Chapter 10:An Old Feeling Returns
"Okay, I have and idea, however it comes without saying that their are risks to my idea, and it may not even be possible," I said seeing a worried look on Rikku's face. "I hope this plan is a little less... rash, then your last one," Rikku said remembering our brief fall not too long ago. "Well I guess first I should test this before I try and use it and end up like, killing someone, or something," I said causing Rikku to look even more scared. I slapped my forehead, and decided to just give it a try, I concentrated on my left leg's power not knowing what it was. I decided to give it a test kick and saw as I kicked dust from the floor stirred in a straight line moving away from my foot, a long ways. Great, air element really helps, kay lets try the helm, I thought concentrating on the power as hard as I could. Suddenly darkness literally came out of the ground and swalloed me up, I sat in pitch black for a moment and realized that I could now move quickly anywhere I wanted to go. I just made the darkness take me where I wanted to go, but I decded to test it and made it bring me across the room.
I came out of the darkness on the oppisite side of the room and behind Rikku. She turned looking astonished, and then suddenly my head felt like it was going to split in two.I fell to my knees and clutched my head, "What the hell," I muttered clutching my head tighter as the pain seemed to increase slightly every second. "What's wrong, I thought you were dead and couldn't get hurt," Rikku said almost taunting me. "True, I can't physically be hurt, but if I am attacked from within my own mind by the man who killed me and then fused with me, I can be hurt. But he can't hurt me unless he's given more power by something," I said then realizing my shadow power gave him more strength.
"Rikku, are you alive down there," I heard a man with an obvious Al Bhed accent shout. Rikku hangs out with Al Bhe... wait a sec, her eyes, their green, she is an Al Bhed, I thought causing Rikku's reply to be blocked out by my mind. "Hey metal head," Rikku said drawing my attention, "can you get up there and open up a path if there is a spot close enough to an exit?" I looked up and noticed there was a tiny hole, "Ah, but of course mi'lady, anything for her majesty," I said laughing as she took a swing at me and I jumped up and bounced to the top of the shaft. " Move away from the middle of the shaft, and you guys outside back up," I shouted. I drove a fist into the hole making it slightly larger. "Now what was the point of that," I heard Paine say. I held up a single finger telling them to wait and watch. I reached down onto the ground and dug my claws straight through. I then proceeded to pull with all my strength. An extremly large chunk came bursting out and I threw it aside and down into the room. I heard Rikku scream and saw the people outside look at me, "What, it didn't hit her, and I told her to move," I said shaving off as much rock as I could so that I knew it would be large enough for me to fit through. I then slid back down and grabbed Rikku, "Hey," she shouted. "Would you rather me leave you here and let them try and get you out with a rope or something," I asked causing Rikku to stop struggling. I lept up and grabbed on at the hole I made. I helped Rikku through the hole and her friends helped her up on the other side.
I pulled myself through and stood up to be greeted by a slew of weapons. "Ah, now see that would help, if you could even kill me, but you can't... so, move," I said walking by with the sphere in my hand. I was almost out of the tunnel when I held up the sphere, "What is so important about these things?" My question was almost immediately answered when the sphere went off and I saw the man who looks almost exactly like Tidus, "Ah, so this is the sphere that starts Yuna's next journey, guess the Gullwings get this one then," I said turning around to go talk to them. I ran into them in a matterof seconds. They gave me a curious look and an even more curious one when I threw the sphere at Rikku. "You should show Yuna that," I said and walked off. Great, I came here for nothing, except a long boring useless introduction to the story of a game I remember a little about, I thought walking acros the water in the fish room, which I was turning to ice in a nice path the whole way. I jumped up to a higher level on the other side and spotted something move in the distance. "Ello ello, what's this," I said bolting off in that direction.
I quickly arrived at the location of the movement but saw nothing at the moment. Then I spotted the thing, which I now discovered was another shade, moving towards the Gullwing's airship. "Damn, for carrying such a heavy sword you move fast," I said running after it. It had gotten on the airship and I just saw the elevator doors close as I got on following it. I hit the elevator button over and over until it finally came down, I went to the farthest floor besides the deck, it was like a hotel and saloon thing. I took a quick glance, managing to barely evade sight of the Hypello barkeep. I then ran back to the elevator and went to the bridge. Which to great luck was where I found the Shade, it appeared to be messing around with the controls, but was unable to move the ship or even start it. It turned to see me as I approached. It drew lifted it's large blade so that it was in both hands. I drew a long katana from my left arm. The shade looked panicky, and seemed to be concetrating above me not directly on me. I looked up and noticed a ventalation shaft entrance. "No way pal," I said dashing at him swinging just as he seemed to dematerialize around me and move into the shaft like he had become smokey air. "Ugh, I hate this so much," I said hearing the sound of the elevator. I jumped up and tore off the cover to the shaft and noticed that I was barely going to fit, what with the wings and spikes and all. I shoved myself through, slowly and rather loudly, high pitched squeaking and scratching rang through the vents as I pushed myself along. It seemed to widen a little ways in and now I was moving much faster. The shades cooled the air around them, leaving an indiscreet but clear path for me to follow.
