Nagi the Dark Enforcer

by overlord prinny

Altered begining. Nagi is an assassin for-hire. his newest and biggest job is a mark at the zaphias castle. from there it goes from cannon to my own storyline.

1. A job

Just so no one gets confused. In my copy of the game I always named the following characters the following names:

Yuri - Nagi

Estelle - Tama

Karol - Lloyd

Repede - Tenebre (He was hilarious in ToS 2)

Raven - Raven

Judith - Judith

Rita - Yuffie

As such, they will be renamed for the entire fanfic minus certain events*.

The Storyline is cannon sometimes and other times it will be my own. To help imagine the story a bit better as well as save me some explanation time, Imagine Nagi wearing his dark enforcer outfit with the tiny sunglasses attachment. ( a kind of badass Ovan if you will.)

Thank you and enjoy.

He was bored. An understatement at best, He spent most of his time watching the lower quarter citizens continue with their daily lives. He wished he could say he didn't care about them, He really did. But then there was the fact that old man Hanks had been good to Nagi ever since he was found in the fountain in the middle of the lower quarter as a baby. Also, his faithful companion Tenebre, a unique dog having purple fur and always having a pipe in its mouth along with a small dagger on his shoulder, made its home in the lower quarter inn after its master died.

These days however, Tenebre seemed to prefer the company of Nagi than the citizens. Did he consider Nagi its new master? No. Did he follow him around because he was a good source of food? No. They just seemed to have a special bond between them. They were friends and partners, whether it was fighting to the death or simply sleeping at the inn, they were always together. Even when Nagi had begun his new career as an assassin for hire, Tenebre remained a loyal companion, adopting the nickname 'Silver fang' to go with Nagi's business name 'Crimson fang' after the blood colored blade he always carried around.

Nagi's gaze over the plaza flickered upwards when he noticed a piece of paper flutter down just within his reach. He quickly snatched the paper out of the air and scanned it quickly. He then tossed the paper into the nearby trash and smirked into his scarf "Yo, Tenebre. We got work."

The snoozing dog lifted its head and nodded, slowly getting up and stretching/yawning. As Nagi got down from his window/seat, the door suddenly swung open and a young boy dashed into the room and skidded to a halt in front of him. "Nagi! This is not good!" Nagi rolled his eyes and knelt down to the boys level "Whats with all the yelling, Ted?" The boy looked both scared and excited at the same time, rarely a good combination. Ted climbed over the window and pointed towards the fountain with a frown. "Look! The aque blastia's broken again! And they just finished fixing it." Nagi heaved a sigh and shrugged "Whats the big deal? Just leave it to the high and mighty imperial knights. That's what they're there for." Ted gave him a look that said 'are you kidding me?' "Hah, the knights? You know they never come to the lower quarter." Nagi stood up and began walking towards the door, hoisting his blade over his shoulder "Oh? And what about the heroic Flynn?"

Flynn was a member of the imperial knights and one of Nagi's oldest friends. When Flynn was still living in the lower quarter as a child, they took care of Tenebre after the innkeeper took him in.

"I already tried to get Flynn." Ted exclaimed, jumping down from the window and running after Nagi "They wouldn't even let me see him!" Nagi chuckled as he stopped and turned "Oh, so I'm Flynn's replacement, huh?" Ted moved to block the doorway with a childish pout "Never mind that, come on! We're short on people!"

A woman's voice suddenly echoed from outside the door.

"Ted! Ted! You get down here! They need your help, too!"

"I'll…I'll be there in a sec!" Ted turned back to Nagi and frowned "Nagi…Come on already!" They boy then turned and dashed out the door. As he watched Ted run into the plaza, Nagi frowned and looked at Tenebre, who was scratching his ear, and said "That's weird. He always comes running whenever there's trouble." Tenebre merely nodded and trotted out the door. Nagi stole a last glance outside the window and frowned at the large fountain before walking out the door. "This place is gonna become an aquarium soon if this keeps up."

