I find it mildly amusing that this, the 13th chapter of Omega Legacy, is being posted on Friday the 13th. Go Figure. Moving on, this week Rekks' world is on the fire and it's up to him to save the world. Needless to say the world of FFX is in big trouble. But luckily for him, Rekks gets a little Pep talk from some long lost family members. Meanwhile, Rose and Cana are lured into a deadly game by a villian from another FF world. Things really take a turn, when the price they pay for the game puts lives of people they care about on the line. Good vs Evil, It's anyones' game. Remember if you have any questions, ideas, thoughts, views, suggestions, reviews, etc. Send them to me.

Lee stood in the midst of a lush field. All around him colored lights danced about creating a dream like atmosphere. In front of him were massive pieces of machinery shrouded in shadows, being twisted and reformed. Marco pulled out his piece of comucite from his pocket, holding it up to his mouth.

"I arrived first. The shadows are at work like you said…I still can't believe you found everything and are able to do this so fast." Lee remarked.

"I found you…my will is strong. I won't let anyone stop my plans. I've given you everything you asked for…now stop Rekks and destroy this world in order to hurry things up." Ordered Martyr.

Lee looked up at the shadowed machinery.

"With this thing at my disposal that won't be a problem." Lee replied.

Lee then placed the comucite back in his pocket and turned to look at the place where years ago, Shuyin had almost used Vegnagun to destroy Spira.

"Just because a plan doesn't work, doesn't mean it isn't good. Sometimes it just take a little shifting of the execution. Shuyin was on to something, simplicity at its best. One shot…down the rabbit hole…" Lee mimicked a gun with his hand pointing it at the spot were YRP fought Vegnagun. He then made a gunshot sound with his mouth and pushed down his thumb mimicking the hammer of a gun. "And Spira's gone…"

Nearby a man in a red overcoat wearing dark sunglasses watched over the whole thing. He remained for a few more seconds before heading off with great speed through the Farplane. He crossed over a small hill and entered a small part of the plane where two other men stood. One was a shirtless man wearing a red bandana and an armguard. The other was a more stately man wearing the regal robes of a Summoner.

"So Auron did you find out what all that commotion was about?" grunted the shirtless man.

"Trouble." Auron replied.

"Figures." Scoffed the shirtless man.

"I've conversed with the others. The Farplane has been sealed off from the rest of the world by some strange barrier. It doesn't seem like there'll be any help coming." Sighed the Summoner.

"Sh*t…Braska. With everything going on up there and crap about to happen here…we can't be this screwed…we just can't…." lamented the shirtless man.

Braska shook his head.

"I wish Jecht. But what's left? No one can get through the barrier. Even if we could get a message to them they wouldn't be able to do anything." Braska replied remorsefully.

A few miles away a portal hung in the air slowly closing up. Below it Rekks laid unconscious. As the portal closed, Rekks' eyes fluttered open. He sat up looking at his surroundings with bewilderment.

"How the hell did I end up here?" He Quipped.

Chapter 13: Reunion part 1

Calm Lands North Side………………

Yuna, Rose, Kimahri and Zialas entered the base camp's main tent. The soldier leading them stopped in place giving a salute as he introduced them to his commanding officers.

"Lady Yuna…The commanders in charge of this side of the Calm Lands…General Gippal and Secretary of Defense Nooj." Announced the soldier.

Gippal and Nooj stepped forward with Tev at his father's side. Yuna gave each one of them a hug greeting her old friends.

"It's so good to see that you guys again." Smiled Yuna

Rose nearly broke down as she walked up to Nooj and gave her father a hug.

"It's good to see that you guys are safe." Nooj replied, returning his daughter's hug.

"How are things going?" Yuna inquired.

"Not good world communication is still down. Rikku's leading the Al Bhed, but all the damn monsters have our best Machina pinned down and we can't move them. And things haven't gone well since we've been cut off from Tidus' group." Gippal informed.

Tev headed over to a console and switched it on to project a map of the calm lands.

"We're here in the north, While Sir Tidus and he forces are in the south. We got the enemy boxed in, but they just keep multiplying. And without communication it's only a matter of time before we get overwhelmed from every other direction. These b*stards got us dead to rights." Griped Tev.

"Have some more faith kid, we'll get through this." Gippal patted his son on the shoulder.

"Is Cana with him?" Yuna asked worried.

"Last I heard Cana and Vid were over there." Nooj replied.

Yuna bit down on her lip.

"So what are your plans now?" asked Rose.

"Right now we're holding, but we have to establish a line of communication with Tidus' group." Nooj held up a small purple device that looked like an amalgam of junk. "Shinra developed this. It will allow short range communication, but some one is going to stick it somewhere safe in the Calm Lands in order to establish a direct line of sight."

Rose leaned forward scanning the map of the Calm Lands. She then looked up at her father with determination.

"I'll do it." Rose announced.

"No, I can't send my own daughter in to that hornet's nest. There's undead creatures…fiends…no…we're assembling a team." Nooj protested.

Rose shot her father a look.

