New Journeys Begin
Kain watched the masses of people from the balcony with Naxos. They dawn had just broke and with it a swarm of people, all of which still oblivious of their new freedom, moved to where they always moved every morning, of everyday. Naxos looked at Kain and said "So let me get this straight, first we need to destroy and or disperse the military, second we inform the populace of what has happened and who we are, and the third is that we somehow make sure that the next people that rule this world are enlightened and one with the light of the day, is that what your saying?"
"It is." Kain said after a short pause.
"So when do we get started." Dawne said as she came through the balcony's door.
"Now." And the two of them could feel the ice on Kain's breath with that one word.
Kain, Dawne, and Naxos went into the room that they had all stayed in and there they looked at the young couple still in bed. "The letter is there?" Kain whispered.
"Yeah, and it's exactly what you said it should be, as if a stone had written it." Dawne said with an inch of disrespect at the word, stone.
"Good, are you two ready, and remember you don't have to come." Kain said with something that almost sounded like sympathy on his voice.
"Kain you are the man I respect more then anyone else, I couldn't not come." Naxos said with nothing but respect.
"You two sound so serious, I think I need to come along so that you don't scare every little girl you two come across." Dawne said amusedly.
Kain looked at Dawne and gave her a smirk as he said, "Who me? You mean the man dressed as a dragon holding a spear as white as the noon sun, and with a look of death on his face?" Dawne's only response was a suspicious little smile that appeared on her face.
Kain and Naxos approached Dawne as she began to look down and concentrate on the floor beneath her. As she stared and concentrated she began to speak runic words as ageless as time itself. "Ent corptia enss bevengreass dia engrossia dislas dia noven swargerterrain." And at the last word left her tongue she opened her eyes and watched the swirling colors as they passed around her and her two companions. "This is the reason that I became what I am, the shear beauty of it." Kain looked at Dawne now with a true smile on his lips, but Naxos looked on with chagrin and contempt.
Suddenly, the light began to flicker and Dawne could feel all three of them being brought into the realm of infinite light and beauty that she always used when she transversed the farthest reaches of space. Once again she felt the pull of the two other souls that she was brining along behind her, though she wanted to feel two more, but she knew that Kain had made the right decision and that it was best for them to have stayed there. She now began to hope that they would do exactly what they should do, that they would lay low and let no one know who they were, Phantine was the sacred light of the dawn and that must be preserved at all costs.
Within a matter of minutes the three of them had arrived at the Tower of Babil and were standing before the glass case where the eight crystals were held. Dawne looked at Kain and asked, "So now, how do we do this anyway?"
"We, aren't going to do a thing." Kain said with a voice even colder then usual. "I'm the only person that's going."
"What!" Naxos shouted out. "Kain you said that you would bring us along, otherwise we wouldn't have come, why in the world did you bring us along then."
"I brought you along so that you could do something for me Naxos, and you two Dawne. But I wanted to make sure that Dekan and Phantine wouldn't have a chance at hearing it." After a long pause Kain continued. "I need you both to take care of the underground, to go back to the land of the summoned and organize, and for you two to go to the land of the dwarves and make sure that the revolution that we had planned for is still going on and are still happening or is going to happen. The complete halt to all communication and transport across the world is hurting us in the fact that we now have no information, but because we have you Dawne, are difficulties are less, and for that I thank you." Dawne felt herself almost begin to blush, but then as soon as she realized it she suppressed it with every once of willpower she had, she would not embarrass herself. "I need you two to do this, while Dekan and Phantine are taking care of what they need to take care of, when I get back I expect everything to be at least near where I think it should be.. Now, will you please leave me; I'm going to do this alone."
Dawne was confused by the speech, but also she felt as though she understood what Kain was trying to say, well all but one thing at least. "Kain you didn't say why you didn't want Dekan and Phantine to hear."
"Because I don't want them to know where we are, they must do everything as much on their own from now on as possible. They have both reached a point now where the only experience that they can gain will be from teaching themselves, and as such that is what they must do." Kain almost sounded like a robot in Dawnes' ears. "Now, will you please go?"
Dawne gave a long glance into Kain's face, and tried to puzzle many things out at once, but then realizing that she couldn't she looked over at Naxos and said. "Are you ready, if so we'll be on our way."
"Kain, I want to follow you." Naxos said. "I want you to teach me everything; why can't I follow you?"
"First, because this is something I need to do by myself. Second, Dawne may need your help in the underworld. And third, following me will not help you with your problems and with your demons. You must hunt them down yourself Naxos, don't rely on anyone to do that for you, not even me." Dawne looked at Kain with a new feeling of inner wisdom in her mind now, thinking that in some other life he could have been some expert philosopher.
