Chapter 10: Burning Building

"No, really, I know the future, from the planet´s birth, to its end.", Luke said against his will to the woman who sat at the beach beside him, his face split into a huge grin against his will again.

"Hee hee hee hee, you´re really weird, Lorelius!", the beautiful woman laughed. "Maybe even weirder than your sister Nebilia!"

"And you´re one big coach potatoe!", Luke retorted - again against his will. "Even your hair have become pale because all you do the whole day is sit in front of all that machines and gadgets in your room."

"Hey!", the woman grumbled and tried to hit his head which he dodged, laughing. "There is no other way, you know. If we want to survive, then..." She looked to the horizon with a worried expression where a misty violet wall of fog could bee seen.

`The miasma?!´, Luke thought in horror while his gaze had followed hers. `What´s going on here?!´ "Oh, I wouldn´t worry.", he suddenly said, yawned and leaned back."

"Oh yeah, there´s this fool-proof plan of yours.", the woman said, voice full of sarcasm. "Raising the planet´s crust with the help of Sepherithen... Helloooo, earth to Lorelius! You want ten little pillar-like things to lift the whole crust?! What are you, stupid?!" She laughed, her whole body shaking because of it, and sank to the ground beside him.

"It´s called `Sephiroth´.", Luke corrected her and sighed in bliss as he breathed in the smell radiating from the woman´s hair, a nice warmth spreading inside his heart. "Is... Is Levius already back...?", he asked after some time, trying to sound as casual as possible, and stared at the woman´s engagement ring, scowling.

"Not yet...", the woman answered and looked sad as well now.

"You don´t have to marry him, you know.", Luke said.

"You´re wrong. I have to.", the woman disagreed, not looking at him. "I´m the only one left of my line. It must not become extinct. And the one with the most fitting genes is Levius..."

"But you don´t like him!"

"Of course I don´t like him!", the woman snarled and jumped up, her long hair floating towards every direction. "But if I don´t marry him and get pregnant, then... then..."

"Yulia...", Luke murmured in sadness. `Yulia?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?´, Luke thought, shocked.

"Now, if you´ll excuse me, I still have to build something against the miasma!", the woman named Yulia said in slight anger, whirled around and wanted to return to the city in the distance.

"Fine! Just go and barricade yourself inside your room together with those damn fon machines!", Luke snapped at her. "But that won´t help you to eliminate the miasma! And it sure as hell won´t help you to get rid of that bastard Levius! And just so you know, I won´t ever trie again to get you out of that room to help you relax and make you smile!" The Fonon of Darkness, fired by Yulia, hit him in his stomach region.

"Asshole!!!", Yulia shouted and ran away while Luke lost consciousness...

"Do it already!", he heard a woman´s voice he knew very well scream.

"But I´m against brutal force...", he heard a soft male voice.

"DO WANNA DISOBEY!?!", the woman yelled in fury.

"Okay, okay!", the male voice said in terror, and the next moment someone slapped him with a force that wouldn´t even hurt a fly.

"What... where am I...?", Luke stammered and opened his eyes. Florian who had `slapped´ him was kneeling above him.

"I´m sorry! I´m so sorry!", he apologied, eyes, watering. "Anise forced me to slap you!"

"Anise...?", Luke groaned and only now saw Anise who had erected a shield around them and was trying to keep it from disappearing with all her might. "What is...?"

"Holy Lance!!!", he heard the voice of Legretta the Quick, and lances impregnated with the Fonon of Light hit the protecting shield which threw Anise a little bit back, the shield vanishing for a short moment, then appearing once again, about to vanish completely.

"JUST DO SOMETHING, DAMNIT!!!", Anise snapped at him in desperation. Luke stood up with wobbly legs and looked at Legretta´s replica who was concentrating on casting again.

`We can´t risk a fight with her. I´m too weak at the moment, and Anise has to protect Florian.´, he thought. `Wait a moment! Replica´s are made of Seventh Fonon, so...´ He pointed with one of his hands at Legretta who stood still immediately, a colourful light pouring out of her body and disappearing in Luke´s hand.