"Dad…I can handle myself. If you want…I'll still go with a team. Besides if Rekks were here…he'd do it. And If I can just show half of the bravery that he showed then I'll know I did everything I could have to save Spira." Rose told her father.

Nooj sighed.

"You and your mother. Neither of you listen to me and I just can't say no to you. Fine…assemble a small team and we'll get things ready." Nooj lamented.

Nooj and Rose hugged each other again, before he headed off to make arrangements. Rose stepped out of the tent to get some air while everyone set battle plans. She walked to the edge of the encampment and sat down on a rock in middle of some trees.

Rose heard some rustling in the distance. He head shot up and she looked through the trees to see a man in bizarre clothes, with long blue hair resembling feathers. Rose stood up, cautiously placing a hand on the hilt of her sword.

"Who are you?" she asked.

The man held up his arms showing that he bore no weapons.

"My name is Kuja and I just…wanted to see you. Seymour expressed a certain interests in this world. He said love, loss and anger…have fueled the heroes families to fight even in the face of hopelessness. But personally I don't see much of anything in any of you." Stated Kuja.

Rose drew her blade pointing it right at Kuja's throat. Kuja didn't move an inch his eyes locked on Rose blatantly advertising his lack of fear.

"Who are you?" Rose demanded to know.

"I came to see this world's Finale, but I must admit it's rather boring so far. So I decided I wanted to play a game with you." Kuja smiled.

"You sick freak, this isn't a game." Rose spat.

"A contest then…One of strength. Your forces against mine." Kuja tossed Rose a sphere.

"Are you behind this monster attack?"

"Think of me as the stage director of this act. With everyone of this world as my puppets."

Keeping an eye on Kuja she switched it on. Out of the sphere projected a map of the Calm Lands with a specific location marked off.

"At this point you will be able to place your device and I promise you that none of my forces will touch it." Offered Kuja.

"You sick son of b*tch. All these people's deaths…"

"You have two hours to fight through whatever I throw against you. And reach that point…or else I will pump the whole of my strength in to systematically destroying all your forces."

Rose laughed.

"What makes you so confident you can do that?" she mocked.

Kuja pointed his finger in to the distance. A large bubble of dark energy appeared which caused a massive explosion. All that was left was a smoking crater nearly a half a mile wide in every direction. Rose watched as soldiers ran over to the crater in order to investigate what happened. Rose turned back to Kuja with a glare.

"What's the purpose of all this?" Rose asked.

"Destruction of the weak. The weak do not deserve to live in the new world with the strong. I just want to see what your world has left to offer before it's wiped out." Kuja replied.

"Did you kill Rekks? Was he apart of your contest?" Rose demanded to know.

Kuja smirked.

"It doesn't matter, this contest is with you. Maybe if you win I'll tell you. Two hours." Kuja pulled out a piece of comucite and disappeared amongst wisps of shadows.

Rose took a couple of deep breaths reeling back her anger. She sheathed her sword then hurried back to the main tent as fast as she could. Rose burst through the tent's opening heading straight for Yuna, Gippal, Kimahri and her father. Nooj was the first to notice Rose's panicked state.

"What's wrong?" Nooj asked.

"We only have two hours to get to this location and set up a link?" Rose handed Gippal Kuja's map.

"And what happens if we don't?" asked Gippal.

"Then something bad will happen. I ran in to a man who is connected to all this. He issued this challenge to me. If we follow it I think we can minimalize the damage our forces take." Suggested Rose.

"I don't know." Gippal scratched the back of his head.

Yuna placed a supportive hand on Rose's shoulder.

"No, it makes sense. I believe you Rose. Take whoever you need." Yuna responded.

"Thank you Lady Yuna." Rose replied.

Yuna pulled Rose in to a hug.

"You're still married to my son. You don't need to be so formal. Be careful…I don't want to lose a daughter-in-law as well." Yuna whispered in to her ear.

"I'll be careful." Rose replied returning the hug.

The two women pulled away. Rose turned to Gippal who placed the map sphere in the display.

"This location is a hot spot. From our last bits of Intel the greatest concentration of the enemy is all along the perimeter of this area." Observed Gippal.

"Who do think you'll need?" asked Nooj.

"I think a small well trained team will be best." Rose suggested.

"Kimahri Ronso will help." Kimahri stated.

"Zialas Ronso also volunteer." Zialas offered.

Rose smiled at the two Ronso.

"I'll also take Tev and two other soldiers you can spare." Rose added.

"Very well get going as soon as you can." Gippal replied.

"I will Rose nodded." Rose nodded.

Rose gave a bow of respect to her elders and headed out of the tent.

Farplane…………………….

Rekks had been walking around for nearly 20 minutes. All around him he saw wide open fields, rolling hills, pools of water, and the sparkling flutter of Pyreflies. From all his trips there with his parents, Rekks knew he was in the Farplane. But exactly where and why, he still didn't know. Rekks stopped by a small pool of water and bent down to look at his reflection. He splashed some water on his face letting the cool water refresh him.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw a Pyrefly flutter around him before touching down on the back of his hand. Rekks laughed as the creature tickled his skin. He sat down on the grass moving the Pyrefly closer to his face.

