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The Final Judgement	By : Resting-Madness Category: Final Fantasy Games > Final Fantasy VI Views: 1534 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VI nor do I own the plot of it's creation, characters, world, none of that- duh. I'd also like to state that this is just a fan story for fun, so I make no profit off of it.

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A low man-made whistle sounds. "Would you look at that thing." Locke said, admiring the airship. "It's bigger than the last one!"
Setzer replied with a low laugh. "Yeah, she's a beauty... but what are you two doing out here, having a reunion without me, hm?" It was said jokingly.
"Actually," Edgar began, "we're searching the mountain for any left behind clues to a bit of a mystery that's popped up." He ended his sentence by sticking his long sword into the dirt.
"What mystery?" Setzer said looking from one friend to the other.
"Locke thinks that... No. ...What's a better way to say this?" Edgar pondered about it a minute.
"What he's trying to say is that I was attacked by soldiers in the fields around here, not just any soldiers either- recognize these?" He tossed the soldier's clothes at him, causing the gambler to jump back from the sudden surprise.
He picked the clothes up off the ground and studied them. "Are these...?" He started, and they both nodded with a simultaneous answer.
"Yeah."
"The Empire..." Edgar said walking back over to the mountain range, trying to stare up to its peak.
"We're climbing that thing?" Setzer followed the king's gaze with his own.
"Yes. I figured we'd let my men lead the way, in case something suspicious is going on up there. We won't be seen, and they won't know where we're going." Edgar said.
"And where might that be?" Setzer asked.
"The Returner hide out. It's a perfect place to hold a meeting. They won't go there looking for us, it's too obvious."
Locke and Setzer nodded to agree.
"Well, what are we waiting for then, let's scale this thing, go through, or however you there." Having never been to the Returner hideout, he doesn't have a clue where they're going, but Setzer started to walk ahead of them towards it. Always up for something to do.
But Edgar stopped him with an arm across his chest.
"One moment." Edgar was saying.
Setzer's brow arched with question.
"I'm glad you're here actually," Edgar began, "because I need you to do something for me?" He gestured for Locke to come over to them and hear as well.
"Sure, anything." Setzer replied not knowing what he may be volunteering for.
"How fast is your ship?" He asked.
"Fastest vessel to ever sail through the sky, may the Blackjack and Falcon rest in peace." He replied.
"Good. I need you to take me into every and any village we see, we have to gather our troops- our... friends."
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Locke waved them off not bothering to shout goodbye over the roar of the airship's fan blades. They needn't worry about the hideout, Locke is going there with Figaro's soldiers.
Edgar was weary about sending his best friend and his soldiers into the mountains, there is always that off chance the imperial have decided to check their old hideout. He can only pray that if the hideout has been rediscovered, that the enemy has already been and gone from it. He waved until the treasure hunter nothing but a speck. He then stepped away from the railing to join the pilot at the helm.
Mt. Kolts stood before Locke and the soldiers like a great foreboding sentinel. It wanted none to pass and none to enter. The group began to make their way through the cave tunnels, running into a few familiar dangers large and fury and full of teeth or sharpened claws ready to bloody. He had only a large dagger to battle with two Brawlers, but the outcome was successful. He even managed to pick up 100 gold pieces dropped from their stomachs that he'd sliced open. It was a shame when you think about how the gil got there, but the people traveling through the mountains are not always fighters, even at an inexperienced level. So anything on them from jewelry to clothes and money gets eaten up and sits in the monster's stomach until It's removed in one of two ways.
"Wished I'd of come up here more," he was saying to himself . "I'm gonna need a map." He looked from the left to the right, two openings in the cave. 'Which one?' He took a chance with the one to his left and it seemed to be the right way, because he recognized a few pathways.
Locke and the palace guards fought more and more monsters the farther in they got to the peak.
'Does this mean that there's more Empire activity up here?' He thought gradually as he looked for the right openings. "Alright, one more cave and we're out..."
They made it through the twist and turns without seeing another monster or creature. They were either none existant in this particular place or someone has cleaned house already. When they were off the mountain, their paces picked up to a sprint across the field to the Returner headquarters.
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"So, Setzer," Edgar was at small talk since neither had said anything since they left, and the silence was making him a bit antsy. "what have you been up to these past months?"
The pilot becomes so serious when he steering the ship, it was almost un-nerving.
"I've been gambling, of course." He said with a chuckle. "Care for some wine? It's strong. It'll ring the stress right out of you, I think."
"Yes, thank you." He said.
"There's a decanter open downstairs in the curio. Help yourself."
Edgar walked below deck and located the wine. He poured himself a calming glass of red liquid, finishing it in two gulps. Pouring another of the rich relaxer, he fixed another glass for Setzer bringing it to the upper deck.
"Do you really think we'll have to fight again?" Setzer asked out of nowhere. Taking the offering, his sipped it once, leaving it undrank for the time being.
"I don't know. It's too early to say; right now it feels like more of a scare than a cause for any real alarm." Edgar said in a posh manner, sipping his second glass.
"And if there is..?"
"We go to war."
The past war roiled in their memories fading with the end of it, and the beginning of life anew.
