Author's note: Hello again! Another chapter is here, will you love it or
hate it? Hmmm, guess we'll never know....Unless you review! *Wink wink,
subtle hint, wink*
Anyways, Updates will slow down a bit over the next week. I'm once again revamping all chapters in this story to make them more entertaining to the general public. Why am I always making changes to this, you ask? Well, this story is REALLY old, I started writing it about a year or two ago. Because of this, my writing talents from then are not as good as they are now, so I'm always revising it and molding it into something I would be proud of right now instead of just a year ago. This may also explain why my OS story may be better then this one. Since I'm writing my OS right now, thus it has my full writing talent.
Wow, that sounded really confusing...ah well, this story's more experimental then anything, if I can get this thing to be good, I can do anything. So there you have it, some more delays....Maybe after this I won't need to change it anymore....We'll soon see....
Oh and notice how Lindinbum resembles a certain other kingdom in FFIX? Well that's because I based this off of it. This is just one of many things I took from the games. See? If you read back to some early A/Ns of mine I say that this story will be made up of many things from the games. This being one of them. Some of the things I take will be obvious to point out, some will be small a will take a good memory of all Final Fantasies to figure it out. But the one Final Fantasy I'll be taking the most stuff from is Tactics. I just loved that one soooo much. The job system is what started this whole fic to begin with! Man, I love that job system. V started it, VI polished it and Tactics perfected it.
This chapter is also pretty short. But that's because I wanted to end it as the festival began thus I didn't care how long it was going to be.
Oh and holy fricken CRAP! Thank you Soul_Mage for just that onslaught of reviews (Which are most likely still going on as I post this) Just so you know, Tera won't be that kind of 'protect me' girl. I can't tell you what happens to make her such a big fighter since that'll be a big spoiler....And yes, Dragoons are in Final Fantasy. Kain from FFVI was one. (Was is six or four? I can't remember) Speaking of Kain, that's who Kage is slightly based of....Just like Ked is based off of Vivi WHO WAS THE COOLEST BLACK MAGE EVER!!!
And yeah if you want to put "Good reading equals good times." In your quotes then go for it.
Not a lot to say this time, no plugs, one thanks, and no one page long A/N. I'm trying to keep these short and sweet instead of long and drawn out....Like this one..Crap! Ok, I'm done.
"Good reading equals good times." I'm out.
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Nite, Claire, and Kage took almost no time to get to the castle, they were practically next to the gates when they entered the town. Now they were just wondering around looking for Vyse.
Nite heard laughing coming from a door as they walked into one wing of the castle.
Kage, where does this door lead to?"
"The throne room."
Well, Nite pretty much knew where Vyse had to be. In this throne room. He opened the door and saw Vyse, A tall and somewhat round man, and two kids, one of them being the boy who ran into him around three days ago. How odd that he would find him here, maybe he would be able to give the kid his gil back, after all. He felt the outside of his right pocket, it was still there, waiting for it's owner.
"Greetings, my king." Kage said getting onto one knee.
Claire did the same, along with bowing her head down. Kage motioned for Nite to get down next to him. What was he trying to say? What was up with the bowing...?
"Nite, bow before the king!" Kage half whispered half yelled.
Ahh! That's why they were bowing! Crap, Nite felt so dumb. He fell onto one knee and kept his head down, beyond embarrassed now.
The king only laughed at Nite's actions. "Oh, it is so priceless to see people who have never been around royalty before!"
Nite didn't know if that was a compliment of an insult, he took it as a compliment and left that be that.
"I see Miss Katherine has returned safely..." Kage said as his eyes lay upon the rambunctious child. "All thanks should go to Vyse, I suppose."
"Yes, I am truly grateful to have him around. Not only does he help me to understand what the heck I'm doing but he finds my child, to boot!" Arthur laughed after he was done.
"Aside from this, my lord," Kage said, still kneeling, "there are some matters that I need to discuss with you, I have informed you about them before but now it seems the events are finally unfolding."
The king's expression became more serious. "Yes, of course." As he spoke he somber attitude returned to his lighter smile. "But that will to wait until later for today is packed with too much fun!! Before anything is done though, we better go to my quarters. This hallway seems to be growing quite small."
Before anyone could move the king changed his mind. "On second thought why don't we move this to the Dining Hall. My niece should be coming shortly and I think it would be a fine place for a reunion."
Vyse looked confused. "You never told me you had a niece. Is she coming her alone?"
The king shook his head like Vyse had lost him mind. "Heavens, no! Of course not! A Holy Knight in accompanying her, I wanted to send one of my own men but she insisted for her to come. Now let us hurry to the Dining Hall before they arrive!" He said, shoving everyone out of the hall.
~**~
Tera and Bridget walked into the castle and were greeted by a man dressed in very formal clothes.
He turned to Tera and said. "His highness requests your presence in the Dining Hall."