The imperial capital, Zaphias

Tenebre sat in front of the inn's doorway calmly watching the people run around carrying sandbags. He always wondered what it would be like to stand on two feet and walk. For now however, he was content with his four paws, they were warmer anyway. Ted came out of the inn, and seeing Tenebre there, attempted to pet him resulting in Tenebre moving away closer to the waterway across from the door "Aww come on Tenebre…" Ted said with a pout and crossed his arms childishly. "He won't let anyone but me and Flynn pet him." Ted watched as Nagi descended the steps and pouted harder "But that's not fair…I feed him sometimes!" Nagi just laughed and begun walking towards the plaza followed closely by Tenebre.

Nagi watched with a tiny amount of amusement watching most of the citizens shovel water out of the quickly pooling plaza. He normally was welcome to help with many of the problems facing the lower quarter, ever since he became an assassin for-hire however; the people seemed to trust him less and less as the days went by. Many of the citizens wondered when it would be their turn to be one of his marks.

"We've got to seal it off somehow!"

The familiar voice of old man Hanks broke Nagi out of his thoughts. Nagi moved closer to the fountain and grinned "Whats going on? Any sunken treasure?" A man nearby glared at him and pretended to be shoveling water and 'accidentally' throw water on his face. "Oops, my bad." The man said with a hint of malice in his voice. Tenebre began growling at the man causing him to back off a bit "Enough Tenebre. He'll get his turn." Nagi said with a smirk. The man quickly began shaking in fear "M-Murderer! Dark child!" Nagi rolled his eyes and continued examining the fountain. Only Hanks, Tenebre and Nagi himself knew that he would never accept the jobs that came from the upper quarters that had to do with exterminating the lower citizens simply for 'stinking up the city'. A man working with Hanks grunted and slowly stood up "Looks like that blue hooded mage we hired to fix the blastia left the job half done." He said aloud. Hanks finally noticed Nagi and smiled "Glad you could find the time to stop by, Nagi!" Nagi laughed, he enjoyed the word fights that he had with Hanks on a daily basis. "Take it easy with the water sports, old man. You're not getting any younger." Ohyeah.Nagi thought in victory Nagi4Hanks2!

Hanks smirked and, knowing that he had lost that round, decided to get one last jab in and motioned around him "You're up next, not afraid of a little water, I hope." Nagi gave a look of mock fear "Yikes." Hanks laughed and bent down to shovel more water "Come on now! Put your backs into it! Heave, ho! Heave…." Nagi bent down next to Hanks and began scooping water up with a large bucket "Hanks is really going at it." He said with respect. A woman nearby nodded "He feels responsible. He's the one who pushed the people to get money together for the repairs. "And now he's the one who's all wet." Nagi could have sworn he heard Hanks growl and chuckled quietly. "Its not Hanks' fault that the mage did a two-bit repair job though." The woman nodded sadly "That's true. He even parted with his wife's keepsake to help raise the money." One of the workers suddenly stood up and glared at Nagi "I can't work with this scum around. I'm out of here." Hanks growled and was about to defend Nagi when the assassin held a hand out, shook his head, and moved to take over the workers spot in front of the fountain. Nagi suddenly stopped working when he noticed the small hole that usually held the aque blastia was empty.

That'sstrange.He thought thecoreitselfismissing… His thought's were quickly broken when Hanks called out "Hey, Nagi! If you're not gonna help out, stand clear! This is dangerous!" "Hey Hanks! Did you see the blastia core anywhere? You know, the shiny piece in the center!" Hanks quickly ran over to Nagi and frowned "Huh?...Is it gone?" Nagi nodded and pointed to the small hole "Yeah, the blastia wont work with the core missing." He then paused before continuing "That aristocrat who came to do the repairs was the last person to touch the blastia, right?" Hanks slowly nodded "That's right. A Mr. Mordio." A look of mischief danced across Nagi's face "And he lives in the royal quarter?" Hanks frowned and lightly punched Nagi's shoulder "Forget about that, Nagi. Give us a hand here!"

