“Hey Al’bed guy, where’s Neji gone?”

“I have a name you know.”

“Which is?”

“Zell, and your friend has gone to get help.”

“Oh right ok, wait what?”

“He said something about his old pirate crew.”

“Um, right okay/”

“Could you give me a hand with this engine, it won’t start.”

“Sure, what do you need me to do?” she asked but instantly regretted it as Zell went into a long explanation of what she had to do. “You know what I have a better idea, you said it just won’t start right?”

“Yeah.” he responded from one of the consoles, Fariel nodding and going beside it.

“Try again.” she said, Zell pressing some buttons and the engine started to turn on but went into a low diminishing hum as it started to turn off again.

Fariel spun around and threw her leg into it making it shake and rumble again as it started up, Zell standing slightly dumbstruck. “I thought we were trying to fix it not trash it.”

“Hey it worked didn’t it.”

“That’s not the point, so some more modifications, none that will need your violent input, and that one should work aright.”

“There’s nothing out there that can’t be solved through a little violence.” she said with a wink and left the engineer crawling under the engine.

oo0oo

“Hey Fariel, think you can get your chocobo to help out?” Kobie asked as Fariel appeared on the bridge.

“Doing what?”

“Carrying materials and stuff, it would help a lot.”

“Yeah sure I’ll go find him.”

oo0oo

“Hey feather butt.” she said patting the giant bird on the neck. “You think you could go to that giant rust bucket and help my friends out?” she asked, the bird kweh’n and running off to the airship. “Oh hey Chocobo you wanna help out?” she yelled at another large bird that walked by.

oo0oo

“Fariel we only needed the one.” Kobie said looking at the three chocobos flanking her.

“Yeah they can help until Neji get’s back.”

“Wait get’s back?”

“Yeah Zell said he went to get his old pirate crew to help fix this death trap and pilot it.”

“Um right ok, Zell?”

“The Al’bed.”

“Oh alright. Well um take your birds to Zell to get some poles or something, we need to get this airship off it’s face so we can put it back together.”

“Sure thing. Let’s go guy’s”


(occ – BOREDOM, and yay holidays XD LOL lots of boredom XD LOL Now I have a little team of chocobos, all I need now is the warrior moogles from 4 and I’ll rule the world ;) lol)

Neji walked casually across the calm lands followed by his crew, they carryied with them many supplies from the now dismantled ship, the other angels rushed out the ship wondering and fearing what was coming towards them even Tanis woke up from his nap to check it out but immdiatly went back to sleep upon relising it was Neji.  The other Angels had no idea and all readied their weapons, Sonya used her farsight and giving a sigh of relief shouted to the other Angels, "It's Neji! lower you'r weapons," everyone took a deep breath and put their weapons. It wasnt long until Neji and his crew arrived at the ship and were greated by the Angels, after some introductions Neji barked out at the crew.

"Right! Everyone get to work, i want this ship up and running by tomoro morning, no later!"

The crew saulted Neji shouting "Aye Aye Captain!"

The eager crew rushed into the airship and it wasn't long until all that could be heard around the farplain was the noise of many eager men working their heart out.

“Right, I think that’s about it,” Zell said at last as all the icons on his master console lit up a reassuring green. Lights flickered into life throughout the airship and a low throbbing sound indicated the engines running smoothly.

“I still can’t believe we managed this all in just two days,” Fariel remarked from where she stood by the bridge window.

“You’d never met my crew before,” Neji said with a smile.

“Right captain,” Cid said to Neji as he strode across the bridge, seeming to bear no ill-will towards his usurper, “Shall we get started?”

Neji’s bridge crew took their stations around the airship’s command deck.

“This is easy,” Barret commented in his deep Ronso voice as he took hold of the wheel, “No different from on our old ship.”

“Come on, baby…” Zell whispered to himself as he brought the engines to full power and set the rotors whirring, then aloud, “Sonya, Melina, if you please?”

The two mages nodded and with a volley of Thundaras the stone scaffolding around the airship shattered and fell away.

“We have full power,” Zell reported.

Fariel was laughing in excitement as the airship’s deck began to vibrate harder, Kobie had gripped a bulkhead with one hand to steady himself and Neji, used to the pitch and roll of a ship in high seas, just stood in the centre of the bridge keeping his balance with apparent ease. He picked up the strange machina intercom Zell had handed him.

“Steering?” Neji asked authoritatively, and no-one begrudged him giving orders this time as it was after all his crew manning the airship.

“Check.” Barret reported from beside the wheel as he tested the airship’s rudder.

“Engines?”

“Check.” Kain said over the intercom from down in the engine room.

“Sighting report?”

“All clear, captain.” Gau called.

“Navigation?”

“Online.” Cid said as he danced his practiced Al’bed hands over the baffling array of machina icons, screens and switches.

“Lunch?” Fariel piped up from the back.

Tanis pretended to check the pockets of his Ninjitsu robes.

“Jam sandwiches.” he said, returning the joke. The others just stared at him.

With a thunderous roar, the airship rose into the air.

“This is it,” Sonya said to Kobie, and he squeezed her hand reassuringly. The last stage of their journey, and their final battle, were beckoning.

“Sin and Yevon. The lie ends here.” Neji muttered to himself, too low even for Melina, who was standing next to him holding on to his arm for balance, to hear.

“Hmm, air - not exactly your element, is it Leviathan?” Fariel whispered. She was sure she heard a watery laugh, like the chuckle of a fast-flowing stream, echo in her head.

Tanis stood silently to one side.

Here we go, the half-elf thought, if Selina was right then it’s just two weeks until we confront Sin.

And then, for better or for worse, the fate of Spira will be decided.

<ooc - let's get this show on the road, people! >

O.O.C- lets get some new stuff!

I.C- Tanis stood up and walked to the 3-d map hovering over the table. He tapped in a few coordinates and watched as a new picture appered.

"We go here" Tanis stated

Neji looked at tanis in a funny way..."Tanis that is an empty desert..why would we go there?"

"Another piece of elven lore. In that desert is a temple. Its under the sand but it IS there. I have been before but couldent reach the end myself. Now i know why."

"Tanis stop speaking like that and tell us your plan!" Kobie exclaimed.

"The old story says that in this temple, resides weapons. Weapons for the angels in there time of need. And now that were all together i plan on taking us there and retrieving these weapons. I already have it maped out in my head. It will take a day to get there. That will give us six days...eight at most to get in, get the weapons, and get back out. Then we have a few days to train with our new weapons."

"Why the traning Tanis? I can kick anyones butt without traning!" Injected Fariel."

