Foreword- There are still no (~~~) different scenes in this chapter. Oh I
almost forgot. I forgot to add that Darkside is Yuffie's Variation of
Vincent's Chaos transformation. I hope this settles any confusion that my
leaving that out may have caused!
Cloud was amazed at the size of Esthar. It was huge! It looked like a marvelous place to live.
"The colors are beautiful aren't they?" asked Rinoa. Cloud nodded. He noticed that Shiva was gone. He hoped that the Float spell lasted long enough for Yuffie to wake up and transform. He looked behind Bahamut and saw that Yuffie was following them in the form of Darkside.
"It will only be a couple of minutes before we land." Irvine told everyone. Cloud was glad. He didn't like riding this big dragon very much; it made him a little nervous.
Cloud turned around to yell for Yuffie to come closer when a huge fluorescent ball of energy smashed into her. Yuffie's transformed, unconscious body was hurtling toward the heart of the city. Cloud jumped after her.
The wings grew instantly. Even more blasts were erupting from the city. These new blasts were mostly being aimed at Bahamut. He did a good job of dodging them and keeping Irvine and the others on at the same time.
Cloud sped up to Yuffie. He finally was able to grab her tail. Darkside was a lot heavier than he expected. He opened spread his wings and the updraft sent him shooting upward.
Yuffie was starting to revert back into her normal body now. Cloud was glad because he wouldn't have been able to hold on to the extra weight for long. He could easily deal with the weight of Yuffie, but not that of Darkside.
A blast from Esthar connected with Bahamut. He instantly vanished. Irvine, Selphie, and Rinoa were all hurtling toward the heart of the city now. Cloud started to fly toward them but before he could get to them three huge metal plant type things shot from the city and swallowed each of the three.
Rinoa, Selphie, and Irvine were now prisoners. The three plant cage type things started retracting slowly back into the city. One started to glow. A beam of red light erupted from the plant containing Rinoa. A small light blue creature crawled out of the hole. He crawled along the wire and chewed it in half. He ran back to the hole and reentered it.
Another red blast came, then another, and another. It was like a laser light show. Finally the little blue guy jumped out of the hole and the fan on the top of his head spread wide. Rinoa leaped out of the hole and grabbed on to the small creature's front legs. The extended fan acted like a glider and Rinoa started gliding to the ground.
The plant containing Selphie started to glow as well. Blasts of thunder erupted from the shell until it was shattered by a huge thunder type bird. Selphie rode on this GF's back and flew down to Rinoa who dropped down onto it as well. The little blue guy vanished.
Irvine's cage wasn't glowing; instead it was being pummeled by his bullets. Holes were appearing everywhere. After there was a hole big enough, two summoning spheres erupted from his prison and connected into the sky. A huge swarm of bats came from now where and created a huge ball. Then a demonic humanoid type GF erupted from the bottom of the orb of bats. It flew over to Irvine's cell and cut through it like butter with his claws. Irvine jumped on the GF's back and they took off toward Selphie's GF. Irvine dropped down onto this one as well and the demon erupted into a shower of bats that flew away in random directions.
Cloud flew over to them, he was very impressed. The group flew away from the city and landed about a mile away from its walls. The huge thunderbird vanished.
"Why did they do that?" asked Cloud, "I thought you told me that they were keeping the Ragnarok their as a favor for you, but now they aren't even letting you enter the city."
"I don't know. But I bet that Seifer and his quest for the Stone that we're also searching for is the cause. He doesn't want us to get to the Ragnarok so that we can find the Stone before him. He must have convinced the Estharians that they shouldn't let us enter the city. But I don't know why they would listen to Seifer. Unless there is a much bigger enemy, besides Seifer that doesn't want us to find the Stone." explained Irvine.
Before Cloud could respond a small piece of metal slammed into the ground in front of the group. Before anyone could question why it was there a hologram appeared.
"It is by the order of Seifer Almasy that you not be allowed to enter the city. He brought us a letter from Headmaster Cid of Balamb Garden stating that the Headmaster agrees full heartedly. We cannot allow you to enter this city. If you don't leave the cities limits at once we will be forced to attack you, unless you choose to surrender." the hologram of an Eshtarian Soldier said.
"WHAT?! The Headmaster agreed to not let us enter the city?! WHY!? Why would he do a thing like that?!" screamed Selphie. Irvine was shaking his head.
"This has to be a part of one of the Headmaster's plans. His plans seem weird and strange at the beginning but they always turn out for the best. But this just doesn't make sense. Why would the Headmaster give Seifer a note saying that we couldn't get in, when just a few hours ago he told us to do whatever we needed to rid everyone's hearts of Darkness? We need the Ragnarok to do that." said Irvine in a fit of rage.
