A.N. Thanks for reviewing Shadow knight1121 and Project-Apocolypse, I appreciate your views and the fact that your staying with me through the story, anyway I'm planning to write my stories depending on how many reviews I get, e.g. this story has the most for now so ill stick with this one for now.
Angela: I think they get it
Me: Yeah I kinda rambled on a bit there...
Angela: Yeah so get on with the story!
Me: Sorry but I need the disclaimer done
Angela: Oh, fine! But I want a cookie!
Me: Okay...
Angela: Yay! owns nothing in this story except his S.I. Akio, and his OC's: Me and Cecil
Me: *flips a cookie over to Angela's spirit*
Angela: YAY! COOKIE!
Me: *Sigh* why are all Dark Knights obsessed with cookies? Especially since they cant eat them...
Angela: *Is munching on the cookie through the spirit moving up and down* hmm, you say something
Me: *Giant anime sweat-drop appears on head* Erm... no, anyway to all my readers enjoy the next chapter of FFIX: The Dark Knight...
Chapter 5
"I'm guessing you guys want an explanation?" I asked them as they are all looking at me with really perplexed looks on their faces. They all nod slowly. "Then lets set a Tent up," I said to all of them, "Its likely to take a while and frankly I would rather not talk while turning into a meat popsicle." I chuckle a little at my own reference, as I turned and cleared a space for a fire.
A few hours later:
"Well, where should I begin?" I asked them as we gathered round the fire,
"Maybe that bit about you being from another world?" Zidane asked with a sarcastic tone of voice,
I sighed, "Fine, but as I said earlier I don't remember much," I said sadly as I looked to the roof,
A.N. I'm gonna skip the description of the world and get to the point where I tell you his past,
"And your past?" Vivi asked me,
"Heh, I wondering who would ask me that," I said grinning, "Well my life was going fairly normally til I hit 16, which is when I lost both my parents to a mass murderer..." I stay quiet for a moment, "I didn't know it at the time but he was after me..." I said with quiet gravity, causing everyone to gasp, "Anyway, my life went back on track again for another few years, even had a wife and kid..." I said looking down sadly into the flame, "Once I hit 20, the killer came to call again, killing both of them..."
"What!" Everyone exclaimed,
"This time was a little different however... he left a small note by my wife's corpse stating 'If you want revenge for the family I killed, I will come back here in 5 days. Be ready.' 4 days after that I went to my family's mass grave, and I swore then and there, 'I will not let this ass-hole live another moment once I meet him! I don't care if it costs me my life, I will make sure that bastard goes to hell!'
"After what he did to you I can see why you would think that..." Garnet said quietly
"At least you understand," I said, the painful memories nearly ripping my insides apart, "Needless to say I met him 5 days later, and he stated 'I don't care if I die here, but I will make sure to kill of the last of the Matsuki line and finish off the remainder of the Dark Knights!' At the time I thought he was crazy, due to our world not having Dark Knights, but after coming here..." I left the thought hanging, "The fight was long and at the end it seemed like I won, but as I turned to leave, he threw a knife right at my back, killing me, but luckily for me I had done enough to finish him off!" I said the last bit with great satisfaction, "Next thing I remember is waking up at Evil Forest," I finished,
"Whoa..." Zidane said, "That's... a lot to take in..."
"My past and my world, like you asked," I replied to that,
"Sir Akio..." Steiner started,
"Yes?" I asked him,
"Is it true that you were once the Dark Knight that once served under the Alexandrian Flag?" He asked me,
"This body, and another soul inside me, called Cecil," I corrected him, "He would have died if I didn't die when I did..."
"So you saved the greatest warrior ever to serve under Alexandria..." Steiner said quietly, He then stood up and bowed to me, "I thank you for saving the soul of my teacher Sir Cecil,"
"He was your teacher?" I asked him,
"Yes he was, didn't he tell you?" Steiner said as he sat back down with a perplexed look on his face,
"No, he was too close to deaths door so he lost most of his memories apart from his name, and his old kingdom." I explained to him,
"Oh..." Steiner said disappointed,
"We need to get some sleep," I pointed out, "If you have any more questions, save them for the morning," Everyone nodded as the Guys gathered round the fire, and Garnet took the Tent,
Next Morning:
I was up first, shortly followed by Steiner and Zidane. They soon started to bicker and woke up Vivi and Garnet. "Right lets get moving," I said to get everyone's attention, "We ought to be out of the mist by the end of today,"
We went back to the crossroads and went down the other path, the blast of cold wind was like Giant sledgehammers smashing me with coldness, we were all walking through the blizzard, when Zidane noticed that Vivi was lagging behind, "Vivi, hurry up, or you'll be left behind!"
