Chapter 19
(Note: From now on my thought are Bold and Italic, other are italic, will usually tell you who said these, most will be the shadow me in my head.)
I landed in the Calmlands after about ten minutes. I yawned, stretched and fell down on the grass to relax. "Ah, so relaxing, sun, grass... sleep," I said dozing off in the grass. I slept without a single dream for once, however I didn't wake up in such a nice placeas I had dozed off in. "Now how does someone shackle my arms and legs together and move me into a dank dungeon without me being the slightest bit aware," I said rolling around trying to get out of the shackles. I could easily get out of this, but I think I'll wait to see who my captors are at least. I layed there for a good hour at least, could be less, you know how it is when your bored. I had actually started using my power of earth to move pebbles across the floor on the other side of the dungeon when I heard a metal door open and slam closed. "Well, well, well, I was told the guards found a traitor we had been chasing for a while, but I never thought it would be you," I heard an all to familiar voice say from behind the bars on the oppisite side I was facing. I rolled over to face exactly who I thought it would be. "Stella, why do we always seem to meet like this," I said humor in my voice. "Hahaha, what a time for you to be making jokes," she cackled mockingly. "The only joke around here are these shackles," I said freezing them and breaking them with one swift motion.
"Got good footing," I asked Stella causing a strange look. I then pushed all the pebbles which I had grouped together across the floor, creating a floor that was immpossible to move on. Stella, who was a bit freaked out by pebbles moving on their own, attempted to step back and slipped on the rocks. I blasted the steel bars in front of me with ice then smashed them. "Metal is such a weak thing when frozen, reminds me of you," I said running down the hall and out of the dungeon. After exiting through the door I was immeaditly greeted by a group of about ten guards. They all had smirks on their faces pointing their guns at me. "Hehe," I laughed weakly as I raised my hands in the air. They continued to hold their guns at me, as expected. "May I simply say something before you shoot me," I said. The guards gave me a look that said go ahead. "Boom," I said quickly and rather quietly. I got a strange look from the guards then I sent a huge fireball at them. As I had stated there was a large BOOM and the guards all went flying out of my path.
"Well well well, quite the violent one aren't we," I heard Stella's voice almost scold from behind me. "Stella... who am I, to you at least," I queried. "Wha... actually, to be honest, I don't know who you are really, all I do know is that your in both mine and Lord Baralai's way." I laughed at this, "Lord, eh... what a cocky son of a bi..." "He is not," Stella rebuttled before I could even finish. "Stay out of my way Stella, and keep away from Rikku too, or I will be sure that you suffer a fate worse then death," I said before walking off. "I believe it's about time I left this place, hmm," I had sworn I heard something right behind me. I stopped and looked but saw nothing, but as I stood there I heard the same noise louder this time behind me again. I turned quicker this time and the same happened, this noise was getting rather loud, and sound is usually diffrent according to distance and size. Since this was getting very loud I assumed either it was big and getting closer or it was close and getting bigger. I assumed the first, but then realized what this terrible noise was, those things from before, the life sucking things.
I knew I was right about ten seconds later when one lunged at me with a terrible shriek. I gave it a flaming right hook and it disintegrated into thin air. The horrid loud one kept on getting cvloser every time I turned around it was starting to sound more ghostly and yet human the closer it got. "Cold chills, me running now," I shuddered as I bolted down the hall bypassing several guards who were taken off guard when "life suckers", as I just decided to call them, jumped on them and bit them. "Civil conflict here, I'll keep that in mind," I said finding stairs leading up instead of down which I assumed was the way I wanted to go. I followed the stairs anyways, mostly from the adrenilin that was pumping through me, also partly because I was scared. There was only one window on the way up, not very large either, "Probably cause these things hate light so much," I thought aloud looking at how thick the walls were. Useless to punch it, won't break, and I'll just slow myself down. So I continued onward and upward until I came into a dead end room. I stopped and tried to come up with a strategy as quickly as possible.
I didn't have much time however, as the creature came up right behind with a earsplitting shriek. "Oh shhhh..." I started but got smashed across the room before I could cuss. I caught myself on the wall with my hands and pushed myself back into a backflip. The creature grabbed me and sunk it's huge fangs into my shoulder though. The instant it bit me however swarms more of the smaller life suckers came out and bit me as well. "AAAA, get the hell off of me," I yelled giving off a huge electric impulse. All the small ones fled but the boss kept coming at me. It just savagely attacked me for hours, I couldn't do anything, it was wearing me down. I fell to my knees, "This isn't looking good," I said panting, "I'm running out of options here." The creature shroeked and lunged at me, "However, if I die here, then that bastard... I've gotta stay alive, to make sure nothing hurts Rikku!" I got to my feet and stretched out my arms inpreparation for the creatures attack. I caught it by its upper and lower jaw. "I am freakin tired of you," I yelled pulling it's top jaw upward and it's lower jaw down. It began shrieking louder and more high pitched then before. "Handy... defense, but not god enough," I screamed over it's shrieks as I ripped its jaw apart. It let out a tremendous shriek and exploded with a huge flash of white light. "Stupendous, unfortuneatly for you, theres no way for you to get outof here alive now though," I barely heard Stella's voice over the ringing that lingered in my ears.
