Shades of Wings: Chapter 3 Green Wings
WOOOOOHOOOO! Chapter 3! . Lots of cameo requests here and so I have, as the starving artist and author, have included all that are possible!
This time, unfortunately, there will be no cast list. More characters are being added and it takes way too long to put them in the cast list. If you've read the other stories you should know the cast lists so never fear
Okay! Now, onto the chapter!
No one knew why, but for some odd reasons, a few fiends had invaded the temple of Bevelle and its Cloisters. Of course, many Yevon soldiers had volunteered to exterminate them, as the fiends numbers were few, but summoners and their guardians had insisted on getting rid of the fiends themselves.
Adrian, a new summoner, had no summons of her own, and was relatively weak, but Juka knew that if she brought up the sore subject, she would get a large and quick hit in the face that she would not like to welcome.
As the group walked through the city of Bevelle, Juka gave a loud yawn. "Man, am I tired..."
"Well maybe you should have asked to sleep in someone else's room," Adrian scoffed.
"WHAT?!" Juka asked, bewildered, "I thought you said I had to sleep in the hall!"
"I said, "You can sleep in the hall if you like," Adrian told her, "You could have asked to stay in one of the girls rooms...its not like we would have said no..."
"HEY! YOU SET THIS UP THE ENTIRE TIME!" Juka screamed and Adrian chuckled slightly.
"You need to learn what I say," she told her as the entered the temple, "Don't, and you can't be considered my guardian."
Juka snarled but continued walking as the entire group made their way up the long staircase to the Cloister of the Trials. "Lady Adrian," a Yevon Priest guarding the door said to her, "These fiends may be dangerous...you may wait if you like for our men..."
"I am quite all right thank you," she told him, "My guardians are here to protect me."
The Yevon priest nodded and swung open the doors to the Bevelle Temple...
"Woah!" Juka looked around, amazed at the strange place they were in. The trials were made of a lot of sliding disks along a maze of glowing chambers. It could have taken them weeks to get out of, "This place is cool! Are all the temples like this?!"
"Of course not you dimwit," Adrian sighed, "This one is only for Bevelle." Juka ignored the "Dimwit" comment as Adrian and all the other guardians gathered on the first disk that would take them to the next length of the maze.
"We should probably split up!" Juka suggested, "Cover more ground that way!"
"We might get separated," Kevi pointed out, "And in a temple maze with fiends around, that's not a good place to be separated."
Juka remained silent for a few seconds, her idea shot to the ground. The team rode on and on through the temple, no sign of fiends yet. Spiler sighed and sat down on the disk.
"Man...this is taking FOREVER!" he commented, "When are we gonna see some action?"
"Try right now!" Tiffa aimed her gun above her head and shot five times, bringing a lizard like fiend down along with a blue jelly one, "Let's get 'em!"
"Right!" Tai nodded and ran forward to face the fiends, "Who should tackle what?!"
"Tiffa, Spiler, Juka, handle the Skeith," Kevi pointed to the lizard, "Lu--"
"I'll take down that Jelly!" Juka ran forward to tackle it, "It looks weak!"
"No you idiot!" Adrian called out to her, but it was too late. Juka brought her sword down on the jelly!
But it had almost no affect. The jelly hardly looked annoyed at the slice. Juka scowled and kept hacking away, sometimes getting hit by weak water spells. But she kept hacking away. Adrian just shook her head while the rest of the guardians looked on with mild amusement, "DIE DIE DIE DIE!" Juka kept yelling to the monster, the Skeith already killed by Tiffa and Spiler, "WHY-WON'T-YOU-DIE?!" she gave a large slash, "HYAH!" and the jelly finally oozed away. "See?!" she wiped her brow, "That wasn't too hard!"
"YOU IDIOT!" Adrian stepped forward, "That was a water elemental! They're resistant to physical attacks! Luna could have killed it with a simple Thunder spell, while YOU, wanting to play hero, goes and hacks at it for twenty minutes, AND gets hurt!" she waved to Ashnigh, "Ashnigh, please cure the idiot..."
"Sure," Ashnigh smiled and muttered a small spell to cure Juka.
"Well...I killed it didn't I?" Juka asked, scowling at the summoner, "Isn't that what matters?!"
"Against a much stronger enemy, you would have been killed," Kevi told her and walked past her, "Know your enemy before you strike the first blow kid."
"Hey!" she called after him, "I'm NOT a kid!"
"Then start acting like it," his icy blue eyes laid on her and she shivered under them. He kept walking and one by one, everyone followed him, except for Tai who stayed behind.
"Don't listen to him," he smiled at Juka, "He's just being a jerk, he thinks he knows everything!"
"Thanks," Juka laughed, "You're Tai right?"
"Uh huh," he nodded.
"I'm Juka," she put out her hand to him and he shook it.
