Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Akagi Sphere ❯ Chapter 9: Demon from the abyss ( Chapter 9 )
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By: SDI Hypervelocity 
Non Anime: Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.05.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.7K | Visits: 150 | Status: Completed
Non Anime: Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Hentai | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 03.05.2005 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.7K | Visits: 150 | Status: Completed
Chapter 9: Demon from the abyss
“What’s going on?!” Tidus backed way slowly, watching in confusion as around him fiends were appearing from out of nowhere. Pireflies was starting to come together to form these monsters, and with all the Pireflies in the Farplane a lot of fiends could be made, But why was this happening in the first place?
While backing away Tidus nearly tripped over a sleeping Shuyin who was laying on the ground behind him. “Shu! Hey Wake up! This is an emergency!” with a swift kick he awakened the sleeping Shuyin, who groaned at first from the forceful blow giving but flinching when he saw a large friend staring back down at him. It just happened to be one of the strongest fiends ever created, Omega weapon, oversouled.
Shuyin stumbled on to his feet, next to Tidus “What is that doing here!?” luckily he was fully dressed, avoiding a few complications. But with no weapons it hardly mattered.
The fiend started walking toward them, and odd sound coming from it’s open mouth. Tidus looked over to Shuyin nervously “Any ideas?”
If he had his powers then this wouldn‘t be a problem, but when he died they had greatly reduced, almost faded entirely. He didn’t stand a chance. “We’ll have to run for now.”
A rain of burning meteors fell from the sky, crashing down in a burst of dirt and flames, igniting the grass and flowers sounding them “Sounds good to me!” Tidus grabbed Shuyin by the hand and pulled him forcefuly along as he dived backwards off the floating garden, falling a few feet to the water bellow with a splash. But even then there was no escape, fiends even lurked their.
They landed on top of what looked like the bones of a whale, with horns. It didn’t seem to notice though, lucky for them... Tidus looked over at Shuyin, being the only one of them that could naturally breath underwater he was the only one that could actually speak. “I think we can get away with it seeing us.”
Shuyin silently nodded in agreement, he was using what little of his powers he had left to keep himself from drowning.
Tidus pointed to a wall that rose up high above the water, a canyon that held a long waterfall sitting just ahead of them.
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“What’s going on around here!!!” Tidus shouted angrily as soon as he got back on land, this place next to the waterfall was relatively safe, no fiends, yet.
“The Farplane is unstable.” Shuyin explained, just as Braska had told them before. “The Farplane is like a separate reality, it doesn't just become unstable. Something must be doing this.” He spoke, looking around surveyingly as he spoke. A person’s eyes were first drawn to the fiends, particularly an inexperienced person in this type of field which was just about everyone . But Shuyin knew what to look for, the logical thing to check out was what was creating the fiends.... Shuyin looked at a few Pireflies streaming down in a small swarm to form a fiend not too far off, the key to that was that they had drifted down. So he looked up.
Their Shuyin saw clouds of the Pireflies across the sky, nothing unusual, but what was unusual was where they were all going. From every direction they seemed to be flowing to one point too far away for him to see clearly. Shuyin pointed it out to Tidus. “Something has to be doing this”
“ I’m impressed. It took us 20 minutes to figure that out.”
Tidus and Shuyin looked back toward the sound of the familiar voice that could only belong to Jecht, who was standing behind them and had gotten their without neither of them noticing. Auron and Braska were of course with him, Braska with his staff, and both Jecht and Auron had their swords.
“Where were you?” Tidus asked impatiently. “I’ve been looking for you guys! What the hell is going on!”
Jecht drew a sword from a strap resting behind his back, the hooked blade seemed to be made completely of water. He handed it to Tidus, who Shuyin noticed seemed familiar with the weapon . “Why is this place is crawling with fiends?...” Tidus paused to look over the sword, “Isn’t this mine?”
Jecht shrugged. “How the hell should I know, I just found it.”
Auron had also found another sword, which he gave to Shuyin, It’s blade was shaded in different colors in a blend of red, blue, yellow, and green. “This is my sword, Thank you.” Shuyin took the weapon graciously, Auron only grunted a reply.
“What do we do now?” Tidus asked. “Ask him.” Jecht point over to Braska, who sighed and start explaining the situation.
Seeing that everyone was here, Braska thought it was time to figure this all out. “Something is forcing these Pireflies to become fiends, it‘s not natural in the Farplane. And as you can see, they are being pulled downward.” Braska pointed out a spot just barely visible on the horizon where the Pireflies were flowing downward, from here it only looked like a small line on a greater picture. Even Shuyin hadn’t noticed that.
“You may have noticed that the gravity has as also become stronger.” Braska figured this out when his Demi spell became suddenly stronger then usual, after that he just started to feel the difference after he realized it. “The Pireflies being pulled down and the stronger gravity could only mean there is something bellow us causing this... I’m not sure what it is, but I do know it formed because of the instability of the Farplane, or possibly the other way around. And...It’s a demon, that much I’m sure of.” Braska could practically feel it, being a summoner he was in tuned with things that weren’t alive or weren’t human, it was a sixth sense he’d developed. And the usually faint sense was now burning strongly in his mind, enough to give him a headache.
Tidus still had one question, well one relative question “Why is this happening?”
