Aldea: The Untold Legend

[Mercen-X]

Aldea: The Untold Legend

In a realm, now long forgotten by men, there was a land by the name of Aldea. This land was divided into eight kingdoms, each of a different element.
At the center of each kingdom, there was a sword, and each sword possessed the elemental powers of its kingdom. These Elemental Swords of Aldea each protected its region from falling into chaos and ultimately destroying itself.
The land of Aldea prospered for many ages. Until one day, there came into being, a ninth kingdom. The Kingdom of Shadows, whose ruler, the Dark King, known only as Abyss, created eight warriors from the darkness. Each warrior was born of an element, the same as the eight kingdoms. The Dark King then sent to each kingdom one warrior, known as a Shadownaut, to conquer the land and obtain the Elemental Sword therein.
But the Kingdom of Light, being a land of Purity, was well protected... for no evil could enter that holy land. Therefore, the Shadownaut that was sent there... was destroyed.
But... the other kingdoms were not as fortunate......
The other Shadownauts were successful in conquering the Kingdoms. The Guardian of each kingdom was slain and with the Elemental Swords now in the hands of evil, each kingdom fell into darkness.

However, all hope was not lost......

The unaffected Kingdom of Light was Aldea's last hope.
The kingdom’s Guardian chose four warriors to go forth and defeat the Shadownauts, restore peace to the kingdoms, and finally venture into the mysterious Ninth Kingdom of Darkness to uncover its secrets; to discover where it had come from, whom really was the King of Darkness, and to put an end to this chaos... once and for all.

As the four warriors, Zack, Rain, James, and Sokoru, headed into the unknown dangers of the newly chaotic world, the Dark King, Abyss, worked toward the creation of a powerful weapon: the Sword of Darkness which would allow him to cut through the very light that denied him.

The first stop for the warriors was the realm of wind, Cyclos. The citizens of this land were all playful and quick even despite the darkness now presiding over them.

[Mercen-X]

James looks around this busy place and shifts about. "These are an oppressed people?"

Rain stepped up. "It is a difficult task: suppressing the cheer of a Cyclonian."

James smiled at the thought. "Sounds like being a Cyclonian is pretty good."

[Mireille]

"We should keep our guard up," Sokoru said, looking around nervously, "They seem...too, happy to be under the control of darkness..."

[Mercen-X]

"Just be friendly." James said with a smile.

Rain looked abroad to a group of Cyclonians playing on the irregular pathway. She took on a look of subtle discomfort.

"Hey. Locals." James turned to the others and said, "C'mon, let's mingle," before sauntering down the road.

[Mireille]

Sokoru rolled her eyes and followed.

[Ffgrandmaster]

"I'm not to much on talking" mutters Zack. "I'm gonna go find something to eat." Zack enters a building with a big sign labeled free food. "Free food?! where is it? The building is empty. "Oh well..." Zack leaves the building and enters another building labeled food. "There is no one here either..." Zack walks out into the street and screams "Where is everybody... I'm hungry!" Zack then realizes that the streets are full of people looking at him oddly. "Uhh.... sorry..." Zack walks down the street catching up with the others realizing that they too are looking at him oddly. "What did I do?" asks Zack puzzled

[Mercen-X]

"Those buildings are out of business." A Cyclonian says quickly in a snide tone. "We don't bother relabeling our shops here 'cause that's boring. Those buildings will be used for something . . . once we think of it. Right now, we're busy."

James looks at the Cyclo, confused. "Busy with what?"

The Cyclonian looks at James as if he'd been living under a rock. "Whatever we want, of course."

"Aren't you the least bit concerned about the dark warrior who has taken over your kingdom?" James asks.

"Why should we care? We're Cyclonians. As long as Abyss doesn't get in our way, we're fine. In fact, Sid turned over our territory to Fu without any conflict or compromise."

"Sid? Fu?" James said, confused.

"Sid is our kingdom's guardian. Fu is the dark warrior sent here by Abyss."

"You know, you'll eventually be made slaves, don't you?" James asked.

"That's ridiculous. I'd suggest you avoid talk like that. People here don't like negative thoughts. Kindness and curtesy are your best friends here." The local said as he started away from them.

[Mireille]

"Creepy people...." Sokoru said, "Let's go, I'd like to get out of here as soon as possible." It hurt her on the inside to see so many happy people, knowing she could never be happy eith her family...

