Here is a little segment of my first chapter: Chapter 1 of The Brothers Grimm: Slade's side, Why do I feel like I should hear an 'I told you so.'?
EDIT: Worked out a few kinks, still working on Deadpan29's suggestions. Only really worked on the very beginning, and took a stab at describing Kamahri Ronso in more detail.
EDIT 2: Worked it a little more, I took Foxboy's advice, and changed things a little in the beginning to let it read better.
EDIT 3: Fixed a few things, made it flow a little better, and changed the sandstone to limestone at Blackaeronaut's suggestion.
EDIT 4: The destruction sphere is really a Besaid Sphere, I would recognizance this, and use it for something else. Also, one of my brother's pointed out that the only damage we see done on the temple inside the trials section of any temple is done by spheres, and the previous damage from other summoners in the past are never there. The temple would repair, rather quickly, any damage I do without a sphere, because that is breaking the rules of the puzzle. In other words, the wall I busted though would seal itself back up, buying me more time that I need to get the real destruction sphere.
The only reason why I was able to get though the wall is because I knocked out the Pedestal, where the wall is not meant to repair.
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The last thing I remember was joking with my brother Spenser about the Princess Mononoka movie. We were in the back of Scrappy; Scrappy can't hold all five of us in the front cab. It can hold four, but not comfortably. I was drinking a grape soda and holding a rarity for me in Japan, a Butterfinger. I was laughing, I would rarely laugh out loud for any length of time, Spencer is damn good at trolling.
My Butterfinger was a lost cause three seconds later, the reason for the tragic loss of my butterfinger was due to gravity taking a rather unexpected hold on me. I came crashing to the ground, trying to catch myself from falling. I made contact with the hard surface underneath me, which I noted was a stone floor a half second later.
On the bright side, I somehow managed to jam my left pinky finger while trying to catch myself from falling....Bye bye Butterfinger, hello sore finger…At least I managed to save my soda. I thought to myself sarcastically. I sat upright to get my bearings. I knew already what happened, my instincts told me all I needed to know in that moment.
I jumped.
“Fuck.” I muttered, looking around the room to try and get a hint at where I was. Spencer and I were joking about going to Princess Mononoke, so the concept of jumping was not out of the question. To have it happen however…Let’s just say panic was rising.
At first glance, I was in a stone room, the walls were brown and gray with torches for lightning on the walls and just sitting on the floor. In a vain attempt to stay calm, I took a sip of my soda, while rubbing my pinky finger, thinking various less then pleasant thoughts towards whatever sent me here. I mentally noted that the ceiling looked rather plain, I was in a stone structure of some sort.
I was about to stand up, when something touched my throat. I looked down, and dropped my soda There was the tip of a blade at my throat, I saw large blue legs and a stick connected to the blade, my eyes followed the apparent spear, and I blinked upon discovering who held my life in their hands. The surprise was evident on my features, because this shouldn't have happened. I blinked again, realizing what was going on, knowing I shouldn’t have
even been surprised. “Right.” I said, wondering why this was happening to me. Skuld mentioned that the other guy only went to anime's, but we didn't jump like he did.
The fellow holding this very sharp blade was a large blue cat man. And when I mean large, I mean around or even bigger than the average size of a football linebacker. The Catman was large, blue, furry, had the base of a horn on his
forehead, elf ears that were somehow thickly round at the tips, was
barely dressed, and carried a lance. This was Kamahri Ronso, guardian of
Yuna, future leader of the Ronso.
“Don’t move.” I heard to my left, I held still, getting a good look at the cat person in front of me. Anything with that many straps and metal rings should be fetish gear, but he made it work as normal attire.
“Final…wait, no…who would be stupid enough to put me HERE?” I muttered to myself, not believing what was happening. That rat bastard ROB put me in Final Fantasy 10. That proves this guy is a rat bastard. Well, at least to everyone, not just to me. I was snapped out of my mental glee when the blade came closer to my neck. Then again, this might not be such a good thing.
“Ok, no need for that.” I said, raising my hands up in a surrendering motion. I noted the slightly smug look on Kamahri’s face at my sudden change from glee to very concerned. All cats are like this, smug little fuckers. I heard a hum from the voice to my left, and I tried to look ever so
slightly. I could see a black form to my left, humanoid, but that was
not what was on my mind.
“So you are going to cooperate?" SHE, I noted based off her voice, asked slowly and calmly. Cooperate? This women obviously never came across a guy that didn't bend so easily. She WAS intimidating, in a certain respect when you knew she could quite literally fry your balls. "Good. That save's us some trouble. Now tell us what are you doing here?” The person to my left asked. This was Lulu, Black Mage and Emo of Final Fantasy 10. This was going to be FUN. (Sarcasm alert!)
“Sight seeing.” I joked, but on the inside I was about ready to run away, this chick was one tough customer, and Kamahri was even tougher. Ok, I have to get out of this life threatening situation. I immediately started to think of a plan, while paying attention to Lulu and Kamahri. I only had to think this fast while multitasking a few times in my life, and I needed a mental break after each time. I was going though each time Kamahri was alone with Lulu, to find out WHERE I was in Spira, that was done rather quickly.
The only place that looked like this, and had them together alone was in the very beginning of the game, thus in Basaid, and Thus in time to fuck everything up beyond all recognition, and save the world in the process. Ok, I have to answer there questions for now.
Now that I had a chance for further study, I noticed that the room was rather dark, regardless of the torches. The stone walls were very ornamented with cloth, and they were only slightly more artistic then the carved stone walls. The fire lighting, both purple and orange, gave a strict feel to the room. Not exactly a place you would want to hang out all the time, regardless of the artwork.
