Author's Notes – Okay, this is chapter five of this story. Just to inform
you, this story is just branching off from the original one, so I'll not
feature it in my other stories. I have to apologize since there is no
disclaimer for the past few chapters. The characters are of Square Enix but
I will just borrow them. Thank you.
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I took up my katana and looked around with Rikku holding my hand from behind. I noticed a metallic door and began to scrutinize its mechanical workings. The door opened vertically. I turned to see that Rikku had pressed on one of the green buttons located there.
"You shouldn't have done that," came my reprimand of concern, worried that it could be a trap.
"Don't worry Auron," she replied. "This craft seems easy to operate, well for an Al Bhed I guess." I nodded in agreement and began to advance into the opening. A woman in the distance stood, with her back facing us.
"I see you have come," the woman sneered, with a demonic tone in her voice. Wary of the strange person, I drew out my katana. She turned to reveal a normal looking human but with fiery red eyes. Her fingers nails, painted red as blood, were longer than anyone's in Spira. She stretched out her hand. "Come Rikku, your mistress awaits!"
"What mistress?" she exclaimed, with a touch of shock in her throat. Rikku clung closer to my back. I pointed my katana at the monstrous woman. Suddenly, another woman began to materialize with a helmet of two horns on her head and black wings folded behind her back. The winged woman released an evil smile on her face.
"I am your mistress," she announced proudly. "I used you to release Sorceress Yunalesca. By the power of possession."
"Y-you u-used-d m-me?!?" Rikku shuddered at the truth. She hid behind my scarlet coat.
"What do you want with her?" I shouted fiercely at them, preparing to attack them should they come closer to Rikku.
"Well well..." the winged woman commented with irony. "It seems that she wants to follow in the footsteps of goody-two-shoes Edea, but Rikku shall follow in the dark side of sorcery..." She advanced towards me. With my greatest strength, I attempted to slice through the winged creature. But the katana simply seared through her holographic frame. She grabbed me up by the throat.
"Poor poor thing," she moaned sarcastically, as she held me up by the throat high into the air. "What a noble way for a knight to die for his sorceress..." Her voice trailed off as she began to compress my neck. Though an unsent, it was agony being strangled slowly.
"STOP IT!" a piercing high-pitched voice sounded through the metallic room. Rikku began to glow as she sent a powerful invisible wave across the room, which resulted in the winged woman thrown across the room, releasing her grip on me. She ran across to me. "Are you okay?" I nodded and stood up again with my sword, once again defending her with my weapon.
"Since you don't wish to follow the dark way of sorcery," the winged woman shook her head and began to raise her hand, which began to glow. "I shall claim them for myself!"
"Stand back Rikku," I gave the Al Bhed a slight push back. "This could be dangerous!"
A portal opened up and a winged creature with the head of a Ronso and the body of a normal four-legged fiend flew out.
"Kill them," she instructed with her hand, its long fingernails stretching out. "When both have been defeated, bring the girl's unsent spirit back to me." The monster gave a grunt, showing agreement. The winged lady and the monstrous woman began to vanish. I stood before the monster, my hands onto the handle of my giant blade.
"I'll join you!" Rikku exclaimed as she ran beside me. "Give me a chance to attack!" I nodded as we engaged ourselves into battle positions against the monster. The abomination lunged forward at us but was stopped by my strength on the blade blocking it. Rikku, as possible as she could, attempted to attack the monster.
***
I tried to make another block from the monster's never-ending attacks. Feeling tired and exhausted, the abomination gave a final blow, throwing across onto the wall of the room.
"Are you okay?" I tried to stand up fell. "Never mind, let me take over!" I watched as she stood in battle before the monster. Rikku closed her eyes and opened to reveal glowing white light seeping from them. She waved down a hand at the enemy.
Before the monster could dodge the attack, a glowing blast of black energy exploded on it. It seemed terribly weakened by the magical blow. I summoned my strength and pushed myself from the floor. With a powerful cry, I charged at the monster with my katana, slicing through it. The monster screamed as it fell to the ground, with pyreflies flying away from it. Tired and injured, I collapsed to the ground and blacked out.
***
I stirred to see Rikku staring at me. She had removed my crimson coat and loosened my belt.
"Ya okay now?" she asked. I responded with a slight nod. She hugged my body. "I'm so glad you are okay!" I responded with my hands wrapping her frame.
"Help me up," I replied. "We have to return to Spira; we can't remain here forever." She nodded. We advanced to another metallic room where the door block our path with a strange machina beside it.
'What the...?' I cursed from my indifference to Al Bhed contraptions. Rikku proceeded to touch the screen. Within minutes, the door opened to reveal more machina within the room. At the front was a large window that revealed blackness. The Al Bhed girl jumped happily into room.
