Sylphid Red Mage
For Life
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DAY TWO
"I remember... falling asleep in the jungle...
wondering about those I left behind... Marle... Celes...
Lucia... were they alright...? I guess it was rather selfish
of me to leave all of a sudden like that... but had I not,
then Beowulf..."
"...I awoke in another foreign
place... this time, huge towers surrounded me on several
sides... It reminded me of Lindblum, almost... except...
everything was so... 'advanced' here... that and the fact that
I was nowhere near home..."
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He awoke.
A strange place... crowded with strange drones and
giant metal towers. This was by far the most unusual place
Vivi had ever traveled to... the environment may be
illuminated by the golden sun above, but everything was so...
empty... devoid of life...
The mage stood up. He had
slept soundly... the first time in months... but now that he
was awake... where had everyone gone? No, they wouldn't just
leave him here... they must have been separated again...
A sudden thought struck him. He had completely
forgotten about it the day before. Reaching into his robe
pocket, he was relieved to find the amulet still there. He
pulled it out.
The orb on the end of the chain was
glowing with a light blue glow. The tempest inside was
storming, brimming with power. It looks like it would be
possible to summon that mysterious man back...
...but
how did he go about doing that...?
Vivi tried to
remember... that day... Eiko had explained Summoning to him,
but how was it done...?
"... it's really not that
hard! ... Every Summon - well, at least all the ones I use;
you can ask Garnet about her eidolons - requires three
components... The first part is a simple 'I summon thee...'...
the second is something related to your eidolon, such as an
elemental or effect reference... the final part is the calling
of the eidolon's name... see? It's not so tough!..."
Wasn't there something else...? Vivi struggled to
remember...
"...well, I'm really going overboard,
actually... you only need to know the eidolon's name to summon
it; the first two parts just make it sound cool!..."
Great... the one component of the spell he didn't
know. Well, there was no use getting upset at Eiko.
The mage took the amulet in his left hand and raised
his staff in his right hand...
"I summon thee... uh...
er... something-something-something..."
Nothing.
Well that didn't work... maybe Summon Magic just
wasn't fit for him...?
Trying to find a suitable
alternative way to summon the man, Vivi gazed into the crystal
again, focusing on the cascading energy within... Suddenly, a
flash of light...!
The mage looked around,
dumbfounded. Nobody was there... He looked back to the crystal
- it was still storming about inside. Maybe this wasn't like
Eiko's summons? Just a bit of focus on the crystal, maybe a
few MP spent... that should work, right? Well, just have to
give it the good ol' Tantalus try...
Crystal in his
left hand, staff in his right, the mage began to channel his
magic into the orb...
The sun suddenly faded out of
view, replaced by a dark, gloomy sky... the still air began to
accelerate into the mighty tempest contained within the
crystal... lightning flashed in the sky as an aquamarine aura
began to form in front of the mage... slowly, the essence of
the man was reconstructed from the ground up as the sudden
storm raged on around them...
And it was done. The man
stood before the mage, sword drawn at the ready. Seeing there
was no apparent danger, he sheathed his blade with a fancy
twist of the wrist.
"You summoned me, Sir Vivi?"
The sky began to fade back to normal as the sun's
celestial rays pierced the clouds... soon enough, the sky was
completely clear. The wind slowed down, but maintained a
steady breeze.
As exhausted from summoning as he was,
Vivi still had many questions to ask the man. Why was he here?
What exactly was he doing? But all he could manage to get out
was...
"Wh-who a-are you... anyways...?"
The
man chuckled a bit. "I am the Apprentice to Sylphid, the Lord
of Wind. I believe I told you this yesterday, remember?"
The mage looked at the ground as he adjusted his hat.
"N-no... I mean... wh-what is your... name?"
"Name..."
the man pondered this for a moment. "Strange... now that you
think of it, I don't know if I've ever really had a name... at
least, not in the mortal realms... only the eight Elementals
are known by name, and even then, there are very few places
left in the multiverse that know of us... but as for me...
I've simply gone by 'Sylphid's Apprentice' where I reside."
The man continued. "...There was one time when I was
young, though...It must have been hundreds of years ago... I
studied with Luna's apprentice, researching general elemental
magic. She grew tired of calling me 'Apprentice' over and
over, so she decided we call each other by shorter names..."
"Her name was 'Lune'... and mine was 'Sylph,' taken
from our Elemental masters... now that I think of it, I never
knew what happened to her... she was a wonderful friend of
mine. We used to joke about what we would do if we ever rose
to take on the roles of our Elemental masters... but those are
times long past... still... I'd like the opportunity to meet
her again..." He stared off into the sapphire sky as the tails
of his bandanna flowed in the wind...
The tale made
Vivi recall all of his friends at the Black Mage Village...
his grandfather, Quan... Zidane, Garnet, Steiner, Eiko, Freya,
Quina, even Amarant... and his newfound friends... Beowulf,
Celes, Lucia... and Marle in particular. Friendship was
everlasting... even over the course of hundreds of years...
one never forgot the friends they made...
"So... Call
me Sylph. Pleasure to meet you, Vivi."
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OOC: I'll finish this up in a little bit. It's long
enough as it is! So... nobody touch Vivi just yet, alright? Thankies.
EDIT: Minour typoes and a small change or
two.
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Status: Screwed!
Madness takes its toll... please carry exact
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Last edited by Sylphid on 08-06-2001 at
05:40 PM |