Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Life of Erin Tribal ❯ Chapter 40

The Life of Erin Tribal Chapter 40

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A/N: Whee! My friends cat had kittens! Four of them, but two stillborns. The two surviving ones are called Pip (Male, Pipsqueak is full name), and Jan (Female, Janet is full name). Anyway, I wrote a lot of this chapter up on a old-old laptop (a 1984 one! IT'S OLDER THAN ME!). Hope ya like it!

Reviewers: Thanks bunches!

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Disclaimer: Square owns all things FF, and I own original stuff.

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Erin finally fell asleep after hearing Celes tell Sabin everything. She was glad that she didn't have a nightmare that night. She didn't even dream that night.

The following morning, Erin was the first to wake up. She was almost surprised to find herself back with Celes and Sabin, and to be wearing her regular shirt and a knee-length skirt.

Erin got up and walked over to the window and stared out at the land.

"So much has changed in the past year..." Erin whispered so that she didn't wake Sabin and Celes. She thought she saw movement over in the trees, and then she saw it. Someone was running back and forth.

Erin left the room, told the person at the desk that she'd be right back, and ran to find the thing she'd seen. Just as she expected, someone was running back and forth, but stopped when he saw her.

"Excuse me ma'am, would you be interested in a one-of-the-kind esper?"

"Which one is it?"

"I don't know, but I've brought the price down exceptionally low!"

"How low?"

"Only 10 GP!"

"I'll take it!" Erin replied, and fished in her bag for 10 GP.

She found the coins she was looking for, and handed them to the man. In exchange, he handed her the magicite and ran off. Erin made a quick run back to the inn and found Celes and Sabin just waking up.

"Hey you two! Guess what I got?"

"What?" Sabin asked sleepily.

"I got us a new esper!"

"Which one?" Celes asked just as sleepily as Sabin.

"I think it's telling me that it is Sraphim."

"How much did it cost?" Sabin asked, finally not sounding as sleepy.

"Only 10 GP! I've had some left over from last year, so I used that."

"So, where are we heading next?" Sabin asked.

"We definitely need to find Setzer, but I have a feeling that we will meet him someday soon. Let's head for Mobliz and see what we can find there," Erin replied.

They headed out of the inn and Tzen, and started in the direction they hoped Mobliz would be in. They were still running from battles. After several hours, they finally spotted a town in the distance that looked like it had been hit hard during the last year.

"I wonder if that's Mobliz?" Erin asked.

"Probably," Sabin replied.

The group started out in a run and amazingly made it to the town in less than half an hour. As soon as they entered, a couple of dogs started barking, which attracted a couple of children's attention.

"Go away!"

"Wait, don't they look like the friends Momma told us about?"

"I don't know!"

The two kids ran off towards a house. "Let's follow them," Erin commented.

They did so, and soon found themselves in the basement of one of the houses.

"Momma! Momma! There's some strange people here!" cried one of the children.

"What is it, Simon?" came a very familiar voice.

`Terra?' Erin thought, as a door opened.

Out walked the 5'3", blonde haired, half-esper girl.

"Terra!" Erin exclaimed.

"Erin! Celes! Sabin! You guys are all alive!" Terra said happily, after Erin tackled her in a hug.

"So, Terra, what have you been doing?" Celes asked, walking over and prying Erin off of Terra.

"Well, ever since that day, I've been taking care of the children here. Mobliz was destroyed, and all these children had no parents. So, they've officially made ME their Momma," Terra explained, laughing slightly. "Erin, you sure have grown in the past year! Your hair... it's so beautiful long!"

Erin blushed, pulling her fingers through her waist-length hair. Suddenly, the ground started shaking.

"Oh no! Phunbaba's back!" Terra exclaimed, and ran up the stairs.

"Phunbaba?" Sabin asked.

"Let's go find out!" Erin said, and ran up the stairs after Terra.

Celes and Sabin followed the ever-energetic seven-year-old and found her stopped at the doorway. Erin was staring as this large green thing was approaching Terra.

Terra tried to fight it, but Phunbaba quickly wiped her out.

"Terra!" Erin screamed, running towards her fainted friend.

She saw Sabin powering up one of his blitzes, and Celes was preparing to attack.

"Erin! Heal us if we get hit!" Celes shouted as she ran to attack the green beast.

"Will do!" Erin replied, standing up, but never leaving Terra's side.

Celes and Sabin started pounding away at the beast, Erin quickly casting a Cure 2 spell whenever one of them got hurt. Phunbaba eventually roared and stomped off. Erin heard a moan from behind her as Terra got up.

"Oh, thank you. I know, I want to leave with you, but I can't leave these children here," Terra stated.

"We'll come back soon, okay Terra?" Erin asked.

"Sounds fine with me," Terra replied, heading back into the house.

"Hey, what's this?" Sabin asked, pointing at something on the ground.

"Looks like a magicite," Celes replied, picking it up. "Fenrir."

"Right then, let's head off!" Erin exclaimed, and started out of Mobliz.

They headed out and started up a strip of land that Sabin recognized as the Serpent Trench. Only, now, it was above water. They continued running from any monsters that they encountered, and soon came upon a town.

"Nikeah," Sabin said.

"Whatever you say," Erin stated, continuing on into the town.

As they entered the market place, Erin could have sworn she saw someone who looked like Edgar.

"Excuse me, but do we know you?" Erin asked the man.