“You are not meant to be here. Tell us why you have come down here, and how.” Lulu said, as I noted that Kamahri put his lance closer to my throat in a very threatening manner. I tightened up, not too happy about my situation. I noted that if I kept on going from happy to tense, I was going to have a heart attack.
“Yeah, understatement of the year.” I muttered, then spoke up to answer her question. “I am here because some asshole put me here for no real reason, and I got here by some advanced form of inner dimensional tech or magical babble.” I summed up, Lulu obviously did not understand most of it, and I practically felt the cold coming off of her.
“Who put you here? And Why?”Lulu asked in a cold, yet calm, tone. Kamahri lowered his lance from my neck at a gesture from Lulu. I rubbed my throat, at least I wasn’t dead. I thought to myself sarcastically, and in a bit of anger, I gave an Lulu my answer.
“The fucking tooth fairy.” I said, perfectly serious, that was as good of an answer as any. All for I know it was a random thing that happens to some people. Anyway, knowing that these guys are mary sues, they would let me go if they do not understand. "As for why, he probably sent me here to offer the two of you this awesome dental program, black mages get half off, and we have special cases for Psychlo's. You ARE kinda like Psychlo's with blue skin and a horn, right?" I asked Kamahri, who in turn gave me a glare, letting me know that that was not the correct answer. I probably shouldn't have mentioned the horn. He is ashamed that his horn broke, and that is why he is quite all of the time.
“Lies.” He stated, pointing his lance at me again, making me remembered WHAT Kamahri is. I raised my hands slowly to show I was not a threat, and wanted to bash my head in for my mistake. Too much snark, too quickly.
“Right, forgot that your nose might be a lie detector.” I mutter, and look up to see the Ronso hiding a slight smirk. Right, cat ears. He clearly heard me say that. I cleared my throat, after giving this a quick moment of thought. The truth, but not the whole truth.
“I have an idea, but I am not sure about it.” I stated, and Lulu sighed, and waved her hand at Kamahri. Kamahri gave a slight growl, but lowered his lance.
“Are you going to continue being vague? Or are you going to explain yourself.” I turned to her, and got my first good look at her.
She was in nothing but black cloth in a sort of dress with a corset outside of her dress, and a large cut out on the lower to middle front end of her dress that would have shown her legs and other areas if not for the black leather straps under where the dress would have been. The straps were arranged in such a way that they showed bits of her stockings and inner thigh without revealing anything. Her outfit had white fur lining the top of her outfit, and white patterns on the outer edges of her clothing, wore two necklaces a set of earrings, and two large hair needles in her hair. She had long black hair, and looked slightly more athletic then what she looked like in the games, but she was still...well endowed.
My eyes were locked with Lulu’s dark brown eyes for but a split second. I’ll worry about her later. I thought to myself, and tried to figure out how to get out of this predicament. Obviously Lulu was the type that tried to figure out things, so my original plan was not going to work.
I looked around quickly, forming a plan in my head. There was a short hallway to my right, and stairs to my left, the stairs led to the summoning chamber, where Yuna was trying desperately to become a summoner.
“This is a Guardian chamber, in the Besaid temple, right?” I asked, trying to buy myself time. Lulu nodded her head, and asked me a question.
“You didn’t know that already?” She arched an eyebrow. I said nothing, I knew, but not for the reasons she would think. Ok, a person could only be down here for three known reasons, if you’re a summoner, a guardian, or logically, if you’re maintaining the place.
“I’m a traveler with more flier miles then I would care to count.” I deadpan, but continue. “I am not going to go into details you wouldn’t understand, but let’s just say I am not from Spira.” Kamahri gave me a look, examining my face. I know I was just prompted to explain.
“Do you know about other worlds?” I asked, taking a leap of faith. PLEASE, whatever being that has been fucking with me, let them have a little bit of knowledge, or at least vague mythology. The Ronso was silent, as if digesting this bit, while Lulu was not amused.
“Other worlds?” She asked, on edge.
“Do you know of other worlds, at least the ones made by the far plane?” I asked, hoping for an answer. Surprisingly, it was Kamahri who answered.
“Death. The place where souls go when souls die permanently.” Kamahri said, giving me a concerned look, apparently he thought I was telling the truth so far. I was, so Kamahri was not sure of himself.
“Good, so there is another world you know of. Now, I am not from that world, or this one, I am from another world, one without the presence of Pyraflies, one you never heard about.” I claimed, and Kamahri shared a look with Lulu.
“I do not know what is going on, but he is clearly out of his mind.” Lulu said, and I felt rather irritated when she said that, but that irritation disappeared when I remembered that I debate on Spacebattles. She had a slight point, but for the wrong reasons.
I thought about arguing with her, when suddenly Kamahri puffed his chest into the air in an over exaggerated manner.
“Uhhh...what are you doing?” I asked, almost afraid to ask.
“No pyraflies.” Kamahri said, his eyes wide and full of shock.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked, not following what he was talking about.
“Kamahri, what do you mean?” Lulu asked, taking a step closer to Kamahri.
“No pyraflies...no soul.” Kamahri said, pausing, then continuing. “Everything is made of pyraflies…except for the realm of death.” He tried to explain, utterly confused. I just sighed, and tried to explain.
“Like I have already said, I am from another world. My world is completely different then Spira, even on the spiritual level. Pyraflies do not exist where I am from.” I said, and Lulu scoffed in disbelief.
“I do not understand…but you speak truth.” Kamahri said, growling a little. Kamahari just studied me. I shifted uncomfortably, regardless of popular opinion, a stone floor is not comfortable. I was unfortunate to not be on the amazing, thick, throw down carpet a few feet away from me. Or that uncomfortable feeling was from a set of cat eyes staring down at me. I never liked it when cats would do that. I just wanted to move on, but I was stuck. I was at their mercy for now, I had to find a way out. Kamahri shook his head, eyes locked onto mine the whole time. I knew he was trying to read into my persona, to feel my every emotion, in order to know what I was about to do.
