Chapter 14
Tickets for the concert were all sold out, but who needs a ticket any more. The concert was going to start in about ten minutes or so, so I headed for a side entrance, theres always more security at the main gate. I stayed right in the center of the crowd hoping to get past unoticed. "Hey you," I heard a guard yell and I ducked as low as I could and dashed forward in the crowd. Turns out they were calling out a pickpocket about three people away from me. The guards were doing their best to make sure everyone had a ticket, but I and a few other people I saw slipped by. I ended up hiding in a corridor for about three minutes before I heard the music start. I moved to an entrance to watch. It was kinda dull for about three seconds then the pace and volume picked up and it got more exciting. I looked around and saw Paine, she had just leveled a guard. "Well, wheres Rikku then," I asked myself, not bothering to lower my voice because of the music. I looked in the other direction but was startled by a guard standing right in front of me. He was holding out his hand, he wanted to see my ticket. I shrugged and he tried to "escort" me from the premisis. I simply shrugged him off and gave him a good whack in the back of the head.
I looked around again but couldn't spot Paine or Rikku anywhere, that is until I looked up at the stage. They're fighting Yuna? Wait, is that really Yuna, well obviously it wasn't, or was this part of the show. I watched and determined from their attacks that this was a real enough fight. Where is the real Yuna then, I think I'll go find her, I thought running out of the building. I glanced around when I exited the building, not a soul in sight, but I heard something. It was a mechanical movement, like a machine arm moving or something then after a thud, but it sounded extremly repeditive, like it was moving fast, or had more then one moving. It was getting louder and louder, I stared in the direction I heard it and realized that this concert was perfectly timed, for my enemies anyways. It was obviouslt sent by someone from Bevelle, but how did they know I was here. It came around the corner, and I realized why the sound had been so rapid. It was a really big machina spider. "Oh, fun, I love spiders, just not big ones that can bite my head off," I said turning around to run away.
Then I realized some thing, water plus machina equals short fuse and broken machina. I quickly jumped onto one of the support pillars for the stone canopy that surrounded the arena and climbed on top. This spider, either remotely controlled or programmed to seek me out followed me and rather quickly too. I ran as fast as I could but it was catching up a little every second. I saw one hope, there was a hole in the canopy thing over the front of the building. I made sure it was following me closely and jumped forward. I did a 180 in the air and pressed my feet against the oppisite edge of the hole. I was now crouching on the oppisite side of the hole facing the spider. It reared up confused and lost as to my next move. I pushed off and drew my swords. As I came within range I used my swords to cut off all four of its front legs and then I kicked it square in the head with all my strength. It toppled over and rolled off the stone canopy and into the water. "Ha, I win, you lose, go me, it's my birthday," I said suddenly startled by a large thud behind me. One of the legs had fallen behind me and stuck into the stone. I looked up just in time to see the other three legs I cut off. "Eep," I said ducking and covering my head. The next two hit knocking me off balance and causing me to fall on my butt. The final one smashed down hard right between my legs, making my eyes go wide in complete shock. Another inch or two and that woulda hit me, and not exactly in the most pleasant of spots either,I thought getting to me feet and brushing myself off.
"Thank goodness thats over, but who would send giant machina spiders, Bevelle probably wouldn't have any of those but... ello, what's all this then," I said looking up at the legs. Something seemed to be crawling out of the legs, when I looked closer I saw that it was just like the spider I had just fought but only about half my size, instead of seventy times my size. "Ah," I yelled as one of the small spiders lunged at me, I put my arm up just as it hit me and pushed me back a little. It's sharp pincers were wide open and about to close as I looked up. It bit down on my left arm before I could react. I stood there briefly before realizing entirely what had happened. The spider was now ten feet away curled up on it's back and fried to a crisp. "The bracer that Rikku gave to me, so there is an advantage to the electrical charge." As I had stated the bracer that Rikku gave/ forecfully clamped on me, had protected me from the bite and fried the spider with an electrical discharge. I looked around and saw hundreds more of the tiny spiders all surrounding me now. "Well, this just doesn't really seem fair to me," I said hoping for a way out. Suddenly all of the robotic spiders lunged at me. I saw only one safe way out, up. It worked and a couple of the spiders got trashed in the commotion.
