Time Crush
Chapter 2
As has already been stated in an earlier chapter, time is both complex and simple. This, however, is not true. Time is a very simple thing. The perspective of time is complex, and this perspective can change time into a very complex thing. For example, time can move slower in different parts of the multiverse, mainly because if they didn't, this would be a very short and boring story. However, it can be explained. A story has power. Power can change things. Enough stories focusing on one particular place can change the time affecting this place. You will see the point of this later.
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The effects of the time echo can take anyone to anywhere at any time. It is also very unpredictable. As it happens, Dave and Emma didn't arrive along with all of the others in Balamb immediately, but in fact overshot slightly.
The canyon walls seemed to rise up forever. The only way in or out would be through either teleported or by air. On one base, the blue's were angry, because a red soldier had just stolen their flag. One of the blues ran out after the red man. He stopped him next to a glowing triangle on the ground.
"Freeze!" the blue one called after the red.
"Hey! Why the hell are you shooting at me? you could have hit me dick!" the red one said back to him.
"Can it. Don't try to play stupid with me sarge. I know who you are. We've been spying on you for three weeks now."
"I just got here two hours ago, and I'm not a sergeant, I'm a private."
"Wait a minute, you're not the sergeant."
"Yeah, that's what I just said."
"Well, then how the hell did you manage to steal our flag?"
"Steal? I have no idea what the hell you're talking about."
Suddenly, the triangle glowed green, and Dave and Emma emerged out of it.
"What the hell! Who the hell are these guys?" the red soldier asked.
"Um… Dave, this doesn't look very much like Balamb." Emma said
"Yeah I know. Wait, can you hear that? Like a low buzz?"
"Yes. It's getting louder."
"Hey, what the hell's going on here?" the blue soldier asked.
Then, as suddenly as they appeared, Dave and Emma disappeared again.
"Huh. That was weird." the blue guy said.
"Tell me about it"
".. three!" Another blue soldier Yelled as he emerged from the teleported.
"HOLY SHIT! Who the hell is THIS guy?" the red soldier cried.
This is a good example of how stories work. Most of what you hear is part of a bigger picture, but through the years, people change bits and leave out all the bits about death, making the tales suitable for children. Maybe people who read this know the story behind this exert, maybe they don't. it's all a matter of perspective.
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"OW! Who's sitting on my arm?"
"Will you get you're arse out of my face?"
"What the hell's going on?"
"CONFUSION!"
"Where'd my glasses go?"
"Who's treading on my tale?"
"Where'd the monster go?"
"Where'd the AIRSHIP go?"
"Tail?"
"How come there are so many people in here?"
"Power's gone. Someone try to get together a light spell"
"Where food gone?"
"What the… where'd my body go? Is this it?"
"Hey! Hands off, pal, that's me"
"Sorry"
"FLARE!!!"
The room was suddenly lit up. Dave, the one who had fired up the spell, said "Calm down. Does anyone have any questions?"
The room was silent, as everyone started to look around. Eventually, Squall managed to say, "WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?"
"Ah. One of the difficult ones!" said Dave.
"Who are you? Why are all these people here? Who are…? What…? Where…?" he fell silent.
"I know it comes as a shock. Look, everyone get sorted out and upright, ok?"
A few minutes later, a kind of shocked order had returned. People were too scared to really say anything.
"Dave, um… we aren't in Balamb Garden."
"Yeah, I know. There must have been a random lateral component to the echo. I'm really gonna kill Sara when we get back."
"Um… what's going on, Mr Dave person?" a tall slim blond lady asked.
"Well… it's difficult to explain to this many different people, so I guess if you introduce yourselves to each other, and we'll take it from there. I'll point at someone, and you tell us all a little bit about yourself. After everyone's done and only after, I'll be happy to answer everyone's questions." He pointed at Zell.
"Er…hi. My name's Zell, I come from the town of Balamb, and I'm a fully qualified SeeD."
