Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Akagi Sphere ❯ Chapter 9 part 2: Demon from the sands ( Chapter 10 )
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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: 4.9K | 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: 4.9K | Visits: 150 | Status: Completed
Chapter 9 part 2: Demon from the sands
A thick black smoke could be seen rising from multiple places in the camp they were quickly approaching, it bombarded them, filling every sense with itself. Baralai covered his mouth and nose with his arm, clinching his eyes tightly as the hover past through the seemingly endless smoke. “Did you see this fiend?” his voice was muffled.
The pilot only shook his head, though Baralai couldn‘t see the action. “No.” the man coughed, almost thrown off course as he desperately sought a way out of the smog cover. After being tossed around and crashing into things blindly the hover finally emerged, ending up in the center of the ruined camp.
Baralai and Gippal climbed out of the vehicle, coughing profusely but quickly looking around the ruined camp to survey the damage. It was hard to find anyone still alive, or any structure still standing, any support from other camps would take hours, that’s if they even got the message. “Oh man, look at this place.” After about a minute of so of digging through rubble and trying to put out fires that wouldn’t stay out, all in a hope to find or save someone alive with no results.
“Gippal, Baralai!” The two heard Nhadala’s voice behind them.
Nhadala was still safe, she had been waiting for them after she sent Pikket to find them. The fiend in question was nowhere in sight, which may have been a good or bad thing. “Nhadala!” Gippal turned back to Nhadala while Baralai checked for any survivors that weren’t already trying to put out the fires or evacuate. “Gippal! I didn’t think you made it.” Nhadala hugged him in relief, knowing that this fiend had originally been going to Cactuar nation, so maybe it intercepted them...she was just glad they had made it
Gippal was completely focused, Nhadala could hear it in his voice, he wanted to do one thing and that was to find this fiend an kill it. It‘d had caused him more trouble then anything else had in a long time, he had already gone all around Spira to stop this thing, but some how it managed to do more damaged and killed more people then he ever could have expected in spite of that. “Where is this thing?”
“It’s here, somewhere...“ Her voice trailed off....--the she flinched and moved to block her self from the unexpected when something exploded right next to them. Gippal and Nhadala stumbled backward trying their best to avoid a ran of off thrown embers, nearly falling when the sands started to shake. “What’s going on?!”
“Somethings coming!” Baralai, much more able to keep his balance, made his way over to the two, immediately grabbing Nhadala by the arm and pulling her away. “You have to get out of here now!” Baralai didn’t know what it was, but he knew it was big, he could sense it. Sure enough something emerged from directly under them.
“What about you?“ Nhadala was reluctant about leaving them alone to face what might turn out to be their death.
Gippal gave Nhadala another small push to finish what Baralai had been trying to do, getting her just clear of the way of the giant fiend rising. “Go, get out of here.” Gippal told her, she did so with out hesitation this time, hoping they would be alright.
“Gippal.” Baralai drew his staff from his back, standing by Gippal’s side. “What the hell is that thing.”
Gippal watched, his mouth hanging open slightly as the demon rose out of the sand. “I’m not sure but it’s definitely a demon, just like Marnela said.”
It was covered in thick brown skin, it’s body was an oval shape with what seemed to be almost human in the center. That was the actual fiend Angra Mainyu. From the bottom of it, two limb like extremities branched off in to two large bodies that were only complete from the waist up. Both were similar, haunting red eyes, gray braded hair that seemed almost alive itself, and an overall creepy torso that was it‘s body. But the one on the left, Tawrich, had only a left arm, a large one at that. The one on the right Zarich, had only a right arm. Angra Mainyu, along with both of it’s extensions, came together to form a towering figure that seemed too big to fight.
Baralai stood breathlessly with his mouth open, “Oh my god.” he realized there was no time for that when the fiend started coming toward them. He started off by casting scan.
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ANGRA MAINYU
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Stats
Classification: -
HP: 333444/333444
MP: 9999/9999
! - ! - !
! - ! - !
! - ! - !
Guard
Fire:
Ice :
Lit :
Water:
Grav: Immune
Holy :
! - ! - !
KO, Petrification, Sleep,
Silence, Darkness, Poison,
Confusion, Berserk, Curse,
Eject, Reflect, Slow, Stop,
Defense Down, Magic Def. Down
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Information:
A terrible fiend that has
awakened from slumber beneath
the desert sands. Bent on
destroying all it encounters,
it is a fiendish fiend indeed.
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Tawrich
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Stats
Classification: -
HP: 5540/5540
MP: 9999/9999
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Null Magic
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Guard
Fire:
Ice :
Lit :
Water:
Grav: Immune
Holy :
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KO, Petrification, Sleep,
Silence, Darkness, Poison,
Confusion, Berserk, Curse,
Eject, Reflect, Slow, Stop,
Defense Down, Magic Def. Down
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Information
An extension of Angra Mainyu.
It is responsible for physical
attacks but can also inflict
Silence, Darkness, Poison, and
Confusion. And then there's
its Bloody Breath...
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Zarich
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Stats
Classification: -
HP: 5540/5540
MP: 9999/9999
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Null Physical
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Guard
Fire: Half
Ice : Half
Lit : Half
Water: Half
Grav: Immune
Holy : Half
! - ! - ! - !
KO, Petrification, Sleep,
Silence, Darkness, Poison,
Confusion, Berserk, Curse,
Eject, Reflect, Slow, Stop,
Defense Down, Magic Def. Down
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Information
An extension of Angra Mainyu.
It is responsible for magical
attacks. In addition to elemental
magic, it can use Glimmer of
Despair to lower the party's
attributes. What a bully!
