FFF Crisis II: Goddess of Death - Page 3

June 29, 2008, 2:31 AM

Yes, I'm freaky because apparently, I do math in German.

June 29, 2008, 6:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Karl Friedrich Gauß

Yes, I'm freaky because apparently, I do math in German.

How... do you do maths in German? I thought all number and maths and shizz is all the same??

Cannae wait for the next one Faaaaaith!

June 29, 2008, 7:12 PM

The next one should be up sometime this week. I'm doing a chapter of FFF Heroes and then doing this. That's what it'll be like from now on, so it'll be double the fun if you do read both stories!

June 29, 2008, 7:17 PM

I just watched the entire series 1 of heroes

T'was amazing. On to the second series!!

June 29, 2008, 7:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Rene Skylar

How... do you do maths in German? I thought all number and maths and shizz is all the same??

Cannae wait for the next one Faaaaaith!

They are, but for some more abstract problems, you'll have to explain how you got the solution.

July 1, 2008, 8:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Eva Longoria

Anyone else think it's awesome that I act as team leader?..though so.

And Im your boss, dance monkey boy dance

Terrific start Faithy although the he's and she's seem abit muddled regarding Merc, kinda confusing

Great start though, look forward to reading more

July 9, 2008, 12:11 PM

It's taken a while, but I've finally been able to get this chapter up. Enjoy!

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Chapter Two

Visions of the Dark Future

Later that night, Mercurial returned to the Red Rose Movement base to find Rydia all alone checking the CCTV cameras and watching the footage around the city. Despite the fact that Mercurial did look beat up, he staggered towards his co-worker and sat down next to her.

“That’s one trip I’m never gonna make again,” he murmured. “I ran into our vampire friends just a short while ago. Thought they were going to turn me … appears as though as I was wrong because it wasn’t my blood that they wanted.” Rydia just nodded, as she carried on typing on the computer. “I got the info that we needed, though. There’s a local vamp party at the Yeti tonight. The catch is … the people organising have no idea that they’re vampires. Too bad that we’re going to have to intervene and kick their sorry asses.”

“Yeah well, we know our code of conduct,” Rydia pointed out. “We don’t kill them unless they threaten anyone. But, Merc, are you sure that we shouldn’t –?”

“No, we can’t!” replied Mercurial too quickly, as he rose to his feet. “I can’t do that until further investigation is launched. Whatever it is that’s inside her, it’s not looking good at all. Even Contra was freaked out … he doesn’t get so scared that easy, too!” He clicked on the CCTV camera that was near the Yeti club. “There we go … some vamps aren’t going to be happy when they find out that they’ve been caught on camera. But of course, they’ll never know it was us …”

Mercurial then sat back, sighing and closing his eyes. He was the leader that kept the Red Rose Movement together because Frisk was out of action at the moment. Barely moments later, Rydia’s alarming voice waked him up out of his silent paradise.

“Merc, we have a problem,” she said. “Guess who just turned up?”

They both watched the footage unfold, as a girl with long black hair tied up and wearing her party clothes turned up looking around suspiciously.

“Faith Crest, I knew that girl would turn up sooner rather than later,” grinned Mercurial. “I guess we better alert Contra and Hera. They’re gonna love taking her in.”

*

“Another werewolf and another analysis,” said Julius Argexis, as he observed Riku and Rene bringing in the werewolf they had knocked out before.

But of course, Julius wasn’t the scientist or researcher that did this kind of thing. He was the knight that just took interest in whatever new things came around. That was what had excited FFF – known as the Fantasy Freedom Fighters – as of lately. They had new headquarters back in Gaia, where they had began their quest for universal protection from whatever threats came around. But ever since Saix had been defeated and Faith jumped into the parallel world portal to save Frisk, things had been quiet. So this led to research. This research led them to the uprising of werewolves that had been rampaging through Earth as of lately.

“You could’ve told me they existed sooner, Julius,” scowled Rene.

