World Domination: The Story of Shadow

Chapter 6: Lady Summoner?

It had been two days since I took control of Kilika. The building of the boat was coming along nicely, just another few days and my slowly growing group of followers would set out to build the first parts of my empire. Everything was coming along as planned. Even my plan with Yuna was going just as I predicted. Her capture at Luca and the show of power by Seymour both helped demonstrate just how weak she was, well in her own mind at least. When she watched the Aeon destroy all the fiends I whispered into her mind, "Do you see the true power you need? You aren't even close to that,"

At that point she moved even closer to becoming mine, just another push would do it. But my thoughts returned to the present. I sat of the ship that was captured, I now used as a home. I sat and watched as they worked on the new ship, which was about 80 done, when Jaruck came up from behind me, "Dragon Lord," he said doing the crusader salute, "Zack wishes to speak to you… again,"

For the past two day Zack has requested to talk to me almost 50 times. After 10 the answer was always "Denied!", but that didn't stop him from asking. But today I was extremely bored. "Bring him here Krin, it's not like he does much work anyway,"

"Yes, Dragon Lord," my First Dragon answered as he walked off to get the Earth boy. When Krin returned with Zack in tow I was in the bridge looking over a map of Spira. Zack burst through the door already speaking his mind, "About time you let me talk to you again! I'm sick of… Wait, what are you wearing?" he asked pointing to my cloths. I looked down and remembered I was wearing my Earth cloths. I put them on after I had a wash that morning when Krin pointed out I smelled. "Anyway," Zack continued without waiting to hear my answer, "I'm sick of workin on that damn boat!"

"You said you wanted to work for me, remember?" My tone was emotionless as I turned back to the map. Krin was now standing next to me looking down at them as well. "I know I said that but I wanted to give the orders, not take them. I want his job!" Zack slammed a fist onto the table with the maps. Both Jaruck and I looked up at the upset boy. "Want his job?" I said pointing a thumb at the man standing next to me, "Why should I?"

"Well, just look at him!" I turned to look at my First Dragon. He was a tall man, about 6'9", which made him taller then me. His hear was red, and his eyes a greenish blue, and he was dressed like a foot solider for the crusaders. But I didn't care what he looked like. I wasn't that kind of person. But I had seen his very soul, and knew he was the right man for the job. "I didn't let you come here because I wanted to talk about your position, Zack," I looked back at him still without emotion on my face, "I'm bored out of my brain and…"

"If you're so bored why not you get your girlfriend to do something about it," Zack had turned his back on me and crossed his arms.

"She's not my girlfriend," I wanted to hit him for that, but he was right. I would have called for Keira if it was two days ago, but yesterdays training with her ended badly. She surprised me with a move and Keira ended up stabbing me in the gut. The wound didn't kill me, but it was still a deep hit. I learned at that point my powers could be used to heal myself. So after a few moments I was as good as new, but pissed off beyond compare. She was already upset and crying because she hurt me, but I yelled at her. The last thing I heard from her was "Sorry!" before she disappeared into the Kilika jungle. I've felt bad about it ever since. Maybe I should have gone after her.

"Here are your choices, Zack. You can go back to working on my boat or we go explore the jungle of Kilika while they finish it. It's up to you,"

He looked at me like he was expecting me to say I was only joking, But I kept an emotionless face. "Ok," Zack said after a few moments of silence, "Let's go explore!"

After half an hour of getting ready Zack and I stood at the path that led into the Kilika jungle. I was still dressed in my blue shirt and black long pants I had on when I came from earth. But now I had a belt, my combat boots, a sword on the right side of the belt, and a leather bag full of food on the left. Zack had put on some armour over his Hwan shirt, a sword was on his back, and a bag hanging of his left side of his belt over his baggy shorts. He had sandals on.

"I want that boat finished before tonight," I told Krin who just nodded before turning and walking away to push everyone harder, "Well off we go," I led the both of us down the path. It really was a nice change from the slowly disappearing Kilika village. All the different plants and trees. All the smells and the sounds. "It's nice out here," I mumbled half to myself.

"Mmm," Zack replied looking like he was enjoying it just as much, "Sure beats working,"

"Work? What work?," At this point we had made it to the main bridge where the big ol' plant fiend was, "All the work you did was try and get to talk to me,"

"I did more work then you!" Zack stomped a foot on the ground, "All you ever did was tell everyone else to do everything for you! Why they do what ya say I'll never know. You're not so great."

