Darkness Of Destruction - Page 3

April 19, 2008, 11:36 PM

Can't really remember now ...

April 19, 2008, 11:38 PM

Bet your just saying that so I don't kill you with suspense lol

Here's the next two anyways

Chapter 14: What to do?

Faith sighed as she stepped into the warm bath. She lay down and looked at the soapy water thinking on whether or not she should just drown herself. She decided it was best not to. Instead she just cried.

“Rene. I never meant to hurt you.” She said in the midst of her tears “I had no choice!”

Ring ring

The phone rang but she chose to ignore it.

“Please. Can you ever forgive me?”

Ring ring

She had to figure a way to help but it her present condition she knew she wouldn’t be able to. She loved Rene, not in the same way as she loved Filden and Abby but in a way that she had thought not possible for her to feel.

Ring ring

She picked up the phone,

“Faith here.” She said trying to hide the tears ion her voice. Using her foot she turned the tap on the bath and let the hot water fall on her gently.

“Ah Ms. Crest. You were taking your time my child.” Emperor Liner spoke gently “My advisors say I should not be the one to call such a lesser ton such as yourself but I decided it would be nice.

“Thank you my lord.” Faith said quietly “What does one need from myself?”

“Oh I just thought you should know that we have tracked down your friends. They are on their way to Rosalia now. We shall be keeping watch on them.” Faiths eyes widened

“You’ve found the my lord?” She said flabbergasted “Th-Thank you for this information my lord.” Liner hung up and Faith jumped out of the bath. Not caring that she was naked she threw open the window and using her powers beckoned a carrier pigeon to her. She wrote a quick note and tied it to the leg of the bird

“Please. Take this to him. Take this to Rene.”

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Rene yawned. He got up but felt as though someone had smashed bricks over his head. He looked around but his vision was slightly blurry so it took him a few minutes to put everything into focus. It was still night and everyone had gone to sleep. He gingerly got up. As soon as he pulled the covers off himself he saw something move quickly across the quilt. He jumped upwards startled and then sighed. It was only a pigeon. He walked over to it and stroked it calmly. He noticed it had a note strapped to its leg. He neatly took it off and slowly read it.

Dear Rene,

I’m so sorry.

Faith

x

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“Rene.” Filden voice was heard somewhat distantly in Rene’s head. “C’mon man, get up!” This time he aided the process with a swift punch into his forearm. Rene jolted awake and swore at his friend. He stood up and stretched before noticing that everyone was up and it looked as though they’d already had breakfast

“Jeez, what time is it?” Rene asked he decided not to tell them about the note, Dawn was packing bags already and Abigail was putting out the fire, Kamui was nowhere to be seen and Filden was sitting down leaning against a post.

“Gone noon, we let you sleep in.” Dawn informed him.

“What! You shoulda woken me earlier!” Rene shouted annoyed at himself for sleeping in so late.

“Hey don’t worry about it, you were beat after all.” Abigail told him smiling, she stood and pointed to a large tin-foil covered plate. “You’re breakfast and lunch is under there. Eat, as soon as Kamui is back we have to leave.

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Faith sighed. The war meeting had been long and tiresome. She walked through the corridors of the Kinukoan castle heading towards her room. The walls were perfect white and light seemed to just float on them. There were old rustic pillars that didn’t seem to fit in but were beautiful also. She rounded a corner and took out her key. She went to open her door but as she put the key into the lock it swung open.

“Come in Faith.” Vrael said as Faith looked in cautiously. She nodded reluctantly and walked in “Take a seat.” He gestured to an empty chair. She sat down. She had still not said anything but she was prepared to attack if he tried to do anything and though she knew he would most probably kill her she wouldn’t go down without a fight.

“What is it you wish Vrael?” She asked through gritted teeth.

“Please. There is no need to be so modest Faith” Vrael told her with a sort of sinister smile.

“Fine. What the hell do you want and why are fuck are you in my room.” Faith told him rather loudly, she didn’t mean to swear at him it just sort of slipped out. He didn’t make any notion that he was offended or angry at faiths outburst.