"Wait Irvine, Seifer could have forged a letter from the Headmaster. He was always doing that during classes so he could train at the Training Center." explained Selphie.
Cloud heard something. Another piece of metal slammed into the ground. Another hologram appeared.
"You have chosen to not leave the premises. Seifer Almasy has informed us that we may blow you away, and we intend to do so. Prepare to die." the hologram said.
Cloud looked toward Esthar and saw that a small fleet of what looked like fight jets were coming towards them. He also saw a small battalion of armored cars coming towards them as well. The others noticed the oncoming attack as well.
"We better summon all of the GF's that we can before they get here. We'll need them." said Cloud, with a small hint of unease.
A huge clanging noise came from the battalion of cars. They were transforming into armored walking attack vehicles.
"Uh oh! I've heard of them. Those things are called Eshtarian Battle Walkers. They are a force to be reckoned with in large numbers. I've counted seventeen of them total. That shouldn't be too bad. As long as we can get all of our GF's out here before they get close enough to attack." said Rinoa, who also sounded a little uneasy. Everyone else nodded.
"DIAMOND DUST!" "MEGA FLARE!" "RUBY LIGHT!" "THUNDERSTORM!" "CHEF'S KNIFE!" "DARK MESSENGER!" "TORNADO ZONE!"
GF summon orbs started flying everywhere. They collided and all sorts of GFs started appearing. Shiva appeared first. Then Bahamut, followed by the small blue guy Rinoa had summoned, the huge thunderbird appeared next, a small looking green guy wearing a twine bag appeared after the huge bird, the bat demon was next, followed by a huge pink monster with a strange looking tail. This GF battalion looked pretty strong to Cloud.
Cloud searched Squall's mind to see what all of the GFs were called. The blue one Rinoa summoned was Carbuncle; Tonberry was the twine bag wearing one carrying the knife, Quezacotl was the huge thunderbird, Diablos was the bat demon Irvine had summoned, and Pandemona was the pink one that had the strange tail.
Yuffie transformed into her version of Hellmasker, which she called Destructa. Instead of only one chainsaw she had two.
"Yuffie! If you are going to fight like that then let me help you!" Rinoa told Yuffie. Yuffie nodded.
"PROTECT.........SHELL.........REFLECT!" screamed Rinoa as she blasted Yuffie with defensive spells. Yuffie nodded in thanks and took off towards the Battle Walkers.
Cloud got out the Oracles Sword. He asked Rinoa to cast the same spells on him as she had on Yuffie.
"PROTE........." said Rinoa as time stopped. An Oracle appeared that Cloud had never seen before.
"I, Bylandra, have come to give you another gift that you will need to use on your quest for the stones. It is called the Oracles Armor. It is extremely strong armor. Use it well." with that Bylandra raised her hand and snapped her fingers. In an instant Cloud was adorned with flashy armor.
The armor was bluish-gray. The coat and pants that Squall wore had disappeared and were now replaced. Squall's pants were now silvery and metallic. His shirt and jacket had been replaced as well. He now had two pieces of metal wrapped completely around his upper body, from his neck down to his waist. This metal was the same metal in his pants, it felt like fabric but it was as hard as steel. He now had gloves made from the same such metal. Squall's jacket was the same except there were no sleeves, and it was a lot thinner. It was also a darker blue than the rest of the armor. Cloud like this new look.
"...CT!" screamed Rinoa as time started again. A small light blue force barrier surrounded Cloud.
"Hey Cloud! What happened to Squall's clothes? Why are they like that?!" asked Selphie who was very confused by the fact that he had changed in a split second into this new look.
"Your planet's Oracle, Bylandra, gave this armor to me. I know I look a lot cooler but this will also make me a lot stronger." Cloud explained as he took off after Yuffie.
"Ok GFs. Now is the time to attack! See those walking things and those fighters? Attack them! Aerial GFs attack the fighters. Ground level GFs attack the walkers. Use everything you have!" yelled Irvine. All of the GFs took off.
Tonberry, Shiva, Carbuncle, and Pandemona all charged at the Battle Walkers. Quezacotl, Bahamut, and Diablos all flew toward the advancing fighters.
Yuffie and Cloud were now within firing range of the Battle Walkers. They shot furiously. All of the shots that hit Yuffie had ricocheted off of her reflect shield and blasted into the ground beside her. Cloud had to dodge the blasts.
Yuffie lunged at one of the Battle Walkers. She tried to cut one of the legs off with her chainsaws. The metal was excessively strong. Her chainsaws barely caused sparks to form.
Cloud tried to deflect the lasers of the Battle Walkers back at them with his sword. It didn't work very well. The blasts would always miss. He hoped he would get lucky.
