Chapter 6
The weather isn't normal. It turned ungodly. Furious wind and unspeakably heavy ran fell on me like if it turned its back on me. The fields were drenched like if it were summoned to do so. This wasn't a good day and man was I soaked. You'll never see a wet cat such as myself in your lifetime. Running back to Jeuno to finish my business with the Ambassador, I had dodged the same beasts that I encountered before. Dodging the Goblins and giant bulls on my way back was a chore, but I did it smart this time. I wasn't going to make any noises. I kept running for the gates of Port Jeuno. Then I ran through a small gap of bones and got grabbed by two people.
"AH! Let go of me!" I screamed.
"Calm down Fox! It's us!" It was the voice of Grey Wolf.
"What the hell are you guys doing here?" I asked.
"We heard what happened. Vana'diels finest warriors are after you. What the hell did you do?" Silver rook asked.
"The ambassador set me up somehow..." I said looking angry.
"The ambassador did what?" Rook asked.
"Look, I don't have time standing here answering these questions. Long story short, he made me go to Zi'tah to collect this." I pulled out the piece of time I've collected from Zi'tah. A brown piece that has some ancient descriptions on the tablet that's smudged and hard to make of what is written on the piece of this time tablet. "This is called a Piece of time. I don't know what it really does, but it has to do something with time."
"Like time travel maybe?" Wolf said.
"Maybe. But I have a hunch that the ambassador wants this for himself. But I can't prove that just yet. He thinks that someone found out and sent someone to kill me on my leaving of Zi'tah. Someone did beat me to the punch and found this but they called it a doo'hickey. So they obviously didn't understand or know what this thing does. They were just a bunch of foreigners with a different ascent looking to make themselves gil on the market. Now that the ambassador thinks that someone knows, I have to go into his office and take that damn map by force and hope to god he deciphered the rest of the map." I said.
"So that's what the whole commotion is about. This sounds serious and the boss thought you just committed a thousand crimes in only a few hours. Well, Fox to say the least we got your back. We are family and won't abandon you. We are a team and we stick to each other like a team. Even through the bad and the ugly. Right Wolf?" Silver rook asked Wolf.
"Defiantly. Fox, you plan on going into Jeuno by yourself?" Wolf asked me.
"I have no choice. I can't have you two..." Then I reminded myself of the ambassador's hidden dirty talent. "I think the ambassador knows that we are in this. I'd say that you and the Freedom Fighters leave Jeuno."
"What? Why!?" Rook asked.
"The ambassador has a hidden talent. He's able to keep his eye on Vana'diel from anywhere in the comforts of his own rich office. It is not safe for us anywhere." I said with my fist clinched.
"That is a problem. If the ambassador knows our every move, every word, then that can mean our asses for sure. So Fox, where should we go?" Wolf asks.
"Like hell if I know. If that map is deciphered like I hope it is, I can mark our next destination. During that time we'll come up with a strategy. But right now, I have a bone to pick with the ambassador. And this time I'm going to nail that fucker hard." I said.
"I will try and contact the others from here. Fox, becareful. It will not be easy trying to fight to the ambassador's office." Wolf says.
"I know. You two, take care." I walk away and put up the peace sign as I leave.
"Fox!" Rook yells and I turn around. "Come back alive."
"I will" And with that I ran. Hell with the rain, I was dry with anger. The ambassador didn't know who he was fucking with. He was about to find out that a Mithra can come by his office and whoop his ass at any time. I made it to the gates of Jeuno.
"There he is!" A Guard shouted. "Ready!" He paused. "Fire!" The two guards from both towers shot their arrows at me. I jumped in the air, unsheathed my sword, spun around and deflected the arrows from even touching me. I rolled on the floor resheathing my sword and throwing a quick Ki blast at the other tower. The impact made a small explosion causing the guard to fall off and half the wall blown off. I ran into the city. People started to scream. More guards came from up the street with rifles ready to fire at me.
"Stand your grounds or surrender!" The lead guard said. I didn't care what these guys were intending to do with 20 guards with guns in their hand. "This is your last warning. Throw down your weapon or we will fire." He gave me a last warning. But that still didn't scare me.
"You think guns scare me? Shoot me." I said. The guards looked at each other as if I was talking mad.
"FIRE!" The guards starting shooting. I deflected the bullets with my sword. Don't think it's easy, one wrong move and I can get wounded by a bullet. I was twirling my sword around from side to side, I rolled on the floor still twirling my sword, and jumped in the air doing a 360 swirling my sword. They stopped firing. Seemed they ran out of bullets.
"Sir! He isn't hit!" One of the guards said.
"Then what are you waiting for! Use your swords! Kill him!" The guards obeyed his order and unsheathed their swords and lunged at me with their battle cry. Since I am a Mithra, our unmatched speed is incredible. The only proud thing I am proud of. I jumped in the air, made contact with one of the guards forward strikes and landed on his blade. I leaped back in the air, made contact with their leader and made heavy impact by kicking him dead in his back. He flew forward into his own legion of guards and went down with them. They climbed back to their feet and I was already climbing the steps to Lower Jeuno. "Don't just stand there! After him! He cannot make a fool of us!" The guards didn't hesitate on his order and ran right after me. I made it to Lower Jeuno and met another flock of guards with their guns wielded and ready to fire.
