Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1: The Unknown
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Chihiro woke up, screaming, in a cold sweat. Fiona ran in. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"I just... had a nightmare..." Chihiro said.
'I can't tell her what...' Chihiro thought, 'it would frighten her too much...'
"Has Fei gotten home?" Chihiro finally asked, after a long pause.
"Not yet, she called though. She does want to return until Lutz is ok, she said." Fiona said.
"Oh... well... looks like we gotta leave without her. Meh, we're only allowed to take 4 people anyway... stupid rule..."
"Oh well. Call your friends and we can go."
Chihiro did so. Angel and Aphrodite were already up and ready.
Fiona and Chihiro arrived at Angel's telepipe, still on Pioneer 2. Just reaching it, it releaced a unsteady flow of pain, and suffering. Chihiro felt ready to throw up, but it didn't seem to effect Fiona at all. Angel and Aphrodite were waiting.
"Who's your friend?" Aphrodite asked.
"Oh, this is Fiona." she steped forward and smiled, "We grew up together... don't worry, she's a graet force." Fiona turned red, and Chihiro laughed.
"Stop it... your emberassing me..." Fiona said and smiled.
"It's obvious you two know each other." Aphrodite said.
Chihiro smiled, "That's Aphrodite." She said.
"Hi!"
"Are we going?" Angel said.
"That's Fallen Angel, we just call him Angel." Chihiro explained.
"Weird name..." Fiona remarked.
"Well, his real name is Christopher, but he goes by Angel."
"Oh."
"We should get going, now that everyone knows Fiona." Chihiro said, and stepped through the telepipe. Everyone followed.
When they arrived at the ruins, they were all overcome with the same feeling of death, and suffering that Chihiro was a few minutes ago, all except Fiona. She seemed oddly fine. Looking around, the only word that could come to Chihiro's mind was 'Death." Everywhere she looked, felt, smelled, everything... she shuddered.
"Umm... Fiona, you can turn back whenever you want.... in case this is too much for you." Chihiro said.
"Oh, no, it's fine." She said.
Aphrodite had ran into the next room, and ran into a creature that she killed, with Angel's help.
"Chihiro! Come, quick!" Aphrodite called.
"Hmm? What's up?" She asked, walking up to the android.
"Be extremely careful here... remember, these are darkness creatures, don't let them cut you, or get any of their blood or skin secretions into your body... it would mean your death." Aphrodite said, grimly.
Chihiro gasped, "Well.. I can be careful.... but I'm not turning back... and besides, something was calling to me, and I want to answer it."
"But what if it's bad?" Angel asked.
"Then, we destroy it!" Chihiro said, smirking.
"Well, Chihiro... I can cover you, when we fight." Angel said.
"You sure you don't mind?" Chihiro said.
"Absolutely." he responded.
Aphrodite hurried ahead, "C'mon, I don't want to stay in one place for too long, I wanna get out of here as soon as possible."
"Hey... Angel... thanks." Chihiro said, smiling at Angel.
"Hey, no problem." He said.
Chihiro and Angel hurried ahead.
"No... master... I cannot... harm her... please... don't make me..." Fiona said under her breath.
"Coming, Fiona?" Chihiro called.
"Oh! Sorry!" The young numan girl ran to join the rest of the group.
Everytime the group ran into a monster, Chihiro tried her hardest to stay behind it, or behind Angel, and, so far, she was succeding. Then one caught her off guard. She screamed, seeing the Diminion's arm blade coming crashing down on her skull. Angel ran up to it, and stabbed it in the back, stopping it dead. It howled in anger and pain, and fell to the ground, a crumpled heap.
"T..thanks... it surprised me..." Chihiro admited.
Angel smiled, "I said that I'd protect you." he said.
"Yeah..."
Durning hthis time, the creature woke up, and with the last of its strength, slashed Chihiro's ankle. It left a gash the size of a pen, and cut to the bone. Chihiro gasped, and looked down. A single tear ran down her face, and she fell unconcious.
"No! That wasn't supposed to happen!" Fiona pleaded, "Master, I begged! I begged that you would spair her life!"
"Chihiro! Damn it! Damn it, Fiona, you sound like you know what's going on! If you had anything to do with any of this... so help me god... I will slaughter you...." Angel said, with pure hate in his eyes.
