Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Life of Erin Tribal ❯ Chapter 37

The Life of Erin Tribal Chapter 37

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She was sitting there, in a strange airship, while whom was apparently Kuja tried to control this `airship'. It finally started up, and they were going out.

"Erin, you are about to see your first glace of Gaia. Maybe I'll take you to Maiden Sari, you should be safe there."

There was a bright light, and they were suddenly out over an ocean. "Welcome to Gaia."

Kuja started to ship towards what was probably Maiden Sari. He seemed to mumble something under his breath, and there was a suddenly a great silver dragon in the view screen.

"Siran, go away."

The dragon seemed to have nodded, and took off from the ship.

Erin open her eyes to find herself back in Setzer airship. She looked over at Relm, a few locks of her golden blonde hair falling into her face as she slept. Erin could sense it though. Relm was having a nightmare.

`Oh no, why her also?' Erin asked herself.

She walked over to the other girl and gently shook her awake. Relm slowly opened her eyes to see Erin looking back at her.

"You okay Relm?"

"Yeah."

"Good."

Relm sat up and Erin sat down next to her.

"Want to talk about it?"

"No thanks," Relm replied.

Erin looked at her. She was starting to worry if Relm was going through the same thing she was. For the first time in says, Erin looked back down at her arms to see if the bruises she'd had the other day were still there.

`They're gone, hopefully for good. I wonder what's going to happen after today?' Erin asked herself.

"Hey you two."

Both of them looked up to see Setzer and Harry coming out of their rooms and down to them.

"Hey," both girls said.

"You two are up early," Setzer commented.

"Look at whos talking," Relm joked.

Erin stifled a laugh, knowing it would hurt if she did laugh. It still did hurt with the burn on her side. She put her hand on her side, wincing slightly from the pain.

"Cure," she whispered.

But nothing happened. Even though she was supposed to be this almighty white mage. Yet she couldn't use the simplest white spell.

"Something wrong, Erin?" Setzer asked her.

"Oh, the other night there was a fire in Thamasa. We had to go rescue Relm from it, and both of us got some burns," Erin explained to the two guys.

"All... ok, most of mine were healed with magic, and it looks like the same is true for Erin," Relm commented.

"Hey Setzer, when are we heading out?" Erin asked the man.

"As soon as everyone is up and ready to go," Setzer explained. "I'm going to go and start up the engines. Make sure you get all the stuff you have together."

"Why?" the three kids asked in unison.

"Because I have a feeling that something bad is going to happen today," Setzer mumbled.

He almost left, but stopped when Erin spoke to him.

"Hey Setzer? How old are you?" Erin asked. "No offense, but you look to be about 50 with the gray hair and all."

"I'm 27. And it's silver, not gray. It's my natural hair color," Setzer replied, and walked off. They heard him shout something to them though. "Harry, I don't need your help today, so don't bother offering to help!"

"I understand!" Harry called back.

At that moment, there was a lot of doors opening and closing, followed by several sets of footsteps. The three looked up to see that everyone else was up.

"Well, everyone's up. Now just for the point of them being ready," Harry whispered to the two, which got them both giggling.

Erin and Relm winced from the few burns they had left. Everyone else came down and claimed all of the other chairs.

"So, when are we heading out?" Sabin asked.

"I'm quoting Setzer when I say this: `As soon as everyone is up and ready to go,'" Erin joked.

"Right, well we're up, and most of us are probably ready. So who's going to go?" Terra asked.

Erin looked at Relm, who looked at Harry, who looked at Erin. "Let's see, Setzer will probably need to take care of the ship..."

"No I won't! Why do you think I taught you how to fly this thing?" Setzer asked, walking in. "Well, looks like everyone's up."

"Okay then, well... Relm, Harry, and myself for sure," Erin stated. "Mom, I mean, Celes, you too."

"Alright."

"Locke, you come as well," Erin exclaimed. "Setzer, you'd make a good addition to the party. And then, umm… That's all."

"Okay, I'll navigate the ship then while you are up there," Edgar stated, and headed up on deck.

"The engines are started up, if you didn't notice."

