Chapter 2: It's a BOMB!
The play really was going splendidly. (You know, if you're into that kind of thing.) Zidane and Blank had poofed a while ago, probably to try and take off with the princess, and now the rest of the story was progressing, the part of the story that wasn't showed in the game. The two countries at war, Marcus and Cornilia sneaking out to see one another...a whole lot of boring crap in my opinion really. I can feel myself fall a little more asleep with each yawn I take. Vivi seemed really into it though, hadn't taken his eyes off it once this whole time.
If im not already asleep, this will sure as hell put me there...
"Uh oh"
"Uh oh? What's uh oh?" I asked Vivi, who was frantically pulling at my shirt.
He pointed over at at a guard, Haagen I think his name was, was heading our way. The fragger had spotted us.
"Awe crap Vivi! Come on!"
We ran towards the stage, away from the knight. Looking in the stage direction, I noticed that Dagger was already there, as was Zidane and Steiner. ( How did I miss that?) Dagger was laying on the ground, and Steiner was on his knees having a meltdown of some kind. Ah well, he'll quickly get over it. We jumped onto the stage, the knight right on our heels. Leaping over the prone body of the princess, Vivi turned, THOUGHT he aimed, and shouted, "FIRE!"
Sure, a ball of fire did spit out of the end of his staff, and sure, it went in the GENERAL direction of Haagen, but instead of burning the hair off the knight, it caught the end of Dagger's white mage robe, setting it in a small fire. She leaped up, hopping up and down, and call me an ass, but I found it to be HILARIOUS. Throwing off the robe, she quickly brushed the charred remains off of herself.
"Princess! You're ALIVE!" Steiner cried out in joy.
"How did you figure she was dead? Dude, there was like, no blood or anything." I said. I mean come on now. How thick could you get?
"YOU! You must be in cahoots with this thief! I will have you arrested for harming the princess!" He exclaimed, brandishing his sword. "Princess, you must come back with me!"
Suddenly another knight showed up, but wait, if I remember correctly...
"You needn't worry your highness!'
Oh yeah, that totally had to be Blank. I could see the smiles on Zidane, Cinna, and Marcus' faces too. They knew as well.
"Good work!" Steiner exclaimed. "This will be remembered as the Pluto knights finest hour!"
Blank came over to us, holding his sword up in a battle stance. At the same time, Zidane pulled out his daggers, Cinna his hammer, and Marcus his broadsword as well. I held onto Vivi's hand tightly, pulling him behind the guys along with me, Dagger following my lead.
"Just relax princess. We'll get you outta here!" Blank stated with a wide grin on his face.
Steiner looked totally affronted.
"WHAT? You're not one of my knights!"
Zidane took a step forward towards Steiner, Blank, Cinna and Marcus grouping next to him.
"You can just..." he began,
"...leave the princess..." continued Cinna, getting his hammer ready,
"...To us!" They all shouted as one.
"Villans! How dare you trick the princess!"
I stepped back, pulling Vivi with me and grasping onto Dagger as I went. We really didn't need to be so close to this. Good thing I thought that to.
Steiner, in a fit of...er...knightly rage swung his sword down at Zidane, who laughed and quickly back flipped out of the way. With his focus on Zidane, Cinna came up from behind, swinging his hammer and hitting the Pluto knight in the side.
"Why you..!"
He turned, swinging his sword at the odd looking man, who just barely dodged by holding up his hammer in time. Now with his back turned towards the others, both Marcus and Blank gave a solid kick to the back of the knight's armor. I could practically see the steam coming out of his helmet at this point he was so pissed off, and it wasn't getting any better for him either. One of the guys would distract, and the others would slap him around as if it were some kind of children's game. Dagger I could tell was getting worried, her eyes were wide with distress and one of her hands covered her mouth.
"Sh...should we help them?" I heard Vivi ask me.
"Uh..."
How in the world would I help? Glare him into unconsciousness? I don't know how to use a weapon even if I had one!
"I think they got it pretty covered." I said instead to the little black mage.
"Yeah, I guess you're right..." He relied, just in time for me to hear Steiner shout "Armor Break!"
CLANG!
Blank's armor busted open, and out popped...bugs. Big ass bugs. Like, atomic holocaust, laugh in the face of raid bugs.
"N-NO! I hate oglops! I hate oglops!" Steiner exclaimed as they overran him.
