Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy characters or blah blah just the game.

Chapter I: Beginning of a Legend

Eran lay in bed, mumbling random useless words in his sleep.
"Pizza... ummm... mmm... Donut... Fire..."
His sleep was easily interrupted by a tapping on his bedroom glass.
"Huh?" said Eran wearily. "Wha?" he continued, puzzled as he slowly sat up.
The tapping continued. Eran finally stood up out of his bed and walked to the window. He opened the window and saw his friend, Cri.
His name really wasn't Cri, it was just a nickname Eran had made up to substitute 'Christopher', and Cri didn't like Chris very much. So Cri it was. "Hello!" he said.
"It is the middle of the night! I'm trying to get some sleep." Cri got as a reply.
"I know, but I swear, you won't want to miss this!"
"What is it?" Eran asked as he crawled out his window.
"You know that fish catcher we made to catch fish constantly? Well, Ira is sleep walking right into it!"
"Whoa... now we can see if it works! But... you do have the net set up right?"
Cri didn't reply. He was just running as fast as he could to fisher.
Jeez, I hope it is set up. I don't want Ira to wake up in the forest outside of town... That would just be disastrous to Cri and myself. Wait... Something doesn't feel right... like something is missing from the world...
"Hurry up! You're falling behind!" Cri yelled to Eran.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, I was just thinking of something."
The duo continued running towards the backyard of Cri, which was where they kept it. They immediately came to a halt as they jumped over the fence to the backyard. They watched as Ira slowly walked into the catapult. The way the fish netter was set was that there was a catapult that, when pushed harder than calm seas, activates and launches whatever into a net. Just before Ira touched the catapult and activated, Eran noticed something very strange, and with his feeling he emitted an aura that woke Ira.
"Huh?" she said as she rubbed her eyes. "Where am I?"
Cri felt the aura, and with him being such a close friend to Eran, he knew something was very wrong that Eran felt. Ira saw the two zoned out, Cri zoned out on Eran, and Eran seemed to be concentrating on a thing from another world, like he was contacting the other side.
"What is going on!!!" she yelled to the two. Obviously she didn't notice that she was about to be launched to Forest of Illin. Quickly she ran up to them, but every step she took she got a little slower, as the closer she got to Eran, the more force from the aura she felt. "Wha... is something wrong with..." but she couldn't finish her sentence as she too, became dumbfounded like the other two.
What is going on? Something is very wrong here... but what? I know that something doesn't feel right, but what? Why is there no sky...? Where am I? This isn't where I was... but where was I? Why can I not remember... is something attacking my mind? I don't feel anything wrong with me... it is just the outer world... like everything that had to do with an element had disappeared... Wait! They have disappeared! Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, Thunder... even Shadow! Why is Light or Spirit not taken yet... wait! Light has been taken... leaving Spirit... Spirit... the center of all that is life... something is tampering with the forces of the world! If Spirit is taken, then no one will be living... all will be dead...

"AHH!!!" Eran awoke with a startle. Heavily panting, he looked around. He sighed, and calmed himself by saying, "It was just a dream... besides, if the elements of the world were being tampered with, then someone would have had to find the stone, which no one even has an IDEA about where it is held. Even the legend doesn't help much."

"A legend is born, the elements collide...
The heroes arrive, and the worlds divide...
Find the Lerano Stone, the cave of Siro
Before Hell freezes, and Heaven burns."

"How stupid, I mean, where is the cave of Siro? That REALLY helps." finished Eran, falling back in his bed to sleep.