[ffx_freak12]

toshi stands on a cliff waiting to see his next victim "there he is". toshi holds up his dagger and the wind starts to blow so when he goes and throughs the dagger it will comeback to him. he raises the blade high in the air between his index and middle finger

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack notices Mitsurigi. "Who are you... are you a shadonaut?!" Zack steps backwards slightly, shouting. "James! Rain! Sokoru! Get ready! we may have to fight!" Zack notices Mits looking at a person with his weapon readied. Zack draws his weapon and He shouts "Why were you gonna kill him... What did he do to you!?" Zack readies his weapon "Who are you... Answer me or I will...!"

[ffx_freak12]

"oh shit " mits takes out his whip and slashes across zacks face that didnt work that much so he takes his twin daggers and slices zacks cheeks (the face ones) then he crosses his arm arms over his chest daggers in hand then says "im a assasin" then at that second the wind blows and mits starts floating he shoots into the air then flys away . he slows down and looks back. "ill be back" then zoomed off.

[Mireille]

"Save me from the weirdos..." Sokoru said, now obviously not happy to be here, "Let's just beat Fu, knock some sense into Sid and go."

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack is screaming "DAMMIT MY FACE!" Zack starts to run toward where Mitsurugi flew off to. "GET BACK HERE!" Zack stops noticing food being served at a resturant and he enters the resturant "Yay food!" Zack screams. The Cyclonians ignore Zack. When Zack asks a Cyclonian why they are ignoring him the Cyclonian says "Fu's rules. We are to serve no one from Radion." Zack is furious and leaves the resturant screaming "FU WHERE ARE YOU!?" Zack draws his weapons and continues to scream "I'M HUNGRY... SHOW YOURSELF SO I CAN KILL YOU AND EAT!"

[Mireille]

"Zack, Zack, Zack, calm down!" Sokoru said soothingly, wiping the blood off his face, "We'll beat him soon enough." she said getting only inches from his face and tapping his nose.

[Mercen-X]

"Calm down . . .!" Rain says, disappointed in Zack's behavior. "I can't believe you were chosen to lead this mission. You're such a--such a . . ."

"Belly-acher." James says and laughs. ". . . But yeah, we should find Fu and get rid of him as soon as possible. I'm hungry too."

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack looks at Sokoru with wide eyes. "But I'm hungry now" He says. He recognizes he is still bleeding and casts heal on himself. "Thats better" Zack says. He notices that Sokoru has blood on her too and says "I'm sorry about getting blood on you." He then looks at Rain and James and says "I'm sorry guys... I was just hungry and mad"

[Mireille]

Sokoru smiles, "Ah, It's okay. I didn't like this shirt much anyways." She smiles, somehow, Zack makes her very happy.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack looks around Cyclos and says "Since the last time I was here nothing has changed." He looks at the others and says "Cyclos is as if nothing has happened... the only difference is that we can't eat here" Zacks stomach growls "Thats a big difference to some one who is hungry!" states Zack. He looks at a Cyclonian and asks "where is Sid and Fu?" The cyclonian says "Fu is waiting for the ones from Radion... shall I take you there?" Zack looks around and says "Just show me where he is staying" The Cyclo points to a Mansion on the edge of town and says "He has taken Sid's mansion for his own... Sid now stays in the inn." Zack looks at the others and asks "Should we Charge in on Fu, or talk to Sid?"

[Mireille]

"We should talk to Sid." Sokoru stated, "James, Rain? What do you think?"

[ffx_freak12]

mits flys around the giant mansion once then lands at the door "oh god i cant tell him i failed" mits opens the door. "fu hello, master??" i have some bad news. mits sighs

[Mercen-X]

James turned to Rain. "I say we smash in the front door and toss Fu out on his rear."

Rain turned to James. "That's not likely to happen. We should find out what Sid knows about Fu first."

James shook his head. "No. Sid turned over this region to Fu without a second's thought. There's no way he'll bother helping us. We're better off on our own."

"Might I interject?" The weathered man who was nearly assassinated stepped in. "I think that I may be of some assistance to you. Yes."

"Why help us?" James asked. "I thought that Cyclonians didn't care that--!"

"I . . ." the man interrupted, "am not a Cyclonian."

