AN: I am thinking I am on most peoples death list now. Though I have had exams and such and as Sean knows the Seymour fight has been blinking annoying to write because as we know I love my lil Seymour. Anyway Sean thanks for help on that.
Well here FINALLY is chapter 28
Chapter 28
I looked round at all the guards and the big big machina behind them.
"How did they find me?" I muttered.
"It was easy." The guy who I assumed was the leader said, "After we followed your tracks to the Calm Lands it was easy to ask around."
"Well they could have left out the machines." I muttered again. I suspected the guard would have heard me again.
"We're not making any exceptions this time." he smiled at me.
"Huh?" Was all I said. What was he going on about?
"I didn't expect you to survive long after Luca." The guard added, "I thought that Operation Mi'ihen would have finished you off." Then it dawned on me. All that seemed so far away.
"Well someone up there must like me." I smiled to myself knowing that this was true.
"We have no time for this." He finished, "Yevon squad beta. Move out!"
(Play FFVIII-1-4 Don't Be Afraid.)
Well this is how it's gotta be… I gulped, I just wish I wasn't alone.
Actually the guards stepped back and decided to let the machina do all the work. There's was one of them with the two big guns for arms and another which to me looked like a Russian dancer with the way it was standing.
I decided I would summon an aeon.
Okay Yojimbo lets see what you can do.
I summoned Yojimbo and he stood in samurai stance ready to attack the machines.
"Wakashi."
The machina really didn't like that. They retaliated with their own weapons. I was going to wait till I had a fully charged overdrive. Or should I wait till Belgamine? Oh well I had a number of aeons to go through so that didn't seem to bother me.
The machina retaliated firing and attacking Yojimbo, the damage was greater than any of those guards could do, but not enough to bring me down yet. I continued to pay Yojimbo with the gil I had and he seemed to be satisfying me.
"Daigoro."
The dog ran towards one of the machina, the Russian dancer stance one and I think nearly knocked it over. It seemed Bevelle's almighty machina weren't doing so good against Yojimbo. He then used Kozuka. Of course it didn't inflict poison as they were machina, but it did okay damage. The battle just went back and forth but eventually Yojimbo was ready for an overdrive.
"Zanmato!"
He ran through them with his katana or whatever his sword was and sliced through both of the machina. They looked as if they weren't in a good situation. They retaliated. I then realised Yojimbo wasn't doing so hot either. Still I should get my money's worth and I was breaking in a new aeon.
"Kozuka!"
The knife thingy hit one machina and it collapsed and exploded or whatever machina's do.
Another Daigoro finished the machina off. I thought I was in the clear, but I should have guessed the guards were ready too.
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The four of us ran back towards Seymour. I didn't know whether to feel pleased or nervous. I suppose deep down in all battles I did have a slight fear. I suppose these guys mightn't have as they're used to fiends. Still even this was big compared to fiends.
"Hey, Kimahri! Leave some for us!" Tidus called
"Hey! Wait for me!" Wakka agreed
"Me, too!" came Rikku
"I'll go, too!" I heard Lulu say behind me to a probably disgruntled Auron.
Auron soon ran up to join us. Yuna had already started doing something. Bahamut then swooped down beside us.
"No Yuna don't!" I called knowing what Seymour could do. I could see Seymour smirk slightly. He then came up to the Aeon and used Banish on it. The aeon disappeared. Yuna looked shocked
"Ohho."
"What the?" Tidus went, Brotherhood drawn.
"Methinks this is gonna be tough ya." Wakka admitted sounding quite scared himself.
Baralai then decided to try something. He activated some sort of magic and his eyes went white.
"Still uses elemental magic, but now uses multi-spells. When HP is low, he'll petrify with Break and cast the non-elemental spell Flare." He told us after he'd scanned Seymour.
"Multi-spells that won't be good-." Lulu began but soon then Seymour attacked. He released a wave of Ulti-Fira on both Tidus and me. I buckled with the pain. Baralai gave me a quick cure. I realised that he should concentrate using Nul Spells and shook my head afterward. Tidus and Kimarhi took the head on approach and slashed Seymour. Seymour seemed to be enjoying watching them do this. Seymour prepared for another attack. This time it was on Tidus again and Kimarhi. Yuna stood there wondering what to do. She knew her black magic was not as good as either mine or Lulu's and she couldn't summon Aeons.
"Yuna you and Baralai keep us covered from Seymour's elemental magic."
They both nodded and cast all the Nul Spells on us all. Seymour seemed smarter than he looked though. Wakka flung his Blitzball at him charged up with Element Reels. Next minute Seymour used Break and Wakka began to freeze and then was covered by stone.
"Wakka!" Lulu exclaimed.
"Come on!" I called to her getting ready to pump out a Firaga spell. Lulu joined in with a Thundaga. Seymour reeled back. Ha that seemed to have hurt him. He growled and I grinned we were on a roll. Seymour kept attacking us with his Multi-spells and Yuna and Baralai kept refreshing us and we kept attacking. We wouldn't be able to keep this up though. Baralai and Yuna would run out of mp eventually. Also another thing we had forgotten about was the ortibody...
Wakka was still petrified and we watched as the ortibody snaked towards him. I then remembered what the ortibody did to petrified people. I ran quickly and blocked his path between it and Wakka and slashed it. It recoiled not expecting it and retreated to its original place. The battle then continued with us facing both Seymour and the ortibody. I scanned the latter and told the others.
"Its Shattering Claw hits petrified characters, smashing them to smithereens. Beware the Desperado, which inflicts damage and negates any magical augmentations."
"Oh boy." Tidus sighed and we continued to fight.