Setzer soon followed Edgar, who was followed by Celes and Locke. Erin, Relm, and Harry headed up as well, leaving all of the others to talk. Erin went over to the railing and opened up her journal for a quick entry.

`February 16, 1995

We are about to head for the Floating Continent. I thought I'd make a quick entry, just in case. I have this major feeling something horrible is going to happen today too.

Erin M. Tribal'

She closed her journal after her three sentence entry and stuffed it back into her bag.

"Everyone ready?" Setzer asked from the wheel.

"Sure am," the group replied in unison.

"Heading up!" Setzer exclaimed.

The airship made a jolt and started heading upwards. They saw some imperial machines heading their way.

"Incoming!" Erin shouted.

Setzer let Edgar take over the wheel and walked over to where Erin was standing, pulling out several cards as he did. He aimed them at one of them, and they made their mark easily. The machine broke down and fell to the planet below them. Another one headed their way, and there were soon several daggers protruding from its body, and it, too, fell.

Erin looked to see a smiling Locke as he pulled out several more daggers. Erin cheered and noticed an approaching machine. She let it get close enough, and then slashed through it with her sword. Setzer turned around and a face of disgust was clearly plain on his face.

"ULTROS!" Erin, Relm, and Locke shouted.

"So, you remember me! This time I've brought a friend with me! Chupon, come here!" Ultros smirked the best and octopus could.

`Chupon...?' Erin thought, her thoughts soon answered.

A big, pink, cross between an overly large between a balloon and an extremely ugly monster appeared behind Ultros.

"Yuck," Relm mumbled.

"You can say that again," Erin said.

Chupon inhaled, and then exhaled, which blew the entire team off of the ship. Except for Edgar, who had a tight grip on the wheel.

They were falling, and soon came in contact with the ground. Amazingly enough, none of them were injured, but they did spot someone dressed in black nearby.

"Shadow?" Erin asked.

"Mrmph," Shadow said, getting up, "I'm going with you."

"Fine by me," Erin said. "Let's go find Kefka!"

So, the group, now joined by Shadow, headed off in search of the evil man. When they came to what seemed like a dead end, only it wasn't. It was guarded by a large beast, that Celes said was named Atma Weapon.

They started into battle with it and had it defeated in about half an hour. They ran out to find the one person they were actually looking for. Kefka. Gestahl was with him as well.

"This is where your life ends, Gestahl!" Kefka laughed, and pushed Gestahl off the edge of the floating continent.

"Kefka!" Celes shouted.

Erin didn't really pay attention, all she knew was that Kefka was going to try and destroy the world by pushing the statues out of balance. Kefka used magic to push the group off the edge, but they managed to pull themselves back up. Kefka started to push the statues, and Erin watched in horror as the world beneath them started to change.

Shadow ran forward and tried to push the statues back in place. He shouted at the group to go, and they did.

They ran through the right half of the continent, and found several places where they couldn't pass because the floating continent was starting to fall apart. When they reached the edge, they patiently waited for Shadow, noticing the airship down below. Shadow finally caught up and they jumped off the continent. Edgar piloted the airship and caught them on the deck.

"Hold on!" Setzer shouted.

"Oh no, the ships breaking!" Relm stated, noticing a crack starting to form in the ship.

Everyone else ran on board, saying it was getting too dangerous to stay below. Edgar started to try and pilot the ship towards the ground, but it was just breaking up too much.

Erin stared around as the Blackjack stared to break apart. She felt wood starting to splinter underneath her, and knew that she would fall at any moment.

She felt a hand brush hers and looked over to see Relm next to her. As the seconds passed, she knew she'd be the first person to fall as the wood quickly splinters down the middle.

When the ship started to give out under her. As it started to fall apart, she did the only thing she could think of at the moment.

Scream.

She felt herself starting to fall. But something strange happened as she did. She felt her body transporting itself away.

`But, how! I'm never going to survive this fall!' Erin quickly thought as she was quickly swept away from the scene of destruction at hand.

Erin felt the ground sharply hit her back as she caught a glance of a gleam in the distance. She fell unconscious after that.

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