Episode 1.1: Twins of Chaos
Walking through Lowtown was Nyu, Leish and myself. We just woke up from our ackward night and sort of stared at eachother awhile in silence. Hey I had nothin to be ashamed of but Leish sure did though. She was the one who had her hands around me, tryin to act fresh or it probably could have been that she was just tired. Either way it was nice I had a great sleep and dreamt that I married Beyonce again.
Now that I've been close to her I can safely say that Leish smelt exactly like I thought she would smell like...the inside of my mom's purse. Which smelt great by the way... Anyway we were heading to Old Dalan to find out about Erin. When we got here I completely forgot about her and I had to check in to see if Kizer Zin and Chloe really did pick her up.
We cut through the thugs and standing peasants then made ourway through the gate and up the stairs. Old Dalan although they never showed this in the game was actually an old pimp, he had abunch of girls fanning him and laying around him. "Hmm what's this?" He asked as the three of us walked in. Nyu was frightened by Dalan as he looked at her. She quickly grabbed my pant leg and sort of hid behind me from him.
" And who might you be?" He asked with his eyes wide as if we were the land lords and his rent was due or something.
"My name's Kel, this is Leish and Nyu." I said.
"Oh young Kelvis," He said my name way too familiarily.
"So ya heard of me?" I asked.
" Yes m'boy, I have a message from lady Clo, she tells me to tell you that she and the young Kizer has picked up Erin and they travel to the ancient city of Giruvegan." He said with wide eyes.
"Good that's actually what I came to check, to see if they'd picked up Erin." I said rubbing my chin.
" Who are Clo and Kizer?" Leish asked mechanically. I turned around to face her.
"Kizer Zin is the elemental warrior of Death he controls Zaleras, and Chloe is the elemental warrior of Darkness she controls Zodiark." I explained. " I was traveling with them for abit until we got...well seperated...anyway thanks Dalan."
" Before you go, you are headed to Giruvegan yes?" Dalan started while putting a pipe in his mouth.
" Yeah." I replied punching into my palm.
"Well then you'll have to pass through the Giza Plains... Can you deliever this to an old friend of mine. His name is Auron and he lives in a small village in Giza Plains." He said reaching behind him and pulling up a baseball sized sphere. He handed it to me and I grabbed it and held it up looking at it.
"Sure thing." I replied putting the sphere in my coat pocket.
" I thank you alot, and if there is anything I can do to repay the favor you let me know m'boy." Dalan said stroking his long white beard.
" Will do...see ya." I said as we all turned off and headed out of his little aparment complex. We walked out onto the Lowtown streets.
" From Elemental Warriors to a Delivery Crew." Leish said crossing her arms and staring at me.
"What it's just a tiny favor, plus we're suppose to pass through there anyway." I said with a shrug.
"Nyu Nyu." Nyu nodded her head in agreement with me. With that we started our walk towards the Westside gate shortcut that led to the western gate. We traveled through the west gate and back up to the central gate system. As I looked around I began to notice something that was odd... Something alittle too odd, for some reason there was no Archadian flags up, I thought in Final Fantasy XII Arcadia took over Dalmasca or whatever. "Hey Leish." I started. She stopped walking and turned to face me.
"What is it?" She asked with a straight face.
" The Dalmascan flags are still up and the soldiers are still here, what happened Archadia didn't take over yet?" I asked.
" Exactly." She responded. I was sort of takin back so I took a step backwards with my mouth in a stupid O for dramatic effect. " The Ivalice year is 702,"
"Wait the storyline to FF12 starts in the year 706, so we're in the past?" I asked. Nyu looked up at me and cocked her head to the side then placed her little finger on her chin as if she didn't understand.
"To Earth this year would be the past but in this time flow this is the current year. With the knowledge we know now we could possibly change the future of this world." Leish said starting to walk again.
"Yeah so you got something to look forward too after the war...that is speaking if we win." Chichuulian said appearing in my face out of nowhere like alittle ghoul. I jumped alittle from the sight of him so close to me, I swear this guy is hideously terrifying. It's a shame Leish as beauitful as she is has such a big ton o lard as an Esper...but then again. Atleast she has one...Belias won't even talk to me anymore.
"Nyuu..." Nyu was pulling my hand as if telling me to hurry up. I was standing there as stiff as stone lost in thought when her tugging brought me back. I picked up Nyu onto my shoulders and started running with her as she began to giggle. We caught up with Leish whom was standing by the south gate waiting for us.