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Tawrich clinched his large fist, slamming it down on to Baralai with enough force to knock him to the ground and scatter any surrounding sand in an impact shockwave. He countered, with swift movements Baralai approached the large fiend, jumping lightly, kicking off Tawrich’s large torso and slicing in him across the face with one swing of the bladed rod. Zarich cast Firaga on to on both of them creating a blast of flames on the two of them, having the higher magic defense Baralai easily brushed them off, Gippal took a little more damage.
With Tawrich using only physical and Zarich only using magic, Baralai’s logical move was defense against the both of them, he used Mighty guard on himself and Gippal to render both of them basically useless, thanks to Baralai‘s high skill of magic. Angra Mainyu, in the center of the two fiends used Demi, attacking with a wave of energy, some how it surpassed reflect but thanks to shell, it did hardly anything. ‘It can bypass reflect?’ Baralai thought. ‘I’m screwed if Zarich can too.’
Gippal raised his cannon, with a few press of a couple of buttons and a pull of the trigger, he released a stream of missiles 3 from that back. The first projectile exploded in to a thick smog concealing an intense chemical fire on to Angry Mainyu, the remaining two hit Zarich, covering it with a thick black smoke and leaving it smoldering. Baralai lift his staff above his head, spinning it around on quick fingers in the motions of his ‘Glint’ attack. The edges of both blades started to glow with a blue light, forming a circle that propagated outwards into a shockwave that spread onto Angry Mainyu and both of it’s extensions
Tawrich slammed it’s large fist in to Gippal while Zarich cast dispel on both of them at the same time. “That wasn’t good was it?” Gippal drew his pistol from it’s holster on his waist, firing a drill shot past Zarich and Tawrich in to the central demon controlling both of them. It delayed any up coming attack while all three rounds drilled in to it’s skin, but then it burst in to shards, damaging Angry from the inside.
Zarich’s eyes flickered quickly like stars, there was even an audible sound that came with it, it was using Glimmer of Despair. A large ball of a thick, red and black liquid formed over Gippal and Baralai as a result, it looked consistent, almost like dough or mud. “What the hell is that thing?!” Gippal drew back a step at the sight, what ever that was it was much larger then they were. “Any way we can stop it?”
“There's no time!” Baralai lifted his arms, trying to block himself with the rod as the burgundy liquid discharged from the orb, coming down on the whole area like rain. They came down like piercing spikes, each drop burned like acid and was sticky enough not to come off easily, weakening them.
Baralai wiped away the adhesive black liquid as best he could, feeling considerably more vulnerable. “Are you alright Gippal?”
Gippal nodded, rubbing his forehead furiously to remove the burning substance. “I’m still standing.”
Baralai held his staff extended outward in front of him with both hands, using osmosis to siphon Mp from Zarich. While Gippal tilted the barrel of his cannon strait up into the air and fired a flare, it’s true form couldn’t be seen past the bright white light it was radiating. It curved in mid air and fell right between Angra Mainyu’s two extensions... Gippal figured now was the right time to warn Baralai. “Baralai! Cover your eyes!”
Baralai barely had time to comply before a blinding white flash erupted with a small explosion, bright enough to be seen for miles around. Gippal’s attack finished off Tawrich and Zarich, but leaving Angra Mainyu alone.
The human like figure in the center of the demon started to move, using Perdition Flame.
The ground under them became a bright red liquid, almost as if it was melting, causing them to sink in like quick sand. “Damn, it trapped us!” Baralai tried futilely to free himself and escape, but it was no use, he was thoroughly trapped. The ground beneath him erupted like a geyser, engulfing him in an uprising a pillar of molten, strong enough to make him scream in pain “Aaaahhhhhhhaaaaaa!!!”
One ignition trigged another until both of them were trapped in a rush of heat that constantly repeated the geyser of lava.
Finally the attack ceased, letting Baralai fall weakly to the ground, Gippal even had to catch himself since he was feeling light headed after the attack. It was clear the tides of the battle turning, well they were never in their favor it was just getting worse. One attack had shifted them from holding off the demon to struggling to defend.
“It’s too powerful.” Baralai extended his staff, using osmosis to drain MP from Angra Mainyu.
“We have to do something! Or else everyone else is done for, we‘re the only people standing in that thing‘s way.” Gippal tilled the cannon upward, firing his Overdrive a Mortar shot that didn’t seem to hurt it at all.
Damnit, he had to think, he knew he could figure out a way to stop this monster. Baralai just hoped he did it before it killed them. “We have a better chance now that the other two parts are out of the way, maybe we can hold out.” Baralai wasn’t just talented in spells, he was also a very competent Alchemist. He knew how to mix potions and other healing articles to increase potency.
Taking a mega potion and an elixir, Baralai quickly mixed them in a 2:3 ratio along with a sedative to create a megalixir, which he drank half of and tossed the rest to Gippal.
Angra Mainyu cast full life on Tawrich, bring the seemingly dead monster back to life. A soon as it recovered and those haunting eyes opened to their usual wide, it clinched it’s whole body tightly enough to making it tremble from tenseness.
“I hope this works...” Baralai thrust his staff into the sand deep enough for it to stand on it’s own in front of him. Then he clasped his hands together and dropped his head in concentration, with an unknown magic taking effect his body began to glow in a red aura, then Gippal. Gippal hadn’t been alarmed when it happened to him unexpectantly, he knew it was Baralai’s strength increasing spell.
Apparently Baralai was thinking of a plan. “What is it doing?” Gippal fired another flare, sending a bright round in to the air that exploded in to a blinding flash and strong out put that almost knocked the two of them back from the force.
“Gippal, it’s working.” Baralai pointed out a large cut in the gray branch where Angra spread off in to Tawrich and Zarich.
Gippal looked at him with evident confusion “What’s working?” Did Baralai have a plain he didn’t tell him about? Hmm...that must have been it.
