Duelist of Dawn: I have returned with a new chapter! And thank you lilypop8 for another review!
Steiner: Just get on with story, peasant!
Duelist of Dawn: What!? You!? Aw, come on! The union of Final Fantasy sent you to help me!?
Steiner: Of course, you scoundrel! Apparently, that wretched monkey was late, so they had someone more….honorable to fill in for him.
Duelist of Dawn: Whatever, Captain Rusty.
Steiner: Grrr!!! WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!???
Duelist of Dawn: Will you shut up already!? The folks are here! [Points to reader audience]
Steiner: Uhhh……
Duelist of Dawn: *sweatdrops* (I don't believe this) I don't own Final Fantasy 9 or any other music I use for battles, otherwise Buckethead over here would have some better armor so he wouldn't be called Rusty.
Steiner: SHUT UP!!!
DoD superkicks Steiner in the face, KO'ing him.
Duelist of Dawn: On with the show people! (And to think he, overreacted from a compliment inside an insult)
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Chapter 4:
Rescue and Escape from Evil Forest!
(Evil Forest-Random Trail) (Ron's POV)
It's been a couple of hours since Zidane, Vivi, Steiner and I left the ruined Prima Vista and the Tantalus group. I was just glad only one of us had to fight for a whole group to leave in search for a princess that's being held captive by psycho killer plants. At least it's not the traditional 'slay the dragon' rescue, otherwise I know I'd be barbecued even with my new and improved fighting skills. We took the path where Vivi said that he and Garnet had run from there, after running into that first Prison Cage. After that, it was just following a blank trail that any of us had no idea where to go.
"Man, as if I couldn't hate this forest any more." I say, walking through some trees. "We just had to get lost!"
"Well, it wouldn't be easy!" Zidane says, cheerfully. "Besides, we'll beat whatever comes our way!"
"But, Zidane, the princess is still in trouble!" Vivi says worriedly.
"Master Vivi is right!" Steiner yells at Zidane. "Every moment we spend fooling around, the princess is close to her demise!"
"Chill out, Rusty!" Zidane says in a nonchalant manner. "Garnet will be okay!"
"And it'll be even better once we can find our way out of this horror house of a garden!" I add in.
"Why not go this way?" Vivi points to a more visible path, which actually look more of a walkway since it didn't have any grass growing. Steiner, Zidane and I beamed at the sight of the path.
"Bravo, Master Vivi!" Steiner said proudly.
"Alright, Vivi!" I say, giving Vivi a pat on the head.
"Yeah, Vivi, thanks!" Zidane says. "Now we won't get lost any more!"
We spent more time walking finally on the right path, little did we know some vines were moving around the trees, sensing our movements. We ran into more Fangs, and also some Goblins; which were some dagger-wielding bandits that were Vivi's height on the way. But Vivi basically torched them all, not wasting much energy, thank God that every monster and beast is vulnerable to fire, so everyone could really save all of our energy for fighting stronger monsters and the plant master to save Garnet.
Along the way, we walked into an area that was void of any monsters, and in the middle was a spring of clear blue, sparkling water.
"Hmm, no sign of any monsters." Zidane said as he surveyed the area, he turned to look the spring. "Hey, let's rest here everyone."
We all sat down by the spring, each taking a drink which felt very refreshing and at the same time, rejuvenating. Then, we all ate a little of the provisions Zidane was able to grab from the Prima Vista before we left out. After a few minutes of relaxing…..
"Alright, we should leave now." Zidane announced.
"Yes, we must make haste to rescue the princess!" Steiner shouted. As we all stood up, I finally remembered something…..
"Oh, yeah I almost forgot!" I said as I reached to my side and grabbed some canteens which were around my neck.
"Where'd you get those?" Zidane asked me.
"I found a ton of these things in that big pile outside the airship. I thought it would be good to take some with us in case we find clean water!"
"Great thinking!" Zidane said. 'Of course Cinna will end up charging me for them!' He added as an afterthought. 'Oh well.'
