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Every night, Lilly had to lay in her tent and listen to Tun and Quill argue about something. Tonight, Quill had caught Yucca's tent on fire, and it had just been chaos since. For the five-person party they had, the only other girl refused to share her tent with anyone, and Tun slept outside rolled into a tight rocky ball, so he didn't need a tent to be comfortable. Quill was sharing a tent with Yucca before because he didn't have one. And Lilly herself had her own personal reasons for not sharing her tent. So now with Yucca's tent burned to ashes, there was only two.

Lilly had been incredibly grumpy over the yelling she was currently listening to outside… She even made a rule that no one was to wake her or intrude on her unless it was an emergency. Part of the reason was that she was a bit of an insomniac, so it was very hard for her to fall asleep. And since being away from home, her little "sleep therapy" was a bit skewered. She hugged her pillow, and pretended it was her Silver Keaton plush- which was part of her sleep therapy if she couldn't sleep, and she hoped no one would throw their head in the tent asking for help… This was something she didn't want people seeing. While laying with her eyes shut, Quill and Tun continued bickering at the camp fire, and her face wrinkled in a disgruntled fashion. She finally sat up and threw the pillow down. She threw her tent entrance open and yelled- "SHUT UP!! Me and, surely, Serene are trying to sleep!! Do I gotta listen to this crap every night!?"

Serene tiredly poked her head outside her tent, her eyes droopy. "Preach, sister."
The huge goron and the flimsy nerdy bird boy both looked to Lilly in a surprised fashion, their eyes going wide. Yucca was glaring at the duo while sitting up on his sleeping mat.
 "Quill, you're a bird, sleep up in the tree with Kurow and Kari, sheesh!" Lilly groaned.
Lilly's little bird cousins looked at her from the tree, as if they didn't want whiny Quill in the tree with them. Though the Watarara was clearly agitated by the suggestion.
 "Okay, one; That is a racist suggestion, Lilly. Just because I'm a bird, doesn't mean-"
 "Zip it." she cut him off. "Your presence, whining, and complaining has not only lead you and Yucca to be without sleeping quarters, but is driving everyone mad from lack of sleep. We're no where near a town to find an inn or buy a new tent right now… So you can either sleep on the ground, go somewhere and rant till you rant yourself to sleep, or I'm taping your beak shut." she gruffly threatened.
Quill threw his head to the side and gave an audible "Hmpf." before adding, "Do you KNOW how many germs infest the ground?? Had my tent not-..."

 "Oh my gods, Quill!" Serene angrily shouted from her tent.
Lilly placed her hand to her forehead and sighed… She was not gonna have this tonight. "Quill, you're so selfish. You talk like it was your tent. You're not considering the fact that you damaged Yucca's property, therefore, you have no place to complain." She looked at Yucca, he was laid down and ignoring Quill at this point. She was hesitant, but she'd rather share a tent with a friend she's known for a long time, than with whiny ol' Quill whom she hasn't known that long. Putting her awkward feelings aside, she spoke, feeling sorry for her friend. "Yucca? You can stay in my tent. At least with that, you know you wont go up in flames while you sleep." she finished that with a roll of the eyes.
Yucca sat up and looked at her. "Oh? Um, alright then!" he wasted no time to gather his things. Quill gasped- "What about me??"

Lilly laughed, "This tent is tiny, there ain't enough room in here for you. By the way, tomorrow, when we get to town, you're buying Yucca a new tent…"
 "What!? B-but I don't have any money!" the bird's mouth flew open.
 "Well, maybe you should spend the night scraping some up then, eh? You got one more night till we reach town, now stop crying and go to sleep… Man up…" she went back in the tent, leaving Quill dumbstruck that he just got served by a plant.
Tun laughed as Yucca passed them by, "Haha, burned."

Yucca passed through her tent, Lilly frustratedly moving her belongings against the wall, her mood seeable through her gruffly dropping her rucksack.
 "Sometimes I feel like I'm babysitting a bunch of children." she uttered, not caring if anyone heard or not.
Yucca laid his stuff along the floor of the tent, brushing dirt and grass off them. "Sorry, haha…" he cleared his throat.
 "Not you, mostly Quill. He hitches a ride with the group and suddenly he thinks he's the leader of the pack." She laid down and sighed. "I just wanna get home, ugh."
He could tell she wasn't in talking mood, so he just rested on his mat and pulled the covers over himself. But he decided to make brief conversation to calm her down. "Eh, we'll be home before you know it. I guarantee things will be better tomorrow, Lil." he smiled.
She just glanced at him, before sighing. "Yeah, I know. I just haven't slept well in days, I sleep better at home."
 "Well, that's understandable…" he responded, assuming it had something to do with being away from home in general.
She slowly smiled as she turned away from him, and yawned. "Well, goodnight…"
 "'Night." he responded.
Given someone was in the tent with her, she refused to fidget with or hug her pillow. She groaned internally, quickly regretting her decision.

