Hey there guys! The next chapter is out!
Shout outs!
The Unknowing Herald: Yup he could. And you'll see soon enough! All the good part wouldn't happen where our group was anyway, so i think that's not that bad. Probably ^^
TerraKH: Really? Are you spying in my thoughts again? I thought about it too, but it probably will be better the way I'll do it. And you are kind of right!
XxThe-Crest-Of-AnubisxX: It's basically Return of the Jedi with Sora and the others thrown in, so it shouldn't be that hard to understand if you know the movie, else, just PM me and I'll explain.
You should know what I own, and what TerraKH own by now!
"Say that again!" Riku said surprised.
"You heard right. Radiant Garden is under attack…" Cid sighed.
"By who?" Sora asked.
"Xehanort and the Heartless of course!" Roxas said and smacked his somebody on the back of the head.
"But what about the rebels?" Kairi asked while Sora glared angry at Roxas.
"I informed Ackbar and Calrissian. They said as soon as the shield is down, they have as good as won anyway…" Cid explained calm.
Sora nodded with a sigh "I guess you're right…"
"Cid, when do we arrive?" Riku asked the captain.
Cid grinned at him "I already waited for that question!"
"Why?" Sora asked confused.
"Guys, activate protocol Cid Delta Rho 36. We're in a hurry!" Cid said and sat down on the captain's chair.
"You might want to sit down too…" he added to the standing people.
A crewman followed his captains order and typed something in a console.
Outside, the thrusters of the big Gummi ship where brought closer to the hull and two bigger thrusters where revealed under the hull. Additionally, the smaller thrusters changed form, so they would reach even higher speeds.
"Ready for Warp X3, captain!" the crewman reported.
"Okay, red alert." Cid ordered and then grabbed the microphone "This is the captain speaking. As you may have noticed, we have red alert now. A few minutes ago, we received a distress call. This call came from our home. Radiant Garden. It said that our home is under attack by a massive Heartless armada. We'll go there and defend our Garden until we are victorious or dead! Everybody on their stations and get ready for battle. I activated Warp X3, so be prepared. We'll arrive in one minute…"
"What?" Sora asked surprised "It usually takes us hours to get to another world!"
"Everybody on their seats and prepare for acceleration!" Cid ordered and pointed at the pilot "Fire up the engines!"
"Sora, don't you want to sit down?" Luriél asked him as she closed the seatbelt on her own seat.
"What could probably happen?" Sora asked with a shrug.
As the acceleration kicked in, everybody was pressed in their seats, everybody except Sora. He was slammed into the wall and wasn't able to move away from it.
"I told you…" Cid muttered as the Shera still picked up speed.
"Arrival at Radiant Garden in ten…" a crewman announced.
"Activate the FFS, heat up the guns and ready the missile Launchers!" Cid ordered the weapons officer.
"Four." The crewman counted down "Three. Two. One!"
The Shera dropped out of its enormous speed and Radiant Garden came in view on the main window and on the screens. There where at least twenty ships the size of the battleships around Castle Oblivion and three even bigger ships.
The two giant cannons that floated in Radiant Garden's orbit desperately tried to stop the smaller ships from sending transporter ships down to the world, but failed because the projectiles were stopped before they reached the ships.
"Atlas and Gemini detected us, Sir!" A crewman reported "FFS accepted."
A few seconds later, the first projectiles of the board cannons flew towards the ships and hit them by surprise.
"Shera to Radiant Garden, what's your status?" Cid asked over the communicator.
"Cid, is that you?" came Shera's voice from the speakers "Heartless are already invading the surface!"
"Oh thank god you're alright…" Cid sighed relieved "Did Leon gave any orders already?"
"He and Cloud activated the Omega Protocol. But we need more time and a better defense than the orbital guns can provide. Zell and Quistis are already starting the Ragnarok and the squadron is ready, but it probably won't be enough!" Shera explained in haste.
"Cloud is down there?" Sora asked surprised.
"Yes, they arrived a few days ago together with the King." Shera answered.
A few of the Heartless ships now where aware of their existence and concentrated their attacks on them.
Sora turned to Cid "What's the Omega Protocol?"
"Evacuation of the population." Cid answered quickly.
"Aqua, where are the others?" Sora then asked the blue haired master.
"They're ready and should be on their way to the Transporter Room now." She quickly answered.
Sora looked surprised at her "Then we're ready to go down!"
"Such a waste…" officer Scott muttered as he swiped away the remainings of a bottle filled with an amber liquid.
"Mr. Scott, ten people down!" Sora ordered as he and the others stepped on the teleporter.
"Aye, Sir!" Scott said, and as soon as they all were ready, beamed them down.
The wall of Heartless between him and the trapped civilians seemed almost impossible to go through.
