I do not own Final Fantasy XIII as the distributor and ownership is Square Enix, I also do not own Kamen Rider Wizard as it's claimed by Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei, All I shall own in this crossover is My OC!
Chapter I
A Brand New Wizard
"My name is Daniel Smith, and what I'm about to tell you is something you wouldn't believe."
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Gunshots were echoing all around my ears as I stared down at the path, robed in something like a priestess kimono, garbed in white and somewhat similar to a strait-jacket with some blue highlights on the sleeves and strange headpiece on the hood, almost in fashion to that of a neck brace, instead, hugging the sides of my head, we just barely escaped a train bound for Pulse and ended up on the transit between Pulse and Cocoon.
I'm getting ahead of myself here, my name is Daniel Smith and I'm not from this strange world, one day, I was about to play Final Fantasy XIII with no prior knowledge of the game or its characters despite it being out for a while, but a friend lent it to me and I decided to try playing it despite it being a thundery day, after a brilliant flash of white from selecting New Game, I woke and found myself in this strange world arriving at a place called Bodhum.
A voice of a male snapped me out of my thoughts and I gazed upwards from out under the hood, he wore a white trench coat with a black bandana wrapped around his head with his blonde hair coming out from it. "We'll clear you a path out of here, so be ready to-" but he was cut off by others wanting to fight with this man and then the words came. "Okay, volunteers front and centre."
"I can't fight, I'm not that courageous... besides, it's not my fight." I thought as I watched people pick up guns and a woman stepped up, I heard a boy speak. "Mom?" he asked and I felt a bit jealous, he had a mother and mine…wasn't here until a girl took the last gun. "Here!" her voice sounded almost Australian to me and the man spoke.
"We're going home together!" He said rather confidently and I merely said nothing, how could I? I wasn't home at all and soon we were being led by one of the bandana's friends to a higher level and we shuffled along to what I assumed was an aircraft carrier and I watched, my eyes taking in the chaos and destruction that ravaged the area as I noticed a big structure being passed through by airships and the boy and girl I heard by voice were nearby, the boy stripping his strange garments for clothing underneath to have a green bandanna around his neck and a yellow jacket with orange small cape on his shoulders while a case for carrying something on his waist as hands were gloved, his hair was white as snow which I found to be an odd colour of choice as he stared to two other people presumably family
My attention was then brought to the girl,, she too stripped off the outfit and under was a most unusual attire I seen, she had bright red hair curled into pigtails, green eyes and her ears pierced with small silver hoops while her outfit consisted of light pink halter top, an orange and yellow skirt and some beige boots and for reason, had a fur pelt around her waist, numerous bracelets or beads were also attached somewhere on her.
"Whoa…" I thought to myself, even though the world around me was practically hell, she somehow seemed to shine through all of it, either that or it was hormones reacting to her, but then before I could gain control of myself, she hugged the boy and I sighed quietly. "Of course." I thought before she ran off, the boy following after her but my feet were moving to follow.
"Wait, what am I wearing this for?" My senses came to like a few steps behind the two and pulled off the strange garment, having figured out how it worked from others getting it off, revealing my dark brown flat hair, with it coming down just above my eyebrows, my attire consisting of a black unzipped jacket with a dull red shirt underneath while I wore black jeans and white trainers, laces tied in black, but the most unusual thing I had was a belt with a hand serving a buckle, a yellow outlined hand with black in it and two buttons to rotate it in the opposite direction as on my right hip, was very tightly knotted pouch at a size of a smart phone, the top zipped up as there was notably, some items within it, but on my right hand, on my finger was a normal sized ring, but on it was a red crystal with some plastic attached and the other hand, same finger, had the same but instead, a smaller form of the buckle imprinted on it and attached to the back, was a holster and a silver handle to grab, the object securely in place.
Now you may call me childish for wearing the Wizardriver and having two of the Rings, but they were brought into this world with me well, the buckle merging with my normal belt and the Rings made more smaller so they don't stick out during the transit, but to my displeasure, I haven't been able to use them or transform, or rather, I couldn't, they were just toys, only the item attached to my back wasn't.
The man in bandanna did arrive on some hovercraft, but I couldn't hear the conversation between him or his friends and the man shot off and the two approached a left behind craft the same as before as I tried hard to listen.
"I want to tell him, it's just that-" The boy grabbed the girl's wrist and she asked him. "Say... you know how to fly this?" She asked and she pushed him into the strange craft and joined him, taking the back seat and I slowly approached them, "That will make us I'Cie."
