Well, I'm back. Sorry I took so long! I don't mind anybody sending in late characters, that's fine. Keep 'em coming for all I care! Hell, by chapter 10 chances are I won't mind! Unless I've gotten so far in the storyline that new characters will be hard to fit in…
Hmmm…guess what? I've noticed I've been forgetting the disclaimer. I'm so stupid… I think I need a guest or someone to do it for me…
Choco: I'll do it! Kweh!
Biddett: ::edging closer:: Okay…evil grin
Choco: Biddett doesn't own Final Fantasy IV, VI-X-2 and Tactics Advance. She also doesn't own Kingdom Hearts, Bahamut Lagoon, Seiken Densetsu 3 and Chrono Trigger. Oh, and any of the OC's anybody's sent in! Kwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwweh!
Biddett: Eee hee hee….chocobo….::moves hands over Choco's neck::
Choco: AHHHH! Don't hug me!! KWEEEH!! ::runs off::
Biddett: ::chases Choco:: Anyway! While I….puff… catch this cute lil' fella, I hope you…wheeze… enjoy the fic!!
-=Biddett da Pigeon Stalker=-
=The Chaos Realms: 3-Caverns Of the Fayth=
Cheesy Overvoice: Last time on The Chaos Realms…
Vivi blinked and said simply, "Huh?"
"Yeah, you're a character from a video game! Final Fantasy IX! What the hell are you doing here?" Bridget said.
"Video…game? What's that? And what's a final fantasy nine? If it's a final fantasy, you can't have more than one! You're not making any sense!" Vivi asked.
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"Okay. Lemme get this straight. This is the world known as Drinnae. But some big evil dude called Tiroth showed up and plunged the world into darkness because he wanted to trap all you guys in here because he hates you." Bridget said.
Not just the FFIX guys though. Bridget thought. Just about every Final Fantasy character, with other RPG characters too!
"Yeah." Vivi replied.
"Drinnae was peaceful, until Tiroth showed up. He's basically destroyed everything, and everyone. Those who remain are scared crapless, and have nothing left to live for. Well, until you all got transported here. Now you've made up a kind of faction against him, and you're helping people rebuild. Well, you're going to, once you go and kick that big meanie's ass!" Bridget puffed, barely spacing the words apart.
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Something growled nearby. Bridget jumped, and quickly ushered the chocobos underground.
"What…was that?" She asked Zidane tentatively.
"Get. Now. Go. Monsters." He tried pushing Biddett towards the hole. But she was so paralysed by fear that she wouldn't move. Mark made a dash for it and was swallowed by the hole.
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Suddenly, everything went black.
"AHH! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Bridget yelled. Two seconds later, the world came back, but things looked different. If she was correct, she was now in a battle screen!
Yikes! She thought, panicked. I'm in my very first battle! AHH!
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And with that, we turned to face the monsters. Zidane was the first to attack. Bridget suddenly jumped back when she saw something on impact. The numbers 1356 appeared above the wolf…in other words, you could actually see how much the attack did!
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And then, the portal closed. It seemed nothing had even happened. Except for the huge gigantic black dragon now that stood in front of Bridget and Mark.
"Whoa…" Bridget breathed.
Arkna opened its mouth and let out with the most bone-chilling, mind numbing, terrible roar that ripped at your heart and left your brain in the highest state of confusion and fear. It rolled across the ruins and finally died off. Then, Arkna struck a pose. A fighting stance.
"We're…going to…fight…that? No way! I don't wanna die!" Mark shrieked.
"Don't worry, ya? Me n Zidane have been through much worse things. You think this guy's scary? You should've seen Sin, ya?" Wakka comforted him.
"Or Necron." Zidane added.
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"Leave…" She hissed. "LEAVE HIM THE HELL ALONE!!!!!" Bridget screamed. She picked up her dagger and did the only thing her battered body could let herself do. She picked it up, and aimed for Arkna's fierce icy-blue eye. She threw it with all that she had left.
99999.
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"Thank God that's over…" Mark muttered to himself as she followed along. The three quickly slipped down the hole towards the HQ.
