~CHAPTER 1: A REALM RETURNED~

Where... Am I?

I feel... So light.

Like a feather.

"Frida?"

Who's that? Is that my name?

"Wake up."

Wake up? Why?

"It's time..."

Time? Time for what?

Then, as if someone had opened a flood gate in her mind, memories started rushing through her head. She tried grasping their image but they went by so fast for her to grab. But even then, she was able to remember what she had forgotten.

Right... At Carteneau... we fought with the Garlean Empire... And then... Dalamund...

A certain image flashed right before her eyes as a great dragon appeared from the falling moon, releasing utter destruction before her as foes and allies alike fled for their lives. Then, light began to shine around her, as if protecting her from harm. It was then she realized something and turned to the cliffs where a wizened Elezen mage smiled at her. She tried reaching out to him, shouting his name but no sound came out as the light shone even brighter until... nothing.

Eyes fluttered opened to reveal striking silvery-grey eyes. The young girl sat up from the ground she had no doubt been sleeping for Twelve knows how long.

"Finally!" A female voice shouted before she felt herself being glomped from behind. "I thought you would never wake up! That's usually N'rhad's job!"

"Hey, that's not true!" a male voice retorted.

"Right, and I'm a Sahagin's uncle." another male said.

"Admit it, N'rhad. We all know it's true." a third male said.

"Lonana! Let the poor girl breathe, for Twelves' sake!" a female voice shouted.

Seeing the young girl turning a bit blue, the Lalafell quickly let go, "Oops! Sorry, Frida!"

The young girl wheezed a bit, "I'm still wondering how you're not a warrior instead." Straightening herself, she took a look around her surroundings to find a female Hellsguard, a female Dunesfolk, a male Wildwood, a male Seeker of the Sun and a male Midlander. "Where are we? Last I remembered was that Bahamut appeared from Dalamund, and he attacked us..."

The Hyur nodded, "Right, Louisiox saved us."

"I don't know what he did, but he really saved our tails or we wouldn't be talking now." The Miqo'te said.

"I really hoped he sent us to a much safer place." The Roegadyn crossed her arms. "I mean, sure I'm grateful for what he did but sending us to the aetherial rifts is not what I called safe."

"At least he didn't dropped us in some unknown place." The elezen countered. "Twelve knows we could be maimed in our long slumber."

"I'm just wondering how long we were stuck here." The Lalafell asked.

"I can vouch for that." A voice spoke and they turned to find a ghostly wizened Elezen. "Though I'm also glad that you are all safe."

"Louisiox?!" The young girl called in surprise. "How- What happened to you?!"

"After I teleported all of you out of the battlefield, the Twelve Gods gave me a blessing that enables me to defeat the Elder Primal. But I had used up the last of my energy so as you can see, I am nothing but aether." The elder Elezen explained.

"So does that mean you're..." The Lalafell trailed off, unable to finish her sentence.

Louisiox nodded, knowing what she was about to say, "I do not regret my decisions. I love this realm and its people too much to see it destroyed. The only thing I regretted is that I never said my goodbyes to my grandchildren." The young girl frowned, knowing full well how much the other loved his grandchildren. "Other than that, I'm just glad to see you all right."

"As we are, though how long have we 'disappeared'?" The Hyur asked.

"For five years." The Elezen replied.

"Five years?!" The Miqo'te exclaimed. "In the aetherial rifts? It's a wonder how we didn't disintegrated into aether."

"You can thank the Twelve Gods for that. But it came with a price." Louisiox then explained that in order for them to stay as they were, the Twelve Gods had slowly absorbed every memory of them from all over Eorzea so the Lifestream won't be able to break them down. "In other words, no one can remember you. I'm sorry but it's the only way for you to have without any side effects."

"It's alright, Louisiox. You helped kept us alive after all." The Elezen said.

The young girl nodded before realizing something. "But how are you still here?"

The elder sighed, "I see the five years slumber had not dull your sharp thinking, my dear girl. Before I could return the aether to the land, I was grabbed and kept prisoner as a thrall to oversee Bahamut's resurrection. Right now, I'm holding it back as much as I can."

"Is there any way we can help you?" The Roegadyn asked in worry.

He shook his head, "There's little you could do now. But we have a more pressing matter. Our old foe has risen from the darkness." The five stiffened at that. "Which is why I had called you from your slumber. For the realm is in need of your assistance."

"We'll do what we can, Louisiox. We won't let your sacrifice be in vain." The young girl said.

A gateway of light appeared behind them, "Thank you, my friends. That gateway there will take you back to Eorzea, but you might be separated to the three city-states. Good luck. May you walk in the light of the crystal."

They nodded and proceeded to the gateway.

Eorzea, we're coming home...

Okay, so this here is my second FFXIV story. While writing the second chapter of Tales of Eorzea, I was thinking about the Legacy characters and wanted to write in their point of view so here they are.

Now I didn't care much about what race is best suited for what class so you might see some odd ones here.

Also, as I said in the other story, I will only be going through the Main Scenario Quests so that means no Job Quest or Guild Quest because since there are going to be more than one character here going through all three city-states, then these stories might be over a hundred. And yes, I'll also go over Heavensward as well.

Another thing, I'll be adding a new race here. This race should be obvious if you have played FFXII since it was said that this race was to be used in the Heavensward expansion but was scrapped and the development team used the Au Ra instead. Their lore is pretty much similar to the Elezen but I'll go over them in a later chapter. For those who guessed correctly, here is a cookie!

In the next chapter, we'll be going over Ul'Dah and introduce a new character to the group.

Anyways, here's a question I want to ask you: Which race is like you? As in which race you think is similarly to the real-life you?

For me is the Lalafell because I'm very short and people kept mistaking my age from my appearance so they can't tell my real age. Just like you can't tell a Lalafell's. And the way I walk when I want to get somewhere is somewhat similar.