Chapter 8
After Fayt and Albel left to begin their mission, Mickey and Jimminy head to the office to investigate his Journal.
Mickey: "Now let us review the Journal, it might lead us to some answers."
Jimminy shook his head in agreement and pulls out the journal. Mickey and Jimmy turn from page to page reading all the heartless index, Ansem reports, Character index, to even the mini game. For hours the both of them closely read the journal until they found a message in the middle.
Thank Namine
Mickey: "What is this?"
Jimminy: "That's one of the encryptic messages we that ended up in the journal when we woke up from our slumber."
Mickey stares at the message then asks; "What do you think it means?"
Jimminy responds; "According to Goofy "Namine" is a long lost friend that had helped us before, but what he's saying is too vague. We don't even remember her, but Goofy does. It might have to do with when we're asleep for a long period of time. Something had to have happened while we're asleep, or how we even up in there in the first place. Geez there's so much inconsistencies right now, my head feels like it's gonna explode from all this critical thinking."
Mickey stood silent for he knew what had happened to everyone at the time.
Jimminy continues on; "I can't believe Sora never questioned any of this. Sometimes I feel as though he's too laid back-" Before Jimminy could pronounce another word, he turned to the last page of the journal in the back to see another encryptic message.
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The two were shocked.
They both read the message as followed;
Their hurting will be mended when you return to end it.
Jimminy: "Gosh I wonder what this means."
Mickey: "What in the world is going on?"
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Meanwhile:
Fayt:"Who are you?"
Albel:"Identify yourself!?"
The man grinned and stoop up. The two Behemoths that were defeated by Fayt and Albel raised up healing all damage taken. They were standing, equipping an giant saw as though the Behemoths are transforming.
Fayt: "Why are they still standing? I though we defeated them!?"
Albel: "Tsk. They have two lives; we'll have to defeat them twice."
As Fayt and Albel were about attack the Behemoths, the Masked Man approaches the two.
"No no no, come Behemoths." The Masked Man commanded the Behemoths, they stand behind him.
"So you're the one's that's been snooping around here, trying to ruin my plans."
The man stares at Brandy and Mr.Whiskers then says; "How odd, why hasn't the consuming of the moon affect the two of you? I'll just have to erase this mistake."
Fayt guards the two then shouts at the Masked Man; "Consuming of the moon? What are you up to? Is this your doing?"
Albel draws his sword, preparing to attack.
The masked man laughed; "That's far too many questions for a small organism like you to ask. Besides you won't be alive for me to answer!" The man crushed a small blue core, droplets of ice circles around him. Fayt also drew his sword.
"I'll have to fight the weakest link of the two." The man charges right at Fayt as he's thinking.
*Whistles* The Behemoths circle Albel, blocking him from supporting Fayt.
"So you two are my opponents huh." Albel Says.
Fayt blocked the Masked Man pushing him backwards. The man performs a ground recovery, the droplets of ice still circling around him.
The fight begins.
Fayt charges at the Masked man, he swung his sword but was blocked by the ice droplets.
"Damn he's using the ice as a shield." Fayt thought.
The Masked Man laughs at Fayt's poor attempt to attack him straightforward.
"Now it's my turn!" The man screams. The ice droplets forms into sheets of ice, shooting projectiles at Fayt.
Fayt blacks to projectiles, dashes close to the man's range, and swung his sword again. His attack was blocked by the sheet of ice. Fayt side stepped, the Man shot Blizzara at Fayt. He blocks the falling Blizzard, but the man crashes three sheets of ice towards Fayt. He blocked and counterattacked all the sheets of ice. Fayt begins to notice something about the man.
"Wait a minute, there's no more ice around him. Time to attack." Fayt thought. He charges for another attack, but the man dodges. "Tsk he already anticipated this."
The man started laughing. "Ahaha you really thought that if I ran out of ice, I would be open for an attack? How foolish of you! You must really lack any battle experience!"
The man forms his hands and chants a spell.
"Restore Cold."
The ice droplets returns, but all the droplets forms into Blizzara circling around the Masked Man. Fayt charges at the man again swinging his sword, the Blizzara blocked his swing, but the attack broke the ice. Fayt attacks again to destroy another Blizzara blocking his swing. The man begins to laugh frantically teasing all of Fayt's attacks. Fayt yet again swung his sword being blocked again. Fayt attacks over and over, each time Fayt swings his sword, an Blizzara blocks it. The Masked Man is losing all sanity, Fayt charges at the Masked Man. He swung his sword putting all the power into it. The Man is still laughing. As he's about use another Blizzara to block Fayt's attack he realizes that he ran out of ice.
"What the-?" The Masked Man became shocked. "Wait a minute, so that's-". The masked man recalls all the moments Fayt attacks, realizing it's a strategy to nullify all his ice guards. It was too late for the man, the swing was an direct hit. The Masked Man was severely injured, he's coughing blood.
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Albel slashes his sword at the pair Behemoths, no damage has been taken. Albel stabbed his sword into one of the Behemoth's chest. It's muscles hardened, completely guarding the attack with its body. The second Behemoth swung it's saw behind Albel. He swapped his sword out, jumping across the field. The force from the swing slightly damages him.
"Tsk. So not only do they have two lives, but upon the second transformation they're full healed and automatically buffed." Albel thought.
"It looks like they're hard to kill."
Albel jumps, cross slashing the Behemoth. Albel jumped from one to the other Behemoth cutting both of their arms. Albel double slashes both of the Behemoths, he also claws the other one. There was little damage taken from his attacks.
Albel begins to think; "Tsk. None of my attacks are working. Damn buffs, I guess it's time to think outside the box."