The leg that Yuffie was trying to cut kicked at her, sending her flying back. She wasn't harmed because of Rinoa's protect spell but the wind was taken out of her. She jumped at the laser cannon mounted on the left of the cockpit. Before Yuffie could reach the cannon a huge shard of ice smashed through the cockpit. The Battle Walker fell to the ground with a clank.
Cloud got lucky. He deflected a laser right back at the Battle Walker that had fired it. It exploded. Another Battle Walker smashed through the smoke and bombarded Cloud with a series of blasts. Cloud easily dodged them all.
A red blast smashed into the Battle Walker that was firing at Cloud. Cloud turned to see Carbuncle. Carbuncle continued firing from the jewel embedded on his forehead. The Battle Walker collapsed. The Eshtarian soldier leaped out of the cockpit and charged at Cloud. Before the soldier could travel even fifteen feet, Carbuncle fired again. When the smoke Cloud could see what was left of the soldier. The only indication that there was even a soldier was that the boots that the soldier had worn were smoking. The rest of the soldier had been disintegrated.
Shiva continued sending huge ice shards at the Battle Walkers. Pandemona was going crazy, he was sucking up all of the huge rocks that were scattered about the battlefield and was storing them in his tail. After he had about fifteen boulders he would launch them, one at a time, out of his mouth at a tremendous speed. The Battle Walkers that were unfortunate enough to get hit by these boulders were instantly reduced to scrap metal.
Quezacotl was the first to attack the aerial fighters. He started to glow for a few seconds before unleashing a massive bolt of lightning at the approaching swarm. This bolt only hit two of the twenty-five fighters. The two that it did hit exploded.
Bahamut started blasting at the fighters relentlessly. His aim wasn't that good. But despite his bad aim he managed to take out quite a few fighters.
Diablos started creating energy ball after energy ball of dark energy. he created five before he started hurling them at the fighters.
Cloud had an idea. His wings sprouted almost instantly. He decided that he would be a harder target to hit if he was flying. Plus he may be able to get the Battle Walkers to miss him and end up destroying a fighter or two.
Cloud flew around and searched deep within Squall's mind what spells Squall new. After a few seconds of searching he found the perfect one, thundara. It wasn't the strongest thunder spell Squall knew but he didn't want to destroy the Battle Walkers, he wanted to shut them down. Cloud and the others could quite possibly need to use the battle walkers. If they were destroyed then they would never be able to use them.
"GFs! Don't destroy the Walkers that I shut down! We will need these! Destroy the ones that are still moving after I shut down five!" yelled Cloud to the GFs. they seemed to understand.
Cloud flew above a Battle Walker. He pointed his finger and smiled. "Thundara!" Cloud yelled. The bolt of lighting that erupted from the tip of Squall's finger pulsated through the Battle Walker. The Walker fell. The Walker's power supply had been temporarily shut down. Cloud decided to pay a visit to the pilot.
Quezacotl continued blasting the fighters with electric blasts. The fighters seemed to be getting more and more immune to the electric shocks that the bolts sent through the ships. Quezacotl was now doing less and less damage.
Bahamut kept on blasting. The fighters were now getting more and more agile. It seemed that the more fighters they destroyed the stronger the remaining ones became.
Diablos was having a harder time getting his energy balls to attract themselves to a fighter. His throwing the balls wasn't doing anything anymore.
Irvine noticed that another fleet of fighters was approaching, as well as more Battle Walkers. This was going to be a very hard battle to win.
Irvine, Rinoa, and Selphie needed a safer place to summon more GFs. They each had one more. They couldn't summon them because the fighters had arrived and it would have been too dangerous. Irvine decided it would be a good time to try.
"Rinoa. I think we can each summon our final GFs if you cast Reflect on us. I noticed that the beams from the Battle Walkers that had connected with Yuffie bounced right off of barrier." explained Irvine to Rinoa. She nodded.
"REFLECT TRIO!" called Rinoa. Before anyone could blink an eye a reflect barrier appeared around Rinoa, Irvine, and Selphie.
"Let's go!" said Irvine.
"COUNTER ROCKETS!" "HOLY JUDGEMENT!" "QUADRA SWORDS!"
A gate shot out of the line in the ground that Irvine's summon sphere's had made. The gates burst open revealing a frightening three-headed dog, Cerberus.
The ground began to rattle and shake. Selphie's sphere's created a huge square on the ground. The shimmering color of the spheres disappeared revealing an enormous hole. A colossal heavenly robot appeared from the hole riding what looked like a gigantic lift. This GF was known as Alexander.
