Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ The Life of Erin Tribal ❯ Chapter 52 ( Chapter 52 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: erintribal 
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The Life of Erin Tribal Chapter 52
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A/N: Lets see, I believe I know what all I'm going to do this chapter, and I'm actually NOT using
notepad this time. Also, hopefully this will turn out longer than the last chapter.
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Disclaimer: Square owns all FF characters, I own original ones.
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The following morning, Erin was once again up early. She watched the sun rise in the distance,
illuminating off the water. As with the previous day, these was a noise behind her, except this
time it wasn't Gogo.
"Hi Relm," Erin said, looking back at the girl. "Your up early."
"Yeah, I know. I've been thinking that we should maybe go back and visit Thamasa. Who knows
what's been going on in that crazy place," Relm suggested.
"Just tell the others, and I'm sure Strago will want to come along," Erin added.
"Yeah, of course," Relm sighed.
"So was anyone else up down there?" Erin wondered out loud after several minutes of silence.
"I think so, not really sure," Relm replied. "Want to go check? Not much else to do anyway."
Erin agreed and they went downstairs to find several people up. They spotted Setzer and Erin
urged Relm to go talk to him. They talked for a little bit, Setzer nodded, and then went upstairs
to start up the ship.
They took off and Erin decided to go back upstairs. They were headed for Thamasa until...
"Guys, we've got incoming!" Erin said, spotting a familiar shadow in the distance.
"Lets get rid of this guy already!" Everyone agreed and prepared to take him out. The monster
stopped right beside the ship and they began to cast at it. They could tell he was weak from past
encounters, so they worked on that weakness to take him down. When he finally fell, a stone
clattered on board as he shot towards the sea beneath them.
Erin smiled to herself as she picked up the shining stone. Another Esper,' she thought to herself.
She put it in her pouch and looked back out over the side. They had set off again and continued
towards Thamasa. After several minutes, they arrived outside of Thamasa.
"So... Who's all going to go?" Erin asked the group.
"Well I was thinking maybe Strago, Relm, Celes, Erin, and me," Edgar suggested. They all
agreed and went down into the small town. Strago went up to his house and entered the building.
"Home sweet home!" Relm cheered, looking around the building. "Just like old times." Strago
walked back to the stairs and went upstairs, but Relm ran past him. The group followed, not
knowing just what they were looking for. "Grandpa!" they heard Relm shout from upstairs.
"Gungho's hurt!"
"What? Gungho, wake up!" the group ran to go see what was going on and they found Relm and
Strago next to one of the beds. A person in the bed tossed around as he slowly woke up.
"Gungho, who... what did this to you?" Strago questioned, worried for his friend.
"Hidon..." Gungho said.
"Hidon, it can't be..."
"Yes, the beast we used to hunt back in the day. I almost had him too..." Gungho coughed. They
could tell Strago was struggling with something in his mind.
"Gramps, what's wrong with you!? Why are you hesitating!?" Relm cried.
"I chased that creature so much in my youth, but to chase him now... More than I bargained for,"
Strago explained, and then surprised everyone with what he said next. "Gungho, I'll avenge you.
Rest easy, I'll go fight Hidon."
"Grandpa!" Relm cried. "Wait just one minute! You don't think your going to go alone, do
you?"
"Relm, this is my obsession, not yours. I spent so much of my youth going after this creature,"
Strago told the girl.
Relm sighed, not giving up on him. "But Grandpa! This obsession' of yours could just as easily
KILL you!"
Strago shook his head. "I'm grateful that you care, but I'm sorry Relm. As his name says,
Hidon' is extremely hard to find and will only come out if I am alone." Relm glared at him and
he finally sighed. "Alright then, next stop, Ebot's Rock."
"Phew..." Relm sighed, glad that she'd won. "Let's go tell the others then." The group left the
house and went back to the airship. They told Setzer the plan and they took off, and soon found
the cave. The airship set down right outside the cave.
The same group from before went into Ebot's Rock and we're soon stopped by a dead end.
