Streetrats

By: Ame Shizuka

Chp 1 Sticks and Ships

Summary: Ever wonder what happened between the two-year gap of Reks’s death and the arrival of Vayne Solidor? Randomness and the struggle to survive! Centers around Vaan and Penelo with a teeny weeny bit of Vaan x Penelo or should I say… Vaanelo!! R&R!!

Disclaimer: Ame Shizuka does not own Final Fantasy XII.

Kytes desperately sprinted around town; searching and searching for a certain crazy blond-haired teen. He had to tell him the great news it would make him so happy!

‘Door it’ the young boy thought as he accidentally stepped in some poop and tried to wipe it off with the edge of a stair. With success, he continued looking for the teen.

“Vaan!” he nearly roared at the site of his target.

Vaan sat in the shadows right outside of the Magicks Shoppe eating, what seemed to be, a stiff brown object.

“Oh, hey Kytes,” Vaan coolly greeted then took another bite of the food that made a cracking sound when bitten. He looked at it strangely, than continued chewing.

Kytes caught on quickly. He really is a smart kid. “Vaan,” he started, “Why are you eating a stick?”

Vaan looked up at the boy and smiled, getting the idea that this was a joke. “No Kytes, it looks like one but it’s really a Slim-Jim,” he informed him then took another painful bite of the “Slim-Jim.”

Kytes ran to the nearest tree (A/N as if there’s one!) and pulled off a stick resembling Vaan’s. He ran back to Vaan and took his stick, and placed them side to side silently comparing them for Vaan. Kytes then broke his stick in half then Vaan’s to show him the visible and audible resemblance. “It’s a stick.”

“Dammit!” Vaan cursed the idiot who told him it was a stick. Unsurprisingly, that idiot was him.

“Vaan, watch your language!” a blonde haired girl screamed right after using her extraordinary hearing. She approached them slowly due to her slight exhaustion.

“Sorry Penelo, I mean door it,” he apologized with a bit of shame in his voice then took the stick back from Kytes.

Kytes just remembered what he came here for and was eager to tell Vaan. “Hey Vaan! There’s a new airs-“ he started but was soon interrupted by a stubborn certain somebody.

“Hey Penelo, doesn’t this look like a Slim-Jim to you?”

She took it without hesitation, she didn’t even needed to break it to come to a conclusion: “Heck yeah.”

“Door it!”

“Vaan! I’ve got something important to tell you!”

“Make it quick Kytes, cause I really need to go to the bathroom!”

“O.K.” he started, “a new Airship dealer just came to town and they’re having a Airship show right now! In the South Plaza!”

“Forget the bathroom! Let’s get going!”

So Vaan took Kytes by the big toenail and Penelo by the pigtail and they painfully ran to the show.

Amazement, love, and the very strong urge to go to the bathroom were all that Vaan felt when he saw the airships. “There must be at least ten airships here,” Vaan started, “No, twenty, no, dozens, no, hundreds, no, BILLIONS!!!!” he added proudly, arms in the air, his head looking up to the heavens. Every single person turned to Vaan, looking at him as if he were a rare Mongolian Crabwhalezebrahorsefrogbunnie.

Penelo was also embarrassed. There was only eight airships. She started to conspicuously walk away from him, as if she’s never seen him before. “I’ve never seen in before in my life. Seriously!” Everyone then got back to what they were originally doing and Vaan marched up to Penelo.

“How can you say that Penelo! We’ve known each other since like Preschool! Remember those guys where calling you Pen and I kicked them all in the shins! And that one time my favorite bracelet fell in the toilet, and then you got your hand stuck in it when you tried to get it out! Then I flushed the toilet to see if your hand would come out, but it only got deeper!”

“Shut up already!”

Vaan ignored her comment and continued to walk to the nearest ship. Penelo followed and stopped to read the name given. “Ifrit.” She, Vaan, and Kytes proceeded inside. Vaan ran around the entire ship five times in five seconds to see every inch of it. Kytes just looked at the wallpaper and the control cabin fascinated Penelo. She heard a crash not to far away and ran out to see whom it was. It was who else but Vaan, who ran into the wall, and was currently lying on the floor. He quickly got up and pretended it never happened.

Penelo went back into the cabin and Vaan followed, leaving Kytes to the wallpaper. “Wow,” the pretty glowy buttons amazed him. “I wonder how much this ship costs.”

Penelo found an information tag and skimmed through it. “1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gil,” she answered.

“Doorit!”

Vaan sat down on the pilots seat and stared at the wheel. ‘So tempting,’ he thought in desire. He set his hands on the wheel and started turning it as if he really were flying it.

“Vaan don’t do that!” Penelo smacked his head like the babysitter she was.

“It’s not even on!” Vaan replied, a bit annoyed. “Even if it was on, that button right over there would be blinking,” he told her as he pushed the button.

VROOMM went the enormous engine of the Ifrit the instant Vaan activated it. It floated up into the sky and started flying forward. “I’M ACTUALLY FLYING AN AIRSHIP!!” Vaan exclaimed as he rapidly turned the ship left and right, causing everything on the ship to tip to and fro.

“Vaan! Land this thing right now!” Penelo demanded.

“If I did, I’d kill all those little ants!” Vaan pointed to the nearly invisible people below.

“Vaan, if you don’t the judges will kill YOU!”

“No! I can’t die yet!!”

There you have it, the first chapter. In the next chapter, they try to get off the ship and have an “accident.” It’s almost 9 pm and I wanna go to sleep, so I’m really cranky right now! I promise the next one will be funnier, because I already have some ideas for it. It might be a while until I update though. So, the more reviews I get (specifically 3+), the faster I’ll update. So review already doorit!