Sorry for the delay, school has been murder.
Chapter 5
Multiblast
Cora and I arrived at Gagazet rather quickly. It was still a long way but shorter than Besaid. The mountains were very tall. The caverns we went through were a beautiful color. It was a brilliant sight.
"First time here?" she asked me.
"Yeah. Why did you want me to come up here?" I asked her.
"Learn more about you. You're an odd kid from what I've heard so far. I'm a little curious." She told me.
"There's not much to tell about me." I said. "You really know all there is."
"I guess you're right."
I looked over the horizon and above I saw this large red airship zoom past the mountains. It made the entire area quake.
"What was that?" I shouted.
"The Gullwings. It's their airship, the Celsius." She informed me. That was one big ship. Made the Syndicate airships look like little toys.
"I wish I could fly on a ship like that." Cora told me out of the blue.
"Keep dreaming." I told her trying to avoid making it sarcastic when I was serious.
"Yeah, I will ride on a ship like that one day. It'll be wonderful!" she told me.
"I'm kinda afraid of heights." I told her. She might not have noticed but I was staying as far from the edge of the cliff as I could.
"For the kid that beat the Gullwings he's so easily beaten by a long drop." She said making a hand gesture by smacking her hands together mimicking someone smacking the ground.
"Shut up." I said.
"I'm only playing. I'm supposed to be on guard here today so I'm going to head into the hot springs for now. I'll catch you later." She said waving goodbye. But before she left Ormi showed up.
"What was you twos doing?" he asked us.
"I was just escorting her to her post." I told him.
"That's good. I'm searching here too. Are you heading back?" he asked me.
"Yeah, I'm tired."
"Well before you go I gots something for ya." He said taking a book out of his belt and handing it to me.
"What's this?" I asked.
"It's a book on firearms that Logos has. He doesn't use it anymore and didn't mind if I gave it to you."
"What didn't he give it to me himself?"
"He doesn't really like you. He still regrets ever letting his guard down on his left side. I'm not sure what he means by that."
I laughed a little at that comment. I wasn't used to being not liked but it didn't bother me too much.
The airship came and picked me up and took me back to Guadosalam.
I went into my room and read that book Ormi gave me. It was called "Ammunition and Firearms".
It contained various mixtures of gunpowder that would have different effects. I saw one I wanted to try out. When the slug explodes in midair it releases a large amount of light down on the target or targets dealing sizeable damage. I liked the sound of that.
Finding those items necessary wasn't too difficult, Leblanc had a lot of things lying around down here. A few hours later I had made around 20 of these slugs. I was proud of myself.
A male goon knocked on my door and gave me a letter. It was from Leblanc herself.
*Dear Aeon
I have some business to attend to but be a dear and go investigate Luca for me. I hear they are throwing some kind of game tournament soon and a sphere is the top prize. So why don't you head down there and win that for me.
It was signed with an imprint of her lipstick but it was just the design on the paper. She probably didn't want to kiss every single letter she'd every write. So I hopped in an airship and went on down to Luca. Where everything started.
The tournament wouldn't start until tomorrow so I had time to practice whatever game it was. I was quite the gamer back home. I remember playing a bunch of collectible card games and such. Final Fantasy 8 took many hours of my life with the card game in it, so addictive.
This game was called Sphere Break and it was a number game. It involved a series of coins with numbers on them and a sphere in the center that contained many numbers. The object of the game was to match numbers of the coins with numbers in the sphere. You had to add up coin values to equal a multiple of the number on the sphere. It was very complex when I first started it, but I seem to have the hang of it right now.
I got some coins at the blitzball stadium, which was hard to find considering the maps didn't change from Final Fantasy X. The coins were a golden yellow color with fiends pictured on the faces. They were very pretty designs, almost like works of art. I also needed a sphere to play with. This was rather expensive. The more money the harder the sphere. I wanted to challenge people so I bought the most expensive one which was around 4000 gil.
I went around and challenged a few people and it was confusing at first. We each exchanged spheres and had to "break" that persons sphere to get a win. Whoever could break their opponents sphere first would be the winner. These silver coins were used too but they came free with the gold coins I bought. Those had no designs on them but had numbers on them that changed after every turn like magic, there was no mechanics involved.
I played about five games that day and then decided to crash for the night. I found a hotel, which was harder to find than the stadium, because it would be too much work to go back to Leblanc's and then come back in the morning. The hotel was rather larger and had elevators working them. It was a nice place.
I also had a nice surprise waiting for me when I arrived. It appears the Leblanc Syndicate has its own private floor with the nicest rooms in the building. That aspect just blew my mind, and this was before I reached those rooms.
Once on the floor I was amazed. The carpets were all a luscious shade of pink with absolutely beautiful patterns running across them. Flower pots were set up evenly along the hallways with large pink flowers blooming from them. I was shown to my room and I nearly fell dead when I opened the door.