“Right.” I said, and Kamahri crinkled his nose. I wanted to get out of here, away from immediate danger. I was going to leave, screw the consequences.
“New smell?” Kamahri asked.
I was confused, did I stink? I took a bath five hours ago! I looked around, and my eyes locked onto the butterfinger. Damn, he really is like a cat. I picked it up, and smiled. I got up, stretching my legs and arms. I smiled in glee as I watched kamahri's eyes follow the candy bar. I tore off a bit, and offered it to the ‘kitty’.
“Don’t eat that!” Lulu snapped, and I scoffed.
“Its candy." I said in a are you kidding me tone. "Yeah, it’s been on the floor, but these floors look almost good enough to eat off of.” I retorted, and Lulu just folded her arms and shook her head, just watching with a look of disapproval. Kamahri took the piece cautiously, and took a good sniff of it. He gave it a wide eyed look, and put it near his mouth, then stopped, looking very tempted.
Kamahri looked from me to Lulu, and just took a little test lick of the chocolate. I took a breath, this was an opening, now to widen it.
“What is this?” He asked, lightly biting the chocolate and peanut butter goodness.
“Candy, a treat people eat on occasion.” Kamahri popped the whole chunk into his mouth and looked to me, demanding more. How he looked intimidating though the whole scene, I have no idea.
I lifted it in offering to Kamahri, and smirked. Right as Kamahri was about to grab it, I threw the candy bar at Lulu, Kamahri jumped after it in a rather overpowered jump. I didn’t watch what happened, but Lulu gave a rather loud yell in protest when the candy bar hit her face, and even louder when Kamahri knocked her over while trying to stop.
I ran down the hallway, and stopped near the end, eyes wide, heart beating rapidly. I was SOOOOO fucked. What the hell was wrong with the elevator!
“Kamahri!” I heard, and I turned slowly to Lulu glaring at me, and kamahri readying a throw with his lance.
I tensed up, hoping I was ready for what was t come. Kamahri threw his lance at me, I quickly realized he was aiming for my head. I managed to get out of the way, as I did I felt the lance come close to me, the sudden movement of air next to me, then I heard the unmistakable sound of metal breaking stone. I kept my eyes on the two. I then got an idea, and yelled out in a surprised tone.
“Lady Yuna!” Kamahri turned around, along with Lulu. Alright this thing has to be an elevator…I have to get it working.
I stood in the middle, and nothing happened. I didn’t remember an activation switch or anything like that. It dawned on me that I was just screwed, I had no chance in hell. When I turned around, back towards the two I just pissed off, I saw Lulu put an arm out for Kamahri to wait. She was holding a doll, and was shaking her arm. My eyes widened, and I jumped to left, diving away.
“BURN!” she said with slight venom, then she yelled out in shock. “It can’t be!” I dodged the spell, something that is almost never seen in final fantasy 10. I didn’t question how or why I was able to do that with my slow movements in comparison to these guys, I just knew I needed a weapon. I got up quickly, and jumped at Kamahri’s Lance, which was now poking out of the stone wall behind me. My eyes widened, as I sprang forward grabbing it. I could see why I made such a stupid choice. I needed a way to defend myself, but there was no way I could win that kind of fight.
I held the lance, it was a bit heavier than a shovel, and much longer. I held it in a defensive position, and Kamahri hesitated, and slowly started to walk towards me. I saw Lulu trying another spell, and I jumped to the right this time, managing to get out of the way of a shell of ice that formed where I was a moment ago. Kamahri started to walk faster, making me feel nervous.
The elevator suddenly started to move, and I heard Kamahri growl, and charge. I threw his lance right back at him, managing to hit his arm. He stopped for a moment, that moment I needed to let the elevator continue upwards. I just wanted to leave the place with my life, I was not sure what was going to happen.
My heart was beating hard, I clenched my fists, feeling the adrenaline enter into my system. This was the worst kind of rush, the one you get when things happen so fast your body didn’t react in time. Things slowed down ever so slightly, and I tried to loosen up. I took a deep breath, cursing myself. I hate the adrenaline rush from a fight that doesn’t get physical. Actually fighting is sometimes preferred over that spare rush.
I paused, and remembered that I did just stab Kamahri, so maybe it was physical, but it happened so fast…I waited for the elevator to stop, and I got off. I saw a large wall down the hallway, and I looked back at the elevator, and noticed the elevator was sealed.
It then clicked for me. When a new person enters the trials section, the tests reset. Wait...we don’t see that with Riku. Just with Tidus…I ignored it, and decided that if I was able to get up here, then so could Kamahri.
I shook my head, I don’t have time for this! How do I get past this wall? I ran towards it, and checked it out. I took note of the pedestal in it, and remembered that it was made to move. I was able to kick the lance out of the wall rather easily…
I heard the elevator move, and panic rose. With the leftover adrenaline from before, I started to frantically slam the pedestal, if I were in a more rational state of mind, I would have done it more efficiently, noting that this looks like limestone, easy to break.
I eventually broke the pedestal free, and quickly pushed the pedestal out of the way, creating an opening. I heard the elevator stop, and I felt dread. I had to escape. I pushed the Pedestal back in its hole. A crappy way of hiding what I did, but it would have to do.
I ran off to the left, and saw it was a dead end. “Fuck me.” I said, hearing the elevator rise. I ran to where the wall was, and huffed in anger, slamming my fist against the wall next to me in anger, I would have to leave the village, hide on the boat to get to Luca where I can hide out.
