I do not own any of the anime/games in this fic. I also do not own Kel/Kelvis, Zero and Vale. They belong to Keyblade Master/Random/Limit Break Fira
Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Ian Valentine is owned by Who's Asking.
I own Kiako (That's ME!) When a new paragraph starts these little thingies will appear ʓʓʓ and if those thingies don't show up I'm sorry -.-; And I'm sorry if there are spelling errors.
Other voice and memories: Italic
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Hakkai finished. Cliff and Hao nodded and with a bit of clinginess from Cliff, tossed Fayt's body into the hole in the Macalania lake. Hao then made a fireball and sent it after Fayt burning the body to a cloud of gray ashes.
"Rest in peace." Hao said. Everyone was silent.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU BURNT MY BODY!"
Kuro, Kariudo and I all jumped back.
"W-What..Wha...!" Kariudo stuttered pointing at Fayt standing there. I mean, he was standing there! A little bit translucent looking, but he was there!
"Oh for the love of... Are we EVER going to be rid of you!" Kuro shouted blasting Fayt with a blizzard spell. He flew back flying right through Cliff and Kikuchiyo.
"OH MY GOD! YOU JUST KILLED FAYT'S GHOST!" I cried.
"I didn't kill him, I only stunned him." Kuro said briskly.
"Only stunned me? I actually FELT that hit!" Fayt shouted popping his head from the middle of Cliff's chest, which made Cliff look like some kind of mutated monster with a head sticking out of his chest. The three of us just stood there staring at the ghost, which seemed to be Fayt's.
"Uh, guys? I know it's hard to watch us pass Fayt's body into the air but you don't have to try and make things better by thinking his ghost is here." Cliff said with a frown, "And you almost hit me with that ice spell!"
"But, can't you... but... but..." Kariudo and I pointed frantically at Fayt, which was in Cliff, so I guess... We looked like we were pointing at Cliff.
"ARG I give up!" I shouted, "Fayt, I want you to fly into someone's body and possess them so you can yell at everyone for not believing us!"
"Why the heck would I wanna do that?" Fayt asked, "I think it's perfectly fine watching everyone think you have mental problems."
"If not for me, do it for Kariudo... Or at least this thing I found in your bag." I said holding up a strangely strangling looking doll that I think was suppose to resemble Albel. Fayt gasped.
"You wouldn't..."
"Hey, what the hell is that thing?" Kel asked, "It looks like some kind of Albel obsessed fan made it." The real Albel was starting to radiate his dark purple red aura.
"There's about to be one less Albel in this world!" he roared drawing his katana.
"NO! NOT MY PLUSHIE! I'LL DO IT!" Fayt cried and looked around frantically, "Uh... Possess possess... Who can I posses!"
"Ano, If Fayt-kun's ghost really is here, I volunteer no da." Chichiri said raising his hand into the air, "Being a monk, I probably would be able to hold an entity in my body for a while."
"Or, Kuro could turn him into a spirit ball and integrate with him." Zero suggested.
"Hell no! I don't want that guy in my body!" Kuro cried.
"Yeah, what if his scream is contagious?" Train said. Fayt nodded, ignoring the comments on his scream and walked into Chichiri's body. After a moment, Chichiri blinked a few times and looked around and at his hands.
"Whoa, so this is how it's like to be in someone elses body. No da." Chichiri stopped, "Why the hell am I saying no da, no da? HEY! AHH! THIS IS A FAULTY BODY! DAAAAHHH! WHO THE HELL AM I?" I'm assuming that was suppose to be his famous scream...
"Ok..." Everyone kind of took a step back.
"See?" I said pointing.
"Oh yeah? If you're really Fayt, prove it." Cliff asked suspiciously. Chichiri frowned.
"You're a prick for not believing me and for shaking my body around like a piece of meat when I died! NOT TO MENTION YOU ALMOST KILLED ME WITH YOUR STUPID HUNCHES!" Chichiri, er, Fayt shouted furiously and flicked Cliff the middle finger.
Everyone kinda screamed and jumped back a bit more. Kikuchiyo jumped up into Heihachi's arms. Poor Hei was flattened into the ice with a crack and a few floating feathers.. Even I was scared, Chichiri would never act like that! No matter how angry he was!
