WARNING: This fic is a sequel as mentioned in the summary. It's highly recommended that you read up on NMSI: Final Fantasy VII before reading this one.
No More Self Inserts PRIMER: (For you new readers out there)
The GU: "The Game Universe" An artificial second alternate fantasy galaxy created by the Gods of Harmony and Discord to set the stage for the Great Cosmic War or rather the Conflict. The GU was created based on video games made on Earth by humans, the Gods figured it would be easily related to for their chosen were both gamers at heart. Though the worlds and people in it are all artificial they live and breath like real humans and can also make decisions as well. This was decided by the Judge of the Conflict Shinryuu.
The Conflict: "The Great Cosmic War" In a galaxy far away, two distant stars struggle against one another for supremacy. These burning stars with great powers over creation and destruction take on the form of Cosmos and Chaos. Two characters based on a story told on Earth. Their power was so great that if they physically collide in battle they would destroy the entire abyss of space. Instead they settled on an agreement, to choose a warrior and have them battle it out. And the warriors will battle for all eternity. Who ever's chosen warrior wins a battle, that God will rule the galaxy and time for a year and so on and so forth. The Gods loved stories crafted on Earth, so they used a video game and based the entire war on it, the story of DISSIDIA: Final Fantasy . A video game created on Earth.
Kel and Lecter: "From Best Friends to Bitter Enemies" Kel was a fanfic writer from America and Lecter was also a writing enthusiast from New Zealand. Meeting on fanfiction dot net, the two became online friends from skyping to sharing 'women advice' the two were as close as online friends could get. Until one day on his 24th Birthday, Kel made a wish to have one last child-like experience before accepting his responsibilities and becoming a man. The Star of Harmony having taken on Cosmos' appearance finds potential in his wish and in his soul and chooses him for the battle. Excited to finally visit a fantasy world, Kel asks the Goddess to bring along his friend Lecter. When she agrees to see him, she immediately rejects him because of the massive pit of darkness, violence within him. Finding potential in Lecter the Star of Destruction whom have taken Chaos' form. Chooses Lecter... After struggling with the circumstances of battling his friend, Kel accepts his fate and kills Lecter whom was on the verge of bringing the Final Fantasy VII world to an end. Lecter lost the first Conflict War and has to remain idle with Chaos while Cosmos receives her year of reign and Kel is free to traverse the cosmos.
Apostles of Harmony: "Allies" Kel's comrades in the battles against Discord. Cosmos provided Kel with allies where as Chaos supplies Lecter with weapons and resources. Kel's Allies do not become abominations for much like Kel, were guided and reconfigured by Cosmos.
Opening FMV: "Sakura Nagashi" Utada Hikaru
As the music for the FMV begins the camera pans out from the darkness revealing white snow from a gray colorless sky dancing to the snowy grown below.
An elderly man in a black leather trench coat with crimson red sunglasses stood on a grand stage before a massive army of soldiers in black and red fatigues. As he gave his speech with raised fists and salutes, the soldiers whose faces were hidden behind ski masks all nodded and shouldered their rifles.
As snow continued to fall on the assembly, before the unnamed army the old dictator held up a glowing sphere and a cloth with the Yevon Insignia on it. Behind the army was a large space of snow with a massive steel gate wired to many computer consoles manned by scientists in puffy coats. From the glowing gate which emitted an azure colored vortex flew out pyroflies.
The dictator turned back to his men to continue his speech, sitting on a bench a part from the rest were seven specialized soldiers. Unlike the infantry who sported black and white fatigues, these special soldiers wore skin tight armored suits that made them look like cyborgs, outfitted with cyber swords, side arms and other bits of futuristic war-tech.
As the camera rises from the small assembly beyond them thousands of soldiers stood watching a massive monitor in a fortress as gigantic mechs colored in black and crimson were organized in a straight line in a separate field. Helicopters trolled the skies above the legions.
The camera then quickly switches to the dictator and we see his face fully, long gray hair with a thick bushy mustache and matching goatee, a wrinkled old face with a cross-shaped scar on his forehead and mechanical glowing red eyes which beamed through his already crimson shades.
The final scene showing his teeth as he grinned. Everything then fades to black , within the darkness. Crimson letters flash across the screen in times of new roman, final fantasy style.