"You wouldn't happen to have a map of this place would you?" Rekks joked. "I don't know what's going to happen, but I just wish that I could let everyone know that things are going to be alright. Me and the others will make it through this."

The Pyrefly happily flapped its wings.

"I don't know if you can really understand me. But my family has always had a special connection with you guys. Please, do me a favor…send my family a message. Let them know…that I'm working on things." The Pyrefly dismounted from Rekks' hand and began flying through the air.

Rekks looked back at the pool of water to see his reflection becoming disjointed in the ripples. His eyes became fixated on the waves; slowly his own reflection became replaced by a vision of Lee's lifeless body in the cockpit of the nightingale. Rekks reeled back in terror looking at his own hand in started glowing brightly turning into thousands of dots of light straining to break a part. Rekks let out a shriek and tumbled back, falling to the ground with a thud.

He lay there on his back, staring up, his breathing labored. He closed his eyes to regain his composure. When he opened them again he looked back at his hand to see that it was perfectly normal. With a sigh of relief he pushed himself back to his feet.

"This place plays tricks with your head." Rekks lightly pounded his fist against his forehead.

Rekks started backing away from the pool when he felt himself bump in to something. Rekks turned around and staggered back in shock. Standing there was a glazed eyed, flesh rotting Guado male. The Guado pulled back his hand then delivered a harsh punch right into Rekks' face.

Rekks fell back in to the water. The undead Guado lurched forward leaping on top of Rekks. The two of them struggled with the undead trying to take a bite out of Rekks and Rekks doing his best to keep it from happening.

"No means no." Rekks nailed the undead with an elbow shot then pushed him off.

Rekks scrambled to his feet as the undead came at him again. Thinking quick Rekks performed a back flip to deliver a pele kick to the undead's head. Rekks landed on his hands and feet. The undead shook off the pain of the kick and came running at Rekks. Rekks pushed himself up and placed a hand on the hilt of his sword. With the undead was just close enough Rekks drew his blade slicing the undead in half at the same time.

Rekks let out a sigh of relief, but to his surprise the undead's upper body continued to move toward him. The undead inched forward on one arm, its teeth dripping with anticipation.

"Oh what the hell?" Rekks groaned.

Rekks stepped forward kicking the undead's head like a football. The head tore off the body and went flying into the distance until it collided with a stone pillar. Rekks stepped out of the pool shaking off the water. In the distance he heard a strange howl. Looking to his left he saw an army of Flan and Chimera

"Sh*t." Rekks cursed.

Rekks took off running in the opposite direction, the fiends trailing behind him. One two of the chimera managed to catch up to Rekks cutting him off. The first one charged right at him. Rekks and the Chimera traded a few blows before he finished it off with a few swipes from his sword. The second one came at Rekks from the side. Rekks rolled out of the way of its attack then spun around to slash it, but a water Flan jumped in front easily absorbing the blow.

"F*cking Flan.." Rekks looked over to see more fiends approaching. "Shoot."

Rekks started running again. Ahead of him he saw a waterfall. The fiends watched as Rekks leapt off the edge. One by one each of the fiends jumped off the edge of the cliff to follow them down the waterfall. But as they fell the fiends brushed past Rekks who had dug part of his sword in to the cliff and used it to help him hang off the side.

When the coast was clear Rekks arduously pulled himself back up to the top of the Waterfall and lay out on the ground. After resting for a few moments Rekks got up and dusted himself off the best he could. Rekks continued his way through the Farplane. He didn't know where he was heading, but he just hoped that he'd eventually find a way out.

10 minutes later Rekks hadn't managed to get anywhere. He stopped walking and rubbed his temples. By now he figured that just walking around would only continue to get him nowhere. Rekks looked around in every direction trying to discern a sign of anything that could be useful. Seeing nothing he sat down on a nearby rock to relax and get his bearings.

"You seem lost." Rekks heard a voice say from behind him.

Rekks turned around to see a man in a red coat and sunglasses carrying a jug at his side.

"Yeah I am. Who are you?" Rekks took a closer look. "Wait……you look familiar."

"Do I?" the man raised an eyebrow.

"Auron…..your name is Auron. I remember you from the spheres my parents showed me. You used to be one of mom's guardians."

"So I guess that makes us your grand dads." Rekks watched as two more men approached.

One man was shirtless and wore the familiar crest of Rekks' family. The other man wore the regal attire of summoner. Rekks looked between all three men with astonishment.

"Wait…..what?" Rekks was confused.

He looked over the three men. The one wearing his family crest stepped forward placing a hand on Rekks shoulder.

"So your Tidus' kid? I don't know if I should be more shocked that he had a kid or that he actually got laid." The man laughed.

"Jecht, right." Rekks pointed at the shirtless man, Rekks then moved his finger over to point at the summoner. "Braska…I've seen your guys pictures before."

Rekks froze in place as the realization that his dead grandfathers were standing right in front of him.

"You gonna introduce yourself to your family or not." Jecht chided.

Rekks snapped out of it and swallowed back the apprehension down his throat.

"My name is Rekks." He answered.

"Hello Rekks." Braska extended a hand.

