Ranting Corner: Well, here's the edited chapter one thanks to my kind beta reader.
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Chapter 1 Gaia Dimension...?
Darkness... No matter where I look it's all darkness.
"Sakuya..." A voice echoed.
"Who?" I spun around desperately trying to locate the source. "The time has come..." It said.
"What has come?" I yelled.
"The lost protector."
Beep, beep, beep...
The blaring clock wakes me up from my sleep. "What was that dream?" I mumbled sleepily as I rubbed my eyes trying to focus, then I glance to the clock. '06.00.'
With a lazy sigh I drag my feet to bathroom, I brush my teeth, take a shower and then put on my school uniform which consist of white short sleeves shirt and red checker tie. The other half of my uniform includes a red checker skirt which end an inch above my knees and a pair of socks that come up to my calves. After I'm finished changing, I proceed downstairs to make myself a breakfast.
You asked if I live alone? No, my parents often go overseas for business trip and apparently they haven't come back yet so I stuck on feeding myself...
Oh yeah, my name is Sakuya Hisaki, I am 15 years old, currently in first grade senior high school. I have deep dark blue hair which is cut into two layers, the first being messy and short with messy bang, the second layer is braided down to my waist, my eyes are azure blue, and I am really short. (Me: like she reaches Noct's chest and also in this fanfic Noct's is 17)
For the past two years that strange dream have been haunting me. 'Exactly what did I do to deserve this?' I sighed. After eating bacon, few toasted pieces of bread and drinking some milk, because, I am ready for school.
'Oh yeah, today is Saturday, right? Which mean tomorrow is free time.' I grinned already formed a plan of how to spend my free time. "What are you grinning about?" That familiar voice snapped me from my thought.
"It's you Emi, nothing I'm just thinking about how to spend my free time." I said.
The said girl has teal eyes and wavy dark brown hair which down to her hip with a messy bang. "Well, why not sleepover in my house?" She asked.
"And risk my home being robbed? No way." I joked though I am indeed a bit worried.
"Aw, come on, that excuse already not fun." She whined.
"Sorry, but seriously I gotta watch my house, but I can go to play tomorrow." I said. Her eyes quickly lit up. "Well, tomorrow it is then, 09.00 at the park." She said without giving me any room for negotiation.
"Deal" I shook her hand.
Ringing bell signaling the beginning of the lessons. The lessons went smoothly which mean they were all pretty boring. 'This is so boring.' I stifle a yawn. I sneak a glance to the clock that hung on the wall to my left. 13.30. '15 more minutes.' I lightly tap my pen on the table making a rhythm to entertain myself in the midst of boredom.
"Miss Hisaki, is my lesson that boring?" The finally annoyed teacher asked me.
"No sir." I said. 'YES' my mind screamed. "Then please restrain yourself-
RingRingRing
The ringing bell cut off whatever the continuation. My teacher sighs. "Alright class, don't forget to review pages 15-20." He said. All of the students already swarmed out from classroom which mean nobody heard him. 'Poor teacher.' Calmly, I exit the school and walk home.
"So, what should I eat today?" I mumbled as I took off my shoes. "Wait, I only can cook fried rice, toast and bacon. Other than that I need a miracle to cook... Oh well, today just plain fried rice then." I said finally making a decision which isn't hard given the choices I had. With that said I take a shower first and change my clothes to plain white shirt and black shorts.
Making plain fried rice is pretty easy, that is if you don't zone out in the middle of cutting the vegetables. Which I did, resulting in a cut on my finger. "Ow." I quickly put the knife and searched for the first aid kit. After putting a band-aid on my finger I zoned out again about the dream that haunted me these past two years.
After making and eating my fried rice, I lounge on my bed staring at ceiling. What should I do...
Then I suddenly have an urge to play my favorite series Final Fantasy IX. "Well then, since tomorrow is Sunday, might as well play to my little heart's content." I smiled as I set up my old playstation 1 which still in pretty good condition.
I play and play and play and play and play and play and p... well you get the idea. Then I yawn, glancing at the clock which read 12.30... "Holy..." I jumped. " I miss dinner... oh well, not that matter anyway, what matter now is I am sleepy." I rubbed my eyes and turned off the playstation then I change to my pajama's with Chocobo's head all over them and I sleep as soon as I hit the bed.
Darkness, that's all I saw when I opened my eyes. 'Again.' I stand-floating.. if that even a word in the darkness.
"Sakuya..."
"That voice again"
"Sakuya." This time it was clearer, it's a female. "Who are you?" I asked.
"Sakuya, it's time..." Then a bright light appear before my eyes, I use my hands to shield my eyes.
After the light faded, I try to focus my eyes to the person before me. 'This face seems familiar...' I squint to get better view.
"Sakuya." She called. 'Hell, even her voice is familiar.' I rub my eyes again, when my eyes finally adjusted, my eyes widened to the person before me.