"Very well, can you take us there?"
The man nodded his head. "Of course, M'lady."
~**~
Bridget entered the room and had to shut her eyes. There were many large windows that beamed in the light of the sun and spread it over everything on the large table. She followed Tera over to King Arthur. She dropped to one knee and greeted him. "Good day, my king."
"Good day, Lady Bridget. I hope your trip here with Tera was enjoyable."
"Yes, quite splendid."
Tera nodded in agreement. "Oh yes it was-"
She stopped in mid-sentence, Bridget turned in the direction Tera was facing. She was staring at some young man in a black cloak. Bridget didn't know why this boy startled Tera so bad. Was this that Nite fellow she was talking about?
~**~
Tera was stunned by what she saw. That boy in black she met two times before was sitting in her uncle's dining room! But how? How did he get here? Why was he here to begin with? What business did he have with her uncle? Her face started to burn, she sat down hoping no one would notice. Unfortunately, her uncle did. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just need some water, that's all."
Arthur snapped his fingers. "William! Go fetch some water for my niece."
William was out the door before Arthur could finish his sentence.
~**~
K.C. shot out of her chair, looking at Tera. "I knew I knew you!"
Everyone looked at K.C. like she grew an extra head. She soon explained.
"Since my dad is her uncle that makes us cousins!!" Her shrill voice filled the room. Her explanation didn't really say how she knew her, either but K.C. didn't care, now she had a cousin to do cool cousin things with!! This would be so fun!
~**~
This was weird. So far Nite had come in contact with ever person in this room within the past three days. First that kid in the black cape ran into him in Bemic then that knight asks about a girl she had lost. The same girl whose window he jumped from. Then it moves to Kage and their fight to Vyse and THEIR fight. The only person he hadn't met before was the odd girl jumping around the room. But she was tangled up to a whole other web of connections. She's related to Window Girl, she knows Vyse, which in turn must mean she knows Kage as well. She was probably traveling with Lost- pouch Boy since they were in the same room when he found them and since the girl with the window was with that knight, she must've known her too. Nite's final deduction was that everyone in this room had met another at some time and place within the last three days. This was weird.
~**~
Claire looked around the room, there where exactly nine people in this room, including Nite and herself. She didn't feel edgy around any of them, though...Well maybe with the exception of Vyse. There was something odd about that man. That went for the guy in the green armor, Kage. She could tell from what he said to the king that his intentions where deeper then what he lead on. Nonetheless she didn't let that get to her. If Nite could have an always calm attitude of indifference, why couldn't she?
~**~
Kage was the first to actually say something after K.C.'s awkward revelation. "What did you mean by today will be packed with fun?" Odd question but at least it broke the silence.
The king looked quite relived that someone finally spoke up. "Well first we are going to have our annual Mage Festival followed by a marvelous party lasting as long as the guests can stay awake!"
Some of Arthur's servants applauded and shouted at the plan for the day.
"I am terribly sorry we are sitting at this beautiful table with no food on it, but the festival is about to begin and we honestly don't have enough time to eat! I surely hope this does not hamper your day." The king said with responses of "no" and "of course not" filling the large room.
"Great! Well let us head hurry to the Theater District and enjoy the Festival!!" He said, encouraging his guests to follow him.
~**~
Ked walked up to Tera and asked what a Mage Festival was.
"Its something my uncle created about three years ago where mages of all kinds come and show off their talents. From what I've heard it's mostly made up of Black Mages."
Ked smiled. "Hey do you think I can be in it?"
"Sure, I don't see any reason you couldn't. The first half is just Mages from off the street showing their magic to the crowds. The second half is going to be an extravagant performance made up of from the best of the best." Tera paused when an interesting idea crossed her mind. "Hey there's going to be a very powerful Sage in the performance, he also happens to be my uncle's oldest friends. Maybe I can ask my him to make a meeting for you and the Sage."
Ked scratched his head then asked what a Sage was.
"It's the higher level of a Red Mage, only Sage's rely fully on their White and Black magic, leaving their sword skill to wither."
"What's his name?"
"Hmmm, I don't remember. All I know is that he's my uncle's oldest friend. We'll find out eventually."
Ked wondered if this Sage was the same one his grandfather was talking about, he guessed he would find out soon enough.
The group soon reached the middle of the Theater District where Arthur would make his annual speech and start off the festival.
"Hello one and all!" King Arthur said to the large crowd before him. "Welcome to my Third Annual Mage Festival! This is the one day of the year where Mages of all types come and show off their impressive talents!"
The crowd cheered as he paused, after they settled down he went on. "And please don't forget about the breath taking show later in the day. Which will be followed by a feast at the castle!!"
The people cheered even louder when they heard about the feast.
"Now I think I have talked enough so enjoy yourselves and let the festival begin!!"
