Nexus Necromancies: Yes, I'm back, this will be my first ever attempt at doing something related to Final Fantasy. Part of it being base off of an RP I had once, either way, I'll leave the disclaimer up to my muse and my hired help.
Metal Sonic: For clarification, I'm the muse.
Llednar Twem: Why am I here again?
Nexus Necromancies: You're in this story, be glad I'm not casting you as a villain, now shut up and do the disclaimer.
Llednar: Fine, Nexus Necromancies doe's not own Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance or some quotes he pulls out of his ass or anything he dredges his overdrive up from.
Nexus Necromancies: A little self-insertion never hurt anyone, oh yeah, be warned this is M for a very good reason, blood, angst, gory death and some sexy stuff...and yaoi but that's a mainstay with me most of the time. Remember to Read and Review. Anyway...ON WITH THE SHOW!
Life and Death
There was one word that could describe my situation at the time: Bloody. I don't mean that in the swearing sense, everything around me was stained with blood, my clothing was soaked in it, it was in my eyes and sticking my normally brown hair together into clumps of crimson.
Maybe I should explain what was going on. Ever heard about those incidents on the news? Armed robbery, guys carrying automatics? Thats what happened. I was in the shopping center, specifically a video games shop, next to a PS2 that was giving a demo of Final Fantasy X. I hadn't been bothered, I had bought the American version and used some software that let me play it on a European console. Myself, I lived here, not the store, the city it was in. Glasgow, Scotland. Yeah, I know, you'd expect me to be a little nerd who did nothing but play games but it wasn't entirely true. I did play lots of games but I kept fit, I owned a few swords and trained with them, it was part of the reason no-one messed with me at school but it also meant I didn't have any friends. I was never really sure why, even before I owned the swords I didn't have friends, maybe it was my eyes.
Unlike most people, my eyes weren't green, blue or brown. They were red, like an albino animal, it was some kind of weird deficiency in my genes that caused me to have pale skin and the red eyes, try making friends when you look like a vampire. My hair was brown, the fringe being longer than the rest of my hair and stuck up half way at the front, like a V. The rest of my hair mostly lay flat except for one part in the very center, which chose to stick up no matter what I did. I was wearing my usual clothes, black trainers and track bottoms along with a black t-shirt with the words 'No more Life, No more Death' on the front and 'Somewhere In between' on the back, words from a song I liked. I was 19 and living in an apartment near my college, I had severed all ties with my parents over certain...issues in my past. Oh yeah, my name, its Daniel. Daniel Goodwin...yeah I know, weird name. I always considered changing it legally.
Anyway, back on track. I was searching around, looking to see if there was a copy of FFVII in the pre owned shelf-my third disk was old and badly scratched up so it wouldn't work properly-and I wasn't paying attention to my surrounding's. That proved to be a big mistake, I heard gun shots, turned and spotted two guys with guns, the cashier was slumped over the counter, dead, blood streaming from his body. People ran, some escaped, some were gunned down. Me and my damn sense of morality, I went nuts, ran at them and smashed my fist's into their face's, knocking them out cold. Like I said, I should have paid more attention and I would have known that there was a third guy who had been behind me. I took a bullet to the leg and the arm and cried out in pain. I had never used a gun in my life, I hated them and now I had the chance and went against my principles. I took the gun from one of the unconscious men and pumped three shots into the last one just as the police arrived. One last shot rang out, the dying guy had got me in the chest, my breath caught, I coughed up blood and mt knees buckled. My head slammed into the counter, cutting it open and letting blood steam down my face.
When I came to, I was in a hospital bed and silently thanked God that my country had free health care so I was immediately rushed to the best place to treat me. I felt like crap and I was betting I looked even worse. After a while a nurse came by to check on me. "How are you feeling?" She asked, concern written on her face, I tried the best smile I had but moving hurt so I just tried speaking. "Like I went a hundred rounds with King Kong...and lost, badly." She smiled but I could tell she was just pretending, I knew it from the look on her face, I probably didn't have much of a chance of living. "There's something wrong isn't there?" Her smile fell as I said that, she fumbled with her gown a bit, a doctor walking up beside her, the same look on is face. "The bullet that went into your chest ricochet off of your rib when it went through your lung...it stopped right beside one of your main arteries and we don't know if we can remove it safely...if we do you'll recover, no problem but...your artery could rupture from our repair work and you would bleed to death...once that artery go's the blood just wont clot and there wont be a way to stop it." I smirked, this wasn't the first time I had stared death in the face...but I wasn't sure if I would get to spit in his eyes this time and live to tell about it.
I looked up at the ceiling for a moment before giving my answer. "Go ahead, I'll just die from an infection if I don't, at least this way I have some chance..." I watched them nod, the nurse going away while I signed a few forms with my working arm. When she came back, I had a intravenous injection of an anaesthetic and my mind started to grow fuzzy. My last coherent thought was that I had to be hallucinating because I swear I saw a hooded kid floating above me just before I slipped into darkness.
