Chapter 41: The Final Event
Sitting around the fire again on the last night was Quistis' hoomroom again. They weren't really doing anything just sitting there this time all of them staring at the fire. " Last Event is up." Kiako said patting Fira on the shoulder. " You ready Fira?"
" I--." Fira shrugged just before getting cut off by Cloud.
" I've been actually thinking about that..." Cloud started.
" Yeah we all have I think." Squall added.
" Maybe for the last even you guys should go in." Seifer said staring at Utada, Kuro,Kiako, Avalon and Fira.
" Us?" They all said at once.
" Yeah you five go out on missions all the time together and since this is a mission completion event then I'm sure you guys will come out on top." Tifa said winking.
" Okay then." Kiako said jumping to her feet and punching the air. " We're gonna win! Right Kuro."
" For once I think your right." Kuro said with her arms crossed.
" Hahahaha." Fira laughed laying back looking at the stars.
" What's so funny keyblade boy?" Avalon asked nudging him.
" Just enjoying you the company." Fira replied with a yawn. Utada walked over and sat on his chest while he was laying there.
" You could act alittle more enthused about this." She said pulling on his left ear.
" Ow...sorry!"
(The next morning)
" Welcome Students, Teachers and Headmasters alike to the FINAL EVENT!" Edea announced on mic as the crowd roared. " In this event a team of SeeD candidates will embark on a quest inside of a temple to search for a sphere. There is only one sphere and three teams whom so ever comes back with the sphere recieves an automatic 25 points."
" 25 points plus our 5 is 30 we'll win by a landslide." Tifa said sitting on the bench.
" You losers had better win." Seifer said punching into his palm. " Or I'm dunking all of your heads in the toilet twice."
" Now without further adieu please teams step forth." Edea called. Stepping up for Balamb was Fira, Kiako, Kuro, Utada and Avalon. Stepping up for Esthar was Sephiroth and a hooded boy with his hands to his sides. And for Galbadia was Tseng, Rufus, Reno, Elena and Rude.
They stepped up and three blue shaded telepads opend up just before them.
" If you encounter any enemies you must engage them in battle to get that sphere." Edea instructed once more. With that all of them shook their heads once and stepped in all at once.
"READY!"
"START!"
Fira, Utada, Kuro, Kiako and Avalon appeared in a long stone like hallway with ivy and plants growing out of the walls. The tiles were cracked and some of them were even missing. The only line provided was the sunlight shooting through the large holes in the ceiling of the maze like temple.
" Alright let's get started." Fira said turning to all of them.
" Mhm." They all nodded and began to walk down the hall.
Sephiroth and the mysterious masked figure appeared just above a stone stairway, it was just as run down as any other part of the temple. Except there were water leaking from the side walls instead of vines and ivy and there was almost no light.
" Okay I'm going for the sphere to eliminate all who come near." Sephiroth said stepping forward. " You can do as you please."
The boy made the Sleeping Lion Keyblade appear in his right hand then turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
The Shinra group appeared ontop of a stone bridge that hung over an abyss of darkness.
" Whoa this place is pretty run down." Reno said resting his nightstick on his shoulder.
" Yeah." Rude nodded in agreement while fixing his shades.
" Let's hurry." Rufus said drawing his shotgun and running off. Elena, Tseng, Rude and Reno followed closely behind as they jetted off.
Fira climbed up a tall ivy infested wall. He then reached the top and pulled Kiako up then Kuro and Utada and Avalon. They were now in a large room the size of a dome with a small tower in the center. That was probably where the sphere was. They started down the stone steps that led to the dome. Just before reaching the small tower was a wide arena like space appearing out a black flock of feathers was Sephiroth.
" Hello hello hello." Sephiroth said with a grin.
" Sephiroth." all of them said at once drawing their weapons.
" What do you want traitor?" Kuro asked ejecting a Scythe blade from her staff.
" Traitor please, you would have done the same thing. Balamb Garden always held me back... I was the strongest in my classes the most powerful. In Balamb Garden the sky was the only limit and I had the potential to do greater." Sephiroth explained. " Esthar there is no limit for power there."
" Your just some sick freak." Utada said pointing her katana at him.
" No I'm very sane, I wanted power surely you all understand." Sephiroth said readying his Masamune.
" Noway! I thought we were your friends Sephiroth! You gave up your own friends just for power." Kiako said tightening her fist.
" And to think I actually thought you were cool." Avalon nodded.
" Ha you were no friends of mine I could care less about your pathetic existence." Sephiroth said. " Once I've defeated you all, Fira your keyblade will be mine."
" Once you defeat us? Ha once we've given you a spanking maybe you'll actually get some sense back." Fira said attaching the new keychain to the Kingdom Key transforming it into the Ultima Weapon.
(meanwhile)
Tseng, Reno, Rude, Rufus and Elena were running through the same hallway that Balamb's students appeared in. They came to a halt as a boy with a hood far over his face appeared before them.
" Heh he's from Esthar." Reno said pointing his nightstick at him. " Let's kick his ass!"
" Hmm that way we won't have to worry about dealing with him later on." Elena grinned evilly.