Nagi huffed and turned towards the street leading to the public quarter "Sorry Hanks, I just remembered an errand I've gotta run." Hank's face fell along with sudden glares from a few citizens "Not another job?" The paper from before crossed his thoughts for a second before shaking his head. Hank's sighed in relief and patted Nagi's shoulder "You're not seriously thinking of going to Mr. Mordio's place then?" Nagi simply smiled at the old man and shrugged "The royal quarter? Me? Gives me the creeps." As Nagi walked away, Hanks sighed "Dammit Nagi, just because you can do a few tricks with that bodhi blastia, you think your invincible…" One of the citizens spoke up "Ah let him go Hanks.! With luck, he might get arrested!" the outburst got mixed results.

SorryHanks… Nagi thought sadly as he headed up to the royal quarter.

Royal quarter

"Hey, you hear about the blastia in the lower quarter?"

"Yeah, I heard something about it breaking and them collecting money to fix it."

"That's right, I heard the lot went so far as to sell their treasures to save up the money."

"Treasures, sir?"

"Worthless junk, nothing more. They wouldn't have gotten more than one gald for them."

"Not even one gald? I can't even imagine what sort of treasures those would have to be. I'd like to have a look, myself…."

"I'm telling you, nothing but junk! Heh heh…"

The two knights's shared a god laugh not noticing an angry Nagi and growling (quietly of course.) Tenebre hidden among the rose bushes watching them. "Listen to those guys! Poor Hanks, Can't really argue with them about the junk thing though." Spying a pair of rocks near his feet, He quickly picked one up and hurled it with deadly aim, nailing one of the knights just right, so that he was quickly knocked out.

"What the… Who's there?"

Another rock later, and there were two knocked out knights on the ground. Nagi glared down at one of them and smirked "If you can't understand the value of "junk", you're worth less than junk yourself." Glancing down the street in an attempt to find the house he was looking for, he motioned further down the street and turned to his companion "Tenebre, can you find the trail?" Tenebre began sniffing around and suddenly darted down the street. As he began to follow the dog, he noticed many of the streetlight blastia cores missing as well "So they've been taking cores from here too. Looks like somebody's got some sticky fingers." He frowned at all the royal quarter citizens "That's the royal quarter for you. A few blastia cores go missing and no one even makes a fuss, when just one is enough to throw the lower quarter into chaos. If they've got cores to spare, they could stand to give us some!" Tenebre suddenly appeared from a nearby path and barked.

Nagi gave Tenebre a thumbs up "Found it!"

XX

Running up the path, Nagi found himself in front of a surprisingly large mansion, even for the royal quarter this was pretty big. "So this is where he lives…" He quickly walked up to the large double doors and found them locked. After trying a few knocks, he looked around and sighed "It doesn't seem like there's anyone around…" He turned further into the sides of the mansion and nodded to himself "I wonder if theres any other way in?"

After searching for several minutes, he finally found a window that was unlocked. "Is it open? Can I get in this way?" Finding that he could fit through the window, he quickly allowed himself in.

"I know Mordio is hiding here somewhere…" Nagi said looking around the large room he had entered. He tried door after door after door only to find every single one locked, including the master and music rooms. "It wont open." He sighed. "What to do…"

Such thought's were quickly erased when the sound of a man laughing echoed through the room. Nagi quickly turned and found a hooded person walking towards the front door clutching a sky blue sphere and a sack. "That must be…" The person stopped to admire the sphere, holding it up only to confirm Nagi's thought. "Found him!" He said rather loudly. The person turned and noticed Nagi glaring down at him from the second floor. Tenebre quickly jumped down to the first floor and blocked the front door, preventing the hooded persons escape. "You are Mordio, right?" The man squeaked and slowly turned and faced Nagi shaking. The shaking quickly turned to a smirk when Nagi dashed towards the man, he pulled out a small white pellet and threw it to the ground. The pellet broke releasing a wall of smoke, blinding Nagi.