We all gathered water from the spring and headed out. After that, we thought no more monster were showing up. Unfortunately, we did, and ran into some more powerful monsters than the Fang or Goblin….
There were two giant flowers floating towards us, white petals but with a red center and two thin tentacle-like roots extending from the bottom of the petals.
"Whoa!" Zidane said in awe of the flying flowers. "How can a flower do something like flying?"
"I agree, I would think any plant monsters would stay grounded." Steiner pondered while readying his sword.
"Why?" Vivi asked.
"A flower would gain nutrients from the soil in the ground." Steiner answered. "That's how a normal flower or any other plant grows stronger every single day."
"Yeah, a normal flower and/or plant would, but these ain't normal flowers, they're Dendrobriums." I said, getting my fists up.
"Dendrobiums?" Zidane asked me.
"Yeah, flower monsters that can also draw upon wind magic, it's also how they're all able to fly without difficulty." I informed the group, keeping my eyes on the flying flowers.
"How do you know that?" Steiner asked suspiciously.
"I read books, don't you?" I asked sarcastically, which also pissed off Steiner but before he could say anything the Dendrobriums started to advance toward us.
"Move!" Zidane yelled and everyone fanned out as the flowers tried to use their tentacles to grab all of us, but thanks to Zidane's warning we escaped in time. Zidane tried to swipe at it with both, but the flower just ascended causing him to crash into the ground. I ran to him to pick him up while he spit some dirt off the ground, which I found a little funny.
"You okay, dude?" I say, snickering a bit.
"Yeah." He groaned out, and then caught me snickering. "Shut up, Ron."
It only caused me to laugh more as I found Steiner swinging his sword at the flowers, trying to give Vivi some cover to use his fire magic. Vivi was able to cast it on both of them, which caused them to flail about, but only for a little while. Next, the both flowers started to start to sparkle a bit, and then suddenly the wind picked up a bit. That when I noticed it was that wind magic was being cast by those Dendrobiums, the distinguishing thing about the wind magic was that it was visible and green. And it must have been painful, because of instead of Vivi and Steiner being blown away by the miniature tornadoes surrounding them, they were being sliced by them, getting minor cuts on Vivi's clothes and Steiner's exposed ankles and wrists.
"Come on!" Zidane told me running towards the flowers, with me following. We were able to stop the wind by Zidane cutting one of the flower's tentacles which caused to cringe, and me grabbing both of the other flowers and yanking it down to the ground and stomped on it. Steiner and Vivi were able to recover by drinking some blue potions.
"Master Vivi!" Steiner turned to Vivi, his sword extending towards Vivi.
"Right!" Vivi shouted as he turned to Steiner. He started to cast something on Steiner's sword and afterwards the shined brightly and Steiner ran towards the Dendrobium that Zidane attacked and slashed it on the petals that left a red cut on them. As Steiner cleared away, the cut burst into flames and turned the flying flower into ash.
"Cool!" Zidane and I shouted at the work Steiner and Vivi did with the newly dubbed 'Sword Magic.'
As we celebrated, the flower I was standing on rose up under my feet, knocking me down and trying to fly away.
"Oh no you don't!" I shouted. I ran after it, as the flower flew over Steiner which I jumped on his head and jumped right off and caught the flower by the roots. The Denodrobium tried to shake me off, but all it did was just swing me back forth by its roots, mainly from the fatigued it suffered earlier. I started to use the momentum of the swinging and as soon as I was able to see a long tree branch coming up as I swung back, I stretched my legs out to swing forward again to wrap the roots around the branch. But I lost my grip and was swung into the air about 15 feet above the Denodrobium.
'Oh, man!' I thought, as I started to fall head first. 'I can't die yet!'
Then, I saw my left foot glowing green and air started to wrap around it. I looked down at the flower and back at my leg, then came with an idea that would kill the flower monster while it's trapped and save me from falling to my painful death. I flipped in mid-air so my feet was facing the ground and extending my left leg out and starting spinning with the green wind wrapping around me.
