Chapter 3: Paine
Paine held her long silver blade; the river was ice and the fiend was laughing. Paine surveyed the situation quickly, she jumped down onto the fiends back and slashed it, and the fiend jolted back and Paine lost her balance and hit the hard ice surface below her. "Argh" Paine's voice was strong but soft. She ran towards Rikku slipping a bit along the way, the fiend lashed violently at her but she dodged each time. "Rikku drink this" Paine threw a potion to Rikku. "Thanks" Rikku gulped down the potion and her cuts and bruises healed instantly. "We can't hurt it Paine, its scales are way to strong!" "Look don't worry throw this to Yuna" Paine passed Rikku a thin vial with green liquid in it. "Have you got your result plate Rikku?" Rikku threw the vial at Yuna just before it hit her it dissolved and green rays of light surrounded her, Rikku turned and faced Paine "Yeah. Why?" "Shinra gave this to me" Paine passed a sphere to Rikku it was a deep black and thunder clouds were rolling through it. "It's a black mage sphere!" Rikku exclaimed in shear excitement.
Yuna opened her eyes the coldness had stoped. Her eyes came into focus and she saw the blonde headed girl Rikku and next to her was a lady with grey hair and her eyes were a deep red she wore mostly leather and had a huge sword by her side, She wore black tight mini shorts and thigh high boots that were clipped on to her shorts her hair was a deep grey and was spiked at the top and combed back at the sides, it was Paine. Despite the coldness of the place and the pain flowing through Yuna's body she grabbed her gun. The fiend had her in one tentacle and the other was lashing out at Rikku and Paine. Yuna shot the fiend's eye and blackish mucus oozed out it screamed in tortured pain. She fell to the harsh ice floor. "YUNIE!" Rikku screamed and ran towards her cousin. She grabbed a Hi-Potion and Yuna took it gratefully and drank deeply. Her wounds and cuts and blood healed and disappeared.
"Yunie are you okay?" Rikku gave Yuna a hug. "Yunie, Shinra gave Paine a sphere it's a black mage one!" "Awesome.let's do what we do best!" Yuna grabbed the sphere and Paine came up behind her. "Lets do this!" Paine added "Dress change! BLACK MAGE!"
Yuna held her hand up in the air she dropped the gun from her raised hand. The gun slowed down in mid-air and lingered, the air rippled around the Tiny-Bee handgun and feathers started appearing around it. A pink ring traced down Yuna's body and in its wake left black mage clothing, Yuna swung her staff out ward's and fire danced around her. When the fire cleared it revealed a purple witch type hat with one or two golden rings on the rim of the hat. Her brown hair was still in a long red ribbon. She wore a maroon knee long skirt that had gold metal plates on it. She had a top that was maroon in colour, and draped on her arms were long sleaves she also wore white and blue stockings with jester type shoes.
Rikku held out her red daggers the wind picked up and Rikku's clothes shattered from toe to head and under it was a similar to Yuna's except she wore a mini skirt, she turned and waved her staff and lightning danced around her, she swung her staff and the thunder cleared. Rikku held a staff with an intricate patter crested on the top of it.
Paine held her blade high above her, the air seemed to get dense and she slammed her sword deep into the ground, the ground around Paine exploded high into the air. A green light engulfed her and when it cleared she was also enjoying the comfort and power of a black mage. Ice flew around her and shot up high into the air.
The fiend was dazzled by the light and soon regained its focus and temper. The girls stood in unison as one, it focused their power to hit the fiend, the power grew and the air intensified and Yuna could taste the power in the back of her throat. They stood as one and thunderclouds rolled above them lightning danced on the clouds and shot between them. The ice dome was alive with electricity and the blueness was going an electric yellow. Bits of ice started to crack and fly into the air, thunder crashed overhead.
The fiend's remanding eye turned red and it smashed the ice in front of it, it sent huge cracks through the Blue/yellow River the lightning built and the huge chunks of ice broke off; it groaned in protest.
The girls focused all there power every last bit. The world around them seemed to live on lightning it, crave it, devoured the very site of it. Instantaneously the lightning stoped just as fast as it started, all was quite.
The fiend was still and its tentacle was still in mid swing. The ice hung carefree in the air, the air it's self was thin and crisp. The thunder was quite and the ice was a pale blue, no electric was surging through the ice. A huge thunderclap peeled the sky open, thunder tore the sky up and yet everything was still. Lightning surged the through the clouds and the earth shook with every clap.
Lightning was shooting across the dark sky. A huge bolt of lightning hit the fiend directly in the chest, it surged and twisted and lightning shot off in every direction the ice around shattered from the impact. Countless other little lightning bolts bombarded the serpent like fiend, it screamed and withdrew and shuttered in complete pain. Its inhuman scream was like cold icicles piercing their heads.
The pain was unbearable for Rikku to take her head was swimming and her vision clouded, Rikku stumbled and fell over. She hit the hard moist floor of ice.
Paine turned to Rikku and ran over to her. "Rikku!" Paine grabbed a Hi-Potion; she pored it down Rikku's throat.
Rikku felt her head clear. "Wha?" Rikku's eye's focused her green eyes traced around the fiend was dead and a few colourful pyreflys strayed from its body. Rikku sat up. "Look" Rikku pointed to the fiend, the Yuna and Paine turned to look at the fiend. It exploded into an a-ray of colours pyreflys screamed and moaned as the fled into the forests and ground. The ice disappeared and they feel into the water below it.
They swam out of the lake coughing and spluttering. Yuna was happy though; she couldn't help a grin spread across her beautiful face.