Everyone heard a quiet speaking, almost wind-like, uncomprehensible.
"Master, they do not deserve servitude! They are only simple humans!" Fiona pleaded, again.
"Hey!" Aphrodite called.
"What the hell is going on!?" Angel started to walk towards Fiona, weapon in hand.
More wind-like speaking.
"Master...!... I see..." Fiona turned to the group. "I am truly sorry..." she said.
"Fiona?! What the god damn hell is going on?!" Angel screamed.
"I am sorry.. master has chosen you 2 to become her servants..."
"Who's master?!"
"I belive that you humans call her Dark Force... or Dark Falz..." Suddenly, Fiona transformed into a Deminion, and died. It appeared that someone had just killed it, but who?
Red Ring Rico walked out of a shadow, with a grin on her face.
"Rico! It's you! You, the traitor of Coral! Of Pioneer 1 and 2!"
"Ha, traitor, you should all be happy! Soon, all of Pioneer 2 will also be the great Dark Falz's people! And together, we will be able to rule the galexy! From Fornax... to Algol... everything will be ours! And yet, you people... you do not want that power?!" Rico yelled.
Angel just glared at the traitor. "What did you do to Chihiro?" He asked, with pure hate in his voice.
"Oh, don't worry... she is getting ready.... for her grand reawakening!"
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
"The Profound Darkness is returning! It will once again strike terror into the hearts of everything, and SHE is its material incarnation!"
"You're insane! Chihiro isn't darkness! And it was destroyed thousands of years ago, in Algol, by Sir Chaz Ashley!" Aphrodite yelled.
Rico crackled, "It cannot be destroyed! While he thought he destroyed it, all he did was damn his own bloodline! A future Ashley, in this case, Chihiro-Sen, shall be its material incarnation! And I found her!"
Suddenly, Chihiro's eyes opened, darkness filled in them.
"Master! You have awakened!" Rico screamed.
Chihiro walked to Angel, who was shaking.
"Chihiro...." Angel quietly said, "No..."
Chihiro saw the fear in Angel's eyes, and fell to the ground, unconcious again.
"What?!" Rico yelled.
Again, Chihiro's eyes opened, but this time, they shone with light.
"What?! NO! What is going on?!" Rico shrieked.
"I, the Great Light, have given this girl my strength..." said a man through Chihiro's body, "The sword of legend... Elysdion..."
"Elysdion..." Angel slowly said in amazement.
Chihiro stood up, suddenly, in front of her, she saw all the former defeators of Dark Force, her ansistrors... some wern't related to her... but were still heroes.
"You must be Chihiro." Said a woman, in a large red coat, and long hair, Alis Landale.
"Yes, but I must get back to my friends! I have to save them!"
"Never fear, time is frozen here." Chaz Ashley said.
"But I can't relax! I'd like to speak with you all, but I must help my friends!"
"We understand." Alis said.
"Good luck." Chax said.
The light in Chihiro's eyes disapeared, and she grinned.
"Rico... no, whatever the hell you are now... you and your 'master' have toyed with my life for far too long..." she grinned again, "Not even Red Ring Rico stands a chance against the legendary Elysdion."
Fiona reappeared. "Chihiro... we're still friends, right?"
"How dare you steal my memories of Fiona... and use if to trick me. Fiona died a long time ago... I tried to block if out of my mind because it hurt so much.. and I did... but you brought it back."
Chihiro disappeared into a flash of light, and a multitude of large flashes cut 'Fiona' in mutiple places, all over her body, black blood spraying all over. Chihiro reappeared behind 'Fiona' and swung Elysdion down, hard, in a verticle slash, and 'Fiona' fell to the ground, covered in black blood.
"Your turn, Rico." Chihiro said, grinning.
Rico ran at Chihiro in anger, but before she could reach her, Chihiro had stabbed Rico through her face. Black blood fell down Rico's face, and she smiled, the blood moving to the groves in her face. "Dark Force... will live... you can't stop me now..." she slowly said, and died.
"....... It's over..." Chihiro said, and looked at Elysdion, "But why isn't Elysdion gone?" she asked
"It isn't over," Alis said in her mind, "Dark Falz has found it's host."
Rico's body twitched.
"Everyone! Something's wrong! Chihiro said, and snapped her head over to see Rico's body, as it begain to twitch more.
