Chapter 26
Fierce Encounter
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy or it's characters; all OC's are mine...umm, the name Mifune came from Noacat, and my thanks go to Celtic guardian for giving me a series of names that if I use I'll be sure to point them out.
A/N: I like talking to people…since Juzu went on vacation everything around here is quiet…if anyone ever want to say anything, anything at all, fell free to e-mail me. If anyone has a request about something they want to see in this story tell me and I'll do my best to add in. I have no one to discuss this story with for a week so I'd really like that. Anyways…on with the story.
Fierce Encounter:
Sephiroth sidestepped as quickly as he could after noticing the soldier to his right. The sword caught his arm drawing blood.
'This isn't working out too well…what to do, what to do…where's Daitona?' He quickly scanned the area and took out the soldier that had cut him all in one motion. 'There's too many enemy…I can hardly see any of our soldiers. If I don't watch it I'm going to end up in a bad situation…'
He took a step back and almost tripped, so he forced himself to jump over the object…'One of our SOLDIERs…' Sephiroth grimaced inwardly at the sight. Never in his life had he ever seen such a horrid sight. 'We're being slaughtered…' He looked around once more and there was still no sign of Daitona.
"I'm really sorry…I know you're close, but I have no other choice left open to me." He said out loud and retrieved the brightly glowing, crimson orb from the depths of his hidden pocket. "I know you'll understand, we're being killed, we weren't prepared for this…" The materia slipped easily into the slot of the Masamune. "I can only hope for the best…I hope you don't draw upon its power too soon…please let this be for the best…"
He moved the Masamune in such a way as to summon the power within the materia, and then concentrated on the newly leveled attack. Everything went blank in his minds eyes, everything totally at peace, but there was a storm within his hands, a storm that he had the power to control. His mind sought out the power and the words came fairly naturally, "wise dragon, mighty dragon, peaceful dragon…brought upon this earth as guardian. I seek thy shelter…help us…Merciful Dragon!"
The materia glowed blood at the word and flared intensely at the final. A sheen came over him and all the SOLDIER's in the area, he could feel the weariness being lifted. If felt like the weight of a ton of bricks being lifted from his shoulders.
'Merciful,' Sephiroth thought. 'Like the Phoenix…it will also attack.'
The barriers that had formed started to let off a dark mist that sparked and hissed when it came in contact with the air. The mist grew thicker and started to pulsate slowly with red, and then more rabidly adding white. Finally the red became the only color but the black and white were still flashing more rapidly than ever.
'And, the finally…all your lives have come to an end…was it all this worth the price of your lives?' The sparks and hissing ceased to exist.
The Wutain's found the strange black mist hard to breath. Then there lives flashed before their eyes in an instant. '…. all of you lives have come to an end…was it all worth the price of your lives?' Were the last words that echoed through all of there minds when sweet oblivion swept her graceful hand over them all.
Sephiroth stared in wonder at the destruction the simple materia that he now held in his hand, could cause such death and at the same time relieve one of their pains. Before he could give the subject more thought a huge explosion ripped through the earth and shook the very ground he stood on violently.
A huge mass of trees fell to the earth below and thousands of plants were in nonexistence after the blast.
Sephiroth's eyes went wide in sudden realization. "Daitona…" he breathed. 'She was WAY too close…gawd damn it!' He gritted his teeth as he hurried to the area the blast had come from.
"Sephiroth!" a voice called.
"Otto," Sephiroth called back. "Have you see Daitona?"
"No, but what were those two explosions?"
"I used a summon materia that Daitona gave me…she was too close."
Otto frowned at the younger man. "What do you mean she was too close, did she get caught up in it?"
"No," Sephiroth answered impatiently and looked around swiftly. "She reacts to this particular materia, that second explosion came from her and I don't know if she's ok." He shook his head and walked past Otto.
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'Daitona…'Who…who's there?
'Are you ok?'Why can't I see you? Why is everything so dark, everything is closing in on me again. I'm so alone…so cold…
'Daitona? Look at me…'That voice…I-
'Open your eyes…please open your eyes.
