A/N: Okay, this one was a lot of fun to write, and due to space issues, I'll answer reviews at the bottom. =) I realized I didn't title the last chapter lol but I guess that doesn't matter. I dedicate this chapter to anyone who has the slightest clue to where I got the dragons in human form from. ;) It might be a little tough though.
Chapter Ten: Of Fire and Spheres
No one was sure what started the panic, or how long it had been going on. All anyone new was that there was a red dragon circling ahead and a black one flying towards the city. Red had been there for almost an hour and Black wasn't as quick a flyer.
All anyone had hoped was that the dragon would tire and fly away but that didn't seem to be the case. Instead said dragon enjoyed flying overhead and scaring everyone. Most screams had died down in the last hour, but the panic-stricken faces were still visible in every corner of the city.
No matter where you went, people were rushing around packing up supplies and readying to leave, or go hide in a discreet location for hours on end. Children were crying and parents held them close but no one seemed to notice that only one boy was not struck by panic.
He walked around every now and then, looking out the windows as if waiting for the dragon to come. He would constantly put his hand over a bulge right above his heart, as if checking it was still there and smile as if things were fine.
Everyone was too worried about himself or herself to notice this boys actions, not that he had been noticed much in the last few weeks anyways. He was, after all, an outcast. The boy turned to look at a man, who was trying to calm down a frantic man spouting random ways of death off the top of his head.
Someone down the hall screamed at the top of their lungs as the red dragon dove for them, sent out jets of flame and swooped back up, cracking its tail loudly like a whip. But it was nothing, and the panic died down a bit, until the dragon swooped and burned once more.
The fear of what could happen if the dragon decided it was tired of faking was on everyone's minds. They tried sending a puddlejumper to shoot it down, but that was clutched tightly in a back claw with three men and a woman in it waiting to be set free from the beast.
And all the while, black loomed closer and closer, just waiting to be able to join in the mass chaos its brother was causing.
It was only a matter of minutes before black arrived and red swooped down again, diving into the mirrored sky roof of the jumper room only to bounce back roaring and trying to care for its unexpected burns, hate burning in its eyes.
Black arrived and the two began to tear at the shield, all the while getting no further. Then as if by magic, the shield stopped and the two dragons swooped into the base, black first and landed in the Jumper Bay and a male jumped off its back and smiled at men pointing guns at him.
Confusion passed over everyone as they stared in disbelief at the man before them, and the large dragons seemingly bickering over the little space they were aloud to sit in.
XOXOXOX
"Where have you been?"
"Around?"
"Where?"
"Oh, a few different continents."
"Cont- there are more then one?"
"Of course! This is a planet!"
Murmurs spread through the small crowd and glances turned to the two new males before them. One with flame red hair and ruby coloured robes, and then amber eyes stared back, leaning back in a chair, arms folded over his chest. The other had granite black hair and blood red eyes, wearing black robes sitting in a similar pose.
The two had been dragons almost moments before, and agreed to change to humans if only so they could have more space to move even though it used much of their precious energy, which they detested.
Carson rested his elbows on the table and locked his fingers together, resting his chin on them smiling cheerfully upon all of those to look at him, no matter how dazed they seemed to be.
But the conference room, or the people in it at least, no one could tell what the ancient room was thinking, all were confused about Red's since of humor and how there doctor had managed to get back just fine, as if nothing had changed save the fact he wore a sword strapped to his back, and silver bracers.
"So... you helped these two dragons, Bahamut and Neo Bahamut why?" Weir asked, regaining her composure.
"Aye, because Bahamut was making me go insane," Carson shrugged, the black dragons teeth showed in a cruel smile and it chuckled slightly.
Careful what you say, these people can kick you out. Carson warned, casting a glance to Bahamut.
I'm a dragon. I'll just transform and eat them or something equally as corny.
But what if you can't?
I can, now pay attention the woman asked you something.
"Hm?" Carson asked, looking at Weir once more.
"Is it safe to have these dragons on base? You said something about help..."
