(ooc - Wow, a lot's happened! Great job everyone!)
Balamb...
Zell had never seen a creature so big.
He and his men stood motionless, watching the Darkside.
With lightning fast movement, Darkside lunged forward, and grabbed Jeremiah.
"NO!" exclaimed Zell, trying to grab him back.
It was too late.
Jeremiah was now covered in darkness, as if it were smoke swirling around him.
Then it dissapated.
Darkside set Jeremiah down.
Zell and the other two hurried forward, as Darkside moved away.
"Jer-" Zell started.
Jeremiah raised his hands, and a shockwave formed! Zell was knocked off his feet, but the other two were knocked several hundred feet away.
Jeremiah's eyes were glowing.
"Now, Jeremiah... I'm your friend..." said Zell, getting to his feet.
"Goodbye, friend," said Jeremiah, raising his hands, and smiling evilly.
Leon kept plunging into the center of the battle, then falling back. He was keeping an eye on Marie, who was doing well, as well as some of the younger fighters.
"Let's keep it up, people!" Leon shouted.
The heartless did not seem to be diminishing rapidly, although they seemed to have quit multiplying.
Everything was going well, until a gigantic dark shape came around to the front of the Garden.
"Oh...Great..." said Leon.
"I AM DARKSIDE!!!" the creature roared.
Leon thought once more of his stone...
Running back to the entrance, he shouted to Marie, "We're gonna need backup!"
When he reached her, beheading a shadow heartless along the way, he handed her the stone.
"All you have to do is concentrate on a place... and say the name... It'll take you there," he explained. "I don't know where to tell you to go, though... that's up to you."
With that, Leon dove back into the battle, working his way to the Darkside.
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Midgar...
"ARRGH!" came Cid's painful exclamation.
The Wyvern he was fighting had sunk long claws into his right arm.
Cloud came rushing forward, and sliced through the creature.
"You okay?" he asked Cid.
"I've been better," said Cid."We need help, Cloud..."
"Yeah, I know..." said Cloud. "And I have an idea..."
He handed the stone to Cid.
"I met a guy named Leon... He might be able to help us... All you have to do is concentrat and say the name of a place... The stone will take you there. He was from somewhere called Balamb."
Cloud paused, then said, "Make it quick... We're gonna need it."
He then turned to rush back into battle.
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Hollow Bastion...
Sora, Donald, and Goofy were making their way up the path to the castle once more.
Before they reached the castle, however, they saw a boy.
"Hold on!" said Sora. "Who's that?"
"He looks okay," said Goofy.
"Doesn't mean anything, though, does it?" asked Sora.
"Let's ask him who he is," said Donald.
"All right," said Sora, apprehensively leading the way.
When the reached the boy, who was sitting on the ground, Sora said, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
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Kohlingen...
The town was in ruins... People were dead everywhere. Fire were burning, and smoke filled the night's sky.
Only one man remained.
Everyone else were either dead, or had fled from the scene.
The man surveyed the scene, then laughed loudly.
"It does my heart good to see such chaos... Oh, wait... I don't have a heart anymore..."
Locke Cole then laughed again, sounding more evil by the moment.
(OOC - And, just so everyone knows, Lock Cole, and the town of Kohlingen, are from Final Fantasy 6. I'll also be bringing in another surprise from FF past, a little later.)
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