"It's not over..." a voice came from Rico's body, but it wasn't Rico's buetiful voice, it was that of a twisted, deranged monster, "It will never be over!"
Rico's body floated life-lessly in the air. There was a very large wave of darkness behind her. It envolped her, and retreated to the next room. Taking a deep breath, Chihiro began to follow, but she heard Alis's voice, "No! To go alone would be suicide! Get help!"
"Right." Chihiro cast Ryuker, and everyone went through it.
Back on Pioneer 2, Aphrodite started to leave "I'm not getting myself killed." she said, and left.
Everyone said their goodbyes, and Chihiro called Fei. "Fei?" Chihiro asked, obviously tired.
"Chihiro, Angel already told me everything, I'm so sorry I wasn't there to help!"
"You still can.. it's not over..." Chihiro explained the whole story.
"My god! This... could determine the fate of... everything!" Fei exclaimed.
"I need help... badly... hey, it Lutz better?" Chihiro asked.
"Oh, yeah," Fei giggled, "He's great... doing great, I mean!"
A tired smile passed Chihiro's lips, "Hehe, right."
"But now isnt the time for that, We'll come, me and Lutz, and so will Angel again. We'll meet you at your place!" Fei hung up.
"I guess I have time to... relax a bit..." Chihiro dozed right off.
"....Chihiro?..... Chihiro?"
Chihiro yawned, "Ah, I'm ok... just dozed..." Chihiro yawned again, "... off a bit..."
"It's ok, " Angel smiled, "You deserved it.
Lutz steped forward, "So, your the Chihiro that Fei keeps talking about."
Chihiro nodded, "And your the Lutz Fei talked about."
He smiled, "That's me."
"Is everyone ready?" Chihiro asked.
"Yeah, we're all ready, lets go!" Fei said.
"Right." The walked into the telepipe, and prepaired themselves for a showdown with the ultimate evil.
When they came out of the telepipe, they were in a small valley, covered in flowers, with a large stone piller in the middle, and an alter in front of it.
"Where... are we?" Chihiro asked.
"Could the telepipe of messed up?" Lutz asked.
"No... Dark Falz made this place look like... this... let me check.." Chihiro checked a digital map. "Hmm... it can't find us?!" Chihiro yelled, "Whats going on??"
Fei was walking around, and stopped at a flower, she sniffed it, "Hey, it's great here.." Fei appered almost dilerious, "It's perfect here..."
"Yeah... it is, isn't it?" Angel said.
"Hey! Something must be wrong with those flowers..." Lutz said.
Chihiro handed Angel and Fei Sol Atomizers, and they ate them, and felt instantly better.
"Wow, that was weird. It gave me the idea that this place is perfect..." Fei said.
"Hey, doesn't this look out of place?" Chihiro asked, walking to the piller.
"It does..." Angel slowly said.
"Hmm... I wonder..." Chihiro walked to the alter, and placed her hands on it. Suddenly, every flower wilted, and died. Beneath the flowers... were the bodies of humans, numans, and androids.
Fei and Lutz gasped, and Chihiro looked ready to throw up. Angel looked at the bodies, horrified. They all heard the sound of flesh ripping, and something pushed out of the carcases chests.
"What the...?"
"This can't be good."
Large, spiked, top-looking things burst out from the chests of the bodies, covered in blood, and a few had a purple light in them.
Fei cast Rafoie on them, and only the ones with the light appeared to be damaged by it, and disappeared.
"Apparently, only the ones with the light can be hurt! Go for them!"
Chihiro drew a Varista, and started shooting, as did Angel, as Fei and Lutz cast Rafoie. When only one remained, Chihiro drew Elysdion, and drove it through the thing.
"Wow... that was a little easy..." Chihiro said.
The ground started to violently shake.
"I knew it wasn't over!" Fei called.
The piller started to glow, and everyone jumped off the stone surrounding it.
Stone flaked off of the piller as flesh was underneeth. The Piller was eventually a piller of flesh, with a almost-human body on top.
"Rico! Rico's on top!" Chihiro screamed.
"You! You have all witnessed my marvelous rebirth! I am you're new ruler! None of you can even hope to stand up form! Here or Algol!"
"Rico! Listen to me, stop this... your father is worred about you... he misses you..." Chihiro said.
