Chapter 7:Many New Developments, and Some Old Ones

I was stuck. The heat I was giving off had turned a sloped dune into glass and I was unable to even stand for more then a second. I finally realized that I could just use my claws to drag myself up the hill, which I proceeded to do. "I'll have to get my memories later, right now I need that sphere, I hope they can throw far because these flames are getting huge," I said nearing the top of the dune now. I pulled myself over and rolled down a little ways, and then jumped to my feet almost slipping on the already glass ground. Then off a little ways in the distance I could see the other's running towards me. "Throw me the sphere," I yelled at the absolute loudest that I could. Either my voice was extremely loud or the sounds of the flames whirling around me carried my voice a long ways cause I saw Al hand off the sphere to Joe who took a big wind up and threw the sphere as hard as I could. This guy must have played some pro sports when he was younger cause he had a heck of an arm, the sphere hit me spuare in the head and actually indented my armor! It fell and almost rolled away but I dove and managed to grab it. I have no idea where this is supposed to go, I said taking a complete guess and putting it in the open thing on my chest. It fit perfectly and the thing clamped shut around it.

I concentrated attempting to use the new orb. The flames suddenly just burnt out and the ground I was laying on turned to ice. "Oh, that's so much better, from slippery glass to solid ice," I said attempting to stand, which actually worked. I was unable to slip on the ice, so I walked out onto the glass and to my surprise I didn't slip on it either. So now I can't slip and fall on any surface, I thought doing a backflip and landing perfectly. "What was that all about," Stella asked when they finally managed to catch up to me. "What, the flames, just a power going nuts because its overcharged because of this arm, and the running off thing was because I saw some guys that I really need to continue chasing so I'll be right back," I said without stopping then took off running in the direction of the shadows. I heard the others groan as I sped off in the last direction I could remember the shadows going. I jumped as high as I could to avoid the pit I fell in earlier and looked around. I couldn't see anything but sand in every direction. Then as I landed I thought of something, if my right arm could control fire and when I activated the body orb I could control ice, then what could the rest of my body do. If the rest just required concentration as well then I could easily just activate the powers. Mind you I had no clue what they would do, what if they killed me, or someone nearby. I went over the pros and cons in my head and decided to go for it. I decided to try and use my right leg first.

I concentrated on bringing out the power of my leg and saw the spot where I had guessed there was an orb started glowing. I couldn't tell what element this was so I tryed giving a simple kick, and I swear I saw something move on the ground. I decided to try a step forward and stomp my foot down. The instant my foot connected with the ground a long line of sand pillars rose abruptly and fell again from the ground in front of me. I experimented with my right leg and the power of Earth for awhile then decided to try my left arm. I found it to contain the power of lightning. There was only one thing I hadn't tried, the one in my head. As I tried to use the power in my helmet I felt a burning piercing pain run through my head and fell to the ground. If you wish to use the power of your helm you must first learn to use your armor properly. "Properly, what the hell does that mean, that's like saying theres more then one use for a rock in a war, you bash someone with it, or in this case you wear it and use the funny power things," I yelled at the disembodied voice, but to no avail, of course, those voices never talk back.

Then, completely out of no where something smoked me in the side of the head and sent me flying. I thought I would never stop, even after I hit the ground I slid like another 50 feet. When I finally did stop I jumped to my feet imeadiatly searching for the fool who dared hit me. I spotted him, one of the shadows, he was on the ground, his accomplice was a ways behind him. They had catapulted the first guy into me and now they were trying to run away. Hit and run? Not to me you don't. I pushed off the sand and began running as fast as I could. The first shadow had no chance, I drove my hand right through it as I ran through it. The memories restored were... ah, Wakka, what goof. The other onesaw me coming and pulled out its weapon. It smashed me to ground and tried to stab me in the face but I rolled out of the way, jumped to my feet, reached behind my back, grabbed the shadow and threw it on the ground in front of me. I drove my claws straight through its head and waited for my memories to return. Nothing seemed to happen for a moment then I simply passed out.

"Ow, where am I, and where are my memories, I need those damned things... actually come to think of it I seem to have forgotten why I need my memories back, besides the fact that they are mine and they will explain my past," I said realizing I pretty much answered my own stupid question. "Ah, that and the fact that if you don't you'll be sent back to the Farplane and trapped there for eternity," I heard a mysterious voice say from out of nowhere. Then again, nowhere, where I was was everywhere. There was nothing in every direction, empty darkness. "Not to mention the fact that you should probably be fine considering that last shade you killed gave you almost all your memories back," the strange voice which now decided to show it's face told me. "Well, those things are called shades eh, that's not my major concern at this moment though, that would be finding out what ye want with me," I said, saying ye for no actual reason. "What I want with ye, is to be tellin' ye about your armor... and stop talking like that," the voice said stepping forward more allowing me to see its face and find out that. He looked exactly like me!