Suddenly the wall behind me that I just slammed my fist against was gone. I looked behind me, and saw something that might help me, a glowing light blue orb surrounded by purple light and some odd looking symbol. I realized what it was, it was a Besaid sphere. Maybe...I heard the elevator stop, and with a glance at the sphere, I needed that if I was going to get out of here or grab that destruction sphere. Either way, I needed it.
I grabbed the sphere, I heard Kamahri’s footsteps next to the wall, I ran to the wall with the sphere, and pulled it out, and ran back to the wall, and turned towards the exit, where I could here Kamahri "Your on the other side? How?" He growled.
It was then that I noted that the wall was repaired, and I was counting my blessings. I ran and down the hallway to what was now my left, away from the dead end. I was hoping the Besaid sphere can be used to activate the wall to get to the destruction sphere, the high grade explosive magic orb. I figured that if I threw the destruction sphere hard enough at the wall
next to Kamahri, it might blow up. THAT should hurt him enough to give
me a fighting chance...
I pressed the orb to the wall, and my hopes came crashing down. Nothing happened. I pulled it out, and decided that leaving was best, I would just charge straight though everyone, after all, Wakka was doing blitzball practice, so no one would really stop me, just like how no one tried to stop Tidus from entering the chamber in the game. I ran quickly to the door at the end of the hallway, and slammed on it.
"COME ON!" I yelled, the door was sealed. I too a deep breath, and put the sphere in the slot on the door. I smiled, the door started to open. Once open, I pulled the sphere out, and took off towards the stairs ahead of me. I went up one stair case, when I heard a long drawn out roar. I looked towards where Kamahri would be, and shuttered. He would hunt me down for using his own lance on him like that. I then saw another sphere, and everything just clicked for me.
I had to kill or disable Kamahri Ronso, or I was doomed to being beaten by that mass of muscle, then most likely religiously persecuted, perhaps tortured by the yevon community. I tunred back to the exit, I had no way of defeating him, so I had to do something, maybe swim out to sea...I stopped, and I wanted to laugh. My orginal plan of taking kamahri out might still work, because I found the Glyph Sphere. I took it out, and ran back to the wall that is holding the destruction Sphere.
"Kamahri will NOT be trapped!" I heard around the corner, followed by a loud crash. I quickly put the sphere in the wall, and grabbed the Destruction Sphere. I turned and went down the hallway, cautiously. Another crash, and a loud growl followed. As I turned the corner, my eyes grew wide as I saw the wall repairing its self from Kamahri breaking the wall most of the way. Apparently the pedestal was in the way, I noted, when the pedestal flew down where the Besaid Sphere came from. I heard it break, and I winced at the shattering sound. It suddenly reappeared where it was kicked from, and Kamahri growled. I gulped, and took a breath, feeling the adrenaline coming again. I got the destruction sphere ready, and let the breath I just took go.
This was a coward’s tactic. But I have no real choice…I thought to myself, and then scoffed. Who was I kidding, it’s not really cowardice, he’s armed, I’m not, he is a bulk of muscle, and I’m just barely in shape. Sweat was going down my neck. I felt a shiver in anticipation. This was maddening. I tried to breathe quietly, when Kamahri spoke.
“Your there. Kamahri can hear you.” I scowled, getting angry. My pace quickened ever so slightly, and I thought a mantra to myself.
“So, is Lulu with you, or is she still guarding Yuna?” I asked, not even bothering to be subtle. Kamahri paused.
“Still guarding...How do you know Black mage’s name?”
“I’m from another world. We know shit like that where I come from.” I said, and Kamahri grunted. I breathed a shallow breath, and let it out.
Fear’s an illusion. You must break the illusion. I thought to myself, and then repeated. Normally it was a longer mantra, but this was not a phobia, this was a mass of muscle. I didn’t have time to gather courage, I needed to just face it and hope I have enough to deal with whatever is thrown my way.
The pedestal was pulled away, into the room with Kamahri. Then Kamahri burst though the wall in a explosion of dust and rubble. I threw the sphere as hard as I could at the wall next to Kamahri, the very wall he just burst from. Before I even threw it, I half expected this to fail, but it was too late to run away.
I would forever remember the next three seconds, the beauty of the explosion was not even close to the best explosion I have seen, but it was the most personal one as of yet.
As the Sphere flew out, I realized a fatal mistake on my part, I kinda gave Kamahri back his lance back in the hallway down by the guardian chamber. Kamahri’s lance went in a picture perfect arc, intercepting the sphere right as it was a few feet away from the wall. As it came into contact with the sphere, my eyes widened, and I started to turn away, but managed to watch the powerful sphere shattering into what appeared to be a million shimmering shards of crystal. It was beautiful.
And painful to watch, I noted a second later when a bright, violet flash of light stabbed my eyes, the blast hit me, making me fly into the wall behind me. I relaxed upon getting blasted away, I remember that if your tense, you’re more likely to break bones. Luckily for me, I was not slammed that hard to break them anyway. I was just one large bruise. I had dropped the Besaid Sphere at one point in my flight, and didn't bother looking for it, it was the furthest thing from my mind.
When I could see again, I saw rubble in the hallway, or, what used to be a hallway. There was one large circle of destruction, like in scorched earth, but the rubble was in all three paths. I slowly got back up, muttering in pain. I checked myself out, and was glad to note that I had no major injuries. I wasn't limping, and I could still move, painfully, but I was not restricted in my movements. I walked towards what used to be a well designed hallway, and my eyes widened at the destruction. The area was in ruin. I walked forward, and I was surprised that there was no smoke. I noticed blood, a lot of blood, but it didn't registrator yet.
The explosion didn’t have any heat. I thought to myself in sudden realization, I was considering this when I came across something I didn’t consider.