Baralai held his staff behind his back, concentrating as best he could while he cast a Wateraga spell on Angra, covering it an a bubble of clear, blue liquid with an unimaginable amount of water pressure. The spell didn’t work as well as he had hoped
Angra only cast another Full-life to revive Zarich in return, while Tawrich, who had been trembling this whole time, opened it’s mouth and blew out a moldy spray of bloody breath.
A black and green cloud fell on both of them, surrounding them with the foul smell old blood, decaying flesh and something undoubtedly horrible but unidentifiable, all if it moldy and stale to make it that much worse. Just having the sporeous cloud touch the skin inflicted poison, burning like acid, the smell was more then enough to overwhelm the senses and confuse, along with a sudden and painful blindness when it touched the eyes.
The thick and heavy cloud dissipated and Gippal frantically tried to get any remnants of it off his body and out of his clothes. He had a good resistance to confusion and blindness, but he did feel a sharp pain from the poison coursing through his body, an intense poison.
Baralai on the other hand, had considerably less defense to status ailments. He stood there holding his chest with one hand with the other over his eyes, trying to wipe away what ever had gotten in to them in an attempt to remove the blindness status. Seeing his friend’s problem, immediately Gippal made his way over to him, lifting his canon to block or at lest to take the blow as large fist from Tawrich came crashing down intended for Baralai.
“Thanks.” Baralai moaned gratefully with a weak voice, under the effect of silence.
“Hold on, I’ll--” Gippal was blindsided by a Flare spell from Angra Mainyu, he was sent flying backward, his body in flames as he crashed into the sand, the powerful spell almost completely knocked him unconscious.
Baralai reached in to his pocket and retrieved the first bottle he felt knowing that nothing could really hurt him, by luck he got a remedy. Seeing his blindness fade, the poison irradiated and his voice return, Baralai cast a Cureaga spell on Gippal.
“You ok?” Gippal asked, stumbling disorientedly over to Baralai’s side raising the cannon for another shot.
Baralai nodded, holding his staff in a read position. “I’m alright, what about you?”
“Fine, more or less.”
Zarich sent a round of Blizzara spells, sending a crash of ice down on their heads. Shaking the chunks of ice from his hair, Gippal raised the cannon again, charging large amounts of ether and unleashing his Storm Cannon on Angra Mainyu and it’s other living appendages. A cloudy, smoke like white beam shot out of the weapon aimed directly at Angra Mainyu though wide enough to strike both Tawrich and Zarich. Baralai took the opportunity to use Mighty Guard on himself and Gippal.
With haste in effect, Baralai charged at the demon, jumping to the side as a large fist from Tawrich came at him and watching it slam down into the sand. He leapt the on top of the large hand, using it as a boost when he jumped over Tawrich’s shoulder and on to Angra’s body, striking the white, human like structure in the center with his staff.
Zarich’s red eyes flashed in the star like manner that came with a Glimmer of Despair, creating another ball of the burgundy, sticky substance that fell a heavy rain of black, and acid like liquid.
Gippal move feverously to clean the substance off of himself, then removing it from his cannon with a few quick wipes of his sleeve. ’Damn, I can’t take much more of this.’ “Baralai? Are we even hurting this thing!?”
Baralai was about to give him an answer but he stopped to use an Osmosis spell. “I know it doesn't seem like it now Gippal, but I have a plan.”
“I already knew that.”
“We just have to hold on--uh?!---Ahhhhhhhhaaaaaaa!!!”
The ground started to glow with red light, combusting in to a geyser of lava and a thick cloud of black smoke that suffocated the two men. More and more explosions erupted until they were tossed forward from the release of their legs and another shockwave.
“Now’s a good time for that plan of yours, At this rate we’re dead.” Gippal lent against his cannon, catching his breath. No wonder it was able to take out the camp so easily, this thing was so strong.... Gippal dropped to his knees, clinching his head tighly.
“The main demon, Angra Mainyu is the main threat right? We need to get rid of Tawrich and Zarich, then take out it’s MP, Angra Mainyu will have nothing left to attack with or to revive it‘s extensions.” Baralai explained. “It will be completely unable to do anything, that’s when you come in.”
“I see, but how are we suppose to do that?”
“I’ll handle it, Just get those other two out of the way.”
“Alright.“ Gippal forced himself to stand, bracing for feedback as fired 3 more gray missiles out of the back of his cannon, all three of them striking Tawrich with burst explosions. Baralai cast Hasteaga on both of them.
Baralai, being balanced in physical aspects as well as magic, knew some samurai attacks, the main one was Magicicide. He ran past Tawrich and Zarich, climbing directly on to Angra Mainyu, drawing back his arm with staff held in his other arm behind his back, and punching the human like creature in the center with a glowing fist. With out warning he was sent flying off of his target with an invisible force, landing on his feet and sliding to a stop back on the desert sands and kicking up a cloud of dust. ‘I have to keep going...I hope I make it.’
Pulling the cannon upward, Gippal fired another white flare with Baralai out of the way, detonating in between Tawrich and Zarich. When the bright light cleared, both of them were limping lifelessly.
For now his assigned task was done “What now?” Gippal asked.
“Go for Angra Mainyu.” Baralai easily jumped on to the monster this time with out Zarich and Tawrich as opposition, giving another blow to it’s MP with Magicide. The demon tried to use a Flare spell, but it reflected off of Baralai from the mighty guard in effect back on to it self. Then Baralai jumped out the way as Gippal fired another round of 3 missiles. Each one hitting it’s target.
The demon cast full life on Zarich, and Gippal quickly adjusted his focus to revived extension, hoping to get it out of the way as quickly as possible
This time using his staff, he attack Angra with Glint. It retaliated by bringing back Tawrich before continuing with another attack. “Baralai! Out of the way!” Gippal charged another Storm Cannon, hitting all three enemies.