"Hungry!" they heard.
"Who said that?" Edgar asked.
"Hungry! Must have coral!"
"It's the treasure chest," Strago explained, pointing at the road block in front of them. "A
magical treasure chest. It will only move if we feed him coral, and lots of it."
"And where exactly do we FIND this coral, gramps?" Relm asked the old man.
"There's a teleport around here somewhere around here," Strago motioned in the general vicinity
around them. "That will take us to a room where there's another chest that has one to several
pieces of coral in it. We then have to take that coral back here and give it to this chest."
"And we find these chests how?" Relm asked.
"Usually you just bump into them." Erin frowned, wondering how they were even going to get
this done. Oh yes, I will go find the coral for this chest."
"Gramps!" Relm yelled. "At least let someone go with you."
Strago sighed, and chose to have Edgar go out looking with. The rest of the group waited outside
the hungry chest. Every five minutes or so, Strago and Edgar would reappear, give the chest
some coral, and it'd tell them it was still hungry. After at least an hour, they finally pleased the
chest.
"Man I'm stuffed..." the chest said. "Oh right, you wanted through here? Wait just one moment
and I'll move for you." The chest moved to the side and opened up the path for them.
Finally the group continued onwards but were soon stopped once again as they entered a lit
chamber.
"Hidon..." Strago whispered, and a beast appeared in the shadows ahead of them. "That's him."
The beast launched itself towards Strago and Celes blocked the attack, jumping in front of
Strago.
"Someone, use Float!" Strago ordered and Erin instantly set to work casting the spell on
everyone. Use Quake, this should hurt him a lot."
"How come you know all this, Strago?" Celes asked, blocking another attack.
"Years of research, but I've never been able to test it out myself," Strago explained.
"Well, time to find out," Erin said, beginning out cast Quake. She didn't notice him coming after
her however. She heard a blade come out in front of her as Edgar blocked the girl.
"Keep casting Erin, I'm sure he's not going to like this," Edgar explained, coming back with a
counter against Hidon and hitting him with his chainsaw. She finished casting the spell and she
saw the earth shake beneath them. Hidon got hurt greatly from the spell.
"So it does work," Strago smiled to himself. Erin pulled out her sword and attacked the monster
after her spell. Because of Quake, it didn't take much to bring him down after that.
He fell to the ground and Strago seemed very surprised. "Hidon... he... he's dead. I... I did it. I
have to go tell Gungho that he's been avenged!"
They left the cave and went back to the airship, immediately heading back to the tiny island
Thamasa was on. Setzer landed the airship outside the tiny town yet again and Strago ran in as
fast as he could to go tell Gungho.
"Gungho! I did it! I avenged you!"
"What?" Gungho asked, seeming confused.
"Hidon! I defeated Hidon!"
"You what!? Your lying... I just know it!" Gungho shook his head.
"No, Gungho, he really did," Relm explained.
"Ho, ho, if I didn't know better, I would say that Hidon wasn't my only enemy."
"There's no way this can be true... It must be a joke!" Gungho said, denying what he was
hearing.
"Ha! Oh yes, and how are your wounds healing dear friend?" Strago asked.
"Wounds?" Gungho asked, seeming confused but soon realized what he was talking about. "Oh
yes, they are just fine. So, Strago, how did you do it?"
Strago began droning on, making everyone there want to go to sleep. "There was Hidon! I pulled
out my staff and thwack! Pow! And....." finally they heard some snoring.
"Eh, what happened to Grandpa?" Relm asked, looking over at the old man.
"Finally he fell asleep. Let him be, Relm, he's quiet," Gungho said. "Anyway, about my
wounds'..."
"Wait," Relm said, stopping him. "First, let me thank you. You gave grandpa an actual reason to
kill something he'd been tormented by for forever. Even if it meant faking an injury."
"I must say he has raised quite a grandchild!" Gungho said.
"I also have to say, you are a terrible actor. Grandpa's the only one who could have been fooled
by that performance," Relm accused.
"What the...?" Gungho said, realizing what the girl was telling him.