What is this feeling…is that what warmth feels like? Please don't take that from me…not right now…I'm so confused…'help me…'
'Wake up Daitona, it's not safe here anymore.'
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Ever so slowly, Sephiroth seen Daitona's breathing resume to a normal rhythm though still very shallow; he had found her with a few of the SOLDIERs kneeling knelt to her unmoving body.
"Open your eyes…please open your eyes." Her head rested against his chest and his arms held her close. Her skin felt chilled to him and he knew that to be a bad sign.
"…help me…"
Sephiroth sighed as a wave of relief rushed over him, and he hugged her closer. "Wake up Daitona, it's not safe here anymore."
Daitona's eyes slowly opened half way and had a distant glaze to them. She looked dazed and it took her several seconds before she could focus her eyes on his face. 'Relief…sympathy…pain…worry…why, who…'
'What happened to you? How could of this happened and you don't have a scratch on you?' Sephiroth wondered.
"Sephiroth?…" Daitona's senses were slowly coming back to her but all her minds thoughts were a haze.
"Yes," Sephiroth assured. "Are you ok? Tseng, what happened?" Sephiroth demanded, seeing the Wutain boy standing nearby.
"Her power…it's awesome…there's no way a human could poses such power," Tseng breathed.
"Tell me," Sephiroth growled.
"Here eyes glowed of red blood…then a huge…" Tseng expanded his arms out. "…THING, it just floated there…it burned of a hellish flame. Then…boom…everyone who was there," he pointed in the direction the explosion had gone, "were gone in. Engulfed in that flame…"
Sephiroth looked back down to where Daitona was cradled in his arms. "Daitona…I'm sorry. I had to use that power, but I never thought it would have done this to you."
"It…it is not safe here? Where is it safe anymore? Where has it ever been safe for us? Is that right? Us…everything is so confusing," Daitona responded in a whisper of a voice.
Sephiroth frowned and casted a spell that would rid her of any status changes. Daitona felt an odd sensation that started from her head and washed threw her like a wave all the way to the tips of her toes. Almost instantly the fog in her mind cleared and everything started to go back to normal.
She groaned as if she had just been waked up; Sephiroth could instantly see and feel the change.
"You jerk, this is your fault you know?" she blamed.
"Yes, I know. I'm sorry, I had no other choice but to use that materia. A lot of our people were killed…" he said softly.
"I remember now…and…it's ok. You couldn't have picked a better time to summon that…I admit, I was in trouble. You were really close and the power…I let myself give into it and used it in a way I should have never used it." Daitona sighed. "…when did you get here?"
Sephiroth laughed softly. "Just a moment ago…you had some status changes and you looked like you were dead. You weren't breathing right."
Daitona rolled her eyes. "With all the mako running in my blood or even yours, how often do you think we'd need to take a breath of air? You could probably hold your breath for a week before you'd start turning purple. Could you picture the look on Hojo's face? I bet he'd turn purple yelling at you."
"I'm not going to try that one, I'll take your word for it…" Sephiroth looked up into the distance. "We had better get into hiding. We've only seen the tip of the iceberg and now the rest is moving in. What SOLDIERs and cadets that are left have already went into hiding."
Daitona sighed. "We can't let them get away with this…we've lost the majority of our troops today and we've barely scratched them…as the saying goes, an eye for an eye. Lets diminish their numbers in one attack." She began pulling away from him until he finally complied and stood both of them up.
"I don't like the sound of that Daitona, what are you planning?"
"Give me my materia. I have the manipulation power needed to make it react much more forcefully," Daitona explained.
"This isn't a good idea, look at what it just did to you," Sephiroth pointed out.
"Indirect contact causes that. Come on, we don't have much time."
Sephiroth bit his bottom lip then handed her the dimly glowing materia orb. He could she the initial response immediately and the air around them turned to a crackling and spitting mess.
"Not too much…" Daitona warned herself. "Sephiroth…you can help, you've used it before."