A few seconds later, the smoke blew out the open window to reveal a frustrated Tenebre holding the sack in his mouth. "Good boy." Nagi said with a smile. The dog placed the sack at his partners feet and the two began searching it only to find… "What the…! The blastia core is gone!" Nagi glanced up to the front doors and nodded "Lets go and get that core back! And give that mage a whooping while we're at it!" Tenebre barked in agreement and the two ran to the doors.

A familiar sight greeted Nagi's eyes as he stepped out of the mansion. Two knights stood in his path. One was a tall skinny man with an amusing moustache and a rather large forehead. The other was a short fat…boy(?) carrying a spear twice his height.

"Nagi! So it is you who are the cause of all this commotion." The moustache man named Adecor said boldly. The short fat knight known as Boccos stood there shaking his head and shrugged "I know he's poor, but breaking into an aristocrats house… My, my, how the mighty have fallen!" Nagi face palmed and groaned "Just what I needed, Tweedle A and tweedle B."

"I say, don't you dare call me that!"

"Just what is a tweedle, anyway?"

Nagi found the mage he was chasing, jump into a carriage and begin to pull away. He quickly tried to give chase, only to be blocked by Adecor and Boccos.

"There's no hope of escape! We've got you surrounded!"

Nagi sighed as the carriage disappeared from view and glared at the two knights "Does it look like I'm trying to escape? See, its stuff like that that keeps you guys from getting promoted."

Boccos growled and held his spear towards Nagi "YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!"

Adecor nodded and pointed his sword at Nagi too. "I SAY, YOU TAKE THAT BACK!"

Nagi sighed and unsheathed his blood red sword "Enough beating around the bush I guess." Adecor laughed mockingly and ran rather silly-like towards Nagi and attempted to hack at Nagi's body, only to be swiftly dodged and retaliated by said person with a few slashes of his own. "Take this!" Boccos screamed and suddenly curled into a ball and began trying to mow Nagi down. Rather slowly at that. Nagi sighed and side-stepped the rolling knight and watched him crash into a nearby statue and get knocked out. "You gotta be kidding…" He sighed blocking a swipe from Adecor and kicking him away. "Come on guys, you can do better than that, can't you?"

Taking his eyes off the bumbling knights for a split second and suddenly found himself surrounded for real. A sissy looking knight walked over frowning at the two knights Nagi had just fought off…if you could call it that. "Look's like a wont be catching up with that carriage anytime soon."

"How typical of the Schwann brigade. They can't even manage to capture a single lowlife." The sissy knight said looking as if he had shit under his nose. The two knights scrambled together and began kissing arse. "C-Captain Cumore! I say, our apologies for this unsightly display!" Cumore sighed "I'm afraid the imperial knights have no use for you lowborn scum." Boccos began shaking in his metal boots "Uhh…P-Please don't let Sir Schwann know about this Sir!" Nagi face palmed again "I can't believe our taxes go to paying these guys…" He quickly turned and nodded to a distant Tenebre who nodded back and dashed away for the lower quarter. "There he goes." Nagi sighed as he threw his sword down and held his hands up. Adecor laughed wildly and slapped his knee "I say, that tops it all! Abandoned by his faithful pooch!" Boccos quickly joined in only to be silenced by a glare form Nagi that could only come from years of experience of killing.

"Well, well. You've had a busy day, haven't you Mr. Nagi Lowell? I'm rather busy myself, but I suppose I can afford to play with you for a while." He turned to the knights surrounding Nagi. "Gentlemen!" The knights nodded and pushed they're spears closer to Nagi. "It's rats like you that make Flynn's job so difficult." Cumore laughed "Flynn? A little suffering is just what that upstart lieutenant needs." The knights quickly began moving Nagi towards the castle when he heard Cumore continue "When you're finished with him, throw him in jail as usual." He smirked when one of the knights punched Nagi out "Ten days or so out to teach him a lesson."

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