Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Final Fantasy characters. But the O.C.'s are mine.
If you have not read The Lady and The Lion please do so otherwise certain events and characters in this story will not make sense. Reviews are welcome.
THE KNIGHTS OF LEGEND
Part 2 of The Lady and The Lion
CHAPTER 1
A LEGEND
There's a legend that goes back several thousand years, when the world was in the blush of its youth,there was a great war between Hyne and his brother Mythos. After losing the battle Mythos and all his minions were kicked out of paradise. The power that clashed across the heavens during that epic battle had no place to go but to drift in the cosmos until it found a host. When it did she took the power into herself and became the first of the sorceresses. The name she gave herself was Ultimecia. She could have used this power for good, but it became as corrupt as she. When her power was young she could bend time and travel from place to place. She was left stranded in the future, only able to send little residuals of her power out to other women. Being able to draw that power back to her at the moment of their deaths.
Legend also says that two Knights will bring about her downfall. One Dark and One Light, they hold the power in them to destroy her and all her evil. They would carry weapons as uniquely individual as they were. Soul Blades forged on the same night out of the same metal in a ritual that was long since forgotten.
Ultimecia needed followers and protectors. She had her sorceresses search for men who would sacrifice all for the power that she promised them. They became the Sorceresses Knights.
The Legend continued and spoke of others knights, knights who served Hyne and were trained to uphold the laws that he had handed down.
In order to finally cut off her power and send her forever into hell they had to find out her true name. Not the name she had chosen for herself but her true name, her birth name. Once you had spoken her true name all the power that she held would be gone.
It was a knight from each caste that would bring about the destruction of the evil one, the one who called herself Ultimecia. The ultimate evil, the ultimate power, the ultimate destroyer.
Yes one knight from each caste, one who was lost but found his way and the other who only followed the way.
In this Legend it tells how two knights eventually meet on the battlefield.
The knight who followed Hyne's way recognized the other. He was his friend and his brother. He flung his blade to the ground and said, "I can not fight you. But I understand if you kill me. Know this my brother, I love you and I forgive you." He fell to his knees and lowered his head to await the deathblow.
The other knight had raised his blade to bring down the killing blow hearing those words flung his blade aside as well. He could not kill this man. Killing him would be like killing himself. Falling to his knees beside his best friend and his brother he embraced him to his chest. "Save me." He pleaded.
Raising to their feet the brothers rode into battle for one last time. In a selfless act they sacrificed themselves to stop the evil one. Hyne seeing the sacrifice granted the two brothers immortality, by taking their brave and noble spirits and flinging them into the sky.
Where they remain to this day.