A Breath of Fire Story
Chapter 9
Part 14: Perhaps Goodbye
Me: Looks like I finally finished this chapter.
Kipper: And you'll be lucky if I forgive you for what happens.
Me: Be quite, you'll spoil it.
Kipper: Fine.
Me: Now on with the shout outs.
Shout Outs
Airess: Yep, I updated. I'm glad you like it!
(Author's Note) I want to raise the rating of this chapter to PG for events that happen
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"Kipper, you can't do this. You'll die!" Nirra sobbed. Kipper looked at her.
"Nirra, I have to do it or we'll all die. It's my battle anyway." Kipper replied, hugging her.
"Kipper, I want you to know I love you." Nirra said, hugging him tightly.
"I love you too, Nirra, but I must leave now. I need to find the self- destruction button in this place. Here take my armor and pole." Kipper said, handing her his stuff, and rushed off, leaving a crying Nirra behind him.
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Quietly, Kipper climbed the stairs that would lead to his imminent doom. If the Guardian Gatz were to find him, it would be everyone's doom. The young Brood sighed sadly. *What a horrible way to die.* He thought to himself and remembered the thoughts his subconscious said.
Ma is lying on the floor. She is not moving. That big Guardian killed her. You yell at him. Uh oh, he is after you now.
Move out of the way of the spear, idiot. Didn't move fast enough.
Oww, you missed the sharp part, but the medal still hurts, doesn't it.
Dad's fighting him now. Go dad. No, it killed dad now.
You dummy, ya just gonna sit there? Get Father's pole.
Pick it up, that's right. Get used to the feel of it, it not like your grey one.
Uh oh, he's attacking you! Defend, defend. He broke through your defenses! Run you moron, don't just stand there.
Kipper then though to himself *that will not ever happen again.*
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Kipper continued his ascension up the stairs. His heart racing as fast as a bird's. He was becoming light-headed and exhausted. The last battle with Gatz was taking its toll on his energy. He had lost too much.
He closed his eyes from the pain rising in his lungs and chest. He still had many more flights of stairs to climb.
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"Nirra, he chose to do this, we have no control over what he does." Teepo said, putting an arm around her shoulder in attempt to comfort her.
"Why did I have to choose a hero boyfriend?" She sobbed. "Now I'll never see him again!" She continued to cry, burying her head into her father, shoulder as he picked her up and carried her.
"Nirra, maybe he'll make it out alive, though we can't really get our hopes up." Ryu stated, hugging his daughter.
"Papa, the button is at the top of the tower. The very top, he will never get down in time." More tears fell. "I love him, papa, and I don't want to lose him."
The group arrives outside. Teepo embraces Madelline as he sees her.
"Teepo, is that..." A pause. Was he afraid to finish his sentence. Did he remember what had happened 17 years ago? "Teepo, is that really you?" Rei managed to say.
"Well, it would be pretty sad if you don't recognize me." Teepo flashed his brother a grin. Then his head lowers, in shame perhaps. "I'm sorry for how I treated you years ago."
"Hey, it's all right. I'm just glad you're back to normal." Said Rei, giving his brother a hug.
"Hey, stop, you're squishing me." Teepo said, laughing.
"Quit squashin my Teepo." Madelline stated angrily.
"It's ok, I'm fine. He's given me worse hugs than this." Teepo laughed again, his short-lived childhood coming back to him.
"Well ok, if you say so." Madelline says then sits down.
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Kipper finally made it to the top floor of the tower, and he was on the verge of fainting. He began to search for the self-destruction button. His eye blurred as his hand fumbled along the wall. It would not be long now before the Guardian awoke from his unconsciousness.
His blurred eyes found a small control panel in a corner of the room. He stumbled like a blind man over to the panel. When he made it over to the panel, he felt around, no longer counting on sight in this matter.
His hand found a brown button that his sight could not make out. He pushed it.
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He was mildly surprised when the building did not explode. He felt vibration waves flow through the tower and it began to crumble.
Fear crept into him. It was a different to talk about how he would die, than for it to actually happen. Adrenaline started to flow through him, giving him some energy he did not have before. He made a rush for the stairs and tried to maintain his balance from the trembling of the tower.