"I... Ok... I believe you guys now..." Cliff stuttered backing away and climbed into Kyuzo's arms, "Please don't hit me..."
"Get out of my arms..." Kyuzo muttered and dropped Cliff onto the ice. Fayt jumped out of Chichiri's body panting from either exhastion of his first possession, or the result of his fury towards Cliff. Chichiri had stumbled back and Shoa Li steadied him.
"Whoa... What... no da..." Chichiri groaned, "I didn't really like the feeling of that no da... I feel like I ran a thousand miles..."
"Well, a possession can be very draining." Hao said, "I'm not really surprised that his spirit is still attached to this world."
"Attached? To this world?" Fayt quesitoned tilting his head to the side.
"Oh god no more parrot syndrom please..." Kuro groaned. Hao explained that Fayt's attachment could've been because he felt responsible for something. Prossibly the want to guard Kariudo to the very end of the pilgrimage.
"Well, if it's gonna be that way... We better head for Bevelle." I said with a smile then cupped my chin, "But how to get there..." Kuro rolled her eyes.
"God I can't believe you managed to even got off of Besaid with your sense of direction..." she groaned.
"You should've seen us, four hours and we were still in the jungle." Zero said.
"I suggested that we tattoo a map onto Kiako's arm." Kakashi said.
"Well, knowing her she'd probably lose her arm along with the map from some kind of freak ravioli can accident..." Kuro sighed, "We can get to Bevelle through the Macalania forest, so there's really no problem." Kariudo and I looked at each other and nodded. Sounded good to us! Plus, Kariudo is the one who wanted to fight Bahamut. Man, she is one brave girl...
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"HALT!" the soldier shoved his hand out at us, "You can't pass!"
"Why not?" Kel asked.
"Bevelle is currently in a critical situation, we cannot let outsiders enter or leave." the soldier said strictly.
"Wait, if the outsiders aren't allowed to leave, how did they enter in the first place?" Kein asked. There was an ackward silence and a few crickets cherping loudly.
"DAMN CRICKETS!" Cliff shouted and began randomly stomping on the ground.
"What's the situation? Maybe we could help." I said, "We're summoners." The soldier cocked his eyebrow at us.
"Summoner? That age is long over. All the Fayth stones disappeared after High summoner Yuna defeated Sin." Kuro rolled her eyes and after whispering some words, tapped her staff on the ground a few times.
"YO!" A devil popped out of the ground waving his claw. Everyone except Kuro and her guardians went 'AH!' and jumped back. Kikuchiyo tried to jump into Heihachi's arms again but the woodchuck moved before he could get flattened again.
"Diablos! Don't pop out of nowhere like that!" I cried patting myself on the chest to slow my heartrate.
"It's what I do, so, what's with summoning me all ova sudden?" Diablos asked. While Kuro was explaining to him about the guard who didn't believe. I can't belive how syncronized Kuro is with her summon... Maybe I should summon Galahad and Lancelot more often. I wonder how Kariudo fairs with her summons too?
It all depends on how often a beast is summoned and if you agree with it. If both are in harmony together then the summon gets stronger.
Huh, you don't say.
"SHUN! SHUN THE NON-BELIEVER! SHUUUUN!" Diablos was shouting at the guard.
So, in the end the guard let us pass through to the Highbridge. Half because he believed us and half because Diablos threatened to send him and everyone he knew to hell if he didn't.
It was total and utter, chaos.
"Yo, what's SHINRA doin' here?" Kel said pulling out two of his extendo lances. I went to the edge of the bridge and stabbed a kunai at the side then hung my backpack off of it. It'd be in the way anyway, I'll pick it up later. There were soldiers everywhere. Guns shooting off, screams of agony as men and women alike died and explosions and blasts causing fire and smoke to rise up.
"Looks like an all out war between SHINRA and New Yevon..." Vincent said and drew his gun, "If SHINRA's here, that means Hojo is here..."
"New Yevon?" I gasped, "Oh no, Baralai!" I drew a kunai and ran towards the fray. I hand stopped me and spun me around.
"You can't act rash, it'll only make the situation worse." Gorobei said and drew his sword, "Who exactly is invading?"
