Dragon Quest
By: BlackLiGurl
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Note: Alrighty people, we are slowly nearing the end of this story! The stadium erupts in applause Don't ask me where that came from...heh heh heh...
Chapter 12: Freedom
"Alex, Nall, this is Luna."
Ruby and Alex were inside another memory. Alex's father was holding a little girl with light blue hair. She was the same age as little Alex, around 3. Little Alex, with Nall on his shoulder, ran over as his father put the girl in a bed. Nall jumped down to examine her.
"Hello!" Nall yelled.
"I don't think she's awake..." Little Alex mumbled.
"Oh, okay!" Nall said before he flew into the kitchen, "don't forget to tell me when she wakes up! I wanna meet her! She's cute!"
"Where are you going now?"
"Where else would I be going Alex! I'm getting some leftover fish!"
The memory left. Ruby smiled.
"Nall has such wonderful memories of you..."
"Yeah...oh, here's another one..."
Another locked memory appeared infront of them. Ruby touched it, releasing the memory. They were in a forest watching Luna, Alex, and Nall as they walked around.
"Okay, let's play Four Heroes!" Alex said.
"I hate to burst your bubble Alex," Luna said, "but there's only three of us! And Nall's can't be a human and he refuses to be a monster."
"That's okay! I'll be Dragonmaster Dyne and you can be Althena, Luna!"
"What about me?"
"You can be Quark!"
"Yay!"
Older Alex laughed, making Ruby confused.
"What's so funny?"
"The roles I gave out wound up being the roles we actually played in the last battle..." Alex said laughing, "not to mention, these are my memories too..."
"Oh yeah, well, there's another one of those memory thingies!"
A chubby little 6 year old was crying and curled up in a ball. Just as these boys were about to pummel him, Luna, Alex, and Nall stepped in.
"What do you think you're doing!" Luna yelled.
The boys turned around and laughed nervously.
"S-sorry Luna. W-we were j-just teaching fatty not to steal our candy..."
"Well you better leave him alone because he's with us!! I told him to get us some candy!"
"Yeah! You better listen to Luna! She'll kick your butts so hard you'll kiss the Blue Star!!" Nall teased.
"Okay Luna! Sorry Luna!"
The boys ran away as Luna, Alex, and Nall walked over to the chubby little boy.
"Hello, what's your name?" Alex asked.
"I'm Ramus...th-thank you for saving me..."
"No problem!" Nall said.
"Let's be friends, 'kay?" Luna said, smiling warmly at the boy.
"Y-you lied for me...I think that means we're already friends!"
Suddenly, the memory changed as how Nall and Alex met all of the people from their adventures, like Kyle, Jessica, Mel, Mia, Nash, Laike, Lemia, and Ghaleon flashed quickly before their eyes. They released various other memories; when they evaded the past Fortress of Althena, the Five Heroes' first reunion at the Music Festival, their deaths (which made them cry), when he first found Taben's Peak, when he met the first Dragon Kid, when he met Ruby, when the Four Dragons attack Pentagulia, and when Ruby first came to stay with him while Hiro had left Vane with Lucia. The memories disappeared and Ruby sighed. She was starting to doubt herself and didn't know if she could do this.
"What are we going to do? He has too many memories and by the time we get them all...the outside world will be destroyed by Zophar!"
Suddenly, they heard a yell.
"Nall must've woken up!"
She ran toward the yell as she ran, she thought about what had worried her earlier. It made her laugh actually.
'Nall can never be a bad person! I should have been known that he wasn't bad and stupid to think he was!'
Little did she know, she had left poor Alex behind. She finally came upon Nall. He was sitting up, but his head hung low, like he was about to keel over at any moment.
"Nall!"
He looked up weakly and smiled.
"R-Ruby...is that you?" he whispered, "you have to go away...the curse is still roaming around here and it just attacked me...it could attack you at any moment."
Ruby ran over to him and gave him a hug. She could feel him shake from exghaustion as she wrapped her arms around him.