Mark watched as Wakka closed it up again, by pulling the piece of rock back over the hole. He turned around and Mark was greeted by a tunnel lit softly by torches, burning brightly on the wall of the tunnel.
Cheesy Overvoice: And now our…cough heroes cough are safe, but…for how long? What kind of people are in this faction of the joint video game characters? Find out now on…The Chaos Realms!
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Mark, Zidane and Wakka walked along the softly lit corridor. Soon enough, it opened up and the three were now in the entrance of a large underground cavern.
Mark glanced around. A large bonfire was crackling away in the center, and it reminded him of the Cosmo Candle, from Final Fantasy 7. Some other things reminded him of other games, like another corridor leading off to the left, and as he peeked down it was a grassy area with a few fallen logs and other things, that looked a lot like the training area from FF8. Suddenly, on the cavern roof, a huge insect-like creature scuttled across a cable. If he wasn't mistaken, that was a Gargant, from FFIX!
As he surveyed his surroundings a bit more, he saw people moving from place to place, some attending to sick or injured people with a press of their hands, they glowed and were fully healed. It was probably a Cure spell or something. Other people were ushering small children from place to place, some seemed to be making weapons, or giving them a test slash or thrust in the air, while most people just seemed to hang about in the glow of the huge Cosmo Candle. Mark watched as Zidane gave Bridget to a woman with blue eyes and light brown hair, wearing a white cape.
"Here, Rosa. I can't seem to find Garnet anywhere, so would you mind looking after this young lady for me?" He asked.
"Sure. Hey, you haven't seen Cecil up there, have you?" Rosa enquired as she took Bridget off to the wall of the cavern and onto a bed.
"Ummm…I think he went off with Byuu earlier this morning with the dragons. I don't know when he said he'll be back though."
"You think he likes those smelly dragons better than me the way he's always with them and Byuu!" Rosa joked.
Zidane grinned and replied, "Well, they have become good friends. Anyway, I'd better show her friend where everything is. See you!" And Zidane turned and walked over to where Mark was.
"Lost yet?" Zidane teased.
"Yeah…"
"Well come on, I'll show you around." Zidane lead Mark around. "Well, this is the main cavern here, as you can see. It's also known as Ultima Cavern. This is where we mostly hang out when we're not doing anything, and there's an infirmary on the edge of the cavern there-" and he pointed to a series of beds attached to the wall, one of which was occupied by Bridget. "but there's also a room set away for more serious cases a bit further down."
Mark now spotted Wakka, who passed by the both of them, and muttered "Watch me hit Tidus…it's hilarious. He doesn't have a clue what happens!" Wakka snickered to himself.
"Don't you think he's had enough of you hitting him in the back of the head yet? You knocked him out for half an hour last time!" Zidane retorted. He then grinned. "But, yeah, you're right. It's a crack-up!"
Wakka grinned maliciously and pegged his blitzball. "OW!" Tidus' yell rang out through the Ultima Cavern as he looked around wildly for the culprit. But Wakka's ball had repercussions. It bounced off the blonde's head and straight into Rikku, who had been hanging around the Cosmo Candle look-alike. She was knocked off her feet, and into the pile of ashes piled at the bottom of the Cosmo Candle. She got up, dusted herself off, and screeched,
"YOU'RE GONNA GET IT, WAKKA!!" And with that, before Mark knew what was going on, Wakka stood open-eyed and quickly made a 'Eep!' sound, then dashed off. Rikku was on his ankles, now in her final dressphere, the Machina Maw. She pounded after him, face still blackened from the ash, fuming death-threats in her giant machina.
"Err…let's keep going, shall we?" Zidane grinned sheepishly.
Zidane and Mark walked past grassed area that looked like Balamb Garden's training area. "There's a training area down there. I wouldn't suggest going too far down there yet, the further down you go, the tougher the monsters get."
The pair left the main cavern and down a small tunnel. They walked in silence for a while, and then Zidane explained, "All of the caverns here are named after certain spells, like the emergency healing cavern is known as Curaga Cavern. The training area is known more formally as the Quake Cavern."