"Because Fariel. These weapons are no ordinary weapons. They were created by the greatest elven smiths alive. They have the magic of the elves imbued in them. Pure, elven magic. We will need the time to become familiar with our weapons...although i will loath to discard my katana..."

The angels looked at each other pondering Tanis's proposal. After a suitable amout of time had elapsed Tanis spoke up:

"Well? shall we?"

They all one by one descended from the airship and shielded their eyes from the sun as they lined up in the sand; there was a light wind, small whirlwinds of sand spun past their feet as they advanced on the strange pillar. When they got closer they realised that it have five sides. Fariel being curious stepped up to it and walked around it in circles.

“Yup it’s a pillar, any ideas?”

“These symbols are of the different elements, Fariel stand here.” Sonya spoke pointing just in front of her, before moving around to the next side. “Neji here, Kobie there, Tanis there and me here.” she said finally stopping next to Fariel on the other side.

They all stood where they were told and looked at Sonya expectantly, Melina standing with Neji who had an arm around her protectively. “Well what do we do now?” Fariel asked reaching out and touching it.

“Fariel!” Sonya yelped as Fariel disappeared.

“Well we should have seen that coming…” Kobie grinned, reaching out and touching the pillar he too disappeared.

“Well I guess it’s my turn.” Sonya said disappearing as she touched it.

Tanis and Neji looked at each other and then at the pillar, both reaching out and touching it, Neji holding Melina close and the three of them disappeared.

“Well I guess we’re not going anywhere for a while then.” Cid commenting watching as the last three disappeared right from in front of their noses.

oo0oo

“Well this is different.” Fariel stated flatly looking around, the ground was covered in shifting low lying fog that came up to her knees, it was dark and she couldn’t see a thing more then 2 feet in front of her. Drawing her swords she held them ready and started to walk around.

“Well this is, strange? Fariel are you here?” Kobie asked but he didn’t get a reply. “Fariel?” he asked again, her name echoing back to him.

“Kobie?” Sonya asked looking around as she heard him yelling.

“Sonya I’m over here.” he said, he could see the faint outline of her as she stepped closer.

”That’s the last time I ever touch funny looking pillars.” Neji complained looking around, Melina still under his arm.

“Likewise.” Tanis added.

“Hey guys.” Kobie waved, until he realised no one could see him.

“Is everyone here?” Tanis asked.

“Take a guess at who’s missing.” Kobie smiled.

“I’m here, jeez.” Fariel moaned prodding him in the arm. “I just went to look around.”

“And?”

“Well ya just keep walking, I didn’t find any walls.” she complained until there was a bright flash of light.

(occ – alright, there we go. we’re gonna play with some bad guys and stuff now right. Someone can post that :p I was just bored and no one was posting so here.)

<ooc - okay, here goes - I’m trying to make the temple seem tailor-made for the Angels so only they can get through it, otherwise any random sod could get in and steal the elven artefacts. Maybe there’ll be a bit at the end that they have to do together, but I don’t know what that might be so I‘ll just write Kobie and Sonya’s exploits for the moment>

The Angels scattered, heading for the many side-tunnels leading off from the main chamber which they hadn’t noticed before in the darkness. Kobie grabbed Sonya’s arm and dragged her towards one which he reckoned the dragon would be too small to enter. The chamber was huge and it was a long way to run in the open, but Tanis seemed to have the dragon distracted for the moment. He was backing away from it, casting volleys of fireballs as he did so and being careful to stay out of reach of the monster’s raking claws.

Kobie and Sonya dived into the side tunnel. As they ran through the downward-sloping stone corridor, they heard a bestial roar that shook the tunnel coming from behind them and Kobie turned, expecting to see a jet of flame leaping down the tunnel towards them, but there was no pursuit so he ran on.

They skidded to a halt when the tunnel abruptly ended in a circular room, lit by blue torches held by statues of armoured warriors lining the walls. The flickering light illuminated a pedestal in the centre of the room, which they approached cautiously. The pedestal was criss-crossed with interconnecting lines and runes, and there were two depressions in the stone at the front that looked as though they were meant to fit the shape of a human hand. Kobie looked at them, then at his own hands, but the depressions seemed to be designed for two right hands. He looked around the room warily, as Sonya traced the flowing script of the elvish runes.

“Evil by one hand, protection by two,” she translated, “I wonder what that means?”

Kobie passed his hands over the pedestal experimentally, being careful not to touch the stone, but suddenly there was a violent crash from somewhere above them and as they both started despite themselves, Kobie’s hand accidentally brushed the depression. Immediately it began to glow red, and Kobie jerked his hand away but the light did not dim. A blast of wind whistled overhead, and the two Angels thought they heard the whispering of sinister voices mixed in with the roar. Suddenly there was an ominous sound, like stone grinding against stone, behind them. They turned and saw that one of the blue torches had clattered to the floor. Impossibly, the statue that had held it was detaching itself from the wall in an explosion of dust. It raised its hands and fire flickered into life in its fists, blazing in the shape of two curved scimitars.

Kobie unsheathed his Dragon Claws and leapt forward to put himself between the statue and Sonya, but it threw him aside with one sweep of its fiery swords, leaving him burnt and bloodied on the ground at Sonya’s feet. With a cry Sonya put her hand on his chest, casting a healing spell, and helped him to his feet. The statue advanced towards them, its movements slow and purposeful. Sonya sent a barrage of Firannon lightning hurtling towards it, but it merely coruscated harmlessly over the statue and flickered out. The two Angels backed up against the pillar, thinking fast.

Protection by two…

“Put your hand on the pedestal again!” Sonya shouted, “Together - one…two…three!”

Simultaneously they pressed their right hands into the two depressions, and white light snaked across the stone, running like quicksilver along the criss-crossing channels and lighting up the runes. Suddenly they both yelped and drew back as a burning pain shot through their hands. Looking down, Kobie saw a rune made of light glowing on his right palm, and a similar glyph on Sonya’s. They looked up, expecting the statue to stop.

But it didn’t.

It continued to advance with swords raised, and now with a loud grinding crack more of the statues were breaking free of the wall, fiery swords casting flickering shadows across their expressionless stone faces. Soon they were surrounded - one of the statues hammered Kobie to the ground as another knocked Sonya’s staff out of her hands as she attempted to charge up a Bisingr. She drew her dagger but it just glanced off the statue’s marble skin and the statue smashed her to the floor. As it towered above her, blazing scimitar raised, she raised her arm towards it in an instinctive and futile defence.

