All the charecter names used in this story are friends and have given permission to use them, but Duze, Duzie, and Zanza are my charecters. when i wrote this story I did not get that far in the missions to continue the story. So most of the events are corecnadental. please read and review this is my second fanfic but first FFXI fanfic. Enjoy.
Outside the military correctional facility of Levanworth. A shadow moves like it's not even there. On the closest watch tower, a sensor went off, at that moment Max's cloaking device shutdown. "Oh sh... not now." Max said looking for cover before the light had spotted him. He looked over near a bush and noticed an old storm drain right behind it.
"There you are." he said as he ran towards it and slipped right in without being noticed. He took off his mask to let his silvery white hair fall free. "I hate having long hair with this blasted mask it's too uncomftable." he said as he looked at his wriest display. "She's this way. I hate these stupid tunnels, but I gotta hurry." he said to himself as he starts running towards an unknown position. A hundred meters into the tunnels he noticed a room with seven other tunnels that branched off of it. "Oh great. This information isn't in here." he said in disbielf as he searched the throught the files on his wriest display. As he did this a cloaked figure ran into him. "What the .. I thought I had a longer time before they..." he trailed off seeing who ran into him.
The figure that ran into him sat up and took her hood off. "I never expected to run into anyone down here." she said as Max helped her to her feet.
"What are you doing down here? You can get yourself killed." max said still amazed to see a mithra.
"Who are you?" she asked him as she checked to see if she had dropped anything.
"The name's Max, and you?" he said as he went back to searching the files again.
"Zanza, Royal bodyguard to the princess of Jeuno. She is said to of been trapped in this world with her brother." she said as she looked at the elveen that she had ran into.
"What do you mean this world and a bodyguard with a sword. That's a little hard to believe. And why would a princess be anywhere around this place?" he said in disbelief. He started down one of the seven tunnel that was displayed by his wriest display.
"If you find it hard to believe thats your opinion but I got a job to do." she said as she put her hood back up. "So what are you doing down here?" Zanza had asked him as she caught up to him.
"Trying to get in. They wont let men in here at all, so i gotta gothis way." he said as he takes glances at his display every now and then to make sure that he's going the right direction.
"But that didn't answer my question." she said as her ears perked underneth her hood.
"Well the reason for that is. Thats my buisness." he said as they got to a dead end. "Damn. Why is it giving me false info?" he asked himself as he looked at his display again.
"It my be your business but I might be able to help you If you can help me." she said as she looked around.
"Ok. The reason I'm here is that my sister is in that building up there. Not working, but a prisoner." he said as he kept searching the files.
"Wait a sec you look familier to me, but your not him." she said as she took a really good look at his face.
"Who?" he asked curiously.
"A person who gave up his birth right to be with me but you dont act like him any way." she said still looking to see if there was something he missed.
"So where ever your from you left someone to do your job." he said still looking through the files.
"Not really he was taken from me. Just like his sister was." she said as she turned toward him.
At that moment she saw a light and ran to him pushing him towards a wall.
"What the..." he said as he turned to see her hit with a stun ray. "Shit." he said ashe ran to grab her, but before he could get to her he was than hit with it.
Awhile later she woke up in one of the prison cells. She looks around the cell to see a elveen woman with silvery white hair sitting up sleeping on the bunk across from her.
"Max?" she said looking around. The woman on the other bunk woke up and looked at her new cellmate.
"You said Max. Did you meet my brother somewhere?" she asked Zanza.
"Yeah, In the sewers." she said looking back at the woman."You're his sister are'nt you."
"Was he on his way to get here?" she asked her.
"Yeah, but I was captured and I don't know what happened to him." she told her as she strecthed.
"They probably threw him out again." she said as she put her back on the wall.
"Why would they throw him out? If he was trying to get in wouldn't they just throw him into a cell?" she asked.
"Nope this is an all female prison. No men allowed period." she said wondering how many times Max will have to try before getting her out.
"Zanza Where are you?" Max said as Zanza jumped and grabed at her left ear.
"What happened?" the woman said to Zanza.
"I heard Max's voice, but it sounded like it was in my head." she said rubbing her ear.
"Let me Take a look at your ear. He might of put a listening device in your ear." she said as she got up and walked over to her. "Ah yep he did." she said as she gently took it out of Zanza's ear. "Max you there?" his sister said into the device as Zanza was still rubbing her ear.
"Duzie is that you?" he said.
"Yeah you sort of startled your friend here." she said as she looked a Zanza. "But where are you?" she asked as Zanza looked intentively at the device.
"I'm in a ventalation duct, somewhere near the entrance of the prison." he said.