"Oh Nall! You look horrible!!" she said, "come on we have to go!"
"I'd love to but...in case you haven't noticed...I'M CHAINED TO THE FREAKIN' GROUND!!!"
Ruby raised an eyebrow. She couldn't bring herself to say anything smart back, especially when she was too happy to see him. And she knew for sure it was him and not the curse because of his sarcasm, another reason she didn't respond. She just smiled at him.
"Glad to see you're still as sarcastic and rude as ever...I meant-"
Suddenly, black branches pushed Ruby out of the way as it wrapped around Nall, like a cage.
"You've saved me so many times Nall...now...I'll save you! I promise!"
"Just...go Ruby...forget about me..." she heard him say, "you can live with Hiro and-"
"I'll never forget you Nall!" she said punching the branches, "and I can't just forget all that you've done for me!"
"Ruby, please! I don't want you to get hurt! Go! Now!"
"Same here! I'm not leaving and that's that!"
"Go!"
"No!"
"Don't be stupid!"
"Don't be a dumbass!"
"Don't call me a dumbass, stupid!"
"Don't call me stupid, dumbass!" Ruby yelled, "now, shut up so I can concentrate!"
He finally didn't respond. Ruby looked at the cage, determined, and started punched, pulling, and gnawing at the branches. For about 10 minutes she continued this, but got no where. She transformed into her Dragon form and began to bite it. It broke under the pressure of the her jaws, setting Nall free. He fell onto her paw.
"Nall...are you okay?"
She turned back into her preferred form and smiled at him. He leaned on her for support.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn? You could have gotten yourself killed you foolish little girl..." he said, looking at her hand, "look at your hand...you're hurt."
Ruby looked at it and saw scratches and cuts. Her whole hand was red and sore. She presumed the other was in the same condition.
"I did this because you mean a lot to me. Duh. Now how do you feel?"
"I feel bad. I'm sore all over..." he mumbled, "...but I'd hate to feel what this is doing to my body..."
"Oh yeah! Look who else is here!"
Alex was running toward them, waving his arms. Nall's eyes widened as the young man came nearer.
"Ruby! You run too fast!" he panted, "what's going on?"
"A-Alex!"
He smiled and walked over to the couple. Nall lept from Ruby's arms and hugged Alex. He cried into the boy's jacket, obviously not caring who was there to see him. Ruby watched the happy reunion, smiling. Nall wasn't one to show his feelings, cry, or act sensitive in the least bit, except for a few rare occasions, so she didn't want to interrupt this moment so he can go ahead and let it out. Besides, if he was reminded that she was standing there, he might have stopped. Alex patted him on his back.
"Nall...I've missed you my old sneaking-away-on-adventures buddy!"
"I never thought I'd hear your voice again..."
Nall laughed weakly as Alex pushed him away to get a good look at him. Alex beamed at his wounded friend proudly.
"Wow, you've grown! Lookin' good!"
"I wish I didn't feel like I was about to die right now...'cause I'd probably look a lot better..."
"ARGH!"
Outside of his mind, Nall fell on his hands and knees, panting and looking at the ground. His eyes were widened in shock as memories flooded into his mind.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Lemina asked.
"I don't know..." Lucia mumbled.
Ryo stood up and walked over to Nall.
"We have to take this Dragon's Aura!"
"Do what you...have to..." he panted.
Ryo put his hand over Ruby and she glowed bright red. Soon, her Dragon Aura was in his hands. Ryo smirked.
"Now we can revive Zophar!" he laughed, "and Princess Lucia and her friends will have a front row seat!!"
Ruby, in Nall's subconscious, began to glow as well. Nall looked at her.
"What happening?"
"I-I don't know..."
She fainted. Nall let go of Alex and caught Ruby. But, since he was already weaken, he fell down with her.
"We have to break this curse so I can help Ruby...and the world..."
"Well, go kill it..."
Nall sat Ruby by Alex.
"Look after her..."