“Now that’s something I know.“ Braska spoke with a bit more confidence this time, shifting his staff around in his hands nervously. A habit he had acquired. “You and your father’s presences, when you crossed over into the Farplane from a place that didn’t technically exist, though I’m not sure how you got here--”
“That was my fault.” Shuyin suddenly spoke up, though uneasy about saying it. “When I revived the Aeons...it must have brought them back too, it’s most likely why they ended up in the Farplane.”
One mystery solved “Right, well when that happened a hole was created, and now that you‘ve explained that to me.” Braska indicated Shuyin. “A hole being created was the only way they could get here, a void if you will. This growing ‘void’ made the Farplane unstable but not this unstable. Something must have filled it, it’s probably trying to gain control of the Farplane, and I‘m afraid it‘s in the position to do so.”
“But why would something want to take over the Farplane?” Tidus asked,
Auron answered him. “If it did, it could get to Spira.”
“Something strong enough to do this... Guadosalam would be destroyed, and there’s no telling how much more damage it could do. If we don’t stop it now the fiends will be a bigger problem then it.” Braska explained.
“Hn. Something with that much power could devastate Spira.”
“It would be just like Sin!“ Tidus realized what it would mean for Spira, since no matter how strong it was it couldn’t take out the whole world, not at once at lest. Which would mean that Spira’s death would be a slow and painful process, they had to stop it now.
“Alright, how do we get to it?” Shuyin asked, that was the problem, there didn’t seem to be a way to get to it. They didn’t even know where they were trying to get to, or what they were trying to find.
Braska looked at Shuyin, he seemed to have a plan in mind, Shuyin could tell by the expression. “Shuyin, you brought back the aeons right?” Braska inquired.
“Yes.”
“And Veganagun, where is it now?”
“I think it’s still in the……Farplane Abyss.” A sudden spark of realization came into Shuyin’s eyes. “I see your plan now, we have go in from the Abyss.”
Jecht looked over to Braska, “Your pretty smart.”
“Thank you.”
Shuyin opened up the portal effortlessly, a swirling vortex of red an yellow tearing in through thin air in a flash of discharging sparks just above the ground. Shuyin confidently walked in, Tidus, not as confidently, following.
Jecht lifted his sword, resting the dull edge on to his shoulder similarly in form to Auron. “Anybody else nervous about this whole thing?”
Braska nodded, and Auron passively agreed.
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“This is it?” Tidus scratched his head questioningly, the Farplane abyss was nothing more then an empty space. All that remained was one island of land that they were currently standing upon and a seemingly bottomless pit wrapped in darkness. Thousands of Pireflies were being sucked down in hoards, all being swallowed by the darkness
“No.” Shuyin shook his head, “Something happened here, everything is gone.”
Auron, Braska and Jecht came through the portal behind the two, looking around at what was left of the Farplane Abyss and the swirling vacuum of Pireflies.
Auron reached his hand out over the edge, feeling a strong pull downward. Gravity was definitely greater down here, it was impossible not to notice it. “So the only way down is to jump…” Auron unsheathed his sword from where it had been held by a sash on his back. Holding it outward with both hands he took one step back he jumped over.
“Auron always was direct.” Braska chuckled a little, jumping in to the sea of Pireflies after him.
“More like insane..” Jecht rolled his eyes, leaped into the swirling drain of Pireflies and darkness more reluctantly then Auron and Braska had.
“Well That leaves us Shu.” Tidus looked over at Shuyin, still nervous....
“Ready?”
Tidus took a deep breath, clinching his water formed sword lightly. “As ready as I’m going to get.”
With out any reason to stay, Shuyin jumped over the edge this time pulling Tidus with him.
“Whaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
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The real trouble didn’t come from the fall but what happened while they were falling, it seemed like this really was an endless hole after 30 seconds in a mindless freefall. But they weren’t alone in their decent in to darkness, something bright emerged from bellow them.
Some how by the light of Pireflies the 5 of them drifted relatively close to each other.
“It’s Veganagun!” Shuyin immediately raised his sword, knowing something was wrong, very, very wrong.
The large Machina reassembled itself piece by piece before them, accentuated by the glowing of it’s eyes, it was ready for battle. But of course it still wasn’t active or online, instead it was filled with Pireflies, lots and lots of Pireflies that streamed out occasionally like sweat. The core still laid lifelessly at the machine’s center
“That’s Veganagun?!” Tidus didn’t expect it to be so big, he didn’t expect it at all. What was going on around here!!!!
It’s red eyes flashed and a large seal appeared under them, a common one used in Bevele. It was almost like glass, something solid enough to stand on and hold all of that weight. It glowed a soft light blue with small symbols traced around the outside, but the most defining feature was the symbol of Yu Yevon in the center. By some force they were drawn down to it as if it had it’s own gravity, though the whole structure and themselves with it were still falling into the abyss.
“Why is that here?” Tidus pointed down at the image of the Aeon controller.
“This is the Farplane, there must be some connection.” Auron looked thoughtfully at the image of what had indirectly caused his death. Their were so many lose ends to this, all if it was happening so fast it was overwhelming.
“I don’t know what that is but we have more pressing matters to attend to!” Shuyin said, indicating Veganagun.
“You know more about this thing then we do, what is it doing?” Jecht asked, specifying how the machine was vibrating with a dull hum.
“The Cannon!! We have to stop it before it fires!” Shuyin charged forward at the machine before him with his sword hung down at his sides, raising it in an upward slash with a small jump, slicing through the orbs on the leg.
