I am back! Man, feels good to have free time again. Its been a while since I could guarantee updates, but now I am going to try. Now to progress on with the story!
Now, I have decided to add a bit more character thoughts and more detailed environments, so this chapter is a test, tell us if it sucks nuts ok!
Xavier's POV
Chapter Eleven: Ghost Ship
"We're leaving" I said as I strapped my pistol blades onto my back firmly. I received a small nod from Aeryn as she walked past me and I followed her out the poorly light hallway which led into the Inn's main room.
I received a strange look from the Inn keeper as we walked past. It would probably be from the bloody sheets I gave him when I cleaned up the mess me and Eve made. I told the Inn Keeper it was Aeryn's first time and he left it at that, although I didn't tell Aeryn I said that…some things are better left unsaid.
"Xavier, what are you thinking about, you seemed to freeze?" Aeryn said in a somber tone.
"Nothing, details aren't important, we have to go to Junion, correct?" I said in my casually bored voice, hoping she wouldn't notice the Inn Keeper staring me down.
"Well, if you still insist on going after Shinra, then yes, we have to go to Junion. From there we can hi-jack a airship or take the road over to Fort Condor and then though the mountains to get to New Midgar" Aeryn said as she looked down at a map in her hands.
"You seem to be on top of things, maybe you aren't wasting my time after all" I said before stepping outside the Inn, the sun's glare immediately hitting my eyes making me turn my head.
"Your quite sad for a vampire king, I have met a few vampires in Gaia, and the sun seems to affect you the most" Aeryn said smugly before handing me a pair of feminine looking sunglasses, but at least they were black.
With a almost unwilling reach I snatched them off her and put them on.
"It appears that our breeds evolved differently, however you are still no match for me" I said, returning her smug grin before walking towards the military ship in the dock.
Surprisingly, Aeryn didn't retort back and just followed behind me silently. Normally I would have been ok with that, if not even happy. But after meeting Eve again I had this sudden urge to talk. And if I started a conversation then she would know something was wrong. It seems that I have no yet fully combined with the shadow version of myself…this could be a problem.
"Hey, uh, Xavier. Who exactly was that women?" Aeryn said, breaking the silence with a topic I would rather have avoided.
"A friend, I told you that" I said, trying to sound like I didn't want to talk about it.
"How close were you?" She said, trying to pry into my past, or at least another reality which still seemed real to me.
"If you want to know, she was the childhood friend of a fake version of myself I created, that version thought he was real. To defeat a demon who was going to destroy our world, me and that 'version' combined. She knows this and hates me for it, it seems so anyway" I said. Aeryn wasn't expecting me to give her the scoop so she seemed surprised.
"Wow, I was expecting something like a sappy love story, that's kinda sad" Aeryn said.
"You don't seem to so sad, if I would have to say, I would say, almost relieved" I said, looking down at her embarrassed form. It helped being taller than most people.
"Wah, now your just getting full of yourself" she said, crossing her arms and looking away.
"I shouldn't have to say this, but don't fall in love with me, there will only be pain, death and suffering" I said before walking ahead as she froze.
Aeryn had caught up again, slowly without me realizing it, but we were already at the docking station. It seemed fairly modern, it had sky cranes and magnetic lifts around some of the ships, seemed like a typical dock in Zanarkand, however most things were just brown or silver, they didn't seem to care about colour.
If judging by the area, this industrial part of town would be owned by Shinra, whom I have been told are meant to be working under the WRO to clean up there mess. But seeing as about five hundred years later, they are still cleaning it up, I have a feeling that's not all they have been working on, especially after fighting the experiment in the supposedly abandoned reactor.
The other area of the town would be residential, but there really isn't much here. Seems more like a vacation holiday place more than a town. So if I were to destroy this port later on there would be minimal civilian casualties, would still be in the thousands, but I am sure I could live with that.
"What are you thinking about now, you froze again" Aeryn said from her place behind me, I could feel her arms were crossed and she was staring at the back of my head, hoping lazers would shoot from her eyes.
"We may have to destroy this town, at some point. It is a mainly a military port" I said, looking around the area.
"What! Think about all the people here!" Aeryn practically yelled out.
"Keep your voice down!" I said in a low but demanding tone. "Casualties will be kept to a minimum, but it is unavoidable for my plan to succeed".