“Ha, ha!” laughed Julius softly. “And what – would you deny it? I would have loved to see your shocked face when Riku told you the truth. But I suppose that’s done and dusted now. Speaking of which, we need to review your sword technique tomorrow. I expect that you’ll be up bright and early in the stadium?”

“Like hell I will,” Rene rolled his eyes.

“Rene won’t get up early, he sleeps in,” smiled Riku, as they reached the metal table and placed the werewolf on there. He then turned to Julius. “Has Zeria got any closer to finding a cure?”

“Afraid not, sorry,” sighed Julius. “But she’s working on it for eighteen hours a day! She’s made it her personal project. If only she could take it easy …”

Rene left Riku and Julius to their business in the research centre. He came to the hallways and wandered around for a little while. He had gotten so used to being in this huge rebuilt palace ever since he’d first came here a year ago after the battle he wished not to discuss. That battle had severely crippled the Earth and he had lost the only person he had ever loved …

To this day, Rene hadn’t given up on finding Faith. She was not surely lost forever. She and Frisk were alive, he knew it. But he hated the fact that everyone acted as if they were dead. One person that remained somewhat hopeful was Riku. What Rene didn’t know was that he had used his powers to cross over to that universe and project himself as an image to Faith to say his goodbye.

If he ever knew, it would have surely hurt Rene’s heart.

“Hey, Rene,” smiled Aerith, as she came across him. “Back from your latest mission then, huh?” Rene smiled back and nodded. Ever since the whole Earth crisis, she had decided to drop the “Lady” part from her name because she felt it was now too formal for people to call her it. “So I guess that you know that Lord Golbez has launched an investigation into the werewolves and finding a cure to swindle them down.”

“I was pretty surprised to find out that the thing chasing us was a werewolf,” Rene said, replying to what she had said. “I guess it goes to prove that there are maybe a lot of things in the world that have yet to be seen.”

Aerith pitied Rene, although she hated to for good reasons. In the year that had come after the tragic losses of Faith and Frisk, she had been the first to notice that Rene wasn’t acting like his old usual self. She saw him grow up too quickly and move on from the incident. However, she knew that he hadn’t quite given up on Faith just yet.

“Yes, well, even all of us have to discover those things,” she said sadly. “Anyway, I better get off. The man himself wants to see me for something I don’t quite know. I haven’t even been involved in the werewolf case … what could he want me for?”

“Maybe he wants a good old chat,” Rene shrugged his shoulders. He keeps doing that to me lately. Maybe it’s because he left FFF to do all the work while he had to remain hidden? It’s what being antisocial can do to you after all! As he continued to walk down the hallways, he spotted Angelus. “Uh, hi, um, Angelus! How are you today?”

“Was that Lady Aerith?” asked Angelus politely, as she glanced at where Rene had been talking to her.

“Yes, it was,” he replied nervously. “And, um, I still think she doesn’t want to be called Lady anymore. So why don’t we just –?”

“Hush,” she said, as her eyes began to glow a green colour. “There’s something not right around here. Something that doesn’t belong …” She glanced at Rene. “It’s something unreal, something … I cannot explain it. It is too complex, even for me.”

As Angelus went off, Rene would have normally ignored her. But now he seemed curious. Something that doesn’t belong? It felt weird. He took warning of this and carried on walking. Why did she tell him? He was the youngest and newest member of FFF. Perhaps he was significant enough, anyway? Maybe it was because he had been the one prophesised to defeat Darkblade. Mitsuki had revealed this to him not long after the Earth had been saved.

Rene carried on along the hallways now and then stopped when he had a flash. It was a flash … of Faith’s face. He was overwhelmed by it that he fell to his knees.

“Help me,” she whispered. “Please … someone … help me …”

“Rene?” came Riku’s voice.

“Huh?” Rene turned around and rubbed his head. “Oh, Riku, it’s you.”

“Are you all right?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?”

“Maybe because you’ve been stood in the same position for hours?”

