Well I'm back. I hope you like this next chapter, I also hope that if you read this you will review, this one is a little longer than previous chapter, hope you enjoy.
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Chapter 2: Desert Storm (part 1)
Bahamut stood in the middle of the other fayth, not too many of them were happy to be woken up. Shiva kept trying to make a move on Ifrit, the magus sisters kept looking in his direction and giggling, Ixion and valefore were having a quiet debate over who should kill him first, Anima was contemplating on whether or not to strangle, behead, glare to death, or torture her son, in fact the only ones that actually were paying attention and looking at him were Yojimbo and his dog. The latter of which couldn't speak.
"Bahamut, why did you awaken us? It had to be important, no one else is listening, but Anima has an idea what happened, is it true?"
"Indeed it is, Seymore and Yunalesca have become relieved of death. They have returned to the land of the living, I'll give you one guess who it is too." Bahamut said confirming Yojimbo's theories.
"Surely, not. How can he have gotten through? The four before us had imprisoned him and with more security than ever before. Yu Yevon was the only one he was able to make contact with, and now he's gone to the farplane, or wherever else he desired. But enough of this, you want us to become aeons again don't you?"
"Yes. They will need all the help they can get, I shall send the boy back as well, it won't be enough though if he is freed."
"If who is freed?" Asked Ixion and Valefore who silently glared at each other, and had just reached a conclusion.
"If the immortal Agrath is freed, you idiots." Anima replied swiftly and cunningly. Much to the surprise of Bahamut and Yojimbo who hadn't even realized she was listening.
"You began talking about my son, it was enough to keep me listening." Anima said with a shrug.
"How do you know of him? You're the newest member, where have you heard of this demon before?"
"Well in the temple before I became a fayth, there was a great library, one of the books was under a spell, it said to be a book of Agriculture. I thought it odd that they would have that there of all places. It is in middle of the ocean after all. When I opened it up it became a book titled "The Cult Of Agrath" It was very interesting, how there used to be a cult who worshiped the immortal Agrath, but was stopped by the first of the fayth, and they secretly tried to bring him back, but he was dormant, and after awhile they gave up. It ended saying that only a few members of the cult still existed, this book was made 200 years before Tidus was created." Anima said, though now getting the attention of Shiva, Ifrit, and the Magus Sisters.
"Are there any of the cult still alive today? Do you know?" Bahamut asked though secretly thinking there was at least one member alive.
"The book had a record keeper, it had only one family that was part of the cult by that time, it was a weird name Farni, Fernir, Forener, or something like that." Anima replied.
"Was is Fanir?" Ifrit asked guessing, even though the name sounded very familiar.
"Yes, I believe that was it. But the book said that the family had disappeared and couldn't track them, they managed to lose the book. How did you know?"
"Ah, lucky guess?" Ifrit said not knowing himself.
"Good guess. Anyway, Bahamut now that everyone is paying attention please tell us what you planned us to do?" Yojimbo said losing patience.
"Ah, right, of course I want us to become aeons again." Bahamut said receiving many groans of disappointment.
"I also want us to create four new fayth, we will need all the help we can get, and I have the perfect four people, to use too." Bahamut said and a few of them had an idea of who he wanted to use.
"Please, no. I beg you, not him. The others whoever they may be are fine, but please not him. He tried to hit on me, me a fayth!" Valefore said and a few more began to realize who he was talking about.
"You can't be serious. He is the least fayth-like you could ever meet. I swear if he gets out of hand I shall personally cut off his head, fayth or not, though fayth he can't die. What the hell are you thinking?" Yojimbo practically cried.
"Uh, Bahamut," Sandy began.
"Yes, what is it?"
"She wants to ask if you're sure." Cindy piped up.
"Because how would that look for a member of the fayth?" Mandy finished.
"Yes, I'm sure. Now who would like to volunteer for something." Everyone looked at him angrily, Bahamut got the idea. "Uh, never mind. Yojimbo, please come with me." With that Bahamut left, with a grumbling and worried Yojimbo following after. The rest of the fayth laughed before going to get prepared for the creation of the new arrivals.
Shuyin awoke to find himself in a hut with no recollection of how he got there, the hut was small, a bunch of what he hoped were dolls lying about, a wall with a trophy and a bunch of blitzballs hanging off the shelf. He saw Lenne on the cot off to the side, he realized that he was on a table of some sort. He tried to get up, but the pain was too much, he realized he had no idea of how he got here, the last thing he remembered were he and Lenne heading for the Farplane, after Lady Yuna sent them. He kept seeing a blue haired guado in his dreams, the guado was pure evil, he kept laughing his maniacal laugh and kept smirking his cruel smirk. Once though he though it had been real, in that small part of the dream, he watched as the guado gave a liquid of some sort to Lenne, and then to himself, he tried to fight, but in the dream he was in too much pain. How'd he get here? Where was here? Who was the guado? All of these things were racing through his mind. He drew in a huge breath when he saw a big man with red hair and a bliztball under his arm.
