Here is the next chapter of The New Age of Mages. This chapter is a mono-song chapter. It's called "Black Magic FoTH Aftermath".

Final Fantasy 9 Characters © Square-Enix. Final Fantasy 9 OCs and Black Destroyer Concept © tAll3Shyguy on DA or tAll3Shyguy Skull Land on Fan-fiction/Youtube.

Background song is In the Shadow by The Ramsus. Now on with the story.

The New Age of Mages

Chapter 10: Black Magic FoTH Aftermath

The Black Magic Festival of The Hunt has been done and the Party is gathering in the Castle. They plan to explain the whole situation with Black Destroyer to Kuja, Cid, and Hilda. The Party brings Kuja to the throne. At that point, The group finds Cid and Hilda.

Cid says "I like to say Good Job once again to Vivi. You did great."

Eivi approaches her grandfather Cid and Grandmother Hilda.

Eivi says "Dad had it all planned out."

Cid says "So Vivi is this girl's father?" Everyone in the party nods and then Cid Says "Then who's her mother?"

Eiko says "That would be me, Dad. Vivi and I created her by combining his Black Magic with my White magic. That in turn created a sage egg. That Sage Egg hatches to create this little girl."

Cid says "You mean Hilda and I are grandparents?"

Vivi says "Yeah so meet your granddaughter Eivi. Also Shawn T here is your Great-Nephew from the future and Sarah O is your Great-Niece."

Hilda says "So they are Zidane's and Garnet's kids from the future."

Eivi says "That's correct. My future self from a future where Black Destroyer destroyed the three cities of the Mist continent sent them back here to prevent that future, knowing we would need their help to beat Black Destroyer."

Kuja says "Can someone explain the full story to me?"

Zidane says "I handle that bro. It all starts during the Black Waltz attacks to retrieve Garnet. When the third one came, he attacked Vivi. The Black Mage Soldiers defended Vivi but were destroyed by Black Waltz No. 3. This made Vivi mad and Vivi raced out to fight him. Garnet took control of the wheel while Vivi, Steiner, and me fought Black Waltz No 3. We beat him and he became broken. He then stole Zorn's and Thorn's Airship and started to chase after our airship we were in. He kept saying 'I exist only to kill'. We raced the airship through the south gate and he caught up to us once but Vivi blasted him away with his Fire Magic. When we got in South Gate, He kept pursuing and he then destroyed his own airship with his Thunder magic. Then during Garnet trip back to Alexandria, Steiner and her met up with Marcus. Then the Tram heading toward Alexandria hit the Damaged and Broken Black Waltz No 3. This had Steiner, Garnet, and Marcus have to fight Black Waltz No 3. This ended in victory for Steiner, Garnet, and Marcus."

Kuja says "I know all that but how does it relate to Black Destroyer?"

Zidane says "I'm getting to that. We thought that was the Last we would see of Black Waltz No 3 but He used his magic to stay alive and teleport away. He then gained the power to see into the past and future of his existence. He saw the future where he was defeated and hated it so he wanted to prevent it. He also saw the future that Shawn T, Sarah O, Rustier, Danielle, Quats, and Amalan are from and that's the future he is going to try to make happen. He reappeared at Lindblum when the Black Mages were trying to open up trade with The Cities of Mist Continent. He told them that they should rule but they wouldn't listen to him and that's when we learned he was Black Waltz No 3. He then said that he was no longer called Black Waltz No 3 instead he is called Black Destroyer. He left when his mission to get the Black Mages to work for him failed. After that came the attack on Lindblum where the Mysterious Thief aka Shawn T first appeared and that's when we found out about Eivi's Sage Egg. We then rushed to Black Mage Village to protect the egg with the help of the Black Mages there. Shawn T, Sarah O, and Rustier came to help as well. With everyone working together, Eivi's Sage Egg hatched and he used Ultima to send Black Destroyer flying. Then Vivi fought Shawn T so that Shawn T could test him. Vivi of course won. After that, Black Destroyer attacked Alexandria and we went to stop it and succeeded. After that came the Black Magic Festival of The Hunt and we all know that Vivi won that and that catches everyone up."

Sarah O says "Shawn T, Rustier, Danielle, Quats, Amalan, and I are all children/relatives of the party that defeated Kuja and Necron."

Cid says "I see. That's the whole story. We should focus on protecting the Cities of The Mist Continent and keeping the Black Mages from being Reprogrammed."

Kuja says "I would be honored to help you all defeat Black Destroyer. He is one of my experiments gone deadly wrong so he is my problem as well."

Sarah O says "I got a question: Did you give Black Destroyer the Ability to trance?"

Kuja says "No I didn't. You're saying he is able to in the future?" The future children nod their heads and then Kuja says "Oh no, he must of harnessed enough of his magic to learn to trance."

Vivi says "Wait, Trance is a mode that can be controlled by not very many people. What if the greatest weak point of Black Destroyer is his trance?"

Kuja says "A Black Waltz was not meant to handle the power of trance so that may be right."

Shawn T says "He did seem easier to beat for the people who faced him with his trance up but never they could because they didn't have trance."

Eivi says "I have seen into the future of us winning and it shows us battling a trance Black Destroyer and us fighting him with our trance modes so that must be the key to beating him."

Vivi says "Then we must work together to keep Black Destroyer from completing his goals long enough that he would get angry enough to use trance against us. That's the plan."

Everyone then raises their fists in the air and says "Alright!"

TBC...