"Shiva…" a voice whispered, echoing in Shiva's head. "Shiva wake up…" Shiva didn't know what was happing but awoke as the voice told her, feeling all her strength return to her body. Her blue eyelids flickered slowly and within a few seconds she was able to pause and hold her eyes open.
"Where… am I?" she asked herself, hearing her thoughts echo in this shadowy looking room. Her vision was blurred and she could hardly see a thing, everything was smudged. She narrowed her eyes and then rubbed them hard.
Shiva reopened her eyes, with a little bit of pain that she cause by herself and peered around the place again. The area was still blurry and hard to understand. She shook her head in disappointment, hitting the ground with her fist and suddenly pausing. Something was watching her and she could feel it. Whatever it was, it wasn't trying to hide it.
She narrowed her eyes and turned her right hand into a fist slowly looking out of the corner of her eyes. She saw something a large figure about her size staring at her, up close. She took a deep breath, trying not to let the thing know she was looking at it and threw her fist.
The figure caught the punch, without effort, like it was waiting for it. Shiva quickly recoil her arm and prepared for another punch.
Shiva then narrowed her eyes, focusing her attention on the figure and then paused, her eyes widen. Her heart suddenly leaped and started to race at an alarming, fast enough to kill herself, if she could.
"U-Ul-Ulti…" she gasped, not making any sense. The figure smiled and moved in closer so Shiva could see its face better. Shiva heart sank and she almost felt like she had died, and then just died again.
"Ultimicia!" Shiva shirked as she saw the figure's face in the light. The hair, the eyes and the wicked grin, everything down to the finest detail was there! It was her!
"Surprise!" Ultimicia shouted, grabbing the ice spirit's shoulders.
"NO!!!"
"Shiva snapped out of it!!" a heavy and harsh voice demanded, that didn't match Ultimicia's voice. Suddenly her eyes adjusted and Ultimicia's face shattered revealing Ifrit, who was holding her shoulders. She suddenly became lost for words, staring at the Fire Demon.
"If-Ifrit?" she asked softly, confused and shaken at the things she just saw.
Ifrit smiled for some reason, which didn't make any sense to him but kept the smile anyway. Suddenly, he jumped to his feet, roaring and swinging his arms about like mad, his roar shaking the platform. Shiva didn't know why Ifrit was doing, something was wrong just by the glare in Ifrit's eyes. He turned around slowly, staggering like a wounded animal. She gasped and saw the ice on his back, steam rising off like crazy.
Shiva went to help but got struck by a falling rock. She attended to her hand and finally peered up.
She was safe but for how long. She was in the main area, lending against the fountain. She saw those red rocks falling from the endless space above. She stood up, while making sure she wasn't getting hit and examined the situation.
The GF's were everywhere; some were on the ground and others were in the skies, battling the rocks head on, trying to protect those on main platform. Shiva guessed that others had stayed in their worlds having maybe a better chance.
"Come on!" Diablos shouted with an enthusiastic tone, throwing his black energy ball at a group of rocks, shattering them as the ball hit. Diablos raised his hands in victory but was shower by another group of rocks.
Bahamut and Quezacolt had paired up and fought the rocks together, knowing they stood a better chance together then single handed like Diablos. Bahamut blasted a bunch of rock with his Mega Flare, with out much effort and Quezacolt took out another with his thunderstorm, having a small bit of trouble trying to hit his targets.
The GF's were doing well protecting the others on the ground, but themselves were about to give up, feeling fairly tired because of the multiple wounds that were inflicted. Bahamut was pouring out blood. His body was covered in his own fluid, his wings had holes in them and his tail was limped and broken but that didn't stop him.
Quezacolt was also bleeding, large and small gashes all over his body. His wings felt broken and his tail feathers were burnt. Diablos, who had just fallen to the ground, was also bleeding. His purple blood ran from his opened wounds including his mouth. His wings were broken and had small to large holes punch through. His left arm and right leg was too broken, which now he needed most of all.
Shiva sighed, turning her glare to the GF's gather in small groups on the ground. She moved closer to the groups, seeing each group guarded by one of her friends.
Pandemona stood over; protecting all the low level (experience) GF's he could find, but he felt useless in protecting them because of his Tornado Zone, which would only just change the direction on the rocks causing more damage then good and could easily hit anyone in the process.
Leviathan gathered the mid level GF's, protecting them with his serpent like body, wrapping his body around theirs, just giving them enough room to use their powers.
