The war for Ivalice and the end of a legend
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Author's note: Over 450 views! Woohoo. This next chapter will conclude the sub arc about Ivalice and will reveal to all of you a few plot points. Now sit back and enjoy the end of this battle.
(Outside Rabanastre)
"Listen up you insects. Zemus has lost control and has changed into a monster. That means that now you listen to me alright," a 4 foot tall white humanoid with purple areas on his head, arms, and torso said in a cold and calculating voice.
"But Frieza aren't we supposed to see if Zemus has lost control and isn't just flying around laying waste to Rabanastre just for the hell of it," one of the high ranking generals in the army asked in a fear filled voice.
Frieza pointed his finger at the man. Cold sweat dripped off the man's scar covered face as he got on his knees and started begging Frieza for mercy. The man started crying as Frieza just stared at him with a look of amusement on his face.
"What's your name again general?" Frieza asked as he put his finger down.
"Avery... my name is Avery Smith my liege," the general said as the fear striking his body made his graying hair stand up.
"Tell me Avery what world do you come from and do you have any family?" Frieza asked calmly.
"I...I come from one of the Earth's. I have a wife, 2 children, and a grandchild on the way," Avery said as he tried to make himself look smaller but since he was over a foot taller than Frieza this was difficult.
"And why did you join our army Avery?" Frieza asked as his red eyes seemed to pierce into Avery's soul.
"I was promised my family would be spared and we would live under the rule of your group sir," Avery said as he started realizing where the conversation was headed.
Frieza pulled out what seemed to be a headset with a red screen that would go over the eye of the user and said into it "Note to self, eliminate the family of Avery Smith for defiance against me."
Avery stood up and pulled out his sword and tried to strike Frieza while yelling "You won't hurt my family you son of a bitch!"
The sword hit Frieza's neck but didn't cut it. As Avery looked at Frieza he saw Frieza's finger point at his heart.
"The death of a traitor is always enjoyable. I'll make sure to send your family your body before I execute them for treason," Frieza said before a beam shot out of his finger and went through Avery's chest.
Avery stumbled for a moment before he fell onto the ground dead from a beam through the heart. Frieza looked the body for a moment before turning away from it and back to the troops.
"Any more imbeciles wanting to die trying to question my orders?" Frieza asked in a voice tinged with some anger.
No one spoke up even though some wanted to defy him. None were willing however to risk fighting the powerful alien.
"Good. Now we attack Rabanastre. Capture only those that wish to work for us. All others you kill on sight. If you see a dirty Saiyan monkey, a young woman in a red dress, or that pesky dark god you contact me immediatly. I want to kill them myself understood. If any of those three are injured when I see them then you all die understood?" Frieza commanded.
"Yes Lord Frieza," the army said before marching on Rabanastre. Assorted monsters joined them as all together they formed an army of over a million strong warriors all ready to take the last surviving civilization of Ivalice.
(Royal Palace: 6 hours earlier)
Vaan looked at Penelo. Both of them were wearing heavy armor and had their best weapons ready to fight what may be their last battle. They were however ready to die fighting. Vaan felt like he had to say something to Penelo before what was likely going to be the end for them.
"Penelo in case we die here I wanted to say that I wouldn't trade any of the time we have had together for anything," Vaan said as a tear ran down his face.
"Vaan... I feel the same way. And we won't die here. We have defeated gods before we can handle whatever Zemus has to throw at us," Penelo said with a sad smile on her face.
"Oh look at the two little lovebirds sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I... OW!" the younger Dante said as he ran up to him before getting punched in the back of the head by the older looking Dante.
"Shut up my student. You just ruined a nice touching scene between those 2. You will have to do one thousand push ups after we are done with this," the older Dante said.
Before anybody else could speak Ashe and Basch walked behind Vaan and Penelo. They had their best weapons out and were ready for war. Basch had a great sword while Ashe had a sword and shield. The group was almost complete and were ready to battle against the forces of evil. However before they could strategize Meteors rained down all over Rabanastre from a giant spiked ball floating through the air. A giant airship crashed into a part of Rabanastre and took out a large chunk of the city. As the area where the ship crashed was the area where the survivors of the battles were. They ran towards it and tried to save any others.