"W...what?! Daddy...... ah! Help! I'm not in control of myself! I haven't been since we entered Ragol's atmophere! This... entity is Dark Falz! Kill it! Kill me! Kill me now!" She screamed.
"C'mon." Chihiro pointed Elysdion at her, "I'll save you. We'll save you." Chihiro ran at Rico... no... Dark Falz.
Dark Falz grew round cylinders with mouths at the end at the bottom of her piller-like body. The mouths turned on Angel, who started slashing away with his Black King Bar. Suddenly, one came behind him, but Chihiro slashed the head off with Elysdion. Tar-like blood was squirting everywhere, coating Chihiro and Angel. Dark Falz howled in pain, meaning it wasn't invincible.
Fei started casting her newest tech, Grants, a holy spell, as rapidly as she could. Lutz joined in. And Angel was swiging his Black King Bar quickly, critically damaging the creature.
"Everyone, we're doing it!" Chihiro called, over Falz's howls.
Fals raised its arms, and a multitude of lasters flew out. A few seconds later, they came crashing down.
Chihiro and Angel ran out of the way, and Fei and Lutz created a large shield of ice, that protected them. Following this, Falz's lower half seemed to melt into a large orb, held by strong pieces of flesh. The orb was slowly pulsating. Angel hit it, and Falz again howled in pain.
"The orb! It seems to be a weak spot, like it's heart! Go for it!" Angel called.
"Gotcha!" Chihiro said. She swung almost madly at Dark Falz, hoping to cut open the orb. Annoyed, Falz fired a large laser into the air, and it came crashing down on Chihiro, who didn't have time to move. She was hit, and flew to the ground, screaming in pain.
"Chihiro!" Fei gasped, and ran over to Chihiro, to cast Resta on her, to help her. But before she got there, another laser struck Chihiro, who didn't scream, or even move when it hit her. Angel feared the worst, as did Fei and Lutz.
"Chihiro?!" Fei cast resta on Chihiro, while Lutz and Angel kept Falz busy. But nothing happened. Fei cast it again, but again nothing. Fei felt Chihiro's pulse... and felt nothing. "No! Not now! We had almost won..."
Falz stoped attacking, and moved to Chihiro's corpse. Rico began to speak. "Master, ou will leave that pitiful body, and be reborn... the greatest terror ever to fight the humans!"
Elysdion flew into the air, and flew straight into the ground. A light came out of it, and a girl appeared.
"Hello." she said, "My name is Alis Landale..."
"Alis Landale?!" Angel exclaimed, "THE Alis Landale?!"
She smiled, "At least someone remembers me..." the smile quickly faded, "but we must hurry, as I have only frozen Falz for a minute, give or take a few seconds... Chihiro has been killed. By dark hands, none the less. That means that The Profound Darkness WILL be reborn, and Elysdion cannot allow that, and neither can I. She must be returned to the living. Her soul is still in her body, and can be revivied. Fei Yen-Kn, Chihiro's closest friend... I give this, Reverser, to you. An ancient technique to breath life into the freshly dead... use it wisely..." Alis disapeared into Elysdion, which flew back into Chihiro's hands.
Fei's eyes opened wide, "I know it!" She looked at Chihiro. Fei shone in a bright light. "We cannot allow The Profound Darkness to be returned... I will lock it away, deep within Chihiro's soul... and she shall live again... reverser!" The light moved from Fei, to Chihiro, who slowly stood up. The light still on Chihiro, she walked up to a suddenly frightened Dark Falz, who stood defenceless. Chihiro drove Elysdion right through the orb. Falz and Rico screamed in pain.
"Master...?" Rico softly said.
"No, The Profound Darkness will never be returned to life again. Ever." Chihiro said.
Falz fell to the ground, dead. The party saw Rico's spirit fly up to the sky. They watched in awe.
"Thank you..." they heard.
Elysdion disapeared, and Chihiro heard "Until we meet again..."
Saying nothing, they returned to Pioneer 2, to speak with the principle...
Epilogue
Chihiro led a relitivly normal life after defeating Dark Falz. Once again, the government is keeping the whole story from the citizens. Chihiro is currently rumored to be reciveing a new mission to Gal Da Val island, where she will be joined by Fei, Angel, and Lutz...