Over the course of the night, Tun and Quill had fallen asleep thankfully, so all was peaceful. Everyone took advantage of the silent opportunity to rest their eyes. It had been hours since the whole fiasco, and Yucca was sound asleep laying on his side. But the sound of movement and irritated moaning woke him. His eyes adjusted to the dark, to see Lilly closer and off her mat, trembling, her covers spread about. She would fidget and groan every once in a while, and he assumed she couldn't sleep. But upon closer inspection, she was asleep. He sat his head up a little to look at her. "Lilly?" he whispered. "Hey, are you okay?" he mumbled.
She furrowed her brows in her sleep and kicked her foot. "Go away-!"
He was about to reach over and shake her lightly, but he pulled his hand back when she turned toward him, gripping her blanket and burrowing her face and snout into the blanket. She was calm for only a moment, before she tossed again.

 "I think she's having a bad dream." he murmured. "Lilly, hey, wake up…"
She tossed toward him, though he jolted in shock. Her hand fell to rest on his chest and her arm over his hand, gripping his shirt desperately as if she was in danger. He could only respond with a deep breath and held said breath. He silently allowed her to rest there like that, before he realized she was calming down. Her face eased up and she was breathing hard, but something in her felt comfort over the warmth against Yucca, like hugging her Keaton plush. She rested the side of her head against her hand and sighed, which was still against his chest. Though, her hold had loosened up. The Ikanian deku was still frozen though, his cheek against the top of her head. He wasn't quite sure how to respond, but his heart was racing a mile a minute and he felt his cheeks run hot as he blushed.
 
"Uh-?" he stopped himself, and relaxed. His affections for the girl made it a bit difficult to grasp what just happened, especially since she's never told him of her own affections. So to him, this just seemed… Hard to comprehend. But the fact that she was deep in sleep, meant she had no idea she was doing this. Subconsciously, she knew she had something next to her, but that was about it. Though, she was indeed just as smitten with him as he was with her, he just didn't know… And most of the time, she herself denied it.

But he was taken from his pondering when she cuddled against him comfortably, and his heart nearly jumped out of his chest. He was trying really hard not to move too much. But she was out cold and so far deep asleep, not even her nightmare could wake her earlier. He was about to pull his laid out arm around her, but decided against it, and just pressed his cheek down against her head and was smiling like an idiot happily- seeable through his puffed up cheeks if not counting his bubbled cheek against her head. He couldn't stop blushing, but he began letting the moment sink in, and sighed dreamily to himself.
'If only she was doing this willingly, haha...' he thought to himself with a shy, smitten smile.

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Okay, first off: Character development, it's a thing! And character relation development! And we see our new cast of characters for my next chapter story. I do not have a solid plot planned yet, but there are five (seven if counting Skits' babies, Kurow and kari) protagonists. Lilly, Yucca (both deku), Tundoro (goron), Quill (watarara), and Serene (who's name MAY change. I don't even know what race she's gonna be yet.)
Tundoro and Quill fight often. Quill counts as the spoiled baby brains of the party with less arm strength than a potted house plant, and Tun is that "strong guy" who often teases him. Tun and Quill simply do not work well together at first, which regularly irritates Lilly. Serene kinda acts as the "lady" of the group. She's manners, manners, manners, though not afraid to get dirty and ugly. Safe to say though, she's more ladylike than Lilly. Where as Lilly would belch and make a contest out of it, or lose her cool when people give her trouble and start being snarky and rude… As we've seen. It's the Iris in her, with a mix of Jace. : P both of them are snarky stubborn rudebutts.
Serene may also be that one who pushes Lilly about Yucca a lot. :XD: SOMEONE needs to push her!

A lot of these characters and their roles are still being ironed out, but that's what I have so far. The story snippet will more than likely be an actual scene in the story itself.

I WILL say; no, Lilly does not have fits automatically if she doesn't have her plush. It's only if she can't sleep and hasn't gotten sleep. However, on random occasions, she does have nightmares, which are planned to be important to her later on. It's part of what started her insomnia was her occasional nightmares. Silver Keaton had given her a plush of his likeness and told her "It will keep them away" when she was younger. So it is a subconscious thing for her that she sleeps better with it or something near her. But no, she's not a sob-story teenager with a horrible life full of nightmares, they are only occasional. But her insomnia is usually caused from fear of not wanting to have them.


Anyway, enjoy the YuccaxLilly floof >3< dfgufkhfdfughf you'll see a lot of these two, I really love them!






Lilly, Tun, Quill, Serene, Kurow and Kari all belong to me.
Yucca belongs to HolIiewood
The Legend of Zelda © Nintendo.
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Kyle5556's avatar
Your style of dekus. Looks like they are from Twilight Princess.