There was a long pause. Slowly, Sonya opened her eyes and saw that the statue had frozen with its marble face turned towards the fiery rune on her palm. As one, the statues lowered their weapons and stepped back, while Sonya and Kobie climbed to their feet warily. Most of the statues returned to their places in the walls, swords of fire flickering out and blue torches springing back into life, looking as if they had never moved. Two of them however strode towards opposite sides of the chamber and swept their scimitars across the flat stone wall. The smooth rock seemed to melt away to reveal two dark passageways leading deeper into the temple. The statues stood aside as if inviting the Angels to enter.

“What now?” Sonya asked anxiously.

“Let’s go this way,” Kobie said, picking the tunnel on their left at random. The statue guarding it stood unmoving as Kobie stepped through the arch, but as Sonya tried to follow him it sprang forward to bar her path, its swords crossed in front of it. Sonya leapt back in alarm but the statue did not attack, but it didn’t move out of her way either.

“Hey!” Kobie shouted and tried to push past the statue to get back into the main chamber, but it blocked his way. Then Sonya noticed the symbol carved on the statue’s chest, which resembled an old man holding a staff.

“Ramuh…” she said to herself quietly, suddenly understanding why there were two passageways, then aloud, “I think you’re going to have to do this on your own, Feyd.”

Kobie nodded and reached past the statue to briefly place his hand over Sonya’s, then disappeared into the dark. The statue turned and waved its swords again, and the archway disappeared to again leave just a blank stone wall. The statue returned to its place in the wall, its swords flickering out to be replaced by torches, and remained motionless.

Sonya walked across the chamber to the other archway. As she had guessed, the statue guarding it had a carving of Tritoch on its chest and made no move to stop her as she stepped through the arch. Once she was through the statue swept its swords round and down just as the other had done, resealing the entrance and leaving Sonya in a dark corridor with a blank wall to her back as if the archway had never existed. She looked down at her hand, but the glowing rune that the pedestal had burned onto her palm had disappeared without a trace, leaving no mark on her skin.

She channelled an illumination spell into her staff, and it glowed to light her way as she proceeded cautiously down the tunnel.

<There you go - if you want to use this room feel free. Other ways in and out might exist that weren’t shown to Sonya and Kobie, and maybe the pedestal will magically disappear and be replaced with something specific to the next Angel that reaches it. I’ll post what happens to Sonya and Kobie next later - Kobie’s going to fight himself (wait and see!) and Sonya’s going to take on an elemental demon that only Tritoch can defeat>

Blurred vision.

No senses.

Nothing but the dragon.

Suddenly pain.

More running.

Spells cast. No ideas what ones.

A corridor!

Charge through the door.

A roar of rage.

More pain.

Engulfed in fire.

Then...nothing.

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Tanis sat down to asses the situation and try to remember whet happened with the dragon. EVentually he managed to piece it all together. After casting at the dragon Tanis turned and ran. But the dragon being so big had a hard time keeping up with an elf...especially because it had no room to use its wings. It had got him once though...once with the claws, nothing major, and then again with the fireball just before Tanis made it to safety. All in all he made it out with relatively little wounds. The slice would scar...but thats just another one to add to the collection.

"Well no reason to be staying here"

Tanis stood up and looking down the corridor - for the only other way was back to the dragon - felt the presence of another creature. Just as powerful as the dragon.

"Oh great...don't i always have the best times?"

Tanis paused - as if expecting an answer - but on hearing only silence began to walk.

Neji could feel the dark twisted power pouring out from the wicked creature, he looked deep in its grostesque eyes, it stood unmoving. Neji could feel it wandering in his mind once again but this time it was not in for information, Neji could feel a sharp pain in the back of his head and slowly it spread all through his head and became a sevear head ache, Neji gripped his head and feel to his knees in the pain, looking up at the creature he barked

"I know what you'r trying to do and it won't work, i'm not the only one inhabits this body,"

Deep in Neji's head the creature heard the sound of cage open with a great creek.

"Diablos kick it out!"

The gates suddenly swung open and Diablos burst out and looked blades with creature inside Neji's head. Meanwhile on the outside the black markings spread through Neji body and the dark energy swirled around him, he realeased a blast of dark energy which the creature nimbly dodged and charged at Neji, clashing its blades with Naji's blade.

The battle raged on and no matter what Neji tried he couldn't seem to land a hit on the creature but Neji however had taken a number of cuts from its many blades, but all was not as bad Diablos had succeeded on routing the creature inside his Neji's head and knocked him out while he was off balance. During the fight the creature revealed another one of its fightening abilitys, it could stretch its limps to attack Neji from some distance, the force in which its blade arm and nails was launched was enough to power straight through the walls.

Neji fought hard against the creature and with a mighty swing forced it to jump back some distance, it immediatly countered by launching its blade but swifty Neji side stepped it and charge at it from the inside of its arm, he thrusted foward but it raised its hands and by trapping his sword inbetween its nails it forced Neji's sword down towards the ground crashing in it the ground causing the ground to crack, using his free hand Neji drew one of his pistols and shot a hole straight through the creatures chest, yet it still stood their uneffected by the mighty shot.

"No way! that should of gone straight through you'r heart,"

Neji examined the inside of the hole in the creature and noticed that inside of it was nothing but dark energy, the creature was pure evil energy so powerful that it has taken a physical form. The creature lunged at Neji with its blade and nails, Neji was able to tangle the blades with his but the force that creature put behind the attack was enough to push Neji back right into the wall, the creature continued to push against Neji's sword causing him to dig into the wall further, in order to gain some leverage Neji lifted his foot and pushed it hard against the creature face, yet it continued to push even with Neji's boot in its face forcing it to leen back. The blades of the creature were slowly got closer and closer to Neji's neck, Melina coming to his aid summoned the Magus sisters who with a surprise attack forced the creature back. The four surronded the creature on all sides, they now clearly had the advantage yet it did not back down, from all angles it met the attacks of all four without taking a single hit, Sandy the stongest of the Magus sisters and Neji came close but their attacks mearly passed through the creature as it explouded in a haze of black smoke and quickly reform to continue the battle.

It seemed to have no weakness and Mindy was soon brought down after being impaled by its five nails, eventually the three remaining discovered a weakness when Cindy tried to launch a powerful wateraga attack, the creature paniced as the attack narrowly missed him, Sandy them followed up with her Razia attack (i think thats it) and once again the creature paniced and dodged the attack, they continued to fight hard but this time involving magical attacks Neji tried on several attempts to use the lighting edge but the creature immediatly realising the danger of the attack dodged them skillfully, the more near misses the creature had the more angry it became, its attack became more powerful and more deadly, Neji and the ramaining two Magus sister where out matched, Sandy and Cindy where thrown against a wall and left in a daze leaving Neji to face its full fury alone, getting pushed further and further back Neji tried desperately to fend off the attacks but was powerless against it. After being pummeled to the ground the creature raised its blade to finish him off, in an effort to avoid a killing blow Neji raised his arm and took the attack, the sharp blade tore straight through Neji's arm, it flu off and land next to Melina, she let out a terrified scream. Neji roared in agony as he gripped what was left of his arm blood pouring out of it and over his hand.

