Final Fantasy: Rise of Despair
My updating speed equals pwnage
When we last left off, Heidi felt weighted down by guilt when all she did was remind Harris of a tragic past he would just as soon forget. All the while the Black Army plans something sinister, with the Black King considering Marshal Agon's suggestion. However it is soon revealed that the Black King, has decided to take the initiative and confront the party himself. Now he stands before three of the mighty Racemasters, question is who will win? And who will lose?
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy: Tactics Advance, I do own the characters and plot.
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The Black King
"Come…" The Black King moaned in a sinister tone. From the sleeve of his right arm, a sword slowly appeared, the sword was gray in color, the edge was jagged, and the hilt resembled thorns. The black King's sleeve then wrapped itself around the hilt so as to keep his hands hidden.
"Let's take no chances." Cole said.
"Right. Aura!" Casey first cast aura on himself.
"Haste!" Cole then cast haste on all three of them.
"Smile." Matt threw a bean bag with a smiley face on it at Cole.
"Protect!" Cole cast protect on all three of them. Then used the extra energy boost to cast, "Shell!"
"Barrier!" Casey then cast barrier on all three of them, padding their defenses even more.
"This is going to be ugly." Brently said.
"Hmmm…" Harris looked intently at the Black King. "Yeah, his mana feels just as foul as before, but… something's not right here."
"Are you… ready to… meet your end…?" The Black King asked slowly.
"Let's go." Cole growled as he changed shape. He knelt down to all fours and his shape took that of a panther-like creature with blue fur. The coeurl.
"Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrge!" Casey cried.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!" Matt cried as he, Cole, and Casey dashed at the Black King at full speed, all three of them kicking up tremendous clouds of dust as they ran. The Black King hovered a few inches above ground and then flew at the Racemasters at high speeds, kicking up an even larger cloud of dust as he flew. The Racemasters swerved in scrambled up patterns as they dashed for the Black King finally dashing at him full speed. Once the Black King and the three Racemasters collided…
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM
The force of the two sides clashing sent out a massive sonic boom and blast of wind that it nearly sent the rest of the party flying backwards.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!" Monty cried.
"Something tells me we better give these guys plenty of space." Hunter said.
"Right behind you." Adam said.
"Hey wait for me!" Syack shouted.
"Harris! Come on." Heidi urged.
"…right…" Harris said as he followed the rest of the party.
The dust cleared to reveal Matt, Casey, and Cole in the shape of a thundrake trading blades and fists with the Black King, the Black King was fending off all three of their attacks with surprising speed and skill. Cole slammed his fists downward only for the Black King to float above it and his fists to hit ground.
"RAH!" Casey and Matt leaped straight at the Black King and momentarily combated in mid-air before the Black King spun around once and sent the two Racemasters sprawling in to the ground.
"Black Tendrils." The Black King pointed his free sleeve at the two Racemasters and from the sleeve, about ten tendrils with sharp tips flew out of it. Five each headed for the two Racemasters when Cole still in Thundrake form stood in the way and held out his arms.
"Argh…" Cole grunted as five tendrils pierced in to each arm. Cole ignored the pain and grabbed each cluster of tendrils and began spinning around and around.
"Grrrrrrrrrr…" The Black King groaned as Cole picked up speed with his spinning.
"Mog Peek!" Matt focused his vision and then. "Mog Rush!" Matt fired a glowing orange bullet at the Black King as he came flying at him.
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM
"ARGH!" Cole released the Black King and let him soar straight in to the bullet, but that wasn't the end of it.
"Beatdown!" Casey leaped past the Black King as he soared by and delivered a powerful slash to the Black King that would have nearly destroyed a mountain.
"AAAAAAAARRRRRRGH!!!" The Black King cried as he skid in to the ground, leaving a trail deep in the ground.
"Whew…" Cole returned to his normal shape as he sighed. "I must say, he can certainly take a hit." Cole sighed.
"Hang on a sec…" Matt said.
"Grrrrrr… you… Racemasters… are indeed… strong…" The Black King said as he stood back up.
"He's still standing?" Casey asked, amazed.
"Grrrrrrrrrr… RAH!" The Black King began swinging his sword vertically, horizontally, diagonally, all very rapidly, sending out arcs of purple mana at the Racemasters.