[ffx_freak12]

mits walks up to fu's thrown... "master i.... failed..... these group of people they came and interfeared" mits watched the mistirious man. the man said something "NO dont kill them im sorry" mits runs over to the glass door and sees his wife and child. "no!!!, you cant thats not right". mits run towards the man and pulls out his daggers. The mans guards pick him up and throw him out the door. the last thing mits saw was the two guards walking towards the chamber were his family was held. He falls unconsious.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack looks at the man and says "If you are not a cyclonian then why are you here?"
The man replys "You a of radion are you not?"
Zack says "Entirely too true... but still why do you want to help us... no one wants to optionally help people for nothing in return"

[Mireille]

"I must agree with Zack on this one, what do you want?" Sokoru said, eyeing the man suspiciously.

[Mercen-X]

"I want . . . what you want. I want Fu cast out of Cyclos." The old man says.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack looks at the man strangely and says "Why? You are not Cyclonian... why would you care about Cyclos... to tell the truth I don't even care about Cyclos! I only care about eleminating all evil from Aldea. I wish Aldea the be place it was before Abyss came! The place where you could get food for cheap! IM SO HUNGRY!!!" All the Cyclonians notice Zack scream again and give him a strange look
Zack then screams "Im sorry for being so loud, IM JUST HUNGRY!!!"

[ffx_freak12]

mits wakes up and brushes off his clothes. he looked down at the town and saw zack screaming his head off. even though he had battled this person, and theres no reason to get angry now because his family is gone. he went to go apollogise. Mits flew down to the frustrated boy. "here take this" he said. He handed zack a piece of chicken some mashed patatoes and a glass of milk. He also gave the other two food also. "Im sorry about what happened earlier". mits told them the story about what happened to him and his family. "I want revenge...... i will join you in the fight to kill Fu. Do you accept?"

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack eats the food very quickly and looks up at Mits and says "I dont care... the more the merrier. You can fight with me anyday... after all you did give me food." Zack smiles and looks at James, Rain, and Sokoru and asks "what do you think guys?"

[ffx_freak12]

"well if were gonna fight Fu we cant just barge in.... i know hes got guards everywhere.... basically i say we take out the guards first... Then Fu" mits explained. Being exausted mits takes off his whip from around his belt his belt that has the daggers and then takes off his cloak. he runs his fingers through his hair. "im tired".

[Mireille]

"No! Of course not!" Sokoru stated, obviously irritated with the man. She turned to Mits, staring needles at him, "Can you not count sir? There is FOUR of us, and you only gave Zack, James and Rain food! WHERE'S MINE DAMMIT!!???"

[ffx_freak12]

"oops... dont yell at me! i just witnessed my family get killed and was attacked by giant body guards SORRY i i forgot one person. mits shoves food in sokuro's hands. "there thats the last i had. YA HAPPY!!??". mits falls to the ground and passes out of dehidration

[Mireille]

Sokoru gasps, she dropped her food, running to the passed out man's side, "Does anyone know CPR?!" Sokoru sighed, she checked his wrist for a pulse, he still had one, good, "He'll be okay."

[Mercen-X]

James walked over and kicked the unconscious ninja.

"JAMES!!" Rain shouted.

James picked up Mits and threw him over his shoulder. "Get some water people. We're heading up to that mansion."

[ffx_freak12]

mits woke up. "Let go of me!! Im perfectly fine with walking." said mits. as they got closer to the manchine mits flew up into a tre and pulled out his dagger. he through the dagger and it killed the first guard at the door. "now the second one." he watched as the others hid in the woods he pulled out his dagger and through it at the second guard. they were both dead. he flew down to the giant door and pulled the daggers out of the corpses. he dragged the bodys into the woods. "alright people...this is it." he paused for a second hen said "get ready for a hell of a battle" while wiping the blood off his two dagggers and put them in there holsters. Then pulling out his whip.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack breathed deeply and said "Im ready." He then drew his weapons looked at the others and said "Are we really ready to fight a shadownaut?" Zack was thinking about how they just started their journey "We have only just started our journey." Zack then looked up the huge mansion and said. "Although we do have to start somewhere I guess." Zack reached to open the door and it mysteriously swung open. "Wow... I wasnt expecting that." Zack looked at Mits and said "Do you know anything about this place?... was that an automated door or something?"

