Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Akagi Sphere ❯ Chapter 13: Spira ‘s last battle: Part 1 ( Chapter 14 )

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Chapter 13: Spira ‘s last battle: Part 1

The sun was starting to rise over the calm lands, giving light to the dark plains. A figure drifted in front of the rising sun, casting a large shadow over the land, followed by a trail of Pireflies casting patchy, bubbles over the ground.

Yuna, Rikku and Pane gathered at the head of the crowd.

“What is that thing?” Rikku looked at the large figure coming closer to them, her hand lifted over his eyes to block out the glaring sun.

“It’s looks like a Fiend.” Paine watched as the shadow cast on the Calm lands started to gradually lessen. Yuna could tell from it’s direction that it was coming there way, directly at the crowd.

“It’s coming this way, we have to stop it!” Yuna shouted, it started to whip up a panic in the crowd.

Regardless of how the crowd was feeling, everyone was smart enough to say put and out of the way. “Ready?” Yuna asked.

“Yup!” Rikku was anxious.

“Let’s go.” Paine wasn’t.

The mass of people cleared out of the way as Yuna, Rikku and Paine headed down the slope, in to the large, open space.

Cheers came from the crowd, cries of support showered the girls.

“Wow! We have an audience!!” Rikku smiled brightly, waving to the crowd standing safely to her left.

Paine looked back at them, her eyebrows lifting with light questioning. “Is it just me or are they growing?”

“They must have came from Bevelle.” Yuna reasoned.

Arrff!

A bark came from behind them, none of then were completely sure they had heard anything until that noise came again.

Arrfff!

Yuna knew she heard it that time. “Huh?” Yuna turned around, Rikku and Paine didn’t seem to hear it because of the crowd.

A dog was running towards her, not just any dog though, it was an Aeon, Yojimbo’s dog Daigoro.

Yuna knelt down and wrapped her arms around the dog with a light smile him, he let out a small growl and wagged his tail. “What are you doing here?” The fact that the Aeon was here brought a lot of questions. “Where’s Yojimbo?”

She didn’t have time to think up any answers, the fiend had arrived, and it was of course the demon Epitaph. But it stayed back safely passed the cliff, over the area where the Calm lands dropped off in to the ocean, staying out of reach.

Yuna stuck with the Gunner Dressphere, while Rikku changed to the Alchemist and Paine changed to the Gun mage. All three of them now had guns, which was the only way they were going to fight this thing.

“Whoa! It’s so big!!” Rikku looked at the monster who easily was larger then Bahamut, not sounding so confident anymore. With every Pireflies, it became larger and stronger, it was growing at a steady rate now, slow but growing.

Yuna used Quick trigger, firing a rapid spray of bullets that trailed up Epitaph’s body, and in to the open mouth unable to close completely because of the oversized fangs. The demon growled with a hissing sound, firing a red ray out of it’s mouth, sweeping it across the three of the swiftly and exploding in a burst of flames, creating a thick rain of dust and dirt that blocked their view.

Rikku raised the wielding gun, trying to track the demon’s movement’s through a barely seen shadow, but completely missed. “I can’t see!!!”

Paine used the blue bullet Fire Breath, blowing out spray of fire from the special gun that cleared away the dust.

But the Epitaph fired another beam across the ground, putting more dust in the air.

Yuna coughed, lifting one hand to cuff it over his mouth and noise. “There’s to much smoke...!” Yuna used the same strategy that Rikku used, tracking the demon from it shadow. Using scatter shot, she fired two bullets that burst and spread, finally connecting with something.

A red light laser shine through the dust, showering on all three of them from the Epitaph behind the could. Then the real laser fired, four of five of them in rapid precession that detonated in more burst explosions. The three of them where thrown backward through the smoke, landing on one of the soft patches of the Calm land still remaining...”Oww...” Yuna rubbed her head, smiling lighting as Daigoro came to her side with a small wine. “Don’t worry about me, I’m alright.”

Regaining herself, Paine used fire breath to clear away the dust, incinerating the partials hanging in the air and allowing a clear vision of the Demon ahead of them. “Rikku!”

“I got it!” Rikku, mixing together two grenades to create a Blaster mine, tossing the lit dynamite equivalent at the Epitaph. The small device sizzled as it soared through the air, bumping against the fiend’s chest lightly, The explosion almost knocked it out of the air.

Flapping it’s smoldering wings mainly to regain lost altitude, the demon created a strong wind, pulling up thick chunks of earth from the edge of the cliff and tossing a wall of rocks and dirt at the girls, striking them in the mass. Shaking the dust out of her hair, Yuna fired another wave of bullets with quick trigger, but it didn’t seem to do any damage this time.