"Huh. What about Firaga, Blizzaga and Thundaga?" Mark asked.
"All of us who were originally transported here have split up into three groups, and they all have their own quarters at the Firaga, Blizzaga and Thundaga Caverns." He paused for a second, and then said. "Do you guys have magic where you come from too? Most of the new people we've been getting come from a place where there isn't any magic."
"No. But I've heard of it." He replied. At that moment, they came to a fork.
Zidane pointed off to the left. "Down there's the sleeping quarters, so that's the Blizzaga, Firaga and Thundaga Caverns. There's also one for any of Drinnae's survivors, known as Holy Cavern. Oh, and then there's the one for all the new people who keep popping in, and seeing none of them knew how to use magic when they first arrived it's known as Silence Cavern."
"What about the right path?" Mark queried.
"Berserk Caverns, or the chocobo stables and the gathering Caverns for people of special jobs." Zidane then began to lead them down that path.
"What kind of jobs?" He had to ask as he followed along.
"Aren't we curious?" Zidane grinned. "Well, some of the Drinnans or the Earthlings wanted to learn some of our techniques. It's for learning how to be a Black Mage…somebody who can cast offensive spells like Fire and Watera, which conjures up a…" Zidane started.
"I know what spells do what. Fire does a fire elemental attack, same with Fira and Firaga, only its more stronger, then there is curing spells like Cure..." Mark cut in.
"Whoa! Slow down, smarty-pants. Well, Osmose Cavern is for black mages and summoners, Haste Cavern is for warriors and soldiers, Aero Cavern is for dragoons, Protect Cavern is for monks, Life Cavern is for white mages…" Zidane seemed to trail off, thinking about it.
"Agh! I'm never gonna be able to remember all that!" Mark said.
"Don't worry, you will eventually."
Mark suddenly stopped, as his mind reeled back to what Zidane had said earlier. "Hey…when you said people wanted to learn how to be a warrior or something, who did you say?" He asked, trembling a little.
"Drinnans, the natives to Drinnae and Earthlings. From some planet called Earth."
"W-what?! Earth?! I'm from there!!" Mark exclaimed excitedly.
"Really? Hey, well we should head over to Silence Cavern. Most of the other Earthlings are there, and they can probably help you settle in better than I can." He turned around and beckoned. "Let's go!"
They quickly backtracked through the tunnels and once they arrived at the fork they took the left tunnel. Mark noticed some parchments on the walls, some old and tattered that looked centuries old, others relatively new, and all of them were written in gold ink of some sort. He leaned closer, and found it in some other language, one he'd never seen before.
"What's up with all the parchments on the walls?" Mark pointed them out to Zidane.
"They're old prayers of hope and powerful spells and stuff. It's all written in Ancient Drinnan, so I don't know what they say exactly anyway. Neither do the surviving Drinnans for that matter."
By now, the two had come to a clearing and they were now faced with five arches leading off. Each arch was a different colour, and had patterns inscribed all over them. In the middle of each arch, a word in Drinnan was etched in.
"These are Holy, Thundaga, Silence, Blizzaga and Firaga Caverns." He said, pointing to their respective archway as he spoke. Firaga Cavern's archway was red, with what looked like fire inscribed into the arch, along with simplified creatures that Mark thought were dragons and bombs (the monster, not the weapon). Blizzaga's was blue with ice-capped mountains and glaciers accompanied by snow lions, mountain goats and…something that looked like a woolly rhinoceros. He didn't know what it was exactly. Thundaga's arch was a bright yellow, with lightning-like patterns etched in with an assortment of birds, and among them was one which looked like the GF Quezacotl. Holy Cavern's silvery-white archway had straight lines etched into the top, but a closer look made them look more like rays. They had what looked like a two-headed dragon and another creature. It looked like a cross between a dragon and a wolf. But because all of the creatures were simplified into suggested lines and curves, it was hard to really tell what they were.
Unlike all the other arches, Silence Cavern was plain grey. Just plain, nothing etched into it, except for something in Drinnan, which Mark believed to be the name of the Caverns.
