Cid Waters the Flowers

by Skylark

Disclaimer/Authors note: All characters in this story are property of Squaresoft. I didn’t ask to use ‘em, but then again, no fan fic author does! (Not that I’m aware of anyway.) I came up with this idea yesterday when my mom got me to water her flowers and I got a kink in the hose. Hee hee hee. Well then, on with the insanity. BTW, this story will be short, stupid, and probably not even make three pages.

Started July 24, 2000

Finished July 25, 2000

Cid grinned as he cut a path of mayhem and destruction through his opponents, the hose letting off a relentless pounding stream of water. In his hands, almost anything could be turned into a weapon, and there was not one who stood in his way who would not be slain; drowned by his hand and the hose he wielded.

“Cid! What are you doing!? You’re killing my flowers!”

Shera rushed out the front door of the house she and Cid shared in Rocket Town and over to her husband, the hose wielding maniac. Cid shook his head, coming out of the daze he had been in, reminiscing about days gone by when he had been a part of AVALANCHE and had helped save the Planet. He looked at the flowerbed that he had just finished watering or, more appropriately, demolishing. Most of the flowers had been knocked over or broken by the water pressure and a deep pool of water surrounded them all.

Cid grinned sheepishly. “Oops.”

Shera set her hands on her hips. “I should say so, Cid Highwind. I asked you to water the flowers, not drown them. Let me have that hose.”

Cid handed Shera the hose and she set about showing him the proper way to water flowers.

“You don’t water flowers as if you were washing the Tiny Bronco, Cid. You have to be gentle; depress the handle ever so slightly. Mist the flowers, don’t pummel them.” Shera demonstrated.

“Okay, I think I can handle watering the flowers from here,” said Cid, feeling slightly self-conscious as two residents of Rocket Town, which he referred to as The Boredom Couple, came to watch.

“A spectacle!”

A sudden thought occurred to Cid as Shera handed the hose back to him and returned to the house. He turned and made like he was watering the flowers. Then, suddenly, he turned and sprayed at the Boredom Couple.

“Aghhsssssblubblub!”

Grinning, Cid turned back to the flowers. Suddenly, Cloud came flying overhead, crashing to the ground not too far from the outside of the white picket fence surrounding Cid and Shera’s house. Cloud picked himself up from the ground, dusted himself off, and began running around flapping his arms; looking for all the world like he was trying to lift off and fly.

“I’m a goose! I’m a goose!” he screeched, running back and forth. Cid shook his head as Cloud ran towards the Old Man’s house and jumped, trying to fly over it. He rammed into the wall, and fell in a daze to the ground.

“Cloud has been such a dunce since he got Mako poisoning,” he muttered, glancing towards the Nibel Mountains, “Tifa should be coming to collect him pretty quickly.”

True to form, Tifa came running up to Cid, panting.

“Have you seen Cloud?” she asked.

Cid pointed to Cloud, who had by now picked himself up and was walking back over to the two. “Right over there.”

Cloud stopped on his way back and was now sitting on the ground, picking dandelions and sticking them in his ears, a large foolish grin on his face. Tifa walked over to Cloud and pulled the weeds from his ears as she brought him to his feet and began to lead him back home to Nibelheim.

“Thanks, Cid,” Tifa called as she and Cloud walked past on their way home.

“Hey, no problem,” replied Cid, as he turned his attention back to watering the flowers like he had been asked to do. The only problem was, no water was coming out of the hose.

Tifa noticed and commented, “looks like you’ve got a kink in your hose, Cid.”

Tifa watched in surprise as Cid muttered, “damn, that’s the third time this week!” He went and retrieved the Venus Gospel from where it was leaning against the wall, walked over to a large lump in the hose and shouted, “get out of the hose, you perverted #$%@&*!”

There was a muffled reply from the hose and Cid grunted in anger as he sliced the lump out of the hose with the Venus Gospel. Don Corneo stuck his head out into the light. And immediately lost it.

Tifa looked at Cid in shock. He shrugged.

“I warned him.”

The End

Authors Note: Yeah, I know, short, and a stupid ending. So what? Hee hee hee.

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