Rinoa's sphere's each split in two, then shot into the sky. After a few seconds four swords slammed into the ground. A red, four-armed, ninja-type figure appeared in the middle of the swords. Each arm grabbed a sword. Gilgamesh was scrawled upon the blades of each of the swords.
Irvine told each of the GFs to attack whichever enemy type they wanted, fighter or Battle Walker.
Cerberus charged forward. One of his heads shot a blast into the air while the other two sent blasts towards the horde of Battle Walkers that had just arrived. All three of the blasts connected.
Alexander charged for what seemed like forever before he unleashed a massive blast of holy energy at the continually growing swarm of fighters. About seventeen were destroyed. Alexander also unleashed an onslaught of Heavenly missiles at the Battle Walkers. Thirteen Battle Walkers were destroyed by this melee.
Gilgamesh disappeared. He reappeared riding on the top of a fighter. He slammed one of his swords into the cockpit. He removed his sword and a large stream of blood came flowing out of the hole in the cockpit. The fighter was now unmanned. Gilgamesh jumped to the next fighter. The fighter he had just attacked slammed into another and they both exploded.
Tonberry was now going ballistic. He was slicing Battle Walker after Battle Walker. The number of Battle Walkers was also growing. Tonberry and the other ground GFs had their work cut out for them.
Cloud had now stopped the five Battle Walkers he needed. Cloud was now working on destroying the rest.
Yuffie was also having a hard time. She found it easier to kill the pilot then destroy the Battle Walker by having it self-destruct. This plan worked for a while. After Yuffie had destroyed about eleven Battle Walkers the self-destruct option became password protected. Yuffie and the others now realized that the more fighters and Walkers they destroyed the stronger the rest would become.
Shiva could now no longer freeze the Walkers. Her ice shards also disintegrated before they could even touch the walker. Shiva was becoming very concerned about this current change. How was she even going to help them now?
Quezacotl was having the same problem. The fighters now absorbed his thunder blasts. It wouldn't be long until he was useless. His only other chance was the Battle Walkers. If he could damage them then he could still help.
Quezacotl swooped down towards the Battle Walkers. He sent out a huge thunder bolt which vaporized about seven Walkers. Shiva hopped on Quezacotl's back as he flew by her.
"If I can get closer to the fighter's I think I can damage those. The Battle walkers are now totally immune to my ice attacks!" explained Shiva in exasperation. Quezacotl flew higher.
Carbuncle's attacks now had no effect on the Walker's. The only thing he could do now was dodge the attacks from the Walker's. Cloud grabbed Carbuncle just before a huge blast hit him. Cloud realized that Carbuncle was useless on land now so he threw him into the air with all of his might. Carbuncle landed on a fighter. He sent a bombardment of ruby blasts into the surrounding fighters. The blasts destroyed the fighters.
Diablos and Bahamut had both given up on the fighters and had now landed on the ground. Bahamut's blasts vaporized many Battle walkers now. Diablos could also get his energy balls to chase after the Walkers.
Cerberus kept blasting, one head blasting up and the other two blasting at the Walkers. His blasts still had an effect on both types of enemies.
Gilgamesh's sword could now no longer puncture the fighter's thin metal hull. He was dumbfounded for about an instant. He leaped off of the fighter, deflecting about three blasts back at other fighters that had been shooting at him, before he slammed his swords into a Battle Walker.
Alexander alternated his attacks. He would blast the Walkers with the mega blast then switch over to the missiles. This seemed to work pretty well because neither of the enemy types seemed to be developing an immunity to either of his attacks.
Tonberry's knifes could no longer penetrate the metal, or even the glass, of any Walkers. He tried using his lantern now. The lantern worked. He could still fight the walkers...at least for now.
Cloud was now flying among the fighters. He was randomly slicing the ones that got to close. He was doing fine for now but he wouldn't be doing any damage beforlong.
Yuffie wasn't doing any damage anymore. She couldn't make a dent on any of the Walkers. She retreated back to where Irvine and the others were.
Alexander was charging up for his energy attack. But before he could even finish his attack all of the fighters and Battle walkers disappeared.
Cloud looked around in confusion. Then he heard something. A small metal saucer was coming this way.
The saucer hovered in mid air for a second before sending a blast into the ground. This blast was much like the one that had transported Yuffie to Bylandrias. A figure emerged from the beam.
Seifer.
Afterword- I hope this chapter was exciting enough for ya! I hope I did Gilgamesh, Alexander, Carbuncle, and Tonberry justice! Please review! Also email me with character ideas. finalballz@yahoo.com . any ideas on characters I receive will be incorporated in my story. You must include which world they will appear on (FF9, FF10, or the Final Planet), what kind of weapon they use, if they are good or evil, if they are a boy or a girl, their name, their role in the story. Some roles include Protector of an Oracle Shrine, enemy, shopkeeper, ally etc. You decide!