"SHINRA, a company. To put it simply, they want to control the world and stuff. In otherwords, just attack the men in blue armour." Zero said and drew his shuriken. He jumped into the air and tossed his shuriken while doing a few seals, "Kage Shuriken No jutsu!" his shuriken split into four other ones and slashed at the SHINRA soldiers killing them on the spot. The Bevelle guards looks at us and after realizing we were on their side, gave us an approving nod and ran off.
"SHINRA... What does that stand for?" Shoa li asked.
"I dunno, is it suppose to stand for something?" Kikuchiyo shrugged.
"Everyone split up! Help the New Yevon group and take out SHINRA! Just driving them out is good enough!" Kakashi shouted and created shadow clones that charged at the soldiers. I pushed a few off of the edge of the bridge and clapped my hands together. Let's see how these new gloves work... I slammed them on the ground and multiple claws flew up from the ground wrapping themselves around the SHINRA soldiers and restaining them. I jumped off of one of them into the air above the crowd and bit my thumb and drew a circle on both my arms.
"From ancient times of metal and bronze, those noble and chilvalrious, Knights of the Round! Come to my aid!" I chanted and the circles dragged themselves from my arms and formed a giant red circle in front of my hands. Two knights flew out landing among a group of machines and robots that SHINRA brought along with them and began destroying them with their magic.
I landed on the ground and felt it give way slightly leaving a small crater. Dashing past the soldiers I made my way to the main part of the temple. There was Vincent, Baralai, Kariudo and a few others there fighting off a giant kind of monster... It was horribly mutated with a ghoul like face and was wiping out soldiers like crazy. I quickly braced myself and caught a soldier skidding back a few feet. When I looked down to check if the soldier was ok, I quickly dropped him in surprise seeing half his face clawed off and some kind of strange green stuff growing around it...
Half of Kuro's, Kariudo's and most of my guardians stayed behind to assist with the SHINRA invasion while the rest of us... Well, we got to deal with a Mutant Mad Scienctist.
Vale's mouth was hanging wide open.
"Oh my god!" he cried.
"I know, and here I thought we were lucky not seeing Hojo all mutated and junk..." Kel said and drew his lances.
"Indeed, it's horrid!" Vale shouted, "It's almost too repulsively ugly to fight!"
"None the less, we still have to!" Baralai said holding up his sharp staff thingy.
"Guess we all better go and send Bahamut huh?" Kariudo said kicking off a SHINRA she just stabbed, "Albel, Hakkai, Soren! You guys come with me."
"I guess I'll tag along." Hao said. Kuro ordered Shoa Li and Leon to also come with her. When I told Heihachi, Chichiri, Cliff and Kel to come with me, Kuro and Kariudo along with their guardians, raised their eyebrows at me.
"What? We're facing off with Bahamut people! King of Dragons!" I emphasized, "We're gonna need as many people as we can get!"
"Remember, quality over quantity." Kuro said a Matter O' Factly.
"These guys are great quality!" I cried. I felt a tug on my sleeve and looked down seeing chibi Kelvis, giant anime eyes watering and everything.
"Do we HAVE to fight Bahamut? He's mean!" Kel sniffled. I rolled my eyes sighing.
Great...
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"Ok, so we just gotta get to the Chamber of the Fayth. Not TOO hard." I said.
"What're you talking about? This Cloister of Trails is the one that gave me a massive headache!" Kuro groaned.
"Well, maybe Hao can just fly us over to the end of the trail." Kel suggested.
"I refuse."
"EH?"
"I only agreed to help Kuro with her journey. Not you." Hao said briskly. Albel opened his mouth to protest but anyone who knew Hao and his powers well enough jumped on him to keep him quiet. I sighed and looked down the strangely designed floors. Well, if we're gonna finish this quick I guess we better start walking... I put my foot forward onto the floors and heard a crackle that sounded like thunder in the silence of the cloister. The glass floor shattered and I stumbled trying to regain my balance.
"Whoa! Careful there!" Cliff shouted pulling me up from the scruff of my fur and setting me back onto the platform, "We're gonna have to walk directly onto the designs."
"How can you be so certain?" Shoa li asked, "I can clearly see the designs and their flaws yes, but even the designs are not safe to tread upon."
"Yeah, the whole thing broke when I stepped on it." I pointed out and sighed, "Then how do we get across?" Heihachi rubbed his chin and after taking a few steps back, spread his wings and jumped up into the air. Amazingly he was able to hover slightly above the Cloister and he used his, uh, rotating talents to survey the area.
