Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Final Fantasy Endgame: Script ❯ Gateway ( Chapter 12 )

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Scene slowly fades in with Melicites walking toward the bridge as the battle is going on behind her. She continues forward without regrets as she runs her fastest across the bridge which activated the bridge defense system. Claws soon raises up from the side as it produce electricity from the tip and tries to zap Melicites but was too fast.

Scene shows Skise running through the battlefield of the third ring with the other five following him. He stops as he near the bridge which is the entrance of the forth ring where Cloud, Tidus and Squall is at. Zell’s crew and the newly formed Gullwings appear to greet them.

Wakka: Are these the reinforcement you were talking about?

Cid: Sure is.

Barret: Vincent! Cloud came here with Vincent and not his good pal Barret!

Cid: It doesn’t matter no more.

Tifa: Where is Cloud?

Yuna: Cloud and the other two has continued on by the bridge.

Skise: Why you guys didn’t follow?

Rikku: That Urbine dude didn’t allow us.

Irvine: What she is trying to say is that only those three can go to the fortress.

Skise: …

Skise walks toward the entrance of the bridge and see the claws that are lines up on each side of the bridge as they are glowing.

Skise: Interesting.

Scene blackens and fade in as Skise is on a motorcycle jumping off the cargo bay of the Highwind. He speeds through running over as many soldiers as people without hurting the good guys as well. He speeds pass the group at the entrance to the bridge as he gets on driving his fastest. His dark lenses are reflecting the light from the tip of the claws on the bridge.

Scene blackens and quickly fade in with Skine and the others.

Yulin: Someone is coming.

Urbine: …

Dieren: Is it him?

Skine: It can’t be, Lakeyna killed him!

Something behind them begins to disturb the balance of time and space as the air moves like it is being heated. Three people automatically appear, one has light grayish hair, dark blue-violet hair, and the last one has a white blondish hair.

Skine: Who are you three?

Kender: We are the observers.

Sailene: Do not concern us.

Quan: Proceed as your master commands.

Dieren: What business do you have with us or our master?

Quan: You are in no position to debate with us.

Dieren: I…

Skine: Dieren! … stand down.

Urbine: I stayed my time. [Exits]

Sailene: We shall take our leave also and do not fail Skine. [The Three Exits]

Skine: I don’t fail.

Scene blackens and fade in with Skise speeding across the bridge with the claws on the side shooting electricity to Skise but he easily dodges it. Scene then switches to the three reach the fortress in an hour and a half and stop near the open draw bridge.

Cloud: Let’s continue onward.

Cloud and Squall slowly drives across the draw bridge and pass the fortress walls to the front section of the huge demonic castle. The drawbridge raise up as suddenly Urbine appears with the three mysterious people behind him.

Squall: Its you!

Tidus: What do you want?

Urbine: This is our last peaceful meeting together and the next meeting we will be enemies and you or me will die.

Cloud: That’s good for me.

Tidus: Who are these clowns you are with?

Quan: Let me introduce ourselves… my name is Quan.

Sailene: Sailene.

Kender: Kender.

Cloud: What do you four want?

Urbine: We are the judges of this world.

Tidus: What do you meant by that?

Kender: He means that if anybody is not what they are supposed to be doing then we have to interfere.

Tidus: How so?

Kender: You were supposed to be here and you are here but if you weren’t then you or others may suffer the consequences.

Cloud: Enough of this bullshit we don’t have enough time to deal with you guys!

Kender: Now, now, don’t be so demanding

Urbine: It’s expected from him.

Kender: Anyways, you still have half of an hour to go and the battle between you and the Shadow Emperor won’t take that long.

Squall: It doesn’t make any sense. Who are you guys and what do you want from us?

Kender: When the time comes you will know everything that you need to know.

Quan: [Eyes close] Skise is almost here…

Sailene: How far?

Quan: He will be here any minute.

Sailene: Let’s go.

The air behind the two begins to moves like it is being heated and the two walk backwards disappearing immediately.

Kender: Skise is more powerful then he used to be… I wonder how strong he is now.

Urbine: Everything is going to plan.