I mentally cursed as I opened my eyes, the transition had been from pitch black to blazing white so my yes burned madly for a moment before I grew used to it. "Okay...blinding white light, me going into a dangerous operation...great, I died and went to heaven...granted I always imagined my heaven to have a private pool and two cute blond servant boy's..." Oh, yeah, something I didn't mention, the reason I cut ties with my parents. I'm gay, figured it out at fifteen, needless to say my parents didn't take it well being overly religious. I always disliked organised religion, I believe giving someone power over your belief is like giving Hitler an A-bomb. Meaning, they will gladly abuse it.
After getting my bearings, I noticed something. The same hooded boy I had seen right before I passed out was standing in front of me and without the drugs in my system I recognised him. "No fucking way...you're Bahamut aren't you?" The boy nodded, using the same voice I had heard so many times in the game. "Yes and you are Daniel, the one I discovered on the brink of death." I was shocked to say the least, not only was I talking with the dragon king himself but I now just discovered that I was pretty much deceased. "Death? I knew the operation was dangerous but..." I trailed off, I had never considered dying up till that point, not seriously. Bahamut just nodded. "However...we fayth have need of your services in the protection of summoner Yuna." I knew that name, my heard jerked up, my eyes practically bulging. "You want me to go to Spira, guard Yuna and help her defeat Sin? THE Sin? The monster that can wipe out cities with a thought, Level continents and cannot die?...sure I'm in." Another thing about me, my moral compass. I cant stand injustice or needless suffering and I enjoyed playing Final Fantasy X and not just because Tidus happens to be nice...in more ways than one, but it shared a lot of my thoughts, especially when it came to Yevon. "Yes, we believed you would. In return, if Yuna and her guardians finish their journey, we will offer you a choice. Stay in Spira, fully restored from your old wounds or return to your home, alive and well." I couldn't respond, I was in so much shock...or possibly excitement. "Go to Spira, kill some fiends, get famous. Have the cute boys come out for kisses...sounds like fun." Bahamut seemed to laugh at this, either from my enthusiasm or my comment I didn't know.
The white light was fading and we were standing in another place I recognised all too well. The huge buildings covered in lights, the crowds of people and the giant stadium. "Zanarkand." I spoke, awe filling my voice as I gazed up at the stadium, knowing that inside there was a blitz ball game going on at that very moment, cheers filling the air. Bahamut just nodded and handed me two swords, one with a white sheath and the other with a black sheath, there was also two bags, one held two potions and the other some golden coins and notes, I was guessing it was Gill. I took a bit of time to count it and was impressed, there was five thousand Gill in there, more than enough to get started when i got to Besaid. "Thanks...I'm guessing my overdrives and stuff will come to me as time go's on?" Bahamut nodded again. "Go, things will be harder than before, we are sending another to help you and Auron will be informed of you're coming." I nodded, fear looming up inside of me. 'Harder than before? As if it wasn't hard in the game now it will be even more difficult...but at least I'll have help...please let them be male.' My thoughts were interrupted by a rumbling that shook the walkway. Bahamut faded and behind him I saw one of the many forms of the God of Destruction as it began drawing pieces of buildings into it's self and releasing its tiny scales that I knew would soon become deadly monsters. My voice was little more than a whisper as I looked at it. "Sin."
If I said I wasn't afraid just there, it would have been the biggest lie I had ever told. Sin terrified me, its sheer size and power both wondrous and horrifying. "Crap, I have to move, I wont be much good to everyone dead." After strapping the swords onto my body, one on my back the other at my side, I ran like the wind through the Zanarkand streets, getting to the arena area right before Sin blasted it to pieces. I managed to shield myself from falling debris by ducking under buildings and walked out when I saw a man dressed in a red yukata, carrying a huge katana blade over his shoulder. "Auron!" I turned, recognising another voice and saw him. Tidus, the blond blitzer himself. 'Why do all the hot one's have to be straight?' Tidus looked a bit worse for wear but falling from a building can do that to you. Auron gave little indication other than a nod to Tidus before he looked over at me. "Daniel...the fayth mentioned you would be coming, are you ready?" I gulped, swallowing the lump in my throat and nodded. "Yeah, I'll do what I have to." he just nodded again before turning back to Tidus. "I was waiting for you." Tidus, confused by Auron's words, looked over at me. "Uh...who are you?" I smirked, putting my left hand on my sword hilt. "Daniel, consider me your travelling partner." Tidus just shrugged then looked over to see Auron walking away. "Hey,Wait!" He took off after Auron, I followed suit, both of us searching for him. I blinked, seeing everyone around me and Tidus freeze where they were, turning, I saw Bahamut standing behind us, looking at Tidus. "It begins...Don't cry." Tidus just stood there, mouth agape "What?" Bahamut looked at me and I nodded, understanding what he wanted.