We, that is to say the shade and I, ended up in the engine room. It ran the wrong way on its initial exit and was now trapped betweem me and the now running engine. It would not escape me this time. I noticed it beginning to revert to it's gas form again. I aimed my arm straight up and shot out a large chunk of my armor. It splattered across the vent, and melded into place, blocking the vent. It changed to it's gasious state anyways and attempted to float over me to the door. "No you don't," I said creating a large bow and arrow. I quickly took aim and shot just a bit in front of the shade's projected path. It nailed it dead on, the gas moving with the arrow to the wal just behind. The instant the arrow hit the wall the shade returned to normal and then began to melt away likethe others. These memories hit me and knocked me back, but I managed to stay concious. After recovering I now had my memories of Auron. There was only one left and this airship was getting close to it, however I had no means of leaving this ship undetected, not like that really mattered. If they had not been alerted by the scraping in the vents then they were deaf and I'm sure they were looking for me right now.
I was right of course, as I approached the elevator, after recovering the metal I had used, the door opened. Right inside were Rikku and Paine shocked to see me. "Sorry about the intrusion, I had business on your ship, and now I have business in the Calm Lands," I said calmly, "but, seeing as your heading for Besaid I will be flying via my own wings to the Calm Lands if you don't mind." They looked dumbfounded and were at a loss for words. "I either need you to move so I can use the elevator or tell me how to open these doors without the elevator on that floor because I have a feeling that something big is going to happen at the Calm Lands and I need to go... NOW," I said causing them to step out of the elevator. I hit the button to go up on deck and the door swooshed shut. I stood there impatiently waiting to reach the deck. When the door finally opened I didn't take my time, I ran and jumped off the side spreading my huge bat wings wide. I flapped them hard floating inplace for a moment to figure out which way to go, the instant I knew my heading I bolted off in that direction. When I came close I had a sudden urge to stop on the cliff bordering the valley that is the Calm Lands.
When I landed I was very glad that I had done so. I looked on in awe at the soldiers below, there were so many that I could barely see any grass on the ground itself. They were expecting me, but how, I scanned the entire place over and noticed three things that both angered and frustrated me. One, on the oppisite side of the Calm Lands I spotted a cage holding the final shade. Second, almost right next to this cage was the final chaos bringer needed to eliminate me. Finally, just below my location stood Baralai, but he had many guards about, and in the middle of these guards were Stella and my other companions. Plan plan, need a plan, okay, umm, take out the guards and knock out Baralai, run across the Calm Lands, causing as little chaos as possible and kill the last shade before the chaos bringer reaches me, I thought realizing that was probably my best chance but there was almost no way I could pull it off. I would have to try, no matter what. I could jump down to where the guards and Baralai were, but then I remembered, why jump when you can move amongst the shadows themselves. I used the power of my helm and moved right next to one of the guards.
He reacted to me almost immediately but a gave him a quick backhand fist in the face and he fell to the ground. The other guards were quick to follow suit. I now stood face-to-face with Baralai, he was the only thing standing between me and that shade, well him and an army ready to rush me even at the exspense of their own lives. None of it really mattered, nothing could kill me right now. "Baralai, you know you can't kill me, so why don't you drop your weapon, take your troops and let me destroy that last shade," I offered hoping that he might listen to reason. I ruled that out when he began laughing, I had no idea what he was laughing about but I figured I could cease his laugh with a good knock on the noggin. Now as a dead person I felt no pain, only the man who killed me and I killed could cause me pain at times. But, as I rose my weapon to rush Baralai I felt something, a feeling I could barely recognise, physical pain. It felt as though I had caught fire at the entry to this wound. I looked down at my chest and saw a weapon sticking through the middle of my chest.
CLIFFHANGER!!! Weee, I'm in an unusually good mood even though bloody school is starting again on Monday :( Oh well, I'm gunna have fun writing this since my brain is packed with ideas, I just hope mycomputer doesn'tget anymore viruses. Please review, I haven't received any recent reviews and it's kinda depressing.