As I stood there though I felt my energy returning to me. "Open fire," she yelled to the guards around her, who released a barrage of bullets at me. To no avail however, as I just created a large chunk of ice in front of me blocking all of them. "My turn," I yelled back, splitting the ice into millions of shards and commanding it to fly forth. I was trying to avoid killing anyone I didn't need to so most of the shards were dull, the few sharp ones hit either their legs or their guns, I saw my chance and ran back down the stairs from wence I came. I wound up at the bottom of the tower, which was perfect because this was almost exactly where I needed to be. I ran for the way out but ducked behind a pillar as some guards ran past. "Why doesn't anyone here like me," I whispered to myself, running out the front way.
"Must... find... safe place to hide," I panted, now half way through the Calmlands. "Ah, crap, they know where I'm heading obviously," I groaned looking back to see a small army pursuing me. "Hmm, oh grand idea," I said running as fast as I possibly could towards Mt. Gagazet. Then as I was crossing the bridge over the ravine that leads down to Yojimbo's cave I jumped up and repelled myself off the rocks until I was in front of the cave. "That was more work then I wanted, but I doubt they'll find me now," I said running inside the cave. Hmm, if what little memory I do have of this point of the game is correct then Yuna and them have to pick one of the holes down into the Farplane, jump down, and go fight that big son of a motherless goat... what was it, right, Vegnagun. "Me being here... buzz off... might change the plotline of all this a bit though, has so far," I said stopping briefly to slash some bothersome fiends. I reached the room where Yojimbo's fayth once was, now replaced by a deep hole.
"Onward and downward I guess," I said and jumped down into the pit. I hadn't actually done any of these on the game but I read a guide my one friend bought and was expecting some sort of puzzle or walk at least, all I got was pitch blackness. "Hrm, what's up with this, shouldn't there be like a path with some puzzles or something, then usually the big boss guy," I said hearing a loud echo afterwards. "Hahaha that would be true if Vegnagun were still here, I decided killing you was far more important then anything down here so I absorbed all of Vegnagun's power along with any other Aeons or random strangers that decided to wander down here," I knew right away it was that creep that looked like me, he continued, "Unfortunately all that was a waste, because I have just become aware that you and I, could pummel each other to an inch of life but for reasons beyond my understanding neither one of us can actually kill each other." Probably just saying that to try and make me think I can't beat him, gotta fight him, there might not be any hope of reinforcements coming however, I might be on my own. "Bring it on... and don't hold BACK," I yelled bringing forth all my power, causing claws of fire to grow on my right hand, claws of lightning on my left. Bird like talon feet of rock on my right foot, and of air on my left. My head was shrouded by a shadow helm and my body coated with thick ice armor. "Since when can you do that," he yelled in shock.
"Less talk, more fight," I yelled lunging at the source of his voice and swiping away with my claws like a mad man. "Aww, is it just me or are you a lot slower," he mocked. "Okay, fine try this one out then," I said jumping back and jamming my claws into the ground, I subtly expelled a blast of fire and lightning into the ground. I then stodd up and put up my guard. "Come on come at me, or are you too much of a coward to attack yourself," I taunted. "DIE," I heard from behind me. I used my shadow power to transport myself far behind him. "Explosive counter," I said raising my arms causing a huge lightning and fire storm to rip out of the ground. When the smoke cleared al I had done was maybe warmed him up a little. "Nice, now it's my turn," he said opening his mouth to retaliate. I got thisss, the voice of my power of shadow said. Suddenly a large dome of darkness surrounded me, the evil me tried touse his sound waves but gave up when he saw they were doing nothing. Then he jumped at me and slashed his sword through dome. I clamped my hands on either side of the blade and wrenched it sideways causing the blade to snap in half. "Look, theres no point to continuing this fight, like you said, we can't kill each other," I said throwing the shattered blade down behind me.
"Oh but you see in about ten seconds you will have a very good reason to keep fighting here," he replied, obviously enjoying the clueless look on my face. "What..." I started but was interupted when Yuna and Paine landed on their feet right in front of me. "What are you doing here," Yuna immeadiatly asked me. "Umm," I gestured towards the evil me. "Ohhhhh," she replied. "Yea, but umm, where's the crazy one," I asked in refrence to Rikku. "I am not that crazy," I heard someone yell from above, I looked up and instantly regreed doing so. I got a pair of boots square in the face and ended up on my back, the owner of the boots continued to stand on my face for a brief moment the I got fed up and removed the boots by giving them a strong push forward. "Don't be standin on my face," I mumbled rubbing where I'm sure I now had a pair of bootprints on my face. "Ouch, theres a wall right here ya know," Rikku groaned rubbing her head. "Well thats what you get for standing on my face," I said sticking out my tounge. "Umm, sorry to interupt you two but uh the Freaky lookin' Chris is kinda gone.
"What, no," I said fliping around to look and taking a big step forward. "Now where'd that coward get..." I said only to hear two smashes behind me and Rikku scream. I turned on my heel again and saw two sharp blades coming out of nowhere and crossing Riku's neck, but they were pulled tight, if she were to move they would probably slit her throat. "Move from that spot and your girl loses her pretty little head," I heard his voice yell out. "Dammit all," I mumbled clenching my fists. If I don't try and save her he'll probably just cut her throat anyways, if I move he'll cut her head off. My only option is to sit and wait for a move to open up. "Sucker punch," I heard him yell not even half of a second before he poped out of the ground and punched me in the gut hard enough to knock me back about five feet. "What the hell am I gonna do here," I sputtered coughing up blood.
Wee almost done, or am I? All I know is that my next story is already in my head and I'm not gunna spoil anything about anything. Still no reviews T-T.