"We should probably get on ahead," he told her, "The others are leaving without us!"
"Ack, right!" she nodded and the two ran on.
More fiend battles ensued, this time Juka showed a little more common sense than before, only taking on fast enemies that she could handle. After a while, the groups kind of dispersed within themselves, Spiler still juggling his blitzball, Briu poking the ground with his spear, Ashnigh talking cheerfully to no one in particular, and Juka making sure not to speak to Adrian at all costs.
"That's a really nice necklace Ashnigh," Tiffa commented, pointing at Ashnigh's Yevon choker, "What's the symbol mean though?"
Ashnigh looked at her oddly, "Umm...it's the Yevon symbol...you didn't know?"
Tiffa's eyebrows shot up and she bit her lip, "Uhh yeah, it's just a little dark in here, couldn't tell."
"Why don't you wear one?" she asked.
"Umm...left it at home?" she laughed warily and Ashnigh giggled slightly.
"Oh, don't be afraid, I know that not everyone wears them," she told her, "But I like to show my belief in Yevon...that's all."
"My goodness this is a long tunnel," Adrian sighed, sitting down on the disc, "It could take us hours to reach the Cloister of the Fayth."
"How about we play a game in the mean-time?!" Luna suggested, hugging her black mage doll.
"A...game...?" Adrian asked, "I'd rather not..."
"Ahh it'll be fun!" Luna insisted, "Okay! I know a really fun one! It's a game called "Who is..."!"
"Sounds cool!" Juka sat down and Tai nodded, "How do you play?!"
"We all sit in a circle and get to ask people who is something to them! Like their favorite person, or their secret crush, or their parents! That way we can all learn about each other! And no lying!" Luna pulled up her doll who smiled, "Cause he'll know!"
Tiffa stood up, "I...I don't want to play..."
"Neither do I..." Ashnigh nodded.
"Too bad!" Luna smiled, and in an instant, all nine of them were glued to the ground, sitting on the floating disk, "Cause we're playing! I'm first!"
"Luna!" Adrian grunted, trying desperately to get off the floor, "I am your summoner and I DEMAND that you let me up this instant!"
"Nope, nope, not gonna!" Luna laughed and pointed to Tai, "TAI! Who is the person you're annoyed the most by?"
Tai gulped and eyed the doll lie detector, staring at him, "I...I don't wanna tell!"
"You HAVE TO!" Luna laughed.
"Luna this is cruel and unusual! Let me up this instant!" Adrian yelled once more.
"Not gonna, not gonna," she sang again and Tai gulped.
"Okay I'll tell!" he sighed and murmured, "Kevi..."
Everyone burst out laughing at that, and even Adrian and Kevi gave a small chuckle. Kevi sighed and shook his head, "Wouldn't be the first time..."
"Arggh! I didn't wanna say that!" Tai was blushing."I find it all very amusing," Kevi smirked slightly.
"Okay then Kevi," Tai growled, "Who is your girlfriend?"
"PFFFFFT!" Juka had to hold her breath to keep from laughing and Kevi, if they could have seen his eyes, would have been bugging out of his head.
"Now this should be good," Tiffa giggled.
"C'mon, tell us man," Briu nudged him and Kevi blushed.
"I don't have one..." he told them and an "ahhh" of disappointment came from the crowd.
"Time for our lie detector!" Luna threw the doll from her hands and it landed in front of Kevi.
"Wha-?" he started but was interrupted by the doll jumping onto his lap and pulling his cheeks apart wide. "Rhat rhe rhell?!" The doll jumped off, walked back to Luna and nodded his head.
"Ahh," she sighed, "He's telling the truth...and this would have been juicy...your turn Kevi!"
"Fine..." he rubbed his raw cheeks, "Hey Ashnigh, whose YOUR boyfriend?"
Adrian's eyes widened slightly and she turned to Ashnigh, "Ashnigh..."
But Ashnigh simply smiled peacefully and said, "I had one, but we broke up a long time ago...you know, people change."
"LIE DETECTOR TIME!" Luna smiled and the door once again hobbled over to Ashnigh and pulled her cheeks. Ashnigh didn't seem half as annoyed as Kevi and the doll gave a solemn nod as it let go. "Well, another one is single unfortunately...your turn Ashnigh..."
"Hey Tiffa," she smiled to Tiffa who seemed to be sweating heavily, "Who are your parents?" Tiffa froze, looking at the ground, not making eye contact, "You never talk about yourself..."
"Umm...umm..." Tiffa stammered for a second and Kevi stared her down.
"Why don't you tell us?" he asked, "I'm sure Adrian would love to know..."
"Kevi what are you getting at?" Spiler asked him, but he didn't answer.
"Umm...err...they..."
"RAARR!" a lupine wolf dropped from overhead and Luna quickly broke the spell to fight it.
"Juka!" Kevi called, "You're the fastest with a sword, get it! Tiffa, cover follow up attack!"