(Present)
Vaan wiped ash off of his forehead as he tried to desperatly move more rubble out of the way. So far they had only found 25 survivors. There was 7 children, 12 men, and 6 women. All the others they had found had either died from the impact, the explosion, the fires afterwords, the rubble crushing them, or from lack of oxygen under the rubble. Vaan heard a voice from under some nearby rubble and hurried trying to save the person.
After removing the rubble he saw a young woman with the skin of her chest blown off. He could see her lungs moving beneath the rib cage and could see she was barely holding on to life.
"Kill me. Kill me please. The pain. Make it stop," she said as she was breathing heavily and was pained by each breath she took.
Vaan tried to heal her with Cure spells yet all it managed to do was make her stop hurting so much.
"Thank you...," she said before she died from blood loss.
Vaan pulled out a orange feather and was about to use it when a meteor hit the body and more rained down around them. Vaan ran towards his friends and tried to take cover. High above them was Zeromus who wasn't even aiming at them and was just trying to destroy more of Rabanastre. After a few minutes the meteor shower left as the shape of Zeromus floated away from them. As they tried to catch their breath a voice came from nearby.
"You have been handling Zeromus have you? What is your names?" Cecil said as him and his group walked to them.
"Who are you?" Vaan asked.
"Cecil, Kain, Rosa, Edge, and Rydia," Cecil said pointing at each member of his group.
"Rydia... would you like to come with me and maybe... ow!" the younger Dante said while trying to hit on Rydia before Edge smacked him.
"Our names are Vaan, Penelo, Ashe, Basch, Dante, and that idiot is Dante," Vaan said.
"Vaan... I need to teach you something," Cecil said as he took out a small blue crystal.
"What? We just met and the city is going to pieces. What do you need to teach me," Vaan asked.
"A way to kill Zeromus. Supposibly me and my friends and family here are not going to survive this so we need to teach you how to defeat him," Cecil said in a voice filled with doubt.
"Zeromus? That's what that monster flying around is. Must be under Zemus's control," Vaan said in a voice filled with spite.
"That is Zemus. We killed him but his rage brought him back to life as Zeromus," Cecil said as the younger Dante started getting beaten by Edge for attempting to seduce Rydia.
"Alright. How does something like that happen? I mean you killed him and you are acting like this has happened before," Vaan said in a confused voice. Rydia and Edge were beating in the younger Dante's head in for touching nearby Rydia's waist.
"We have dealt with him before. We killed him back in our world quite a few years back and became Zeromus. He is hatred itself given life. Only the crystal's light can render him vulnerable," Cecil said as the younger Dante was about to grab Rosa's leg. Kain stabbed his hand and kicked his face in. Cecil walked up to the younger Dante and stomped his spine.
"Let him live ok. If we don't die in the war then you can go all out on him ok," the older Dante said in a upbeat and optimistic tone.
They stopped beating on the younger Dante and took a few steps away from him. Cecil looked at Vaan and put his hand on his shoulder.
"You need to use this crystal on Zeromus by concentrating on your light and letting the crystal fill with your light. Then you throw it onto Zeromus and it will morph him into a solid form that is grotesque. After that you must defeat him understood," Cecil said in a grave voice.
"Alright. Why do you trust me to do this?" Vaan asked in confusion.
"I told him to," Inako said from nearby the group as he walked towards them with two people in brown cloaks.
"Why? And who are those people with you?" Vaan asked.
"I have my reasons and these two people are my secret weapon. There is about a million of our enemies marching on the city. We need to evacuate these last few survivors to The Strahl and my airship. I am currently modifying The Strahl to be capable of travel between worlds," Inako said as he paced around the group.
"Alright. Everyone who is evacuating come with me and Basch. Everyone else can you buy us some time by holding off some of the soilders," Ashe said as she took command of the situation.
The surviving civilians followed Ashe while she and Basch prepared to start moving.
"Where are the airships Inako?" Ashe asked.
