As one would almost expect because of my infatuation with her, she was in
my dreams. She was dressed in her normal red dress with a long blue blade
in her hand. She was in front of a barren town, which appeared to be
destroyed. "Mama!" A little girl cried.
"Get back inside!" Terra yelled back at her. The little girl ran inside and Terra suddenly morphed into a pink…thing, is the only word I can use to describe it!
I awoke long before Cyan or Shadow were. Dawn was just appeared. Terra…what horrific thing happened to Terra? Why was it so barren? Probably because I was thinking about nature before I fell asleep right? I hope so.
Once Cyan and Shadow awake, we headed south to this forest Cyan told me of yesterday. It was a bit confused, and a bit odd, with ghosts attacking us, but we found our way to a train station. I wondered where it went. "Come on! Let's get on!"
"Wait! Sir Sabin…!" Cyan exclaimed, trying to stop me, but I got onto the train anyway, and went into the first car. Shadow followed me.
I looked around, and Cyan dashed in and the train started to move. I saw a horrified look on his face as he asked me, "Do you know where this train goes?"
"No," I replied.
"It goes to the other side…It brings people…who are…"
"What?" I exclaimed, now pissed off at myself for my stupidity. "I can't go there yet! I have things to do here! I have to get to Narshe!"
"I'm afraid we all have to go there eventually…"
"Yeah, but mine isn't now! We gotta get off of this!" I exclaimed even louder, probably waking up the dead. Bad pun, bad time.
"Well, then let's go to the front of the train." I nodded, and the three of us began heading towards the front.
It's rather uneventful, as you would expect on a train full of dead people, but for a train full of dead people, it was pretty active. In almost every car, there was a ghost selling us items, and a ghost or two that wanted to join us. We could only have one ghost join us though, more then that would slow us down significantly. All the other ghosts however, wanted to kill us. Probably envious of the living, like what Master taught me.
We went inside a car, and walked up and down, finding no other exits or entrances. So we attempted to go back out the way we came in, except there were a few ghosts trying to stop that. We killed them and went outside.
But to our dismay, whole flocks of them started walking towards us, surrounding us. We were forced to climb onto the roof as they hauntedly said "N.O. E.S.C.A.P.E." And then, they started to follow us onto the top of the car!
We walked toward the front of the train as far as the roof would go. "Oh no! What're we going to do?!" Cyan exclaimed. I carefully looked at the distance between the roof of our car, and the next one. It looked jumpable…at least it was less then the time I had to jump across a giant gap at Mt. Kolt.
"Well, let's see if my training's done anything. Cyan, grab onto me. Shadow, follow me." Cyan grabbed my arm as we jumped across a couple of the cars, until we landed on one where the roof collapsed on us and we fell down. We stood up and looked around, and then all of a sudden…
Those god damn ghosts were there again with their little chant! "We have to disconnect the cars," I said walking inside. I flipped a switch down, then walked back outside, quite happy to see the cars and the ghosts slip out of our sight.
We walked back in, flipping the switch again. It was rather funny to see Cyan go beserk through this whole time, because everytime I flipped a switch, he would flip out at me. Ha! He's just afraid of machines!
Moving on, we found a dining car. Rather strange for a train full of ghosts, but their food was still edible. "You're actually going to eat that?!" Cyan exclaimed.
"Sure!" I laughed. "Can't wage war on an empty stomach!"
After eating, the engine was just ahead. We flipped around a couple of switches, and then climbed up to the top of the engine. Naturally the Phantom Train got pissed at us, which is pretty funny for a train, and why the hell I'm so hyper, I don't know. So we had to attack it. I must say, this was the most interesting battle I've ever been in in my life. We had to run in front of the train, yet somehow turn around to attack him and not get run over! The battle didn't last long though, because Shadow discovered that he was easily killed by a Pheonix Down by accident. He was trying to revive Cyan who had just fallen, and his aim sucked.
"Fine, I will let you get off, but there is one more thing I must do first," The Phantom Train told us.
It let us back off at the station, and we jumped off content that we were still alive. But I suddenly saw Cyan's jaw drop and looked over. "The people of Doma!" Cyan exclaimed as the line of people who died in the Doma poisoning went into the Phantom Train. So, this was what the Phantom Train had to do…he had to bring the people of Doma to the other side.
I watched in horror as Cyan ran along the path, trying to follow the train as his wife and son slipped further and further away from him. I closed my eyes and wondered, what would it be like if I saw Edgar slip away like that? I watched Mom and Dad slip away…but not like this…
After the train went by, Cyan still remained there looking down, I went to approached him, but Shadow shook his head and said, "Give him some time." I nodded and waited a bit, until finally, he turned around and nodded. We left the Phantom Forest.
