Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Akagi Sphere ❯ Chapter 12: Demon from the abyss: Finale ( Chapter 13 )
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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: 5.6K | Visits: 134 | 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: 5.6K | Visits: 134 | Status: Completed
Chapter 12: Demon from the abyss: Finale
Yuna lead the group of people safely out of the forest and in to the Calm lands, what was left of it anyway. All the smoking craters, long scorch marks, and flames, it had to be the work of Brother. Nevertheless, it was fiend free and large enough to fit everyone.
“Good job you guys.” Buddy congratulated them through the receiver, oddly enough the ship that caused all this damage wasn’t here.
Yuna looked around, trying to find any signs of it‘s location besides the obvious ones, though none could be found. “Where are you guys?” She asked, glancing back at the hordes of people talking behind her. Individually they weren’t loud, but together...
“Big emergency on the High Road.” Buddy told her regretfully. “You’ll be alright wont you?”
“Uh Huh.” She nodded, still watching the former citizens of Guadosalam and anyone in the surrounding areas who’s panic was subsiding into worry and a general depression. “I didn’t want to leave all these people alone anyway. What’s going on?”
“Maroda called, He and Rin have a giant Fiend problem. They‘re over running the place.”
“Need help?”
“We can handle this, after all, we cleared the Calm lands.”
“Well....“ Cleared wasn’t the terminology Yuna would use for what presumably Brother had done to this place. “I guess that’s one word for it.”
! - ! - !
Gippal and Baralai finally made it to the empty Thunder planes, the strangely shaping fiend following promptly behind them. When provoked it was surprisingly fast, something that had to find out the hard way.
Lighting streaked loudly through the sky, almost causing a small distraction as the two dashed through the lines of high protruding metal farther electrified by the hard rain pooling in the divots of the uneven ground. Passing halfway through the rows of lighting rods, Baralai stopped abruptly. “Gippal, hold on.” Baralai called back, being ahead since he was faster, and knelt down next to a small blue sphere that lay there.
“Do we even have time to watch this thing?” Gippal looked back at the floating orb they had lured out here. It was moving slowly again, either not noticing them anymore or felt no need to move as fast since it wasn’t immediately being provoked. “Yeah, I guess we do.”
This time there was no picture, just some one speaking.
Summoner Braska.
~” Thank you for leading it to an open area, it wouldn't respond to just one sided attacks.” The man said, which explained why it wasn’t coming after them anymore, unless it was being hit from both sides then it didn’t work.
“This Fiend as two Sides. The one you are seeing, and the one we are seeing Yu Yevon...I hope you know what that is already, I don’t have time to explain it.... is using a demon to try and recreate Sin.
We can stop Yu Yevon and the demon from this side, but it will be useless if you kill the Fiend from your side. It’s still weak but it’s gaining power so you must hurry...It has already destroyed the Farplane, if we wait any longer then I’m not sure we’ll be able to stop it. Good Luck”~
“It’s nice to know were not taking this thing on alone.” Baralai said with an optimistic “tone And High Summoner Braska’s Blessing doesn’t hurt.” At lest he sounded optimistic which is what he was going for, but honestly he was beginning to get nervous, very nervous. Baralai shifted around his jacket and adjusted his headband.
Gippal knew that to be one of Baralai‘s nervous habits...“It’s still doing... whatever it’s doing with those Pireflies, that must be how it’s getting stronger. Anyway we can cut off it’s supply?”
“I’m not sure.” Something Baralai might be repeating often today.
“Hmm…..” Gippal cuffed his hands over his mouth and began shouting “*Yelling* Summoner Braska! If you can, find away to stop it from absorbing Pireflies!” He called out, hoping where ever they were, they could hear him, even better yet, do something about it.
“I guess we better get this over with.” Baralai lifted his rod from where it was holstered on his back. Turning around to face the monster in question that had drifted dangerously close, a fight was immanent, no question about that.
The mirror like substance shifted around, stretching and contracting in a strange manner as it finally took it’s intended form.
“Whoa....”
It’s body was huge to put it lightly, with only a torso and no legs it’s body just floated in the air. Two large arms appeared, but they weren’t connected to the body though floated there, moving with the body as if it had shoulders to connect them. It didn’t have hands either, it‘s extremity stopped at the wrist. Behind it’s neck a large, arching band stretched out and above it’s head a round disc floated like an over sized hallow. The Fiend Penance... but it still looked incomplete, the most defining feature was that it didn‘t have any color, it‘s body was just reflective, as if looking into a sculpted mirror.
“Look’s like this is it.” Gippal stared at the large Fiend floating above them in mild disbelief, it looked worse then Angra Mainyu when standing this close to it. “Hey...look.” Gippal pointed out one fortunate thing about this battle, the location. Penance was, basically, a lighting rod. Still weak compared to what it would grow to be, it had an elemental weakness, Lighting. Being the biggest thing around, it received every bolt.
And because of that, or some strange energy gather, storm clouds moved in, carrying rain along with it. The dark plains became even darker, it was nearly pitch black except for the frequent lighting struck, and lighting strikes.
! - ! - !
The Epitaph floated high above them, Yu Yevon still inside with claws visibly protruding from the side.
“I’ll fight Yevon with the Faythe.” Braska felt a certain responsibility to fight against Yu Yevon, being a summoner. With out saying Shuyin had to go with him, he was the only one that could stop Yevon from taking control of Aeons since he knew how the whole processes of possessing worked.
“Inoringo.” The Faythe said.
“Huh?” Braska glanced back down at him.
“My name is Inoringo.”
Braska smiled, “Nice to meet you.”
The boy nodded politely.
“Will you be alright?” Auron asked. It sounded strange to someone like Tidus, who had never heard him use that type of tone.
“Don’t worry about me. I can handle it.” Braska reassured him a lighter voice, always positive.
They separated, being sure to give each other enough room to avoid any misguided attacks.
Basically the teams were equal, Tidus, Jecht and Auron were ready and planning to fight the Epitaph. And Braska, Shuyin and the Faythe were taking on Yu Yevon, the Faythe really had no choice in this, being pulled into the situation by summoning and nearly incinerated among other things
Braska looked around the thunder planes that he still couldn‘t figure out how they were seeing it, nor why this placement situation, knowing he’d have to figure it out later. It still bother him... “Alright, Go ahead.” Braska told the faythe that they were ready and he changed to Bahamut once again.
And just as expected Yu Yevon separated from the demon, coming directly after the Aeon. Bahamut spread his wings with tensed arms and a growl emitting from deep in his throat, the halo like wheel on his back moving into a light spin. 6 or so static orbs of dark energy that moved like discharging electricity formed around the dragon, lunching at the Yevon with a loud roar. The static orbs moved around erratically though inanely drawn to it’s target, each one stuck the approaching Yu Yevon with discharging sparks.
