Mintaka The Fighting
Summoner
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uhhh Snake, you'd better get
to the Gear whilst we're busy keepign everything else
distracted. :P
Oh joy, how I love thee,
endings...
Que: FFT OST Disc 2, track 26
*second end boss music* --------- Tattered, burned, bloodied and beaten. But
still spirited. The forces tore about them, shielding off
everything else save the conflict between a fiend, a ninja,
and the summoner.
"Rubicant, give in! Hnor is your
strong suit, not a conflict between elements! You know your
weakness!" Rydia shouted over the din.
"I don't give
in or give up - its dishonorable!"
"Then I have no
choice," she said, stepping back. Edge stepped forward as the
great fiend of fire rose, drawing the flames about him. Rydia
began intoning, drawing from inner strength, and not
hesitating as she intoned thw powers of the best summons she
knew, in an efficent order, but their summoning would take
time. One of the stone on the armband she had found long ago
began to glow a fierce red as her words hastened.
Edge
and Rubicant were circling now, taking swipes at each other.
Edge leapt clear of a searing flame the scorced the floor to
mere dirt, causing the air to shimmer and distort with an evil
hiss. Edge feigned then, drawing Rubicant's attention right
and swung with his katana from the left, striking the fiend's
arm and drawing flaming drops of blood which Edge jerked back
from, the singe of its touch far worse than the spell Rydia
had accidentally gotten his leg with earlier. Rubicant
borrowed this opening to strike at Rydia who was behind Edge
at this moment. She faltered back,a large burn on her shoulder
but her words remained constant as she dropped down. Edge in
fury leapt forward in attack, the fire in his eyes rivaling
the flames of the fiend as Edge fought the demon away from
Rydia, unfliching from the lesser flames Rubicant waved. The
fiend narrowed his eyes and lashed again with intense heat,
sending Edge backwards again-
-tripping back over a
metal crate that hadn't melted yet. "Aaah!"
Rubicant
grinned, a wicked dark flash that chilled Edge. "It seems that
luck ahs not favored you, ninja price, once and for-"
"I call upon the King of the Ocean, Serpent of Seas,
Leviathan wash away the impure fires of darkness!"
The
tidal wave seemed to just fall from the wall behind Rydia and
washed over her, completely obliterating the lements about
them and sending the room awash in the tangy salt water
brought forth. It drained away again, out the creavases and
through the now dehinged door out into the snow, washing away
the crystalline powder and a few contestants and guards as
well.
Her triacks weren't done yet as she intoned
another, feeling ehr very strength starting to drain form the
immense effort it was taking.
"Holy protector,
guardian unknown to time, creation of justine, i invoke thy
holy power, Alexander answer my plea!"
The effect
wasn't sudden, and Rubicant rose from the floor, steaming,
hhis grin vicious. "It looks like your pitiful little creature
isn't going to answer you, Rydia." But then a blinding light
seemed to fill the single hole above, crashing down through
the cling and converging on the feind and compleltey sending
flames everywhere. Rydia was thrown back by the force against
the wall, nearly stricken unconcscious from the force as the
fiend broke into many flames from the force.
"No...
Shiva... powers of ice, hear my call and show Rubicant the
dissolution he deserves to learn and be... free.... of that
wretched darkness his burning soul... retains..."
She
closed ehr eyes, freeing the last of her strength to summon
Shiva.
But it was not Shiva who heeded her call, but a
great bird that swirled in upon the storm itself through the
ceiling as snow gently fell in landing upon the bodies of the
ninja, unconscious in a corner, and the weakened summoner, and
the snow falling down upong the flames, extinguishing some,
and others being turned into a vast array of crystalline
shards that seemed to gather and congregate below this massive
icebird. At last the great fiend was trapped within an ice
crystal.
Dear child, your father was a great man,
and would be prud of what you have done, and fought for. Alas
the fiend was not meant to die. Not yet. His power his of
fire, and fire is yet important too far to eradicate in your
world or any. I will see him off to another part of the base,
where he is less likely to be a bother, and you... and the
other may recover here. Bahamut will not have you eradicating
this place. I'll speak to him on your behalf about this.
The bird flew out throught the ceiling as yet the
power of the god of summons wove to restore the building and
scenery, illusions wrought to confuse the unsuspecting into
believing all was right in their small little areas and
reclaiming the relative peace from the outside. Within, the
building was ravaged, everything helter-skelter. Rydia rose,
crying out as her left leg gave under her small weight.
Ankle's gone. She pulled herself along with a scrap as
a cruth as Edge rose slowly.
"Ow... what happened? I'm
all... wet?"
"Sorry," she said, sitting down next to
him. "Oh, my head..."
"Are you alright?" He asked,
concerned.
"Yeah, Rubicant's gone." It was true - he
wasn't there. But the great beasts words ran through her mind.
Garuda?
"Yes?"
Was that
it?
"Edge should be fine now... you have
settled old scores at last. Should you cross again, it should
not be so bad."
Th- thank... you...
She leaned against Edge, who winced slightly and
resettled her a bit off his sore shoulder. "How are you?" she
asked.
"I'm fine. Never... felt better. We did it
Rydia. We beat Rubicant at his own game."
"And we're
avenged, right?"
"Right."
She learned over and
pulled his mask down and kissed him then. "Good. Maybe now
you'll not be quite as distracted at times." She sighed and
leaned back against the wall as they sat hidden behind the
last remaining objects standing (shielded by a wall which
hadn't quite given out til the very end after Rubicant had met
his 'end') - hidden by a barrel, a crate, and a very large
cardboard box.
***
Elsewhere in the base, the
crystal had been left next to a heater going full blast,
defrosting one essence of Fire fiend. A small 'warning' was
issued as he de-thawed.
Act well and take care, O
firey fiend, but choose your path carefully. Can you afford to
chain yourself to ill fate and old ties?
---------- Slipstream: You've basically been defrosted
elsewhere in the base away from them and given free reign to
do as you please again. With all parts intact. ~.~ You would
not believe how hard it was to write all that. O.o
You
go Snake.
Oh, slip, if you think of anything for me to
change/edit, lemme know. =^^= I'm kinda railing at the bit
with some lack of sleep right now, so I may have blown this
completely.
Edit: Size tags... my god I write too much
at times...
Be back in 10-30 min as well, snack,
stuff, adn I need ot get OFF this bloody chair! Augh!!
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