No More Self Inserts 2: Final Fantasy X
[Kel's POV]
It's been a year since I defeated Lecter, the world of Final Fantasy VII was regenerated and the first cycle was at it's end. Since then Cosmos' sent us to Spira, something I asked for because it was my favorite Final Fantasy world and a truly beautiful place. For the next following year, Cosmos will be able to reign over the GU as well as the real universe.
Which means I get to take something of a 'Warrior's Vacation'. How I spend this time is up to me, I can train for a year learn new things and become stronger for the next cycle. Sit around and rest for the year or just explore the FF world. Anything I want, for the next year, it's not like I'm a warrior of harmony at all.
Me and my companions spent about two months in Spira, it took a few days but I figured out that we landed right in between the storyline of the games Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2. Apparently Yuna and her guardians defeated Sin and we are in the middle of that two-year gap between both games.
We've lived life as Spiran folk, not revealing ourselves or the Conflict. I suggested that we forgot all about the Conflict for now and just lived life peacefully and we have despite the factions Machina Faction, Youth League and New Yevon slowly rising from the cracks. I lived life as I normally would in a Final Fantasy world, going to different parts of the world to sight see.
All of my comrades, Rally Nightshade, Shuyan Chao, Carmina Sanchez, Lucas Fedrick, Rosetta Sonoma, Dez Xerxes and Isabelle Smith. Once we'd reached Spira, we all stayed together for awhile but we soon split a part to do different things. We were different people when it came down to it, and the only glue that kept us together really was the common goal of fighting against Lecter.
Rally and Rose joined the Youth League, they both fight to rebuild Spira and free the folks of the conformist group New Yevon.
Shuyan Chao fronted most of his gil which he kept from his journeys in Gaia to rebuild Kilika, to that end he became Kilika's DE-facto leader. Shuyan has made Kilika into a small fortress as well as a tourist spot, it's one of the most bustling places in the world.
Lucas Fedrick is apart of the Besaid Aurochs, despite being such a strong fighter he isn't very good at blitzball.
Dez, Izzy and Carmina travels the world together. They're in a new town once every couple of days, they're raising a Brown Chocobo whom they named Chocolate Parfait.
As for me...
"That is truly a wonder, a fiend is the enraged and envious spirit of the dead turned monster...how..." Lulu the black emo-mage was for once completely flustered since the arrival of Tidus and the death of her ex-fiance Chappu. I could see in her pale face that she was truly surprised and it wasn't just her.
Yuna, Wakka and even the towns people of Besaid were all dumbfounded with wide 'O' shapes for mouths.
The scene that was the cause of these many reactions were the fiends, Dire wolves, Carnivorous Birds and even Zu and Flan were all working together side by side with the people of Besaid, helping them weed bushes, helping them dig up crops and even water plants. A fiend was a Spiran term for monster, a spirit of the dead who stay in the living world instead of departing to the farplane, refusing to believe they're time has come.
Some of the fiends and ghosts are purposeless and unable to cope with their loved ones or they passing on, their sadness turning into rage then complete malice.
"Fiends are spirits that are always supposed to battle humanity ya?" Wakka said turning to look at me.
Yuna smiled. "I think this is great, Fiends and Spirans working together...this truly is the eternal calm." Yuna clapped her hands together with a smile.
"How did you do it?" Lulu asked turning to me. "Some kind of possession spell perhaps?"
I chuckled a bit as I patted the head of a Flan monster that sat on my shoulder. "Nah nothing like that..."
In truth it was an ability that was given to me by Cosmos she called it; "Will of Peace". I think of it as a perk because I can't really turn the ability off or on. The ability works only on monsters, it immediately makes monsters docile and sympathetic to humans when they reach within a few feet of me.
I don't control or command them, they just become really friendly kind of like pets.
This ability is extremely useful, I don't have to raise my sword to fight another monster again.
I straightened my gray tie and straightened my black and gray hat. I wore a black suit with the sleeves rolled up to my elbows. Attire I found more proper for the occasion. I've set myself the goal/ personal pilgrimage of going around the world and making all the Fiends in Spira more peaceful with humans.
"Sir Kel, this is a great thing you've done for Besaid. " Yuna bowed her head properly. Yuna was now 18 years old so it was 'okay' for me to check out her 'assets'. She was truly a beautiful girl with a well-rounded and cute face, long brunette hair with light high lights. Her hair was much longer now than how it was fashioned in the game.
Wakka looked the same as did Lulu.
The three of them stayed in Besaid Island together, going back to their village and how life was before Yuna even wanted to become a summoner. Wakka and Lulu watching over her.
