Chapter 33
Wendy woke up inside a cave. But when she got a better vision of the place, it wasn't a cave but rather a temple.
"Dagger!"
Wendy looked up and saw a little girl, with short blue hair and a horn on her head, running towards her.
"Come on, we gotta hurry!", she said.
"Um, what do you mean?", asked Wendy.
"Huh? Hey, you're not Dagger! Who are you?"
Suddenly, a huge block of ice appeared from the ceiling and is going to land on the little girl.
"Watch out!", shouted Wendy as she ran up to the little girl, grab her, and pulled her and herself away from the ice.
"Are you ok?", asked Wendy.
"Y-yeah...", she answered.
"Wendy!"
Wendy turned and saw Charle flying towards her.
"Charle! Do you know where we are?"
"No, I don't. That man must of separated us from the others."
"Hold on!", said the little girl. "What is going on? Who are you."
"My name is Wendy. This one here is my friend, Charle. We go separated from our friends."
"Well, my name is Eiko. And I would like to know what happen to Dagger and why you are dressed just like her."
"I'm sorry. I don't know what happen to her. I can help you find her."
"If she disappeared when we arrived…", said Charle. "Then Wendy is taking her place to help Eiko."
"Charle, can you predict if she would return."
Charle thought for a moment. She then saw a vision of a white portal appearing in and both Wendy and Charle entered it. After that, a girl with short black hair, wearing the same clothes as Wendy, would appeared behind Eiko.
"I believe she would appeared once a white portal appeared inside this temple.", Charle answered.
"Really?" Thank you!", said a happy Eiko. "But, right know is not the time for that. I gotta complete this mission!"
"Oh, what were you doing here originally?", asked Wendy.
"Me and Dagger were assigned to this place by Zidane to place this water mirror inside this temple."
"Why?"
"So that we could open a portal to a place called Terra so that we could stop Kuja's plans for Gaia."
"Hey, do you think this white portal will appeared once we help Eiko-san?"
"Its possible.", answered Charle.
"Why don't we help you with the mirror."
"Okay. But what can you do? This place is dangerous.", said Eiko.
"I use Sky Magic and Charle assist me in battle."
"Okay. Thanks!"
The three of them headed deeper into the temple while avoiding traps and falling ice until they reached a room with an altar at the center of the room. On the altar, there was a plate with a large carving on it.
"This must be where the mirror suppose to go.", said Eiko.
The three of them headed to the altar to place the mirror in it. But before Eiko could do anything, all three of them heard a voice.
I've been waiting for you…
"Who's there?", asked Wendy.
Suddenly, a squid like monster appeared in front of the girls, making them jump and back away.
The creature then said, "It's just as Kuja said… He said I should expect intruders."
"You work for Kuja!?", asked Eiko demandingly.
"No… We are the guardians of Terra…"
"Guardians of Terra?", question Charle.
"We are filled with the power of Terra itself…"
"We did not come to hurt Terra!", said Wendy.
"We did not become guardians to chat with mortals… We derive pleasure from ending your worthless lives..."
"Guess we got no choice but to fight!", said Eiko.
"Right!", said both Wendy and Charle.
"Interesting…", said the guardian. "But you'll regret this!"
"Waterga!"
The guardian fired a large amount of water from his tentacles at the girls.
"Sky Dragon's Roar!"
Wendy fired wind from her mouth and hit the guardians attack.
"Oh, wow!", said an amazed Eiko. "Ok. It's my turn to shine!"
"Madeen: Terra Homing!"
Suddenly, a giant beast appeared in front of Eiko. It sharpen its claws and use them to slash the guardian's tentacles.
"You can summon, too?", asked a surprised Wendy.
"Yup! Now we don't have to worry about them."
"Now is your chance, Wendy!", shouted Charle.
"Alright!"
Wendy then jumped into the air and dove down towards the guardian.
"Arms! Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!"
Wendy's attack headed straight towards the guardian. The wind blades hit the guardian so hard that they sliced through him.
"Impossible!", the guardian said weakly. A blue aura appeared around it and the guardian disappeared.
"I guess that's it.", said Charle.
After the guardian was defeated, Eiko then placed the mirror on the altar.
"There!", said Eiko. "I hope the others did well."
A white portal then appeared behind the girls, revealing to be the game store.
"There it is!", said Wendy.
"So, Dagger will return like you said?", asked Eiko to Charle.
"I believe so.", answered Charle.
"Alright. Thank you for helping me."
"Your welcome.", said Wendy. "I'm sorry we can't be here to help you some more."
"Its okay. Besides, we have Zidane and the others to help me."
Wendy and Charle waved Eiko good-bye as the entered the portal. Once they past through a certain figured appeared behind Eiko.
"What the hell is going on?", asked Gajeel as he was standing on top of a giant cannon with two people.
One of them had short red hair and was wearing a long red coat. The other had long white hair, wearing a long black coat, and was holding a very long sword.
"Hey, Angeal.", said the red head. "I was just telling the story to Sephiroth. Quit distracting me!"
"Huh?", question Gajeel.
"You know how Genesis gets with this stuff, Angeal.", said the silver haired man, Sephiroth.