Being knocked back lightly from the forceful attack, Yevon retreated back even farther, two pillars forming on the side of Yevon, both with in a diamond like shape, strange inscriptions across every inch of it in glowing red letters. They began to spin, changing directions frequently, it was using the same tactics as the last time it was encounter inside Sin, only slightly modified. Both of them continually cast Curative spells on the creature.
The Epitaph dropped to the ground with a loud crash, soaking wet from the rain sheeting off it‘s surface, only illuminated by lighting strikes around them just as everything else. It opened up, reveling another mirror. “I hope I learned this right.” Jecht, with nervous uncertainty that he had learned it correctly, cast dispel on a hunch he‘d had. As he guessed it would, the dispel magic shattered the mirror and reviled what was behind it. ’It worked....Huh?’ Unexpectantly it was only an orb of light connected to the side of the box by what appeared to be a sticky substance.
“Who cares what it looks like!!” Tidus ran up to the box with out hesitation, draw his arm back and thrusting his sword into the center of it. It felt different this time, like something with flesh, and that odd roar came again. But right after he struck it the box closed and Tidus nervously jumped back a safe distance. Auron tried to attack this time, lifting the sword above his head and bringing it down on the Epitaph with a large grunt. About half way in to his swing a mirror appeared, he saw himself in it’s reflection, doing the same action.... Auron quickly caught his sword before he completed the attack, knowing from previous demonstration he didn‘t want to touch that mirror Auron backed away. This was more complicated then they thought it would be.
Tidus overdrive: 70%
Auron overdrive: 1%
Jecht overdrive: 1%
Braska overdrive: 70%
Shuyin overdrive:75%
Aeon’s overdrive: 6%
! - ! - !
Penance raised both of arms and slammed them in to the ground, it’s strength causing a massive earthquake to surge through the ground. The earth beneath them buckled and pushed into itself until it pushed upward and broke apart under Baralai and Gippal, throwing them painfully to the ground.
Gippal rose to his knees, pulling a switch above the trigger on his cannon, visibly charging either from the red smoke like aura flowing out of the barrel before he lifted it toward the flash lit Penance, sending a ray of energy at the Fiend.
Baralai stuck to spells as he usually did, combining a Thunder spell with one of his own spell mediums to create a Tornado spell. Winds started to pick up, swirling with picked up rainfall and debris around Penance to created a tornado that couldn‘t be seen in the darkness. The strong winds tore at it like blade, trying to rip it apart. More lighting flashed, allowing them to see Penance swing it’s arm and disperse the winds. “Damn, useless.” Baralai used osmosis to regain some of his MP.
“I can’t see a thing out here!” Gippal didn’t think it was possible but he was actually having trouble hitting Penance. Maybe it was how slippery the thunder plains got during a really bad storm, or the fact that he couldn’t retain his footing, or that he couldn’t see anything except in quick flashes that were followed with deafening rolls of thunder loud enough to throw anyone off. “Where the hell is this--!!”
A flash of lighting gave them a split second view of their surrounding them and one of Penance's detached arms being held out towards them. When the flash faded some kind of red barrier Penance created could be seen brightly enough to illumined everything. The Barrier fired in to the air, coming down on Baralai and Gippal and shattering like glass, drawing a cry of pain from the both of them.
Afterwords Baralai was left leaning on his staff, and Gippal barely standing.
Baralai’s overdrive: 10%
Gippal’s overdrive: 10%
! - ! - !
A mirror appeared in front of the Epitaph, reflecting a flare spell on to all three of them even though it was only cast by one person. With flames dieing off, Auron, Jecht and Tidus stumbled to their feet.
Auron’s sword began to glow, shining a white light that cut through the darkness. “It’s a demon, maybe...” He pressed his finger against the rim of the glasses pushed them upward to block out more of the light. Then Auron confidently charged at the Demon using Holy sword, watching the mirror appear. Something was different this time, his sword wasn’t in the reflection, nothing but the handle. The demon couldn’t reflect holy! “Got it.” He easily shattered through the mirror, striking the box on the other side. He felt it crack a little.
“Holy!” Shuyin exclaimed, “Damn, It’s a demon, I should have figured it out!”
The box opened again, this time with out a mirror. The Epitaph used Pandora’s box, and something completely random came out. This time it was another mirror, but it reflected Death. The box closed again with the mirror shattering, Death appeared, but it wasn’t moving.
With great care, Jecht ran up to it, slashing it with his sword. It shattered and another crack appeared in the box.
“Huh? What was that?” Tidus was confused, it didn’t seem like that last attack did anything.
Bahamut spread his wings with one flap strong enough to lift the large dragon into the air, gliding over to Yevon and striking the surprisingly solid enemy with a powerful swipe of his class. Yevon didn’t respond, but the two pillars along side of it did. They started to spin faster creating casting Holy at the same time, two sets of orbs surrounded Bahamut, drawing in rays of light from all sides on to Bahamut. The dragon fell backwards, smoldering from the burning rays of light.
Shuyin pulled his sword back over his shoulder with both hands and throwing his sword at one of the pillars. He hit the left on, striking it drawing it back him. The pillar stopped moving, seemingly ‘dead’. But the other one countered by ramming in to him, sending him sliding back a few feet. “Uhhff!”
With Shuyin unfocused, the powers that protected Bahamut faded. Sensing this Yevon rushed over to the dragon, sliding inside of him a ghost and possessed him. ‘!!’ But Bahamut wasn’t going to let Yevon control him again. With no other choice, he Kamikazed before Yevon could take him over. With a fierce roar his body started to glow, then unleashed a powerful explosion.
Braska was almost knocked out by the blast, at the least he was thrown backwards after being at that proximity. “AHhhhuufff!” From the ground he saw Yevon being blown back in a stream of black smoke, and Bahamut, who forcibly had been changed back in to Inoringo, was now soaring threw the air, smoldering with a nearly equal amount of smoke trailing behind him. “No, Inoringo!“
“I got him.” Shuyin was there to catch the small boy unconscious, though he had to dive outward to catch him. Laying Inoringo aside a safe distance away. “Are you alright?”
“Yes, I’m fine.” Braska stood up, ready to summon again. With his staff raised and a few mumbled words, a bolt of lighting streaked down on to the rod, charging in a ball of electricity. Braska toss the staff in the air, the growing electricity discharging in the air and opening up a hole, seemingly in reality. The horse Ixion jumped through, sliding to a stop next to the summoner with a discharging sparks and Braska’s staff in it’s mouth. Braska took the rod with a small thanks.