Sephiroth nodded in understanding then put both his hands on her shoulders. As he did so, the sensation that ran through him was almost heart stopping, his breath caught in his throat. His eyes flare to an intensity to match that of Daitona's.
'You may not have the same bloods as me…but you're still responding to my Divinian power in much the same way as I am. How can that be?' Daitona wondered as she allowed the power of the materia to flow through her and bring about the changes that would be necessary for the assault she had in mind.
The stripes reappeared along her arms along with the sharp claws and fangs. But this time her hair also lightened to an almost silver like Sephiroth's and fiery red highlight streaked it in various places. Along both sides of her cheeks two thin, lightly glowing silvery striped appeared.
The sensation Sephiroth was feeling became a comfort to the burning on sections of his body. Gritting his teeth he looked to see striped identical to Daitona's had formed over his arms. 'What is this…how can this be? How is it possible for me to react to her Divinian power in the same way she does?'
Daitona leaned back into him and pure energy flooded through him and his eyes could only see darkness. A light appeared and he was draw to it instinctively, once there everything was clear…but it wasn't his line of vision.
'Her consciousness…now this is getting weird.'
'Not quite right though, this in the state you'd normally go into when summoning. It's different though because there is so much energy at our disposal and just that, our. I told you, you can help me because I don't want the materia going back to where it originated and you can control that,' Daitona explained.
'Why am I changing like you? I am not Divinian.'
'It's weird isn't it? I'm not sure though, I don't know everything you know?' She laughed. 'Now look through my minds eyes. My sight in more keen than yours; do you see them? There're thousands, and their all coming this way. How many will be killed in this final attack? They have won this battle, I admit, but we will win the war in the long run.'
'You sound so sure, are you sure this attack of yours is going to work? If you don't wipe out the first few ranks that are closing in we won't have time to get away,' Sephiroth warned.
'You are not paying attention,' Daitona accused. '…it's time. The summon has reached it's limits. This is the next level on the materia and you will be able to use it after this…'
"Divine is one, one is not to be messed with, to mess with is to die, to die is to loose, to loose it a lose of hope…hope and the Divine…dragons of lore, dragons of old, you are the 'Divine Breath'!" Daitona's eyes snapped open as hers and Sephiroth's bodies became transparent and a protective barrier surrounded them, and shielded them from the summon.
A snake like black dragon shot out from the barrier and hurled itself towards to approaching army. When closer the creature flew up into the darkening sky, in seconds a ball of light started to form in its mouth. It grew in brightness then lit up the sky when it was unleashed upon the army below. There were cries of surprise and pain, but none lasted for more than a second or two.
When the attack was finished the dragon turned its glowing yellow eyes to where Daitona and Sephiroth stood. "Dyyh iyahk yhu… buti dyyh hyf Jeozyhe. Jy hyz mu ewteoj. Iya foss xuuz zcu yhsi yzcut yhu sovu iya yh zcod nsehuz zcuh. Ahzos zhuh, vuun dewu xi seji." It nodded its elegant head then disappeared into the air around it.
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-End Chapter 26-
A/N: Hehe, I know what the dragon said doesn't make sense and I'm saying this out right…it is not a real language. But it is what will be used in this story for the Divinian language. It's not defined in any way…it's just the alphabet all scrambled up so for those who want to know what the dragon said…I'm not going to tell you but I'll give you a hint. First, get a sheet of paper and write the abc's down the paper. That is your normal English. Next, I'll tell you what some of the words mean so you can fill in some of the blanks and eventually you'll have the basic idea about what is being said.
If you were to read Juzu's story…don't remember which one, but it also had some of these words and she fully translated what was spoken. So, here's the help.
Dyyh-soon eng.= div., S=D, O=Y, N=H
Jeozyhe-Daitona
Iya-you
Zcu-the
Nsehuz-Planet
That's all for now…but I'll tell more later. If anyone wants to take a guess about what was said e-mail me and I'll tell you if you're right. If you get close…I may just tell you.