[ffx_freak12]

Mitsorugi looked at zack and said "thats a new one for me". Mits looks suprised at zack and a little scared to. He looked behind the door. "phew nothing". said mits realeived. "ok now you guys just follow me ill show you were Fu sleeps. as the crept across the mansion floor takes a look at the giant window were Fu could examine his prisinors. he had a tear in his eye because that is were his family was. At that second his son torasaki jumped in front of the window scared half to death "DAD HELP ME THEY'LL COME BACK FOR ME AT ANY SECOND IF WE HURRY WE CAN SAVE THEM!!!!!" screamed the frightened teenager scraping his fingers against the glass. there was a trail of blood running down from his hand. "OMG YOUR ALIVE!!!" mits burst into tears. he pulled out his daggers and broke through the glass and pulled the teenager out and layed him out on the ground. the boy was unconsious. He healed the boy and he woke up. "thanks dad". said the boy wrapping a bandege around his bleeding hand. "my sword is int he closet across from the room ill be right back. he came back and put his trench coat on and strapped his sword holder on his back. "im ready. there not in Fu's room there in the battle arena....... i mean the basement, hey does anyone have any water??" said tora his dad hands him some water and he chugs it down. "ok lets go save mom and kenary". tora led the group down to the arena were they took out two guards. they were about to fight. in front of them stood another giant door

[Mireille]

Sokoru sighed. Her first real battle in awhile. She wasn't sure if she was ready, in fact, she knew she wasn't, "Guys, I'm not ready. I need a minute, I haven't used summon magic in 7 years, I need mental time to prepare," She looked at everyone in turn, "Is that okay?"

[ffx_freak12]

mits looked at sokuro. "yeah thats ok with me". said mits. "its our first shadonaut so we need time to rest so we'll be ready for it".


tora looked at sokuro and mits. "its ok with me too....... but we need to rest somewere else then here... guards go through here like every half hour." tora explained


"torasaki is right i know the most perfect place to.." said mitsorugi. Mits lead Rain, James, Sokuro, Zack, and torasaki to the guest bedroom wich is never used. "the only thing is we need to people to guard every hour... will wake up at dawn then we'll go fight Fu. My wife and daughters death seremony with be at noon we'll have plenty of time to kill Fu and his guards so we can get my family back and start our journey". said mitsorugi

[Mireille]

"Thanks," Sokoru said, going to sit in the corner of the room to meditate, "Zack gets first watch."

[ffx_freak12]

"i am the leader here i will man the door with zack....." said mits bravely. he falls to ground asleep


"I will do it" said tora he takes out his katana sits and leans against the door

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack looks at tora and says "Such a brave little kid... I was still training when I was your age." Zack looks at tora's weapon "How does a little kid like you weild a weapon so big?"

[ffx_freak12]

tora looks at zack. then looks at his dad and laughs. "i wield it because...." tora dropped the weapon and it floated in midair. ".... i put a light weight curse so its easy to carry.... 7th class black mage its those kind of spells that save your life." tora explained "Ive been training forever and i learned from my dad... he might not want to edmit it but hes a damn good sword fighter even better than a whip and throw daggers. But i guess he doesnt like swords" said tora. "i get all my traits from my dad. I dont know but i might be good at whip and throw daggers too."

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack hears footsteps and says "You might get your chance to prove your strength..." Zack peeks out the door and sees someone walking down the hallway "We will have to be quiet... they know we are here... they just dont know where" Zack looks at Tora and says "If we are too loud they will send all the soldiers after us..." Zack draws his weapons and looks at the others "Should we wake them up?" he asks Tora

[ffx_freak12]

"no ive got this stand here" tora flys and hide on the sealing. tora drops down and impales the guard in the chest. the guard falls to the ground. "sharasha!" screams loud but quiet enough the guards wont come. the corpse of the guard burns into ashes then goes away. tora walks inside the room and falls against the door "that was hard" said tora between each breath

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack sheathes his weapons and says "I could've did that..." Zack looks at the empty hallway and then says "I know a little magic... I could'nt make him dissappear like that though... Maybe you could teach me." Zack looks at Sokoru meditating oin the corner and says "Are you OK? You havent said anything... or practiced summoning... you have just sit there with your eyes closed. (Zack does not know what meditating is.) Zack then angrily says "If you wanted to practice summoning then why havent you!? You have just sat there and been lazy!" Zack notices Sokoru doesnt reply and walks toward her saying "If your asleep Im gonna... I was all ready to fight... Then you wanted to take a break!!!"

[Mireille]

Sokoru opens her left eye and looked straight at Zack, "I'm meditating you idiot, that requires complete concentration and it helps to keep my eyes closed." Sokoru closed her eyes again, "Now, if you don't mind, I would like to be left alone."