Rikku fired a blast shot from the wielding gun, but the usually powerful attack did absolutely nothing. “Huh? What’s going on?” Rikku looked at the gun with the thought that maybe it was malfunctioning, Changing Dressphere to the thief.

“It’s getting stronger! It must be the Pireflies.” Paine changed Dressphere to the warrior.

The slightly larger Epitaph’s laser swept across them, creating a massive explosion that created a fine line trailing where it had been. That one really hurt... Yuna aimed one of the pistols, using Cheap shot. The bullet seemed to do normal damage, especially compeered to the other attacks recently. “Ok, then we’ll try something new!”

Rikku took two steps back and sprinted for the edge with her arms stretched out to her sides, jumping off the cliff as high as she could fearlessly. She landed on top of the Epitaph‘s head, holding on to the horns, stealing something from it, then she kicked off of it before it could catch her. Doing a back flip and slashing it across the face on her escape, The knives were sharp enough to do some damage. “What is this?” She manage to steal a black orb, what ever it was.

Paine’s sword started to glow with an orange light from a charged attack, she took about 10 steps back, running at full speed and leaping off the edge. She placed one foot on the demon‘s torso, turning around and slashing it with Armor break as she did so, kicking off of it and making it back on to land with years of practice.

They could hear the crowd, which had grown a great deal since the last time they looked. All of those people, all were chanting loudly. “Gullwings!!! Gullwings!!”

Yuna used quick trigger again, rapidly firing a hail of Bullets on to the demon. It was working, which each hit a small amount of Pireflies started to escape. All ready there was a storm of them streaming out of the demon, at this rate they would finish it off quickly.

About to lose, the Epitaph turned and fled, flying away.

But luckily the Celsius appeared over the horizon from Mt Gagazet, lowering right next to the girls. “Good news.“ Brother said triumphantly, “We finished early.”

“Great timing!“ Rikku shouted excitedly. The back hatch opened and Yuna, Rikku, and Paine climbed in, coming out on the deck a moment later.

“Gullwings!!! Gullwings!!!!”

! - ! - !

Bahamut fell out of the sky, landing in the clam lands with a loud crash, sliding to a stop with enough force to leave a uprooted trail behind. Bahamut changing back in to Inoringo after using what little energy he had gained to chase after Yu Yevon, but he made it, it was just that the faythe wouldn‘t be fighting anytime soon.

This world was strange, it was exact mirror of Spira, but they seemed to be only ones inside. How could a world like this exists out side of the Farplane, technically nothing should have been there, but yet this was. And why were they the only people here? And what was with the Sphere recorder thing? To many questions that none of them had answers to.

“Thank you.” Braska thank the small boy, who almost fell asleep on the ground right there, but managed to nod in response. Looking toward the edge, they could see the Epitaph fleeing, but it wasn’t real. It was transparent, a ghost. Just a refection of what had already changed dimensions. But what was real was Yu Yevon, in the center of the ghost.

Yevon separated from the Epitaph, coming back at them. It was still weak, barely able to regain enough strength that it could fight with. But with no more aeons, it was a waste of time....right? If there were no more aeons that could be possessed, why did it come back?

“How are you going to fight this thing?” Tidus asked, tired and nervous, more tired then anything else.

Braska looked at Jecht with an expression that usually only Auron could decipher, but this time he immediately knew what Braska was thinking. Jecht took a step back, lifting his hands defensively and shaking his head. “Hey Wait!!!”

“It’s the only way.”

“Isn’t there--” What was the point of fight it? “….Aright.” Jecht gave up, knowing he would have to give in some time, what choice did he have. And being Braska’s guardian he was obligated to listen to him right?

“Wait a minute.” Tidus paused, looking at Braska. “If Yevon came back this time? What’s stopping it from coming back again after we beat it?” That was a good question, what was stopping it from coming back? The void that Tidus and Jecht on their arrival to the Farplane and the return of the Aeons created was still open, as long as both of them were dead it would remain.

“We have to close that void.” Braska said with agreement, they couldn‘t allow Yevon to slip through the same hole over and over. The problem was that none of them knew how, but they would have to figure that out later, right now they had something more important.

Braska held the staff in both hands in front of him, his body glowing with the familiar gathering of MP.

Jecht recognized that glow and that tone of voice enough to realize what Braska was planning to do and what he himself would have to do. The only thing was that the last time he did this it didn’t end well. “You wont die this time will you?” Jecht’s sudden outburst made Braska laugh a little.

“Whoa!” Tidus looked around the eerily Calm lands with the Sphere recorder in his hand, able to see hundreds and hundreds of people gathered near the exit on that incline leading up to it, all cheering. “What’s going on out there?”