"So you're awake, ya?"
"Yes." he managed to croak.
"Name's Wakka." the red haired man held out his hand for him to shake.
"Shuyin." he replied.
"I know. I'll go get the girls, they have a few questions for you. Be back, okay?"
"Sure." Shuyin replied, but Wakka had already left. He heard a small moan escape Lenne. He looked over to see her suddenly waking up.
"Shuyin? Where are we?" she asked.
"Don't know? If this is the farplane, I never realized how alike living and dying is." He said while rubbing his neck.
"Uh, did you by chance have a strange dream?" she asked discreetly.
"Uh, yeah, I had a few. Why?" he said wondering if she had dreamt about the blue haired guado as well.
"Did you have a dream about a blue haired man, because I did and he was evil, he also pored something down our throats."
"I had the exact same dream. Do you know who he is?" he asked hoping she knew.
"No." She said, and was about to continue when four people came in with Wakka, needless to say the hut needed to have bigger rooms.
"Lady Yuna. How is this possible?" Lenne asked, and recognized who it was before Shuyin. Shuyin felt some of his hatred grow at the site of her.
"Yuna." Shuyin said with a nod.
"Lenne. Shuyin. Two of Wakka's old blitzball teammates found you washed up on the beach. Almost dead. You said something before falling unconscious." She trailed off hoping that one of the two would say something about what happened.
"Did we? What was it?" Lenne asked.
"You said something about Spira's end." one of the girls next to Yuna who Shuyin recognized as Rikku.
"I don't remember anything. How did we end up here, aren't we suppose to be dead?" Shuyin asked feeling slightly out of place.
"What you're supposed to be and what you are, are not always the same thing." the totally black clothed woman holding a small bundle, which Shuyin realized was a baby, said.
"That is true logic." Lenne said.
"Do you remember anything, since I sent you?" Yuna asked anxiously.
"No I'm afraid I do not, I believe the same goes for Lenne as well." Shuyin looked at Lenne and she nodded, though looking like she would collapse at any moment. "I believe we shall have to catch up later at the moment I believe Lenne and I would like to rest. If that is not too much trouble Yuna?"
"No that is fine, when feeling a bit better see if you can come find me, I want to talk." Then she and the rest left the group and before he knew it he was out like a light.
Bahamut had just returned and was getting ready to return Tidus to reality. Tidus was looking forward to it, but he was not looking forward to receiving the aeon Yojimbo as his guard, he was actually going to become a human for the duration of his time. Yojimbo didn't seem very happy either. But after much persuasion they finally agreed and after awhile Bahamut gave instructions to Yojimbo and Tidus and said he would try to send them back near Besaid Island.
That was two hours ago, Bahamut had long since returned them, but Tidus was down heartened to find out that Bahamut had gotten the coordinates wrong, they both ended up somewhere in middle of Bikanel desert.
"Damn him." Tidus heard Yojimbo say, he had thought that the guy would be much like Auron, he was wrong. He was probably more like Braska, or even Jecht.
"Where are we Jim?" Tidus asked using Yojimbo's human name.
"Where do you think we are? We're in the middle of a fridgen desert."
"..." Tidus began playing with his sword that Bahamut had given him. They ran into another Zu their third one, they beat it and they began getting tired. Tidus sat down to rest, they were without food without water, and lost in a desert.
"What do you think you're doing. We need to keep up at a steady pace, if we sit down to rest we'll, well you'll be dead before you know it." Jim said.
"Yeah, well you're immortal. I'm not." Tidus said.
"What does that have anything to with it?" Jim thought he heard Tidus mumble something that sounded like idiot under his breath. Normally they both would have realized it, but since they didn't, they fell straight down into a hole in the ground.
The Sand Worm was huge, and it was at the moment beating Dald, Nemro, and Aphra to a pulp. Each time one of them charged it, it would move with surprisingly fast reflexes and lash out with its chunky tail. Dald was the latest victim and was thrown across the room, with sickening power. This sand worm they began to realize was different, it didn't need to use special weapons, for its mass and speed, not to mention armor and power were more than enough for the likes of them.