"Expert Guard! Rah rah rah rah!" Casey began swinging his sword as the attack continued and deflecting each arc of energy, however as the attack pressed on Casey was having more and more difficulty blocking the arcs and he was starting to receive some minor wounds.
"Flare!" Cole cast flare on the Black King, but unfortunately the Black King flew upward as the area he was in exploded. The Black King began spinning around and around in mid-air, flying circles around the three Racemasters and sending out arcs of purple mana at all three of them.
"Whoa!" Cole jumped away from each arc that was sent at him while Brently opened up two vents on his gunblade.
"Eat rapid fire!" As Matt ran, he open fired on the Black King, who still flew circles and was managing to avoid the bullets sent at him.
"Jump attack!" Casey then leaped at the Black King and swung his sword. The Black King stopped spinning around and intercepted Casey's attack. The Black King ignored the bullets that were flying in to his backside as he slashed Casey three times and then sent him crashing down in to Matt.
"OOF!" They cried.
"Black Blast!" The Black King pointed his left sleeve at the two and a black blast of mana flew at them and exploded.
"Argh!" They screamed as they went flying backwards.
"Meteor!"
"Hm?" The Black King looked above him only to see a gigantic flaming meteor crash in to him and send him crashing in to the ground.
KAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM
"Hmph." Cole scoffed.
"Black Snake."
"Hm?" The next thing Cole knew, a gigantic black wave of energy was traveling on the ground towards him faster than he could react. "OOF!" The wave crashed in to him and carried him along as it blazed a path of destruction through the plains, kicking up a gigantic cloud of dust and earth as it leveled everything in its path.
A distance away…
"Good gravy…" Mendoza said in awe as he saw the events unfolding from a distance.
"They're going to tear up that area they're fighting in." Syack said.
"That's the least of my worries. Something just isn't right." Harris thought to himself.
Back to the fight…
"Oooooggghh…" Cole weakly stood up from the attack and looked at the Black King in the distance.
"Black Gale…" The Black King pointed his left sleeve at Cole and from it came a spiraling wave of purple mana with the force of a strong gust of wind.
"Mog Guard!" Matt got in front of Cole and took a defensive stance. "Hurry up Cole…" Matt urged as he tried to resist the blast of dark mana.
"Force Shield!" Cole created a shield that resisted the blast of mana as Casey joined them. "Casey, Matt, I'm going to thought feed you my plan of attack." They stood silent for a few seconds and after that.
"Clever Cole. Very clever." Matt said.
"Alright then, hit me." Casey said. Cole exerted a bit more mana to allow the shield to sustain itself for a brief moment as he and Matt placed their hands on Casey. After a few seconds Casey gained an orange/red aura around him. "Jump!" Casey then jumped out from behind the shield and over the Black King.
"Hm? What is this extra mana…?" The Black King asked as he looked at Cole hovering above him.
"Ours fool." Matt said.
"We both added the mana we use to cast firaja to Casey's pool of mana, he'll have to expel it shortly." Cole said.
"FIRE BREATH!!!" Casey opened his mouth wide and breathed out a monstrous blast of flame at the Black King.
A distance away…
"Okay, I think we're far enough." Laura sighed.
"Oh my god… what is that!!!" Brently shouted. From the distance, the party could make out a massive cyclone of fire that was very wide in diameter, in fact the heroes could feel the heat from where they were standing. Suddenly stray fireballs from the cyclone flew at the heroes.
"Heads up!" Harris shouted. He, Heidi, and Adam drew their weapons and deflected any fireballs that flew at the heroes with their swords. After the cyclone died down and the fireballs stopped flying the group caught their breath for a moment.
"Maybe we should get a bit farther away." Adam suggested.
"I agree." Kyle said. The group turned around and continued to run farther away from the battle.
Back to the battle…
The surrounding area was now nothing but charred earth with our three Racemasters miraculously not burnt by the attack. Casey landed weakly and collapsed where he landed. "Whew… that was exhausting." Casey breathed out.
"Did it work?" Matt asked.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…" The Black King stood from where he was, his cloak singed, but none of it burned away. "Now… you're only angering me…" The Black King moaned.
"Crap." All three Racemasters said.
"RRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" The Black King drew his sword and flew for Casey. Casey stood up and barely blocked an attack from the Black King, however the Black King soon knocked away Casey's sword and delivered several slashes to his torso.
"ARGH!" Casey shouted.
"Ya!" Matt threw several knives that embedded themselves in to the Black King's back.
"Rrrrrrrr… RAH!" The Black King turned his attention to Matt. Matt threw quick defensive slashes, then jumped over the Black King and threw numerous Molotov cocktails that exploded in to small bursts of flame.
"Mog Attack!" Matt shoved the Black King backwards while open firing on him with rapid fire.
"Blizzaja!"
"Aeroga!" First the Black King was covered in a massive pillar of ice, but then a large tornado formed around him, shattered the ice, and sliced with him with icy winds.
"Black tornado!" The Black spun around a few times and an even larger tornado formed from black mana formed and not only cancelled out their tornado, but expanded and started slicing the Racemasters fiercely.
"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
The three Racemasters found themselves getting torn to shreds. Cole fought against the pain, and began to meld his mana for another spell. "Giga Flare!" The area around the Black King suddenly exploded with violent force.
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM
The tornado abruptly stopped, but to the horror of the other three, the smoke cleared to reveal the Black King inside a dome of purple mana.
"How pitiful…" The Black King said. He flew towards Cole and stabbed him with his sword.
"AUGH!" Cole shoved him off and then blocked the next flew slashes with his rod. However the Black King was a far more adept swordsman than Cole and was thus easily gaining the edge.
Fwip snip shing
"ARGH!" Cole collapsed to the ground with three gashes in his torso. The Black King turned around and was prepared to run Cole through when…
"Ice spreader!" Matt performed a variation of Ice shot which shot out a stream of icy wind that was slowly freezing over the Black King.
"Grrrrr…" Cole teleported away via his fairy shoes and began gathering mana. "Here goes…" Cole slammed both hands straight in to the ground.
"Huh… I… won't let him… finish that…" The Black King said. First he formed purple mana around his sword and seemed to lengthen it, then he slashed Matt in the torso with his extended sword.
"GAH!" Matt cried. The Black quickly thrust his sword at him a few times before turning around towards Cole.
"Air render!" Casey thrust his sword and sent a blast of air with a sharp tip to it in to the Black King's back.
"Argh!"
"Keep going Cole!" Casey shouted as he and Matt jumped at the Black King and began a sword fight with him.
"Almost have it…" Cole said.
A distance away…
"Okay now we're safe." Brently said. "Hey… does the ground feel like it's moving?"
"Whoa!" Gilbert fell over and was starting to slide backwards.
"The top soil in the area is sliding towards the battle zone!" Harris shouted.
"Meaning?" Monty asked as he struggled to keep his balance.
"RUN!" Heidi shouted as she helped Gilbert up and the entire party started running in place as the soil started to slide towards the battle zone faster and faster and faster.
"I'm too old for this!!!" Syack shouted as he barely kept pace against the soil. Finally the ground stopped moving beneath them.
"Whew…" Hunter sighed.
"This is getting to be very very dangerous." Kyle sighed.
Back to the fight…
"GAH!"
"WAH!" The Black King managed to deliver powerful slices in to Matt's side and Casey's back, he then turned to Cole and aimed his now glowing sword at Cole.
"Done!" Cole shouted. He looked up and noticed a glowing dart made out of purple mana flying towards his head. Cole ducked to the side and thus only received it in the shoulder. "GAH!"
"Hmph… hm?" The Black King noticed that a bunch of dirt and soil was coming towards him from every direction he looked. The soil started to build up around him, covering him from head to toe.
"Heh… how do you like my soil evidence variation?" Cole asked him.
"Why you…" The Black King started to growl before the soil covered him. It didn't stop once the Black King couldn't be seen, it started to layer on and layer on top of him until it formed a massive dome of earth.
"Begone!" Cole shouted as he crossed his arms and clenched his fists. The dome then compressed and a massive sonic boom sounded.
"Sounds like… he's been crushed." Casey said in a sigh of relief.
"Whew… that wasn't easy to perform." Cole sighed from exhaustion. The dome then started to crack.
"Oh hell no…" Matt said slowly in shock. Suddenly black mana exploded from the dome and sent the three of them flying backwards from where they were standing.