"MY ARM!! THE BASTARD TOOK MY ARM!!" He roared

It laughed mockenly at Neji as he gritted his teeth and roared in the pain. It once again hell bent on causing pain on Neji it launched two of its nails which impaled in Neji's shoulders, and lunged him against the wall holding him place, Neji looked it in the eyes with a strong will not showing any fear, the creature raised its blade arm to finish Neji off it pulled its arm back but as it went to finish him off something held it back tugging at its arm.

He turned around to see Melina gripped onto its arm trying to pull it away from Neji, angerly it swapped her back and realeased Neji, turning to Melina it walked up to her slowly planning on eliminating the nusence, Melina picked up Neji's sword and held it bravely with a determind look. The remaining Magus sisters soon came to their senses and saw their master Melina in danger they charged foward to attack from behind, but the creature quickly turned around and strectched its limps forward the nails impaled Sandy while the blade impailed Cindy, but instead of disappearing in a hail of pryflies like normal the Magus sister still remained, they looked up at the creature a thin trail of blood coming from their mouths, they gripped his arm to keep it in place. The creature looked inbetween them and saw a blue light crackle like lighting through the nights sky from where Neji was, he could see clearly that Neji was powering up another Lightning edge with his remaining hand.

"No thats not enough to finish him, i need more power," Neji poured more power into the lighting edge.

"more, more!" the blue light crew larger and larger until it burst into a fiery red colour, it crackled with sound of a thousand birds chirping at the same time, loose energy shot from it breaking into the walls, Neji charge forward, towards the creature he ran inbetween the Magus sister who held it still, he thrusted forward his hand effortlessly tearing through its face, it roared as the red light split through its body until it eventually explouded with a termendous rumble. 

The force of the evil energy being explouding into an oblivion knocked Neji well back. With a smile the Magus sister burst into pyrflies and dissappeared just like the creature.

Melina ran towards Neji and wrapped a bandage round what was left of Neji's arm and together with Diablos from the inside managed to stop the bleeding and save Neji's life.

Melina helped Neji to his feet and the room lit up with a burst of fire and at the other end of the room the wall opened up into a corridor. Neji gripped his sword with his remaining hand and swung his arm around Melina's shoulder, his sword dangling facing the ground, they travelled down the dark corridor wondering where it would lead them.

-- Edited by The Underdog at 15:12, 2006-04-22

Melina assited Neji down another long dark corridor lit only by the faint light coming from many dying torches along the walls, after walking for some distance they came to another open room just like the one before.

"This is the same room we were in before, have we been going round in circles," Neji said irritated

"no, look around Neji. after you'r battle with that shape shifter the last room was left in quite a mess, but this room is looks as if its hasn't seen action in along time."

"very observant lady summoner," a voice came from behind them.

Neji turned around quickly, expecting another shape shifter, but was surprised when a beautiful women, dressed in grand robes which seemed to cling to her shapely figure stepped into the light, Neji dazed in her beauty lowered his guard and stared at her in awe. Melina not looking pleased stepped forward to confront this women.

"Who are you?" she demanded

"I am Alana, High summoner since before the times of Yunalesca, even before the times of High Summoner Yevon,"

"High Summoner Yevon?"

"Do you not know the tale? on how Yevon and Sin came into being,"

"Yes 1000 years ago when Bevelle was in war with Zanarkand, we used powerful Machina in the war killing many, which was a great Sin, and from those sins, Sin was born, he destroyed all Machina, and Zanarkand along with it and continues to destroy the land, but the teachings from the god Yevon passed onto the ruler of Zanarkand at the time, Yunalesca she told us of how to beat Sin with was a summoners pilgramage, and if we dont use Machina we will aton for our Sins and Sin will disappear,"

Alana laughed "Yevon a god? Yevon was my Son he was the ruler of Zanarkand during the Zanarkand Bevelle war, and Yunalesca was his daughter, he created Sin to defeat Yevon in the war,"

Melina looked shocked. "Why do you look so surprised lady summoner, it appears that the Maestors have not told you all the truth,"

"And thats why they must all be destroyed!" Neji barked

Alana approached Neji with a smile and stroked his cheek, "that attitude, it reminds me of my husband, oh how i miss him, he died in the war against Bevelle,"

Melina stepped in and dragged Neji away from the temperest, a smile appeared on her face.

"Listen closely, and I will tell you the really story on how Sin was created,"

(Yay, history lesson)

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One thousand years ago, there was a great war between the cities of Zanarkand and Bevelle. Yevon, Zanarkand's ruler, could see that his city's summoners were no match for Bevelle's machina, but he was unwilling to allow his city to be swallowed up into the pages of history. He devised a plan to preserve Zanarkand's memory for all eternity, even if he could not save the city itself.

At Yevon's order, most of the surviving common citizens and summoners of Zanarkand gave up their lives to become fayth, whom Yevon would then use to conjure a summoned form of Zanarkand, using their memories as the basis for this massive summon. This summoned replica of the city was to be an ideal paradise, removed from conflict and those who may infringe upon this city of memories. This summoned version of the real Zanarkand is sometimes called "Dream Zanarkand"' to differentiate it from the original Spiran city which has been lying abandoned in ruins for the last one thousand years.

In order to accomplish this, Yevon manifested the city out at sea in an undisclosed location, far removed from the Spiran mainland and the warmongering Bevelle. Further, to prevent technology from allowing Bevelle or anyone else to easily locate his summoned city, and to protect himself while he summoned it, he created a magic armor. Yevon used gravity magic to surround himself with pyreflies and used them to create an invincible armor that would terrorize Spira for one thousand years: The monster known as "Sin." This armor would not only protect Yevon while he summoned Dream Zanarkand, but he also "programmed" it to attack areas with high populations and advanced technology, thus, bringing technological progress to a halt and keeping the people of the mainland from giving much thought to what may lay far out at sea.

Unfortunately for Yevon now known as Yu Yevon, meaning "the Curse of Yevon", maintaining his summoned city and creating Sin was a greater strain on his human mind than even he – who was considered peerless amongst summoners – could handle. His humanity faded from him and all that was left was the instinct to maintain Dream Zanarkand's order, and to protect himself. Sin's first act as an instinctual beast, "programmed" to destroy advanced technology, was to decimate the original Zanarkand. Sin would terrorize Spira's citizens for a millennium.