“I just thought you might like to see a certain relative of yours, but if you would rather be alone then I shall take my leave of you.” Faith’s eyes widened

“Take me to her! Take me to Patricia! I swear if you’ve hurt her I’ll rip every bone out of your body!”Chapter 15: Faith’s reprieve

Faith was anxious as Vrael opened the door into the main holding areas. They walked past hundreds of thugs, rapists and murderers who were trying to reach out and grab a piece of Faith, and those were just the soldiers guarding the real filth.

“Just blow them away if they get on your nerves” Vrael told her smiling brightly, she didn’t know whether he meant the soldiers or the prisoners, either way they were both the same, vicious bastards with no conscience.

Some of the empires most wanted criminals usually ended up here, mass murderers and some of the most sick and twisted people. Vrael smiled at Faith as he opened a door into one of the private cells. A rustle was heard inside the cell and Faith ran in forgetting about Vrael.

“Patricia?” Faith asked gently to the sleeping form on the bed. Faith moved the quilt on the woman and smiled. It was Patricia. She had long brown hair, it was usually in a ponytail but prison didn’t usually give you that luxury, she was obviously quite fit and even though she was in a tiny cell she had somehow managed to keep fit. “Patricia, waaake uppp” Faith blew into her ear and the figure stirred.

“Fa-Faith?” Patricia asked quietly. Faith nodded. Patricia quite literally jumped out of bed and tackled Faith to the ground in a massive hug “Oh god I thought you were dead!” She was sobbing

“Sorry, ya can’t get rid of me that easily.” Faith told her smiling brightly with tears streaming down her face

“Guess I’ll have to try harder next time.” Patricia said half-laughing half-choking on her own tears. She composed herself. She stood up and brushed the dirt off herself and Faith. Always the mother, Faith thought to herself, she laughed at the thought. “So are you gonna tell me what’s been going on?” Faith’s face dropped and she almost started crying again but not as tears of joy but as tears of sadness.

“I… I guess I should tell you huh?” Faith said to her, Patricia nodded now slightly worried. Some things had now occurred to her.

“What are you doing here? Did they capture you? Where are your friends?” Patricia asked not giving her a chance to reply.

“Let me tell you everything that’s going on.” Faith said to her. So she told her, absolutely everything. Vrael had gone and left a single soldier to guard Faith and Patricia. By the time Faith had finished it was already dark outside and you could smell the lilies by the river about 200 yards from Patricia’s cell window. Patricia listened to this all nodding slightly and listening appreciatively.

“So what are we going to do?” Patricia asked her after she had finished. “We obviously have to get outta here.”

“We can’t, they’ll kill us both.” Faith told her seriously

“But we can’t just stay here and allow Rene and the others to think you’re a traitor!” Patricia shouted at her sincerely. Faith felt a tear run out of her eye and brushed it away.

“I know that… But I can handle being hated so long as I can help them not be killed.” Faith told her from the heart.

“Well if you ain’t gonna try to escape I am!” Patricia stormed. As soon as she said this she collapses onto her knees and sobbed. “Please Faith. We have to escape”

“Soon,” Faith told her, brushing tears from her eyes "I promise"

April 19, 2008, 11:42 PM

So emotional. And I have forgotten what the story told us after all. It's been months since I read this.

April 19, 2008, 11:45 PM

Lol I'm real glad I found it and all. I'll have to put it in my signature, 'cept me being the stupid idiot I am can't figure out how to make it into a name not a web address XD

Here's the next chapters

Chapter 16: Danger In The Wastes

“Not too far now!” Dawn shouted happily, it seemed as though the closer they got to the castle the happier she got

“Dawn! Keep sharp! The Rosalian wastelands are full of monsters remember!” Kamui shouted at her.

“Sorry Kamui!” Dawn immediately snapped to attention, causing Fil and Abby to giggle quietly to each other, Rene smirked and caught up with Kamui

“So what exactly are we going to be doing once we reach the castle?” Rene asked

“You’ll formally be introduced to His Royal Highness, King Julius Argexis.” Kamui said to him, Rene noticed that he was unusually alert and thought it best not to ask anymore question “There’s a festival soon, so after that you’re training will begin, you’ll learn all sorts of skills and magicks. Also you’ll be learning more swordsmanship skills but I’m unsure as to whom your teacher will be.” After this Kamui became silent. Rene pulled back his chocobo so he was level with Dawn

“What’s up Rene?” Dawn asked before he’d even said anything

“I was just wondering, what’s Kamui’s story?” Rene asked her as politely as he could, Dawn giggled and smiled at Rene

“To be honest I don’t really know much about him. According to some people, he just appeared one night in the middle of the King’s courtyard, ended up creating some massive crater. Can you imagine that? Destroying the King’s courtyard then becoming one of his closest allies and a warrior in his army?”

