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This is my very first Final Fantasy Fanfiction! I've always enjoyed playing the games, my favorite being FF8, only because unlike 7, it had a happy ending, and the CGI characters were amazing. I haven't played FF10 because as of yet I do not own a PS2. I'm working on it though, and that will be the first game I buy.
Anyhow, as I said, FF8 is my favorite out of the games so far. However, this is not a FF8 fanfic. Instead it is based on the movie that was created, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
I loved the story, the characters, and yes, evil the villain. But I hated the ending. It was so unfair. And although I have a strict policy when I write not to change a story, it took everything I had not to do so in this story. I like to add on to what happens, even if I have to go off on what I like to call, the what-if tangent.
An example being the DBZ fics in which I keep the same story line in some cases, but just add on to the story. For example, The Return of Mirai Trunks. In the final saga, "Back To the Future" everyone in Mirai's time has been restored to life thanks to the Blackstar dragonballs. And in it, I have Gohan return to learn that he had a daughter he had never known about because he had died the day after he and Videl had slept together right before his battle with the Andriods. Who's to say he didn't have a girlfriend? If could have happened.
But this is not about DBZ, it's about Final Fantasy. The story takes place right after the battle with the Phantoms in the crater. The Gaia has been saved, but Dr. Sid and Aki are the only ones still alive. But all that's about to change when Gaia returns those that shouldn't have been taken so early, including Gray and the other Deep Eyes members.
I sincerely hope you enjoy it and as of yet I can't be sure if it will be a one-parter or multichapter story. Only time will tell. And one last thing, I do not own the characters of Final Fantasy, none what-so-ever from ANY of the games or the movie. I am thinking of cloning Neil and Gray though. Moving on..enjoy the story.
And yes, by now, we've established that Gray looks like a CGI Ben Affleck. *smirks*
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Final Fantasy: A New Beginning The Discovery
"Captain Edwards, my name is Major Keilse. I'm to escort you and your crew to the banquet dinner that is being held in your honor. Please, follow me." Major Keilse said. Gray and the others silently followed the Major to the Main Council Hall. Seated in the very front were the members of the Council. Gray bowed his head to the woman he'd spoken to before, before straightening up again to begin speaking.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Council. I don't know where to begin. A lot has happened in the last week and it's hard to find the exact words to share my feeling with you all seated here tonight. What I can tell you, is that the planet is finally safe. The Phantoms are gone, and we all have Dr. Aki Ross and Dr. Sid to thank for it. Their wave theory was correct, and it effectively eliminated the Phantoms as was predicted." Gray said as he looked at Aki.
"Sadly, it wasn't as easy as I'm making it out to sound. The sad truth is that thousands of people were killed as a result of the Phantoms' attack on New York city when General Hein lowered the barrier." Gray said. Immediately people began speaking in hushed tones all at once.
"Please, please, let me explain. General Hein was only doing what he believed was right. He only wished to acheive the same overal goal as my crew and the good docters, although using a different method." Gray explained.
"As is so happens, Aki, Dr. Sid, and I were the only ones to escape the tradegy at New York. The rest of my crew was killed, and *although* it seems a little hard to believe, especially when they are standing right infront of you, it is none the less true. We landed at the Phantom Crater in the hopes of locating the eighth and final spirit. And although General Hein fired upon us from the Zeus Cannon, we were finally able to complete our mission, and we retrieved the eighth spirit." Gray said, pausing as he glanced over to smile at Aki.
"However, the blast from the Zeus Cannon destroyed the Quatro, and we had no way of emitting the completed wave. Instead I allowed myself to be killed by the Alien Gaia in order to bring the completed wave with me into it, and thereby healing the Alien Gaia. With it finally being at peace, the Alien Gaia took off into space." Gray said.
"As for the reason for my Crew and I standing before, we do not have the answers. Even we are unsure of what happened. What we do now, is that we weren't the only ones. All of New York was restored as well." Gray said.
"My. Thank you, Captain. Words can't truelly express the depth of our gratitude. You are all truely heros." The woman said after a moment. Gray bowed his head, but didn't say anything.