Alex nodded. He looked around when suddenly, the imposter that Ruby and Alex saw appeared before him. Nall stood up, stumbling forward several times. Alex reached out to help him stand, but Nall shook his head.
"Just take care of Ruby...I can handle this by myself..."
'You may have grown Nall...but I'm glad to see you're still as stubborn as ever...'
Nall glared at the imposter as it chuckled.
"You know...deep down in our heart...that we'll always be alone..."
Nall opened his to say something but then just looked at the ground. The imposter laughed louder as the world they were in got darker.
"That's right. You see Ruby over there? She'll leave us for Hiro as soon as Lucia dies. She says she loves us, but that's not true and we both know that...she just wanted a human form so she can get Hiro to be attracted to her instead of Lucia."
"Don't listen to it Nall, remember this happened to me, Kyle, Mia, Jessica, and Nash? It was you who was wise enough to know that it wasn't really what we thought..." Alex yelled.
Nall smiled.
"That's right. Yes...evil shadow curse thing...that WAS how I thought. And, at the time it seemed true. But I don't think that now. Ruby will be with me for all eternity and I'll never be alone again...not to mention, there are plenty of kids back at Taben's Peak to keep me company, even if Ruby does decide to go on another adventure with Hiro...I won't stop her because I want her to be happy and spend as much time as she can with her human friends before they go..."
"But she won't come back when she goes, you'll be lonely again."
"She will come back because she said she loves me...and Ruby never lies..."
"How do you know that? She could have been lying."
"Because she's too sincere for her own damn good...I can trust her. More than I can trust you! So get!"
The imposter turned into smoke and disappeared. Nall's subconscious world became pure white once again. Nall looked around and smiled. Alex scratched his head.
"That was it? That was all you had to do?"
"You see...when I was first attacked...I believe what the curse said. That allowed it to weaken me by taking my memories and it took over. But now, even though only a few of my memories were unlocked, it was enough to make me a little stronger. Then, you helped me defeat it by facing my own fear, which was being alone and Ruby leaving me...get it now?" Nall explained.
Alex nodded.
"Glad I could help. Now go to the real world and save it...I have to go..."
Nall smiled and hugged Alex again.
"Goodbye. It was great to see you again..."
"Same here. But, I'm even more happy that you've found love..." Alex said as he started to fade away.
Nall sighed and looked at Ruby. He touched her head and, in a flash of light, she was back in her own subconscious. Outside, Nall was standing beside Ryo as the Dragon Auras appeared in a huge bowl-like structure in the floor. Energy bolts from various guns hit the Auras and coursed through them. The sky became dark and lighting and thunder came from no where. That's when the curse broke and the true Nall emerged. He stumbled back and rubbed his head.
"O-ow...Damn, I knew this would hurt..."
"Nall!!" Jean screamed.
"He's back! This is mega-awesome!!"
He stumbled over to the cage and unlocked it, setting them free.
"Get Ryo, I have to help Ruby..."
"She got her-"
"I know.."
Everyone, except the four Dragons, prepared their weapons as they walked over to Ryo. He just laughed.
"I could care less if you destroy me! My goal is nothing without my sister, and Zophar has been revived, he'll be stronger than ever!!! AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!"
He laughed like a maniac right before he was struck by lighting. They looked up confused. Zophar stood over them in his Omni-God form. He was the one that attacked Ryo.
"I have no need for you Ryo...be gone!!"
"B-But Lord Zophar!!! You promised..."
Ryo screamed as he was turned into dust at a wave of his hand. Zophar laughed.
"Who's next?"
"Zophar! We have destroyed you once, and we'll gladly do it again!!" Lucia screamed.
Note: Hm...quite a twist in events. Zophar has killed Ryo! What will happen next! Heh...I already know because I was the one who wrote the story...But I think I should warn you...things get a bit dramatic after this point (as if it wasn't dramatic enough). So, I'll really need everyone's comments and critism! Let me know if I like, go too far with the drama .
