Jayson walked slowly towards the orb, gazing up intently at the marred
humanoid face of Spore.
'Now what do you intend to do?' Spore asked with his thoughts.
'Time to kill you once and for all just like your sons.' Jayson growled.
Spore laughed hollowly. 'Surely you must realise who you are dealing with? I out power Omega more than a thousand fold! I rule all monsters!' he told him imperiously.
'Yet your own daughter locked you up... with an interesting little clause.' Jayson replied grinning.
There was a hesitant pause before Spore replied. 'So you intend to release me? Fool! I'll destroy your puny race and make this a world of monsters once more!'
'If you're so sure then why do I worry you?' Jayson replied still approaching.
'I thought you'd be of use to me, but you're nothing more than a thorn in my side... but still you've convinced your friends of my release... I'm sure I can think of a just reward for that.' Spore said to him.
'Yes you can die... FIRE!!' Jayson yelled as a small burst of flame erupted from his fist and hit the orb, which slowly began to crack.
As ran back out of the cave all he could hear was the shattering or crystal and Spore's ringing laugh in his head.
'Time to let you go for a while.' Jayson said to Orion and lost all his magic as Orion uncoupled from his mind.
Jayson dived out of the passage as it started to crumble looking up at the others from the ground as he rolled over and looked up at the mountainside as it broke apart and Spore's true form was finally revealed.
Spore's roar of delight rang across Mordred Plains as huge paws tore into the rock and pulled it away revealing the huge panther-like lower body and the grinning face between the front legs and the upper humanoid body folded up from it, it's huge blade-like wings unfolding from its shoulders while a long translucent blade was held in one hand.
Jayson stood as Spore looked down on them crushing the mountain under his feet so he was level with them.
'Now you will witness my power!' Spore said triumphantly and slammed his blade into the ground before them.
Jayson raised his arms stopping the others as they went to rush in on the attack.
'What are you doing?' Squall demanded.
'You should be making sure no monsters get any where near us. I'll handle Spore.' He told them keeping his eyes on the huge enemy before them.
'Are you insane!? It took three of us to kill Omega and even then we were all KO'd Hyne knows how many times!' Quistis screamed at him.
Jayson shot her a quick stern look. 'Look, he's just been freed, so he'll be weak. But if any monsters get here and heal him we'll seriously have no chance of killing him. Trust me!' he yelled back.
Squall and Quistis stepped back reluctantly whilst Meia and Kiros were already running off across the plains to head off the monsters heading their way.
'Look at it this way...' Jayson told them. 'If I mess up you'll all get your turns.' He grinned and then headed towards Spore Fixxer at the ready.
Spore looked down on him as Jayson stood before him, one-third the size of the monstrosity that towered above him.
'You really have the arrogance to try and take me on your own?' Spore growled.
'Not arrogance, the certainty!' Jayson yelled back and leapt out the way as a paw thudded down beside him.
'Too slow old man!' Jayson quipped and slid under Spore's legs, running Fixxer along Spore's under belly, tearing the black scaly flesh and feeling the thick blood dripping onto his back.
Spore roared in pain, rearing back in anger as his blood rained down from the jagged wound.
'HOW!?' he roared in surprise, anger and pain.
Jayson appeared from underneath a paw and grinned. 'Like I said, there's a little clause to your release.' He replied and jumped up onto Spore's outstretched leg and ran up onto his back.
Jayson ducked as a flailing arm tried to knock him off and he stabbed a dagger into the nook of Spore's back where the humanoid and lower parts of his body met, wedging in between two scaly plates.
'Not so impervious now!' Jayson taunted as Spore flailed madly at him as blood trickled along his back.
Jayson climbed up Spore's quivering back and looked on in pride and relief as he saw the others easily overcoming Spore's oncoming minions. Pulling himself up onto a wing and held on tightly as it tried to flap him off. He then had to flip onto Spore's shoulder as Spore's blade came swinging down severing his own flesh. The wing came away in a spurt of black blood and Jayson was now by Spore's humanoid head, glad that being so close to Spore meant that the beast couldn't use the devastating techniques that Squall and the others had described of Ultima and Omega.