"AIR STOMP DRILL!!!!" I shouted as I struck the flower by the center and drove it into the ground, dead. I had landed on my left foot and crouched down on my right knee, breathing heavily from the near-death experience.
"Whew!" I shouted. "I was almost compost for these stupid plants!" Then I saw the ground around the dead plant and saw vines sprout around it.
"Whoa!" I shouted again as I dived out of the way and saw the vines take the dead plant remains into the ground. "Guess that's how they use their own kind as soil."
"Hey, Ron! You okay!?" I heard Zidane shout as he, Vivi and Steiner ran up to me.
"Yeah! I even killed that plant I jumped on, too!" I said getting up.
"Yes, which reminds me…" Steiner walked to me and grabbed me by the shirt and shouted, "WHY DID YOU JUMP ON MY HEAD!!!!!!??"
"Well, excuse me from saving your ass from that mini-tornado and killing that flower so it didn't bring any reinforcements!!" I shouted back as I took his hand off shirt.
"AT THE EXPENSE OF MY HEAD!!?" He shouted again.
"Sure, whatever!" I said, turning and walking down the path again, smirking.
As the rest of the gang started walking after me……
"Grrr….I'll have his head!" Steiner said.
"Please, Steiner calm down, you know he did that because it was the only way to catch that monster." Vivi said trying to calm down the angry knight.
Steiner then calmed down. "My apologies, Master Vivi. I just wished that upstart showed some respect for his elders."
"Well, come on Rusty, we gotta catch up with Ron! You too, Vivi!" Zidane cut in, slapping Steiner on the back, while walking after me.
"Speaking of scoundrels…" Steiner growled as he and Vivi started catch up with me and Zidane.
We all reached an entrance to a cave with roots visible on the ground. We noticed that they were moving a bit, absorbing nutrients underground. We also noticed a hissing sound coming from inside the cave. I took a peek inside, and saw that the tiny vines outside was connecting to larger ones and they were connected to a large red flower, even bigger than those flying ones we defeated earlier. It had a mouth just inside the flower with three antennas just outside it. It also had four large, grey, tree-like tentacles with thick green vines attached.
"Whoa!" I whispered in fear of the giant plant. But I dismissed as I saw a human figure just behind it. A young woman to be accurate. I suddenly realized that it was…
"Garnet!" I said. "She's in there, but…."
"WHAT!!?" Steiner cut in, shouting. "Princess, I'm coming!!"
He tried to rush in there, but was yanked back by me.
"What are you doing!? I must rescue the princess!!!" He shouted trying to run back in there.
"HOLD IT, RUSTY!!!" I yanked him back again and placed him in a headlock, which he tried to struggle free, but with my strength he couldn't.
"What's the meaning of this, wretched child!!?" Steiner muffled out.
"Yeah, man let him go!" Zidane tells me.
"Please, Ron, he was going to get the princess." Vivi pleaded.
"And then he was going get ripped apart by a freakishly huge plant guard her." I told them.
"Oh, come on we faced plants just as big!" Zidane countered.
"What would you say if it was three times the size of that Prison Cage we fought a long while back?" I asked him.
"….." Zidane was speechless.
"Exactly, if Rusty here went in there, head first, charging, that plant would've seriously finished him before he could call us in to help!" I ended taking Steiner out of the submission hold. He glared back at me, exhaled and just bowed. "Huh?" I asked Steiner, never seeing him act like that towards me. He may have been a little bit calm as we left the Prima Vista, but never this humble!
"I am truly sorry, Ron, forgive my insubordination towards your judgment." He said rising up.
"Hey, I accept your apology but you didn't have to bow." I said still confused by his action.
"Still, I could've listened to what you were saying." He said.
"And you really need to stop rushing in every time you hear about the princess, otherwise you'll endanger her safety and your own." I countered.