With that Naxos looked at Kain and looking as though he was trying to find the inner peace that Kain had found said. "You're right Kain, but.." Naxos paused for a moment to think about his thoughts and to argue, but then only continued with. "I will go Kain. Know that while you are gone we shall forge the dawn beneath the Earth and its heat will sizzle the very grounds that those who stand in the night, walk on."
"I thank you Naxos." Kain said.
And with that Phantine chanted her arcane words that would take her to the other world and to the land of the summoned monsters.
* * *
Kain looked at the eight crystals glimmering almost as one before him and basked himself in their light. Then he looked up to the roof of the room and saw the picture of the ruby moon and eight crystals surrounding it. Then Kain looked down and took the crystal of fire from out of the glass case and brought it to it's own alter in the room. As he placed it on the altar it began to glow less and less with the group, but brighter and brighter by itself.
Kain then did this with all of the other crystals, bringing each to their own altars and then watching as they glowed apart from the rest, but glowed stronger and stronger.
When the last crystal was placed onto its altar suddenly all of the crystals began to glow almost a white-hot color; the color that the inside of the sun must look like, Kain thought.
Kain went back to the center of the room and watched the crystals glow with the most beautiful radiant light that he had ever seen. Soon the crystals began to glow less and less and soon there was barely even a glow at all coming from any of them, their light had disappeared. All that now remained of their light was the faint shimmer that they always had, so Kain went over to the crystals and took them back to the glass container in the center of the room, as each of the crystals came back to where he had gotten them from the all began to shimmer in unison. The pattern and order of it appeared beautiful, oh so beautiful, to Kain.
Kain now exited to the crystal's room and went through the hallways and followed the corners and passageways up and up until finally he reached the very top of the tower. As he reached the top he looked around at the world. "It looks so pristine and so beautiful from up here, and so familiar. I look around and I expect to see Rosa and Cecil walking off, together in the distance. I want to see Edge trying to flirt with Rydia but failing horribly at it. But I know that the only time I'll ever see these things again is in my dreams. I can't dwell on the past I must live in the present and strive for the future." And with that Kain closed his eyes and jumped up into the air and let the wind flow under him and bring him higher and higher until he was one with the clouds and the birds.
As he flew down towards the continent below him he saw the tower begin to fly up towards him and then off in the distance he could make out the city of Eblan. As his dive down towards the earth continued he now noticed a new feature dotting the terrain, a huge black vessel that seemed to be shaped almost like a whale.
Kain dove down unto the ground and let the wind soften his drop; he stood up and gazed at the Big Whale. "Another aspect from the past that has come to haunt me, that's all it is." Kain thought and said to himself; and after gazing upon it for a few minutes Kain entered the Big Whale.
Inside was exactly as he had remembered it. The crystal of flight shown proudly in the center of the vessel, brimming and glowing, waiting to be used. In the back a group of beds were arranged for passengers that undoubtedly would need to sleep on the long voyage to the ruby moon. But now Kain especially needed the beds, as the ruby moon was now much further away from the earth then it had previously been, but Kain was confident that the crystal of flight would take him there. So Kain went straight towards the crystal and glanced into it and through it. Then in the way he and his party had always activated it before, he touched the surface of the crystal in a part that seemed smoother then the rest. And suddenly (but not surprisingly) the hulking behemoth stirred and shuddered and then began to fly up towards the vastness of space.
* * *
Phantine awoke, wrapped around the arms of her Dekan. She loved that feeling of having his now much larger arms wrapped around her. It made her feel secure, as though he was an anchor that was pulling her back down to Earth, as the dreams that she had been having the past few nights felt as though they had brought her up to some heavenly evil place.
She turned around to look into his eyes, but as she turned she noticed something odd; Kain wasn't on the couch, and his armor wasn't lying on the ground like it had been last night. She could clearly remember him laying his armor and spear down the night before. He always was so meticulous with it, and now it was all gone, every piece, even that mask that he wore that made her want to cry whenever she looked at it for some reason. Then suddenly Phantine was able to put two and two together (give her a break she just woke up). Phantine nearly jumped out of bed, which of course managed to get Dekan to follow her very quickly.
"Ahhhh! What the hell!" Dekan nearly shouted out after being dragged upwards by Phantine.
"He left, he left without even telling us!" Phantine said sounding very exasperated. "He was supposed to stay with me so that he could protect me and.."