The dead core of Veganagun started to glow with a blue light and it retaliated with a huge beam that swept across the ground over everyone, almost pushing them off the Platform. The tail started to wiggle to life, sweeping over the seal and slamming toward them. Auron quickly put a stop to the attack with a strong strike from his blade, powerful enough to knock it back.
The tail swung around the front of the large body and stood erect, glowing with a strong light around the bladed tip. “Auron, move forward.” Shuyin called to him from where he was still positioned next to the leg, lifting the muti-colored sword above his head, leaping upward and striking the orbs a second time. As instructed, Auron ran forward just as a thick red beam shot out of tail at him, allowing him to easily pass beneath it and avoid it.
Tidus overdrive: 1%
Auron overdrive: 8%
Jecht overdrive: 3%
Braska overdrive: 5%
Shuyin overdrive:1%
Braska may have been a summoner, but he was far from weak he also had strong knowledge of black and white magic and was highly proficient in it. Raising his staff, he cast a Holy spell with the speaking of the spell‘s name and extraction of MP. Large white orbs started to rotate around Veganagun, pulling in rays of light from some place unknown that washed over the large form like rain, even though being only light they felt like blades.
Tidus bided his time, watching the two sets of arms towering above carefully, as expected from a long wait, the to Machina dropped to it’s knees and one of the arms came crashing down on him. Using his sword, he forced it back with a quick slash just as it dawned on him, it kept pushing downward, so with no chose Tidus jumped backwards and narrowly avoided being smashed. With his sword drawn draw back at his side, Tidus thrust it forward and stabbed into the black appendage, enough to sever the arm at the wrist rending the arm useless.
This falling was becoming nauseous, enough to make one’s stomach churn.
A rush of energy came from under Shuyin igniting flames from a Flare spell, forceful enough to throw him off his feet. Followed by a thick volt of Thunder crashing down from the sky attacking everyone with an electrocution, the combo was enough to draw a cry of pain from Shuyin. “Damnit....This falling is throwing me off!”
Braska was able to cast Mighty Guard on the party before the next round of attacks came from Veganagun. Reflecting the next round of spells including thunder, fire, and ice.
A Scan told Jecht Veganagun was immune to gravity, he knew how to get around that by using Demi sword. He pulled his sword back over his head then tossed the hooked blade directly at Veganagun's Pirefly filled core, on contact a powerful surge of gravity was unleashed in a shockwave of black and distorted energy, boomeranging back to it‘s owner. Veganagun's core started to glow a bright red in center, sending a powerful beam sweeping down over the part of the seal they resided on with a strong explosion, pushing Tidus, Jecht, Braska, and Auron them back farther towards the edge. Shuyin was still working independently on the leg so he had been out of range.
Tidus overdrive: 8%
Auron overdrive: 16%
Jecht overdrive: 9%
Braska overdrive: 10%
Shuyin overdrive:9%
Shuyin pulled his sword back, taking a step back before charging fiercely at Veganagun. Striking the leg as he charged past it, stopping just short of the tail which also gained a slash, turning and attacking the second leg coming back. Shu jumped up, kicking off the hard steel of it’s leg and striking and shattering all three of the orbs as he ascended . The tail jumped up from behind, glowing with a charged beam in the tip.
Auron saved Shuyin from an attack, striking the tail with his sword from the base and sending the beam off course and the tail itself falling half lifelessly to the ground almost severed from the large blade‘s strike.
The core started to glow with a yellow light that shine over them, an indirect attack that hit mp, a lot of Mp.
‘Great...’ With what little he had left, Braska used Osmoses to drain most of it back from Veganagun in streaks of white light, then countered with Black sky, sending a rain of shadow covered meteors on to Veganagun that struck every part of it‘s body. Jecht followed with Darkness, thrusting his sword down into the ground with a loud grunt and sending a shock wave of dark energy sweeping over the Machina just as it cast another round of spell, all of them reflected.
Auron continued with his method attack, preventing the tail from attacking before it could with his delay attack ability. After 4 attacks in the same place, he managed to slice off the tail completely. Tidus also was able to brake into the core.
“Braska, do it.” Auron prompted the summoner.
“It’s all yours.” Jecht stepped out of the way as another round of magic reflected off of them from the Mighty Guard cast earlier back on to Veganagun. Lifting his staff, he used a stronger version of the Ultima spell.
“Final Ultima!”
A green light green shined in a small orb above his head, slowly growing in power until it exploded deafeningly in to a rush of green energy that engulfed everything. Luckily they were shielded from the fierce spell, but surprisingly after the powerful attack, Veganagun was still standing. Even though it was still weak from it’s previous fight with Yuna and the others and barely put back together with damaged and half dismantled parts, it was taking a long time to defeat.
It was still damaged to say the lest, gaseous scars tore through the metal, they were everywhere on the machine’s frame.
“What is it doing?” Tidus watched the shaking Machina nervously, that couldn‘t be a good thing.
Shuyin studied the shaking Machina, noticing it started do draw in the countless Pireflies that swirled around them. The black metal skin tented into a dull gray and A large cannon extended from it’s mouth. Shuyin gasped and drew back slightly, it was really intimidating being on the other side of that weapon, especially when you knew what it can do. “It’s oversouled! We have to stop it before it fires that canon!” Shuyin lifted his sword again, heavily anxious and nervous.
