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 Firamaru
Kuro Suzaku is owned by Kuro herself
Kariudo Shikaku is owned by Kariudo-kun herself
Umanoki Sugaki belongs to my friend
I own Kiako (That's ME!), Mana, Malice and Miu. 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.
Mana and memories: Italic
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KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK.
"En...?" I rose my head off the pillow slightly at the knocking on my room door. Slowly getting out of bed and walking past a few empty ones, I carefully opened the door.
"Ohiyou (Good morning), Kiako-chan." Kakashi greeted and pet my head, "Sorry to wake you, but we're going to head to a place called Zanarkand now. Are you ready?"
"Yeah, just lemme get packed ok?" I smiled. Kakashi nodded and rubbed my head.
"Don't push yourself to be too happy ok?" he said and closed the door. Staring at the decorated wood for a moment, I quickly washed up and grabbed my stuff. Taking hold of Heihachi's goggles, I looked into the mirror and slid over my head so they hung around my neck. With a smile, I ran out of the room and quickly met everyone in front of the temple. Seems there were no furthur casualties, everyone was A-OK.
"Ready to go?" I asked, "Now's time send the Final Aeon, right?" Kel nodded.
"We're going by airship, so there's no real rush actually." he said, "You gonna hold up ok?"
"No worries. I'll be ok." I said and unconciously put my hand on the goggles around my neck, "I've got someone watching me." Kel smiled.
"Ok then." he pat my head, "Let's get going." Nodding, I followed him into the airship and took a seat beside a red head with short hair. Kuro had Jade and Hao on either side of her, and Kariudo had Hitsugaya and Oscar with her. Kel? He had Zero beside him and he was trying to keep a certain purple haired noble under control...
"My dear! Why do you lament so at my sight?" Vale asked. I just stared at him blankly. I didn't want to deal with him, at all... "My dear? You look like you're about to cry, it's that woodchuk isn't it?! I will slaughter him in your na-" By reflex I reached my fist out and grabbed him by the throat causing him to choke.
"Kiako!" Kel jumped to his feet but Zero pushed him back down.
"Don't you DARE, insult him like that... If you do..." I growled feeling another presence take over, "I'LL KILL YOU!" A hand snapped over my wrist and I looked at the short haired red head beside me.
"No more killing, it isn't his fault that Hei's dead." the boy said, "Calm down..." After taking a calming breath, I gently put Vale back down, his eyes were dialated in fear, the first time I've ever seen him afraid of me.
"Sorry Vale, just, give me my space..." I muttered sitting back down. The red head sat down beside me again and when I sighed, he did as well at the same time. I glanced at him again and was almost surprised, if I wasn't so depressed... "Luke?"
Surely enough, Luke had cut his long hair down. His rashness seemed to have simmered down as well.
Looks good on him.
You were suppose to stay put until I called you.
Hey, it's your job to keep your own emotions in check alright? So quit nagging.
"So, why're you so depressed?" I asked. Luke kind of looked at me then turned away.
"On the battlefield, did you see the giant crater in the middle of the Calm Lands?" he asked, I nodded. "I did that... and wiped out half of the enemies, the other half... Were WRO members and SeeDs..."
"Oh..." I sighed, then put my hand on his shoulder. I didn't know what to say, to comfort him. So, I just did what I could silently. Trying to shift my attention, I looked up at Kel.
"Ne, Kel, what did you give Miu as punishment?" I asked. As if on cue, Nero stumbled in clutching his head with Weiss helping him not to fall over.
"Arg, he put her into my care, so I absorbed her into m dark matter and now, she will not stop complaining on how bland it is..." he groaned, "She's been whining for over 14 hours straight... Now you have my empathy..."
I had to chuckle, "Yeah, don't worry, as soon as we reach Zanarkand you can take a break, we'll have some members and guardians watch her then." I said, "I plan, to lock her in a cage and dangle her over a pit of lava..."
"Try acid, it's much cleaner." Jade suggested, "Or perhaps you'd like me to kill her by making her injest my new medicine? And shall I suggest the pits of Mt. Zaleho?"
"I can get Diablos to trap her soul in Hell." Kuro said raising her eyebrows in almost a form of amusement. Diablos immediately popped up beside her to protest.
"Or I can shoot her, since she's a traitor... That makes it ok to shoot her right?" Kariudo said with an almost wicked grin, "I wonder how big of a bounty I'll get...?" I meerly shrugged and peered out the window at the clouds flying past like a mass of white roiling cotton. Hei-san's wings- I wish I had them too...
"So you want to be a flying cat?" Kuro asked raising her eyebrow at me, "You were speaking outloud by the way." I felt my cat ears lower slightly and smiled.
"Sorry, I'll keep quiet." I replied and looked out the window again.
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In the small camp outside of Zanarkand ruins, where the eternal fire burned and the sun always looked as if it was just starting to set...
I watched the dancing flames as Pyralies danced about making their eerie soft screams. I always kinda hated those screams, they were just... too sad to listen to... I peered at the others that were around the fire. To think there was so many of us in the beginning and now so little... I glanced at Kuro, who was resting her eyes and probably meditating. The others were either covering wounds or resting for the task before us. I've tried giving encouraging smiles, but I probably just made everyone start to pity me, for smiling at this time. I stood up and joined Sugaki up on a small hill overlooking the sunset.