“How the hell does that work?” Rene asked astonished

“No idea, you’d have to ask him or the King. And here’s the kicker, that was over 20 years ago, and guess what, apparently he looked exactly the same as he does now.”

“He looks 17!” Rene exclaimed

“I know, better stop talking and keep an eye on the road.” Dawn told him, he nodded his head and kept a lookout.

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“Should take us less than an hour now.” Kamui told them, they’d stopped and there was 2 cliffs overshadowing them on the left and right side. “We have to leave the chocobos and walk the rest though, the passage up ahead gets too tight.”

“Aww…” Abby sighed, she walked to her chocobo and gave it a tender hug before saying her goodbyes.

“We have to stay alert, there are powerful monsters in this area.” As if too further his point, a loud howling was heard up ahead, then a yelp of pain and then silence.

“Grey wolves, usually they’re the predators, but it sounds they’re the ones being hunted, by a much larger monster too.” Dawn told the trio that looked completely dumbfounded.

“Don’t worry! So long as you’re with me and Kammy you’ll be fine!” Dawn shouted happily

“Don’t call me that and quieten down!” Kamui ordered, he had crouched down alongside the cliff wall, his ear was on it and he was listening intently. “Something big is heading our way.” He stood and drew his “true” weapons. A blade composed of what seemed to be light appeared in his left hand and a blade composed of darkness in his right hand. “It comes!” As soon as Kamui had said this a large shadow appeared in the sky jumping from the top of the cliff, it bore down on the group amazingly fast, Rene drew his sword and had to dodge roll to his right to avoid being crushed. The monster was a shaped like a lion only 15 feet tall and around 20 feet long. It’s body was golden and you could see the muscles rippling beneath the skin. It tails was longs and thin with a large flame at the end. The thing that terrified Rene the most was it’s face. The right side was green and mutant like with large wrinkles and purple lips, the eye was blood red whereas the eye on the left side of the face was shocking blue and the side of the face was golden like the rest of the body. It roared loudly and surveyed its new prey. It looked to Rene with it’s blue eye and growled, it turned towards him and clawed at him aggressively. Rene was so shocked by its appearance he only just managed to avoid most of the blow but felt a long jagged claw make it’s mark on his back

“Rene!” Filden shouted, he jumped high into the air and threw several kunais at the beast, as it growled in pain Rene spun round with his blade in hand and slashed the beats leg, Kamui leaped into the air, kick-jumped off the wall and slashed at its body with both blades before landing beside Rene

“You okay?” Kamui asked

“I’m fine.” Rene said angrily, he could feel the flames inside him rising.

“Don’t use your magic, you can’t control it yet!” Dawn shouted out as she fended off the beast, who was now attacking her.

“Listen to her Rene!” Abby shouted, she was glowing white and Rene felt the wound on his back seal itself up. She lowered her staff and retreated backwards to allow Filden to continue his attack on the beast. The beast was screaming in anger at the group. Rene jumped upwards and slashed at its face causing it’s skin to separate and bleed out viciously. The beast jumped up on it’s hind legs and bellowed.

“It’s calling for help!” Kamui shouted over the roar, as he said it smaller versions of the beast appear along the top of the cliffs and jumped down.

Rene jumped backwards avoiding being attacked by one of the puppies and stabbed it viciously, killing it instantly. He spun the blade in his hands and split open the belly of one of the beasts jumping over him. Filden was busy taking on three at once but Rene could see he was having no problem, Kamui was taking on the main beast single-handedly and Abby and Dawn was sticking together to keep each other protected. Rene heard someone shout out and saw who it was immediately, Filden had fallen and was on the ground severely wounded on his leg, the problem was evident as it was still biting into the leg. One of the beast had snuck up on him and bitten straight through his trousers into his leg. Rene sprinted to him and killed the beast.

“You okay?” Rene asked quickly before killing more beasts. They were beginning to be overrun by them now.

