Dissidia: Returning Home 012 chapter 1: The end of the cycle
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Dissidia Final Fantasy, Square Enix game
This story is basically a theory of mine as to what happened to Lightning and the party after their last stand in Dissidia 012. Each chapter will focus on one of the six characters starting with Lightning, to Vaan, Laguna, Yuna, Kain, and finally Tifa. Constructive criticism as well as discussion on this said subject is welcomed, just keep it mature people :)
Dissidia 012: Conclusion of the cycle- Lightning Farron, the pink haired warrior of Cosmos fought bravely against the manikin threat along with many of her comrades who she grew to befriend. In the chaos of the fighting she threw her last resort weapon, the Zantetsuken, into the portal of the relentless manikin horde. However, in that effort she overexerted the last of her strength and fell over, on her knees as the next wave charged.
Covered in dirt and bruises from the her previous encounters she scowled weakly towards the waning portal, helpless as her allies and comrades were collapsing as well. Vaan, the optimistic youth of the group dropped his sword and fell, his body left unmoving.
Kain had impaled his spear in the transparent ground in hopes to support his growing weight just when his strength gave out and he collapsed as well.
Tifa slumped to her side in exhaustion and never got up. Yuna and Laguna fell just a few moments ago, their weapons lay scattered with the remains of the defeated manikins.
Lightning watches with her weakened resolve as the rift closed and the last of the manikins emerged. Satisfied that no one will now suffer from the horde she finally gave out and collapsed on the ground.
Cosmos's sanctuary- The Warrior of Light clashed fiercely against the manikins who charge relentlessly towards Cosmos in her thrown. Growing tired of their tenacity, the Warrior kicked away one of the closer manikins and watched as it shattered apart.
The Warrior knelt down in exhaustion as another manikin charged towards him. The Warrior panted heavily, the constant fighting is starting to take its tow. Cosmos looked at her sole surviving warrior in concern when she noticed a manikin jump towards him.
In horror she cried out the Warrior's name in hopes for him to stand up. With new resolve the Warrior lashed out at the incoming fiend. He collapsed on his knee again and watched as the entire army charged forward. Hopeless, he brace himself for the coming battle when Cosmos appeared in front of him.
Cosmos began to conjure much of her divine power. "Cosmos!" Called out the Warrior of Light as the manikins encircled them. Then as the manikins jumped to strike at the vulnerable goddess, a flash of light surrounded her. A shockwave of light obliterated all of the manikins in the sanctuary.
With the battle over the Warrior of Light fell over as Cosmos vanished.
Unknown- The Warrior of Light woke up atop a levitating piece of land, tired and weary. He then saw as Tidus, a former warrior of Chaos glowed and levitated into the air. 'This...Must be..the revival..' The warrior thought to himself as more of the warriors glowed the same color.
He noticed that the six warriors that fought the manikins, Lightning's group, were not glowing. In fact, it looked like they're fading away.
The delirious warrior looked up and the golden dragon, Shinryu, ascend from his heavenly perch and encircles the unconscious warriors, reviving them and, consequently, purifying their memories of the previous cycle. As the Warrior looked on, he noticed that the few who won't be revived begin to disappear.
Lightning, The only one left, nodded approvingly to the warrior and in a rare touching moment, smiled. Then just like the rest of her comrades she fades away in front of the warrior.
Having revived the warriors for the next battle, Shinryu had them disappear back to different parts of World B and begins his ascent back to the sky as the Warrior of light lost the last of his strength and collapsed, glowing the same hue as his revived comrades.
With his duties done, Shinryu returned to the sky as the Warrior rests in Cosmos's Sanctuary.
And that was the conclusion of the 012th cycle of the conflict between Cosmos, goddess of harmony, and Chaos, god of discord. Those who were slain in battle will be revived for the next cycle to come while those who used every last ounce of their strength will cease to return for the next cycle, if not anymore.
The question is...where do they go? This is where our story begins.
How was that epilogue/prologue? :)
Basically the idea came from my curiosity as to happened to Lightning's party after their "deaths". It never seemed specified to me so being the slight optimist that I am, I figured I should make a fanfic that has them return to a certain event in their respective games after Dissidia 012.
Lightning will be back on Gran pulse in the next chapter, followed by the other passed on Warriors. Hope you enjoy :)