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"So thats how Sin truely came into being,"

"yes the teachings of Yevon, brought in by his daughter Yunalesca, is just a ray of hope for the people of Spira, so the death cycle can continue, and Yevon's rath can continue, whenever you preform a final summoning you only destroy the armor, and Yevon remains alive, it doesnt take him long to rebuild Sin and continue his rampage,"

dishearted Melina said "Neji, you were right about everything, I was just sacrifings myself for a pointless cause,"

Neji put his arm around Melina to comfort her, Melina looked up, determination in her eyes.

"But I won't stop my summoner ways, I will find another way to defeat Sin, Neji I want to travel with you and the others I want to help the Angels anyway I can,"

Neji smiled, "I know when you get that look in you'r eye their aint nothing a can say to stop, very well, but don't forget about the welfare of our unborn child,"

Melina placed her hand and her stomach, "Don't worry, it's my inspiration, I want to bring it into a world without Sin,"

Alana smiled, "very admirable, summoner but don't forget, you are in my world right now, and you wish to destroy my son,"

Neji raised his Sword, and Melina got ready to summon an Aeon.

"We thank you for the information on Sin, but if we have to fight you we will, we won't hold back,"

"Very brave, but i'm not much of a fighter, I wish only for a new husband, and then my soul may rest,"

"a husband?"

"yes, and i've made my choice, I want you Neji,"

Melina stepped in "No way! you can have anyone one you want but not the father of my child,"

"really? I think Neji, sees things differenly,"

Melina turned to Neji, he store blankly at Alana, a purple haze swirling his eyes, Melina called out to him but her calls fell on deaf ears.

"Come, my love," Alana held her out her hand and slowly Neji walked up to her dragging his sword with him.

"No Neji!" Still Melina received no answear. Melina stood in Neji's way trying to push him back, angerly Alana called out.

"Get rid of her, now," Neji raised his sword and with his one arm swung at Melina heavly.  Melina closed her eyes and cowered, Neji quickly coming to his sense stopped his attack.

"No! I can't hurt Melina!"

"do it!"

"NO!" Neji yelled and he dropped his sword and help Melina in his one arm.

"very well, if I can't have you, nobody can!" Alana cast a powerful spell, slowly starting at Neji's feet his body turned to stone, Melina jumped back in horror. Neji tried with all his strength to fight the spell but eventually he was completely enguffed in the stone, and stoodn their frozen in time, Melina weeped at his feet, calling out to him.

"Its a shame to let such a handsome man die, if you want back so badly then complete this summoner trial," Alana pointed at the wall and it opened up into another corridor.

"There is an artifact down that corridor, it is the most dangerous summoner trail, and nobody has returned from it alive...not even me, if you can bring it back I will realease the spell,"

With those words Alana disappeared in a flurry of pryflies. Melina wiping away her tears and gathering her strength, headed towards the tunnel.

"Don't worry Neji, I'll get you back,"

(occ whats trials face Melina, you'll have to wait and find out)

(occ - kinda long but it's funny, i get my payback by landing on Tanis and find my silly little end of trial prize :D lol alright, your turn!)

The dark corridor went on forever, Fariel ran her blades down each wall, hoping that there would be an off passage, eventually it got slightly lighter but only enough to see a few feet ahead of her.

“Leviathan, give me some help here. What am I doing here…? Leviathan?” she sighed, the water serpent was ignoring her again. “Fine, I’m not talking to you either then.” She laughed then it got a little lighter again, “I swear this is the last time I ever let Tanis drag us anywhere….I wonder what he’s doing, he’s probably already found his way out, the rest of them as well. I’m probably the only poor sap stuck in here. How much you wanna bet they’ve left me here?” Still silence.

Her blades left the walls as they disappeared from her sides, again she found herself in a large room like the one previously and torches in each corner flared to life and the centre of the room was a pedestal. Walking in a wide circle towards it she kept her distance, swords raised expecting something to jump out at her or something generally horrible to happen. A group of pyraflies appeared from the pedestal and started to spin around it until she couldn’t see the pedestal at all.
Then the pyraflies rose up above it and crashed into the ground ahead of it, a figure rising up from them in flowing blue and white robes, a woman, with blue markings down the sides of her face and neck, and pointed ears.

Typical, another elf.

“Hello Lady Fariel, I’ve been waiting for you.”

“Who are you?” Fariel snapped staying back.

“I am Lady Rayne, and you are the one chosen by Leviathan as you proved in the trail.”

“Yeah, me and Leviathan are partners, what’s your point?”

“If you weren’t you would be dead. In the first trail you summoned him to your aid, which proves that you are the chosen one. The second trail will confirm it. Step up to the pedestal please.”

“Why should I?”

“Because it’s your destiny.”

Fariel muttered a few curses and sheathed her swords wearily, inching closed and stepped up to the pedestal. Surprisingly four silver bracelets had appeared with a blue gem on each.

“Now what do you want me to do?”

“Put them on, if you truly are the chosen one they won’t kill you.”

“Well then I guess I’m not dying today then.”

Fariel picked up the first bracelet and put it around her arm, nothing happened, and let out the breath she had been holding without noticing, she put on the second and still nothing happened. Two for arms, two for legs, she assumed and taking the other two put them around her shins and slid them down under her boots.
She jumped back as they suddenly extended, the tops of her lower arm were covered in the silver, like bracers, the same happened on her leg’s the bracelets became shin guards.
Smiling she looked at Rayne, who’s expression hadn’t changed, instead she burst into the pyraflies again and started to circle the pedestal again , the ground rumbling again as she inched back away from the pedestal, the pyraflies shot towards her like a shockwaves from an explosion and sent her flying backwards and skidding across the floor.

Growling she got onto all fours and pushed up onto what she was expecting to be her knees but fell back forwards again, confused she looked around, everything seemed slightly bigger, looking down at her hands she gasped as she saw paw’s, large grey paws.
Eyes wide she turned her head to look at herself, she wasn’t her anymore, a tail waved backwards and forwards at the base of her back and she whimpered, the silver bracers still sat around her arms and leg’s, although they were all leg’s now.

“Rayne, what the frak did you do to me! I’m a dog!”

“No you are a wolf.” Rayne corrected her reappearing at the pedestal.

“Wow what a difference! What did you do?!” she barked, “Oh sweet unsent yevon on a pogo stick…Change me back”

“You can change back at any time Fariel, this is the power of the bracers, they have heightened you senses in everyway, perfect for a thief, no?”