If that cannon fired....Tidus would be....
“There’s a problem, we can’t reach it.” Auron pointed out the obvious set back, then he looked over to Jecht, who understood what he was thinking.
“You really think we can break through this thing?” Jecht tapped his sword against the seal as a small test, it was obviously solid.
“We’ll have to.” Auron turned to Tidus and Shuyin who seemed to have migrated together. “Tidus, Shuyin, take out the lower body and as much as the torso as you can. We‘ll have to lower Veganagun and get to the cannon one way or another.”
“Shu! Is there anyway to slow that thing down?” Tidus asked.
“It’s gathering MP, It uses Ether to fire the cannon. “ Shuyin explained.
“I’m on it.” Braska quickly started to use Osmosis to drain MP, he couldn’t stop it but he could slow it down.
Tidus overdrive: 40%
Auron overdrive: 70%
Jecht overdrive: 60%
Braska overdrive: 50%
Shuyin overdrive:45%
Auron and Jecht convened in the center of the seal holding them up, figure it to be the weakest point. Looking down they could see that they were still falling, even though it didn’t seem like it any more since the seal had expanded enough to block the wind. Auron raised his sword above his head, using defense break an attempt to weaken the seal. Jecht did the same, but using Power Break.
Shuyin took the left leg and Tidus took the right. Easily chopping through the weakened steel and forcing the body to drop down a few feet, working their way toward the torso.
“You alright Braska?” Jecht asked, seeing the seal slowly start to crack.
“Just hurry, I don’t think I can last much longer.” Braska’s voice was starting to get strained, full wasn’t the word for what he was feeling, if he kept using Osmosis at this rate he’d probably get sick and...
“What about you two?” Auron asked, not bothering to look up from what he was doing.
Could be better!” Tidus yelled, out of breath.
“The torso armor is stronger then before, but we’ll manage.” Shuyin was doing more work then Tidus, it was about equal if you considered the fact that all of Shuyin’s attacks were Tidus’s overdrives. the constant rays from the core and physical attacks from the arms only hindered the process.
“Move!” Jecht and Auron suddenly grabbed Tidus and Shuyin by either the shoulder or the arm and pulled them both out of the way just as the broke through the Torso. As confusing as it was the reason became clear when the Seal started to shatter, braking open from the bottom, letting the broken lower body and most of the torso of Veganagun drop into the hole, only kept from falling completely through by the long tusk and arms.
Now it was tricky, they could only move around the out edge of the seal since the rest had fallen through, and the edge in it self was weakened. While the core was charging, Veganagun, or what was left of it, attacked through the arms and tusks.
“It‘s at 30%, we can make it.” Shuyin told them. With out any energy left to do so, Braska stopped draining MP, time was running low.
Jecht and Auron looked at each other, silently agreeing on a plan, after knowing each other so long, they could tell these things.
Tidus overdrive: 70%
Auron overdrive: 100%
Jecht overdrive: 100%
Braska overdrive: 70%
Shuyin overdrive:75%
Auron lifted the jug of sake hanging on his waist to his lips, taking a small sip from container and raising his sword. Auron discharged the liquid into a mist on to his sword before him, then he lowered it to his side and closed the small gap between himself and Veganagun's torso. With both hands he swung the large blade upward with a powerful blow, unleashing a strong wave of dark energy that centered in the core where the edge connected.
Jecht followed, extending his hooked sword above his head, it began to glow a bright red in some unknown overdrive. With a loud grunt he brought the charged weapon down on to Veganagun, leaving an imprinted red line where the blade had cut. That red line exploded in an outward rush of energy, usually good for blowing something apart but unfortunately Veganagun was still gathering energy.
At the last second, Braska extended his staff toward the machine, expending all of his Mp on a modified Mandingo spell. A red insignia radiated from under Veganagun, covering it in a blindingly bright wall of red light.
A loud, ear splitting explosion came from behind the red light, incinerating any trace of Veganagun left, including the thousands of Pireflies inside. It never failed, worth every MP.
“Hey we...did...it....what’s that?“ Something blue sparkled above them, falling at a high speed. not knowing exactly what it was, Tidus reached his sword out, catching it on the tip before it could fall through the large gaping hole of the seal and pass them by. It was a save point.
“What do we do with it?” Tidus asked.
“Use it.” Auron said in his usual monotone.
When Tidus touched it a black smoke radiated from it, making everything blurry. The rush of wind and the pull from falling stopped, and when it all cleared, they were on the ground at the bottom of the abyss, and my what a long way down it was.
“That was….weird.” Tidus looked around at the steel ground and the root of the canyon used when they first entered the Abyss all illuminated by the light of the save point and the rain of Pireflies traveling downward. Shuyin looked up, then quickly pulled the tired Braska back with a swift pull just as the remains of the seal they were standing on came down around them with a loud shatter and clang. But it didn’t break.
Braska looked back at the broken seal that almost crushed him, his mind thinking briefly that he would have to learn how to make a seal that strong, and find out who had made a seal that strong. “Thank you.”
Shuyin nodded in response.
“Well now we know where we are, now where are we going?” Jecht looked around at the open space surrounding them under the cover of darkness. His voice with greeted with a loud roar from some distant monster.
“That way.” Auron said in his usual manner, but his voice was lined with sarcastic undertones.
Another loud roar came from the same direction. But this time they had time to prepare. They would need it, with no way to escape to anyway.
