Hey guys, It's V929 here, and here is the new story I was talking about! enjoy FFIX:TAY!
DISCLAIMER: ALL CHARACTERS OTHER THAN THURID, SOLICE, LITTLE FREYA AND LITTLE FRATLELY AND GALGAMISH ARE NOT OWNED BY ME, ALL OTHERS BELONG TO SQUARE CO. LTD 2000/ SQUARESOFT/ SQUARE ELECTRONIC ARTS L.L.C THURID, SOLICE, LITTLE FREYA, LITTLE FRATLEY AND GALGAMISH ALL BELONG TO ME
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Final Fantasy IX: The After Years
Prologue: Final Exam
"Thurid! Thurid! Where are you?" My Mother's voice called out throughout Alexandria Castle
"I'm up here, Mother!" I called hanging from the first-floor balcony by my tail; I jumped down, landing swiftly on my feet and running over to Mother, daggers and staff ready to depart for the final exam that Father insisted on me taking, in case I was to travel the world. As I got to her, she surveyed me with her caring, brown eyes, and smiled
"Just like your father" she observed, placing a hand on my shoulder.
"But in a way, I'm better than him I mean, I have his weapon skills but I can use magic and summon Eidolons, like you right?" I asked, shrugging Mother's hand off my shoulder
"Yes, but you will never be able to say you have done what he has"
"I know" I replied "Mother, do you ever think I will see Terra, or Kuja, or Mikoto?"
"You will see Mikoto someday, you can be sure of that, but I'm not sure about Terra or Kuja, but let me tell you, Terra, was a wonderful place, no doubt you would have liked it there" smiled Garnet
"Right…so, where are we going? Train-oh? Tram row? Tren low?"
"Treno"
"Yeah, I was close" I laughed "so where do we go?"
"We go towards the dungeons, then we will take a gargant, and we will be at Treno"
"Oh right… is a gargant like a giant insect that likes gyshal flowers?"
"How did you know?" asked Mother, suspiciously
"I saw Father's card pack, and there was a gargant one there… plus I've talked to Vivi quite a lot about your adventures together and he said it even goes all the way to Pinnacle Rocks over by Lindblum" I answered quickly.
As me and Mother arrived at Gargant Roo, I looked around and marvelled at the detail on the walls, despite the wide, cavernous room, and the marble carvings, this place was a dump. I walked around the corner, and a giant brown worm looking thing attacked me, I was quick enough to not take the whole damage, I dodged as the beast's claws ripped though the arm in my clothes, and giving me a slight wound, as I turned around I landed on it's back and drove one of my daggers into the back of it's neck, killing it, as I jumped off, it disappeared in a puff of smoke, dropping a card of all things, I looked at it and it said 'Crawler: It prefers to attack it's prey with it's stomach before eating it' "eww" I commented before pocketing the card. I looked up to find a strange, greyish-blue insect eating a tray of gyshal flowers; I pointed at it, looked back at Mother and said "THAT is a gargant, right?"
"Yeah, that is the 'ferry' between here, Treno and Pinnacle Rocks we should get on quick, once it finishes eating, it'll start moving"
"Right" I said, jumping into the old carriage. Like Mother said, once the gargant finished eating it was on the move. After what seemed like only ten minutes, another tray of food came down, giving us enough time to get off the unsteady carriage "is this it?" I asked, looking around at the same marble carvings I marvelled at Alexandria
"Yes, this is Gargant Roo, Treno Station" Mother replied. I went into a small marble doorway and looked around
"Where do we go up?" I questioned
"The ladder" Mum pointed at the wall opposite, through the dim light, I just managed to see the outline of a ladder going up. I climbed until my arms started to ache, I looked up and noticed a small opening, I pushed it open and climbed in, I looked up and saw a short, brown-haired man stood there, I stood up, brushed myself off, and he toddled over to me and grabbed my hand
"You must be Thurid, correct?" I looked at him, dumbfound and shocked, how did this stranger know my name? "Oh, forgive me, I'm Doctor Tot, I was your mother's tutor when she was only a small child"
"R-right… okay?" I said, walking backwards with a ridiculous look on my face
"Sorry, sorry, I know this is the first time you've seen me, and I understand you are confused, but there is nothing to worry about, I shall let you get on with your business, Prince Thurid, Queen Garnet" he said with a nod, and stepping backwards, giving us room to walk past.
"Thanks" I said, nodding back at him, walking to the bottom of the tower, as I left I looked at the sky "It's night time already? It was morning when we left, wasn't it?" I asked mother
"Yes, but this is Treno, City of Eternal Darkness"
"Oh… so, it's always night here?"
"Yes, right then, you see that tall building with a knight's crest upon over there? That's the knight's house, they keep monsters there, and I have arranged a monster for you to fight for the final exam today."
When we got to the knight's house, there was an old lady behind a counter
"How may I help you?" questioned the elderly woman in her croaking voice.
"I would like to buy a set of mage mashers and a mythril rod" Mother answered, handing over what I calculated to be 340 Gil to the woman, giving me the weapons
"Then I wish for the monster down below to be battled"
"Who will fight it?"