People cheered, applauded and threw their hats into the air, signaling that the festival had truly begun.
Anyways, Updates will slow down a bit over the next week. I'm once again revamping all chapters in this story to make them more entertaining to the general public. Why am I always making changes to this, you ask? Well, this story is REALLY old, I started writing it about a year or two ago. Because of this, my writing talents from then are not as good as they are now, so I'm always revising it and molding it into something I would be proud of right now instead of just a year ago. This may also explain why my OS story may be better then this one. Since I'm writing my OS right now, thus it has my full writing talent.
Wow, that sounded really confusing...ah well, this story's more experimental then anything, if I can get this thing to be good, I can do anything. So there you have it, some more delays....Maybe after this I won't need to change it anymore....We'll soon see....
Oh and notice how Lindinbum resembles a certain other kingdom in FFIX? Well that's because I based this off of it. This is just one of many things I took from the games. See? If you read back to some early A/Ns of mine I say that this story will be made up of many things from the games. This being one of them. Some of the things I take will be obvious to point out, some will be small a will take a good memory of all Final Fantasies to figure it out. But the one Final Fantasy I'll be taking the most stuff from is Tactics. I just loved that one soooo much. The job system is what started this whole fic to begin with! Man, I love that job system. V started it, VI polished it and Tactics perfected it.
This chapter is also pretty short. But that's because I wanted to end it as the festival began thus I didn't care how long it was going to be.
Oh and holy fricken CRAP! Thank you Soul_Mage for just that onslaught of reviews (Which are most likely still going on as I post this) Just so you know, Tera won't be that kind of 'protect me' girl. I can't tell you what happens to make her such a big fighter since that'll be a big spoiler....And yes, Dragoons are in Final Fantasy. Kain from FFVI was one. (Was is six or four? I can't remember) Speaking of Kain, that's who Kage is slightly based of....Just like Ked is based off of Vivi WHO WAS THE COOLEST BLACK MAGE EVER!!!
And yeah if you want to put "Good reading equals good times." In your quotes then go for it.
Not a lot to say this time, no plugs, one thanks, and no one page long A/N. I'm trying to keep these short and sweet instead of long and drawn out....Like this one..Crap! Ok, I'm done.
"Good reading equals good times." I'm out.
************************************************************
Nite, Claire, and Kage took almost no time to get to the castle, they were practically next to the gates when they entered the town. Now they were just wondering around looking for Vyse.
Nite heard laughing coming from a door as they walked into one wing of the castle.
Kage, where does this door lead to?"
"The throne room."
Well, Nite pretty much knew where Vyse had to be. In this throne room. He opened the door and saw Vyse, A tall and somewhat round man, and two kids, one of them being the boy who ran into him around three days ago. How odd that he would find him here, maybe he would be able to give the kid his gil back, after all. He felt the outside of his right pocket, it was still there, waiting for it's owner.
"Greetings, my king." Kage said getting onto one knee.
Claire did the same, along with bowing her head down. Kage motioned for Nite to get down next to him. What was he trying to say? What was up with the bowing...?
"Nite, bow before the king!" Kage half whispered half yelled.
Ahh! That's why they were bowing! Crap, Nite felt so dumb. He fell onto one knee and kept his head down, beyond embarrassed now.
The king only laughed at Nite's actions. "Oh, it is so priceless to see people who have never been around royalty before!"
Nite didn't know if that was a compliment of an insult, he took it as a compliment and left that be that.
"I see Miss Katherine has returned safely..." Kage said as his eyes lay upon the rambunctious child. "All thanks should go to Vyse, I suppose."
"Yes, I am truly grateful to have him around. Not only does he help me to understand what the heck I'm doing but he finds my child, to boot!" Arthur laughed after he was done.
"Aside from this, my lord," Kage said, still kneeling, "there are some matters that I need to discuss with you, I have informed you about them before but now it seems the events are finally unfolding."
The king's expression became more serious. "Yes, of course." As he spoke he somber attitude returned to his lighter smile. "But that will to wait until later for today is packed with too much fun!! Before anything is done though, we better go to my quarters. This hallway seems to be growing quite small."
Before anyone could move the king changed his mind. "On second thought why don't we move this to the Dining Hall. My niece should be coming shortly and I think it would be a fine place for a reunion."
Vyse looked confused. "You never told me you had a niece. Is she coming her alone?"
The king shook his head like Vyse had lost him mind. "Heavens, no! Of course not! A Holy Knight in accompanying her, I wanted to send one of my own men but she insisted for her to come. Now let us hurry to the Dining Hall before they arrive!" He said, shoving everyone out of the hall.
~**~
Tera and Bridget walked into the castle and were greeted by a man dressed in very formal clothes.
He turned to Tera and said. "His highness requests your presence in the Dining Hall."
"Very well, can you take us there?"