By: BlackLiGurl
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
Note: Alrighty people, we are slowly nearing the end of this story! The stadium erupts in applause Don't ask me where that came from...heh heh heh...
Chapter 12: Freedom
"Alex, Nall, this is Luna."
Ruby and Alex were inside another memory. Alex's father was holding a little girl with light blue hair. She was the same age as little Alex, around 3. Little Alex, with Nall on his shoulder, ran over as his father put the girl in a bed. Nall jumped down to examine her.
"Hello!" Nall yelled.
"I don't think she's awake..." Little Alex mumbled.
"Oh, okay!" Nall said before he flew into the kitchen, "don't forget to tell me when she wakes up! I wanna meet her! She's cute!"
"Where are you going now?"
"Where else would I be going Alex! I'm getting some leftover fish!"
The memory left. Ruby smiled.
"Nall has such wonderful memories of you..."
"Yeah...oh, here's another one..."
Another locked memory appeared infront of them. Ruby touched it, releasing the memory. They were in a forest watching Luna, Alex, and Nall as they walked around.
"Okay, let's play Four Heroes!" Alex said.
"I hate to burst your bubble Alex," Luna said, "but there's only three of us! And Nall's can't be a human and he refuses to be a monster."
"That's okay! I'll be Dragonmaster Dyne and you can be Althena, Luna!"
"What about me?"
"You can be Quark!"
"Yay!"
Older Alex laughed, making Ruby confused.
"What's so funny?"
"The roles I gave out wound up being the roles we actually played in the last battle..." Alex said laughing, "not to mention, these are my memories too..."
"Oh yeah, well, there's another one of those memory thingies!"
A chubby little 6 year old was crying and curled up in a ball. Just as these boys were about to pummel him, Luna, Alex, and Nall stepped in.
"What do you think you're doing!" Luna yelled.
The boys turned around and laughed nervously.
"S-sorry Luna. W-we were j-just teaching fatty not to steal our candy..."
"Well you better leave him alone because he's with us!! I told him to get us some candy!"
"Yeah! You better listen to Luna! She'll kick your butts so hard you'll kiss the Blue Star!!" Nall teased.
"Okay Luna! Sorry Luna!"
The boys ran away as Luna, Alex, and Nall walked over to the chubby little boy.
"Hello, what's your name?" Alex asked.
"I'm Ramus...th-thank you for saving me..."
"No problem!" Nall said.
"Let's be friends, 'kay?" Luna said, smiling warmly at the boy.
"Y-you lied for me...I think that means we're already friends!"
Suddenly, the memory changed as how Nall and Alex met all of the people from their adventures, like Kyle, Jessica, Mel, Mia, Nash, Laike, Lemia, and Ghaleon flashed quickly before their eyes. They released various other memories; when they evaded the past Fortress of Althena, the Five Heroes' first reunion at the Music Festival, their deaths (which made them cry), when he first found Taben's Peak, when he met the first Dragon Kid, when he met Ruby, when the Four Dragons attack Pentagulia, and when Ruby first came to stay with him while Hiro had left Vane with Lucia. The memories disappeared and Ruby sighed. She was starting to doubt herself and didn't know if she could do this.
"What are we going to do? He has too many memories and by the time we get them all...the outside world will be destroyed by Zophar!"
Suddenly, they heard a yell.
"Nall must've woken up!"
She ran toward the yell as she ran, she thought about what had worried her earlier. It made her laugh actually.
'Nall can never be a bad person! I should have been known that he wasn't bad and stupid to think he was!'
Little did she know, she had left poor Alex behind. She finally came upon Nall. He was sitting up, but his head hung low, like he was about to keel over at any moment.
"Nall!"
He looked up weakly and smiled.
"R-Ruby...is that you?" he whispered, "you have to go away...the curse is still roaming around here and it just attacked me...it could attack you at any moment."
Ruby ran over to him and gave him a hug. She could feel him shake from exghaustion as she wrapped her arms around him.