Please listen to my story. Yeah yeah I know I sound like Auron and Tidus from Final Fantasy X, but please just listen and maybe you'll understand what I had to go through just to stay alive and get to where I am now. I started this pilgrimage when I was 14 years old, now, I might have become 15, or 16. Listen. Listen to the story, of how so many people, people I loved, died in order to save the worlds they came from. Theirs, and ours.
My story...
Their story...
OUR STORY.
Sugaki pat my shoulder, "Ready?" I nodded and stood up then held out my hand to him. He smiled and took hold of it using it to pull himself up.
"Everybody, Let's go." Everyone seemed to nod.
"GWAH!" Guy screamed and seemed to be flattened into the ground, "Hey! What happened?!" We rushed over and Chichiri was laying on top of his cloak, his lip was bleeding and he seemed pretty bash up...
Oh no...
"Chichiri!" I slid down beside him and after a bit of concentration, cast Cura, "What happened?"
"Miu... She escaped while some of us were guarding her... Someone giant like a beast, and blue... His eyes, were black and empty... He got, all of us..." Chichiri sighed closing his eye and seemed to relax, having given his message. Kakashi put his finger against Chichiri's neck.
"He's asleep, but I'm worried about the others." he said.
"Tear, Natalia, hurry back to where the airship was landed and help with any healing." Jade said, "Guy and Anise, please ensure the airship can still fly."
"How come I have to go Colonel?" Anise asked.
"Because, if Guy somehow messes something up, it's your job to jump to him." Jade smirked.
"What ! Jade, be mature..." Guy whimpered, "Besides, what are you going to do?" Jade pushed up his glasses.
"I'll be useful and be a replacement guardian for these three girls." he said. Everyone looked at Luke when they heard a small growl. I gently put Chichiri down and put a hand on Luke's shoulder.
"Don't worry about it, ok?" I said with a smile, "We can handle this."
"Are you sure? You only have about seven guardians with you guys, everyone else was wasted by the blue guy." Anise said. She did have a point... Out of our guardians, there was Hitsugaya, Kel, Zero, Vale and Hao.
"Azul the Cerulean." we all saw Nero step out of a shadow, "He is inside, with another kind of darkness." Kuro was holding her chin, as if thinking very hard. I was too, why would Azul break out Miu?
"I had wanted to become a summoner once, but of course the burden of being a the High priests daughter is so overwhelming, I had no time to train and so I changed my mind about being a summoner."
"Miu, she's had experience as a summoner..." I said, "So, Azul, must be her guardian."
"How does THAT make sense?" Zero scoffed.
"Why wouldn't it? Reeve did mention that Azul wasn't found, and Miu is the traitor that joined their side, why wouldn't it make sense?" Kuro said, "Although, for her to become a summoner is beyond my knowledge..."
"Well, we better go send that last Aeon then, and chase them down for hurting out crew!" Kel said with a grin drawing his spear, "ONWARDS!!"
"Yeah!" Everyone took off to get ready to go into the Zanarkand ruins. I looked at Luke and Kuro sighed shaking her head. She walked over to Luke, and lightly bonked him over the head.
"OW! What was that for?!"
"First you must change, otherwise nothing else will change!" Kuro shouted, "That, is what I learned. You better learn it too!" With that, she walked past him and to me. I had to smile and quickly jogged after her.
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Stepping into the ruins and after facing off some weak leveled fiends, we stopped to rest just before we entered the abandoned stadium.
This final aeon, will it still be hard to fight I wonder...?
Most likely, we should be careful Kiako.
Hey cat! Hurry up and make use of me, or I'll lose m edge!!
Don't push her Malice!
Shut up! Don't tell me what to do!
BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!!
I listened to the three of them bickering in my head and had to sigh. Man, this is getting harder to coup with...
My head snapped up at the sound of a small click of metal in the distance.
"Gun!" I shouted. Everyone ducked down as a few shots rained over our heads and I looked up seeing a giant blue colored man standing by the door with a giant gun in his hands.
"Azul...? You bastard...!" I roared and started to charge at him.
"Jade!" Sugaki was bending the starlight into a wound in the Necromancers shoulder as he was getting up off from on top of Kuro. I glared back to see the man was gone and quickly changed to Whitemage to help heal.
"Much appreciated." Jade said rubbing at his temple then turned to Kuro, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, thanks... But don't do that again, I can take care of myself." Kuro said and held out a pair of glasses, "Here, you dropped them..." I looked at Jade and had to stare.
He, looked so handsome without his glasses...! His red eyes complimented his pale face and his light brown hair, as well as an almost charming un-maniacal smile. I felt myself blush a bit and let out a smirk.
"Heh heh."
Kuro automatically snapped at me, "What's with that cat like grin?! Are you thinking weird thoughts again?!" I tried to contain my laughter at the flustered Kuro, even she can't resist handsome men. n.n;
"Not at all!" I replied and went back to healing, "Anyhow, you have no wounds?" she shook her head with an exasperated sigh. After patching Jade up, I stood up and changed into my Samurai. Drawing the sword that Yojimbo had given me, I held it up to the stars and saw a word engraved into it, but for some reason, I couldn't make it out quite yet...
With a short wrist flick, I shouldered my blade.
"You're grown." Zero said beside me, I had to smirk.
"Let's go."
Authors notes: NYAAH!! I've been in Vancouver for the week!! Art school, nyah, fun TWT;; Although, you can check out the details on my deviant later as soon as I update it. Thanks for reading!!