The rumbling grew louder. Willy stepped out of the river, soaking wet. Dasmon got off of Starkin, and Starkin got up. Sonya looked up from where she sat, Tellenais growled, and Layla went over next to Starkin.Peter kupo'd and stood too. Zhiraz stood and notched an arrow into his Greatbow.
The rumbling grew louder. Kayi could hear maniacal laughter. They came into view!
Hundreds of beasts, of the likes that Kayi had never seen before, stampeded towards them chasing a maniacal, insanely laughing, on a terrified, susuper-fast chocobos... Bruno.
The Alchemist wore an insane grin and was sitting backwards on the chocobo, a very dangerous thing to do.He fired spells off at the monsters, looked around, waved, and kicked his chocobo into an all-out sprint... All while sitting backwards. That definitely was not the cranky, old Alchemist she knew.
Bruno's chocobo, its flanks heaving, came to a stop in front of everyone and warked happily.
Bruno grinned. "Sorry guys, I ran in ter a bit o' troubl'. Bought a' long a' few friends, ya cun see. Mind helping me help 'em ou'?" Bruno asked, his accent making him seem drunk.
Zhiraz grinned wildly and let out a whoop. Everyoen cheered and lined up, this time in two straight lines.
"A friend?" Bruno asked, eyeing Kayi.
"Missy Morgana. Needed to see you for something."
"Ah, I see. I didn't know how quickly rumors of my charming looks went around-"
"Bruno, shut up!" Layla laughed. But it was evident she seemed glad to see the nu mou.
"Well, here they come!"
The herd hit them like wild fire. Kayi couldn't see much, just hacked away at necks with her sword at any necks that presented themselves. Blood began to flood, blue blood. Kayi wasn't unscratched, though. The creatures, before they died, scratched and bit. Kayi began to falter...
Zhiraz saw her begin to tire. "Missy Morgana!" he bellowed, waving. He hopped before her to the boulders and began firing arrows. Each one was as lethal as a sword.
Kayi hacked away at any creaturesthat lept that the Hunter. She could see the battle well- Clan Crystal Bane was near godly. The force, the speed, the dodging... It was all a blur before Kayi's eyes.
The Lady Morgana had always told her two daughters that there were not many masters of battle out there, but when they saw true masters, they would know that they were undefeatable, beyond godly, beyond the mudane state of defeat. And Kayi, looking out at the field, and then at Zhiraz, finally understood what the Lady Morgana meant. True Masters.
Very soon, the last of the creatures waved its insectoid legs and died.
Everyone let out a victory cheer.
"We pulled it off!" Layla exclaimed, leaping into the air.
Sonya bowed to her summon, a huge dragon that Kayi had enver even heard of before. The dragon smiled, bowed back, and disappeared in a collum of energy.
"So, Missy Morgana," Bruno said, smiling cheekily. He was so different than his future self! Kayi thought. "You needed me?"
Kayi nodded. Bruno was such a flirt when he was younger! "Yes." Kayi explained everything to the nu mou.When she reached the end, Bruno looked wiser somehow.
"Ah, yes, I see, I see, I see..." he mumbled. "Simple. I know what you mean." Her body floated away, into the sky, and began to "see" the depths of time....
And the last thing that Kayi ever saw of the beginning of the Clan Crystal Bane Glory Days was the image of the whole clan cheering away.