"Oh Nall! You look horrible!!" she said, "come on we have to go!"
"I'd love to but...in case you haven't noticed...I'M CHAINED TO THE FREAKIN' GROUND!!!"
Ruby raised an eyebrow. She couldn't bring herself to say anything smart back, especially when she was too happy to see him. And she knew for sure it was him and not the curse because of his sarcasm, another reason she didn't respond. She just smiled at him.
"Glad to see you're still as sarcastic and rude as ever...I meant-"
Suddenly, black branches pushed Ruby out of the way as it wrapped around Nall, like a cage.
"You've saved me so many times Nall...now...I'll save you! I promise!"
"Just...go Ruby...forget about me..." she heard him say, "you can live with Hiro and-"
"I'll never forget you Nall!" she said punching the branches, "and I can't just forget all that you've done for me!"
"Ruby, please! I don't want you to get hurt! Go! Now!"
"Same here! I'm not leaving and that's that!"
"Go!"
"No!"
"Don't be stupid!"
"Don't be a dumbass!"
"Don't call me a dumbass, stupid!"
"Don't call me stupid, dumbass!" Ruby yelled, "now, shut up so I can concentrate!"
He finally didn't respond. Ruby looked at the cage, determined, and started punched, pulling, and gnawing at the branches. For about 10 minutes she continued this, but got no where. She transformed into her Dragon form and began to bite it. It broke under the pressure of the her jaws, setting Nall free. He fell onto her paw.
"Nall...are you okay?"
She turned back into her preferred form and smiled at him. He leaned on her for support.
"Why do you have to be so stubborn? You could have gotten yourself killed you foolish little girl..." he said, looking at her hand, "look at your hand...you're hurt."
Ruby looked at it and saw scratches and cuts. Her whole hand was red and sore. She presumed the other was in the same condition.
"I did this because you mean a lot to me. Duh. Now how do you feel?"
"I feel bad. I'm sore all over..." he mumbled, "...but I'd hate to feel what this is doing to my body..."
"Oh yeah! Look who else is here!"
Alex was running toward them, waving his arms. Nall's eyes widened as the young man came nearer.
"Ruby! You run too fast!" he panted, "what's going on?"
"A-Alex!"
He smiled and walked over to the couple. Nall lept from Ruby's arms and hugged Alex. He cried into the boy's jacket, obviously not caring who was there to see him. Ruby watched the happy reunion, smiling. Nall wasn't one to show his feelings, cry, or act sensitive in the least bit, except for a few rare occasions, so she didn't want to interrupt this moment so he can go ahead and let it out. Besides, if he was reminded that she was standing there, he might have stopped. Alex patted him on his back.
"Nall...I've missed you my old sneaking-away-on-adventures buddy!"
"I never thought I'd hear your voice again..."
Nall laughed weakly as Alex pushed him away to get a good look at him. Alex beamed at his wounded friend proudly.
"Wow, you've grown! Lookin' good!"
"I wish I didn't feel like I was about to die right now...'cause I'd probably look a lot better..."
"ARGH!"
Outside of his mind, Nall fell on his hands and knees, panting and looking at the ground. His eyes were widened in shock as memories flooded into his mind.
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Lemina asked.
"I don't know..." Lucia mumbled.
Ryo stood up and walked over to Nall.
"We have to take this Dragon's Aura!"
"Do what you...have to..." he panted.
Ryo put his hand over Ruby and she glowed bright red. Soon, her Dragon Aura was in his hands. Ryo smirked.
"Now we can revive Zophar!" he laughed, "and Princess Lucia and her friends will have a front row seat!!"
Ruby, in Nall's subconscious, began to glow as well. Nall looked at her.
"What happening?"
"I-I don't know..."
She fainted. Nall let go of Alex and caught Ruby. But, since he was already weaken, he fell down with her.
"We have to break this curse so I can help Ruby...and the world..."
"Well, go kill it..."
Nall sat Ruby by Alex.
"Look after her..."
