-1CHAPTER 2
Cloud heard that voice right before they came to this weird place, during the party. Cloud also heard that voice a second ago.
"You were brought here to…settle an problem. Brought the teams of different universes to settle something once and for all. Even though you are all different you will soon see you have many things in common. Hm… I've even brought some of you from the dead, isn't that right, Auron?"
The head of the foul thing turned to the X circle where a group looked at a man in red clothing and one of his arms inside dangling, and had grey sideburns around his jet black hair. The man Auron laughed.
"Why, why bring me back?" Auron said.
"Because I needed you for my little game--" the body lulled
"Hey! Why if you could bring that guy back--" Tifa interrupted
"Why couldn't you bring back Aerith!" Cloud yelled
"…Answer me Auron--" the body said
"Hey I'm talking to you!" Cloud yelled
"ANSWER ME AURON!" the body thundered. "Did you defeat Sin."
"Yes." Auron replied. "But.."
"That is why you are here, you did what you first had your mind. Now Cloud, did Aerith help kill Sephiroth, and I don't mean in spirit, and it was what she first had in mind. Anyway she would only be alive just for this game, nothing else."
Cloud became quiet and hated the way the body treated him
"So why are we here?" A boy with a monkey's tail said.
"You are all here to fight in a tournament. You are all numbered in what universe you belong to. Like number I"
The I circle began to glow. Then the little boy with the brown hat stared at one of them, he looked just like him, different clothing but same hat, same eyes…same face.
"Zidane, look" the boy said. "that guy from I he looks just like me."
Zidane was the kid with the monkey tail, yet you would think he's a normal human unlike another person in his group. She looked like a rat standing on two legs with a long skinny tail with a bell attached at the tip. She wore a red outfit with a small pointy red hat with small wings at the side. It seemed the only normal humans at the IX circle was a guy dressed head to toe in armor and a young girl. There was also a weird man with an almost hunched back…he seemed human…I guess…
"Vivi!" the body said.
The boy jumped up twitching his hat around. "Y-yes."
"Do you see that black mage, he is your descendent." the body said
Soon the group gathered at the I circle began floating in midair. The group was wiggling around hoping not to fall. A glow surrounded a man in armor and then at least one person from every circle glowed and floated too.
"The descendent of the warrior…the knight, is up before our eyes. From the I circle, I guess you could call him your father of the knight. From IV, Cecil a man who fights for what he believes in. From VI we have Edgar a king with his own will, Celes a sorceress with the training of a knight and Cyan learned in the best sword techniques anywhere. From VII Cloud, with great strength can withstand anyone. From VIII Squall, carrier of an unique sword called the gunblade. From IX Steiner, no other man could be as loyal as him. And finally X, Tidus our youngest in the experience with a sword as a knight and his advisor Auron who doesn't let others chose his fate." the body explained
Soon all of the people in the room floated.
"Every single one of you are decedents of number I, the black mage, the white mage, the red mage, the monk, the thief and the ninja. And some of you have new jobs that are now known throughout the newer universes. Like the dragoon…the lancer. It first started with Ricard, but staying in his own class is Kain."
"Kain!?" a young man with grey hair said from the II circle. "Maria, is he talking about our Kain?"
I…don't know." Maria said, it was the girl who was crying before to that man.
"Ricard, does he mean Ricard Highwind?" it has been a long time since Kain heard that name, his father. Kain came from the IV circle. "Hmph…how dare that thing bring me back before my friends, after all that I have done, before I could redeem myself."
"Kain we forgive you, you know that." a beautiful women wearing white and had long flowing blonde hair.
"Well, I don't." Kain said averting her loving eyes.
Everyone slowly retuned to the ground safely, except poor Vivi who tripped on his feet.
"This will be a fight. All of you will be categorized into your personal class. Every single battle will be won with a death. And if you cannot deliver the final blow I will. The last person to live will return to their own world and his or her own world will be safe, but all will stay here forever in torture, only one could live." the body said.
The room soon went into an uproar.
"We'll agree." Cloud said.
Everyone yelled at Cloud saying, who do you think you are?
"We'll agree, only if you hear my changes." Cloud said.
"Proceed." the body said.
"We will go on with the fights only if the people that are killed can come back." Cloud said.
"What's in it for me?" the body responded.
"The final person will fight you. And if he or she wins, we could all come back and safely go back to our worlds. Fighting will be fair and no cheating, you got it?" Cloud ordered.
An awkward silence roamed the room.
"You never had to worry about me cheating. I will accept these changes if you can deal with the consequences." the body roared
"Unless it's our friends dying, we got nothing to lose." Cecil said.
"Fine, but in the final fight those who have lost, their strength, their energy will belong to me. But like you said if he or she wins I will return your friends and send you back home. But if you die, your souls will belong to me and I'll find your worlds and devour them…is it a deal?" the body said.
Cloud looked around for approval even through there was no other choice.
"We accept." Cloud said.
"Yeah, how hard can it be to beat you if you have the energy of losers?" Steiner said.
"Rusty!!!" Zidane yelled.
"That wasn't very nice…" Vivi said.
"I'm sorry master Vivi." Steiner apologized.
"So let us begin." the body said.
"Wait!" the boy from the V (the one with three girls) circle said.
"What do you want Bartz?" the body said.
"You said we were all in a class. What class do we belong in since we use crystals to enter a class?" Bartz asked.
"Yeah us too!" Luneth added.
"You will be randomly picked, but since you can use most any class you can end up in any category and you must stay in that class until you win or die. I will give you the crystals you need to perform the class. Also the matter of the all for alls. Group VIII you have many of those, classes that are not really specific. You are allowed to use any magic or summoning, anything to win." the body said.
"So are we in the all for alls category?" Firion ( the grey haired boy from II) said.
"Not really, you are really in the in any category like III and V, but you are very limited. I will give you the weapons you need to be in that class. Like if you were picked for thief I will give you a dagger. You are limited to thief, white mage, black mage, knight, red mage and lancer. Now that everything is clear let us begin with the white mage." the body said.
A big screen appeared a began going through a list of names and landed on…..