[ffx_freak12]

tora leans against the door and falls asleep.


*20 minutes later*

tora wakes up "my hands!!!! HELP!!!! sokuro!!!! ZACK!!!" tora screamed his hands were gushing blood were the shackles were at. Tora then goes into a panic attack then a seizer. He watches his hands bleed even more and more

[Mercen-X]

Rain notices Torasaki squirming on the ground. "Torasaki?"

James stands up and walks over to the restless kid. "Black Magic aftereffects. I read about it in the Radion archives. This is the reason that the practice of Black Magic is forbidden. Only those from the 9th Kingdom can withstand the pressures of casting powerful black magic."

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack looks at James and asks "Radion already has the 9th kingdom in its archives?" Zack then holds his hands over Tora and says "I dont know if this will heal his conscious of not but..." Zack focuses all of his energy into his hands and mutters the incantion "Divine energy of the Holy will... grant me your power" Zack hands start to glow white but then he knocked back by Torasaki flailing about. "I need someone to hold him down so I can heal him!" Says Zack hastily.

[Mercen-X]

Rain latches onto the boy as she looks at James. "You read, James? I didn't know you were such an intellectual."

James looks insulted. He then smiles. "I'm not. Being assigned menial tasks for community service does have its perks. I ran across the file by chance when I was reorganizing the archives."

Rain raises an eyebrow. "While under the careful scrutiny of Devon Talk?"

James looks surprised. "Careful scrutiny. Ehhhhh!!! 'Fraid not. Devon's lazier than I am."

Rain shakes her head. "Your willing admittance to your faults and unwillingness to correct them are what make you so useless."

Now James really was insulted. His sister had never spoken to him this way before. All he could do was turn away.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack holds out his hands and says "Thanks Rain... Let me try this again" Zack holds his hands close to Torasaki and chants "Divine energy of the Holy will... grant me your power" His hands start to glow bright white. The blood coming from Torasaki's wrists stop. Zack looks puzzled and says. "There were no wounds... no cuts... no scrapes or gashes... Its as if the blood was coming from the shackles... Was this magic or are the shackles cursed?"

[Mireille]

Sokoru opens her eyes, falling from suspended air to the floor with a yelp, "Owowowowowowowowowow!!! That smarts!" She looked up at the commotion, "Whoa, when did this happen?"

[Mercen-X]

James looks at Sokoru. "Hm. Well, seems we're all awake." He pounds his fist into his palm. "Enough with the drama! Let's hit it!"

"Maybe it is time we get moving." Rain agrees.

James ignores this agreement. Her voice is grating to him now. He walks away.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack notices James ignore Rain then walk away "He will get over it... I think he just wants to fight." Says Zack. He looks at Rain and says "Although you are a little uptight... you seem like my mom..." Zack looks at the floor and says "I wonder how my parents are doing. I can see that you are concerned about us Rain... But maybe you should lighten up. Although I think you might be the only one 100% completly serious and focused. I am sorry... I know I probably sound judgemental..." Zack draws his weapons and says "Im tired of trying to be sneaky... LETS GO ALL OUT!!!" Zack starts to run down the hall leaving all the others behind.

[ffx_freak12]

" i think someone should stay back with tora... he wont wake up". again mitsorugi takes the boys arm and shakes him. then he checks for a pulse.

" this is a temperary black magic coma. Its not as bad as it sounds though. I used to have them all the time. He just needs some rest." said mits

He looks up at zack,rain,james and sokuro.


"any volunteers. I cant stay back because i know my wife and she wouldnt want 4 complete strangers coming to save her... she'd want someone she knows there." said mits

[Mercen-X]

Rain shrugs. "Well, since Zack took off after James, I suppose those two won't be volunteering." She sits beside the unconscious boy. "I'd be happy to take a short break and watch over Tora."

[ffx_freak12]

"ok, thanks Rain." mitsorugi takes out his two daggers and starts walking down the hallway.

"Come on sokuro!" yelled mitsorugi down the hallway

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack is running down the hallway screaming "Fu where are you? Come out so I can kill you! You made me go hungry! Now you must die!"
Zack stops right before a corner and watches dozens of shadows approaching. He looks around the corner and sees a small army of guards approaching. Zack steps around the corner and screams "Over here! Come and get me!"