"What the hell's a seed?" asked a little girl in a green top and cream shorts.
"I said no questions til the end. For that, you're next"
"Well, I come from Wutai, my name's Yuffie, and I'm a world famous ninja!"
"Cute" said a tall rat-like woman.
"Oi. You now."
"I'm a Burmecian dragon knight called Freya, and I helped Queen Garnet and King Zidane beat Necron."
"Who are all those people you just said?" asked a brown haired girl with one green eye and one blue eye.
"For god's sakes, NO BLOODY QUESTIONS YET! Jesus Christ, do you people EVER listen? No, in fact don't answer that." He pointed to a short girl wearing a yellow dress. "You. Speak"
"My name's Selphie, I'm eighteen years old, I lived in Trabia for most of my life, and I'm currently engaged. I love trains and my hobbies include goi…"
"Stop right there, shorty. I said a few details, not a life story. Laughing boy," he pointed at Squall, "you're turn."
Squall glared at him, but said, "My name's Squall. I'm a SeeD, and I was partly responsible for killing Ultimecia."
"You" he pointed at a girl with red eyes and grey hair.
"Paine."
"Thank you for that valuable contribution, Paine. Other grey haired girl, you're turn"
She merely glared at him.
"UH, she's got this problem with her throat. It's really difficult for her to talk. Her name's Fujin." said Zell, walking over to her and hugging her.
"Please stop. You're tearing me up inside, really," he said sarcastically, "Next."
"Me Quina. Me hungry."
"Well, whatever. You."
"My name's Quistis, and I'm an instructor at Balamb Garden."
"I'm Rinoa, I'm working towards becoming a SeeD."
"My name's Rikku. I'm an Al Bhed, and I'm also part of a sphere hunter group."
"Name's Irvine Kinneas, and I'm heaven on earth for every single lady."
"Hey! You stop that right now!" Selphie cried.
"Sorry luvva."
"Can we cut the amateur dramatics? Thank you. Hey, Heterochromia iridis girl, you're turn."
"Who?" Emma asked.
"Ah, man. The one with the eyes different colours"
"My name's Yuna. I'm the high summoner who defeated sin and brought the eternal calm."
"Ok, that should be all of you. My name's Dave. This is Emma.."
"Yo!"
"…and we are from a small group of people that track paranormal and paranatural occurrences and activities. What we just experienced was an echo of a Time Crush. Very nasty event, time and space all kinda fucked up. Any Questions?"
There was a moment of silence, then absolutely everybody started shouting at once.
"SILENCE! O..K. Pointing system again. You've got one question each. Zell."
"Yes?"
"What's your question?"
"What's an al bed?
"The Al Bhed are an ethnic minority on the planet of Spira. It's covered almost 90% by water. Selphie?"
"Um, Dave, I think we…"
"Quiet, Emma. We're making progress."
"Why is there a giant rat here?"
"Watch it, small fry."
"She's from Burmecia, and they all look like that there. Actually, come to think about it, the story never explained why, did it?"
"Sorry, what story?" Paine asked.
"Uh, Dave, we really should…"
"Emma, please. I'm trying to do something here."
"EXPLAIN" said Fujin.
"Ah, kindred spirits are so lovely together."
"DAVE!!!" Emma shouted.
He sighed. "What?" he asked her.
"Um… I think we'd better run. Like right now."
"Why?"
"Because of that" She pointed into the depths of the cave they had all appeared in, and looking at them with interest was a very large dragon.
"Son of a Bitch! Um, Freya, dragon knight, any idea what we should do?"
"RUN!"
As if all driven by this word, every one turned and ran away from the dragon as fast as they could. The first one out was Yuffie.
"What the… where are we? I don't see a mako reactor anywhere"
Rikku was the next one out. "Um, I don't think this is Spira."
Selphie came out soon after, closely followed by Zell, Rinoa, Quina, Emma, Rikku and Yuna.