“What? You mean, I can like, shape shift…?”

“Into any animal in which you desire, but you can’t take off the bracelets Fariel, they are now as much as you as Leviathan is.”

“Me, a shape shifter…? I’m like something out of a story book!” she yipped, “This is excellent, just think if I have the hearing and smell of a wolf or the wings of a bird, or something weird like that, I could rob anyone and everything around!” she jumped up and down and started walking towards Rayne, shakily, “Gonna take walking on these um, paws, getting used to though.”

Looking up at Rayne, she nodded her head, “Good luck Lady Fariel.”

Fariel bowed, “Thank you.”

Rayne burst into pyraflies and disappeared into the pedestal which shook and lowered into the ground, leaving a wide hole in the ground.

Peering down her muzzle at the hole in the ground she smiled, as much as a wolf could, and looked back at the passage she had travelled down.

“Guess I’m going down again…” she sighed, “Someone fat get in my way!” she yelled jumping down the hole.

oo0oo

Tanis had reached the large room and paused in the centre as he heard, a distant yelling, looking around he drew his katana, standing his ground he waited.
He yelped and fell to the ground under the things weight as it fell atop of him, his katana escaping his grasp and spinning across the floor, pushing the complaining creature off he launched across the floor, grabbed his blade and stood ready keeping a distance from the creature.

“Son’ova…” Fariel cursed getting onto her paws again and looking around, seeing Tanis she grinned, “Tanis! Finally, I thought I would never find you guys, where are the others?”

Tanis stayed wide of her as she stepped closer, not sure what to make out of the large wolf in front of him, “Stay back fiend!” she snapped.

“Fiend? I ain’t no fiend you idiot!” she retorted, Tanis not believing it and lashing out with his blade, Fariel jumping back to avoid them and running around behind him as he spun around to see her again, “Tanis for frak sake what are you doing!” she yelled but he only responded in a Bisingr towards her, “Oh frak! Waterga!” she yelled back and to her surprise it actually worked, a wave of water burst out and slowed the spell but didn’t stop it as steam filled the room, jumping out the way as the remains of the spell crashed into the wall behind where she was standing, “Tanis!” she growled, “For yevon’s sake stop attacking me! I know your annoyed I fell on ya but its just fair! You always fall out the sky on me!” She barked, Tanis stopping and stepping back.

“Fariel?” He asked in disbelief

“Congratulations Mr. Obvious. Stop attacking me!”

“How could you possibly be Fariel, your trickery won’t work on me. Prove it!” he demanded.

“You’re a dick.” she retorted, Tanis looking at her sideways and she did a spin for him.

“Fariel what happened to you?”

“Isn’t it cool! Some elf gave me these funny bracelets which turned out to be bracers which give me the power to shape shift! Then she opened up the way out the room and that’s when I fell on you and you frakking well attack me!”

“Sorry Fariel, but you don’t look like you.”

“Well who do I look like, Kobie?”

“Fariel you’re a wolf?”

“I know, I haven’t quite figured out how to change into a different form yet. I’m just trying to find the others and get out of here, so c’mon.”

“No Fariel, I haven’t finished yet. You go on your own and find the others I will join you soon.”

“Oh, alright, well I’ll see ya back outside then!” she smiled running off down the corridor he had entered by.

(occ - you know you loved it Fenix ;) lol All those pisstake ideas, and film rip offs, all there :p lol there has to be some peice of bad writing somewhere, you can make it look cool in your book but the anime is going to be funny :p lol)

-- Edited by [BOSS]Asreal at 16:02, 2006-04-28

(very long, maybe i shouldnt do these things in a word doc, i get 2 carried away)

 

Melina walked down the dark corridor cautiously, as she got deeper and deeper, things became darker and darker until she couldn’t even see her hand in front of her face. She leaned against the wall feeling her away down. It seemed to go on and on without stopping she often wondered just how big the corridor was, she was tempted to summon the fire Aeon Ifrit, but feared that the sudden fiery light which radiates from him may grab the attention creature which may live this darkness. With that thought she soon got the feeling that maybe something had already spotted her and was stalking her down the corridor, she hastened her down in fear, daring not summoning Ifrit, nor going back.

 

Curiosity and fear finally got the better of her and she summoned Ifrit. The aeon burst out the ground lighting the corridor instandly with its fiery glow, Melina shielding her eyes from sudden change of brightness, but soon gained focus again. She turned around nervously but was glad to see nothing was behind her, she examined the corridor its was quiet big, big enough for Ifrit the move around freely, but not big enough for the likes of Bahamut or Anima to fit in. Together with Ifrit they walked down the corridor until they came across a large room. At the other end was a great door with the image of Valefor, on the foot of the door was an inscription which said;

 

“only those who have mastered all light Aeons may pass,” (when I say light I mean everyone but Anima since she’s a dark Aeon).

 

In the centre of the room was a circle, again with the image of Valefor on it, curious Ifrit walked onto the image only to fade away in a hail of Pyr flies. The room was once again Dark upon Ifrits disappearance. Knowing exactly what to do Melina summoned Valefor, the giant feathered bird with a chain of rings coming down from one of its wings, Valefor rested on the image of itself, the entire room lit up brighter than Ifrit ever could as a magical light residing from Valefor brightened up the great door and lit the massive torches surrounding the room.

 

The door creeped opened out of it came another Valefor but this one unlike the original was coloured black and grey as opposed from the regular colours of Red and blue. Valefor was usually a gentle creature but this one had an evil glint in its eyes, it charged at Melina’s Valefor, which was forced into engaging its evil counter part in a great aerial battle. Both Valefors released a flurry of energy rays and sonic wings attacks at each other but they seemed to cancel each other out. Both Valefors were equal in their normal attacks, so Melina gave the order to Valefor to use attacks which were not natural to it, this was were Melina’s true skills as a summoner showed themselves she had taught her Aeons moves that they wouldn’t normally learn in order to give her the edge in battles. Valefor cast haste on itselfs and began circling the dark Valefor rapidly, the slower Valefor got dizzy from tracking its movements and was knocked hard on the ground by Melina’s Valefors sonic wings attack. Ascending high up in the room, it prepared itself to launch its Energy Blast attack. The dark Valefor noticing this charged quickly towards Melina’s but charged straight into the powerful attack instantly killing it.

