"Just one break!," begged Sazh, facing some god above. Maybe some nice Fal'Cie up there would take some pity. He noticed another shadow behind him and turned around, jumping to meet his savior. And in doing so, just managed to dodge the massive leg that came down from above to squish him into a Sazh-cake.
Sazh looked up. A third Adamantoise looked down on him. Sazh ran. The Adamantoise stomped. Sazh, yelping, cast protect, and just managed stop rock spires from impaling him. Lucky for him, Hope cast haste on him, and Sazh quickly scurried back to the other four.
The three adamantoises bunched up, protecting each other's flanks. They slowly stepped forward.
Stomp.
Hope was tossed three elixers by Lightning. He knew he would need them.
Stomp.
Sazh readied his guns.
Stomp.
Snow cracked his knuckles, ready to fight to the end.
Stomp.
A protective bubble encased all of them. Hope's synergist skills coming into play.
Whump!
And each Adamantoise reeled, as their attacks were reflected right back at them, Hope's abilities paying off. And because of this, none of them were prepared for when Lightning snapped, activating her Anti-Gravity Unit, and leapt forty feet into the air, and viciously stabbed out one of the Adamantoise's eyes, and getting the general idea, Sazh morphed his pistols into his rifle, and shot out the other eye. As a result, the Adamantoise was completely blinded, and lashed out at where it thought Lightning was- but hit another one of its own in the head. That Adamantoise then fell to the ground, clearly temporarily stunned. Snow charged forwards, and delivered punch after punch to the downed animal. He sometimes infused pure ice into his fists, or other times, counted on his massive strength to heavily wound the animal. Eventually, the downed Adamantoise stopped breathing.
However, Hope and Varic were not having any such luck with the last Adamantoise. They hoped to use the same strategy as Lightning and Sazh, and hurt the eyes, but this Adamantoise had smartened up, and protected its eyes. Hope and Varic slung spell after spell at it, even staggering one of its legs, but it simply walked forward, and swung one foot into Varic. Varic then flew to land on the downed Adamantoise's head, leaving a bewildered Snow, and an extremely scared Hope.
Hope did a bit better than Varic. His protect actually managed to block one of the kicks before failing. However, it didn't block the second kick.
Hope ended up flying towards Varic, Snow catching him a second before he impacted the ground. He groaned, almost out of the fight, but staying conscious through sheer willpower alone.
Lightning and Sazh turned away from the blinded Adamantoise to see an unconscious Varic, and a seriously wounded Hope. Snow was enduring blow after blow on his Steelguard, but it was clear he wasn't going to be able to hold it much longer.
Lightning jumped in the air, but the Adamantoise headbutted her away. She managed to right herself in midair, but it didn't matter that she was still seriously hurt. Her body felt like one massive bruise.
Then she looked behind her, to see Sazh fly into the air with a yelp. The originally blinded Adamantoise had somehow healed his eyes enough to kick him, where he crashed into the cliffside, one leg bending out at a crazy angle.
Lightning nearly sat down and cried- everything was going wrong. But, she forced herself to her feet, and shot bullet after bullet, tossed spell after spell. Sazh Shot from his one remaining pistol. Hope tossed weak fires and waters. But it didn't matter. The Adamantoises just kept kicking at Snow, who was starting to look extremely ragged.
Lightning let down her guard. Her family was hurt, possibly beyond recovery. There was no way two people, especially wounded, could possibly beat two Adamantoises. She despaired. What was the point of fighting now, when there was no hope?
Then, a power she hadn't felt for a long time welled out of her. The White Knight, Justice embodied leapt down from the heavens.
"Odin," Lightning gasped. Her battle partner looked at her curiously. Lightning pointed at the Adamantoises. Odin nodded.
But before he could do anything, four other figures made their way to him.
"Alexander," Hope had whispered.
"Brynhilder!" Sazh choked out, refusing to lose to the pain.
"Stiria and Nix! Go get 'em!" Snow shouted.
The Five Eidolons faced the two Adamantoises in silence, for a second.
Then all hell broke loose.
A/N
Yay, it's another cliffhanger! Sorry =(
Also, should I write more fight sequences, or more exposition/development etc.? I personally think I suck at fight chapters, but what do you guys want?
As always, review please XD