"Dald get up!" Nemro shouted at the semi-conscience boy. He watched as Dald took a small knife out of his back pocket, and threw it at the worm, unfortunately, the only thing that happened was the sand worm ate it, and now Dald was almost weaponless.
"I'm getting, I'm getting." Dald then turned and looked at the worm, almost being hit by Aphra who had just been flung his way. "Yeh old worm I'm going to send you back to the hell you were spawned at. Yep, Yep I am." He charged again his small katana weaving back and forth.
"Nemro, this is hopeless. We can't win, let's try to look for another way out." Aphra called out watching as the two men fought.
"You go ahead and do that, we'll distract it." Nemro shouted back his iron fists pounding to no avail.
While Dald and Nemro fought off the worm she tried to find a way out. She heard voices on the other side of a collapsed wall, she yelled back, there party were looking for them.
"Try to help us clear the rocks, quickly. Dald and Nemro are at the moment fending off a huge sand worm." Aphra yelled.
"We'll have you out in a jiffy, wait here while I go get more people to help." the worker yelled back.
Aphra tuned just at that moment to see to strangers fall from the hole in the middle, the hole where the maester guado had appeared. Both of the two landed on the sand worm, with a thud and the sand worm in anger tossed Dald against the rocks again, this time however he didn't get up right away. The two strangers were dressed most strangely. The first looked like a nineteen year old boy, with spiky blond hair, a pair of shorts that had one knee one length, the other another. Aphra thought the first guy looked familiar from somewhere, but not exactly sure where. The second guy was dressed in flowing red robes, with a very large katana at his side, also at the mans side was a dog, but it seemed to appear and disappear at will, or blend in to the surroundings at least. She looked and saw that Nemro was also having the same look on his face. It didn't last long though as the sand worm lashed out and attacked while his back was turned. Aphra didn't have long because the worm came straight for her as well.
Tidus looked around, first thing he noticed was the monster of the sand worm, and three people, they seemed to be trapped in this little cavern, so he probably was as well. Jim was busy giving a phoenix down, a rare find, to the boy on the floor. Two other people were fighting the sand worm and from what he could tell not hurting it in the slightest. He took out the sword and went to see how much damage he could cause.
"Hey, hey you. Need some help?" He said with a grin, to the other two.
"Hopefully you're some miracle worker, cause that is what we'll need to get out of this mess. Name's Nemro by the way."
"Tidus." Tidus shook hands and heard someone yell at them.
"If you two are done, I could use a little help over here. Name's Aphra, now get your butt over here. We can get more acquainted later." She yelled and swung her clawed gauntlets, she looked over to see the other older man with a slightly dazed Dald heading her way. "Hey, you. Think you could help us here, as much as I would love for us to be pounded to a pulp, and eaten, I'd rather not."
"I am Jim, please step aside and let the boy and I deal with the beast."
"No problem dude. After all we could use a break." Dald said and went with Aphra to try and move some of the debris so they could escape."
"Good luck. You'll need it." Nemro replied also heading over to try and get rid of the rocks blocking their escape.
"Luck won't even be needed in this fight." Jim said.
"No need to get overconfident. But you're probably right." Tidus said and shifted his sword in his hand, it didn't feel the same as the Calabog though. He shifted his feet and dodged the large bulbous tail. Although he wondered why it wasn't using any special moves, he tried to scan it with his sword. but it couldn't be identified. 'Strange. Only a few monsters and mini-bosses didn't show the info. Wonder what's up.'
Yojimbo had similar thoughts and realized before Tidus what was happening. "Hey, Tidus, and you three come over here." He swiftly dodged another attack from the worm.
"What? Why? Shouldn't we be fighting?" Tidus asked in a confused voice and the others kept glancing between the two too.
"This foe is stronger than an average Sand Worm, it seems almost human, its power is extremely high, and I can see no way we could survive a full scale attack. Grab hold of each other, and I'll try to transport us out of here, but who knows how long we'll last in the desert. I'm not even sure this spell will keep us together."
"Huh? What spell, are you a mage?" Nemro asked and shuffled his feet, watching for the next move of the worm.
"In a way, yes. This spell, I'm about to use is very old and not quite sure if it will work properly, so grab onto each other and hold on." Jim said and watched as they grabbed unto the sleeve of each other, and began the spell. Within seconds of speaking the verse which none could hear, but the winds, a whirling wind of sand came and lifted them out through the hole. Unbeknown to them a storm was waging in the desert, and a prophecy was about to become known.
