Early the next morning, Serge, Chrono, and I left Guardia Castle.
"Where to we go from here?" asked Chrono.
I closed my eyes and meditated for a minute.
"East. Whoever took my sword has gone east. Not quite as far as Medina but about halfway between here and Medina. " I said.
"I think Ozzie's fort is near there. Can he still be alive!" said Chrono in wonder.
"Well, let's start east anyway. We can get on a boat for Medina, and get off near Ozzie's fort." I said as we walked east to the docks.
We reached the docks and were able to get tickets for the next ship headed for Medina. Before heading out, we spoke with the captain to let him know that we would be getting off halfway through the voyage.
Since the ship would not leave for another half hour, we decided to go back to town and get a few supplies, in case we needed them. We bought mostly potions, but also got a few other items in case one of us succumbed to a status condition.
We headed back to the docks and boarded the ship and waited to leave. The voyage itself was uneventful. When we saw the island as the ship neared it, we prepared to jump. The captain had a schedule to keep and couldn't stop the ship, and there were no docks on the island. So, the three of us jumped into the ocean and swam the rest of the way to the island. After we got on the shore, we checked our supplied to make sure we hadn't lost anything. Even though it was in the middle of the day, the sky was very dark on the island.
"Ready?" I asked as Serge and Chrono simply nodded.
We walked through the dark, damp forest expecting to fight through various creatures, but oddly enough, we fought none. It was too quiet. After finding our way through the forest, which took an hour or so, we had finally reached Ozzie's fort. As we walked up to the door, it opened on its own. We had our weapons ready, knowing that something or someone was waiting for us.
The main hall was quite beautiful, despite the fact that the darkness gave it a dreary look. As we began to climb the staircase, a number of skeletons simply appeared around us from seemingly nowhere.
"Heads up!" said Chrono as he cleaved the one in front of him in half, before it knew what happened.
Serge and I handled the other with ease as well.
"We had better keep our eyes peeled." I said.
That much was obvious though after this first encounter, although it was brief and easy. The path forked at the top of the stairs. We took the left route first which came to a dead end. There was a button at the end of the path though, and hesitantly I pushed it.
Nothing seemed to happen, and we had not run across anymore creatures as of yet. We headed back to the main hall and took the second path. It also ended in a dead end with another button as well. After pushing it, we heard a loud grinding noise. The path we were on was unchanged, so we retraced our steps once more. As we reached the main hall, we noticed a new, third door that had previously been a wall.
As we were about to open it, bats, skeletons, and zombies appeared all over the main hall.
"Try to finish them quickly!" I told Serge and Chrono.
There were a lot of them, but I didn't want to waste too much time fighting these undead beasts.
Serge cast Holy Light, as Chrono used his Cyclone technique, while I Followed up by casting supernova.
After the spells and techs were over, the beasts that were not dead were stunned and weakened. The three of us finished off the rest of them with simple sword maneuvers.
"Let's hurry before more show up." said Serge.
The three of us hurried through the new door, and followed a long straight hall. Once again, there were no enemies of any kind.
We reached a large, strong door at the end of the hall. It opened with a long, loud creack.
The room beyond was a large open room and three figures stood in the room.
"My Sword!" I said as I saw my Omega Blade in the hands of one of the figures.
"Who dares enter my fort without permission?" shouted the short green figure.
"The one looks much like Magus, though it is not him." said the tall, slender blue figure who wielded the Omega Blade.
"Well in any case they are all quite ugly." said the feminine looking one.
"I'm Ozzie!"
"I'm Slash."
"And I am the most beautiful Flea!"
Ozzie, Slash, and Flea formed a triangular formation and readied themselves to fight.
"This might not be easy." I said as I readied to fight as did Chrono and Serge.
Flea cast fire in the middle of the room and Slash ran through it then at Serge hitting him with a Flame Sword attack. Ozzie cast carnivore hurting all three of us. Serge attacked Flea with a combo, Chrono attacked with a jumping slash attack that Slash easily parried, and I cast Iceberg on Ozzie who seemed to take little damage from the magic.
Flea cast an Ice spell into the air. Slash jumped up into it and Ozzie grabbed Slash's legs and began to spin him around rapidly, sending shards of ice flying in all directions.
"We're going to have to try some multi attacks of our own." I told Serge and Chrono.
Serge began to spin his Rainboe Swallow above his head. Chrono cast Lightning2 on the weapon as I cast Fire2 on his weapon as well. As Serge continued to spin his weapon, Bolts of lightning and balls of fire were thrown at all three of their enemies, sending them all to the floor.
"Ultimate Attack! Ready Slash? Ready Flea?" said Ozzie as they prepared their magic.
They formed a perfect triangle, and Ozzie cast lightning, Slash cast Ice, and Flea cast fire. Delta Force was the result. The powerful triple tech magic hit us and hurt us badly. I stood back up and thought for a secone before coming up with an exceptional idea.
"On the count of three, cast Luminaire!" I said.
On three, Serge, Chrono, and myself all cast Luminaire simultaneously. The result was far more powerful than I had thought. The wave of light each of us emitted would bounce of each other sending a more powerful shockwave. As they kept hitting each other, the three waves of luminaire increased in power exponentially, until it became one massive wave of light energy.
After the smoke had cleared, Ozzie, Slash, and Flea were nowhere to be seen. The room they were in was nearly destroyed. The ceiling was gone, there were holes in the walls, which were barely standing. The Omega Blade was on the ground where Slash had been standing. The destruction cause by the attack had been incredible. Omega quickly and carefully grabed his weapon from the floor.
"We had better get out of here before this place collapses." I said.
Chrono and Serge simply nodded. They were both still shocked at the power of their combined attack. Just as we exited the fort, it came crashing to the gorund. Nothing remained except for a pile of rubble.
"Maybe we had not use that attack except in extreme circumstances. Sound good to you two?" I asked.
Serge and Chrono agreed.