FINAL FANTASY

[SkywalkerRules]

"Foolish girl!" Angel stopped, and turned to Souvi.

 

Her eyes were full of anger. "But... we gotta kill him in order to get the blazes outta here!" she said. She glanced at the Dragon, who continued to get closer.

 

"You got an idea on how to defeat that thing?" She asked him, folding her arms, and staring at Souvi. Angel glanced at the others, and back at Souvi, waiting for an answer.

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Souvi sprinted by Angel without stopping, but managed to hear Angel's question - as well as her anger.

 

"You got an idea on how to defeat that thing?"

 

"Is that blue thing on your hands hot?!" Souvi asked her at distance. He could see her puzzled face. "Nevermind. Just blast the floor with everything you've got!" He then accelerated his pace even more, his eyes now focused on the mighty beast.

 

It was with a guttural sound that another blue fire ball came on the nearest person; Souvi. There wasn't room to jump away this time, and the ball was to high for him to simply jump above it; the only viable path was beneath it. He stopped running and focused his fire powers on the feet. Suddenly, he was underneath the metallic level and just barely managed to grab several stalactites that spread on the roof of the lower chamber he was now in.

 

He could hear all the commotion and the dragons footsteps up there.

[DrPhil2501]

Randon brought himself up from the ice-covered floor, and stood to face the dragon like everybody else did. Guns and Swords were clearly no match for the dragon. There had to be a stradegy. Ice monsters primary weakness is mainly fire and/or electricity.

 

But Randon knew it'll take a lot more energy to bring down this heavy beast. He called upon his eletrical energy which surrounded his hands. He then slid on the ice floor like a skater, and fired rapid singular bolts at White Death. This didn't have much effect, but at least it played some part.

 

"Nevermind. Just blast the floor with everything you've got!"

 

"On the floor?" Randon queried. "You better be onto something good there, Souvi!"

 

He looked back at the dragon to see it hurl a blue fireball in his way. It knocked him back onto the ice when he took the blast. The blue fire only managed to melt away his leather armor, fortunatly. But left only a few minor ice burns onto his chest, which was as painful as Liquid Nitrogen.

 

"Ugh... is that all you've got?" he gnarled, as he used his healing power to ease the pain off the ice burns. He stood up. "I'll keep him busy, while you do what you gotta do!"

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Angel looked down at her hands. "Well... the wizard did tell me that it could change into hot and cold temperature..." She glanced at Souvi.

 

"Well'p... here goes!" She used her Blast Power to blast at the floor with hot temperature, just like Souvi asked for. Suddenly, she could see that the floor was melting. "Wow! Cool!"

 

Angel saw that Randon was hurt, but was healing himself.

 

"I'll keep him busy, while you do what you gotta do!"

 

The young girl nodded. "Right!" The ice floor was beginning to melt even more. She looked at the others. "If you guys got something hot, blast it on this floor!"

 

Angel shook her head. "Gotta stop getting angry, and focus."

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This wasn't exactly what Souvi planned on doing. But there's always time for a plan B. he thought.

 

Holding the stalactites with all of his strength, he managed to set himself quite near of where the dragon was on the surface. That was quite perceptible, seeing as every step the White Death took made tons of rubbles dangerously fall. He had to put a lot of effort in order to make fire come out of his hand, a achievement he didn't considered himself capable of doing.

 

After a few seconds of continuous fire launching, the metallic floor/roof began to melt incredibly fast until all that there was left was a hole. The creature's left foot fell on it and apparently, got stuck. After grinning for a moment , Souvi turned and started to melt the floor on the other direction; he needed to get back to the surface or his hands would soon fail him.

[DrPhil2501]

Randon noted the creature stepped into the large pot hole Souvi had obviously created underneath the solid metal layer of the floor of the cavern. This momentarily provided an entrapment for White Death from which he cannot move.

 

He upped the charge of the electrical bolts surrounding his hands, and then slid up close the dragon. He began climbing up the scaley body, grabbing onto the spikes running down its spine.

 

Randon stopped near the head of the beast, placed his hand inside the long ear, and discharged his electrical energy. The blast had caused White Death screaming, and seemed to have stunned the creature. Randon jumped off the creature, feeling exhausted from the discharge he had made.

