Hi, um, just wanted to say something to BREE 2006. Thanx for pointing out that this story should be in FFX-2, now I get the chance to yell my head off. NOOOOOOO! It should not be in FFX-2, why? Because whatever idiot decided to make a section for X-2 was a complete and total moron! X-2 is sequel, therefore it should go under the FFX category. Now there are like a trillion stories in FFX that should really be in X-2 and vise versa! My suggestion would be to merge the two in to one and save all of this confusion! I have nothing against BREE him/her self, I just wanted to get that point across. Onward!
Auron and the General spent the next hour and a half discussing everything that had to do with anything involving the counter attack against the fiend invasion. When Auron finally came back to the airship he wouldn't tell anyone anything. He simply said that they were to set a non-stop course to Mushroom Rock Road, where he would finally explain his plans before landing. The only other thing he said was to wake him when they ran in to aerial fiends.
They boarded the Cecius to find another person had joined their party, he hid in the cabin until they were in they air when he came out to greet them.
(Guess who it is, go ahead, guess. Just pick any character at all, if you guess right, you should go to your kitchen and find yourself a cookie... or something.)
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YAY! O'AKA! Our favoritest person in the whole wide world!
"What the h--- is he doing here?" asked Paine, mad just to look at him. O'aka answered feeling insulted, "Why I'm here to supply you with all the important goods and supplies you'll be nee..." "You stupid moron! Are you trying to makes us kill you?! Go to that corner over there, where you will be out of our way, and if you move, I'll throw you out of this airship myself!!" Rikku shouted with anger rarely seen in her. O'aka walked away slowly, after having his life threatened by a bouncy little spastic girl. (and that's why we love her)
What Auron meant by "aerial fiends", was soon all to clear, because all manner of flying monsters started to slam themselves into the hull and windshield of the celcius. They went into the cabin to find Auron talking to Jecht again.
It still looked funny to Yuna even for the third time, but now was not the time to laugh... or was it? She turned to Tidus, "Remember back when we were on the pilgramige, what we did at Luca, when we were about to go to Mi'ihen Highroad?" "Like it was yesterday," said Tidus, "funny how things go, that was ten years ago, and we were off to save the world, or that was what I thought at the time, until maybe an hour later I learned Sin comes back. Now here we are, in the same position, with nothing but doom gloom and despair for company. Now I remember why we had to laugh."
Auron turned toward them, "please tell me there is a valid reason for this interruption."
"The fiends are slammin into the ship like there's no tomorrow, we gotta fight em off ya!" said Wakka excitedly. "Right," Auron said, "Rikku, turn this thing directly east, we'll try and outrun them, and when your done, join us on the deck. Everyone else, get ready to fight, and remember to grab a parachute, just in case."
The group dashed outside to see fiends swarming around the ship like locusts. Just as the group spread out on the deck, they attacked in huge masses. Auron and Paine, being warriors all their lives, went at the strongest and slowest with a most professional manner, scoring combination hits, taking out birds left and right. Rikku and Kimahri had their own style going, Rikku attacking the birds at their wings with her double daggers while Kimahri finished them off with his lance. Wakka was having the time off his life whipping his ball like a madman taking out fiends from all angles. Yuna had Tidus were standing back to back circling around so Yuna could take out the long range fiends with her pistols and Tidus could chop anything that got close up.
Everything was working out nicely, until all of a sudden the fiends flew off away from the ship, as if they had been called by something. They flew a few hundred feet out and began to regroup, flying in circles. Everyone stared as they finally turned around and headed back in a straight charge. "Seymour must be controlling them!" shouted Auron, "hold your ground!" They formed a spread out line and Wakka, Lulu, Kimahri, and Yuna started to pick off the incoming fiends as they charged. When the wave reached the group, total chaos broke loose. Birds fell before swords like a charging army in front of a line of machine guns. Eventually, however, the great number of fiends knocked the warriors off balance, and they had no choice but to ride out the blows from the crazed monsters. Finally the mass flew past, and broke into groups. Yuna and her gaurdians desperately tried to get back to their original posistions, but were now being constantly knocked over by the swarming fiend squads.
Lulu was frustrated with this crazy attack and decided to unleash her arsenal, she cast flare directly over her head just as she told everyone to duck down. The effect was just as she had hoped. Nearly all the fiends in the area were killed, falling all around them. They now had a chance to get up and recover form the wave. Unfortunately, one group of four Zus were just flying in when flare was cast, and they made their attack dive, unaffected by the blast.
Tidus saw the group coming, and was ready. He ducked down and grabbed the first by the leg, expertly bringing his sword up and brought it down on the neck of the fiend. He quickly spun to slash the 2nd in the wing. He crouched beneath the 3rd on coming Zu as it flew passed him, and leapt for the 4th. Wakka, however, chose just this time to throw his ball into the last monster, sending off course and out from underneath Tidus, who slide across the waxed deck near the edge. Just as he got on his knee the 3rd Zu had turned around and caught him in the back, sending him flying over the edge.