"Hey," she joked. "I never been out of this world before!" She ran to the large window, which showed a large grey spherical body and another large bluish one. It was the Moon and Spira respectively. She scrutinized the screens, "Hey these can work still!" And Rikku began pressing into a strange board with several pressable buttons.
The entire craft began to creak to life. I heard the growing sound of the engine beginning to function. "Please select your destination," a raspy voice sounded from the machina. A screen revealed itself to show a whole new world map, not the one of Spira.
"Wow," Rikku exclaimed. "I never knew that there was a whole new place beside Spira." She commented as she looked at the map. Two names caught her eyes. "Zanarkand Airport; Bevelle Airstation," she read out. As she choose 'Bevelle Airstation', the machina showed up a message. "Error, unable to contact airstation." She looked at amazement at the craft's technology.
"Let me decide," I replied. Without much consideration, I pressed on an unknown destination. In a split-second, Spira seemed to get closer. I held on to a near pillar for safety.
"Fuf!" Rikku began to marvel at the technology of the craft. "Ajah ic Al Bhed lyh'd ku drec vycd..." I agreed in silence. With my slight knowledge of Al Bhed, I began to tell her what had happened.
"Rikku..." I began my explanation. "E drehg fa yna raytehk du y rekr- dalrhumukelym lejemewydeuh."
"Ur naymmo?" she replied back in amazement. "Drah ymm dra suna fa cruimt caa ed!" I admired her ability to be happy in such times and her open- mindedness.
***
The craft entered the atmosphere of the world. Everywhere began to glow red- hot. The speaker began to crack from life, "Welcome to Esthar airspace, please identify yourselves." I shuddered at the sound, unable to solve this sudden problem.
"Just bring us to safety," Rikku replied back.
"No problem madam," it shot back. Suddenly, the craft was being automatically re-guided. As soon as the craft came through the clouds, a giant city with several towering buildings at the centre revealed itself.
"Rao!" Rikku marveled at the mega-city sight. "Drec ec cu silr pekkan dryh dra Zanarkand fa cyf yd Guadosalam!" I nodded once again in silence. A grin wore across my visage, pleased to see that this young guardian was so happy. Knowing that my story would end soon, I tried to think of ways to get back to Spira and soon hid my smile behind the high collar.
***
The craft automatically landed on a strange grey flat ground. Rikku and I walked out of the craft. The same man I saw in the palace greeted me with a few soldiers.
"Good day to you," he announced to me. "It seems that we have to do some checks on Rikku." I drew out my sword. The soldiers aimed their machina weapons at me. The old man walked out with his hands raised, showing peace.
"Auron," Rikku turned to me. "I'll be alright. Let's go." She gave me a kiss on the cheek and followed the group onto a floating craft, which sped away as soon as all were on board.
I hung my head low, my sword hanging from my hand. I felt the presence of someone behind me.
"You aren't going after her?" the familiar voice sounded. It was Ellone. I shook my head. "And you are going to regret this when you go to the Farplane?" I remained quiet. She put her hand on my towering shoulder.
"Auron, you can change your fate," she whispered. "If you still love her, go after her, she's at the famous Sorceress Memorial." I looked up and saw a building in the far distance. I turned to look at Ellone.
"Thank you Ellone," I replied as I went back to the craft. She smiled and walked away.
"Please choose your destination," I scanned for 'Sorceress Memorial'. With a hard push, I chose the destination. Within a split-second, the craft sped across the Esthar skyline, with several other crafts below.
I descended from the craft to see that the floating craft had arrived at its destination already. I rushed inside to see Rikku struggling helplessly in some strange glass sphere.
"Prepare for tests," one of the men in white spoke. Another person nodded and started pressing the button. The glass sphere began to fill with white, opaque gases. Eager to save Rikku, I drew out my katana and charged at the sphere.
"Hey, what are you doing?" one of the men from behind shouted to me. I made no note of that signal. With my brute force, I hit my sword into the glass sphere, causing a portion of it to crack.
Rikku emerged from the opaque-filled sphere. I rushed to grab her weak body. Embracing her with my arms, she looked up at me.
"I never thought I would see you again..." she replied weakly. I bended my head down to give her a warm passionate kiss, interlocking our lips. We closed our eyes to experience the feeling of true love, oblivious of the people nearby who were probably staring at our actions.