"Hphm, lets just get to Midgar" She said before walking over to a booth were a guard was, she began to talk to him and pointed at me a few times. I would guess she was trying to bargain us onboard.
"Xavier, it seems we aren't going to get onboard for sometime, there was an attack near here from a mysterious man said to have knives coming from his hands" Aeryn said.
"Knives, coming from both of his hands, does he know if they were made of bone?" I said. But it couldn't be, but then again, if Eve was here…
"He didn't say, but he said they were supposedly white, so its possible. Do you know him?" Aeryn said, suddenly curious.
"Let me talk to the guard" I said, before lightly pushing past Aeryn and heading towards the booth.
"I heard there was a attack here, I need to know all the information you have?" I said, placing both of my hands on the counter.
"I guess it wouldn't hurt, from the way you are armed I am going to say you're a bounty hunter. Pretty quick to already have a bounty on the guy" The guard said with a slight laugh. I just stared at him before he continued.
"From what I have been told, there was a random attack in the shopping district, then killer then made his way near here before fighting a fairly skilled man whom is now in the medical ward on the ship. He says his name is Jack Frost".
Now this was unexpected, Frost, the victim?. "I need to speak with Frost" I demanded.
"I will talk to the officials, stay here" He said before walking off to a more important looking person, who then walked up a ramp and inside the ship. I have a feeling this is going to take some time.
"Whose Jack Frost?" Aeryn said.
"A friend, I guess. Maybe more of a rival" I said, trying to brush off her questions.
"Ah, Bounty Hunters. Perfect, you guys always make my job easier. Oh, Sorry, Call me Chief Willus, I am in charge of security around here" The slightly round man said.
"Charles" I said, a slight feeling of disgust came to me when he shook my hand. "And this is my lovely wife, Amanda" I said putting a hand around Aeryn's shoulder and pushing her against me. She seemed to catch on to the alias idea and gave a clearly fake smile. But the fat guy bought it.
"So, are you going to question Jack Frost?" the chief said, trying to sound like he knew what he would doing.
"Yes, could you take me to him" I said, not believing this idiot was just going to take us right to him.
Once we were inside the ship I gave the sunglasses back to Aeryn, mainly because I didn't want Frost to see me wearing chicks glasses.
"Here, right in this room, shall we interrogate him?" The Chief said, almost trying to sound like my partner.
"You go in first" I said giving him a friendly smile. We walked into the white room and Aeryn closed the door. I quickly surveyed the room to make it out to be a normal hospital room. As soon as the latch hit I grabbed the Chiefs neck and slammed him into the nearest wall. And from the crack I heard I think I tried to hard.
"Ah, what's with the noise?, you brought my jelly ye-" Frost stopped before he could finish, he was sitting in a hospital bed, empty jelly tubs surrounding him on the floor. "well, well. Look what the cat dragged in, Been waiting to see when you would sh-" again, before he could finish I had literally crossed the room in a second and kicked the bed, making it tumble across the room.
"I told you to take Eve away from the Omega Ruins!" I said, anger evident in my voice.
"And I told you I would be coming after Tera when I finished Kizer Hee" Jack Frost said, getting up off the ground.
"You didn't finish Kizer!" I said, taking a step forward.
"Hey, Whats going on in there!" We heard some guards yell out on the other side of the door.
"Aeryn, barricade the door, this could take a while" I said, cracking my fist before taking another step towards Frost.
"I did say I wanted a rematch, so here will have to do, right Xavier" Frost said as his hospital gown suddenly started changing into a sleeveless black shirt and black jeans.
"Listen, those guards aren't going to stay out forever, we had better get out of her, settle your argument later" Aeryn said
"Disparaitre" I said, aiming my hand at one of the walls. A section of the wall suddenly turned black and dissolved. "Lets continue this later" I said before walking though the wall, Frost and Aeryn behind me.
I continued to create my own portals in the walls, sometimes we entered occupied rooms, but Aeryn quickly knocked them out with what seemed like skillful kicks and punches.
I tore down another section of wall before we showed up in a huge storage room. As soon as the wall had been dropped we were under fire from soldiers within the room. But I hid behind a wall of crates before pulling out one of the pistols.