"I will take heed of your consul." Steiner says.
"Good, now Zidane remember when you said about there being a master?" I asked Zidane.
"Yeah." He answered.
"That plant in there must be it." I said.
"So if we bust him up, we don't have to worry about the forest anymore!" He said.
"I think so, now with all that out of the way, let's go rescue the princess while we know what to expect!" I said to everyone.
"Right!" Everyone shouted and ran into the cave.
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(Evil Forest-The Plant Brain's Cave)
As we all came out of the cave, we see the giant plant. All of us got out our weapons (in my case, their already out) ready to take on the plant boss.
Vivi spots Garnet behind the boss. "There she is!"
"So this is the master." Zidane wonders with a smirk on his face.
"It must be if that first Prison Cage left Garnet here with this thing." I say.
"Princess!!!" Steiner shouted, then directed his attention towards Zidane. "You stay out of this! Alexandria would be disgraced if a mere bandit should rescue the princess."
"You think you can handle him on your own?" Zidane countered.
"......" Steiner shuts up and gets ready for the fight.
"That's a negative." I added in. Then all see the giant plant raise its vines up as it hisses menacingly at us.
"Let's get him, boys!" Zidane shouts, more to Vivi and me.
(Play Battle with Specter from Ape Escape 2)
The Plant Brain (as the large plant was actually called) started to strike us down with its massive limbs, but we were all able to dodge it by somersaulting, flipping, or diving to side.
"Fire!" Vivi shouted as he blasted the plant in the middle with a small blast of fire magic, but to our horror, the plant wasn't even phased by it.
"No way!" Zidane shouted as he went to strike the right-side tentacle that was about to sweep him in the mid-section. I was able to stop the tentacle on the left side by standing my ground and taking the hit, but was able to grab it and immobilize it like the fight with the Prison Cage. Of course, it was harder to do since the Plant Brain's tree-like tentacles were much thicker than the Prison Cage's but I was able to manage due to endurance.
"Steiner, strike now!" I shouted out trying to maintain my grip on the tentacle. Steiner nodded then charged in and slashed it in the stalk. I turned to Vivi next. "Vivi, focus up your magic before firing again!" Vivi then followed suit and charged his power, until I felt the Plant Brain started to charge magic as well and fired out thunder magic which struck us all.
"AHHHHHH!!!!" We shouted before slumping to the ground, causing us to stop out defense against the tentacles.
"That…smarts." Zidane groaned before taking a potion and drinking it.
"This beast must have keen defense ensuring its protection." Steiner replied before drinking his own potion.
I drank a potion of my own noticed that it had a sweet taste but a bitter aftertaste after gulping it down. "Man that was a strange taste!" I said, ignoring the closing of my wounds.
Vivi drank one to before saying, "What can we do?" Then, he remembered the combination he and Steiner used earlier, and as if reading Vivi's mind, Steiner was thinking the same thing.
"Master Vivi, now!" Steiner said pointing his blade at the Plant Brain.
"Here goes!" Vivi shouted as he directed the fire magic at Steiner's sword, making it shine again, and then Steiner charged in and sliced the giant plant once more with a burning blade. The Plant Brain hissed out in pain, and we all took the chance to strike. Zidane sliced twice with his daggers in the same spot Steiner struck, adding to the plant's pain.
'Let's see if I can do this again.' I thought as I tried to focus my power towards my right foot, so fire could cover it like at the play. I was able to get it to work as the fire ignited my leg without pain like before. 'Yes!' My mind yelled as I ran toward the plant and yelled: "Dragon Kick!" I gave that plant a round house kick to the same spot the others struck and once again it hissed louder.
"Alright let's keep it up!" Zidane shouted. But our praise was short lived as the Plant Brain opened its 'mouth' and spew pollen in our eyes, blinding us effectively.
