Author's notes:
I do not own any of the ff characters except that I do own the ones I made up (Shadow and Ember).
On with chapter two:
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'Hey you guys rise and shine!' Shouted the hazel eyed, Ember from outside of the second tent. 'Come on! I've already woken Shadow up, you know we need as much help as we can get when it comes to hunting, you know how stubborn Shadow can be.'
Ember was starting to get annoyed at pleading wit them, so annoyed she felt like going inside the tent and screaming them awake. Ember was not the one to mess with, if provoked she could scream an entire city in to ruins. Shadow had often joked that it was because of her that Cleyra had been destroyed, but alas its destruction was the result of Queen Brahne's greed that Cleyra no longer existed Which also was the tragic cause of her own demise on the Forgotten continent, somewhere Ember had longed to explore. Ember was quite tall for her age, as she was only 14 years old and yet was the tallest of the entire group.
Her clothes didn't offer much camouflage; favouring a more of a 'happy appearance' she had stated when Shadow had pointed out her lack of sense or fashion. She wore a pale, now grass stained, yellow top with buttoned straps for support. A bright orange belt draped around her waist, her trousers ripped at the knees from the result of poor balance, as she was a very clumsy person.
Ember looked at her orange trousers admiring the rips, which to her looked very fashionable, and then at her red boots which finished of her 'battle' costume. She had actually taken some of Shadow's advice and tied her long, light brown hair, which if left down could prove to be annoying during battle.
Just as Ember was losing all hope of having breakfast at all, she heard a familiar rustling with in the tent. Then just as the first sound had erupted, its occupants stepped out, wincing their eyes at the bright sun.
'What time is it?' Asked the first of the two to leave the tent. He clambered out half dazed, wincing in the sunlight.
'I'm not sure, I'm not the one with the watch,' sighed the second. 'Um, maybe we should go ask Shadow,' He too climbing out dazed, his tail swishing happily in the breeze.
'Well, duh! She is the only one with a watch!' Ember replied sarcastically. 'Man, Zidane you are slow!'
'Hey! I thought we agreed to no more arguing!'
'Yeah, we agreed so long as Miss Flower Power stopped insulting me,' replied Zidane, clearly annoyed with Ember, 'it's not my fault my watch broke. Besides we've got plenty of time, so no worries! As for breakfast I'm starving.'
A small grumble could be heard coming from Zidane's stomach.
'I think that it would be best if only two of us go hunting today as the second group could remain here, disassemble the tents and make the necessary preparations for breakfast,' suggested Vivi.
'Um? Yeah sure Vivi, what ever you say,' Ember said in what sounded like she was in a state of shock at the fact that Vivi sounded like someone very familiar to her.
'You know who you just reminded me of…?'
'Shadow!' shouted Zidane.
'I don't sound like her, she's a girl, I'm not!' exclaimed Vivi.
'No, actually I was going to say…'
'No! Look at Shadow!' Zidane hastily replied.
Across from where the second tent was placed, laid Shadow fast a sleep. Unknown to her was that a pack of four Fangs were creeping up to her. The first Fang looked a lot larger than normal Fangs and Zidane deduced that this particular Fang was the leader of the pack and was definitely hunting for his breakfast. It was happened to be a coincidence that Shadow was to be chosen for its meal.
Zidane pulled out his Ultima Weapon from out of its sheath and charged at the pack. Of course Vivi, pulling out his Octagon Rod from his blue cloak ran after Zidane closely followed by a nervous Ember with her Tiger racket. She was totally unprepared when it came to fighting, not because she was weak, this was the entirely opposite for her. It was because of what had happened to her father right in front of her eyes. He had died trying to protect Ember and her mother from a rampage of Zaghnols.
After Zidane and his friends had saved Gaia from becoming the new 'zero world' from Neucron, the simulation of Gaia and Terra still occurred, which in turn had a peculiar effect on the monsters. All of Gaia's and Terra's monsters went wild and began to attack anything and every thing. The combined worlds went into chaos. But as quickly as the monsters had gone crazy, they eventually had calmed down and reverted back into there old, calmer, ways.
But before then Ember's father had been fatally wounded and eventually died due to the severity of its impact on his body from an unnatural Thunder blast. Every time Ember had to fight from that day onwards, she saw her father die over and over again. The only person she had ever trusted with this secret was Shadow, for she too knew a particular secret of Shadow's, one Shadow had reluctantly told her.
