I do hope that people are enjoying themselves! Oh, yeah! I forgot a disclaimer!
I do not own FFXII, Square Enix or whatever they call themselves now do. However, I DO own all my OCs.
Chapter 2: Giza Plain Blues
[Music theme: Giza Plain Theme, Hitoshi Sakimoto FF12]
The Plains were bigger than the game made them look. Of course, I should've seen that coming, but it still caught me off guard. The Hyena monsters were no problem, but the distance still got to me pretty easily. I may be a distance runner, but there was a lot of ground to cover quickly. Finally, the village came in sight. The nomads there eyed me pretty suspiciously, but led me to the hut where Penelo lay, deathly still, pale, and dry despite the heat. The elder sat next to her holding a faintly glowing crystal to her forehead.
"How is she? Is there a way to heal her?" I was immediately willing to help. In the game, she looked cute at best, but in real life, even while sick, she proved to be actually rather pretty, and I would've wanted to see her live, even if she hadn't been important to the storyline.
"The sunstone I have here is keeping the sickness at bay, but it is weak. We sent another like you, but different, to create another one, but he has not yet returned." Another like me, but different? Could it be...?
"I'll go find him, in case he's fallen into trouble. Also, may I have a shadestone, in case one is not enough?"
"That is well, but how did you know of the shadestones? We tell few about them, so that none may steal them." Was this going to be a recurring thing, my almost messing up?
"I have heard tell of them, from a friend who noted their healing qualities." Crisis averted, yet again! The elder nodded, and handed me a shadestone. I headed out yet again, to find my mystery person.
Heading further south, towards the Crystal Grove area, I was able to partially charge my shadestone, probably to about half power, and further develop my Chi Magicks. I now had two new Kanji, Wind and Spirit.
In the Crystal Grove, I found the small child (I forget her name) still cowering from the monsters, with a half-charged shadestone in her hand. I was able to send her back, and recover my strength with the crystal nearby. It was interesting, these crystals. It was like a cool wave rushing over me to refresh everything about me, and then a memory of my touching the crystal played, as if I had been watched as I did so. These crystals remember who you are and what you had done, so any who touched it before could be found by those who find it after. The mystery person must have passed through, because I saw an animal shaped human with glasses who touched the stone, with very little done before touching it, yet a power level similar to mine. He had headed south, so I followed in that direction
Eventually, I found him in the south bank, near the canyon that led to the Westersand. He was dealing with some Werewolf monsters, and having a little difficulty. A quick flash of steel and a Chi Spell later, the weakened Werewolves fell. Looking at my ally, I found him to be a Wolf like person, with a wicked looking Koga Blade. He wore square glasses, a pair of jeans, a leather jacket with white highlights, with a white t shirt underneath.
"Well, well, well. What have we here, Ace? Testing your limits?" I smiled slyly. This had to be Tim, only he wore glasses and was a wolf at any point in our Earthly stories. Problem was, he was never one to start a fight. Why would he now?
"Yeah..." He looked down, looking embarrassed."That and they started it... they just attacked out of nowhere" Tim, excuse me, Ace Matrix, had no experience in the worlds of Final Fantasy. He was more of an Elder Scrolls kind of person.
"Those were Werewolves. Nasty creatures... we'll need some training before we try that again, ya?"
He scratched his head behind the ears. "Yeah, well..." Yep, he was definitely trying to find his limits.
"How is your shadestone? I have two at half power." I held both stones up, and suddenly they reacted, one transferring its energy to the other. "Correction, I have one full charged sunstone, one empty shadestone..."
Ace gave his own sly grin. Man, that looked CREEPY from a wolf, like he was gonna eat me... "Fully charged, filled just before those beasts attacked me."
I shook free of the disturbing images of a wolf man tearing into me, and returned the grin, hoping it creeped him out as much as his did me. "Then let's get back to that village... the girl, Penelo, is one we oughta save, and it's almost dark here..."
"Yeah." Together, we made our way safely back to the village.
The elder was very grateful to have two sunstones of such great power as ours, but she let us keep one, since only one was needed and I remembered we would need one for a later point in the game. With the one she kept, she declared that Penelo would be fine in a few days, including time she rested, so we left her in her care. We needed to kick start the story with what was left. Hopefully, that would set the game back in motion, and save the worlds.
Sooo... there! I have introduced one of my party of OCs, Ace Matrix. I wish to concede that my friend is real, and will jointly own half the OCs.
Till next time!