"Anyways guys, lets get going," Erin said, breaking the silence that had begun to grow. "There's
just ONE more thing I'd like to check out today. Wake up the old man and let's go." She walked
out of the room, immediately heading back to the airship. When everyone was there, she told
Setzer her plans and he agreed. While on the way they made the plan to go in.
"So anyone know anything about this tower?" Erin asked, looking around at the group.
"Ah yes, the Tower of Fanatics. While in the tower you are limited to using magic only, no
weapons allowed. Also, the monsters there are very powerful, especially closer to the top,"
Strago explained. "This means we need some way of keeping the monsters away to make it to
the top." Everyone looked over at Mog when that was said.
"Kupo! Me?" Mog asked, jumping. "Moogle Charm, kupo? Ward away monsters, kupo?"
"Yeah Mog, we need you to keep away the monsters with your charm," Erin told the moogle.
"Anyway, an only magic tower. This means we'll need to bring along our best magic users."
Everyone immediately looked at Erin, as if they were all programmed to do that when certain
things were mentioned. "Wha? Me? Oh yeah... Of course... But who else?"
"Well, magic users. That would mean Celes, Terra, Relm, and Erin," Locke pointed out. "And
with Mog, that makes a perfect party." They touched down outside the secluded tower and the
party went off to climb the tower. Thanks to Mog's charm, they ran into no monsters but on the
third floor they did hear something.
"Guys, did you just hear a... roar? Sort of like a dragon?" Erin asked, stopping them, pointing at
the door next to them. "Let's check it out." She pushed open the door with a creak and they were
immediately staring at a pure-white dragon that took up about half the room. Erin immediately
cast Scan on the monster.
"Well?" Terra asked the girl.
"White Dragon, as if that wasn't obvious," Erin sighed. "Anything is good against him except
Pearl. Also should cast Reflect on ourselves so we don't get hurt." Erin worked on getting
Reflect cast on everyone as they engaged the dragon. The mage group worked on pounding away
at the dragon with any magic at their disposal, recasting reflect if it ever fell.
The dragon put up a good fight, but Reflect kept it from hurting them much. It finally fell and
they decided to continue climbing the tower. Floor after floor they climbed, until at last they
reached the top where a solitary door was.
The group entered the room, and inside was a treasure chest. Celes opened it, but as they started
to leave a voice stopped them.
"Master Kefka's treasure..." the voice said.
"Huh, who said that? Who's there?" Erin asked, looking behind her.
"Give back... Master Kefka's treasure... now... Or be... killed!" the voice said and a figure
appeared in the doorway. The small moogle with them jumped at the sight of the large figure.
Erin immediately threw a scan at the monster, and she told the party his weaknesses. Celes used
the first spell, and Terra tried to use the same spell however it was resisted.
"You cannot... hurt me... now!" the monster said.
"Guys, he can change his weakness!" Erin realized.
"There's one way to counter that though," Celes said, casting Berserk on him. "Erin, cast Life 3
on us. I don't trust him." Erin nodded and started casting it on everyone. Apparently the Berserk
spell stuck as they were able to use any spell on without it being resisted. As soon as it seemed
he was going to fall however, something else happened.
"You may have killed me, but I will not die alone," the monster said. "Time to die, Ultima!"
Erin gulped as she threw one final Life 3 up, her own. It hit just in time and everyone got hurt
greatly, and had stayed alive only thanks to Life 3. The monster fell to the ground, and they
healed up.
"Let's get out of here guys... ku.. kupo.." Mog gulped. Even faster than they had climbed up,
they went back down and out to the airship. Only a few people had waited up for them, as it was
getting extremely late.
"So, what did you guys find out?" Locke asked.
"That Kefka's followers... are evil," Relm sighed. "Though I think that we already knew."
Erin sighed and decided to head for bed for the night. It had been a long day, and she was sure
that the next day was going to be even longer.
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A/N: Woooo, I'm on a roll! Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and I'm guessing the next one
may not be as long. I've been making plans for it since I started this chapter.