Going east, we found a place called Barren Falls. We walked up to the top and looked down the waterfall. We could jump…I thought. Where else would we go? We couldn't go through the Phantom Forest again, and if we did we'd probably have Imperial Soldiers down our throats anyway. Jumping was our only way.
"This is where I go," Shadow said.
I nodded. As he walked away I said, "I hope we can work again sometime. Thanks for the help." He just nodded and walked away.
It was then just Cyan and I. We looked at each other and nodded, then jumped down the waterfall. Of course, as my luck would have it, we were attacked by what looked like massive shrimp. Cyan used his SwordTechniques on him, while I blitzed the hell out of them with Aura Bolt. And without fail, everytime I performed the technique, I thought of the green-haried girl.
After fighting a pink massive shrimp monster, I just remember falling under the water and passing out. When I came to, I was on a grassy beach and there was a young teenage boy with green hair wrapped in monster hides it looked like. I tried to talk to him, but he uttered some nonsense and ran off.
Cyan and I walked around a bit after healing ourselves with tonics and potions. I quickly found out that we were on the Veldt. The Veldt is the place where monsters of the world gather. Strong massive monsters are also here, but typically, only monster types that you have killed will wind up attacking you. Do they somehow know that you attacked and killed one of their type? It's so odd. But knowing that we were on the Veldt, I also knew that Mobliz was on the northeastern cape of this area. So we set out there, to see if anyone could help us get to Narshe.
On our way there, after we kept fighting beasts and monsters, the kid kept randomly appearing, begging for meat. We just let him run off, because we didn't have any.
Once we arrived in Mobliz, we asked around, seeing if anyone knew how to get to Narshe. One man told us that the only way to get there would be to go to Nikeah, and from Nikeah take a boat to South Figaro, and from there the way would be easy. However, to get to Nikeah, we needed to go through the Serpent Trench, which is a water current. He then explained to us that the breathing equipment was recently stolen, so there was no way to get to Nikeah.
So Cyan and I brainstormed, and the only thing we could come up with was that kid. So we asked around about the kid, and heard from someone that when they threw in some dried meat in a pack of wild beasts, he appeared. So we went to the item shop and got some dried meat, and walked back out to the Veldt.
After fighting around a bit, he appeared as he had before. I threw the kid some meat, and he began to ramble on.
I honestly forget what Cyan said, but it was something with his normal "thou", which made the kid, Gau, spaz out. He started jumped around calling me Mr. Thou. "He's Mr. Thou!" I exclaimed. Gau started to laugh, and we ended up in a game of chase around in circles, with Cyan watching us. We stopped for a few seconds. "This kid's…good…" I said a bit out of breath. And we went at this little 'game' again, until he suddenly stopped and started laughing. I stopped after going around one more time and gasped for breath a bit exhausted.
I then looked over to my right and saw Cyan looking down. I then saw Gau approach him. "You mad at me?" he asked. He asked this two more times, and then I dragged him away.
"Look," I said a bit annoyed with him. "He just lost family."
I watched as he went back up to Cyan and apologized.
"It's all right," Cyan said turning around.
"Uwaooo Treasure mine!" Gau exclaimed.
"Treasure…?" I asked in confusion.
"Shiny! Shiny! Shiny!" He exclaimed.
"Can anything be that shiny?" Cyan asked.
"Imagine how jealous Locke'll be if he heard this," I muttered to myself.
"Locke? He steal my treasure? He bad man?"
"Now hang on! Hey!" I exclaimed as Gau began to spin around. "Listen when people are talking to you!"
"I think he's trying to tell us something…" Cyan said calmly. I nodded and stepped back.
He finally stopped and said "Place where you by food called Mobliz! And now place we go Crescent Mountain! Treasure there!" And so Gau and Cyan started walking away.
I closed my eyes and looked at the grass below me. I was so tired, and now I had to put up with this little rascal. Cyan I can deal with…but not Gau. I just want Terra…
"Mr. Thou!" Gau exclaimed stopping and looking at me. "You coming?"
"How many times do I have to tell you?! I'm not Mr. Thou!!!" And I chased after him as he laughed.
We went south to Crescent Mountain and walked inside a big cave. "In here?" I asked.
Gau started crawling around. Cyan and I looked at each other extremely confused. "So where is this treasure?" I asked.
"Me forget!" Gau exclaimed standing up.
Cyan and I both groaned. "Well, let's start looking around," he said. I nodded in agreement.
We went towards the left to a little area. Gau started crawling around again and handed me a tonic. "This is your treasure?" I asked. "A tonic?"