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Teepo turned his head to the tower as he heard it give off tremulous groans. He was expecting it to blow up, or something similar in fashion.
Nirra burst into tears and buried her face in her brother's shoulder. "I don't want him to die, Rosco. I don't want him to die."
"I know sis, he's my best friend. I don't want him to die either." Rosco stated, pulling his sister into an embrace.
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Though he tried to maintain his balance, the trembling was too violent. He tripped and fell down five stairs.
From the ceiling fell a large piece of stone debris. Kipper saw it and rolled out of the way, but his right arm became crushed underneath the weight. He heard the bone shatter, and let out a deep cry of pain. In his fear, he gained the extra strength to be able to lift the large slab of stone off him with his feet and left arm.
His right arm was no longer useful. It hung dangling in excruciating pain that he tried to ignore.
He then transformed into his Warrior form. "Perhaps this will help me get out of here, if I'm lucky, but it won't last long because it was the adrenaline that slightly restored my AP." He mutters to himself. His right arm still useless.
He spread his blue dragon wings and flew down the stairs. He dodged falling debris and books from shelves that were built on the walls of the stairs.
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Nirra could have sworn she heard an anguished cry of pain coming from the tower, but prayed in her heart that it was her imagination. She saw her brother, Makas, and Reina glance up at it, too.
"I wish there was something we could do something for him." Makas said, his tail swishing in anxiousness.
"I wish so, also, but there is nothing we can do. He chose his own fate, unless destiny has a different plan in mind for him." Reina replied to him.
"Well, I hope with all my heart it does, cause I don't wanna lose him." Said Nirra, tears running down her cheeks.
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The wooden part of the debris had torn up his wings very badly, which caused him to de-transform and fall on some debris that were jabbing up like spikes. It cut into his top half of left leg, and the bottom of his right leg. Tears of pain fell from his face. Now it would take deep concentration to even walk, if he could still do that. He knew that the wooden spike-like splinters had cut through his bones.
He then stood up, pain shooting up his legs. Tears spewed from his eyes, blurring his vision. He tired his best to ignore the pain, and stumbled along the stairs weakly. He still had a long way to go.
Almost out. He was almost out. Just across the battle arena. He only had to cross the battle arena. A seemingly simple task, but would he make it with his condition. He began wishing he had his pole to use as a support, but he didn't so he would have to toughen up. He then made made a walk for the exit. Hoping that he didn't pass out from the excruciating pain he felt.
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Nirra sank to the ground with a heart wrenched sob. "No, please no. No no no no." She wailed, slamming her fists into the ground.
Rosco put an arm around his sister. He knew that the building was going to collapse any minute now.
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Kipper felt the cloud of dust rising from the building collapsing, and it was making it hard for him to see. Fortunately he had already been heading in the right direction, and it was not so bad. Finally he stepped out of the archway, the tower collapsing behind him into the rubble. He had made it out alive, though he was in so much pain he felt he was going to die anyway. He then fell to the ground and passed out into a merciful unconsciousness.
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Nirra's heart sank along with the collapsing tower. Then she noticed Kipper staggering out of the the tower and fainting. She and the others ran up to him.
It was then that she realized what horrible condition he was in. His right arm had no structure to it. It had been completely smashed by whatever happened to it. The top half of his left leg was red with blood from a very deep gash that she just knew went the whole way through. It was the same with the lower half of his right leg. His shirt had many tares in it, and he had several bruises and scratches covering his face and left arm. She looked at her father pleadingly.
"Daddy, can't you heal him?" She asked Ryu.
"We have no healing supplies left and I only have enough AP to cast Heal, which I'm afraid won't help much."
"Than cast heal and heal what you can! Any little bit will help." Nirra pleaded.
Ryu sighed and gave in. He used up the last of his AP and cast Heal on Kipper. As he said, it didn't do much, but it helped the bits of bone in Kipper's right arm, stitch together to form bigger pieces. It now had support and could possibly be fixed.
"Let's get out of here and go home. I don't like it here very much." Said Teepo.
Teepo, Rosco Ryu, and Makas then made a makeshift stretcher and set Kipper on it. They then left the ruins of Dragatoa, with little plan to return.
After the group had left Dragatoa, two eyes could be seen staring out of the rubble of the battle tower.
