Dissidia Final Fantasy : Chaos Wins

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny had appeared back at the mansion with Vicente, Rinoa and Hope. Lightning was kneeling near Serah who was laying on the ground. Gilgamesh and Vanille had also just left the mansion.

"Did we find the Ultima orbs?" Johnny asked Gil. Gil looked confused for a second and Johnny continued, "Answers that question."

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

"We did." Lightning's arm dropped to the side, six pieces of Ultima rolling across the ground. She kept Orphan's orb inside of her. She didn't have to give up everything. Claire kept her eyes on her sister.

 

"We should split these up. That way if one of us gets caught again, we won't lose everything."

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny thought of the best way for them to split up the orbs.

"Let's see...spliting us up into groups of two and giving each group an orb would keep Ultima away from Cid," Johnny suggested. "The problem is knowing when we have all the orbs, or if one of us is having trouble."

[rikunobodyxiii 700]

{Cloud}

"You'd be surprised how many times I've beaten Sephiroth." Cloud grunts.

He shoves Genesis away. He then charges, striking at Genesis with a series of blade strikes.

 

..........................................

{Dr Cid}

Dr Cid boils with anger. That idiot girl had stolen the pieces of Ultima. That was not acceptable. He was about to speak when Venat opens a portal. Dr Cid nods. He steps through the portal to regain his pieces of Ultima.

[OblivionRider 50]

A dark portal swirled next to them.

 

"GO, HECATON!" Vanille shouted.

 

Hecatoncheir shot a volley of bullets into the portal. Dr. Cid's hand stuck out of it, but retreated from the fire. The portal vanished.

 

"Close call," Hope (a.k.a Noel) muttered.

 

Serah, who had woken up and told Lightning not to worry stood up and agreed.

 

"You're right Noel, that could have ended badly."

 

Vanille gave Serah a strange look.

 

"Have you not met," the Oerban said questioningly, "His name is Hope."

 

The mood tensed all around as all eyes went to the lying boy.

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny stepped in to Hope's defense, "Girl, I don't know who you think he is, but maybe our Noel reminds you of this Hope person."

Gilgamesh stepped up to Vanille's defense, "I don't know about you, Johnny, but I think she's got a better memory than you."

Johnny pushed the giant back, "Like you've met whatever Hope she's refering to?"

Gil tried to remember, but he didn't think he'd met Vanille before, much less the boy they were arguing about. But what troubled Gil most was still forgetting his rival's name.

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

Lightning rushed over to the boy, grabbing his head with both hands. She leaned down to eye level, tilting his face closer to hers. Her adamant eyes stared into his, examining his face as well. She pulled back, seemingly disgusted. "How could I not see it before? Damn it, how?!" She shouted, turning away from him. She sighed heavily, putting a hand on her waist as the other went to her head.

 

"Why?" She asked calmly, but her emotions bubbled under the surface. Her brand was burning. "Why would you lie to us?"

[roxaskeybladeart55 72]

Genesis nodded.

"True." he said, eh slashed back at cloud, getting a couple hits in. Cloud had trouble keeping up with his style.

"C'mon Strife." he said, Cloud slashed towards him again, then threw his sword towards genesis, who evaded, creating a huge hole in the wall. Genesis looked at it.

"This is where i take my leave." he said, his wing popped out and he flew through it. a portal formed, he went through.

-meanwhile-

Zack slashed again, Golbez fell to aknee.

"Very good..." he said, breathing. he tossed the orb to Zack.

"Keep it safe." he said. Zack nodded.

"What about you?" he asked.

[rikunobodyxiii 700]

{Cloud}

Cloud glares up at where Genesis had been. He would have to ask Zack how best to fight that one. Cloud looks around. No one else. And he didn't have the materia for teleportation. Cloud heaves a sigh, pulling a potion out to heal the hits Genesis scored. He heads for the exit to the mansion.

 

..............................

{Dr Cid}

Dr Cid lands hard after being cast back by Hecaton's attack. Cid curses and looks around. This wasn't the Mansion.