"I'Cie? What's that?" I asked myself in my thoughts before I heard a cry "What are you three doing!?" It was the muscular man with orange Mohawk or something similar running towards us and the boy spoke. "Here we go!"
My body reacted and I just leapt onto barely the side of the compartment as the machine shuddered violently and ascended and I found the girl stare at me in surprise and grabbed a hold of my shirt and pulled me in roughly, an arm around my waist and clutching onto the boy's waist as but unfortunately, one of the wings hit the rail and rotated upside down into a spin,, naturally the girl screamed and I did too but the boy somehow regained control of the craft and the man called out. "Get back here! You hear me?" Get back here!" He called out but the boy drive on forward, to the strange huge transporting object, not asking if I wanted to be down or not.
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Screams came from all three of us as we literally crash-landed and sprawled out about a good distance away, myself on my back, the girl on top of me and the boy's head on her back as we were all conscious to say the least
"Wow that was close…" She said and took note of her position and pushed herself off and did the boy and I sat up as the girl spoke. "Now… where is the…" We all looked to see the craft had crashed nearby. "Well then…" She said and looked around. "Guess it's… just us." And she connected her index fingers at a point and her little fingers interlocked with one another.
I pushed myself up onto my legs, trying to regain my bearing. "What do you expect?" The boy's voice rose and continued. "Even soldiers know not to go near the fal'Cie, you become a Pulse I'Cie and you're finished." He said with finality.
"What do you mean, finished?" The girl asked him. "Haven't you heard, Miss-" he was cut off. "Vanille." The boy was confused and she continued. "My name, and yours?" She offers a hand up to help him up and he took it. "Hope." He answered.
"And you are?" She finally took notice of me and I looked directly at her, my brown eyes meeting her green ones. "Daniel." I answered her.
"What were we thinking?" Hope asked, looking down at the floor as Vanille looked thoughtful for a few seconds. "Well, since we're here, let's look around!" She said and Hope sighed and we proceeded onwards up some steps. "Hey, check this out!"
Vanille climbed up to a big pillar and went behind it a while before bringing out some strange head piece resembles a pair of antlers and the body consisting of four long wires with hooks and stared at us. "Well?" She asked, an almost serious expression. "That's uh…" Hope started to say and I finished for him. "A strange weapon?" I asked as she playfully swung it around but then a roar came, or a growl more like as a red bestial creature was the top of another flight of stairs and Vanille took her position, wielding the strange weapon and Hope bringing out a boomerang and I reached down for the handle of the object attached to the container on my back and brought out a strange sword with the hand buckle adjourning the hilt, it was the Wizarswordgun.
"No daydreaming now." Vanille said and Hope threw his Boomerang, somehow controlling it with very good aim so it returned after bouncing off the creature and I switch the Wizardswordgun to its Shooting Mode, flipping the blade back to reveal a barrel and pulled the trigger, firing upon the creature with accurate aim before Vanille used the hooks to digs into the creature at a distance, between us the three, the creature fell soon after, disappearing into black.
"Okay, back to exploring." Vanille said and turned on her heel as she placed her wand behind her as we ascended the stairs nearby as me and Hope followed, we walked around, fighting monsters of the same type as before, thankfully, Vanille and Hope seemed to be know what they were doing as I never really had a chance to practice my…swordsmanship.
"Aren't you scared?" Hope asked Vanille and she casually responded. "Not so much." As Hope replied. "You really don't get it." He said as Vanille turned around with a thoughtful look. "Pulse fal-Cie and I'Cie are bad news, that's why Cocoon kicked them out, live too close to fal'Cie? One way ticket to Pulse! That's the Purge in a nutshell!"
"If they catch us here, they'll Purge us too! And then-" He was cut off by Vanille. "What's' your problem?" she asked and Hope responded. "What's my- Pulse is hell on earth!" He said with a despaired look before Vanille hugged the boy again.
"Can't be worse than this, that's for sure." I thought before a voice echo. "Serah? Can you hear me? Where are you?" I looked up and around. "That sounds like that guy." I noted and the voice continued. "Hang on baby! Your hero's on the way!" before some lights activated on the roof and connected to some pillars as a set of stairs were made from the floor.
"He is here… calling himself a hero…"" Hope said and looked down and Vanille spoke. "He's coming our way." She said and Hope stared at her. "W-What should I do?" He asked her and she responded. "Tell him what you need to."
"But nothing I say will change what happened." He said and Vanille took a moment to think. "We could just… run away. She suggested and he nodded and I spoke. "Well, let's get going." I said and followed Hope who led on.