Tell her, Bahamut began smirking, That we will help as long as we are A) not locked up B) given freedom to roam and C) aloud chocobo meat.
Carson repeated the message slowly, glancing at Bahamut to make sure he got it right. He felt like leaving the last part off but when the dragon stood and summoned a fireball in its hand he quickly added it in.
Though Bahamut sat down, Weir sent him a confused look pondering what a chocobo was. She turned her gaze to Bahamut who was playing with the hem of his robes, and chewing on something that resembled a chicken bone.
"A chocobo is a bird, that is similar to a large, overgrown chicken," Carson explained quickly, "Very fast, very rare, and very tasty. Easy as pie to catch when you see them though."
"Okay," Weir said slowly, "We will see what we can do about the last one, but for the other two... as long as you don't hurt anyone then I don't see why not if there is a guard with you."
Neo hissed and Bahamut scowled, folding his arms over his chest like a stubborn child and sent images of Weir dying hundreds of gruesome deaths to Carson's head who suppressed a giggle but nodded his head saying they other wise approved.
But something else was bothering him, what would happen if the people knew that the two new humans were dragons? Only a few knew about this but they were too disbelieving to say anything at all about it.
But seeing as two dragons don't just disappear it could already be widely known about it all. So then everyone would know, and probably fear the dragon/human/whatever they were.
And why Weir accepted this so willingly was beyond him as well, as if she had already made plans for what the dragons could do. Or she might know something he didn't, which would also prove interesting in this case.
But only time could tell, and he had plenty of it.
XOXOXOX
He slipped into Carson's room and began to rummage around with the objects within, as if trying to find the perfect place to put it. But he didn't see anything that was just out of the way enough no one unimportant would find it, but still well enough that the Chosen One would find it.
He growled in frustration and looked around the room once more, and an idea hit him. Frantically he began to tear things apart, making the room a complete mess and within it all he dropped the small black sphere carefully hidden in a spare boot.
The mess would attract Carson's attention all right, and if not, he was a fool of fools. Soft voices outside of the room told him that someone was coming and he frantically looked for somewhere to hide.
But there was nowhere and he gulped, his eyes large and sweat pouring down his face. So he made a mad dive for the closet and fell to the floor with a heavy thump. He stood and grabbed at the wall, wishing for a way out but finding none.
He heard the door slide open and he quieted and lay on the floor in a strange position and closed his eyes, straining to hear what was going on in the room. A soft gasping sound and then a strangled cry and two sets of feet.
"What happened?" voice one asked, a female.
"I'm... not sure," a male gulped, "Why would anyone want to rob me?"
"Is anything missing?"
More sounds filled the room, these of things being moved almost as if someone was tiding the room. The voices were drowned out by the sounds of rearranging going on, almost as if they were whispering.
After a while one set of footsteps left and the mattress groaned as one person sat down and began to think. The boy fidgeted nervously, and boredly, wishing now that he could simply leave and come back later.
Life would be more fun that way instead of lying in the very clean walk in closet. The bed groaned again and muttered thoughts filled the air. And some time after that, the breathing softened and he chanced a peek out of the closet.
Carson lay asleep conked out on the bed, and he sighed a sigh of relief. Pushing the closet door open some more he slipped out and noticed the room was mostly clean and he chuckled softly, before skipping out of the room happily to go to bed himself.
XOXOXOX
Three figures stood in a room that might have been a conference room, or it might have been a large closet with a small table and chairs. That didn't matter, what did was that they were there.
One of them tapped his finger on the table, almost bored and looked at another, waiting for whatever it was that was going to ruin his life to be said. It was bound to be something interesting, after all, only three were there.
The only female took a seat and pulled a folder out from somewhere and lay it out on the desk, chuckling slightly as she did so, amber eyes almost laughing at the other twos reactions to the words.
They weren't really words though, nor symbols. The fiery curves and the elegant arches... It was almost as if the ink marks had their own emotions, each one different and yet the same, written in faded blue ink.
