"Hnn..." Zack frowned, cocking his head, "Just like old times, huh Raze?"

Out of the corner of his eye, Zack watched as the girl started to jump around. "Uhhh... Raze, think she ummm... gotta go. Handle that will ya?"

Ripping up his sword from the ground, Zack brandished his weapon defensively.

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That was it. The patience he usually had was becoming dangerously thin. The combined stress of being in this disgusting place, along with the fact of the girl he and Zack were trying to help... Then a naked girl in the middle of the bar... He watched as Zack drew his weapon, only to be greeted by more more the surrounding people. By Gaia, Human beings were so irritating sometimes.

There was a flash of silvery-black as both guns were drawn from there hidden holsters. They looked small and harmless no doubt, but the glowing from equipped materia would change that quickly. "You handle the girl, Zack. These people will be more likely to keep away from us with me bearing the weapons. I'm not exactly unknown around these parts. Then there's the fact Shin-ra is gone, but the Turks are still in business... Most take a Turk, ex or not, seriously."

His words were practically proved as people shot nervous glances at the Hybrid, many eyes zooming in on the pair of obviously Materia powered firearms. But, it was less his turk status and weapons that was dissuading many. It was his outer appearance.

The formerly smooth-furred, calm face had vanished. It was now distorted beyond recognition by a snarl, white fangs gleaming in the dim lighting. The ears were flat against his skull; that would help protect against inevitable gunfire. Every hair on his neck and tail was sticking straight up now. He was crouched somewhat, standing lightly on his toes. It felt a bit weird with his shoes, but it didn't matter at the moment. He had agility on his side, something the humans probably lacked. The claws were extended, curling downward with razor sharp tips at the ready; both firearms still held expertly in either hand. The crimson eyes were narrowed, pupils mere slits. He had an almost feral look about him as he glared defiantly at the people.

"Carry on, humans. This girl is none of your concern." Even his voice had changed. It's playful touch had vanished, replaced by an almost continuous growl. The girl was behind him, and he was waiting for Zack to get her out of the general vicinity.

But his open show of hostility wasn't taken seriously by all. It seemed to have provoked a few of them, more than Zack's sword had done. Well fine... Plenty of blood had stained his fur before. He was only concerned with what the girl would see if Zack didn't get her away soon.

ooc: So nice and tolerant, isn't he? XD

[insanity]

Aria couldn't hold it much longer, she whimpered as she found herself falling to her knees on the floor, her loose hair covering her behind still. She didn't understand much of what was going on, why were those men cheering? And why were Zack and Raze acting differently compared to them.

She didn't understand so much that it made her head hurt. Pretty soon, she let out a mournful whimper as a soft hissing sound was heard, followed by a puddle forming beneath her. Much like a child, she looked down as if ashamed, almost as if knowing what she had done was a bad thing, expecting dire consequences for her little accident.

She was scared, Zack had pulled out a sharp pointy thing that didn't look friendly, and Raze pulled out two things with holes in them, she didn't know what came out of them, but they didn't look nice, especially if it made the other men back away, she wondered what was coursing through their bodies, what was making them shake like that and such.

But now, back to something a bit more serious, her legs were all wet, whatever had formed beneath her didn't smell nice either, she was shaking, she didn't feel good right now.

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"Mannnn..." Zack whined, shaking his head at his fur-covered companion. "You should've taken her to the bathroom. Speaking of which, I still need to do a number two!"

Turks... Zack sighed mentally, Always wanting to take the defensive. Seriously, I thought I was supposed to be the trained SOLDIER.

Old habits would die hard, apparently; so Zack just shrugged, darting behind the former turk and picking up the jacket before placing it over the girl once more. "It's okay, nothing bad will happen."

That was obviously a lie and Zack knew it, but if Zack wouldn't let any harm come to the girl. He only hoped that the turk could hold his own.

"Don't worry, with Zack Fair as your body guard, no harm will come to you!" Zack smiled brightly, a poor attempt to make the situation lighter, but an attempt nonetheless.