"I...I'm coming." Was his reply, I noticed something odd as we started walking though, Vivi wasn't watching where he was going and walked straight into a pit,
"Hey Vivi!" I shouted but by the time the words left my lips he had fell. Steiner went over to the pit asking, "Master Vivi! Are you ok?" he looked down but as he turned around to face us he fell as well,
"Starting a trend?" I muttered to myself, I'm not going to fall asleep, I told myself, I cant let Zidane fight the black waltz alone!
Zidane went over to the pit and asked, "Yo, Rusty! You're... not alright are you?" He then put one of his hands to his face and asked, "What happened to you guys?" Before jumping down and kicking Steiner to try and wake him up, Unfortunately though the Blizzard picked up and knocked me out at that point,
A few moments later:
I woke up to the sound of a bell, Once I woke up and looked around I saw that Vivi and Steiner were still in the pit, Garnet was lying near me and Zidane was also waking up, I rushed over to him, asking, "Hey, you hear that bell?"
"Yeah, wonder what it was..." Zidane stated,
"I was gonna go and check it out, Want to come with?" I asked him,
"Sure," He replied, as we walked into the next room
In the waterfall room:
We had slowly made our way to the next room, keeping a hold of our separate bodies in order to keep whatever body warmth we had left. Inside the room was a frozen waterfall with a winding path leading to an open cave mouth, The bell rung again, and a voice echo's out from the top of the waterfall, "Why didn't you two fall asleep?"I pulled out Cecil's sword and Angela's dagger in my right and left hands as I looked up and saw a figure in red clothing with a steeple hat, its shadow covering its face, But the most striking feature about him was his blue wings,
"You should be dead by now..."
Zidane shouted out, "Are you the one causing this blizzard?"
He then jumped down and slowly laughed, before stating, "That's right!" and rung his bell again before attacking us,
Play 'FFIX Boss battle' music now
"Its two on one," Zidane confidently stated,
You do realise that you probably just jinxed it? I thought to myself as he chuckled before casting a giant Ice pillar right next to himself,
"Come forth, Sealion!" Yep, he jinxed it, I thought to myself as a giant blue creature with two wings for arms wearing a mask and having a small blue gem attached to its chest.
"I had to jinx it didn't I?" Zidane voices my thoughts out loud,
I sighed before stating, "Chances are that he heals the giant creature so keep it off my back,"
Zidane nods and charges towards Sealion, as I start walking towards the mage, who asks with a condescending tone in his voice, "You think you can take me, A Black Waltz, on alone!" And he then proceeds to double over in laughter, "I have taken down so many warriors of so many different callings that its funny!" The Black waltz stated, still laughing his head off,
"What about a Dark Knight?" I ask him grinning,
"What!" He suddenly snaps up straight, as I charge towards him, I try to slash him but he dodges, "A Dark Knight huh? Well this ought to be different," He said while smirking, "Blizzard!" He shouted and swung his bell towards me, And a giant ice crystal forms in front of him aiming at my head, I block it by holding my two weapons in an X shape.
"You really are pathetic aren't you?" I asked him while smirking,
"DONT MOCK ME!" he shouted as he began to launch Blizzard after Blizzard at me,
I decided that it was time to end this and began focusing for a Dark Fire attack, Lets go for light and quick this time, I said to my self as I lumped to the side and charged at him with my attack at the ready, I yelled at the top of my voice "EAT THIS YOU ASSHOLE! DARK FIRE!" and stabbed my blade into him,
Unfortunately for me he just managed to get out of the way and only lost his left arm instead of his life,
I growled at missing and prepared for my blizzard attack, The atmosphere of this place should help my attack, As I charged at him again I swung my sword shouting "Obsidian Blizzard!" And I could tell he was going to dodge so I swung my blade into the frozen ground, he dodged back smirking, then his eyes narrowed during the jump and then they widen in realisation as my Obsidian Blizzard launched black Icicles from the ground and made him more holy than the pope, Heh, religion joke,(A.N. Sorry if I offended any religious people there) I chuckle to myself as he breathed his dying breath, "Sealion... kill them... for... me ugh..." As he slowly faded into mist,
I then ran over to Zidane who had a new dagger hanging from his belt, Yo Angela, what Techniques you got for me? I decided to ask her, due to the fact that I am facing a giant monster.