As I landed I cut open a couple more and didn't stop to look back. I need to trick them into the water or create a huge electrical disturbance. I could take the risk of destroying them all with my own two hands but that seemed to require time and a lot of effort. Another of the spiders jumped on my back as they pursued me. I cut it's head off and it fell back tripping up a few others. "Dammit, I dont' hate spiders or anything but I'm starting to dislike mechanical spiders," I yelled turning and running backwards as a few spiders lunged. I cut them away eaisly and continued running backwards, disposing of any that decided to lunge at me. "This is getting tiresome," I said panting and trying to catch my breath. There were only about 20 left but I was to tired to keep fighting or keep running, but what else could I do. I stopped by one of the docks to catch my breath. The spiders surrounded me and slowly closed in. One was rather anxious and jumped at me ahead of the rest. Funny its almost as if they actually have animal like qualities, like instincts and anxiety, I thought sticking out the blade of my right sword to catch the excited spider. It had impaled itself on my sword. Several more lunged and I swung my sword causing the first spider to fly off and hit another into the water.
The others got cut in half or lost vital limbs and circutry. The remaining eight all lunged and I only managed to slice at two. I was now pinned by six spiders, I couldn't see any way out of this. Then to my surprise I heard what sounded like gunfire and all six spiders fell over dead. Stray bullets, I wondered rolling onto my stomach and army crawling over to the edge to see Yuna, Rikku and Paine fighting with a fat guy with a shield and some skinny dude with pistols. I watched them wipe the floor with those two and then out from underneath me came... Yuna? Two Yunas, thats confusing, until I saw her throw something at them and revert to her true self, Leblanc, I should have known. I didn't feel like just wathing another fight so I jumped to my feet and off the edge. I landed with my feet on Leblanc's shoulders causing her to fall flat on her face from the sudden weight increase. Just before she hit the ground I did a small front flip and landed perfectly right in front of her. I was greeted with a large sword and a set of daggers. I quickly smacked the side of the sword so it intercepted the daggers. This caused Rikku and Paine to fall flat on their faces.
Yuna had changed from a gunner to a songstress already. "Well if you don't mind, I really must be leaving," I said but was suddenly blinded by a thick cloud of darkness around my face. "Ah, get it away, ugh, rawr, I can't see," I said waving at the cloud trying to get rid of it. Suddenly it dissapeared and I saw the ground get very close to my face and realized that Rikku had jumped me and pinned me down. She was now on my back holding my arms to my side with a daggers edge to my throat. "Tell me what you're doing here or I'll slit your throat right now," she yelled sounding like she was crying. She was probably remembering me, this disguise had its downsides, and I had had enough of it. "Time to ditch the cloak methinks," I said remembering that my swords still had my armors power, I used the power of darkness to transport myself without the cloak to another spot not to far away. I was still close enough to hear Rikku but I remeined hidden. I could hear her frustration and heard her jab her dagger deep into the ground, probably right where my head had been. Meanwhile I heard Yuna sounding confused and like she was dancing or something.
I peeked out of my hiding spot and saw her dancing wildly without stopping. Leblanc and her goons had took off and Paine and Rikku were trying to help Yuna. I saw a moment where I had enough time to dash off and took it. "I can't show myself just yet, I suppose I have to soon though, hmm weapons shop, I think I'll take a look," I said wandering into town and then into a weapons shop. I browsed through everything and eventually saw exactly what I had had in mind when I came in. Rifles, long distance ones, basically a low-grade sniper rifle, but good enough. Surprisingly enough I could afford it, probably because I sold a lot of scrap from the robot spiders. I had a lot of gil now, but not much use for it. When I went outside I spotted the Celcius (not sure if thats how u spell it) hovering near the blitzball arena. "Think I'll hitch a ride if I can," I said running as fast as I could trying to spot anyway to get to the airship. I spotted a low hanging rope from a hot air balloon. I jumped to the top of the nearest building and leapt toward the rope. I snagged it and pulled my self up as quickly as I could. When I reached the top I was surprised to find myself almost right next to the airship. I took the oppurtunity and jumped on top of the airship shortly before it started moving .
End of chapter... finally, I didn't know where ot end it so I wrote quite a bit... plus I kinda lost my inspiration, sorta, welll my friends might kinda know whats wrong but they better keep their mouths shut. Anyways plz review and have a wonderful Valentine's day on Wednesday. )