"Fire!" They fired their gun shots and I ran up the right wall at the speed I was going in. I ran up the wall, ran on the ceiling for 3 seconds, and took out my sword to deflect the rest of the bullets on my way down. I resheathed my sword and flew forward and tackled the middle guard. I then did a 360 aerial kick and knocked out the two side guards and kept running. The heavy foot steps behind me were running real quick trying to catch me. I wasn't about to let them do that. More guards were in front of me. I got tired of the usual routine so I threw my sheath at them and somersaulted off the middle guards face and finished them off by hitting them with my sheath.
"Come up with something new." I said and kept running. I made it to Ru Lude Gardens. From the left and right path came guards. Not 5 of them, 30 of them and 20 coming from behind me. "Shit!" I was in deep trouble. I didn't want to kill these guys because of the ambassador. Looking to my right I saw a thread of wire going down to the residential area. That was my only chance. I jumped on the thin piece of wire and slid down. Trying to balance myself on the slide the guard cuts the wire trying to make me fall. In time I front flipped off the wire and landed right on top of the Residential entrance. I raced up the stairs and instead of going straight I jumped off the side and on top of the ambassador's building. The guards were trying to shoot me but I jumped to the side and jumped through the window in the main lobby.
"Oh my god! You are..." The receptionist was startled by my presence. She was about to scream until I spoke.
"I have no quarrel with you. I have no reasons to hurt you or anyone else. Just sit tight and you'll be fine." I said. She stayed quiet. "Now put your head down and stay low. I don't want you getting caught in the cross fire." She did what I said and ducked behind the desk she was behind. I raced to the entrance door and took the lamp stand on the side. I used it to bolt the door handle to give me time. I walked into the hallway with all the pictures on the walls and kicked the ambassador's door in. "I'm baaack." I said.
"You!" He whipped his gun out and I grabbed the chair closest to me and threw it at the ambassador. It hit him and messed up his aim and he shot the ceiling. I ran at him and did an aerial spin kick and kicked him in his face making him fly to the other side of the room. I slammed my foot on his stomach, grabbed his collar, and had his face in mine. "You fucking Bastard!" I screamed. The ambassador coughed.
"How does this feel Fox. Being the center of attention after all the years you've been forgotten?"
"How do you know that!? Who the fuck are you!"
"I am nothing to you. But what you carry on you is of great importance to me. I told you I have the eye on Vana'diel, but you never listened to me. And letting those foreigners live was a big mistake."
"They didn't know anything you fucking asshole!"
"I am not taking any chances. You failed to carry out an order and now you are paying the price for it. Your life, Mr. Fox. And now that you wasted your time taking your anger at me, your death grows nearer and nearer by the second.
"And so is yours you old fuck!" I took his gun and shoved it down his throat. "Give me a good reason not to shoot you in your fucking mouth. Give me a good reason!" My anger didn't serve me well and the guards busted through the entrance. I took the gun out of the ambassador's mouth.
"Time is up. You can die now." I punched him in his face extremely hard breaking his nose. I looked upon his desk staggering. The map was in place with everything deciphered like I had hoped. I rolled it up quick and the guards came in.
"Your dead Fox!" The guard screamed.
"Not if I can help it!" I kicked the desk and knocked all the guards down in the room. I put the map inside my leather back pack and jumped out the window. I set my footing on the edge of the house and looked down. It was a long drop down.
"You cannot escape Fox! You fall it's over either way! If you come and surrender I promise you won't be harmed! Yet!" The guard screamed. I had no choice but to jump. But was I crazy to thinking of jumping? I guess I was. I held my breath and jumped. "You crazy shit!" The guards started shooting at me while I was descending extremely fast. They didn't hit me once as I fell down the blue abyss. Then I saw water as I fell. I tried to position myself to dive but I couldn't. I was falling out of control. I had then focused some of my Ki energy into my body to help gather the wind around me to help me for a dive. The winds turned blue around me, I started to slowly position myself to dive, I put my cat ears down on my head so water would damage my hearing on the way down, and made a perfect dive into the crystal blue waters. I rose up and gasped for a huge amount of air. I was lucky to survive the fall. My heart was throbbing hard and my breathing was out of control. I swam to the wall and saw an opening. It was a tunnel leading out. I climbed out of the water and started to go through the tunnel. At the end I saw light. As soon as I climbed out the tunnel.
"BOO!"
"AHHHHHHHH!" I jumped backwards and landed on my backside. It was Silver rook. Laughing his ass off.
"Rook! You nearly released the ghost from me!" I screamed.
"I am... Sorry!" He was trying to gasp for air.
"Hey rook. Be carefull. You might make the earth fall down with your big ass."I joked him.
"Hey hey! Just because I am a Galka doesn't mean I'm going to take down everything." He eyed me.
"Where is wolf?" I asked. Rook pointed towards the tree's.
"He is taking a leak." He said giving a smirk.
"Jeeze. Ok, whatever." I took out the map hoping it didn't get wet. "Oh thank god. The map isn't wet."
"Why? What happened?" Rook asked.
"I had to go for a swim."
"You jumped!?" He gasped.
"Yes. You had a better idea?" I said with a smart tone.
"No... Not really. Let's look at that map." He said. We both looked at the map and soon after, Wolf was done with relieving himself and came to join us. The closest destination on our map was Yughott Grotto. We had to make a trip there and get the next piece of time. We were in Rolandberry fields which made things difficult by the fact that we have to travel a long distance. We didn't want to go back into Jeuno after what happened just so we can leave from Upper Jeuno.
"So? To San' doria?" I said.
"To San' doria." We all said at the same time.
To be continued