“Well…fuck.” I said, now wondering what to do.
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar
EDIT: Worked out a few kinks, still working on Deadpan29's suggestions. Only really worked on the very beginning, and took a stab at describing Kamahri Ronso in more detail.
EDIT 2: Worked it a little more, I took Foxboy's advice, and changed things a little in the beginning to let it read better.
EDIT 3: Fixed a few things, made it flow a little better, and changed the sandstone to limestone at Blackaeronaut's suggestion.
EDIT 4: The destruction sphere is really a Besaid Sphere, I would recognizance this, and use it for something else. Also, one of my brother's pointed out that the only damage we see done on the temple inside the trials section of any temple is done by spheres, and the previous damage from other summoners in the past are never there. The temple would repair, rather quickly, any damage I do without a sphere, because that is breaking the rules of the puzzle. In other words, the wall I busted though would seal itself back up, buying me more time that I need to get the real destruction sphere.
The only reason why I was able to get though the wall is because I knocked out the Pedestal, where the wall is not meant to repair.
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The last thing I remember was joking with my brother Spenser about the Princess Mononoka movie. We were in the back of Scrappy; Scrappy can't hold all five of us in the front cab. It can hold four, but not comfortably. I was drinking a grape soda and holding a rarity for me in Japan, a Butterfinger. I was laughing, I would rarely laugh out loud for any length of time, Spencer is damn good at trolling.
My Butterfinger was a lost cause three seconds later, the reason for the tragic loss of my butterfinger was due to gravity taking a rather unexpected hold on me. I came crashing to the ground, trying to catch myself from falling. I made contact with the hard surface underneath me, which I noted was a stone floor a half second later.
On the bright side, I somehow managed to jam my left pinky finger while trying to catch myself from falling....Bye bye Butterfinger, hello sore finger…At least I managed to save my soda. I thought to myself sarcastically. I sat upright to get my bearings. I knew already what happened, my instincts told me all I needed to know in that moment.
I jumped.
“Fuck.” I muttered, looking around the room to try and get a hint at where I was. Spencer and I were joking about going to Princess Mononoke, so the concept of jumping was not out of the question. To have it happen however…Let’s just say panic was rising.
At first glance, I was in a stone room, the walls were brown and gray with torches for lightning on the walls and just sitting on the floor. In a vain attempt to stay calm, I took a sip of my soda, while rubbing my pinky finger, thinking various less then pleasant thoughts towards whatever sent me here. I mentally noted that the ceiling looked rather plain, I was in a stone structure of some sort.
I was about to stand up, when something touched my throat. I looked down, and dropped my soda There was the tip of a blade at my throat, I saw large blue legs and a stick connected to the blade, my eyes followed the apparent spear, and I blinked upon discovering who held my life in their hands. The surprise was evident on my features, because this shouldn't have happened. I blinked again, realizing what was going on, knowing I shouldn’t have
even been surprised. “Right.” I said, wondering why this was happening to me. Skuld mentioned that the other guy only went to anime's, but we didn't jump like he did.
The fellow holding this very sharp blade was a large blue cat man. And when I mean large, I mean around or even bigger than the average size of a football linebacker. The Catman was large, blue, furry, had the base of a horn on his
forehead, elf ears that were somehow thickly round at the tips, was
barely dressed, and carried a lance. This was Kamahri Ronso, guardian of
Yuna, future leader of the Ronso.
“Don’t move.” I heard to my left, I held still, getting a good look at the cat person in front of me. Anything with that many straps and metal rings should be fetish gear, but he made it work as normal attire.
“Final…wait, no…who would be stupid enough to put me HERE?” I muttered to myself, not believing what was happening. That rat bastard ROB put me in Final Fantasy 10. That proves this guy is a rat bastard. Well, at least to everyone, not just to me. I was snapped out of my mental glee when the blade came closer to my neck. Then again, this might not be such a good thing.
“Ok, no need for that.” I said, raising my hands up in a surrendering motion. I noted the slightly smug look on Kamahri’s face at my sudden change from glee to very concerned. All cats are like this, smug little fuckers. I heard a hum from the voice to my left, and I tried to look ever so
slightly. I could see a black form to my left, humanoid, but that was
not what was on my mind.
“So you are going to cooperate?" SHE, I noted based off her voice, asked slowly and calmly. Cooperate? This women obviously never came across a guy that didn't bend so easily. She WAS intimidating, in a certain respect when you knew she could quite literally fry your balls. "Good. That save's us some trouble. Now tell us what are you doing here?” The person to my left asked. This was Lulu, Black Mage and Emo of Final Fantasy 10. This was going to be FUN. (Sarcasm alert!)
“Sight seeing.” I joked, but on the inside I was about ready to run away, this chick was one tough customer, and Kamahri was even tougher. Ok, I have to get out of this life threatening situation. I immediately started to think of a plan, while paying attention to Lulu and Kamahri. I only had to think this fast while multitasking a few times in my life, and I needed a mental break after each time. I was going though each time Kamahri was alone with Lulu, to find out WHERE I was in Spira, that was done rather quickly.
The only place that looked like this, and had them together alone was in the very beginning of the game, thus in Basaid, and Thus in time to fuck everything up beyond all recognition, and save the world in the process. Ok, I have to answer there questions for now.
Now that I had a chance for further study, I noticed that the room was rather dark, regardless of the torches. The stone walls were very ornamented with cloth, and they were only slightly more artistic then the carved stone walls. The fire lighting, both purple and orange, gave a strict feel to the room. Not exactly a place you would want to hang out all the time, regardless of the artwork.
“You are not meant to be here. Tell us why you have come down here, and how.” Lulu said, as I noted that Kamahri put his lance closer to my throat in a very threatening manner. I tightened up, not too happy about my situation. I noted that if I kept on going from happy to tense, I was going to have a heart attack.