"It looks like a maze with different barriers and obsticals." he reported, "I guess there's a trick to each platform." Kuro and Kel were examining something on the side glowing on the wall. I stood on top toes to try and look over their shoulders while Hei-san landed back down on the platform huffing about how he still wasn't used to his wings. Kel's eyes were scanning back and forth for a while until he stood up again.
"It's a riddle." he said finally, "Looks like some of us need to stay behind."
"Huh? But why no da?" Chichri asked. Kuro cleared her throat and pointed to the wall.
"Which hall to trek down, what corridor to take? A heavy dilema lies in your wake. Have too many and you shall fail, have too little and to no avail. Proceed with caution and face this trail. Summoner and Guardian, will you fail?" she recited, "That's what it says."
"Well, the lost part is pretty much worked itself out, and we haven't even gone into the maze." Hakkai said.
"Thank god, otherwise Kiako would already be gone for good." Cliff said. I sighed shaking my head nad instead forcused on the riddle.
Ok, so us wondering which way to go. That was obvious. This seriously is a problem cause if we get lost we can't get to the chamber and man I remember getting lost in this Cloister in the game for like... 3 hours... So if we have too much of something everything will srcew up, but so will having too little of it. Thing is, how come we need a certain amount and of what?
I tried to think when I was stepping on the floor. It shattered underneath me, but that was all...
Wait a sec.
I looked back at the glass and saw that it somehow recollected to form a solid piece of glass once again. What the hell?
Hmm, too many and too little of something... I turned around and quickly counted off how many of us there were. Thirteen, including me. So then, would that mean we have too many guardians here?
I watched Kuro arguing with Kel about the meaning of the riddle and cough loudly.
"Everyone, I need to try something." I said.
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Everyone moved back onto the elevator we come down from and only I stepped onto the glass. It held and didn't shatter, which I guess proved my point on how many people could go forward.
Albel was busy muttering profanities, "This is utter nonsense... We shouldn't be wasting time with this girls fantasies."
"It's a hypothesis." I snapped back and sighed, "I want all of you to step on the platform one at a time to see how many of us can still go forward. Kuro will by the only one who stays off so then if the glass does shatter and I fall, she can cas Magnera or Float to gather me back onto the platform, or elevator, whichever works."
"Wait a sec, why you?" Leon asked raising his eyebrow, "Is this another of of your idiotic antics?"
"Do YOU really wanna be the one who falls down an endless abyss to never be seen again?" I asked. Kuro's eyes seem to light up.
"If that's the case, I might 'Accidentally' forget to cast Float." she grinned. I held up a rope that I borrowed from Heihachi's bottomless pocket filled vest and afer tying it around my waist, tied it onto the metal frame with a double knot.
"Alright then, get going people!" I said.
With that, Kel stepped onto the platform. I braced myself to fall but instead, nothing happened. Then Cliff stepped on. Once again I braced but nothing happened. When Hakkai, Kariudo, Albel and Soren walked on next, I just plain held onto the rope with one hand still waiting patiently. Heihachi, Chichiri, Hao and Albel stepped on.
Glass still in one piece.
When Leon stepped on, I felt my heart rush into my throat as I fell then stopped in mid air on an air cloud.
"Eleven." Kuro said, "So we have to leave behind two people then. So, who wants to stay?" she Floated my back onto the platform and I unhooked the rope and wrapped it up again. I could still feel my heart trying to put itself back into place as the pulse was like a horse galloping at a billion miles per minute. In the end, Cliff and Soren stayed behind and we went forward.
"Have fun." Cliff said.
Heh, I bet Kuro was shocked to see even I OF ALL PEOPLE have the capacity and patience to think. Now, about that other part of the riddle...
Kuro gave a surprised shout and jumped back as lightning surged up her leg. After a moment of us panicing and jumping about, Kuro shushed us and patted some of the static off her clothes and hair.
"Whoa, good thing I had my Thundaga braclet." she said and fixed her glasses, "So, the caution part was about the traps."
"Why don't we pour water onto it, maybe that'll neutralize the lightning." Kariudo suggested.