One strong arm suddenly hoisted the girl up and hugged her to his chest, ignoring the... accident for the moment. Well, that would have to change later on, Zack would make sure of it.

"Hold on!" Zack called out, immediately moving to make it for the door. However, he was soon blocked by a couple bar patrons, each wielding some sort of crude weapon.

"That girl is staying with us..." One growled, a rusty pike in hand. "We could use her as a... pet."

"Uhhh... not if I have anything to say about it!" Zack shot back, brandishing his sword with his free hand.

"Take him boys!"

A small frown forming on his mouth, Zack shot forward, sword flashing through the air.

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With some people closing in from all sides, he backed up slowly, trying to stay near Zack and the girl. Tail lashed slowly, and the two firearms switched from one person to the next, before a certain group blocking the way out caught the corner of his eye. The twisted around, as did one gun. The blast was somewhat silenced; he had done so a while ago to spare his hearing a bit. Even so, the sensitive ears rang with the gunfire.

The Materia powered bullet set a hole deep in one of the bartender's head; crimson fluid burst from the injury as the guy fell back. He was dead before he hit the ground. But before he could shoot the other one to clear the way, his attention was forced back to the crowd behind him. Ah well... Even carrying the girl, Zack would probably have no trouble cutting down the other man.

The legs folded under him, and he leaped backyards, performing a back flip that landed him gracefully just between Zack and the rest of the bar. Apologizing to them briefly ahead of time, he fired the other gun, closely followed by a volley that switched back and forth. People ducked behind tables and chairs, as well as the bar. But of course, he wasn't the only one with a gun. He spun around to face a man in the corner, raising his own gun. That guy was met with a bullet to his brain, just like the bartender.

Bodies littered the floor of the tavern, pools of crimson spreading and soaking into the wooden floor. The Hybrid tried to fire guns again, feeling the empty shot rattle his hands. So, he was out of bullets already in both guns. That meant that 10 people were dead... He returned the firearms to their holsters, and the Turk iron bar was in his experienced hand.

Sadly, most people were trying to harm him from a distance, so all he could really do now was attempt to block things thrown at him with the bar. His ears were aching from the gunfire, and his heart sank when he heard another shot ring out. He ducked, yet the bullet still hit. At least it hadn't hit his face or chest.

But agony exploded in his right ear as the bullet went cleanly through it and into a wall behind him. The blood was flowing immediately, and the side of his furry face was already spiked up with the sticky fluid. That was the bad thing about ear injuries for his kind... They looked a lot worse than they really were, and they hurt like hell.

Raze backed up quickly, hissing to Zack, "If we're going to get out of here, now's the time..." Another gunshot rang, followed triumphant yells. Even the Hybrid's sharp eyes couldn't follow a bullet. So he grabbed one corpse off the ground, ignoring the blood that showered over him. Swing the dead human around, it looked like he had gone insane. But At least the body managed to catch the bullet aimed at Zack's back. Pure luck...

How stupid... Now he was using a human body as his and Zack's shield. They needed to get out; and fast... The blood continued to spurt from his punctured ear, soaking his facial fur still more. And to add to that disgusting feeling, the pain was growing worse...

[insanity]

Before Aria could dwell on her bad little accident, she felt the warmth of Zack's jacket around her once more, then he pulled her up and hugged her close to his chest. Subtle breasts pressed against the SOLDIER as he held her, sending a slight tingling sensation throughout the young infantile woman's body. Her delicate hands rest on his collarbone as she stared up at him, her cheeks tinting a light pink, not realising this meant she was slightly flustered.

"Wuu... waaarm," she chirped softly, closing her eyes and nuzzling into Zack's body, he then made an attempt to escape out of the tavern, but a few patrons had stopped them. Aria tilt her head at the mention of the word pet, her eyes lit up as she giggled, she liked pets, though was unaware of the men's definition.

She then blinked as Zack let go of her and ran at them, wondering what he was doing now. These people were so confusing...

The infantile young woman stood there, watching what was taking place, she looked down at her legs, the urine began to make it feel itchy. Despite seeing various patrons being shot and killed, Aria was oblivious to what it meant, any normal person would be scared, but unfortunately, she didn't understand a single thing about this conflict.