Rekks shook hands with Braska smiling

"Wow this is amazing. I can't believe I'm actually meeting you guys." Rekks let go of Braska's hand and took a moment to soak everything in. "I need your guys help….I need to find a way out of here. We're all in trouble."

"You don't know the half of it kid." Jecht laughed.

Rekks raised an eyebrow. A look of apprehension appeared on Braska's face.

"Actually we were hoping you could help us." Braska requested

"What's going on?" Rekks asked.

"Someone's going to destroy Spira." Auron revealed.

"I know that. I'm trying to stop someone from doing it. That's why I need a way out of here." Rekks replied.

"We'd like to help you, but all the doors are shut. Someone's already here to blow up this planet." Jecht shot back.

"What are you talking about?" Rekks inquired.

The three men are looked to Rekks with unease.

Calm Lands……….South Side

Inside an airship perched on the outskirts of Tidus' forces encampment, Cana sat inside of a room that she had turned in to a makeshift nursery. She had placed a crib in the corner of the room with a chair beside it. Cana ran her hands through her daughter's hair. Bella was sleeping peacefully, giving a sweet smile at her mother's touch. Cana then bent down to give Bella kiss on the forehead.

"I didn't bring you in to this world to have it all fall apart before you have a chance to enjoy it." Cana whispered in to her daughter's ear.

Cana re-arranged things in the crib one last time just to makes sure the baby was comfortable. When everything was to her liking she quietly exited the room. Cana took a deep breath then continued down the hallway and out of the Airship. As she walked through the trees on her way back to the encampment, she heard twig snap.

Cana spun around drawing her Al Bhed guns. Standing in her line of fire was Kuja. Kuja smiled at Cana holding up his hands to show that he held no concealed weapons.

"Identify yourself." Cana requested.

"My name is Kuja." He answered.

"Why did you sneak up on me?" Cana inquired.

Kuja took a few steps forward keeping his hands up in the air.

"It was not my intention. I just wanted to suggest to you a contest." Kuja revealed.

"Contest….what the hell are you talking about?" Cana pulled back the triggers on her guns.

"Don't be so hasty, you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your daughter in that ship." Kuja pulled out his comucite and disappear into shadows.

When Kuja reappeared he held a still sleeping Bella in his arms. Cana let out a gasp pointing her guns right at Kuja's head. Kuja powered up some dark energy in his hands pointing it the child. Cana gritted her teeth holding back her insurmountable anger.

"You b*stard." She spat.

"Survival of the strong. If you want your child back you must submit to my contest." Kuja gave his ultimatum.

"What contest?" Cana kept her guns trained on Kuja.

Kuja dissipated his energy then lowered his hand to pull out a sphere. Kuja tossed which landed on the ground near Cana. Cautiously she bent down to pick it up always making sure to keep one gun on him. Switching it on the sphere revealed a map of the Calm Lands with a point marked off.

"In two hours you need to be at this point in order to prove the strength of your world. Along the way I will send my forces right for you. If you don't make it…..then neither does your child." Kuja warned.

Cana began shaking, straining to keep a gun focused on Kuja.

"Leave my daughter out of this. If you want me to be there I'll be there, just leave my child alone!" Cana declared.

"I need to be sure….besides the weak always fight better when something is at risk. Two hours." Kuja pulled out his comucite to disappear into shadows once more along with Bella.

Cana nearly collapsed to her knees in tears, but kept strong holding her emotions back. She ran right for the encampment right into the main tent. Cana ran up to her father, tears in here eyes, and told him everything. Tidus quickly called in Vid who was also informed of the situation. Vid felt a mixture of fear, sadness and anger fill up his blood. He gave his wife a reassuring hug then joined her, Tidus and some of the high officers to discuss plans.

After a few minutes of discussion it was agreed that Cana would head out with a small team to answer Kuja's contest, however dangerous it would be. So it was that a team consisting of Cana, Vid, and 5 highly trained soldiers set out.

***

On the other side of the Calm Lands Rose and her team entered the area traveling along the northern side. They kept out of sight then ducked behind a rocky out ridge. Rose borrowed a pair of binoculars from one of the soldiers and scanned the area. To the east she could see a pair of large metal doors that have been twisted and broken of their hinges.

"The monster arena is wide open." She reported.

"Like we didn't have enough nasty stuff to deal with. Now we have to deal with whatever escaped out of there." Tev complained.

Rose continued her scan and saw a group of fiends ahead of them.

"Okay looks like: two Adamantoise, a Behemoth, and a Basilisk. Nothing we can't handle." Informed Rose.

"Take em' hard take em' fast." Tev readjusted his alchemy arm. "Ronso first."

Tev motioned to Zialas and Kimahri. The two Ronso nodded to each other then leapt over the out ridge charging toward the Basilisk. Rose followed closely behind with Tev at her side and the other two soldiers trailing behind.

Kimahri struck the Basilisk with the edge of his spear getting its attention. Kimahri started coaxing the Basilisk into attacking him, allowing his son to score some big hits on the creature.

Tev loaded up his Alchemy arm with a few items. He dropped to one knee and aimed his arm at the Behemoth.

