Chapter 3 — Enter Spira, Part 2
Meanwhile, Mystic woke up to find herself in an abandoned corridor filled with damaged portions of the building she was in. There were also stray pyrefiles floating around the place.
"Where am I?" she thought to herself, getting up and moving further into the ancient chambers ahead. She soon opened a pair of doors which led to a point where she was standing on a cosmic platform in the middle of a space-like atmosphere. She was marveled at this, and then she found something shining on the ground. It was a white sphere fragment. "This looks useful," she wondered, keeping it as a momento. She soon started off to head the other way from where she woke up. She saw that she was inside an entire dome, damaged from something that had happened in the past. The whole area was barren and dead.
Mystic had suddenly encountered what appeared to be a winged monster with long pincer arms and a scorpion's tail—the Spectral Keeper.
"That doesn't look friendly..." Mystic murmured, getting into her battle-ready stance. After a while, Mystic had already began to struggle. Her chances looked grim, as the fiend was about to finish her.
"Hey!" Kuku shouted, appearing and firing a Dark Fusion Blast upon the Spectral Keeper. Its attention was now on Kuku. "Take your best shot..." Kuku said, using the "Bring it On" hand gesture. The fiend had charged straight for Kuku, until she flew up, revealing Fleece (on Legendary Power), who finished it by using her best Holy spell.
Mystic let out a sigh of relief, now safe because her friends arrived just in time.
"Mystic, are you alright?" Kuku asked her.
"If you hadn't come, I wouldn't be."
Fleece looked around. "Where are we?"
A group of people appeared behind the three Titans. "To answer your question," the white-haired man in green garments began, "Spira. This place, the ruins of Zanarkand, was a vast city that is now dead for over a thousand years."
"We heard quite a ruckus," said the short haired woman dressed in magenta colored clothing. Two similarly dressed men were right beside her: one was tall and dressed in blue, and the other was stout and dressed in purple.
"Who're you three?" asked the male with an eye patch on his right eye.
"And how'd you get here?" added the last male, who had a very long lock of faded brown hair, a metallic leg, and a cane.
Mystic, Kuku and Fleece had explained themselves to the best of their abilities, as half of the group before them appeared to be supreme authorities. They had also introduced themselves.
"Hmm, the Bean Titans, you say?" Logos, the tall man in blue said. "You're a league of superpowered heroes."
"Nine of 'yas are here in Spira," said Ormi, the stout one, "and another one's life has been misplaced."
Nooj, the man with the metal leg, took a second to think. "Okay, we'll help you find your friends."
"The more the merrier," exclaimed Gippal, the one with the eye patch.
"There's a condition to propose," announced Baralai, the man in green.
"That's my line, Baralai," said Leblanc, the magenta dressed woman. "Anyhoo, we'll help you find your buddies if you agree to help us look for these shining sphere fragments." She pulled out a fragment that looked just like the one that Mystic picked up earlier.
Kuku was intrigued, yet baffled. "Fragments of what?" she asked.
"The Grand Sphere," Nooj answered. "Honestly, we aren't completely sure about what it's supposed to do once all of the pieces are together, but by the looks of the fragments, it has to be something phenomenal."
Baralai stepped forth. "There's a fragment in each area of Spira. I found one on the Highbridge in Bevelle, Spira's capital. Gippal found one inside of the Djose Temple, down a ways south. Nooj found one at the Youth League's Headquarters, near Djose."
"And the three of us found one at our mansion in Guadosalam," Leblanc said. "All six of us are here now, looking for another in such a messy place like this."
Mystic reached in her pocket for the shard she found. "You mean this one?"
"Well, well..." Leblanc murmured.
"Okay, we get the deal. We'll help each other, the nine of us." Fleece summated.
"Then it's settled." Gippal stated.
"Where to next?" Kuku asked.
"That would be Gagazet, the sacred mountain just south of here." Logos responded.
The nine of them set off, exiting the ruins of the Zanarkand dome.
Yes sir.
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Part 3 is imminent.