Journey of the Damned

Hola me compadres. Newest chapter for the Journey of the Damned, hope ya'll like it. And sorry for the long pause in not only this but all of my stories. I had final exams to study for and take care of, not to mention all of the graduation parties that took place afterwards. I'm still recovering from my massive hangover but wanted to hurry up and at least get this update out. This and a few other updates were already in the works so I just have to finish 'em off.

Thanks to all of those who reviewed, it really does help the process along. All pairings will be developed over many chapters.

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Chapter 4: Untold History

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Aboard the Air ship

Hope asked the next question. "Why are you two here anyway? If your from a different dimension then shouldn't your world have very advanced technology?"

Lightning nodded as it made sense to her. They waited for their answer from the two shinobi.

Kisame took this one. "Well it all started with what is now known as the Fourth Great Shinobi War."

"But first a little history." Kisame said with a small grin.

"The Elemental Nations have never been a hub for technology. I still don't know what half the shit in this room does. We had monitor cameras and televisions but not flying ships. Our boats are still mass produced in wood."

The L'cie group were shocked by the description of there fellow L'cie's world. But that left a question that came to each of them at some point.

How did they get here?

If technology had nothing to do with how the two shinobi arrived, then what could have possibly happened? Kisame continued his speech seeing their confusion.

"When a mad man called Madara Uchiha created a group called Akatsuki, or Red Dawn, he did so with the purpose of gathering all of the Tailed Demons. Now I'm sure you're wondering why he would need the nine strongest creatures on the planet. Not for a good reason at least. He planned to unite all of the demons to create what they originally were, the Jyuubi."

He stopped talking and had a stoney face on as he turned to gaze at the sky. Lightning and the others were a little put off that he had just stopped in the middle of an explanation, more so Lightning out of pure annoyance. Naruto decided he had put off talking about it long enough and wanted to get this whole ordeal out of the way.

"The Jyuubi was also known as the Ten Tailed Demon. No one knows it's true form except for the Sage of Six Paths himself. It would reak havok across the lands in Humanity's earliest days, destroying civilization as a whole time and time again. Then one day a man with powerful eyes, The Sage of Six Paths, did battle with the beast. It raged on for days tearing across the landscape. When the fight was nearing an end the Sage sealed the mighty demon into himself and sealed the body into a mass of earth, which became the moon. Upon his death he feared the beast would reak destruction and chaos once again so he split it into nine pieces, the Tailed Beasts."

Kisame cut in, finally back from his momentary reprieve. "So if Madara had gathered all of the demons and sealed them within himself, he would have an endless chakra supply. He then planned on using that to cast an illusion that would reflect off of the moon and basically capture the entire world in a never ending mind control. You can see why the leaders of our world had such a problem with this."

Lightning and Sazh both nodded their heads in understanding. Hope and Vanille, while they didn't entirely understand the situation, knew that controlling the minds of the entire planet wasn't exactly a good or popular idea.

"So the five great nations did something never before seen in our entire history. They all united together against Madara, putting aside their own grudges and hate for one another to serve a greater cause. And they won. The road that lead to victory will prevent war for a long time at least. So in simple terms they achieved peace." Kisame finished.

Naruto said one last thing before they went into an uncomfortable silence.

"He claimed that he was doing this so there could be peace. That isn't peace, it's imprisonment. They would be able to see and feel everything that happened to them but they would only be prisoners in their own bodies. Only freed by death."

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A Couple of Hours Later With Snow

Snow was not having a good day. No, not a good day at all. First his rescue attempt failed and Serah was turned to crystal. Then he was made into a L'cie by some damned Fal'cie. And now he was taken by some military personel and to top it off they took his fiance as well. He thought back on what happen after they caught him.

Flashback

Right after he had defeated the Shiva sisters a whole contingent of armed soldiers bum rushed the area and surrounded him. Before he even had a chance to fight back they disabled him and started to move him towards a ship that had just arrived.

As they took him away Snow noticed the white marked on her right shoulder, but it was clear that it was a l'Cie brand.

"You too why are you helping them?" He asked in confusion. Fang smirked before speaking.

"If I were you I'd worry about myself."

End Flashback

Needless to say he was pissed. Fortunately though they brought Serah with them so that was a plus in the entire fucked up situation.

Some soldiers told him they were currently on their way to the Lindblum and meet up with some guy named Raines.

All he could do was wait and see what would happen next.

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Back with Naruto and the others

After flying from the ruins they finally headed to the surface, they were met by the beautiful view of the sunlight sky. Above them stood a cradle like island floating above which it was the capital city of Eden, they had no time to be sightseeing because they were still been chased by PSICOM. The opened fire once more but Sazh was quick to evade them, there were times he was impressed of his own piloting skills.

"They're still on us!" Hope yelled while freaking out.

Kisame glared at him while at the same time tried to maintain a grip on his seat. "Well thaaannk yooouu Sir Shits-A-Lot. I would've never figured that out." That got a glare in return.

The ship dodged more fire but more enemy ships arrived to back up the other Sanctum ships. They fired and managed to hit the l'Cie ship as everyone felt the tremor that hit them.

"We're taking hits!" Vanille screamed while clutching onto her legs tightly.

"No you think!" Kisame, for some reason or another, felt like being the biggest ass he could be. And it was starting to show.

"Come on, give me a break!" Sazh called out in frustration.