“Does it fucking well look like I’m okay!!!” Filden screamed at him. Rene grabbed him and threw him over his shoulder. He found a boulder and laid him down there so the beasts wouldn’t be able to see him

“Stay here, as soon as it’s over I’ll come back.” Rene told him, Filden couldn’t say anything without screaming so he just nodded as tears filled his eyes. Rene stood up and ran back to the others. It wasn’t going well, Abby had sustained several cuts on her arms which she was having trouble healing, Dawn was limping. Kamui seemed to be the only one unharmed. Rene rushed over to Dawn and Abby and helped take out there beasts.

“You two, Filden’s over there! He severely injured, you have to help him!”

“Got it!” the both said and rushed over to where Filden was. Rene turned towards the beasts. It seemed weaker but then again it looked as though Kamui was running out of energy quicker. He rushed over to him.

“Good… to see… you.” Kamui said out of breath. He twirled his blade and stood in his battle stance, Rene did the same. The beast roared at them and charged. The pair managed to dodge and watched as the beast skidded and turned.

“By the way! That thing is called a Cerberian, the smaller ones are it’s pups.”

“I thought they had 3 head?” Rene said confused

“That’s a Cerberus. Watch out!” The beast had charged again and they dodged once more. “I’ll distract it! You get on it’s back and deal the finishing blow!” Rene nodded and rushed so he was behind the Cerberian. Kamui used what little energy he had to fire a weak ball of darkness into it’s face. It roared in anger and crouched low, ready to pounced onto Kamui, Rene seized his chance and leaped onto it’s back. It reared upwards to try and shake him off but Rene was too quick, he plunged his blade deep into the space between it’s head and body. The beast yelped in pain and dropped, Rene rolled forward, pulling his blade out at the same time and got to his feet. He smiled and put his blade onto his back. He heard a groan.

“Fil!” He shouted, he ran to where Filden was hidden and gasped. The wound hadn’t been healed and instead of blood a sort of yellow pus was seeping out of the wound.

“Heal him dammit!” Rene shouted Abby.

“I’m trying! It won’t heal!” She shouted in desperation, her hands glowed blue over the wound but nothing happened. Filden groaned quietly and his eyes rolled into the back of his head.

“Kamui!” Dawn shouted scared.

“Cerberian poison. We must get him to the castle, he only has another 2 hours to live if we don’t make haste now.” He turned and walked towards a large crevice in the cliff wall north of them. Dawn and Abby followed in suit leaving Rene to carry Filden.

“C’mon buddy.” Rene said as he heaved Filden onto his back. He turned towards the others and jogged toward them. “You’re gonna be just fine, promise.”

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The journey northwards wasn’t as dangerous as before but there was still danger, they were attacked by all manners of beasts and monsters but Kamui always kept a sharp eye and decimated them as soon as they showed themselves. After about 20 minutes Kamui stopped, they were on the cliff edge about 30 metres up from the ground overlooking the barren wastelands surrounding the city, in the distance they could see a large white castle in the middle of a sprawling city.

“It will be nightfall soon, if we do not make it by then the gates will be shut and Filden will stand no chance of survival.” Kamui said to Rene who had caught up with him, Filden was coughing madly on his back and Dawn and Abby were trailing behind, throughout there journey Abby had been whispering to Filden and trying to help him.

“Then what are we doing standin’ around for!” Rene shouted at him.

“It will be quicker if I take him and go ahead. I know these wastelands and it will take too long if we have to stop so you can catch up and gain your breath.” Kamui told him, he turned to Rene.

“You’re right… Take him and get there as fast as you can.” Kamui nodded and took Filden from his back. As soon as he did he jumped from the cliff edge. Rene turned to the others who had finally caught up “Kamui’s gone ahead, he’ll be quicker on his own.”

“We should hurry, we should get there in the next hour.” Dawn told him.

April 19, 2008, 11:50 PM

Aww, poor Filden. So typical of him to be the victim lol. Hope Sonny doesn't see that, haha ... good stuff. Rene's got a short temper, hasn't he, letting his powers nearly go out of control.

April 19, 2008, 11:53 PM

Until he learns to control them properly yes, that could take a long time which is why he just has to learn to control his anger so he doesn't endanger anyone he loves. Lol hopefully he won't see that or he will murder my arse, I have to wait for permission to use someones character before I put next chapter on

April 19, 2008, 11:58 PM

And who's permission would that be? Liking the new username btw.