"Where are the others?" Zell asked.
Irvine came rushing out of the cave, and said to him, "They're staying and fighting that thing. They must be insane!"
Back inside the cave, the dragon looked around curiously. This meal was going to be a lot more entertaining than she'd anticipated.
"Quistis, Fujin, Keep it busy. I'm going to try and figure out how to deal with it." Squall shouted.
"How about you five distract it, and I'll kill it?" Freya called as she leapt into the air.
"Sounds good to me!" Dave called from behind a rock.
The four who were left facing the dragon didn't really have any idea of what to do, so they tried everything. Quistis channelled her thoughts around it, and unleashed a volley of ice spells, but they didn't slow the dragon down. Fujin just stood there with a preoccupied look on her face, Squall was hacking at the thing for all he was worth, and Paine was preparing to change into a samurai.
"SPEAR!!" Freya shouted as she threw her spear into the main body of the dragon. The mighty beast let out a huge roar, the echoed and reverberated all the way out of the cave. Fujin then shouted "PANDEMONIA!", and called forth the huge deformed beast. It inhaled as much air as it was capable of, and the resulting tornado sent the dragon spinning into one of the caverns walls. Paine had finished the dress sphere transition, and had readied a fearsome attack. Charging towards the stricken dragon, she yelled "Zantetsu!" and thrust the black blade deep into the dragon's belly. With a mighty roar, the dragon flamed at random, and slowly it's flame grew less intense, and stopped. As the fighters drew closer to the dragon corpse, it started to evaporate, leaving behind only a small scale and a claw.
"Well, that went as well as could be expected really, didn't it?" Dave said whilst emerging from behind the rock.
"What? You didn't do anything!" Squall shouted at him.
"So, neither did you and I have an excuse. I'm a pacifist."
The group who had beaten the dragon walked out of the cave.
"SQUALL!!! You're ok!" Rinoa screamed as she saw her boyfriend walk out of the entrance.
"Where the hell are we? What the hell are those things? Those huge machina?" Rikku asked.
"What? You don't know what a train is? Man, what kinda backwards place are you from?" Yuffie said.
"Oh boy. This is really going to be difficult, isn't it?" Emma said, "Look, all of you are from video games, at least on my planet. So from my perspective, you're all made up. I can prove it. Here," she swung her backpack off and reached into it, "on my planet, there's a company called Piggyback. They make strategy guides. Here," She passed a whiteish book to Paine, and one to Squall, "Those are the guides they make. That one's from a game called final fantasy eight, where they're from," she said pointing first to Paine, and then to the ff8 crew, " and that's final fantasy nine. The rat and the clown come from there."
"Ok, I have absolutely no idea what you're going on about, girl," The red eyed warrior said.
"Look, it's not important right now. What is important is shelter, and figuring out where we are" Dave said.
"He has a point. We've got to find some way of contacting the Garden" this was Quistis.
"As in the tradition, we'll split up into groups, and try and find a town." Dave said.
"That's all well and good, but how would we contact each other?" Rinoa asked.
"We'll… ah. Um…"
"Dave, this is another time that you should let me deal with it." Emma said to him.
"Right so."
"OK. We'll go in three teams. Each team will have a leader. Each leader will have one of these," she pulled 3 walkie talkie type things out of her bag, " this will enable us to talk to each other."
"Good plan, but there's no radio waves here! They won't work."
"These don't use radio waves. They work on the an Ethernet. They'll work even if we're on opposite sides of the planet."
"Fair enough. So, miss fearless leader, what are the teams? Who'd be best to go with who?"
"Um…"
"Thought so. You have absolutely no idea, do you? Emma, this is another time that you should let me deal with it. Three teams. Team one will be Emma, Zell, Fujin, Quina and Paine. The team leader will be Paine. Team two will be Squall, Quistis, Yuna, Irvine and Freya. Their team leader will be Squall. Team three, which is basically the others, will be lead by me."