As Ember was just about to catch up with Zidane, Vivi tripped up. She ran up to him and helped up the tiny mage, who carefully adjusted his hat, thanked Ember and continued the chase after Zidane. As soon as they had arrived Shadow had been woken up by Zidane and was confused by her situation as she had just been woken up from a deep sleep and straight into a battle.
'Huh? What's going on' asked Shadow, wiping the sleep from her eyes.
'Nothing much, just saving you from dieing in your sleep,' chuckled Zidane.
'Not funny Zidane she could have been killed!' complained Ember, hitting Zidane on the back of his head with her racket.
'Ouch,' laughed Vivi, 'but shouldn't we be more worried about the Fangs? They don't look happy about you waking up their breakfast.'
'I guessing the breakfast was me, well I have another idea,' replied Shadow waking up from her confusion. Getting out her Staff, a weapon she was anxiously waiting to get rid of in exchange for some daggers, from the tent. 'Well, if I'm breakfast then these Fangs are lunch!' shouted Shadow as she charged at the largest Fang of the four. Unfortunately the attack missed and instead was countered by the Fang.
'Firaga!' shouted Vivi, casting a huge wave of flames towards the pack of Fangs.
'Cura!' Shouted Ember in response to the attack on Shadow, with a burst of white and green shimmering light erupting from thin air, Shadow's minor injury was removed.
'He he, I think I'm just going to attack' chuckled Zidane, charging at one of the Fangs.
As soon as Zidane finished swiping at the Fangs all but the largest of them had vanished, a tradition all monsters went through when killed. At this Shadow noticed something peculiar about the Fang, as well as looking bigger that the rest it was also a shade lighter. Something of which seemed very unnatural to her. Perhaps it was a genetic mutation of some sort, but no matter the reason she felt that this monster of a monster should be handled with care.
'Zidane, don't you think there's something wrong with this monster, it looks way to big,' shouted Shadow.
'Naw, nothing we can't handle. Shouldn't takes us more that a couple swipes…' Before Zidane had the chance to finish his sentence the remaining Fang charged at him, knocking him off his feet with a thud.
'Zidane!' shouted Ember, Vivi and Shadow in unison.
'Are you okay? That was a nasty attack,' Ember said as she ran up to Zidane, lying on the floor.
'Nothing a Cure spell can't fix, that's if you don't mind.'
'What? Oh, right! Cure!'
'Thank god for white mages,' cheered Shadow, 'like I said before, we should take this battle a little bit more seriously. Vivi watch out!'
Again the Fang charged, but this time it knocked Vivi out. 'Life magic would be nice Ember!' shouted Shadow pointing at Vivi.
'Life!' Ember shouted aiming her magic at the little black mage lying on the floor unconscious, 'I don't like this one bit. The Fang's too strong. I don't even think we can call it a Fang any more; it's gone a funny colour! It even knocked Vivi out in one shot, and you know how strong Vivi is, he's even stronger than me and Shadow put together!'
As soon as the Life spell had been cast, Vivi, now revived, jumped to his feet, every one looked at the Fang. From being a light furred Fang it now appeared to be going a blonde colour, as well as increasing its size.
'Its getting bigger! What do we do Zidane?' exclaimed Vivi as the monster was now the size of a tree.
'Um, how about scanning it Ember,' asked Shadow, 'at least we will know it's general HP and any weaknesses, if any' she added hastily.
'I don't know how to scan yet, I haven't got the right equipment to learn it!'
'Oh well, I guess we're gonna have to do this the old fashion way, trial and improvement, or the basic knockout will do,' sighed Zidane scratching the back of his head, 'always worked for me any way!' he chuckled.
'Like we have a choice,' chimed in Shadow, 'where there's a will there's a way. Sleep!'
The monster instantly closed its eyes and collapsed with sleep onto the moist grass, snoring happily. The others just stared at Shadow.
'Now it should be so much easier for us now it's asleep!' explained Shadow. 'So long as we don't physically hit it,' she said glaring at Zidane.
'Oh, ha, ha, ha! It wasn't my fault, how was I supposed to know that you should let sleeping monsters lie?' Laughed Zidane.
'Ok! Whatever!' Shouted Ember, 'but in case you haven't noticed we have a monster that's still very much alive here! Would it hurt you guys to just get rid of it?'
'Okay! Just don't scream, you'll wake it up!' Exclaimed Vivi.
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Please review and any improvement and suggestions are welcomed.
