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Importantly, OVERDRIVES, for those who've played the game, you should easily know what this is. For those who don't, they are like when the character is heated up to a maximum limit where they can now perform special abilities only in this mode called the overdrive. YGO characters will be accessing this ability too.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, Final Fantasy X, Teletubbies( for sure), and anything else copyrighted or so on, so forth.
FFX: Duelists' Fate
Chapter 6: The Sending; Arrival in Kilika
By KokoroHikaru
Tidus slashes down, destroying the third and last sinscale on the deck. As it began to disappear, three other pods flew off the fin and unraveled themselves in the same spots of the other three. "How many are there of these things?!"
"Blasted annoyance, that's what they are. Replacing themselves like flies!" Bakura spat, throwing his knife, a killing shot, dispersing the first sinscale. He retrieved his blade, dodging a clamp from a nearby scale.
Lulu walked up, putting up a hand. "Stop. Attacking these won't matter, attack the fin. We need to distract it away from the village."
"But I can't attack that far! Even my senbon won't reach it, and it would cause little damage anyway!" Tsuki huffed, then falling backwards from a spine attack from their opponent. Getting up, she gives Lulu an indignant look.
In return, Lulu gave a reassuring glance. "Leave this to us." With a wave of her hand, she cast a spell of fire, one of her best, at the fin. It did some good damage, but it will be a while before it's badly injured.
The ship tilted as Sin made a sharp turn. This unfortunately led to another series of events. Tsuki lost her gripping to the deck because of the water making it slippery. It made her fall and slide into the tomb robber, who didn't notice at first, trip and slide into Tidus. The young Blitzer trip too and fell into Lulu. Lulu had no chose but to grab something to balance her, but that 'something' was a sinscale ready to attack her, but she dragged it down with her. The black mage then plunged into Wakka, hitting the railings.
As they all smacked the railings like a row of dominoes, the sinscale Lulu held onto flew overboard with a squeal. It crashed into the roaring waters with an awful kind of splash.
Giggling, Tsuki points out. "That's one way to get rid of those things."
Bakura pushes her off, giving her a daggered look at the same time. "Oh, shut up."
Lulu shakes her head. "This is not a game, this is serious. Will you kids stop messing around and focus?"
Also everyone got back up as the plank leveled out, except Lulu who sat fuming. It was only til Wakka pointed a particular thing out to her. "Hey, Lu?"
"What?"
"Can ya get off of me? Your dress is pretty heavy, ya?"
Well, the fight continued with Lulu performing black magic on the fin as best as she can and Wakka hitting the ball at it too. Kimahri occasionally destroyed the scales and Lancet the fin for HP back and forth. Yuna would sometimes use cure to heal her party, and Tidus would hack 'n' slash the annoying sinscales. Now, what of our two duelists?
Well, they did what they could, Tsuki at least. Bakura looks out for himself, even if Tsuki looks out for his back at the moment. Yet he stills play a vital role, since Ryou had only stocked on some potions and lots of phoenix downs, the items were over two-thirds spent during fights with fiends. The tomb raider had stolen from nearly every sinscale encountered a potion.
Tsuki wanted eagerly to summon a creature, but Yami Bakura held her back, saying that this wasn't the right time for something of this sort. Instead, she defended and counteracted against those attacking the fighters who were damaging Sin.
Sin once again swings to the side, making the boat once again tilt. Everyone held tightly as white foam drenched over onto the deck, salt water spraying over and splashing. There was a wood-breaking crunch as the harpoon connected to the bow splat off which was also connected to Sin. The harpoon can last be seen dragged swiftly through the water before sinking to the bottom.
As the waters cleared, Tsuki stood up looking around. Most were alright, but Sin had gotten away. That was when something she noticed was missing. Oh, my god. No way. This couldn't have happen. She spoke out what the others had notice. "Where's Tidus… and … Bakura?"
***
Upon the sandy shores of Kilika, near a circle port, two little children, gigglish, were playing with a blitzball. A mother cradles a baby in her lap, unaware what fate had instore next. A shadow overfalls them.
The people looked up, only to see the last glimpses of their lives of a tudra of water crushing them. Sin had come, and had begun to suck in and destroy the small town.
Its force of power easily dismantled the village, along with the villagers. Those who clung hopefully to the planks and ground also suffered the same incident as those caught unaware.
With Sin's leave, all was left of Kilika was a broken village in a crimson stained ocean with a blitzball floating and bobbing out to sea.
***
Tsuki walks as fast as she can to the railing, tying her hair back into a bun. Diving into the cold now calm waters, she feels Wakka dive in after her. He was going to help find the other two too. Swimming only a little way, they've met on with seems to be Tidus slowly sinking and being attacked by swimming sinscales.
Pass a thin veil of blood, they've spotted Bakura bleeding unconscious at least 8 yards away from their present coordinates. Regrettably there appeared to be something among the pesky scale fiends they were oblivious of, and it was heading towards the white haired teen with glowing red eyes.
