Sacred Light of the Dawn
Zeromus
then began to quiver and shake, in the air his primal energies could be seen
gathering around him, even by the commonest of persons. Then the sky began to darken and bolts of
lighting crashed down onto the earth, with the full fury of Zeromus's energy
backing them. Soon the lightning was so
much and so many, that the thunder of it drowned out all sound on the battlefield.
Then the
darkness that was Zeromus stopped it's gathering of energy, looked at Kain's
party before it, and said. "Such fools,
the power of the light is not with this group as it was in the last that came
at me. Kain, you should know that I
cannot be defeated by this group, it is weak, and almost helpless before my
power and might."
"We are not
weak!" Phantine shouted and she drew
both of her pistols and fired off every round in both at the dark form. Each shot aiming for what appeared to the
center of the darkness, each shot hit its mark dead on. Each shot, did nothing.
"Such
fools." Zeromus said quietly,
calmly.
Then
Zeromus sent out the power that he had been gathering. The force was like that of the big bang
starting over once again and it was a force that could not even be seen, only
felt. Kain, Dawne, Phantine, Dekan, and
Naxos were sent back nearly a hundred feet.
After the titanic force had subsided no one could stand back up, no one
except Kain. Kain simply stood back up
from the blast, looked at the corpses of the friends that had supported him
throughout his mission. Friends that
had helped and been helped by him. They
were friends that he had taught the ways of combat, and of war. Friends that had died before his eyes, their
bodies tattered and ripped, blood was forming in pools around them. They had died to help save the planet from
this evil, just as Cecil, Rosa, Edge, Rydia, Tellah, Edward, Yang, Pallom,
Porom, Cid, and FuSoYa had fought for their world, and they had all died now.
Kain
screamed out at the top of his lungs and for almost a minute the sound of his
rage echoed through out the battlefield.
It was a scream to wake the dead, though none of them did awaken, they
all continued in their eternal slumber. Kain stopped and simply stared at Zeromus, who stared back at Kain
and said. "I thank you for that rage
Kain, for it empowers me, and makes me stronger. My race thrives of death, carnage, and hatred. And your race's is the best source that I
have found. And for that I thank each
and every person on this planet." After
hearing that, Kain wanted to scream again, but he couldn't. He couldn't do anything to Zeromus, for
every act of violence and hatred brought Zeromus power.
Kain
dropped down to his knees and plunged his spear of white into the earth. Then he opened his arms to the sky, looked
up and said. "The light save me, there
is nothing I can do but pray."
"The light
will save you Kain." A voice from above
rang out, a voice that Kain had heard before.
Suddenly a sword dropped from the sky pointing blade down it slammed
into the earth, right next to the fallen corpse of Phantine. Then, the light in the sky began to gather
in certain points. Then when each of
these points grew to a size about that of man's head. They would fling themselves down at Zeromus, though Zeromus
himself seemed to be in no pain from this.
Though as soon as the last ball of light crashed into him, he began to
glow. Suddenly the light inside of him
exploded in a pure white blaze of purified and sacred energy.
Suddenly,
Kain noticed that Phantine had lifted herself up from what was to have been her
grave. She looked at the sword and then
a voice from the sky said. "Daughter of
the light. Pick up the sword of sacred
crystal, and use it to banish this evil form the world, do this memory of
me." Kain now knew whom the voice
belonged to.
Phantine
picked up the sword from where it plunged itself into the earth. She looked it over and then with the grace
of a master swordsman, moved it around herself in a beautiful display of
crystalline death. Then she looked at
the sword and raised it to the sky. The
sword began to shimmer, shine, and radiate the sacred light. Then the sacred light shot up into the sky
in a beam of purity and holiness. Soon
it began to pour down on to the Earth, each drop seemed to bring restoration
and hope back to what looked like a dying planet. It also brought restoration to the bodies lying of the
ground. Dekan, Dawne, and Naxos stood
up from the ground and looked at their newly awakened bodies and wondered as
their wounds closed before their eyes.
Even Kain's wounds began to heal themselves, and fade off of him. He could even feel power from the light
filling him, he could feel it bringing him the glory of the light, and he could
feel its purity and vengeful nature. He
looked at everyone in his party, and he knew they felt the exact same way. Then the crystal sword stopped sending it's
light into the heavens and soon after the beautiful rain stopped falling to the
earth, though in every place that it had touched, life had sprung in that
place.