Gau shook his head no, so we continued looking.
Leaving Cyan on the other side, Gau and I crossed a small rocky bridge to search for his treasure there. Instead, he found it quite a joke to steal one of my money-satchels with 500 GP and throw it off the cliff! This kid's already bugging me enough as it is!!! I don't need him throwing away money that's helpful to us damnit! I probably would've thrown him off the cliff, but we did need that breathing mask because we had to get back to Narshe. If we could get to Nikeah…then we could take a ship to South Figaro…and from there…
"Come, let's go," Cyan said, beckoning us to come back across the tippity bridge and continue on.
I had almost given up, until Gau suddenly began crawling around again and pulled up his shiny treasure. There were four diving masks. "Yes!" I exclaimed.
"Shiny! Shiny!" Gau said.
"Kind of tight…" I said picking one up and trying it on.
"But it'll work…" Cyan said putting his on. Gau picked one up and put it on. We then walked out the cave to find a cliff and the Serpent Trench's rushing waters beneath us.
Suddenly, Gau became nervous. We just laughed at him and jumped off. Not wanting to be alone, Gau quickly followed.
As the quick waters of the Serpent Trench pushed us towards Nikeah, I felt my heart dancing and I was overjoyed. Finally, it wasn't unrealistic to think I'd be seeing Edgar, and Terra, and Locke again! How much I longed to be near my green-haired girl again!
After only a few minutes of this, we found ourselves drifting around. I pulled myself onto the docks, and helped Cyan and Gau up. We just rested for a few minutes, our bodies weary and tired from fighting in the rapid waters. I then let them stay there and rest as I walked into town. I only had a little money because Gau had thrown 500 valuable GP off the cliff, but it was enough to by a little bit of equipment for our group. I walked back, and we all put on our new armor and walked towards the boat. After explaining our situation, the captain let us ride to South Figaro for free.
"Once we get to South Figaro," I said. "Narshe is just a stone's throw away!" After a while I looked down. "I hope everyone's ok."
"I'm sure they are," Cyan said.
"Me too," Gau added in, actually sounding sincere.
Once we got to South Figaro, we snuck out and went through the small cave west. We then traveled north by Figaro-Oh! How I wanted to visit everyone!- and even more north to Narshe. Our fights were easy, since there were only Leafers.
As we walked into Narshe, my heart pounded wildly. And there was only one thing I could think of…
Is Terra ok?
"Get back inside!" Terra yelled back at her. The little girl ran inside and Terra suddenly morphed into a pink…thing, is the only word I can use to describe it!
I awoke long before Cyan or Shadow were. Dawn was just appeared. Terra…what horrific thing happened to Terra? Why was it so barren? Probably because I was thinking about nature before I fell asleep right? I hope so.
Once Cyan and Shadow awake, we headed south to this forest Cyan told me of yesterday. It was a bit confused, and a bit odd, with ghosts attacking us, but we found our way to a train station. I wondered where it went. "Come on! Let's get on!"
"Wait! Sir Sabin…!" Cyan exclaimed, trying to stop me, but I got onto the train anyway, and went into the first car. Shadow followed me.
I looked around, and Cyan dashed in and the train started to move. I saw a horrified look on his face as he asked me, "Do you know where this train goes?"
"No," I replied.
"It goes to the other side…It brings people…who are…"
"What?" I exclaimed, now pissed off at myself for my stupidity. "I can't go there yet! I have things to do here! I have to get to Narshe!"
"I'm afraid we all have to go there eventually…"
"Yeah, but mine isn't now! We gotta get off of this!" I exclaimed even louder, probably waking up the dead. Bad pun, bad time.
"Well, then let's go to the front of the train." I nodded, and the three of us began heading towards the front.
It's rather uneventful, as you would expect on a train full of dead people, but for a train full of dead people, it was pretty active. In almost every car, there was a ghost selling us items, and a ghost or two that wanted to join us. We could only have one ghost join us though, more then that would slow us down significantly. All the other ghosts however, wanted to kill us. Probably envious of the living, like what Master taught me.
We went inside a car, and walked up and down, finding no other exits or entrances. So we attempted to go back out the way we came in, except there were a few ghosts trying to stop that. We killed them and went outside.
But to our dismay, whole flocks of them started walking towards us, surrounding us. We were forced to climb onto the roof as they hauntedly said "N.O. E.S.C.A.P.E." And then, they started to follow us onto the top of the car!
We walked toward the front of the train as far as the roof would go. "Oh no! What're we going to do?!" Cyan exclaimed. I carefully looked at the distance between the roof of our car, and the next one. It looked jumpable…at least it was less then the time I had to jump across a giant gap at Mt. Kolt.