She bent down slightly as she began itching her legs, her nose scrunched up at the smell. "Icky!" she chirped, still scratching, beginning to feel a little frustrated. It was then suddenly something yellow and shiny fell out of her hair, she blinked as it chimed and bounced away. "Shiny!" she beamed, chasing after it, unknowingly dodging the firearms and bullets.

With an innocent smile, she picked up the yellow spherical orb, her childish emerald eyes glinted yellow as she gazed at it. Just as she was about to sit down and nibble on the orb, a patron had grabbed her from behind and suddenly the orb dissolved into her hand. With a panicked cry, due to not liking to being touched by someone who wasn't Zack or Raze, she thrust her arm behind her, soon to have it collide with man's face.

Then, without warning, a burst of electricity shot out of her hand and into the man's face, the power of this was so great that it caused a powercut, this also caused the man's face to explode, causing blood to splatter on Aria.

Panicked yells filled the room, patrons began running around frantically as Aria just stood there, confused to what had just happened.

"Dark...!" her innocent voice chirped softly as she just stood there.

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Zack growled, spinning on one foot to cleave another snarling patron into halves. He didn't like this, this killing business, but he really had no choice in the matter these days. Dark times called for dark measures, after all.

At the sound of a panicked scream, Zack whipped around, eyes wildly darting toward the girl and her assaultee. However, just before he would jump into action when an explosion appeared right in front of his eyes, electricity shooting from her fist and blowing apart the man's head.

Wow... well he didn't want to be that man, that's for sure. He wasn't even aware that she possessed the ability to use materia.

A split second later the power went out. Well that was just great. Zack blinked once or twice, mako-enhanced senses quickly adjusting to focus in the dark. However, even with his adjustments, Zack couldn't see clearly in the pitch black.

He would have to rely on his other senses for the moment.

"Dark...!"

His ears picking up Aria's voice immediately, Zack bolted to her position, practically bowling over a blinded man in the process. With his left arm, Zack immediately swooped her up again, crushing her smaller form to his body while using his right hand to brandish his sword.

"Raze!" Zack called out, he was almost certain that the hybrid could see in this dark, so he would have to rely on the half-beast's senses to guide him. However, the sound drew attention to him, shots fired in his direction moments after. Zack ducked quickly, a bullet whizzing past his hair before he jumped out of the way of another.

"Hold on to me." Zack whispered to the girl, sure that she probably wouldn't understand anyhow. However, he tightened his grip to affirm the point.

Jumping back into action, Zack's boot connected with a man's skull, crushing a stumbling man's collarbone painfully. Using his momentum to launch himself off the crumpled patron, Zack swung his sword, easily decapitating the nearest man.

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He had switched to defensive maneuvers. The Turk bar would swing at any idiot who came to close; and he had his own hand up and ready. Materia was glowing in his own arm, and he was pulling it back to send a flare of Mastered Lightning Materia magic at his foes, only to stop and whirl around as the girl screamed. He dropped into a crouch, another bullet flying over his head. A nearby wine bottle exploded. He was coiled and ready to spring to the girl's defense, raising his Materia arm again. And then electricity flashed. He blinked stupidly at the dazzling bolt. It hadn't come from him. Was some bar patron waving around Materia? But no.. It was the girl... A smile curled across his lips. So she had Materia. Good thing she wasn't completely helpless.

As the place was plunged into darkness, his eyes adjusted in a split second. Wolves were nocturnal creatures, and he was able to see clearly in the dark in a few moments. he lunged toward Zack and the girl as the ex-SOLDIER grabbed her and ran toward the door. Blood was flung behind him from his shot ear as he joined Zack. He watched as the man kicked a bar patron, then left another without an arm.

He sprang into the lead then, blood-crusted fur brushing Zack's shoulder to warn him to watch were he swung the sword. "Zack, just stay on my tail. I can see well, and I'll keep the path ahead clear." His tail waved, lightly brushing Zack's right arm.