(Maybe I'm A Lion (FFVIII), The Black Mages)
Leon grabbed the hilt of his Revolver gunblade and dashed forward, slicing through the minor shadows.
A Defender appeared in front of him and tried to block his path. With a jump, he stepped in the shields face and then leaped over the Heartless. The Revolver drove deep into the Heartless' shoulder, and with a pull of the trigger, it was shot into a group of Soldiers, before fading away.
Using the recoil of the blast, he managed to kill another bunch of Heartless.
"Don't mess with a lion…" he muttered as he looked towards the trapped people.
Deciding that he didn't had time to fight his way through to them, he jumped over a few Heartless and started to run over their heads.
As he reached them, the eldest of them was killed by a group of Neo Shadows, as he protected a younger man from them.
Leon quickly struck them down, but saw that he was too late. With an angry grunt, he send a blast of fire into the Heartless and then turned to the shocked man and offered him a hand.
As the man didn't react after a few seconds, Leon sighed "Great..."
Somehow, Leon seemed to be intimidating enough for the Heartless to not attack the other civilians or him.
"Hey, how's your name?" Leon asked calm.
The man didn't reply, so Leon waved his hand in front of the other man's face "I asked how's your name.
The young man was shaking on the whole body and close to tears "J- Jim Mo- Moriat-"
"Okay, Jim. You are going to be alright, okay? No need to worry about anything. I'll take care of it." Leon tried to comfort the man, but as usual didn't think like he acted.
"Watch out!" Jim yelled and in that moment, Leon was thrown down by another Heartless.
The wyvern dashed through the air, and tried to attack the group again, but Leon managed to jump on top of the Heartless and drove his sword into the Wyvern's head.
With a cry of pain, the dragon started to fall down. With a pull of his gunblade's trigger, he catapulted himself on another wyvern and continued that procedure.
As he landed next to the civilians again, the Heartless already attacked them again. With a timed pull of his Revolver's trigger, he created an explosion that threw most of the Heartless a bit away.
Suddenly, with a flash of light, a group of people appeared in front of him and quickly decimated the remaining Heartless.
(end Maybe I'm a Lion)
"Figured you might need help." Sora said with a grin after the last of the Heartless was defeated.
"Thanks…" Leon answered.
"How are those people evacuated?" Sora asked curious.
"Below the Hollow Bastion is a secrete hangar with ships for the whole population. Bring them there and they'll be safe." Leon explained.
(The Stage Is Set, Final Fantasy VIII)
"I'll take this group to the Hangar and then will continue to search for others!" Cissnei volunteered.
Sora nodded "Then the others will split up and search for more civilians."
"Sounds like a plan!" Lea said with a nod and then summoned his Keyblade.
After a few moments, everybody got out his weapons and they separated.
"Sora, you'll need to find Merlin. He is probably still in his house and not even aware of the danger he is in. You'll have to fight a way through to the house." Leon told him as Sora was about to leave.
"Will do!" Sora said and then ran in the direction Merlin's house was.
"Squall, help!" Leon suddenly heard someone shout.
"Rinoa?" He said surprised and looked around.
"Please… help me!" the voice came again.
"I'm coming, don't worry!" Leon said and dashed off as well.
(end The Stage Is Set)
Luriél ran through a still intact street of the town. The buildings where quite pretty, but it was completely silent. Only a few Heartless crept through the shadows.
Suddenly, a beam from the sky hit a building in front of her and set it and all the surrounding buildings on fire.
"Great aiming guys…" she muttered angry as she ran by the fire and continued down the street.
As she ran around a corner, she saw that a group of Heartless blocked her way.
Taking up speed, she ran towards the group and, in the last moment, leaped over them.
"Are you looking for me?" Luriél asked with a sweet voice as the rose pedals she lost set on the ground.
All the Heartless turned towards her in unison. Before even one could make one more move, the pedals ignited and explode.
After the dust of the explosion settled down, there was only one Defender remaining. His shield however was cracked and useless.
Luriél quickly kicked the bulky Heartless in the face and then dug her sickles in its skull.
After watching the Defender fade away, Luriél stratified turned around and continued her search for civilians.
For a time, she continued this and sometimes eliminated a bunch of Heartless, but never found any civilians.
As she stopped next to a clothing shop for a moment, she sighed and looked around "Maybe they're all already at the ships to get evacuated?"
In that moment, a beam from the sky hit the clothing shop and send her flying against the building on the opposite side.
As she stood up again she noticed that big parts of the town where already burning and there where almost no cries of pain or sadness to hear anymore. Everything, except the crackling of the fire, seemed to went silent.
After a few seconds, she shrugged it off and continued until she reached a small, round plaza.
She could have sworn she heard someone call for help there. As she stood in the middle of the plaza however, she couldn't see anybody.
"Great… I'm going crazy now…" she said to herself with a sigh.
"Oh hello there!" Someone said from behind her.