"And these teams are final, yes?" Emma asked.
"Of course!"
"And, of course, you do realize who you're teamed up with, don't you?"
"Um… Rikku and Yuffie, I know that. There's also…Rinoa, and…Selphie. OH SHIT!"
Emma grinned slyly. "Well done, Expert. You have fun with your team mates!"
"Bugger off. Ok, team one, you go north, team two, go east, my team'll go west, and we'll rendezvous back here at sunset, if we haven't found anything."
"Right" said Paine
"OK" said Squall
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Now, I know that this story doesn't appear to be going anywhere, but, if the three little pigs didn't have a good plot twist, it would be a shit story about a day in the life of a werewolf, wouldn't it? So bear with me. There's going to be some action soon, trust me. I'm the writer.
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"How much hitting does it take to kill one of these things?" Zell asked as the Adamantoise snapped at him.
The fight had been going on for fifteen minutes now. Paine had already tried her samurai, warrior and trainer dress spheres. All she had left now was berserker, and then she could use her 'special' sphere. Pandemonia had already been and gone, destroyed by a single swipe of the great beasts armoured tail.
"I say we run. This thing's too powerful!" Emma called as she struggled to remember any of the things she had been taught by her mentor. All of a sudden, a massive frog fell out of the sky onto the beasts head.
"What the hell was that?" Paine screamed as she set the berserker sphere into the grid.
"FROG DROP!" Quina called, tossing it's fork into the air, and catching it again.
"I remember now!" Emma called form behind a rock.
She closed her eyes, and concentrated on the task at hand. She started chanting a strange mantra. "Ko I Me Tu Ra. Ko I Me Tu Ra. Ko I Me Tu Ra." Hundreds of small knives appeared in the air beside the rock. She pointed towards the great tortoise, and the knives flew towards it at an alarming speed. Most of them bounced off the shell, but a few found their mark. The monster reared up in pain. Then, Paine roared back at it, having finished the transfer into the berserker outfit. She then set her special dress sphere into the grid, and changed. In the mean time, Zell had taken one hit too many, and it was about the time to fight back. He gathered all of his strength, and charged at the head of the monster, and landed a punch right square in the middle of it's forehead. It reared up again, and then flew onto it's back, under the force of Full Throttles Dextral wing. Flipped onto it's back, the Adamantoise could not fight back, and was very vulnerable. The final blow was delivered by Fujin, who threw her chakram straight into the belly of the mighty animal, and it penetrated. The monster roared one last time, and then started to evaporate. All that was left at the end was Fujin's chakram and a large piece of shell.
"Well, that was easy!" Emma said, with obvious sarcasm.
"HEY! What the hell do you think you're doing?" An irate man ran up to the group. "Why the hell did you kill it? I was hunting that thing for days!"
"Er… sorry. It was kinda attacking us! Why were you hunting it?" Zell said to him.
"The shells on those things are worth a mint!"
"Is this what you were after?" Emma asked, showing him the shell.
"Hell yeah! Hey, tell you what, if you give that to me, I'll overlook the fact that you killed my quarry, ok?"
"Er… sure. Listen, what's your name, man?"
"Name's Brid. Hunter extraordinaire!"
"Well, Brid, Do you know where the nearest town is?"
"No. Don't you?"
"NO! Jesus Christ, this group's getting bigger and bigger!" Emma wailed.
"Last town I was in was Midgar, and that was a week ago."
"Well, you'd best come along with us. There's a lot of strange things happening, and we could get all the help we can get!" Zell said.
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(Authors note: Told you, GoldElite-Warrior. There's your character. He'll probably get killed quite soon, so don't get your hopes up. I'd just like to say a huge Thank you to all the authors that I've been reading the stories of at the moment. Great entertainment, I love you all. I just hope someone gets the same inspiration out of my story that I get out of theirs.)