"In case you've forgotten my dear," Dekan tried to say mockingly, though it came out odd, as he was still very groggy and very disoriented. "Kain said that I should protect you, besides he probably just went out to go practice more. Goodness knows he already does enough of that already, but he always thinks he needs more I guess."
Phantine laughed at herself now, she felt rather silly for not even thinking about something like that. She even laughed out loud and then Dekan laughed with her as they both feel back down onto the bed. They laughed at the nothingness of it all for a long time, until Dekan started to behind Phantine and he got an interesting look on his face. "Hmmm, Dawne and Naxos have left as well. I wonder why everybody left us here alone, and didn't even wake us up to tell us they were leaving."
It was at that moment that Dawne noticed an envelope on the room's desk, she couldn't read it from where she was, but she was quite sure that it had a name written on the top of it. "Hmmm, left us a rather formal note over there, it looks like." Phantine said to Dekan, who then proceeded to look over towards the desk as well.
After looking at the desk, Dekan looked over at a clock that was on the wall of their room. "Hmmm, it's only 9:30. I would have thought that they would all have still been sleeping. I wonder what's going on?" He said, sounding much more intelligible this time.
Phantine started to stand up so that she could go over to the desk and get the letter, but then she remembered that the bed was warm and cozy, but outside the bed was not. After struggling with this for a minute she summoned the willpower to be able to get up and walk over to the desk. Curiosity above comfort she thought to herself. Phantine walked over and picked up the letter that was on the desk, on the front it said, "To Dekan and Phantine."
Suddenly Phantine heard Dekan say to her. "Bring it over here, I want to read it too ya know." He said with a grin on his face.
So Phantine brought the letter over to their bed and on her way there she opened the seal, and pulled a page of paper out from the envelope. She sat down on the bed and Dekan came over towards her, but as he did the letter began to float out of her hands and then down towards the floor, waving back and forth as Phantine simply sat and stared.. She had always been able to read fast from her years of being a scholar for the guardian, but now she wished that she could have read that a little slower, maybe she didn't read something right, maybe, maybe, just maybe.
Note to reader(s). I just finished playing FF4. And I just realized how different some things are from FF2. So for all of you who played FF4 and kind of looked at my story with a grain of salt cause I changed things around, please realize that the only reason I did this was because FF2 left Kain's story as open as a Bruce Willis movie. ^_^
"Those who write reviews shall be karmikly rewarded."
-Kain DeLuman
Kain watched the masses of people from the balcony with Naxos. They dawn had just broke and with it a swarm of people, all of which still oblivious of their new freedom, moved to where they always moved every morning, of everyday. Naxos looked at Kain and said "So let me get this straight, first we need to destroy and or disperse the military, second we inform the populace of what has happened and who we are, and the third is that we somehow make sure that the next people that rule this world are enlightened and one with the light of the day, is that what your saying?"
"It is." Kain said after a short pause.
"So when do we get started." Dawne said as she came through the balcony's door.
"Now." And the two of them could feel the ice on Kain's breath with that one word.
Kain, Dawne, and Naxos went into the room that they had all stayed in and there they looked at the young couple still in bed. "The letter is there?" Kain whispered.
"Yeah, and it's exactly what you said it should be, as if a stone had written it." Dawne said with an inch of disrespect at the word, stone.
"Good, are you two ready, and remember you don't have to come." Kain said with something that almost sounded like sympathy on his voice.
"Kain you are the man I respect more then anyone else, I couldn't not come." Naxos said with nothing but respect.
"You two sound so serious, I think I need to come along so that you don't scare every little girl you two come across." Dawne said amusedly.
Kain looked at Dawne and gave her a smirk as he said, "Who me? You mean the man dressed as a dragon holding a spear as white as the noon sun, and with a look of death on his face?" Dawne's only response was a suspicious little smile that appeared on her face.
Kain and Naxos approached Dawne as she began to look down and concentrate on the floor beneath her. As she stared and concentrated she began to speak runic words as ageless as time itself. "Ent corptia enss bevengreass dia engrossia dislas dia noven swargerterrain." And at the last word left her tongue she opened her eyes and watched the swirling colors as they passed around her and her two companions. "This is the reason that I became what I am, the shear beauty of it." Kain looked at Dawne now with a true smile on his lips, but Naxos looked on with chagrin and contempt.
Suddenly, the light began to flicker and Dawne could feel all three of them being brought into the realm of infinite light and beauty that she always used when she transversed the farthest reaches of space. Once again she felt the pull of the two other souls that she was brining along behind her, though she wanted to feel two more, but she knew that Kain had made the right decision and that it was best for them to have stayed there. She now began to hope that they would do exactly what they should do, that they would lay low and let no one know who they were, Phantine was the sacred light of the dawn and that must be preserved at all costs.
