The official english 012 Website has been updated with the TGS. The diolouge is still in Japanese, but it has English subtitles, it helps people who don't understand Japanese (like me) make more sense of what's going on.
Anyway, I've decided, in this fic, to give the Emperor's "Hell" form a more original moveset. More evil/demonic, I really felt that, in Dissidia, he didn't really seem to have any appropriate "hellish" attacks. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks his movestyle seemed somewhat lackluster in that regard, but...
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"You reeeeally should just save me the trouble." Kefka felt the surge of magic through his arm and fired the subtly small burst of Ultima at the goddess. As the orb began to approach the nearby goddess, Kefka took the time to cast Blizzaga, summoning an ice shard that firmly planted itself into the ground, then began spinning rapidly.
The giant chunk of ice spun towards Cosmos as the Ultima sphere exploded, the ice shard spun into the explosion, disappearing inside it, Kefka laughed at the assumption that both attacks had hit Cosmos, but as the smoke cleared, what he saw was not an injured goddess.
Cosmos had a thin layer of light surrounding her, the light obscured her actual appearance with its solid white mass, then it dispersed with the smoke, revealing the uninjured deity.
"Oh… what's wrong with you? Too holy to get hurt?"
"It's not that, it's just…" Cosmos looked out toward the distance, in the same direction of the canyon so much fighting is occurring at. "You aren't the one to end me, this time."
"What are you talking about?" Kefka felt the surge of magic through his arms again, expanding, overflowing through him. Then, the energy exploded out of him, releasing magical field of energy around Kefka, blocking view of him for a small moment. After a few seconds, the energy was sucked back into Kefka, but he looked different now, his jester outfit had disappeared, replaced with an unnatural and unholy visage of a fallen angel.
"I'm all-powerful, I restored the… statues!" Floating up in the air on wings sprouting from his back, Kefka returned to his usual fighting stance, "I'm as much a deity as you, more of a deity, I'm magic itself!"
Calmly, evenly, Cosmos attacked, she brought her left arm up and pointed her finger at Kefka. This movement summoned small dots of light in the air between Cosmos and Kefka, each lingered for a second, then exploded.
Explosion after explosion, getting increasingly closer to Kefka, Kefka swiftly moved higher in the air, dodging the attack easily enough. With a smirk, Kefka raised his hand in the air again, preparing to cast Light of Judgment again, this time empowered by Kefka's new form.
Thrusting his hand down, the beam of light came down again, but this time, when it struck Cosmos, it generated real pain in the deity, but only succeeded in making her bend her knees slightly.
As the dust cleared, Kefka frowned at the lack of injury it had generated in Cosmos. He became more upset by her retaliation, a blinding light appeared above Kefka, he turned up to see a portal of some kind, and a giant spike made of light come out of it, striking him hard on his shoulder, thrusting him back into the ground. He hit the ground, only to be bounced slightly up in a recoil affect, but the portal shined forth with a massive beam of light from the heavens, descending from the sky, it struck on Kefka even as he was bouncing off the ground. Forced back in the ground by the light, he was immolated by the divine power, burning, roasting…
The light vanished after only a few seconds, and Kefka had vanished with it.
"I'm sorry… but, in the end, you are a false deity." Cosmos closed her eyes and shook her head, she herself was simply a "made" deity, perhaps she was false, herself. She raised her head again and looked in the direction of the canyon, someone would be coming for her soon…
Jecht charged first, heading straight for the Emperor. The crystallized copy of Sephiroth tried to interfere, but a single swing of Jecht's sword cut off the creature's right arm.
With the creature out of the way, Jecht had a clear shot at Mateus, but as he approached him, a single spike appeared from the ground between Mateus and Jecht, stopping the advance.
"Before we begin, allow me to change the arena to something more… desirable." Mateus brought both his arms forward, folding his hands around his staff, the energy of hell surrounded him as spikes began to form all around him.
The energy seeped out of the Emperor and into the ground, spreading and flattening, slowly changing the ground to another mysterious color.
Strange crystalline structures began to jut out of the ground, pillars of unknown matter rose from the ground.
"Welcome to Pandemonium… insects." It was true, the Emperor had summoned Pandemonium, the palace of hell, into the cycle, the only difference was the lack of a roof.
"With the power of hell at its greatest, even you must understand the futility of trying to stand against me."
Mateus' statement was answered with a ripple of power under him, he turned his gaze down to see water churning under him. Calmly, he spun to the side as a geyser burst forth from under him, he stopped his movement and turned his attention toward the originator of the attack, the Tarutaru.
"So that is your answer." Mateus tightened his grip on his scepter, "Such fools, do you understand what you're fighting against?" the Emperor charged energy through his body, and into his scepter.
As he began to float into the air, preparing an attack, Garland made his own move.
It was child's play to strike Laguna across the back with his sword, he and the others preoccupied with the Emperor. Laguna flew straight into one of the pillars set up around Pandemonium, Shantotto turned around when she saw Laguna fly past her field of judgment, immediately she fired a Flare spell at him, Garland slid to the side, allowing the fire to move past him, then spun toward her with his sword, forcing Shantotto to jump backwards from the attack.
Jecht was preoccupied trying to get to the Emperor, forcing Shantotto and Laguna to make do with what they had against Garland. The Emperor's attack, however, was a concern for all the Cosmos Warriors, the Emperor released his left hand's grip on his scepter, and raised his scepter up in the air, firing a single red beam. As it went up, the beam split into two beams, then split into four, then eight, before finally, the beams all exploded, and the left over pieces all began coming down.
Hell's rain… death.
Bits of the red energy began to shower down, as it fell on the exposed skin of the Cosmos Warriors, it made their skin cook and boil. The Emperor had nothing to fear, empowered by hell itself, and Garland's armor protected him from the attack, yet the three Cosmos Warriors were at a severe disadvantage now.
Two of them at least, Shantotto erected a Wall spell against the rain, she was about to do the same for her allies, but Garland came upon her, canceling her attempts to cast the defensive spell. She dodged the first vertical swing, and attempted to retaliate with a Burst spell, but Garland cut her off by taking a second blade off of his sword and charging at her, forcing her to instead cast a Protect spell.
She felt Garland's two swords cut into her, but just barely. Thanks to the Protect spell, she felt herself being thrown into a pillar, but she felt next to no pain. As she landed back on her feet, she turned to Laguna, he was obviously struggling against the unholy rain, this truly was the palace of hell, there was no cover anywhere against the strange rain. Sadistic architecture.
On the other side of the room, Jecht was still trying to get at the Emperor, but with a swing of his scepter, Mateus erected solid red beams in front of him, forming a barrier. Jecht attempted to dodge around them, but Mateus pointed his scepter at Jecht and fired a red electrical surge, catching Jecht on his leg.
The electrical attack dispersed after only a moment, but Jecht wasn't able to run, he struck the leg that had been attacked with his free hand, only to discover that the leg had gone numb. With an aggravated grunt, Jecht dragged the leg with him, not feeling any life returning to it, even as Mateus began his next attack.
"Surely you can tell, how helpless you are in your current state." Mateus motioned his finger at Jecht, "Surrender to rage and want for power, then perhaps you could hope to at least strike me."
Jecht leapt up at Mateus, a slightly unwieldy jump, due to being made with only two legs, but be managed to reach the Emperor's height. Yet the Emperor dodged the attack simply by floating higher into the air, causing Jecht's attack to fall short.
Falling back down, Jecht hit a pillar and immediately jumped off of it, raising higher in the air then his last jump brought him, until he was just above Mateus. Jecht swung his sword down, striking Mateus on the shoulder.
The attack made Jecht feel good about himself, until he noticed that Mateus almost didn't move at all. The Emperor suddenly turned around, his demonic eyes glowing a dim red, and not the slightest trace of pain creasing his inhuman face.
"Flea." Mateus brought his free hand forward and fired a wave of black energy, catching Jecht and dragging him away from the Emperor. The energy dispersed quickly, sending Jecht tumbling back to the ground, he landed unevenly on his still good leg. He struck his numb leg again, feeling some movement and sensation returning to it, but not enough to as much as run right now.
Been a while since I was backed into a corner like this… Jecht turned his gaze skyward, seeing Mateus floating back down to the ground, his feet sliding onto the strange colored stone that marked Pandemonium's architecture.
Though hurt by the strange rain, Laguna wasn't quite finished yet, with his run he unleashed a stream of bullets toward Garland. Yet the knight casually brought his sword up in front of him, deflecting the bullets, but it left him open to an attack from Shantotto, Garland should have sensed the strange chill in the air, but he didn't, and a massive shard of ice crashed down on him, sending him into the ground.
Simple deduction told Shantotto that that would only keep Garland down by a full second or so, so she began to cast a Wall spell on Laguna, to protect him from the rain. The magical barrier coated his body, shielding him from the rain, allowing him to fight normally. Shantotto turned to Jecht, he seemed completely unhindered by the rain, even as it boiled his skin. She was considering casting a Wall spell on him, just to be safe, but then she turned around and saw Garland's hand latch firmly onto her face.
Garland charged around the area, dragging Shantotto across the floor, even with her Protect spell still in effect, Shantotto could feel her body being worn out. It continued for a few moments, then Garland dragged her into the air and knocked her into a wall, she crashed into the surface, and the impact send cracks across the stone, before she fell onto the ground.
Garland began to approach her, when he heard a small click sound, he turned to the side to see a grenade bounce right into his face, and then detonate, hurtling him back into another wall.
He prevented himself from falling by firmly placing his feet on the ground as his body recoiled from the wall. He immediately turned to the owner of the explosive, Laguna. Without a moment lost, Garland charged toward the man, only to be stopped by a Burst spell from Shantotto.
Agitated, Garland snapped his fingers, summoning Mateus' crystal warriors, the copies of Shantotto, Adel, and Richard. The Adel and Richard copy both went after Laguna, yet the Shantotto copy went after its namesake.
"You think you can win by copying me? You should just wait and see." Shantotto charged energy through her staff, then unleashed Flare upon her copy, who dodged out of the way. The crystal Shantotto ran up to the real thing and cast Firaga, three small fireballs shot out from the crystal Shantotto, but the real one jumped over it easily enough.
So close to her crystal copy, Shantotto did not want to risk the time necessary to cast a spell, and instead opted to simply take her staff out and strike her crystal enemy. The staff hit the crystal warrior on its cheek, cracking the crystal, Shantotto took note of this as she struck twice more on two separate parts of the crystal Shantotto's body.
As the crystal warrior backed off, Shantotto took note of the fact that its body seemed somewhat weak against direct impacts. With a smirk on her face, Shantotto threw her staff at the copy, the staff spun through the air, first striking the fake Shantotto's arm, completely shattering it off of the main body, then the staff spun back, hitting the crystal warrior on its back, shattering the entire thing into tiny shards.
"Not so tough after all! With these things, I'll have a ball!" Shantotto smirked and looked at Laguna, who was already making similar progress with the Adel and Richard copy.
"You know, for all the power you say you have, you don't seem all that interested in actually attacking." Jecht taunted the Emperor, Mateus had done nothing but dodge all the attacks the ace had made since they both landed. "You're nothing but talk, you'd get along well with my little crybaby, you know?"
"Oh, so you believe a lax offense equates to nothing to offer?" the Emperor turned away from Jecht, focusing his gaze on the two other Cosmos Warriors, "I am not a person one tries to challenge and ensnare with words, Jecht. Witness the price of your taunting."
The Emperor sprung into action, flying straight toward the other Cosmos Warriors, more exactly, he flew straight at Laguna. As he came up to him, the Emperor fired a black orb of energy at the ground, the wave of energy snaked under the ground, and erupted directly beneath Laguna.
Sent flying into the air, Laguna attempted to regain his orientation, and fired his gun at the Emperor. The bullets struck, but the Emperor didn't flinch, even as some shots went onto his face, and even in his eyes. Mateus simply lifted up his free hand and unleashed a small bubble of red energy that drifted slowly to Laguna. When it reached Laguna, it exploded, coating him in red energy, the same energy his death rain was made of, Shantotto's wall spell could not stop this.
Laguna fell back to the ground, his skin beginning to boil from the red energy stretching across him, but before he had endured too much, the Emperor pointed his scepter into the sky, summoning Starfall.
The giant space rock came down… right on Laguna. The rock came down fast, first crushing Laguna with its weight, until finally exploding, leaving a smoking crater where it landed, and not the faintest sign of Laguna anywhere.
"I hope you understand, Jecht…" Mateus floated back to the ground, keeping his back to the Cosmos Warrior, "You caused that. His end… is your fault."
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