It appeared out, showing its jellyfish like face. Resembling Tros a bit but stronger, this was Sinspawn Echuilles. Tsuki's fast reaction saved Bakura as she tossed a phoenix down reviving him. The thief dodge immediately, only getting a short but painful slam at his side.
This tozoku was not happy, but seriously pissed, and I mean seriously as he was quickly attacked by the sinspawn's attack Drain Touch. This caused delay as Tidus and Wakka had to evade sinscales' attacks, letting Echuilles uses Blender attack. Wakka was swung unconscious with Tsuki and Tidus hanging tightly to their healthpoints.
The water was covered in the mist of red, Tidus tried to clear it away yet it only swirled around. Tsuki was only a few feet away from him. She seems to be looking in a petrified manner at the angry Bakura.
Darkness fell around them with Tidus the only one to be surprised at this. His attention soon caught up to Bakura whose pendant seems to be glowing in a crazy manner. It was totally black with the vision red, but Tidus watched carefully as the sinspawn was some how crushed into horrid pain.
It emitted a shrill shriek before disappearing into pyreflies, with that the black abyss that surround them disappeared too. Tsuki gave a shiver, then swam quickly up to take a deep breath. Tidus had revitalize Wakka and they swam up too. Bakura too swam up, but last with now a tired expression on him.
They managed to get aboard tired, drenched, and hopeless at the moment. They knew what happened; they knew they've failed.
They arrived at Kilika's port, now a bit refreshed and clean. The villagers were cleaning the ports of wreck and repairing. Ryou switched back, but the spirit was still keeping a wary eye on things. Wakka said to meet at the sending, which puzzled some.
They met at another pier, where the others were. Lulu had begun to explain things. "Yuna is going to perform the sending to send the dead to the Farplane."
Tidus cocked his head. "Why?"
"Those who died and don't know why they died will stay on this world, hating and will become fiends. Though those who get a proper sending, go to the Farplane and can be at peace. Just watch."
They watch in silence as Yuna stepped onto the water, walking across its top. A light breeze blew, skimming the hairs off her head as she watched sadly at the setting sun. With a swing of her staff, a hymn hummed out. The summoness danced upon the water; people onlooked at her. The two duelists present were enchanted during the performance, even the spirit, to notice the Sennen Ring was glimmering and pointing in a direction before going into its dormant state.
Tsuki had just noticed though that wrapped bodies decorated with flowers were right beneath Yuna, and pyreflies were now escaping from them in an eerie tone. Along of that escape, Yuna was boosted from a sprout of water, still dancing. The torches surrounding them had turned blue in the flames, astonishing Tidus a bit. The villagers of Kilika collapsed in tears, their sobs mingled with the hymn.
In moments, it ended…
***
Tidus woke up the next morning; the noise of resurrection can be heard just outside the hut. Walking outside stretching and yawning, Tidus greets a silent Tsuki who sat near the rim of the walkway. "Hi."
She still looks out in the water. "Hey, late sleeper aren't ya?"
"Heheh hehe …"
Tidus sees Datto run up to him. "Hey! You awake? Cap'n Wakka's waitin' for you!"
Meeting Wakka, they prepared to go to the temple. Tsuki explained that Ryou or Bakura, in this case, went exploring and was meeting them later.
They went on, walking into the density of the forest. Lulu and Yuna was talking about something that made Lulu look nervous.
"Hey, what's the matter?" Wakka walks up to them.
Lulu glared at him as if it's his fault. "Yuna wants them to be her guardians"
Tidus and Tsuki glared open-eyed. "Us?!?"
Tsuki just seemed to ignore that as Yuna blushed and Tidus coughed in utter silence. Spotting two familiar Crusaders, she rushed to escape the weird atmosphere to greet them. "Hi! Gatta! Luzzu!"
The whole group comes up, greeting the two who appear to be in thought. Luzzu looked puzzled about something, peering at the open road ahead. Wakka was first to spot. "What's the matter?"
The red-headed Crusader glanced at Wakka then at all the rest. "Wasn't a white-haired boy with you at Besaid?"
"Yeah, what's the prob?" Wakka asked.
"Well, the same boy past merely moments ago, I warned him of the Lord of the forest, Lord Ochu. He accidentally awoke it and…"
They waited patiently for Luzzu's answer with Tidus saying, "What?"
"He destroyed the fiend in just one attack, which even chilled me to the bones. It was dreadful the kind of attack he used; I could've sworn we were engulfed in darkness."
"Yeah, it's really weird to me, some one of his age, you know?" Gatta exclaimed, giving an odd glare at a spot on the road. "What kind of magic was it? it made me hear ghosts or something for a moment."
"Hheeh hehe hehe he." Tsuki chuckled nervously, scratching the back of her head. "That's Bakura for you. The moron. It's a type of, um, black magic from our wo-, er, part of Spira or so, eh heh."