“What do you mean? I haven’t been stood here for –” But then Rene glanced at his watch. It had been four hours since he last looked at it. What was going on? “Oh right, sure. I must have lost track of time! Ha, ha! Thanks for waking me up!” He tried to act like there was nothing wrong, but he was hiding his concerns badly. “I’ll see you later, Riku, yeah?”

But Riku stopped him. “You can’t go to bed now. There’s something wrong with Aerith and we need to find out what it is.” Rene gave him a look as if to say that he was listening. “She woke up and hasn’t stopped shaking. Her eyes tell the story itself, but I think you better listen to it before you jump to conclusions like you always do.” And for once, Rene didn’t disagree. “Come on, let’s go to her room.”

*

Contra Fates and Hera Ledro loved the night job. But even if it meant that they’d have to drag their friend out of a club by her hair, then that’s what they were going to do. They walked into the club and saw people dancing on the dance floor, whilst there were people ordering drinks at the bar.

“So where do you think she could be?” asked Contra loudly over the music.

“Could be with the vamps for all we know,” suggested Hera, shrugging. He glanced at the VIP section and his face fell by what he saw. “Well, what do you know? My hunch was right. Turns out our friend is going to party away with our vampire friends tonight.” Contra looked over, as Hera pointed to the VIP section, where Faith had just telekinetically pushed the security guard back and went up the stairs. “Good thing that we have all sorts of ID, isn’t it? I’m glad that Frisk brought them in.”

“Frisk isn’t our concern right now, Hera,” said Contra, eyeing up the guys on the dance floor. But after a “Really?” expression from Hera, she refocused his mind on the task at hand. “Ok, so we’ll go fetched our friend … and burn some vamps if they even try to hurt her.”

“Be careful, you two,” said Rydia on their earpieces. “Vampires are old creatures, of course, but they’re very powerful. One sight of the holy water will cause them to pull back and then you can bring Faith back to the base.”

“Roger that, Rydia!” nodded Hera, as he and Contra approached the VIP section.

“I’m sorry, but only VIPs are allowed in this section,” said the security guard, who was now sporting a black eye.

“We’re here about that girl who just attacked you,” Contra said, stepping forward and acting as the leader. “And don’t deny it because we saw what happened. If you think that’s out of the ordinary, just wait until you’ve seen the things we’ve seen.”

“She went upstairs with the guests hosting the party,” said the security guard quietly. “If I were you, I’d turn back. But if you really think you know what you’re doing –”

“We do,” cut in Hera. “We’ll get her out of here and she won’t cause anymore trouble for you.” He handed over the security guard some money. “This is for being helpful. Don’t think of it as a bribe, but think of it as compensation for what she did. We don’t want anymore accidents.”

He let them through and the two Red Rose Movement agents walked up the stairs.

“That was a bribe,” pointed out Contra. “Just because we get paid so much by our government to protect our country’s lives doesn’t mean that we can just do that!”

“Well, I did it and I feel better,” grinned Hera. “Now come on! We need to pull her out of here and find out what the hell’s going on in her mind.”

*

“You need to calm down, Aerith,” whispered Mitsuki, as she and the others were now gathered around her bed. “Now … what did you see and say it calmly before one of us has a spasm …”

Aerith nodded and cleared her throat. “Ok, I was walking in this dark room because Julius had been hurt and I needed to find him with the whole overprotective sister thing,” she explained slowly, calmly and carefully. “Then the next thing I remember was someone stepping out towards me. She didn’t look friendly, but she seemed so familiar to me … it’s almost as if we knew her, but we don’t anymore.”

Rene listened intently. Someone they knew, but they didn’t anymore? He burst out of the room with Riku following in his wake.

“Where are you going?” asked Riku.

“I have to find a way in,” said Rene, as he went to his room and started pulling out a bag pack. He started to stuff some clothes inside and other necessities. “I can’t sit here anymore and think that these things are mere coincidences.” He looked at Riku. “I’m going to find a way to get into that other world and see what the other Red Rose Movement has to offer. They should know what’s going on; their technology is more advanced than ours.”

“But you’re not going to see them! You don’t really want to see them! You want to see her.”

Rene paused for a moment before speaking again.