Tidus overdrive: 75%
Auron overdrive: 10%
Jecht overdrive: 10%
Braska overdrive: 79%
Shuyin overdrive:80%
Aeon’s overdrive: 12%
! - ! - !
Penance raised it’s arm, throwing an invisible impact into the clouds above, pushing them back. Immediately stopping the lighting strikes an the rain, but letting the moonlight through allowing easy sight of the mirror skinned creature. Seeing his surroundings gave Baralai a strange feeling, around him was a crystal clear night illuminated by moon light. But only a few steps back, black clouds with lighting strikes and heavy rain.
Baralai continued to use Osmoses, concentrating and focusing for his next spell. Gippal lifted the cannon strait up in the air, firing a white flare upward into the patch of clear sky, it softly floated down ward exploding with white flames and a powerful shockwave that drove the clouds back farther. “Are we even doing anything to it?” Gippal asked, watching Pireflies start to stream towards Penance in large volumes. Every time they hit it, more Pireflies came, it just kept getting stronger.
“Just be patient.”
Penance’s body began to glow with a white haze, soft white smoke rising from it’s body. The opening through the clouds around shined with a white light that covered everything, Baralai lifted his arm to shield the persistent brightness, Gippal cuffing his hand over his eyes. A sizzling sound persisted, loud enough to override any cries of pain coming from the two men before the light slowly softened and faded away, leaving a deep crater in it’s wake. At the bottom, Gippal and Baralai were on the ground, barley alive in a mixture of loud pants and a pool of blood.
“Aw... What the hell was that?” Gippal tried to stand, pushing himself off of his stomach only to failed, just barely getting to his knees.
“I...don’t know.” Baralai, still on his back, reached in to his pocket and for two elixirs. With one eye open and hands shaky, Baralai managed to mix together a Megalixir, drinking half of it sloppily before handing the rest to Gippal. Just narrowly bring them back in to the fight. “Are you ok?”
Gippal wiped away the blood streaming down his forehead and coughed, “You don’t want me to answer that.”
A few more gust of winds caused the clouds filled back in over Penance, bring back the heavy rain, unseeable darkness and lighting strikes. Water streamed down the sides of the crater in large rivers, mixing with the rain.
“I hope you can swim.” Gippal looking down at the raising water already passing his knees.
Baralai didn‘t seem too worried. “This may work to our advantage.”
“That’s what I like about you, you always have a plain.” Gippal was tempted to kiss him, and would have, if they weren’t in a fight for there lives and to save Spira from what could become the next Sin. He just hoped Baralai’s thought was good, the rate at which this monster was growing stronger was frightening, roughly estimating all it needed was 20 minutes.
Baralai’s overdrive: 20%
Gippal’s overdrive: 50%
! - ! - !
The demon Epitaph opened again, reflecting a Firaga spell on to the three. They easily endured the rush of flames, Jecht even absorbed it.
“Tidus, your up.“ Jecht cast another dispel, shattering the mirror, leaving an opening for Tidus to attack. The boy stuck the box with his sword before it could put up another mirror, creating another crack in the box. Auron attacked with Holy sword , holding the glowing blade down by his side, He swung it upward in a swift uppercut, hard enough to chip a piece off the interior .
Jecht managed to get in another attack because of the haste in effect, hitting the Epitaph with confusion sword. He attacked the side of the box where it was weakest, the interior side. It seemed to be effective.
The demon Epitaph opened again, using Pandora ’s box again, thanks to the confusion the mirror inside reflected Braska instead of it‘s intended target. The door‘s closed, and a copy of Braska appeared, but it didn’t move at all. “What is this?” Auron was also confused by it, it didn’t seem to do anything, with more caution Auron attacked the copy. “??”
That was the last thing needed, causing the box to crumble into shards of blue. It seemed as if that would be the end of it, but before they could even speak a word of it another loud roar screeched through the air and the Epitaph emerged
! - ! - !
Ixion bucked, sending a ball of electricity from his horn into Yevon with a nearly unseeable speed. The ‘dead.’ left pillar began to move again, and resonating with the right, and both of them charged at Ixion, slamming in to him from both sides. The shook off the blow and charged at Yevon, spearing it with it’s horn. But Yevon latched on to it’s horn with it’s claw like appendages, sinking in, trying to posses the Aeon.
Just like Bahamut, it had no choice but to Kamikaze rather then to be controlled and wasted in the same way by Yevon. It unleashed an intense explosion, discharging electricity like lighting, destroying the two pillars around them and leaving them as nothing more then a pile of dust.
Tidus overdrive: 80%
Auron overdrive: 18%
Jecht overdrive: 20%
Braska overdrive: 87%
Shuyin overdrive:80%
Aeon’s overdrive: 50%
! - ! - !
The rain was starting to raise the water level substantially. It was already up to Gippal’s waist, and he was taller then Baralai. “How is this helping us?” Gippal shouted half angrily, lifting his cannon on to his shoulders and firing a Mortar in the air, then a second one just as the first exploded. A bright green light radiated from above the crater, a few embers of a green chemical fire raining down into the pooling water.
The rain washing away the rest of Gippal’s attack, Penance’s body began to shine through the darkness with a blue haze this time, causing a blue smoke rise off of the Fiend. “Oh man...what now.” Gippal wiped away the water streaming down from his hair into his eyes, only to be replaced by the rain growing heavier because of Penance’s attack, sending down a spray of acid with it. Gippal lowered is head and tried to shield his face, his clothing was starting to burn through. “How is this water helping!?”
Baralai grabbed Gippal by the head and pulled the both of them bellow the pooling water’s surface, and holding down until the rain softened.
When they emerged again, expecting to breath again, they found the water had risen above their heads, and the acid had washed away most of the ground surrounding the crater. It had grown in to a small pond. Baralai and Gippal climbed out of the crater back on to land, Penance stayed directly above the water, making a direct attack imposable. “Are you alright?” Baralai stumbled to the surface, coughing any inhaled water.
“Not really, we’re getting our ass kicked!” Gippal pushed some of the hair now plastered to his face out of his eyes.
“Just be patient.” Baralai repeated, adjusting his soaked jacket nervously.
He extended one hand outward using Osmoses to pull in more MP from Penance, while Gippal fired a wave of three missiles at the Fiend. The gray projectiles streaked through the rain soaked air, a flash of lighting illuminating their path before they struck the mirroring monster and exploded.