"Oh no, I can't see!" I yelled out as I tried to wipe the pollen out of my eyes. As everyone tried to do the same, the Plant Brain took advantage of our blunder. I heard screams of pain as I heard the gang being struck down. "Guys!" I yelled but was silenced by the tentacle striking me in the stomach, slamming me into wall. I fell to the ground and groaned as I tried to pick myself up, but I was picked up and slammed into another part of the wall. We thought we might not make it out okay until I heard a familiar voice…..
"Get down!" I didn't what would happen next, so I just covered my head since I was already face first to the ground. Then, I heard a flash and the sound of the Plant Brain being hurt again.
"Whew, you guys are lucky I came here when I did!" Then I noticed who helped us….
"Blank, is that you?" Zidane asked.
"Yeah, here." Blank responded. It was just a few seconds before hearing…
"Hey, I can see!" I heard Zidane shout, I guess Blank was able to clear his eyes from the pollen.
"Yeah, the boss figured you would need these eye drops so he sent me to deliver them to ya, so here take this to the black mage while I treat the knight and the fighter. Blank informed him.
"Right." Zidane responded. A few more seconds later, I heard…..
"I can see!" I heard Vivi say.
"Finally!" Steiner shouted.
"Hey, where's the other guy?" Blank asked. That's when I noticed I must've been on the other side when I felt Garnet's hand under mine.
"I'm on the other side with Garnet!" I shouted in the direction I thought I could reach them.
"Zidane, give him the drops!" Blank said.
"I'll be back!" Zidane said. Unfortunately, the Plant recovered I bit and I was struck again and yelled out in pain.
"Ron!" Zidane shouted as he tried to get to me, but he and the others must've been blocked off as I heard the sounds of thunder around me.
"We can't get to him!" Vivi shouted as I heard him dodge the Plant Brain's attacks, and I was left blind and to defend myself and Garnet. I went to cover Garnet as the Plant Brain's rear tentacles kept striking my back. I gritted my teeth in pain as my back was getting more and more scarred.
"I…can't…keep…this….up…!" I grunted out with every strike.
Then, suddenly I felt power build up, within me and the pain stopped as the Plant Brain stopped hitting me.
(Zidane's POV)
"Hey, guys I think Ron's about to Trance!" I shouted to the others.
And sure enough, Ron had a bright light surrounding him like it did me, after it was gone, I saw Ron with his eyes still close from the pollen but he was cover in a white combat suit consisting of a guard vest and pants, and his hair was white as well he was surrounded by a blue aura.
"Looks things are looking for our friend!" I said smirking.
(Ron's POV)
'Did I just trance?' I thought as I had Garnet carried over my shoulder. 'Maybe I have enhanced strength….' My thoughts were cut short by a feeling I had, like something was coming, something bad and with green aura. 'Wait, I can see?' I sidestepped to the right before that green aura made contact. That's when I figured it out.
"I can see aura!" I whispered to myself, noticing my eyes were still closed. I then looked to everyone noticing they had a wavy aura surrounding them. Steiner and Blank had white aura, Vivi had black aura, I turned to see Garnet had white as well but a bit brighter, but Zidane had dark blue aura. "Huh?" I said but was cut short by the green aura trying to hit me again. I jumped over as it tried to sweep me from my feet, as I landed, I know who's aura was that; the Plant Brain's. It swung its tentacles again, but I backhanded it without ease then, in one quick motion, I raised my hand which was charging up with light blue aura. I pointed my hand at the Plant Brain and shouted: "AURA WAVE!!!!"
"Guys, move it!" Zidane shouted. Everyone dived to the side as I let loose a blast a light-blue energy at the Plant Brain, frying it on contact.
(End music)
As the fight ended, my Trance state left my body. Afterwards, I kneeled on the ground and gently put Garnet down on the ground. Either Trance or the adrenaline of the fight was keeping me from feeling pain because it came back to me, hard. And to top it all off, I was blind again. I then heard, footsteps stop in front of me.
"Ron, are you okay?" I heard Vivi asked with a worried tone.
"Yeah, just banged up a bit." I answered with fatigue in my voice.