"Well, let's see if my training's done anything. Cyan, grab onto me. Shadow, follow me." Cyan grabbed my arm as we jumped across a couple of the cars, until we landed on one where the roof collapsed on us and we fell down. We stood up and looked around, and then all of a sudden…
Those god damn ghosts were there again with their little chant! "We have to disconnect the cars," I said walking inside. I flipped a switch down, then walked back outside, quite happy to see the cars and the ghosts slip out of our sight.
We walked back in, flipping the switch again. It was rather funny to see Cyan go beserk through this whole time, because everytime I flipped a switch, he would flip out at me. Ha! He's just afraid of machines!
Moving on, we found a dining car. Rather strange for a train full of ghosts, but their food was still edible. "You're actually going to eat that?!" Cyan exclaimed.
"Sure!" I laughed. "Can't wage war on an empty stomach!"
After eating, the engine was just ahead. We flipped around a couple of switches, and then climbed up to the top of the engine. Naturally the Phantom Train got pissed at us, which is pretty funny for a train, and why the hell I'm so hyper, I don't know. So we had to attack it. I must say, this was the most interesting battle I've ever been in in my life. We had to run in front of the train, yet somehow turn around to attack him and not get run over! The battle didn't last long though, because Shadow discovered that he was easily killed by a Pheonix Down by accident. He was trying to revive Cyan who had just fallen, and his aim sucked.
"Fine, I will let you get off, but there is one more thing I must do first," The Phantom Train told us.
It let us back off at the station, and we jumped off content that we were still alive. But I suddenly saw Cyan's jaw drop and looked over. "The people of Doma!" Cyan exclaimed as the line of people who died in the Doma poisoning went into the Phantom Train. So, this was what the Phantom Train had to do…he had to bring the people of Doma to the other side.
I watched in horror as Cyan ran along the path, trying to follow the train as his wife and son slipped further and further away from him. I closed my eyes and wondered, what would it be like if I saw Edgar slip away like that? I watched Mom and Dad slip away…but not like this…
After the train went by, Cyan still remained there looking down, I went to approached him, but Shadow shook his head and said, "Give him some time." I nodded and waited a bit, until finally, he turned around and nodded. We left the Phantom Forest.
Going east, we found a place called Barren Falls. We walked up to the top and looked down the waterfall. We could jump…I thought. Where else would we go? We couldn't go through the Phantom Forest again, and if we did we'd probably have Imperial Soldiers down our throats anyway. Jumping was our only way.
"This is where I go," Shadow said.
I nodded. As he walked away I said, "I hope we can work again sometime. Thanks for the help." He just nodded and walked away.
It was then just Cyan and I. We looked at each other and nodded, then jumped down the waterfall. Of course, as my luck would have it, we were attacked by what looked like massive shrimp. Cyan used his SwordTechniques on him, while I blitzed the hell out of them with Aura Bolt. And without fail, everytime I performed the technique, I thought of the green-haried girl.
After fighting a pink massive shrimp monster, I just remember falling under the water and passing out. When I came to, I was on a grassy beach and there was a young teenage boy with green hair wrapped in monster hides it looked like. I tried to talk to him, but he uttered some nonsense and ran off.
Cyan and I walked around a bit after healing ourselves with tonics and potions. I quickly found out that we were on the Veldt. The Veldt is the place where monsters of the world gather. Strong massive monsters are also here, but typically, only monster types that you have killed will wind up attacking you. Do they somehow know that you attacked and killed one of their type? It's so odd. But knowing that we were on the Veldt, I also knew that Mobliz was on the northeastern cape of this area. So we set out there, to see if anyone could help us get to Narshe.
On our way there, after we kept fighting beasts and monsters, the kid kept randomly appearing, begging for meat. We just let him run off, because we didn't have any.
Once we arrived in Mobliz, we asked around, seeing if anyone knew how to get to Narshe. One man told us that the only way to get there would be to go to Nikeah, and from Nikeah take a boat to South Figaro, and from there the way would be easy. However, to get to Nikeah, we needed to go through the Serpent Trench, which is a water current. He then explained to us that the breathing equipment was recently stolen, so there was no way to get to Nikeah.
So Cyan and I brainstormed, and the only thing we could come up with was that kid. So we asked around about the kid, and heard from someone that when they threw in some dried meat in a pack of wild beasts, he appeared. So we went to the item shop and got some dried meat, and walked back out to the Veldt.
After fighting around a bit, he appeared as he had before. I threw the kid some meat, and he began to ramble on.