"At least you finally made it into the building this time. but how did you get there after they threw you out?" she asked.
"I got my cloaking device to stay on after they threw me out I turned it on and followed the probe back to where it came and found that they still had Zanza and planted this in her ear and followed them inside but my cloak died again and had to find a place to hide." he explained.
"You know that hurt when you called Max." Zanza said.
"Sorry didn't know your ears were that sensitive." he said trying to appoligize. "But where are you two at?" he asked.
"Cell block A sector 4 cell 24. Where are you?" his sister told him.
"Near the main security room."he said.
"That's not too far." She said when suddenly they heard Max yell.
"What the..." then it cut off.
"Max whats wrong? Are you ok? Answer me." his sister said getting no reply.
Zanza looked at her and said,"I know whats going on. The beastmen have arrived." she said a little worried.
"What the hell are beastmen?" Duzie asked sounding very worried.
"They are creatures that have come from my world to kill you." she told her as she stood up and examined the door.
"Me? why me?" she asked her as she stood up.
"Don't get me wrong when I say that I'm just guessing when I said that but I could be wrong." she told Duzie. "So lets not be here if you right or wrong." she said as she walked up to the door.
"But we have to be here either way because the door is impossible to open without a key or something." she said as she looked around.
"That won't be a problem for me." Zanza said as she punched the door as hard as she could and threw it across the pit.
Duzie looked over to what Zanza had done.
"Don't ask lets get moving." Zanza told her as she looked out to make sure it was clear.
Meanwhile a green hand had came through the ventalation walland grabbed Max and pulled him out into the security room that was now filled with orcs, gobs, and birdmen.
"Ah the fearless Duze. The boss will be pleased to hear that we killed you." a squaky voice of one of the birdmen said as the orc that pulled him out dropped him.
"I'm afraid you have the wrong guy. I'm Max not this Duze you speak of." he said as he looked around to find the sword that Zanza was carrying earlier was sitting in a corner not that far from him.
"On the conterary you are your smell tells me so." the birdmen said as he started towards him.
"Sorry to say but thats the sewer you smell." he said as he made a run for the sword.
He grabbed it and stood to swing it cutting a birdmen in half. Which left him with only one birdmen, five gobs and three orcs.
"Who's next?" he asked them as they looked at other and ran into the hallway leading to the main prison door. "No you don't." he said as he chased after them killing another one on the way out the door.
Back in the cell area Zanza and Duzie were making thier way towards Max when a small group of gobs turned a corner.
"We have no weapons we gotta run Zanza." she said as she turned and heard bodys hit the ground. She turned back around to see Zanza takeing care of the last gob in the group.
"Who needs weapons when you always carry your hands with you." she told her as they continued and took care of more and more gobs on the way.
They finally reached the main door that was near the security room when they were greeted by a squad of goblin archers.
On the other side of the door Max was fighting his way through when he reliezed that there was a quicker way to defeat his enemies. He backed away to give himself some room and raised the sword and concentrated. A moment later. "Burning Blade." he yelled as he charged them as the blade caught fire and cut through all but two orcs.
The orcs looked at what he had done and than each other. They dropped thier weapons and ran through the door behind them killing all the gobs that were behind it.
He started through chasing them when as soon as he got through the door he saw Zanza and Duzie. He walked towards them when he noticed why Duzie was holding Zanza. He ran to her side to see an arrow pertruding from her chest.
"Don't worry Max. Get your sister out of here before more come." she said trying not to cough.
"No. You still got to find the princess that you were looking for." he said as he examined her injury.
"I already did she is right here. She helped me get here. HMPH." she said as he removed the arrow from her chest.
"What do you mean?" he asked as he put pressure on her wound.
"Your sister. She is the one I was looking for." she said as she fell unconcious.
"What do you mean? Don't die." he shouted when his sister grabbed his arm.
"She told me as we were on our way up here, That I was the princess and that niether of us are from this world." she told him.
Not paying any attention to her he stood up and started to cast a spell. Duzie looking with amazement watched as a light started to grow around Max. "Raise and keep your life." he said as completed the spell.
Before either of them could say anything Zanza started to breath again and Max went to her side.
"Didn't realize your remembered your feelings Duze." she said as she looked at him.
Tears started to swell in his eyes andhe just huged her.
At that moment a bright light started to over come the place and they started to fall. Lossing grip of Zanza he tryed to grab her hand when everything went white.
He woke up and sat straight up in a cold sweat. He then heard a familier voice coming from out side his window. "Hey Duze wake up."
Duze got out of bed and walked over to the window to see Haunter waving at him. "I'll be down in a moment." he said as he went to get dressed.