Disclaimer: I DO NOT own any of the Final Fantasy X/X-2 Characters at all and any of the places or games. I only own my OC, Danaya and any other OC's I make up along the way. The following people own their OC's as well.
Memories of the Forgotten Guardian - Analise
Animerain14 - Sargent
Roseria Sylvester - Iyana
K Entertainment - Xanxus
Amylou11987 - Anastasia
Ohey you guys! Credits to Memories of the Forgotten Guardian for coming up with the idea for this chapter and for writing half of it! ^^
"Hi there!" - Talking
*Ugh, why?* - Thinking
"Dude, what the hell?" - Al Bhed or visions
Danaya's POV:
Once Iyana opened the hatch, everyone jumped off and we walked on the path to the Moonflow. Walking here reminded everyone of when Sargent and Analise fought. Surprisingly, there were very few fiends along the way. "Hmm…there's nothing suspicious here…" I voiced out as we reached the Hypello in charge of Shoopuf rides.
"Let's try the other side? Dad never said which side of the Moonflow." Iyana suggested as she paid the fare for us to cross the Moonflow. The rest of us agreed as we hesitantly got on the shoopuf, remembering what happened last time. Slowly, we made our way across the Moonflow.
Sargent whispered, "Hey…what if that monster shows up again?" We all shrugged as Sargent looked down into the water, trying to occupy himself. Everyone just stayed quiet as the Shoopuf moved along. I felt something drop onto my lap and looked down to see Vidina's head. I smiled and ran my fingers through his hair as I could feel Iyana's teasing smirk. Once we got to the other side of the wharf, I woke Vidina up and we all walked once again. Vidina played around with his staff as we walked through the forest.
"I wonder what Gippal was talking about. I don't see Anastasia around here at all." Xanxus mumbled as we continued to walk, since he was in front of us. I bumped into Xanxus' back with a grunt as he stopped walking. "Wait." Xanxus whispered. "Do you hear that?" We all shut up and listened. I widened my eyes as I heard something from above. We all raised our heads up and gasped as we started to back up.
Some sort of monster was dropping in from above. It was enormously huge and we all scrambled away just in time as it landed hard on the ground. I quickly grabbed my sword as we all faced the fiend that was growling menacingly at us. The fiend was humongous, resembling a genie. Its entire body was purple, having pointy ears with piercings on them and slanted gold eyes. The genie was plump and wore blue genie pants, a yellow sash around its waist, a red and white vest, with red pointy shoes. On its belly button were a huge red stone and markings around it to make it seem like an eye. The black phoenix was tattooed across its whole body as it pulled out an extremely huge black sword from nowhere.
Its pointy teeth stuck out as it grimaced, pointing at me with its sword. I grunted and backed up into the others as I took in how huge the fiend was. "It's a sinspawn of Malfonse's." I whispered to the others as I got my sword ready. "Go!" I shouted as I started to run after it. Once I gained enough speed, I jumped up and struck it on the side of its head with my sword.
"Fira Bullets!" Sargent shouted as he started to shoot fire bullets out of his gun as if it was a flamethrower. The genie simply deflected the bullets with his sword and swiped it in the air, making a huge wind gust.
"WHOA!" Iyana exclaimed as she was flown back into a tree. Xanxus took out his pistols and started shooting while the rest of us quickly got up and recovered. "Watch out! The sword!" Iyana warned me as I tried to dodge the sword. Just in time, Vidina pushed me out of the way and we both tumbled to the ground. We both started to cast Blizzaga on the genie as it stumbled back a bit into some trees and fell down. *Dammit Analise…* I cursed as the genie flew up and started to shoot energy balls at us. It was like we were measly little mice as the genie laughed evilly.
Vidina growled, "Dammit! It's toying with us, ya?" The Dark Genie tried to slice us, but it missed by a couple feet. "Hah! Missed us!" Vidina exclaimed as he started to cast some more Black Magic on the genie. I started to hear some creaking and cracking.
"Um. I don't think he was aiming for us!" I shrieked as trees started to topple all over us. Xanxus, Iyana, and I were trapped while Vidina and Sargent tried to push the trees off of us. Grateful for my smallness, I shimmied out of the tree and felt numerous scratches on my legs start to bleed. I sliced the trees that pinned down Iyana as Xanxus was rescued by the other guys. I glared up at the genie as I started to gather energy in my sword. The Dark Genie, oblivious to my sword charging up power, started to cast Black Magic to everyone else. "Cover for me!" I commanded as I started to charge up my sword with even more power. I was going to execute a move that my father had taught me. Iyana started to hit the Dark Genie with combo attacks with her wrench while Sargent was continuously shooting the Dark Genie down. Just as a Fire ball was about to shoot me, Xanxus deflected it by piercing the ball with a bullet.
Once I felt that my sword had charged up enough energy, I let out a yell as I started to run towards the Dark Genie, both hands gripping my sword to the side as it shone a bright white and blue. As I got near the genie, I jumped up and struck its head with a shout. "RAAAGH! ARCTIC FLAMING DRAGON!" As I said that, a dragon-like entity flew out of my sword, red and blue, as it sunk its claws into the genie's head. The Dark Genie staggered back, however it did not fail to strike me with its sword.
I flew through the air before slamming into a tree I hit the ground, body flaring with pain, trying to keep my eyes open. It didn't work, and I think I blacked out for a moment. "Naya, you need to get up. Get up!" That sounded like Analise! I struggled to get my eyes open, and I finally succeeded. Everything was still blurry, so I blinked rapidly to clear them.