Chapter 2
As has already been stated in an earlier chapter, time is both complex and simple. This, however, is not true. Time is a very simple thing. The perspective of time is complex, and this perspective can change time into a very complex thing. For example, time can move slower in different parts of the multiverse, mainly because if they didn't, this would be a very short and boring story. However, it can be explained. A story has power. Power can change things. Enough stories focusing on one particular place can change the time affecting this place. You will see the point of this later.
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The effects of the time echo can take anyone to anywhere at any time. It is also very unpredictable. As it happens, Dave and Emma didn't arrive along with all of the others in Balamb immediately, but in fact overshot slightly.
The canyon walls seemed to rise up forever. The only way in or out would be through either teleported or by air. On one base, the blue's were angry, because a red soldier had just stolen their flag. One of the blues ran out after the red man. He stopped him next to a glowing triangle on the ground.
"Freeze!" the blue one called after the red.
"Hey! Why the hell are you shooting at me? you could have hit me dick!" the red one said back to him.
"Can it. Don't try to play stupid with me sarge. I know who you are. We've been spying on you for three weeks now."
"I just got here two hours ago, and I'm not a sergeant, I'm a private."
"Wait a minute, you're not the sergeant."
"Yeah, that's what I just said."
"Well, then how the hell did you manage to steal our flag?"
"Steal? I have no idea what the hell you're talking about."
Suddenly, the triangle glowed green, and Dave and Emma emerged out of it.
"What the hell! Who the hell are these guys?" the red soldier asked.
"Um… Dave, this doesn't look very much like Balamb." Emma said
"Yeah I know. Wait, can you hear that? Like a low buzz?"
"Yes. It's getting louder."
"Hey, what the hell's going on here?" the blue soldier asked.
Then, as suddenly as they appeared, Dave and Emma disappeared again.
"Huh. That was weird." the blue guy said.
"Tell me about it"
".. three!" Another blue soldier Yelled as he emerged from the teleported.
"HOLY SHIT! Who the hell is THIS guy?" the red soldier cried.
This is a good example of how stories work. Most of what you hear is part of a bigger picture, but through the years, people change bits and leave out all the bits about death, making the tales suitable for children. Maybe people who read this know the story behind this exert, maybe they don't. it's all a matter of perspective.
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"OW! Who's sitting on my arm?"
"Will you get you're arse out of my face?"
"What the hell's going on?"
"CONFUSION!"
"Where'd my glasses go?"
"Who's treading on my tale?"
"Where'd the monster go?"
"Where'd the AIRSHIP go?"
"Tail?"
"How come there are so many people in here?"
"Power's gone. Someone try to get together a light spell"
"Where food gone?"
"What the… where'd my body go? Is this it?"
"Hey! Hands off, pal, that's me"
"Sorry"
"FLARE!!!"
The room was suddenly lit up. Dave, the one who had fired up the spell, said "Calm down. Does anyone have any questions?"
The room was silent, as everyone started to look around. Eventually, Squall managed to say, "WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?"
"Ah. One of the difficult ones!" said Dave.
"Who are you? Why are all these people here? Who are…? What…? Where…?" he fell silent.
"I know it comes as a shock. Look, everyone get sorted out and upright, ok?"
A few minutes later, a kind of shocked order had returned. People were too scared to really say anything.
"Dave, um… we aren't in Balamb Garden."
"Yeah, I know. There must have been a random lateral component to the echo. I'm really gonna kill Sara when we get back."
"Um… what's going on, Mr Dave person?" a tall slim blond lady asked.
"Well… it's difficult to explain to this many different people, so I guess if you introduce yourselves to each other, and we'll take it from there. I'll point at someone, and you tell us all a little bit about yourself. After everyone's done and only after, I'll be happy to answer everyone's questions." He pointed at Zell.
"Er…hi. My name's Zell, I come from the town of Balamb, and I'm a fully qualified SeeD."
