Save the Children

When the villagers finally peeked out to see what had happened, they found Jom and Terry rummaging through the snow. The once calm snow-covered mountainside was now covered in craters and dents, patches of the ground were now uncovered revealing strange marks and bloodstains. It looked like it had been the site of a huge war.

But the strange thing was, there were no bodies.

Aside from the two young men still alive and well, the scene was completely devoid of a single chocobo or mountain bandit's corpse.

Did not a single enemy die? Then what was all that clashing about, and what happened to the ground?

Was that just a mock battle?

"Don't worry, we just have a special way of handling corpses." Jom could guess the villagers' concerns, standing up and handing the village elder one of the items that popped out of the chocobo. "See? This is the meat left from after we dealt with the chocobos."