"Where in the worlds is this?" Dr Cid asks, aloud.

[OblivionRider 50]

Hope backed away slowly.

 

"You guys don't know about fightning fate, do you?" he cried. "All I've wanted since this conflict began was to protect those dear to me, but it wasn't in the cards! Chaos drafted me, so I sought out Cosmos and she made me older. But that doesn't change things, I'm your enemy!"

 

Hope began shining with a bright light. With a scream, there was a magical explosion.

 

In his stead stood a black Alexander, towering over them all. Ready to kill.

[rikunobodyxiii 700]

{Cloud}

Cloud exits the mansion and is happy to see the others still here. Then he sees Hope summon Alexander. Cloud summons his fusion blade and runs to a point between Hope and the others.

"Hope, claim down." Cloud orders, keep a wary eye on Alexander.

"Chaos can only control you if you let him."

He rests his sword on his shoulder.

"I was once on his side. Now I choose who I fight for."

He shifts his gaze back to Hope.

"How do you fight for, Hope?"

[OblivionRider 50]

Cloud looked into Hope’s eyes. The regular green was clouded over with a grey haze.

 

Hope stared at Cloud. His words hit him strongly, but he wasn’t in control. Try as he might, he had no control of his body. Hope felt like screaming, but his voice didn’t work.

 

Hope’s body floated to the top of Alexander. Alexander’s cannons began churning. They directed themselves at Cloud.

 

All heard a terrifying voice, Chaos’.

 

MY TRAITOR WARRIOR WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO!

 

A shout escaped Hope’s lips.

 

“No! Somebody help!” the boy cried.

 

Vanille ran up in front of Cloud.

 

“We hafta help him!” the girl said through tears.

[rikunobodyxiii 700]

{Cloud}

"Great. What now?" Cloud thinks in his mind. "Do we beat Chaos out of him?"

Cloud decides that he isn't the one to help Hope. Dealing with Alexander, on the other hand...

Cloud jumps at Alexander, hitting it in the face with the blunt end of his blade.

"Deal with Hope." Cloud calls to Vanille. "I'll try to buy you some time from this thing."

[OblivionRider 50]

"Gotcha!" she said.

 

Vanille attempted to wrap Hope up in the ropes from her rod, but some magical force prevented it.

 

"Let's try somethin else," she said, as she Paradigm Shifted into Sabeteur.

 

The girl cast Imperil and several other Debuffs on both Hope and the Eidolon.

 

"I can't take him myself, help!" Vanille shouted.

 

"I'll aid you," Serah said, stepping forward. Slowly, she shot multple arrows up at Hope's body. Some arrows contacted, but others bounced off.

 

Alexander, fed up with the opposition, swatted Cloud to the ground.

 

"Vanille, cover me!" Serah shouted, and dove in front of Cloud just as Alexander struck the SOLDIER again.

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

"Hope! Chaos!" Lightning shouted as Od in shattered into existance, striking the other Eidolon with his double-bladed Zantetsuken. As he spun around he grabbed Lightning's arm, tossing her into the air. She landed on top of Alexander, directly in front of Hope. Just being near him felt made her feel as if she had been set ablaze.

 

"Serah!" Lightning tossed Odin's summonstone to her sister, the crystal shining with a rainbow brilliance. The l'Cie turned back to her friend, pulling him closer to her. She wrapped her arms around him as her brand burned into her soul. "Hope, you don't want to do this! I know it! The last time you let Chaos control you, you lost Snow. Do you really want to lose more of your friends?!"

[OblivionRider 50]

Hope felt Lightning close to him. She felt, so dark. And he felt cold, like…

 

Snow! He couldn’t forgive himself, but maybe he could make amends.

 

Serah caught the Odin crystal. Immediately, Zantesuken and Odin’s Blade appeared in her hands.

 

“Not mine, but this’ll do,” she said, parrying the hand of Alexander.

 

Vanille seized this moment to heal Cloud and switch to Synergist. She then had an idea, a risky one.

 

“Lightning, keep him in control!” she yelled. Then she shouted, “FAITHRA!”