"Argh! Damn Scion of Lorelei...!", she groaned, looked at the replication facility and yelled: "Infernal Prison!!!" The facility stood in flames immediately and Legretta ran away as fast as possible.

"How did you...?!", Anise asked, confused.

"Doesn´t matter! Douse the fire!", Luked shouted at her.

"Huh?!"

"There´s something inside they don´t want us to see! That´s why Legretta´s replica came here!", Luke explained. "She wanted to eliminate it, but she met us here! Und now that she had to back off, she wants to destroy it this way! NOW DO AS I SAID!!!"

Anise concentrated and shouted: "Maelstrom!!!" A gigantic tempest of water shot at the facility but the fire didn´t disappear.

"Grrrr!", Luke grumnled and stormed inside the facility.

"Luke, no!", Florian shouted and tried to follow him.

"You stay here!", Anise yelled and grabbed his arm.

"But..."

"Uh-uh! I don´t want to lose you, not like--"

"I´M NOT ION!!!!!!!!!!!", Florian snapped at her. Anise´s eyes went huged, and in this short moment she let go of Florian´s hand, said man running after Luke immediately.

"Florian! No!", Anise screamed and wanted to follow him, but one of the towers crashed down, und the splattering debris hit her and knocked her down. "Flo... rian..."

"You failed?! What do you mean, `you failed´!?", Dist yelled, as angry as ever.

"I am sorry, master.", Legretta´s voice was to be heard from a fon machine.

"Argh! Worthless replica!", Dist snarled. "This research object is really important for the success of project `Fog´!"

"Do not worry, master! I used a fire spell on the factory. They won´t be able to get to him.", Legretta said.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?", Dist screached as loud as he had never before, making the room´s window´s explode so that the people present in there had to jump backwards so they didn´t get hit. Tear who just protected herself with a barrier rolled her eyes in annoyance and plugged balls of cotton inside her ears so she didn´t have to bear hearing Dist´s voice anymore. "YOU INCOMPETENT IDIOT!!! DIDN´T YOU LISTEN TO ME!?! I TOLD YOU THAT THIS RESEARCH OBJECT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE MISSION, MEANING WE NEED IT ALIVE!!! ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"I don´t think that will be a problem.", Tear said, the balls of cotton not having helped to achieve blissful silence once again.

"What do you mean!?", Dist asked, breathing heavily after his screaming fit, his face now as pink as the furniture, the walls, the dil... uh, like everything in the room.

"The scion of Lorelei is with them. Fire won´t prevent him from entering the facility.", Tear calmly explained.

"Hmm... That may be true...", Dist said and thoughtfully looked at the person inside the cage in one corner of the room who was guarded by a girl holding a teddy. He looked away immediately once he saw the person´s look. "Well, it´s certainly convenient that the Fon Master Guardian is still there.", he said, looked at the fon machine and continued: "Legretta, withdraw immediately! The Fon Master Guardian will take care of the rest!"

"As you wish, my lord.", they could hear Legretta say, then the line was dead.

"Well, well, so they found the hideout, that cursed Jade gang..." He looked towards the cage again, started shaking and then let his gaze wonder to the dil... uh, the long something which lay on his desk, took it and looked at the the person inside the cage a third time. It was now the person inside the cage who was shaking in fear because of the `little something´ in Dist´s hands.

Annotation: Oh yeah! I had to change the summary of the story so that the pairings could fit in (Luke x Tear, Guy x Natalia, etc.) so some of you may not know about the author´s story: It´s my brother Leonyasch (for all you YouTubers: Yeah, it´s the Leonyasch on YouTube ^^) who is currently writing this story in German. I´m merely translating it into English. ^^

Oh, and another thing: Some may think that my brother hates Dist, but that´s not true at all. He is one of my brother´s (and one of my) favourite characters in the game! ;)