"Here hold still." I heard Blank say as he forced my eyelids open and sprayed something cold in my eyes, I flinched in response. Then, my eyesight returned as I was greeted with the sight of Blank's face.
"Thanks, Blank." I thanked him.
"Here's a hi-potion, too. You definitely need it." He chuckled handing me a vial with green liquid.
"Cheers!" I raised the vial to him then downed the drink as I felt some of my health returning.
"Can you stand?" He offered me a hand up which I took and got up, I winced as my back was still hurting.
"My back's still hurting but I can manage until we get out of here." I told him as he nodded, then I looked to Steiner holding Garnet, with Zidane and Vivi next to them. Garnet start to squirm a bit in Steiner's arms.
"Princess!!! Please get a hold of yourself!" He tells her.
Blank walks up to Zidane and says. "Zidane, give her the stuff." Zidane pulls out the purple vial and pours it down Garnet's open mouth. She's tries to cough it out before she takes it all.
"Princess, please try to drink all of it." Steiner reassures her.
"Is she gonna be okay?" Vivi asks.
"She should with that medicine doing its job." I tell him. Then suddenly ground starts to rumble as we try to keep steady on our feet.
"Oh, man! What now!?" Blank shouts.
"Look!" I point to the place where the Plant Brain sat and it starts collapsing, and from it and the cave we all came in from, some freaky looking spiders appear. Except it's about two feet taller than Steiner seeing he's tallest one among us. There were about five of them coming, but it seemed more might appear as they start to advance towards us.
"Sheez! We're gonna be surrounded!" Blank shouted as we all back away from them. Zidane looked behind him and saw a way out.
"Let's get out of here!" he yelled to us and one-by-one we left the area with Steiner carrying Garnet until we started running down the path. As soon as we reach a cliff, we all jump down, but when I did, my back was hurting again.
"Are you okay?" Zidane stops to ask.
"I'll be even better once we get away from…" I was cut from response when two of those plant spiders surrounded us.
"Vivi, torch 'em!" Zidane yells as he strikes the one behind us killing it swiftly with two swipes of the daggers.
"Fire!" Vivi blasts the one in front of us turning it to ash.
"Let's move!" I said trying to run as quickly as I can. Zidane turns around for a moment and start noticing a change in the trees surrounding them.
"What are you doin'!?" Blank yells at him. "We gotta keep movin'!"
"Something's wrong..." Zidane mutters.
"What?" Blank wonders as Zidane walks a bit forward.
"The entire forest is coming after us." He says then turns to Blank. "Blank... Take care of everyone." He says again before running towards the exit with the rest of us following. I suddenly got a bad before noticing something, as the forest rumbles.
"Oh no, the forest is dying out!" I yell noticing a far away tree turning to stone. I then notice legions of spiders chasing us down as the forest starts to petrify itself more in an effort to stop us. Steiner and Vivi were able to get Garnet out of the forest safely with me close behind, making it out as well. I turn around to see a spider attempting to attack Zidane, but he moves out of the way and it catches Blank.
"Blank!" I hear Zidane shout.
"Here take it!" Blank shouts and then throws a rolled up map to Zidane and he is able to catch it on the run and continues toward the exit, dodging spiny plant tentacles, and makes it out. The forest exit closes up with the tentacles wrapping around the trees and petrifies. Afterwards, Zidane rushes to the stone and tries to destroy it with his daggers, but it didn't help!
"Dammit!!! That idiot!" He shouts to air then slumps down to his knees. "Blank..." He mutters sadly, trying to fight the tears coming out of his eyes.
I walk up to him and place a hand on his shoulder trying to cheer him up. "You know he's not dead right?" I ask him, smiling.
"What?" He looks to me with an eyebrow rising.
"He's just trapped, like what petrification does." I assure him. "And don't they have something to cure that?"
Zidane lights up as he rises from the ground. "Your right! We can come back later and save him!"