Cloud: Tell us straight and enough bullshit.

Kender: You wouldn’t comprehend what we have to tell at your current state and situation so if you get through this you will finally know. [Exits]

Urbine: I take my leave now and I bid you good luck.

Urbine walks toward the draw bridge as he goes through the shadow disappearing as suddenly the draw bridge busts open. Skise appears on the motorcycle in the air going through the bridge as he lands near the three.

Cloud: Glad that you can make it.

Tidus: Your hair likes more shinning then before and it gives off a glow also.

Skise: I changed.

Squall: We only have less then 30 minutes to go, we need to hurry.

Skise and Cloud drives forward with their motorcycle as Tidus goes with Squall in his car.

Scene blackens and fade in with Melicites walking through the fortress and stop as she enters a huge room. She feels a strange aura that she once felt in the past and did not like it. Lakeyna appears coming out of the Shadows.

Melicites: You…

Lakeyna: Still alive I see.

Melicites: You can never kill me.

Lakeyna: Wanna make a bet.

Melicites and Lakeyna engage into a battle with neither of them is winning or losing. Sooner or later they finally stop and walk in circles around each other.

Lakeyna: I see that you have regained all of your power back.

Melicites: Just enough to beat you.

Scene blackens as the four is racing through the wide castle hallways.

Stalker: You had finally made it to my domain… let’s see what the three worlds can do… with you three out of my way the whole planet will be destroyed… prepare yourselves for the last battle of your life.

Scene shows the four entering the center of the fortress which is a giant circular area with a black crystal in the center up in the sky.

Skise: That must be it.

Cloud: Doesn’t seem all and mighty.

The black crystal splits in half as eerie smoke is coming out from it and gathers below the crystal. The smoke then takes form of a huge dark knight with smoke coming out of the faceless helmet.

Stalker: We finally meet.

Squall: You must be the leader of all of this.

Tidus: Let’s take it down and save the planet from destruction.

Stalker: Less then twenty minutes the four worlds will be connected and the gateway will be open.

Skise: Within twenty minutes you are going to die.

Stalker: You can not beat a shadow god.

Cloud: Who are you anyways?

Stalker: My name is Stalker, one of the Shadow Gods from the Shadow Legion.

Cloud: What do you want with Earth?

Tidus: Why do you want to destroy it?

Squall: Why do you want us three?

Stalker: We gods travel planet to planet destroying them just the same way by covering them in completed darkness and then destroy it. When I came here I thought it was going to be an easy task like countless others but I soon discover that there were other worlds. This was how I learned about you three and your heroic efforts to defend your planet against evil forces. I wanted to get rid of you three as soon as possible by luring you here and defeating you three at the same time. Now I see how you were able to protect your planet by the rare ability to gain strength from every fight. You are much stronger then you first set out to come here to beat me and the empire to save the ones you loved. This is it, the final battle to save your world has finally arrived are you three fully prepared yourselves.

Cloud: At last the battle I been waiting for.

Tidus: I will avenge the destruction of Luca.

Squall: A lot of people are counting on us we can’t let them down.

Skise: As the heir to this empire you will pay for your crimes.

Stalker: Good… now come at me!

Skise let’s the three attack together as destiny brought these three to fight as a team. The battles that they had fought in the past put their skills to the test and this battle will determine the results are good enough.

Skine suddenly appears walking, with a red bladed long sword in his right hand, from the sides. Skise sees Skine as Skise takes out his black blade sword the Murowsumasane and walks calmly toward Skine.

Skine: I’m kind of glad that you are still alive Skise.

Skise: You will regret ever joining the Shadows.

Skine: And you will regret ever going against me.

Skise: I always wished that it didn’t have to end this way for us but here we are.

Skine: Time to die brother.

Skise: You aren’t my brother anymore demon!

Skise and Skine run to each other swinging their blades at each other and blocking each other attacks. Skise new power proves stronger then Skine’s power as he is losing badly and the three is also beating Stalker by their new found strength.

Cloud: Neo OmniSlash

Squall: Lion’s Pride

Tidus: Spira’s Legacy.