She waved bye to the Crusaders, and gestured the rest to move forward. They moved on, encountering miniature plant fiends called ragora which used seed cannon. Lulu explained that Kimahri can learn fiend attacks through lancet.
Along the way, beside encountering ragoras, they also faced annoying killer bees which Wakka, Tidus, and Tsuki took care of, and electrifying yellow elements which Lulu dispelled with her water hex. The group tried to collect items scattered around in chests, but most were opened, appearing as if someone foraged already.
Tsuki, once again, went ahead towards stairs where she saw a recognizable face. She gave a little sly smile, and peered down at him. "Hiya, Ryou. Where's the thief?"
He gaze up to her, in a slightly cheerful tone. "Well, he's kinda tried after taking out the gigantic plant in one hit; he only came this far before switching back. It must have been a tough fight 'cause I can feel the after effects; I can't even climb the stairs, but im feeling better now."
"Hmmm… tell the baka to tone it done a bit because that little show is making us look suspicious. It's magic, but it's different, and these people, from what I heard, are very superstitious."
He was quiet for a moment before saying, "He says that you're the baka, and we should just beat this if we want out of here. He also said some unpleasant things, but… I can't say it."
Tidus and the group appeared, and they proceeded up along with Ryou. Awaiting them was the high priest of Kilika. After the brief welcoming, two Besaid blitzers sniggered at Tidus, stretching out for a run.
Tidus smiles back. "A race, eh?"
Her eyes lit up; Tsuki perked up. "Oh! I wanna be in it! C'mon Ryou!"
"What? ME?" He looked shocked, but gave in. "Fine."
Wakka points at Yuna. "If you please…"
Giving a nod, the summoner signals. "Ready...set…." With a giggle, she sets off first.
"Cheater!" With that, Tsuki sets off after her to beat her.
Everyone went off, up the stairs. This leaves Tidus last, knowing he'd already lost, healed at the save sphere. That's when a shriek went off. All people ran up to a large proportion of the stairs, where most of the party awaited.
Apparently, it's another sinspawn except…
"Oh, my. It's the attack of an oversized oyster shell." Tsuki exclaimed.
Ryou glared at it through narrowed eyes to get a better look. "No, it looks as if it is a fairly enormous gray cabbage."
"Ehh, now I've lost my appetite. Hey, where's you-know-who?"
"He's…" Ryou stops for a moment as his item glows. "Right here." He gives the fiend an annoyed look for everything he faced today and why he'd use shadow magic twice to destroy some. "What the hell is this now?"
Whatever this was, it was sinspawn Geneaux, it opened lightly its layers and breathed out a venomous gas, poison all near it. Next, caught uninformed, its tentacles lashed at them.
Bakura struck first, aiming for the main body, but it was armored and couldn't be harmed badly with sharp weapons. He was then hit with the recoil effect of the poison, nearly sending him back.
"Use magic, I think that's the only way." Tsuki threw an antidote and ushered Lulu to use her spells.
As the black mage cast it, it was quickly absorb by the tentacles. "Any magic cast at the body will be absorb by those. We have to dismantle that first." At the same time as that, the tentacles turned on each other, obliterating each other in seconds.
"What was that?" Tsuki, along with others, confused at the betrayal of the feelers. That question was disregarded as the poison took effect, and Yuna and others helped each other with Esuna or antidotes.
The ground shook abruptly, the body which resemble as said an "oyster" or "cabbage" opened up. Revealing its true form, it looked like a cross between a deformed flower that no one would want and a creature fungus at an incredible size. As it was about to attack, a mage appeared in purple-ish garbs, blasting the Geneaux with black magic at a damage of 2500.
Tsuki and Bakura recognized the mage immediately, the Black Magician.
They turned their heads. "Geez, who'd think that one day the thief Bakura is nearly on his knees before me, hehe ehhe."
"What does that mean?" the tomb robber spat, irritated at his intrusion of the fight. At least, he was annoyed until he saw the two other duelists on the steps ahead, he cracked up sniggering. "What the hell are you wearing?!?"
Tsuki stared blankly, blinking twice every blink. "Duhhh….."
-End of Chapter 6-
*This chapter was a bit shorter than the rest, but this was where I really wanted to stop as I planned. Since no one entered the contest and I gave such limited time, I've decided to give every 10th reviewer a wallpaper of their choice that I made from pics of their favorite character from either the Final Fantasy series or Yugioh, starting with the 30th reviewer. If you think you're one of the every 10th reviewer, include your favorite character and email, you will receive the wallpaper later on. So click that review button!
*The next chapter will be up in the max of three weeks; it's because of the finals I'll have and the homework. But to let loyal fans know, I'll never give up this fic 'til it's done, unless I'm dead or lost internet forever.
*I wish all a Happy Lunar New Year! And thanks to all that read and review!