Death comes for us all one day
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this except for my OCs. Don't sue me! Damn I really need to find some way to make these interesting.
Author's note: Last chapter was an experiment to see if I could write a 1st person perspective and at the same time write it good. I shouldn't have experimented that much in this story and for that I apologize. If anyone liked that style please tell me so that it might be used in a future story. Now its time to get back on track since the last chapter handled a lot on what I needed to get done.
(In the skies over Rabanastre- Airship: Lunar Whale)
A group of 5 heavily armed and powerful warriors were staring down the blue skinned wizard Zemus. Each of these warriors had faced off with Zemus before and had managed to defeat him in his strongest form. These were heroes that had on multiple occasions saved their world from threats with the latest one being a battle against a being known as The Creator. Now they were a few years older and ready to avenge their home.
Each of these warriors had a unique place in their team that made them invaluable to the battle and in the end made this group one of the most powerful traveling parties to ever exist. Together any situation they encountered could be conquered. The leader of the group was a white haired man wearing white and blue armor, wielding a golden sword, was about 5' 10" tall, and was one of the strongest paladins to ever live. His name was Cecil Harvey: King of Baron, husband to Rosa, father of Ceodore (R.I.P.), and champion of the crystals. He had a look of utter hate and disgust at the sight of Zemus alive.
Standing to his right was his wife Rosa Joanna Farrell. She was wearing a long white robe, was wielding a bow made out of either blue crystal or was painted blue, was about 5" 4" tall, and was one of the best white mages to ever step foot onto the world. She was readying her bow to shoot Zemus between the eyes for killing her son Ceodore. To her right was Cecil's best friend, rival, and the only Holy Dragoon in existance. His name was Kain Highwind. He was wearing a set of white and blue armor, was wielding a white spear, was 6' tall, and had a look of anger on his face as he remembered all that Zemus had done.
To the left of Cecil was a young woman with green hair named Rydia. She was wearing a revealing green outfit (I won't describe it.), was carrying a whip, was 5' 8" tall, and was crying tears of rage and pain. Rydia was a powerful black mage and summoner. To her left was the last member of their team: the ninja king of Elban Edge Geraldine. He was 5' 9", had short silver hair, grey-blue and black armor, was wearing a grey cowl, was wielding twin ninja swords, and was trying to comfort Rydia. This group of warriors all had specific reasons why they wanted Zemus dead in the most horrible ways possible.
Cecil and Rydia lost their home, their son, most of their friends and family, and their planet. Kain lost most of the people he cared for and the world which he protected. Rydia lost a girl who was like a daughter to her, her hometown, her planet, and most of her loved ones. Edge lost his kingdom, most of his loved ones, his planet, and Zemus upset the woman he loves. All of them had a compulsion to kill Zemus is horrific ways yet none of them could shake the feeling that Zemus was planning on that and would use their feelings to his advantage.
"So Cecil how is your son? Ceodore wasn't it. Tell me did he ever heal from that cut to the neck I gave him," Zemus said as he enjoyed every moment of torturing Cecil and the others.
"I'm going to rip you head off!" Cecil screamed as tears streaked down his face at the mention of his son's death.
"You don't know how long I have wanted to hear you broken like this Cecil," Zemus said as he dodged a slash from Cecil.
"Just die you bastard," Cecil cried out as he tried to cut Zemus into pieces.
Zemus just teleported out of his range and said "What about you Rosa? You lost just as much as Cecil, yet you don't even try to attack me. You must have hated your son then."
Rosa shot an arrow meant for Zemus's head as he said this. Zemus smiled and teleported out of the way to another part of the airship's deck. Rosa was crying from the memories of her son's slow and painful death caused by Zemus.
"Kain Highwind, my old minion. Tell me how do you feel knowing that you couldn't save anyone you cared about and will be alone until the end of your life? No one loves you, no one cares if you live or die, in the end you will always return to darkness. So why not join my side in this conflict and cast aside all your pretentious redemption talk and give in to what we both know is the real you," Zemus said to Kain in a charasmatic voice.
Kain responded by throwing his spear at Zemus and managing to hit him in the gut. Kain's spear glowed for a moment before it returned to his hands. Before he could attack Zemus again Zemus telported to another spot on the deck.
"No matter Kain. This wound is nothing compared to what I did to that little girl. What was her name again? Cuore was it? The poor girl screamed for her uncle Edge and her aunt Rydia. The poor thing. In the end I told her that they were never going to come for her since she was just a pathetic tool that they could throw away like a piece of used paper. Her last words were "Rydia, Edge... they wouldn't do that. They wouldn't." I cut her tounge out after that," Zemus said enjoying Rydia's and Edge's anger.
"You son of a bitch, I'll rip you throat out and burn your corpse. You will die for killing Cuore!" both Edge and Rydia said at the same time before attacking.