*~Mikoto~*
I do not own any of the ff characters except that I do own the ones I made up (Shadow and Ember).
On with chapter two:
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'Hey you guys rise and shine!' Shouted the hazel eyed, Ember from outside of the second tent. 'Come on! I've already woken Shadow up, you know we need as much help as we can get when it comes to hunting, you know how stubborn Shadow can be.'
Ember was starting to get annoyed at pleading wit them, so annoyed she felt like going inside the tent and screaming them awake. Ember was not the one to mess with, if provoked she could scream an entire city in to ruins. Shadow had often joked that it was because of her that Cleyra had been destroyed, but alas its destruction was the result of Queen Brahne's greed that Cleyra no longer existed Which also was the tragic cause of her own demise on the Forgotten continent, somewhere Ember had longed to explore. Ember was quite tall for her age, as she was only 14 years old and yet was the tallest of the entire group.
Her clothes didn't offer much camouflage; favouring a more of a 'happy appearance' she had stated when Shadow had pointed out her lack of sense or fashion. She wore a pale, now grass stained, yellow top with buttoned straps for support. A bright orange belt draped around her waist, her trousers ripped at the knees from the result of poor balance, as she was a very clumsy person.
Ember looked at her orange trousers admiring the rips, which to her looked very fashionable, and then at her red boots which finished of her 'battle' costume. She had actually taken some of Shadow's advice and tied her long, light brown hair, which if left down could prove to be annoying during battle.
Just as Ember was losing all hope of having breakfast at all, she heard a familiar rustling with in the tent. Then just as the first sound had erupted, its occupants stepped out, wincing their eyes at the bright sun.
'What time is it?' Asked the first of the two to leave the tent. He clambered out half dazed, wincing in the sunlight.
'I'm not sure, I'm not the one with the watch,' sighed the second. 'Um, maybe we should go ask Shadow,' He too climbing out dazed, his tail swishing happily in the breeze.
'Well, duh! She is the only one with a watch!' Ember replied sarcastically. 'Man, Zidane you are slow!'
'Hey! I thought we agreed to no more arguing!'
'Yeah, we agreed so long as Miss Flower Power stopped insulting me,' replied Zidane, clearly annoyed with Ember, 'it's not my fault my watch broke. Besides we've got plenty of time, so no worries! As for breakfast I'm starving.'
A small grumble could be heard coming from Zidane's stomach.
'I think that it would be best if only two of us go hunting today as the second group could remain here, disassemble the tents and make the necessary preparations for breakfast,' suggested Vivi.
'Um? Yeah sure Vivi, what ever you say,' Ember said in what sounded like she was in a state of shock at the fact that Vivi sounded like someone very familiar to her.
'You know who you just reminded me of…?'
'Shadow!' shouted Zidane.
'I don't sound like her, she's a girl, I'm not!' exclaimed Vivi.
'No, actually I was going to say…'
'No! Look at Shadow!' Zidane hastily replied.
Across from where the second tent was placed, laid Shadow fast a sleep. Unknown to her was that a pack of four Fangs were creeping up to her. The first Fang looked a lot larger than normal Fangs and Zidane deduced that this particular Fang was the leader of the pack and was definitely hunting for his breakfast. It was happened to be a coincidence that Shadow was to be chosen for its meal.
Zidane pulled out his Ultima Weapon from out of its sheath and charged at the pack. Of course Vivi, pulling out his Octagon Rod from his blue cloak ran after Zidane closely followed by a nervous Ember with her Tiger racket. She was totally unprepared when it came to fighting, not because she was weak, this was the entirely opposite for her. It was because of what had happened to her father right in front of her eyes. He had died trying to protect Ember and her mother from a rampage of Zaghnols.
After Zidane and his friends had saved Gaia from becoming the new 'zero world' from Neucron, the simulation of Gaia and Terra still occurred, which in turn had a peculiar effect on the monsters. All of Gaia's and Terra's monsters went wild and began to attack anything and every thing. The combined worlds went into chaos. But as quickly as the monsters had gone crazy, they eventually had calmed down and reverted back into there old, calmer, ways.
But before then Ember's father had been fatally wounded and eventually died due to the severity of its impact on his body from an unnatural Thunder blast. Every time Ember had to fight from that day onwards, she saw her father die over and over again. The only person she had ever trusted with this secret was Shadow, for she too knew a particular secret of Shadow's, one Shadow had reluctantly told her.