Paine held her long silver blade; the river was ice and the fiend was laughing. Paine surveyed the situation quickly, she jumped down onto the fiends back and slashed it, and the fiend jolted back and Paine lost her balance and hit the hard ice surface below her. "Argh" Paine's voice was strong but soft. She ran towards Rikku slipping a bit along the way, the fiend lashed violently at her but she dodged each time. "Rikku drink this" Paine threw a potion to Rikku. "Thanks" Rikku gulped down the potion and her cuts and bruises healed instantly. "We can't hurt it Paine, its scales are way to strong!" "Look don't worry throw this to Yuna" Paine passed Rikku a thin vial with green liquid in it. "Have you got your result plate Rikku?" Rikku threw the vial at Yuna just before it hit her it dissolved and green rays of light surrounded her, Rikku turned and faced Paine "Yeah. Why?" "Shinra gave this to me" Paine passed a sphere to Rikku it was a deep black and thunder clouds were rolling through it. "It's a black mage sphere!" Rikku exclaimed in shear excitement.
Yuna opened her eyes the coldness had stoped. Her eyes came into focus and she saw the blonde headed girl Rikku and next to her was a lady with grey hair and her eyes were a deep red she wore mostly leather and had a huge sword by her side, She wore black tight mini shorts and thigh high boots that were clipped on to her shorts her hair was a deep grey and was spiked at the top and combed back at the sides, it was Paine. Despite the coldness of the place and the pain flowing through Yuna's body she grabbed her gun. The fiend had her in one tentacle and the other was lashing out at Rikku and Paine. Yuna shot the fiend's eye and blackish mucus oozed out it screamed in tortured pain. She fell to the harsh ice floor. "YUNIE!" Rikku screamed and ran towards her cousin. She grabbed a Hi-Potion and Yuna took it gratefully and drank deeply. Her wounds and cuts and blood healed and disappeared.
"Yunie are you okay?" Rikku gave Yuna a hug. "Yunie, Shinra gave Paine a sphere it's a black mage one!" "Awesome.let's do what we do best!" Yuna grabbed the sphere and Paine came up behind her. "Lets do this!" Paine added "Dress change! BLACK MAGE!"
Yuna held her hand up in the air she dropped the gun from her raised hand. The gun slowed down in mid-air and lingered, the air rippled around the Tiny-Bee handgun and feathers started appearing around it. A pink ring traced down Yuna's body and in its wake left black mage clothing, Yuna swung her staff out ward's and fire danced around her. When the fire cleared it revealed a purple witch type hat with one or two golden rings on the rim of the hat. Her brown hair was still in a long red ribbon. She wore a maroon knee long skirt that had gold metal plates on it. She had a top that was maroon in colour, and draped on her arms were long sleaves she also wore white and blue stockings with jester type shoes.
Rikku held out her red daggers the wind picked up and Rikku's clothes shattered from toe to head and under it was a similar to Yuna's except she wore a mini skirt, she turned and waved her staff and lightning danced around her, she swung her staff and the thunder cleared. Rikku held a staff with an intricate patter crested on the top of it.
Paine held her blade high above her, the air seemed to get dense and she slammed her sword deep into the ground, the ground around Paine exploded high into the air. A green light engulfed her and when it cleared she was also enjoying the comfort and power of a black mage. Ice flew around her and shot up high into the air.
The fiend was dazzled by the light and soon regained its focus and temper. The girls stood in unison as one, it focused their power to hit the fiend, the power grew and the air intensified and Yuna could taste the power in the back of her throat. They stood as one and thunderclouds rolled above them lightning danced on the clouds and shot between them. The ice dome was alive with electricity and the blueness was going an electric yellow. Bits of ice started to crack and fly into the air, thunder crashed overhead.
The fiend's remanding eye turned red and it smashed the ice in front of it, it sent huge cracks through the Blue/yellow River the lightning built and the huge chunks of ice broke off; it groaned in protest.
The girls focused all there power every last bit. The world around them seemed to live on lightning it, crave it, devoured the very site of it. Instantaneously the lightning stoped just as fast as it started, all was quite.
The fiend was still and its tentacle was still in mid swing. The ice hung carefree in the air, the air it's self was thin and crisp. The thunder was quite and the ice was a pale blue, no electric was surging through the ice. A huge thunderclap peeled the sky open, thunder tore the sky up and yet everything was still. Lightning surged the through the clouds and the earth shook with every clap.
Lightning was shooting across the dark sky. A huge bolt of lightning hit the fiend directly in the chest, it surged and twisted and lightning shot off in every direction the ice around shattered from the impact. Countless other little lightning bolts bombarded the serpent like fiend, it screamed and withdrew and shuttered in complete pain. Its inhuman scream was like cold icicles piercing their heads.
The pain was unbearable for Rikku to take her head was swimming and her vision clouded, Rikku stumbled and fell over. She hit the hard moist floor of ice.
Paine turned to Rikku and ran over to her. "Rikku!" Paine grabbed a Hi-Potion; she pored it down Rikku's throat.
Rikku felt her head clear. "Wha?" Rikku's eye's focused her green eyes traced around the fiend was dead and a few colourful pyreflys strayed from its body. Rikku sat up. "Look" Rikku pointed to the fiend, the Yuna and Paine turned to look at the fiend. It exploded into an a-ray of colours pyreflys screamed and moaned as the fled into the forests and ground. The ice disappeared and they feel into the water below it.
They swam out of the lake coughing and spluttering. Yuna was happy though; she couldn't help a grin spread across her beautiful face.
