Chapter 17
Those are all the Character's choices from the Sixteenth Chapter. A final battle with a new powerful Sephiroth will come, while FATE wishes to fight it alone...The King of the other planet of Grelukis will be visited, what will await those who visit him? Different elemental environment exists which is the natural habitat for the character's new powers that came within them. They will have to leave these places and unite to fight off all the forces on the Video Game Evolution World and come to bring peace. Would the world of Video Game Evolution ever see peace, along with all the characters? Lets check and see what happens in chapter 17!
Mallow/Geno just had to check out the source of the noise. It would be best if the Lukis would assist him too. He asked them to come with him as he walked down the dark tunnel towards the noise that seemed to grow louder and louder with each step. Something major was definitely happening, but what was it exactly?
When Mallow/Geno finally reached a larger opening that was a bit brighter than the tunnel, he was amazed at the sight he saw. It was some huge being transforming into something mighty. There were also other around this huge transformed being. They looked as if they had been fighting him as two others were faced towards his direction, and on the other side stood this huge creature of some sort.
The two that had faced the powerful being, Selica and Kakyoin and Zeragus, had now turned to look at the creature on the other side. This was FATE. Mallow/Geno didn't do anything at this point except watch the entire thing. While at this point, Kakyoin decided to listen to FATE as he went towards the Soul of Pure Neutralization to fight that off.
FATE assumed that Selica, Kakyoin and Zeragus were going to listen, so FATE was focusing all her power to cause a very powerful, deadly destructive beam. Selica still wanted to have a go at Sephiroth though and help defeat him, especially in this new powerful form. She was right in the path of FATE's incoming power, yet she was unaware of this.
Selica kept shooting off different powers and wanted to prevent a full transformation for Sephiroth. Sephiroth managed to get even more and more powerful though with the help of the Soul of Pure Neutralization. As soon as Selica made another forced contact with the new mighty Sephiroth, he blocked this and Selica went flying back. This deflect took off a lot of energy from her. It was tough for Selica to get back up now. She was still in the path of FATE's attack. FATE released the power, but then regretted it once she noticed Selica exhausted on the ground, but once this power was released, it was too late.
It all went by quickly. The destructive powerful beam shot at Selica on the ground and the Mighty Sephiroth. It was luck of the little ounce of power that Selica had which caused her to immediately teleport to another location. Then the power kept diving forward at Sephiroth. Coming forward...forward...
The Soul of Pure Neutralization didn't expect anyone coming to attack it, so it was oblivious to Zeragus' and Kakyoin's approach. Kakyoin raised his weapon and slashed at the Soul of Pure Neutralization while Zeragus charged up a power and released. Yet it was invincible to most attacks, it wasn't affected. The Soul of Pure Neutralization was untouched, and it didn't even stir at an attack on it. It just kept giving more and more powers to Sephiroth, even though a great force of powers hit on Sephiroth. Then suddenly this caused a great explosion in the undergrounds.
Kakyoin and Zeragus flew backgrounds with the explosion from FATE's force powers. Crashed right through the top of the undergrounds and out into the surface where the bright light still remained. Kakyoin and Zeragus didn't know what happened underground. What happened to Sephiroth? What happened to the Soul of Pure Neutralization? What happened to FATE... As both Kakyoin and Zeragus got up, feeling very weak from whatever this bright white light was on the surface. This world has definitely changed, and Kakyoin has changed, since he first came upon this world. Not being able to stand, he saw that perhaps there was some hope for him. Zeragus knew that he already has been through enough adventuring already too
Above their head, they saw two floating lights. One was green and one was brown. They were on opposite sides on them, and they called out to them. Should tyhe go forward to one of these lights, or struggle to use their own power to protect themselves?
Kakyoin didn't see anything, and Mallow/Geno didn't really get a chance to see much either. Once that explosion came, him along with the Lukis fled the scene, and it was with good timing that they did, as the underground ceiling and walls started to cave in, blocking their path. After running down the tunnel a bit, the cave-in stopped, but the tunnels weren't dark anymore. The walls were glowing an eerie red and black. There were gruesome figures on the wall that were pulling themselves off. Through the cave-in walls came ghost figures too. Many upon many ghosts were flying about, as they rised up through the underground ceiling. Some were coming towards Mallow/Geno and the Lukis. What do they do now?
Thunder striking at every object in the area. This frightened Selica a bit, especially since she was standing under a whole bunch of trees. She was in a dark forest. Lightning struck one of these trees, it was one that she was under too. The lightning travelled right through her body...yet Selica never felt any pain at all. In fact, with every lightning shock, she felt even more powerful. She was starting to love the lightning now. It was her source of power. The more and more she received, she let out a great laugh of joy.