“I have to know it’s not her. I have to know she’s still the same person.”

It could have broken Rene’s heart if Riku ever did tell him of the day that he said goodbye to Faith. But he had kept this secret for a year now and the anniversary of Doomsday was fast approaching. Riku left the room in anger and tried to conceal it from the others, as he passed them by in the hallways. He headed deeper and deeper into the headquarters hoping that someone would be able to make sense of what was happening.

Finally, he came to the dungeons. He walked to the one particular holding cell. He curled his fist when he ordered the guard to open the door. Riku walked through into the cell and looked around him. The room was large, bricked and the floor below went down for miles. It was a dark abyss if he should think so himself. But Saix looked up at Riku from the corner of his eye.

“You need my help,” he muttered. Riku nodded. Saix laughed. “I’m not going to help you. Stripping me of my powers was the final straw … why should I help you when we both know that the world will be in danger again? And no, this is nothing to do with Azalea. She is long gone now, sworn to never have a master again since the crystal shattered.” He paused for a moment to cough before speaking again. “And even without my powers, I can see that concern in your eyes. You don’t want the little boy to go and find the girl he loves, do you? You know that it would rip the universe apart and have deadly consequences …”

“I’ll tell you something,” Riku said, breaking his silence. “You’re right for once, but I don’t think you’re in any position to be making threats. You’re powerless, stripped of your powers! There’s nothing you can do to hurt us anymore. You’ve lost everything, Saix, even the woman that once loved you … I really do wonder if she even thinks about you anymore.”

“SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME!”

Riku smirked darkly. He hurt Saix where it hurt him the most – in the heart.

“Frisk will never love you because she saw the evil demon that you were,” he continued to say. “She’ll never love you because she finally saw sense in the end. At least she’s not alone. At least Faith will always be there by her side.”

*

“There she is now,” whispered Hera to Contra, as they walked up the last set of stairs and noticed Faith sat down with a few vampires talking and drinking away. “On the count of three, you take out the vamps and I’ll –”

“Hera, this isn’t Mission Impossible or James Bond,” Contra gladly pointed out. “We don’t even need to go on the offensive for this mission. All we need to do is stay calm and see if we can talk some sense into her.” But then she stopped speaking when she saw one vampire biting her arm and sucking her blood, which she let him do. “You know what? Forget talking some sense into her! That was Plan A!”

“So what’s Plan B?”

“Plan B is kicking some vampire ass.”

With that, they rushed over to their table. Contra kicked one vampire out of the way that had attempted to stop them. Hera held the holy water in front of another. Whilst the other three vampires rose to their feet, the last one who had been draining Faith’s blood clicked his fingers. They backed away and the lead vampire rose to his feet.

“Who are you and what do you want?” he snarled, hoping to scare them with his fangs.

“First of all, we know you’re vampires and the fangs don’t tend to scare us,” Hera said, as he held up the holy water in his face. “Now if your goons try to attack us again, then I won’t be scared to use this. And I bet you’re scared because you won’t come near me now.” He paused for a moment to check their reactions and then continued to speak. “All right, so I’ve got everyone’s full attention. Brilliant! Secondly, we want our girl back. She belongs with us … naturally, of course and –”

“I don’t know you at all,” said Faith, rising to her feet. She didn’t care much for her arm, which was bleeding from the bite she got. “Now get out of here before I get really mad.”

“You don’t know us?” stared Contra, unable to process this. “Don’t you know who we are? This is Hera Ledro and I’m Contra Fates! We’re your buddies at the Red Rose Movement, damn it!” She didn’t care if he had revealed the organisation. What were the vamps going to do – find it? As if they could, anyway. “Faith, you’re with us! And why are you letting them drink your blood?”

“Her blood is powerful,” said the lead vampire. “I’m Rafael and I’m the leader of this vampire pack.”

“And I’m Mercurial, the current leader of the Red Rose Movement,” said Mercurial, as he walked into the room and had the hugest grin on his face. “Now I’m holding a big gun in my hand, yes.” He showed it off to them, but Faith wasn’t amused in the slightest. “But what if that gun happened to have holy water, hmmm? It actually does, you know? So unhand our girl now or else I’ll be forced to soak you all.”