"Bloody howl!" Jack Frost yelled out, sticking one of his hands into the air. The bone blade quickly tore out from his wrist, but what was amazing was the fountain of blood that came out and froze in midair. The shooting had stopped as the soldiers were probably just as mystified as I was.
The blood droplets then suddenly shot in all directions the soldiers were in, they left red sniper bullet like trails which seemed to linger in the air for a few seconds.
"And that is how you fight Xavier Hee-Ho" Frost said, lowering his arm and retracting the blade.
"I could of done that" I whispered before heading up the stairs to the deck.
I kicked open the hatch and quickly jumped out, my pistol aiming all round me, to find no soldiers of guards. It was like a ghost ship. But what did catch my attention was that the ship had already departed and the port was just a blip in the distance.
"Shit, Frost, Aeryn. Check the ships bridge, something doesn't feel right" I said, not lowering my pistols as I slowly spun in a circle.
"Ah, taking orders from you again, well, since I just lost a lot of blood, il listen to ya this time Ho!" Frost said, although I think he just wanted to get to know Aeryn better.
Frost and Aeryn were now out of sight, so I slowly made my way to the rear of the ship. There were no bodies, no blood or any evidence of a fight.
"You don't belong here" A voice sounded out.
Quickly turning around, I saw a man wearing a white coat, similar to mine. He also seemed about my age but his hair was green but he had pure white eyes.
"It seems you don't either" I said, making a click noise from the gun before aiming at him, just to let him know its loaded.
On a closer look, this guy looked oddly like me, there was some subtle differences but if someone said we were related, I would believe them.
"Who are you?" I said, staring into his white eyes.
"I will be asking the questions" The man said, in a voice very similar to my own. "But to humor you, I called myself Sight". This person was really getting annoying. He was saying things I would say.
Sight then held his hand up. I watched as it slowly morphed into one of my pistol blades. He then mirrored my exact stance.
"You are not from this world, I shall eliminate you" Sight said as his eyes and hair changed into mine. It was almost like looking into a mirror now.
BANG! BOOM!
We had both fired at the same time, the bullets colliding in the air sending shrapnel everywhere.
"This is going to get interesting" I said, pulling out my other pistol as I charged towards Sight. His other hand morphed into my weapon and then charged me as well.
All of our hits were unsuccessful, it was like fighting myself. This wasn't looking good.
"Things aren't looking good for you" Sight said, practically mind reading.
No matter how hard I tried he would match my blow with one of my own blocks.
"Lets end this" Sight said as his hand changed into one of Jack Frosts bone blades.
I was then frantically blocking and dodging. It was like fighting myself and frost at the same time. I could feel him speeding up, the tips of his weapons were starting to make contact with me, leaving slight cuts in my white coat.
Sights foot then came up and hit me in the chest, sending me sprawling over into some crates.
"Defeat will be imminent if you don't get up" Sight said, sounding like me again.
"FUCK YOU!" I yelled, letting out a blast of energy to push him backwards as I rushed towards him again. My attack speed seemed to catch up if not pass his. This was the opening I needed if I was to finish this.
"Hell Eater!" I yelled, and without fail the jaws of death burst out of the deck around Sight. However before I knew a copy of my summon had come out and grabbed onto my arm, the teeth piercing though. Sight must of said the enchantment at the same time I did.
We looked at each other and both the summons disappeared before we charged at each other again. Sight had teeth marks in his legs and I had them in my left arm. It seemed I had the advantage. My arm had cured with seconds from the vampirism, but Sight was starting to bleed quite heavily as he wasn't slowing down. Although he copied my outer shape, he couldn't copy the vampire DNA.
I let off another blast of energy, this time making him stagger backwards.
"The fight is over Sight" I said, breathing heavily.
"Victory shall be yours, but the war isn't over" Sight said as he slowly walked backwards and vanished in the shadows.
I could no longer sense his presence so he had used teleportation magic and escaped.
"Hey, Xavier. the Bridge was empty. Ho what happened to you, seem tired. Been fighting ya shadow? Hee-Ho" Frost said with a slight laugh.
"Could say that" I said quietly before heading to the bridge.
Chapter done, and yes, I had to put that bad pun in at the end. Well, how was it, bit more detail, longer and still some fights.
Another appearance of Sight. Just to help people understand, he can morph his body and personality into anyone he touches. But when did he touch Xavier??