Penance started to glow again, this time with a yellow tint that flowed over it like flames. Two walls of electricity dropped from the clouds, one sweeping over the ground from behind them and another in front. This didn’t look like a survivable attack, so it forced Baralai postpone his current tactic and take action. “Lighting shield!” A yellow shell surrounded the two of them just as they were caught in-between the two walls. A out pour of electricity run over them, at first streaking right past them because of the shield, but Baralai’s lighting shield was broken through after a few seconds and electricity surged through their bodies, dispersing after a few more seconds.
Gippal dropped to his knees, a breath caught in his throat. He still managed to utter out “You alright?”
Baralai was laying on his back beside him, thankful he cast the spell in time “I’m ok…”
Baralai’s overdrive: 100%
Gippal’s overdrive: 100%
! - ! - !
Braska held his staff outward, igniting it in to a blaze fire. He swept the staff across the ground, leaving a trail of fire in a circle around him that he quickly stepped out of. Ifrit burst through the ground, standing by Braska’s side. The Aeon breathed out a hot breath, creating a burning meteor, sending it flying towards Yevon.
Braska knew what would happen so he saved some time, with expressed remorse to the Aeon, and sent Ifrit to Kamikaze. The beast charged past the two pillars and grabbed hold of Yu Yevon, it’s body surrounded in flames that expanded outward with an intense heat creating a massive explosion and shockwave. When the dust settled, Yevon was still there, but the two pillars it had created were completely decimated. Just when it seemed nothing was working, Yevon started to fall out of the air only to catch itself a few seconds later, it was weakening!
The only reason it had survived this long was the two Pillars that had been casting curative magic. Pillars that relentlessly came back time after time.
Shuyin took care of that.
He sword grew dark, radiating a black haze. “This outta stop you!” He used sword of the dead, veering back and threw his sword accurately at the Yevon. The strike caused a Zombie effect, an affliction that turned Yevon’s whole healing fighting style against itself.
Braska lifted his staff above his head, causing a rain of ice to drop down from above. On a ray of light through the darkness Shiva drifted down, joining the summoner. As the others did, Shiva Kamikazed in a brilliant explosion of ice that left Yevon nearly frozen. “Did that do it?” Braska watched, waiting for any movement.
“Hmm...” Braska, with odd confidence, walked slowly towards Yevon, a very bold move. “Maybe if I could... Just touch--”
Luckily the Faythe regained conciseness just in time to see everything, ingenuity told him this was a very bad move. He had to warn him...Inoringo sat upright promptly and shouted “No! Wait!”
“Huh?“ Braska heard his word and stopped, taking a small glance back the boy and then one last look at the frozen over Yu Yevon before heading back.
Inoringo rubbed his head, hoping that his healing powers as a faythe would kick in soon to at lest clear away this headache. “Yu Yevon is not defeated.” He told them, wrapping his arms around himself to hold his pained torso. Everything hurt! “But you have an opening.” his weak voice made it clear that the boy was in no condition to fight, so he stayed down ‘Uhaaa...’.
“Alright then.” Braska looked back at the frozen Yevon, He tried to summon Valfor but failed, It wouldn’t come, probably because of another summoner... So he tried the last Aeon he had, Yojimbo.
The samurai walked in to existence, simply appearing in a drift of cherry blossoms. But something was different about him. His faithful dog Daigoro wasn’t with him.... Yojimbo drew his blade with a flick of the wrist, holding it with both hands and sliced through the ice. Failing to do the same for Yevon, the opposite unfortunately, he just helped it get free.
This was looking bad already.
Knowing this Yojimbo took off his hat and sheathed his sword, giving both of them to a half questioning Braska, preparing to Kamikaze. Yojimbo turned back to Yevon with two fingers lifted, a strong, chrisom energy was channeled from his body, expelled outward like a wave, engulfing Yevon and exploding with a strong chain reaction. From there Yojimbo dropped to his knees and faded.
Unfortunately Yu Yevon survived, but it had taken a lot of damage, they were close.
! - ! - !
The another form of Epitaph rose from the rubble, a ball of light with a mirror in front of it.
“What the hell is that?” Jecht looked over it, it didn’t seem tough.
“Be careful, it’s stronger then it looks.” Auron warned.
The orb of light was slowly starting to take shape, the real Epitaph was emerging. And realizing this, “We have to stop it now!” Auron lifted his sword once again glowing with holy as he charged at the demon.
The two panels opened revealing the mirror inside just as Auron struck it. But he was sent back by a reflection of himself, in this stage the Epitaph could reflect holy. Jecht cast dispel, but it didn’t work. Nothing worked.
Before the had time to figure it out, the two panels fell to the ground revealing the mirror. The ball of light had taken some sort of shape of a large creature, and it was reflected in the mirror. A demon with large bat like wings and yellow scales, it’s shape almost resembled Bahamut. On top of it’s head were two large horns and it had thick claws on it’s hands and feet and a long swinging tail.
The demon burst through the mirror, shattering it. Yevon dropped the fight and rushed to it like it was being drawn, drifting inside of the demon and possessing it.
Tidus overdrive: 86%
Auron overdrive: 28%
Jecht overdrive: 50%
Braska overdrive: 100%
Shuyin overdrive:88%
Aeon’s overdrive: 80%
! - ! - !
Gippal raised the cannon in the air again, using his overdrive. A thick fire formed around the barrel, spewing off as he fired two Napalms out at the same time. They exploded with tremendous force, creating a shockwave that set everything on fire it sweat over from the chemicals. When he was done even the water was on fire.
A burning inferno surrounded them, even Penance was on fire.
“This is it....” Baralai’s body started to glow as he used his overdrive to combine three spells, He combined an Ultima, Holy and Flare spell, creating a destructive power inside of himself.
Gippal instinctively covered his ears and closed his eyes when Baralai raise his hand.
In the blink of an eye everything went white, at first there was no sound. But then a deafeningly loud explosion followed. Just as quickly as it came, It faded. Now instead of one area, the whole thunder plane was on fire. Even the lighting rods were gone or half broken.
“That’s it!”
Penance fell backwards, the large body falling to the ground. But something completely unexpected happened, The Epitaph burst through the mirror like body shattering on the ground, Yu Yevon’s horn like appendages protruding visibly from the creature's head.
“What was that!?” Gippal watched in amazement as the demon fly upward through the clouds and out of sight. “Oh man, We just barely won the last fight. Where is it going?”
Baralai could no longer see it, but judging from which direction it was taking... “It’s……It’s heading for the Calm lands. We have to warn Yuna!”
! - ! - !
“What do we do now?” Jecht helplessly watched the demon fly away, disappearing in to the clouds.