We soon came to a rather huge circular platform as we descended another stairway with much space to give, pillar everywhere as Hope was awestruck, I was too. "This is almost like… a station." I muttered and Hope nodded at my answer before groans were heard and from both left and right sides, creatures were approaching us, almost like zombie but not, having some coral on them and some kind of red eyes in their chest.
"What are they?" Hope asked with a scared tone as we stood back to back in a triangle formation. "Cie'th! I'Cie who failed! This is what happens… when I'Cie don't complete the Focus the fal'Cie gave them."
The Cie'th monsters slowly approached us, tightening a circle formation before a yell came as we all looked to see the trench coat man came from a flight of steps, running up them and tackling one out of the way and joining us as he spread out his arm in a protective manner. "Let's even these odds!" He said and we all pulled our weapons out.
The man produced a hand grenade form his jacket and threw it between two Cie'th and they exploded while Hope accurately controlled his boomerang to hit another one, Vanille uses his Bindings to trap one in place and I ran forward, thrusting the gun point blank into the Cie'th and firing in its abdomen and quickly moved back as fast as my legs could as the man grinned. "Nice toy kiddo." He said and punched one away from him, well in the stomach
We all worked together, the trench coat man providing his body and strength to cover us should we not back away in time.
Hope fell to his knees as I fell upon one, kneeling with the Wizarswordgun for support, I wasn't used to this all this fighting to save my life, put it simply as the man spoke. "What are you doing here? You gotta leave." He approached us and Vanille looked to us both and gave a nervous chuckle.
"Okay, listen, find someplace to hide and keep quiet." He walked around. "Once I find Serah, we'll all leave together, you'll be home in time for dinner." He smiled, giving us thumbs up and he started to break into a run had Vanille not spoken. "Wait!"
"Who's Serah?" She asked him and he turned around. "My wife. Future wife, that is." He said and looked out to the vastness of the room. "She's a Pulse I'Cie." He said calmly and Vanille muttered. "Oh no." she covered her mouth.
"She's somewhere in here along with that fal'Cie, I gotta find her and set her free." He started to descend down the steps. "I gotta find her and set her free!" He said as Hope got up and cried out. "What's wrong with you? Why do you want to help I'Cie? They're the enemy!"
The man turned around as Hope continued. "How can you save a I'Cie and not... and not." He couldn't finish what he was saying. "That's insane!" He finished, stamping a foot down and the man chuckled a bit. "Probably, but I gotta do something, right? I'll be back!" he said as he rubbed his bandana and broke off into a small run, out of our sight as Hope fell to his knees again.
"Should we wait around for him and hitch a ride?" She asked us and Hope banged his fists on the floor. "I'd rather go to Pulse! Why is this happening to me?" He asked and stood myself up, catching my breath. "When they found the fal'Cie the other day, we were just visiting Bodhum… but the army took, us, threw us on that train, and because of that guy, Mom is- And he wants to help a I'Cie?" he asked, a hand covering his eyes.
"Is he saying, that guy is responsible for his mom's…" I thought before the man returned to us. "Hey again." He waved to us and Vanille nodded. "Hey." She said and bent down to Hope, holding his hands. "Let's go with him." And he looked at her.
"What?" He asked and she continued. "You gotta talk to him, Hope. If you don't take this chance, you'll regret it forever." She said as I looked at them. "Besides, the more we have, the better we'll survive, right?" I asked and Hope looked at me and nodded. "Okay." As Vanille rose him up and the man broke into a run. "Let's go!" He said and we all followed behind him.
The man lead us through a strange puzzle mechanism, solving it as we descended on a platform and on the way down, we spotted two pink haired women and a black male with an afro, one of the women, carrying the other and the man jumped off and landed on the floor and ran up as he held her hand. "Serah."
"Is that… my hero?" Serah asked as we approached from behind, Serah was one with a ponytail to left side of her head as the man spoke. "Let's get you outta here." Before the other woman who seemed to be wearing some kind of futuristic left shoulder pad. "Hands off, I'm taking her home."
"Sis I-" The man said as the woman answered back. "I'm not your sister! You couldn't protect her, it's your fault she-" as Serah interrupted her. "You can save us." She said weakly and the woman looked at her. "Serah?" She asked as Serah repeated it. "You can save us, protect us all. Save… Cocoon."
"Save Cocoon? Serah? That was your Focus?" The woman asked and the man spoke. "Anything, I'll do anything. Leave it to me, you'll see. I'll protect Cocoon, I'll save everyone!" the man said desperately and the woman looked at Serah. "Somehow, I'll make things right." As the man continued. "You just relax."
"Thank you." Serah managed to say before a blue light started to envelop her and started floating upwards and starting to turn to crystal. "What…?" I managed to say and Hope started to speak.