"No, that'll kinda make it worse..." Kel said and then snapped his fingers, "Kiako! Can you still use NulShock?" I nodded understanding what Kel was thinking about. Changing into White mage dress sphere, I quickly arranged my magic.
"I wonder how far the electricity reaches?" Hakkai asked. Kel dug into his pocket and pulled out a few nuts and bolts.
"I was kinda saving these." he said and tossed them across the hall. They all sparked and apparently, the thunder lasted up to 4 squares to the next platform. At least the one in front of the platform was tazer free. I cast Nul Shock on everyone and we all looked at each other. With nods and grumbles, we all dashed across all at once. I felt the strange popping of static and the occasional sting but besides that the orbs prevented us from being fried. When we made it to the next platform, we did the whole one at a time thing again and found out we had to leave behind two more people.
"I'll stay." Shoa Li said and Kel nodded.
"Me too y'all."
We did the same thing for another 4 platforms and ended up with only Kuro, Kariudo, Albel, Heihachi and I. Albel and Heihachi decided to be the two that stayed behind.
"WHOA!" I shouted and clung to the edge as the glass shattered, "Yo that ain't right!" I don't get it! We have the right amout, we had to get rid of two of us every time we cross, I don't get it!
"I think we've been focusing on the too many part, now there's too little of us!" Kuro said and after helping me up, spread her wings, "Be right back, come on Heihachi, you're helping me carry! Of yeah, leaning forward a bit when you fly helps." After a moment, Heihachi and Kuro both landed back on the platform carrying Hakkai and Hao, the last two people we left behind. We tried with the thing again and this time with the seven of us and we made it to the platform.
At least it was going to be the last.
"So, do we leave 4 of us behind this time of just 2 again?" Kariudo asked. We did the test again and after many frustrated shouts and screams (Mostly from me falling...) we all sat on the platform pondering.
"Anyone remember the riddle?" Kuro asked.
"Something about Trails and caution and Summoners and guardians failing..." I said. I was too tired and lazy to repeat the whole thing. Hey memory is what I'm best at. I'm just lazy.
"Wait a sec, it only said one summoner and guardian, so would that mean only 2 could go?" Kuro said.
"No that won't work, cause first I went on, then Heihachi went on, then Kariudo went on, then Albel, then Hakkai, the Hao and then the thingy broke." I babbled back.
"Plus if it was only 2 of us, wouldn't that be too little? Especially when we're facing off again Bahamut?" Kariudo pointed out. Heiahachi was scribbling on a small piece of paper the possiblities we could use to get across.
"Then again, maybe if only Hao and I go, it'd be enough for the both of us to beat Bahamut." Kuro said.
"But Bahamut is suppose to be Kariudo's kill." I said, "Stealing kills is just not cool..."
"Hold on, the riddle said Summoner and Guardian right? So, what if each summoner only needed one guardian each?" Heihachi asked. We all stared at him for a moment. He stood up stretching for a bit, "Think about it. It said summoner and guardian, so one summoner, one guardian. It didn't mention how many summoners and guardians could go at once."
"So if we paired up and went as a pack of six we could get across!" Kuro said, "No wonder it didn't work the first time, six of us need to get across, but Kariudo had two of her guardians on at the same time." Kariudo looked between Hakkai and Albel.
"You guys decide, It doesn't matter which guardian I have." she said backing away a bit. Hakkai and Albel looked at each other and after my suggestion of Rock Paper Scissors, Hakkai was victorious as well as having a large lump on his head from Albel punching him out of anger.
After casting Esuna and Cure on us (Hey, walking/flying/hitting things out of frustration/getting hit from someone's frustration/hurtful headaches can be very tiring!)
"Well, Bahamut. Let's go and send him." Kuro said opening her scythe. Kariudo drew her gun reloading it, Hakkai fixed his headband, Hei-san drew his sword and I changed into my Whitemage dress sphere.
"Alright, LET'S GO!" I shouted and we all charged into the chamber.
Authors note: Gwaaah... I'm so sleepy... Well folks, I just got back from my 5 day trip from Vancouver. The drive there and back was boring, at least I got to buy a lot of neat stuff there though. Unfortuantly, school is coming REALLY soon as I gotta wake up early for registration and ID picture and junk and have a giant hassle by myself. (My mom doesn't wanna come with me...) T-T Well, thanks for reading ya'll! Night!