Cloud was amazed at the size of Esthar. It was huge! It looked like a marvelous place to live.
"The colors are beautiful aren't they?" asked Rinoa. Cloud nodded. He noticed that Shiva was gone. He hoped that the Float spell lasted long enough for Yuffie to wake up and transform. He looked behind Bahamut and saw that Yuffie was following them in the form of Darkside.
"It will only be a couple of minutes before we land." Irvine told everyone. Cloud was glad. He didn't like riding this big dragon very much; it made him a little nervous.
Cloud turned around to yell for Yuffie to come closer when a huge fluorescent ball of energy smashed into her. Yuffie's transformed, unconscious body was hurtling toward the heart of the city. Cloud jumped after her.
The wings grew instantly. Even more blasts were erupting from the city. These new blasts were mostly being aimed at Bahamut. He did a good job of dodging them and keeping Irvine and the others on at the same time.
Cloud sped up to Yuffie. He finally was able to grab her tail. Darkside was a lot heavier than he expected. He opened spread his wings and the updraft sent him shooting upward.
Yuffie was starting to revert back into her normal body now. Cloud was glad because he wouldn't have been able to hold on to the extra weight for long. He could easily deal with the weight of Yuffie, but not that of Darkside.
A blast from Esthar connected with Bahamut. He instantly vanished. Irvine, Selphie, and Rinoa were all hurtling toward the heart of the city now. Cloud started to fly toward them but before he could get to them three huge metal plant type things shot from the city and swallowed each of the three.
Rinoa, Selphie, and Irvine were now prisoners. The three plant cage type things started retracting slowly back into the city. One started to glow. A beam of red light erupted from the plant containing Rinoa. A small light blue creature crawled out of the hole. He crawled along the wire and chewed it in half. He ran back to the hole and reentered it.
Another red blast came, then another, and another. It was like a laser light show. Finally the little blue guy jumped out of the hole and the fan on the top of his head spread wide. Rinoa leaped out of the hole and grabbed on to the small creature's front legs. The extended fan acted like a glider and Rinoa started gliding to the ground.
The plant containing Selphie started to glow as well. Blasts of thunder erupted from the shell until it was shattered by a huge thunder type bird. Selphie rode on this GF's back and flew down to Rinoa who dropped down onto it as well. The little blue guy vanished.
Irvine's cage wasn't glowing; instead it was being pummeled by his bullets. Holes were appearing everywhere. After there was a hole big enough, two summoning spheres erupted from his prison and connected into the sky. A huge swarm of bats came from now where and created a huge ball. Then a demonic humanoid type GF erupted from the bottom of the orb of bats. It flew over to Irvine's cell and cut through it like butter with his claws. Irvine jumped on the GF's back and they took off toward Selphie's GF. Irvine dropped down onto this one as well and the demon erupted into a shower of bats that flew away in random directions.
Cloud flew over to them, he was very impressed. The group flew away from the city and landed about a mile away from its walls. The huge thunderbird vanished.
"Why did they do that?" asked Cloud, "I thought you told me that they were keeping the Ragnarok their as a favor for you, but now they aren't even letting you enter the city."
"I don't know. But I bet that Seifer and his quest for the Stone that we're also searching for is the cause. He doesn't want us to get to the Ragnarok so that we can find the Stone before him. He must have convinced the Estharians that they shouldn't let us enter the city. But I don't know why they would listen to Seifer. Unless there is a much bigger enemy, besides Seifer that doesn't want us to find the Stone." explained Irvine.
Before Cloud could respond a small piece of metal slammed into the ground in front of the group. Before anyone could question why it was there a hologram appeared.
"It is by the order of Seifer Almasy that you not be allowed to enter the city. He brought us a letter from Headmaster Cid of Balamb Garden stating that the Headmaster agrees full heartedly. We cannot allow you to enter this city. If you don't leave the cities limits at once we will be forced to attack you, unless you choose to surrender." the hologram of an Eshtarian Soldier said.
"WHAT?! The Headmaster agreed to not let us enter the city?! WHY!? Why would he do a thing like that?!" screamed Selphie. Irvine was shaking his head.
"This has to be a part of one of the Headmaster's plans. His plans seem weird and strange at the beginning but they always turn out for the best. But this just doesn't make sense. Why would the Headmaster give Seifer a note saying that we couldn't get in, when just a few hours ago he told us to do whatever we needed to rid everyone's hearts of Darkness? We need the Ragnarok to do that." said Irvine in a fit of rage.
"Wait Irvine, Seifer could have forged a letter from the Headmaster. He was always doing that during classes so he could train at the Training Center." explained Selphie.