“We follow it.” Braska said with a bit of contempt in his voice. With a nod the Faythe stood, nearly faltering at Braska’s side. Then Inoringo easily transformed to the Aeon Bahamut, but no matter how easy it was to do so he was still weak. “Can you...Make it?”
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Yuna lead the group of people safely out of the forest and in to the Calm lands, what was left of it anyway. All the smoking craters, long scorch marks, and flames, it had to be the work of Brother. Nevertheless, it was fiend free and large enough to fit everyone.
“Good job you guys.” Buddy congratulated them through the receiver, oddly enough the ship that caused all this damage wasn’t here.
Yuna looked around, trying to find any signs of it‘s location besides the obvious ones, though none could be found. “Where are you guys?” She asked, glancing back at the hordes of people talking behind her. Individually they weren’t loud, but together...
“Big emergency on the High Road.” Buddy told her regretfully. “You’ll be alright wont you?”
“Uh Huh.” She nodded, still watching the former citizens of Guadosalam and anyone in the surrounding areas who’s panic was subsiding into worry and a general depression. “I didn’t want to leave all these people alone anyway. What’s going on?”
“Maroda called, He and Rin have a giant Fiend problem. They‘re over running the place.”
“Need help?”
“We can handle this, after all, we cleared the Calm lands.”
“Well....“ Cleared wasn’t the terminology Yuna would use for what presumably Brother had done to this place. “I guess that’s one word for it.”
! - ! - !
Gippal and Baralai finally made it to the empty Thunder planes, the strangely shaping fiend following promptly behind them. When provoked it was surprisingly fast, something that had to find out the hard way.
Lighting streaked loudly through the sky, almost causing a small distraction as the two dashed through the lines of high protruding metal farther electrified by the hard rain pooling in the divots of the uneven ground. Passing halfway through the rows of lighting rods, Baralai stopped abruptly. “Gippal, hold on.” Baralai called back, being ahead since he was faster, and knelt down next to a small blue sphere that lay there.
“Do we even have time to watch this thing?” Gippal looked back at the floating orb they had lured out here. It was moving slowly again, either not noticing them anymore or felt no need to move as fast since it wasn’t immediately being provoked. “Yeah, I guess we do.”
This time there was no picture, just some one speaking.
Summoner Braska.
~” Thank you for leading it to an open area, it wouldn't respond to just one sided attacks.” The man said, which explained why it wasn’t coming after them anymore, unless it was being hit from both sides then it didn’t work.
“This Fiend as two Sides. The one you are seeing, and the one we are seeing Yu Yevon...I hope you know what that is already, I don’t have time to explain it.... is using a demon to try and recreate Sin.
We can stop Yu Yevon and the demon from this side, but it will be useless if you kill the Fiend from your side. It’s still weak but it’s gaining power so you must hurry...It has already destroyed the Farplane, if we wait any longer then I’m not sure we’ll be able to stop it. Good Luck”~
“It’s nice to know were not taking this thing on alone.” Baralai said with an optimistic “tone And High Summoner Braska’s Blessing doesn’t hurt.” At lest he sounded optimistic which is what he was going for, but honestly he was beginning to get nervous, very nervous. Baralai shifted around his jacket and adjusted his headband.
Gippal knew that to be one of Baralai‘s nervous habits...“It’s still doing... whatever it’s doing with those Pireflies, that must be how it’s getting stronger. Anyway we can cut off it’s supply?”
“I’m not sure.” Something Baralai might be repeating often today.
“Hmm…..” Gippal cuffed his hands over his mouth and began shouting “*Yelling* Summoner Braska! If you can, find away to stop it from absorbing Pireflies!” He called out, hoping where ever they were, they could hear him, even better yet, do something about it.
“I guess we better get this over with.” Baralai lifted his rod from where it was holstered on his back. Turning around to face the monster in question that had drifted dangerously close, a fight was immanent, no question about that.
The mirror like substance shifted around, stretching and contracting in a strange manner as it finally took it’s intended form.
“Whoa....”
It’s body was huge to put it lightly, with only a torso and no legs it’s body just floated in the air. Two large arms appeared, but they weren’t connected to the body though floated there, moving with the body as if it had shoulders to connect them. It didn’t have hands either, it‘s extremity stopped at the wrist. Behind it’s neck a large, arching band stretched out and above it’s head a round disc floated like an over sized hallow. The Fiend Penance... but it still looked incomplete, the most defining feature was that it didn‘t have any color, it‘s body was just reflective, as if looking into a sculpted mirror.
“Look’s like this is it.” Gippal stared at the large Fiend floating above them in mild disbelief, it looked worse then Angra Mainyu when standing this close to it. “Hey...look.” Gippal pointed out one fortunate thing about this battle, the location. Penance was, basically, a lighting rod. Still weak compared to what it would grow to be, it had an elemental weakness, Lighting. Being the biggest thing around, it received every bolt.
And because of that, or some strange energy gather, storm clouds moved in, carrying rain along with it. The dark plains became even darker, it was nearly pitch black except for the frequent lighting struck, and lighting strikes.
! - ! - !
The Epitaph floated high above them, Yu Yevon still inside with claws visibly protruding from the side.
“I’ll fight Yevon with the Faythe.” Braska felt a certain responsibility to fight against Yu Yevon, being a summoner. With out saying Shuyin had to go with him, he was the only one that could stop Yevon from taking control of Aeons since he knew how the whole processes of possessing worked.
“Inoringo.” The Faythe said.
“Huh?” Braska glanced back down at him.
“My name is Inoringo.”
Braska smiled, “Nice to meet you.”
The boy nodded politely.
“Will you be alright?” Auron asked. It sounded strange to someone like Tidus, who had never heard him use that type of tone.
“Don’t worry about me. I can handle it.” Braska reassured him a lighter voice, always positive.
They separated, being sure to give each other enough room to avoid any misguided attacks.
Basically the teams were equal, Tidus, Jecht and Auron were ready and planning to fight the Epitaph. And Braska, Shuyin and the Faythe were taking on Yu Yevon, the Faythe really had no choice in this, being pulled into the situation by summoning and nearly incinerated among other things
Braska looked around the thunder planes that he still couldn‘t figure out how they were seeing it, nor why this placement situation, knowing he’d have to figure it out later. It still bother him... “Alright, Go ahead.” Braska told the faythe that they were ready and he changed to Bahamut once again.
And just as expected Yu Yevon separated from the demon, coming directly after the Aeon. Bahamut spread his wings with tensed arms and a growl emitting from deep in his throat, the halo like wheel on his back moving into a light spin. 6 or so static orbs of dark energy that moved like discharging electricity formed around the dragon, lunching at the Yevon with a loud roar. The static orbs moved around erratically though inanely drawn to it’s target, each one stuck the approaching Yu Yevon with discharging sparks.