"If I'm not so great, then why did you want to work for me?" I got him there. I couldn't help laugh at the defeat on his face. When he couldn't think of something to say he just yelled "Bah!" and stormed up the steps that lead to the Temple. I followed him, thought I should see the sites before I had to leave the area. By the time we got half way we were both out of breath. "Man… I'm un-fit…" I managed to say. Zack didn't reply he just laid down of the cold stone ground.

After a few minutes rest, and a quick snack, I was looking out into the jungle while Zack was still lying on the ground. "So… Why do you want to take over?" Zack asked sitting up, "Besides it being a cool thing to do?"

"I… don't really know…" was my dumb answer.

"You don't know? What kind of lame ass answer is that?" He said like a true Smartass.

I thought about it for a few moments before I answered again, "It's like… I need too," I said almost weakly, "It's like someone told me to do it,"

"Who?"

"What?! I said it was like someone was telling me. Not actually someone saying 'go take over the world' ya dumb ass," I pushed off the rail I was leaning on and started up the rest of the steps. With a confused look, Zack just shrugged and followed. The temple up top was impressive. Much better then the Besaid Temple. With a wave forward of my hand we made our way inside. We pushed through the doors and stopped in the centre of the room, taking in all that there was to see. "Another bunch of strange people…" I overheard a monk say.

I turned to him and he immediately looked a different direction. I started to stroke my chin in thought which prompted a "What?" from Zack.

"Hey Monk," I half yelled marching over to the old man, "Did a… odd… looking girl come this way?"

"Oh yes. She came wondering in yesterday. Poor dear looked like she had been crying for some time, so we offered her a room for the night," the old monk then turned and pointed to a door leading to a back room, "I believe she is still resting. Is she a friend of yours?"

"Err… yes, yes she is. She is a summoner. Zack and myself are her guardians." I wasn't the best at lying but I thought I did a good job that time round. "We had a little… disagreement some time ago. Things were said, and she got upset," I made myself look as sad and sorry as I could. Not an easy thing to do for someone who tries to show no emotion at all times. The Monk nodded with a raised eyebrow but let us go see her. I indicated for a very confused Zack to follow me as I made me way into the side room.

It was a small room, smaller then they look in the game. The room was completely empty apart from the girl sleeping rapped up in some covers on the bed only a few feet away from the door. She wasn't facing us, so I quietly made my way over to the bed and put a hand on her shoulder giving her a gentle shake. "Just a few more minutes…" She mumbled at me.

I had to admit, she looked hot when she was sleeping... I quickly shook off the thoughts and gave a low growl and said, "Get up ya lazy bum!" Keira shot up strait and looked at me with an apologetic smile. Then without warning she leaped at me grabbing me in a hug. I lost my balance and tumbled backward with Keira still on top of me. "I'm so sorry!" Keira kept saying over and over looking like she was going to cry again.

"I forgive you, just get off!" I said looking up to find Zack laughing his head off. At that point my face turned redder then it was when she jumped me and I almost throw the girl off me. After a few moments to regain my posture, I turned to Zack and Keira. "Ahum… Now, we're going to go into the Cluster of trials."

"Why?" they both asked at the same time.

"Your jobs aren't to question me damn it!" I gave them both the evil eye, "But if you really must know, I want to see something. Keira, you're a Summoner and we're your guardians. Don't forget that until we get inside the Trails got it?" They both nodded, "Good, lets move,"

And out we walked with me in the lead. I walked like we had a preposes and a right to be there. It was only a few second walk from the door up to the chambers but so much could go wrong. Like the monk coming over and wanting to talk to Keira. "My Lady Summoner," he said forcing us to stop, "I didn't know you were a summoner last night. I hope I didn't disrespect you in any way,"

'What a kiss ass,' I thought to myself as I waited for Keira's answer.

"Errr… n…no, you didn't. I must… Err, thank you for your hospitality," she was trying to sound as 'summoner' as she could, "But we must go now," I was glad the monk bought what she was saying and let us go on our way. I wasn't really in the mood to kill every one just to get inside the Trials. We continued our march and pushed the doors open and walked into the Trials.

LordShadow: "Just a lovely day out?" I hear you say… Maybe you didn't but I'll just pretend you did… Anyway, Things get a bit crazier when they get in there and Matt does what he came to do.

This chapter was going to be longer, but I wasn't sure how I was going to do the Trials until today and what I came up with is going to be the start of the next chapter.

And for a bit of useless info, I've been playin a lot of World of Warcraft lately. Anyone who reads this play it?