Chapter 12: Rescue Tomoe! Showdown at the Calm Lands!


In the Calm Lands, the Celsius docked on the great wide plains of the Calm Lands where on the deck of the airship, Zoey was training with Paine. Brother feels that our heroes along with their new guests and members of the Gullwings need a much needed break and what perfect place is the Calm Lands?

Yuna, Rikku, Neptune, Nepgear, Blanc and the Lowee Twins watched as Zoey got into a defensive position as Paine charged at her, slashing while Zoey repelled her slashes with her sword.

"Hey…" Neptune began. "I think Zoey is getting good at this sword fighting thing. I think you told me Zoey was a beginner, but Painey taught her how to wield a sword, right?"

"Yeah. It seems Zoey has gotten so good at sword fighting that she was able to learn how to fight using a sword quickly." Rikku smiled as she placed her arms behind her back.

Zoey let out a yell as she slashed vertically at Paine, but she blocked it with her sword and horizontally slashed her, but Zoey dodged it and got into a defensive position again. Paine sighed as she sheathed her sword and said "That's enough for today. You did well, Zoey. But there are still room for improvement."

"I know…" Zoey wearily smiled as she too sheathed her sword. "I'm getting hungry already. So let's have lunch."

"Funny you should ask, Maron was about to cook, but Chef kicked her and Barkeep out of the kitchen, but we took care of it." Blanc softly smiled as a flashback occurs.


(Flashback 10 minutes ago…)


"But I thought I told you you're not going to cook in the kitchen!" Maron fumed as she stomped her feet and crossed her arms.

"Well (Censored) you… I told you I was going to have my chance at cooking and that is final." Chef screamed as he resumes cooking, just them, Chris came by and sees Maron and Barkeep. And Blanc and her sisters sees Maron's worry and walked up to her.

"Well, it's too late today. Chef has the kitchen all to himself, plus I bet he's cooking something really good for all of y'all, so why not give him a shot today?" Chris smirked in an attempt to get Maron and her friends off Chef's back.

"Is your Chef experienced?" Blanc glared.

"Well yes, he is much better than (Beeping) Maron and you flat chested bitch!" Chris yelled angrily.

"I can't believe you mentioned the chest!" Maron has white dotted eyes as she and Barkeep ran for cover.

Ram laughed and mocked "You dug your own grave, Mister McLean!"

"You and Chef are bad people…" Rom frowned.

"What is flatty Blanc gonna… The hell?!" Chris at first was sarcastic but turned pale as Blanc transformed into White Heart, a red aura around her as she grabbed Chris by the neck. "W-W-What's going on? Why is your hair color blue all of a sudden?!"" He stammered. He didn't get an answer as Blanc threw him into the kitchen.

"I thought I said I will… HUH?!" Chef first angrily half-shouted, but his expression turned to fear as Blanc charged at them, screaming angry gibberish and pounced on a cowering Chris and Chef.


(A/N: Warning, this scene is too violent for viewers, but Chris and Chef will live. So hear their screams of agony while Blanc swears out at them and pummeling them in the background.)

Chris: OH GOD! YOU'RE BENDING MY ARM! THAT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BEND THAT WAY!

Chef: HOLY FRICKING CRAP! MY STOMACH! MY BEAUTIFUL STOMACH!

Blanc: DIE! DIE YOU JACKASSES AND PERVERTED LOWLIFES!

(End flashback)


"And Chris and Chef are in bandages because of our sister and Chef vowed to never take kitchen duty away from Maron ever again." Ram grinned as she adjusted her hat.

"Sounds good. Those two needed a lesson." Zoey smirked as the gang head into the Celsius to have lunch.

After lunch, Yuna, Rikku, Paine and Zoey turned to the otherworlders and Yuna spoke up first.

"Everyone, why don't we show you some of the sights in the Calm Lands? I'm sure you'll be amazed by what you see in this area."

"Feh, shouldn't we look for the damn Queen's Gate other than sightseeing?" Inuyasha snorted.

"I think we need to know this world better and since Yuna, Rikku, Paine and Zoey know this world better than we do, we might as well accept their offer." Gwen countered. Inuyasha sighed as he shook his head.

"Okay, Neptune, Noire, Blanc, Vert, Inuyasha and his friends, Jean, Maron Ben, Gwen, Max, Owen, DJ, Geoff, Trent, Courtney, and Leshawna will come with us. Everyone else should wait here and guard the airship." Zoey said.

YRPZ and their chosen group exited the Celsius, however, one group of people were waiting for them to leave and they were Heather, Beth and Lindsay.

They were alone so they started talking to themselves. "Well, this place blows. The beds are the worst things I have ever slept in, that stupid weird looking guy who is the leader of the Dumbwings speak in a language I don't understand… and to admit it, the Spiran food is really freaking awful. I threw up afterwards. Let's blow this dump of a ship and explore the sites." Heather suggested to the two for their alliance.