The red haired man, Genesis, continued reading. "'Infinite in mystery is the gift of the goddess. We seek it thus, and take to the sky. Ripple form on the water's surface. The wandering soul know no rest.'"
Sephiroth then walked up towards the Genesis and Gajeel and said, "'LOVELESS' Act 1."
"Hmph. You remembered.", said Genesis as he put away his book and got off from his seat.
"How can I not when you've beaten it into my head?"
Sephiroth then grabbed his sword, as did Genesis. Gajeel, seeing that both of them are using swords, decided to transform his arm into his Iron Dragon Sword.
"He seems tough.", said Gajeel.
"Humph, noted…", said Genesis.
Both of them ran up to Sephiroth and attempted to attack him. Sephiroth blocked their attacks with his long sword. Gajeel attacked him from behind but easily blocked it and pushed him backwards while Genesis tried to do the same thing, only ended up like Gajeel and got pushed back as well. Both of them then charged again at Sephiroth and attempted to strike him at the same time, only for their attacks to be blocked again by Sephiroth, who looked like he could handle their strength. This fight continued on for a while.
After blocking Gajeel's attack and pushing him back again, Sephiroth then said, "Ha! Is that the best you can do?"
"You're good!", said Gajeel. I wonder if Salamander were here and he took on this Sephiroth guy.
"Angeal, stay back.", said Genesis. "I'll take Sephiroth alone."
"What?"
Genesis then waved his hand on his blade and it began to glow brightly red. He then said, "The world needs a new hero."
"Humph, come and try.", Sephiroth respond unsurprisingly.
"So smug...but for how long?"
Genesis then charges at Sephiroth and hit him hard with his sword, leaving a large dent on the cannon they were standing on. But Sephiroth blocked the attack. Both of them continued to attack each other and Sephiroth started to get annoyed by Genesis' constant attacks. Sephiroth then started to hit Genesis hard with his sword until they both jumped into the air and continued attacking each other. After being pushed away, Genesis fired some fire magic at Sephiroth, but the latter just cut through the fire magic with his sword.
"Whoa. They're really going at it.", said Gajeel. But won't his attacks destroy the area?
Genesis then used the fire that Sephiroth cut through and aimed them at the latter. Sephiroth again cut through the fire until more fireballs came at him and consumed him in a giant fireball.
Before Genesis could fire another attack, Gajeel jumped into the air and grab Genesis' arm.
"Stop!", said Gajeel. "You're gonna destroy this place!"
But Genesis used his free hand to grab Gajeel's face and began to fire an attack at Gajeel.
"That's no way to talk to a hero!", Genesis respond.
He then fired the attack at Gajeel, sending falling towards the cannon's surface. He then looked up and saw Sephiroth breaking free of the fireball with a slash from his sword and began firing more slashes at Genesis. Genesis blocked the attacks, but was greatly pushed back and landed on the cannon's surface. As he landed, Sephiroth tried to make him fall by cutting the cannon to pieces, only for Genesis to move away from the attacks. Sephiroth then stood on the falling piece and began to fall as well, with a smug look on his face. Suddenly, more pieces of the cannon were cut away and Sephiroth charged at Genesis. He began to attack Genesis hard while cutting through the cannon again.
At this rate, this place will get destroyed. Gajeel thought. How will I get home?
Genesis kept dodging his attacks and blocking them when Sephiroth got close, eventually getting pushed off of the cannon it self. Genesis got really annoyed as Sephiroth came towards him, preparing to strike. Genesis prepared his attack by waving his hand on his sword like before and both of them attacked each other hard with their swords, leaving an even larger dent beneath them. Both of them jumped backed and charged again.
Before they could attack, Gajeel came in and shouted, "Stop this!"
Gajeel turned his entire body into iron, making Sephiroth and Genesis' swords hit him instead and blocking their attacks.
"Angeal…", said a surprised Sephiroth.
"Out of my way!", shouted Genesis as he fired another attack at Gajeel.
Then the entire area was surrounded by a white light.
Laxus awoke on a giant bird. When he got a better vision, he looked down and saw many people being attack by robots and some of the people fighting back.
"What is going on?", question Laxus. That guy separated me from my friends. I'm sure they can handle themselves.
Laxus looked up and saw a robot coming straight at him. When the robot came close, he immediately punched it and it exploded. A couple of people saw what Laxus did and looked surprised.
"Is that-?", question one of the people on the ground.
"Lord Hien!", said another.
There were cheers all around the area.
"Guess they liked it when I destroyed the machine.", said Laxus. "Hey. All of you down there! Let me focus those machines in the air while you do your thing."
After hearing his message, the people nodded and began to move in different directions. A bunch of robots then came after Laxus and began firing at him. The bird that Laxus was riding on swerved away from the attacks.
"Lightning Dragon's Roar!"
Laxus' attack headed straight towards the hoards of robots. The attacked hit them and destroyed them all in the process.
Suddenly Laxus felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and saw blood flowing down on his arm. He turned around and saw more robots and people from the ground firing at him.
"You guys are really asking for it!", growled Laxus.
"Raging Bolt!"
The attack destroyed all of the robot and damaged most of the people down at the ground that were firing at him.
"I guess I should keep going until something happens.", said Laxus.