By: Darkknight
I don't own Final Fantasy... I own the story and the characters... I wish I had a pair of pants- what?
Pyth and Lyn trudged about the wilderness for two days. In those two days, they bickered and fought quite a bit. Most of it was on Pyth's part, yelling at Lyn for being so slow.
"I can't help it; my flail is slowing me down," retorted Lyn.
"Jeez, I wish Fals hadn't stuck me with you," Pyth complained.
Much like Fals and Jils's trek through the woods, Pyth and Lyn met up with their fair share of monsters. Every platoon they met up with was dispatched with the crazy ruthlessness that Fals had foreseen, and was the basis for her decision in choosing the two of them. Unfortunately, as was illustrated above, they didn't always get along.
Finally, after two days of romping through the forest, they arrived at the secluded factory. The factory was like most normal factories you've seen, surrounded by a fence, with guards at the gate. The factory was quite large, and made of steel, with smoke billowing out of the smokestacks. In front of the factory lay a large field filled with monsters milling about. A rather large monster, ten times larger than the others, walked up to the gate, which opened before him. A group of monsters about twice the size of the platoons which Pyth and Lyn had killed in the forest followed. The group advanced out of the gate, and headed off to the north. Inside the fence, there was still one large creature, seeming to watch over the others there.
"Let' just get in there and get this over with," said Lyn, who got up to go, but Pyth grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled her back down.
"We were sent here to get information, right? Well, why not get some information about troop movement?"
"But-"
"Hey, I was put in command, right? So, I'm ordering you to stay put." After Pyth said this, Lyn sat down, crossed her arms and legs, and looked as solemn as ever as Pyth moved his full attention to the gates. "Watch our backs, we don't want to be ambushed."
As he watched over the next hour, the crowd in front of the factory thinned out. Also, as that hour passed, Lyn became more and more agitated and restless. Finally, there seemed to b only one platoon left, Pyth got up and said, "Come on, now's as good a time as any to get things rolling."
The pair snuck down to the edge of the fence, where Pyth squatted, examining the fence. Finally decided there was no alarm wired to it, he pulled out a wire clipper and started cutting a hole in the fence. They got across the open ground with no problem, and Pyth easily bypassed the door's alarm and security system, allowing them to slip in without being noticed, or so they thought.
Their target was the main computer room, where'd they'd be able to download all the information they needed and store it on the mini disc he had in his pocket. They passed by the security room, but the man inside was so wrapped up in a comic book that they slipped past without noticing. Just as they passed by a janitor's room, Lyn's flail hit the ground. The sound reverberated through the halls, and everyone within earshot immediately craned their heads up from whatever they were doing. Pyth immediately grabbed Lyn's hand, who had bent down to pick up her weapon. Pyth then said a few incantations and followed by whispering, "Shadow Cloak." The world around the two grew suddenly darker, and they watched as ten to fifteen monsters and people convened on their location, trying desperately to figure out what was going on. Pyth held Lyn glued to the wall, to make sure none of the monsters touched them. If they did, the ruse would be lost.
After the people left, they continued to make their way to the computer room. Finally, without anymore incidents, they arrived at the door, which Pyth immediately got to work trying to unlock. Before he started, he muttered some more incantations and said, "All Seeing Eye." He explained that that technique allows him to see through things, and Lyn immediately covered her more private areas with her hands. Pyth chuckled and said, "I have no interest in your private parts, plus, putting your hands in the way won't help, I can see through them." Pyth then looked straight at Lyn, eyes wide open, then turned around laughing. After checking to make sure there wasn't anyone in the room, he went to work opening the door. After much beeping and booping, the door hissed open. They heard someone coming around the corner, and quickly ran into the room, sliding the door closed behind them.
Pyth slid the mini disc in the slot, then began dumping information onto the disc. After much typing, waiting, and frustrating sounds from Pyth, he took the disc out of the slot and stuck it in his pocket. They turned to leave, but before they did, Pyth chanted the same incantation. "All Seeing Eye" he said, looked through the door, then stopped breathing all-together. What he saw was the butt ugly face of a mountain troll staring back at him.
"Shit..."