Siren also gathered the mid level GF's but she wasn't able to do much about protecting, but she was able to motive them into protecting and attacking even though they were pretty shaken up.
Ifrit was in charge of the high level GF's, which there weren't many of. His group didn't care about protecting much and stuck to attacking the enemy, which didn't seem to stop.
"Shiva!" a voice shouted. Shiva shook her head and spun around to Cerberus who was running down from a bridge and stop in front of her. "Good! You're awake!" Cerberus exclaimed. Shiva nodded. Cerberus smiled and then suddenly collapsed, getting hit by a falling rock.
"Cerberus!" Shiva cried running to the dog's hind legs, where the rock impacted. Blood was flowing fast from the wound causing great pain to the GF. Shiva placed her hands over the wound, sending a cold chill inside and outside of Cerberus's body.
"Shiva?" Cerberus asked grating its teeth. There came a sudden flash of blue light over Cerberus's wound and a cold feeling that didn't disappear.
"That should get the heat!" she explained. Cerberus shook its heads.
"What heat? The rocks or yours?" Shiva smiled, which was broken when Cerberus pushed her out of the way of a falling rock. Almost claiming her head. "You all right?!" the left head asked. Shiva rubbed her back and the back of her head.
"I guess so," She said softly.
"Listen up!" Cerberus shouted, trying to catch everyone's attention. A small group of GF's turned to Cerberus but the other were to busy with the rocks. "All of you GF's are to get to the mixed world, Alexander is there waiting, he'll protect you!" Cerberus explained, shouting to those you listen.
"WE need everyone here!" Ifrit shouted, before the GF's moved off.
"Alexander has more fire power to everyone!" Cerberus snapped back.
"Not to mention he is a tin can that can't be broken!"
"Oh, shut up!"
"You can stay here and drain yourselves or go and have a better chance to rest and recharge!" Cerberus shouted, finally getting everyone's attention. "Now go!"
The group of tired GF's left the protection of Ifrit and the others. Ifrit did not support what Cerberus was doing by taking the GF's always to Alexander, he thought it better to hit it all at the source and finish this silly attack, if it had a source. Cerberus moved in the center of the group, staring at Ifrit who was giving him a wicked looked.
Suddenly, as Cerberus moved into the center of the group the center and surrounding platforms began to shake violently.
Cerberus's heads peered around as the ground started to crack, leaving a red glow between the cracks that spread around like fire. Shiva, Ifrit, Pandemona and the other GF's on the platform all began to lose balance, falling on the shaking platform. Shiva and Siren began to scream at the turn of events.
"Cerberus! Help!" a voice shouted. Cerberus raised its head and turned around, with its eyes wide open. Jade flew from one of the mirror with twenty rocks tailing behind her. Cerberus could tell that Jade had been in a lot of trouble, the amount of scars and blood wounds were all over the Fairy's body.
"Jade! I'm coming! Hold on!" Cerberus shouted, crawling back on its legs and bolting towards Jade. Jade peered behind her, seeing the rock through her wings, the heat causing her to sweat. She turned back and reached her hands out to Cerberus, tearing pouring from her eyes.
"Help me! C-Cerberus!"
"Jade! DUCK!" Cerberus shouted. Jade examined as Cerberus leaped into the air. She try to smiled but couldn't bring herself to it and did what she was told. She swooped down hitting the ground by mistake, sliding underneath Cerberus's long body. Cerberus opened its mouths, building a glowing blue light in their mouths. "TRI BLASTER" Cerberus screamed, shooting a yellow beam (Left head), Blue beam (Right head) and a Green beam (Top head), which joined together just in front of itself making a huge, single beam produced of the three, causing the rocks to incinerate.
Cerberus landed on the shifting ground, sliding a little from the edge. It turned around and peered at its fallen friend, running to her aid. He stood beside her and nudged the fallen Fairy.
"Jade!? Are you alright!?" Cerberus asked sounding a bit worried. The Fairy wiggled a bit and slowly tried to stand. Cerberus smiled and placed its heads under Jade's body giving her as much support as possible.
"What the hell is this!?" Ifrit shouted as the ground began to shake harder. Diablos, using Pandemona as an armrest, began to think the same thing, while holding his wounds or some of them. Bahamut and Quezacolt notice the intents in the ground activity, even as they were still fighting off the falling rocks.
"Hold me Leviathan!" Siren cried, holding onto the serpent's long body. Leviathan peered down at Siren, who wrapped herself in his body.
"Jade!" Cerberus shouted, nudging the fairy with its tail. The Fairy groan moved her head to Cerberus's.