Zack turns back around the corner and puts his back to the wall watching all of the guards run by "Get em! I'll get them from behind while you get them from your side!" Zack charges forward decapitating one guard and slashes at another "Oh yeah! I've been waiting for a fight!" he screams

[Mercen-X]

James has been trying to catch Zack ever since he flew by him in the hall. He finds him killing Cycloan guards in a rage.
Surprised, James casts a thunder spell to knock down the guards and grabs Zack's hand as he is about to slash again.
"What are you doing, Zack?! This isn't the way a Lightgiver behaves." Maybe Tora isn't suffering from Black Magic Aftereffects. Maybe . . . maybe it's a dark virus. Damnit! That means Rain and Mitsurugi are infected too!
"Zack! Cast Clearance! Cast it now!"

[Ffgrandmaster]

"Clerance?" Says Zack puzzled Uhh..." Zack starts to mutter the incantation " Pure spirit cleanse our souls, free our pain, release our sorrow." A light engulfs the whole room making everyone glow.
One of the guards he was just attacking says "Where am I... Where is my family... who are you?" The other guards all look around, confused and shocked. One even says "I am not a fighter... where did I get armor and a sword?"
Zack is shocked... he falls to the ground with his back against the wall. "I... I... I... was killing innocent people... Such is the power of the shadownauts?" Zack looks at the dead body of a guard he killed and thinks " If I did this... am I really any better than one of them... If I kill innocent people than that makes me as bad as a shadownaut... Maybe I don't deserve to lead this mission..."

[Mercen-X]

James kneels at Zack's side. "Don't fret much. A dark virus had infected Tora when he had slain the shadows. Anyone who neared him, like you and Rain, were infected. We'll have to keep our eyes open. Who knows if Misturugi and Sokoru have been spared this curse."

[Ffgrandmaster]

"Yeah" Zack says depressed. Where did the virus come from I wonder?" Zack stands up and says "Now what do we do? Do we help these people out and cleanse all the guards? Or kill Fu and stop the possible virus he created from spreading... That is if he created it then he couldn't spread it to more people right?"

[ffx_freak12]

mitsorugi comes back to the room just to check.

he looks at tora. " Hes ok" he thought and started down the hall again.



*back in the room*

tora thinks he woke up but all he sees is a giant black room, everywhere is darkness. he starts falling. he puts his hands together and says "darkness give me wings.". tora sprouts dragon like wings out his back.

he sees his dad his mom and his sister on the other side of the dark room. Happily he flys toward them, the closer he gets the more they faded away.

Now the only things he saw now was a two giant windows. He looked out one of the windows and he saw rain looking down at him.

scared tora flys away from the window. "maybe im not in a coma... maybe I have some darkness curse.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack is in the hall talking to the guards "Don't worry... you are in Cyclos... It seems you were under the spell or a curse or something of the shadownaut Fu. We have been dispatched by Radion to get rid of the shadownauts."
Zack looks at James and says "It seems that they are clueless to what I am talking about... Could whatever that had them hypnotized be causing amnesia to them? Since you were in the Radion archives did you ever see anything about such a thing existing?"

[Mercen-X]

"Well, you aren't amnesiac." James says. He thinks about that. "Then again, we don't know how long they were under the influence of darkness. Truthfully, I'm only aware of the existence of the Dark Virus. I don't know much about it."

[Ffgrandmaster]

Zack nods and says "If Radion already has the ninth kingdom archived and doesn't know that much about whatever changed these guards then wouldn't that mean that..."
He stops to think for a moment. He then says "Then wouldnt it actually be the swords power corrupting the kingdom... But then why were these guards more infected then all the other Cycloans... unless..."

Zack stops to think again. "Ah we shouldnt worry about it too much... when we we defeat Fu we will surely know."

He looks shocked and says "Torasaki was not affected by clearance! I only healed his wounds! If it is a virus then he is still infected!"

Taking a moment to realize what he himself had just said Zack starts running down the hall to the room where Tora and the others are bumping into a knocking over Mitsurogi. He then hastily says "Hurry come with me! Tora could be in trouble!"

[ffx_freak12]

" WHAT, How could that be???!!!" not notcing mitsorugi runs off without his weapon belt.


half way too the room he notices. "MY BELT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" mits's eyes turned all black and the wind blew fatser and faster.