Anyway, please review it means a LOT to me!
--
A/N: Lets see, I believe I know what all I'm going to do this chapter, and I'm actually NOT using
notepad this time. Also, hopefully this will turn out longer than the last chapter.
--
Disclaimer: Square owns all FF characters, I own original ones.
--
The following morning, Erin was once again up early. She watched the sun rise in the distance,
illuminating off the water. As with the previous day, these was a noise behind her, except this
time it wasn't Gogo.
"Hi Relm," Erin said, looking back at the girl. "Your up early."
"Yeah, I know. I've been thinking that we should maybe go back and visit Thamasa. Who knows
what's been going on in that crazy place," Relm suggested.
"Just tell the others, and I'm sure Strago will want to come along," Erin added.
"Yeah, of course," Relm sighed.
"So was anyone else up down there?" Erin wondered out loud after several minutes of silence.
"I think so, not really sure," Relm replied. "Want to go check? Not much else to do anyway."
Erin agreed and they went downstairs to find several people up. They spotted Setzer and Erin
urged Relm to go talk to him. They talked for a little bit, Setzer nodded, and then went upstairs
to start up the ship.
They took off and Erin decided to go back upstairs. They were headed for Thamasa until...
"Guys, we've got incoming!" Erin said, spotting a familiar shadow in the distance.
"Lets get rid of this guy already!" Everyone agreed and prepared to take him out. The monster
stopped right beside the ship and they began to cast at it. They could tell he was weak from past
encounters, so they worked on that weakness to take him down. When he finally fell, a stone
clattered on board as he shot towards the sea beneath them.
Erin smiled to herself as she picked up the shining stone. Another Esper,' she thought to herself.
She put it in her pouch and looked back out over the side. They had set off again and continued
towards Thamasa. After several minutes, they arrived outside of Thamasa.
"So... Who's all going to go?" Erin asked the group.
"Well I was thinking maybe Strago, Relm, Celes, Erin, and me," Edgar suggested. They all
agreed and went down into the small town. Strago went up to his house and entered the building.
"Home sweet home!" Relm cheered, looking around the building. "Just like old times." Strago
walked back to the stairs and went upstairs, but Relm ran past him. The group followed, not
knowing just what they were looking for. "Grandpa!" they heard Relm shout from upstairs.
"Gungho's hurt!"
"What? Gungho, wake up!" the group ran to go see what was going on and they found Relm and
Strago next to one of the beds. A person in the bed tossed around as he slowly woke up.
"Gungho, who... what did this to you?" Strago questioned, worried for his friend.
"Hidon..." Gungho said.
"Hidon, it can't be..."
"Yes, the beast we used to hunt back in the day. I almost had him too..." Gungho coughed. They
could tell Strago was struggling with something in his mind.
"Gramps, what's wrong with you!? Why are you hesitating!?" Relm cried.
"I chased that creature so much in my youth, but to chase him now... More than I bargained for,"
Strago explained, and then surprised everyone with what he said next. "Gungho, I'll avenge you.
Rest easy, I'll go fight Hidon."
"Grandpa!" Relm cried. "Wait just one minute! You don't think your going to go alone, do
you?"
"Relm, this is my obsession, not yours. I spent so much of my youth going after this creature,"
Strago told the girl.
Relm sighed, not giving up on him. "But Grandpa! This obsession' of yours could just as easily
KILL you!"
Strago shook his head. "I'm grateful that you care, but I'm sorry Relm. As his name says,
Hidon' is extremely hard to find and will only come out if I am alone." Relm glared at him and
he finally sighed. "Alright then, next stop, Ebot's Rock."
"Phew..." Relm sighed, glad that she'd won. "Let's go tell the others then." The group left the
house and went back to the airship. They told Setzer the plan and they took off, and soon found
the cave. The airship set down right outside the cave.
The same group from before went into Ebot's Rock and we're soon stopped by a dead end.
"Hungry!" they heard.
"Who said that?" Edgar asked.