Inside was the largest room I had ever laid my eyes on. This one room was large enough to fit my house in, and it was only the lounge room. The bathroom looked like it could fit at least 8 people and my bedroom was amazing. The bed was large enough for a family of twelve to sleep in and the color of the whole room was very calming, and yes it was pink.
I was even told the men get their own lovely servant girls to tend to them, the women got male versions. The idea interested me but not as much as it might for some guys.
Once in the lounge room I laid down on the round pink couch and two women approached me. One was shaped almost exactly like a model; tall, clean, you know? She was wearing a one piece blue bathing suit, you were expecting pink weren't you? She had smooth red hair that went down to her waist and her eyes were green.
The other girl was smaller and more curvy. She had blonde hair that went to just below her shoulders. She was clad in a yellow two piece which seemed to accent her breasts, not that they needed it. She seemed oddly familiar.
"Hello?" was all I could muster. The whole experience of just coming into this room was enough to cause me to faint almost. Good thing I was sitting down.
"Aeon. I didn't expect you to be here." The small curvy woman told me.
"You know about me?" I asked her.
"It's me, Cora." She said with a smile.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you without your uniform on. I had no clue what your face looked like."
"Well me and Sarah are here to make you relax and have your worries go away, even for just a few hours."
"But how did you get here in Luca? Weren't you at Gagazet?" I asked.
"Leblanc kinda demoted me cause I was slacking. She said it was this or I would get "the heel" if you know what I mean."
"Ouch. She can be a scary woman."
"Well enough about that how about a nice bath?" she asked.
"The three of us?" I jumped, my heart about to leap from my throat.
"Not naked silly. Right here." She said as Sarah flipped a switch on the table nearby and the floor opened up revealing a large hot tub. Simply Amazing.
"Damn." Was all I could say. The two girls just giggled.
Now I wasn't a stranger to women. I had many girlfriends in the past and right now I happened to be single so I had no attachments to worry about. So the three of us just sat there all night as I told them everything about Earth they wanted to know.
Once night fell I went to bed. The two of them left to their own rooms. The servant people weren't allowed to be in the bedrooms while the guest was sleeping. That was a pretty fair rule to me.
I lay under the covers, shirtless, dreaming about tomorrow when I would try to win the prize...no, not try to win it. I would win it!
Chapter 5
Multiblast
Cora and I arrived at Gagazet rather quickly. It was still a long way but shorter than Besaid. The mountains were very tall. The caverns we went through were a beautiful color. It was a brilliant sight.
"First time here?" she asked me.
"Yeah. Why did you want me to come up here?" I asked her.
"Learn more about you. You're an odd kid from what I've heard so far. I'm a little curious." She told me.
"There's not much to tell about me." I said. "You really know all there is."
"I guess you're right."
I looked over the horizon and above I saw this large red airship zoom past the mountains. It made the entire area quake.
"What was that?" I shouted.
"The Gullwings. It's their airship, the Celsius." She informed me. That was one big ship. Made the Syndicate airships look like little toys.
"I wish I could fly on a ship like that." Cora told me out of the blue.
"Keep dreaming." I told her trying to avoid making it sarcastic when I was serious.
"Yeah, I will ride on a ship like that one day. It'll be wonderful!" she told me.
"I'm kinda afraid of heights." I told her. She might not have noticed but I was staying as far from the edge of the cliff as I could.
"For the kid that beat the Gullwings he's so easily beaten by a long drop." She said making a hand gesture by smacking her hands together mimicking someone smacking the ground.
"Shut up." I said.
"I'm only playing. I'm supposed to be on guard here today so I'm going to head into the hot springs for now. I'll catch you later." She said waving goodbye. But before she left Ormi showed up.
"What was you twos doing?" he asked us.
"I was just escorting her to her post." I told him.
"That's good. I'm searching here too. Are you heading back?" he asked me.
"Yeah, I'm tired."
"Well before you go I gots something for ya." He said taking a book out of his belt and handing it to me.
"What's this?" I asked.
"It's a book on firearms that Logos has. He doesn't use it anymore and didn't mind if I gave it to you."
"What didn't he give it to me himself?"
"He doesn't really like you. He still regrets ever letting his guard down on his left side. I'm not sure what he means by that."
I laughed a little at that comment. I wasn't used to being not liked but it didn't bother me too much.
The airship came and picked me up and took me back to Guadosalam.
I went into my room and read that book Ormi gave me. It was called "Ammunition and Firearms".
It contained various mixtures of gunpowder that would have different effects. I saw one I wanted to try out. When the slug explodes in midair it releases a large amount of light down on the target or targets dealing sizeable damage. I liked the sound of that.