Yuna ran to the side to see Tidus clinging to the metal jut designed to look like a bumper on a car. Caldabog was between his legs and the metal started to groan. Stupid cheap frame work! Tidus thought as the metal began to peel from the hull under his weight. Yuna let out a gasp as a small bolt shot over Tidus's head and the metal broke off, sending him falling through the air. He was about to pull the ripcord on his chute, but the approach of numerous fiends chasing him quickly discouraged this thought. He formed his body into an arrow shape, trying to catch up with his falling sword. His sword was much more dense, and aerodynamic than he was, and any attempt to catch it was pointless. Oh this nice. He thought as the sword fell further away from him, but something clicked in his mind, he thought back to his days in the farplane practicing black magic.
He cast water directly below his falling sword, causing it to briefly slow down, but no nearly enough. It's not workin genius, it just slides right through the water. Another idea popped in his head, (two good ideas in one minute, must be his personal best) this time he cast water on the side of the sword, causing it to spin. He quickly cast water below it again, hitting the side of the sword instead of the point. Go me! he thought.He repeated this again, only this time using all of his strength, and casting watera.
The Caldabog shot up to him whirling insanely, nearly slicing open his gut, but he caught it and neatly clutched it to his chest. The trees now began to appear like dots on the land below him. Thinking back to the skydiving he and Yuna did on their honeymoon, he remembered the instructor telling him something about 50 seconds of free fall left when the trees were recognizable. He spun around on his back, and prepared to face the fiends diving at him, sword now in hand.
Yuna gasped as she watched Tidus fall, and the others crowded around her. "He is probably going to need some supplies," said Auron calmly. Yuna wasted no time sprinting back into the ship, grabbing O'aka, and thrusting him a parachute. She then ran back outside, ran to the edge of the deck, and with a simple "you moved," to O'aka, she threw him off the edge.
Tidus saw something else fall in the distance when he rolled to face the fiends, but had better things to worry about, such as the group of alcyones flying at him. He flattened himself out to slow down and let the birds catch him. There were 5 of them. One aimed directly at his chest, and ran into the point of a blue sword. As it fell the second swooped beside him in an attempt to get his spread out arm. Tidus quickly rolled and took a swing, but missed as the bird flew away. The 3rd tried the same tactic, but Tidus was ready, and caught it neatly across the neck. The second alcyone turned for another attack just has the 4th made it's move. He grabbed the 4th by the neck and held on while casting haste on himself. He made a quick jerk in the air and dodged the birds second attack, snaping the neck of the fiend in his hand. Now that 2nd bird was doomed to die as Tidus angled himself forward, gaining speed in that direction. He made an aerial charge at the fiend, for an easy kill. The final monster would prove to be difficult, as it waited for just the right time to strike. Tidus made a lunge for it, and the bird spread it's wings to fly right over him. He flipped in the air just in time to get one of the alcyone's talons stuck in his boot. He twisted in the air for roughly 5 seconds before he got a hold on it, slicing through half of it's body.
His battle won, he turned toward the ground to see how close he was. The sight of the trees so close made him flinch, he only had about 10 seconds left to free fall, so he pulled the rip cord. After floating gently down, he wasn't more than 30 feet from the treetops, when more trouble came. Four evil eyes flapped their bat-like wings furiously trying to reach him. Give me a break! More freaks to kill! He cast thunder, knocking one out of the sky before it reached him. The other three and leveled themselves with him. He cast thunder once more, striking a second out of the air. Normally the fiends would have attacked Tidus him self, but these fiends were under the control of Seymour, and instead, they aimed for the cords of his parachute.
One started to fire its eye beam, cutting through his cords. Not good, definitely not good. Tidus thought as he cast thunder once again, killing the fiend that was firing at him. But the damage was already done, he started to fall faster and by now, the last evil eye fired its beam, slicing through all but three of the cords. As he fell, Tidus remembered the skydiving instructor telling stories of people who were hanged by their parachute cords after landing in to trees. He cut the remaining cords from his harness, sending him falling into the trees below.
When he hit the first tree-top, hundreds of twigs and sticks stabbed into his side, leaving a nasty gash, but that was only the beginning of the pain he was about to feel. He crashed through the smaller top branches until slamming into a very thick one with his back, cracking his shoulder blade. From then on he bounced around like a rag-doll from tree limb to tree limb, breaking, cracking, fracturing, pulling, spraining, bruising, scratching, cutting, or dislocating nearly every part of his body. Finally he slammed into a limb with his shins, sending him front flipping into a tree trunk. His head was the first thing to hit the trunk, and unconsciousness took him.