In the holy land of Zanarkand, once the place of the final summoning, once a place of tourism, last a place of monkeys, now it was ruled by a man unlike any other. If any were to enter the dome, they most likely would be met by the normal denizens, but after passing a certain point, the zombies and the animated rocks would leave. For the other half of the dome, and ever speck and span that was left of it was ruled by him. The zombies and animated rocks stood clear of that place, they became the guards, once one could have stepped into the dome and not been attacked for long periods of time, now however, every step you took was sure to have zombies or rocks attack. The part after that, was ruled by fiends of all shapes and sizes, strong, fearless, and deadly fiends. These were fiends were different from all the others, and most people who stepped into their territory were never seen again. In the farthest most part of the dome, which was actually under it a complex series of newly created tunnels were being created by the fiends, they were heading to each of the temples, and to areas with out temples, but had lots of people. They were getting ready for an invasion, so far though only the entrances to the temple of remiem, the macalania temple, and the cavern of the stolen fayth were accessible. But within a few more weeks they would have entrance to most temples, and to luca, miehen highroad, the battlegrounds of operation miehen, and bikanel as well. Their master urged them to begin faster, they obeyed, they feared him, being their creator the fiends new could just as easily uncreate them, they had seen it happen before. Where once a sanctuary keeper lived two fiends were standing guard over the entrance to their master. The two guards were both called Nemesis, but there names were Nem and Sis, both female, no one could get in or out without passing by them. No one, but the master and the servant. The servant was more like the masters best friend, the fiend was that of a tonberry, his name was Don. The master had taught him how to read, talk, fight, summon other monsters to his side, and many other things, he was the only one who ever was actually able to understand what the master was saying. The master was a skinny fellow, somewhat muscular, but extremely thin. He had dark black hair, and red eyes, his nose was similar to that of a snake, on his hand he wore two rings, one symbolizing himself, meaning his symbol, the other part of his heritage, part of why he was planning an invasion. The ring was silver, and in the middle had a gold A with tiny serpents surrounding it. He also wore a medallion, though not as easy to spot, as the ring, it also had an A on it, covered with twelve tiny holes where the objects he was after should have been inserted. He was kicked out of his former home, after the calm land citizens had gotten suspicious, he was evicted, though he left a few monsters behind, as well as shut his secret lair, after removing all discriminating evidence, he had been intrigued when Lady Yuna had defeated the monsters and helped the chocobo boy Clasko set up there. He later learned that one of the damn birds had discovered his secret entrance. He thought that the summoner and her friends would die, but instead they found his very own prized chocobo. He cursed them for hours after that, but got over it quickly, she had unwittingly lured everyone away from the dome so he could work. He was busy creating new monsters when Don came in.
"I'm sorry to disturb you master Fanir." The little robed green tonberry said.
"It's okay, I wanted to show someone my new creation anyway." He gestured to behind him at the large machina. "By the way, how goes it with teaching Nem and Sis English?"
"Uh, they are beginning to understand the basics, soon they may be able to actually have a conversation with you. A few others have been wanting to learn as well, so I'm trying to teach them."
"Ah, yes, good, good. Anyway I'd liked to introduce Yojindo, I told you that prisoner would come in handy." He gestured to the remarkable Yojimbo look alike.
"Master, it looks like lady Yuna's Yojimbo, only darker." Don said noticing the dark purple robes the green eyes, and saw that the dog was even their as well, dark black with specks of brown here and there.
"Good. That was what I hoped it would look like, I do believe he will be able to speak English once he gets used to the surroundings, now I just need more people to come snooping by to use in my experiments, I'm planning of creating my own copies of the aeons. Good ya?" He said while laughing at his joke of the dumb Wakka, who had to have been almost killed a good thousand or so times trying to kill his created fiends.
"Indeed, actually that was why I'm here. It seems as if we have picked up intruders at the dome entrance, they seem to be the New Yevon Praetor and one of the gullwings by the name of Paine."
"Really now? This could be useful, having the praetor of New Yevon and a friend of the gullwings at my disposal, they would make very fine spies. Don I want you to take Yojindo and capture these two, I prefer scared to injured, but do what you must."
"Yes, sir. Yojindo come with me."
"Masters." Yojindo replied much to the surprise of Don and Fanir.
Fanir watched the two leave, his plans were coming to the start, he would soon be ready, ready to make his war against Spira.
Well here's the third chapter, hope you enjoyed it. Sorry for taking so long to get it out, not been on due to stupid tests at school. This is part one of a three part chapter, within one of the parts a prophecy will be told. Also if anyone really does know the name of the monster Arena guy it would be nice to know. Also if anyone knows who the four fayth are going to be I would like to hear your thoughts, so please review.