Chapter 4

The Clapping of Thunder

Riley finds herself waking up surrounded by the Warriors of Light and a woman bathed in light. She couldn't help but to stare in awe at a pure face bathed in a pure light, but can't help but feel disgusted since it is on a face of a human.

"Is everything okay child?" Cosmos asked. In a flash of lightning, Riley backs away from the group and starts asking questions.

"Who are you and where am I?"

Everyone tries to calm her down, but Zidane was the only one who succeeded in calming Riley down due to their physical relationship and the animal appendages they have.

"I want answers, and I want them NOW. Where am I and who is this woman?" Riley said and asked Zidane with anger in her voice.

"Ok, we will answer your questions but you need to calm down." Zidane said to her, Riley stares at Zidane with her icy gaze, but decided to listen to him and calmed down.

"This is Cosmos, she is the Goddess of Harmony. She is the one summoned all of us here to fight the God of Discord, Chaos." Zidane explained to her.

Riley stares at Zidane then looks at Cosmos with an indifferent look on her face that slowly turns into rage to the point where she couldn't contain it anymore and lunged at Cosmos with weapons in hand.

Everyone was standing in complete shocked and had a gob smacked expression on their face because since Riley is about attack Cosmos. Warrior managed to snap out of his shock and went to defend Cosmos by slamming his shield into Riley's chest.

Riley got sent flying a few good feet away from them, and managed to land on her feet in a crouching position then she starts to glare intensely at both Warrior and Cosmos. All the while, Warrior was glaring at Riley for making such despicable move.

"I will not allow you to take such actions towards Lady Cosmos. If you continue to do so, you will have to go against me." Warrior said to Riley in a steel tone.

Electricity starts jump around Riley body as if it is creating an aura around her in pure defiance and Riley starts snarling and growling him, causing Warrior and everyone else to tense up in preparation to defend Cosmos from Riley.

Very enraged, Riley stands up from her crouch and starts to yell at the warriors, "Why am I being drawn into this?! If you want my help, you'll have to pay like everyone else!"

Everyone was baffled by that comment.

"Pay. What do you mean?" Zidane questioned her.

Still in furious rage, Riley continued to yell at them as if she didn't hear Zidane's question, "Bring me here to fight your battles, and using blackmail against me for your own gain! It's called exploitation!"

That is when Tidus makes a bold attempt to calm the enraged fox hybrid. Because it is becoming very clear that Riley wanted nothing but to slaughter them on the spot.

"Riley, you need to calm down so that-"He started to address her but in an uproar, Riley drowns him out by yelling.

"NO! If you don't send me back home right now, I will slaughter all of you like the pigs you are!" And to prove that she will attack them, Riley re-summons her drumsticks and gets into her battle stance.

Seeing that Riley wasn't going listen to them, Warrior takes his battle stance and prepares to fight Riley. But before he does, he makes one last attempt to calm Riley down.

"Please young maiden, I don't wish to fight you. But if I must raise my sword to protect Lady Cosmos then I will do just that." He said to Riley.

Deciding that she was done talking, Riley starts to charge at Warrior with her weapons raised to attack. Warrior sees this, and prepares defend himself from the oncoming attack.

CLANG!

Both their weapons make contact causing sparks between them. The one thing that surprised everyone is that Warrior got pushed back a little.

"She is strong, but with the anger clouding her judgment she will lose this fight." Warrior thought while finding his footing against Riley's strength.

While the fight was going between the Warrior and Riley, the other Cosmos' warriors watched on but they were still baffled by what Riley had told/yelled at them. What did she mean by pay?

As the battle continues Riley weapons disappears and electricity started crackling in her hands, being at a great distance, starts to throw lighting at Warrior. That was when a loud thunderclap spooked the others, since they were just watching the fight.

"Where is the thunder coming from?" softly asked Terra as she looked around to locate the source of the sound.

"It seems to be her hands. Every time she throws, thunder must be able to echoes within the area." Squall said.

Riley was getting very mad, she hasn't been able to land a single hit on the armor-cladded human.

"Dammit, all he is doing is blocking my attacks. There has to be a way for him to lower his guard." Riley thought angrily as she continues to try to land a hit on Warrior.