'I've been waiting!' She shouted at me with full volume,
Well if you deafen him he's probably gonna end up dead, Cecil said, defending me,
I dodged a wing trying to hit me, I agree with Cecil there
'Right I got three techniques to teach you, Dark Shard, Shockwave and Shadow Step,'
I jump back from the Sealion to have a small break. I'm guessing that Dark Shard is a projectile, Shockwave is self explanatory and Shadow Step is a quick move skill that puts me in front of an enemy's weak point? I asked her,
'Nice guesses,' Angela replied,
I smirk slightly, putting away Cecil's sword and swapping Angela's dagger to my right hand, holding it backhanded, so the flat side of the blade ran against my hand. I start focusing my energy into the blade and shouted out, "Dark Shard!" And slashed towards the gem on Sealion's chest. A small black, dagger shaped, mass of black energy launched itself towards the beast. It managed to move enough to stop it hitting the gem but it sunk itself into the flesh near it, which also cause the gem on its chest to go from blue to red. The energy ceased once it dealt the wound to the beast. Shockwave isn't gonna be much use in this fight so... "Zidane! Go for the Jewel on its chest!" I then look around and see that Zidane is starting to glow. "Wha..."
The light suddenly grew so bright I had to cover my eyes. When the light died down I looked over at Zidane and saw that his clothes had been replaced by pink fir covering his chest at various places.
"Alright! We just won this fight!" Zidane shouted,
"W-what the hell!" I said in a quiet tone of voice
"Dude, its cool," Zidane reassured me, "Its just Trance."
"That's Trance!" I said exceedingly loudly, "You just lost most of your clothes dude!"
"Eh, It always happens to me, and don't worry they come back."
"Then lets finish this guy!" I shouted, "Keep his attention, I'll go for the gem," I told him while running round to the Sealion's shadow.
"Easily done!" Zidane smirked before charging his energy and shouting, "Tidal Flame!" Launching a huge tidal flame of fire, (A.N. If the name isn't a massive clue I don't know what is.)
Unfortunately the Sealion decided to launch a Tsunami attack at the same time. The resulting clash took all the focus of the two beings involved so neither of them noticed that I had Angela's knife in front of my face and that I shouted "Shadow Step!" While jumping towards the creature. Next thing I knew was that I was in front of the gem on the Sealion's chest. I decided to take my chances and swung Angela's dagger at full force at it. Once the Dagger hit the gem a massive crack appeared in it. This caused it to roar and drop its Tsunami attack. Luckily for me the Tidal Flame attack didn't even reach me, Due to it taking too much of Zidane's energy and causing him to revert just as the Tsunami dropped. The gem however exploded which caused me to be sent flying backwards into a snow pile.
"Akio!" Zidane shouted as he ran over to me,
I managed to dig myself out of the Snow Pile in time to see the Sealion's body just break apart slowly as it revealed a large serpent like creature (A.N. Imagine a small Leviathan), It spoke, "Thank you, both of you for freeing me from that monsters control."
"W-who are you?" Zidane asked, the fear evident in his tone,
"He looks like Lord Leviathan, the Eidolon of water..." I told him,
"Close, I am his child," The creature explained to us, "That gem you destroyed was the tool he used to control my mind and do his bidding,"
"Why didn't your father stop him?" I asked it,
"He was sealed, some time ago, for being too strong..." The creature said, looking down as it said it, "I am his only child, and my mother died some time ago..."
I sigh before asking, "What is your name?"
"It is actually Sealion" Sealion said, (A.N. The only reason he kept the name was because I was too lazy to think of a name for it) "Anyway, I have a reward for you," It said, grabbing both of our attentions.
A fair sized brown bag appeared in front of Sealion's head and slowly drifted down to the floor, Me and Zidane slowly walked over to it. Once we reached it I asked Sealion, "So what's in the bag?"
"20,000 Gil and 2 of each gemstone," It replied, "But now I must leave, I have exhausted too much energy in this realm as it is,"
"Farewell then," I told it, as it slowly disappeared into sparks of light, "Anyway we need to get back to the others Zidane," I told him, breaking his concentration on the bag which was now in hi hands, "And perhaps I should hold onto that,"
He handed the bag to me and said, "Fine but I want half the Gil in there."
A.N. So what do you guys think, and I'm making Akio stronger than the rest of the group for a very specific reason, But it will balance out by disc 2, so please review and DON'T FLAME! Thanks and bye!