Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Life of Erin Tribal ❯ Chapter 32

The Life of Erin Tribal Chapter 32

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Erin watched as a bridge showed up in front of her, and then started jumping from piece to piece. She made it to the other side in less than thirty seconds.

"Come on, it's not that hard!" she yelled over to the other side.

The rest of the group followed Erin's lead. They made it through the room in less than ten minutes.

They looked at the next challenge in front of them.

"This one won't be so hard," Terra commented.

They somehow made it through that room after figuring out the key to getting from island to island. Erin, Edgar, Locke, Mog, and Terra did the same for the next room, and soon found themselves at the sealed gate. They walked through the hole in the wall, and that's where they saw Kefka standing at the gate.

He turned around to find himself face-to-face with the group. He smiled a sinister smile when he saw Terra and Erin.

"Come to watch the show? Watch as I unseal the sealed gate!" he laughed, and turned back around as the gate started to open.

A heavy wind started up, and Erin and Harry had to cling to the bridge they were on. They noticed that the adults were doing this also. Espers were starting to fly out of the gate and flew right over the group. After ten minutes of clinging to the bridge, Kefka was blown away and the gate's entrance was covered by boulders, which finally blocked out the wind.

The group stood up and looked at each other.

"This doesn't look good," Terra mumbled just loud enough for all of them to hear.

"Let's get back to the airship. I think I saw a shortcut back to the entrance just outside this room," Erin commented, exiting the room, closely followed by the rest of the group.

They walked through the secret hole and found themselves back at the entrance. They ran out of the cave, through the imperial base, and back the airship, amazingly enough not running into a single monster.

"Setzer, get out of here NOW!" Harry yelled as he ran up the boarding ramp, folding it up quickly as he went.

"Roger that!" Setzer responded and took off.

Erin ran to the spot that she had claimed as her own and looked out in front of the ship.

"OH NO! Espers are heading right for us!" Erin yelled back at Setzer.

Setzer didn't have a chance to change the course of the airship as the Espers rammed into it.

"Great, they've hit the engines! We're going to have to make a crash landing!" Setzer yelled from the wheel. "Everyone, hold onto something!"

Everyone did by grabbing onto the railing as the airship crashed into the ground. She felt herself thrust into the railing as they came to a sudden stop.

"Let's head back to Vector," Edgar stated.

Erin watched as the sun was setting. "First, let's get some rest."

"Fine, fine," Edgar said, heading down below deck to try and get some sleep.

Everyone else followed him, including Setzer. Erin claimed the couch once again. She really hoped that she wouldn't have a dream again. She was sadly mistaken though.

Erin was sitting in the same tube she had been in the night before. Kuja was saying something to her, and then he opened the door to the tube.

"Looks like Garland soundproofed those walls. No worries, as I can still take you out and take to you," Kuja exclaimed, picking up the two year old.

Kuja took her outside to the harmful blue light. She started to whimper softly in his arms.

"There, there, don't cry," he's softly said to her. "I'm going to take you to a place where you can learn some of those white magic spells you are supposed to know. Then, tonight, I'm taking you to Gaia!"

"Gaia..." the young girl whispered, burying her head in his shoulder.

Kuja took her into a library of sorts, and then, holding Erin with one arm while she held on tight to him, looked for a white magic book. When he finally spotted it, he took it down off of the shelves, and walked over to a table and set Erin down on it. He opened the book to the first page and pointed to a simple spell.

"Cast Cure on me," he ordered.

Erin looked down at the book, wondering how she could read the symbols, yet she managed to hold out her hands as the book said to do and cast the simple `Cure' spell on Kuja. She clapped in excitement that she managed to cast it.

A door opened, and both looked at it.

"What are you doing to Angelrin!" the voiced roared.

"My name is Erin!" protested the young girl.

"I'm teaching ERIN how to cast white magic, like she's supposed too!" Kuja shouted at Garland.

Garland walked over to Kuja and grabbed Erin sharply. The girl started to cry loudly. "You are going to pay for this boy."

Those were the last words Erin could make out before she was knocked unconscious in the dream.

Erin woke with a start as someone, a boy, was shaking her awake.

"Erin! Erin! Wake up!" he whispered to her.

"I'm up, Harry. How'd you know to wake me?" she asked, sitting up on the couch.

"I heard you crying from my room. What happened to you?" he asked, pointing at a bruise on her left arm.

Erin looked down at it and saw a bruise running down the length of her arm. She looked at her other arm, which also had a bruise down it.

"Wh... what happened to me?" she asked herself, but Harry still heard her.

"I don't know. I ran down here to find you crying and flailing," he explained, sitting down next to her. "Erin, your neck!"

Erin put a hand to her neck and pulled it away to find blood there. `Could Garland actually have hurt me in the dream enough to do this to me? How could he hurt me when he's not actually here?'

"How did this happen?" she asked herself again.

"Erin, here, let's clean you up," Harry suggested.

The two went back up to his room and into the adjoining bathroom. He started to wipe up the blood by her neck.

Erin stared at her reflection in the mirror. That's when she realized that she still had her hair up from the opera. She didn't bother to take it down though. Harry finished wiping it up and looked at her reflection as well.

"I don't know what happened to you Erin, but it's bad," he whispered.

"Let's hope no one else heard me," Erin whispered.

"I highly doubt it. You'll have a hard time covering this up," Harry stated. "Are you cold?"

Erin shook her head. She followed Harry into his room.

"You sure?" he asked her.

"I'm sure," she replied.

"Okay then. Let's get back up on deck and get the ramp ready. We can leave Setzer to repair the ship, okay?" Harry suggested.

"Sounds good, let's go," she replied.

The two walked out of Harry's room and headed up onto the deck. Harry went around and prepared the boarding ramp for the group. Erin tapped her foot patiently, and finally noticed others coming up.

"Looks like we have a crowd now," she whispered to him.

He laughed slightly, finally getting the boarding ramp ready.

"So, who's going?" Terra asked.

Erin looked over at Harry and smiled. He nodded back and then looked back at them.

"Well, Erin and myself for sure. Terra and Locke, why don't you two come? What about that boy that's been hanging out on the ship, what's his name?" Harry asked Erin.

Erin looked back at him. "Gau."

"Right, Gau. Why don't we take him?" Harry asked the group.

"I'll go get him," Edgar moaned.

Edgar ran off, and was back a few minutes later with Gau.

"Uuwaoooo! Friends decided to take Gau!" Gau exclaimed happily.

Erin sighed, knowing that they'd have to baby-sit him. `Well, I guess it's only fair since we really haven't let him go anywhere with us.'

"Edgar, why don't you come?" Erin suggested.

He glared at Erin and sighed. "Fine."

"Thank you!" Erin exclaimed.

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