"You two should really cut out the antics." Leish said annoyed by us then turned to the gate. The guards nodded then opened the gate for us, we all walked out and into the open air. The Giza Plains was something like a western wasteland, the plants were all sort of dying off and the sand was blowing and whizzing about like in those old western cowboy movies. We started walking alittle until out of nowhere a loud growl filled the air. Leish quickly grasped one of the two katanas on her belt, the smaller wakizashi and I grasped the hilt of Flame Buster on my back.
Stomping up around us from sand dunes were abunch of Werewolves, I don't know if you know what Werewolves are. Their those huge guys hairy guys in the Giza Plains you find with those huge swords. They are horrible to fight in a group, they gang up on ya all the damn time.Anyway there was about twenty to twenty five werewolves walking up in a surrounding circle around us.
" Whoa..." I said quickly putting my left hand out to protect Nyu and drawing Flame Buster. The crimson cloth unraveled itself from the blade of the lance and I held it with both hands. Leish and I were back to back with Nyu in between us as the Werewolves slowly cleared in on us. "What the hell are werewolves doing so close to the city like this?" I asked.
" I don't know but we don't exactly have the time to figure that out." Leish said.
Five of them rushed me all at one time as the same with Leish. I took a power leap towards the five of them at once while grabbing the cloth at the end of the lance and the blade opened up. " Fire Tackle!" I shouted as my body was covered in flame like a fireball. I connected with the first werewolf causing an explosion that blasted the rest of them back. One of them rushed me from behind and I quickly dodge rolled forward like Sora then turned around and slammed Flame Buster across the werewolf's face. It went flipping off to the side.
"NYUUU!!" Nyu cried bending down and covering her eyes as two Werewolves stood over her with their swords raised.
"NYU!" I yelled slamming a werewolf to the side and starting to run towards her. Rushing up to me on all sides were the werewolves, I slammed one of them to the side then jumped off anothers head then kicked one of them in the chest as I frantically fought my way over. Just when they slammed their weapons down, Leish phased in and clashed both of their weapons with her wakizashi.
She struggled with the both of them for about three seconds and pushed their swords back. She grabbed Nyu and started to run off, "Come on we have to get out here." She said as she ran past me. I ran with her and stopped seeing the Werewolves chasing after us. I wrapped the cloth around my right hand and with my right hand alone I swung Flame Buster from left to right causing a wave of fire to fly out and hit the ground causing a thin wall of fire to rise up covering our path. The werewolves stopped at the fire and scattered.
I took off running behind Leish catching up with them. Nyu rushed me and wrapped her hands around my waist crying.
"Sorry Nyu." I said patting the back of her head lightly.
" Hmmm that is quite strange, Werewolves...this close to Rabanastre." Leish said with her arms crossed.
" Yeah." I said tilting my head to the side. Leish with her wakizashi held tight suddenly spun around and sliced off the head of a lurking Werewolf. With that bursting out of the nearby grass and more dunes were more countless Werewolves. Nyu trembled and grasped onto me tight, I wrapped my left hand around her while keeping Flame Buster held firm in my right hand.
"Aww gimme a break!" I said looking around as they slowly closed in.
Just when things seemed to the point where Leish would have to invocate something usual happened. The air shifted and shooting out of the sky were two tornado like wind beams that flew down and struck the crowds of werewolves and swept them up. The wind blew and fired off werewolves and appearing in the mist of the clearing wind was two figures they were both standing back to back. A guy with long spikey brown hair in downward spikes and a female with long waist length dark blonde hair.
"The wonder twins?" I said raising an eyebrow.
Just after I made that comment in a gust of wind they both phased out and began to take out large crowds of the werewolves. The spikey haired guy held a dagger hilt with no blade, there was a small circulating gust of wind around the invisible blade and he dashed through crowds slashing werewolves left and right. The air dagger would grow long looking almost like a wind-based katana then it would shrink again. The blonde held a five foot long sword with a wind like effect cycling the blade. She did the same thing slashing through werewolves like some old samurai movie.
Amazingly they took out every werewolf. Leish stood like she didn't care but it was pretty damn amazing.
" Hey thanks for the help." I said standing up straight.
"Eh...it was nothin for anybody with half brain on fighting." The guy said sarcastically.
"Uh...right." I said rubbing behind my head. I knew it was sarcasm it's just I didn't understand what the hell he meant.