"Big shot!" Tev exclaimed.

Tev fired a sew shots in to the Behemoth. The other two soldiers rushed past Tev to engage the Adamantoise. The Behemoth cast Thundara on Tev, but he rolled out of the way. Rose made a dash toward the creature drawing her sword. It took a swing at her. She ducked under then jumped on to its arm bounced off and slashed it across the face sending the fiend reeling.

The Basilisk attempted its stone breath attack The two Ronso backed off to avoid being petrified. Kimahri, with all his strength, chucked his spear at the Basilisk. The spear sliced through the air to dig itself deep into the body to the Basilisk. The fiend let out a cry of pain Zialas took this opportunity to move in again. The Basilisk lunged at him it's fangs dripping. Zialas side stepped the attacks then spun around to strike the creature in the head with the side of his spear.

The Basilisk's head jerked back. Zials leapt up grasping on to his father's spear, still in the side of the creature. Zialas wiggled the spear around causing the Basilisk to thrash about in intense pain. The Basilisk made another attempt to bite down on Zialas, but Kimahri jumped up in time to tackle the creature's head to the ground. Then with one final swipe of his spear Zialas severed the head of the basilisk.

Tev continued firing on the Behemoth as Rose dodged its claw swipes. The Behemoth cast Thundara again. Rose looked up to the bolt of lighting come right at her.

"Tev!" Rose called out.

Tev reached into his item bag and pulled out a star curtain. Tev quickly tossed it to Rose, which reflected the lighting right back at the Behemoth. Using this distraction Rose charged up her sword with some energy and jumped up to begin slashing away at the Behemoth. When she was done she kicked off the Behemoth back flipping in the air before landing gracefully on her feet. As soon as Rose landed Tev fired out four shots from his alchemy arm. Every bullet tore into the Behemoth the last one going right through its heart bringing it down for good.

"Nice trick." Tev laughed.

"Learned it for Rekks." She replied.

Everyone regrouped around the two other soldiers who had just managed to finish off the Adamantoise.

"Let's keep going we only have an hour and a half left." Stated Rose.

The two soldiers nodded in agreement. They started to head off when they where tackled from behind by a couple of undead. The undead tore into the screaming soldiers with their teeth, devouring their flesh. The other four heroes moved into help them only to also be tackled to the ground by undead.

Rose struggled with an undead warrior monk. The monk started punching away at Rose trying to lower her defenses enough to take a bite. Fighting off her own undead, Tev reached into his bag and pulled out a device the he immediately attached to the back of the undead. The device sent a shockwave of electricity into the undead causing it to fall back in pain. The shockwave then spread out from that undead to the others ones also causing them to fall back. Catching her breath Rose patted Tev on the back.

"What was that?" she asked.

"Something I've been working on. Attach it to one enemy and it seeks out other enemy nearby sending out a shock. Still working on it though, only have one." Tev replied.

The other undead finished with the fallen soldiers at came at the heroes. The two Ronso took them down with ease before finishing off the electrified undead. In the distance they could see more undead and fiends coming their way. At the head of the army of enemies was a massive Juggernaut fiend.

"Now's a good time to leave." Tev gulped.

The four heroes sped off toward their destination with the enemy hot on their heels.

Farplane…………………

Rekks, Braska, Jecht and Auron perched themselves behind a hill overlooking Lee and his various pieces of machina. All around Lee shadows wrapped around the machina forming this into different configurations. Rekks turned away from the construction site and slumped down against the hill.

"Someone's a busy bee." Rekks cupped his face in his hands. "He must have been working at this since before we got here. This was all planned. Getting rid of us and destroying our worlds all at once."

"We need to think of a plan." Suggested Auron.

"Can you guys fight?" Rekks asked.

"Of course….you know except for the whole being dead thing." Jecht mocked him, by through a punch that passed right through Rekks.

Rekks shot Jecht a dirty look.

"Has anyone ever told you that very much a pain in the neck?" Rekks chastised.

"Yes." All three men replied in unison.

Rekks shook his head.

"So it's just me?" the three men nodded. "Against all of that." They nodded again. "We're screwed."

"Don't be a cry baby." Jecht snickered.

"Cry baby? Okay, now I know why dad only really talks about you once a year. Listen, Lee is good, that's why he's got an army behind him and I have useless dead guys for back up." Rekks relented.

"Calm down. We can get through this. After all you mother defeated Vegnagun." Braska reminded him.

"Yeah, but she had Aunt Rikku and Paine with her. Every other time I've had back up, I've had things to work with. Here it's just me and just me ain't going to cut it. I'm a sh*thead. I'm going to have to find a way to kill someone that frankly was hard to kill and I didn't want to kill him. I still don't." Rekks lamented.

"Who the hell is this guy?" Jecht snorted,

"My cousin." Rekks answered.

The three elder men blinked.

"We grew up together and I had to set him up to be shot by a pirate. I just don't know about anything anymore. I never questioned myself before Mifune village, now everything I do seems to go wrong. What happened with Lee is proof." Sighed Rekks.

Braska sat down by Rekks.

"All things considering, you're the best thing that could have been sent here at this time." Braska assured him.