Phantasy Star Online: The Four Heroes
Fin
PSOCecil
Chihiro woke up, screaming, in a cold sweat. Fiona ran in. "What's wrong?" she asked.
"I just... had a nightmare..." Chihiro said.
'I can't tell her what...' Chihiro thought, 'it would frighten her too much...'
"Has Fei gotten home?" Chihiro finally asked, after a long pause.
"Not yet, she called though. She does want to return until Lutz is ok, she said." Fiona said.
"Oh... well... looks like we gotta leave without her. Meh, we're only allowed to take 4 people anyway... stupid rule..."
"Oh well. Call your friends and we can go."
Chihiro did so. Angel and Aphrodite were already up and ready.
Fiona and Chihiro arrived at Angel's telepipe, still on Pioneer 2. Just reaching it, it releaced a unsteady flow of pain, and suffering. Chihiro felt ready to throw up, but it didn't seem to effect Fiona at all. Angel and Aphrodite were waiting.
"Who's your friend?" Aphrodite asked.
"Oh, this is Fiona." she steped forward and smiled, "We grew up together... don't worry, she's a graet force." Fiona turned red, and Chihiro laughed.
"Stop it... your emberassing me..." Fiona said and smiled.
"It's obvious you two know each other." Aphrodite said.
Chihiro smiled, "That's Aphrodite." She said.
"Hi!"
"Are we going?" Angel said.
"That's Fallen Angel, we just call him Angel." Chihiro explained.
"Weird name..." Fiona remarked.
"Well, his real name is Christopher, but he goes by Angel."
"Oh."
"We should get going, now that everyone knows Fiona." Chihiro said, and stepped through the telepipe. Everyone followed.
When they arrived at the ruins, they were all overcome with the same feeling of death, and suffering that Chihiro was a few minutes ago, all except Fiona. She seemed oddly fine. Looking around, the only word that could come to Chihiro's mind was 'Death." Everywhere she looked, felt, smelled, everything... she shuddered.
"Umm... Fiona, you can turn back whenever you want.... in case this is too much for you." Chihiro said.
"Oh, no, it's fine." She said.
Aphrodite had ran into the next room, and ran into a creature that she killed, with Angel's help.
"Chihiro! Come, quick!" Aphrodite called.
"Hmm? What's up?" She asked, walking up to the android.
"Be extremely careful here... remember, these are darkness creatures, don't let them cut you, or get any of their blood or skin secretions into your body... it would mean your death." Aphrodite said, grimly.
Chihiro gasped, "Well.. I can be careful.... but I'm not turning back... and besides, something was calling to me, and I want to answer it."
"But what if it's bad?" Angel asked.
"Then, we destroy it!" Chihiro said, smirking.
"Well, Chihiro... I can cover you, when we fight." Angel said.
"You sure you don't mind?" Chihiro said.
"Absolutely." he responded.
Aphrodite hurried ahead, "C'mon, I don't want to stay in one place for too long, I wanna get out of here as soon as possible."
"Hey... Angel... thanks." Chihiro said, smiling at Angel.
"Hey, no problem." He said.
Chihiro and Angel hurried ahead.
"No... master... I cannot... harm her... please... don't make me..." Fiona said under her breath.
"Coming, Fiona?" Chihiro called.
"Oh! Sorry!" The young numan girl ran to join the rest of the group.
Everytime the group ran into a monster, Chihiro tried her hardest to stay behind it, or behind Angel, and, so far, she was succeding. Then one caught her off guard. She screamed, seeing the Diminion's arm blade coming crashing down on her skull. Angel ran up to it, and stabbed it in the back, stopping it dead. It howled in anger and pain, and fell to the ground, a crumpled heap.
"T..thanks... it surprised me..." Chihiro admited.
Angel smiled, "I said that I'd protect you." he said.
"Yeah..."
Durning hthis time, the creature woke up, and with the last of its strength, slashed Chihiro's ankle. It left a gash the size of a pen, and cut to the bone. Chihiro gasped, and looked down. A single tear ran down her face, and she fell unconcious.
"No! That wasn't supposed to happen!" Fiona pleaded, "Master, I begged! I begged that you would spair her life!"
"Chihiro! Damn it! Damn it, Fiona, you sound like you know what's going on! If you had anything to do with any of this... so help me god... I will slaughter you...." Angel said, with pure hate in his eyes.