Mits flew down the hallway at the speed of sound. He comes back with his belt in hand. After getting the belt back he flew at the same speed down the hallway past zack, knocking him over, and neals down at tora's side his eyes becoming its regular state . The wind stopped blowing. There was a tear in his eye. He repeatedly started shaking the boy.

[Mireille]

"I wouldn't move if I were you" Sokoru said to Mits, holding a sword from the wall to his back, a red glow in her eyes, "Now stand up," she said, poking the sword into his spine.

[Ffgrandmaster]

"Sokoru!" screams Zack " Pure spirit cleanse our souls, free our pain, release our sorrow." The room is engulfed in light... after the spell ends Zack falls to one knee. "Whew... too much magic for me in one day..." he says exauhsted. "So? are you OK Sokoru?"

[ffx_freak12]

"My back!" yelled mitsorugi. Blood gushing from the cut. "what the hell was that for!" mits yelled at sokoru

[Mireille]

Sokoru looked at Mits, "I'm sorry," she looked at Zack, "What happened? What did I do?"

[Ffgrandmaster]

"Sokoru you were taken over by some dark virus..." said Zack

Zack walks over to mits and hovers his hands over Mits' back "Divine energy of the Holy will... grant me your power" The cut on Mits' back disappears
"I think since I cast clearance Tora should be OK if anything was even wrong with him... I never expected you to go crazy Sokoru... of course I dont know you to well..."
Zack walks out into the hallway and says to James "Dont worry I think everything will be fine... In any case we need to find Fu soon... Before anything else bad happens... Im sure he knows we are here by now..."

[Mireille]

"Right," Sokoru said, looking apolageticly at Mits, "I am sooooooooo sorry," She picked up the sword again, tying it to her belt, "I might need this."

[Mercen-X]

With these trying situations behind them, the group storms into the counsel hall, which Fu has converted into his own throne room.

James looks wide-eyed at the Shadonaut before them. A KID! Some little punk with wings and a very light wooden staff. "THAT'S FU?!"

Rain stares into the kid's eyes. "I'd suggest we not be taken in by his appearance. He is a Shadonaut."

[ffx_freak12]

*stares at the kid*

Lets not just stand here then. ATTACK!

*mitsorugi jumps towards the left wall, then repells to the right.*

*he pulls out his daggers*

*he falls towards the child, his cloak flapping in the wind.*

*the child draws his staff and knocks me out of the air onto the floor*

*the wind coming from the staff makes a cut mark across his face*

"help..."

[Ffgrandmaster]

"There goes any idea of peacefully resolving this..." Zack says as he draws his sword "He must be using the power of Tornadon to make the wind he contorls that strong..." Zack concentrates his energy into his sword making it glow bright white "Angelic force inside of my blade, Devour the darkness!!! Holy Explosion!" Zack charges forward jumping and doing a vertical slash to Fu causing massive white explosions around him lighting up the room, Zack then steps backwards and to Mits' side looking toward where Fu was " I wonder... if he is dead..." Zack says calmly

[Mercen-X]

Zack is knocked aside by James as a blast of wind jets toward him, just missing Mits who dodges the blast.

Rain, falling from the air, clenches her fists. "Meteor Strike!" She cries as she slams her fist into a barrier of wind erected by the young Shadonaut. She is thrust back and slides into a wall.

"Surrender, you FOOLS! Don't you get it? You can't defeat a Shadonaut. We are pure darkness." He says as the black winds storm around him.

[Ffgrandmaster]

"No you surrender" Screams Zack "Aldea belongs to its citizens and the guardians of the swords! Not some invading dark army!"

Zack grips his sword tight and charges forward slashing at Fu being knocked back by the wind before his strike hits. He gets back up and says to the others in the group "We need something heavy to break his barrier, something that the wind couldn't possibly affect!" Zack looks around the room for such an object then pauses and thinks to himself "Maybe..." Then he looks at Sokoru and says "Sokoru try to summon"

[Mireille]

She nods then concentrates all her energy into a single spell, "Aqua Fons! Monsoon!" she cried, and the water god Leviathan came, crashing into the barrier.

[Mercen-X]

"Hahahahahahaha!" Fu cackles as the serpent pounds the barrier with wave after wave of heavy water. Each blast is reduced to mere mist that fills the air.

"Oh . . . Sokoru . . ." James sighs, frustrated. Can't she summon a golem or something? Water and Wind are practically equal. We need Earth.