"I have never seen you before, my lady."

The man walked off, leaving Erin in thought as Sabin and Celes caught up with her.

"Scaring off people now, are you Erin?" Sabin joked.

`My lady? ONLY Edgar says that!'

"Come on, follow him, but don't get noticed," Erin hissed at the two adults as they saw the Edgar look-a-like lead a bunch of thieves onto a ship. "Let's sneak onto that ship!"

Once again, Erin was in the lead, and found the Edgar look-a-like stopped.

"Excuse me, but do we know you?" Celes asked this time.

"I'm sorry, my lady, but I have never seen you before."

"Wait! We only know one person who says `my lady', Edgar!"

"I'm sorry, but my name is Gerad, not this Edgar you speak of."

Gerad walked off onto the ship, and the three snuck after him, eventually getting onto the boat. They heard the ship start to set sail and glide slowly over the sea to their destination.

Several hours later, they arrived in the port of South Figaro. After Gerad and the thieves left, Erin, Celes, and Sabin headed out as well. They saw Gerad head into the inn, and they followed him, eventually running into him alone again.

"Edgar, quit hiding, we know it's you!" Sabin said.

"I said before, I do now know this Edgar you speak of! Now, if you excuse me."

He left them once again, and once again, they followed him out. They saw him, and the thieves left once again, the trio followed Gerad out of the town. Thankfully enough, the thieves cleared out the monsters in their path, so they didn't have to fight anyone.

The thieves entered a cave, closely followed by Erin, Celes, and Sabin.

"This looks like the Figaro Cave," Erin whispered.

"Sure does," Sabin agreed in a whisper.

The trio followed Gerad and the thieves through the caves, and hid when the thieves stopped. One of them pulled out something and fed it to the turtle that was there. The turtle started swimming back and forth, and the thieves jumped onto it, and then into a cave hole. They soon disappeared and the trio came out of hiding.

"Let's follow," Celes suggested.

The other two agreed and they jumped across using the turtle as well. They were able to follow them now by the strewn empty treasure chests. They soon came into a cell and...

"Figaro Castle. Come on, let's find them!" Erin whispered.

The trio continued on with the following the thieves and soon found themselves in the basement of Figaro Castle. They continued forward, quickly slaying any monsters that got in their way. Soon, they were in the engine room that had a bunch of tentacles in it.

"Sir, what should we do?" a thief asked.

"Get the treasure! I'll hold these things off!" Gerad replied.

The thieves left and Gerad pulled out a spear. The trio ran up to help him, Erin staying back a bit so that she could heal.

A tentacle flung towards Erin, and she quickly pulled out her sword to try and hold it back. But, she wasn't quick enough and felt herself in the grips of the tentacle.

"GET OFF OF ME!" she shouted, struggling against the tentacle while trying to get a better grip on her sword.

She saw a sword swipe, and the tentacle that was holding her fell to the ground, and she hit it also. Erin scrambled to get up and ran back behind the rest of the group. She cast a `Cura' spell on herself, even though no one else knew what Cura was in this planet.

For the rest of the battle, along with healing, Erin helped defeat the tentacles using Cure 2 to heal, which she had recently learned off of a magicite.

Gerad, who had revealed himself to be their lost friend Edgar, made the final move with a swipe of his lance. The final fell to the ground and they ran to hide as the thieves came out.

"Captain?" one of them asked.

They shrugged their shoulders and left, allowing the four to come out of hiding and talk.

"I knew it was you!" Erin grinned.

"Sorry about that."

"You didn't do too good of a job changing your name, hiding, or how you talk!" Celes complained.

"Once a king, always a king," Sabin joked.

"So, let's go get that treasure," Edgar said.

"But..." Erin started, only to be cut off by Edgar.

"No `buts', my lady! They cleaned out the treasure chests, I'm sure, but there's one thing they won't have cleaned out."

They followed Edgar into the room and he walked up to a statue and grabbed a weapon from inside of it.

"I present this to you as my gift, Erin," Edgar said, handing Erin the weapon. "This is called a Soul Sabre."

Erin looked at the weapon, smiled, and then replaced the sword she had had attached with the Soul Sabre. It was about the same size as her previous one, if not a little smaller. They left the room and Edgar led them to the controls where a man was now standing.

"My king! Do you wish to go to Kohlingen?" the man asked, bowing to Edgar.

"Yes please, start up the engines right away!" Edgar ordered.

"I'll give you two minutes to get to the throne room. It will be unsafe to stay here," the man said precautiously.

"Of course. Shall we then?" Edgar said.

The four started running for the throne room. When they got there, Edgar headed into one of the rooms for a couple of minutes before coming out with something in hand.

"Look at what they had in!" he gleamed.

"That's nice. So, why Kohlingen?" Erin asked curiously.

"Because a friend might be there."

"Right," Erin replied.

`Locke, please say you are there. But for some reason I'm sensing that Harry is there. Oh well, maybe we can ask that man taking care of Rachel about Locke,' Erin thought.

She felt the engines start up and the castle started moving. They waited until it stopped moving and left the throne room. They headed out of the castle and started for Kohlingen. After getting there, they stopped for something to eat. They went over to place their order.

When Erin went to go find a table to site at, she saw something and smiled.

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A/N: Whee! Long chapter! Oh yeah, I started a FF9 story, so go check it out! So, please review!