Kain then
looked at a new form that had appeared; it was an old and ancient form one that
he had seen before. Zeromus's true
colors were now revealed to everyone that could see him. He was a hideous demon of death and
destruction. Standing nearly 20 feet
tall, he looked down at Kain, and his party.
Zeromus's great bone covered body began to move towards Kain, almost
running; though his legs were far too small too allow him to actually run. The giant demon stopped when it was about 15
feet away from Kain, it then looked down at him and said. "When I am in this form, I am in constant
pain and suffering. As such, I will
reflect that back on you." And with
that the demon raised its giant arm and swung it down upon Kain, as a man might
try to swat a fly with his hand.
Though Kain
had the wind as an ally, and the wind of the Earth new that it had to help its
last living allies to victory. It lifted
him up through the air and sent him through the space between the great demons
fingers. As Kain was lifted up he could
hear the screams the demon below him made at his own stupidity for trying to
hit him like that.
The next
second, Kain noticed that Dekan had joined him in the air and was already
dropping down to plunge his silver spear into the heart of the demon of
hatred. And below him, he could see
both Naxos and Dawne shouting out their arcane words, so loud that every chorus
in Heaven could hear the two of them.
"Tragordia
in tembla moria, servero e teplaros, inagio a geo, prendre al treere en
fue." After the two had finished their
chant, a great beast appeared behind them both. It was a Leviathan. Kain
knew this as he heard the great serpent lord of the summoned monsters screech
and make a sound that could make any man's ears bleed, if he was too
close. Suddenly water appeared from
nowhere behind the beast, it began to rise, and rise. Soon it was much taller then Zeromus, then it reached almost a
hundred feet tall. Then the wall of
water sped forward at a speed far too great for it to achieve on it's own. The wave crashed into Zeromus and it pushed
him back, and onto his back. It through
him about and then pushed him away... but it never touched a member of Kain's
party. All of this happened in the
space of 5 seconds.
After the
tidal wave hit its mark, both Kain and Dekan came down upon Zeromus who was now
lying down on his back. Both of them
trying to find and then aim themselves, and their spears, at some kind of soft
spot on the beast, whose exoskeleton was made completely from a bone as hard as
adamantium. When the two of them did
hit their mark both of them were able to sink their spears into the bone of the
great demon. But Zeromus just looked at
them and almost seemed to laugh as it through them both off with great
arm. Then it got back onto its legs and
looked to see whom to kill first, then it looked at Kain, and decided to charge
him.
Suddenly,
Phantine rushed the great creature with the sword of crystal drawn and ready to
hack and swing, maim and wound. She
leaped to find the heart of the alien creature, which was preoccupied with
trying to tear into Kain. Phantine
leaped up to the Zeromus's chest and swung down and into it. As she swung the sacred blade, it emitted
its sacred light, which seemed to follow the path of the blade as she swung
it. The sacred crystal blade cut
through Zeromus, like a hot knife through butter.
Phantine
landed and looked at the blade, which covered with a blue liquid. She moved
away as more of the blue liquid seeped down from where she had cut into
it. Zeromus felt this, and his scream
would have made a banshee sound pitiful.
Then
Zeromus just laughed. He laughed and
laughed and laughed. "One more
time." He said and then he began to
quiver and shake all over. Kain could
feel him absorbing the hate and evil in the world. Kain knew that another blast was coming, but this time he and his
party were prepared.
Kain and
Dekan leaped from the where they had been flung to, back into the air. Dawne and Naxos wove from their arcane
power, what looked to be a force field around them. Though none of this mattered.
Phantine
leaped back and shouted at the party.
"Grant me your strength, my friends!
I will use the sacred light to banish this dark soul back to the hell
that spawned it."
With that
Kain and Dekan dove back down to the Earth where Naxos and Dawne were
standing. Kain opened wide his arms and
dropped to his knees and shouted out.
"Phantine, I and the heart and sole of the wind grant you power. I also give you the power and strength of
True Dragon. Dien ty uinz, Dien hbain,
Dien Yallgr, Task bva omnia mori temble do ya vall ya ua Medus." And with that shout, Kain could feel his
strength leave his body, and he nearly collapsed onto the ground.
Hearing
Kain's words, Dekan began to swear himself and his power to his precious
Phantine. "Phantine, I and the heart
and sole of the wind grant you power. I
also give you the power and strength of Dragoon. Dien ty uinz, Dien hbain, Dien Yallgr, Task bva omnia mori temble
do ya vall ya ua Medus... And I grant you my eternal love."