“Yeah, understatement of the year.” I muttered, then spoke up to answer her question. “I am here because some asshole put me here for no real reason, and I got here by some advanced form of inner dimensional tech or magical babble.” I summed up, Lulu obviously did not understand most of it, and I practically felt the cold coming off of her.
“Who put you here? And Why?”Lulu asked in a cold, yet calm, tone. Kamahri lowered his lance from my neck at a gesture from Lulu. I rubbed my throat, at least I wasn’t dead. I thought to myself sarcastically, and in a bit of anger, I gave an Lulu my answer.
“The fucking tooth fairy.” I said, perfectly serious, that was as good of an answer as any. All for I know it was a random thing that happens to some people. Anyway, knowing that these guys are mary sues, they would let me go if they do not understand. "As for why, he probably sent me here to offer the two of you this awesome dental program, black mages get half off, and we have special cases for Psychlo's. You ARE kinda like Psychlo's with blue skin and a horn, right?" I asked Kamahri, who in turn gave me a glare, letting me know that that was not the correct answer. I probably shouldn't have mentioned the horn. He is ashamed that his horn broke, and that is why he is quite all of the time.
“Lies.” He stated, pointing his lance at me again, making me remembered WHAT Kamahri is. I raised my hands slowly to show I was not a threat, and wanted to bash my head in for my mistake. Too much snark, too quickly.
“Right, forgot that your nose might be a lie detector.” I mutter, and look up to see the Ronso hiding a slight smirk. Right, cat ears. He clearly heard me say that. I cleared my throat, after giving this a quick moment of thought. The truth, but not the whole truth.
“I have an idea, but I am not sure about it.” I stated, and Lulu sighed, and waved her hand at Kamahri. Kamahri gave a slight growl, but lowered his lance.
“Are you going to continue being vague? Or are you going to explain yourself.” I turned to her, and got my first good look at her.
She was in nothing but black cloth in a sort of dress with a corset outside of her dress, and a large cut out on the lower to middle front end of her dress that would have shown her legs and other areas if not for the black leather straps under where the dress would have been. The straps were arranged in such a way that they showed bits of her stockings and inner thigh without revealing anything. Her outfit had white fur lining the top of her outfit, and white patterns on the outer edges of her clothing, wore two necklaces a set of earrings, and two large hair needles in her hair. She had long black hair, and looked slightly more athletic then what she looked like in the games, but she was still...well endowed.
My eyes were locked with Lulu’s dark brown eyes for but a split second. I’ll worry about her later. I thought to myself, and tried to figure out how to get out of this predicament. Obviously Lulu was the type that tried to figure out things, so my original plan was not going to work.
I looked around quickly, forming a plan in my head. There was a short hallway to my right, and stairs to my left, the stairs led to the summoning chamber, where Yuna was trying desperately to become a summoner.
“This is a Guardian chamber, in the Besaid temple, right?” I asked, trying to buy myself time. Lulu nodded her head, and asked me a question.
“You didn’t know that already?” She arched an eyebrow. I said nothing, I knew, but not for the reasons she would think. Ok, a person could only be down here for three known reasons, if you’re a summoner, a guardian, or logically, if you’re maintaining the place.
“I’m a traveler with more flier miles then I would care to count.” I deadpan, but continue. “I am not going to go into details you wouldn’t understand, but let’s just say I am not from Spira.” Kamahri gave me a look, examining my face. I know I was just prompted to explain.
“Do you know about other worlds?” I asked, taking a leap of faith. PLEASE, whatever being that has been fucking with me, let them have a little bit of knowledge, or at least vague mythology. The Ronso was silent, as if digesting this bit, while Lulu was not amused.
“Other worlds?” She asked, on edge.
“Do you know of other worlds, at least the ones made by the far plane?” I asked, hoping for an answer. Surprisingly, it was Kamahri who answered.
“Death. The place where souls go when souls die permanently.” Kamahri said, giving me a concerned look, apparently he thought I was telling the truth so far. I was, so Kamahri was not sure of himself.
“Good, so there is another world you know of. Now, I am not from that world, or this one, I am from another world, one without the presence of Pyraflies, one you never heard about.” I claimed, and Kamahri shared a look with Lulu.
“I do not know what is going on, but he is clearly out of his mind.” Lulu said, and I felt rather irritated when she said that, but that irritation disappeared when I remembered that I debate on Spacebattles. She had a slight point, but for the wrong reasons.
I thought about arguing with her, when suddenly Kamahri puffed his chest into the air in an over exaggerated manner.
“Uhhh...what are you doing?” I asked, almost afraid to ask.
“No pyraflies.” Kamahri said, his eyes wide and full of shock.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” I asked, not following what he was talking about.
“Kamahri, what do you mean?” Lulu asked, taking a step closer to Kamahri.
“No pyraflies...no soul.” Kamahri said, pausing, then continuing. “Everything is made of pyraflies…except for the realm of death.” He tried to explain, utterly confused. I just sighed, and tried to explain.
“Like I have already said, I am from another world. My world is completely different then Spira, even on the spiritual level. Pyraflies do not exist where I am from.” I said, and Lulu scoffed in disbelief.
“I do not understand…but you speak truth.” Kamahri said, growling a little. Kamahari just studied me. I shifted uncomfortably, regardless of popular opinion, a stone floor is not comfortable. I was unfortunate to not be on the amazing, thick, throw down carpet a few feet away from me. Or that uncomfortable feeling was from a set of cat eyes staring down at me. I never liked it when cats would do that. I just wanted to move on, but I was stuck. I was at their mercy for now, I had to find a way out. Kamahri shook his head, eyes locked onto mine the whole time. I knew he was trying to read into my persona, to feel my every emotion, in order to know what I was about to do.