"Analise?" I looked around for her. But no Analise; all I saw was my friends in various stages of pain.
Vidina was pinned to a tree, a large shard of ice through his shoulder. Iyana was lying on the ground, not moving, with Sarge standing over her. He had blood running down his face, and seemed to be barely keeping his feet. Xanxus was the least injured, but even he was struggling to stay on his feet. He stood between me and the genie, trying to keep it away from me. But even as I watched, he was swatted away by the Dark Genie's blade. He went sailing past me, and I couldn't see where he landed.
I looked forward again, to see the Dark Genie slowly moving towards me. In that moment, I was overwhelmed with emotions. A wave of hopelessness, fear, pain, grief, and loneness hit me all at once, and in that instant I forgot about my friends. I forgot about the genie bearing down on me. I even forgot about my parents. All I could think of was that I missed Analise, who had always been there for me when things became too much. I missed her so much, why wasn't she here with me? My vision started to get blurry with tears again, thinking about her, missing her comforting presence next to me. It became too much; I felt myself trembling with pent up emotion. Regardless of the situation I was in, all I could do was scrunch my eyes tight, and I released all my hopelessness, fear, pain, grief, and loneliness in one loud burst: "ANALISE!"
I felt suddenly drained and fell back against the tree. I didn't even notice the bright light that descended in front of me, or the clang of metal on metal, or the loud roar of frustration from the Dark Genie. I just lay there, trying to make sense of what was happening. "Danaya, open your eyes." a voice spoke in my head again. This time I was sure it was Analise, and I forced myself to open my eyes again. I looked around in desperation, but still couldn't find her. It was then that my attention was drawn to the figure in front of me, and my eyes widened in shock.
Analise was standing in front of me with a whole new different oufit on. Her armor was silver with traces of light blue found in places. The armor covered her full body and her boots were pointed. It looked like the armor was made with metal and on her arms, Analise had black gloves on. She seemed to have light blue cape slowly flowing in the back. Her hair grew longer and iridescent, almost blinding everyone around us. Her shield was shaped just like a Crescent or Half Moon. In her hand was a sword just as shiny as her hair, the blade silver and the hilt light blue.
"Analise?" I whispered. The figure gave a small nod.
"Danaya, direct me." she said in my head. I looked at her in shock, uncomprehending. Then the dark genie roared behind her again, raising its sword.
"Look out!" I shouted at her. She quickly spun, blocking its attack with her own sword, before pushing her shield into its body, knocking it away.
She looked at me again, saying "Direct me", and this time I got it.
"Keep it away from the others" I told her. She nodded, before rushing at the dark Genie.
She hit it with her sword, then spun with the momentum and smashed her shield into it. It roared with pain this time, before swinging its own sword at her head. She ducked, and the sword missed her by inches. She rushed forward in the opening, and cut it deeply along its side. It roared loudly before retaliating again. But this time instead of its sword, it attacked with its magic, hitting and knocking her away. She let herself get knocked off her feet, turning her fall into a roll and springing back into a battle stance. Her shield started glowing even brighter, and when she threw her arm forward, a crescent of light shot off and curved into the dark Genie, just barely similar to the aeon Ixion's overdrive. It shot back more magic blasts, which she was able to block. But I could feel her slowly getting tired, while Dark Genie barely seemed to be slowing.
I don't know where it came from, but I suddenly thought of Analise's Overdrive attack. "Analise, Lunar Gale!" I called to her. She held her sword up to the sky, and it started to glow brighter and brighter, almost painfully so. The genie roared again, seemingly able to know this could kill it, and tried to stop her, only to be blasted away with a strong Firaga. I turned around, and saw Vidina being supported by Sarge. Despite the heavily bleeding wound on his shoulder, Vidina was still able to form another Firaga before firing it at the genie, buying Analise time to charge her attack. She just needed a short moment more, before launching it at the Dark Genie.
Dropping her shield, she held her sword in both hands, pointing it at the dark genie. Small wisps of light flew at it, causing it to roar in pain each time them struck. She then swung her sword up over her head, before slashing the air in front of her, and streaks of light floated toward the Dark Genie and wrapped around its limbs and body, immobilizing it. She brought her sword to her side and behind her, before disappearing in a flash of light, reappeared behind the genie with her sword extended to the side. The strands of light burst, lashing the dark genie with power even as it fell to the ground. I had just enough time to push both Sargent and Iyana out of the way before they got crushed.
We all watched as the Dark Genie slowly started to evaporate into pyreflies and fly away. Its screeches stopped altogether as the body was no longer there. We were in a middle of destroyed trees, but luckily no one was there to get hurt.
Analise slowly walked back toward us. "What else would you like?" she asked. I looked at everyone else, all of whom were now conscious and standing behind me, although all were badly injured.
"Heal us before you go." I told her. She nodded, before gathering light in her hands. She gestured to her shield, lying on the ground a little distance away, and it burst into Pyreflies. She gathered the Pyreflies in the light around her hands, and then pointed toward us. A few Pyreflies, all glowing brightly, went to all of us, merging into and healing all of our more serious wounds. She gave what I thought was a smile, before fading away, leaving Pyreflies in the air. A lot of them floated towards me, entering my body.
As they did so, I became overwhelmed with exhaustion, sinking to the ground and struggling to keep my eyes open. Vidina was instantly at my side. "Danaya, you alright? What was all that, ya?"
I barely had enough energy to give a response, but I managed to gasp out "Analise." My friends rushed around me, asking all kinds of questions, but I was already blacking out.