Chapter 17

I stood and turned my head to the side then the other side, causing my neck to crack, "Ow, stiff, how long have I been out, and err, am I actually awake," I asked myself looking around. It looked real but I doubted it, it lloked like a field, just a random grassy field from earth. "Yea, okay, cut the crap and let's get on with this, dream or whatever the hell we got goin on here this time," I yelled at someone who I was assuming was nearby. Suddenly I heard movement in tghe grass behind me. I turned just in time to see Valefor swooping right at me, something was off though. Didn't have time to look deeper though, as I just barely managed to duck under its swoop. Training time I heard a voice from within my head say. "Great fun," I said leaping at the Aeon and punching it as hard as I could, it hit Valefor full on but it just flew back a bit then swooped forward and bashed me over the head with its wing. I flew back and landed on my back.

"Ouch," I groaned sitting up as Valefor went on the attack again. All it did was fly directly above me and fall, I didn't have the time to move and decided to try and catch it. Bad idea. I did "catch" it if you want to call nearly breaking my arms as a bird who's weight probably has to be measured in tonnes, lands directly on top of me. It was now roosting on my torso, making it next to impossible to breathe. I saved myself with some quick thinking though, I gave the bird a swift quick in the rear and it fly up and off me. Before it had much chance I lept up again and landed on its back. I grabed on tight, hoping to think of a plan while Valefor took me for a ride.

My ride however did not last long. Valefor was smart, it flew straight at a tree and just before it hit it spun and threw me into the tree, nealy breaking every bone in my body. "I hate this," I mumbled, dragging myself to my feet. "I hate, being so weak, I was unable to do anything to that, thing, now I'm losing to an old ally." Valefor simply hovered there, flapping its wings occasionaly to keep itself up. Let me take a crack at thiss, came a voice from my head, "Oh fan-freakin-tastic, now I've got an evil entity living in my head again" I said as I felt a strange feeling engulf me, much like when the evil me thing had enraged me. I looked down and saw that my entire body was glowing, but not with light, it almost looked like black fire, "How exactly is black fire possible?" How exactly is being zapped into a video game possssible, came the voice inb my head again. "Got a point there," I said realizing it was right and that I had a more important matter at hand. Valefor. Go ahead, punch it the voice urged me, "Tried that, didn't work," I said shaking my head. DO IT the voice yelled as Valefor flew at me and I threw a strong right hook and felt it make contact. Valefor went flying half way across the field. I stood there in awe.

Then I saw Valefor stand up, it stood there for a moment then bwed down and dissappeared in a burst of pyreflies. I sat down to take a rest only to fall. Where there was ground now there was not, I fell in a gaping hole in the middle of a field. "I hate these weird dream slash not dream things, their so freakin weird," I said an instant before I fell face down on a stone floor. Peeling myself from the ground I got to my feet and looked around not sure what to expect. I sat there for a moment and realized the only logical expectation was Ifrit. "But how do I defeat something really strong that blows fireballs at me..." I pondered, sitting there on the cold stone floor. I noticed something though, "Why, would the floor be all wet where theres a fire creature, wouldn't that weaken his fire abilities?" I stood up and looked around again. I kept turning then stopped and went back a bit, it was feint but I was sure I saw something down one of the halls. "What..." I started but found out before I could finish. I got hit by a hige glowing ball, which upon contact I found out was lightning. I landed on the floor feeling rather shocked (LOL yea bad joke). "Well that explains the water," I groaned grasping my chest as I slowly rose to my feet. Just as I looked up I saw Ixion, the lightning horse standing directly in front of me.

It rose onto its hind legs, probably about to stomp on me, I didn't want to just stand there and find out though. I rolled backwards just as it stomped down hard where I had just been standing. "Ok, still I need to get this done fast, aeons are strong and apparently not my friends at all," I said thinking on how to defeat a lightning beast. I decided that whiel I was thinking I would try a little something I thought of. I ran down the hall behind me and took the first right turn. As I thought Ixion was giving chase, "Follow the leader," I yelled, running and taking the first left now. I then took the second right and then the third left, each time Ixion gained more speed before he turned. "Haha slowpoke," I taunted the huge electric horse. Turning and dragging my right leg behind just as I turned. My ploy had surprisingly worked, Ixion was so caught up in chasing me it had lost all intrest in watching where it was running. It tripped over my outstrecthed leg, nearly breaking it as well, and flew to the ground in front of it. I poked my head around the corner to see Ixion burst into pyreflies.

I let out a sigh of relief, and felt myself lighten, almost as if I were floating. To my shock when I opened my eyes I was. "AAA, what the hell, I'm floating, actually, stranger things have happened... but still, not fun here," I yelled into nothingness. Now I landed on my butt in what looked like a series of caverns, surrounded by mountains on every side. I simply sat there and rested for any of the aeons that I was sure would come. "This looks more suited for, Holy..." I yelled leaping to my right to avoid a massive boulder that had just been sent flying at me. When I looked up in the direction from which the boulder had flown my theory had turned out to be right, Ifrit, the aeon of Fire stood high above me on a cliff. "Not fair," I yelled up at the creature, to which he replied with another huge boulder. I responded with a rude gesture, which brought upon me another boudler and a fireball. "I am sick and tired of running," I said standing my ground against yet another boulder. Now, there's a fine line between brave and stupid, and I think I may have crossed it here. I reached out and to my utter surprise caught the boulder and stopped it dead. Again I felt a strong feeling rush over me, and now I felt like I was strong enought to stop a train on the spot.