"I grant
you my strength Phantine." Naxos
shouted out. "And the strength of all
the Arcane properties that I have control over. And on behalf of the Summoned Ones, I grant you their power."
"I grant
you my strength Phantine." Dawne said
loudly, yet affectionately, and almost embarrassed at sounding silly. "I grant you the power of the Infintium, of
the Arcanum, and of all Summoned Ones, whether in the land of the Summoned
Ones, or wherever they may live."
With that
Phantine looked back to her friends behind her smiled and then looked toward
Zeromus and shouted. "I have been
granted that strength to banish you Zeromus.
But just so you know, I have also been granted the strength of my
ancestor, who wielded this blade before me.
It is the sacred light incarnate.
It was made to banish things like you."
And with those words she raised the sword once again above her
head. The light that was shining off of
the sword was now that of a second, third, and fourth sun. Then she pointed the crystal blade at
Zeromus and a beam of golden light shot forth from it. The light hit Zeromus, but it appeared to do
nothing.
Zeromus
laughed at this false effort and said.
"Fool, are you really that powerful, I think not," The light continued
to flow into Zeromus. "You are simply a
foolish girl that is a descendent of Cecil and Rosa. That reason alone doesn't make you worthy of the sacred
light. Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
Suddenly
Zeromus's body began to glow, it almost appeared to be turning gold. But he still did not notice himself. Kain looked up with what strength he had
left and would have laughed except that would have given away what was going
on.
Zeromus
continued to shake, shiver, and absorb the hateful energies. Suddenly both Phantine stopped her beam of
sacred light, and Zeromus stopped absorbing his energies. "Now, you are all going to die." Zeromus shouted with blind rage and maniacal
hatred. "And no one will ever try to
take this world from me, ever again."
Zeromus shot both of his hands out at the party and suddenly he noticed
that his hands had changed color to a brilliant gold.
Then, Zeromus's
body began to erupt. Everywhere on it,
beams of light shot out. And while this
was happening a box of pure energy formed around his head. "Now parasite, we deprive you from your
original body." Kain could not hear the
screams that came from Zeromus, but he knew he was screaming. "And we deprive you from the outside world,
so that you cannot infect anyone else."
Kain could see the complete and utter terror in Zeromus' eyes. "Your reign of terror is at an end. Know now Zeromus, know now that you have
caused this world to plunge into darkness.
Know now that for that, the sacred light of the heavens shall banish to
you to the burning hells." Zeromus had
now been completely decapitated and his head was floating about twenty feet
above the earth. The rest of his body
was nothing but shambles, with golden light still erupting from it. "I do this in memory of all those you have
killed, in memory of all those lives that you have made to suffer, in all of
those lives that have never known freedom.
I do this so that light may return to our world. For this is our world. This isn't your world anymore Zeromus, it is
the world of those who were born of it, and created by it." With that Zeromus's head imploded into
itself; and inside of the box of energy that once held his head an explosion
that could have rocked the entire world onto it's side, erupted.
When the
explosion subsided Phantine collapsed and the floating box of energy
disappeared. Dekan, Kain, Dawne, and
Naxos, rushed over to her side. Dekan
went down to his knees and picked her up and then he stood up with his precious
in his arms and said quietly to her. "I
had no idea who you were, now that I do.
I'm so happy, so glad, so filled with joy."
Kain looked
down at Phantine who had just opened her eyes and said to her. "Phantine, I should have seen it
before. You are a descendent of my
greatest friend. Though now you take
his place in history. For before in
mine and Cecil's time, he was the one that brought the world out of darkness with
the power of the sacred light. Now you
are that person, you are the sacred light of the dawn. You have brought us hope, just like that of
a new day dawning. Now though, the day
is coming, but you must bring it still.
For the light of Dawn must fast become the light of day."
Phantine
smiled at Kain and said. "I will use
the sacred light to bring about the Day Kain, but I'm afraid that I may need
your help."
"The light
will never shine on me again and the wind will never raise me up if I do not help
you, Phantine."
Well everyone now that
this story is complete (finally) let me ask you a question… do you think this
needs an epilogue, and/or would you like me to write a new story with new
adventures for these hero's of ours. Please,
e-mail me what you think, or just put it in the review that I'm sure you're
going to write, thanks in advance.
–Kain DeLuman
