The Chronicles of an Adventure Chapter 02. The Fake Play.
Disclaimer: I don't own Final Fantasy 9. It's all belongs to Squaresoft. (Although I wish I own it. o)
A/N: Well, everyone. It's chapter 2 now. Please read it, enjoy it, and review it, okay? *puppy dog eyes*.
On with the fic!!
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Tonight's performance is a story that takes place long long ago. Our heroine Princess Cornelia is torn from her lover Marcus. She only attempts to flee the castle, only to be captured by her father King Leo. When our story begins, Marcus having heard of this crosses swords with the king. And now, your royal majesty Queen Brahne, your highness Princess Garnet...noble ladies and lords and our rooftop viewers, Tantalus proudly presents "I Want to Be Your Canary!" said Baku as he bowed and walked off the stage.
I heard the audience clapped their hand as the play began. Unconsciously, I held my pendant to convinced myself. My pendant is the most important thing for me. It's the only thing I had about my past. When I woke up that day, it was already there, hung in my neck. It also made me could cast my magic. I tucked it behind my clothes and focus to my play.
The curtains rose as Zidane, Blank, Cinna, and I were ready to say our lines. "Bereft of father! Bereft of mother! Marcus! Thou has lost even thy love!" I said as I rose on my feet. "Fortune hath escap'd thee! For what end shalt thou live?" Cinna said. Zidane and Blank got up from their knee and raised their sword in the air. "For the sake of our friend...let us bury our steel in the heart of the wretched King Leo!" they said in a perfect unison. "Aye!" both I and Cinna said as we took off looking for King Leo. I tried to find Vivi, but I couldn't. So I concentrated back to my play. We met Marcus and soon the battle between Marcus's group and King Leo began.
"We shall back thee kinsman!" Blank said. "Pray sheathe thy swords! This villain is mine alone!" Marcus said with emotion of rage. "Nay kinsman! For I too have lost a brother to this fiend!" Cinna said as his eyes glared at King Leo. "What ho? Out vermin! Away! Thou darest bare thy sword before the king?! All those in my way shall be crush'd" King Leo spoke in a true warlord's way. "Treacherous Leo, my kinsman's shall not be in vain! For I shall instruct thee in his incomparable pain!" Zidane spoke as he lunged towards King Leo. "We shall protect the princess at get her back to her long lost lover!" I said while I raised my arms.
We all launched our strikes at King Leo as he parried from their attacks with his sword. Both Marcus and Blank used their stage magic Pyro to catch him off guard while Cinna casts Poly and Zidane uses Meteor, while I cured them with my magic as usual. As the falling "rock" crashed on King Leo he quickly recovered then tried to strike Marcus with his sword while Marcus defended himself, they clashed the blades as Cinna and Zidane struck the king from behind with their weapons, which caused King Leo to stagger and fled the battle field.
He went up the stairs limping from his 'wounds'. "Arrrrrgggghhhhhh...grrrrrr..." he growled underneath his breath as he climbed his way up the stairs. Thou hast not seen the last of me Marcus!" said King Leo as he and his comrades went away. "Come back!" Zidane said as he chased after him; however Blank got in the way. "Outta of the way Blank!" Zidane said. "Consider this Zidane! If Prince Schnieder were to marry Princess Cornelia, peace would reign over both their kingdoms!" Blank said. Zidane looked at him with pure disgust. "Tis foolishness! If all were so easy, why none would suffer in this world!"
Then the two ran up the stairs and started to fight with their swords, Zidane went down each time when he struck and he dodged. Then Blank tried to escape but Zidane was caught up to him. They raced off the stage and now they are on the red carpet in between the audience continuing their sword fight. "Engarde!" Blank challenged. "Expect no quarter from me!" Zidane snarled. Then blades clashed together at first then Blank tried to strike at Zidane but Zidane did a back flip. Zidane then tried to hit Blank but Blank ducked then he quickly stood up when Zidane tried to attack again and both the blades clashed together.
I must admit it; they were a really good actor. The audience that watched them really amazed with their skill. "We shall finish this later!" he said angrily as he took off. "Come back here!" Zidane shouted as he ran after him. Well, that's our cue. After the battle, we hurried to the castle and knocked out the guards in front of the castle gate then took their clothes. "Man. The armor is really tight! And it squishes my tail!" Zidane complained while we walked into the castle.
"Don't complain. We almost arrive, and when we reach the castle you can took off this armor. I don't like too." I said to Zidane. He frustrated but chose to quiet. We finally reached the castle and took off the armor. "Alright, where should we going to?" asked Blank to Zidane. "I think it's this way!" said Zidane as we carefully went up the stairs. "Be careful. We don't want to be catch by the guards." I said quietly.
"Alrigth. I'll go check upstairs. You two stay here and keep an eye if someone coming here." We nodded, as Zidane walked slowly to upstairs. We waited for some minuets. As the fifth minuets we waited, I became impatient. I climbed the stairs and Blank sighed as he followed me. We heard Zidane talked to someone. Suddenly, the person that talked to Zidane ran and knocked us down. "Hey, watch it!" shouted me to him/her.
"Hey guys! Catch her! She's Princess Garnet!" shouted Zidane from upstairs. "She's WHO?!!" Blank and I stared as the girl ran farther from us. When I snapped from my surprised, I hurriedly went down stairs and chased her with Zidane while Blank's still stared confusedly. "Blank, cover for us! We're gonna catch her!" shouted Zidane as we ran towards where Princess Garnet ran. Some times later, we all began to panting and tired. But, the princess still ran and we still chased her.
"Man! She's got a lot of stamina!" said Zidane tiredly. "Yeah, I wonder how long we must run until we can catch up to her." I replied him. After running for a while, we came to a tall tower with so many stairs. She went up the stairs and we followed her. I was really really glad when we reached upstairs, but she still didn't stop and now she climbed the tower. 'What's she's gonna do now?' I thought as I looked at her and saw her smiled mysteriously at us. Suddenly, she fell from the top of the tower while we just stared in shock.
A/N: Most of the people know what happen, right? (If you don't ever play it, why are you here, anyway. lol) Anyway, I copied the dialouge 'I Want to be Your Canary' from other story, then I add some Rikku's dialouge (I'm sorry if it's really odd, because I'm not good in poetry both in Indonesian and English). lol
I'm really really really sorry if my grammar's sucks. I already told you, English isn't the main language in Indonesia. If you want my grammars better, then help me encourage myself by clicking the button under this author note, 'kay? Arigatou!!! ^_^
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