Dissidia Final Fantasy : Chaos Wins

[OblivionRider 50]

OOC: Sorry, I went away for a few days and forgot my laptop!

@Agent: I think that part about Genesis should be in the sign-up thread, not here.

 

 

Serah and Mog were still walking around the outskirts of the Sanctuary. Suddenly, Mog's crystal (in FFXIII-2, crystals replace moogle's pom-poms) turned from red to purple.

 

"KUPO!" it said, and flew off without Serah.

 

"Wait up Mog!" Serah cried out and chased it.

 

Mog had stopped next to a SOLDIER lying on the ground.

 

"Are you all right?" Serah said running over.

 

The boy looked dazed. Serah cast CURE on him.

 

As she stood up, her hand brushed against something a little unsettling. The boy had been surrounded in a ring of black feathers.

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny stopped as soon as the two hit the Lufenian crystal.

Jaina stopped and looked back at Johnny, "What's up?"

Johnny looked down, thinking out loud, "I can't help but think that something isn't right. I think I need to head back to Sanctuary."

Jaina replied, "So, do you want me to tag along or..."

Johnny shook his head, "Nah, you can hold your own. Besides, it shouldn't take long."

 

Johnny warped to Sanctuary to see a girl with pink hair and a boy surrounded by black feathers.

"Hey, what's up?" Johnny casually walked up to the girl.

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Zack scratched his ehad.

"Sure, I guess." HE said, he looked at the feathers for a moment... they reminded him of something.

'I swear i recognize this feathers...' he thought in his mind, he looekd at the others. looked at them for a moment, a girl with pink hair, but not lightning, then at the other guy. These guys looekd to be on his side.

"So, I'm zack, Zack fair, who are you guys?" He asked. he looekd at the strange moogle.

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"Mog, kupo!" the moogle replied energetically.

 

"Hi, I'm Serah Farron," Serah said, extending her hand to help him up.

 

Just then, Manakins of a man in a red cloak and a black wing appeared around them.

 

"Let me handle this," Serah said. "You're in no condition to fight."

 

Serah jumped over Zack and grabbed the bowblade which Mog had promptly turned into. She Paradigm shifted to Commando and fired several shots, destroying a good four or five of them. One jumped at her, but the bow turned back into a blade and she parried the blow. She quickly dove out of the way and Paradigm Shifted to Ravager and shot several fireballs at the remaining Manakins. One remained, but it threw forth an orb of energy that disarmed Serah. Serah lay on the ground, and braced for the blow.

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny introduced himself to Zack, "Johnny Madman, 1st Class SOLDIER." he then looked over to Serah who lay unarmed about to be attacked by a manikin. Lightning briefly appeared in his mind, memories of her talking about Serah. Serah... Serah?!?

Johnny lept from Zack and shattered the manikin with a Zantetsuken, cleanly cutting it in half. Johnny turned around and asked the girl, "Are you all right?"

 

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MEANWHILE...

 

Vicente had removed the last shards of the device from his back. Gabranth hadn't made it pretty, and no one had believed him. Chaos, however, mocked him.

"Your so-called 'master of chaos' is dead..." the words still rang through his head. Lionel was almost convinced to give up, but then he saw someone in the lands of Discord. A woman. Alone. And what's more, he knew the woman. Jaina Nova. His former fiance, alone in the Land of Discord. Not to mention Johnny running around. AWAY from his wife. AND Jaina had not yet picked a side. Vicente's mind hatched a sinister plan.

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Zack looekd at the monster, he struggled to get up, then felt his arm, he had a large wound.

'atleast the bleeding's stopped...' he thought to himself. he stretchd his arm a bit more until he could handle the pain. he stared at the manikins.

'Genesis...' he thought in his mind, he remembered. another one came, he quickly sumoend his busterblade and slamemd it through the manikin, it shattered. h breathed then put the sword away, he looked to Johnny.

"You said your from soldier?" He asked.

 

-meanwhile-

Genesis looked out.

"The ultima... but why do we need to help, surely chaos is powerful enough." He said sarcasticly. he looekd down and saw manikins, he spat.

"What wastes." He said.

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Serah looked at the two boys talking. She stood up and walked over to them.

 

"Hello, boys," she said friendlily (OOC: is that a word?). "Well, to kick off introductions, I'm Serah Farron. You may have heard of my more famous older sister, Lightning? She's a soldier too."

 

Serah looked at Zack's SOLDIER badge.

 

"Oh, wait, she's not a SOLDIER, she's a soldier. Wait, no, that doesn't sound right."

 

Mog transformed back into a moogle and hit Serah over the head.

