Tragedy Shattered
Act II: Spargus City of Wanderers and WORMS?
"Goodbye, Boobs!"
Orange Furred Idiot
Song: Eiko's theme -Final Fantasy IX Soundtrack
The sun's rays flowed through gently into the room, while the curtains swayed back and forth in the gentle breeze that swept through. Hwoarang slowly peeled his eyed open blinding his eyes away from the light that emitted so brightly. Hwoarang heard the door open seeing an elf girl with short-cropped teal haired come in with a plate of food. Never in Hwoarang's life had he ever seen an elf, before. Elves only were mentioned in legends and the books his mother would read him when he was little. The elf girl put the food on the night desk next to him giving him a confounded look. Hwoarang tried to get up, but the pain in his ribs caused him to lie back in pain. Hwaorang noticed that his shirt was not on him and his right arm was in a cast. The teal haired elf girl rushed to Hwoarang's aid nodding her head in disagreement. The teal haired elven girl placed her hands gently on Hwoarang's chest to keep him down. The door to the room opened once again in came in a green haired elf that had a fuzzy orange animal sitting upon his right shoulder. The male elf leaned against the door smiling.
Song: Anxious Heart- Final Fantasy VII Soundtrack
"Hey you okay?" the green haired elf said. Hwoarang got up slowly wincing at the pain to sit on the edge of the bed he slept on, "…Yeah…I'm okay."
"Well you didn't look okay…you a mere human trying to go up against a graboid you is sure one of all kinds of stupid," the green haired elf saying, while he chuckled.
Hwoarang gave the male elf an irritated looking at the plate of food and grabbing it, "…Maybe I am…stupid…but I can't give up everyone at home is counting on me…" Hwoarang looked down filled anger and regret, as burning tears streamed from his eyes when he tried to eat. The green haired elf looked at Hwoarang with such concern he walked towards the Blood Talon who was choking on tears.
"Hey tell me what has been happening out there?" the green elf man gently said. Hwoarang stopped his tears wiping them away with his hands. Hwoarang slowly got up and walked over to the open window gently closing his eyes to feel the warm air come through. Hwoarang look back at the elf and nodded in agreement, "It began a year ago…I was outside taking a smoke, while I saw a giant flash of red light. It was eerie yet beautiful, I for one thought the entire place was going to be nuked, but I was wrong. That was just the beginning a couple of weeks later people began to get sick real sick…the appearance of monsters the people called them NMCs came after us. Geostigma began to spread and more and more people either died or were just getting the illness. I swore on my life that I would find a cure, but at no avail, I searched and searched for such a cure until I heard of a blue rose that had the power to heal any ailment. It was all I had to go by, I know it sounds stupid, but it's all I have to hold on to…"
"I see…well I would help you if I could for one thing, I have never heard of a blue rose around here before. Also we have been having our own problems here at home…but we have never actually introduced ourselves now didn't we?" the green haired elf said.
Song: A Moment of Courtesy –FF VII Crisis Core
Hwoarang nodded and smiled, "I'm Hwoarang nice to meet you!" Hwoarang shook the elf's hand and laughed, "I'm Jak and this is my girlfriend Arise, also this is my furry friend Daxter we just call him Dax."
"Hello to all of you!" Hwoarang bowed in respect towards his saviors, as Arise brought a bottle that said 'Elixir' on it, "Here drink this it'll help with your injuries." Hwoarang took the bottle examining the contents within it. Hwoarang closed his eyes and quickly drank the liquid within the bottle. Instantly Hwoarang felt, his broken arm and ribs heal up. Hwoarang smiled pulling off the cast and the bandages jumping up and down stretching himself to test out. Soon everyone began to laugh, but that moment of courtesy ended.
Song: Hurry! –Final Fantasy X Soundtrack
The entire city began to shake in distress. Hwoarang was thrown his shirt and he put it back on running out to the balcony with Jak and the others. Hwoarang looked down, below seeing the dirt below being disturbed by dozens of restless graboids. Hwoarang looked back at Jak with a cross expression. Jak knew what Hwoarang was feeling. Jak ordered Arise to get to higher grounds and grabbed his 'Gunstaff' throwing a morph gun to Hwoarang. Hwoarang examined the gun smiling; both him and Jak gave a quick hit of their fists together and went down to the first floor of the building. Jak threw a DMW out into the field of battle. The DMW activated floating above scanning the battlefield showing everyone's stats and calling out battle's start.
"Activating Combat Mode!" once said the battle began with graboid A and B diving into the soft dirt below.
Jak and Hwoarang kept moving trying to keep their eyes on the speeding worms that circled them both. Jak looked at the DMW seeing the roulette of the three number slots stop once then go again. The numbers stopped at pictures of those who were in deep connection with the person who used the DMW allowing him or her to activate several of limit breaks and stat upgrades.
DMW-now synchronizing-waiting-
Graboid A Lv.15
HP: 1,000/1,000
MP: 300/300
DMW Limit Emotion Meter: Normal
Initializing Attacking Strategy…
Graboid B Lv. 15
HP: 1,000/1,000
MP: 300/300
DMW Limit Emotion Meter: Normal
Waiting Turn…
Jak Mar Lv.10
Infected last battle stat: Distort (WARNING! CURE SOON!)