The three combine their fifth level limit breakers together to create one of the most devastating attacks ever created. The attack cause an direct hit to Stalker as he is staggering backwards with smoke escaping from his armor.

Skise: Mystic Imperial Strike

Skise also does an limit breaker but on Skine as it is too much for Skine’s body to take as he drops to his knees.

Skine: How is this possible?

Skise: I followed my destiny and stayed true to my path now perish.

Skine: I get you…

Skine stands up and slowly walks backward as Urbine suddenly appears from the shadows and walks toward the six.

Skine: Urbine… help me…

Urbine: …

Stalker: It’s you…

Urbine: So you do remember me shadow but you still have some work to do.

Urbine unstable aura is now moving violently around his body as he brings both hands together but not touching. He then fires a black blast that swallows Stalker and Skine underneath the black crystal. The blast suddenly collapse as it sends shockwaves through the ground which the three shielding the shockwave. Skise aura is automatically protecting him against the shockwave as he closely watch the smokescreen where Stalker and Skine use to be.

Scene blackens and slowly fades in with Melicites and Lakeyna is still fighting in one of the rooms inside the fortress.

Lakeyna: You can never win against me.

Melicites: I get you for what you did to Skise.

Melicites is attacking Lakeyna while Lakeyna is dodging the attacks easily but suddenly Lakeyna counters doing a quick punch to Melicites. Lakeyna fist impacts Melicites’ chest as it causes an small explosion that the force knocks her back across the room and land on the ground rolling.

Lakeyna: You can never stop me or the Shadow Empire.

Melicites: [Coughing up blood] Why are you doing this?

Lakeyna: What kind of question is that? Skine told me to kill you if you ever interfere with Stalker’s plans.

Melicites: Don’t you know if Stalker’s succeed in opening the gateway to the fifth world then he will destroy this planet.

Lakeyna: As long that Stalker has open the gateway I don’t really care what happens next.

Melicites: You stupid little bitch, how can you let them control you like that?

Melicites gets up and charges Lakeyna and they begin fighting a lot faster then they were before. Melicites breaks through Lakeyna guard as she is now punching and kicking Lakeyna without holding anything back. Melicites does a point blank energy blast that knocks Lakeyna into the air and arch down as she crash into a wall.

Melicites: Don’t you remember about your past? Don’t you remember who your friends are? How can you let something tear you away from your soul and freewill? We share so many memories together and I can’t believe that all of that leads us here.

Lakeyna: …

Lakeyna is standing without a scratch from any attacks that Melicites done to her. She grins as not a single thing has gotten through the dark control of her mind and body.

Melicites: She didn’t’ even listening to me. What have they done to her?

Lakeyna: This is the real me dear Melicites and there isn’t anything you can do about it.

Melicites: (I didn’t want to do this but anybody please give me the power to free this lost soul)

Scene blackens and hastily fades in with black and gray unique armor body is crouching down which appears to be normal size. It slowly stands up with an eerie smoke continuously coming out of the armor as the face looks like Skine but different at the same time.

Skise: What have you done?

Urbine: Everything has going according to the planed now prove to me that you are the best of the worlds.

Cloud: Damn… this is going to take a lot longer then I thought.

Squall: We have to defeat this thing quick before the worlds are connected.

Tidus: We mustn’t give up… not now and not ever.

Cloud, Squall and Tidus charges the newly formed fusion of Skine and Stalker at its prime. The thing moves like it is teleporting around the area as it plays with the three and then attack once knocking the three back.

Skise: There is no turning back…I have to end this.

Skise and the thing begin fighting as suddenly Skise thrust his sword into the thing’s body.

Scene shows the thing walking backwards with the sword handle sticking out of its body.

Skise: Rest in peace brother.

Yulin and Dieren appear beside the three as they look at the thing.

Dieren: What happen to Skine?

Yulin: It looks like he fused with the master.

Scene shows the thing with thick smoke coming out of its body from where the sword’s blade is at in its body. Suddenly, a burst of light shot down from above clearing a section of the dark cloud as it goes through the black crystal making it shatter.

Cloud: Damn! We are out of time!

Squall: This must be the gateway to the fifth world.