"What the hell's a seed?" asked a little girl in a green top and cream shorts.
"I said no questions til the end. For that, you're next"
"Well, I come from Wutai, my name's Yuffie, and I'm a world famous ninja!"
"Cute" said a tall rat-like woman.
"Oi. You now."
"I'm a Burmecian dragon knight called Freya, and I helped Queen Garnet and King Zidane beat Necron."
"Who are all those people you just said?" asked a brown haired girl with one green eye and one blue eye.
"For god's sakes, NO BLOODY QUESTIONS YET! Jesus Christ, do you people EVER listen? No, in fact don't answer that." He pointed to a short girl wearing a yellow dress. "You. Speak"
"My name's Selphie, I'm eighteen years old, I lived in Trabia for most of my life, and I'm currently engaged. I love trains and my hobbies include goi…"
"Stop right there, shorty. I said a few details, not a life story. Laughing boy," he pointed at Squall, "you're turn."
Squall glared at him, but said, "My name's Squall. I'm a SeeD, and I was partly responsible for killing Ultimecia."
"You" he pointed at a girl with red eyes and grey hair.
"Paine."
"Thank you for that valuable contribution, Paine. Other grey haired girl, you're turn"
She merely glared at him.
"UH, she's got this problem with her throat. It's really difficult for her to talk. Her name's Fujin." said Zell, walking over to her and hugging her.
"Please stop. You're tearing me up inside, really," he said sarcastically, "Next."
"Me Quina. Me hungry."
"Well, whatever. You."
"My name's Quistis, and I'm an instructor at Balamb Garden."
"I'm Rinoa, I'm working towards becoming a SeeD."
"My name's Rikku. I'm an Al Bhed, and I'm also part of a sphere hunter group."
"Name's Irvine Kinneas, and I'm heaven on earth for every single lady."
"Hey! You stop that right now!" Selphie cried.
"Sorry luvva."
"Can we cut the amateur dramatics? Thank you. Hey, Heterochromia iridis girl, you're turn."
"Who?" Emma asked.
"Ah, man. The one with the eyes different colours"
"My name's Yuna. I'm the high summoner who defeated sin and brought the eternal calm."
"Ok, that should be all of you. My name's Dave. This is Emma.."
"Yo!"
"…and we are from a small group of people that track paranormal and paranatural occurrences and activities. What we just experienced was an echo of a Time Crush. Very nasty event, time and space all kinda fucked up. Any Questions?"
There was a moment of silence, then absolutely everybody started shouting at once.
"SILENCE! O..K. Pointing system again. You've got one question each. Zell."
"Yes?"
"What's your question?"
"What's an al bed?
"The Al Bhed are an ethnic minority on the planet of Spira. It's covered almost 90% by water. Selphie?"
"Um, Dave, I think we…"
"Quiet, Emma. We're making progress."
"Why is there a giant rat here?"
"Watch it, small fry."
"She's from Burmecia, and they all look like that there. Actually, come to think about it, the story never explained why, did it?"
"Sorry, what story?" Paine asked.
"Uh, Dave, we really should…"
"Emma, please. I'm trying to do something here."
"EXPLAIN" said Fujin.
"Ah, kindred spirits are so lovely together."
"DAVE!!!" Emma shouted.
He sighed. "What?" he asked her.
"Um… I think we'd better run. Like right now."
"Why?"
"Because of that" She pointed into the depths of the cave they had all appeared in, and looking at them with interest was a very large dragon.
"Son of a Bitch! Um, Freya, dragon knight, any idea what we should do?"
"RUN!"
As if all driven by this word, every one turned and ran away from the dragon as fast as they could. The first one out was Yuffie.
"What the… where are we? I don't see a mako reactor anywhere"
Rikku was the next one out. "Um, I don't think this is Spira."
Selphie came out soon after, closely followed by Zell, Rinoa, Quina, Emma, Rikku and Yuna.