Within a matter of minutes the three of them had arrived at the Tower of Babil and were standing before the glass case where the eight crystals were held. Dawne looked at Kain and asked, "So now, how do we do this anyway?"
"We, aren't going to do a thing." Kain said with a voice even colder then usual. "I'm the only person that's going."
"What!" Naxos shouted out. "Kain you said that you would bring us along, otherwise we wouldn't have come, why in the world did you bring us along then."
"I brought you along so that you could do something for me Naxos, and you two Dawne. But I wanted to make sure that Dekan and Phantine wouldn't have a chance at hearing it." After a long pause Kain continued. "I need you both to take care of the underground, to go back to the land of the summoned and organize, and for you two to go to the land of the dwarves and make sure that the revolution that we had planned for is still going on and are still happening or is going to happen. The complete halt to all communication and transport across the world is hurting us in the fact that we now have no information, but because we have you Dawne, are difficulties are less, and for that I thank you." Dawne felt herself almost begin to blush, but then as soon as she realized it she suppressed it with every once of willpower she had, she would not embarrass herself. "I need you two to do this, while Dekan and Phantine are taking care of what they need to take care of, when I get back I expect everything to be at least near where I think it should be.. Now, will you please leave me; I'm going to do this alone."
Dawne was confused by the speech, but also she felt as though she understood what Kain was trying to say, well all but one thing at least. "Kain you didn't say why you didn't want Dekan and Phantine to hear."
"Because I don't want them to know where we are, they must do everything as much on their own from now on as possible. They have both reached a point now where the only experience that they can gain will be from teaching themselves, and as such that is what they must do." Kain almost sounded like a robot in Dawnes' ears. "Now, will you please go?"
Dawne gave a long glance into Kain's face, and tried to puzzle many things out at once, but then realizing that she couldn't she looked over at Naxos and said. "Are you ready, if so we'll be on our way."
"Kain, I want to follow you." Naxos said. "I want you to teach me everything; why can't I follow you?"
"First, because this is something I need to do by myself. Second, Dawne may need your help in the underworld. And third, following me will not help you with your problems and with your demons. You must hunt them down yourself Naxos, don't rely on anyone to do that for you, not even me." Dawne looked at Kain with a new feeling of inner wisdom in her mind now, thinking that in some other life he could have been some expert philosopher.
With that Naxos looked at Kain and looking as though he was trying to find the inner peace that Kain had found said. "You're right Kain, but.." Naxos paused for a moment to think about his thoughts and to argue, but then only continued with. "I will go Kain. Know that while you are gone we shall forge the dawn beneath the Earth and its heat will sizzle the very grounds that those who stand in the night, walk on."
"I thank you Naxos." Kain said.
And with that Phantine chanted her arcane words that would take her to the other world and to the land of the summoned monsters.
* * *
Kain looked at the eight crystals glimmering almost as one before him and basked himself in their light. Then he looked up to the roof of the room and saw the picture of the ruby moon and eight crystals surrounding it. Then Kain looked down and took the crystal of fire from out of the glass case and brought it to it's own alter in the room. As he placed it on the altar it began to glow less and less with the group, but brighter and brighter by itself.
Kain then did this with all of the other crystals, bringing each to their own altars and then watching as they glowed apart from the rest, but glowed stronger and stronger.
When the last crystal was placed onto its altar suddenly all of the crystals began to glow almost a white-hot color; the color that the inside of the sun must look like, Kain thought.
Kain went back to the center of the room and watched the crystals glow with the most beautiful radiant light that he had ever seen. Soon the crystals began to glow less and less and soon there was barely even a glow at all coming from any of them, their light had disappeared. All that now remained of their light was the faint shimmer that they always had, so Kain went over to the crystals and took them back to the glass container in the center of the room, as each of the crystals came back to where he had gotten them from the all began to shimmer in unison. The pattern and order of it appeared beautiful, oh so beautiful, to Kain.
Kain now exited to the crystal's room and went through the hallways and followed the corners and passageways up and up until finally he reached the very top of the tower. As he reached the top he looked around at the world. "It looks so pristine and so beautiful from up here, and so familiar. I look around and I expect to see Rosa and Cecil walking off, together in the distance. I want to see Edge trying to flirt with Rydia but failing horribly at it. But I know that the only time I'll ever see these things again is in my dreams. I can't dwell on the past I must live in the present and strive for the future." And with that Kain closed his eyes and jumped up into the air and let the wind flow under him and bring him higher and higher until he was one with the clouds and the birds.