"I have them at the Royal Palace gates. You have less than 5 minutes till the army gets here. Go now," Inako said pointing towards the Palace.
Ashe, Basch and the civilians ran towards the palace as the remaining heroes started discussing strategy.
"Look you go to the palace next as we hold them off ok. Make sure those civilians get off this world. Vaan we are trusting you to do this ok," Cecil said.
"Alright. Penelo come with me once we head there," Vaan said as he pulled out a rifle and looked over the corner. A large army of human soliders, Malbaros, skeletons, zombies, and large mechs.
"Everybody we head to the palace in groups of 2 ok. Go every minute and we might survive," Inako said as Vaan fired and hit a Malbaro in the mouth. It didn't kill it but it did damage it.
The final battle for Ivalice has begun.
Vaan put away his rifle and pulled out his katana "Masamune" and got into a combat stance.
"Firaga," Penelo said as a large stream of fire came from her hand and hit the area in between Vaan and the army. A wall of fire shot up giving them some time.
"Aero," one of the soliders said as a ball of air blew the fire out. All the fire had done was made the army stop for a moment.
Penelo got into her combat stance with her spear ready to stab anything that got close. The younger Dante and the older Dante walked up behind them and opened fire with their pistols. The older one aimed at the monsters only as the younger one aimed at the humans. The army went for cover as they pulled out bows to fire on them.
"Its your turns to go. Now hurry," the Dantes said.
Vaan and Penelo started running towards the palace as the Dantes started taking out the enemies one by one. The bow users fired and managed to hit the older Dante in the heart. He looked at the arrow for a moment and laughed.
"Haha. That tickled a bit," he said as he charged at them with his sword Rebellion and started cutting their bows. He was about to punch one of them out when a bullet hit between his eyes.
"No killing the humans," the older Dante said as he ran back towards his younger self and punched him so hard he knocked him out instantly. The older one turned towards the army and tried to hold them off for a longer time. A blast of holy light hit some of the monsters as a blast of blue energy hit into the army. The two figures in brown cloaks walked to them and said in emotionless voices "Go now."
Dante got the feeling that these two were extremely powerful yet enslaved. He walked in front of one of them and took off the hood. It was a young woman with blonde hair and grayed out without pupils. She had a simple silver crown on her head that seemed to be glowing slightly. Dante looked at it for a moment before grabbing part of it and pushed down on it. It broke and the girl's eyes changed color and she regained her pupils.
"What? Why am I here? No not again," she said as she saw the parts of the crown land in front of her.
"I don't know but I would recommend getting your friend out of here," Dante said before a black fireball hit him in the face.
"You idiot! These two aren't easy to have yet you just ruined my plan. Now we have half the firepower we need. Don't you dare take that crown off of him Terra," Inako yelled.
"He needs help. You can't control us any more," Terra yelled before taking the hood off of the other figure. He had black spiky hair, and eyes without anything but white areas.
"Thunder," Terra said as a small shock of electricity hit the crown and fried its circuits. It then broke into two parts that hit the ground with a light clang. Inako grew darker before he calmed down.
"Terra... you know I need both of you or else my plan will fail. I treated you better than Kefka right? Hell I even gave you freedom when not on a mission. So either put those crowns back on or I will force them on and not give you any freedom at all," Inako said before he got hit in the back with a few holy arrows courtesy of Rosa.
"You won't enslave anyone dark one. I see why we aren't supposed to trust you," Rosa said readying her bow to hit him in the head.
"Why do you hate me so much? The ends justify the means in this situation. I need to save all of existence. So what if I break a few eggs? In the end survival is worth any sacrifice," Inako tried to justify to them.
"Holy!" Terra yelled as six orbs of holy energy hit Inako in the head and knocked him back. The soldiers came ever closer as they pulled out their swords and readied for close combat.
"Stop!" Frieza's voice came from the center of the army.
"Oh shit," Inako said before aiming his hand at Terra and Goku.
"I send you to a world without day. There you will sleep for three weeks before awakening without any memory of this battle and the people you have met here," Inako chanted as a dark orb covered Terra and Goku before it disappeared along with them.
"Where did you send them Inako?" Dante asked.