Zidane had walked towards the grey-arched Cavern, and had turned around to watch Mark inspect the arches.
"I know, that's some eye candy there, hey? C'mon, though. You'll have plenty of time to check everything out when you meet the rest of everyone." Zidane reminded.
Mark snapped out of his daze and stepped through the grey archway.
Silence Cavern was nowhere near as big as Ultima Cavern. It was only about as big as a school hall, or a basketball court, and there were rows of beds scattered about. Only seven of the all the tens of beds looked occupied. Six other people were in the room at the moment.
"Hi!" A girl noticed Mark. She had long blue hair tied back in a braid with a red ribbon, tight-fitting top and black baggy jeans that even covered her shoes. Her shiny emerald eyes glittered happily and Mark noticed a lollypop in her mouth. "I'm Aiko!" She ran up to him and asked, "You from Earth too?"
"Yeah. I'm Mark. There's also my friend Bridget, but she's being looked after by Rosa back at Ultima Cavern."
"IAN! Come and meet Mark! He's from Earth too!" Aiko yelled at the other five.
A young man, probably around seventeen, came out and joined Aiko and Mark. "Ian, this is Mark. We've got someone else from Earth! Oh, and Mark, this is Ian."
"Hi." Ian sounded blunt.
"Hiya!" Mark greeted back. Ian had short silver hair, and some of his fringe grew into spikes, one of which covered his right eye. Ian's eyes were a ruby colour and he wore a sleeveless shirt that was ripped along the bottom and ripped baggy jeans.
Before Mark knew it, everyone else was there, greeting him with friendly smiles…well, most anyway. Except for another seventeen-year-old male, who had pale skin, shoulder-length white hair and a pair of green eyes. He had his left ear pierced, Mark noted. The green-eyed pale-skinned teen was wearing a white shirt, black boots, shorts and jacket, and a white cape.
"That's Atheon. He's always quiet. Don't take it the wrong way." A teenaged girl informed him, noticing Mark's gaze wondering towards Atheon. This young woman had aqua eyes, with a strange glimmer; they reminded him of Cloud…Mark looked back to the people around him. The girl who had spoken had extremely long golden-blonde hair, and she had on a pair of shorts and a light blue half-shirt.
"Name's Serenity." She told him.
"I'm Drake." A man said to him. Drake looked a bit older than anyone else in the room, about early to mid twenties, and he had short black hair with a white headband matched with cobalt blue eyes. Drake was clothed in a green sleeveless t-shirt, dark grey pants, kung fu shoes and had silver armbands around his biceps and metal-armoured dark green fingerless gloves.
"Well, see you around anyway. I'm going to go to the Protect Caverns for a bit." Drake then announced.
"Yeah…see ya…" Mark replied.
"Eh. I guess I'll be heading off too. I gotta go find Garnet. I'm grouped in the Thundaga Caverns, if you wanna find me. Toodles." Zidane left with Drake.
The only one he hadn't been introduced to in the room was a young woman, probably seventeen, who had long brown hair and bluish-silvery eyes.
"Hey, I'm Sariah." She smiled softly as she greeted him. Sariah wore a short blue tank top, a black fur-lined jacket, black leather miniskirt, and black thigh-high boots. She had a red criss-cross strap above her right boot and a gunblade holder strapped around her hips.
"Well, it's nice to meet you all. I'm Mark." He paused for a moment. "How long have you all been here anyway?"
"Too long to remember." Serenity replied.
"Uh-huh. Faaaaaaaar too long." Aiko added.
"You do know about Final Fantasy and everything, right?" Sariah asked. When Mark nodded, she added, "Well, we've been here long enough to learn how to use magic and everything. We practically know what its like to be a character from Final Fantasy!"
"Really…? Hmmm…" Mark glanced behind him, out the Silence Cavern. "I wonder if Bridget's alright?" He muttered to himself.
"Who?" Atheon finally spoke up.
"Uh, a friend of mine. She's from Earth too. We had an encounter with Arkna on the way here, and she's completely exhausted from the battle."