The bellowing voice that echoed around her interrupted her enjoyment of the thunder strikes. "You are now in Killio! You must find the others and unite together to fight and protect the World. Begin now with your new powers!" Selica was confused, while part of her body was still that of aerodactly. Lightning was shooting out from her body too. Instead of the lightning falling down from the sky towards Selica, the lightning was shooting up into the sky from Selica. The clouds were starting to fall down too. These clouds were falling towards Selica too, and they looked as if they could devour her. What should Selica do?
Vegeta thought that maybe the creature would be friendly. He decided that it would be for the best to just swim up to them and talk to them rather than fighting. Perhaps they could aid him too. If anything got out of line, then he wouldn't hesitate to strike. At first, as Vegeta went to approach these creatures, they immediately backed off a bit, looking around for a place to hide, yet there was no where to hide for them.
Vegeta slowed down his swim to show that he wasn't going to harm them, and at a low pace, these creatures moved forward a bit towards Vegeta. Then one creature suddenly opened its mouth to reveal something gruesome. Vegeta was trying to make it out, but this red thing was moving around its mouth and it kept growing. What was it? Then a beam was starting to form and coming forward. Vegeta could feel himself weakening. He was burning too... Vegeta looks all around him. Above him he sees the way out of the wate, below him he sees a depth of darkness into the water, and to his left, on the opposite direction of a wall, he spots a cave. He wonders with a quick decision which way he should head...
Stella believed that into the water would be the safer path and she could manage to swim outwards into the water. Her only hope was that the water wouldn't wear away her fire powers. Water usually put out fire. So this was it. Stella tried to contain all her new fire power away deep inside her so that there was no chance of her powers going away or even killing her. Then she went to the edge of the lavafall and stood right on the tip. Taking in a deep breath, and then she dove off.
Falling at a rapid speed, but it wasn't a powerful fall. With every moment of this fall, Stella felt herself grow weaker. The water was reaching her feet. She would soon splash into this deep body of water. As she fell more and more, she saw something sticking out from the lavafall. It was a big metal pole that was sticking out sideways. Stella could've reached out and grabbed this if she didn't want to fall deep into the water. Perhaps it would've been a bad idea to fall into this water. Unless she used her flame powers too...
Back within the body of Vexxare, while the last part of the battle was going on earlier with Sephiroth, FATE, the Soul of Pure Neutralization, Kakyoin, Selica, and Zeragus, the two souls, Vexx and Nightmare, now had came to a decision to ally themselves and merge their powers to fight another force that was within the body. This enemy twisted everything of the body, Vexxare. It interrupted their duel too, and it was a must that this deadly invisible hand had to be annihilated.
The power of Vexx and Nightmare was quite powerful. Nightmare slashed his weapon and a beam shot forth, mixing together with a blast from Vexx. This collided into an incredible power that shot forth at the direction in which evidence of the invisible hand seemed to be at. The target was correct, and now the invisible hand became visible for them to see. Now it would be time for them to strike on both sides and trap the evil hand.
Just as they were going to carry out this plan, the surrounding area these two souls were trapped within started to shake violently. Then the ground started to tear apart in two. The evil hand quickly crawled away in the depths of darkness on the other half of the split ground. Vexx jumped over the crack and went to run after it. Nightmare remained on the other half, as he seemed to be focusing upon something deep inside himself.
Meanwhile, the whole body of Vexxare felt himself being torn apart. He could feel a tear starting to rip his body. The undergrounds he was in was shaking horribly too and rocks were starting to fall on top of him. He saw Sephiroth and the Soul of Pure Neutralization still down there, but then in the next moment he didn't see them. Did they teleport themselves out? Where was the others? That was when Vexxare blacked out...
Vexxare was in a different realm now. There was nothing around. Everything was completely dark, quiet... and empty. There was nowhere Vexxare could go now. All he had was the struggle between two souls within himself and a body that was continuing to tear apart... What could Vexxare do now? Was this even worse than death?
Both Dark Jaks, the original and the copy decided that it would be best if they stuck together to look for the Soul of Pure Neutralization. Splitting up wouldn't be as wise since the Soul of pure darkness wanted to stick with its other half and not be separated. The Soul of Pure Neutralization could be anywhere. Both of the Dark Jak's had no clue where it could be found.
They just kept on walking and walking across many miles for many upon many hours. Through lands of mountains, snow, hills, and anything else that exists on the surface of the World of Video Game Evolution. It's kind of strange how they never entered and bright white light though... The bright white light was suppose to be filling up the entire world, and it was still on this world too. Was the Pure soul of darkness somehow hiding this bright light and its power? Either way it didn't matter since both of the Dark Jak's weren't really paying attention to this. They had something else on their mind. This world had to be theirs, filled with complete darkness.