Tawrich pulled back it’s large arm and struck Gippal with a powerful punch that drove him to the ground while Zarich cast dispel on Baralai to remove the Mighty Guard. Followed by Angra with a Demi, creating a strong, oppressive gravity field that pushed Baralai to the ground, then pulled them in every direction as it dispelled. In Gippal’s case it reflected needlessly since the demon was immune.
Baralai made it past Tawrich and Zarich, though not easily with another Magicicide. It was starting to work.
With haste in effect he attacked a second time, this time using Glint to eat away Mp since the attack, though less effective, didn’t take any of his own Mp, before being blown away by a Flare spell. “Uhhhaaaa!”
Gently padding off the flames, Baralai used his staff to help himself to his feet, he was tired he wasn’t sure he could fight anymore, and so weak... Baralai dug around in his pocket for a mega potion, knowing it wasn’t much considering their max HP but it was something. “Gippal, that’s all of it.” He said, indicating that the behemoth they were facing was now rendered useless. Baralai still knew his job wasn’t done yet though...
“Alright!”
With a new glimpse of hope, a bloody, scorched, still poisoned, and burse Gippal raised the weapon again, charging up ether. He clinched the cannon tightly using all of his strength to fight the resistance force from the shot he just unleashed. A small black ball of energy launched outward, a modified version of Cry in the night, sending Gippal sliding backwards from the feed back it had caused.
It was surprisingly slow, hovering towards it’s target at a steady pace.... Angra used it’s own version of Absorb to take some MP from Baralai, put he took it right back with Osmosis. “Gippal, what is that?” After that bit of business was taken care of, he finally notice the black orb Gippal fired heading towards Angra Mainyu, slowly....
Gippal was to tired too respond, what ever it was, it finally slipped past Tawrich and Zarich, creating a blinding flash of dark light.
After a moment of silent, an almost deafening sound surrounded them, they couldn‘t even identify it... Then there was silence again as the darkness disappeared, the two extensions of the main fiend were unquestionably down and out, and shadow like marks lined Angra’s body, it had apparently taken some damage.
Every attack Angra Mainyu used was spell based, with out Mp, or the appendages it had created, it was defenseless.
“Baralai……it worked.” Gippal looked at the demon, which used osmosis to pull Mp from him. It was making it very clear that it wasn’t going down with out a fight, not that Gippal minded, most of his attacks didn’t require it anyway. “We can take this thing down right now, ready?” he looked questioningly over to Baralai, both of them seemed to be in pretty bad shape, Gippal couldn‘t help but muse on how pitiful he must have looked at the moment.
“Yeah.” Baralai nodded, a small smirk making it’s way on to his lips, “It would be a shame to come this far and lose now.”
Baralai took a step back, then charged forward with a loud battle cry, jumping on the demon’s drifting again, spinning his staff at his left side. In a fury he brought it down over his head he struck the Fiend with the revolving blades, all while drawing his pistol with the his free hand. And finally firing one last drill shot before he jumped backwards, performing a back flip and leaving it’s range just as Gippal launched a mortar overdrive into the air.
But as previously stated, it wasn’t going down with out a fight. Angra Mainyu used the MP it absorbed from Gippal to cast one final Predator’s Flame. Just as the missile exploded in a rain of green flames.
A chain of explosions threatened to finish them off, but when the smoke cleared, they were still standing, so to speak. Gippal was laying face down in the sand, smoking and barely conscious, but alive. At the moment it wasn’t certain if the same could be said for the troublesome demon.
“Ow…..” Gippal placed his hands on the ground at his side, pushing. Everything hurt, and burned, which made him remember when he and Baralai first washed up on this island, only this time it was worse.
“Baralai?” Looking around Gippal found that he was now at the bottom of a large, very black crater. Angry Mainyu was nowhere insight.
Standing now seemed to be more painful then the actual battle, when he finally emerged he found Baralai laying in the sand, staring strait up, panting heavily.
“Are you ok?”
“Not really.” He lifted one hand and wiped the sand from his face and hair, for the moment wishing that he had thought to pull the head band he wore over his eyes. Gippal took his hand and helped him up, wrapping his arms around his shoulders and give him a celebratory kiss. “But I’ll mange.”
....
“Hey! Are you two alright?!” Nhadala ran over to them from some place that lay behind, she stopped to watch them for a moment. “Do I need to leave you two alone?”
After a few moments, Gippal finally let go of Baralai, happy to be alive even if it was just barely. He had to fight the urge to pass out...passing out, that sound so tempting.
“I don’t know where you guys went before.” Nhadala paused for a moment to glance back at the camp, which they had been working to extinguish of flames and save who they could during the battle. “But I’m glad you came back when you did. Things could have been a lot worse.”
Gippal looked silently at the base, all of those dead, and the many injured, he didn‘t understand how they could she could be so...cheerful. “Hn….It’s just like home.” The memory of the city became very fresh in his mind at the moment. Baralai could see it on his face, making him feel guilty, Bevelle was partly…..completely responsible for what happened.
“It is a little….” Nhadala agreed, watching everyone else help the wounded. “But don’t just stand there brooding over the past.”
Two hovers road past them, putting a familiar sent in the air.
“Hey! Something smells good!“ Gippal nearly shouted, reminding him that he hadn’t eaten since who knows when, god he was hungry.
“Is that food?” Baralai looked around for the source, until finally his eyes settled on to the stalled vehicles laying right in front of what used to be a base.
“Yup, we whipped it up while you where fighting.” Nhadala told them proudly, “As long as we’re still working, we’re going to get hungry. Being hungry is proof that we’re alive. Well…..I guess you two don’t want any…..” She turned away sarcastically.
“Your kidding right?!” Gippal ran head first toward the base and the source of that smell, a lot faster then he though he could have in his condition. It was amazing what the right motivation would do for you.