A strong energy started to course through Jecht’s body, a palpitating red light growing brighter and with each pulsation, as walked toward edge of the Calm lands. “Here goes nothing...“ Jecht slipped a finger under the head band he wore and scratched a random spot lightly, a small nervous habit he’d gained, before he silently stretched his arms outward and let his body fall off. Which was followed by a earthquake as Braska’s Final Aeon emerged. Jecht could almost still be recognized in the Aeon, the red band was still around his head, the familiar tattoo across his chest, and the now gray mustache around his mouth. It even still had the same sword, only much larger.

Shuyin had a considerably tougher time trying to protect him from possession.

Yu Yevon swarmed towards Jecht, digging it’s claws into Jecht’s chest in an attempt to enter, trying to control him, Shuyin tried to force it back but he was failing. The Aeon lifted the sword, slapping down Yevon with the broad edge and smashing it to the ground. Yevon fluttered back, recovering from the blow.

The black haze surrounding Yevon became more and more intense, dispelling dark waves that the Aeon blocked with his sword. The Aeon controller became more aggressive in it’s attacks. This time dispelling a black mist that swept over Jecht with no chance of being evaded, covering him with a black acidic, oil like liquid. Just as two pillars appeared next to Yevon, casting curative magic.

Braska pointed his staff at Yevon, casting zombie on him and turning the curing magic against him.

Jecht, after trying his best to remove the liquid from his body, lifted his clawed hand, slashing Yevon and the two pillars in a single swipe and turning the pillars in to crumbled dust with powerful attack. The weakened Yu Yevon was no match.

Yevon unleashed another wave of darkness outward from it‘s body, which Jecht blocked again with his sword.

There couldn‘t have been a better time...“Jecht! Now!” Braska shouted.

Aeon’s Overdrive: 100%

Jecht lifted the clawed hand in to the air above his head, clinching it in to a fist much larger then the one holding the sword. The air around the hand distorted and rippled like water, spreading outward until it passed over the calm lands in one uninterrupted sweep, prorogating a new reality, which was an endless black void. A ring of electricity surrounded the clawed hands, it moved with him when he drew the claws back and drove them forward in to Yevon. The ground shook violently when a powerful explosion erupted, sending out multiple shockwaves forced and discharged sparks of electricity, push anyone even remotely in range away from the blasting zone and Yu Yevon.

Yevon was defeated easily, but it went out with force, spewing out thick black flames upon self-destructing that left the Aeon’s body in a blaze of the odd fire.

With a loud roar, Pireflies started to rise out of the Aeon also ablaze, and it disappeared, leaving Jecht behind, falling to the ground weakly, seemingly unconscious.

“Jecht...” Auron drove his sword in to the ground and extended his arms with his head titled upward, he was able to catch him. Auron laid him down and patting out the black flames covering his body.

Jecht rubbed his head lightly, seemingly unable to open his eyes despite his visible efforts. His lips parted just enough for him to mumble.

“I’m pretty sure...that it’s Auron standing over me...”

“Heh, you know me too well.”

“Did….I get him?”

“Yeah.” Auron said in his usual voice, but it held soft undertones that only someone who’d known him closely would be able to detect it. It was enough to make Jecht laugh.

“I’m sorry Jecht but...I…Don’t think so…” Braska pointed a rip that appeared in thin air before them, from there Yu Yevon squeezed through. But just as weak as it was before, it could barely move.

“But--But How?!” Tidus looked on as Yevon struggled to stay a float, moving in a twitching and erratic manner.

“The void, as long as it’s open, Yu Yevon will keep coming.” He was sure of it now, sure of what he already knew. Braska finally understood what had to happen. “One of you is keeping the void open, so that means--”

“One of you has to go back….” Shuyin explained, his voice tired as if all he wanted to do was sleep, but after exerting what little of his powers so extensively that was all he wanted to do. He understood it, the void opened up when he brought the aeon’s back, the aeons and Tidus. The hole could be at lest patched if one of them...

Tidus drove his sword down into the ground and walked over to Shuyin, tilting his head downward to look at him face to face since Shuyin was hunching over slightly. “What do you mean ’go back‘ ?”

“One of you has to go back to Spira or be destroyed, that’s the only way to stop Yevon for good.” There was no point in saying ‘killed‘, they were already dead.

Tidus rubbed his head nervously, his eyes trembling as he took a step back. “We have to do this now?”

Shuyin nodded. “I can’t keep Yevon from possessing any more Aeons, and it’s after you two.”

“It can’t wait?”

Shuyin shook his head again. “No. If I we wait it‘s just gonna posses one of you, I can‘t keep going like this, I don‘t have the power I used to.” He felt like an old man saying this.

“He’s right...“ Inoringo stumbled his way over to Shuyin, knowing that he couldn’t do it alone. Nearly falling, the faythe grabbed on to Shuyin’s wrist and caught himself. The boy looked at Tidus then at Jecht with glances hidden by the hood over his head. “So which one of you do we send back?”
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