Edge threw large shurikens at Zemus before running up to him to cut him to ribbons. Rydia launched fireballs at the same time at him before trying to whip him in the eyes. Zemus countered with Blizzard spells to hit the fireballs and the shurikens. Then he teleported at the last moment so instead of Edge goring him and Rydia hitting him in the head, Rydia hit Edge in the back of the head.
"Ouch. Rydia!" Edge said as he held the back of his head which was bleeding slightly. The red blood stood out against his silver hair.
"Sorry Edge. I didn't mean to hit you. This time you throw something first and I'll smack hit in the face," Rydia said feeling a bit guilty she had only managed to hit Edge.
"Fools, you honestly think you can overcome my infinite darkness. All will fall to my group and in the end I will rule them all in The Void as life itself is snuffed out for good," Zemus said before launching a fireball at the royal palace managing to accidentally hit Inako in the head.
"Guys get into positions. If we fight smart we can kill this bastard," Cecil said taking command of the situation.
The 5 warriors got into position. Cecil and Kain took the front while Edge, Rydia, and Rosa stood in the back. Zemus stood on the opposite side of the ship and grew darker. He opened his cape and stood tall ready to fight the heroes.
(Battle with the 4 fiends: Final Fantasy 4)
Cecil went first and slashed at Zemus. The sword hit his cape and only managed to cut it a bit. Zemus went next and hit Cecil back with a fire spell. Kain attacked with his spear and hit Zemus in the gut. Zemus countered with the spell Aeroga. Kain got flung back into Cecil which knocked them both to the ground.
"Curaga," Rosa said. White orbs appeared above them and let out white dust that healed Cecil and Kain.
"Bahamut," Rydia yelled. A large gray dragon appeared from the air above Rydia and opened its mouth. A large blast of gray fire shot out of its mouth and hit Zemus.
Zemus backed up trying to put himself out when Edge started throwing large Shurikens. Zemus was stabbed in many vital areas from the hits. He yelled in pain and started turning darker.
Zemus started unleashing as many spells as possible. After his assault the heroes were nearly dead from the magical onslaught. They all looked at each other and nodded all having the same idea. Rydia and Rosa started preparing to cast spells, Edge reached into his pocket and prepared to throw more Shurkians, Kain jumped high into the air and aimed his spear so he would land on Zemus, and Cecil charged in with his sword.
"This is our strength and revenge for all our friends and family. The Final Fantasy," they all said as they all unleashed their abilities. (I did not make up the attack name. These 5 in FF4: The After Years can do this and this move is amazing.) Cecil slashed at Zemus managing to cut his neck. He jumped back as Kain landed and stabbed Zemus in the skull. Kain got out of the way for Edge to throw his Shurikens into Zemus's body. Rydia then set him on fire while Rosa healed them all. Zemus fell down and died from the wounds.
(End Battle with the 4 fiends)
(Victory Fanfare- FF4)
The heroes wiped their brows of sweat and prepared to get over to the royal palace when Zemus started glowing with dark power. Zeromus in his giant spiky ball form appeared and before they could react knocked Rosa off the airship.
(Begin Zeromus by The Black Mages)
Cecil stood dumbstruck for a moment before Zeromus used the spell Meteor to bring down the airship. Kain grabbed his friends and jumped onto a nearby rooftop. The Lunar Whale airship hit Rabanastre and took out a large chunk of the city. Cecil looked for the crystal that could weaken Zeromus when he saw that a small blue glitter from it as it fell from the falling Lunar Whale and hit the ground. Zeromus started casting Meteor and managed to destroy the building they were on. As they crashed through the building as it collapsed each one had different thoughts.
"I'm sorry Cuore," Rydia thought.
"I failed everyone," Kain thought.
"It can't end like this," Edge thought.
"Rosa, Ceodore. I will see you soon," Cecil thought.
(End Zeromus by The Black Mages)
Each one hit the ground hard. Kain managed to land relatively safely on his legs but the falling rubble broke many of his bones and trapped him under a few hundred pounds of rubble. Edge landed on a railing and broke his spine. Rydia hit next to Edge and broke her ribs. She passed out from the pain instantly. Cecil got off somewhat lucky. He hit a few beams on the way down so he hit the ground and managed to hit a wooden table. It was smashed from the impact of his body yet he was conscious. Zeromus was floating around the city destroying more of it as a harbringer of death.
Cecil staggered and started healing his allies and fixing their bones. As his allies were unconscious from either pain or exhaustion Cecil had to look for Rosa himself. He walked outside and saw the city of Rabanastre in ruins and on fire. He started walking around and saw that the streets had bodies in certain areas of civilians who were caught in the battle for the city. After a few minutes of walking around in the city he saw his lovely wife's body broken in the middle of the street. He broke down in front of her and started crying.