He stared straight ahead, swinging the iron bar whenever someone came within his reach. Smashed bones could be heard as they broke, flecks of blood spun from fresh wounds. While one arm swung the bar; the other would fly around, ripping and tearing flesh of nearby bar patrons. While everyone was stumbling around blind, he ran directly at the door. The tavern was lighter near the entrance, which was how he was quick to locate the exit. Zack could probably see the exit on his own, but maybe not the bodies scattered around. So the Hybrid led Zack and his burden around these fallen humans, adding a few more to the death toll along the way. He made sure his tail was making contact with Zack's arm the entire way.

Finally, he reached the exit. He leaped out of the door, ear still throbbing and waited for Zack to come through. While he was there, he gazed into a shattered window; grimacing at the sight of himself. His ear had a blood-clotted hole all the way through, and it was still spurting crimson fluid all down his face, neck, and suit. "Dammit..." He hissed, "I just had this uniform washed too..." He gazed a moment longer at his bloody, spiked up fur, before turning back. He expected the ex-SOLDIER to come through any moment now...

[insanity]

Aria nearly jumped as she felt a pair of arms around, but the embrace felt familiar. "Nyuk!" she giggled, clinging to Zack with her arms and legs around him like a koala bear would, giggling playfully, seeing this as a little game.

"Play!" she chirped, feeling her cheeks go hot again and her body tingle as Zack pulled her closer, why'd he do that? Still, it felt nice to be huggled like this. She found herself snuggling against him affectionately, not seeing how awkward it could be to have a naked woman rubbing against him.

Despite not being able to see a thing, Aria saw it as fun more than anything else, besides, Zack and Raze would protect her. As she felt Zack moving around, she couldn't help but giggle, still clinging to him like a little koala, there wasn't much else she could do, other than snuggle and nuzzle into him like a like playful puppy.

Games were fun!

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Zack blinked for a moment, naieve mind wondering briefly why the girl's form seemed to be so warm. He however paid it no mind as his thoughts were immediately ripped from it and to the tail that guided him. Nodding blindly to the wolf-man's advice, Zack began to follow Raze as the two of them bolted forward.

It was do or die now.

Sword swinging to the side, Zack grunted as it made contact with another form, easily disemboweling the bar patron. He met little resistance the rest of the way however, because Raze was opening a way up for the three of them.

"Man I really gotta take a dump now..." Zack inwardly groaned to himself before flinging himself out the bar doors.

Barreling through the entrance of the bar, Zack landed in a somewhat graceful heap behind the hybrid.

"Phew!" Zack sighed, flinging excess blood from his sword, "Just like old times huh?"

Turning about to look at the bar, he could hear the cries of rage coming from within. "We better get out of sight," Zack murmured before taking off again, this time taking the lead as he headed into an alley.

Man, and he had wanted to get out of the rain in the first place.

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ooc: Ok guys, sorry I've poofed. My muse has sorta died, and I need some time to try to get back into rp. So you two keep roleplaying, I'll jump back in when I feel up to it. Let's just say Raze had to go do some mission thing with a few other leftover Turks. He'll be back later.

[insanity]

Aria giggled as Zack burst out of the bar whilst still carrying her, that was a fun game! Once they got outside, she felt rain fall on her. "Nuu moar waaaarmth..." she looked up at Zack with a sad pout before snuggling him "Aaariiaaa!" with a cheerful chirp, she pulled out of Zack's arms and ran off on her own with a free spirit.

"Plaaaay!" she giggled as she headed towards an Inn, once she burst through those doors, she began to dance whilst looking starry eyed at the shining lights, a random yet cute sound escaped her, expression her joy of seeing the pretty lights "nyaaaaaaaaaa!"

As she danced, others began to look at the half naked girl oddly, but then she stopped and sniffed, obviously she still smelled a little due to her small accident earlier, she needed a bath badly. A soft, childish groan escaped her as she looked around for Zack, wondering where he was.

"Zz... Zzzzaa...?" she attempted to say his name, only to fail and end up sounding like a little bee, she hoped he hadn't left her...