"Sure thing. I am getting bored here." Lindsay smiled.

"We'll do what you say." Beth nodded, but she was nervous about this, so they left without anyone noticing them. However, one did see them leave and it was Alice. Alice frowned as she remained silent as she went to the Celsius's bridge to establish a link to YRPZ and their chosen group.


(With Heather's Group)


Heather and her group were hopelessly lost as they explored the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth. The Cavern of the Stolen Fayth is where Yuna acquired a powerful Aeon named Yojimbo, Yojimbo has the power to instantly kill a fiend with one sword strike, depending if he is paid handsomely of course.

"We're lost…" Beth sighed as she sees some of the fiends eying her. They were lucky the fiends didn't bother them.

"We're not lost! We… er… Okay, we're lost…" Heather slumped down despondently.

Lindsay spotted someone in the shadows. She waved cheerfully and said "Hello!"

"Lindsay, who are you talking to?" Beth asked confusedly as she and Heather turned to face the shadowly person who approached them menacingly. The three girls screamed.

Heather's voice in the Cavern screamed out "THIS DAY SUCKS!"


(With YRPZ and their friends)


"Trigger Happy!" Yuna and Zoey shouted as they used their guns to take down the Amorphous Gel, a fiend that was recently discovered in the Calm Lands. The fiend dissolved into liquid as the spirits left the body.

The TDI gang got out of their hiding place while YPRZ, the CPUs and Ben reverted back to their normal clothes and forms.

"Another fiend bites the dust!" Neptune cheered as she pumped her fist in the air in victory. She turned to the TDI gang and told them with a warm smile "The fiends may be big and scary, but we're tough, with a capital T!."

"We get it, fiends were once humans who died out of natural causes or killed by more fiends and that if they don't reach this Farplane, they'll turn into fiends. I hope we never see another fiend like that again. It freaked me out!" DJ stammered as he shivered.

"Get a grip, DJ. We'll get through this." Courtney scolded as she placed her hands on her hips and looked at her fellow campers with a scowl. Paine walked up to Courtney and frowned at her.

"You're not the leader, Yuna and Zoey are…" Paine told her stoically.

"W-What's that supposed to mean?" Courtney glared at Paine, she is starting to hate the member of the Gullwings already.

"You sure act tough, but you sure don't look it. Do not try to act like the leader here. And you were scared when that fiend appeared. Don't try to act like the leader of us here." Paine told her coldly as she walked back to her friends.

"H-How dare you! I'm a counselor in training!" Courtney fumed.

"Courtney, just drop it, okay?" Leshawna moaned as she face palmed.

"Say, didn't you say that a amusement park will be built in the Calm Lands, Yuna?" Zoey asked, looking at the Calm Lands in all its beauty.

"Yes. As soon as the fiends are cleared out, a amusement park will be built here." Yuna nodded as she sat on a boulder.

"Ya know… I'm gonna miss the fiends here once the park is built. One time, Tidus, Yunie, Wakka, Lulu, Kihmari, Sir Auron and I started hunting fiends from all over Spira and capture them using special weapons that can tamed them and bring them to the Monster Arena over there." Rikku pointed to a cliff side on the Calm Lands. "The Calm Lands is where that powerful servant of Yu Yevon's teachings, Penance was sleeping, not before we defeated the Dark Aeons, evil copies of the Aeons Yunie used to have summoned by those Yu Yevon worshippers."

"S-So where is this Penance guy?" DJ stammered as he was trembling in his shoes.

"He's dead. Tidus, I and the others killed him after he awoke from his slumber." Yuna reassured him as she sat on the grass.

Zoey's comlink beeped and she activated it. "Hello?"

"Zoey, we got a problem… Heather and her group left the Celsius without supervision. They could be anywhere in the Calm Lands." Alice's voice said through the comlink.

"They what?!" Zoey gawked as she screamed into the comlink.

Suddenly, a Shuriken was flung at Yuna and she had to dodge it.

"Who threw that?!" Neptune has the common white dotted eye look as all eyes turned to see a brown haired woman.

She wore a red shinobi dress, with a white bowtie and large, long, flowing, red and white ribbons behind her. She often wears white or red panties underneath. On her arms, she has black wristbands, and on her legs she has black socks with red and white sandals. Her bust size is about 87 (34). And what's odd, she has a blank stare on her face.

"Whoa! Who the heck are you?!" Rikku gawked as she is envy of this woman's bust size.

"Yuna Braska… Slayer of Sin and Zoey Hanson… I have orders to kill both of you on sight…" The woman said in a tone that seems dull or robotic or when someone is hypnotized. She snaps her fingers to reveal girls who have spider legs and purple hair appear out of nowhere. Jean's eyes widen in shock.