 

"Ouch! Okay, she works with the Guardian Corps and she fights. But she's strong," Serah said. "Johnny, Zack, why don't we travel to the Land of Discord to search for Ultima? I bet no other warriors of Cosmos have had much time to search there, with everything that's been going on..."

 

Her voice trailed off. Snow. She took out his crystal tear.

 

Keep going Serah! To the Land of Discord!

 

She could almost hear his voice in her head.

 

"Well, without you or not, I'll be off!" Serah said smiling.

 

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Hope watched the trio from behind a nearby rock.

 

"I'll never get her alone," he said to himself. "That Johnny has it out for me, and that Zack saw me kill Snow."

 

Hope sighed. "I just want to talk to her. She might be the key to Ultima, but I need to decide whether to use her or protect her. As long as Light's safe."

 

His thoughts trailed off to what Lightning might be doing now. Probably seeking his death.

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Zack sighed.

"Alright, you heard the little lady." He said, Johnny smirked. they walked out of the sanctuary. they ran into a group of manikins, Zack summoned his sword and immediately slashed through a couple, then kicked one to the ground and stabbed. He was starting to enjoy this alitte bit. the manikins dissipearfed, he looked at the sword for a moment.

"You're a little bit more important than my sword. But just a bit"

Zack sighed and then put the sword away. he continued heading down the path.

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Serah looked at Zack.

 

"Lost a friend?" she asked. She could tell by the look he gave her that it was true.

 

She looked from Snow's crystal to Zack's sword. She could tell that they had similar meaning. Was Snow's spirit in the crystal just as much as Zack's lost one was in his sword?

 

"Don't worry, he'll always be in your heart. It matters not what their doing right now, it matters what they've done. Your memories of this person will always light the way ahead. Now that he, or she, is gone, you're free to tell your own story," Serah told him.

 

As she kept walking, she wondered whether what she said came from her heart, or was it just her mind consoling her?

 

"KUPO! Down yonder!" the moogle exclaimed as its pompom turned purple. The teleport stone to Chaos' Realm lay up ahead.

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Zack sighed.

"What does she know about this?" He asked in his head, sighing, she doesn't even know the whole story. He sighed then looked forward. A teleport stone was there. The four hurried to it and touched it, they dissipeared and re-appeared in a place up north, Zack looekd around.

"So this is the chaos realm." He said, he walked forward. /he could feel some evil powers were at work here.

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny looked around. This was not Lufenia. Someone had tampered with the teleport crystal. They were far from Lufenia, they were in the Sandsea! And they weren't the only ones there. Johnny looked around to see an army of manikins, led by Lionel, who was hovering above on the World Champion.

"You... What do you want?" Johnny shouted at the man.

"Revenge, what else?" Vicente replied, curt as ever. "Sweet, cold, and served with a side of victory." He motioned with his arm and summoned a bound and gagged Jaina beside him.

"Jaina?!? What have you done, you sick little piece of..."

"I've converted her to a side," Vicente interrupted, placing a silver necklace around Jaina's neck. "She's a Warrior of Chaos now, whether or not she likes it." The pendant of the necklace glowed a sinister green and Jaina awakened. Vicente disappeared as Jaina descended into the crowd, loosened her bonds, and became surrounded by manikins of her. When the manikins dispersed, she had vanished.

Johnny looked into the crowd and said to his three comrades, "She could be anywhere in this crowd! Be careful!"

 

(OoC: Johnny really doesn't have it out for Hope, he just wants some questions answered. He got out of Orphan's Cradle before Hope got Snow and as far as I know, Hope's got one of Johnny's assist charms)

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Zack sighed.

"Alright." He said, he held his hand out, the buster blade appeared in his hand, he stepped forward and slashed through a manikin, and then used firaga at a couple, which then vanished. one lunged towards him, he blocked then slashed back, the manikin showed unusual skill and lunged, he kicke dth eblade out of the way and stabbed into it, it vanished, he kept going for a few minutes.

-meanwhile-

Genesis watched as they fought the manikins.

'this should be childsplay for three warriors of cosmos.' he thought to himself. (if anyone wants to have a villain talk to him, please do so, I want to know about they're plans.)

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¥ Vaan ¥

 

"Hope!" Vaan ran forward and reached out but he was gone. He sighed as he turned to Light and said, "I'm sure he will show up again and them we can get answers. But listen Light: He is good. He may not be doing all the right things but he's good." With that he turned and walked off to Balthier.

 

~Rinoa~

Rinoa felt sad as she saw everyone walking together as a group. A group which she didn't really belong to. She was tempted to go run up to Vaan and tell him goodbye for now but....it would be best if she just slipped away.