"Very well. The Deep Eyes Crew and Dr. Sid and Dr. Ross shall stay here in Pennsylvania as our honored guests, for however long they are here. Please, if you desire anything, let us know. Whatever we can do to make your stay here a pleasant one." The woman said.
"Thank you. We appreciate it." Gray said.
"And I believe the Council will speak to your Military Units, Captain. If I am not mistaken, some promotions are in order in the very least. Wouldn't you agree, General Edwards? The same could be said of your crew. The Council will see what it can do. You all are very brave souls. You have our thanks." The woman said with a smile.
Gray smiled as he bowed his head, but didn't say anything more.
"That's it?" Aki asked the second Gray sat down beside her at the table.
"What more could we ask for, Aki? Everything went just fine. Better than fine, I think. The Council was overly pleased with our performance, and the outcome with the Alien Gaia. They even promoted my entire squadren." Gray said with a smile as the rest of Deep Eyes looked over at him with smiles on their face, Neil grinning the broadest.
"This is great! This is better than great! This is the happiest day of my life! Only one thing could make this day better! Janie, sweetie? Cupcake? Pumpkin? Sug-" Neil began from the left side of the table where he was sitting next to Jane
"No, Neil, I will not kiss you, date you, marry you, carry your children, or anything else of that sort." Jane said without looking up from her plate.
"Spoil sport." Neil muttered with a sad sigh, before smirking and scooting his chair closer to hers as Jane looked up at Neil and raised an eyebrow at him and smiled charmingly at her.
"Why must you be so hostile, my darling? Come, we shall leave this place and run off and elope!" Neil said, taking Jane's hand. She looked down at his hand, then up at Neil, before looking back down at his hand. After a moment, she called over in Gray direction without looking from Neil's hand.
"Captain? You said the Council was pleased with us, right? Do you think they'd be so pleased if I happened to do the world a favor and rid it of Flemming? No one has to know, sir." Jane teased as Neil jerked his hand from Jane's and held it to his chest and looked at her with a heartbroken expression.
"You're a catty one, Jane." Neil said with a chuckle after a minute as Jane smirked at him.
"I bite too." Jane replied.
"Dr. Ross? I'm sorry to be a bother to you, but I have something of great importance to ask of you." Keilse said, walking up to Aki and Gray.
"Yes? What is it.....?" Aki asked, trailing off as the Major smiled at her.
"Major Keilse, ma'am. I am going to need a small sample of you're blood, doctor. After you finish eating of course." Keilse said as Gray frowned at him.
"What for?" Gray asked.
"Standard proceedure, Captain-" Keilse began before Gray cut him off.
"It's General now, Major." Gray said as Keilse hesitated for a moment, before nodding.
"My apologies, General Edwards. But I still do need a sample of the lady's blood. We need to run a few tests to be assured that Miss Ross is, in fact, completely cured of the alien.....shall we say, infection? We're merely going to analize the current sample and compare it to a sample that was collected while she was still infected. Then we're simply going to compare her blood samples to that of a clean human one. One that was never infected. You understand of course." Keilse said.
"Who asked for this?" Gray asked, frowning suspiciously at the Major.
"Gray, it's ok-" Aki began.
"It was General Nirak, sir. I received strict orders from him this morning." Keilse said as Gray looked at him, still frowning slightly.
"Don't worry about it, Gray. I'm fine remember?" Aki asked as Gray looked at her concerned.
"But what about-?" Gray began.
"It's *fine* Gray." Aki said, looking meaningfully at Gray as Keilse looked on curiously but said nothing.
A few minutes later, after retrieving the sample from Aki, Major Keilse excused himself from the group and left to return to report his findings to General Nirak.
"There's something about him, that I don't trust." Ryan said frowning as he watched the major disappear out of the room. Gray looked to see the major leave and turned to look at his best friend and second in command.
"I know. I agree. We'd better be careful around him, and General Nirak too." Gray said.
"Nirak? Who's he?" Ryan asked.
"I personally don't know. But I've heard that he went to the same training academy as Hein. They graduated together and we made Generals in the same week as the other. If he's anything like Hein, we'd better make sure to be careful around them both." Gray said, frowning softly as Ryan nodded.