The third and final male, seemed a little startled at the old fashion way of writing, and wrinkled his pale and pointy nose in disgust before shoving it away and looking at the female.
Her smirk widened and her eyes narrowed and the first male timidly turned the page, wondering what had made the woman so... cocky. And the answer wasn't to clear, and yet at the same time it made perfect since.
On the second page was a map of the galaxy, the red marks were the planets in there corner of it, the green ones were other ones of their kind, yellow ones were risky and/or pointless and black where uninhabited.
One of those black marked planets was circled with a red pin, and more writings were furiously scribbled onto it with fiery curves and edges, giving the text an angered look, if it were possible.
The male flipped the page again and stared blankly at the third one. This one was of a map of the planet, more scribbled writings and symbols marking locations. The curves and lines were sloppier and yet grand at the same time, an almost excited look.
And all the mountains, rivers and ruins were marked on the map perfectly, and the details were magnificent. The map even held such things as the tide and tornado paths. But it didn't seem to be that which pleased the woman the most.
On the forth and final page was a large city in the middle of the ocean, and an energy analyze chart on the side of it. The male looked up at the woman disbelieving and then back down at the paper and rubbed his eyes.
The older one snatched the paper and read the excited marks and a smirk spread across his own face, and he licked his dry lips before clapping the female's shoulder and she sent him a glare and rubbed the mark.
"I thought that the city was destroyed," the first one spoke, "And how come you are only now picking up the traces of it?"
The sound echoed off the walls and the woman winced, and rubbed her ears and sent the male a glare as well before thinking of how to explain her answer best. They seemed to know better then to rush her, but even they were growing impatient.
"Well," she said in a soft voice, betraying her form, "There must be a breach in the shield and we have been able to determine the energy levels for a while now. The forth spurt from that planet in three months just occurred, it may be the one."
"Do the others know?" the oldest asked.
"Only us, and one other."
"Good, keep it that way."
The female and younger male nodded their heads in acceptance as the meeting was dismissed. Half-heartedly the female gathered her info and disappeared through a door covered completely by shadows.
A/N: okay, once again, this one was a blast. The last section was to get you thinking a bit about things and I'm sure its obvious who is talking and what it is about, but if not... Then shoot me. 'Thias-chan could guess it.
Kbandy: Well you are special I don't know why you didn't like this one I did have a great day in school 2moro hope to get more soon thanks again Kerry
I'm so glad someone truly likes my story ::tear tear:: People like you are why I enjoy writing, so I'll try to work on it during school a bit in a notebook. Thanks a lot love, I'll try to update soon but there should be one up by next Monday.
Hassawassa: Man, that was one of my favorite games, but I am still partial to the original ff, you know, 2D pasted to the screen and all. Ah, brings me back. And now I drool over FFX, ah...
Anyway, this is turning out to be quite an epic adventure for our folks at SGA isn't it? This story is so engaging, you just get sucked in. I read all 10 chappies you have here in one night.
And I must say, I can't wait for more, this is one of the most unique crossovers I've ever seen.
Hehe, and I hear ya about school, im heading back myself. Good luck, and hope to seem more of this from you soon.
Oh, the original FFs... Loved those games. I hope they don't redo those graphics because those were some of the best games of all time. I still think FFVII is the best but I love FFX graphics...
I'd like to thanks for the compliment, or if it's just a fact I'll take it as one. When I started writing this I never meant for it to turn out like this so all my plans are constantly changing with each new chapter lol. But I warn, there might be a chara death or two. (Not just the Wraith lol)
I don't like school, but only because I'm in enrichment and do a lot of work XD Like I said, I'll try to update soon.
JonnyG: I want a farscapestaragte Atlantis fic...
Someone else asked me to do one, but I'm afraid I don't know too much about Farscape. I got into it for a while then when my cable died I missed a few months of it so I don't dig it like I used to.
My bro thinks I'm in an overly good mood, but I'd just like to say I love these reviews. They mean a lot to me.
Happy Hunting!
-Cailean