[Mireille]

"Well, excuse me for not learning ELEMENTS in school!" she sighed and concentrated again, all that mediation really paid off, "Terra Tumulus! Golem!"

She watched as the Golem appeared, hitting the barrier of air, going through it, "Yes!"

[Mercen-X]

Sheesh! She can read minds now or am I just obvious? James thought. He watched as the Golem pushed through the barrier of wind.
Fu narrowed his eyes and spun his bo-staff overhead, trying to increase the fury of the barrier.

"No way!" Rain shouted, sliding between the golems legs at Fu. "Surge Thrust!" She shouted, slamming her open palms at Fu's solar plexus. He dodged easily. "Tidal Blade!" She raised her foot for an axe-kick, slamming her heel into the ground where Fu once was. He was too fast. Damn. She thought. Giving it one last try, she flipped onto her hands and began to kick up a storm. "Tsunami!"

[Ffgrandmaster]

"No way is she gonna be able to do it on her own" Zack though as he started running towards the barrier... He used his sword as a pole vault launching him over Golem's shoulder... he started descending down to Fu but the top of the barrier reformed itself... Zack was launched across the room landing on his left shoulder... He slowly got back up holding his shoulder and thought "Why do I always have to be so flashy" He picked up his sword and started stumbling back towards the barrier healing Mitsorugi along the way "Come on lets get 'em" Zack says to Mitsorugi as he heals his shoulder.

[Mercen-X]

James was confused. Rain has never been so aggressive. She was never so loud either. He'd never seen her use attacks like these before. She's a long-range fighter, she shouldn't be . . .
"IT'S AN ACT!" Rain had gotten in the way. James, Mits, and Zack had to find ways around her that didn't work. The golem couldn't even attack. "Sokoru! Use the Golem to attack Fu now!"

Suddenly, Rain turned. As her eyes flashed red, she drove her fist into the Golem's mid-section and the giant shattered in two.

"Hahahahahahahaha!" Fu cackled again. "You've already experienced the power of my Dark Virus. Did you think you'd become immune? How did you suppose the guardian of this region so eagerly handed over control of the sword of wind? Everyone in the region is under my control! Soon, you will be as well.

Rain charged at her brother and James braced himself. He knew she wasn't as skilled in melee combatant as he was. He didn't want to hurt her. However, he knew it might be necessary.

[Ffgrandmaster]

Instinctvly acting and without thinking Zack rasies his hands and begins to mutter the incantation for clerance " Pure spirit cleanse our souls, free our pain, release our so..." as Zack begins to say the last word he is knocked aside by a blast of wind from Fu.

"Come now dont interupt friends fighting" Says Fu seemingly enjoying the idea of 2 compainions fighting to the possible death

"Someone distract Fu so I can cast clearance" says Zack hastily as he is standing back up readying his hands again to cast clearance

[ffx_freak12]

*lays unconsious on the floor* *his hand was gripped around the blade. His eyes opened and beems of red shot out. He jumped into the air* *He took three slashes at fu and fell to the ground panting* *He fainted*

[Mireille]

Sokoru sighed, "Looks like summoning isn't going to work..." thinking quickly, Sokoru pulls out the sword that she made stabbity on Mitso with. "Well, I hate it when I have to do this, but it's worth a try..." She closed her eyes, and began to chant, drawing from the darknesss within and channeling the energy into the sword, thus creating a Sword of Pure Darkness! "Ha! Take this you faggot!" She scareamed, pointing the sword at Fu and making obscene gestures at him, distracting him long enough for Zack to do his thing.

[Ffgrandmaster]

"Pure spirit cleanse our souls, free our pain, release our sorrow" Zack screams a little faster than usual and the room begins fills with light for a split second and the disappears. Zack has his sword readied and waits to see a reaction in Rain...

[Mercen-X]

James and Rain stare into each others eyes. "You in there, Rain?" James asks.
Rain turns toward Fu drawing a bead on him with her crossbow. "You gonna let us do all the fighting, James?"

James blinks. He rushes at Fu as Rain fires a couple arrows. Fu laughs as the arrows fly directly around him, caught in the wind current. He stops as he sees James run opposite the arrows, catching them and stabbing them into his wind barrier, using the magical arrows to pull himself through. "IMPUDENT WRETCH!" Fu shouts and turns on James, focusing the full-force of his barrier on him; his eyes blackened with rage. The attack nearly kills James but it leaves the riled Fu open to a back attack.