Everyone heard a quiet speaking, almost wind-like, uncomprehensible.
"Master, they do not deserve servitude! They are only simple humans!" Fiona pleaded, again.
"Hey!" Aphrodite called.
"What the hell is going on!?" Angel started to walk towards Fiona, weapon in hand.
More wind-like speaking.
"Master...!... I see..." Fiona turned to the group. "I am truly sorry..." she said.
"Fiona?! What the god damn hell is going on?!" Angel screamed.
"I am sorry.. master has chosen you 2 to become her servants..."
"Who's master?!"
"I belive that you humans call her Dark Force... or Dark Falz..." Suddenly, Fiona transformed into a Deminion, and died. It appeared that someone had just killed it, but who?
Red Ring Rico walked out of a shadow, with a grin on her face.
"Rico! It's you! You, the traitor of Coral! Of Pioneer 1 and 2!"
"Ha, traitor, you should all be happy! Soon, all of Pioneer 2 will also be the great Dark Falz's people! And together, we will be able to rule the galexy! From Fornax... to Algol... everything will be ours! And yet, you people... you do not want that power?!" Rico yelled.
Angel just glared at the traitor. "What did you do to Chihiro?" He asked, with pure hate in his voice.
"Oh, don't worry... she is getting ready.... for her grand reawakening!"
"What the hell are you talking about?!"
"The Profound Darkness is returning! It will once again strike terror into the hearts of everything, and SHE is its material incarnation!"
"You're insane! Chihiro isn't darkness! And it was destroyed thousands of years ago, in Algol, by Sir Chaz Ashley!" Aphrodite yelled.
Rico crackled, "It cannot be destroyed! While he thought he destroyed it, all he did was damn his own bloodline! A future Ashley, in this case, Chihiro-Sen, shall be its material incarnation! And I found her!"
Suddenly, Chihiro's eyes opened, darkness filled in them.
"Master! You have awakened!" Rico screamed.
Chihiro walked to Angel, who was shaking.
"Chihiro...." Angel quietly said, "No..."
Chihiro saw the fear in Angel's eyes, and fell to the ground, unconcious again.
"What?!" Rico yelled.
Again, Chihiro's eyes opened, but this time, they shone with light.
"What?! NO! What is going on?!" Rico shrieked.
"I, the Great Light, have given this girl my strength..." said a man through Chihiro's body, "The sword of legend... Elysdion..."
"Elysdion..." Angel slowly said in amazement.
Chihiro stood up, suddenly, in front of her, she saw all the former defeators of Dark Force, her ansistrors... some wern't related to her... but were still heroes.
"You must be Chihiro." Said a woman, in a large red coat, and long hair, Alis Landale.
"Yes, but I must get back to my friends! I have to save them!"
"Never fear, time is frozen here." Chaz Ashley said.
"But I can't relax! I'd like to speak with you all, but I must help my friends!"
"We understand." Alis said.
"Good luck." Chax said.
The light in Chihiro's eyes disapeared, and she grinned.
"Rico... no, whatever the hell you are now... you and your 'master' have toyed with my life for far too long..." she grinned again, "Not even Red Ring Rico stands a chance against the legendary Elysdion."
Fiona reappeared. "Chihiro... we're still friends, right?"
"How dare you steal my memories of Fiona... and use if to trick me. Fiona died a long time ago... I tried to block if out of my mind because it hurt so much.. and I did... but you brought it back."
Chihiro disappeared into a flash of light, and a multitude of large flashes cut 'Fiona' in mutiple places, all over her body, black blood spraying all over. Chihiro reappeared behind 'Fiona' and swung Elysdion down, hard, in a verticle slash, and 'Fiona' fell to the ground, covered in black blood.
"Your turn, Rico." Chihiro said, grinning.
Rico ran at Chihiro in anger, but before she could reach her, Chihiro had stabbed Rico through her face. Black blood fell down Rico's face, and she smiled, the blood moving to the groves in her face. "Dark Force... will live... you can't stop me now..." she slowly said, and died.
"....... It's over..." Chihiro said, and looked at Elysdion, "But why isn't Elysdion gone?" she asked
"It isn't over," Alis said in her mind, "Dark Falz has found it's host."
Rico's body twitched.
"Everyone! Something's wrong! Chihiro said, and snapped her head over to see Rico's body, as it begain to twitch more.