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I found something out when I was playing X-2, when you fight Veganagun After 80 turns, Veganagun fires that cannon, and you automatically get the ‘bad ending.’
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“What’s going on?!” Tidus backed way slowly, watching in confusion as around him fiends were appearing from out of nowhere. Pireflies was starting to come together to form these monsters, and with all the Pireflies in the Farplane a lot of fiends could be made, But why was this happening in the first place?
While backing away Tidus nearly tripped over a sleeping Shuyin who was laying on the ground behind him. “Shu! Hey Wake up! This is an emergency!” with a swift kick he awakened the sleeping Shuyin, who groaned at first from the forceful blow giving but flinching when he saw a large friend staring back down at him. It just happened to be one of the strongest fiends ever created, Omega weapon, oversouled.
Shuyin stumbled on to his feet, next to Tidus “What is that doing here!?” luckily he was fully dressed, avoiding a few complications. But with no weapons it hardly mattered.
The fiend started walking toward them, and odd sound coming from it’s open mouth. Tidus looked over to Shuyin nervously “Any ideas?”
If he had his powers then this wouldn‘t be a problem, but when he died they had greatly reduced, almost faded entirely. He didn’t stand a chance. “We’ll have to run for now.”
A rain of burning meteors fell from the sky, crashing down in a burst of dirt and flames, igniting the grass and flowers sounding them “Sounds good to me!” Tidus grabbed Shuyin by the hand and pulled him forcefuly along as he dived backwards off the floating garden, falling a few feet to the water bellow with a splash. But even then there was no escape, fiends even lurked their.
They landed on top of what looked like the bones of a whale, with horns. It didn’t seem to notice though, lucky for them... Tidus looked over at Shuyin, being the only one of them that could naturally breath underwater he was the only one that could actually speak. “I think we can get away with it seeing us.”
Shuyin silently nodded in agreement, he was using what little of his powers he had left to keep himself from drowning.
Tidus pointed to a wall that rose up high above the water, a canyon that held a long waterfall sitting just ahead of them.
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“What’s going on around here!!!” Tidus shouted angrily as soon as he got back on land, this place next to the waterfall was relatively safe, no fiends, yet.
“The Farplane is unstable.” Shuyin explained, just as Braska had told them before. “The Farplane is like a separate reality, it doesn't just become unstable. Something must be doing this.” He spoke, looking around surveyingly as he spoke. A person’s eyes were first drawn to the fiends, particularly an inexperienced person in this type of field which was just about everyone . But Shuyin knew what to look for, the logical thing to check out was what was creating the fiends.... Shuyin looked at a few Pireflies streaming down in a small swarm to form a fiend not too far off, the key to that was that they had drifted down. So he looked up.
Their Shuyin saw clouds of the Pireflies across the sky, nothing unusual, but what was unusual was where they were all going. From every direction they seemed to be flowing to one point too far away for him to see clearly. Shuyin pointed it out to Tidus. “Something has to be doing this”
“ I’m impressed. It took us 20 minutes to figure that out.”
Tidus and Shuyin looked back toward the sound of the familiar voice that could only belong to Jecht, who was standing behind them and had gotten their without neither of them noticing. Auron and Braska were of course with him, Braska with his staff, and both Jecht and Auron had their swords.
“Where were you?” Tidus asked impatiently. “I’ve been looking for you guys! What the hell is going on!”
Jecht drew a sword from a strap resting behind his back, the hooked blade seemed to be made completely of water. He handed it to Tidus, who Shuyin noticed seemed familiar with the weapon . “Why is this place is crawling with fiends?...” Tidus paused to look over the sword, “Isn’t this mine?”
Jecht shrugged. “How the hell should I know, I just found it.”
Auron had also found another sword, which he gave to Shuyin, It’s blade was shaded in different colors in a blend of red, blue, yellow, and green. “This is my sword, Thank you.” Shuyin took the weapon graciously, Auron only grunted a reply.
“What do we do now?” Tidus asked. “Ask him.” Jecht point over to Braska, who sighed and start explaining the situation.
Seeing that everyone was here, Braska thought it was time to figure this all out. “Something is forcing these Pireflies to become fiends, it‘s not natural in the Farplane. And as you can see, they are being pulled downward.” Braska pointed out a spot just barely visible on the horizon where the Pireflies were flowing downward, from here it only looked like a small line on a greater picture. Even Shuyin hadn’t noticed that.
“You may have noticed that the gravity has as also become stronger.” Braska figured this out when his Demi spell became suddenly stronger then usual, after that he just started to feel the difference after he realized it. “The Pireflies being pulled down and the stronger gravity could only mean there is something bellow us causing this... I’m not sure what it is, but I do know it formed because of the instability of the Farplane, or possibly the other way around. And...It’s a demon, that much I’m sure of.” Braska could practically feel it, being a summoner he was in tuned with things that weren’t alive or weren’t human, it was a sixth sense he’d developed. And the usually faint sense was now burning strongly in his mind, enough to give him a headache.
Tidus still had one question, well one relative question “Why is this happening?”
“Now that’s something I know.“ Braska spoke with a bit more confidence this time, shifting his staff around in his hands nervously. A habit he had acquired. “You and your father’s presences, when you crossed over into the Farplane from a place that didn’t technically exist, though I’m not sure how you got here--”
“That was my fault.” Shuyin suddenly spoke up, though uneasy about saying it. “When I revived the Aeons...it must have brought them back too, it’s most likely why they ended up in the Farplane.”