Tidus: We came all the way here and to fail. This can’t be happening.

In the center of the clear circular section of the dark clouds a spinning vortex appears spinning clockwise.

Urbine: It seems that you four are too late the gateway to the fifth world has open.

Shadow Skine: [Evil Laugh] The fifth world is mine.

Skise: What about my sword?

Urbine: Your sword was the last key to open the gate and without it the gateway wouldn’t be stable enough for something of its caliber to hold.

Skise: This can’t be happening!

Shadow Skine: I need more power.

Scene shows Shadow Skine teleporting behind Yulin and Dieren and used it’s armor claws to grab their heads and lift them up in the air. Their aura begins to escape from their body and goes in its hands which travel throughout his body to regenerate his powers.

Cloud: Can’t let you do that.

Cloud thrust his sword in the ground which releases a burst of energy traveling through the ground where the three is at. The energy impacts the three causing a small explosion as the area is now filled with smoke.

The scene blackens and fades in with Melicites and Lakeyna fighting. Lakeyna suddenly punches Melicites as it causes an explosion that sends her flying and then hitting the wall behind her. She falls down to her feet as she uses her right shirt sleeve to wipe the blood coming down her mouth. She then charges Lakeyna, evading her punches and kicks which Melicites does another point blank energy blast.

Melicites: Give up Lakeyna.

Lakeyna: [Stands Up Unharmed] You are no match against me Melicites.

Melicites: No matter what I do to you it seems that you don’t take damage.

Lakeyna: Yes, isn’t quite interesting how I seem more powerful then you even though we were both Mystic? The thing which makes me different then you is that Skine didn’t turn me into a Mystic which he thoughts he did. A while back when I volunteered to be an Shadow soldier to take avenge on Skise… well Urbine made me into a Mystic. The only thing that Skine did was unlock my powers to its full potential which turned me into what I am now.

Melicites: What does Urbine has to do with it?

Lakeyna: Everything.

Melicites: You’re not Lakeyna! Who are you?

Lakeyna: Sorry to say this but I am the real Lakeyna but now everything seems clear.

Melicites: Give me back my friend! [Cries] I don’t know who you are anymore. You and Skise means everything to me and I already lost Skise but I will do anything to bring you back.

Lakeyna: So sweet but there isn’t anything to turn back into since nothing change.

Melicites: [Tilts head down so face is shadowed] You were like a sister to me and we were always there for each like a sister then a friend… we were family. With Skise gone the only thing to do now is to destroy us both.

Lakeyna: You wouldn’t.

Melicites: It’s the only way (I’m sorry Lakeyna)

Lakeyna: I’ll kill you first.

Melicites red aura is now beginning to become unstable as she is focusing all of her Mystic energy inside of her body. Lakeyna kneels down and pounds the ground unleashing an energy wave going through the ground towards Melicites.

Scene shows the energy wave hitting Melicites’ aura but cause no effect what so ever. Melicites moves both of her hands together creating a dark crimson red energy sphere between her hands.

Melicites: Crimson Mystic Sphere of Lost Destiny!

Melicites thrust her arms out firing the sphere towards Lakeyna which she couldn’t defend against. The sphere impacts her generating a huge catastrophic explosion that completely obliterates the area.

Scene blackens and fade in with the four turning around seeing Shadow Skine in the center of the area. Suddenly an explosion occurs in the background which completely destroyed a full side of the fortress.

Skise: What was that?

Cloud: It didn’t even dent him.

Shadow Skine: With this new body of mine and three Mystics in my possession nobody can defeat me. Now the only thing left to do is to fully open the gateway so the fifth world can appear.

Squall: We have to stop him if we want to protect the planet!

Cloud: I’m all out of ideas.

Tidus: We gotta think of something fast or Earth will be history.

Shadow Skine: You are too late to do anything, you three prove weak against me. The countdown to Earth destruction has just begun and you can’t do anything about it.

Skise: This is my entire fault.

Cloud: You didn’t know that your sword was the key.

Squall: We all didn’t know so don’t blame yourself. That is now in the past so our concern is to destroy him before he could do anything in the fifth world.