"Hungry! Must have coral!"
"It's the treasure chest," Strago explained, pointing at the road block in front of them. "A
magical treasure chest. It will only move if we feed him coral, and lots of it."
"And where exactly do we FIND this coral, gramps?" Relm asked the old man.
"There's a teleport around here somewhere around here," Strago motioned in the general vicinity
around them. "That will take us to a room where there's another chest that has one to several
pieces of coral in it. We then have to take that coral back here and give it to this chest."
"And we find these chests how?" Relm asked.
"Usually you just bump into them." Erin frowned, wondering how they were even going to get
this done. Oh yes, I will go find the coral for this chest."
"Gramps!" Relm yelled. "At least let someone go with you."
Strago sighed, and chose to have Edgar go out looking with. The rest of the group waited outside
the hungry chest. Every five minutes or so, Strago and Edgar would reappear, give the chest
some coral, and it'd tell them it was still hungry. After at least an hour, they finally pleased the
chest.
"Man I'm stuffed..." the chest said. "Oh right, you wanted through here? Wait just one moment
and I'll move for you." The chest moved to the side and opened up the path for them.
Finally the group continued onwards but were soon stopped once again as they entered a lit
chamber.
"Hidon..." Strago whispered, and a beast appeared in the shadows ahead of them. "That's him."
The beast launched itself towards Strago and Celes blocked the attack, jumping in front of
Strago.
"Someone, use Float!" Strago ordered and Erin instantly set to work casting the spell on
everyone. Use Quake, this should hurt him a lot."
"How come you know all this, Strago?" Celes asked, blocking another attack.
"Years of research, but I've never been able to test it out myself," Strago explained.
"Well, time to find out," Erin said, beginning out cast Quake. She didn't notice him coming after
her however. She heard a blade come out in front of her as Edgar blocked the girl.
"Keep casting Erin, I'm sure he's not going to like this," Edgar explained, coming back with a
counter against Hidon and hitting him with his chainsaw. She finished casting the spell and she
saw the earth shake beneath them. Hidon got hurt greatly from the spell.
"So it does work," Strago smiled to himself. Erin pulled out her sword and attacked the monster
after her spell. Because of Quake, it didn't take much to bring him down after that.
He fell to the ground and Strago seemed very surprised. "Hidon... he... he's dead. I... I did it. I
have to go tell Gungho that he's been avenged!"
They left the cave and went back to the airship, immediately heading back to the tiny island
Thamasa was on. Setzer landed the airship outside the tiny town yet again and Strago ran in as
fast as he could to go tell Gungho.
"Gungho! I did it! I avenged you!"
"What?" Gungho asked, seeming confused.
"Hidon! I defeated Hidon!"
"You what!? Your lying... I just know it!" Gungho shook his head.
"No, Gungho, he really did," Relm explained.
"Ho, ho, if I didn't know better, I would say that Hidon wasn't my only enemy."
"There's no way this can be true... It must be a joke!" Gungho said, denying what he was
hearing.
"Ha! Oh yes, and how are your wounds healing dear friend?" Strago asked.
"Wounds?" Gungho asked, seeming confused but soon realized what he was talking about. "Oh
yes, they are just fine. So, Strago, how did you do it?"
Strago began droning on, making everyone there want to go to sleep. "There was Hidon! I pulled
out my staff and thwack! Pow! And....." finally they heard some snoring.
"Eh, what happened to Grandpa?" Relm asked, looking over at the old man.
"Finally he fell asleep. Let him be, Relm, he's quiet," Gungho said. "Anyway, about my
wounds'..."
"Wait," Relm said, stopping him. "First, let me thank you. You gave grandpa an actual reason to
kill something he'd been tormented by for forever. Even if it meant faking an injury."
"I must say he has raised quite a grandchild!" Gungho said.
"I also have to say, you are a terrible actor. Grandpa's the only one who could have been fooled
by that performance," Relm accused.
"What the...?" Gungho said, realizing what the girl was telling him.