One mystery solved “Right, well when that happened a hole was created, and now that you‘ve explained that to me.” Braska indicated Shuyin. “A hole being created was the only way they could get here, a void if you will. This growing ‘void’ made the Farplane unstable but not this unstable. Something must have filled it, it’s probably trying to gain control of the Farplane, and I‘m afraid it‘s in the position to do so.”
“But why would something want to take over the Farplane?” Tidus asked,
Auron answered him. “If it did, it could get to Spira.”
“Something strong enough to do this... Guadosalam would be destroyed, and there’s no telling how much more damage it could do. If we don’t stop it now the fiends will be a bigger problem then it.” Braska explained.
“Hn. Something with that much power could devastate Spira.”
“It would be just like Sin!“ Tidus realized what it would mean for Spira, since no matter how strong it was it couldn’t take out the whole world, not at once at lest. Which would mean that Spira’s death would be a slow and painful process, they had to stop it now.
“Alright, how do we get to it?” Shuyin asked, that was the problem, there didn’t seem to be a way to get to it. They didn’t even know where they were trying to get to, or what they were trying to find.
Braska looked at Shuyin, he seemed to have a plan in mind, Shuyin could tell by the expression. “Shuyin, you brought back the aeons right?” Braska inquired.
“Yes.”
“And Veganagun, where is it now?”
“I think it’s still in the……Farplane Abyss.” A sudden spark of realization came into Shuyin’s eyes. “I see your plan now, we have go in from the Abyss.”
Jecht looked over to Braska, “Your pretty smart.”
“Thank you.”
Shuyin opened up the portal effortlessly, a swirling vortex of red an yellow tearing in through thin air in a flash of discharging sparks just above the ground. Shuyin confidently walked in, Tidus, not as confidently, following.
Jecht lifted his sword, resting the dull edge on to his shoulder similarly in form to Auron. “Anybody else nervous about this whole thing?”
Braska nodded, and Auron passively agreed.
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“This is it?” Tidus scratched his head questioningly, the Farplane abyss was nothing more then an empty space. All that remained was one island of land that they were currently standing upon and a seemingly bottomless pit wrapped in darkness. Thousands of Pireflies were being sucked down in hoards, all being swallowed by the darkness
“No.” Shuyin shook his head, “Something happened here, everything is gone.”
Auron, Braska and Jecht came through the portal behind the two, looking around at what was left of the Farplane Abyss and the swirling vacuum of Pireflies.
Auron reached his hand out over the edge, feeling a strong pull downward. Gravity was definitely greater down here, it was impossible not to notice it. “So the only way down is to jump…” Auron unsheathed his sword from where it had been held by a sash on his back. Holding it outward with both hands he took one step back he jumped over.
“Auron always was direct.” Braska chuckled a little, jumping in to the sea of Pireflies after him.
“More like insane..” Jecht rolled his eyes, leaped into the swirling drain of Pireflies and darkness more reluctantly then Auron and Braska had.
“Well That leaves us Shu.” Tidus looked over at Shuyin, still nervous....
“Ready?”
Tidus took a deep breath, clinching his water formed sword lightly. “As ready as I’m going to get.”
With out any reason to stay, Shuyin jumped over the edge this time pulling Tidus with him.
“Whaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
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The real trouble didn’t come from the fall but what happened while they were falling, it seemed like this really was an endless hole after 30 seconds in a mindless freefall. But they weren’t alone in their decent in to darkness, something bright emerged from bellow them.
Some how by the light of Pireflies the 5 of them drifted relatively close to each other.
“It’s Veganagun!” Shuyin immediately raised his sword, knowing something was wrong, very, very wrong.
The large Machina reassembled itself piece by piece before them, accentuated by the glowing of it’s eyes, it was ready for battle. But of course it still wasn’t active or online, instead it was filled with Pireflies, lots and lots of Pireflies that streamed out occasionally like sweat. The core still laid lifelessly at the machine’s center
“That’s Veganagun?!” Tidus didn’t expect it to be so big, he didn’t expect it at all. What was going on around here!!!!
It’s red eyes flashed and a large seal appeared under them, a common one used in Bevele. It was almost like glass, something solid enough to stand on and hold all of that weight. It glowed a soft light blue with small symbols traced around the outside, but the most defining feature was the symbol of Yu Yevon in the center. By some force they were drawn down to it as if it had it’s own gravity, though the whole structure and themselves with it were still falling into the abyss.
“Why is that here?” Tidus pointed down at the image of the Aeon controller.
“This is the Farplane, there must be some connection.” Auron looked thoughtfully at the image of what had indirectly caused his death. Their were so many lose ends to this, all if it was happening so fast it was overwhelming.
“I don’t know what that is but we have more pressing matters to attend to!” Shuyin said, indicating Veganagun.
“You know more about this thing then we do, what is it doing?” Jecht asked, specifying how the machine was vibrating with a dull hum.
“The Cannon!! We have to stop it before it fires!” Shuyin charged forward at the machine before him with his sword hung down at his sides, raising it in an upward slash with a small jump, slicing through the orbs on the leg.