Being knocked back lightly from the forceful attack, Yevon retreated back even farther, two pillars forming on the side of Yevon, both with in a diamond like shape, strange inscriptions across every inch of it in glowing red letters. They began to spin, changing directions frequently, it was using the same tactics as the last time it was encounter inside Sin, only slightly modified. Both of them continually cast Curative spells on the creature.
The Epitaph dropped to the ground with a loud crash, soaking wet from the rain sheeting off it‘s surface, only illuminated by lighting strikes around them just as everything else. It opened up, reveling another mirror. “I hope I learned this right.” Jecht, with nervous uncertainty that he had learned it correctly, cast dispel on a hunch he‘d had. As he guessed it would, the dispel magic shattered the mirror and reviled what was behind it. ’It worked....Huh?’ Unexpectantly it was only an orb of light connected to the side of the box by what appeared to be a sticky substance.
“Who cares what it looks like!!” Tidus ran up to the box with out hesitation, draw his arm back and thrusting his sword into the center of it. It felt different this time, like something with flesh, and that odd roar came again. But right after he struck it the box closed and Tidus nervously jumped back a safe distance. Auron tried to attack this time, lifting the sword above his head and bringing it down on the Epitaph with a large grunt. About half way in to his swing a mirror appeared, he saw himself in it’s reflection, doing the same action.... Auron quickly caught his sword before he completed the attack, knowing from previous demonstration he didn‘t want to touch that mirror Auron backed away. This was more complicated then they thought it would be.
Tidus overdrive: 70%
Auron overdrive: 1%
Jecht overdrive: 1%
Braska overdrive: 70%
Shuyin overdrive:75%
Aeon’s overdrive: 6%
! - ! - !
Penance raised both of arms and slammed them in to the ground, it’s strength causing a massive earthquake to surge through the ground. The earth beneath them buckled and pushed into itself until it pushed upward and broke apart under Baralai and Gippal, throwing them painfully to the ground.
Gippal rose to his knees, pulling a switch above the trigger on his cannon, visibly charging either from the red smoke like aura flowing out of the barrel before he lifted it toward the flash lit Penance, sending a ray of energy at the Fiend.
Baralai stuck to spells as he usually did, combining a Thunder spell with one of his own spell mediums to create a Tornado spell. Winds started to pick up, swirling with picked up rainfall and debris around Penance to created a tornado that couldn‘t be seen in the darkness. The strong winds tore at it like blade, trying to rip it apart. More lighting flashed, allowing them to see Penance swing it’s arm and disperse the winds. “Damn, useless.” Baralai used osmosis to regain some of his MP.
“I can’t see a thing out here!” Gippal didn’t think it was possible but he was actually having trouble hitting Penance. Maybe it was how slippery the thunder plains got during a really bad storm, or the fact that he couldn’t retain his footing, or that he couldn’t see anything except in quick flashes that were followed with deafening rolls of thunder loud enough to throw anyone off. “Where the hell is this--!!”
A flash of lighting gave them a split second view of their surrounding them and one of Penance's detached arms being held out towards them. When the flash faded some kind of red barrier Penance created could be seen brightly enough to illumined everything. The Barrier fired in to the air, coming down on Baralai and Gippal and shattering like glass, drawing a cry of pain from the both of them.
Afterwords Baralai was left leaning on his staff, and Gippal barely standing.
Baralai’s overdrive: 10%
Gippal’s overdrive: 10%
! - ! - !
A mirror appeared in front of the Epitaph, reflecting a flare spell on to all three of them even though it was only cast by one person. With flames dieing off, Auron, Jecht and Tidus stumbled to their feet.
Auron’s sword began to glow, shining a white light that cut through the darkness. “It’s a demon, maybe...” He pressed his finger against the rim of the glasses pushed them upward to block out more of the light. Then Auron confidently charged at the Demon using Holy sword, watching the mirror appear. Something was different this time, his sword wasn’t in the reflection, nothing but the handle. The demon couldn’t reflect holy! “Got it.” He easily shattered through the mirror, striking the box on the other side. He felt it crack a little.
“Holy!” Shuyin exclaimed, “Damn, It’s a demon, I should have figured it out!”
The box opened again, this time with out a mirror. The Epitaph used Pandora’s box, and something completely random came out. This time it was another mirror, but it reflected Death. The box closed again with the mirror shattering, Death appeared, but it wasn’t moving.
With great care, Jecht ran up to it, slashing it with his sword. It shattered and another crack appeared in the box.
“Huh? What was that?” Tidus was confused, it didn’t seem like that last attack did anything.
Bahamut spread his wings with one flap strong enough to lift the large dragon into the air, gliding over to Yevon and striking the surprisingly solid enemy with a powerful swipe of his class. Yevon didn’t respond, but the two pillars along side of it did. They started to spin faster creating casting Holy at the same time, two sets of orbs surrounded Bahamut, drawing in rays of light from all sides on to Bahamut. The dragon fell backwards, smoldering from the burning rays of light.
Shuyin pulled his sword back over his shoulder with both hands and throwing his sword at one of the pillars. He hit the left on, striking it drawing it back him. The pillar stopped moving, seemingly ‘dead’. But the other one countered by ramming in to him, sending him sliding back a few feet. “Uhhff!”
With Shuyin unfocused, the powers that protected Bahamut faded. Sensing this Yevon rushed over to the dragon, sliding inside of him a ghost and possessed him. ‘!!’ But Bahamut wasn’t going to let Yevon control him again. With no other choice, he Kamikazed before Yevon could take him over. With a fierce roar his body started to glow, then unleashed a powerful explosion.
Braska was almost knocked out by the blast, at the least he was thrown backwards after being at that proximity. “AHhhhuufff!” From the ground he saw Yevon being blown back in a stream of black smoke, and Bahamut, who forcibly had been changed back in to Inoringo, was now soaring threw the air, smoldering with a nearly equal amount of smoke trailing behind him. “No, Inoringo!“
“I got him.” Shuyin was there to catch the small boy unconscious, though he had to dive outward to catch him. Laying Inoringo aside a safe distance away. “Are you alright?”
“Yes, I’m fine.” Braska stood up, ready to summon again. With his staff raised and a few mumbled words, a bolt of lighting streaked down on to the rod, charging in a ball of electricity. Braska toss the staff in the air, the growing electricity discharging in the air and opening up a hole, seemingly in reality. The horse Ixion jumped through, sliding to a stop next to the summoner with a discharging sparks and Braska’s staff in it’s mouth. Braska took the rod with a small thanks.