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Okay, I think that should be all for now. Sadly, this story is quite short because it simply concentrates on one event only. See ya soon! And by the way, you could actually imagine the scene if you incorporate some Final Fantasy X music into it. Like for example, during the fight just now, you could use the FFX boss fight music to imagine the scene. And the above scene, which can be depicted from FFVIII. =)
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I took up my katana and looked around with Rikku holding my hand from behind. I noticed a metallic door and began to scrutinize its mechanical workings. The door opened vertically. I turned to see that Rikku had pressed on one of the green buttons located there.
"You shouldn't have done that," came my reprimand of concern, worried that it could be a trap.
"Don't worry Auron," she replied. "This craft seems easy to operate, well for an Al Bhed I guess." I nodded in agreement and began to advance into the opening. A woman in the distance stood, with her back facing us.
"I see you have come," the woman sneered, with a demonic tone in her voice. Wary of the strange person, I drew out my katana. She turned to reveal a normal looking human but with fiery red eyes. Her fingers nails, painted red as blood, were longer than anyone's in Spira. She stretched out her hand. "Come Rikku, your mistress awaits!"
"What mistress?" she exclaimed, with a touch of shock in her throat. Rikku clung closer to my back. I pointed my katana at the monstrous woman. Suddenly, another woman began to materialize with a helmet of two horns on her head and black wings folded behind her back. The winged woman released an evil smile on her face.
"I am your mistress," she announced proudly. "I used you to release Sorceress Yunalesca. By the power of possession."
"Y-you u-used-d m-me?!?" Rikku shuddered at the truth. She hid behind my scarlet coat.
"What do you want with her?" I shouted fiercely at them, preparing to attack them should they come closer to Rikku.
"Well well..." the winged woman commented with irony. "It seems that she wants to follow in the footsteps of goody-two-shoes Edea, but Rikku shall follow in the dark side of sorcery..." She advanced towards me. With my greatest strength, I attempted to slice through the winged creature. But the katana simply seared through her holographic frame. She grabbed me up by the throat.
"Poor poor thing," she moaned sarcastically, as she held me up by the throat high into the air. "What a noble way for a knight to die for his sorceress..." Her voice trailed off as she began to compress my neck. Though an unsent, it was agony being strangled slowly.
"STOP IT!" a piercing high-pitched voice sounded through the metallic room. Rikku began to glow as she sent a powerful invisible wave across the room, which resulted in the winged woman thrown across the room, releasing her grip on me. She ran across to me. "Are you okay?" I nodded and stood up again with my sword, once again defending her with my weapon.
"Since you don't wish to follow the dark way of sorcery," the winged woman shook her head and began to raise her hand, which began to glow. "I shall claim them for myself!"
"Stand back Rikku," I gave the Al Bhed a slight push back. "This could be dangerous!"
A portal opened up and a winged creature with the head of a Ronso and the body of a normal four-legged fiend flew out.
"Kill them," she instructed with her hand, its long fingernails stretching out. "When both have been defeated, bring the girl's unsent spirit back to me." The monster gave a grunt, showing agreement. The winged lady and the monstrous woman began to vanish. I stood before the monster, my hands onto the handle of my giant blade.
"I'll join you!" Rikku exclaimed as she ran beside me. "Give me a chance to attack!" I nodded as we engaged ourselves into battle positions against the monster. The abomination lunged forward at us but was stopped by my strength on the blade blocking it. Rikku, as possible as she could, attempted to attack the monster.
***
I tried to make another block from the monster's never-ending attacks. Feeling tired and exhausted, the abomination gave a final blow, throwing across onto the wall of the room.
"Are you okay?" I tried to stand up fell. "Never mind, let me take over!" I watched as she stood in battle before the monster. Rikku closed her eyes and opened to reveal glowing white light seeping from them. She waved down a hand at the enemy.
Before the monster could dodge the attack, a glowing blast of black energy exploded on it. It seemed terribly weakened by the magical blow. I summoned my strength and pushed myself from the floor. With a powerful cry, I charged at the monster with my katana, slicing through it. The monster screamed as it fell to the ground, with pyreflies flying away from it. Tired and injured, I collapsed to the ground and blacked out.
***
I stirred to see Rikku staring at me. She had removed my crimson coat and loosened my belt.
"Ya okay now?" she asked. I responded with a slight nod. She hugged my body. "I'm so glad you are okay!" I responded with my hands wrapping her frame.
"Help me up," I replied. "We have to return to Spira; we can't remain here forever." She nodded. We advanced to another metallic room where the door block our path with a strange machina beside it.
'What the...?' I cursed from my indifference to Al Bhed contraptions. Rikku proceeded to touch the screen. Within minutes, the door opened to reveal more machina within the room. At the front was a large window that revealed blackness. The Al Bhed girl jumped happily into room.