As Ember was just about to catch up with Zidane, Vivi tripped up. She ran up to him and helped up the tiny mage, who carefully adjusted his hat, thanked Ember and continued the chase after Zidane. As soon as they had arrived Shadow had been woken up by Zidane and was confused by her situation as she had just been woken up from a deep sleep and straight into a battle.
'Huh? What's going on' asked Shadow, wiping the sleep from her eyes.
'Nothing much, just saving you from dieing in your sleep,' chuckled Zidane.
'Not funny Zidane she could have been killed!' complained Ember, hitting Zidane on the back of his head with her racket.
'Ouch,' laughed Vivi, 'but shouldn't we be more worried about the Fangs? They don't look happy about you waking up their breakfast.'
'I guessing the breakfast was me, well I have another idea,' replied Shadow waking up from her confusion. Getting out her Staff, a weapon she was anxiously waiting to get rid of in exchange for some daggers, from the tent. 'Well, if I'm breakfast then these Fangs are lunch!' shouted Shadow as she charged at the largest Fang of the four. Unfortunately the attack missed and instead was countered by the Fang.
'Firaga!' shouted Vivi, casting a huge wave of flames towards the pack of Fangs.
'Cura!' Shouted Ember in response to the attack on Shadow, with a burst of white and green shimmering light erupting from thin air, Shadow's minor injury was removed.
'He he, I think I'm just going to attack' chuckled Zidane, charging at one of the Fangs.
As soon as Zidane finished swiping at the Fangs all but the largest of them had vanished, a tradition all monsters went through when killed. At this Shadow noticed something peculiar about the Fang, as well as looking bigger that the rest it was also a shade lighter. Something of which seemed very unnatural to her. Perhaps it was a genetic mutation of some sort, but no matter the reason she felt that this monster of a monster should be handled with care.
'Zidane, don't you think there's something wrong with this monster, it looks way to big,' shouted Shadow.
'Naw, nothing we can't handle. Shouldn't takes us more that a couple swipes…' Before Zidane had the chance to finish his sentence the remaining Fang charged at him, knocking him off his feet with a thud.
'Zidane!' shouted Ember, Vivi and Shadow in unison.
'Are you okay? That was a nasty attack,' Ember said as she ran up to Zidane, lying on the floor.
'Nothing a Cure spell can't fix, that's if you don't mind.'
'What? Oh, right! Cure!'
'Thank god for white mages,' cheered Shadow, 'like I said before, we should take this battle a little bit more seriously. Vivi watch out!'
Again the Fang charged, but this time it knocked Vivi out. 'Life magic would be nice Ember!' shouted Shadow pointing at Vivi.
'Life!' Ember shouted aiming her magic at the little black mage lying on the floor unconscious, 'I don't like this one bit. The Fang's too strong. I don't even think we can call it a Fang any more; it's gone a funny colour! It even knocked Vivi out in one shot, and you know how strong Vivi is, he's even stronger than me and Shadow put together!'
As soon as the Life spell had been cast, Vivi, now revived, jumped to his feet, every one looked at the Fang. From being a light furred Fang it now appeared to be going a blonde colour, as well as increasing its size.
'Its getting bigger! What do we do Zidane?' exclaimed Vivi as the monster was now the size of a tree.
'Um, how about scanning it Ember,' asked Shadow, 'at least we will know it's general HP and any weaknesses, if any' she added hastily.
'I don't know how to scan yet, I haven't got the right equipment to learn it!'
'Oh well, I guess we're gonna have to do this the old fashion way, trial and improvement, or the basic knockout will do,' sighed Zidane scratching the back of his head, 'always worked for me any way!' he chuckled.
'Like we have a choice,' chimed in Shadow, 'where there's a will there's a way. Sleep!'
The monster instantly closed its eyes and collapsed with sleep onto the moist grass, snoring happily. The others just stared at Shadow.
'Now it should be so much easier for us now it's asleep!' explained Shadow. 'So long as we don't physically hit it,' she said glaring at Zidane.
'Oh, ha, ha, ha! It wasn't my fault, how was I supposed to know that you should let sleeping monsters lie?' Laughed Zidane.
'Ok! Whatever!' Shouted Ember, 'but in case you haven't noticed we have a monster that's still very much alive here! Would it hurt you guys to just get rid of it?'
'Okay! Just don't scream, you'll wake it up!' Exclaimed Vivi.
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Please review and any improvement and suggestions are welcomed.
*~Mikoto~*