Chapter 16
I punched him square in the face and sent him flying into the wall. "What, you shouldn't be able to even scratch me, nevermind send me flying," he stammered as I lunged again. I slammed a rock wall though as he dissapeared into a shadowy nothingness. "Dammit, get back here you coward," I said slamming the wall over and over again with my fists. I had blown about four feet into the wall before I realized he was gone and my rage subsided. I suddenly felt exhausted and fell on my backside. "Need to get back to Rikku, but... so... tired," I managed to say out loud before passing out.
"Ouch, what the hell happened," I groaned when I finally woke up. "AH, I gotta find Rikku and the others, quick!" I ran over to the entrance to the hole and jumped up and out. The sun blinded me and almost made me fall back into the hole. I waited for my eyes to adjust to the light, blinking to try and speed it up. "Stupid light, need to find Rikku now, but I can't, oof," I grunted as I tripped over a tree root sticking up. I slid off the edge of the cliff onto a lower path and landed hard on my back with a rock in the lower middle of my back. "Oww," I grunted rolling over and trying to regain my breath, "That would be my bloody spine!" I managed to stand up but continued holding my back. I walked away as fast as I could with my back in such pain. "Son of a bitch that hurt," I said jogging now to try and get back to the village. I stopped as I reached the hill with the statue that everyone prayed at before the first journey, I felt something deep within my mind telling me to head away from the village.
I thought about it for a moment and decided since these frequent odd feelings hadn't killed me yet I'd listen at least just this last time. I took the path leading to the beach and was now able to run. I saw an iron giant blocking the bridge ahead and just then remembered the pain that one of these had caused me in the Thunder Plains two years ago. "Kill," I yelled leaping up and booting it square in the chest. It stumbled backwards and fell into the waterfall below and fell off the cliff. I decided I would head on instead of laughing at it. Some fiends tried to stop me a few times but I either ignored them or slayed the ones that were too big to ignore. I stopped to catch my breath at the end of the path. I stood there breathing deeply for a minute before I heard something. It was a faint staticy noise, something like when you turn on the TV and see the white snowy fuzz. I looked for the source and finally located it on my wrist, "Oh, wow, I completely forgot about this thing, I wonder if Rikku still has the other end of the communication device, and if this thing still works?" I smacked the armlet and tried to get it to work, yelling into it, hoping for a reply.
The best I got was a few random words from a conversation between what sounded like Wakka, Rikku, Yuna and I think I heard like two words from Paine. Something about a cave, a sphere, and the other words were completely useless, stuff like you, and, will, blah blah blah. "Wait, since when was there a cave," I said thinking back to all my memories of FFX, "bet the game designers just saw a need for it in this game and made up some story, but how does that work in this world, stupid un-natural laws of nature in other worlds." I walked towards the cave continuing to mumble and complain about how nothing since I got here had made any sense at all, or the fact that there was a here. I found the door to the cave but noticed a keypad with numbers. I tried a few combos, none of which worked. "Open, you stupid piece of..." I yelled but was interupted when a huge ball of falme shot out of the hand I was about to punch the door with.
The door blew completely to pieces and I stepped inside. "Well, guess that works," I said scratching my head and proceeding a little further into the cave. "Who's there ya," I heard the unmistakable voice of Wakka call out through the cave. I walked up to him and stood there for a minute, "Oh, wait your that guy I saw arrive at the village with Yuna and the others, wait a second, is that... no way, Chris, that you ya?" I nodded, "I see you haven't changed much, still talking faster then your brain is workin' eh Wakka," I said. "Hey, I might not be the smartest guy in Spira but I'm swift enough to tell when your callin me stupid ya," he retaliated. Then it dawned on me, "Yo, where's Rikku," I said seeing a smirk appear on his face. I glared at him and he pointed deeper into the cave. I ran off in that direction jumpinh around fiends and actually managing to jump above one and then use my momentum to flip it over my head and into another group of fiends. "Outta the way, I haven't the time for weaklings like you," I yelled weaving and dodging my way through large groups of fiends. What the hell, why are there som many fiends in here, at no point in any FF game have i seen this many fiends, even accounting the fact that you only see them once you enter a random encounter, there still couldn't be this many. "Damn," I said dodging a few blasts of water from the fish type fiends but after dodging the last attack I didn't have time to move away again. Two sallets closed in and sandwiched me between them. It winded me and I began falling to one knee, and then remembered that Rikku was behind all these fiends. The sallets had backed up and were charging again. "Buzz off," I yelled stomping my foot as I got up. I had my arms outstreched but felt like my body weighed a tonne.