Cloud heard something. Another piece of metal slammed into the ground. Another hologram appeared.
"You have chosen to not leave the premises. Seifer Almasy has informed us that we may blow you away, and we intend to do so. Prepare to die." the hologram said.
Cloud looked toward Esthar and saw that a small fleet of what looked like fight jets were coming towards them. He also saw a small battalion of armored cars coming towards them as well. The others noticed the oncoming attack as well.
"We better summon all of the GF's that we can before they get here. We'll need them." said Cloud, with a small hint of unease.
A huge clanging noise came from the battalion of cars. They were transforming into armored walking attack vehicles.
"Uh oh! I've heard of them. Those things are called Eshtarian Battle Walkers. They are a force to be reckoned with in large numbers. I've counted seventeen of them total. That shouldn't be too bad. As long as we can get all of our GF's out here before they get close enough to attack." said Rinoa, who also sounded a little uneasy. Everyone else nodded.
"DIAMOND DUST!" "MEGA FLARE!" "RUBY LIGHT!" "THUNDERSTORM!" "CHEF'S KNIFE!" "DARK MESSENGER!" "TORNADO ZONE!"
GF summon orbs started flying everywhere. They collided and all sorts of GFs started appearing. Shiva appeared first. Then Bahamut, followed by the small blue guy Rinoa had summoned, the huge thunderbird appeared next, a small looking green guy wearing a twine bag appeared after the huge bird, the bat demon was next, followed by a huge pink monster with a strange looking tail. This GF battalion looked pretty strong to Cloud.
Cloud searched Squall's mind to see what all of the GFs were called. The blue one Rinoa summoned was Carbuncle; Tonberry was the twine bag wearing one carrying the knife, Quezacotl was the huge thunderbird, Diablos was the bat demon Irvine had summoned, and Pandemona was the pink one that had the strange tail.
Yuffie transformed into her version of Hellmasker, which she called Destructa. Instead of only one chainsaw she had two.
"Yuffie! If you are going to fight like that then let me help you!" Rinoa told Yuffie. Yuffie nodded.
"PROTECT.........SHELL.........REFLECT!" screamed Rinoa as she blasted Yuffie with defensive spells. Yuffie nodded in thanks and took off towards the Battle Walkers.
Cloud got out the Oracles Sword. He asked Rinoa to cast the same spells on him as she had on Yuffie.
"PROTE........." said Rinoa as time stopped. An Oracle appeared that Cloud had never seen before.
"I, Bylandra, have come to give you another gift that you will need to use on your quest for the stones. It is called the Oracles Armor. It is extremely strong armor. Use it well." with that Bylandra raised her hand and snapped her fingers. In an instant Cloud was adorned with flashy armor.
The armor was bluish-gray. The coat and pants that Squall wore had disappeared and were now replaced. Squall's pants were now silvery and metallic. His shirt and jacket had been replaced as well. He now had two pieces of metal wrapped completely around his upper body, from his neck down to his waist. This metal was the same metal in his pants, it felt like fabric but it was as hard as steel. He now had gloves made from the same such metal. Squall's jacket was the same except there were no sleeves, and it was a lot thinner. It was also a darker blue than the rest of the armor. Cloud like this new look.
"...CT!" screamed Rinoa as time started again. A small light blue force barrier surrounded Cloud.
"Hey Cloud! What happened to Squall's clothes? Why are they like that?!" asked Selphie who was very confused by the fact that he had changed in a split second into this new look.
"Your planet's Oracle, Bylandra, gave this armor to me. I know I look a lot cooler but this will also make me a lot stronger." Cloud explained as he took off after Yuffie.
"Ok GFs. Now is the time to attack! See those walking things and those fighters? Attack them! Aerial GFs attack the fighters. Ground level GFs attack the walkers. Use everything you have!" yelled Irvine. All of the GFs took off.
Tonberry, Shiva, Carbuncle, and Pandemona all charged at the Battle Walkers. Quezacotl, Bahamut, and Diablos all flew toward the advancing fighters.
Yuffie and Cloud were now within firing range of the Battle Walkers. They shot furiously. All of the shots that hit Yuffie had ricocheted off of her reflect shield and blasted into the ground beside her. Cloud had to dodge the blasts.
Yuffie lunged at one of the Battle Walkers. She tried to cut one of the legs off with her chainsaws. The metal was excessively strong. Her chainsaws barely caused sparks to form.
Cloud tried to deflect the lasers of the Battle Walkers back at them with his sword. It didn't work very well. The blasts would always miss. He hoped he would get lucky.