The African American man took his chances knowing another way to lose them completely he pressed the turbines of the ship to maximum level. Increasing the speed of the ship by a hundred percent he knew it will be risky since the ship will lose a lot of fuel, and weapons systems will be down for a ship flew so fast it went ahead leaving the canyon, the PSICOM forces were confused seeing a blur moving ahead. They ended crashing by the rocks of the canyon it looked like they were safe and away from harm. Everyone on board gave a small sight of relief happy that it was finally over, more so Kisame. He was more of an ocean and water person, not a sky high guy. Sazh was checking on the ship after he deactivated the turbines, once it was safe to do so.

He hit the controls feeling frustrated at their situation. After he hit the controls he seemed to have hit the communications program. A hologram appeared in front of him as well as in the passenger's seat, they were all watching as it was showing the ruin of the Pulse Vestige. It looked like it was a news broadcast.

"Next, an update on the status of the Purge. Just moments ago the Sanctum announced the successful conclusion of the Purge along with the safe arrival of the Cocoon migrants to their homes on Pulse."

Naruto didn't like what he saw and neither did Kisame or any of the others aboard. The people of Cocoon didn't even know the truth behind the Purge in the first place, it wasn't right to keep the truth hidden from them.

Sazh pressed another button on the hologram changing the channel to another broadcast, which it was an interview to an old man in robes. They all were familiar with him, except the two shinobi and Vanille. The figure was Primarch Disley.

"Yes, that is correct. There's no denying the enormity of the strain the Purge placed on us all. But given the tens of millions of lives at stake, there truly was no alternative."

"Primarch Disley stood by the move stressing the necessity of the relocation. When asked about the possibility of future Purges the Primarch remained noncommittal, stating that only that he'd seek counsel with the Fal'Cie Eden and weight all options before making a decision."

"Let the Fal'Cie make the decision. He should rely more on his own voice than letting that Eden or whatever it's called make the decisions for him." Kisame mocked in a bored tone as he pulled out a kunai to pick his teeth.

The act was disturbing Hope greatly. When he looked to Vanille for support she was humming happily with a grin as she gazed out of the window.

"Yeah, that's right. If it makes the Sanctum look bad, it never even happened." Sazh said in agreement with Kisame. He looked disgusted with the way things were heading in the conversation.

"In all the centuries since the war of transgression Cocoon has been spared Pulse aggression, and prospered for it. It is essential that we maintain this peace. That is the Sanctum's focus. We will continue to employing every resource available to combat these threats to the harmony of our society."

"Meaning we'll be running for the rest of our lives." Sazh grumbled unhappily with a sigh.

"Hey umm who is this guy?" asked Vanille.

Sazh sighed at her question. "I mean, what do they teach kids these days? He's Galenth Disley, the Sanctum Primarch or murder-in-chief."

"Just another tool of the Fal'Cie." Lightning said seriously her eyes reflected hatred and pain.

Naruto saw the expression in her eyes and could only shake his head. She was obviously upset with not only their situation but the fact that a Fal'Cie did this to them and Serah too. The blonde shinobi didn't blame her, but putting the blame on someone to make herself feel better. He didn't believed in that, what's done is done. There's no changing the past.

The only thing he could do to help her was to aid her when she needed help.

To help her focus on their goal.

To help get over her hate.

Naruto sighed again, this wasn't going to be easy. Nothing ever was for him.

"According to our instant poll nearly ninety percent of Cocoon citizens agree with the Sanctum's handling of the Purge. Seventy percent of respondents said they would also support additional Purges were the need to arise."

"Let's purge everybody, that'll fix it!" said Sazh.

An alarm was sound through the entire air ship. They heard the sound of guns being fired as they spotted Sanctum troops ships flying their way, so much for being safe.

"They've found us already, that was fast." Hope said in a worried tone.

Kisame chuckled at the statement. "You really thought they were gonna let us go so easily? You gotta get your head set straight. We're at war with Cocoon now." Lightning and Naruto nodded grimly to the fishman's observation.

"Points for perseverance." The afro haired pilot commented.

"More like points for being pests." Naruto said in annoyance.

As they flew higher into the sky they were all blinded by a bright light. They were all met by the burning figure of the Fal'Cie that give the artificial sun light to Cocoon.

They were all in awe at the sight. Just in varying degrees of amazement.

"A Sanctum Fal'Cie up close and personal. Cocoon's own light in the sky." Sazh smiled while his Chocobo chick left his afro to see the bright view. They were rudely interrupted from heavy enemy fire as they felt the ship getting hit again.

"Here we go again ." Sazh said with yet another sigh.

"Fly in we'll lose them in there!" Lightning shouted.

Sazh wordlessly obeyed flying closely to the burning Fal'Cie. He carefully dodged the rays of artificial sun light so as to not get burned and destroyed. The PSICOM ships weren't so lucky as some of them were destroyed for getting too close at the sun rays.

"I like this Fal'Cie." Sazh shouted with some humor in his voice.

"There's more of 'em!" Vanille said in worry.

"Yes we can see that. Oh, look out for that deadly birdy. NO PLEASE DON'T LAY EGGS ON US!" Kisame shouted at the end with comically wide eyes as his face was glued to the window. Everyone paused at his insult/claim. Most stared at him with bothered looks.

"Whatever you've been smoking I want some." Naruto said in his monotone voice.

They managed to avoid them but they got hit once more, it was all the ship could take. Sazh was trying to control the ship but he knew it was futile, the energy shields were down and fuel gauges have been hit too. He knew very well what was going to happen next, this is also result from using the turbines earlier.

"Everyone we're going down hang on!"

"Ah I don't want to die!" shouted Hope.

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