Perspectives III: Betrayal

At Figaro castle the chancellor, Charles, was maintaining authority in Edgar's absence. The castle for the most part was well run with him, he had done the work countless times before. One of the guards approached him and quickly saluted. "Sir!" The guard stated. 2A dragon has been sighted in the airspace of Figaro,"

"A what!" Charles replied "Monitor the situation for now. It would be wrong to act in violence against something that has not attacked us,"

"Yes sir!" The soldier responded before marching back to his post.

Bahamut Zero looked down on the humans in the castle. He was able to send an image of his witness to the Espers in the cavern. The espers leaned towards a pool of water which displayed the image. Thanks to them being espers, their magic powers deemed extermely useful.

Back at Figaro castle, the strange cloaked man that approached King Edgar earlier had approached the Chancellor. "Pleaseeeee," The figure murmured.

"What are you doing up here? This is restricted..."

"Pleaseeee you mussst help meeeee...," The hooded man interrupted.

Without warning, he held our a silver emblem attached to ribbon with the image of a mirror engraved upon it.

"Hey what are you...!"

"MIRROR! SHINE YOUR LIGHT" A great light consumed the room momentarily, causing the soldiers nearby to take note and rush to his aid.

Soldiers came running to his aid. Within moments the bright spark from the emblem had cleared. The chancellor stood there bewildered trying to comprehend. "What is this folley you're trying to play at!"The Chancellor cried in anger as the soldiers surrounded the hooded man "Take him away!"

"Yes sir!" The soldiers complied and dragged the criminal down the stairs . "NOOOOO! DON'T DO THIS! WHAT'S GOING ON!"

Another soldier came marching to Charles for more orders. "Sorry to be of bother sir, but is there any further action we should take?"

"Yes. Open fire."

"Sir, what?" The soldier looked surprised "But you just told the others to..."

"That's an order. We must protect our peoples interests in a safe world." Charles continued. His tone appeared more hostile than it was previously, perhaps the affliction to so many bad things in a single day had singed his good mood.

The soldier approached a cannon on the lower deck of the castle. Another looked at him and wondered what an earth he was doing. "Hey, we were given orders to...!"

"Seems that order was cancelled for whatever reason. Now the chancellor has ordered an attack. Spread the word to fire!"

"If you insist,"

It wasn't long until word spread around quickly. Bahamut Zero noticed the soldiers, who appeared to be ants from his altitude scuttling around as if they had boiling water thrown on them and were angry. Zanpaktezar began to grin. So the instruments do work.

Without warning, a bullet was fired from the machine guns of the castle fort, before Bahamut Zero could react, his wings were struck by several of them. It had been too long since he had felt pain, and a reminder of agony felt more painful than it normally would. His eyes widened in fear, his armour was proud, but it was not yet used to the impact after so many years in hibernation.

The espers were powerless to help. All they could do was watch as Bahamut tried his best to avert the other bullets, but with his wings damaged, he was losing altitude, and quickly. The image he was displaying them began to fade as he lost energy.

"Quickly! Dive Figaro castle!" Charles added.

"Yes Sir!"

The remaining soldiers on the rooftops took cover as the castle began to withdraw into the sands. The great fans pushed away the sand, allowing it to bury, avoiding the impact of the large esper.

"Bahamut Zero is strong, but like the rest of us still recovering magical energy and still very much vunerable. And that my friends is the moral of our story," Zanpaktezar announced.

Ifrit stumbled forward "ZANPAKTEZAR," he shouted "TELL US WHAT WE MUST DO,"

"First we need to retrieve Bahamut Zero from the sands of Figaro before he is harmed further in the state he is in,"

Shiva looked at in curiosity. You had this all planned out from the beginning, haven't you?