"Where are the others?" Zell asked.
Irvine came rushing out of the cave, and said to him, "They're staying and fighting that thing. They must be insane!"
Back inside the cave, the dragon looked around curiously. This meal was going to be a lot more entertaining than she'd anticipated.
"Quistis, Fujin, Keep it busy. I'm going to try and figure out how to deal with it." Squall shouted.
"How about you five distract it, and I'll kill it?" Freya called as she leapt into the air.
"Sounds good to me!" Dave called from behind a rock.
The four who were left facing the dragon didn't really have any idea of what to do, so they tried everything. Quistis channelled her thoughts around it, and unleashed a volley of ice spells, but they didn't slow the dragon down. Fujin just stood there with a preoccupied look on her face, Squall was hacking at the thing for all he was worth, and Paine was preparing to change into a samurai.
"SPEAR!!" Freya shouted as she threw her spear into the main body of the dragon. The mighty beast let out a huge roar, the echoed and reverberated all the way out of the cave. Fujin then shouted "PANDEMONIA!", and called forth the huge deformed beast. It inhaled as much air as it was capable of, and the resulting tornado sent the dragon spinning into one of the caverns walls. Paine had finished the dress sphere transition, and had readied a fearsome attack. Charging towards the stricken dragon, she yelled "Zantetsu!" and thrust the black blade deep into the dragon's belly. With a mighty roar, the dragon flamed at random, and slowly it's flame grew less intense, and stopped. As the fighters drew closer to the dragon corpse, it started to evaporate, leaving behind only a small scale and a claw.
"Well, that went as well as could be expected really, didn't it?" Dave said whilst emerging from behind the rock.
"What? You didn't do anything!" Squall shouted at him.
"So, neither did you and I have an excuse. I'm a pacifist."
The group who had beaten the dragon walked out of the cave.
"SQUALL!!! You're ok!" Rinoa screamed as she saw her boyfriend walk out of the entrance.
"Where the hell are we? What the hell are those things? Those huge machina?" Rikku asked.
"What? You don't know what a train is? Man, what kinda backwards place are you from?" Yuffie said.
"Oh boy. This is really going to be difficult, isn't it?" Emma said, "Look, all of you are from video games, at least on my planet. So from my perspective, you're all made up. I can prove it. Here," she swung her backpack off and reached into it, "on my planet, there's a company called Piggyback. They make strategy guides. Here," She passed a whiteish book to Paine, and one to Squall, "Those are the guides they make. That one's from a game called final fantasy eight, where they're from," she said pointing first to Paine, and then to the ff8 crew, " and that's final fantasy nine. The rat and the clown come from there."
"Ok, I have absolutely no idea what you're going on about, girl," The red eyed warrior said.
"Look, it's not important right now. What is important is shelter, and figuring out where we are" Dave said.
"He has a point. We've got to find some way of contacting the Garden" this was Quistis.
"As in the tradition, we'll split up into groups, and try and find a town." Dave said.
"That's all well and good, but how would we contact each other?" Rinoa asked.
"We'll… ah. Um…"
"Dave, this is another time that you should let me deal with it." Emma said to him.
"Right so."
"OK. We'll go in three teams. Each team will have a leader. Each leader will have one of these," she pulled 3 walkie talkie type things out of her bag, " this will enable us to talk to each other."
"Good plan, but there's no radio waves here! They won't work."
"These don't use radio waves. They work on the an Ethernet. They'll work even if we're on opposite sides of the planet."
"Fair enough. So, miss fearless leader, what are the teams? Who'd be best to go with who?"
"Um…"
"Thought so. You have absolutely no idea, do you? Emma, this is another time that you should let me deal with it. Three teams. Team one will be Emma, Zell, Fujin, Quina and Paine. The team leader will be Paine. Team two will be Squall, Quistis, Yuna, Irvine and Freya. Their team leader will be Squall. Team three, which is basically the others, will be lead by me."