The dead core of Veganagun started to glow with a blue light and it retaliated with a huge beam that swept across the ground over everyone, almost pushing them off the Platform. The tail started to wiggle to life, sweeping over the seal and slamming toward them. Auron quickly put a stop to the attack with a strong strike from his blade, powerful enough to knock it back.
The tail swung around the front of the large body and stood erect, glowing with a strong light around the bladed tip. “Auron, move forward.” Shuyin called to him from where he was still positioned next to the leg, lifting the muti-colored sword above his head, leaping upward and striking the orbs a second time. As instructed, Auron ran forward just as a thick red beam shot out of tail at him, allowing him to easily pass beneath it and avoid it.
Tidus overdrive: 1%
Auron overdrive: 8%
Jecht overdrive: 3%
Braska overdrive: 5%
Shuyin overdrive:1%
Braska may have been a summoner, but he was far from weak he also had strong knowledge of black and white magic and was highly proficient in it. Raising his staff, he cast a Holy spell with the speaking of the spell‘s name and extraction of MP. Large white orbs started to rotate around Veganagun, pulling in rays of light from some place unknown that washed over the large form like rain, even though being only light they felt like blades.
Tidus bided his time, watching the two sets of arms towering above carefully, as expected from a long wait, the to Machina dropped to it’s knees and one of the arms came crashing down on him. Using his sword, he forced it back with a quick slash just as it dawned on him, it kept pushing downward, so with no chose Tidus jumped backwards and narrowly avoided being smashed. With his sword drawn draw back at his side, Tidus thrust it forward and stabbed into the black appendage, enough to sever the arm at the wrist rending the arm useless.
This falling was becoming nauseous, enough to make one’s stomach churn.
A rush of energy came from under Shuyin igniting flames from a Flare spell, forceful enough to throw him off his feet. Followed by a thick volt of Thunder crashing down from the sky attacking everyone with an electrocution, the combo was enough to draw a cry of pain from Shuyin. “Damnit....This falling is throwing me off!”
Braska was able to cast Mighty Guard on the party before the next round of attacks came from Veganagun. Reflecting the next round of spells including thunder, fire, and ice.
A Scan told Jecht Veganagun was immune to gravity, he knew how to get around that by using Demi sword. He pulled his sword back over his head then tossed the hooked blade directly at Veganagun's Pirefly filled core, on contact a powerful surge of gravity was unleashed in a shockwave of black and distorted energy, boomeranging back to it‘s owner. Veganagun's core started to glow a bright red in center, sending a powerful beam sweeping down over the part of the seal they resided on with a strong explosion, pushing Tidus, Jecht, Braska, and Auron them back farther towards the edge. Shuyin was still working independently on the leg so he had been out of range.
Tidus overdrive: 8%
Auron overdrive: 16%
Jecht overdrive: 9%
Braska overdrive: 10%
Shuyin overdrive:9%
Shuyin pulled his sword back, taking a step back before charging fiercely at Veganagun. Striking the leg as he charged past it, stopping just short of the tail which also gained a slash, turning and attacking the second leg coming back. Shu jumped up, kicking off the hard steel of it’s leg and striking and shattering all three of the orbs as he ascended . The tail jumped up from behind, glowing with a charged beam in the tip.
Auron saved Shuyin from an attack, striking the tail with his sword from the base and sending the beam off course and the tail itself falling half lifelessly to the ground almost severed from the large blade‘s strike.
The core started to glow with a yellow light that shine over them, an indirect attack that hit mp, a lot of Mp.
‘Great...’ With what little he had left, Braska used Osmoses to drain most of it back from Veganagun in streaks of white light, then countered with Black sky, sending a rain of shadow covered meteors on to Veganagun that struck every part of it‘s body. Jecht followed with Darkness, thrusting his sword down into the ground with a loud grunt and sending a shock wave of dark energy sweeping over the Machina just as it cast another round of spell, all of them reflected.
Auron continued with his method attack, preventing the tail from attacking before it could with his delay attack ability. After 4 attacks in the same place, he managed to slice off the tail completely. Tidus also was able to brake into the core.
“Braska, do it.” Auron prompted the summoner.
“It’s all yours.” Jecht stepped out of the way as another round of magic reflected off of them from the Mighty Guard cast earlier back on to Veganagun. Lifting his staff, he used a stronger version of the Ultima spell.
“Final Ultima!”
A green light green shined in a small orb above his head, slowly growing in power until it exploded deafeningly in to a rush of green energy that engulfed everything. Luckily they were shielded from the fierce spell, but surprisingly after the powerful attack, Veganagun was still standing. Even though it was still weak from it’s previous fight with Yuna and the others and barely put back together with damaged and half dismantled parts, it was taking a long time to defeat.
It was still damaged to say the lest, gaseous scars tore through the metal, they were everywhere on the machine’s frame.
“What is it doing?” Tidus watched the shaking Machina nervously, that couldn‘t be a good thing.
Shuyin studied the shaking Machina, noticing it started do draw in the countless Pireflies that swirled around them. The black metal skin tented into a dull gray and A large cannon extended from it’s mouth. Shuyin gasped and drew back slightly, it was really intimidating being on the other side of that weapon, especially when you knew what it can do. “It’s oversouled! We have to stop it before it fires that canon!” Shuyin lifted his sword again, heavily anxious and nervous.
If that cannon fired....Tidus would be....
“There’s a problem, we can’t reach it.” Auron pointed out the obvious set back, then he looked over to Jecht, who understood what he was thinking.
