Chapter fifteen
Bahamut The Dragon King
Aireth got up on the shore of Himitsu Shi, trying to avoid detection, as she made her way towards the Temple. Where Bahamut the Dragon King was supposedly being held. When she reached the dead flower field she had destroyed, she shut her eyes, and kept them closed, as she walked across it, trying not to think about how she'd fought her best friend there. "I'm sorry, Areith. I didn't mean to go that far." She mumbled. "I just wanted to……be free." Tears started to pour from her eyes, as she walked across the flower field, feeling dead flowers against her ankles. "I'll make it up to you somehow." She thought.
Aireth was now in the middle of the city, still trying to avoid being seen. Other Cetra's could be seen walking between the white houses. Somehow, the village seemed different to Aireth than it had all those years she'd lived in it. It seemed to Aireth as if the village was somehow less lively that before. "It's my fault, I know it." She thought. "They're angry at me because of what I've done."
"But once I complete the mission, and Lucifer will accomplish his goal, I'll prove to them that I only did it for their own good, even though I went too far." She sneaked her way towards the Temple.
Aireth had reached the gigantic Temple. Cold shivers ran down her spine again as she looked up at it. "This is what I hate about my people. This goddamn building, and every tradition and celebration being held in there." She closed her eyes for a moment, and stepped inside the Temple. Aireth suddenly remembered why she had come here last time with her best friend. it had been to celebrate the day when the Cetra freed Earth from Lucifer. Aireth shook her head vigorously to push the memory out of her mind, but it wouldn't go away. She remembered all those happy faces as they'd been celebrating, how Aeris had come over to her with two milkshakes, and how Aireth had screamed at her best friend to "leave her alone".
"Just continue onward. Get Bahamut. Don't stop." She mumbled, trying to stop the feeling of guilt at shouting at her best friend, and in the end fighting her, from spreading deeper into her soul.
Aireth found the door Lucifer had talked about. She tried to open it. Her hand suddenly met an invisible barrier, making it impossible to open the door, unless she broke it. Aireth raised her hand, and threw a fireball at the door. The fire didn't make contact with the door, but was extinguished the second it met the barrier. "It seems like the Cetras actually put an effort in making this Seal." She thought.
She backed away, and raised her right hand. She used the same method of trying to open the Seal as she'd used on the Reactor of Sealing. Nothing happened. "What the heck?" Aireth mumbled.
She turned around, and saw a bowl of fruit at a table in the room. "Strange. Didn't expect it to be food in here when they don't celebrate anything." She went over to the fruit, and picked up an orange. She turned around, and threw the fruit at the door. The fruit went right through the barrier, and made contact with the door. "Wow. So this was the only way of undoing that Seal, throwing fruit at it." Aireth thought amazed. She went over to the door, and tried to touch the handle. Her hand made contact. She opened the door to Bahamut the Dragon King.
Aireth stood in a large, circulated room, with a gigantic stone statue against the wall in front of her. The statue resembled a gigantic dragon with wings as long as five meters. Its feet had long, razor-sharp claws.
But the most frightening of all, was the dragon's face.
The eyes were painted blood-red, and the mouth was opened wide in a roar, its large, pointed fangs as long as fifty centimeters.
In front of the dragon, was a pedestal. A small red ball was standing on it. "So this is the device which summons him." Aireth thought.
She approached the small red ball, and picked it up. It felt surprisingly light in the palm of her hand. The little ball felt like it was made out of red glass, only that it wasn't glass at all. She put it in a pocket in her white cloak. "Time to head back." She thought, and ran out of the room.
Aireth stood outside the Temple, feeling cold raindrops against her face. Rain had started to fall down from the sky, and the sun was no longer visible behind all those dark clouds. Aireth felt sad because of all the rain, and the dark clouds. "This sucks. How come it's so goddamn dark the day I'm accomplishing The Lord of Darkness' mission!" Aireth thought frustrated. Aireth looked around, trying to see through the thick layers of dark rain. She could see shapes of other Cetras standing among the houses. She tried to sneak away, away from the Village. She reached the dead flower field. "AIRETH!" Aireth stiffened, turned, and saw all the other Cetras of Himitsu Shi standing there. "What are you doing here, bitch!" A boy's voice called over the pouring rain, a voice which assumed hate and disgust in every word. "Leave me alone, whoever you are. I'll prove to you that what I'm doing is for my peoples own good." "You destroyed the flower field of Himitsu Shi! A Cetra who wanted the best for her people, would never even think about doing that!" Another Cetra called. Aireth fell silent. "I went too far. I didn't mean it." She said, loudly enough for the Cetra to hear her.
"You're not one of us anymore, Aireth. We have no love for you anymore. And if you don't leave this instant, we'll kill you." A girl said coldly. Aireth blinked as she heard this. She couldn't believe it. She was no longer accepted among her own people. "It's clear to me that whatever I say won't make you listen to sense." Aireth said. She took the small red ball, the device used to summon Bahamut out of her pocket. "If you don't leave me alone, I'll destroy Himitsu Shi." She said. The Cetras backed away as they saw the small red ball. "You stole Bahamut the Dragon King!" One of them asked thunderstruck.
Aireth nodded. "Leave me alone, and don't try anything on me again, or I'll use this on you." Aireth said threateningly. The Cetras of Himitsu Shi looked at each other. Suddenly, one of them charged forward, roaring like a bear with a Combat Staff in one hand. He threw a bolt of lightning at Aireth. She conjured a silver shield to deflect it. The bolt of lightning hit the shield, and bounced back at its user. The boy screamed out in pain and fell to the ground. "That was the only chance you got, assholes!" Aireth screamed, and raised her hand holding the device to summon Bahamut.
"I summon thee, Bahamut the King of Dragons!" Aireth called.
Suddenly, Aireth was engulfed in green light, and red, yellow and white markings with Japanese writings surrounded her. The sky opened. It looked like a hole in the sky had appeared up there. And then the dragon came forth. It looked like the statue in the Temple, only that the eyes were not red, but black. The dragon roared. A noise unlike anything any of the Cetra below had heard before. The roar was extremely screechy. Aireth and the other Cetras clasped their hands over their ears. Bahamut the Dragon King opened his mouth. The teeth were exactly like the statue's. A beam of pure, non-elemental energy erupted from it. The Cetra ran for it, screaming in panic, trying to escape the beam. Bahamut flew higher up. The Cetras reached the shore, and jumped out into the sea to escape. Bahamut released the beam. Suddenly, everything Aireth could see was intense, white light. She covered her face with her hands, and turned away, trying to conjure a shield to protect herself from the beam. After a few minutes, the light faded away. Aireth opened her eyes, and looked around. The Cetra Village of Himitsu Shi was completely destroyed. The home she'd known all her life had turned into a gigantic crater in an island in the middle of the ocean. She looked up. Bahamut the Dragon King flew down to Aireth. Aireth looked over at the shore. All the Cetras got up from the sea, soaking wet. They looked at her, horrorstruck. "I told you to leave me alone." Aireth called. She got up on the gigantic dragon's back. She made the Seal of the Dragon with her hands, and spoke to Bahamut telepathically. "Fly me to the Reactor of Sealing." The Dragon roared, and flew away, with Aireth on the back. She looked down on the awed Cetra standing there on the island of the northespole. She looked ahead. "I've completed your mission, Lucifer." She thought happily. "Finally, we can create a new and better world for everyone to live on." She let herself be carried away, back to The Lord of Darkness, feeling a certain feeling of triumph as she soared through the sky on Bahamut the Dragon King.