Tidus: What should we do?

Skise: The only thing we can do is to attack him and hope for the best.

Scene shit to the destroyed section of the fortress with Melicites and Lakeyna is lying down in the center of the rumble. Melicites open her eyes as she then stands up with her hand rubbing her head and sees Lakeyna still unconscious with parts of her clothes torn off. Melicites slowly walks toward Lakeyna grabbing her right arm which seems to be broken.

Melicites: I am very sorry… it had to be done.

Lakeyna: ….ugh

Melicites: What… your still alive?

Lakeyna: …ugh… Melicites?

Melicites: Are you back?

Lakeyna: Back from what… where did I go?

Melicites: Oh my god.

Lakeyna finally open her eyes as Melicites drops down to her knees with tears coming down her eyes. She then collapses forward onto Lakeyna as she is hugging her while she is crying.

Lakeyna: Last time I remember Skine was about to turn me into a Mystic.

Melicites: Sorry to bring it to you but you were already a Mystic before Skine did anything to you.

Lakeyna: What? How?

Melicites: It’s a long story.

Lakeyna: Where is Skise and the others?

Melicites: The others I don’t know but Skise… I think he is dead.

Lakeyna: No… it can’t be.

Melicites: I tried to stop him but he got killed by saving me.

Lakeyna: …

Melicites stands up and help Lakeyna up as they both look around and see six people in the distance.

Melicites: It’s them! Cloud, Tidus, and Squall but it seems that Urbine is there also.

Lakeyna: I don’t recognize the other two.

Melicites: Come on, we must help the three and defeat Urbine.

Scene switches to the six where suddenly Melicites and Lakeyna jumps in the area and see Skise with platinum hair.

Lakeyna: Skise!?

Melicites: I thought you are dead?

Skise: I did died but I came back to finished what I started.

Lakeyna: Is that Skine?

Cloud: Its Stalker and Skine fused.

Lakeyna: But how?

Squall: Urbine fused them together.

Tidus: We must find a why to beat him.

Lakeyna: While you guys think we help you guy.

Melicites: Let’s defeat this thing together then.

Shadow Skine: You think it’s going to be that easy to defeat me.

Shadow Skine release some of its energy as the vortex in the sky quickly extends out pass the horizon while the ground is now shaking due to shifting. The ground where the four, Urbine and Shadow Skine begins to crack as it goes around them making them trap. The ground suddenly rises up in the sky going toward the vortex.

Scene blackens and fade in with the six getting up as they appear inside the vortex. Shadow Skine is in the air with its faded black aura around his body and Urbine is standing there doing nothing.

Cloud: Where are you?

Squall: We must be in the vortex.

Shadow Skine: You are right. While we are in here the five worlds are being reconstructed.

Skise: I can’t take it anymore! We can’t just stand here and let this happen while we have the power to stop it.

Tidus: You’re right Skise. We must do something if we want to protect our friends and family.

Squall: I had fought many battles that they seem impossible to defeat but at the end I come out victorious. This isn’t about our own worlds it is about the four worlds and the fifth world. There are many lives that are counting on us and I will never let any one of them down.

Cloud: I agree. I come to understand that we shouldn’t live out our lives alone but with friends and family. I can’t believe it took me this long to know and for now on I will always be with friends and family and people that are there for me.

Shadow Skine: Come to me if you want an early death!

The six begins fighting Shadow Skine which has the power of three Mystics and at the end they seem to be winning.

Shadow Skine: It’s impossible to beat me!

Skise: Nothing is impossible.

Cloud: Skise! Finish him!

Squall: It’s your brother… we will let you deal the finishing blow.

Skise: Thanks you guys.

Tidus: Hurry before it is too late.

Skise: Mystic! Soul of Retribution!

Scene shows him powering up with his aura slowly spiraling towards his two hands that he is moving slowly in front of him. When most of his aura is in his hands he then thrust them out toward Shadow Skine as it fires a platinum energy blast. The blast violently rushes toward Shadow Skine is it splits the ground below it. The blast impacts Shadow Skine with no explosion but just pass through as the scene blackens.

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