“You really think we can break through this thing?” Jecht tapped his sword against the seal as a small test, it was obviously solid.
“We’ll have to.” Auron turned to Tidus and Shuyin who seemed to have migrated together. “Tidus, Shuyin, take out the lower body and as much as the torso as you can. We‘ll have to lower Veganagun and get to the cannon one way or another.”
“Shu! Is there anyway to slow that thing down?” Tidus asked.
“It’s gathering MP, It uses Ether to fire the cannon. “ Shuyin explained.
“I’m on it.” Braska quickly started to use Osmosis to drain MP, he couldn’t stop it but he could slow it down.
Tidus overdrive: 40%
Auron overdrive: 70%
Jecht overdrive: 60%
Braska overdrive: 50%
Shuyin overdrive:45%
Auron and Jecht convened in the center of the seal holding them up, figure it to be the weakest point. Looking down they could see that they were still falling, even though it didn’t seem like it any more since the seal had expanded enough to block the wind. Auron raised his sword above his head, using defense break an attempt to weaken the seal. Jecht did the same, but using Power Break.
Shuyin took the left leg and Tidus took the right. Easily chopping through the weakened steel and forcing the body to drop down a few feet, working their way toward the torso.
“You alright Braska?” Jecht asked, seeing the seal slowly start to crack.
“Just hurry, I don’t think I can last much longer.” Braska’s voice was starting to get strained, full wasn’t the word for what he was feeling, if he kept using Osmosis at this rate he’d probably get sick and...
“What about you two?” Auron asked, not bothering to look up from what he was doing.
Could be better!” Tidus yelled, out of breath.
“The torso armor is stronger then before, but we’ll manage.” Shuyin was doing more work then Tidus, it was about equal if you considered the fact that all of Shuyin’s attacks were Tidus’s overdrives. the constant rays from the core and physical attacks from the arms only hindered the process.
“Move!” Jecht and Auron suddenly grabbed Tidus and Shuyin by either the shoulder or the arm and pulled them both out of the way just as the broke through the Torso. As confusing as it was the reason became clear when the Seal started to shatter, braking open from the bottom, letting the broken lower body and most of the torso of Veganagun drop into the hole, only kept from falling completely through by the long tusk and arms.
Now it was tricky, they could only move around the out edge of the seal since the rest had fallen through, and the edge in it self was weakened. While the core was charging, Veganagun, or what was left of it, attacked through the arms and tusks.
“It‘s at 30%, we can make it.” Shuyin told them. With out any energy left to do so, Braska stopped draining MP, time was running low.
Jecht and Auron looked at each other, silently agreeing on a plan, after knowing each other so long, they could tell these things.
Tidus overdrive: 70%
Auron overdrive: 100%
Jecht overdrive: 100%
Braska overdrive: 70%
Shuyin overdrive:75%
Auron lifted the jug of sake hanging on his waist to his lips, taking a small sip from container and raising his sword. Auron discharged the liquid into a mist on to his sword before him, then he lowered it to his side and closed the small gap between himself and Veganagun's torso. With both hands he swung the large blade upward with a powerful blow, unleashing a strong wave of dark energy that centered in the core where the edge connected.
Jecht followed, extending his hooked sword above his head, it began to glow a bright red in some unknown overdrive. With a loud grunt he brought the charged weapon down on to Veganagun, leaving an imprinted red line where the blade had cut. That red line exploded in an outward rush of energy, usually good for blowing something apart but unfortunately Veganagun was still gathering energy.
At the last second, Braska extended his staff toward the machine, expending all of his Mp on a modified Mandingo spell. A red insignia radiated from under Veganagun, covering it in a blindingly bright wall of red light.
A loud, ear splitting explosion came from behind the red light, incinerating any trace of Veganagun left, including the thousands of Pireflies inside. It never failed, worth every MP.
“Hey we...did...it....what’s that?“ Something blue sparkled above them, falling at a high speed. not knowing exactly what it was, Tidus reached his sword out, catching it on the tip before it could fall through the large gaping hole of the seal and pass them by. It was a save point.
“What do we do with it?” Tidus asked.
“Use it.” Auron said in his usual monotone.
When Tidus touched it a black smoke radiated from it, making everything blurry. The rush of wind and the pull from falling stopped, and when it all cleared, they were on the ground at the bottom of the abyss, and my what a long way down it was.
“That was….weird.” Tidus looked around at the steel ground and the root of the canyon used when they first entered the Abyss all illuminated by the light of the save point and the rain of Pireflies traveling downward. Shuyin looked up, then quickly pulled the tired Braska back with a swift pull just as the remains of the seal they were standing on came down around them with a loud shatter and clang. But it didn’t break.
Braska looked back at the broken seal that almost crushed him, his mind thinking briefly that he would have to learn how to make a seal that strong, and find out who had made a seal that strong. “Thank you.”
Shuyin nodded in response.
“Well now we know where we are, now where are we going?” Jecht looked around at the open space surrounding them under the cover of darkness. His voice with greeted with a loud roar from some distant monster.
“That way.” Auron said in his usual manner, but his voice was lined with sarcastic undertones.
Another loud roar came from the same direction. But this time they had time to prepare. They would need it, with no way to escape to anyway.
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I found something out when I was playing X-2, when you fight Veganagun After 80 turns, Veganagun fires that cannon, and you automatically get the ‘bad ending.’
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