 

So she summoned her wings her and took flight. The group of Cosmos' Warriors slowly disappeared from her view and she looked around for signs of other warriors but didn't see any from up above. So she flew from the Sanctuary and landed in what she later learned was the Land of Discord near a strange gold stone. She could see a group of Warriors and causally strolled over to them. "Hey I'm Rinoa what is this land? It feels so different from the Sanctuary but familiar....." She let her sentence hang as she frowned thinking.

[Axtwyt 500]

"Unfortunately for them, Johnny is holding them back," a voice behind Genesis replied. Vicente appeared with the World Champion now resting on his arm in shield form. "For all his power, he is nothing without her. We hold his trump card, we can get him to bring us Ultima. What do you say?"

 

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Johnny looked around at the manikins surrounding him. They were all Jaina. He couldn't attack any of them, risking defense could hurt the real deal. They closed in on him and brought him to the ground. As one of Jaina's manikins prepared for the kill, Johnny closed his eyes and time stopped as he heard a voice in his mind.

'Save...me...'

Johnny shot up into the sky, his eyes burning with rage. He summoned another Keyblade and collided the two in an X shape. The two keys became one, and Johnny now held the x-Blade. Two white wings sprouted from his back and Johnny dived into the crowd. He looked around and noticed which manikin Jaina had disguised herself as. She was at the other side of the Sandsea, running towards the Land of Discord. Johnny yelled out in rage and brutally attacked manikins left and right.

 

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As the fight raged in the Sandsea, another was fighting inside the heart of Jaina.

"Why did I... want to fight them?" she said, trapped in her own mind.

"Because it feels good," another voice called out. Jaina looked up to see a dark figure. It was her! Twisted by darkness. "You like the power that Chaos gives. You revel in the destruction. So why do you fight me?"

"It's not me! I don't destroy, I'm not a monster!"

"We are all monsters here, dear," Dark Jaina said, taking a seat in the Victorian-era chair that had appeared in the dark landscape of the heart. "It's just a matter of caging the beast."

Jaina fell over and slept in her heart. The darkness was slowly taking over. This was all she could do.

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Genesis turned his head towards him, then back at Johnny, whom seemed to be enraged.

"Fools in love." He said, he turned towards Vicante.

"You mean he possesses it?" He asked, he was a bit of a late arival, so didn't understand enough, yet atleast. He looked at Johnny, then saw the wings.

"What's with him? that doesn't seem normal for a SOLDIER." Genesis said looking out. Could he of known this loon?

-meanwhile-

Zack saw Johnny freak out.

"Hey, calm down!" he yelled. they quickly defeated the rest of the manikins, the girl was gone, Johnny was still freaking. he was slashing in a rage.

"John!" he yelled, Johnny lunged towards him, Zack immediately blocked with his busterblade, and then immediately slashed towsards him, Johnny blocked and then rose in the air, and dove towards him, Zack sidestepped him and then when he landed clashed with him.

"And you say your in SOLDIER?" He asked, Johnny kept going int he clash, Zack breathed deeply and then went full force, knocking Johnny back in slowmotion. he dropped his X-blade in the air, he grabbed towars sit, but was too far, and then hit the ground hard, he breathed. the X-blade seperated, Zack looked at him dissaprovingly.

"I'm a first class as well." he scoffed.

"You must protect your honor as SOLDIER." He said. Johnny looked down

[Axtwyt 500]

Vicente shook his head, "I did not say he possesses it, only that he can obtain it and bring it to us. For our own reasons. With it, we can defeat Chaos and anyone else in our way. We can have whatever we want."

He looked down at Johnny, whose x-Blade had seperated and whose power had just left.

 

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Johnny's eyes returned to normal, "What did I..." He looked up at Zack, then to the keyblades now seperated, and finally felt his back. The wings were still there.

"GOD HELP ME, NOT AGAIN!" Johnny cried to the heavens. He sat once more and looked at Zack, Serah and Mog. "What have I done? Why is this happening? What's going on?"

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"Defeat chaos you say..." Gensis said, lookign at him, this idea seemed rather intriging.

"Consider me 'in'." He said, Vincante nodded. he then looked at him.

"So, tell me more about this fool." He said.

-meanwhile-

Zack looked at him strangely.

"You don't remember?" He asked. Johnny shook his head, Zack sighed, he looked at his sword, then made it dissipear.

"You learned they were incontrol of some girl, then suddenly you lost it and freaked out." He said. Johnny staired at him.

"I have never seen a SOLDIER with a temper like that." He said.

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OOC: And I get my computer back! Yay!