 

Melina dismissed Valefor then proceeded through the great, it opened out into another massive room just like the one she was just in, the same type of great door and the same circle on the floor but this time it was Ifrit’s picture on the door and floor. Melina summoned Ifrit once again, and the same thing as what happened in the previous room happened here, the doors opened up and out came a dark fired Ifrit. The two engaged in an awesome fire fight, dark flames collided with light, sparking out into multi coloured embers. The dark Ifrit lit up for a mighty hell’s fire attack, it charged relentlessly at Melina’s Ifrit, but it was countered when Melina’s cast slow on Ifrit. It ran in slow motion giving Ifrit plenty of time to side step the attack. Dark Ifrit was at the mercy of Melina’s and it continued to toy with it’s opponent until Melina stepped in reminding him that they were in a hurry and to finish it off. Ifrit released it’s Inferno attack, it enguffed its opponent in a mighty ball of fire, causing it to rocket into the air, he released another blast of fire which greatly increased the mass of flames, before it finally finished it off by picking up a chunk of the ground and hurled it at it’s defeated opponent. (I’m just gonna sum up the other fights)

 

The other rooms provided similar results, the two Ixion’s collided in an awesome show of electrical prowess until Melina’s cast Wateraga an attack which is rarely seem used by an electrical monster, before finishing it off with a powerful Thor’s hammer attack made even more powerful due to the fact the target was wet.

 

Ice clashed with Ice as Shiva and Dark Shiva launched highly sharp icicles at each other and collided fist to fist in a great show of agility, Melina’s won the fight by casting Reflect on itself turning the dark Shiva’s heavenly strike against her, leaving Melina’s Shiva with ample time to cast Diamond Dust, the power not only frozen her opponent but the entire room. Finally with a quick flick of the beautiful Aeons finger the ice shattered, shattering her opponent with it.

 

But the most explosive battle was Bahamut versus Dark Bahamut, the room they fought in was much bigger than the other rooms in order to satisfy the most powerful of Aeons. Their claws clashed and the Impulse attacks collided with each other leaving creators in the ground. Melina’s Bahamut used the ability boost to greatly boost its fighting potential the Dark Bahamut, completely out matched was forced to unleash its Mega Flare attack, Melina’s Bahamut contered with its Mega Flare the power was humongous the entire room shook but when the dust settled it was Melina’s who stood triumphant.

 

Dark Yojimbo and Yojimbo clashed blades many times until Melina’s summoned a second sword called Zanmato which split the Dark Yojimbo in two with a single slash.

 

And finally the Magus Sisters fought a gruelling three v three battle until all that was left standing was the Sandy’s. They fought hard for along time until Melina’s finally won with an outside interference from Melina who cast protect on her summoning to aid in the battle.

 

Finally Melina came to the end of her trials, she found herself once again walking down a long dark tunnel, but this time she could see a light she rushed over to light. With a great flash of light Melina found herself gazing upon a glowing summoners staff. It stood on a pedestal illuminating the surrounding areas, the staff was long and white, the top was shaped as a golden half moon, with red magical pearl in the middle. Slowly she walked up to it, she tried to read the text on the pedestal, but it was written in a text she had never seen before, it was not Al’bed nor was it Elfish, she picked up the staff, it was light yet appeared very durable, she could sense the magical entities radiating from the staff and as she wielded it she could feel it enhance her magical and physical abilities.

 

“Yes! Yes! I did it! I did it! Hold on Neji I’m coming,” she shouted with delight, but as she did the pedestal crumbled to the ground, revealing a door which appeared to be a camber of the faith behind it. Melina walked cautiously in and prayed to the faith. Before her appeared, what looked like a wise old women, upon closer exception Melina could see clearly the pointing ears of an elf.

 

“Well done young summoner, you have passed the trails and thus have earned the rite of that staff you carry,”

 

“Thank you very much, ancient faith,”

 

“I am Eden, a faith long forgotten for over 5,000 years,”

 

“5,000!? Faith existed back then?”

 

“Yes, the practise of summonings has existed for many thousands of years; I am from a time of great turmoil and pain,”

 

“Please wise faith share this knowledge with me,”

 

“over 5,000 years ago, before Zanarkand even existed their was a powerful creature called Penance who terrorised the world which is now known as Spira, the temple you are in now is all that is left of the once great city of Atellier I was the faith that resides here, over time I have updated the temple so the next generation of summoners could make it to me, it was also made to train the avenging angels,”

 

“Avenging angels, you mean Neji and all the others, have their arrival been predicted from over 5,000 years”

 

“So they are the new Avenging Angels then?”

 

“New?”

 

“Yes over the generations their has been many Avenging Angels, the aeons that reside in them were all previous Avenging Angels, Just like the cycle of death it goes on and on,”

 

“Please go on, I must know the truth,”

 

“Very well summoner but this main take awhile, make yourself comfortable,”

 

(to be continued, ive got an idea for another rp after this one, btw Penance is the Boss you get to fight after you beat all the Dark Aeons he’s only in the International version and he’s 1 millions times tougher than the Dark Aeons)

<ooc - Meh, I'm really gonna have to screw around with the order of these posts in the novel but I couldn't think of any cool stuff for Kobie to do at the moment so here's the rest of Sonya's adventure instead>

After taking a minute to regain her composure, Sonya relit her staff and followed the large tunnel the demon had come from. It ended in two double-doors covered in ornate carvings, which swung open loudly as she approached. Beyond was another vast room, and the walls of this one seemed to just keep going up and up towards a ceiling that was shrouded in a pale blue mist.

I think you can guess what the challenge here is, Sonya, said a familiar voice inside her head.

She smiled, and closed her eyes to summon Tritoch. The Aeon hazed into life above her in a crackling halo of elemental energies and looked at her with penetrating eyes. She jumped up onto Tritoch’s back and immediately he spread his wings and leapt upward, leaving a trail of fire and ice in his wake. Sonya held on tightly as they corkscrewed up into the mist, and then they were through it and Tritoch was turning in the air and swooping down to land on a slowly spinning shelf of rock that floated in midair a few metres above the mist.

“Thanks, Tritoch.” she said to the Aeon, then turned to look at a silver mirror drifting beyond the rocky shelf in midair, orbiting it at the same languid speed the shelf itself was rotating at, runic letters picked out in gold filigree around its frame. They were not in the Common Tongue, nor were they in elvish, so she could not read them. Just in front of the mirror floated a pedestal, upon which something was glowing brightly. She looked doubtfully at the mirror and the pedestal, and at the empty air in between. It was clear she was meant to get to it, but it was also much too far to jump. She turned to the waiting Aeon, wondering if he could fly her over towards the mirror, but as if anticipating her question Tritoch shook his noble aquiline head.

This I cannot help you with, Angel. You must do this alone.