After time had unfrozen, we finally caught up with Auron, who was walking along the bridge everyone was running from. Tidus stood in front of Auron, waving his arms. "Woah, Auron, bad idea, not this way!" I looked past them, seeing the sphere of water in the sky and knew what was to come next. "It's coming." Tidus finally turned around, shock written on his face as he saw it. Auron walked past him, I could sense something in the air, combat was not far off. "We called it 'Sin'" I looked over at Auron but unlike Tidus, I understood Auron's words. I looked up in time to see a huge tentacle shoot from Sin's main body, impacting the side of a building and shooting off those damned scales. Soon we were surrounded by monsters, Auron handed Tidus a long sword, which he took. "A gift from Jecht." Tidus looked over at Auron, a mixture of doubt and anger on his face. He sliced a Sinscale in two, Auron doing the same and I quartered mine with two slashes from both of my swords. My swords were pretty impressive in their own right, one was completely white, right down to the handle, which was made of ivory. The other was black, most likely made of onyx. I just hoped they would be enough for the coming battles.
We moved on, slicing more Sinscales apart before coming to the huge tentacle that was lodged in the road, Sinspawn Ammes. I smirked, watching it writhe uselessly while we killed the few Sinscales around it and slashed at its body a few times. 'This oughta be pretty easy.' Then I saw it begin to glow and swore loudly, I had forgotten that the bastard could use Demi.
How do I begin to describe Demi? Ever been in science class? When they suck the air out of a can and it crumples inwards? Imagine you were the can, crushed then expanded almost to the point of bursting like a balloon. That's Demi and it hurts like a bitch. I was pissed now, I wanted this thing to die very slowly but knew that we didn't have the time, I looked over at Tidus and Auron, who were thinking exactly the same thing. Auron had his sword at the ready and brought it back to swing. "Some just cant wait to die!" I realised he was about to pull off his overdrive Dragon Fang, he jumped into the air and came back down, driving his sword into the ground, the energy that lanced out of his sword wiping out the remaining Sinscales and making Ammes screech in pain...causing it to cast another Demi spell.
Tidus pulled out his overdrive next, Spiral Cut, an overdrive which had saved my ass many times early in the game, performing an impressive series of acrobatic flips, before driving his sword into Ammes. This time it looked like Ammes might be dead but it was still kicking and still chucking out Demi's like there was no tomorrow. I almost lost my lunch after that one, but kept myself in check, spinning my swords quickly I felt power surge through me and I smirked evilly. "Time for your requiem." I ran at it, slashing multiple times before back flipping away, sinking my swords into the ground as I landed, power charging in my arms which flowed to my hands, making them both glow, the left hand being bathed in white, the right enshrouded in black. "Yin, Yang Blast!" The energy shot from my hands, two intertwined beams of black and white energy that impacted with Ammes, ripping a sizeable hole in its body. This made it finally keel over with a horrid death screech before bursting into pyre flies.
Afterwards, I pulled a potion from my bag and drank it down, it actually tasted kinda nice, like fruit juice but thicker and more refreshing, I felt my wounds start to heal exponentially. "Well...at least something's going my way." Tidus and Auron were each partaking of their own potions, I took a deep breath, knowing what came next.
I watched as Tidus ranted at the image of Jecht on the building before we came across an army of Sinscales. We all took out about five together but there were always more to take their place. "Great...this is endless." Auron nodded in agreement, pointing at the tanker that was carrying fuel. "That, knock it down." I nodded, letting Tidus and Auron cover me while I pushed and kicked the damn thing, eventually getting it to fall while I dived out of the way as an explosion rocked the road and caused the building with Jecht's image on it to collapse onto the road, causing it to start collapsing as well.
Auron and me were lucky, Tidus almost fell from the edge as he jumped for it. I looked up, filled with a nameless dread as I looked up into Sin's blow hole, knowing what was about to happen as Auron lifted Tidus up and began speaking with Sin. "You are sure?" I heard Sin groan in response, a sad, hollow sound that chilled me to the bone. Auron looked over his shoulder at me, still holding onto Tidus, I knew when he spoke, he was talking to us both. "This is it. This is your story. It all begins here." I felt dizzy then, my mind going blank as the world blurred into darkness.
Nexus Necromancies: Hah! First chapter over and done with.
Llednar: I had better show soon.
Metal Sonic: Your in the fourth chapter I think, when we begin to leave Besaid.
Nexus Necromancies: Guys, stop revealing plot or I will hurt you. Anyway, until next time folks, this is Nexus Necromancies, signing out!