Meia finished off a Torama and risked a glance back to Spore and Jayson just to pacify her troubled mind and was amazed to see the small form of Jayson flipping onto Spore's shoulder, narrowly missing being cut in two by Spore's huge crystalline blade and was now approaching his head. She was too far away to see clearly and she wanted to be nearer to help Jayson. Somehow his plan had worked, Spore was just a large monster that needed to be slain rather than an all-powerful WEAPON. She wondered what exactly it was that Jayson had worked out from Gilgamesh's clues that had made it this easy for him... or was it because of the power inside that made it look easy to them? She quickly turned her attention back to her own role as more monsters appeared from the far corners of the plain all converging on their Lord.
'I underestimated you human...' Spore said weakly as his lifeblood drained from the wound Jayson had inflicted.
'Yeah well you should've learned that when you tried taking me over.' Jayson said coldly.
'Yes... that cold, dark mind of yours with its many secrets... if only I'd been able to reach your core then maybe this situation would be reversed...' Spore said softly.
'Yeah well now you can go to where you belong...' Jayson retorted creeping closer to Spore's head noticing how sedate he had become.
'Accepting your fate?' Jayson asked as he drew Fixxer.
Spore coughed dryly. 'What choice do I have? Besides my dark malevolence is inherent in my form and it was the greatest... but not anymore... the darkest created in your heart is more of a threat to this world than I'll ever be... better I go than you.' Spore told him laughing dryly.
Jayson froze momentarily. 'Whatever.' He muttered.
'Deny all you want you know it's true, how else could you have defeated me on you own?' Spore replied.
'I have reasons to fight that's why.' Jayson retorted standing by the side of Spore's head now.
'Ah yes... the girl but that isn't your true power...' Spore said sneering.
'Enough!' Jayson snarled. 'Time for you to die!' he hissed.
Spore turned his head to him, his sharp teeth glinting in the light as he grinned. 'Very well but answer me this, Jayson... how did you make me so weak that I couldn't stand a chance.' Spore asked.
Jayson shrugged. 'Simple, you were holding out for stronger magic, otherwise you would've released yourself already.' He replied. 'You needed the strongest magic to return you to your original powers... the orb dampens the power of the magic used to release you so if a weak magic was used you would only be infused with a small amount of power and so would be weaker.' Jayson continued.
Spore grimaced. 'My treacherous daughter...' he said sighing softly.
'Very well end it...' Spore said and stood still as Jayson rammed Fixxer into his bleak black eyes, white fluid spurting from each of them.
Spore shuddered as he suppressed the roar of pain and Jayson tore into his head firing round after round into it.
As Spore's body writhed in agony and the last twitches of life Jayson backflipped from his shoulder and down his body. Holding out Fixxer, the blade dug into Spore's chest and carved it open as it slowed Jayson's fall.
He dropped lightly on the ground, a fall of dark blood flowing down around him. A huge paw swiped at him and he caught it with Fixxer's blade forcing it back. He realised that although the humanoid part of Spore was dead the lower half still had half a mind of its own, and it was pure instinct, designed to lash out and strike in pain.
'Oh well better get the job done properly.' Jayson sighed to himself.
He closed his eyes and focused, a flash of yellow light appearing around him as he entered a Limit Break state. People didn't realise that a limit could be triggered instantly without need for rage and damage to build up in battle, all it took was focus and adrenaline.
'Echo Strike!' Jayson called out, Fixxer spinning round in his hand so rapidly the twirling blade shot out a wave of energy that knocked Spore back. He then unleashed his Limit technique for the very first time.
'Reaper!' he bellowed and charged at Spore bringing the hooked end of Fixxer down on either side of the lower face of Spore and then spun his grip so that the blade tore it in half, the humanoid part of Spore sliding away from the rest as they both slumped to the ground and writhed momentarily before they faded to black, dissolving into dust.
Jayson stood back panting and heard the footsteps of the others coming towards him. He spun round and saw Squall, Quistis and Kiros looking at him in awe whilst Meia simply came rushing at him, her face a picture of relief as she jumped on him wrapping her arms around his neck and holding him tight.
The others were red in the face with exertion and possibly embarrassment as Meia continued to hold him tightly.
'It's over...' Squall said slowly.
'Yes.' Jayson said simply, his free hand moving up Meia's back.
'How...?' Quistis asked him.
'I'll explain on the Ragnarok...' Jayson said sighing and walked towards the red airship Meia still hanging from him as the others followed silently.