" Your conformers." Leish said walking up to them.
"Nyu..." Nyu said tilting her head alittle. Appearing behind them in a big ghostly like green aura was Chaos, the Esper of winds.
"Hmm you've noticed?" Chaos said raising an eyebrow.
" So you guys must be conformers too? Wait...whose side are you on." The blonde said pointing her sword towards us.
"Lower your blade, their Espers." Chaos answered for us. " She is the Conformer of Chichuluian and he is the Conformer of Belias."
" Belias...oh geez I'm sorry." The blonde said placing her hand on my shoulder. I raised an eyebrow.
"What?" I said crossing my arms.
" Yeah he is after all the most pathetic Esper to ever come along, once all the other Espers are collected Belias is...kinda obsolete." The brown haired guy said.
"WHAT!" I said taking a firm stomp.
"Oh wow stomping on the ground, that's really going to turn this situation around for you." He said with a shrug.
" Oh Gale shut up and leave the guy alone." The girl said turning to the boy.
" You shut up, your the one that started it..." He replied nodding with a grin.
" Who are these guys?" I said to Leish.
"Their our allies regrettably." She replied as we both watched them argue for like three whole minutes.
"Gale, Demi do you two ever stop fighting? It's like your married." A harsh voice cut through the bickering. With that Gale and Demi faced away from one another and walking onto the scene was an olden man with black hair and a red kimono. It was the real Auron, and not the Auron from FFX it was the Auron from KH2. He walked up to them. " If you put half the amount of work into battling the werewolves as you do arguing this situation would be over by now." He scolded.
"Sorry Auron." Demi apologized.
"Yeah yeah..." Gale waved his hand off the subject.
"Uh if you don't mind me asking, what's this situation. Why are the werewolves appearing so close to the city?" I asked.
" Who are you?" Auron asked.
" I'm Kel, this is Nyu and Leish." I replied.
" I'm Auron and these are my subordinates Galefaral and Demica." He introduced.
" I told ya thousand times old man it's Gale/Demi!!" Demi and Gale yelled at the same time.
" Auron that's right, I got somethin for you from Old Dalan." I pulled the sphere out of my pocket and walked up to him. He took the sphere and stuck it in his kimono.
" I appreciate it." He replied. "Anyway you wanted to know what was going on?"
"Yeah." I replied with a nod.
" Come we will speak in the village, there is to much of a chance we'll get ambushed out here." He said starting to walk further into the Giza Plains.
"Nyu." Nyu said randomly. She let go of me feeling it to be safe then we all followed Auron into the small Giza Plains village, there were lots of kids running around and most of the tents were destroyed. It was as if they just got through being attacked or something. Auron walked over to a large dark crystal like spire and sat down. Gale and Demi stood on either sides of him. I sat down along with Leish on the carpet that was laid out and Nyu went to walk around the small village abit.
" So as you have already seen this village and the Giza Plains itself has been struck by so many werewolves." Auron started. Leish and I nodded at the same time. "You see it isn't the Werewolves fault though, they are being driven out of their nesting grounds by an even more powerful fiend."
" Which is..." I started.
" He is a man of great power and he trains infinitly in the upper plains the werewolves nesting grounds." Auron explained.
"Hm, that's it? Why didn't ya just tell the guy to move someplace else?" I asked raising an eyebrow.
" Don't you think we've tried that?" Demi asked crossing her arms.
" Yeah we tried to just talk to the guy but he demands an opponent if you so much as step on the plains." He said.
"Then why didn't you just fight him?" Leish added.
" Tried that too...lost..." Gale replied.
"Badly." Demi finished.
" Wait asec who is this guy?" I asked. "Is he a conformer?"
"Yes and a Rogue Conformer at that...or so that's what Chaos says." Gale replied.
" What are you all talking about?" Auron asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothin in particular old guy." Gale said nudging him alittle.
"Anyway if we get rid of this guy then the werewolves will go back home?" I said.
"That's just about the gist of it yes." Auron said with a nod.
" Then let's go and kick his ass." I said.
O.o- Demi " Did you not just hear what we just said kid, he's too strong."
" Well I've fought plenty of strong guys in my day." I said pointing to myself.
"Right...in your day...sure...besides why the hell are you trying to help us anyway?" Gale asked.
"Your both Conformers of Chaos, which means your gonna have to come with us. You two having some kind of attachment here I can't strip you away from this village."