The two Behemoths circle him. The first one swings it's saw, Albel did a faint and side jumped. The Behemoth's attack directly hits the Behemeth in back of Albel rendering it defeated. It's saw is jammed inside its ally, Albel side dashes, charges, and slammed his sword into its head using all his force. The both of them are defeated.
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"Auh! I thought you were the weakest link! How dare you get a direct hit from me!"
The Masked Man became enraged.
"Restore Cold."
"Instead of guarding, I'll send all my Blizzards straight at you!"
The Ice droplets circles around Fayt forming into Blizzara. All the Blizzara are around Fayt.
The Masked Man tightens his fists and releases.
"Explode!"
All the Blizzara shatters destructively damaging Fayt. "Ahhhhhh!" Fayt screams.
"Restore Cold!"
"Now feast your eyes on my trumph card!"
The ice droplets circle around Fayt again, forming into Blizzara. Instead all the Blizzara clatters into Fayt one another, forming into a giant ball of ice. Fayt is trapped inside.
The Mask Man grins sinisterly.
"Glacieral Prison; Blast!"
The giant ball of Ice shatters severely damaging Fayt. The masked man is catching his breath. An icey fog can be seen in the area.
The Masked Man continues to laugh. An blurry figure can be seen coming from the fog. It was Fayt! His entire body is scrapped, he's bleeding from one of his arms. The Man is shocked. "What you should be dead! Why aren't you dead?!" Fayt charges straight forward to the man, he swung his sword, but drops it. It's a fake. Fayt begins to recall a certain part of his memory. He saved a young boy from the clutches of a tryant man, he recalls the technique he used to defeat him. An aura of light is enshrouded from his left leg, he kicks it right at the Masked Man.
"Restore Cold!" The masked man uses in an instant. He then concentrates all his ice droplets into the area Fayt's attacking.
"Full Guard Point!" All the dropletes concentrated into one area. But it was futile, the kick broke through the thick layers of ice directly into the Masked Man.
"Side Kick!" An enhancing arte Fayt remembers.
The Masked Man flew to the ground, blood spew from his mouth. An immasive crater can be seen, a hole appears on his stomach. The Masked Man is bleeding, he's defeated.
Albel watching amazed.
*Whistles* "So it appears he's remembering some of his symbology. But it's far from his normal strength, Fayt is still weak compared to his actual peak."
The Masked Man got back up. His hand covering his fatal wound.
"Restore Cold." He begins to attack Albel.
"Huh?" Albel appears surprised.
"So you can't defeat Fayt, instead you come to me?! How despicable! You have no honor whatsoever!"
The Masked Man activates his Blizzara forming two circles. Three circling around him, and the other ten circling outside of him.
The fatally injured Masked Man smirked.
"Cold Phalanx!"
Albel sheathed his sword. Just before he's about to move, an suprise attack occurred! Six more Blizzara appear from far back of Albel. There's three circles of Blizzara around
and Albel. The Masked Man laughs. One of the Blizzara behind Albel shot a series of Ice projectiles.
"Cold Hail!"
Albel caught wind of it being slightly damaged from it. Fayt watched the series of Ice projectiles closely, taking a mental picture of the skill.
Albel was able to counter the rest of the projectiles. He's bleeding from one of his elbows. The Masked man continues to laugh.
"Hmph. Fool." Says Albel.
He begins to jump on the Blizzara using each one as a jumping platform. Albel performs a serious of jumps on each Blizzara, going left and right. The Masked Man lost all track of Albel for all he sees are after images. "He's trying to confuse me now." The man thought. Albel continues his series of jumps until he lunges at the Man. The man saw and blew up one of his three Blizzara. It didn't hit Albel because it's an afterimage. It's a fake! Albel's series of jumps fastened to the extent that The Masked Man sees six Albel's! The man cannot distinguish which Albel is real. At some point, he reaches the two Blizzara next to the man. The Man can see two Albel's circling him from the Blizzara. The Masked Man is panicking, he unable to detect what Albel is real and when he's about to attack.
Albel finally drew his sword through The Masked Man. All the Blizzara's are cut in half, and with one strike Albel did an Horizantal, Vertical, and a V shaped slash.
"Centripetal Shash!"
The Masked Man screamed. He's fatally wounded.
Albel shashed all the Blizzara as he's jumping without anyone seeing.
Albel begins to speak; "Hmph. If Fayt's capable of defeating you with two strikes, then I can do with one."
He continues on; "You have no defense or Strength at all, but you managed to put up a good fight with us. Those ices are used to compensate for your lack of defense. You have a perfect control of your magic, you can tame beasts, and somehow you must've caused the very status of this world. Yet have no Strength nor Defense all."
Albel scoffs. He drew his sword pointing at the man. "Who are you? No average man could perform such a feat. Well it won't matter anyways, in ten minutes you'll bleed yourself to death."
Blood is coursing through the Masked Man's mouth. He brings to speak lightly; "U-up in the sky is a Fal'cie, a God named Feneir. I took advantage of the distorted environment to summon her here. To-to consume the moon. This world is no more, it is futile to fight it off!"
"A god huh." Albel Responds.
"Here to consume the moon? Why? Why do you want to destroy this world so much?" Asks Fayt.
The Masked Man didn't respond to Fayt. He continued to laugh over and over. Fayt gave a disgusted look, Albel gave a cold expression. Brandy and Mr.Whiskers became frightened.
"You cannot fight your own doom! Just let it die. For your return, the Angel emerges after the battle against the two friends. An new act begins, Lovele-" The Masked Man didn't finish his sentence.
Fayt covered Brandy and Mr.Whisker's eyes. "He's dead." Says Fayt.
"So that's his last words, how foolish." Says Albel coldly.
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Everyone heard a frenzy roar. The inhabitants are being engulfed by a deep darkness, they begin to shift from Gloomy to an agitated state.
Their eyes became red.
To be continued.