"And these teams are final, yes?" Emma asked.
"Of course!"
"And, of course, you do realize who you're teamed up with, don't you?"
"Um… Rikku and Yuffie, I know that. There's also…Rinoa, and…Selphie. OH SHIT!"
Emma grinned slyly. "Well done, Expert. You have fun with your team mates!"
"Bugger off. Ok, team one, you go north, team two, go east, my team'll go west, and we'll rendezvous back here at sunset, if we haven't found anything."
"Right" said Paine
"OK" said Squall
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Now, I know that this story doesn't appear to be going anywhere, but, if the three little pigs didn't have a good plot twist, it would be a shit story about a day in the life of a werewolf, wouldn't it? So bear with me. There's going to be some action soon, trust me. I'm the writer.
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"How much hitting does it take to kill one of these things?" Zell asked as the Adamantoise snapped at him.
The fight had been going on for fifteen minutes now. Paine had already tried her samurai, warrior and trainer dress spheres. All she had left now was berserker, and then she could use her 'special' sphere. Pandemonia had already been and gone, destroyed by a single swipe of the great beasts armoured tail.
"I say we run. This thing's too powerful!" Emma called as she struggled to remember any of the things she had been taught by her mentor. All of a sudden, a massive frog fell out of the sky onto the beasts head.
"What the hell was that?" Paine screamed as she set the berserker sphere into the grid.
"FROG DROP!" Quina called, tossing it's fork into the air, and catching it again.
"I remember now!" Emma called form behind a rock.
She closed her eyes, and concentrated on the task at hand. She started chanting a strange mantra. "Ko I Me Tu Ra. Ko I Me Tu Ra. Ko I Me Tu Ra." Hundreds of small knives appeared in the air beside the rock. She pointed towards the great tortoise, and the knives flew towards it at an alarming speed. Most of them bounced off the shell, but a few found their mark. The monster reared up in pain. Then, Paine roared back at it, having finished the transfer into the berserker outfit. She then set her special dress sphere into the grid, and changed. In the mean time, Zell had taken one hit too many, and it was about the time to fight back. He gathered all of his strength, and charged at the head of the monster, and landed a punch right square in the middle of it's forehead. It reared up again, and then flew onto it's back, under the force of Full Throttles Dextral wing. Flipped onto it's back, the Adamantoise could not fight back, and was very vulnerable. The final blow was delivered by Fujin, who threw her chakram straight into the belly of the mighty animal, and it penetrated. The monster roared one last time, and then started to evaporate. All that was left at the end was Fujin's chakram and a large piece of shell.
"Well, that was easy!" Emma said, with obvious sarcasm.
"HEY! What the hell do you think you're doing?" An irate man ran up to the group. "Why the hell did you kill it? I was hunting that thing for days!"
"Er… sorry. It was kinda attacking us! Why were you hunting it?" Zell said to him.
"The shells on those things are worth a mint!"
"Is this what you were after?" Emma asked, showing him the shell.
"Hell yeah! Hey, tell you what, if you give that to me, I'll overlook the fact that you killed my quarry, ok?"
"Er… sure. Listen, what's your name, man?"
"Name's Brid. Hunter extraordinaire!"
"Well, Brid, Do you know where the nearest town is?"
"No. Don't you?"
"NO! Jesus Christ, this group's getting bigger and bigger!" Emma wailed.
"Last town I was in was Midgar, and that was a week ago."
"Well, you'd best come along with us. There's a lot of strange things happening, and we could get all the help we can get!" Zell said.
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(Authors note: Told you, GoldElite-Warrior. There's your character. He'll probably get killed quite soon, so don't get your hopes up. I'd just like to say a huge Thank you to all the authors that I've been reading the stories of at the moment. Great entertainment, I love you all. I just hope someone gets the same inspiration out of my story that I get out of theirs.)