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Angel stopped, and glanced at White Death. Looks like Randon did one of his electrical charges against the dragon. She ran towards him, and placed a gentle hand on his arm. "You okay, Randon? That must've got him good."

 

She then noticed that Souvi was in a hole, holding on to something. Angel gasped. "We gotta get him outta there!"

 

The young girl went towards the hole, where Souvi was at. "Souvi! Do you need a rope or anything to pull you back up?" Angel yelled, so Souvi could hear her.

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Souvi heard Angel desperate question pierce his ears. "That would be fine!" He yelled back, "Glad to see you're in one piece. How are the others?" Entrapped there, with his right hand holding on a stalactite and his free one waving, on a attempt to get closer to the hole he originally fell in, there wasn't how to see how things were going upstairs.

 

He was about to yell again at Angel to ask how the dragon was, but noticing that his stuck leg had ceased to shake (and consequently shake the entire chamber), he concluded the the dragon was, at least, stunned. That probably took a lot of effort. No small feat.

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Angel panicked. But tried to calm down. "Okay! The others are fine, but we need to get you outta there! Hold on, Souvi!" She looked in her backpack. Suddenly, she found a rope, long enough to get Souvi out of the hole.

 

She threw the rope down, hoping that it would be strong enough to hold Souvi. She tied the other end of the rope on a ice stalagmite. Angel pulled it, and it was just right for Souvi to climb up the rope.

 

The young teenaged pirate ran back towards the hole. "Souvi! Climb up the rope! It should be close enough for you to climb on!"

[DrPhil2501]

"You okay, Randon? That must've got him good."

 

Randon looked back at the fallen White Death, completely stunned. Then looked back at Angel and grinned.

 

"Your <huff> telling me..." he panted. He walked over with her to the hole where Souvi was in.

 

As Angel threw a rope down to Souvi, Randon's fear increased. He eyed the stunned dragon... most likely any minute now it'll recover.

 

"Please hurry... We'de like to be out of here before White Death recovers for yet another round!" the elf yelled down into the dark well.

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Now Randon's voice seemed to join the choir of voices that came from upwards. Their voices strangely amplified. He heard something about a rope and then one crawled out of the irregular hole he had dug and hold still. But it was clear that the rope was pretty far from him, and there wasn't anywhere else he could hold on to get nearer. He was needed to jump. A leap of faith would be a better definition, his own mind teased him.

 

He started to hanging on the edge of the stalactite, hoping to gain enough momentum and speed to not fall on that bottomless chamber he was in. At the same time, the thought that White Death could rise again and vaporize the group on the blink of an eye was terrifying. After hanging a few times, souvi jumped, but his feet also slipped, and as the rope got near so did his negative musing about his failure.

 

Souvi wasn't a religious person himself, but there wasn't other way to define the moment when he caught the rope. His heart had a brief stop when the rope almost fallen with the suddenly extra weight.

[DrPhil2501]

Randon saw the rope being tugged and straightened, indicating Souvi had succefully caught the rope. It was only a matter of time and effort for Souvi to climb up out of the hole before White Death recovers.

 

Randon saw a glimps of the creature once more, in time for him to hear it groan and opening a heavy eye lid. White Death will rise again.

 

The half-elf grabbed onto the rope and started pulling Souvi up. He didn't seem to mind his weight, as Randon was determined to get him out of hole before the dragon recovers...

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Angel aslo helped by pulling the rope to get Souvi back up. She then glanced at White Death, who looked like he was about to get up! She gasped.

 

"If that dragon gets back up, we're dead! We need to get the blazes outta here!" Angel started to panic while she helped Randon pull Souvi up. But she had to have courage and hopes to get out of the ice cave, along with her friends.

 

She glanced at Randon. Then Angel focused on pulling the rope as hard as she could. "Weight doesn't matter. All that matters is that we can't have that dragon wake up and try to kill us!" she thought to herself.

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Souvi got up back on the surface faster than he thought he would - but not faster than what he hoped it would be. Barfing a little Souvi said to the companion that had helped him a brief "Thanks", before looking up to the now awoken White Death. It's bestial face contorted on pure fury.