Tidus overdrive: 75%
Auron overdrive: 10%
Jecht overdrive: 10%
Braska overdrive: 79%
Shuyin overdrive:80%
Aeon’s overdrive: 12%
! - ! - !
Penance raised it’s arm, throwing an invisible impact into the clouds above, pushing them back. Immediately stopping the lighting strikes an the rain, but letting the moonlight through allowing easy sight of the mirror skinned creature. Seeing his surroundings gave Baralai a strange feeling, around him was a crystal clear night illuminated by moon light. But only a few steps back, black clouds with lighting strikes and heavy rain.
Baralai continued to use Osmoses, concentrating and focusing for his next spell. Gippal lifted the cannon strait up in the air, firing a white flare upward into the patch of clear sky, it softly floated down ward exploding with white flames and a powerful shockwave that drove the clouds back farther. “Are we even doing anything to it?” Gippal asked, watching Pireflies start to stream towards Penance in large volumes. Every time they hit it, more Pireflies came, it just kept getting stronger.
“Just be patient.”
Penance’s body began to glow with a white haze, soft white smoke rising from it’s body. The opening through the clouds around shined with a white light that covered everything, Baralai lifted his arm to shield the persistent brightness, Gippal cuffing his hand over his eyes. A sizzling sound persisted, loud enough to override any cries of pain coming from the two men before the light slowly softened and faded away, leaving a deep crater in it’s wake. At the bottom, Gippal and Baralai were on the ground, barley alive in a mixture of loud pants and a pool of blood.
“Aw... What the hell was that?” Gippal tried to stand, pushing himself off of his stomach only to failed, just barely getting to his knees.
“I...don’t know.” Baralai, still on his back, reached in to his pocket and for two elixirs. With one eye open and hands shaky, Baralai managed to mix together a Megalixir, drinking half of it sloppily before handing the rest to Gippal. Just narrowly bring them back in to the fight. “Are you ok?”
Gippal wiped away the blood streaming down his forehead and coughed, “You don’t want me to answer that.”
A few more gust of winds caused the clouds filled back in over Penance, bring back the heavy rain, unseeable darkness and lighting strikes. Water streamed down the sides of the crater in large rivers, mixing with the rain.
“I hope you can swim.” Gippal looking down at the raising water already passing his knees.
Baralai didn‘t seem too worried. “This may work to our advantage.”
“That’s what I like about you, you always have a plain.” Gippal was tempted to kiss him, and would have, if they weren’t in a fight for there lives and to save Spira from what could become the next Sin. He just hoped Baralai’s thought was good, the rate at which this monster was growing stronger was frightening, roughly estimating all it needed was 20 minutes.
Baralai’s overdrive: 20%
Gippal’s overdrive: 50%
! - ! - !
The demon Epitaph opened again, reflecting a Firaga spell on to the three. They easily endured the rush of flames, Jecht even absorbed it.
“Tidus, your up.“ Jecht cast another dispel, shattering the mirror, leaving an opening for Tidus to attack. The boy stuck the box with his sword before it could put up another mirror, creating another crack in the box. Auron attacked with Holy sword , holding the glowing blade down by his side, He swung it upward in a swift uppercut, hard enough to chip a piece off the interior .
Jecht managed to get in another attack because of the haste in effect, hitting the Epitaph with confusion sword. He attacked the side of the box where it was weakest, the interior side. It seemed to be effective.
The demon Epitaph opened again, using Pandora ’s box again, thanks to the confusion the mirror inside reflected Braska instead of it‘s intended target. The door‘s closed, and a copy of Braska appeared, but it didn’t move at all. “What is this?” Auron was also confused by it, it didn’t seem to do anything, with more caution Auron attacked the copy. “??”
That was the last thing needed, causing the box to crumble into shards of blue. It seemed as if that would be the end of it, but before they could even speak a word of it another loud roar screeched through the air and the Epitaph emerged
! - ! - !
Ixion bucked, sending a ball of electricity from his horn into Yevon with a nearly unseeable speed. The ‘dead.’ left pillar began to move again, and resonating with the right, and both of them charged at Ixion, slamming in to him from both sides. The shook off the blow and charged at Yevon, spearing it with it’s horn. But Yevon latched on to it’s horn with it’s claw like appendages, sinking in, trying to posses the Aeon.
Just like Bahamut, it had no choice but to Kamikaze rather then to be controlled and wasted in the same way by Yevon. It unleashed an intense explosion, discharging electricity like lighting, destroying the two pillars around them and leaving them as nothing more then a pile of dust.
Tidus overdrive: 80%
Auron overdrive: 18%
Jecht overdrive: 20%
Braska overdrive: 87%
Shuyin overdrive:80%
Aeon’s overdrive: 50%
! - ! - !
The rain was starting to raise the water level substantially. It was already up to Gippal’s waist, and he was taller then Baralai. “How is this helping us?” Gippal shouted half angrily, lifting his cannon on to his shoulders and firing a Mortar in the air, then a second one just as the first exploded. A bright green light radiated from above the crater, a few embers of a green chemical fire raining down into the pooling water.
The rain washing away the rest of Gippal’s attack, Penance’s body began to shine through the darkness with a blue haze this time, causing a blue smoke rise off of the Fiend. “Oh man...what now.” Gippal wiped away the water streaming down from his hair into his eyes, only to be replaced by the rain growing heavier because of Penance’s attack, sending down a spray of acid with it. Gippal lowered is head and tried to shield his face, his clothing was starting to burn through. “How is this water helping!?”
Baralai grabbed Gippal by the head and pulled the both of them bellow the pooling water’s surface, and holding down until the rain softened.
When they emerged again, expecting to breath again, they found the water had risen above their heads, and the acid had washed away most of the ground surrounding the crater. It had grown in to a small pond. Baralai and Gippal climbed out of the crater back on to land, Penance stayed directly above the water, making a direct attack imposable. “Are you alright?” Baralai stumbled to the surface, coughing any inhaled water.
“Not really, we’re getting our ass kicked!” Gippal pushed some of the hair now plastered to his face out of his eyes.
“Just be patient.” Baralai repeated, adjusting his soaked jacket nervously.
He extended one hand outward using Osmoses to pull in more MP from Penance, while Gippal fired a wave of three missiles at the Fiend. The gray projectiles streaked through the rain soaked air, a flash of lighting illuminating their path before they struck the mirroring monster and exploded.
Penance started to glow again, this time with a yellow tint that flowed over it like flames. Two walls of electricity dropped from the clouds, one sweeping over the ground from behind them and another in front. This didn’t look like a survivable attack, so it forced Baralai postpone his current tactic and take action. “Lighting shield!” A yellow shell surrounded the two of them just as they were caught in-between the two walls. A out pour of electricity run over them, at first streaking right past them because of the shield, but Baralai’s lighting shield was broken through after a few seconds and electricity surged through their bodies, dispersing after a few more seconds.
