No more Al Bhed! It takes long to decipher and longer to write... I may write some in the story dialogues, or when Serya or Strike narrate, but I'll try not to abuse of that. So! Chapter...19! Yeah! Almost at twenty! I still don't know when this story will end... But I think that it won't get to the fifth year, that's for sure. Now, please someone (-is interrupted by someone that pops out of the sewers-)
Me: You're alive! Ztal, you're alive.
Ztal: No kidding...
Me: Umm... Ztal, go away and take a bath... please... you stink like a sewer.
Ztal: (-Mumbles and goes away-)
Me: Well, then... Viktor do the Disclaimer...
Kiomi: Let me today... please.
Me: Viktor you don't mind, do you?
Viktor: Of course not.
Kiomi: Yay! Okay I'll start now. Disclaimer: Aisler doesn't own any of the characters except for Ztal and half of Serya. Mediciner owns Srticken/Strike, leirbag 10 owns Zeph, Coga owns Viktor, SsAnImE owns... ME! And... Rayne is owned by Anarchy, and Nanta is owned by BTK... Anyone else...? Yeah... the mysterious guy that you will know of (well... only his race in this chapter, but you already know his name... Cypros) is of a friendof mine... which doesn't ahve an account in Fanf... So let's call him... CAMH. And that's it!
Strike, and I'm better
I'm supposed to NOT to move my arm at least after a week. But you all know that as soon as I get out of this hospital I'll get rid of this cast' those were the thoughts that travelled through my head.
"Yay! You're better" Kiomi said.
"I wasn't going to die you know, it was just a broken bone" I told her.
"Well, who was the one screaming when we were on our way to Tipa?"
"I screamed? Oh, come on, gimme a break" I told Kiomi not knowing of what she was talking about.
"Erhem" someone behind Kiomi coughed. "I am Serya. It has been a pleasure to finally shake your hand" she said doing what she said.
'That girl seemed to fall out of Heaven. She didn't seem from this place. Wonder why she came to save us... Well... never mind. Let's get the hell out of here' I thought standing.
"Tu hud tu dryd. Oui yne cdemm emm" Serya said in another, and familiar language.
"Tuh'd funno, E's ugyo" I said, remembering some of that language I was taught when I was little. I stared at her. As if I'd never seen a woman before. I tried to look away, but she was a magnet for my eyes... wait... I'm getting softy here!
"You guys know that I didn't understand a word you said, right?" Kiomi made me snap.
"That's the whole Idea of learning a dead language" I tantalized her.
"It is not so of a dead language. Every mage has to learn it" Serya said.
"Oh come on, let's go out. Maybe the others are here. I can hear a lot of noise" Zeph said.
I hadn't seen him. There he was... then I remembered that he died because of my fault... But he seemed happy. I don't know... He just seemed to smile to everyone even at the worst moments. I'm sure happy we's still with us, even as a spirit.
We got out of the hospital and all the citizens of Tipa where listening to their leader.
"Calm down citizens! Everything is going to be alright. We've asked for help!" yelled Bianka without any results. The crowd seemed to be in complete chaos. They weren't listening to their leader, so Kiomi took drastic measures.
"Everybody calm down!" she yelled really loud, I thought I had gone deaf for a second. Even though my ear hurt really bad, Kiomi's yelling didn't do anything to the crowd. Then, Serya went near them. She held her staff and started praying in Al Bhed. I took my staff, with its orb shining a pale green, and followed her. I felt a soothing breeze invading the pandemonium. The people began to calm down, little by little. I never knew that I had this power, but I did feel that by every person that calmed down, my heart and my thoughts weighed a lot more. Afterwards, Bianka talked.
"Thank you, caravanners from Awrya. We need your attention citizens. But please, don't panick when I give you the news. One of our Moogles has brought a message from one of our caravanners asking for help. They are in danger, and can't do anything. It also says that their chalice has been broken, but they still have the protective crystal. Visitors, I beg of you. Please help us"
"We will aid you, dear cousin" answered Serya looking at her, then bowing.
"Thank you" the leader bowed back.
We got out of Tipa and bumped with the others.
"About time you got here" I greeted them, getting rid of my cast, slowly with Fire.
"Yeah, we also were worried about you" only Rayne could reply like that.
"Umh.. GUYS! No time! Remember?! Have to save a caravan and a town!?!?" Kiomi grabbed everyone's attention. "Finally" she mumbled.
We followed Serya, and she lead us to a place that didn't appear in the map Viktor was guided with. It was like a swamp and a lot of mosquitoes were fleeing from it.
"We're near" I said without the cast.
Then, a strong wind came from the direction we were facing. Then we started to run.
"Wacth out! Remember, swamps have quicksand" Nanta said but it was too late for Ztal, Rayne and Viktor.
Ztal flapped his wings (which weren't under the quicksand) and could get out of it, then he helped Rayne get out, and Kiomi helped Viktor.
"I admonished you" Nanta was tantalizing the nordic.
"Umh.. GUYS! Hurry up!" said Kiomi who was ahead of the group with Ztal.