“Right.” I said, and Kamahri crinkled his nose. I wanted to get out of here, away from immediate danger. I was going to leave, screw the consequences.
“New smell?” Kamahri asked.
I was confused, did I stink? I took a bath five hours ago! I looked around, and my eyes locked onto the butterfinger. Damn, he really is like a cat. I picked it up, and smiled. I got up, stretching my legs and arms. I smiled in glee as I watched kamahri's eyes follow the candy bar. I tore off a bit, and offered it to the ‘kitty’.
“Don’t eat that!” Lulu snapped, and I scoffed.
“Its candy." I said in a are you kidding me tone. "Yeah, it’s been on the floor, but these floors look almost good enough to eat off of.” I retorted, and Lulu just folded her arms and shook her head, just watching with a look of disapproval. Kamahri took the piece cautiously, and took a good sniff of it. He gave it a wide eyed look, and put it near his mouth, then stopped, looking very tempted.
Kamahri looked from me to Lulu, and just took a little test lick of the chocolate. I took a breath, this was an opening, now to widen it.
“What is this?” He asked, lightly biting the chocolate and peanut butter goodness.
“Candy, a treat people eat on occasion.” Kamahri popped the whole chunk into his mouth and looked to me, demanding more. How he looked intimidating though the whole scene, I have no idea.
I lifted it in offering to Kamahri, and smirked. Right as Kamahri was about to grab it, I threw the candy bar at Lulu, Kamahri jumped after it in a rather overpowered jump. I didn’t watch what happened, but Lulu gave a rather loud yell in protest when the candy bar hit her face, and even louder when Kamahri knocked her over while trying to stop.
I ran down the hallway, and stopped near the end, eyes wide, heart beating rapidly. I was SOOOOO fucked. What the hell was wrong with the elevator!
“Kamahri!” I heard, and I turned slowly to Lulu glaring at me, and kamahri readying a throw with his lance.
I tensed up, hoping I was ready for what was t come. Kamahri threw his lance at me, I quickly realized he was aiming for my head. I managed to get out of the way, as I did I felt the lance come close to me, the sudden movement of air next to me, then I heard the unmistakable sound of metal breaking stone. I kept my eyes on the two. I then got an idea, and yelled out in a surprised tone.
“Lady Yuna!” Kamahri turned around, along with Lulu. Alright this thing has to be an elevator…I have to get it working.
I stood in the middle, and nothing happened. I didn’t remember an activation switch or anything like that. It dawned on me that I was just screwed, I had no chance in hell. When I turned around, back towards the two I just pissed off, I saw Lulu put an arm out for Kamahri to wait. She was holding a doll, and was shaking her arm. My eyes widened, and I jumped to left, diving away.
“BURN!” she said with slight venom, then she yelled out in shock. “It can’t be!” I dodged the spell, something that is almost never seen in final fantasy 10. I didn’t question how or why I was able to do that with my slow movements in comparison to these guys, I just knew I needed a weapon. I got up quickly, and jumped at Kamahri’s Lance, which was now poking out of the stone wall behind me. My eyes widened, as I sprang forward grabbing it. I could see why I made such a stupid choice. I needed a way to defend myself, but there was no way I could win that kind of fight.
I held the lance, it was a bit heavier than a shovel, and much longer. I held it in a defensive position, and Kamahri hesitated, and slowly started to walk towards me. I saw Lulu trying another spell, and I jumped to the right this time, managing to get out of the way of a shell of ice that formed where I was a moment ago. Kamahri started to walk faster, making me feel nervous.
The elevator suddenly started to move, and I heard Kamahri growl, and charge. I threw his lance right back at him, managing to hit his arm. He stopped for a moment, that moment I needed to let the elevator continue upwards. I just wanted to leave the place with my life, I was not sure what was going to happen.
My heart was beating hard, I clenched my fists, feeling the adrenaline enter into my system. This was the worst kind of rush, the one you get when things happen so fast your body didn’t react in time. Things slowed down ever so slightly, and I tried to loosen up. I took a deep breath, cursing myself. I hate the adrenaline rush from a fight that doesn’t get physical. Actually fighting is sometimes preferred over that spare rush.
I paused, and remembered that I did just stab Kamahri, so maybe it was physical, but it happened so fast…I waited for the elevator to stop, and I got off. I saw a large wall down the hallway, and I looked back at the elevator, and noticed the elevator was sealed.
It then clicked for me. When a new person enters the trials section, the tests reset. Wait...we don’t see that with Riku. Just with Tidus…I ignored it, and decided that if I was able to get up here, then so could Kamahri.
I shook my head, I don’t have time for this! How do I get past this wall? I ran towards it, and checked it out. I took note of the pedestal in it, and remembered that it was made to move. I was able to kick the lance out of the wall rather easily…
I heard the elevator move, and panic rose. With the leftover adrenaline from before, I started to frantically slam the pedestal, if I were in a more rational state of mind, I would have done it more efficiently, noting that this looks like limestone, easy to break.
I eventually broke the pedestal free, and quickly pushed the pedestal out of the way, creating an opening. I heard the elevator stop, and I felt dread. I had to escape. I pushed the Pedestal back in its hole. A crappy way of hiding what I did, but it would have to do.
I ran off to the left, and saw it was a dead end. “Fuck me.” I said, hearing the elevator rise. I ran to where the wall was, and huffed in anger, slamming my fist against the wall next to me in anger, I would have to leave the village, hide on the boat to get to Luca where I can hide out.