"What if the monsters attack us when you leave? Have you thought of that?" Lulu asked.
"Well that won't happen so don't worry about it." I reassured her while straightening the bill of my hat again.
Lulu leered at me. "That won't happen? You can't explain why it won't happen? Suddenly I'm finding it hard to trust you."
I walked over to one of the Fang Wolves whom turned towards me panting like a dog and wagging it's stubby little tail. I pet it's head and smiled as I looked down on it. "Well because they've accepted that they're fiends now...fiends are spirits whom have died and can't move on. Well these guys have accepted their deaths but they don't resent the living anymore. They want to work with and help the living now...isn't that right?" I asked it.
WOOF!
"There ya go." Wakka laughed crossing his arms and looking over at Lulu who simply smirked.
"Well it's been a slice but I've gotta get going." I stood up and walked through the front gates of Besaid.
"Where are you going?" Lulu asked and I stopped at the front gates.
"To harmonize the world, if all of Spira is like this...who knows what kind of strides this planet can make towards a better future." With that said, I continued walking until I'd reached the traveler's statue. Once here I looked back at the village one last time before turning on my way, but when I turned to start walking again. I saw a woman standing right there in my face, blonde with beautiful crystal blue eyes. COSMOS!
"WHAAAA!" She appeared so suddenly, I felt my heart jump and I dropped back on my butt.
(O.o)-Cosmos "Apologies. Did I startle you?"
"Startle me? I almost pissed my pants!" I uselessly grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it at her but the dust and rocks only went through her transparent form.
"The Great Warrior of Harmony who saved the world and defeated his arch nemesis, startled by me?" Cosmos chuckled and I almost couldn't believe she tried to joke about it.
I dusted myself off then stuck my hands in my pockets. "Cosmos, wassup? Enjoy ruling the universe?"
"I've come to you with urgent news, my knight." She nodded her head towards me to affirm my question.
I smiled. "Urgent news? Sounds urgent...heh heh..."
Cosmos looked at me with her nonchalant business face. "Now is not the time for jesting, I have made a grave mistake my warrior that I confess is much too late for me to fix. So must rely on you and your companions once more."
"So you screwed something up? Hahaha, this oughta be good." I crossed my arms.
Cosmos looked down. "A year ago when I'd taken you from your world, the scar in the temporal space was left and unclosed. I am afraid a very dangerous man has managed to gain control of the temporal void and contain it for himself."
"A man?" I raised an eyebrow. "So..."
Before I could ask she continued to explain. "This man heads a large military organization and he plans to use the temporal void to come here and cause a large scale war between both the forces of Spira and this military company."
"Are you kidding me?" I said with wide eyes. "A PMC found the temporal void and he's using it to teleport here to Spira? But wait that doesn't make sense...I went to Gaia after I left Earth then came to Spira. Why would he bypass Gaia and come here?"
"The rift was created to follow you as a secret measure if you wanted to go back home. So the temporal space will appear in the same world as you from Earth always...it's only a matter of locating it." Cosmos explained.
"Crap." I looked down. This was bad, Earth forces, military might and weaponry were far more dangerous than Spira's. "How long until that military force gets here?"
"Three Days." Cosmos responded.
"Shit that's not a lot of time to round up Rally and the others. Can I bother ya for a small favor, Cosmos?" I asked.
She nodded. "I know, I've already prepared more companions for you. Making sure this time to close the rifts." With that she outstretched her arms and flowing from her body were eight orbs of white light that danced down to the ground like snow flakes in front of me. As the orbs began to give form to people, Cosmos explained; "These were candidates I've also chosen to join in the war against Discord. I weren't going to show them to you until the next cycle began but...circumstances demand their help."
I loosened my tie a bit and reached to my lower right belt loop drawing my Newest Beam Katana, the Tsubaki Mk.I as I turned it on. Cosmos gave me a glance and I grinned. "Before I go anywhere with these spazzes, we gotta duke it out to see if they're reliable."
Author's Note: This story kicks off with a lot of introductions! WEAPON'S PRIMER:
Tsubaki Mk.I: Kel's weapon set are 'Beam Katanas' weapons from the Wii Title: No More Heroes. A beam katana is like a light saber with a guide bar and a longer hilt. The Tsubaki Mk.I is an extremely light weight and fast beam katana and is also featured in the game No More Heroes. Look up pics when you get a chance!