It's too late now. CisLia, the poor mutilated Terra had already sought out its destructive powers. Free, pissed, and in possession of all the genomes memories, I got the feeling that things would only get worse from here on out.
"Hey Kuja…"
"Yep."
"What do you mean by a 'Vigororis Cortoar'?" Lumos asked giving me a disgruntled look after I had trailed off into a conversation in my head.
"Well…" I said, stopping to add a dramatic effect. "It means…" I paused again and rolled my hand around in the as though I was thinking, even though I really wasn't. See, I just love to toy with idiots like this boy. "Energy Compressor."
"What's that mean?"
I desperately wanted to twitch my eye. But rather a highly sarcastic response was in order. "Energy, as in the tiny harmonic threads of the universe from which all motion results. Compression as in combining something into a smaller object."
He glared, I grinned.
We walked on in merry silence till I heard some garbled language up ahead.
"Well at least I'll still die when everyone else does." I let out a cool chuckle as the soft humming grew louder.
ZidaneI twirled my daggers around through the air and watched as my lovely wife pulled herself into a tiny blue jumper. She looked adorable, just as she had years ago when we'd fought Kuja.
"I feel silly." She said admiring herself in the full length mirror of our room.
"Your adorable." I replied and gave her a small kiss on the cheek. "I'm going down stairs to speak with Mikoto, come down when your ready."
She nodded and then began stripping off the little jumper. I left before she could get to far with it and captivate my attention again.
"Any word from Kuja?" I asked as I entered the great hall. Mikoto glanced up and shook her head. I sighed; Lani had been the last person to see him. Apparently Lumos was also missing. Not to mention this odd creature that had gone after Black Mage Village and killed the majority of those living within it.
What was the world coming to… again?
"Zidane?" Mikoto asked suddenly standing up and approaching him. "I have reason to believe the attacker was of Terran origin."
"You do?"
"Vivi has relayed to me some of his mental images, nothing on this earth could possibly be created so."
I shook out my head and then turned to one of the guards near the entranceway. "Will you go get Steiner and Beatrix for me? And ask Emile to ready the invincible?"
The lovely woman saluted and hurried off to find her commanders.
"Do you intend to fight it?" Mikoto asked anxiously.
"Of course." I pulled out the Ultima Weapon and admired the brilliant color of the blades for a moment. "The Black Mage Village is as much my home town as any of the rest of the genomes. Besides, if it attacked the genomes there, what makes you think it wont continue?"
Mikoto nodded and then pulled a little bit of paper from her pack. "I found this, Garland wrote it a long time ago, I think it had something to do with our current situation."
I took the page from her and glanced it over. It was in some sort of Terran, but the letter didn't come to me.
"I can't read it."
She sighed, "I will look for Kuja, he would be able to make better sense of it then me. I hope he is not completely lost without his magic."
"He knows how to fight well enough without it." I replied as a sudden clanking alerted me to the arrival of Steiner. Beatrix and Garden, both far quieter, we're also with him at the door.
"Garnet has spoken to us about the attack." Steiner announced with a salute.
"Well then, the Invincible should be ready then. Let's go pick up everyone else in Lindblum shall we?"
My lovely wife gave me an encouraging nod. It was those little things she did to reassure me that had kept me going before. I felt glad that they were back.
Kuja
We entered the engine room to find it uninhabited. The odd language, that I had been sure was Terran, in fact came from some horribly mutilated stone faces on the walls. I let out a sigh of relief.
Lumos had crashed through the wall with a great deal of force, enough to put me half way through the container holding CisLia. Trouble was, she didn't need much more of a wake up then that. Rather then dieing instantly as I had thought while healing myself her body had begun some sort of restart after thousands of years. Hard to say what exactly she'd thought, waking up to a pair of drenched genomes and not her ancient friends. A moment later we'd both felt our memories ripped from our bodies, taken inside CisLia herself. It had been horribly disorientating. I could still hardly think straight.
"So… Why do you think she was so angry?"
"Wouldn't you be angry to wake up and find you world destroyed?"
"I was." Replied Lumos in a callous tone. It took a great deal of effort on my part not to blast him with flare right then and there. However the loud humming of the engines reminded me of our need to shut down this place completely.
"So… You think she will return here?"
I nodded, finally finding the ancient control panel.
"Why?"
This genome was so childlike. "She'll eventually become interested in awakening her compatriot down there." I replied tersely.
"Why shouldn't she be allowed too?"
I growled and smashed in the final code to shut down all the systems within Oviliert. "Because, you ignorant soulless doll, she will want the only company from ancient times there is to be had. Wouldn't you? And! Before you ask anything more, know that these are the ones who created us, created Garland, put Terra's destructive cycle into place millennia ago. They could rip our insignificant souls from our bodies and replace them with a will all their own. We are lucky she did not turn upon me instantly for destroying Terra."
Lumos backed away and then marched out of the generator room. I let him go, I had no use for him now. Pulling out my rapier I headed up a small flight of steps to my left, it was thick with monsters, but the stair well would eventually lead all the way out of this place. The computer had told me that.
Sors: A new chapter? OMG!