 

The spell was not directed to Lightning, nor to Serah. Not even Cloud. It was directed at Hope.

 

“Hope!” the Oerban shouted. ”We have faith in you!”

 

Hope’s mind raced. He couldn’t abandon his friends.

 

“CHAOS, I DECIDE MY FATE!” he shouted.

 

Lightning was thrown back and landed next to Vanille and Serah and Cloud. Hope shown brightly with a white aura. A ring of pearls flew skyward, and came crashing down as powerful beams of pure light energy onto Alexander. The Last Resort caused a crack on Alexander, that quickly spread across his body. Then, he shattered.

 

In a massive explosion of light, a roar from Chaos was heard; roar of pain.

 

When the smoke cleared, Hope was laying facedown on the ground, with a blue, radiating crystal in his right hand.

 

A crystal of Cosmos.

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

Lightning pulled herself up form the ground, breathing heavily. She couldn't keep doing this. All these crazy acts: storming the mansion, fighting Hope. She already had Serah. Why couldn't they just return home?

 

"Hope." Claire made ehr way to the l'Cie on the ground, kneeling down next to him. "Hope, are you alright?" She eyed the crystal in his hand. So, Hope had recieved his. But would it help them, or only invite trouble?

[rikunobodyxiii 700]

{Cloud}

Cloud grunts with pain as he stands up. Vanille had done an excellent job at healing him, but some nerves were still sore. He dismisses his fusion swords and walks over to Hope. Cloud notes the crystal in Hope's hand. He crouches down and flips Hope on his back. He checks Hope's vital signs.

"You still with us, Hope?" Cloud asks.

[OblivionRider 50]

Hope looked up at the warriors standing over him. Then at the Ultima crystal in his hands.

 

“I think, I’ll be fine.”

 

He was helped up by Cloud and held the Ultima in the air.

 

“This isn’t mine though,” he said. ”It’s Snow’s.”

 

He walked over to Lightning.

 

“Doesn’t his tear recognize it?” he asked her.

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

"His tear?" She asked.

 

'That's right.' She reached into one of the side pouches, drawing out the blue crystal. It resonated faintly with the crystal in Hope's hand.

 

"Yeah. Apparently." Lightning took another deep breath. "How did you get Snow's crystal?"

[rikunobodyxiii 700]

{Cloud}

Cloud moves over to see the crystal.

"Zack said that Cosmos put a piece of Ultima in each of her warriors." Cloud explains. "Maybe when Snow died, his piece went to Hope."

A thought came to Cloud's mind that still worried him.

"What must I do to get my crystal?" Cloud wonders silently to himself.

[OblivionRider 50]

Hope looked back and forth between the crystal Ultima and he crystal tear.

 

"Cosmos, she did something to me," he said. "Maybe she transfered Snow's Ultima to me when I..."

 

Hope looked down. He the walked over to Serah.

 

"I think you should have this," he said.

 

Serah looked at the Ultima in horror and backed away.

 

"Me? I can't protect it! I'd do everything I could to protect Snow, but I'm not strong!" she said, tears all through her eyes. "Lightning, take his light and protect it. If you have to, take mine too!" Serah said, holding her arms open. "I'm sick of being the damsel in distress!"

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

"No." Lightning took Snow's Ultima from Hope's hands, forcing it into Serah's. "You're sick of being the damsel? Then fight." Her voice dropped. "I can't protect you anymore, Serah. I just... don't have the strength." She closed her sister's hands over both Ultima and Odin's shimmering crystal.

 

"I'm sorry, but I can't stay with you."

[OblivionRider 50]

As Lightning’s hands touched Serah’s, Serah felt a feeling that she never felt from Lightning. Darkness. She backed away slowly.

 

“Lightning, are you…”

 

Serah looked around. This was not the time nor place to discuss this, not in front of everybody.

 

She put away the two crystals.

 

“Let’s move on.” Serah said.

[ventusxxx34 23]

(hey guys sorry I aint been on for a while, but im not gonna play as Zidane anymore so...I'll play as Vanitas since I made the rule about usin kh chars too )