"You…fought Arkna?! By yourselves?!" Ian asked, a little shocked.
"No, we had Zidane and Wakka." He answered.
"Look, I want to go check on Bridget back at the Ultima Cavern. So I'm gonna go back now. See ya's!" Mark added hastily.
"Oh, well, we'll come too. If she's awake we can all meet her!" Aiko suggested cheerfully.
"Yeah!" Serenity agreed.
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Biddett's eyes slowly fluttered open. She moaned groggily as her eyes came into focus.
"How are you feeling? A little sore? I'd expect that, after that battle." The young woman who had spoke wore mainly yellow, and had short, cropped black hair.
"Garnet…?" Bridget blinked a bit. She had completely forgotten about The Phantom Train, the chocobo and Arkna.
"Garnet til Alexandros the Seventeenth, yes. Do you remember anything? A big black dragon perhaps?"
Her brain suddenly kicked into gear and her mind flashed back to that day's events. "Yeah! I was going on a train trip with Mark, and we saw ghosts…we got off the train and we were in some ruined city. Then I saw a chocobo, and Vivi…and then Zidane and Wakka showed up. And then…there was a couple of monsters. They ran off after a while, and then…Arkna showed up. Mark was getting badly beaten, and I was so angry at Arkna, and desperate to help him…I don't remember much after that…" She recounted.
"Apparently you performed some enraged attack, and Arkna was wounded and fled. After that, you collapsed." Another woman informed her. Bridget's mind immediately recognised her as Rosa, the white mage from FF4.
"That was pretty brave, you know! When we all first appeared, Arkna was there too. I was frightened, but I guess I was lucky Terra, Celes, Locke and everyone else was with me…"A small voice piped up. As Biddett craned to look at her, she found she wasn't much more than a girl. She had fair blonde waves that were tied up in a red bandanna, and she wore green dance clothes.
"You're…Relm, right?" Bridget asked.
"Yeah! How'd you know my name? That's freaky…" Relm sounded excited and afraid at the same time.
"She seems to know everyone's names here. Where did you say you came from?" Rosa asked curiously.
"Earth." Bridget answered. She suddenly bolted up. "Where's Mark?" Her eyes shot worriedly into the throng of people in the Ultima Cavern,
"He's getting a tour from Zidane." Rose told her. "By the way, Garnet?"
"Call me Dagger, okay?" Garnet corrected her.
"Okay. Dagger, Zidane was looking for you earlier." She told the summoner.
"Really? Okay. I'd better go. See you later, Bridget, Rosa, Relm." And with that, she disappeared into the crowd.
Relm hopped up onto the end of Bridget's bed, and sat by her knees. "You come from Earth, too? We've been getting a lot of people from there lately."
"You serious?" Bridget seemes stunned.
"Yeah!" Relm nodded.
"I have to leave, Relm. Look after Bridget for a while, until Mark gets back. I need to attend a tactics meeting." Rosa suddenly announced.
"Awww…" Relm sounded disappointed.
"I'm sure Bridget will want someone to talk to, Relm, so don't sound so upset." Rosa comforted her, and then smiled at them both and turned and briskly walked through the entrance to a tunnel at the end of the Cavern.
Suddenly Relm spotted somebody coming.
"Look, you're friends coming! And he's brought almost all of the other people from Earth too!" Relm exclaimed.
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Okay. End of chapter. phew!
Biddett: Okay, while I'm still talking about me forgetting disclaimers, I'd better say that I'm really not that clever when it comes to humour fics. Half of it is all thanks to my older brother Jimmy .
Choco: Actually it still wasn't that funny. It's supposed to be a half humour fic and you only had the one joke in the whole thing!!
Biddett: Quiet you. I just wanted to introduce the OC's and explain about the Caverns, I guess.
Choco: Sure…
Biddett: Urge to stalk…rising….
Choco: O.O;;; Uh, leave a review? Maybe it'll keep her AWAY from me!!
Biddett: HEY! THAT's MY LINE!!!! Okay, that's it!! STALKING TIME!
Choco: Oh dear….HELP! REVIEW!!! PLEASE!!