He’s obviously played around with water soakers in his younger days, thought Hera, which Faith heard.

“I’m telling you all now!” yelled Faith, stepping in front of Rafael. “I don’t know any of you and if you knew me, then you’d know what happens next!” She raised her hands to push them back, but couldn’t. “What?”

“Oh, didn’t I tell you?” asked Mercurial. “When I saw you before, I slipped a collar through your neck. You were so vulnerable back then, Faith! I activated the collar with this little remote control.” He showed it to them all. “This means you can’t use your powers and you’re helpless after all! This is really sad, considering you claim you don’t know us and you’re standing with a bunch of vampires …”

And then without expecting it, she fainted and Contra caught her.

“I got her!” she shouted. “Now soak away, Captain!”

“Nah, not today,” Mercurial said, shaking his head. “Listen to me, Rafael. You come near our girl again and try to take anymore blood from her, then you’re going to get soaked big time.”

As he began to leave with the others, Rafael stopped him by speaking. “For your information, she came to us.” Mercurial, Contra and Hera turned around to stop and stare at him. “That’s right … you never thought that someone like her would turn to us. She was alone and so cold … her blood is satisfying enough. It’s not like any other that I’ve ever tasted.”

They could only stare for a moment before leaving behind what they started.

*

“Is that so?” asked Rydia, as she spoke to Mercurial on the earpiece. “Her blood isn’t like any other type they’ve ever tasted? I suppose that we could look into it if it’s an issue that keeps being brought up. Yes … everything’s fine back here … there’s nothing out of the ordinary happening on the CCTV cameras.” She paused for a moment and looked darkly at the vault in front of her. “She’s doing fine. In fact, it’s almost time for me to do another analysis. I’ll see you later, Merc.”

She disconnected from Mercurial and logged herself off the computer she had been working on. Rydia walked towards the vault that was at the other side of the room, entering a code and then watched the door open. As the door opened, she walked into the vault. Inside the vault was someone who had been imprisoned for a long time now. For a matter of months … there had been an unconscious body trapped in time inside a sleep chamber.

“I have to find out whatever it is inside of you,” whispered Rydia. “I’m the only one that can find out. Whatever creature inhabits your body, I will contain it. I promise you that I’ll do whatever it takes. But most of all … I’m really sorry … Frisk.”

And inside the sleep chamber was an unconscious Frisk connected to a life support machine and her body looked so cold inside. Her body had been frozen in time.

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So now you know what happened to Frisk! And perhaps even what Rene's going to do ...

Next Time . . .

“The penalty for attacking a security guard could be prison, you know,” said Mercurial, as he sat down in his computer chair and spun around, trying to figure out this situation. “But you don’t remember anything? So tell me one thing! What IS the last thing that you can remember, Faith?”

Faith sat down on a chair. She buried her hands in her face, groaned and shook her head. “I really DON’T remember!” she said, then looking at him. “I think it was on the beach with you … and I … blacked out. These things have been happening to me for the past few months now.” She looked horrified. “I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. If I don’t know what I’m doing, then what the hell is going on? I can’t even remember last night!”

She watched as Rydia hurried towards the vault as if something was going on.

“What’s up with Rydia?” asked Faith.

“She’s a bit … um, what’s the word?” wondered Mercurial. But before he knew it, Faith had risen to her feet and ran off to the vault. “Hey! Stop! You can’t go in there! I’m ordering you to stop, Faith Crest!”

When Faith ran into the vault, she shoved Rydia to the side and then stopped at what she saw. Frisk was in the sleep chamber frozen in time and she had been oblivious to all of this!

“Faith –” began Mercurial. “It was best that you didn’t know …”

“You LIED to me?” Faith raised her voice. “Don’t say sorry! You’ve had my best friend locked up in that sleep chamber for nearly a year and you didn’t even BOTHER to tell me?”