“Hey! Wait for me!” Baralai ran after him, trying to catch up. For once, Gippal was faster then he was.
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A thick black smoke could be seen rising from multiple places in the camp they were quickly approaching, it bombarded them, filling every sense with itself. Baralai covered his mouth and nose with his arm, clinching his eyes tightly as the hover past through the seemingly endless smoke. “Did you see this fiend?” his voice was muffled.
The pilot only shook his head, though Baralai couldn‘t see the action. “No.” the man coughed, almost thrown off course as he desperately sought a way out of the smog cover. After being tossed around and crashing into things blindly the hover finally emerged, ending up in the center of the ruined camp.
Baralai and Gippal climbed out of the vehicle, coughing profusely but quickly looking around the ruined camp to survey the damage. It was hard to find anyone still alive, or any structure still standing, any support from other camps would take hours, that’s if they even got the message. “Oh man, look at this place.” After about a minute of so of digging through rubble and trying to put out fires that wouldn’t stay out, all in a hope to find or save someone alive with no results.
“Gippal, Baralai!” The two heard Nhadala’s voice behind them.
Nhadala was still safe, she had been waiting for them after she sent Pikket to find them. The fiend in question was nowhere in sight, which may have been a good or bad thing. “Nhadala!” Gippal turned back to Nhadala while Baralai checked for any survivors that weren’t already trying to put out the fires or evacuate. “Gippal! I didn’t think you made it.” Nhadala hugged him in relief, knowing that this fiend had originally been going to Cactuar nation, so maybe it intercepted them...she was just glad they had made it
Gippal was completely focused, Nhadala could hear it in his voice, he wanted to do one thing and that was to find this fiend an kill it. It‘d had caused him more trouble then anything else had in a long time, he had already gone all around Spira to stop this thing, but some how it managed to do more damaged and killed more people then he ever could have expected in spite of that. “Where is this thing?”
“It’s here, somewhere...“ Her voice trailed off....--the she flinched and moved to block her self from the unexpected when something exploded right next to them. Gippal and Nhadala stumbled backward trying their best to avoid a ran of off thrown embers, nearly falling when the sands started to shake. “What’s going on?!”
“Somethings coming!” Baralai, much more able to keep his balance, made his way over to the two, immediately grabbing Nhadala by the arm and pulling her away. “You have to get out of here now!” Baralai didn’t know what it was, but he knew it was big, he could sense it. Sure enough something emerged from directly under them.
“What about you?“ Nhadala was reluctant about leaving them alone to face what might turn out to be their death.
Gippal gave Nhadala another small push to finish what Baralai had been trying to do, getting her just clear of the way of the giant fiend rising. “Go, get out of here.” Gippal told her, she did so with out hesitation this time, hoping they would be alright.
“Gippal.” Baralai drew his staff from his back, standing by Gippal’s side. “What the hell is that thing.”
Gippal watched, his mouth hanging open slightly as the demon rose out of the sand. “I’m not sure but it’s definitely a demon, just like Marnela said.”
It was covered in thick brown skin, it’s body was an oval shape with what seemed to be almost human in the center. That was the actual fiend Angra Mainyu. From the bottom of it, two limb like extremities branched off in to two large bodies that were only complete from the waist up. Both were similar, haunting red eyes, gray braded hair that seemed almost alive itself, and an overall creepy torso that was it‘s body. But the one on the left, Tawrich, had only a left arm, a large one at that. The one on the right Zarich, had only a right arm. Angra Mainyu, along with both of it’s extensions, came together to form a towering figure that seemed too big to fight.
Baralai stood breathlessly with his mouth open, “Oh my god.” he realized there was no time for that when the fiend started coming toward them. He started off by casting scan.
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ANGRA MAINYU
! - ! - !
Stats
Classification: -
HP: 333444/333444
MP: 9999/9999
! - ! - !
! - ! - !
! - ! - !
Guard
Fire:
Ice :
Lit :
Water:
Grav: Immune
Holy :
! - ! - !
KO, Petrification, Sleep,
Silence, Darkness, Poison,
Confusion, Berserk, Curse,
Eject, Reflect, Slow, Stop,
Defense Down, Magic Def. Down
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A terrible fiend that has
awakened from slumber beneath
the desert sands. Bent on
destroying all it encounters,
it is a fiendish fiend indeed.
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Tawrich
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Stats
Classification: -
HP: 5540/5540
MP: 9999/9999
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Null Magic
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Guard
Fire:
Ice :
Lit :
Water:
Grav: Immune
Holy :
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KO, Petrification, Sleep,
Silence, Darkness, Poison,
Confusion, Berserk, Curse,
Eject, Reflect, Slow, Stop,
Defense Down, Magic Def. Down
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An extension of Angra Mainyu.
It is responsible for physical
attacks but can also inflict
Silence, Darkness, Poison, and
Confusion. And then there's
its Bloody Breath...
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Zarich
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Stats
Classification: -
HP: 5540/5540
MP: 9999/9999
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Null Physical
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Guard
Fire: Half
Ice : Half
Lit : Half
Water: Half
Grav: Immune
Holy : Half
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KO, Petrification, Sleep,
Silence, Darkness, Poison,
Confusion, Berserk, Curse,
Eject, Reflect, Slow, Stop,
Defense Down, Magic Def. Down
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An extension of Angra Mainyu.
It is responsible for magical
attacks. In addition to elemental
magic, it can use Glimmer of
Despair to lower the party's
attributes. What a bully!
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Tawrich clinched his large fist, slamming it down on to Baralai with enough force to knock him to the ground and scatter any surrounding sand in an impact shockwave. He countered, with swift movements Baralai approached the large fiend, jumping lightly, kicking off Tawrich’s large torso and slicing in him across the face with one swing of the bladed rod. Zarich cast Firaga on to on both of them creating a blast of flames on the two of them, having the higher magic defense Baralai easily brushed them off, Gippal took a little more damage.