"Thurid will"
"Okay, but I can't guarantee his safety madam"
"I know." Then the next thing I knew, the metal gates below me had opened and I dropped into a pit, to have some sort of goo with many eyes slowly crawl towards me, I did the first thing I thought of and used the 'scan' spell, I learnt it was called 'hecteyes' and that it originates from Terra interesting I thought but how the hell do I beat this thing? So I launched the first attack by running and attacking the thing's eyes with my new daggers, and then when I jumped back, I noticed I inflicted the slightest damage possible so, it's a magic beast is it? I took a step forward, swung the staff in a circle, and pointed it at the hecteyes shouting
"Fenrir, Terrestrial Rage!" then everything went dark, and then a wolf appeared, the summon beast of earth and wind, Fenrir upon Titan, the stone beast of the earth, then light appeared in the floor, and then titan's giant fist burst from where the light was, making the hecteyes fly high into the air, as it had nearly reached the ground, I took out a mage masher and sliced upwards, cutting it in half, then it disappeared in a puff of smoke, just like the Crawler at Gargant Roo Alexandria Station, but then, when I turned around, there were many more hecteyes, surrounding me, I couldn't move, and the last thing I heard was my mothers voice screaming,
"Thurid, Thurid! Somebody save him!" then everything went black.
Chapter 1: Awakening
"Ow, my head aches" I said, rubbing my head looking around "what happened? Where am I?" then I heard my mother's voice in my head Thurid, Thurid! Somebody save him! I could hear her crying in the distance as I was taken away "Mother!" I called, shooting to my feet, as I secured myself I put my hand to my head, and as I pulled it back, I noticed the blood coming from my horn, I turned my head and seen that my tail was perfectly fine, swinging to and fro, like normal. I pulled my hood over my head. As I was about to start walking off, I heard footsteps behind me, the first thing I did was go to pull my mage mashers out as I turned to see who was behind me. No-one was there. I then heard a whoosh behind me and I turned and as I was about to strike, I found a small girl wearing a black mage hat and blonde hair, she had a tail, and attached to her waist, she had two 'lunar axes' axes with blades in the shape of a gibbous moon, attached to a block that connected them to the hilt and like me, she had a staff on her back, I recognized it, it was the same as Vivi's Mace of Zeus. I stopped and surveyed the girl's face, it looked somewhat familiar
"I-is there something on my face?" she asked me, looking nervous, as she looked up, I noticed her eyes had a faint orange glow, just like Vivi.
"Huh? Oh, no, I thought I recognized you, sorry" I replied, scratching my head she must be like me, a half-breed I thought
"What's a half-breed?" she asked me, raising one of her eyebrows
"Wh-what?!" I said, gaping "You can read my mind?"
"Yeah! It's a trait I get from my mother, now, what's a half-breed?"
"Oh, it's someone whose parents of a different race, I have a feeling that you're like that"
"Oh, well, yeah, I am, my dad is a black mage, he doesn't have a name as such, everyone calls him 'Mr. 288' or '288' and my mum is a genome, she's called Mikoto, I follow her name, as dad hasn't got a surname, her surname's Tribal"
"Mikoto Tribal?" I asked, startled
"Yeah… why?" she asked me
"Well, you see, my father's sister is called Mikoto Tribal, I was wondering if she was the same one" I said. I started walking around, taking in my surroundings; it looked like a mine, even more of a dump than Gargant Roo" I turned to look at the girl again
"Where are we" I asked
"We're in Fossil Roo, Outer Continent, c'mon, I'll show ya where I live!" she said, running off "See if ya can catch up!" she called as I ran past her
"Why don't YOU try catching up!" I replied
"You don't know where you're going!"
"Yeah I do, we're going to Black Mage Village!"
"So, this is your home?" I asked her, looking at all the huts
"Yeah, it's not much, but, at least I know I'm safe here" she replied
"Solice!" called a female voice from somewhere "Solice Tribal! Where are you?"
"I'm right here Mum! C'mon" she said to me, dragging me up to a woman with blonde hair and pale blue eyes, wearing a pink and white top, with black neck cloth, and arm clothes, waist and socks, with pink and greyish-white metal boots "Mum, I found this strange boy in Fossil Roo"
"Hey! Who're you calling stra-" I started, but then I could feel Mikoto's eyes boring into me, I turned to look at her
"What's your name?" she asked me, bending her legs to be at my level.
"Thurid, Prince Thurid Tribal til Alexandros" I said proudly, pointing at my chest
"What's under your hood?" she asked, lifting her hand up to take it off
"Oh, it's my summoner's horn, and what's with all the questions?"
"I think an auntie has her own reasons for questioning her nephew"
"How do you know I'm your nephew?"
"You look just like… them"
"Them?"
"Zidane and Sarah"
"Mother… Father" I said, remembering what happened.
"What's wrong?" asked Solice
"Don't worry" I said, "it's late, we should go to sleep."