"Anyways guys, lets get going," Erin said, breaking the silence that had begun to grow. "There's
just ONE more thing I'd like to check out today. Wake up the old man and let's go." She walked
out of the room, immediately heading back to the airship. When everyone was there, she told
Setzer her plans and he agreed. While on the way they made the plan to go in.
"So anyone know anything about this tower?" Erin asked, looking around at the group.
"Ah yes, the Tower of Fanatics. While in the tower you are limited to using magic only, no
weapons allowed. Also, the monsters there are very powerful, especially closer to the top,"
Strago explained. "This means we need some way of keeping the monsters away to make it to
the top." Everyone looked over at Mog when that was said.
"Kupo! Me?" Mog asked, jumping. "Moogle Charm, kupo? Ward away monsters, kupo?"
"Yeah Mog, we need you to keep away the monsters with your charm," Erin told the moogle.
"Anyway, an only magic tower. This means we'll need to bring along our best magic users."
Everyone immediately looked at Erin, as if they were all programmed to do that when certain
things were mentioned. "Wha? Me? Oh yeah... Of course... But who else?"
"Well, magic users. That would mean Celes, Terra, Relm, and Erin," Locke pointed out. "And
with Mog, that makes a perfect party." They touched down outside the secluded tower and the
party went off to climb the tower. Thanks to Mog's charm, they ran into no monsters but on the
third floor they did hear something.
"Guys, did you just hear a... roar? Sort of like a dragon?" Erin asked, stopping them, pointing at
the door next to them. "Let's check it out." She pushed open the door with a creak and they were
immediately staring at a pure-white dragon that took up about half the room. Erin immediately
cast Scan on the monster.
"Well?" Terra asked the girl.
"White Dragon, as if that wasn't obvious," Erin sighed. "Anything is good against him except
Pearl. Also should cast Reflect on ourselves so we don't get hurt." Erin worked on getting
Reflect cast on everyone as they engaged the dragon. The mage group worked on pounding away
at the dragon with any magic at their disposal, recasting reflect if it ever fell.
The dragon put up a good fight, but Reflect kept it from hurting them much. It finally fell and
they decided to continue climbing the tower. Floor after floor they climbed, until at last they
reached the top where a solitary door was.
The group entered the room, and inside was a treasure chest. Celes opened it, but as they started
to leave a voice stopped them.
"Master Kefka's treasure..." the voice said.
"Huh, who said that? Who's there?" Erin asked, looking behind her.
"Give back... Master Kefka's treasure... now... Or be... killed!" the voice said and a figure
appeared in the doorway. The small moogle with them jumped at the sight of the large figure.
Erin immediately threw a scan at the monster, and she told the party his weaknesses. Celes used
the first spell, and Terra tried to use the same spell however it was resisted.
"You cannot... hurt me... now!" the monster said.
"Guys, he can change his weakness!" Erin realized.
"There's one way to counter that though," Celes said, casting Berserk on him. "Erin, cast Life 3
on us. I don't trust him." Erin nodded and started casting it on everyone. Apparently the Berserk
spell stuck as they were able to use any spell on without it being resisted. As soon as it seemed
he was going to fall however, something else happened.
"You may have killed me, but I will not die alone," the monster said. "Time to die, Ultima!"
Erin gulped as she threw one final Life 3 up, her own. It hit just in time and everyone got hurt
greatly, and had stayed alive only thanks to Life 3. The monster fell to the ground, and they
healed up.
"Let's get out of here guys... ku.. kupo.." Mog gulped. Even faster than they had climbed up,
they went back down and out to the airship. Only a few people had waited up for them, as it was
getting extremely late.
"So, what did you guys find out?" Locke asked.
"That Kefka's followers... are evil," Relm sighed. "Though I think that we already knew."
Erin sighed and decided to head for bed for the night. It had been a long day, and she was sure
that the next day was going to be even longer.
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A/N: Woooo, I'm on a roll! Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter, and I'm guessing the next one
may not be as long. I've been making plans for it since I started this chapter.
Anyway, please review it means a LOT to me!