With Tawrich using only physical and Zarich only using magic, Baralai’s logical move was defense against the both of them, he used Mighty guard on himself and Gippal to render both of them basically useless, thanks to Baralai‘s high skill of magic. Angra Mainyu, in the center of the two fiends used Demi, attacking with a wave of energy, some how it surpassed reflect but thanks to shell, it did hardly anything. ‘It can bypass reflect?’ Baralai thought. ‘I’m screwed if Zarich can too.’
Gippal raised his cannon, with a few press of a couple of buttons and a pull of the trigger, he released a stream of missiles 3 from that back. The first projectile exploded in to a thick smog concealing an intense chemical fire on to Angry Mainyu, the remaining two hit Zarich, covering it with a thick black smoke and leaving it smoldering. Baralai lift his staff above his head, spinning it around on quick fingers in the motions of his ‘Glint’ attack. The edges of both blades started to glow with a blue light, forming a circle that propagated outwards into a shockwave that spread onto Angry Mainyu and both of it’s extensions
Tawrich slammed it’s large fist in to Gippal while Zarich cast dispel on both of them at the same time. “That wasn’t good was it?” Gippal drew his pistol from it’s holster on his waist, firing a drill shot past Zarich and Tawrich in to the central demon controlling both of them. It delayed any up coming attack while all three rounds drilled in to it’s skin, but then it burst in to shards, damaging Angry from the inside.
Zarich’s eyes flickered quickly like stars, there was even an audible sound that came with it, it was using Glimmer of Despair. A large ball of a thick, red and black liquid formed over Gippal and Baralai as a result, it looked consistent, almost like dough or mud. “What the hell is that thing?!” Gippal drew back a step at the sight, what ever that was it was much larger then they were. “Any way we can stop it?”
“There's no time!” Baralai lifted his arms, trying to block himself with the rod as the burgundy liquid discharged from the orb, coming down on the whole area like rain. They came down like piercing spikes, each drop burned like acid and was sticky enough not to come off easily, weakening them.
Baralai wiped away the adhesive black liquid as best he could, feeling considerably more vulnerable. “Are you alright Gippal?”
Gippal nodded, rubbing his forehead furiously to remove the burning substance. “I’m still standing.”
Baralai held his staff extended outward in front of him with both hands, using osmosis to siphon Mp from Zarich. While Gippal tilted the barrel of his cannon strait up into the air and fired a flare, it’s true form couldn’t be seen past the bright white light it was radiating. It curved in mid air and fell right between Angra Mainyu’s two extensions... Gippal figured now was the right time to warn Baralai. “Baralai! Cover your eyes!”
Baralai barely had time to comply before a blinding white flash erupted with a small explosion, bright enough to be seen for miles around. Gippal’s attack finished off Tawrich and Zarich, but leaving Angra Mainyu alone.
The human like figure in the center of the demon started to move, using Perdition Flame.
The ground under them became a bright red liquid, almost as if it was melting, causing them to sink in like quick sand. “Damn, it trapped us!” Baralai tried futilely to free himself and escape, but it was no use, he was thoroughly trapped. The ground beneath him erupted like a geyser, engulfing him in an uprising a pillar of molten, strong enough to make him scream in pain “Aaaahhhhhhhaaaaaa!!!”
One ignition trigged another until both of them were trapped in a rush of heat that constantly repeated the geyser of lava.
Finally the attack ceased, letting Baralai fall weakly to the ground, Gippal even had to catch himself since he was feeling light headed after the attack. It was clear the tides of the battle turning, well they were never in their favor it was just getting worse. One attack had shifted them from holding off the demon to struggling to defend.
“It’s too powerful.” Baralai extended his staff, using osmosis to drain MP from Angra Mainyu.
“We have to do something! Or else everyone else is done for, we‘re the only people standing in that thing‘s way.” Gippal tilled the cannon upward, firing his Overdrive a Mortar shot that didn’t seem to hurt it at all.
Damnit, he had to think, he knew he could figure out a way to stop this monster. Baralai just hoped he did it before it killed them. “We have a better chance now that the other two parts are out of the way, maybe we can hold out.” Baralai wasn’t just talented in spells, he was also a very competent Alchemist. He knew how to mix potions and other healing articles to increase potency.
Taking a mega potion and an elixir, Baralai quickly mixed them in a 2:3 ratio along with a sedative to create a megalixir, which he drank half of and tossed the rest to Gippal.
Angra Mainyu cast full life on Tawrich, bring the seemingly dead monster back to life. A soon as it recovered and those haunting eyes opened to their usual wide, it clinched it’s whole body tightly enough to making it tremble from tenseness.
“I hope this works...” Baralai thrust his staff into the sand deep enough for it to stand on it’s own in front of him. Then he clasped his hands together and dropped his head in concentration, with an unknown magic taking effect his body began to glow in a red aura, then Gippal. Gippal hadn’t been alarmed when it happened to him unexpectantly, he knew it was Baralai’s strength increasing spell.
Apparently Baralai was thinking of a plan. “What is it doing?” Gippal fired another flare, sending a bright round in to the air that exploded in to a blinding flash and strong out put that almost knocked the two of them back from the force.
“Gippal, it’s working.” Baralai pointed out a large cut in the gray branch where Angra spread off in to Tawrich and Zarich.
Gippal looked at him with evident confusion “What’s working?” Did Baralai have a plain he didn’t tell him about? Hmm...that must have been it.
Baralai held his staff behind his back, concentrating as best he could while he cast a Wateraga spell on Angra, covering it an a bubble of clear, blue liquid with an unimaginable amount of water pressure. The spell didn’t work as well as he had hoped
Angra only cast another Full-life to revive Zarich in return, while Tawrich, who had been trembling this whole time, opened it’s mouth and blew out a moldy spray of bloody breath.