"I think this belongs to you," I yelled throwing the boulder back at Ifrit, who quickly jumped out of the way and bgan to rip a huge boulder out of the side of a diffrent mountain. Without thinking I ran over to that mountain and slammed down hard with my right foot on the base of the mountain. I watched as I saw what looked like a torpedo under teh rock travel up the side of the mountain and explode right beneath Ifrit, sending him hurtling down the mountain. Just as he was about to reach me, again out of pure instinct I leapt upward and gave Ifrit a flying jump kick into the ground. Then I came down hard and landed on him with both feet slamming down. With a burst of pyreflies around me I knew I had beaten Ifrit, and inceased my courage a great amount. This time I took a deep breath with my eyes closed, and when I pened them I was in a frozen wasteland. "Oh, like this isn't a dead give away," I said rolling ym eyes.

Suddenly I felt the air around me get extremely cold, I curled up a bit and started shivering like mad. then I noticed my feet were stuck in solid ice, and it was slowly creeping up my legs. In less then a minute everything but my head was frozen solid. "L-l-l-lovely," I shivered. Then I heard a small sound, like someone snapping their fingers, and the ice shattered around me, every shard cutting me as it flew through the air. "Now that... is one of the cheapest moves I've ever seen," I gasped, barely able to get to my feet. I turned and saw exactly who I expected, Shiva. She immediately threw a bunch of ice shards at me. "No time to dodge, damn," I said putting up my arm to block and feeling a sudden heat come off it. When I looked up my arm was in flames and the ice had melted before it even reached me. Hmm, now I can use these powers anytime I need, I should probably learn howto use the rest. "Well, let's see, all of my powers so far seem to have been linked to an emotion or feeling of some sort," I thought aloud. "Each power also seems linked to one part of my body, Fire on my right arm, brought about by rage, Earth, or rock on my right leg, brought about by courage, Shdow, my head, was not brought on by emotion really, more of a need," I said recapping all the powes I had discovered so far. "Chris," I heard a voice call out. I looked in the direction from which I had heard the voice.

"Rikku," I said with astonishment and doubt. I thought this was one of those screwed up dream slash real things, how is Rikku here. Then when I looked back at my opponent I noticed her concentration was focused on Rikku too. "No," I yelled but it was to late, she shota barrage of ice shards at Rikku. I was scared, there was surely nothing I could do, I'd have to move at nearly 1000 times my possible speed to save her. "Dammit," I yelled punching the ground. Strangely though as I did there was a huge flash of light and a huge earsplitting KABOOM. When I looked up I saw all the ice shards had been stopped and the ground between Shiva and Rikku was scorched. "Lightning bolts," I asked myself in amazment. I tried shooting a few at Shiva, she dodged all of them but I was still getting the hang of my new powers. Hold up, if Shiva uses ice, that means she can control ice, meaning this whole ice field is at her command is it not? "Rikku, move," I yelled causing her to look at me but not move quite in time. I was forced to look away as five huge stalagmite shaped rocks came out of the ground and right at Rikku.

I had to look away, there was no way anyone could survive that, it was a fate to cruel for anyone. "Why, why the hell is all this happening," I said feeling as sad as I possibly could right now. I heard Shiva shoot some more ice at me, but I felt there was nothing I could do. I just sat there but when I felt the ice hit me, it felt like a few light taps. I looked up ad saw Shiva rather stunned. I looked at my hands, they were coated in thick ice, my whole body was. It wasn't cold though, I felt normal and secure now. I got to my feet just as Shiva decided to try and use giant ice shards on me. They came flying out of the ground. I just stood there as they hit my armor and were actually absorbed. "Now how did I know that was going to happen," I asked myself, actually clueless to why I hadn't tried to move. I felt the armor get thicker and larger, and I continued walking toward Shiva. I was amazed, right at this moment I was scaring an aeon. creatures that were legendary, had amazing powers, and it was frightened by me. She waws throwing ice shards at melike mad. Every one increasing the power of my armor. "Enough," I yelled slamming the ground with my left arm, causing a huge lightning bolt followed by another earsplitting BOOM. It was a direct hit as I saw a burst of pyreflies. FINAL ROUNDI heard the voice from earlier say.

This time as I fell from one battlefield to my next I stopped. I simply stopped in this great dark abyss. "Wow, this one will keep me clueless, seriously, now I have no idea whats coming," I yelled out to no one. Then from behind me I heard a sword unsheath. I turned and saw Yojimbo, ready for battle, then again from behind me I heard a sound, a huge THUD, as something hit the ground. I turned again and saw Bahamut. "Oh dear," I said hearing a third and final noise. Before I even turned I was pretty certain what was there. When I turned my suspicion had been correct, there was now a triangle around me consisting of three of the strongest aeons in Final Fantasy, Bahamut, Yojimbo and Anima. "Oh, and this is just ever so fair, I'm as good as dead right now," I yelled at the three behemoths. "I'm still worn down a bit from all the other fights, and now I gotta take on all three of these guys at once, damn it all," I mumbled wondering how I would beat them all. Suddenly Yojimbo held up his hand, I was almost sure it meant peace, at least for the moment. He came over and I heard a voice in my head, Allow me to show you something that should aid you in this final test. As I heard this Yojimbo waved his hand through the air, and as if the air was a dirty window I could see a scene unfolding.

"What the hell," I yelled, feeling all my emotions swell at once. "This must be an illusion right," I demanded of Yojimbo. Here it is an illusion, but back in reality, this is actually happening, I heard his voice in my head again. "Raaa, damn it!

BUAHAHA, cliffhanger of doom. I finally got backinto the mood of writing this, need a topic change soon though. Anywho, thank you for reading up until now, I miss the reviews, even if there only were like 10 or so people who did review. Please review, I have no complaints about it being bad, but I have so few readers I'm wondering if I did somethin?