The sallets hit my arms and stopped dead, they fell to the ground and stood there, acting as if there was no one around. I managed to look down at myself and saw that my body had literally turned to stone. Well, I'm not petrified, I thought moving my body slower then normal but still movement. I tried walking but it was a very slow trek. "All right fine," I said spreading my legs so that I had a good grip on the ground. I curled my body up and then shot my arms to the side sending my rock armor flyin in all directions, just as I had planned. Almost all of the fiends perished and those that didn't were badly wounded. "That worked better then expected, and now onward," I said running forward. I hadn't run far before i encountered another obstacle, a really deep pit, to which, I guessed, there mihgt not even be an end. I backed up and instead of jumping to the little rock spires, I jumped over to one wall a little past halfway down the pit and pushed off so that I landed nicely past the edge on the other side. "Well. my luck today seems to be extremly good," I said looking around for the others. I spotted the back of a huge fiend and just barely noticed who was on the other side. "Rikku," I yelled running at the fiends back. "Chris, what are you doing," she said but could not try and stop me as I ran up the fiends back and jumped up off its back just before its head. In mid-air I coated myself in the stone armor causing me to fall and smash down hard on the fiends head. It fell down and was unable to get up with me still standing on its head. "Now, lets see here, how would I..." I started out loud and tried to figure it out myself. Instead of being able to send the armor as projectiles downward I did nothing and angered myself to the point where I burst into flames. The flames intensity caused the rock to become molten and melt down on to the fiends head. I jumped off its head just as it burst into pyreflies.
"Was that thing giving you any trouble," I asked as the flames around me went out and I walked up to Rikku. "We were doing... okay, it wasn't like we couldn't handle the thing," she said looking a little grumpy. "Now excuse me but shouldn't we bring this sphere back to Wakka," Yuna said. "Ah yes, thank you, me and Rikku will continue this later then I guess, as long as its okay with her that is," I said looking at her. "Fine," she said slightly angerd. I ran ahead making sure that most of the fiends were still gone. "I don't get, buzz off, what the big deal, pest, all I did was kill some big fiend that I thought was giving them a little more trouble then it looked like," I mumbled to myself killing fiends on the way back to Wakka. I came up to Wakka just a few seconds before the others did. Wakka looked like he was going to ask me something but when Yuna, Rikku and Paine came around the corner he decided to ask them. I ignored the whole conversation and just walked with them back to the village. Then right when I heard Buddy and Brother asking if we were going to come back to the ship, it almost felt like something huge had whacked me in the head, I felt as though my head might explode if I didn't do something. I collapsed down on to my knees holding my ears tightly to the side of my head. Looks like you've got less time then I planned, I heard from nowhere, it couldn't have been anyone around me, I couldn't hear them.
Suddenly I realized who must be doing this to my head, which way he was attacking from was beyond me though. Now what was it he had said, something to the effect that he was going to kill me, then Rikku. Suddenly, I felt my rage go wild again and my head instantly stopped hurting. I pounded the rock wall next to me and hit nothing, so I decided that he was under the ground and slammed both my fists into the ground and let loose a huge burst of flame. It was faint but I saw some sort of shadow leap out of the ground and fly off. Knowing we were safe my rage subsided and I felt my pain return, and just as I was passing out I heard that odd voice again, Sleep now, I have much to teach you of. Rikku rushed to catch me as I fell forward and passed out. Not sure if she actually did catch me though, I lost conciousness before I hit the ground.
Wow that didn't take me forever or anything, been really busy though, with a lot of stuff, like homework, a girl... and video game :P but I had a spare hour here so I decided to write some more, but I'm losing my own interest with this, so I'm editing the plans in my head for it to make it a tidbit shorter, so I can maybe move on to a new topic. Anyways please review, suggestions and all criticsm are welcome, and have a good day, and if you can't have a good day... then just try not to hurt the people that make it not so good :P