Final Fantasy

By: Darkknight

"Well, you two seemed to be in a bit of a bind," The girl with the bow said.

"Well, it's a good thing you came to the rescue, both for my safety and for my heart," Pyth said, tripping over his feet in her beauty.

"We were doing fine," Lyn said, disgusted by Pyth's behavior.

"I'm Viol," the girl introduced, "I'm with the GIS as well, from the Japanese division." Viol stood about five foot ten, had long blonde worn with half of it down and the other half up. Her eyes seemed to be quite sharp, and when she looked at you it was as if she was peering into your soul, but at the same time it was very comforting, very soft and gentle .She wore a sky blue tank top and a skirt that extended below the knees, splitting open up the left side. She had an assortment of bracelets on her right hand as well as a metal brace on her left forearm. She also had a leather wrist protector to protect her from the bow's whiplash. Her quiver was located not on her back but attached to her belt, dangling down the right thigh.

The other girl, the one with the javelin thrower, approached and introduced herself. "My name is Lita," she said, "and I think we need to go as soon as possible, at least get into the forest." The four crossed the grounds, making their way through the hole Pyth had cut earlier just as a large batch of monsters emerged from the factory. Pyth studied the other girl as they walked to the west needing to get to town before sunset the next day. Lita wore a pink T-shirt and white short shorts. She had long flowing black hair and brown eyes that took in everything in her surroundings. She had a javelin launcher in her right arm, and a holster filled with short javelins about the length of her lower arm strapped to her right thigh. She walked with an air of royalty, though she didn't seem very pampered or stuck up, but Pyth just couldn't shake the feeling that he was in the presence of nobility.

The four of them trekked through the forest for four hours before stopping and setting up camp. According to Viol's GPS, which somehow was miraculously working where others wouldn't, they would be able to get to town, if there wasn't any large detours, by tomorrow afternoon. The rest of the day was spent questioning Viols about Japan, and Lita about where she was from. She said that she was undercover, and that the information they wanted was classified. "All you need to know about me is that I'm a friend, here to help."

Lyn didn't believe Lita. She, according to Viol, just happened to show up when she was being attacked by a pack of Huilogoths, huge man eating beasts that normally live solitary lives. She took them out with one javelin each, and all before breaking a sweat. To her it seemed to be a little more than a coincidence, and her being here on classified information didn't help Lyn's suspicions.

The next day they continued their journey, crossing rivers, streams, and fallen logs. They came across a few sentries, but most of them were silenced with a dagger/arrow/javelin in their head. By midday, though, they weren't at the town.

"What's going on?" asked Pyth, who was quite tired.

"I don't know, according to the GPS system, we should be there, but I don't see it," Viol replied.

"Maybe your GPS thing is busted," Lyn suggested.

"Either that or it's just a jamming device that makes us think this is the place," Viol replied.

"Ok, so now what do we do?" asked Pyth.

"Wait, listen," Lita said, "A highway." The four of them stopped moving, and listened. Pyth sifted through the different sounds he heard; a cricket chirping, birds tweet tweeting, leaves rustling, and the sounds of cars driving over asphalt at fifty, almost sixty miles per hour.

They figured that the sound was coming from their left , so they headed there. When they reached the road, they saw cars speeding by.

"Now what?" asked Pyth.

"Now, we follow the road 'till we hit a sign that tells us where we need to go," replied Lyn matter-of-factly. They walked for a few miles along the side of the road when there was a sign which pointed to the town they wanted to go to. The followed the road for another mile and they reached the outskirts of the town. They took a cut through the woods and it brought them to the downtown area. They reached the hotel that Fals had told them to meet them at, but when they went inside they noticed that the lobby had been bashed to pieces. The elevator didn't seem to work, and when they went to the stairs, the doors had been busted down. They walked up six floors, where the doors had been broken down again, although none of the doors leading to other floors had been broken down.

"You know," Viol said, pointing to the door, "If I was superstitious, I'd say that was a bad sign."

"Yeah, I hope they're okay," Pyth said, starting into a fast jog. He counted the rooms until he came to the room they were supposed to be in, or at least whre the room should've been. The door to the room had been broken, just like all the other doors they'd come across, and there was debris everywhere outside the door. Inside, the beds had been totaled, the TV busted, and the tables wrecked.

"Hey, look at this," Lyn said, pointing to the weapons leaning on the far wall, "This is weird."

"Yeah," Pyth said, looking at the arsenal leaning there. There was a rapier, sheath included, a staff, a glaive, and a broadsword. "Well, the rapier's Jils's, and the staff is Fals's, but I don't know what the glaive and the broadsword are doing here."

"Maybe more reinforcements," Lita said quietly. She didn't seem to examine anything in the room, as if she had expected this to happen.

They wondered what to do next when they heard a moaning coming from under one of the broken beds. Iven rolled out from under them, holding her head. Immediately, an arrow, a flail, two daggers and a javelin were aimed at her.