"L'Cie who fulfilled their Focus, transform to crystal and gain eternal life, just like the stories say." The crystalized Serah descended onto the ground as the man spoke. "Serah, Sweet dreams." He said as the woman pushed the afro male and approached him, obviously mad. "Sweet dreams?" He grabbed him by the scruff of his coat. "She's not sleeping! Serah… she's..!" She let go and stepped back.
"She's alive!" The man answered. "No!" the woman said and the man continued. "The legend, remember the legend I'Cie who fulfil their Focus turn to crystal and gain eternal life!" He was turning and looked at each of the people who were gathered. "Eternal life! She's not dead!" He said and stared at the woman. "Serah's my bride-to-be, I promised to be hers forever, I don't' care how many years I'll have to wait-" The woman punched him as the man fell to the floor
"it's over! Open your eyes and face reality!" She said with a final tone to her voice as we all watched the argument unfold and the whole place shook and the afro man spoke. "Oh! Wait."
Hope fell to his knees, covering his ears as Vanille looked at him. "What now?" worry in her voice as the man continued. "The army!" He said as debris and dust started falling, Serah's man and her sister covering the crystalized Serah.
"Care to explain!?" I asked in a panic and the man continued. "Must be a Sanctum strike! Bring down the Vestige and the fal'Cie with it!" He said as Vanille managed to make her way to him and grabbed his hands for support. "Aren't they taking it back to Pulse? That's what the Purge was, right?"
"All they care about is getting everything from Pulse off Cocoon. Dead or alive, it's all the same." He answered as Hope cried out. "We can't stay here, they'll kill us!"
The shaking came to an abrupt stop and up ahead, a door with a strange orange mark vanished and opened. "I'll be right back, hold on." Serah's man said and held her hand briefly before walking around to approach the door.
"Trench Coat, where you going?" Afro asked and he looked at him. "Date with the fal'Cie, got some things to talk about." He said, looking up at the open door. "What? You're gonna ask it to help her? Are you out of your mind kid?" Afro asked him.
"That thing wants to chew us and spit us out!" He said and Trench Coat turned, swinging an arm. "Then what do you want me to do?" he shouted at him as Serah's Sister stepped forward and passed by Trench Coat, I barely heard her name. "Lightning?"
Afro sighed and followed them. "Here we go…" He said and us three followed after them, albeit, reluctantly and inside was a hallway and came to a stop at some machine and Hope spoke. "So this is… the fal'Cie." He said.
"Serah's a crystal now, you gave her a Focus, and she did it! You got what you want! Now let her go!" Trench Coat said, pointing at the machine but nothing was occurring and he fell to his knees. "Please… turn her back!" He begged and looked up at the machine, hand over his heart. "I'll be your I'Cie instead!"
Lightning started to speak. "Fine, you go on begging, like this thing gives a damn what we want!" She drawn out her weapon and struck the contraption as Trench Coat looked at her. "Lightning!"
"It's this thing's fault the Purge started, and people are dying, Serah told us to save Cocoon, that means this thing needs to die!" She said and the whole room lit up with an yellow hue, gears activating and the spherical object Lightning struck opening with a flash of light as on the left and right sides, two revolving pillars emerged and some within that object, some kind of lighted crystal in its centre as the machine humanoid with claws as everyone stared, Hope running back emerged as well and he slammed into an energy barrier similar to the mark on the door as me and Vanille ran to check on him.
"We're trapped!" Hope said, worried and I didn't want to acknowledge him about that but it was true, we were stuck between a fal'Cie and no way out, clashes were heard from behind, appearently, Lightning, Afro and Trench Coat were all attacking the creature as we watched on, after a while, they managed to beat it and a huge flash occurred, blinding everyone.
~?~
My ears rang with the sound of bells tolling and I found myself floating in some strange place, a large crystal hovering and Lightning asked a question that was on all our minds. "Where are we?" and Trench Coat's voice came next. "What's going on?" He asked as well.
The huge crystal was hit with some energy and from it came I suppose, the fal'Cie's true form and tendrils of white grabbed all of us, and their grip was strong and a flash of light trailed down, hitting everyone one of us, mine ending up on the back of right hand, the sensation was surreal and the fal'Cie released us but instead flashes of a grey haze of some monster came into my mind and overwhelmed me, a blur of grey and white.
-?-
"Serah!" A familiar voice called out and woke me from my vision and we pushed ourselves us, I counted who else there were, Lightning, Trench Coat, Afro, Vanille, and Hope. "Is this…for real?" Afro asked and I looked at our landscape, we were standing on crystal with formations being of water waves.