Somehow, as they travelled throughout the entire planet, or at least half way around it. They noticed that it seemed quite empty. They haven't seen a living creature for the few days already that they have travelled non-stop. The creature's absense upon the world didn't matter, but not seeing the soul of pure neutralization really bothered and angered both Dark Jak's.
Just when both Dark Jak's reached a point where they finally actually saw something. What they saw was a large ocean and in this ocean there were tons of different colours swirling around at a very rapid speed. The colours circled and revolved around each other. Going in every crazy direction imaginable, and flashing and anything it possibly could do among any eye sight.
Both the Dark Jak's walked up to the ocean but didn't step into the water yet. They weren't sure whether they should or not. Then a booming voice echoed to them across the ocean, "You are in the alternate dimension which runs parallel from the real one, and it nearly crosses the other dimension yet it runs closely beside it, not ever crossing unless somehow the path of time between the two dimensions are altered a bit to flow into a crossing between each other. Enter the ocean, or turn back, or jump into that warp, and one of these decisions will alter the course of time between the two alternate dimensions."
Suddenly a black warp appeared right by a small building to the side of them. Dark Jak the original and the copy had to make a very careful decision now...
The guards were ready to seize Protoman and take him to the king by force, but they stopped when Protoman replied to the Gren, "I'll come see the King. Lead me to him." The Gren nodded to the Guard Lukis, indicating to not be harmful to him. Protoman followed the Guard Lukis down the stairs, through the hall, and into the throne room.
When they entered the throne room, one of the Guard Lukis told Protoman to show his respects to the King Gren. Protoman obeyed and gave a polite bow to the majesty of the Grelukis planet. Immediately once the King saw Protoman, he didn't wait for him to get back up from his bow before he started to speak. Protoman could see lines of anger on his face. "Why did you knock away my guests? It was very important that they reached this castle and intruded into this castle and attacked their transportation."
Protoman didn't understand. He saved this castle from a falling meteor. The King should be rewarding him. Protoman never knocked away any flying vehicle. At least it didn't seem to look like one...but if it really was...then Protoman may be in a lot of trouble at this point. "But your majesty..." The King wouldn't listen to Protoman's excuse or even an apology for an attempt for forgiveness.
"Guards! Take him away into the deepest prison and lock him away there forever. He broke a few laws and this punishment for him will be worse than death. Now take him out of my face this instant!" Protoman was shocked. He didn't expect this one bit. He could've allowed the Guard Lukis to take him away, or perhaps maybe he could struggle. Maybe use a quick power to kill the king?
"Fine. I will help you." Vinciku said they before Sora and Yoshi were about to leave to seek aid elsewhere. They were glad to hear that they would get help to go see the King. Vinciku thought that since he was bringing them there, or at least helping them look for the castle, whenever they would reach it, he myswell stay around and talk to the King too. He saw enough of this planet already and could maybe do some more sightseeing later on.
Sora, Yoshi, and Vinciku were off. They walked through the city and into a nearby inn/pub. If anything, they could get some more help here. A lot of travellers stayed here and probably a lot of informants too that could lead them the right way. They stepped into the inn/pub and were surprised with what they found inside. It wasn't anything ordinary. This place was very dangerous. Everything was trashed and there was blood everywhere they looked. There was only one Luki in here... It was that aggressive Luki from before, and he seemed to be in even more of rage than he was before with Vinciku.
The aggressive Luki had a giant sharp sword in both of his hands. The other Lukis that were in this Inn/Pub were all laying dead on the ground, blood pouring viciously out from them. No Luki had lived. Why had the aggressive Luki done this? The aggressive Luki heard the three come in and he turned around with great speed, then ran with both his weapons aimed at Sora and Yoshi. Vinciku managed to get out of the way as he ran out of the building. Yoshi and Sora weren't as fortunate though...and they got slashed down by the aggressive Luki's weapons. Yoshi had his head chopped off and Sora had his arms and legs chopped off, and then he was stabbed right into the heart and had his heart ripped right out of his chest. That was the end for Sora and Yoshi... Now the aggressive Luki was looking for the other...
Vinciku just kept on running for his life. Why was he running? He could've fought this aggressive Luki...maybe he'd win. Should Vinciku stay brave and fight, or cower away into another building. Maybe he could keep running until he reached the Grens castle.
The battle underground is finally over, yet everything is starting to fall apart even more and more. More worlds and dimensions are starting to tie into the Video Game Evolution World. The other soul elements are getting involved with the character's and soon all the characters will be fighting with each other or against one another. Whether Sephiroth and the Soul of Pure Neutralization still exists, that is unknown too, and a lot of trouble is occuring on the Grelukis World too. Will all this conflict ever come to an end?