"A...Ae-rith..? I ask doubtfully.
"Yes, that's me." Said female was smiling.
"Wha-How...Oh wait, this is a dream alright, but still dreaming a character from Final Fantasy is a dream come true." I ranted causing her to giggle. Of course her giggles cause me to snap back to reality...er... dream's reality. "Sorry, I just ranting to myself." I smiled sheepishly.
"It's alright. That aside I have a favor to ask." Aerith said. "Favor? Since this is a dream you can ask whatever you want." I said brows furrowed.
"Actually we, no all of the characters from Final Fantasy are real." Aerith said.
"Real?AS in REAL person?" I said emphasize the word.
"That's correct." She smiled.
"Oh, so they're real." I sighed in relief.
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"W-Wait, hold the phone, real? What do you mean by real?" I asked bewildered. "You just said the definition, to put it simply, we exist... well only in different world." Aerith said.
"Different... dimension?" I repeated it softly.
"Yes, different world, the-"
"Hey Aerith, I got the guys, did you got the girl?" As Aerith starts explaining we were interuptted by a male voice. A familiar one I might add. Tentatively I turn around and meet the one and only Zack Fair, but what more surprising is the two guys standing behind him, "No...Way..." I gasped softly.
Those two guys, one of them has blond messy blond hair and parted to his right side and a pair of honey brown eyes (AN: sorry, I dunno his eye color), wearing a sleeveless white shirt with black vest, black jeans and a pair of combat boots, his hand holds a shotgun.
The other one has a black spiked hair... well like a duckbutt...and then a pair of striking blue eyes, wearing a trench coat...nah it couldn't be, well it almost look like a trench coat, a black one with matching pants and a pocket thingy (AN: sorry, I don't really know and good as describing cloth but I'll try) and a pair of black combat boots.
"Oh, you got the girl." Zack grinned. My poor mind is still in the midst of processing.
"Well, since all of us already here, I'll start explaining, Sakuya is probably wondering right now what exactly happened." Aerith giggled at my blank expression.
"Hell yeah, I'm so confused right now." I said.
"As I was saying, all of us lived in different dimensions without realizing others existence, save for Sakuya's, her dimension is a bit special, they can view other dimensions through television without us realizing." She paused a bit waiting me to absorb all the information I just heard.
"So, how can you know the others existence then?" I asked.
"I am an ancient, as you know, ancient are connected to lifestream, from there I can acssess to others dimension." Aerith explained.
"So, the question is I am dreaming right?" I asked hopefully it's no but still...It's so confusing.
"No(hegh), more like, this is deep inside your unconscious." Aerith said.
"Oooh, I see... H-Hold it, how the heck can you enter then?" I gasped.
"It's a secret." Aerith smiled.
"S-so, let me confirm this first, you are real?" I asked. "Yes." She answered. "This isn't dream?" I asked again. "Correct." She nodded.
"But still, you take it rather well, if it were other people they'd probably freaked out right now." Zack said.
'Now he said that, why don't I freak out, it seems like my mind understood what they are saying.' I thought. 'Well, either way dream or not let's just get along with my mind.'
"So, what do you want with us, surely you wouldn't call us just for this piece of information, right?" For the first time I heard Noctis spoke.
"Yep, we DO have other business, but first thing first, Let's introduce ourselves." Zack grinned. "My name is Zack F-"
"Your name is Zack the puppy, has zero attention span, always hyper, your dream is becoming a hero which already is, and as addition you are quite a flirt, though not that smooth." I piped up, earning three shocked face and a giggling Aerith.
"Well, my name is Aerith Gainsborough, an ancient."
"I am Sakuya Hisaki, an ordinary human being."
"The name is Prompto." Well, I already knew the blondie and duckbutt names.
"..." Looks like Noct prefer to stay silent.
"His name is Noctis." Prompto jerked his thumb to Noctis.
"Okay, so about the favor..."
"Ah, that's right, I'm sure Sakuya knows Kuja, right?" Aerith asked. I snort, of course I know him, even at the first time playing that game, his image is still clearly imprinted in my head because:
He is the main villain
His strange taste at fashion
"Yeah, I know him." I nodded.
"The thing is Kuja somehow accidentally opened the gate of dimension which made him aware of the others existence and he is planning of conquering all of the dimensions." Aerith said.
"So the reason we were gathered here is to stop Kuja...?" I asked.
"Correct." Aerith nodded.
"And judging by those two people you've summoned, the opened gate was..." I trailed off.
"You catch on quickly." Aerith smiled. "How did you know?" Zack asked.
"...Lucky guess...?" I laughed nervously.
"Well, since you got it all figured, you should know your mission right?" Zack grinned.
"Umm... To stop him..? I said.
"Good, you knew."
"As I thought." I sighed.
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"Wait, so I have to go with them?" I asked absurptly pointing those two.