"Aranes!" Jean got out his staff and got into a defensive position.

Then the big chested woman snapped her fingers again and tied in webs around their torsos are Heather and her group and a woman with a 87 (34) bust like the shinobi woman, wearing miko clothes with a red bandana with a symbol of some sort. All of them were unconscious, but Jean recognized the miko woman.

"L-Lady Tomoe!"

"Let me guess… She's from your world, Jean?" Vert asked as she and her fellow CPUs transformed.

"Yeah… She's from the Hinomoto continent back in my world. We have to save her!" Jean shouted out in fury.

"I'm on it!" Noire acknowledged as she used her sword to cut through the Aranes, they turned into dust and disappeared, their spirits leaving the bodies. Some of the Aranes spit out webs at Vert and Blanc, but they dodged it and used their weapons to strike the two Aranes down.

'That's strange… Those look nothing like the Arane I befriended back in my world…' Jean thought nervously to himself as three more Aranes cornered him. Paine jumped in and did some amazing sword moves to strike them down. Paine nodded to Jean who nodded back as she charged after the shinobi girl.

"Wow! This is awesome!" Owen cheered as he and his TDI buddies hid behind a rock.

"Yeah, but the spider girls kinda freaked me out…" Geoff muttered.

"N-No kidding…" DJ shivered as he was in a fetal position.

"Time for Heatblast to join the fray!" Ben declared as he selected his alien and slams his palm on the dial. It transformed him into the flaming alien humanoid, Heatblast.

"Who's up for flamed spider girls?" Heatblast shouted as he made fireballs appear and flung them at two more Aranes, roasting them.

Zoey who has switched to her Gunner dressphere was aiding Yuna by firing their guns at the Aranes, killing them in the process.

Rikku joined Paine and Noire to battle the shinobi girl. But the shinobi girl smirked as Rikku landed a hit on her, but it was a log.

"Eh?!" Rikku has the black dotted eye look seen in most anime as the shinobi girl appeared behind her and kicked her in the stomach, making the Al Bhed girl skiddled across the field.

"Ywouch…" Rikku rubbed her head to ease the pain as she charged at the shinobi girl. But the shinobi girl made three clones of herself and they charged at Rikku, Paine and Noire.

"She uses moves seen in ninja anime and Planetune's Ninja Squadron!" Noire gawked as she got into a defensive position and blocked most of the punches by this shinobi girl's clone.

Paine waited for the right moment as the second clone of the shinobi girl landed punch after punch, just as the clone was about to land a kick, Paine saw an opening and lashed her sword at the side, dispelling the clone.

The real shinobi girl and her clone charged at Rikku who was taking hit after hit.

"Rikku!" Zoey gasped in shock as she charged at the shinobi girl. 'Got to think fast! Wait… that sphere we got from Besaid Island… Shinra said he turned it into the White Mage dressphere! Maybe I can use it!' Zoey got out the White Mage Dressphere and shouted "Dresschange!"

Zoey's new outfit is a mage's clothes which are white, kitty slippers, white arm bangles, pink gloves, white high heeled socks and a white witch's hat. She has a wand with a crystal sphere on it.

"Cool…" Gwen muttered in awe.

"Cure!" Zoey waved her wand at Rikku, a soothing green aura appears around her and in an instant, and her wounds disappeared.

"Alright, Zoey!" Rikku gave her a thumbs up as she dodged more punches from the shinobi girl and her clones. It was an intense fight and the shinobi girl has the advantage. Suddenly, three blue energy balls appeared and struck down the clones.

"Who dares?!" The shinobi girl tensed as she and her opponents looked for the one who flung those balls. Then, a girl with blue hair with a pink hairclip, wore a white school girl's uniform and wielding a katana leapt into the battlefield.

"How dare you capture those innocent girls! As Class 1-A Chairman and member of the Hattori clan, I, Junko will punish you!" The girl known as Junko shouted by rushing at the shinobi girl and used rapid sword attacks which caught the shinobi girl off guard and was wounded in such a quick rate.

"Now's our chance! Dresschange!" Rikku leaped into the air and switch dresses. She wore heavy orange armor with an orange helmet and a large claymore. This is Rikku's Knight Dressphere form. She snuck up on the shinobi girl from the back and whams her sword into her side with the back of her sword.

The impact knocked the shinobi girl into the air and Junko saw her chance and leaped up with amazing accuracy and slams her foot down on the stomach of the girl, the girl fell with heavy aerate and crashed into the ground, an impact crater was made with the shinobi girl unconscious body in it.

'That was a close one! I'm glad this Junko Hattori girl appeared and helped us out in such a tight battle. I hope the shinobi girl is alright. But we need to help Heather's group and that miko girl. Good thing they're still here during and after the battle.' Zoey narrated.

To be continued…


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