“But there’s no way I can get over there without your help! I thought the point of these trials was that only the Avenging Angels and the First Aeons could complete them?”

They are, but some parts of the trials the Angels must complete without our help. Have you seen the inscription on the mirror?

“Yes, but I can’t read it.”

I know - it is the language of Atellier, a language dead for nearly five millennia. But I can translate it for you.

“What does it say?”

‘And the Avenging Angel will look into her own eyes, see herself for what she is, and her faith will carry her towards the prize.’

Had it been anyone but Tritoch, Sonya would have asked if they were being serious. She walked gingerly to the edge of the platform opposite the mirror. Below her the mist swirled. She looked back at Tritoch, who nodded encouragingly, then ahead at the mirror, reflecting her uncertain-looking face.

‘And the Avenging Angel…’ she repeated to herself in her mind, I’m an Avenging Angel.

She looked at the mirror, reflecting her elf-made travelling clothes, her mage’s staff, and behind her, Tritoch watching silently.

Yeah, I’m an Avenging Angel, she thought and, very slowly, put one foot forward and stepped out into thin air. She felt her foot come to rest on something solid. Not daring to take her eyes off the mirror lest it break the spell, she lifted her other foot and stepped completely off the platform. She didn’t fall.

She stood there for a second, her breathing fast and shallow, then risked a glance down at her feet. There was no visible walkway, just the mist roiling silently below her. She was glad that it concealed exactly how far up they were. She was walking on air!

Suddenly she laughed and looked back at Tritoch with a wild smile of amazement. The great bird smiled back with its eyes before dissolving into a swarm of Pyraflies and disappearing.

She walked forward, getting more confident with each step, until she reached the pedestal and saw that the glowing object was a silver ring etched with microscopic runes, several tiny gemstones of varying colour set into the metal. She picked it up and immediately felt the power radiating from it. Magical energy seemed to swirl around it and course through her as se slipped it onto the third finger of her right hand. If her ordinary wooden staff had served as a focus for her elemental magic, then this master-crafted ring would surely increase its potential by a huge amount.

She looked at it for a second, marvelling at the workmanship and the detail of the tiny runes, then wondered how she was going to get down from this invisible walkway back into the temple. The obvious solution almost made her laugh. She gripped her staff tightly and let herself fall off the walkway.

The air roared past her as she fell through the mist and towards the stone floor of the cavernous room far below. The room was so huge she fell for a good ten seconds before getting anywhere near the floor, so she just spread her arms, her cloak streaming behind her, half petrified and half exhilarated by what she was doing. As the floor rushed up to meet her she cast Aero and was stunned by the new force of the spell and the ease of casting her new ring granted her. She had only meant to slow her descent but the sudden hurricane actually blasted her upwards before she got control of it and allowed it to twirl her gently downwards like a windblown leaf. She used Anistara the elvish ice spell, to summon a glittering slide which she used to foot-surf safely to the floor.

“I wonder how Feyd’s getting on with his trial?” she asked herself.

I’m sure he’s fine Sonya, Tritoch’s voice said inside her mind, Look - a way out.

Pushing her hair out of her eyes she saw a new door had appeared in the far wall. Calling again on Tritoch’s Farsight she looked along the tunnel, her vision flying weightlessly along its twisting corridor, and saw that it ended in a round room lit by guttering torches. The torchlight flickered off a one-armed statue in the centre of the room, and she gasped when she saw the statue’s face.

“Oh Yevon, it’s Neji!”

Not seeing Melina, Kobie, or any of the others anywhere she snapped her eyes open to cancel the spell and began to run towards the door, but just as she passed through the archway there was a bright flash and she found herself sprawling in the sand at the foot of the stone obelisk that had transported them into the temple in the first place.

She saw the airship ahead and rolled onto her back to scramble to her feet and call for help, but then she froze as she saw the giant wolf-fiend standing over her.

<ooc - “Boo!” says Fariel XD >

Over 5000 years ago their was once an evil Tyrant called Penance, he led his army to conjure the world, his power was great, neither we or the elves could stand up him, yet the power he had, he believed he could become stronger and guested to find this power. One by one he destroyed the temples of the planet and taking the power of the faith for himself.

In order to combat this threat more and more people sacrivesed themselfs to become faith to combat this villian, but all was in vain and they added to his power until eventually he changed, he became a giant monster far stronger and bigger than Sin and he continued his rampage.

Every summoner on the Planet gathered into one great army and marched against him one last time, even the gods of Aeons stepped in; Ramuh, Tritoch, Diablos and Levithan. It was a gruling battle but it ended in complete defeat for the allied forces, all gods lost their lifes in the battle and all hope was lost, until this city remained the last standing of all the great citys, the great minds of this temple came up with a plan, they infused the essences of the gods into citizens of this city, they became the Avenging Angels and were our last line of defence against him, time and time again they failed and thus new Angels were born to continue the fight for years this cycle continued until a fifth Angel was created by the elves to aid, the fifth would have no god but would receive great power to fight on level tirms with the Angels.

In the final battle the five angels managed to seal Penance with a powerful spell, with his last ownce of strenghth Penance destroyed this city so all that remained was this temple and our people and our ancient ways went down with it, the surviving summoners went on to found Zanarkand and the elves suffering serious damage at the end of the war went back into hiding then took the storys of Penace with them as with the theroy with Penance returning and thus the world began to reapair itself, as a fail safe Angels would continue to be reborn until Penance is truly destroyed.

When Sin came into being the elfs edited the storys of Penace and changed the enemy to Sin and planned on using the Angels to destroy Sin but they had no way of finding these angels until one is born in their community then they could track down the others and it appears that one eventually was.

And that my child is story of the avenging Angels and the true enemy we should fear would one day return.

Melina sat back to acknowledge what she has just learned until Eden looked at her oddly.

"The child you'r carrying, is the father an Avenging Angels,"

Melina nodded happyily "Neji, host to Diablos,"

"interesting,"

Melina looked confused, Eden relising Melina's confuse explained herself, "an Avenging Angel has never had a child before, they were forbinned as they had a higher purpose, also the changes the Aeons made to their bodys made them infertile,"

"But it can't anyone else," Melina explained

"Yes child I can feel the power of Diablos coming from the child, this is indeed odd, that child must survive! Summoner I shall join you as you'r faith and protect the child,"

Melina nodded in agreement and the faith fused with Melina's body, gathering her composure Melina rose from her praying postition and walked the chamber, new staff held in hand and down the dark corridor back to Neji. The staff shone with a bright holy light which lit the way for Melina allowing her for a comfortable walk back.