"I will tell you once you and your younger version of yourself get to your ship. I already told you the situation. I have two options for you. One is you go and continue with my plan and help save the universe from The Void while helping convince Goku and Terra to work with me. The other is for you to take your younger form and leave. Which will it be Dante?" Inako asked as Frieza saw the lack of Goku and Terra.
"You killed the monkey before I could. You also killed one of our tools. Dark god, you will die for that!" Frieza said as he held his hands above his head.
"They don't have enough time to get out of here Inako. You have doomed us all with your slave crowns!" Dante yelled before pulling out his pistols and shooting at Frieza. The bullets his Frieza yet they caused no damage to the alien.
"We'll hold him off," Cecil's group said.
"Frieza is a powerful alien emperor. He is more powerful than Zeromus even. You will die in this battle. Are you still sure you want to fight him," Inako asked.
"If we die we will die saving innocents. It isn't a fight we will just lay down and die in. Just run on ahead and we will meet you at the Royal Palace in a few minutes," Kain said before throwing his spear at Frieza.
"What?" Frieza yelled once it smacked into him and made him drop his arms to his side.
Kain made his spear reappear in his hands before jumping high into the air.
"You fools honestly think you can beat me, Lord Frieza. I am on another plane of existence compared to you. Now die you fools," Frieza said before dodging Kain's jump attack.
Frieza wrapped his tail around Kain's neck and started choking him. Arrows from Rosa hit him and actually managed to sting him a bit thanks to their holy power. Frieza threw Kain at her and he collided with her and almost killed them both from the impact. Edge threw shurikens at Frieza as Dante carried his unconscious younger incarnation towards the palace. Inako smiled at Frieza before throwing Cecil a small black orb that pulsated with darkness.
"What is this?" Cecil asked as it seemed to be reaching towards Frieza.
"Dark matter. Hit Frieza with it and it will hurt him a lot. Like as much as your wife would hurt you if you tried to break up with her for Rydia," Inako said before ducking a swing of a sword to his head from Cecil.
"Shut up," Rydia and Cecil both said.
"If you are done annoying me and having your pathetic excuse for a sad farewell to each other I think I was killing you all," Frieza said before shooting a pink beam from his finger. It hit Edge in the chest.
"Edge!" Rydia yelled as she ran to Edge.
Edge stood still for a moment before he fell down dying.
"Edge stay with me. Cecil heal him," Rydia yelled as Edge was bleeding from the wound heavily.
Cecil ran up to them and was about to heal them when Frieza charged at them and smacked him aside with his tail. He turned his gaze towards Inako and smiled.
"You will die for betraying us dark god," Frieza said before he punched Inako into a nearby building.
"You were never supposed to be alive again. You should have stayed dead you monster," Inako said as he held onto his side as black blood flowed from it.
"I live again only thanks to you dark god. All of us live thanks to you and your own mistakes. Now I will repay the favor by killing you first," Frieza said while walking slowly towards him.
"Haha. Frieza I think you have me mistaken for some sort of hero. See you," Inako said as he faded into shadows leaving Frieza staring at the rubble.
"NO, NO, NO," Frieza yelled as he started attacking the rubble with beams.
"Curaja," Rosa said as she healed all of Cecil's group.
"You dirty ingrates. I'll kill you all for defying me and then I'll blow this world straight to hell," Frieza said as it seemed like something in his mind broke.
Before any of them could react Frieza broke Rosa's neck with one punch. He turned towards Kain and smacked him into the ground with his tail. Cecil hit him in the neck with his sword. The sword broke on impact as Frieza's red eyes glowed for a moment before beams shot out of them and hit Cecil in the head. Rydia hit him with her whip while Edge slashed at him rapidly. Frieza seemed to get pissed off from this.
Cecil's body hit the ground as he thought in his last moments about his family and how he had lost his world and son. It was in the catacombs on the moon were they had fought Zemus for the last time. What they had walked into was what was left and rotting of Ceodore and Cuore. Ceodore had bleed out from a slash to his throat and had his chest ripped open. His heart was out and was laying on the ground in front of him. Cuore was worse off. She had her tongue cut out, her eyes gouged out, and no skin left on her back. They had tried to revive them yet they had come too late. Memories of this and his rage flooded into Cecil as darkness flooded his heart. Frieza was part of the group responsible and had killed his wife.