A black and green cloud fell on both of them, surrounding them with the foul smell old blood, decaying flesh and something undoubtedly horrible but unidentifiable, all if it moldy and stale to make it that much worse. Just having the sporeous cloud touch the skin inflicted poison, burning like acid, the smell was more then enough to overwhelm the senses and confuse, along with a sudden and painful blindness when it touched the eyes.
The thick and heavy cloud dissipated and Gippal frantically tried to get any remnants of it off his body and out of his clothes. He had a good resistance to confusion and blindness, but he did feel a sharp pain from the poison coursing through his body, an intense poison.
Baralai on the other hand, had considerably less defense to status ailments. He stood there holding his chest with one hand with the other over his eyes, trying to wipe away what ever had gotten in to them in an attempt to remove the blindness status. Seeing his friend’s problem, immediately Gippal made his way over to him, lifting his canon to block or at lest to take the blow as large fist from Tawrich came crashing down intended for Baralai.
“Thanks.” Baralai moaned gratefully with a weak voice, under the effect of silence.
“Hold on, I’ll--” Gippal was blindsided by a Flare spell from Angra Mainyu, he was sent flying backward, his body in flames as he crashed into the sand, the powerful spell almost completely knocked him unconscious.
Baralai reached in to his pocket and retrieved the first bottle he felt knowing that nothing could really hurt him, by luck he got a remedy. Seeing his blindness fade, the poison irradiated and his voice return, Baralai cast a Cureaga spell on Gippal.
“You ok?” Gippal asked, stumbling disorientedly over to Baralai’s side raising the cannon for another shot.
Baralai nodded, holding his staff in a read position. “I’m alright, what about you?”
“Fine, more or less.”
Zarich sent a round of Blizzara spells, sending a crash of ice down on their heads. Shaking the chunks of ice from his hair, Gippal raised the cannon again, charging large amounts of ether and unleashing his Storm Cannon on Angra Mainyu and it’s other living appendages. A cloudy, smoke like white beam shot out of the weapon aimed directly at Angra Mainyu though wide enough to strike both Tawrich and Zarich. Baralai took the opportunity to use Mighty Guard on himself and Gippal.
With haste in effect, Baralai charged at the demon, jumping to the side as a large fist from Tawrich came at him and watching it slam down into the sand. He leapt the on top of the large hand, using it as a boost when he jumped over Tawrich’s shoulder and on to Angra’s body, striking the white, human like structure in the center with his staff.
Zarich’s red eyes flashed in the star like manner that came with a Glimmer of Despair, creating another ball of the burgundy, sticky substance that fell a heavy rain of black, and acid like liquid.
Gippal move feverously to clean the substance off of himself, then removing it from his cannon with a few quick wipes of his sleeve. ’Damn, I can’t take much more of this.’ “Baralai? Are we even hurting this thing!?”
Baralai was about to give him an answer but he stopped to use an Osmosis spell. “I know it doesn't seem like it now Gippal, but I have a plan.”
“I already knew that.”
“We just have to hold on--uh?!---Ahhhhhhhhaaaaaaa!!!”
The ground started to glow with red light, combusting in to a geyser of lava and a thick cloud of black smoke that suffocated the two men. More and more explosions erupted until they were tossed forward from the release of their legs and another shockwave.
“Now’s a good time for that plan of yours, At this rate we’re dead.” Gippal lent against his cannon, catching his breath. No wonder it was able to take out the camp so easily, this thing was so strong.... Gippal dropped to his knees, clinching his head tighly.
“The main demon, Angra Mainyu is the main threat right? We need to get rid of Tawrich and Zarich, then take out it’s MP, Angra Mainyu will have nothing left to attack with or to revive it‘s extensions.” Baralai explained. “It will be completely unable to do anything, that’s when you come in.”
“I see, but how are we suppose to do that?”
“I’ll handle it, Just get those other two out of the way.”
“Alright.“ Gippal forced himself to stand, bracing for feedback as fired 3 more gray missiles out of the back of his cannon, all three of them striking Tawrich with burst explosions. Baralai cast Hasteaga on both of them.
Baralai, being balanced in physical aspects as well as magic, knew some samurai attacks, the main one was Magicicide. He ran past Tawrich and Zarich, climbing directly on to Angra Mainyu, drawing back his arm with staff held in his other arm behind his back, and punching the human like creature in the center with a glowing fist. With out warning he was sent flying off of his target with an invisible force, landing on his feet and sliding to a stop back on the desert sands and kicking up a cloud of dust. ‘I have to keep going...I hope I make it.’
Pulling the cannon upward, Gippal fired another white flare with Baralai out of the way, detonating in between Tawrich and Zarich. When the bright light cleared, both of them were limping lifelessly.
For now his assigned task was done “What now?” Gippal asked.
“Go for Angra Mainyu.” Baralai easily jumped on to the monster this time with out Zarich and Tawrich as opposition, giving another blow to it’s MP with Magicide. The demon tried to use a Flare spell, but it reflected off of Baralai from the mighty guard in effect back on to it self. Then Baralai jumped out the way as Gippal fired another round of 3 missiles. Each one hitting it’s target.
The demon cast full life on Zarich, and Gippal quickly adjusted his focus to revived extension, hoping to get it out of the way as quickly as possible
This time using his staff, he attack Angra with Glint. It retaliated by bringing back Tawrich before continuing with another attack. “Baralai! Out of the way!” Gippal charged another Storm Cannon, hitting all three enemies.