"Right, so let's not honor his memory yet, it's getting late so let's make camp!" I tell him, which he nods.
The party makes camp as dusk hits, and they gather around a campfire on the outskirts of the forest. Zidane finishes up setting camp and I lie down on the ground with my back up, seeing that my back's still in pain.
"Man, that hi-potion didn't help out back." I groaned turning my head to the group. Everyone just ignored me as they were worrying for Garnet's health, not that I don't blame them.
"I hope she gets well soon..." Vivi says looking at Garnet's sleeping form.
Steiner shoots an angry glare at Zidane. "This is all his fault! Have you nothing to say, you filth!?"
"...Oh..." We hear Garnet stirring in her sleep then sits up.
"P-Princess!!!" Steiner manages to say as he kneels down before her.
Garnet rubs her eyes and directs her attention towards the Pluto Knight. "...Steiner? ...How did I survive...? You brought me here?"
"It is my sworn duty to protect you at any cost." Steiner tells her.
Zidane scoffs. "What are you talking about? It was Vivi's magic, Ron's fists and my dagger that got you out of there, Princess." He says then points at me still lying down. "And if it wasn't for Ron, you probably would've been beaten to a pulp."
"I thank you all." Garnet says gratefully.
"That monkey deserves no praise!" Steiner growls at Zidane. "None of this would've happened if you and your band hadn't abducted the princess!
And how dare you claim to have rescued her!? When we get back to Alexandria, I will--"
"Steiner... I left the castle of my own will." Garnet interrupts.
Zidane chuckles at her response. "What a coincidence, eh? We went to snatch her, and she wanted to be snatched."
"Impossible!" Steiner shouts.
Garnet just closes her eyes responding, "It's true."
Zidane gets up and looks over us all "So what do you say, Rusty? Friends? Come on, let's enjoy this camping trip while it lasts."
"Camping--you imbecile!" Steiner becomes furious. "Surely even you must know something about the Mist! The vicious monsters it spawns! The abnormalities it stirs in the mind and body! Princess, we must leave this dangerous place at once."
I step into conversation, "Steiner, the princess hasn't even fully recovered yet. If we leave now, we all will be killed easily!" I tell him. "Remember, what I said before facing that plant monster?"
"Yes, but still….." He tried to plead again before Zidane gets back in.
"Alright, tell me... How do you plan to get out of here?" He questions him. "We're standing in a valley surrounded by tall cliffs. And last I heard, North Gate and South Gate were sealed off."
"........." Steiner gives no response.
"Yeah. That's what I thought." Zidane says.
Steiner growls lowly at him.
Zidane then adds more insight, "The princess can barely walk right now. You went through this. You should know. I think we should rest here for now."
Steiner then tries to yell again, "I will never follow your--"
I get up and yell at Steiner in a commanding tone. "Steiner!!! State your sworn duty!"
Steiner then salutes stating. "To protect Princess Garnet Til Alexandros, sir!"
He then notices, I just got him under control, by acting as a commanding officer while everyone starts laughing even Garnet. Steiner then sighs with ablush present on his face "...Very well. Until the princess recovers, I will guard this place with my life."
Zidane sounds pleased with the decision. "Sounds good to me. Vivi, let's get some rest."
We let Garnet take the tent while me, Vivi and Zidane starts to sleep, getting ready to leave the next day.
Little did I know, I would be in for a rude awakening……
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Ah, a spooky cliffhanger, maybe.
Okay, the fourth chapter is over and I'm tired!
Next chapter: The Cold Battle at the Ice Cavern
Please Rate & Review, until next time!
Now we turn to the new move list!
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Air Stomp Drilll: Ron jumps high into the air and after he's just over the opponent, he spind drives a foot to the enemy whlie the air around them slices the enemy.
Trance Skill: (Aura)- Instead of physical contact, Ron focuses his inner power to form aura techniques.
Aura Wave- Ron channels the aura around him and focuses it in to a wave that blast multiple opponents.