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I hadn't bothered to fight the guards and made a quick get away by throwing a flash bomb I reached the top of the gorge. With the guards gone but not defeated I remounted my chocobo with a new aeon in my belt and continued towards Remiem. On the way I saw people staring at me as if I was alien. The chocobo person quickly caught me up.
"Stop! Guards from Bevelle have been looking for you!" he called but I didn't stop and still clung to the chocobo. "They said that you had to be arrested for holding Lady Yuna hostage and for Maester Kinoc's death. Stop!"
He then caught my chocobo's reins and told it to halt. It stopped and I fell off landing on my back. I bet if this had been Earth I would have been dead by now.
"You don't understand that is a lie, Yevon is a lie and need to get to Remiem Temple." I explained with some urgency.
"No you're going to be brought to justice." Someone I vaguely recognised as Father Zuke.
"The Fayth have summoned me there. And if you don't believe my innocence talk to Lady Yuna."
"That would do no good, they have told us you've been leading her astray."
"Well then," I paused I was uncertain about this one, "Talk to Maester Seymour."
"Maester Seymour? As if a fellow maester would vouch for one who has defied Yevon. Besides it was on his orders you should be captured." The chocobo guy went on.
I just didn't get it. I just wanted them all to piss off. Situations like this were beginning to annoy me.
"Look!" I then exclaimed, "The Maesters are a fake, Yevon is a fake. All the Maesters except for Kelk Ronso are unsent. Maester Kelk has left Yevon because of his mistrust. The Maesters were going to put Lady Yuna to death and Yevon, well he is Sin! Okay there I said it. Yevon is Sin!"
I then took the opportunity to get back on my chocobo and then ride off at double speed leaving the crowd behind. I could see the little clump of them obviously not knowing what to do. I soon came to the point where I would have to fly over to get to Remiem. I hoped that my chocobo would know what to do. Thankfully it did and flew over. I then got off and headed for Remiem. I soon reached the big double doors and managed to push them open. As I expected Belgamine was there waiting for me.
"So you made it." She smiled
"Yes." I nodded in reply, "Did you think I wouldn't?"
"I had my doubts." She said to me. "I take it you need no introduction to this place."
"Nope."
"You can see the entrance to the Chamber." She nodded to a doorway that had a strange energy blocking people from entering it. "But first of course you will have to fight me."
"Any reason why?"
"The Fayth trust you but I want to make sure you are strong enough to help Lady Yuna defeat Sin."
"Okay." I said to clarify but I didn't sound very sure of myself.
"So shall we begin?" She asked I nodded and she healed my aeons and then I went into yet again another battle.
I faced each aeon separately with Belgamine healing my aeons after each round. I had already just defeated Valefor. Energy blast was annoying. Up next was Ifrit. It was obvious who to summon. Shiva descended from above me as I summoned her. Her white hair fell around her shoulders and she was ready smiling at her wolf like contender. Ifrit automatically made an attack for her but Shiva had good evasion and dodged every one. This also brought her overdrive up. Ifrit then tried a different tactic and used Meteor Strike. Shiva was hit this time. I quickly used Nul Blaze just in case and continued with the fight. She retaliated with Heavenly Strike. It went backward and forward pretty much but Shiva dodged all Ifrits physical attacks. After a while I used Nul Blaze once again as Ifrit was about to activate his overdrive. The huge column of fire surrounded Shiva appearing to injure her as Ifrit threw a huge clump of rock towards her. Shiva then hit the ground as if she were nothing but a rag doll. Still thanks to the Nul Blaze she received no damage. Thankfully her overdrive was brought up to full and Ifrit was in for the shock of his life.
"Diamond Dust." I called before using my own, "Gemini Doublé, junction GF!"
I felt the weird out of body experience as I had with the other times I had used my overdrive as I watched Shiva blast an icy landscape out of her hands. I then felt myself rising up in darkness and saw the icy prison I was in as my eyes opened. I burst out of it and blasted my own icy powers over Shiva's frozen mass. Shiva then clicked for her own ice to break as the same time as mine would do. The impact had an overkill effect on Ifrit and he collapsed.
I soon moved on to the other aeons and defeated each in turn. Sometimes it ended up being a pretty close call. Once she knew she was defeated Belgamine smiled at me.
"Ahhh I am satisfied." She smiled, "I would not have expected a summoner as young as you to be so accomplished. However your overdrive with the aeons proves your authenticity. I had to make sure it was you. You are truly..." she paused, "But on this subject we will speak no more."
I nodded. Then I don't know how but the force field energy on the door was lifted. Belgamine showed me towards it.
"They are waiting for you, but before you enter would you please send me?"
I was taken a back slightly, wasn't that Yuna's job?
"I know what you are thinking." she smiled, "However this is your story, it is for the defeater of Sin that I am placed here and so either you or Lady Yuna would have been sufficient in coming. Still now I know that Yuna has someone like you guiding her I am happy to be sent early. Also in this story in which you are here it was for you to ascertain the truth the other reason for my being here and so I do not mind my time on Spira ending now." She then stopped to take another pause, "In truth my time did end before now so to have carried on till now was something I didn't ask for." She smiled warm-heartedly and I began to send. I didn't know if I would ever regret sending someone as much as her at that moment.
"Go." Were her last words before she disappeared pointing towards the door to the Chamber of the Fayth.
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AN: Again I know I took ages on this chapter and I am eternally sorry. Still I am back into the swing of things and I will apologise in advance to Sean for reasons, which I will not say because it would be a spoiler. I must say now that this has been the hardest chapter to write I'd never even expected to be writing 28 chapters in the first place so to have got it done has been an added bonus in that sense. Hopefully the rest will be plain sailing. I hope this chapter was worth the wait. Anyway please still review. Thank you.