"Well done." The Black King growled, his voice echoing much louder than usual. "You have earned my full attention!" The Black King bellowed. "Grrrrrraaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!" The Black King thrust his sword towards Cole and it extended through the use of purple mana and impaled Cole near the stomach
"Gah!" The Black King then lifted Cole with his sword and threw him towards Casey.
"OOF!" Casey cried as Cole flew in to him.
"Die you son of a…" Matt shouted at the Black King. But the Black King smacked Matt away before he could finish that sentence and sent him crashing in to the other two Racemasters.
"DOH!" The other two shouted as Matt slammed in to them.
"Black Blaze…" The Black King growled. He pointed his left sleeve at the three Racemasters and a titanic stream of black flame shot out of it at the three Racemasters.
A distance away…
"Whew… okay, THIS is enough." Kyle said.
"I hope so." Gilbert sighed.
"Look at that!" Heidi shouted. The party turned and saw a stream of black flame blaze through the plains and trees for several miles. "Are they going to be alright?" Heidi wondered.
"At this point, I'm more concerned about there being any of the Deti Plains left after this fight." Laura said.
"For once I agree with Laura." Hunter said.
"Guys… there's something very wrong with this." Harris said.
"What?" Syack asked.
"The Black King's mana…" Harris started, but then paused for a moment, as if hesitant to say anything.
"You had time to sense it before we ran? What about it?" Adam asked.
"…" Harris hesitated, but then continued. "His mana is significantly higher than it was ten years ago."
"How much more significant?" Syack asked gravely.
"…" Harris sighed once again. "It far exceeds the levels of the Racemasters." Harris said.
"All of them!!!" Nearly everyone gasped.
"Yes… all of them." Harris said.
Back to the fight…
The three Racemasters were sent flying for miles by the blast of flames, all three of them were severely burnt by the attack, in fact. Cole and Matt's angel rings had lost their glow and Adam lost his aura, meaning they had died and been brought back once already. "This guy… is way stronger than we predicted." Matt groaned as he stood up.
"Curaga!" Cole healed most of their wounds with his curaga spell before turning to the Black King, who was flying at them full speed now. "Yes… far stronger…" Cole said.
"Come on… we still stand a chance don't we?" Casey urged them as he prepared himself.
"I suppose." Cole said as he charged up another spell. "Waterga!" Cole caused a geyser to erupt from the ground where the Black King was and cause him to alter his flight path.
"Bangaa CRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!" Casey shouted really loudly and sent a sonic wave towards the Black King.
"Urgh…" The Black King was barely withstanding the attack and was oblivious to Matt high up above him.
"Take this!" Matt dropped several Molotov cocktails and fired a few fireballs at the cocktails. Once the cocktails were around the Black King, the fireballs struck them and caused a large fiery explosion.
"ARGH!" The Black King cried in agony as the flames scorched him.
"SMILE!!!" Matt hurled a beanbag with a smiley face towards Casey.
"Hit me Cole!"
"Alright." Cole said. "Quicken!" The beanbag and the quicken spell hit Casey at the same time. Casey's body was now able to move so fast that just standing where he was his body was vibrating.
"Uuuuuuurrrrrrggggghhhh… RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Casey dashed for the Black King in a massive burst of speed that left a gust of wind in his wake and blew Cole backwards several feet.
"Whoa!"
"Hrrrrrrmmmm… hm? DOH!!!" The Black King was tackled by Casey and was now being dragged across the ground by Casey as he ran around at incredibly high speeds. "You will not defeat me!!!" The Black King shouted angrily as he struck Casey with his sleeve.
"We have too much riding on this battle to lose to a tyrant like you!!!" Casey shouted. The Black King was now able to fly at the same speeds as Casey and broke off from him. The two were now running several miles per second as they blazed across the Deti Plains slashing at each other as they dashed at each other.
A distance away…
"What's with those massive dust clouds?" Mendoza asked.
"Better question, why are we standing here when those clouds are heading right for us!!!" Brently shouted as the Black King and Casey blazed right by them.
"WHOA!!!" Syack shouted as the gale left behind by those two sent the party sprawling backwards from that where they stood.
"OOF!" Harris went flying in to Heidi from that blast of wind.