" Good idea." Rufus said resting his shotgun on his shoulder. Rude tighted his leather gloves and held his fists up while Tseng merely stood with his hands in his pockets.
" You all will regret this..." The mysterious boy said holding the Sleeping Lion Keyblade in his right hand. He made another appear in his left the Gaurdian Soul Key. He spun them both like propellors then held them behind his back.
"GET EM!" Reno shouted running forth with Rude and Elena at his side.
(meanwhile)
" That's Enough!" Sephiroth said running through all of them with his blade appearing on the otherside of them in a flash. They all stood there for one second then with Sephiroth stood up to his two feet all of them began to suffer from multiple cuts on their bodies. Sephiroth turned around then attempted a seven slash combo. Fira and Utada stood side by side infront of every one and pushed Sephiroth's blade back. While distracted Kiako flipped over their heads and attempted to drop kick him but Sephiroth juked to the side dodging Kiako's kick. " Damn." She cursed as Sephiroths long blade sliced her back horizontally.
Kuro's body glen with a crimson aura as comets rained down on Sephiroth. He jumped up slashing the comets and sent them flying back at the others. Avalon stepped forth and casted Reflect over the party deflecting all of the comets off.
" You cannot defeat me." Sephiroth said as wing ejected from his back. He was floating in mid air looking down at them. "Your all so pathetic."
" I've had enough of your talking!" Fira jumped ran up a pedestal and leaped halfway at Sephiroth. The clashed masamune for keyblade then he knocked Fira back and he flipped back landing on his feet. Sephiroth then disappeared in mid air appearing behind Kuro, Avalon and Kiako. He swipped them all into the air with one sweep of his masamune then appeared infront of them striking them each equally with a seven strike combo and a final slash that sent all three of them soaring into a pillar.
He then disappeared into a flock of feathers again and appeared in between Utada and Fira. He raised his hand up casting Firaja the most powerful fire magic spell. Four pillars of flame surrounded him in a spiral knocking Fira and Utada back causing extreme damage.
"Err..." Kuro groaned spitting up alittle blood as she stood to her feet. Avalon then pulled Kiako up as he stood beside them as well. Fira looked up and grabbed his Keyblade from the ground, he stood up holding his side as did Utada.
" Hmhmhm... I am the most powerful SeeD in history do you five pathetic weaklings think you can defeat me?" Sephiroth laughed.
" We don't think... we know that we can beat you." Fira said grasping onto his keyblade as his body glen with light blue aura.
" Together there is nothing we can't handle." Utada said holding her katana up in an assassin like pose as her body glen in a black aura.
" Yeah our friendship makes us strong! Our power even surpasses your own." Kiako said she was covered in a orange aura.
" Not that friendship crap...oh well whatever Sephiroth your gonna get your ass kicked." Kuro said holding scythe on her shoulder as she was surrounded in a crimson aura.
" Yup cuz we're a team baby!" Avalon said raising his millenium rod as he was surrounded in a purple aura.
" Hmm...Show me then." Sephiroth said.
" WITH PLEASURE... TRINITY LIMIT!"
With that all five of them rushed him at one time. They each struck Sephiroth a total of 15 times, Kuro slashing with her scythe, Fira slashing with the keyblade, Utada slicing with her katana, Kiako pounding with her fists and feet and Avalon hacking with his Millenium Rod. They finished by running through him with their weapons.
" SHADOW CLONE ASSAULT!"
They all tossed up their weapons and performed the shadow clone seal with Kiako. " Kage Bushin no jutsu!" They all said at once making five clones each. They all leap at Sephiroth the clones all punched and kicked Sephiroth all at once then in one all uppercut they knocked him into the air.
" DARK JUDGEMENT!"
They all got in a circle with Kuro in the middle and held their weapons or hands up giving their MP power to Kuro. As Sephiroth was flying up dark portals opened all around him shooting black swords out slicing him with a 25 hit combo. Sephiroth then soared down still alittle conscious.
" BLOSSOM'S DIVID!"
A cherry blossom like peddle appeared infront of Sephiroth. Their weapons had transformed into glowing black katanas as they ran towards Sephiroth slicing him in five different directions. The cherry blossom peddle exploded on his as he flew back.
" EYE OF DESTRUCTION!"
Avalon stepped up and stabbed his millenium rod into the ground. They all spread their arms out as a giant dark eye appeared over Sephiroth's head. The eye gazed at him then opened wide shooting out multiple lasers of light at him ending in one big flash. Sephiroth stood standing with blood leaking from his mouth. He jumped forward to rush them.
" 7 OF THE HEART"
Fira flipped forward holding his keyblade up. The Metal Chocobo appeared in Kiako's hands, Oblivion appeared in Kuro's hands, Oathkeeper appeared in Utada's hands and Way to the Dawn appeared in Avalon's hands. Appearing before them in a ray of light were two figures dressed in a silver plated armor holding two keyblades. They all glen with the same light blue aura as Sephiroth rushed forth towards them.
" ETERNAL LIGHT!"
They all jumped forth in a spiral holding their keyblades before them. The spiral of light slashed with Sephiroth crossing in one samurai style deul. On the left was Fira, Utada, Kuro, Kiako and Avalon and on the right was Sephiroth. He turned around and stared at them.