"It's not over..." a voice came from Rico's body, but it wasn't Rico's buetiful voice, it was that of a twisted, deranged monster, "It will never be over!"
Rico's body floated life-lessly in the air. There was a very large wave of darkness behind her. It envolped her, and retreated to the next room. Taking a deep breath, Chihiro began to follow, but she heard Alis's voice, "No! To go alone would be suicide! Get help!"
"Right." Chihiro cast Ryuker, and everyone went through it.
Back on Pioneer 2, Aphrodite started to leave "I'm not getting myself killed." she said, and left.
Everyone said their goodbyes, and Chihiro called Fei. "Fei?" Chihiro asked, obviously tired.
"Chihiro, Angel already told me everything, I'm so sorry I wasn't there to help!"
"You still can.. it's not over..." Chihiro explained the whole story.
"My god! This... could determine the fate of... everything!" Fei exclaimed.
"I need help... badly... hey, it Lutz better?" Chihiro asked.
"Oh, yeah," Fei giggled, "He's great... doing great, I mean!"
A tired smile passed Chihiro's lips, "Hehe, right."
"But now isnt the time for that, We'll come, me and Lutz, and so will Angel again. We'll meet you at your place!" Fei hung up.
"I guess I have time to... relax a bit..." Chihiro dozed right off.
"....Chihiro?..... Chihiro?"
Chihiro yawned, "Ah, I'm ok... just dozed..." Chihiro yawned again, "... off a bit..."
"It's ok, " Angel smiled, "You deserved it.
Lutz steped forward, "So, your the Chihiro that Fei keeps talking about."
Chihiro nodded, "And your the Lutz Fei talked about."
He smiled, "That's me."
"Is everyone ready?" Chihiro asked.
"Yeah, we're all ready, lets go!" Fei said.
"Right." The walked into the telepipe, and prepaired themselves for a showdown with the ultimate evil.
When they came out of the telepipe, they were in a small valley, covered in flowers, with a large stone piller in the middle, and an alter in front of it.
"Where... are we?" Chihiro asked.
"Could the telepipe of messed up?" Lutz asked.
"No... Dark Falz made this place look like... this... let me check.." Chihiro checked a digital map. "Hmm... it can't find us?!" Chihiro yelled, "Whats going on??"
Fei was walking around, and stopped at a flower, she sniffed it, "Hey, it's great here.." Fei appered almost dilerious, "It's perfect here..."
"Yeah... it is, isn't it?" Angel said.
"Hey! Something must be wrong with those flowers..." Lutz said.
Chihiro handed Angel and Fei Sol Atomizers, and they ate them, and felt instantly better.
"Wow, that was weird. It gave me the idea that this place is perfect..." Fei said.
"Hey, doesn't this look out of place?" Chihiro asked, walking to the piller.
"It does..." Angel slowly said.
"Hmm... I wonder..." Chihiro walked to the alter, and placed her hands on it. Suddenly, every flower wilted, and died. Beneath the flowers... were the bodies of humans, numans, and androids.
Fei and Lutz gasped, and Chihiro looked ready to throw up. Angel looked at the bodies, horrified. They all heard the sound of flesh ripping, and something pushed out of the carcases chests.
"What the...?"
"This can't be good."
Large, spiked, top-looking things burst out from the chests of the bodies, covered in blood, and a few had a purple light in them.
Fei cast Rafoie on them, and only the ones with the light appeared to be damaged by it, and disappeared.
"Apparently, only the ones with the light can be hurt! Go for them!"
Chihiro drew a Varista, and started shooting, as did Angel, as Fei and Lutz cast Rafoie. When only one remained, Chihiro drew Elysdion, and drove it through the thing.
"Wow... that was a little easy..." Chihiro said.
The ground started to violently shake.
"I knew it wasn't over!" Fei called.
The piller started to glow, and everyone jumped off the stone surrounding it.
Stone flaked off of the piller as flesh was underneeth. The Piller was eventually a piller of flesh, with a almost-human body on top.
"Rico! Rico's on top!" Chihiro screamed.
"You! You have all witnessed my marvelous rebirth! I am you're new ruler! None of you can even hope to stand up form! Here or Algol!"
"Rico! Listen to me, stop this... your father is worred about you... he misses you..." Chihiro said.