HP: 800/800
MP: 50/50
DMW Limit Emotion Meter: Anxious (if not treated with a SP potion soon will go into Dark Jak form…)
Waiting turn…
Hwoarang Lv.5
HP: 600/600
MP:150/150
DMW Limit Emotion Meter: Sky High (Stats and LV increase soon…roulette numbers needed for level increase…777)
Waiting Turn…
Daxter Lv.4 (Assist only)
Waiting for assist summon…
'Graboid A' resurfaced aiming its snake hook like tongues at Jak causing a chunk of damage to him. The graboid retreated its tongues back into its mouth and went under once more. The second graboid rose from the sands screaking out a horrible cry disorienting Hwoarang and Jak who had the ailment even more. Daxter plugged his ears trying to block out the horrific cry. All three warriors were confused and were attacking each other after the graboid went under. Hwoarang finally snapped back into reality and went on all-out assault. Hwoarang threw a SP potion seeing a blue light surround Jak snapping him out of his distort. Dax felt the effects of the potion, as well and both were back in the battle. Hwoarang's roulette stopped on three sevens giving him a stat increase and level increase too. The increase filled up his limit meter and Hwoarang had enough energy to use one of his limits with his fists or weapon. Hwoarang cursed at the gun throwing it aside putting up his fists, switching his battle strategy into his Tae Kwon Do. Jak and Daxter looked at Hwoarang smiling with such excitement.
Song: Those Who Accept the Protection of the Stars -FFVII Crisis Core Soundtrack
A yellow-orange wave of energy came up from the ground around Hwoarang making a swooshing sound. Hwoarang felt enough power to charge up and use a limit. The world around Hwoarang began to stretch, as if time itself was going in to a wormhole. Everything was passing by streams of lights flew by and Hwoarang aimed his sights on the two graboids still in the area. Hwaorang dashed, while everything began to slow down the sound of his and the graboid's heartbeat rang in his ears. Hwaorang stopped jumping twirling at a high speed causing his right leg to catch fire kicking the animals in the face. Then he landed preparing for a multiple assault on the monsters. Hwoarang's entire body glowed a fiery orange putting his goggles over his eyes he darted towards the graboids once more. Hwoarang whipped back and forth arrowing himself into the fiends causing multiples of damage to them both. Hwoarang flew back, while he grinded against the ground charging energy into his lower body and dashing past the opponent to deliver an explosive kick. Hwoarang felt time go a halt for a moment. Hwoarang pulled out a cigarette and lighter, he lit his smoke breathing into the cigarette once he looked up breathing out a puff of smoke. Hwoarang pulled his goggles back over his head smirking at the time-halted monster flicking the cigarette into the stopping flames. Time went forward once more the graboids exploded when the cigarette made contact into the combusting flames. Hwoarang walked away with his hands in his pockets smirking.
Jak and Daxter went wide-eyed seeing that Hwaorang took out both graboids by himself. The DMW device scanned the battlefield for any more fiends declaring the area clear.
"Conflict Resolved!" the DMW finished saying falling to the floor playing a little victory tune, when shutting itself down.
Song: Victory Fanfare Chaos -DISSIDIA Final Fantasy Soundtrack
Jak ran up to Hwoarang tackling him. Both were on the ground, while Jak grabbed Hwoarang by the neck giving him a nuggie. Hwoarang broke free from Jak's grip and getting up to dust himself up. Jak walked a couple steps away from Hwaorang in disbelieve that a human defeated a graboid. Jak put his hands on his head cursing in excitement. Walking back and forth unable to contain his excitement of the battle. Daxter looked at his friend his eyes following Jak back and forth sighing in embarrassment. Hwoarang looked at Jak, when he noticed the green haired elf stop in his tracks from pacing. Jak looked at Hwoarang with a giant grin.
Song: Moonlight Wandering -FF VII Crisis Core
"I've decided to help you with your journey! I mean if you came from the outside world with no ills to do that you must have learnt it while you were journeying alone, right?" Jak said it excitedly. Hwoarang leaned against a wall of a building nodding. Jak raised his fists up jumping around in excitement, "FUCK YES! Okay Dax tell Arise what has happened go hurry!"
Daxter nodded and ran of the commerce tower. Jak and Hwoarang both talked for a while, until Arise came with Daxter smiling. Daxter jumped from Arise's shoulder plate to Jak's, "So…you are leaving?" Jak gave a small frown at his lover, "Yeah…if Hwoarang is right we that same illness will come here and I might need to find a cure to help our kind too. Please understand babe I'll only be gone for a short while then when I'm finished doing what I always do…" Jak was cut off by Arise's finger she put upon his lips to shut him up. Arise smiled and finished his sentence for him, "Saving the world? Okay…I'll stay here and I'll cheer for you. Here hero! This travel bag is your friend's and here is yours I refilled of both you boys provisions and water bottles. In addition, your friend's bike has been refilled with gas. I put two extra tanks of gas in your dune buggy for both of you and some Eco for you to use. Go and play hero it's okay I'll be fine and our baby."
Jak placed his hand on Arise's stomach smiling warmly to her hugging her, as he put his gunstaff into his buggy. Daxter yelled out to Arise and waved goodbye, "Goodbye Boobs!" Arise gave Daxter a fit throwing a rock at the orange ottsel. Daxter flew back into the seat with a rock in his mouth spitting it out, "What was that for?" Both Hwoarang and Jak laughed starting up their motors both waving goodbye. With Arise waving back and Daxter flapping his mouth, as both heroes drove into the setting sun, "You know I forgot Buggin's Magazine and my toenail clippers…I hate hang nails. OH! OH! OH! Have anyone of you seen my corn's scraper…" Daxter was cut off by both males screaming at him, "WELL YOU SHUT UP!" Daxter only said a few words, "NEVER MIND FOUND IT!"
Hwoarang said quietly to Jak sigh, "…This is going to be a long trip…"
Author's Note: Wow, that one was fun to write. I like writing a lot, but I also like to show people my world that is within my noggin lol well the soundtracks used here were from:
FF VII Crisis Core
FF IX
FFX
I hope you enjoyed this chappie until the next round of Dax's annoyance lol
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