"Right," they both nodded and Juka ran forward, chopping the beast down. Tiffa aimed her guns and fired a couple rounds until the Lupine was dead. The disk stopped and Adrian looked up to see the stairs that led to the Cloister of the Fayth.
"We've made it..." she whispered and the group quickly hopped off.
"Adrian..." Ashnigh bowed to her, "Good luck..."
"I don't need luck Ashnigh," Adrian told her, "I need skill..."
"Of course..." Ashnigh sighed, "We'll wait here..."
Adrian entered the Cloister of the Fayth and the Guardians sat down to wait while their summoner prayed.
"Think any fiends are down here too?" Briu asked, remaining at attention.
"I don't think so..." Tai told him, "The Fayth are driving them away..."
"Although..." Ashnigh's eyes narrowed toward the entrance from where they had come, "The term "fiend" is relative..."
"Such harsh words from an old friend?" a voice came from the shadows, "Really Ashnigh, I thought you had more manners than that..."
"Whose there?!" Juka asked, drawing her sword.
"Just little old me," the voice emerged from the darkness and turned out to belong to a girl with long black hair in three pony-tails. She wore a short purple dress with a longer violet skirt underneath. Long violet gloves slid up her arms and the dress had no sleeves. She wore a violet amethyst circlet and violet high heels. A smirk decorated her face and behind her, two women came out.
The first was wearing a long Turquoise Tunic and a turquoise headband in her long brown hair. On her legs were a pair of white billowing pants and on her feet were turquoise slippers. Her arms were decorated in turquoise arms bands and white rings.
The other woman wore a pink short top with no sleeves or straps that exposed the navel. A short pink skirt and long pink boots were decorating the lower part of her body along with pink fingerless gloves and long pink bangles that reached the floor. Through her short black hair were pink beads and a pink Yevon choker grasped her neck.
"Praika," Ashnigh sighed, "If you have no business here please leave."
"But I have business here," Praika, the woman in violet spoke, "I happen to be getting my very first aeon, just like dear old Adrian here...I let her get here five minutes before me so she could get a head start on her pilgrimage, she'll need it."
"No she won't!" Juka spoke up, "Adrian'll beat Sin way before you do!"
"One, two..." Praika counted, "Eight of you are there? Tsk tsk tsk, how many. I only require two guardians, Michiku and Zarai here." She gestured towards the woman in turquoise, now known to be Michiku and the woman in pink, now known to be Zarai.
"Hey!" Tiffa snarled, "The more the merrier..."
"And guns...?" Praika sighed, "Forbidden Machina I see...Adrian must be blind..."
"These are...guns approved by the Maesters," Tiffa explained a little shakily.
The next moment, Adrian immersed from the room, looking fine, although a bit exhausted. She smiled slightly, "Bahamut is mine...I'm officially a summoner..."
Ashnigh ran up and hugged the girl and helped her down the stairs. Juka smirked in Praika's direction. Praika sneered and stormed past Adrian, "Beginner's luck..."
"You're a beginner too," Adrian snarled.
"This'll just be like all our other contests," Praika told her, "With me coming out on top."
"I didn't know you did come out on top in all our other contests," Adrian yelled back at her.
"Yevon..." Juka sighed, "I didn't think there was anyone in the world who Adrian hated more than me...but I have been proved wrong."
"She and Praika have been rivals ever since they were young," Ashnigh explained, "Always trying to beat each other..."
"And this'll turn out the same way," Praika insisted, "I'll come out on top and beat Sin! I'll become High Summoner way before you do!" With that, she stormed into the prayer room. Michiku nodded to the guardians.
"Sorry," she sighed, "Praika can be like that some times..."
"Understandable," Kevi told her.
"Yeah...even if she is a pain in the neck sometimes," Spiler sighed, "She's so arrogant, trying to beat Sin before Adrian."
"Lady Praika..." Ashnigh whispered, "Is a very noble person..."
"Noble?!" Juka asked, astounded, "If SHE'S noble, I'd hate to see evil..."
"We'll look after her," Zarai told them, "We've been her friends since child-hood. Don't worry."
"Hey, maybe we'll even run into each other along the way," Michiku smiled faintly.
"Sure!" Tai nodded.
"Shall we get going?" Briu asked, "Adrian's celebration should be starting soon."
Adrian gave a long and boring speech to the people of Bevelle, telling how privileged she was and how she would defeat Sin for the good of the people. Juka thought she was going to fall asleep, but thought better of it. She still remembered Kevi's words...
"I'm NOT a kid!"
"Then start acting like it,"She wasn't a kid...and she had to prove it to the rest of the guardians. But as Adrian finished her speech and each of her guardians walked down the bridge of Bevelle, Juka wasn't so sure if she was ready for this or not.
Maybe she really was just a kid...
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