Chapter 6-Clan Wars 1-Vs Clan Ritz, and Largo and Eldana as you've never seen them before!

Ritz looked out across the plains of Deti. The last meeting with Marche had scared her more than anything. He was more than determined; it was like it was his single goal in life to get home. But she didn't want to. She liked it here. She had friends, power and...hair. Beautiful, non-granny hair.

"Ritz?" It was Shara. "What's wrong, do you see something?"

Ritz actually hadn't been looking, but now she saw some people. "Hey Shara, there's a Black Mage, White Mage, and a bunch of other magical classes!"

"Let's see?" Ritz saw Shara squint, then pause for a second. "Shara?"

"Let's go. Gather everyone, we'll need it." Shara said. Ritz was now even more afraid. Shara didn't scare easy. If that was fear, as there was a trace of anger as well.

"Eep." Ritz whispered. - - - Eldana was surprising cautious just now, Largo noted. He'd known Eldana quite a long time, almost as long as he'd known Agatha. But she usually talked., even a little.

Largo remembered the time he first met her. It was two months after the Llednar incident. He was recovering in an Inn, when he heard about the incredible Red Mage who was undefeated in magical combat. He went to watch.

The first contestant was Gelarto, a Nu Mou Black Mage. Eldana sent him to sleep and set him on fire at the same time. The next challenger was a Moogle Time Mage, called Benton. He got struck by lightning and poisoned at the same time. After Benton, no-one else volunteered, so she started picking mages out of the audience to fight, and beat. Eventually it was him. He needed help to get up onto the stage, as his leg was still sore from the Llednar incident.

Eldana immediately tried to freeze Largo, but he was an expert and just absorbed the spell due to the Flurry Robe he wore. She then took out her Rapier and pointed it at him, sending it flying in his direction. Largo barely dodged it. "What, are you just gonna Matrix dodge everything?"

Largo smiled at that thought. He remembered this bit clearly. He said, "Nope. But you better learn fast, amateur!" before charging at her. Remembering the Breath of Malboro, he cast Bad Breath. When the smoke cleared, she was poisoned, blind, silenced, immobilized and frozen in time. He was declared the winner.

When she was unfrozen, she smiled. "Well, you are powerful! What do you do again?"

"Well, I basically go around killing monsters. On my own. My life hasn't been fun,"

"Hey, if you want, I could join you!"

And that was the start of the partnership of Largo and Eldana. They were hand-picked by the Palace due to their excellent magical power. That's when everything started going waaaaay downhill. But he saw Agatha again, which was good.

"Uh oh...people! With stabby objects!" Thenardi shouted out. Largo shuddered at the amount of the English language being murdered in that sentence. Then he saw them too.

The clan was entirely female, including the lone human. The rest were Viera. The Viera at the front had a bow and was shouting something to the human. Then they all moved down in unison. There was also an Assassin, an Elementalist and a Summoner.

"Prepare for a rough ride, people." Eldana said. She was unusually calm, Largo noted. She hadn't even taken her rapier out of its sheath yet. In fact, she didn't have a weapon in sight. - - - Madeline had finished Protecting and Shelling everyone. She still didn't know what that stupid staff did. She'd done some research and still nothing came up. But she could wonder about this later, as the other clan was running down now. The Assassin went immediately for Eldana. In fact, all of them did, except the human and the Archer.

Thenardi and Largo ran to help, but were Slowed by the Elementalist. Schneider ran to help, and Dispelled the Elementalist's attempt to slow him as well. The Elementalist soon found herself drowning in a bubble of Water. Madeline chuckled, before running with Quin to help too. Then a funny thing occurred. Quin suddenly exclaimed, "Oh...two Ramuh?!"

"What?" she said before looking up. He was right. There they were. Both of them were frying the enemy. Then she looked at Eldana. - - - "Hehe...it worked! Eat lightning!" Eldana yelled. She wasn't wearing the Robes of a Red Mage anymore. She now wore a blue and green dress thing with a horn protruding from her head. She was Eldana the Red Mage no longer. She was Eldana the Summoner now. With Doublecast too. She sent a Fire ball at the Assassin and another Ramuh at the Summoner. Both were fried.

"Largo!" she yelled. "Come on, hurry up!" Largo tried, but couldn't due to the fact he was on Baywatch Speed. Eldana sighed, and looked up. There was two left, the human and...Shara?

No way. She was here. Oh well, revenge is revenge. As is family feuding. 'This should be fun', she thought, before running to attack. - - - Largo had come out of Slow and was currently running to help Eldana. But suddenly the Human appeared with a rapier. Rapier? Humans can't equip rapiers, can they?

"You won't survive this!" she yelled before thrusting straight at him. He barely parried it. He recognized the rapier. Although his Blue Mage Survival Guide was a bit bare on Rapiers, saying that they were the same as all pointy objects, and you should run, it went on about the most powerful one. This was it, the Femme Fatale. He remembered the particular section from the Blue Mage Survival Guide:

Section 13e-The Femme Fatale

"Of all the nasty pointy objects in Ivalice, the Femme Fatale is one of the most dangerous ones, often a sign of power. If you come up against one in hand-to-hand combat, write your will quickly, as you're screwed"

"Crap..." he whispered, before parrying another blow. - - - Meanwhile, Eldana and Shara finally met again, on the field of battle. Thunder crackled overhead, frying the Summoner some more. "So, Shara. Here we are."

"Yes we are." Shara replied, taking out two hunting knives, while Eldana muttered a few words and transformed back to a Red Mage, withdrawing her Rapier, the Eperism.

Shara suddenly ran forward and...vanished? 'Damn her! She must have upgraded to Sniper and learned Conceal!' Eldana thought angrily.

Shara re-appeared right behind her. "Boo," she said, before thrusting the knives. Eldana wasn't ready for this and felt the knives slide in to her leg and back. "ARGH!!!" she yelled in agony.

"Here we are Eldana. No-one to help you, no-one to save you all of a sudden," Shara said, a sudden mean glint in her eye. "Just pain. Incredible pain." - - - Largo was still parrying the blows barely. The girl was still working away on his defenses, but instead of a concentrated look, she was smiling, like it was a puzzle with a solution...that was it! Her weakness was a lack of concentration!

The next blow went for his leg. Largo, instead of parrying, prayed to Mateus and moved his leg out of the way. The Rapier hit the ground, breaking. "What the..." she said, an awestruck look about her.

Largo smiled. "Concentration is the key, child," he replied, before slicing the sabre across her chest. The girl yelled in pain, before slumping to the ground. Largo grinned, and looked to see what everyone else was doing. Madeline, realizing there was not much need for her, had taken out her books and continued to study that staff of hers. It looked familiar to Largo.

Then he looked to see what was happening with Eldana. "No..." he whispered.

The Archer/Sniper Viera was standing over her, triumphant, with two hunting daggers in her hands. Eldana was in terrible pain by the look of her face. Largo immediately lost all conscious thought, and started the long hard walk to destiny. - - - Shara was grinning. 'Victory is nice,' she thought. And revenge. Never forget revenge. Then something caught her eye.

The Blue Mage was walking quite steadily, paying no attention at all to anything else except her. The Assassin, finally getting up, ran to attack, but the Blue Mage simply stabbed her and continued moving, till he finally came right next to Eldana. He whispered a few words, and Eldana stood up again. "Uh oh," Shara said. "Oh well, let's call that a draw." And with that, she disappeared.

Thenardi ran up. "Ok, what sort of drug-induced battle was that?"