"Hey," she joked. "I never been out of this world before!" She ran to the large window, which showed a large grey spherical body and another large bluish one. It was the Moon and Spira respectively. She scrutinized the screens, "Hey these can work still!" And Rikku began pressing into a strange board with several pressable buttons.
The entire craft began to creak to life. I heard the growing sound of the engine beginning to function. "Please select your destination," a raspy voice sounded from the machina. A screen revealed itself to show a whole new world map, not the one of Spira.
"Wow," Rikku exclaimed. "I never knew that there was a whole new place beside Spira." She commented as she looked at the map. Two names caught her eyes. "Zanarkand Airport; Bevelle Airstation," she read out. As she choose 'Bevelle Airstation', the machina showed up a message. "Error, unable to contact airstation." She looked at amazement at the craft's technology.
"Let me decide," I replied. Without much consideration, I pressed on an unknown destination. In a split-second, Spira seemed to get closer. I held on to a near pillar for safety.
"Fuf!" Rikku began to marvel at the technology of the craft. "Ajah ic Al Bhed lyh'd ku drec vycd..." I agreed in silence. With my slight knowledge of Al Bhed, I began to tell her what had happened.
"Rikku..." I began my explanation. "E drehg fa yna raytehk du y rekr- dalrhumukelym lejemewydeuh."
"Ur naymmo?" she replied back in amazement. "Drah ymm dra suna fa cruimt caa ed!" I admired her ability to be happy in such times and her open- mindedness.
***
The craft entered the atmosphere of the world. Everywhere began to glow red- hot. The speaker began to crack from life, "Welcome to Esthar airspace, please identify yourselves." I shuddered at the sound, unable to solve this sudden problem.
"Just bring us to safety," Rikku replied back.
"No problem madam," it shot back. Suddenly, the craft was being automatically re-guided. As soon as the craft came through the clouds, a giant city with several towering buildings at the centre revealed itself.
"Rao!" Rikku marveled at the mega-city sight. "Drec ec cu silr pekkan dryh dra Zanarkand fa cyf yd Guadosalam!" I nodded once again in silence. A grin wore across my visage, pleased to see that this young guardian was so happy. Knowing that my story would end soon, I tried to think of ways to get back to Spira and soon hid my smile behind the high collar.
***
The craft automatically landed on a strange grey flat ground. Rikku and I walked out of the craft. The same man I saw in the palace greeted me with a few soldiers.
"Good day to you," he announced to me. "It seems that we have to do some checks on Rikku." I drew out my sword. The soldiers aimed their machina weapons at me. The old man walked out with his hands raised, showing peace.
"Auron," Rikku turned to me. "I'll be alright. Let's go." She gave me a kiss on the cheek and followed the group onto a floating craft, which sped away as soon as all were on board.
I hung my head low, my sword hanging from my hand. I felt the presence of someone behind me.
"You aren't going after her?" the familiar voice sounded. It was Ellone. I shook my head. "And you are going to regret this when you go to the Farplane?" I remained quiet. She put her hand on my towering shoulder.
"Auron, you can change your fate," she whispered. "If you still love her, go after her, she's at the famous Sorceress Memorial." I looked up and saw a building in the far distance. I turned to look at Ellone.
"Thank you Ellone," I replied as I went back to the craft. She smiled and walked away.
"Please choose your destination," I scanned for 'Sorceress Memorial'. With a hard push, I chose the destination. Within a split-second, the craft sped across the Esthar skyline, with several other crafts below.
I descended from the craft to see that the floating craft had arrived at its destination already. I rushed inside to see Rikku struggling helplessly in some strange glass sphere.
"Prepare for tests," one of the men in white spoke. Another person nodded and started pressing the button. The glass sphere began to fill with white, opaque gases. Eager to save Rikku, I drew out my katana and charged at the sphere.
"Hey, what are you doing?" one of the men from behind shouted to me. I made no note of that signal. With my brute force, I hit my sword into the glass sphere, causing a portion of it to crack.
Rikku emerged from the opaque-filled sphere. I rushed to grab her weak body. Embracing her with my arms, she looked up at me.
"I never thought I would see you again..." she replied weakly. I bended my head down to give her a warm passionate kiss, interlocking our lips. We closed our eyes to experience the feeling of true love, oblivious of the people nearby who were probably staring at our actions.
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Okay, I think that should be all for now. Sadly, this story is quite short because it simply concentrates on one event only. See ya soon! And by the way, you could actually imagine the scene if you incorporate some Final Fantasy X music into it. Like for example, during the fight just now, you could use the FFX boss fight music to imagine the scene. And the above scene, which can be depicted from FFVIII. =)