Searching for Thieves: A RIKKU MISSION
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This isn't a great chapter… Writers block is TERRIBLE.
Chapter 4: Cavern of Moonlily Fields
The dance ended with the final la. Rikku curtsied to Auron and Auron just waved her away and walked toward the cavern.
"Hey! That wasn't nice!" Rikku called as she followed Auron toward the cavern. The moon-shaped flowers cruised along by Rikku. Rikku bent down to pick one up. It withered in her hands.
"Aw… Yunie would have like it," Rikku mumbled.
"What? Yuna is still with you?" Auron asked.
"Umm, not now but on the airship yes," Rikku answered. Auron sighed and tossed Rikku into the cave.
"Hey! What was that for?" Rikku yelled out. Nothing was there. No Auron or katana-wielding samurai guy which describes Auron.
"Auron," Rikku called out. "Where are you?" Rikku looked around.
"I was sent from the Farplane to protect you." Rikku sobbed, "Did one little toss to a little girl affect the protecting part? He was doing good…" As Rikku tossed around the fields leaving tears everywhere she could, Auron tapped her on the back.
"I'm here," Auron said and tossed her back into the cave and followed in. It was extremely dark inside the cave.
"Auron, are you there? I can't see a thing!" Rikku asked and before he could answer, "Oh poopie! He ran away again!"
"Pyreflies lend us light," a deep, booming voice mumbled. A body that Rikku thought wasn't there rippled with light. Three pyreflies slowly lurched out of the body and hovered over their heads.
"Being dead has its advantages," Auron said and grabbed Rikku by the shoulder, pulled her back, and slammed his katana down. When he lifted his katana, Rikku stood up and saw a dead hexapod, an insect fiend that is relatively weak but can inflict lots of damage if you let it.
"Huh, I wondered why you tossed me down," Rikku said. She spherechanged into a Songstress and danced a short jig and grinned at Auron. Auron ignored Rikku and just walked along with two pyreflies circling his head. Rikku put the mike to her mouth and said,
"DON'T WALK AWAY FROM ME AURON!" Her message boomed around the cavern. Auron came running around quickly and said,
"Hush up. There could be a giant fiend lurking around." Rikku stuck her tongue out at Auron and she happily skipped to the end of the cave. About ten minutes later, Rikku reached the end of the cave without any tough fiend encounter. One shot from a Gunner could kill any of the fiends in the cavern.
"Oh, this cave was a waste of time!" Rikku yelled. Then she kicked the wall. The wall flipped over and Rikku jumped until she was literally flying. Auron walked through the wall himself and Rikku followed him. There were more dead ends where they tapped the walls. Then after another hour or so, there was another wall that wouldn't open. They were trapped in a dead end.
"Oh! I knew this stupid cave was a waste of time! I'm going out!" Rikku exclaimed. Then it seemed that her annoyingly loud voice pierced through a wall. A giant insect fiend and many moon-shaped flower fiends charged at Rikku. Rikku screamed and ran at full force. Auron stuck his katana out and Rikku instantly stopped.
"Stand back!" Auron told Rikku and he stabbed his katana through the ground. At this moment, the flower fiends grabbed the giant bug and lifted it to the ceiling. Then, the ground fissured under the fiends. Blasts of energy and spikes of stone shot up but not high enough. The flowers dropped the insect to the ground and it raised its giant bladed legs in a striking pose. Now Rikku did not want to leave her love to die another death so she spherechanged into a Black Mage. When Rikku cast Firaga on the bug, it stepped away from Auron.
"This is your chance Auron! Give him all ya got!" Rikku cheered. Auron lifted his sword. He muttered a strange word and the blade shone a white light. The flowers attempted to lift the insect again but Rikku cast Fira right in front of the insect and they flew away. Auron took his hands off the blade and it floated in mid-air. Light was drawn out of the blade and created a wall around the fiend. The bug panicked and tried to escape but it was no use. Each time it hit the wall, it blinded the insect with brilliant light. Auron's blade flew into the bug causing death in a blink. When Auron retrieved is sword, a sphere was stuck on the tip of it.
"Ooh! A sphere! Give it to me!" Rikku exclaimed and snatched the sphere off the tip and turned it on all in one motion.
This sphere was filmed in the moon-shaped flower fields with a bug poking at the flowers.
"You know, these moonlilies can become alive. Well, I mean active. It can move and speak their own language," A man says, "Only with my secret potion, the stuff I used on you Cessinor." The sphere turns to a giant insect. Cessinor, the bug, rubs it's antennae on the man.
"The secret formula to the potion is right here on this sphere," the man says. The sphere turns to a table and the man points to each ingredient and the sphere slightly fizzes.
"Pollen of moonlily, antennae of a hexapod, three needles of cactuar, wings of an ahriman, wings and beak of a perrigrine, one assassin bee's needle, one melted empty sphere, and the hardest to find of all, a dead dark elemental," the man finally grabs a vial with a blackish hue. "After finding all the ingredients, place them in a large cauldron, pot, etcetera. Pour one liter of water into your potion brew. Boil it at a steady temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Crush the ingredients until they turn into a chunky powder. Pour the contents into a vial and you have your potion! You can pour it on inanimate objects to turn them alive. Oh! Great job for finding this sphere for it was in little Cessinor's body."
END SPHERE
"Ooh! I want to have some fun with this potion!" Rikku said. Rikku grabbed Auron by the arm and pulled him out of the cave. Auron sighed and let Rikku drag him.
Thanks for reading the fourth chapter of Searching for Thieves! May Yevon be with you!