Frieza kicked Edge into Rydia and ripped the whip off of his neck. He started walking towards them when a dark blast of energy hit him. Cecil was standing up as parts of his flesh were hanging off of his face. His armor turned half black as Cecil was giving into the darkness. Frieza looked at him for a moment before laughing at him. Cecil roared in anger and slashed at Frieza with both darkness and light. The hits gave Frieza a few scratches before Frieza counter attacked. He smacked Cecil to the ground.
"I'm going to kill you for killing my wife. Then Zeromus dies next. Then I'll take down all of your god forsaken group and make you suffer," Cecil said as his eyes turned darker.
"You know I think I don't need this any more. I'm just going to cut my losses here and blow this planet to kingdom come," Frieza said as he flew up into the air and charged a giant ball of energy. His soldiers ran in fear as some of the monsters started attacking them in the hopes that they would be given mercy from Frieza.
"Edge... this is the end," Rydia said as she held onto Edge in fear.
"Rydia... I love you. I'm sorry that we died this way. But hey we will get to see our family again," Edge said holding onto her and trying to reassure her.
"Die Frieza," Cecil said as he launched more orbs of energy at Frieza. The blows did nothing to him.
Kain stood up barely alive and was bleeding heavily. He jumped up at Frieza intending to hit him in the heart.
"Farewell fools," Frieza said as he launched the orange energy ball. It hit Kain in midair and vaporized him slowly as it descended onto them.
Near the Royal Palace the airships took off and left the atmosphere. Frieza didn't notice and was instead laughing at the deaths of his enemies. Cecil tried to attack Frieza yet all his attacks were absorbed by the giant death ball of energy. The ball hit Ivalice as Rydia and Edge kissed each other for the first and last time. The energy ball vaporized them and all the soldiers. Ivalice started glowing as pillars of fire shot out of the surface. The Void opened around the impact zone absorbing the rubble as Ivalice exploded leaving nothing left except for Frieza who was laughing like a mad man and Zeromus who was floating around just attacking with Meteors the rubble of Ivalice. After a few moments Zeromus and Frieza entered The Void and headed back to base.
(The Strahl: In the space high above where Ivalice once was)
Everyone on the ship felt tears falling from their eyes as they saw their home world explode.
"No, its over. Who did this?" a sky pirate dressed in leather armor said as he saw the world he loved in rubble. His name was Balthier.
"It must have been Zeromus. We need to hunt him down and kill him for this. For Ivalice!" Vaan said as tears streamed down his face.
"For Ivalice," Penelo and Ashe said.
"For Dalmasca," Basch said in a tearful voice.
"For all that died during this," Balthier said in a voice filled with rage.
"And for all that may die during this battle," a rabbit eared, dark haired woman who was sitting next to Balthier in a somewhat heavy accent.
"Zeromus must die," they all said together.
"I may be able to help you with that," Inako's voice came from behind them.
They all turned around and saw him with a small orange ball in his hands.
"Put this on your dashboard and follow it to the location provided. It will be a large spaceship that is a base of mine. Then if you wish to hunt down Zeromus then you will join my effort to defeat him. Once I get prepared I will send you his location and hopefully some help to defeat him once and for all. The same with Dante as well," Inako said before tossing the ball to Ashe and then fading away.
Ashe put it on the console of the ship and it opened up. A orange arrow pointing away from Ivalice appeared in it. They followed it and as it led them all the way to Inako's base the only thing on their mind was revenge. After 5 days they were almost out of food and water when they saw a giant silver orb with a docking bay. They flew into it as their fates were sealed. Now they were with Inako and under his control.
(Chapter end)
Author's note: The Ivalice sub arc is finished now. This story has over 450 views now and I thank all of you for reading. Thanks to The Unknowing Herald for reviewing. You should read his stories. I would reccommend Normalcy? Extremely Overrated. But before you do please review! Thank you.