She looks to right and sees how everyone else is watching the two of them fight, that was when Riley came devious plan. She looks back at Warrior with the most devious and evil smile painted on her face.

Everyone, including Warrior, shuddered at the sight of that grin. Riley jumps into the air then is surrounded by plasma that covers her entire body. But then, a string of some sort shot of it wrapped around Terra which surprised everyone including Cosmos.

Once it was wrapped around her, it dragged Terra into the orb but not with her yelling for help. But everyone was paralyzed shock, and had no choice but to wait for both of them to re-emerge from the floating sphere.

After a few seconds the glow of the disappeared, and two people came falling out. Surprised yet again, there were two Terras. But one of them had a sense of bloodlust around them.

Warrior was at a loss, who was the real Terra and which one is Riley? Warrior sheathed his blade, as everyone in shock and wonder about who is the real one and which one is the fake.

"They are exactly alike" Zidane said in amazement

"How can we tell which one is the real Terra?" Asked a confused Tidus

Warrior looks at the two mages, and came up with a plan. "Terra, use your magic on me" said Warrior, his voice firm.

The two Terra's stare at him and both of ask "Why?"

"Because your magic is yours alone, no one else has it." Explained Warrior.

Both Terra's had no idea on what they should do. But one of them starts to back away slowly, this one was Riley. She wants to hit Warrior so badly but she also doesn't want to get caught.

But unfortunately, everyone noticed this. Knowing that she was caught, "Terra" summoned her taiko drums and sends a strong lightning bolt at group, hoping to do a lot damage. Warrior sees the incoming attack defends everyone by putting up a barrier.

The moment the barrier was gone, Warrior gave chase to the fake Terra which forced Riley to escape from his onslaught of attacks.

"Ahhh, it looks like I'm still unable to control my bloodlust, then again I am really pissed off." Riley said in Terra voice.

"Fade into the light!" When he shouted that out, Warrior summons swords of light sent them towards Riley. Riley tried to evade them but they were following her like a homing missile.

Unable to hold on to her disguise, Riley transforms back to her real self while she was dodging the flying swords.

The moment she could dodge all of them, Warrior got close enough to land an attack but Riley was able to guard the attack but not without a power struggle between them.

"How were you able to turn into one of us." Warrior asked in a demanding tone to Riley, he wanted answers from the girl.

Two different set of blue eyes clashed. Then Riley starts to give out a very dark chuckle and says, "Well if you must know, it is one of my special skills that I need when I'm on the job."

"What do you mean?" Asked Warrior in a hard but questioning voice.

"Where I'm from, I am an Assassin for Hire. In other words, I will kill anyone for a large amount of money. And the best thing is that I don't give a flying frick on who dies, sometimes on a whim I will even kill my contractors so that they don't turn me in."

Everyone, including the Warrior finally made the connection on what she meant by pay. Riley killed people possibly entire families just for money! How can she stoop so low?!

"No way! Why would you do something like that!?" Cecil shouted the question in pure shock and anger.

"Because humans ruined my life, so I thought why not ruin theirs!" Riley shouted back. She somehow managed to push Warrior away from her.

He lands a few feet away from her and starts to devise a strategy on how to knock Riley out without really hurting her.

Blinded by her anger, Riley starts to shoot lightning bolts at Warrior by banging on her drums that floated around her, Warrior summons swords of light that continued to charge at her with blinding speed. The knight hardly has time to defend himself from her attacks but he succeeded to somehow.

Then finally, Warrior thought up of an attack that should distract the female fox hybrid long enough for him to knock her out. He waited for her to get into range since Riley was currently running towards him and once she was close, he unleashed his attack.

"Healing Wave!" He shouts out while raising his shield. A bright light shine from the shield's surface and it blinds Riley for few seconds.

Those seconds were all that he needed, so he takes his chance and slams his shield on to her head causing her to slam into the ground hard. And just as she was about to black out from the attack, Riley hears Zidane said with a concerned tone, "Oh man, not again."

End of Chapter 4

· FINALLY, the battle scene is done. Sorry for taking so long with this chapter, I have never written a battle scene so this is a first for me XD!

· I don't own Dissidia, just my character and story plot

· No harsh reviews only positive ones please, I want to make this story better

· I apologize for any grammar errors, I tend to not see them until someone points it out to me