 

Souvi took a deep breath. "Enough of this running. We won't be able to escape from here now that it's kicking around again." Souvi put his his hand on the back and grabbed his seemingly old, rusted sword.

 

Why haven't he thought about that before was a question he can't answer. With all the air left on his lungs, he yelled as he raised the sword: Take this! Dragonslayer! All of the rusty appearance that the sword had was erased. Instead, a curved long blade, similar to a dragon canine, showed on Souvi's hand as he sprinted on the Dragon's direction.

[DrPhil2501]

Randon saw Souvi raise the blade up, and all the decorative rust cleansed away. Like nothing so much as a gleaming, steal blade.

 

"What the hell is that thing..." he thought to himself. The sword in which Souvi had wielded looked quite deadly, but would it be enough to slay White Death himself?

 

"You dare face me with an ordinary blade? Fine! Do your worst..." the dragon spat rapid bullets of blue fire towards Souvi's direction.

 

((I was kinda thinking of summoning the esper within the orb later on. Who has the Piece again?))

[Meowster]

(( I do. Or, at least I think I do. I have the piece of Magicite as well. ))

 

Errol looked as he saw Souvi run toward the dragon; with that steel, gleaming steel blade shimmering across the darkness, as a bright turqouise shone off of the blade from the rapid bullets. The White Dragon was certainly a ghoulish creature, its angry face showing traces of delight.

 

Looking at the shimmering blue light radiating off of the bullets, brought his attention to the Magicite. Maybe, there were enough magick in there for Espers to work? That is, if Espers exist at all. That being said, he had to be the most careful; combined with both the Spirit Orb, AND the Magicite could work to his advantage...

 

...if only Errol knew how to tap its energy. He ran next to Randon, and looked at the ongoing battle against the White Death.

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Angel glanced at Errol as he too watched the battle between Souvi and White Death. When she saw Souvi's blade turn from rusty to shinning wonderous steel blade, she gasped.

 

"I never seen anything like it!" Angel said, as she stared at the breathtaking blade. But then she focused on White Death again.

 

As he blew bullets of blue fire at Souvi, the young girl gasped, and placed her hand over her mouth. "We gotta get rid of that dragon, before Souvi gets fried! And worse... all of us!"

 

She looked around the cave, trying to figure out what could possibly kill White Death...

 

Suddenly, she thought about the Spirit Orb. Angel turned to Randon. "Randon? Can the orb stop the dragon?"

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Souvi never truly understood how did it worked. The sword -- when it was given to me, that old cook said that it could do that, recreate any other sword, but he didn't said how.... He couldn't, however, stop thinking that this was the finest hour to learn the trick.

 

Running as fast as he could, Souvi managed to short the distance between him and the dragon, but now that it was fully awaken again, it was firing blue fireballs on his direction. So far, he had managed to avoid the spheres, but he had halted his advance; he wouldn't be able to get close enough.

[DrPhil2501]

"Randon? Can the orb stop the dragon?"

 

Randon thought for a moment, skimming over his brief history of the Pieces... he definatly forgot about something though wasn't sure if it was correct.

 

"If from what I can remember correctly, each orb contains some sort of guardian when they feel they are in tremendous danger."

 

At first, Randon believed it to be some kind of myth. But if it wasn't, how was it that the orb not summond its esper to protect itself when they stole it from the vault. Still, summoning could be the only option at the moment if Souvi's sword ccan't with stand the dragon.

 

((I feel we should further explore this cave while being chased by White Death. Kinda like any typical adventure game Don't worry, we can summon the Esper after the brief chasing. Hey Meowster, wanna take the pleasure of accidently dropping the orb down a slidding passage?))

[SkywalkerRules]

((Sounds cool to me. ))

 

"If from what I can remember correctly, each orb contains some sort of guardian when they feel they are in tremendous danger."

 

"Oh. Well... it better summon something, before we're all eaten!" Angel replied, watching Souvi and White Death continue to battle.

 

Angel began to wonder: would an Esper protect the Orb... or a Magicite that Errol had protect it? Or could it be both? She placed her hand on her forehead worringly.

 

This was going to be a challenge to stop White Death. A challenge she never faced before...