Took a very long time to update but I had some rather urgent stuff to take care of, but can now carry on with this but I am having a conflict with the part of my brain that is reason so I may or may not continue with this story, but we'll see.
Here be disclaimers, DON'T OWN.
"..........Thirty one......."
"....Thirty two........Thirty three....."
"Is it wrong that I'm actually taking a perverse pleasure in doing this? Thirty four."
A tiny forest not to far from the Sarn Ford now played host to many of the foulest creatures to dwell in realm of Arnor, the Orcs, though many were now cut, cleaved and mangled so bad that even their own masters would not recognise them. Alone amongst a field of Orc appendages stood a lone leather clad Warrior bearing a blade adorned with the visage of a skull at its hilt, urging more Orcs to attack, succeeding in that task five more charged at the Warrior, the two at the front were met with the blade at their necks, as they fell another had leapt up but was impaled upon the blade in mid air and flung to the ground. Having seen this one of the remaining Orcs fled for his life.
"COWARD" Shouted the creature, to the Warrior's eyes seemed to be the leader, as he flung his blade at the fleeing Orc, embedding it in his back.
Slowly he walked over and crouched down drawing his blade slowly from the corpse, and turning his head he slowly licked away the excess blood, then he met eye to eye with his bane only to realise the startling fact about his foe.
"You're a ..." His sentence cut off as the figure charged at him. His blade was drawn to his face in defence, but with lightning quick reflexes, the Warrior crouched to the ground and with a clean sweep, took both the legs of the Orc.
"ARGH" The Orc began to writhe in pain, flailing about but to no avail he caught a glance at his prey now turned predator and a new fear awoke in him as the figure slowly walked towards him with the blade resting on the Warriors shoulder. Now driven by terror he forgot the pain in his legs and tried desperately to escape, crawling across the bloodied forest floor.
Pain shot through his back as the heal of a leather boot was forced upon his back, now no scream followed this time only a pool of blood flowing from his mouth. He caught a quick glance at his side and saw the blade that defeated his party resting in the soil, he wished his end to be quick he could not take the pain much longer, but the blade did not move and the pain in on his back settled somewhat as the boot was removed. Denied of a quick death he came to realise this prolonged pain was to be his fate until rewarded with death. Nothing prepared him for what came next.
"This is for getting blood on me clothes" Silence, and then "Ice Brand"
Through the corner of his ice he saw the ground freeze as the very air around the Warrior became shrouded in snow and ice coiling at the body and finally reaching its destination at the apex of the sword, The Warrior then proceeded to flick the hair away from her eyes, yes it was a "Her" realisation had finally kicked in, all this while he had been fighting a woman and one that hadn't even broken a sweat.
The last thing he remembered was a wink from the woman as she brought her sword down on his back, the Orc only feeling a slight sting, though the horror and anguish that laced his face was captured forever. The woman stared blankly and slowly walked away leaving blood, flesh and a jagged ice sculpture in her wake.
"Now to find Baralai" She mumbled to herself, coming to the edge of the forest and taking in the new scenery, this was definitely not Spira but she was not about to let herself dwell on that fact. All that mattered to her now was finding Baralai, if he was even here, and getting out of here.
Though the land was breath taking, as she began to walk down the hill her eyes were quickly drawn to the sky, where once there were now clouds in sight, there was a thick black cloud in the distance and in that moment a giant bolt of lightning smashed down on the earth and quickly dispersed. There was no mistaking it that was a Thunder spell, and one powerful one at that, then remembering that Baralai was not able to cast any Black Magic, well he could he just didn't want to learn any. So there was definitely someone else from Spira here, unless the inhabitants of this world could also use this magic but from what she saw this was highly doubtful. She sped as fast as she could towards this new beacon of hope.
Meanwhile at the Ford;
"SICK SICK SICK SICK SIIIICK" Screamed the young girl who was the brunt of another Orc attack. The Orcs couldn't believe what they had seen, not only did this little girl control the power of lightning and successfully burn all the Orcs hidden in the river to a crisp, but then shrouded herself in flame to reveal a now scantily clad youth wielding two menacing blades that were already embedded in the neck of one Orc that dared to attack her during the transformation.
"Eww gross" Though she had already taken out most of the Orcs, better judgment told her to flee, she really couldn't be bothered at the moment to kill all of them,
"Live and let live guys" And with that she ran as fast as her legs could carry, and with her eyes averted she flung a small orb over her shoulder at the rampage of Orcs, which to their surprise exploded in a cascade of light, burning their eyes and causing them to howl in pain.
"Hehe" she stopped to have a quick glance at he scene of these creatures running into each other blind and slashing at air with their blades.
"What are you doing Rikku, Less chat, more get you ass outta here" she said to herself and continued to walk away, before stopping again. "HAH" She shouted back at them and proudly began to walk off, not getting very far before smacking into something, or someone which sent her to the floor and to her backside.
"Owww you big Meannie" she moaned before finally looking at the 'someone'.
"PAINE" she screeched as she jumped over and began hugging her legs.
"Oh Paine you came to save me from the nasty things" she said in a childlike voice, only to be shook of her friends legs.
"Well pleased to see you too Rikku, now please stop trying to grope my legs"
"OK" as she bounced to her feet "Sooo any idea where the Vilg we are Dr P?"
"Nope and stop calling me that, what do you remember exactly before you got here?"
"Well me and Gippal were on the hull of the Celcius, trying to show me something about tripling the power output or something, then he asked me to pass the wrench, to which I replied 'Get it yourself', so he did and I caught a nice view of his ...." "OK" Yelled Paine with her hands over her eyes, and shaking her head.
"Huh". "Give me the short verion"
"Oh, we were on the Celcius, it crashed, we went flying, we hit the sand, I was knocked out." She quickly said.
"Thank you"
"What about you?" inquired Rikku
"Baralai and I had a nasty pyrefly encounter at the calm lands gorge"
"Hey, you think Baralai and Gippal are here too?"
"Its possible, hmph guess we'll have to search"
"Owwww" moaned Rikku. To which Paine replied to by grabbing her by the scarf she wore and dragging her.
It was not long before they came to a clearing which, thanks to Rikku was now like a circus, with blind Orcs running into one another and smacking themselves on the floor. To Rikku's surprise some had actually stabbed each other in the confusion which caused her to giggle a bit.
"Your work I guess?" Inquired Paine
"Yep. Al Bhed Flash Grenade" she said as she walked over to the river, now littered with charred bodies.
"So I assume it was also you that cast that thunder spell?" "Yuh Huh"
"Overkill much?" Paine asked, glancing over her shoulder.
"Ok, so I went a little overboard, but they were scaring me" Rikku moaned putting on her best puppy dog look.
"Fine, nuff said. Now we better get out of here before more of these things turn up" she signalled by prodding a fallen Orc with her sword.
"One sec" Rikku then ran over to one of the still standing Orcs and kicked him square in the jaw. "Ok now I'm ready, sooo where're we goin".
Paine had already began to walk off and shrugged. "Dunno, I'll tell you when we get there".
"Ok" said Rikku as she skipped along. "Soooooooo are we there yet?"
"Vilg hu" Sighed Paine and smacked her head with her hand.
Ok so I made Paine into a bit of a bitch but she will lighten up later just like in the game so no worries and I don't think I need to give a translation on what ' vilg ' is,
Oh and I'll try to update sooner c ya.