The leg that Yuffie was trying to cut kicked at her, sending her flying back. She wasn't harmed because of Rinoa's protect spell but the wind was taken out of her. She jumped at the laser cannon mounted on the left of the cockpit. Before Yuffie could reach the cannon a huge shard of ice smashed through the cockpit. The Battle Walker fell to the ground with a clank.
Cloud got lucky. He deflected a laser right back at the Battle Walker that had fired it. It exploded. Another Battle Walker smashed through the smoke and bombarded Cloud with a series of blasts. Cloud easily dodged them all.
A red blast smashed into the Battle Walker that was firing at Cloud. Cloud turned to see Carbuncle. Carbuncle continued firing from the jewel embedded on his forehead. The Battle Walker collapsed. The Eshtarian soldier leaped out of the cockpit and charged at Cloud. Before the soldier could travel even fifteen feet, Carbuncle fired again. When the smoke Cloud could see what was left of the soldier. The only indication that there was even a soldier was that the boots that the soldier had worn were smoking. The rest of the soldier had been disintegrated.
Shiva continued sending huge ice shards at the Battle Walkers. Pandemona was going crazy, he was sucking up all of the huge rocks that were scattered about the battlefield and was storing them in his tail. After he had about fifteen boulders he would launch them, one at a time, out of his mouth at a tremendous speed. The Battle Walkers that were unfortunate enough to get hit by these boulders were instantly reduced to scrap metal.
Quezacotl was the first to attack the aerial fighters. He started to glow for a few seconds before unleashing a massive bolt of lightning at the approaching swarm. This bolt only hit two of the twenty-five fighters. The two that it did hit exploded.
Bahamut started blasting at the fighters relentlessly. His aim wasn't that good. But despite his bad aim he managed to take out quite a few fighters.
Diablos started creating energy ball after energy ball of dark energy. he created five before he started hurling them at the fighters.
Cloud had an idea. His wings sprouted almost instantly. He decided that he would be a harder target to hit if he was flying. Plus he may be able to get the Battle Walkers to miss him and end up destroying a fighter or two.
Cloud flew around and searched deep within Squall's mind what spells Squall new. After a few seconds of searching he found the perfect one, thundara. It wasn't the strongest thunder spell Squall knew but he didn't want to destroy the Battle Walkers, he wanted to shut them down. Cloud and the others could quite possibly need to use the battle walkers. If they were destroyed then they would never be able to use them.
"GFs! Don't destroy the Walkers that I shut down! We will need these! Destroy the ones that are still moving after I shut down five!" yelled Cloud to the GFs. they seemed to understand.
Cloud flew above a Battle Walker. He pointed his finger and smiled. "Thundara!" Cloud yelled. The bolt of lighting that erupted from the tip of Squall's finger pulsated through the Battle Walker. The Walker fell. The Walker's power supply had been temporarily shut down. Cloud decided to pay a visit to the pilot.
Quezacotl continued blasting the fighters with electric blasts. The fighters seemed to be getting more and more immune to the electric shocks that the bolts sent through the ships. Quezacotl was now doing less and less damage.
Bahamut kept on blasting. The fighters were now getting more and more agile. It seemed that the more fighters they destroyed the stronger the remaining ones became.
Diablos was having a harder time getting his energy balls to attract themselves to a fighter. His throwing the balls wasn't doing anything anymore.
Irvine noticed that another fleet of fighters was approaching, as well as more Battle Walkers. This was going to be a very hard battle to win.
Irvine, Rinoa, and Selphie needed a safer place to summon more GFs. They each had one more. They couldn't summon them because the fighters had arrived and it would have been too dangerous. Irvine decided it would be a good time to try.
"Rinoa. I think we can each summon our final GFs if you cast Reflect on us. I noticed that the beams from the Battle Walkers that had connected with Yuffie bounced right off of barrier." explained Irvine to Rinoa. She nodded.
"REFLECT TRIO!" called Rinoa. Before anyone could blink an eye a reflect barrier appeared around Rinoa, Irvine, and Selphie.
"Let's go!" said Irvine.
"COUNTER ROCKETS!" "HOLY JUDGEMENT!" "QUADRA SWORDS!"
A gate shot out of the line in the ground that Irvine's summon sphere's had made. The gates burst open revealing a frightening three-headed dog, Cerberus.
The ground began to rattle and shake. Selphie's sphere's created a huge square on the ground. The shimmering color of the spheres disappeared revealing an enormous hole. A colossal heavenly robot appeared from the hole riding what looked like a gigantic lift. This GF was known as Alexander.
Rinoa's sphere's each split in two, then shot into the sky. After a few seconds four swords slammed into the ground. A red, four-armed, ninja-type figure appeared in the middle of the swords. Each arm grabbed a sword. Gilgamesh was scrawled upon the blades of each of the swords.
