Fic: Styles(FFVII:Mercverse/Zack/08-Men Working)PG-13

[icedark_elf]

Title: Styles
Author/Artist: GW Katrina aka icedark_elf
Fandom: Final Fantasy VII: Mercverse
Pairing/Character: Zack
Theme: 08: Men Working (25_streetsigns)
Wordcount: 372
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: FFVII isn’t mine, the concept of Mercverse is.
Warning: AU



Styles

It was always fun to slink around the house at times, especially when people were sparring or working out. Like now.

Settled where he wasn’t immediately apparent, Zack watched as the twins went through their daily practice. They had obviously been at it for a bit, at both brothers had stripped down to their pants, and were more than a little sweaty.

It always fascinated Zack to watch other people practice their fighting, especially when the styles were so different from his own.

Seph had his magic and his blade, and he much preferred practicing alone, running though katas over and over, everything moving smoothly as he did. Zack liked to watch when he could, because Seph just moved so…interestingly. Between the silver blade and Seph’s hair, just a few shades lighter, and the magic he wove into his style, he was just so very, very shiny.

Cloud’s style was what Zack’s own was based off of, which made perfect sense given how he was raised. It was a mish-mash of styles, bits here and there and always more being added. Zack was pretty sure it came from being so old that Cloud either couldn’t remember what went with what, or he just did what he had to in order to survive. That adaptability and willingness to scrounge styles into his own was something Zack did as well, and was part of the reason he liked to watch other people spar.

Chaos and Vincent…. Zack could see they had a style all their own. Some of it had worked into his and Cloud’s ways, but it was a style designed for two, and the fact they were so close it seemed they shared a brain at times was how the twins pulled it off.

Vincent wasn’t big on hand to hand, though he did practice, and Chaos wasn’t big on weapons, but he did know how to shoot. But their strength was that they could and did work together without a word spoken and each had their strength.

It didn’t mesh so well with Zack’s style, so he didn’t use much of it, but he still liked to watch them spar.

Specially when they were sweaty and all over each other. Yum.


Completed prompts found here.
More Mercverse found at mercverse.

Wordcounts:
25 Streetsigns-Zack: 6,538
January: 5,362
2007: 5,362

Comments

[thesilentsenshi.livejournal.com]

The last sentence made me laugh. XD Since I'm not familiar with Mercverse, I should try and find time to read the previous prompts. It might make more sense that way. ^^;

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Mercverse is an AU verse I made where Cloud was immortal, Zack's his adopted kid who isn't fully human, Seph is a mage, and Chaos and Vincent are twin half-demons. Com has some pretty good fics on it from a variety of writers.

[artimusdin.livejournal.com]

.. I agree with Zack. *_*

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Yeah....

[yuenoclow.livejournal.com]

One thing...

everything moving smoothing as he did

I think you mean, smoothly...

That's my only nitpick. *grin* I love this, though, Zack being his total magpie self when it comes to watching Seph, Cloud's style being a mish-mash of things either for survival or he just can't remember what's what anymore, and the twins... hee! And the last line is *perfect*! Heh, I totally agree with Zack, too..

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Fixed. Thank you.

Yeah, Zack=magpie. And you have to admit, it would be shiny to watch. Hell, I bet Cloud's restarted several styles by accident, and as for the twins....*drools*

*pokes at collection* Only seven more of these to go.

[chofi.livejournal.com]

Ebony and ivory, they work in perfect harmony...

No, Sparda Twins, this does not mean that you're in. Shut up. Go away. We already have half-demon twins.

So pervy twincest loving magpie!Zack is of course win. The comment about Cloud's totally Edgemaster oh, crap, icon idea. fighting style makes me wonder how much of a historian's wet dream/total nightmare Cloud would be. I mean, sure, he may have lived through your period, but that doesn't mean that his memory of it is going to be perfect or unaffected by what came after.

Also: Settled where he wasn’t immediately apparently, Zack watched...

"immediately apparent"?

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

*amused*

Fixed and thanks.

And I have no idea what Edgemaster, but I swear I've learned more things since starting this verse.... *grins*

I'm very tempted to pick up Cloud for the prompts after this, and he so would be. He might or might not remember the period of history, and if he does, doesn't mean that it's what the historian want to hear.

[chofi.livejournal.com]

Edgemaster is a weapons guru in the Soul Series--Soul Edge/Soul Blade and the Soul Calibur games. He pretty much can take on any style in the game. It pinged, I suppose, because one of his pre-fight animations has him saying "Think you can take on this old man?"

[the-perkygoff.livejournal.com]

Because sweat, of course, adds to shiny. Zack, you magpie, you.

<3s on this. Watch me, smothering it with symbols of love.

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

First off, icon love.

Zack has such shiny magpie tendencies, but that's okay, cause we like looking at the shiny. *nods*

[chibirisuchan.livejournal.com]

Zack is SUCH a horndog. ^____^ And so cute we can't even get cranky about it. But yeah, sheer grinning unabashed lust FTW... ^_~

[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

But he's a pretty horndog, and he gives you that grin.... Well, who can resist the grin?

[forgottenlover.livejournal.com]

::giggles:: he's like a puppy with a ball, a ball on a string