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This is my very first Final Fantasy Fanfiction! I've always enjoyed playing the games, my favorite being FF8, only because unlike 7, it had a happy ending, and the CGI characters were amazing. I haven't played FF10 because as of yet I do not own a PS2. I'm working on it though, and that will be the first game I buy.
Anyhow, as I said, FF8 is my favorite out of the games so far. However, this is not a FF8 fanfic. Instead it is based on the movie that was created, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
I loved the story, the characters, and yes, evil the villain. But I hated the ending. It was so unfair. And although I have a strict policy when I write not to change a story, it took everything I had not to do so in this story. I like to add on to what happens, even if I have to go off on what I like to call, the what-if tangent.
An example being the DBZ fics in which I keep the same story line in some cases, but just add on to the story. For example, The Return of Mirai Trunks. In the final saga, "Back To the Future" everyone in Mirai's time has been restored to life thanks to the Blackstar dragonballs. And in it, I have Gohan return to learn that he had a daughter he had never known about because he had died the day after he and Videl had slept together right before his battle with the Andriods. Who's to say he didn't have a girlfriend? If could have happened.
But this is not about DBZ, it's about Final Fantasy. The story takes place right after the battle with the Phantoms in the crater. The Gaia has been saved, but Dr. Sid and Aki are the only ones still alive. But all that's about to change when Gaia returns those that shouldn't have been taken so early, including Gray and the other Deep Eyes members.
I sincerely hope you enjoy it and as of yet I can't be sure if it will be a one-parter or multichapter story. Only time will tell. And one last thing, I do not own the characters of Final Fantasy, none what-so-ever from ANY of the games or the movie. I am thinking of cloning Neil and Gray though. Moving on..enjoy the story.
And yes, by now, we've established that Gray looks like a CGI Ben Affleck. *smirks*
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Final Fantasy: A New Beginning The Discovery
"Captain Edwards, my name is Major Keilse. I'm to escort you and your crew to the banquet dinner that is being held in your honor. Please, follow me." Major Keilse said. Gray and the others silently followed the Major to the Main Council Hall. Seated in the very front were the members of the Council. Gray bowed his head to the woman he'd spoken to before, before straightening up again to begin speaking.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the Council. I don't know where to begin. A lot has happened in the last week and it's hard to find the exact words to share my feeling with you all seated here tonight. What I can tell you, is that the planet is finally safe. The Phantoms are gone, and we all have Dr. Aki Ross and Dr. Sid to thank for it. Their wave theory was correct, and it effectively eliminated the Phantoms as was predicted." Gray said as he looked at Aki.
"Sadly, it wasn't as easy as I'm making it out to sound. The sad truth is that thousands of people were killed as a result of the Phantoms' attack on New York city when General Hein lowered the barrier." Gray said. Immediately people began speaking in hushed tones all at once.
"Please, please, let me explain. General Hein was only doing what he believed was right. He only wished to acheive the same overal goal as my crew and the good docters, although using a different method." Gray explained.
"As is so happens, Aki, Dr. Sid, and I were the only ones to escape the tradegy at New York. The rest of my crew was killed, and *although* it seems a little hard to believe, especially when they are standing right infront of you, it is none the less true. We landed at the Phantom Crater in the hopes of locating the eighth and final spirit. And although General Hein fired upon us from the Zeus Cannon, we were finally able to complete our mission, and we retrieved the eighth spirit." Gray said, pausing as he glanced over to smile at Aki.
"However, the blast from the Zeus Cannon destroyed the Quatro, and we had no way of emitting the completed wave. Instead I allowed myself to be killed by the Alien Gaia in order to bring the completed wave with me into it, and thereby healing the Alien Gaia. With it finally being at peace, the Alien Gaia took off into space." Gray said.
"As for the reason for my Crew and I standing before, we do not have the answers. Even we are unsure of what happened. What we do now, is that we weren't the only ones. All of New York was restored as well." Gray said.
"My. Thank you, Captain. Words can't truelly express the depth of our gratitude. You are all truely heros." The woman said after a moment. Gray bowed his head, but didn't say anything.