After telling me that he was simply part of my mind he began to explain to me the deepest secrets of the armor and my powers. Okay, so there wasn't really much to explain besides two things. First if I really desired a weapon I could create it using my armor, there were however... complications, to this process. First off, I could only create certain weapons if I knew their general shape function and even if I did, it had to be removed from a certain part of the armor otherwise it would simply disintegrate and be reabsorbed into my armor. He explained that depending on lenth width and general shape something like a sword should be made from my arm, and a spear either from my leg or my spine area. The weapons would of course be made of the same material as my armor, meaning I should be careful considering it can pierce my armor. He also told me that if I were to concentrate and use one of my powers correctly I could give the weapon I create a elemental power. Lastly he explained that I still would not be able to use the power of my helm until I mastered the art of making these weapons and I would still need to find the last orb for my left leg. I thought he was done but he stopped me with one final thing to say, " Chris be warned of this, once you do aquire the ability to use the power of your helm, be wary of how often you use it, for each time you will create a being that will hunt you down and attempt to curse you with a fate worse then death, and it will not spare anyone who stands in its way." I nodded and stood up only to fall down and pass out again.

This time when I awoke all I saw was sand, and then I realized that I was face down in the sand. I layed there for a minute and then realized that I had now somehow recovered almost all of my memory, there were a few blanks. In my memories I could hear the remaining two people's first letter of their name's. There was an R and an A. I would have to worry about that a little later. I rolled over almost blinding myself in doing so since the sun was directly above me. When my eyes focused I saw that Stella and the others were now staring at me. "So, let me get this straight, we chased you halfway across a dessert just for you to pass out and then wake up again," Al asked seeming mad. "Yea pretty much, hey where's Suzzie," I asked realizing our airship driver wasn't here. "She went back to get the ship and is going to come pick us up," she explained just as we heard the roar of the airship approaching. I looked up and spotted something clinging to the side, I almost immeadiatly realized what it was. "We appear to have a hitchiker, of the sorts that only I can see," I whispered just loudly enough that Stella could hear. She looked at me with a momentary puzzled look then realized what I meant. "I believe that I'm going to be riding topside if you don't mind," I said and got no complaints.

Later on top of the airship as we were taking off, I kept my guard up and my eyes open for the chaos bringer. I was unsure which element it feared but I was sure that I could figure it out pretty fast, since whicever part of my body it went for was the element it feared. I suddenly saw something zip by the corner of my left eye and turned to face the chaos bringer which already had its scythe raised. I rolled backwards just in time to dodge and realized it was attacking my left arm. "So, don't like lightning but yet you seem to be as fast as it, well we can fix that," I said concetrating on my left arms power, causing it to charge instantly. I threw lightning and rained it down upon the chaos bringer as best I could but it was always able to move just in time. Then I got an idea, I thought about it for a minute then decided. I concentrated on my lighting element and reached into my chest and pulled out a giant shuriken, almost like Stella's. It was charged with enough electricity to power a large city for about five days. I threw the shuriken as hard as I could and noticed something as it flew toward the chaos bringer, the elctricity was pulling the shuriken towards it. However, the chaos bringer did get smarter and manage to lead the shuriken back to me.

I turned charging the shuriken for another offensive but was forced to put up my guard as the chaos bringer lunged at me. I fell to the ground and was lucky to hold back the scythe with my shuriken but this thing was getting smarter every second. It held my shuriken back with the actual pole aspect of its scythe then it proceeded to push the scythe at just the right angle to jab me in the arm with its scythe. It then backed off and simply vanished. I could feel my arm reacting again, I had no idea where we were but I hoped the people below were ready for anything because I had to jump ship, now. I stuck one of the sharp ends of the shuriken into the hull and jumped off the side, recognizing the ground below from my now almost entirely restroed memory. We were just above Bevelle, I think a raging attack on them might piss off the New Yevonites and that was not something I was very tempted to do at the moment. I did not have much choice though as I lost conciousness just before I hit the ground.

WOW this took me awhile to write but I'm finally finished, I have almost my entire story planned out in my head so the updates should come more frequently following Christmas, I do not however have time to do any Christmas specials, sorry. Anyways, please review and also if you didn't see me getting stabbed coming then either I'm not being as obvious as I thought or you're really not paying much attention. P.S. I LOVE NOODLES:)