"Yup, We can only counting on you." Zack grinned. "H-Hold on, Why it has to be me?" I asked.
"You don't want to?" Zack's smile dropped.
"And missing the chance I've been dreaming for, of course not, what I mean is, there are tons of people out there why choose me?" I said as the matter of fact.
"Hmmm... If you really want to know, you should complete this task." Aertih said thoughtfully. "Besides, I am sure you have been dreaming about same dream, right?" Aerith added. My mind instantly flew to that haunted dream.
"Indeed, it's been nagging me these past two years." I scowled remembering that very dream.
"Then, it's settled, you'll know the meaning of that dream when this task is cleared." Aerith smiled again.
"I don't really have a choice, do I?" I sighed.
Aerith giggles hearing my answer, "But, I still have a question though." I said once again catching their attention.
"Again? Man, you sure have a lot of questions." Zack groaned.
"This is important though." I said.
"What is it?" Aerith asked. "You know I am just ordinary normal human being, I have no power or whatever, so if I am going to that world, how on earth I suppose to defend myself, those two will never by my side 24/7." I said.
"Ah, about that, here." Zack gave me a katana which miraculously appeared from thin air. (AN: gallery-06/nmh-shinobu_ , that's the link, only the people keychain becomes crystal)
"Katana...Hey, didn't you hear what I just said." I scowled. 'But, this is strange, the katana itself seems familiar.'Zack laughs,
"Just wait and see, hey you two come here." Zack motioned the other two to his side, "Now Aerith, if you please." Zack grinned.
"Okay." Aerith then materializes her staff and wields it, creating a barrier between us.
"Sakuya, can you hear me?" Zack asked.
"Very clearly." I answered back. 'Somehow I don't like where this is going.' A bead of sweat rolls down from my forehead.
"Well, I will summon a monster for you to fight, you have to beat it with your style." Zack grinned.
"What the heck. What do you mean my style? Get me out of here." I yelled. Too late, I already heard a roar, a hellhound.
"Well, didn't you said you should have known how to protect yourself? This is the chance." Zack said innocently.
"And then, I have to fight a freaking hellhound without any knowledge, you can at least teach me the basic." I yelled back as I dodged the hellhound attack.
"But they said the best teacher is experience, don't worry, if it's you I'm sure you can fight it." Zack grinned.
"Even you said like that, how am I supposed to fight?" I yelled as I was chased by angry hellhound. We run in circle.
"Sakuya, swing your katana like your life depend on it." Zack instructed. I did as I was told, I swing the katana like my life depend on it.
"Go away." I said to it as I swung the katana left and right... Nothing happened. And once again I was chased.
"Damn it Zack, you said swing it like my life depend on it." I said as I run. Zack laughs nervously.
"Sakuya, the sheath, sheath." Zack said.
"Sheath, oh yeah, that's right." I unsheathed the katana and once again I swung it left and right... Again nothing happened.
"Hey, Zack why is that nothing happened again." I cried.
"You just have to swing it like this and this." Zack said showing some motion.
"How can I understand?" I scowled. 'If it's like this, then I just have to do it myself... let's just hope my body and mind won't fail me.' I mentally cried.
I run until I put a quite distance between myself and the hellhound. I put up a stance and then close my eyes, 'Remember, how they usually fight in action movie, usually they wait until enemy come to attack range...attack range, wait how can I know my attack range...Aaah, forget it, let's rely on instinct.' A growl and footsteps come closer. Sweat beads roll down from my head... 'Now' I open my eyes and thrust my katana. It makes a sickening voice of piercing, the pained loud growls gradually died down. The hellhound is dead.
I slump down on my knees, panting hard. The barrier dissolved, the others come running to me, "Are you alright?" Zack asked, voice filled with concern.
"I thought I was dead for sure." I said still gasping for air. Zack smiles,
"Well, you are still alive, for a first timer you are good." Zack said helping me stand up.
"You are cool." Prompto grinned. I laughed softly.
"By the way, Noctis, try to summon your crystal's power." Zack said. Puzzled, Noctis did as he told. I was hoping to see dozens of weapons appear and hovering on the air, instead a unique mecha broadsword appears and it doesn't even hovering on the air, the sword falls with a soft thud on the darkness floor.
"What the..."
"Hey, Noct it doesn't even hovering." Prompto pointed the obvious.
"What's happening here?" Noctis growled obviously unpleased.
"Well, judging by the distance from here to crystal, it's obvious, you can't summon them like you used to, you can only do this much." Aerith said.
"What?" Shocked, Noctis tries again and again, until finally he accepts the fact he can only do that much.
"Well then, since all of you are ready, I will now send you to Final Fantasy IX, Gaia dimension." Aerith swung her rod and a bright light enveloped us all. "Be careful." That's the last word I heard before everythimg around me faded to white.
That's for the first edited chapter, though I said edited, I only edited the grammar, organization and some spelling after they were pointed out by my beta-reader, please review