"My apologies." Harris groaned.
"It's alright." Heidi groaned painfully.
"Ouch…" Laura groaned. "Hey weakling? You okay?" Laura shook Hunter, who was laying right next to her.
"Stop calling me weak!" Hunter shouted.
"Hey fight when I'm not right between you two." Brently whined.
"Adam, you alright?" Kyle asked Adam.
"Yes, I'm fine."
"Ooooohhh… my back…" Syack rubbed his back where he rammed in to a tree.
"You two okay?" Gilbert asked Monty and Mendoza.
"Ugh…" They groaned.
Back to the fight…
"Here they come!" Matt shouted.
"Move it!" Cole shouted. Casey and The Black King crashed in to each other one last time.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Casey was sent flying backwards by the boom while the Black King withstood it just fine right before sending several arcs of purple mana at Matt and Cole.
"ARGH!" They shouted.
"Black tendrils!" The Black made several tendrils come out from his sleeve and wrap themselves around all three of the Racemasters. The Black King then spun around and around and around.
"Whoooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!" They shouted.
"RAH!" The Black King then hurled them miles away from the fight where they crash landed somewhere in the distance. "I'm not finished with you yet…" The Black King growled as he flew up in to the air and flew towards where the three went.
A distance away…
CRASH
"Whoa!" Monty and Mendoza nearly jumped a mile high when Matt crash landed right next to them.
"Ouch… that hurt…" Matt groaned.
"Master Casey!" Adam cried as he and Kyle checked to see if Casey was all right.
"Whoa! Hey… you alright?" Syack asked Cole, who just crash-landed in front of him.
"It gets worse… look!" Harris pointed at the Black King who landed somewhere in between the five groups of them.
"That does it! DEMI RAY!!!" Matt quickly prepared his gunblade and cast demi on it, making it fire a massive beam of gravity.
"DEMOLITION!!!" Cole sent a gigantic ball of mana at the Black King.
"SWORD OF THE JUDGE!!!" Casey swung a massive judge sword at the Black King and sent an energy wave at him. The three attacks met at the Black King. Everything seemed to grow silent for a moment before…
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
What felt like a massive amount of pure mana pierced the sky itself around the Black King, radiating a bright white light.
"There… that got him." Matt sighed.
"Wait…" Cole said uneasily. The pillar completely vanished, the Black King was lying face down on the ground, and he stood up slowly.
"No… there's no way anyone could have survived that." Casey said in shock and terror.
"You Racemasters… have danced on my last good nerve!!!" The Black King bellowed. "Black Death!" The Black King held his arms out to his side and the area was suddenly surrounded by a cyclone of black mana. The clouds seemed to turn black as black mana gathered around the Black King.
"He's… building his mana…" Harris said in awe.
"He'd only build it if…" Laura began to surmise.
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The Black King began to expel black mana in the form of thick black needles flying all around him.
"HEIDI!!!" Harris turned his back to the Black King, grabbed Heidi, and held her close to him as the needles started bombarding Harris. "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Harris cried in bloody murder.
"HARRIS!!!" Heidi shouted. Harris was absorbing the brunt of this excruciating pain in an effort to protect Heidi, even though she still felt some of the attack harm her.
"FORCE SHIELD!!!" Cole quickly created a force shield in front of him and Syack to try and block this attack.
"MOG GUARD!!!" Matt held out his hands and spread his feet in an attempt to cover the three behind him, but was thus far proving unable to completely shield them.
"ARGH!" They shouted.
"CARBUNCLE!!!" Laura summoned Carbuncle to shield herself, Hunter, and Brently, but even Carbuncle was cringing trying to block this attack, so Laura began exerting some more mana to help keep Carbuncle around.
"EXPERT GUARD!!!" Casey stood in front of Adam and Kyle and started taking the brunt of the attack for them.
"MASTER CASEY!!!" Adam shouted.
"YOU SHALL ALL BE DAMNED TO HELL!!!" The Black King shouted as the attack continued to devastate the party.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHGHHHHH!!!" Harris cried in more pain. Cole looked at everyone trying desperately to shield themselves and others from the attack.
