Fipp: My project in underway! Though, for some odd reason, the music seems to 'shift' from one part of the video to the next.
Way of a Heart
"Time for a break everyone," Squall said, stopping near a ledge.
"What?" Zidane asked. "But the light!" he pointed at the beam.
"We can't just sit around!" Vaan spoke up. "Who knows what will happen to Bartz if we do that!"
"I know you two are worried about Bartz, but we may do him more harm than good if we run ourselves ragged." Squall didn't add 'And that's final', but it was heavily implied.
"Fine," Zidane sulked and walked to one of the ledges and sat down on it, sat down and proceeded to stare out to the crystal tower and planet in the distance.
Squall sat down against one of the cliffs.
Vaan, too, resigned himself to the break and sat down where he stood and lied down on his back.
"Hey Squall?"
"What?" He didn't seem interesting in talking.
"Why are you helping us? I mean, the last time we saw you, you didn't seem too interested in coming along with us?"
Squall was silent for a moment. "I didn't want to go with you three when I met you. You seemed like idiots."
"Oh."
"I felt if I went with you, I'd become one too."
"That was unneeded!"
Squall almost smiled. "I wanted to do this on my own, and I thought you would have gotten in my way if I let you, but,"
"But what?"
Squall reached into his pocket and pulled out Bartz's feather. "Even though we were apart, we were still helping each other." With his other hand, he brought of his Crystal. It looked kind of like the gunblade, but also like a feather. Vaan wondered why. "It was because of that, I was able to beat Ultimecia, and get my Crystal."
"What's the Crystal like?"
Squall shrugged. "I really don't know, though, I think I feel happy around it."
Vaan chuckled, only to be scolded. "Sorry."
"But, if what Cosmos told us true, then we should be able to win with them."
"They're that powerful, huh?" 'Then that's what I'm going to need if I want to become stronger.'
000
Treacherous Skies 3-5: The selfish acts we commit, not only affect us.
000
"Alright Vaan, Zidane. Let's get going."
"Don't worry Bartz! The rescue team is coming!"
"We have to make up for lost time." 'We better hurry because if Bartz . . .'
000
"Oh, so you would your only hope and crush it?" the Emperor asked, seeing the fragments of the Crystal the Warrior destroyed fall to the ground. "The Crystals, were they not what you were after?"
"I have vowed to put an end to this conflict with my own hands," Warrior said, holding his sword and shield in his hands. "It is for that reason that I must find the Crystal by myself. It is not charity I should receive from the enemy. That was nothing but an imitation."
"And I suppose your determination is true." He held up his scepter.
000
"You think we're getting close?" Onion Knight asked.
"I don't know," Lightning replied. "So far, we're just looking around randomly for them, so there's no way."
The boy sighed. "I wish we could find some kind of clue."
"Cloud!"
"What was that?" Lightning asked.
"It's Terra!" Onion Knight then ran ahead. Lightning ran with him.
They did indeed find Terra, as well as Cloud, trapped between Kefka and the Cloud of Darkness.
"Now, what will you do?" the Cloud of Darkness asked, its serpents' jaws snapping. "Will you both surrender to our powers? Or will you-?"
"We'll ride it out! All four of us!" Onion Knight yelled out as he, and Lightning entered the scene, their weapons drawn.
"You're alright!" Terra exclaimed, ecstatic to see the boy alright.
"And you-!" Cloud said, turning his attention to Lightning.
"I told you I'd protect you!"
"The three of us can handle this one," Lightning said aloud. "You can handle the clown." This was said to Terra.
She nodded and faced the mage.
The Cloud of Darkness looked around it to see that it was outnumbered. It then caused an explosion at its feet, causing a smoke screen.
Seizing its chance, it flew from the smoke and drifted down to one of the lower levels of the tower.
Seeing that this was a lost fight, it was about to teleport away, when there was a light thud on the metal slope behind it.
Turning around, it saw that Lightning had jumped down from above.
"So, you have pursued us?" it asked.
"I would like to help out Terra," Lightning said. "But that's her fight, not mine." Se drew her gunblade. "So I'll have to settle for you."
It laughed. "Very well, we shall send you beyond the reaches of despair!"
000
Terra floated down, only to quickly fly away, trying to get away from Kefka's explosions.
"Come on!" the clown laughed, throwing more at her. "Let's play! Dance! Dance!" He then gave chase.