Suddenly the wall behind me that I just slammed my fist against was gone. I looked behind me, and saw something that might help me, a glowing light blue orb surrounded by purple light and some odd looking symbol. I realized what it was, it was a Besaid sphere. Maybe...I heard the elevator stop, and with a glance at the sphere, I needed that if I was going to get out of here or grab that destruction sphere. Either way, I needed it.
I grabbed the sphere, I heard Kamahri’s footsteps next to the wall, I ran to the wall with the sphere, and pulled it out, and ran back to the wall, and turned towards the exit, where I could here Kamahri "Your on the other side? How?" He growled.
It was then that I noted that the wall was repaired, and I was counting my blessings. I ran and down the hallway to what was now my left, away from the dead end. I was hoping the Besaid sphere can be used to activate the wall to get to the destruction sphere, the high grade explosive magic orb. I figured that if I threw the destruction sphere hard enough at the wall
next to Kamahri, it might blow up. THAT should hurt him enough to give
me a fighting chance...
I pressed the orb to the wall, and my hopes came crashing down. Nothing happened. I pulled it out, and decided that leaving was best, I would just charge straight though everyone, after all, Wakka was doing blitzball practice, so no one would really stop me, just like how no one tried to stop Tidus from entering the chamber in the game. I ran quickly to the door at the end of the hallway, and slammed on it.
"COME ON!" I yelled, the door was sealed. I too a deep breath, and put the sphere in the slot on the door. I smiled, the door started to open. Once open, I pulled the sphere out, and took off towards the stairs ahead of me. I went up one stair case, when I heard a long drawn out roar. I looked towards where Kamahri would be, and shuttered. He would hunt me down for using his own lance on him like that. I then saw another sphere, and everything just clicked for me.
I had to kill or disable Kamahri Ronso, or I was doomed to being beaten by that mass of muscle, then most likely religiously persecuted, perhaps tortured by the yevon community. I tunred back to the exit, I had no way of defeating him, so I had to do something, maybe swim out to sea...I stopped, and I wanted to laugh. My orginal plan of taking kamahri out might still work, because I found the Glyph Sphere. I took it out, and ran back to the wall that is holding the destruction Sphere.
"Kamahri will NOT be trapped!" I heard around the corner, followed by a loud crash. I quickly put the sphere in the wall, and grabbed the Destruction Sphere. I turned and went down the hallway, cautiously. Another crash, and a loud growl followed. As I turned the corner, my eyes grew wide as I saw the wall repairing its self from Kamahri breaking the wall most of the way. Apparently the pedestal was in the way, I noted, when the pedestal flew down where the Besaid Sphere came from. I heard it break, and I winced at the shattering sound. It suddenly reappeared where it was kicked from, and Kamahri growled. I gulped, and took a breath, feeling the adrenaline coming again. I got the destruction sphere ready, and let the breath I just took go.
This was a coward’s tactic. But I have no real choice…I thought to myself, and then scoffed. Who was I kidding, it’s not really cowardice, he’s armed, I’m not, he is a bulk of muscle, and I’m just barely in shape. Sweat was going down my neck. I felt a shiver in anticipation. This was maddening. I tried to breathe quietly, when Kamahri spoke.
“Your there. Kamahri can hear you.” I scowled, getting angry. My pace quickened ever so slightly, and I thought a mantra to myself.
“So, is Lulu with you, or is she still guarding Yuna?” I asked, not even bothering to be subtle. Kamahri paused.
“Still guarding...How do you know Black mage’s name?”
“I’m from another world. We know shit like that where I come from.” I said, and Kamahri grunted. I breathed a shallow breath, and let it out.
Fear’s an illusion. You must break the illusion. I thought to myself, and then repeated. Normally it was a longer mantra, but this was not a phobia, this was a mass of muscle. I didn’t have time to gather courage, I needed to just face it and hope I have enough to deal with whatever is thrown my way.
The pedestal was pulled away, into the room with Kamahri. Then Kamahri burst though the wall in a explosion of dust and rubble. I threw the sphere as hard as I could at the wall next to Kamahri, the very wall he just burst from. Before I even threw it, I half expected this to fail, but it was too late to run away.
I would forever remember the next three seconds, the beauty of the explosion was not even close to the best explosion I have seen, but it was the most personal one as of yet.
As the Sphere flew out, I realized a fatal mistake on my part, I kinda gave Kamahri back his lance back in the hallway down by the guardian chamber. Kamahri’s lance went in a picture perfect arc, intercepting the sphere right as it was a few feet away from the wall. As it came into contact with the sphere, my eyes widened, and I started to turn away, but managed to watch the powerful sphere shattering into what appeared to be a million shimmering shards of crystal. It was beautiful.
And painful to watch, I noted a second later when a bright, violet flash of light stabbed my eyes, the blast hit me, making me fly into the wall behind me. I relaxed upon getting blasted away, I remember that if your tense, you’re more likely to break bones. Luckily for me, I was not slammed that hard to break them anyway. I was just one large bruise. I had dropped the Besaid Sphere at one point in my flight, and didn't bother looking for it, it was the furthest thing from my mind.
When I could see again, I saw rubble in the hallway, or, what used to be a hallway. There was one large circle of destruction, like in scorched earth, but the rubble was in all three paths. I slowly got back up, muttering in pain. I checked myself out, and was glad to note that I had no major injuries. I wasn't limping, and I could still move, painfully, but I was not restricted in my movements. I walked towards what used to be a well designed hallway, and my eyes widened at the destruction. The area was in ruin. I walked forward, and I was surprised that there was no smoke. I noticed blood, a lot of blood, but it didn't registrator yet.
The explosion didn’t have any heat. I thought to myself in sudden realization, I was considering this when I came across something I didn’t consider.
“Well…fuck.” I said, now wondering what to do.
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar