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The Malicious Glaed

In Ivalice, during the time in which the undying ruled over the land and people, the Aegyl still flew in the skies visible to land dwellers. They lived alongside them, but never truly interacted with them. They kept to themselves mostly. The Aegyl looked very much alike only every once in a while having a child that was different. Each Aegyl had fair skin and dark hair. Every once in a while someone was born a little differently.

The Aegyl did not shun them as some might. They felt no reason to do so. Their society was not so strict as to do that. Unlike some of the peoples in Ivalice they did not fear things that were different. These children were simply considered special as they were normally stronger in a certain area. Some in strength or intelligence or sometimes several things. It was considered a gift.

One Aegyl family was lucky to have a truly gifted child, but that came with other things as well. Things that might not be considered a gift. Their little girl was strong, fast and smart, but she was malicious in nature. When she played with other children she did things that would deliberately hurt them and she liked to tease others. That included her family. She was not an affectionate child.

As she grew the Aegyl started to feel the oppression of the undying. It eventually led them to flee into the skies abandoning the ground entirely. They ended up settling on what they would come to call Lemures. It was a world all on its own with a God of its own. They worshiped this God feeling less oppressed than with the undying gods of before.

Glaed went through life following orders as best she could living her life the way she was told it should be. She felt oppressed by her people and their new way of life. In a way she actually missed living in the underworld of Ivalice. Of course, now she was all grown up and held a lot of responsibility. She had shed some of her childish behaviors in favor of a more adult attitude. She was a guard and a very good one at that. However, her malicious nature did not leave her. She still enjoyed seeing others in pain.

She also noticed her people's shortcomings. They had hardly explored any of their lands and they were continually becoming unemotional. In a way she was starting to feel the same as them. The way they lived seemed to be dragging them down and she felt like she was the only one that could see it. She was not even sure why she felt that way, but no one would listen to her. She really just wanted to abandon it. She wanted to leave Lemures and return to Ivalice. It was much bigger and she knew that with all the different peoples that she would have more opportunities.

However, her family and people did not seem to share her sentiments and would not let go. With the barrier around Lemures it would be impossible for her to simply leave on her own. The only thing she could think of to remedy that was to just get rid of the problems. She only had to worry about her parents and superiors. It they were gone she would have done something they could never understand. They would have to do something. She knew that and she knew they would not put her to death. It was not their way. They would have no choice, but to exile her.

She smiled at the thought. It was too perfect. Too easy.

So she set out to go through with her plan. It made her feel strange and it would have consequences she never expected. She went home that day and acted normal. She watched her parents go through their normal routine and when she felt ready she simply killed them. She stood over them feeling nothing. She knew she should, but for some reason she just could not feel anything. She had no idea why that was. They were her parents after all.

She sighed and left. It was all she could do. She could not stop now that she had started. She only had a few more people to go and then she would be free...or so she thought. She found her superior still at his post. It was expected. He guarded a very sacred place and hardly ever left his post. He was the best...other than her.

"Glaed, what are you doing here?" He asked. He never got an answer and she did not give him time to react to what she was going to do. She knew that if he ever got the chance to fight back it would be hard to beat him. "Glaed...why?" He asked dying.

"I can't live like this anymore." She told him. Once again she felt that strange detachment. She hated that feeling. It felt too empty and she knew it was wrong. She turned away and flew off. She would return home and wait. It would not be long before someone discovered what she had done.

She was very right about that. When she returned home she found that someone had already found her murdered parents. "Glaed! I'm glad you're here." She said. "Your parents...they're..." She stopped her.

"I know. They are dead." She said.

"Who did this...do you know?" Glaed nodded. "Who?"

"I did." She said very calmly as if it were nothing. The woman said nothing, but looked at their bodies and then back at her.

"Why?" She said not understanding.

"I had to...you'll have to forgive me." She said holding up her sword.

"Glaed?!" She yelled as she tried to defend herself. Glaed beat her quickly enough and felt no remorse for having done so. She looked at herself and noticed for the first time the blood that now covered her. She smiled at it for once feeling something. It surprised her and she frowned. She really did not understand this feeling at all. She turned away and went to the edge of their little floating island. She looked down and there was one small opening in the clouds. She could see what lay beneath. Of course, all she could see was blue waters beneath her. It closed and blocked the view. She looked up to the sky and felt disgusted. Being an Aegyl means one should love the sky, but she truly hated it.

She sat down and pulled her wings forward. What to do now. I care not to fly in these skies ever again. She thought. She looked at her sword still covered in blood and considered the unthinkable. Maybe if I get rid of them... She thought. The thought did not bother her. She knew it meant that she would no longer fly ever again. She might even die trying to do it, but she really did not care. Life meant so little to her lately.

So she extended one wing and with her sword began cutting it. It was harder than she thought it would be and it brought tears to her eyes nearly making her scream, but she did not stop until it was gone. She stared at her wing lying on the ground for what seemed like forever. It was too late to turn back now. She could not fly with only one wing. It would not support her. She cut off the other wing as well and sat there shivering from the pain. All she could do was wait since now she was cut off from her own world.

Someone would fly by and see her she knew that. She could not guess what their reaction might be. Of course, they would not understand. How could they? She barely understood herself. But now amongst the pain she felt she also felt something else. A feeling she did not really know, but remembered. She had lived on Ivalice when she was little and had some memories of that. I felt free then. We've only trapped ourselves here. She thought to herself.

"Glaed! Glaed! Wake up!" She heard someone shouting at her. She opened her eyes to find herself in the arms of another guard. He was younger than her and was more emotional than most. "Finally. I thought you were dead." He said looking relieved. "Your wings, Glaed, what happened here? Filano is dead and so are your parents...and Ren." He said looking at her body.

"I killed them." She said struggling with the words. She actually felt like she might be dying. "I killed them and I removed my wings. I can't do this anymore. I can't live like this."

"I don't understand, Glaed. You could have died."

"I don't care." She said sitting up. She could see that he had helped her. He had bandaged her wounds and did what he could to clean her up. "Anything is better than this life. I want to leave or die."

"They stood in your way. So you killed them. Is that it?" She nodded. "I see. You've done something unnatural to our people. I don't know what the others will do."

"As long as I can leave...it doesn't matter."

Glaed got her wish. She told them that if she stayed she would continue to kill them. Besides that she could no longer fly with them. That would make things much harder for her. It would be much better for her if they just let her go. They could forget her completely as if she never existed. She would finally get the freedom she wanted, but things like that come with a price.

In Ivalice she started to feel her emotions returning to her. She knew that she had been right. Something about that place made them that way. However, they did not all come flooding back at once. At first all she had felt was fear. She was back in Ivalice cut off from the Aegyl completely. She could no longer fly on her own and that made her feel a bit isolated. She had thought she would never miss the sky. After a short time anger accompanied her fear. She was angry at the whole world and those feeling seemed to stretch on forever. Anger, then hate and with those feelings came lust. She wanted to become stronger so she could kill whomever she felt deserving. She could do nothing more than become a sky pirate which in a sense gave her the ability to fly. A way of filling the nostalgia of her old life.

As a sky pirate people feared and respected her, but she started to take things further than they needed to go. She made people fear her. She wanted them to. She gained more and more power and was becoming a threat to others. She saw herself as giving them a gift. The gift of dying early so maybe they would not have to feel the kind of pain she did. She suddenly started to feel regret for leaving her people.

There was a high price on her head, but no one could seem to bring her in for the bounty. She was too strong for them to handle. The dried blood stains on her clothing told them enough about that.

There were few options left for them other than to just seal her away somewhere and move on. There were places in the world where few went since they could not easily travel there. They would have to lure her there with something big. The only place they could think of was The Ridorana Cataract. There were many rumors about that place. It was hard to get to, even dangerous to get to. It was perfect.

They spread rumors that there was a great treasure there and indeed there truly was. They would wait for her at the top along with the Sun-Cryst that lie there. It worried them a little, but they knew they had something important to do. They were all very strong and knew that she would come alone. Hardly anyone could make their way up there and live.

When she did finally arrive she was surprised to find them all there waiting for her. She recognized them all. Sky pirates and officials all there to collect the bounty she guessed. She was wrong, but she did not care about them. She felt power there. The Sun-Cryst, something she knew very little about, was very appealing to her. It held power in it.

"Glaed. We cannot allow you to continue. We made sure that you would come here."

"I see. You started the rumors about the treasure here. I suppose that's not what you meant." She said glancing at the large crystal behind them. She was ready to fight them. She was sure that they were just like anyone else and that she would defeat them. However, they had help from someone else. She felt their presence. "I see you are not here alone."

"No. They too believe that you are now a threat." They said.

"As before you still want to control how we all live and die. Anything for your own gains." She said not speaking to the people before her. They understood.

"I only want to make sure that it happens." It said in response, but did not reveal itself to any of them.

"Whatever." She said lunging at one of them. He dodged, which did not bother her in the least. She wanted a good fight out of them before she ripped them apart. However, she was not quite prepared for what they were going to do. They summoned a Scion to help them and she was forced to fight him for a while giving them time to prepare themselves. Once the Scion left and they came back to the fight she had no idea what they were planning, but she was definitely not going to like it.

"You're done, Glaed." One of them said. They were all chanting a spell together as one and she felt her whole body going stiff.

"What's this?!" She yelled out in surprise.

