Okay just like to say a huge thank you to all those who reviewed. I know true potion was a lame name but once something sticks in my head it stays, so I'm afraid we'll all have we live with it ^_^. Also I have to tell you Kuja will come into it and side with Zidane but it could take a while. Garland will be coming in soon though.
Anyway if you're that bored to be reading this story I would like to advise you to read these really great stories:
Lifa's soul by shadow
: this story is so awesome it's about if Zidane was part of the lifa tree and if Madain Sari hadn't been destroyed (so Dagger is Sarah). ^_^Reverse images by Forbidden Wings
: this is so cool, in this Zidane is the prince and Dagger and Vivi are the thieves. I love the story idea and the plot is great ^_^Dilemma by Angel+devil=me
: set in a real life kind of way. Dagger has just moved to America and meets Zidane and gang, except he has a girlfriend (guess who) chapter five is so funny and you'll love it when you see who Dagger's boyfriend is ^_^Happily ever after, not by Dagger
: in this Zidane never came back from the lifa tree and Vivi has just died. Dagger is training with Garland because he says he can teach her how to bring them back to life.Part of the skies by aya-yahiko
: this has Dagger as Sarah in it but the princess is also in, this is really cool ^_^I'll never tell by Ravyn Crescent
: really really long, but it is an amazing story, so far its 58 chapters, 58! Worth the read, definitely worth the read.Will you be my canary? By Aquarius Mistress
: in this they are at a drama school, Dagger and Zidane meet on the way there and it isn't a happy moment. But they find out that they'll be seeing a lot of each other because on of her new friends is going out with his friend. This story was the first I read and it is so cool. You have to read the part where Zidane accidentally knocks Dagger out ^_^Also look at Love and hate bydevilz-pheonix666,
Stole by fanfasymei-aqua
Royalty and commoners don't mix, right? By Taylor Marie
Final fantasy PUNK'D by ff-aime-AM-sp0rks
Sunday morning after by Vash's Girl
Sk8r Boi by KawaiiLunaKitty
How long have you been like this? By Laine
You can reach any of these through my favourite list and other ones too, mostly from ff10 or Andromeda (I love Harper ^_^). Anyway here's the next part of the story.
Disclaimer: have to add in this that the language Terra is not my idea but I did jumble the letters around to make it because in the game it just talked to him and wasn't really written.
Last time Zidane had taken the true potion he had remembered the blue light of Terra. This time he remembered more.
The blue light was all around him but this time he could see beyond it, he looked out and saw Garland standing in front of him smiling proudly. Zidane reached out a hand towards him only to find it hit a glass wall inches away from Garland. It was then he looked down and saw his small figure and many small tubes sticking into his body.
I'm in a glass tube he realised, fear swelling up inside him. Is this my birth?
"Kuja." Garland's distant voice commanded outside the tube. "Come and see your replacement."
Zidane could barely believe his eyes as the young genome stepped forward. This Kuja didn't only look like a child but seemed to have the playfulness of one too. He had no anger or hatred in his eyes as he gazed with wonder at Zidane.
"Will he come out?" Kuja asked sounding so child-like Zidane began to question his sanity
"In a few days he will be able to live outside his tube and his training will begin."
"Can I look after him?"
"You will show him what it is to be an angel of death."
"What have you named him? Is it like mine?"
"He is too good to have a name like yours. I gave you the name meaning pain in Terran. But I have used the older ancient language of Terra to come up with his name. He is Zidane, destruction."
"What's he going to destroy?"
"Gaia, my worthless defect of a Genome, he will become the destroyer of Gaia."
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"Gl! U dcg'm ybsckb mtb wbvmjczbp cq enun!" Zidane screamed fighting off the covers. Covers?
"Zidane! Shush it's okay."
"U dcg'm wc um!"
"What did he say?" Vivi asked looking hopefully at Dagger.
"I don't know, it must have been in Terran."
"I wasn't aware he knew it." Freya said carefully.
"Well he is from there." Zidane groaned wishing they would stop talking about him as if he wasn't there. Dagger immediately knelt down beside him. Zidane stared at them trying to make himself believe he was there with them and not in some tube. Just to make sure he stretched out his hands and touched Dagger's cheek laughing slightly from relief.
"Zidane, are you okay?"
"U hupb um tbjb, I'k gcm mjnrrbw ngzkcjb."
"It would help greatly if you were speaking Gaian!" Freya said annoyed.
"He wanted to look after me, why would he want that? He hates me, I cost him everything, that's why I'm here, because he left me." Zidane said ignoring the others.
"Are you talking about the boss?" Blank asked. "He doesn't hate you man, he's just kinda pissed off."
"Garland said I was his replacement, yet he wanted to look after me. Be a brother."
"Garland?"
"Brother?"
"What do you mean 'replace'?"
"Do you mean Kuja?" This was from Dagger who sat down on the bed and tried to look him straight in the eyes as she spoke. "What do you mean he wanted to look after you?"
"He used to be nice, when he was little he used to care. He hadn't yet been disrupted by Garland."