 

Lightning fell behind th egroup, eventually losing them completely. She knew she would be traveling down a dark road, and didn't want to involve any of them. This was now between her and Hope. He had asked about Serah. What could Hope want with her?!

 

Either way, she saw two choices: Move on to Sanctuary and hope Serah was there, or head towards the Land of Discord, hoping Serah was being productive. Choosing one would definitely hurt her search of she was wrong. Not to mention, Serah was acting differently than she remembered. Hopefully, not too differently.

 

With a heavy heart, Lightning made her way to the Land of Discord.

 

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Sec stood atop one of the iron tanks overlooking the Nam-Yensa Sandsea, watching the battle below. Were these truley the pawns of Cosmos? Serah was with them, but Hope was nowhere to be seen. He better not have been wrong in trusting the boy. And this new piece, Genesis...

 

Events were unfolding in unforseen ways. However, this only made the game all the more exciting...

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{Balthier}

Balthier stands off from the crowd and keeps an eye out for Hope. He felt that Hope was a good kid, but Hope was under Chaos' control. Who knows what the boy was thinking.

Balthier hears foots steps coming up behind him. He turns to see Vaan coming towards him.

"Ah, Vaan." He says in a relaxed tone. "Looks like the young damsel is unharmed. Let's keep it that way."

Balthier looks around a moment then turns back to Vaan.

"What was your impression of Hope when you traveled with him?"

[Axtwyt 500]

"A temper... I went into some kind of emotional overload, I must have blanked out," Johnny said, shaking his head, trying to get the headache out.

The Keyblades dismissed themselves and Johnny sighed, "The x-Blade and my emotions don't really work well together, do they? Why did I even think of summoning it?"

 

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Vicente began to explain Johnny to Genesis, "He's never too far from his friends. They're his weak spot. He'd do anything to protect them. We get him to find Ultima using her, he brings it to us, we take Ultima and rule like kings."

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Genesis nodded.

"Of course." He said looking at them, Vicante nodded. He then noticed Zack.

'Angeal's successor...' he thought to himself. he then looked to Vicante.

"I doubt it'll be that simple, we'll have to deal with his allies." HE said.

-meanwhile-

Zack sighed.

"I dunno, she must of been pretty important to you." He said, Johnny nodded. he helped him up.

"Just don't lose it again." HE said, Johnny slowly nodded. he then ehard footsteps coming.

"Hey I'm Rinoa what is this land? It feels so different from the Sanctuary but familiar....." a girl with brown hair wearing blue said, Zack turned towards her.

'hello beautiful.' he thought to himself, he scratched the back of his head.

"I'm not to sure what this place is, but it's chaos territory I think." He said, the girl nodded.

[Axtwyt 500]

"You can be as sure as anything, Zack. This is the real deal," Johnny approached the girl in blue. "Hello, I'm Johnny Madman, 1st Class SOLDIER." As Johnny introduced himself, he saw Rinoa's gaze fall on something behind him. He knew what it was. It was the wings. Johnny tried to change the subject, "What brings you all the way out here?"

 

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Vicente shook his head, "WE don't have to deal with them. HE can do it for us. All we have to do is lead him farther intot the Land of Discord."

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Genesis shook his head.

"No, he travels with companions, they'll hamper leading him on, we'll need to deal with them at one point." HE said, Vicante slowly nodded.

"However if he can do it, that'll also be usefull." HE said, HE then noticed the girl come over to them, she started talking.

"Another warrior of cosmos, just wonderful." HE said sarcasticly.

-meanwhile-

Zack listenend to Rinoa talk.

[Axtwyt 500]

Johnny interuppted Rinoa, "Look, guys, we should really get going. There's no knowing what those Chaos goons are doing to Jaina or if they've even found Ultima yet."

 

OoC: Sorry, but I had to get this going again

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"Goons? how rude." a familiar voice said, Genesis appeared. Zack stepped towards him.

"Genesis!" he yelled, he chuckled.

"Zack Fair, SOLDIER first class." HE said, Johnny steped towards him.

"You should get going, that Jaina girl is in major trouble." He said, Johnny shook.

"C'mon, i'm a soldier of Chaos, aren't you even gonna attack?" genesis asked walking towards them, Zack stepped towards him.

"Genesis, what do you want?" HE asked, the red haird man sighed.

"the gift of the goddess." He said, he then looked to Johnny.

"You better run, little fly, or she'll get away." HE said, dissipearing in darkness. Zack sighed.

C'mon, let's head out." He said, Johnny looked down, then nodded.

-meanwhile-

Genesis re-apepared beside Vicante.

"It worked perfectly." HE said, the man smiled.