Finding those items necessary wasn't too difficult, Leblanc had a lot of things lying around down here. A few hours later I had made around 20 of these slugs. I was proud of myself.
A male goon knocked on my door and gave me a letter. It was from Leblanc herself.
*Dear Aeon
I have some business to attend to but be a dear and go investigate Luca for me. I hear they are throwing some kind of game tournament soon and a sphere is the top prize. So why don't you head down there and win that for me.
It was signed with an imprint of her lipstick but it was just the design on the paper. She probably didn't want to kiss every single letter she'd every write. So I hopped in an airship and went on down to Luca. Where everything started.
The tournament wouldn't start until tomorrow so I had time to practice whatever game it was. I was quite the gamer back home. I remember playing a bunch of collectible card games and such. Final Fantasy 8 took many hours of my life with the card game in it, so addictive.
This game was called Sphere Break and it was a number game. It involved a series of coins with numbers on them and a sphere in the center that contained many numbers. The object of the game was to match numbers of the coins with numbers in the sphere. You had to add up coin values to equal a multiple of the number on the sphere. It was very complex when I first started it, but I seem to have the hang of it right now.
I got some coins at the blitzball stadium, which was hard to find considering the maps didn't change from Final Fantasy X. The coins were a golden yellow color with fiends pictured on the faces. They were very pretty designs, almost like works of art. I also needed a sphere to play with. This was rather expensive. The more money the harder the sphere. I wanted to challenge people so I bought the most expensive one which was around 4000 gil.
I went around and challenged a few people and it was confusing at first. We each exchanged spheres and had to "break" that persons sphere to get a win. Whoever could break their opponents sphere first would be the winner. These silver coins were used too but they came free with the gold coins I bought. Those had no designs on them but had numbers on them that changed after every turn like magic, there was no mechanics involved.
I played about five games that day and then decided to crash for the night. I found a hotel, which was harder to find than the stadium, because it would be too much work to go back to Leblanc's and then come back in the morning. The hotel was rather larger and had elevators working them. It was a nice place.
I also had a nice surprise waiting for me when I arrived. It appears the Leblanc Syndicate has its own private floor with the nicest rooms in the building. That aspect just blew my mind, and this was before I reached those rooms.
Once on the floor I was amazed. The carpets were all a luscious shade of pink with absolutely beautiful patterns running across them. Flower pots were set up evenly along the hallways with large pink flowers blooming from them. I was shown to my room and I nearly fell dead when I opened the door.
Inside was the largest room I had ever laid my eyes on. This one room was large enough to fit my house in, and it was only the lounge room. The bathroom looked like it could fit at least 8 people and my bedroom was amazing. The bed was large enough for a family of twelve to sleep in and the color of the whole room was very calming, and yes it was pink.
I was even told the men get their own lovely servant girls to tend to them, the women got male versions. The idea interested me but not as much as it might for some guys.
Once in the lounge room I laid down on the round pink couch and two women approached me. One was shaped almost exactly like a model; tall, clean, you know? She was wearing a one piece blue bathing suit, you were expecting pink weren't you? She had smooth red hair that went down to her waist and her eyes were green.
The other girl was smaller and more curvy. She had blonde hair that went to just below her shoulders. She was clad in a yellow two piece which seemed to accent her breasts, not that they needed it. She seemed oddly familiar.
"Hello?" was all I could muster. The whole experience of just coming into this room was enough to cause me to faint almost. Good thing I was sitting down.
"Aeon. I didn't expect you to be here." The small curvy woman told me.
"You know about me?" I asked her.
"It's me, Cora." She said with a smile.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know you without your uniform on. I had no clue what your face looked like."
"Well me and Sarah are here to make you relax and have your worries go away, even for just a few hours."
"But how did you get here in Luca? Weren't you at Gagazet?" I asked.
"Leblanc kinda demoted me cause I was slacking. She said it was this or I would get "the heel" if you know what I mean."
"Ouch. She can be a scary woman."
"Well enough about that how about a nice bath?" she asked.
"The three of us?" I jumped, my heart about to leap from my throat.
"Not naked silly. Right here." She said as Sarah flipped a switch on the table nearby and the floor opened up revealing a large hot tub. Simply Amazing.
"Damn." Was all I could say. The two girls just giggled.
Now I wasn't a stranger to women. I had many girlfriends in the past and right now I happened to be single so I had no attachments to worry about. So the three of us just sat there all night as I told them everything about Earth they wanted to know.
Once night fell I went to bed. The two of them left to their own rooms. The servant people weren't allowed to be in the bedrooms while the guest was sleeping. That was a pretty fair rule to me.
I lay under the covers, shirtless, dreaming about tomorrow when I would try to win the prize...no, not try to win it. I would win it!