To Be Continued.
Chapter 9
Part 14: Perhaps Goodbye
Me: Looks like I finally finished this chapter.
Kipper: And you'll be lucky if I forgive you for what happens.
Me: Be quite, you'll spoil it.
Kipper: Fine.
Me: Now on with the shout outs.
Shout Outs
Airess: Yep, I updated. I'm glad you like it!
(Author's Note) I want to raise the rating of this chapter to PG for events that happen
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"Kipper, you can't do this. You'll die!" Nirra sobbed. Kipper looked at her.
"Nirra, I have to do it or we'll all die. It's my battle anyway." Kipper replied, hugging her.
"Kipper, I want you to know I love you." Nirra said, hugging him tightly.
"I love you too, Nirra, but I must leave now. I need to find the self- destruction button in this place. Here take my armor and pole." Kipper said, handing her his stuff, and rushed off, leaving a crying Nirra behind him.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Quietly, Kipper climbed the stairs that would lead to his imminent doom. If the Guardian Gatz were to find him, it would be everyone's doom. The young Brood sighed sadly. *What a horrible way to die.* He thought to himself and remembered the thoughts his subconscious said.
Ma is lying on the floor. She is not moving. That big Guardian killed her. You yell at him. Uh oh, he is after you now.
Move out of the way of the spear, idiot. Didn't move fast enough.
Oww, you missed the sharp part, but the medal still hurts, doesn't it.
Dad's fighting him now. Go dad. No, it killed dad now.
You dummy, ya just gonna sit there? Get Father's pole.
Pick it up, that's right. Get used to the feel of it, it not like your grey one.
Uh oh, he's attacking you! Defend, defend. He broke through your defenses! Run you moron, don't just stand there.
Kipper then though to himself *that will not ever happen again.*
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Kipper continued his ascension up the stairs. His heart racing as fast as a bird's. He was becoming light-headed and exhausted. The last battle with Gatz was taking its toll on his energy. He had lost too much.
He closed his eyes from the pain rising in his lungs and chest. He still had many more flights of stairs to climb.
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"Nirra, he chose to do this, we have no control over what he does." Teepo said, putting an arm around her shoulder in attempt to comfort her.
"Why did I have to choose a hero boyfriend?" She sobbed. "Now I'll never see him again!" She continued to cry, burying her head into her father, shoulder as he picked her up and carried her.
"Nirra, maybe he'll make it out alive, though we can't really get our hopes up." Ryu stated, hugging his daughter.
"Papa, the button is at the top of the tower. The very top, he will never get down in time." More tears fell. "I love him, papa, and I don't want to lose him."
The group arrives outside. Teepo embraces Madelline as he sees her.
"Teepo, is that..." A pause. Was he afraid to finish his sentence. Did he remember what had happened 17 years ago? "Teepo, is that really you?" Rei managed to say.
"Well, it would be pretty sad if you don't recognize me." Teepo flashed his brother a grin. Then his head lowers, in shame perhaps. "I'm sorry for how I treated you years ago."
"Hey, it's all right. I'm just glad you're back to normal." Said Rei, giving his brother a hug.
"Hey, stop, you're squishing me." Teepo said, laughing.
"Quit squashin my Teepo." Madelline stated angrily.
"It's ok, I'm fine. He's given me worse hugs than this." Teepo laughed again, his short-lived childhood coming back to him.
"Well ok, if you say so." Madelline says then sits down.
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Kipper finally made it to the top floor of the tower, and he was on the verge of fainting. He began to search for the self-destruction button. His eye blurred as his hand fumbled along the wall. It would not be long now before the Guardian awoke from his unconsciousness.
His blurred eyes found a small control panel in a corner of the room. He stumbled like a blind man over to the panel. When he made it over to the panel, he felt around, no longer counting on sight in this matter.
His hand found a brown button that his sight could not make out. He pushed it.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
He was mildly surprised when the building did not explode. He felt vibration waves flow through the tower and it began to crumble.
Fear crept into him. It was a different to talk about how he would die, than for it to actually happen. Adrenaline started to flow through him, giving him some energy he did not have before. He made a rush for the stairs and tried to maintain his balance from the trembling of the tower.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Teepo turned his head to the tower as he heard it give off tremulous groans. He was expecting it to blow up, or something similar in fashion.