"We're going to seal you away here. It'll be a long time before you return…if you can." Another said. She struggled as hard as she could, but the spell was too strong. They kept chanting deepening her binds and she started to feel herself changing. She did not fully understand what was happening. She felt herself being split. She could actually see herself and she could not seem to go back to it. No! This can't happen. Was I really so terrifying to them? She thought. She could only conclude that she was and now saw no way out of this.

When they finished they chained her body up close to the Sun-Cryst. Only someone truly powerful could undo what they had just done to her. Glaed could only stare at herself as they left her there. "I suppose they have made me nothing more than a spirit. I wonder how long it will be before my body decays." She said. She walked around learning that she could not go very far from her body. She was powerless and alone and would remain that way for a long time.

Scythe found himself searching for someone with a certain lack of morals. He needed a killer. He traveled to a few worlds unsatisfied with the people. After some time he found himself on Ivalice. He was hearing rumors about someone that had terrorized them for quite some time. The stories were very old ones by this time. Once a sky pirate, but she had suddenly vanished. She had become nothing more than a story that parents tell their children in order to scare them. He decided to investigate and found out everything he could about her and where she had been seen last. He wanted to know where she had gone before suddenly disappearing.

That was difficult since years made people forget. By then most people only told stories about her and few of them had actually met her. They either did not know or hardly remembered. He found himself trying to pluck the information from their minds finding that much more reliable. It was all there in their minds clear as day, but when they had to say the words it just did not come out.

He only had Siren with him at the time and though she was very loyal she was better at other things. Together they managed to find her and learned that it was hard to get there, but it would not be for him. He could still fly on his own, but not Siren. He would have to help her. It was not too much trouble for them to reach The Ridorana Cataract. Seeing the large waterfall and the small island that sat at its edge was a breathtaking sight. He did not want to take the time starting at the bottom and working his way up. There really was no reason for that. He knew very well that she lie at the top sleeping away.

Years had passed and no one had come. Glaed guessed that she was nothing more than a memory now. She looked at her body. Being Aegyl did not really extend her lifespan, but she knew that her body had long been dead. However, the spell they used kept her from actually moving on. She could not leave unless it was lifted.

Suddenly she noticed someone outside. A man and woman. The man looked very powerful and intense. She focused on him instead of the woman with him. She seemed weak, but also very attached to him. They came inside and went straight to her body. She could have sworn that he had looked right at her. Maybe he did see me here? She thought wondering if it were her imagination

"I see that her body has died. It has been a long time, but I can fix that." Scythe said. Siren merely nodded. She was not crazy about the idea of having another woman with them, but she would never question him. "You were sealed here. Cursed and bound to this place for eternity." He said to Glaed. She saw him looking at her and knew that he saw her there. She nodded. "I can lift it...on one condition." She gave him a questioning look. "You must do what I say. I can promise that you will not regret it." He said giving her a truly disturbing smile. Something about him frightened her a little, but she knew he would not lie. He had a reason for coming there and seeking her out.

"What is it that you want of me?" She said. She really was not even sure if he could hear her at all.

"You're a skilled fighter. Truly the terror I've been looking for. I've heard all about you. The fact that you are here now tells me enough. I need someone like you." He said.

"I see. Then I suppose I could go along with your terms. Normally I wouldn't, but I want this curse lifted and I'll do anything for that." She said. "I do have one request. I want revenge on them for doing this to me." She told him.

"Of course." He said before chanting quietly to himself. First he had to unbind her and then reanimate her body. Lastly he had to return her soul to her body. He hardly felt any resistance from the spell they used, but there was something else there. The crystal her body lay by. There was something about it. It was something that contained immense power, but he was not at all interested in it. Once all of that was done he had to explain to her that much time had passed. Those people might not be alive anymore. She had guessed that, but that was not going to stop her from punishing their children. "I have an idea. There is a certain person on this world that could punish them all." He said. He explained what he meant by that while also telling her what he was after. She agreed to it and they went to capture this person. It was easy and she did enjoy seeing them squirm.

When they first entered death she was a little weary of it. She was not quite sure where they were going. She felt something there. Or rather someone there pulling at her. She walked quickly following Scythe very closely. Once they reached The Abyss she understood more clearly what he had told her. She watched the man in pain as they removed the soul fragment and then he tossed him over to her. "Soon that world will perish. Without that fragment the world cannot live." She was happy to have him. The years had not changed her for the better. She was worse than before. Her lust for killing had only increased with her want for revenge on the ones who had sealed her away. Now they would pay and she would continue living. She would continue to kill in her mind ending their suffering.


Author: Revised.

It fit to have her be one of the Aegyl. Since in the game living on Lemures changed them from who they had been before it made sense that she would be restless with that life and the losing of her emotions thus turning her into the person she is now.