"I could never believe that monster had ever been good!" Steiner argued his hands shaking from anger. Zidane wasn't listening, a new and terrifying realisation had finally hit him. Of course, why hadn't I seen it sooner?
"Zidane, what's wrong?" Dagger asked quietly. He wanted to tell her but he couldn't bring himself to say it out-loud. Garland's words were ringing in his ears, they will die before this is over and I will make sure it is you who will take their lives if you defy me any longer.
"Please no." Zidane begged quietly feeling a tear fall down his face but no longer caring what the others thought. "It can't be true, I need to be sure." He glanced around the room and saw that Mikoto wasn't there, he sighed and began to stand up only to be pushed back down by Dagger.
"Where do you think you're going?" She asked with her royal tone looking as annoyed as Steiner.
"I need to talk to Mikoto." He said desperately trying to get up again, but once again Dagger kept him down and he was still too weak to struggle for long.
"Steiner, will you please bring Mikoto here?" Immediately Steiner saluted and left the room. "We'll give you some time alone." dagger said lightly kissing him on the lips and exiting the room, the others soon followed.
Zidane waited impatiently for a few minutes he closed his eyes and tried to picture the young Kuja once more.
"What is it you want so desperately?" Mikoto asked startling Zidane with her sudden presence.
"I need to know about my life in Bran Bal." Zidane said shakily.
"You had already been placed on Terra when I was given life." She said simply.
"What! But you knew about my tail being cut off after Bran Bal."
"Time does not flow in Terra, if you had cut it then it would never have grown back, even when you did finally come to Gaia. And anyway, there was no record of it."
"Record?"
"Garland kept a record of Kuja and your progress. He let me read them in case I needed to replace you one day."
"Is that why he made you? To replace me because I had gone to Gaia."
"Yes, I was meant to be a strong angel of death. But with you and Kuja gone he had no guide line of how to make me that powerful."
"These records, id they say anything about the soul created which was meant for the angel of death?"
"It mentioned a destructive soul created which was meant for the angel of death, but it didn't go into detail."
"What did it say exactly?"
"'Once the angel of death becomes of age they will be given the destructive soul in order to begin the chaos on Gaia.' Does that help?"
"It explains a lot, mainly why Garland is after me."
"So he lives?"
"In a way, but then he wasn't really alive in the first place." Seeing Mikoto's puzzled expression Zidane just smiled. "It doesn't matter, it's not important right now."
"What will you tell your friends?"
"The truth, but first I must be sure I am right. I have to dream and remember more of Bran Bal. How Kuja was given the soul of destruction."
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It had been a few months since Zidane's life began in Bran Bal and already Kuja had taught him many things. He could read and write in both Gaian and Terran and had been informed of the reason he existed. The explanation puzzled him and he decided to ask Kuja about his uncertainty.
"Why must we destroy Gaia?" He asked already deciding he preferred to speak in Gaian.
"We will not destroy it, just merge with it so our planet will not die."
"Why will it die if we don't merge with Gaia?"
"Our planet is very old, so old that it needs to absorb newer planets to stop from dying."
"Why do we have to kill the people of Gaia then?" Why can't we just live with them on their planet?"
"Becauseā¦just because we have to. Now Garland wants me to start teaching you how to access your hidden power."
"I don't have any power." Zidane told him plainly while reading a book on Gaia.
"Yes you do, Garland put it within you. All you have to do is bring it out."
"How?" Zidane asked suddenly a lot more interested, thinking of how he could visit Gaia with his hidden power.
"All you have to do is think of the destruction you want to cause and then the power will come to you."
"Destruction?"
"Yeah, like the destruction of Gaia." Zidane fell silent at his words, his sudden excitement to seize his hidden power evaporated as quickly as it had come.
"Zidane, why aren't you trying?"
"I don't want to destroy anything." He told him simply turning back to his book and peering at a picture of Alexandria castle.
"But you're an angel of death, it's what you're made for."
"I don't want to be one anymore, why can't we just be angels instead? Why can't we just live on Gaia? I'd love to live there."
"Is that really what you want?" Kuja questioned quietly.
"Yeah." Zidane answered not looking up from the picture. "I want to have my body grow and live like they do. At least until we have to destroy it, just for a little while."
"Maybe you can always live there. Maybe there is another way after all." Kuja said too quietly for Zidane to hear. It was in that moment he realised what he must do, for the sake of his brother.
Okay I can't write anymore until I figure this one thing out, maybe you lot can help me again. Was Madain Sari destroyed ten years ago? I'm not totally sure and its really important I get it right. Anyway please review, here's the translation's to the language:
Gc! U dcg'm ybsckb mtb wbvmjczbp cq enun! - No! I won't become the destroyer of Gaia!
U dcg'm wc um! - I won't do it!
U hupb um tbjb, u'k gcm mjnrrbw ngzkcjb - I like it here, I'm not trapped anymore
I know the language sucks and there would be no possible way they could speak that but I needed Kuja's name to mean pain and I needed Zidane to start speaking it. If everyone really hate it I'll try and do something different ^_^ how's that sound?