Terra quickly spun around, destroying several of the explosions, when Kefka flew through the smoke.
"Let the party begin!" he maniacally laughed.
She now found herself surrounded by numerous explosion, which closed in around her.
Curling up as tight as she could, Terra vanished in a flash of light, while the explosion detonated.
Kefka dropped his arms in disappointment. "Was that it? I wanna play more!" he whined.
Up above, Terra reappeared and placed her hand on one of the giant holding containers, to support herself while she caught her breath.
"I mustn't ruin everybody's hopes," she said to herself.
"Hope aren't worth dirt!" Terra yelped and jumped onto the catwalk and looked up to see that Kefka had appeared inside the container. "I'm going to destroy everything!" The glass shattered.
Terra lowered her arms and glared at Kefka as the small shards of glass sparkled around her. "I won't let you, get away with it!"
000
"Are you prepared to loose all hope?" The Cloud of Darkness' tentacle shot forward, shooting dark thunder at Lightning, but she avoided this by jumping off the ramp, and to the lower level.
The Cloud appeared behind her and threw an explosive particle beam, which exploded behind her, sending her into the air and into one of the walls.
As she slid to the ground, the Cloud floated into the air and fired off numerous shots of darkness that spread around it, before shooting off towards Lightning.
She jumped into the air to avoid the attack, barely missed being hit, and sprung at the Cloud and swung her sword, infusing it with the power of water, and struck at the Cloud, crashing it though the massive iron pipe above and crashing it into the bottom of the catwalk.
Lightning landed on the ground and cast Thundaga at the Cloud, but this attack missed as the Cloud soared threw the air and cast down darkened spheres at her, which struck her and sent her down into the lowermost pit.
The Cloud hovered down to the edge of the pit, but Lightning jumped up and made to strike her, but a round shield appeared in front of it, stopping her attack. A particular beam appeared below, burning her before throwing her into the air.
On her way back down, the Cloud's tentacles spun around it wildly, hitting her multiple times.
When it was done, Lightning fell to the ground, but she jumped up to the Cloud and sliced at it once, then struck it with a thunder spell, before she landed on one of the remaining pipes.
The Cloud then concentrated its hands in front of it, before firing a massive beam of energy at her. Lighting barely had time to dodge it before it came after her, destroying the pipe she was standing on.
She rebounded off the wall and sliced at the Cloud, following it with multiple more strikes, before dealing the final blow.
000
A light streaked across the starlit sky.
Cecil, in his Paladin armor, hovered in the air and looked down at Golbez. "It's because I have friends that I can fight! Both light and darkness give me the guidance I need. Thus-!" He then dove down at Golbez, spear ready to strike, and did this.
Golbez raised his arms and fired lightning from his hands, catching Cecil in it.
He struggled for several seconds before flashing in darkness, retuning to his Dark Knight armor, and breaking free from the attack, and dropping to the ground.
"I can turn darkness-" He shot toward his brother, shifting to Paladin and swung his spear upwards at him, but Golbez quickly jumped back. Cecil then landed back on the ground and held his spear up. "Into hollowed light! Behold!"
He shifted back to Dark Knight, and black flames erupted from the weapon, spiraling towards Golbez.
But the dark man dodged them by moving to the side, and quickly flew into the air. Cecil watched him land on a cliff.
"You're naïve Cecil," Golbez said, arms crossed over his chest. "Even knowing pain and betrayal, you would depend on the whims of others?"
"I swear on this blade-" he switched to Paladin, "I will not be dissuaded!
000
The Cloud of Darkness laughed. "Such an interesting thing!" It then sunk into a dark portal in the ground.
"That's done with," Lightning said, putting her weapon away. "I better get back to them."
Lightning ran up the stairs and met up with Cloud and the Onion Knight.
"Terra!" Onion Knight called, as the ran up the to girl.
"Are you okay?" Cloud asked.
"You three!" Terra said happily. "I'm so glad!
In the end, Terra had received her Crystal, and they headed out.
'They each have their Crystals,' Lightning thought, looking between the three of them as they headed down the catwalk. 'What's been driving them? Are they simply doing this because Cosmos told them too, or did they obtain them because they truly believe in what they're doing? Because I . . .
As the four of them walked away, none of them saw Minerva sitting staring at them from across the room.
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