As she turned around, she was impaled by something through the stomach.
Smoke was already covering the sky when Sora came closer to Merlin's house. The closer he got however, the more Heartless stood in his way. Most of them he cut down with one swing of his Keyblade and those who didn't fade away immediately, he ignored.
His goal was Merlin's house and nothing could stop him from reaching it and get the magician into safety.
As he finally reached the small plaza in front of Merlin's home, it was flooded with all kind of Heartless.
"Oh, c'mon just get out of my way!" Sora said and fired a blast of fire into them.
To his surprise however, the attack didn't kill them, but instead was reflected back at him.
"Oh shit!" Sora cursed as he dodged his own spell.
He didn't hesitate and charged at the nearest Heartless, but as his Oblivion met the skin of the Neo Shadow he attacked, it simply bounced off.
"Are you kidding me?" he asked none in particular and searched for a Rune- or Barrier Master.
After he found the searched Heartless, he started to glow in a dark violet aura.
Usually it was a lighter color, wasn't it? He thought to himself, but shrugged it off as his imagination.
He jumped on a nearby wall and after charging his jump up for a moment, launched himself towards the Barrier Master that protected all the Heartless.
"Gotcha!" Sora yelled as he slammed the Heartless down to the ground and created a massive shockwave that killed all the surrounding Heartless as well.
"And now, Thundagra!" Sora yelled and roasted the remaining Heartless on the plaza.
He then quickly ran to the entrance to Merlin's house and entered it.
"Merlin, you need to lea-" Sora wanted to say but then stopped as he saw what was happening inside.
The whole house was filled with Invisible and Orcus Heartless. In the middle of the building, surrounded in a light blue aura of magic, there was Merlin floating.
"What are you doing, we need to leave!" Sora shouted over to the old man.
As he opened his eyes, they glowed in the same blue as the aura that surrounded him.
"What do you want here, Sora?" he asked calm.
"You need to lave Merlin, it's too dangerous out here!" Sora said and tried to get closer, but was stopped by an invisible force field.
"You fool need to leave. Or else you might get killed!" Merlin said, now quite angry.
Sora ignored his warning and tried to reach Merlin "Leon ordered me to get you, so I won't go back without you!"
"Squall doesn't know what I'm doing, so leave. Tell him I left already on my own way." Merlin ordered as the protecting aura slowly started to fade.
"Now, run, you fool!" Merlin ordered Sora.
"I won't go!" Sora yelled as the aura around the magician disappeared.
"SO BE IT." Merlin shouted and then clapped his hands together, releasing an extreme bright light and an explosion.
"Rinoa, I'll help you, don't worry!" Leon said determined and followed the direction of the voice.
He finally reached a plaza that was completely divided of all life.
"Rinoa?" Leon asked worried and looked around.
"Squall, please…" the voice said, but then broke into a laughing "You fell for it!"
Leon spun around, his gunblade in hand, and saw a hooded person in a black cloak standing in the middle of the plaza.
The person chuckled "I'm hurt Squall… I thought I meant something to you?"
"Who are you?" Leon demanded to know and pointed his Revolver at her.
(FITHOS LUSEC WECOS VINOSEC, Final Fantasy VIII)
The person removed her hood, revealing a woman's face with lined patterns tattooed on it. Her grey hair extended into two horns on the back of her head.
"Remember me now?" she asked amused.
"You are just an old witch from a future that could be!" Leon said angry.
"Oh, is that so?" the woman said mockingly "What if I tell you that it doesn't matter what you do, It will happen anyway…"
"Shut up!" Leon shouted at her.
"Squall you disappoint me… Or should I rather call you Leon? The man who can't protect anything?"
"You soon won't call me anything!" Leon yelled as he charged at her.
Mid jump however, he force in spot and just hung in the air.
"We shall fight… but to my conditions, my dear." The woman said with a smile.
"And you shall fall… but to my conditions." Leon pressed out.
"Don't make me laugh! You know that there is only one way to stop me from returning!" the woman said and allowed Leon to move again.
"Now," She asked "shall we dance?"
Hope you liked it!
Yeah, I kind of wrote a tripple cliffhanger this time, sorry ^^
And if you didn't like something, tell me and don't stop reviewing please!
I'm have depressions right now and thinking about suicide... so if there are no updates anymore you know what's going on...
No, just kidding (Yeah, i know that's not really funny, but I'm kinda having a depression, so it's partially true) I'm actually going to Barcelona for one week, so I don't know if i can update next week. Hell, i don't even know if i have a internet connection!
And the week after that, I'll go to Carinthia (okay, nobody probably knows that ^^[Respect if you know it!]) for a sports week... I don't have any propper word in english for it, It's just a week where my class is going somewhere for doing sports -.-
Okay, so review and tell me how you liked it! And wish me luck for having internet in Barcelona!
Till then!