"We… won't last at this rate… maybe I can… do one last thing… please let this work…" Cole thought to himself. Cole stomped a foot towards Harris and Heidi, a dark pink circle formed below them. Cole then stomped a foot towards Casey, Kyle, and Adam and formed the same magic circle around them. Cole then stomped his foot towards the other two groups and then stomped a foot straight down forming a magic circle around himself and Syack, forming five magic circles in all.
"Hm?" The Black King took notice of this. "What kind of magic is this?"
"Ancient power of magic. I beseech thee to carry us to different parts. TELEPORT!!!" Cole cried. A bright flash engulfed the people in all five magic circles, and once the flash cleared, they were gone. The Black King stopped his attack at once, and looked around.
"What is this… where did they disappear to?" The Black King demanded. "RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!" The Black King slammed a foot down in to the earth and caused a massive earthquake in the already devastated area.
Elsewhere…
It was now approaching nightfall in the middle of a desert, a bright flash of light occurred and Cole and Syack appeared lying face down in the sands. "Oooooooggggg…" Cole stood up groggily and looked at Syack. "Oh great… his body isn't able to teleport through this kind of medium." Cole sighed.
Elsewhere…
Somewhere above a deserted ghost town of sorts, a bright flash occurred. After the flash disappeared, Matt, Monty, Mendoza, and Gilbert fell through the air, Matt being the only one conscious. "Oh crap." Matt dived for the ground so that he hit ground before the other two. He landed perfectly and then made one more jump in to the air, expertly catching all three of the others. "Cole what the heck did you do?" Matt asked.
Elsewhere…
A bright flash appeared at the peak of some stony mountain, after it disappeared, Casey, Adam, and Kyle appeared a few inches above ground and landed gently. "Great… what happened now?" Casey asked.
"Casey? Matt? Can you hear me?" A voice rang in Casey's head.
"Cole?" Casey thought spoke.
"Yeah I can hear you." Matt thought spoke. "Cole what did you do?"
"I used a spell I created. It was the only thing I could think of to get us away from the Black King." Cole thought spoke to them.
"A teleportation spell?" Casey asked. "Then why didn't you just teleport us to one location?"
"Or at least not teleport us in mid-air." Matt said.
"I could do that if I only used one magic circle." Cole told them. "I can't control where you end up if I cast more than one magic circle." Cole continued.
"Great… so five groups have been scattered possibly all over Ivalice?" Casey asked.
"Yes. The only reason we can communicate now is the link we have through the spell. But that will wear out shortly, we won't be able to talk much longer." Cole told them.
"We need to find the others and decided on a place to meet." Matt said.
"Let us still meet at Materia Woods. That may be our best chance." Casey told them.
"O…ay. I a… breaking up… eady." Cole said.
"G…d…uck…" Matt said.
"Se… y…u…a…er…" Casey said. Casey felt himself lose the connection to the other two. "I just hope the others are safe…" Casey thought.
Elsewhere…
A few feet above a mountain ledge, a bright flash occurred and from it fell Hunter, Laura and Brently. Hunter and Laura landed on the ledge while Brently fell further down until he landed in a pool of water and started floating down a stream connected to it. All three of them were unconscious.
Elsewhere…
A bright flash occurred several miles above a forest. Harris and Heidi started falling down towards the forest floor. "Hrrrrrrnnnggghhh…" Harris was struggling to maintain consciousness; having already taken a devastating attack and teleporting through some medium. "Hei…di…" Harris moaned. "She won't… survive the fall… and I'll be lucky to do that…" Harris thought. He reached for Heidi, held her close to his chest, and then turned so that his back would hit ground first.
SNAP
"Augh! Argh!" Harris shouted as he fell through several branches before finally hitting the forest floor hard. "Uuuuunnnggggghhh…" Harris groaned.
"…" Heidi remained unconscious and unaware of what just happened, but she remained unharmed for the most part.
"Urgh… she's in… critical condition… I need to…" Harris weakly placed a hand on Heidi. "Cure…" Harris managed to cast a cure spell on Heidi. "AUGH!!!" Harris cried in pain, having to cast the cure spell caused him immense pain. "Ugh…so… this is how it ends…" Harris thought. He then looked at Heidi and smiled. "Heh… her life… deserves more of a chance than mine anyways… good luck… Heidi…" Harris thought before he finally passed out.
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