Cecil started healing her and used a Phoenix Down to revive Rosa. He felt for her pulse and felt a very faint one. He smiled and picked her up and carried her back to the building where his other allies were sleeping. Once Cecil had them all laying down in an area clear of rubble he passed out from exhaustion. As he slept he had nightmares about what Zeromus was doing and would do. In his sleep he grabbed his wife and held her as fear entered into his heart.
(Kain's dreams)
Kain was in an empty town with a monocromatic color scheme to it. He was walking around looking for his friends. There was no blood, no bodies, no evidence people had ever lived in the town except for the fact that it was clean. He found a piece of a gray crystal in his search. As he picked it up he heard a cold voice in his head.
"Kain... you are destined to die in this world. No one in your group will survive this battle. However if you do a few certain things you will return after the battle is done," the voice said in a strangely sad voice.
"What is it? I don't want to have my friends die. Tell me now please," Kain asked.
"You must teach this young man Vaan the things that will allow him to beat Zeromus. His destiny will involve fighting and defeating Zeromus. The group that Zeromus is a part of will destroy the universe if they can't be stopped. There is a chance to save the universe from The Void. Remember to not trust the dark one. He lies," the voice said as it slowly grew quieter and quieter.
Kain woke up sweating and noticed that Rydia and Edge were holding each others hands in their sleep to his right. On his left side was Cecil and Rosa hugging each other in their sleep as well. Kain stood up as he was in pain and stood guard over them.
(Cecil's dreams)
Cecil was standing up to Zeromus without any weapons or armor. He looked to his left and he saw Rosa kissing Kain while Rydia and Edge were bleeding to death from arrows in the back. Cecil tried to cast a healing spell to help them but instead of healing them with white light it started burning them with purple and black fire. Cecil looked at his hand and noticed as black armor slowly formed over his arm. Cecil looked at it in fear as Zeromus spoke.
"You are mine now like you should have been from the beginning my servant Cecil Harvey," Zeromus's dark and hate filled voice said.
"No, no, no," Cecil said as he saw darkness cover him and consume him.
"Child ignore the nightmare. We both know it isn't real. So stand up and fight Cecil," Rosa's voice said through the darkness.
Cecil started glowing white as the darkness faded off his body revealing him in his paladin armor. He pulled out a his gold sword and prepared to attack Zeromus as the dream versions of his friends and family faded away and returned as normal. He struck down Zeromus by stabbing him in his head. After Cecil did this a voice spoke again.
"Cecil... you need to help save the universe from the infinite power of The Void. Zeromus will win this world however 6 individuals must survive or else all will die. Save Vaan, Penelo, Ashe, Basch, Balthier, and Fran. Without them Zeromus will slay one of the only hopes for the universe. Don't trust the dark one no matter what he says," the voice said in a warm and friendly voice.
Before Cecil could say anything his dream ended. He woke up and he saw Kain staring at them as Rosa was talking to him. Cecil stood up and walked towards them to join in the conversation.
Once he started speaking to them they told him what was going in their dreams.
"So something is wanting us to not help a dark creature and to instead find 6 people and teach whoever Vaan is how to kill Zeromus," Rosa said.
"Seems like it," Cecil said in a depressed tone.
As they prepared to wake up their friends some footsteps echoed behind them. Cecil, Kain, and Rosa got out of their weapons and ready to fight whoever it was.
A dark figure wearing black knight's armor walked up to them and said "My name is Inako. I am a god like being who controls darkness. I am also your only hope. As a symbol of friendship I think you would like this."
Inako touched his armor as a small blue crystal came out of the shadows that make up his armor. Cecil looked at Inako with a mixture of distrust and interest.
"How did you find this," Kain asked.
"I found it while walking around this destroyed city. I need you to help my group to save the world from The Void," Inako said.
"The Void..," they said as all had heard the term in their dreams.
"If you wish to save the universe and get back all your friends and family you will meet me at the royal palace in 5 hours," Inako said before fading away into the shadows.
"So what do we do Cecil? We can't trust him yet he might help us save the universe. Do you have an idea on what to do," Rosa asked.
Cecil stood in silence.
(Chapter end)
Author's note: The end is next chapter. For real. This was the last I needed to do and I hope to have made it my best chapter yet. If any charecters are out of charecter... well I never said I am good at writing people in charecter. Also I want some suggestions on music to use in the final chapter of this first arc. Any suggestions and reviews are welcomed along with criticism. Also go read stories made by The Unknowing Herald. He is a good writer and I enjoy his work and his help with telling me how to improve this story. Thank you and have a good night. Also this is the longest chapter and this is for the over 400 views this story has gotten so far. Thank all of you, my readers.