"Very well. The Deep Eyes Crew and Dr. Sid and Dr. Ross shall stay here in Pennsylvania as our honored guests, for however long they are here. Please, if you desire anything, let us know. Whatever we can do to make your stay here a pleasant one." The woman said.
"Thank you. We appreciate it." Gray said.
"And I believe the Council will speak to your Military Units, Captain. If I am not mistaken, some promotions are in order in the very least. Wouldn't you agree, General Edwards? The same could be said of your crew. The Council will see what it can do. You all are very brave souls. You have our thanks." The woman said with a smile.
Gray smiled as he bowed his head, but didn't say anything more.
"That's it?" Aki asked the second Gray sat down beside her at the table.
"What more could we ask for, Aki? Everything went just fine. Better than fine, I think. The Council was overly pleased with our performance, and the outcome with the Alien Gaia. They even promoted my entire squadren." Gray said with a smile as the rest of Deep Eyes looked over at him with smiles on their face, Neil grinning the broadest.
"This is great! This is better than great! This is the happiest day of my life! Only one thing could make this day better! Janie, sweetie? Cupcake? Pumpkin? Sug-" Neil began from the left side of the table where he was sitting next to Jane
"No, Neil, I will not kiss you, date you, marry you, carry your children, or anything else of that sort." Jane said without looking up from her plate.
"Spoil sport." Neil muttered with a sad sigh, before smirking and scooting his chair closer to hers as Jane looked up at Neil and raised an eyebrow at him and smiled charmingly at her.
"Why must you be so hostile, my darling? Come, we shall leave this place and run off and elope!" Neil said, taking Jane's hand. She looked down at his hand, then up at Neil, before looking back down at his hand. After a moment, she called over in Gray direction without looking from Neil's hand.
"Captain? You said the Council was pleased with us, right? Do you think they'd be so pleased if I happened to do the world a favor and rid it of Flemming? No one has to know, sir." Jane teased as Neil jerked his hand from Jane's and held it to his chest and looked at her with a heartbroken expression.
"You're a catty one, Jane." Neil said with a chuckle after a minute as Jane smirked at him.
"I bite too." Jane replied.
"Dr. Ross? I'm sorry to be a bother to you, but I have something of great importance to ask of you." Keilse said, walking up to Aki and Gray.
"Yes? What is it.....?" Aki asked, trailing off as the Major smiled at her.
"Major Keilse, ma'am. I am going to need a small sample of you're blood, doctor. After you finish eating of course." Keilse said as Gray frowned at him.
"What for?" Gray asked.
"Standard proceedure, Captain-" Keilse began before Gray cut him off.
"It's General now, Major." Gray said as Keilse hesitated for a moment, before nodding.
"My apologies, General Edwards. But I still do need a sample of the lady's blood. We need to run a few tests to be assured that Miss Ross is, in fact, completely cured of the alien.....shall we say, infection? We're merely going to analize the current sample and compare it to a sample that was collected while she was still infected. Then we're simply going to compare her blood samples to that of a clean human one. One that was never infected. You understand of course." Keilse said.
"Who asked for this?" Gray asked, frowning suspiciously at the Major.
"Gray, it's ok-" Aki began.
"It was General Nirak, sir. I received strict orders from him this morning." Keilse said as Gray looked at him, still frowning slightly.
"Don't worry about it, Gray. I'm fine remember?" Aki asked as Gray looked at her concerned.
"But what about-?" Gray began.
"It's *fine* Gray." Aki said, looking meaningfully at Gray as Keilse looked on curiously but said nothing.
A few minutes later, after retrieving the sample from Aki, Major Keilse excused himself from the group and left to return to report his findings to General Nirak.
"There's something about him, that I don't trust." Ryan said frowning as he watched the major disappear out of the room. Gray looked to see the major leave and turned to look at his best friend and second in command.
"I know. I agree. We'd better be careful around him, and General Nirak too." Gray said.
"Nirak? Who's he?" Ryan asked.
"I personally don't know. But I've heard that he went to the same training academy as Hein. They graduated together and we made Generals in the same week as the other. If he's anything like Hein, we'd better make sure to be careful around them both." Gray said, frowning softly as Ryan nodded.
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