'Now what do you intend to do?' Spore asked with his thoughts.
'Time to kill you once and for all just like your sons.' Jayson growled.
Spore laughed hollowly. 'Surely you must realise who you are dealing with? I out power Omega more than a thousand fold! I rule all monsters!' he told him imperiously.
'Yet your own daughter locked you up... with an interesting little clause.' Jayson replied grinning.
There was a hesitant pause before Spore replied. 'So you intend to release me? Fool! I'll destroy your puny race and make this a world of monsters once more!'
'If you're so sure then why do I worry you?' Jayson replied still approaching.
'I thought you'd be of use to me, but you're nothing more than a thorn in my side... but still you've convinced your friends of my release... I'm sure I can think of a just reward for that.' Spore said to him.
'Yes you can die... FIRE!!' Jayson yelled as a small burst of flame erupted from his fist and hit the orb, which slowly began to crack.
As ran back out of the cave all he could hear was the shattering or crystal and Spore's ringing laugh in his head.
'Time to let you go for a while.' Jayson said to Orion and lost all his magic as Orion uncoupled from his mind.
Jayson dived out of the passage as it started to crumble looking up at the others from the ground as he rolled over and looked up at the mountainside as it broke apart and Spore's true form was finally revealed.
Spore's roar of delight rang across Mordred Plains as huge paws tore into the rock and pulled it away revealing the huge panther-like lower body and the grinning face between the front legs and the upper humanoid body folded up from it, it's huge blade-like wings unfolding from its shoulders while a long translucent blade was held in one hand.
Jayson stood as Spore looked down on them crushing the mountain under his feet so he was level with them.
'Now you will witness my power!' Spore said triumphantly and slammed his blade into the ground before them.
Jayson raised his arms stopping the others as they went to rush in on the attack.
'What are you doing?' Squall demanded.
'You should be making sure no monsters get any where near us. I'll handle Spore.' He told them keeping his eyes on the huge enemy before them.
'Are you insane!? It took three of us to kill Omega and even then we were all KO'd Hyne knows how many times!' Quistis screamed at him.
Jayson shot her a quick stern look. 'Look, he's just been freed, so he'll be weak. But if any monsters get here and heal him we'll seriously have no chance of killing him. Trust me!' he yelled back.
Squall and Quistis stepped back reluctantly whilst Meia and Kiros were already running off across the plains to head off the monsters heading their way.
'Look at it this way...' Jayson told them. 'If I mess up you'll all get your turns.' He grinned and then headed towards Spore Fixxer at the ready.
Spore looked down on him as Jayson stood before him, one-third the size of the monstrosity that towered above him.
'You really have the arrogance to try and take me on your own?' Spore growled.
'Not arrogance, the certainty!' Jayson yelled back and leapt out the way as a paw thudded down beside him.
'Too slow old man!' Jayson quipped and slid under Spore's legs, running Fixxer along Spore's under belly, tearing the black scaly flesh and feeling the thick blood dripping onto his back.
Spore roared in pain, rearing back in anger as his blood rained down from the jagged wound.
'HOW!?' he roared in surprise, anger and pain.
Jayson appeared from underneath a paw and grinned. 'Like I said, there's a little clause to your release.' He replied and jumped up onto Spore's outstretched leg and ran up onto his back.
Jayson ducked as a flailing arm tried to knock him off and he stabbed a dagger into the nook of Spore's back where the humanoid and lower parts of his body met, wedging in between two scaly plates.
'Not so impervious now!' Jayson taunted as Spore flailed madly at him as blood trickled along his back.
Jayson climbed up Spore's quivering back and looked on in pride and relief as he saw the others easily overcoming Spore's oncoming minions. Pulling himself up onto a wing and held on tightly as it tried to flap him off. He then had to flip onto Spore's shoulder as Spore's blade came swinging down severing his own flesh. The wing came away in a spurt of black blood and Jayson was now by Spore's humanoid head, glad that being so close to Spore meant that the beast couldn't use the devastating techniques that Squall and the others had described of Ultima and Omega.