"Yeah right." Rekks scoffed.

"Listen kid we know that your special." Jecht blurted out.

Rekks raised an eyebrow.

"A waking Fayth." Auron explained.

"Oh…that." Rekks rolled his eyes.

"The Fayth knew when they sent Tidus back that his children would be special. You have a lot of power in you Rekks." Braska enlightened.

"A lot of something." Rekks laughed. "The world's counting on me and I'm just so unsure. I'm freaking out about my origins, Lying to the people I love about killing a family member."

Rekks lowered his head.

"Am I a bad person?" Rekks asked.

"Of course not. You had a decision to make and you chose what in your heart you knew was the right thing. It was a tough call, but you made it." Comforted Braska.

"I don't think so. After all you did what you thought was the right thing. But there was another way, a better way. My parents found it and if I had tried harder, instead of letting things get to me I could have found it as well." Rekks replied.

"Was that a risk you willing to take?" Auron asked.

Rekks stood up and walked a few feet away from the three elders.

"It's one that I should have. I just can't continue to look everyone in the eyes and lie about the fact that I set up Lee to be murdered. If I really do have that much power, I should have used it to do the right thing. Chaos gambled on me to help him and I guess he lost." Rekks Conceded.

Rekks felt someone come up behind him and give him a hard shove, sending him tumbling to the ground. Shaking off the shock Rekks looked up to see Jecht standing over him.

"Bullsh*t Kid. It almost makes me want to start drinking again to learn that my legacy has turned in to a bunch of whining pansies. You did the right thing…..End of story." Jecht berated him.

"Did I? There could have been another way and you know it." Rekks shot back.

"Another way? That's shoopuf crap! That man was, and is, in the midst of doing something terrible and he wasn't, and isn't, going to stop. What the hell could you have done? Knock him out? Lock him up, throw away the key?"

"Maybe."

"The answer is no. Because like you said he's smart. And the people locking him up are probably just dumb enough for him to escape and start sh*t up again. That son of B*tch deserved to go."

Rekks stood there, jaw wide open.

"Is that what I tell Rose, Shay, or Cana even?"

"Why not? You didn't even kill him yourself."

"I mind as well have."

Jecht laughed.

"Quit your B*tching. Listen kid….you know, I know, hell even Lee probably knows that you did the right thing. What you have a problem with is the fact that you can't face the music. And you wanna know what, if they all love you half as much as I suspect they do then they'll understand."

"I don't know."

"Man up, will ya? At first they might be pissed off to high hell at you. But in the end they'll understand the decision you made; accept it; and forgive you. What you need to focus on is that you're the only one here that can do something to stop Lee. "

"I really have it in me to do any of those things?"

"You tell me. Remember kid, If you spend all your time worrying about what people will feel, what's real, what's not, did I do the right things, did I do the wrong thing….you lose sight of what's actually there standing before you; what you are."

Rekks turned to face Jecht with a half-cocked smile.

"What am I?" he asked.

"Do I have to answer every dam question for you?" snickered Jecht.

"You're a man…a son…" Auron added.

"A friend, a brother, a husband…." Braska chimed in.

"That's real and that's honest. Are you ready to do what needs to be done?" Jecht stated.

"I've never delved too full into my powers before. But I'm going to have to if I want to stop Lee and Martyr. What if I fade away?" Rekks sighed.

"It's a risk. One you have to be willing to take. Are you sure you're ready to face the consequences of any of your actions might have?" asked Auron.

"I am. And if my story has a few more chapters to it….I think there's a few more risks I'll be willing to take." Rekks placed a hand on the hilt of his sword/

"Then you better get your ass in gear. Remember we're all with you." Jecht replied.

"Good because I'm going to need all the faith in the world." Rekks scanned the area before sighting a box full of explosives. "I think I just came up with a good idea."

Rekks smiled at the three men then jumped over the edge of the hill as silently as he could.

Calm Lands South Side……………..

A pair of undead soldiers were scouting around the path that lead into the Calm Lands. Out of the blue one of the undead craned its head up. Its nose twitched catching a familiar scent. Motioning to his companion the two undead began heading in the direction of the scent when a spiked Blitzball shot at the first undead taking its head off. The second undead cried out in anger making a mad dash at the direction the ball came from only to be brought down by a hail of gunfire.

Vid and Cana stepped out from the path, Cana holstered her guns, while Vid collected his Blitzball. They motioned to the rest of their group who immediately came to their side.

"Undead scum…..I'm gettin' my daughter back and I ain't gonna let no flesh eaters get in my way. Everyone keep up and be on the look out. Dere ain't no room for mistakes." Vid explained to the soldiers.

Cana looked over at her husband seeing the anger in his eyes. She placed a supportive hand on his shoulder.

"We're going to get her back." Cana stated.

Vid nodded his head. Cana swallowed back her own anger, putting on a strong face she signaled to the soldier to follow her and Vid deeper in to the Calm Lands. The group continued on doing their best to stay out of trouble. Up ahead Cana cringed as she spied an wide-open area where they'd be totally exposed.

"Everyone stay low." Cana called out.