"W...what?! Daddy...... ah! Help! I'm not in control of myself! I haven't been since we entered Ragol's atmophere! This... entity is Dark Falz! Kill it! Kill me! Kill me now!" She screamed.
"C'mon." Chihiro pointed Elysdion at her, "I'll save you. We'll save you." Chihiro ran at Rico... no... Dark Falz.
Dark Falz grew round cylinders with mouths at the end at the bottom of her piller-like body. The mouths turned on Angel, who started slashing away with his Black King Bar. Suddenly, one came behind him, but Chihiro slashed the head off with Elysdion. Tar-like blood was squirting everywhere, coating Chihiro and Angel. Dark Falz howled in pain, meaning it wasn't invincible.
Fei started casting her newest tech, Grants, a holy spell, as rapidly as she could. Lutz joined in. And Angel was swiging his Black King Bar quickly, critically damaging the creature.
"Everyone, we're doing it!" Chihiro called, over Falz's howls.
Fals raised its arms, and a multitude of lasters flew out. A few seconds later, they came crashing down.
Chihiro and Angel ran out of the way, and Fei and Lutz created a large shield of ice, that protected them. Following this, Falz's lower half seemed to melt into a large orb, held by strong pieces of flesh. The orb was slowly pulsating. Angel hit it, and Falz again howled in pain.
"The orb! It seems to be a weak spot, like it's heart! Go for it!" Angel called.
"Gotcha!" Chihiro said. She swung almost madly at Dark Falz, hoping to cut open the orb. Annoyed, Falz fired a large laser into the air, and it came crashing down on Chihiro, who didn't have time to move. She was hit, and flew to the ground, screaming in pain.
"Chihiro!" Fei gasped, and ran over to Chihiro, to cast Resta on her, to help her. But before she got there, another laser struck Chihiro, who didn't scream, or even move when it hit her. Angel feared the worst, as did Fei and Lutz.
"Chihiro?!" Fei cast resta on Chihiro, while Lutz and Angel kept Falz busy. But nothing happened. Fei cast it again, but again nothing. Fei felt Chihiro's pulse... and felt nothing. "No! Not now! We had almost won..."
Falz stoped attacking, and moved to Chihiro's corpse. Rico began to speak. "Master, ou will leave that pitiful body, and be reborn... the greatest terror ever to fight the humans!"
Elysdion flew into the air, and flew straight into the ground. A light came out of it, and a girl appeared.
"Hello." she said, "My name is Alis Landale..."
"Alis Landale?!" Angel exclaimed, "THE Alis Landale?!"
She smiled, "At least someone remembers me..." the smile quickly faded, "but we must hurry, as I have only frozen Falz for a minute, give or take a few seconds... Chihiro has been killed. By dark hands, none the less. That means that The Profound Darkness WILL be reborn, and Elysdion cannot allow that, and neither can I. She must be returned to the living. Her soul is still in her body, and can be revivied. Fei Yen-Kn, Chihiro's closest friend... I give this, Reverser, to you. An ancient technique to breath life into the freshly dead... use it wisely..." Alis disapeared into Elysdion, which flew back into Chihiro's hands.
Fei's eyes opened wide, "I know it!" She looked at Chihiro. Fei shone in a bright light. "We cannot allow The Profound Darkness to be returned... I will lock it away, deep within Chihiro's soul... and she shall live again... reverser!" The light moved from Fei, to Chihiro, who slowly stood up. The light still on Chihiro, she walked up to a suddenly frightened Dark Falz, who stood defenceless. Chihiro drove Elysdion right through the orb. Falz and Rico screamed in pain.
"Master...?" Rico softly said.
"No, The Profound Darkness will never be returned to life again. Ever." Chihiro said.
Falz fell to the ground, dead. The party saw Rico's spirit fly up to the sky. They watched in awe.
"Thank you..." they heard.
Elysdion disapeared, and Chihiro heard "Until we meet again..."
Saying nothing, they returned to Pioneer 2, to speak with the principle...
Epilogue
Chihiro led a relitivly normal life after defeating Dark Falz. Once again, the government is keeping the whole story from the citizens. Chihiro is currently rumored to be reciveing a new mission to Gal Da Val island, where she will be joined by Fei, Angel, and Lutz...
Phantasy Star Online: The Four Heroes
Fin