"This must be… Lake Bresha?"Afro asked no-one in particular. "I guess we fell from up there and the lake turned to crystal?" He said and continued but my mind was elsewhere, trying to shake off the vision I had, shaking my head a bit to attempt to clear my mind before a Cie'th was stuttering behind Lightning, Trench Coat reacting.
"Watch out!" He blocked the heavy coral arm of the Cie'th and his arm glowed blue and he punched the Cie'th, ice forming from the blow. "What did I… just do?" he asked in confusion.
"You used magic! You used the power of a I'Cie! The fal'Cie cursed us, we're all I'Cie now!" As more Cie'th were gathering and I heard his words and I wondered, maybe just maybe?
"It's worth a try…" I thought and clicked the on switch of the Driver Buckle and it spoke. "Shadooie touch to henshin! Shadooie touch to henshin!" It said and I flipped the plastic over the red gem, forming a mask as everyone stared at me and I scanned the ring.
"Flame~ Please! Hi~ Hi~ Hi~ Hi!" The belt said and I extended my arm out, a Flame magic circle forming beside me and slowly passed over, forming the familiar armour of Wizard when it finished, looks of surprise shocked everyone and I was surprised too as I move into Wizard's stance. "It's… Showtime." I said and Lightning withdrawn her sword. "Right." She said as Snow, Vanille and herself stood together as I joined them, bringing out my own weapon.
Vanille cast some type of Wind-Magic while Snow was charging and punching while taking little amounts of damage, but Lightning was quick and agile on her feet, slicing left and right, back flipping to gain some ground and I too joined the fray, striking upon the closest Cie'th and sparks were created on contact as I done a side slash as well and use one of my feet to kick it back and folded the blade back, revealing the Gun mode and fired a couple of shots upon it, causing it to fall and disappear into darkness.
"Wah!" Hope's voice cried out as he was stepping back from two Cie'th coming for him and Afro with his guns firing at a Cie'th and I spoke. "Hope, don't move, stay right where you are!" I fired six bullets straight at Hope, the projectiles coated in red magic and just as it seemed as they were about to hit him, they curved around and connected with the Cie'th causing them to stagger back as I stood beside him.
"Let's try this one out." I said and stabbed the WizarSworGun into the ground and replaced the flame ring on my finger, I had a Ring with a dragon seemed bound by chains and rotated the Driver as it spoke. "Luppachi magic, touch to go! Luppachi magic, touch to go!" It repeated as I put it over the Hand Author. "Bind, Please!"
Four red magical circles surrounded the two Cie'th and chains sprouted out from them and entangled themselves around the two creatures as I reclaimed my weapon and fired few more times, causing them to become black mist as well.
The adrenaline from the fight soon came to a halt as the last of the Cie'th were taken care of and Trench Coat spoke. "So, we're really are I'Cie." He said as I cancelled the transformation and Afro spoke. "Looks like it."
"You too?" Trench Coat asked Vanille who nodded and raised up his skirt a bit to show her Mark on her thigh as I looked at my hand closer, it was a strange pattern, the same as Vanille's but it covered most of my left hand and a part of wrist and shown it to everyone.
"L'Cie to the last." Lightning said as Hope fell to his knees and asked himself in desperation. "Why me?" he looked at Lightning "I don't' even know you! But you have to go and attack that thing? Just leave me alone!" he cried out as he stared at Trench Coat and looked down at the crystal ground. "It's your fault-, It's your fault my- You could've-" Fists were clenched and he stood up, screaming at trench Coat. "All of this is yours and Serah's fault!" he cried out.
"Watch it! Trench Coat responded in a serious tone as Hope fell onto his bottom and frightened of him as he shuffled back, only to look over his shoulder and have Lightning glare at him and he cowered, hand sover head and I had to admit something. "This is just pathehic…" I thought.
"Sorry." Trench Coat apologized, a hand to his forehead as Vanille comforted Hope. "Everything's going to be alright, you'll see. Come on." She reassured him and helped him up. "Off we go!" She started off in a direction taking Hope along with her and soon everyone else started to follow them, me included.
"Anyway, I'm Snow, Snow Villers, Miss Solider is called Lightning," Snow introduced as Afro spoke. "Sazh, and you kids are?" He asked us as Vanille smiled. "I'm Vanille, this is Hope and Daniel!" She said without holding back at all.
"The mark of a I'Cie, a brand that marked me a monster in people's eye and granting me the ability to become Wizard, but little did I know, from this point on, my life would be changed forever." I narrated to someone.