They speed up their pace trying to reach their destination. Cana looked down at the watch she was carrying, they only had an hour and a half. Cana was happy that they were making good time, but suddenly an explosion rang out near them, the shockwave causing everyone to fall back.

Cana shook off the surprise and looked up to see an Earth Eater fiend that had escaped from the Monster area backed up by two Coeurl and an Imp. The Earth Eater cast Flare on Cana. She rolled out of the way then began opening fire on the beast. Vid pushed himself up and rushed toward Cana when a bolt of Thundaga stopped him.

The Imp flew at Vid tackling in to him. The carried Vid up in to the sky, cackling madly. Vid looked down to see himself a few feet up in the air, taking the chance he started smashing his Blitzball in to the side of the Imp's head. The Imp let go causing Vid to fall back to the ground with a tremendous thud. Vid moved himself to his knees, feeling the crack of his side. The Imp swooped around coming at him again. Vid took a deep breath.

"Suck on Diss!" Vid cast a water spell on his ball and tossed it with all his might.

The ball shot through the air colliding with the Imp in an explosion of water. The ball bounced off, Vid pulled his arm back then delivered a harsh punch to the ball, sending it careening into the Imp destroying it. The ball bounced up into the sky again to land right in Vid's hands.

The Earth Eater took a swing at Cana. She rolled under the creature's attack, then unleashed at furry of gunfire. The bullets tore into the Earth Eater, but it shrugged off the bullets and cast another Flare spell on her. Cana back flipped out of the way then fired again. The creature brought up its arms up to block the bullets, it then brought its fists down smashing the ground trying to crush Cana. Cana however, sidestepped the attack and jumped on to the creature's arm.

She ran up the length of the creature's arm still firing. Cana then kicked off the creature's chest, back flipping in mid-air going trigger-happy on the Earth Eater. Cana landed gracefully on the ground with Earth Eater crying out in pain. The Earth Eater channeled the last of its power in its fist. Lashing out it used its Megaton punch attack, Cana turned around to see the attack coming, but it was too late to do anything. Cana's jaw dropped as Vid's Blitzball shot past her to collide with the Earth Eater's punch. The Earth Eater was sent reeling due to Vid's counter.

"Finish em' honey." Vid called out.

Vid's ball bounced back, Cana jumped up and nailed the ball with a spinning back kick sending it crashing into the Earth Eater's face while she simultaneously fired on the fiend sending a bullet into its heart. The fiend fell to the ground dead. Cana landed back on her feet then holstered her gun in time to catch Vid's ball on the rebound. Vid strode up to Cana collecting his ball while giving Cana a kiss. The couple looked over to see other soldiers finish off the last of the Coeurl.

"Let's get going!" Cana ordered.

The group started heading off again only to be cut off by a group of undead. The undead charged at the soldiers, who skillfully fought them off. The group turned around the other way to circle around the undead when massive explosion hit killing two of the soldiers instantly. When the dust cleared they heard a deafening roar as a Nemesis fiend came charging through the smoke. Cana and Vid pushed themselves up and helped the remaining soldiers to their feet.

"Let's git da hell outta here!" Vid cried.

The group ran as fast as they could. The started charging a powerful energy attack in its mouth. The Nemesis fired Ethereal Cannon attack at the escaping group. One of the soldiers looked back to see the blast coming for them and cried out in terror.

***

Back at the base camp on the Calm Lands' North side Gippal and Nooj were looking over a map of the Calm Lands planning their next move. Yuna walked in wearing her Black Mage Dress sphere.

"Any new information on their progress?" Yuna inquired.

Gippal shook his head.

"We lost track of them a few minutes ago." Gippal answered.

Yuna sighed.

"I'm sure they'll be okay. We just have to focus on keeping the enemy contained for now." Nooj assured her.

The ground violently shook, everyone immediately grabbed on to something. In the distance they could hear the cries of troops followed by a loud roar.

"What was that?" Gippal asked.

They all filed out of the tent to see even more explosion flare up at the boarder of their encampment, sending dust clouds flying up. Everyone's eyes open wide as a massive Th'uban fiend came charging through the dust demolishing everything in its path. From the break in the defenses that the Th'uban caused hundreds of undead started flooding into the base camp. The undead tackled down everything thing they could get their hands on. The soldiers grabbed their weapons in order to fight back the surprise attack.

Everywhere Yuna, Gippal, and Nooj looked there was Chaos. Gippal and Nooj rushed into the tent to grab their weapons, when they came back out Yuna was already holding her magic Rod. Yuna's eyes locked in on the rampaging Th'uban.

"We're coming out of retirement." She stated.

Gippal and Nooj smiled.

"Sounds great." Nooj readied his gun.

"Bring it!" Gippal loaded of his weapon.

The three elders hurried down to the main part of the base camp to take on the enemy.

***

At the South Calm Lands Base Camp, Tidus clutched on to the hilt of his sword tightly, it was a katana, reminiscent of Auron's Masamune. All around Tidus explosions were sounding out as he made his way through the camp. Tidus heard a whistling sound out of the corner of his ear coming from the distance. Turning his head he spied a massive fireball coming right at him, Tidus rolled out of the in time to avoid the impact. A head of his four undead blocked his path each of them clutching on swords.