We followed them until the big trees and the gel-like soil ended. There was a Purple Gemini there. And a guy was fighting him. The caravanners from Tipa were in the floor.
"About time, I needed a good fight" I said stretching before attacking.
Meditation
"Watch out!" Kiomi yelled to a guy that was fighting alone when she saw an enormous light aim at him. She went towards him then.
"This cannot be... How can Bahamut be here? He was sealed away" Serya said as she ran towards the two teens in peril.
"What are you waiting for guys?! Let's kill that Gemini so we can take care of that flying dragon... Wait... Dragon!" I said as I remembered something.
The Bahamut's attack was completely charged. He didn't waste time and unleashed the energy in a beam. Serya created a barrier around everyone, caravanners from Tipa, the guy and us, and the beam was getting closer. I flew to where Kiomi was. Then I started meditating... 'What was that technique us dragoons have? That technique that will save us right now'
(-Really short Flashback-)
"Son are you paying attention!?" my father screamed when I was playing with the sand on the beach. I was 5 at that moment, my brother was 8. "Stop doing that and pay attention or you'll get grounded" I did what was told. "That's better. Now, us Dragoons have a special ability to dominate any kind of dragon there is on Moona. You have to concentrate on your soul and the dragon's in order to control it. But remember this well..." my father continued. I didn't really listen to him when he continued... I just remember I fell asleep.
(-End of really short Flashback-)
'Come on... soul... take over the dragon... come on, do it!' I thought but nothing happened, except that a deafening sound made me jump out of my meditation.
"The barrier's broke!" yelled Rayne from far away. I looked up and saw the dragon. I saw his eyes, those eyes that just seemed to be dark holes. Once again my meditation was broke up.
"I can't change the ray's course!" yelled Strike.
I felt everything pause, but I still could move. I could see Kiomi's scared expression. I could see the sweat of Rayne suspended in the air. That didn't feel right, in fact nothing from the beginning of our second year trip felt right. I kept looking at the faces of the others, then I saw Bahamut's. He seemed somehow controlled... and it wasn't by me... He looked as if he wanted freedom... I stopped looking at him. I looked for Zeph then... he was in fron of the blast... WHAT!?!? In front of the blast! He is going to take the impact... 'Argh! I don't feel well... what's happening?!?!' I thought and looked from side to side, to see that time was slowly melting. The Mega-Flare of Bahamut was about to hit Zeph, but his image turned into photons of light and they went towards Serya.
"No! Not now dear friend. We need you!" she screamed hopelessly on the ground.
Once again, I closed my eyes to meditate. 'What was going on? Were we doomed for? Why did the Bahamut's souls feel controlled?' these thought were running through my mind. I felt time getting slower, again freezing, and I felt it, I felt another Dragoon's soul and overwhelming power. That was it! Bahamut didn't really want to attack us, he was being controlled by another Dragoon. But that really didn'tmatter anymore, the Flare was justin front of us... only a miracle could save us... Time went back to normal. And suddenly...
"NOOOOOO!" yelled the Xyques, right now I don't feel like explaining that kind of race, as an almost invisible wave went towards Bahamut's attack.
"That's telekinesis" that was what could be heard, but no one knew who said it, really.
The psychic waves difussed the beam, saving us (some of us... not including Zeph) from certain and painful death. With that, orbs started to shine really brightly. I noticed that Serya had an orb (shining a strong bone white). I thought of trying to break the spell that controlled Bahamut. And, after a few seconds, I could. The Bahamut fled from the woods with ultra speed, and with it the signal of another Dragoon near me. I relaxed for a second, I could breath easily, but then again... there was something wrong with the picture... I heard the clinching of two swords. I looked behind me and Kiomi parried the purple Gemini's attack.
"No you won't" she said blocking all of the Gemini's blows with her sword.
"Kiomi, look out!" I screamed running towards her, since another Gemini (an orange-black one) was about to swing his sword and hit Kiomi.
The sword of the yellow Gemini turned black and it vanished, thanks to Strike. The other Gemini's sword was stopped by an unseen force (possibly the new guy's psychich powers) and with it the monster was stabbed, no one touching the sword.
"Is everyone all right" he asked standing up.
"Help..." was hardly heard. It was Joma, the Selki from the caravan of Tipa, that had some bleeding on her elbow.
"I am going to heal them now, as long as this sphere shines I am able to restore the healt of a person" Serya said as she went near them. I noticed how Strike kept looking at her, and the look in Rayne's face... Is she... jealous?
"Guys, maybe we should try to createa strecther, we can use the some trees around here, but remember that there's quicksand" Nanta told us, the caravan of awrya, then she looked at me. I was a 100 sure that she was thinking the same as I... Don't you think that Strike likes Serya?
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Me: Better Ztal, now you smell... still like a sewer... Tip, take a tomato bath, and no hard feelings.
Ztal: Fine, I'm going to take the bath!
Me: Anyways, that was it! What a crazy chapter, right? I do hope you like it. And I wonder... if you're wondering if Strike is really in love with Serya... and if that's true, if Rayne feels something for Strike... well... who knows!?!? Even I don't know! Keep on R&R -ing, please and thank you!
Cheers!