Tawrich pulled back it’s large arm and struck Gippal with a powerful punch that drove him to the ground while Zarich cast dispel on Baralai to remove the Mighty Guard. Followed by Angra with a Demi, creating a strong, oppressive gravity field that pushed Baralai to the ground, then pulled them in every direction as it dispelled. In Gippal’s case it reflected needlessly since the demon was immune.
Baralai made it past Tawrich and Zarich, though not easily with another Magicicide. It was starting to work.
With haste in effect he attacked a second time, this time using Glint to eat away Mp since the attack, though less effective, didn’t take any of his own Mp, before being blown away by a Flare spell. “Uhhhaaaa!”
Gently padding off the flames, Baralai used his staff to help himself to his feet, he was tired he wasn’t sure he could fight anymore, and so weak... Baralai dug around in his pocket for a mega potion, knowing it wasn’t much considering their max HP but it was something. “Gippal, that’s all of it.” He said, indicating that the behemoth they were facing was now rendered useless. Baralai still knew his job wasn’t done yet though...
“Alright!”
With a new glimpse of hope, a bloody, scorched, still poisoned, and burse Gippal raised the weapon again, charging up ether. He clinched the cannon tightly using all of his strength to fight the resistance force from the shot he just unleashed. A small black ball of energy launched outward, a modified version of Cry in the night, sending Gippal sliding backwards from the feed back it had caused.
It was surprisingly slow, hovering towards it’s target at a steady pace.... Angra used it’s own version of Absorb to take some MP from Baralai, put he took it right back with Osmosis. “Gippal, what is that?” After that bit of business was taken care of, he finally notice the black orb Gippal fired heading towards Angra Mainyu, slowly....
Gippal was to tired too respond, what ever it was, it finally slipped past Tawrich and Zarich, creating a blinding flash of dark light.
After a moment of silent, an almost deafening sound surrounded them, they couldn‘t even identify it... Then there was silence again as the darkness disappeared, the two extensions of the main fiend were unquestionably down and out, and shadow like marks lined Angra’s body, it had apparently taken some damage.
Every attack Angra Mainyu used was spell based, with out Mp, or the appendages it had created, it was defenseless.
“Baralai……it worked.” Gippal looked at the demon, which used osmosis to pull Mp from him. It was making it very clear that it wasn’t going down with out a fight, not that Gippal minded, most of his attacks didn’t require it anyway. “We can take this thing down right now, ready?” he looked questioningly over to Baralai, both of them seemed to be in pretty bad shape, Gippal couldn‘t help but muse on how pitiful he must have looked at the moment.
“Yeah.” Baralai nodded, a small smirk making it’s way on to his lips, “It would be a shame to come this far and lose now.”
Baralai took a step back, then charged forward with a loud battle cry, jumping on the demon’s drifting again, spinning his staff at his left side. In a fury he brought it down over his head he struck the Fiend with the revolving blades, all while drawing his pistol with the his free hand. And finally firing one last drill shot before he jumped backwards, performing a back flip and leaving it’s range just as Gippal launched a mortar overdrive into the air.
But as previously stated, it wasn’t going down with out a fight. Angra Mainyu used the MP it absorbed from Gippal to cast one final Predator’s Flame. Just as the missile exploded in a rain of green flames.
A chain of explosions threatened to finish them off, but when the smoke cleared, they were still standing, so to speak. Gippal was laying face down in the sand, smoking and barely conscious, but alive. At the moment it wasn’t certain if the same could be said for the troublesome demon.
“Ow…..” Gippal placed his hands on the ground at his side, pushing. Everything hurt, and burned, which made him remember when he and Baralai first washed up on this island, only this time it was worse.
“Baralai?” Looking around Gippal found that he was now at the bottom of a large, very black crater. Angry Mainyu was nowhere insight.
Standing now seemed to be more painful then the actual battle, when he finally emerged he found Baralai laying in the sand, staring strait up, panting heavily.
“Are you ok?”
“Not really.” He lifted one hand and wiped the sand from his face and hair, for the moment wishing that he had thought to pull the head band he wore over his eyes. Gippal took his hand and helped him up, wrapping his arms around his shoulders and give him a celebratory kiss. “But I’ll mange.”
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“Hey! Are you two alright?!” Nhadala ran over to them from some place that lay behind, she stopped to watch them for a moment. “Do I need to leave you two alone?”
After a few moments, Gippal finally let go of Baralai, happy to be alive even if it was just barely. He had to fight the urge to pass out...passing out, that sound so tempting.
“I don’t know where you guys went before.” Nhadala paused for a moment to glance back at the camp, which they had been working to extinguish of flames and save who they could during the battle. “But I’m glad you came back when you did. Things could have been a lot worse.”
Gippal looked silently at the base, all of those dead, and the many injured, he didn‘t understand how they could she could be so...cheerful. “Hn….It’s just like home.” The memory of the city became very fresh in his mind at the moment. Baralai could see it on his face, making him feel guilty, Bevelle was partly…..completely responsible for what happened.
“It is a little….” Nhadala agreed, watching everyone else help the wounded. “But don’t just stand there brooding over the past.”
Two hovers road past them, putting a familiar sent in the air.
“Hey! Something smells good!“ Gippal nearly shouted, reminding him that he hadn’t eaten since who knows when, god he was hungry.
“Is that food?” Baralai looked around for the source, until finally his eyes settled on to the stalled vehicles laying right in front of what used to be a base.
“Yup, we whipped it up while you where fighting.” Nhadala told them proudly, “As long as we’re still working, we’re going to get hungry. Being hungry is proof that we’re alive. Well…..I guess you two don’t want any…..” She turned away sarcastically.
“Your kidding right?!” Gippal ran head first toward the base and the source of that smell, a lot faster then he though he could have in his condition. It was amazing what the right motivation would do for you.
“Hey! Wait for me!” Baralai ran after him, trying to catch up. For once, Gippal was faster then he was.
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