Irvine told each of the GFs to attack whichever enemy type they wanted, fighter or Battle Walker.
Cerberus charged forward. One of his heads shot a blast into the air while the other two sent blasts towards the horde of Battle Walkers that had just arrived. All three of the blasts connected.
Alexander charged for what seemed like forever before he unleashed a massive blast of holy energy at the continually growing swarm of fighters. About seventeen were destroyed. Alexander also unleashed an onslaught of Heavenly missiles at the Battle Walkers. Thirteen Battle Walkers were destroyed by this melee.
Gilgamesh disappeared. He reappeared riding on the top of a fighter. He slammed one of his swords into the cockpit. He removed his sword and a large stream of blood came flowing out of the hole in the cockpit. The fighter was now unmanned. Gilgamesh jumped to the next fighter. The fighter he had just attacked slammed into another and they both exploded.
Tonberry was now going ballistic. He was slicing Battle Walker after Battle Walker. The number of Battle Walkers was also growing. Tonberry and the other ground GFs had their work cut out for them.
Cloud had now stopped the five Battle Walkers he needed. Cloud was now working on destroying the rest.
Yuffie was also having a hard time. She found it easier to kill the pilot then destroy the Battle Walker by having it self-destruct. This plan worked for a while. After Yuffie had destroyed about eleven Battle Walkers the self-destruct option became password protected. Yuffie and the others now realized that the more fighters and Walkers they destroyed the stronger the rest would become.
Shiva could now no longer freeze the Walkers. Her ice shards also disintegrated before they could even touch the walker. Shiva was becoming very concerned about this current change. How was she even going to help them now?
Quezacotl was having the same problem. The fighters now absorbed his thunder blasts. It wouldn't be long until he was useless. His only other chance was the Battle Walkers. If he could damage them then he could still help.
Quezacotl swooped down towards the Battle Walkers. He sent out a huge thunder bolt which vaporized about seven Walkers. Shiva hopped on Quezacotl's back as he flew by her.
"If I can get closer to the fighter's I think I can damage those. The Battle walkers are now totally immune to my ice attacks!" explained Shiva in exasperation. Quezacotl flew higher.
Carbuncle's attacks now had no effect on the Walker's. The only thing he could do now was dodge the attacks from the Walker's. Cloud grabbed Carbuncle just before a huge blast hit him. Cloud realized that Carbuncle was useless on land now so he threw him into the air with all of his might. Carbuncle landed on a fighter. He sent a bombardment of ruby blasts into the surrounding fighters. The blasts destroyed the fighters.
Diablos and Bahamut had both given up on the fighters and had now landed on the ground. Bahamut's blasts vaporized many Battle walkers now. Diablos could also get his energy balls to chase after the Walkers.
Cerberus kept blasting, one head blasting up and the other two blasting at the Walkers. His blasts still had an effect on both types of enemies.
Gilgamesh's sword could now no longer puncture the fighter's thin metal hull. He was dumbfounded for about an instant. He leaped off of the fighter, deflecting about three blasts back at other fighters that had been shooting at him, before he slammed his swords into a Battle Walker.
Alexander alternated his attacks. He would blast the Walkers with the mega blast then switch over to the missiles. This seemed to work pretty well because neither of the enemy types seemed to be developing an immunity to either of his attacks.
Tonberry's knifes could no longer penetrate the metal, or even the glass, of any Walkers. He tried using his lantern now. The lantern worked. He could still fight the walkers...at least for now.
Cloud was now flying among the fighters. He was randomly slicing the ones that got to close. He was doing fine for now but he wouldn't be doing any damage beforlong.
Yuffie wasn't doing any damage anymore. She couldn't make a dent on any of the Walkers. She retreated back to where Irvine and the others were.
Alexander was charging up for his energy attack. But before he could even finish his attack all of the fighters and Battle walkers disappeared.
Cloud looked around in confusion. Then he heard something. A small metal saucer was coming this way.
The saucer hovered in mid air for a second before sending a blast into the ground. This blast was much like the one that had transported Yuffie to Bylandrias. A figure emerged from the beam.
Seifer.
Afterword- I hope this chapter was exciting enough for ya! I hope I did Gilgamesh, Alexander, Carbuncle, and Tonberry justice! Please review! Also email me with character ideas. finalballz@yahoo.com . any ideas on characters I receive will be incorporated in my story. You must include which world they will appear on (FF9, FF10, or the Final Planet), what kind of weapon they use, if they are good or evil, if they are a boy or a girl, their name, their role in the story. Some roles include Protector of an Oracle Shrine, enemy, shopkeeper, ally etc. You decide!