Nirra burst into tears and buried her face in her brother's shoulder. "I don't want him to die, Rosco. I don't want him to die."
"I know sis, he's my best friend. I don't want him to die either." Rosco stated, pulling his sister into an embrace.
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Though he tried to maintain his balance, the trembling was too violent. He tripped and fell down five stairs.
From the ceiling fell a large piece of stone debris. Kipper saw it and rolled out of the way, but his right arm became crushed underneath the weight. He heard the bone shatter, and let out a deep cry of pain. In his fear, he gained the extra strength to be able to lift the large slab of stone off him with his feet and left arm.
His right arm was no longer useful. It hung dangling in excruciating pain that he tried to ignore.
He then transformed into his Warrior form. "Perhaps this will help me get out of here, if I'm lucky, but it won't last long because it was the adrenaline that slightly restored my AP." He mutters to himself. His right arm still useless.
He spread his blue dragon wings and flew down the stairs. He dodged falling debris and books from shelves that were built on the walls of the stairs.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nirra could have sworn she heard an anguished cry of pain coming from the tower, but prayed in her heart that it was her imagination. She saw her brother, Makas, and Reina glance up at it, too.
"I wish there was something we could do something for him." Makas said, his tail swishing in anxiousness.
"I wish so, also, but there is nothing we can do. He chose his own fate, unless destiny has a different plan in mind for him." Reina replied to him.
"Well, I hope with all my heart it does, cause I don't wanna lose him." Said Nirra, tears running down her cheeks.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The wooden part of the debris had torn up his wings very badly, which caused him to de-transform and fall on some debris that were jabbing up like spikes. It cut into his top half of left leg, and the bottom of his right leg. Tears of pain fell from his face. Now it would take deep concentration to even walk, if he could still do that. He knew that the wooden spike-like splinters had cut through his bones.
He then stood up, pain shooting up his legs. Tears spewed from his eyes, blurring his vision. He tired his best to ignore the pain, and stumbled along the stairs weakly. He still had a long way to go.
Almost out. He was almost out. Just across the battle arena. He only had to cross the battle arena. A seemingly simple task, but would he make it with his condition. He began wishing he had his pole to use as a support, but he didn't so he would have to toughen up. He then made made a walk for the exit. Hoping that he didn't pass out from the excruciating pain he felt.
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Nirra sank to the ground with a heart wrenched sob. "No, please no. No no no no." She wailed, slamming her fists into the ground.
Rosco put an arm around his sister. He knew that the building was going to collapse any minute now.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Kipper felt the cloud of dust rising from the building collapsing, and it was making it hard for him to see. Fortunately he had already been heading in the right direction, and it was not so bad. Finally he stepped out of the archway, the tower collapsing behind him into the rubble. He had made it out alive, though he was in so much pain he felt he was going to die anyway. He then fell to the ground and passed out into a merciful unconsciousness.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nirra's heart sank along with the collapsing tower. Then she noticed Kipper staggering out of the the tower and fainting. She and the others ran up to him.
It was then that she realized what horrible condition he was in. His right arm had no structure to it. It had been completely smashed by whatever happened to it. The top half of his left leg was red with blood from a very deep gash that she just knew went the whole way through. It was the same with the lower half of his right leg. His shirt had many tares in it, and he had several bruises and scratches covering his face and left arm. She looked at her father pleadingly.
"Daddy, can't you heal him?" She asked Ryu.
"We have no healing supplies left and I only have enough AP to cast Heal, which I'm afraid won't help much."
"Than cast heal and heal what you can! Any little bit will help." Nirra pleaded.
Ryu sighed and gave in. He used up the last of his AP and cast Heal on Kipper. As he said, it didn't do much, but it helped the bits of bone in Kipper's right arm, stitch together to form bigger pieces. It now had support and could possibly be fixed.
"Let's get out of here and go home. I don't like it here very much." Said Teepo.
Teepo, Rosco Ryu, and Makas then made a makeshift stretcher and set Kipper on it. They then left the ruins of Dragatoa, with little plan to return.
After the group had left Dragatoa, two eyes could be seen staring out of the rubble of the battle tower.
To Be Continued.