And not just him either. They were heading for EVERYBODY. The ginormous ladybug things were everywhere, on everything! Blank was flailing, as one was in his hair, and OH MY GOD one's on me!
"Get it off! Get it off!"
Vivi was wide eyed, he didn't know what to do. Hopefully not try to burn the thing off. I grabbed it's hairy body ( ew ew EW) and threw it away from me and back at Steiner, who got hit on the head with it, sending him even more into a frenzy. With a deep shudder I looked around, noticing Zidane taking Dagger to another area of the stage/ship that we where on.
"Come on Vivi, this way!"
"O..okay!"
We ran the way I saw the two take off in, and came to a halt in the middle of the deck by the two. Zidane was giving us a 'So who the hell are you anyway?' kind of look, but we were all a little to busy to be asking each other such stupid questions at this time. Well, I thought so anyway. I already knew them! The sound of armor was coming up behind us, and I already knew before he even showed up that it was Steiner again.
"Release the princess at once!" He bellowed. Or tried to anyway. His voice was still shaky from the oglop episode. I shuddered. As a matter of fact, so was I.
"Steiner! Don't follow me anymore!" Dagger shouted over to him, clutching her hands to her chest.
The knight seemed taken aback by this, and seemed to struggle with himself for a moment.
"Hmmm...errr...uh... I'm sorry princess, but I cannot comply!"
He started coming more towards us again, but the stage/ship we were on gave a sudden lurch, knocking most of us to out feet. I felt Vivi grip onto me tightly, eyes wide.
"Everybody hang on! We're tak'n off!" Zidane shouted in generalization to everyone.
The ship we were on started rising higher, and higher, and pulling away from the castle when I saw it. The cannons. Dear god and christ they were about to fire on us.
"Watch out! Cannons!" I roared out.
"Cannons?" Zidane exclaimed, just as three 'BOOMS!' rand out.
I saw one of them heading for me and Vivi, and with reflexes I didn't even know I had ( and would probably hurt a little later after the adrenalin went down) I pushed us out of the way right as it drove into the ship behind me, so close that I felt the wind woosh up my shirt as it dug in.
"You guys okay?" Zidane called out to us.
"Y..Yeah, we're good." I shakily said back, then added with a bit more venom. "Would have been better if the fat lady hadn't just tried to shishkabob us though"
"How DARE you insult the queen! She was... just making sure you all couldn't run off with the princess!" Steiner roared, his back turned away from the castle.
"Dude are you slow? One of those things could have hit her too! Then what, huh?"
Steiner's face was turning an interesting shade of red. Almost as red as that bomb that was hovering behind him.
Wait.
There's a bomb.
Oh snap.
"Dude! Turn around! It's a BOMB!" I shouted to him, dramatically pointing my arms to the oh nos that was behind him. Seriously. Does he not notice how bright it is behind him? AND ITS GETTING BIGGER.
"I'll not fall for that trick!" He scoffed, raising his sword and preparing for battle once again.
"Look behind you!" Zidane added.
"Please Steiner! Behind you!"
He merely shrugged of the warning.
"Surrender at once!"
"There's a bomb!" Yelled Vivi, watching in horror as the bomb got bigger.
"Screw this! EVERYBODY GET DOWN!" I screamed as loud as I could, grabbing onto Vivi with one hand and clutching the harpoon inbeded into the deck with the other.
From the corner of my eye, I could see Zidane grab onto Dagger, doing about the same thing with her. Steiner had finally turned around to see what all the commotion was about, and dropped to the ground, mouth a gape as be realized we weren't just messing with him. The bomb seemed to smile, it's large, orb like body hovering above the deck a moment longer before it suddenly imploded inwards on itself, and from that a blast erupted from the place it just was. I felt intense heat wash over my body, I knew the ship was on fire. I could hear shouting coming from the ship, but we were free from the chains, the ship slowly gliding down into a descent towards it's next destination.
Evil Forest.
Which, although accurate, is kind of a stupid and unimaginative name really.
"Hang on everyone! We're gonna crash!" I could hear Baku shout out though what seemed to me speakers of some kind.
We hit the ground hard, and I heard multiple shouts. Was one mine?
And then the world went dark.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand done with that chappie. What you guys think? Read and Review to tell me. I'm always up for ideas :D