The man nodded his head. "Of course, M'lady."
~**~
Bridget entered the room and had to shut her eyes. There were many large windows that beamed in the light of the sun and spread it over everything on the large table. She followed Tera over to King Arthur. She dropped to one knee and greeted him. "Good day, my king."
"Good day, Lady Bridget. I hope your trip here with Tera was enjoyable."
"Yes, quite splendid."
Tera nodded in agreement. "Oh yes it was-"
She stopped in mid-sentence, Bridget turned in the direction Tera was facing. She was staring at some young man in a black cloak. Bridget didn't know why this boy startled Tera so bad. Was this that Nite fellow she was talking about?
~**~
Tera was stunned by what she saw. That boy in black she met two times before was sitting in her uncle's dining room! But how? How did he get here? Why was he here to begin with? What business did he have with her uncle? Her face started to burn, she sat down hoping no one would notice. Unfortunately, her uncle did. "Are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just need some water, that's all."
Arthur snapped his fingers. "William! Go fetch some water for my niece."
William was out the door before Arthur could finish his sentence.
~**~
K.C. shot out of her chair, looking at Tera. "I knew I knew you!"
Everyone looked at K.C. like she grew an extra head. She soon explained.
"Since my dad is her uncle that makes us cousins!!" Her shrill voice filled the room. Her explanation didn't really say how she knew her, either but K.C. didn't care, now she had a cousin to do cool cousin things with!! This would be so fun!
~**~
This was weird. So far Nite had come in contact with ever person in this room within the past three days. First that kid in the black cape ran into him in Bemic then that knight asks about a girl she had lost. The same girl whose window he jumped from. Then it moves to Kage and their fight to Vyse and THEIR fight. The only person he hadn't met before was the odd girl jumping around the room. But she was tangled up to a whole other web of connections. She's related to Window Girl, she knows Vyse, which in turn must mean she knows Kage as well. She was probably traveling with Lost- pouch Boy since they were in the same room when he found them and since the girl with the window was with that knight, she must've known her too. Nite's final deduction was that everyone in this room had met another at some time and place within the last three days. This was weird.
~**~
Claire looked around the room, there where exactly nine people in this room, including Nite and herself. She didn't feel edgy around any of them, though...Well maybe with the exception of Vyse. There was something odd about that man. That went for the guy in the green armor, Kage. She could tell from what he said to the king that his intentions where deeper then what he lead on. Nonetheless she didn't let that get to her. If Nite could have an always calm attitude of indifference, why couldn't she?
~**~
Kage was the first to actually say something after K.C.'s awkward revelation. "What did you mean by today will be packed with fun?" Odd question but at least it broke the silence.
The king looked quite relived that someone finally spoke up. "Well first we are going to have our annual Mage Festival followed by a marvelous party lasting as long as the guests can stay awake!"
Some of Arthur's servants applauded and shouted at the plan for the day.
"I am terribly sorry we are sitting at this beautiful table with no food on it, but the festival is about to begin and we honestly don't have enough time to eat! I surely hope this does not hamper your day." The king said with responses of "no" and "of course not" filling the large room.
"Great! Well let us head hurry to the Theater District and enjoy the Festival!!" He said, encouraging his guests to follow him.
~**~
Ked walked up to Tera and asked what a Mage Festival was.
"Its something my uncle created about three years ago where mages of all kinds come and show off their talents. From what I've heard it's mostly made up of Black Mages."
Ked smiled. "Hey do you think I can be in it?"
"Sure, I don't see any reason you couldn't. The first half is just Mages from off the street showing their magic to the crowds. The second half is going to be an extravagant performance made up of from the best of the best." Tera paused when an interesting idea crossed her mind. "Hey there's going to be a very powerful Sage in the performance, he also happens to be my uncle's oldest friends. Maybe I can ask my him to make a meeting for you and the Sage."
Ked scratched his head then asked what a Sage was.
"It's the higher level of a Red Mage, only Sage's rely fully on their White and Black magic, leaving their sword skill to wither."
"What's his name?"
"Hmmm, I don't remember. All I know is that he's my uncle's oldest friend. We'll find out eventually."
Ked wondered if this Sage was the same one his grandfather was talking about, he guessed he would find out soon enough.
The group soon reached the middle of the Theater District where Arthur would make his annual speech and start off the festival.
"Hello one and all!" King Arthur said to the large crowd before him. "Welcome to my Third Annual Mage Festival! This is the one day of the year where Mages of all types come and show off their impressive talents!"
The crowd cheered as he paused, after they settled down he went on. "And please don't forget about the breath taking show later in the day. Which will be followed by a feast at the castle!!"
The people cheered even louder when they heard about the feast.
"Now I think I have talked enough so enjoy yourselves and let the festival begin!!"
People cheered, applauded and threw their hats into the air, signaling that the festival had truly begun.