"Out of my way." Tidus drew his sword.

Two of the Undead rushed Tidus thrusting their swords forward. Tidus sidestepped their advances knocking their blades aside with his. Tidus then spun around to slice of the head of one of the undead. The second undead charged at Tidus again, but Tidus stood his ground slicing through undead as it neared.

The remaining undead stood down Tidus bearing their teeth in hungered anticipation. The first one charged at Tidus swing its sword. Tidus blocked its first strike then took a swing of its own, but the undead dodged Tidus attack and took another swipe at him. Tidus ducked under the undead's swipe only to be attacked by the second undead. Both undead started furiously swinging away at Tidus.

Tidus did his best to dodge and block each sword swipe as they came. One of the undead raised its sword over head and brought it down on Tidus only for him to block it. Tidus then pushed undead off of him and gave it a rib cracking kick to the gut.

The first undead fell to the floor, but the second hadn't lost any stride. It came at Tidus swinging. He blocked its first three strikes then countered with one of his own lopping off the undead's sword arm. Literally disarmed the undead screeched in rage and rushed at Tidus intending to tear his flesh to pieces. Tidus side stepped the creature then sliced off its head with one stroke of his sword.

The second undead was back up and came at Tidus trying to tackle him to the ground. Tidus braced himself, taking a deep breath, he focused on the incoming undead and with one slash, severed the creature in half. Tidus then sheathed his blade and continued on to the command tent of the base camp.

"Do we have any Intel on Cana and Vid." Tidus asked.

One of his men shook his head.

"Is anything working?" Tidus inquired.

"No….everything is down. The attack took us by surprise and knocked out everything. It's all a mess." Replied the soldier.

Tidus ran his hands through his hair attempting to calm his nerves.

"Get something working." Tidus then pointed at another one of the soldiers "You round up all the high officers and tell them to get their men together. I want organization. My daughter, my son-in-law and my Grand daughter are out there. We need to regroup and take this enemy on, push them back to the perimeter."

"Yes Sir!" the soldiers replied.

"Get moving! We're not going down like this, Let's kick some ass people." Tidus ordered.

The soldiers gave Tidus a salute before heading off to carry out his orders. Tidus headed over to the desk that had been set up for him He sat down in his chair and slumped over the desk placing his head in his hands to regain his composure. A few seconds later Tidus leaned back in his seat and opened one of the desk drawers. He reached in taking out a picture of his entire family shortly after Bella was born. He lightly brushed his thumb over his son's face.

"Things sure have gone to hell since you left. But that was always how it was…leaving trouble in your wake…." Tidus was smiling, but his eyes could barely hold back the tears that welling up. "We all love you….we all miss you. But we're not going to join you….not yet. We're going to fight….and we'll win. You'd want it that way."

Tidus placed the picture back in the desk and shut the drawer. Tidus stood up and looked out of the tent at the various fires that littered the base camp. He placed a hand on the hilt of his sword and looked out at the destruction with determination.

Farplane………………..

Lee was bent down by a piece of machinery inspecting its progress when he spied something out of the corner of his eye. As Lee stood up to investigate one of his crates of ammunition erupted in a fiery explosion. Out from the fire shot a blurred figure that raced over one of the hills into the distance.

"After it!" Lee ordered his fiend minions.

Lee watched the fiends take off after the disturbance. When they were out of sight Lee placed his hand on his gun. Spinning around Lee drew his pistol. Standing right behind him was Rekk weapon drawn. Lee pointed his gun at Rekks' heart.

"I expected as much. You think fast. Where'd you find the help to pull off that stunt." Lee inquired.

Rekks smiled.

"Old friends." Rekks replied.

"Any more friends hiding about, wanting to shoot me when I least expect it?" Lee snickered.

Rekks shook his head.

"No…this time it's really just you and me." Rekks answered.

"Then let's get to the point." Lee pulled the trigger of his gun.

Rekks dashed forward as Lee fired. He managed to avoid two of the oncoming bullets but the third one grazed his cheek. Rekks shrugged of his injury and tackled Lee to the ground. The two men struggled for a few minutes before Rekks delivered a jaw breaking punch to Lee. The two men backed away from each other. Lee reached for his second revolver only to find it missing. Looking up he saw the gun in the hands of a smirking Rekks.

"You only got six shots on that thing." Rekks mocked.

Dark aura surrounded Lee's arm snakeing its way around his hand, traveling into his gun's bullet chambers.

"With my new powers I have shots to spare." Lee smirked.

"I only need one bullet to put you down." Rekks pulled back the hammer of the gun.

To be continued…………

It's Game point now and only one side can win. Next week Rekks has to push his powers to a limit and the results are surprising, the reunions continue as an old enemy comes back with a new agenda. The plains of Spira ignite with the flames of war and Kuja game ends with shocking results. Will Spira make it? Will someone's story come to an end? Stay tuned next week for OL chapter 14: Reunion part 2. Remember if you have any questions, ideas, thoughts, views, suggestions, reviews, etc. Send them to me.