-Final Battle Reis-
-Chapter 1 - The Gathering-
The cold wind rushed past the rather large castle. The rooms were silent, it seems uninhabited. Only one person stood silently watching the horizon in the courtyard. The red blaze, which was the sun, could be seen fading from sight on that distant horizon. The man's eyes narrowed slightly as he stood there. He grunted a bit to himself, his breath coming out in a wisp of smoke because of the cold air around his body. He just watched the distance, a burning row of fire seeming as if it was alive. He muttered a few words to himself as he turned on his heels. He walked into the castle once more, roaming through the long and dusty hallways. The day in which he could test the warrior's strength was near, they were gathering, one by one. The legendary warriors he had heard of, they would come to him and test their strength amongst each other. He would finally know which was the ultimate warrior.
The main doors to the castle opened slowly, the doors creaking slightly on their massive hinges. A man wearing a red cloak-like outfit was seen walking into the building, by anyone from his world, they would know this was the legendary guardian, Sir Auron. He walked slowly into the castle, his eyes shifting from his left to his right as he moved, his lips parted as if he was going to say something but he didn't. The silence was rather eerie to him, but he was used to it. Soon Auron had turned to his right and walked through another small archway. This time he was in a much smaller room, but still large for most people, the man who had summoned them was there. The man turned to face Auron, his long dark hair wisping around his shoulders as a quick brief smile flashed over his face, those emerald eyes flickering with delight and malice. His lips parted as he spoke to Auron, this man seeming slightly intimidating. "Why hello, You must be Sir Auron…Am I Correct?" Auron nodded slightly, uneasy of this man but he wouldn't show it, no, not to anyone, "Yes…That's right." The man smiled as he seemed to get a rather hasty response out of Auron, he could obviously tell that the man was wary of him. He chuckled lightly as he spoke to Auron once more, "Well Sir Auron, If you need a proper introduction, aside from the letter I had sent you, I am Mormegil, Lord of this castle." He crossed his arms as the smile turned into more of a smirk as he laughed to himself. "Well Sir Auron, I hope you can muster enough strength to beat the other contestants, Of course…If you don't, Lady Yuna will surely die, without her guardian here, you can't stop me." Auron narrowed his eyes ever so slightly at this as he muttered a few words and turned his back on the man, still talking in his cool as usual tone of voice. "Well, We'll just have to see. Now…Show me where the arena is." Mormegil nodded with a laugh again as he turned from Auron and began walking down the narrow hallway towards the small colloseum that had been built near the castle. Long endless hallways that seemed to go on forever. Neither said another word to each other as they soon reached a small room, the room connecting the castle and the colloseum. This was the room where the fighters would await their turn for battle. Mormegil nodded slightly as he left Auron in the room, turning as he walked down the hallway once more, his fee tleaving a echoing noise in the room with Auron. Auron didn't like this one bit, but he had to be here, or Yuna would surely die, or so he thought.
As Mormegil walked down the hallway a light wind began to creep up behind him as he walked, he then suddenly stopped, a grin appearing on his blank face as he turned towards the wind. A small outline was barely mistakeable by his eyes as he laughed to himself. "Oh Shadow Shadow Shadow…Why do you try to sneak up on me? I'm paying you to be in this tournament, remember? You have no need to try and eliminate me." There was no response to this from the outlined figure, it simply stood there for a few moments until it began to move away from Mormegil and down the corridor to the waiting room. Mormegil chuckled a little more to himself, he had not had this much amusement in quite a while. Once he reached the end of the hallway a light thumping could be heard from where he stood. The sound was a hand pounding on the doors, Mormegil laughed once more, to his delight another one of the warriors had arrived early. Mormegil move quickly across the floor, his long cloak dragging slightly on the floor as he placed a hand on the cold handle of the door. He twisted the handle as he opened the door for the person. A tall blonde man with rather large muscles pushed his way in, past Mormegil, looking around slowly as he grunted to himself, the castle air still cold as usual as his breath came out in a mist. "Hmph, Took you long enough, Now, let's get this over with. I must return to Figaro." Mormegil acted as if he was surprised, which he wasn't, and nodded. "Well Then, you must be Sir Sabin, Please this way." Sabin nodded to the man, not in a good mood having to have waited all that time to get into the castle, since he won't barge in. Mormegil once again led Sabin down the hallway into the waiting room and had returned, he peered out the front windows of the castle from the second story as he watched a small carriage come close tot he door, the rest of the warrior he had arranged travel for, they had finally arrived. The three warrior stepped from the carriage, a large blue monster like man, with angel like wings and a long tail, wielding his spear, a brown haired man wearing all black and wielding a gunblade with a cocky look on his face. The final man whostepped out had long blonde spiky hair and a rather large sword which he held with one hand, a few glowing orbs stuck into it as he sighed, bored with this, but he had to come. They approachyed the door as Moprmegil came to the door opened it. "Welcome Sir Kimahri, Sir Squall, and Sir Cloud. This way please." Mormegil nodded to them with another smirk as the four walked along the castle hallways, then down the long narrow and dark hallway towards the arena. Once they reached the waiting room the other three looked up at them. Mormegil spoke softly. "Time to begin."