" Looks like I've got along way to go..." Sephiroth said dropping down to one knee. " If I want to match that power."
They all just stared as Sephiroth began to fade into the darkness. When Sephiroth completely faded away they stared at what he left behind. The Masamune...Utada walked over to the long blade and picked it up then looked back and smiled at everyone.
" DO I HAVE TO SAY!" Kiako said looking around at them. They all gave Kiako a strange gaze. " THAT WAS AWESOME! WE WERE LIKE COMPLETELY SYNCED UP THERE! HEY WHERE IS MY KEYBLADE!" She said looking at her hands.
" Will you shut up baka." Kuro said hitting her over the head with her staff.
" Seriously Fira dude holding a keyblade is cool." Avalon said punching Fira in the arm alittle. " I didn;t know I could use one."
" Anybody can use a keyblade." Fira said shrugging. "It's just a weapon after all."
" We'll finish this conversation later right now we've got a competition to win." Kuro said running up the tower. Avalon and Kiako followed her up the stairs towards the sphere. Fira walked over to Utada whom was holding the masamune.
" You ok?" Fira asked placing a hand on her shoulder.
" I'm fine now." Utada said holding the masamune in her left hand. She wrapped an arm around Fira hugging him. " We did it... we beat the undefeatable Sephiroth. Haha."
" Yeah I guess we did." Fira said rubbing behind his head.
" Guys we got the sphere come on let's get outta here." Avalon said jumping down the flight of stairs.
" Come on." Fira said as he and Utada ran off behind the others.
As they ran through the temple Kiako began to think for asecond. "Hey guys!" She stared as they were running. "Weren't there two guys from Esthar that..." Before Kiako could finish they spotted Reno, Rude, Elena, Tseng and even Rufus sprawled out on the ground infront of a boy with two keyblades.
" Huh?"
" At last Fira we meet again." He said pointing the Gaurdian Soul at him.
" Rome." Fira said as the figure took his hood off. "Guys go ahead I'll take care of this." Fira said making the Ultima Weapon appear in his right hand.
" Noway we've stuck together this far we might as well go all the way." Utada said holding the Masamune in the Sephiroth pose.
" She's right we're not going anywhere." Kiako said.
" Fira just hurry up and beat this guy." Kuro said holding the sphere while tapping her foot.
" What she said." Avalon said crossing his arms to his chest.
Rome and Fira stepped forward standing only three meters apart. They both held their weapons up in the Duel Stance reaction command. In one flash they crossed eachother, Fira appeared on the otherside and vise versa with Rome. Fira then dropped to his knees and the keyblade disappeared out of his hand. " Noway!" Kiako said just before Avalon covered her mouth. Rome laughed then stopped all of a sudden, he dropped both of his keyblades as they both disappeared into darkness then fell out. Rome then himself faded into darkness... " THis...iSn'T...oVeR..." He said just before disappearing completely.
" Fira..." They walked over and Avalon kicked him in the side. He jumped up rubbing his side.
" Ow..." Fira said. " Damn... can't a guy take a nap without bein kicked?" He yawned.
They stepped out of the portal carrying the Galbadia students with them. The hospital came and took them off of their hands. " AND OUR WINNERS FOR THIS EVENT IS BALAMB GARDEN." Edea announced just after Kuro handed her the sphere.
" Balamb 30 points."
" Esthar 15 points."
" And Galbadia only 5 points"
" BALAMB GARDEN TAKES HOME THE GARDEN GAMES CUP AN THE TITLE OF MOST TALENTED SEEDS!" Edea announced. The trophy was extremely large and it took Kiako, Utada, Fira and Avalon to hold it up. Kuro just stood on the stage waving as the students from Balamb's side ran down from the stands cheering and whistling.
" WE WON!"
Kiako hugged Hei, Tifa kissed Cloud, Kuro punched Avalon, Utada hugged Fira, Rinoa kissed Squall, Selphie slapped Irvine, Eiko kissed Vivi, Presea kissed Genis, Colette kissed Llyod, Sakura punched Naruto, Yuffie frenched Vincent, Zell ate hotdogs, Headmaster Cid tried to hit on a 16year old girl, Zidane kissed three different girls, Zelos kissed Garnet. Miko hugged Zero, Aerith kissed Paine, Rikku kissed Fira, Millie hugged him, Goku ran from a needle, Link road off on a Epona, Sesshoumaru walked off into the sunset, Hao laughed his ass off no reason, Kairi kissed Riku, Rock Lee arrived late, Lenne sang and danced while Shuyin tried to hug her, Quistis handed out report cards, Kikyo and Kagome both hugged and kissed Inuyasha, Seifer was jealous and hated everybody, Raijin and Fujin were getting nude and halfway into sexual contact infront of everyone, Zabuza handed out detention notices, Auron slapped Zell over the head for not having his Algebra homework, Regal read poetry to a group of listening children, a cow jumped over the moon, Vegnagun was never found, Majin Buu came out of nowhere dancign like a monkey, Utada threw peanutbutter jars at people, Squall changed his name to Leon and Kakashi read cum cum paradise.