I honestly forget what Cyan said, but it was something with his normal "thou", which made the kid, Gau, spaz out. He started jumped around calling me Mr. Thou. "He's Mr. Thou!" I exclaimed. Gau started to laugh, and we ended up in a game of chase around in circles, with Cyan watching us. We stopped for a few seconds. "This kid's…good…" I said a bit out of breath. And we went at this little 'game' again, until he suddenly stopped and started laughing. I stopped after going around one more time and gasped for breath a bit exhausted.
I then looked over to my right and saw Cyan looking down. I then saw Gau approach him. "You mad at me?" he asked. He asked this two more times, and then I dragged him away.
"Look," I said a bit annoyed with him. "He just lost family."
I watched as he went back up to Cyan and apologized.
"It's all right," Cyan said turning around.
"Uwaooo Treasure mine!" Gau exclaimed.
"Treasure…?" I asked in confusion.
"Shiny! Shiny! Shiny!" He exclaimed.
"Can anything be that shiny?" Cyan asked.
"Imagine how jealous Locke'll be if he heard this," I muttered to myself.
"Locke? He steal my treasure? He bad man?"
"Now hang on! Hey!" I exclaimed as Gau began to spin around. "Listen when people are talking to you!"
"I think he's trying to tell us something…" Cyan said calmly. I nodded and stepped back.
He finally stopped and said "Place where you by food called Mobliz! And now place we go Crescent Mountain! Treasure there!" And so Gau and Cyan started walking away.
I closed my eyes and looked at the grass below me. I was so tired, and now I had to put up with this little rascal. Cyan I can deal with…but not Gau. I just want Terra…
"Mr. Thou!" Gau exclaimed stopping and looking at me. "You coming?"
"How many times do I have to tell you?! I'm not Mr. Thou!!!" And I chased after him as he laughed.
We went south to Crescent Mountain and walked inside a big cave. "In here?" I asked.
Gau started crawling around. Cyan and I looked at each other extremely confused. "So where is this treasure?" I asked.
"Me forget!" Gau exclaimed standing up.
Cyan and I both groaned. "Well, let's start looking around," he said. I nodded in agreement.
We went towards the left to a little area. Gau started crawling around again and handed me a tonic. "This is your treasure?" I asked. "A tonic?"
Gau shook his head no, so we continued looking.
Leaving Cyan on the other side, Gau and I crossed a small rocky bridge to search for his treasure there. Instead, he found it quite a joke to steal one of my money-satchels with 500 GP and throw it off the cliff! This kid's already bugging me enough as it is!!! I don't need him throwing away money that's helpful to us damnit! I probably would've thrown him off the cliff, but we did need that breathing mask because we had to get back to Narshe. If we could get to Nikeah…then we could take a ship to South Figaro…and from there…
"Come, let's go," Cyan said, beckoning us to come back across the tippity bridge and continue on.
I had almost given up, until Gau suddenly began crawling around again and pulled up his shiny treasure. There were four diving masks. "Yes!" I exclaimed.
"Shiny! Shiny!" Gau said.
"Kind of tight…" I said picking one up and trying it on.
"But it'll work…" Cyan said putting his on. Gau picked one up and put it on. We then walked out the cave to find a cliff and the Serpent Trench's rushing waters beneath us.
Suddenly, Gau became nervous. We just laughed at him and jumped off. Not wanting to be alone, Gau quickly followed.
As the quick waters of the Serpent Trench pushed us towards Nikeah, I felt my heart dancing and I was overjoyed. Finally, it wasn't unrealistic to think I'd be seeing Edgar, and Terra, and Locke again! How much I longed to be near my green-haired girl again!
After only a few minutes of this, we found ourselves drifting around. I pulled myself onto the docks, and helped Cyan and Gau up. We just rested for a few minutes, our bodies weary and tired from fighting in the rapid waters. I then let them stay there and rest as I walked into town. I only had a little money because Gau had thrown 500 valuable GP off the cliff, but it was enough to by a little bit of equipment for our group. I walked back, and we all put on our new armor and walked towards the boat. After explaining our situation, the captain let us ride to South Figaro for free.
"Once we get to South Figaro," I said. "Narshe is just a stone's throw away!" After a while I looked down. "I hope everyone's ok."
"I'm sure they are," Cyan said.
"Me too," Gau added in, actually sounding sincere.
Once we got to South Figaro, we snuck out and went through the small cave west. We then traveled north by Figaro-Oh! How I wanted to visit everyone!- and even more north to Narshe. Our fights were easy, since there were only Leafers.
As we walked into Narshe, my heart pounded wildly. And there was only one thing I could think of…
Is Terra ok?