Alex nodded. He looked around when suddenly, the imposter that Ruby and Alex saw appeared before him. Nall stood up, stumbling forward several times. Alex reached out to help him stand, but Nall shook his head.
"Just take care of Ruby...I can handle this by myself..."
'You may have grown Nall...but I'm glad to see you're still as stubborn as ever...'
Nall glared at the imposter as it chuckled.
"You know...deep down in our heart...that we'll always be alone..."
Nall opened his to say something but then just looked at the ground. The imposter laughed louder as the world they were in got darker.
"That's right. You see Ruby over there? She'll leave us for Hiro as soon as Lucia dies. She says she loves us, but that's not true and we both know that...she just wanted a human form so she can get Hiro to be attracted to her instead of Lucia."
"Don't listen to it Nall, remember this happened to me, Kyle, Mia, Jessica, and Nash? It was you who was wise enough to know that it wasn't really what we thought..." Alex yelled.
Nall smiled.
"That's right. Yes...evil shadow curse thing...that WAS how I thought. And, at the time it seemed true. But I don't think that now. Ruby will be with me for all eternity and I'll never be alone again...not to mention, there are plenty of kids back at Taben's Peak to keep me company, even if Ruby does decide to go on another adventure with Hiro...I won't stop her because I want her to be happy and spend as much time as she can with her human friends before they go..."
"But she won't come back when she goes, you'll be lonely again."
"She will come back because she said she loves me...and Ruby never lies..."
"How do you know that? She could have been lying."
"Because she's too sincere for her own damn good...I can trust her. More than I can trust you! So get!"
The imposter turned into smoke and disappeared. Nall's subconscious world became pure white once again. Nall looked around and smiled. Alex scratched his head.
"That was it? That was all you had to do?"
"You see...when I was first attacked...I believe what the curse said. That allowed it to weaken me by taking my memories and it took over. But now, even though only a few of my memories were unlocked, it was enough to make me a little stronger. Then, you helped me defeat it by facing my own fear, which was being alone and Ruby leaving me...get it now?" Nall explained.
Alex nodded.
"Glad I could help. Now go to the real world and save it...I have to go..."
Nall smiled and hugged Alex again.
"Goodbye. It was great to see you again..."
"Same here. But, I'm even more happy that you've found love..." Alex said as he started to fade away.
Nall sighed and looked at Ruby. He touched her head and, in a flash of light, she was back in her own subconscious. Outside, Nall was standing beside Ryo as the Dragon Auras appeared in a huge bowl-like structure in the floor. Energy bolts from various guns hit the Auras and coursed through them. The sky became dark and lighting and thunder came from no where. That's when the curse broke and the true Nall emerged. He stumbled back and rubbed his head.
"O-ow...Damn, I knew this would hurt..."
"Nall!!" Jean screamed.
"He's back! This is mega-awesome!!"
He stumbled over to the cage and unlocked it, setting them free.
"Get Ryo, I have to help Ruby..."
"She got her-"
"I know.."
Everyone, except the four Dragons, prepared their weapons as they walked over to Ryo. He just laughed.
"I could care less if you destroy me! My goal is nothing without my sister, and Zophar has been revived, he'll be stronger than ever!!! AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT!!"
He laughed like a maniac right before he was struck by lighting. They looked up confused. Zophar stood over them in his Omni-God form. He was the one that attacked Ryo.
"I have no need for you Ryo...be gone!!"
"B-But Lord Zophar!!! You promised..."
Ryo screamed as he was turned into dust at a wave of his hand. Zophar laughed.
"Who's next?"
"Zophar! We have destroyed you once, and we'll gladly do it again!!" Lucia screamed.
Note: Hm...quite a twist in events. Zophar has killed Ryo! What will happen next! Heh...I already know because I was the one who wrote the story...But I think I should warn you...things get a bit dramatic after this point (as if it wasn't dramatic enough). So, I'll really need everyone's comments and critism! Let me know if I like, go too far with the drama .