Meia finished off a Torama and risked a glance back to Spore and Jayson just to pacify her troubled mind and was amazed to see the small form of Jayson flipping onto Spore's shoulder, narrowly missing being cut in two by Spore's huge crystalline blade and was now approaching his head. She was too far away to see clearly and she wanted to be nearer to help Jayson. Somehow his plan had worked, Spore was just a large monster that needed to be slain rather than an all-powerful WEAPON. She wondered what exactly it was that Jayson had worked out from Gilgamesh's clues that had made it this easy for him... or was it because of the power inside that made it look easy to them? She quickly turned her attention back to her own role as more monsters appeared from the far corners of the plain all converging on their Lord.
'I underestimated you human...' Spore said weakly as his lifeblood drained from the wound Jayson had inflicted.
'Yeah well you should've learned that when you tried taking me over.' Jayson said coldly.
'Yes... that cold, dark mind of yours with its many secrets... if only I'd been able to reach your core then maybe this situation would be reversed...' Spore said softly.
'Yeah well now you can go to where you belong...' Jayson retorted creeping closer to Spore's head noticing how sedate he had become.
'Accepting your fate?' Jayson asked as he drew Fixxer.
Spore coughed dryly. 'What choice do I have? Besides my dark malevolence is inherent in my form and it was the greatest... but not anymore... the darkest created in your heart is more of a threat to this world than I'll ever be... better I go than you.' Spore told him laughing dryly.
Jayson froze momentarily. 'Whatever.' He muttered.
'Deny all you want you know it's true, how else could you have defeated me on you own?' Spore replied.
'I have reasons to fight that's why.' Jayson retorted standing by the side of Spore's head now.
'Ah yes... the girl but that isn't your true power...' Spore said sneering.
'Enough!' Jayson snarled. 'Time for you to die!' he hissed.
Spore turned his head to him, his sharp teeth glinting in the light as he grinned. 'Very well but answer me this, Jayson... how did you make me so weak that I couldn't stand a chance.' Spore asked.
Jayson shrugged. 'Simple, you were holding out for stronger magic, otherwise you would've released yourself already.' He replied. 'You needed the strongest magic to return you to your original powers... the orb dampens the power of the magic used to release you so if a weak magic was used you would only be infused with a small amount of power and so would be weaker.' Jayson continued.
Spore grimaced. 'My treacherous daughter...' he said sighing softly.
'Very well end it...' Spore said and stood still as Jayson rammed Fixxer into his bleak black eyes, white fluid spurting from each of them.
Spore shuddered as he suppressed the roar of pain and Jayson tore into his head firing round after round into it.
As Spore's body writhed in agony and the last twitches of life Jayson backflipped from his shoulder and down his body. Holding out Fixxer, the blade dug into Spore's chest and carved it open as it slowed Jayson's fall.
He dropped lightly on the ground, a fall of dark blood flowing down around him. A huge paw swiped at him and he caught it with Fixxer's blade forcing it back. He realised that although the humanoid part of Spore was dead the lower half still had half a mind of its own, and it was pure instinct, designed to lash out and strike in pain.
'Oh well better get the job done properly.' Jayson sighed to himself.
He closed his eyes and focused, a flash of yellow light appearing around him as he entered a Limit Break state. People didn't realise that a limit could be triggered instantly without need for rage and damage to build up in battle, all it took was focus and adrenaline.
'Echo Strike!' Jayson called out, Fixxer spinning round in his hand so rapidly the twirling blade shot out a wave of energy that knocked Spore back. He then unleashed his Limit technique for the very first time.
'Reaper!' he bellowed and charged at Spore bringing the hooked end of Fixxer down on either side of the lower face of Spore and then spun his grip so that the blade tore it in half, the humanoid part of Spore sliding away from the rest as they both slumped to the ground and writhed momentarily before they faded to black, dissolving into dust.
Jayson stood back panting and heard the footsteps of the others coming towards him. He spun round and saw Squall, Quistis and Kiros looking at him in awe whilst Meia simply came rushing at him, her face a picture of relief as she jumped on him wrapping her arms around his neck and holding him tight.
The others were red in the face with exertion and possibly embarrassment as Meia continued to hold him tightly.
'It's over...' Squall said slowly.
'Yes.' Jayson said simply, his free hand moving up Meia's back.
'How...?' Quistis asked him.
'I'll explain on the Ragnarok...' Jayson said sighing and walked towards the red airship Meia still hanging from him as the others followed silently.