Disclaimer:

SquareEnix owns Final Fantasy III for the Nintendo DS, plot, graphics, characters, music, everything.

I, however, own this fanfic and every single piece of fictional dialogue that I add to this fan fiction (take note that there will be some dialogue on my fan fiction taken from the actual game).

Chapter II: The Outside World - (Luneth)

"What is this Ingus?" I asked my slightly older companion, impatiently.

"The world below…" Replied Ingus as I could now see his face clearly.

My eyes widened even more; all I could see was blue and white colored mist moving about at a very high speed. The mist was everywhere, constantly around my body, entangling around my companions, moving around and through the little imperfections of our vessel in which we were all standing on.

"The outside world in which has been engulfed by the darkness. The only exception is our floating continent which has come to be our home that has not been completely engulfed by the darkness." Said the tall blond teenager.

"I think our vessel is in ship formation. I can just feel the Enterprise rocking with our every step we take." Commented our karate-uniformed companion, Refia.

"Um, I agree… I feel a little sea sick…" moaned the youngest of the group. I noticed he then tilted his head upward in his own attempt to keep himself from vomiting. He immediately fell on his bottom and had a terrified look on his face. "Ah! What is that thing you guys!?" he screamed.

At the same time Ingus and Refia were looking upwards, I had readied myself by pulling out the Royal Sword that once belonged to King Argus with my right hand. Out of habit, I took my left hand and searched for a hilt on my right side.

'Damn,' I thought to myself. 'I don't know how I'll ever get used to only having one sword and a shield attached to my secondary arm. I'll have to get used to all of this plate armor on every single place on my body, not to mention this really big and thick helmet on my head.'

As the four of us looking upwards towards to sky, I was expecting some kind of big monster like the Bahamut Dragon to show up and attack us… But all we saw was a really being cloud. No, there's something else up in the clouds. Is it…?

"An upside down mountain?" I raised an eyebrow, a little disappointed, hoping that it would be a monster.

"I believe it is the bottom part of our floating continent. It must've been ripped out of the surface to have made the bottom part look like that." Ingus corrected me, as he usually does.

"Heh… I knew that…" I rubbed the side of my face. I then turned to my frightened companion. "Gee Arc, you should really try to control yourself, you almost seemed to have a heart attack!"

"Eh… Um… Sorry… It just startled me…" said the freckled boy quietly. He lowered his head in shame.

Poor Arc, he's been teased a lot when we were younger and just before we left on our journey. Maybe I shouldn't have put him down. After all, I've been his protector from bullies since we first met, but lately he's been maturing… I'm very surprised that he didn't cry just now, I suppose I can't protect him forever. I chose to be a Knight because I wanted to protect the people close to me, but Arc's been improving on protecting himself since our journey's beginning and Ingus and Refia can take care of themselves just fine.

If I don't have anyone to protect, then whom do I protect…?

"Could we start moving? We don't have a clue what to do here and we won't find out how if we just stay here!" fumed the reddish haired girl.

"Well… All we see is mist and even further than that is emptiness. What is that? Is it even water? I'm not sure if there's any substance there at all! You can barely see it, but it has a tint of black in it and there are no waves whatsoever. Is the Enterprise even floating on water? Wherever we are, it's giving me the creeps." I replied. I was really starting to get shivers down my spine seeing all of this void. Ingus immediately interrupted me.

"Luneth, please calm yourself. I will cast Sight to search for anywhere we could land…"

Ingus closed his eyes for a moment. After several seconds of concentration, Ingus opened his eyes but they were white. He must've still been concentrating on his spell. He then prompted to tell us…

"I see… Two islands. The first is directly to the east, the second one is a little to the north of the first one. Arc, stay at the bow and keep your eyes peeled for land… Refia, take the compass and the wheel… Luneth, hold me as still as possible, the mist somehow interrupts my concentration, probably because it's from the power of darkness. With the mist's random trajectory, I'm not even sure if this vision is accurate."

And so, we headed towards the first island to the east…

To be continued…

Author's Note:

Oh boy, it's 30 minutes into the New Year of 2007 right now! Already it is a tiresome year, lol… Anyway, I'm happy that I got Chapter II done in the same night that I posted this fan fiction. Anyone know where the four Light Warriors are? If you've played the game you'd know! I hope everyone that reads this has played the game, otherwise you would be most confused. :P I had to keep my DS on so I could hear the background music of Final Fantasy III to give me inspiration and the initiation to finish this chapter. The gang is finally on a move, I hope this will prompt readers to review (comments, criticisms, etc.), I will reply to all posts(if I can) since this is my first fanfic and very excited about it. I also hope you readers are craving for more chapters! I think this fan fiction will be at least 6 chapters, not sure about that.

Anyhow HAPPY NEW YEARS 2007!

-FiresealFFXI