Gippal dropped to his knees, a breath caught in his throat. He still managed to utter out “You alright?”
Baralai was laying on his back beside him, thankful he cast the spell in time “I’m ok…”
Baralai’s overdrive: 100%
Gippal’s overdrive: 100%
! - ! - !
Braska held his staff outward, igniting it in to a blaze fire. He swept the staff across the ground, leaving a trail of fire in a circle around him that he quickly stepped out of. Ifrit burst through the ground, standing by Braska’s side. The Aeon breathed out a hot breath, creating a burning meteor, sending it flying towards Yevon.
Braska knew what would happen so he saved some time, with expressed remorse to the Aeon, and sent Ifrit to Kamikaze. The beast charged past the two pillars and grabbed hold of Yu Yevon, it’s body surrounded in flames that expanded outward with an intense heat creating a massive explosion and shockwave. When the dust settled, Yevon was still there, but the two pillars it had created were completely decimated. Just when it seemed nothing was working, Yevon started to fall out of the air only to catch itself a few seconds later, it was weakening!
The only reason it had survived this long was the two Pillars that had been casting curative magic. Pillars that relentlessly came back time after time.
Shuyin took care of that.
He sword grew dark, radiating a black haze. “This outta stop you!” He used sword of the dead, veering back and threw his sword accurately at the Yevon. The strike caused a Zombie effect, an affliction that turned Yevon’s whole healing fighting style against itself.
Braska lifted his staff above his head, causing a rain of ice to drop down from above. On a ray of light through the darkness Shiva drifted down, joining the summoner. As the others did, Shiva Kamikazed in a brilliant explosion of ice that left Yevon nearly frozen. “Did that do it?” Braska watched, waiting for any movement.
“Hmm...” Braska, with odd confidence, walked slowly towards Yevon, a very bold move. “Maybe if I could... Just touch--”
Luckily the Faythe regained conciseness just in time to see everything, ingenuity told him this was a very bad move. He had to warn him...Inoringo sat upright promptly and shouted “No! Wait!”
“Huh?“ Braska heard his word and stopped, taking a small glance back the boy and then one last look at the frozen over Yu Yevon before heading back.
Inoringo rubbed his head, hoping that his healing powers as a faythe would kick in soon to at lest clear away this headache. “Yu Yevon is not defeated.” He told them, wrapping his arms around himself to hold his pained torso. Everything hurt! “But you have an opening.” his weak voice made it clear that the boy was in no condition to fight, so he stayed down ‘Uhaaa...’.
“Alright then.” Braska looked back at the frozen Yevon, He tried to summon Valfor but failed, It wouldn’t come, probably because of another summoner... So he tried the last Aeon he had, Yojimbo.
The samurai walked in to existence, simply appearing in a drift of cherry blossoms. But something was different about him. His faithful dog Daigoro wasn’t with him.... Yojimbo drew his blade with a flick of the wrist, holding it with both hands and sliced through the ice. Failing to do the same for Yevon, the opposite unfortunately, he just helped it get free.
This was looking bad already.
Knowing this Yojimbo took off his hat and sheathed his sword, giving both of them to a half questioning Braska, preparing to Kamikaze. Yojimbo turned back to Yevon with two fingers lifted, a strong, chrisom energy was channeled from his body, expelled outward like a wave, engulfing Yevon and exploding with a strong chain reaction. From there Yojimbo dropped to his knees and faded.
Unfortunately Yu Yevon survived, but it had taken a lot of damage, they were close.
! - ! - !
The another form of Epitaph rose from the rubble, a ball of light with a mirror in front of it.
“What the hell is that?” Jecht looked over it, it didn’t seem tough.
“Be careful, it’s stronger then it looks.” Auron warned.
The orb of light was slowly starting to take shape, the real Epitaph was emerging. And realizing this, “We have to stop it now!” Auron lifted his sword once again glowing with holy as he charged at the demon.
The two panels opened revealing the mirror inside just as Auron struck it. But he was sent back by a reflection of himself, in this stage the Epitaph could reflect holy. Jecht cast dispel, but it didn’t work. Nothing worked.
Before the had time to figure it out, the two panels fell to the ground revealing the mirror. The ball of light had taken some sort of shape of a large creature, and it was reflected in the mirror. A demon with large bat like wings and yellow scales, it’s shape almost resembled Bahamut. On top of it’s head were two large horns and it had thick claws on it’s hands and feet and a long swinging tail.
The demon burst through the mirror, shattering it. Yevon dropped the fight and rushed to it like it was being drawn, drifting inside of the demon and possessing it.
Tidus overdrive: 86%
Auron overdrive: 28%
Jecht overdrive: 50%
Braska overdrive: 100%
Shuyin overdrive:88%
Aeon’s overdrive: 80%
! - ! - !
Gippal raised the cannon in the air again, using his overdrive. A thick fire formed around the barrel, spewing off as he fired two Napalms out at the same time. They exploded with tremendous force, creating a shockwave that set everything on fire it sweat over from the chemicals. When he was done even the water was on fire.
A burning inferno surrounded them, even Penance was on fire.
“This is it....” Baralai’s body started to glow as he used his overdrive to combine three spells, He combined an Ultima, Holy and Flare spell, creating a destructive power inside of himself.
Gippal instinctively covered his ears and closed his eyes when Baralai raise his hand.
In the blink of an eye everything went white, at first there was no sound. But then a deafeningly loud explosion followed. Just as quickly as it came, It faded. Now instead of one area, the whole thunder plane was on fire. Even the lighting rods were gone or half broken.
“That’s it!”
Penance fell backwards, the large body falling to the ground. But something completely unexpected happened, The Epitaph burst through the mirror like body shattering on the ground, Yu Yevon’s horn like appendages protruding visibly from the creature's head.
“What was that!?” Gippal watched in amazement as the demon fly upward through the clouds and out of sight. “Oh man, We just barely won the last fight. Where is it going?”
Baralai could no longer see it, but judging from which direction it was taking... “It’s……It’s heading for the Calm lands. We have to warn Yuna!”
! - ! - !
“What do we do now?” Jecht helplessly watched the demon fly away, disappearing in to the clouds.
“We follow it.” Braska said with a bit of contempt in his voice. With a nod the Faythe stood, nearly faltering at Braska’s side. Then Inoringo easily transformed to the Aeon Bahamut, but no matter how easy it was to do so he was still weak. “Can you...Make it?”
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