As he flew down towards the continent below him he saw the tower begin to fly up towards him and then off in the distance he could make out the city of Eblan. As his dive down towards the earth continued he now noticed a new feature dotting the terrain, a huge black vessel that seemed to be shaped almost like a whale.
Kain dove down unto the ground and let the wind soften his drop; he stood up and gazed at the Big Whale. "Another aspect from the past that has come to haunt me, that's all it is." Kain thought and said to himself; and after gazing upon it for a few minutes Kain entered the Big Whale.
Inside was exactly as he had remembered it. The crystal of flight shown proudly in the center of the vessel, brimming and glowing, waiting to be used. In the back a group of beds were arranged for passengers that undoubtedly would need to sleep on the long voyage to the ruby moon. But now Kain especially needed the beds, as the ruby moon was now much further away from the earth then it had previously been, but Kain was confident that the crystal of flight would take him there. So Kain went straight towards the crystal and glanced into it and through it. Then in the way he and his party had always activated it before, he touched the surface of the crystal in a part that seemed smoother then the rest. And suddenly (but not surprisingly) the hulking behemoth stirred and shuddered and then began to fly up towards the vastness of space.
* * *
Phantine awoke, wrapped around the arms of her Dekan. She loved that feeling of having his now much larger arms wrapped around her. It made her feel secure, as though he was an anchor that was pulling her back down to Earth, as the dreams that she had been having the past few nights felt as though they had brought her up to some heavenly evil place.
She turned around to look into his eyes, but as she turned she noticed something odd; Kain wasn't on the couch, and his armor wasn't lying on the ground like it had been last night. She could clearly remember him laying his armor and spear down the night before. He always was so meticulous with it, and now it was all gone, every piece, even that mask that he wore that made her want to cry whenever she looked at it for some reason. Then suddenly Phantine was able to put two and two together (give her a break she just woke up). Phantine nearly jumped out of bed, which of course managed to get Dekan to follow her very quickly.
"Ahhhh! What the hell!" Dekan nearly shouted out after being dragged upwards by Phantine.
"He left, he left without even telling us!" Phantine said sounding very exasperated. "He was supposed to stay with me so that he could protect me and.."
"In case you've forgotten my dear," Dekan tried to say mockingly, though it came out odd, as he was still very groggy and very disoriented. "Kain said that I should protect you, besides he probably just went out to go practice more. Goodness knows he already does enough of that already, but he always thinks he needs more I guess."
Phantine laughed at herself now, she felt rather silly for not even thinking about something like that. She even laughed out loud and then Dekan laughed with her as they both feel back down onto the bed. They laughed at the nothingness of it all for a long time, until Dekan started to behind Phantine and he got an interesting look on his face. "Hmmm, Dawne and Naxos have left as well. I wonder why everybody left us here alone, and didn't even wake us up to tell us they were leaving."
It was at that moment that Dawne noticed an envelope on the room's desk, she couldn't read it from where she was, but she was quite sure that it had a name written on the top of it. "Hmmm, left us a rather formal note over there, it looks like." Phantine said to Dekan, who then proceeded to look over towards the desk as well.
After looking at the desk, Dekan looked over at a clock that was on the wall of their room. "Hmmm, it's only 9:30. I would have thought that they would all have still been sleeping. I wonder what's going on?" He said, sounding much more intelligible this time.
Phantine started to stand up so that she could go over to the desk and get the letter, but then she remembered that the bed was warm and cozy, but outside the bed was not. After struggling with this for a minute she summoned the willpower to be able to get up and walk over to the desk. Curiosity above comfort she thought to herself. Phantine walked over and picked up the letter that was on the desk, on the front it said, "To Dekan and Phantine."
Suddenly Phantine heard Dekan say to her. "Bring it over here, I want to read it too ya know." He said with a grin on his face.
So Phantine brought the letter over to their bed and on her way there she opened the seal, and pulled a page of paper out from the envelope. She sat down on the bed and Dekan came over towards her, but as he did the letter began to float out of her hands and then down towards the floor, waving back and forth as Phantine simply sat and stared.. She had always been able to read fast from her years of being a scholar for the guardian, but now she wished that she could have read that a little slower, maybe she didn't read something right, maybe, maybe, just maybe.
Note to reader(s). I just finished playing FF4. And I just realized how different some things are from FF2. So for all of you who played FF4 and kind of looked at my story with a grain of salt cause I changed things around, please realize that the only reason I did this was because FF2 left Kain's story as open as a Bruce Willis movie. ^_^
"Those who write reviews shall be karmikly rewarded."
-Kain DeLuman