"Y-Yeah?" Jade asked, sound a bit winded and dead.
"I'm going to leave you with Alexander! You'll be fine there! Take care of the other GF's please!"
"You're leaving her with that thing?!"
"She'll be fine with him… I hope"
"Trust me on this one"
Jade shook her head, trying to stand up on his back, but fall back down with her lack of energy. Cerberus felt lying on his back and could also feel that she was knocked out. Cerberus turned away from the group and headed towards Alexander.
"Where the hell is he going?!" Ifrit asked.
"He's taking Jade to Alexander, where she should be safe!" Leviathan shrieked.
"I'm going too!" Bahamut interrupted flying down to the ground. "Alexander going to need more help, and I'm the only one that can provide him with that!"
"You can't be serious!!" Diablos shouted. Squeezing Pandemona's shoulder.
"Diablos is right!" Pandemona spoke up, from the pain of his shoulder. "This is still a dangerous place and the rocks are still falling!" everyone looked at the amount still falling from the endless sky above.
"Don't worry about, Diablos and Quezacolt and fit enough to handle the problem!" Bahamut stated flapping his wings and flying towards the mirror Cerberus entered.
"What is Bahamut up to!? I saw him heading towards Alexander!" Cerberus asked, re-entering the main area.
"Bahamut decided to help Alexander" Siren explained from Leviathan body wrapped around her.
"He said that Alexander would need more help!" Shiva added, walking up to the three head dog.
"That and we had all the air defenses we needed!" Ifrit shouted. "Just look at Diablos and Quezacolt! They aren't fit to fly, and their wounds haven't fully healed!"
"He had his reasons, let leave it at that" Pandemona said, rolling his arms about finally getting Diablos off his shoulders.
BOOM
The ground shook more violent and then silent. The GF's stood around baffled at the sudden pause in the ground. Ifrit scratched his head and felt his legs.
"What's wrong with the ground!? I know it's not moving but I feel it in my legs!" Ifrit roared, standing up straight.
"Its not just that!" Diablos shouted, landing just next to Pandemona. "The rocks have stopped falling!"
"They completely stopped after that sound!" Quezacolt explained peering around at the sky. Everyone also examined the sky above seeing the rocks floating around not move at all, just like they froze in time. "I guess that good news"
"But it doesn't make sense" Shiva stated. "Why start with this rain fall and not finished it?"
"And for that matter, what caused it in the first place?" Cerberus asked.
"Well as long as it stop, I think were fine!" Siren shouted, throwing Leviathan's body off her. Leviathan then land and coiled himself up, like a snake. Hissing at Siren, his tongue flicking about.
BOOM
BANG
The ground started to shake again, cracks growing bigger and emitting a lot of heat. The GF's started to sway and stagger about, like drunken, wounded animals.
"I-I told you I felt it in my l-legs!" Ifrit stated, jumping around from the entire raising floor. Ifrit bumped into Cerberus, causing the two to fall. Diablos and Quezacolt took to the sky, knowing they were best to stay off the ground.
"Everyone! Get on my back!" Leviathan shrieked. Leviathan flew low to the ground, letting everyone get on his long serpent body. Siren leaped onto Leviathan neck, squeezing hard for fear of her own well-being. Leviathan began to cough at the lack of air. Cerberus took the middle section Leviathan body, Ifrit jumped between Siren and Cerberus and Shiva grabbed onto the tail of Leviathan.
"S-Siren let g-go of my… t-throat!" Leviathan shouted. Siren opened her eyes and released Leviathan, but only a little.
"Hey Leviathan! You can't fly!" Ifrit stated. Leviathan winked and started to circle the area, getting higher and higher.
"I can't fly, but I can hover above ground, if that's what you mean!" Leviathan chuckled gaining height.
"ARGH!!! Bad idea!" Diablos shouted. "METEOR!!" everyone peered up seeing a huge chunk of rock falls from the endless sky. The rock wasn't really huge but was big enough to destroy the fountain and leave a big hole in the middle. The rock seemed small from the distance but was growing in size and knocking the smaller rocks out of the way.
"What!?" Ifrit shouted, with his orange eyes opened wide.
"T-That impossible!" Shiva exclaimed with terror.
"Forget about impossible!" Leviathan shrieked. "It's real!" Leviathan moved as fast as he could with his passengers settled on his back, trying to reach high altitude.
"What do we do now!?" Shiva screamed. Holding her hands up to her mouth.