"I hope we can find everyone, if that becomes the case." Setzer said as he moved the airship to the ground landing near a clearing beside Narshe. "Mog, is sure to be here." His reasoning was that their Moogle friend would certainly not just up and leave the home he's known for many decades.
They walked below deck and out onto the grassy fields for the cavern town.
Leafer! Edgar swiftly took it out with his sword, and they continued on their way into the hidden cave village. King Figaro held the gambler back before they entered town. "They might have some reward on our heads, in times like these the wrong people will do anything thing for money..."
Edgar wasn't wrong about that. "How will we sneak in then? Do you know another route?"
Edgar led him over to Locke's secret cave entrance. Once he pulled the right rock they stepped inside going directly into the labyrinths. Everything was going smoothly so far, no trouble along the way until a swarm of Were-rats surrounded them! The squeaking deafened as they snapped and swiped at the pair. Setzer waved his left hand over his right wrist to a device that looked like a slot machine watch, he then clapped his hands together unleashing a 7 flush attack. He raised his arms above his head and the area filled with colored beams and took out the ravenous monsters that were already weak from trying to change back into normal animals after Kefka's magic had worn off.
"We're almost there, let's move faster." Edgar hurried their pace. Sheething his blood soaked sword, he had no intention of sticking around fighting more of the quickly re-grouping rats. When they made it to the Moogle caves they surrounded them with foreign greetings.
Kupo-po! Ku-Mamma! Ku-pop!
"Yes, hello," they greeted them.
"Where- is- Mog, do- you- know?" Setzer talked as though they had no clue what he was saying either.
They jumped about, rowdier than before; Umaro rolled his eyes over the Moogles's antics, speaking up.
"Mog left," he roared out. "He did not say to where, went for walk."
Edgar cursed. "...When do you think he'll be back?"
"Umaro, not know. Can I help friends?" The giant beast walked closer showing them that he could do more of a job than Mog's little body could.
"You can help us actually,"
The beast smiled at these words but Edgar had it fade away when he continued with what he had to say. It was very distressing.
"You can help by staying here and protecting the Moogles while should something happen. This is all just suspicion, as of late." Edgar was sure to impress that upon the yetti. "I know you can handle the job." He gave him a seal of a approval smile; and Setzer stood back nodding to whatever to agree.
"Umaro do this favor, for king." He said returning to his corner and sitting down heavily. "Good luck."
"Thank you." Replied the King.
"You wouldn't happen to know where we could find any of the others?" Setzer asked stepping backing to the caves exit.
"Look for in Doma, the knight is bound to be there." He waved them away.
The king and the gambler headed out of the caves, with hardly a bit of trouble. Then they were back in the sky for the next location.
"This does not sound good to me, sirs..." said Cyan stroking his mustache. He was at Doma castle as predicted. "Art thou sure?"
"I just heard about it myself, I have no idea." Setzer replied.
"Locke said they were the Empire's soldiers, they attacked him in the field hoping he was dead. I'd say that that is definitely the Empire's doing." Edgar swirled his drink in the glass smelling the nutty flavor of the peach colored liquid they were offered by the new king of Doma castle.
Cyan sighed deeply and looked both men in the eye. "I'll be with thee, let me get a few things first." He got up from his seat and headed to his chambers. When he returned he came out holding a picture of his family. "Let us be swift, the sooner we resolve this, the sooner we can know if this is a nightmare and see it's promptly resolved as a nothing..." a pause "or if it's just beginning."
Cyan asked his guards to strengthen their standing, and be on watch for imperial soldiers. "I believe I know where we can find lady Celes, I stopped by Jidoor once and saw her around the painters house with young Relm." Informed king Garamonde while going below deck so he won't feel airsick.
"Then that's our next destination," he put the ship's speed into high gear. "Hang on to something!"
"Whoa!" Edgar was shaken to his knees from the sudden jerk of the vessel.
In the Returner cave.
Locke looked around horrified. The place was completely trashed! "What happened in here?" He walked around chairs, paper, and garbage. "Did the Empire look here first and trash the place?" He wondered out loud.
Clank! A metallic sound from a room got his attention. He pulled out his Assassin dagger, which he'd kept incase of an emergency.
'You can't sneak up on me, I'm the one with the advantage here.' He thought; waiting for the person to come out.
"Locke?" A voice said stepping out from a back room, it was... Mog! Kupu!
"What are you doing here?" Locke was saying, "It could be dangerous to just walk around outside now." He crossed the room patting the little guy on the back.
"I went for a long walk and found myself here..." Mog answered. "What do you mean it's not safe to walk around?" The leader of the Moogles asked when hearing back what Locke had forewarned.
"Edgar will explain everything once he and Setzer get back with the others." He turned a chair right side up and sat down. "For now let's just, clean this place up." Leaning, he scooped up a swarm of papers at his feet. "Let's catch up a bit,"
The castle soldiers moved throughout the hideout searching for anything suspicious.
The thief smiled at his friend, who sat down as well then began telling him about all the things he and his Moogle brethren have done over the year.
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"This is so great, I was just wishing we'd see you guys again!" Relm shouted walking over to Edgar, luridly throwing her arms around his neck.
"Uh yes, it's... nice to see you, too, young Relm" The king replied placing her down on the deck. "Celes, it's good to see you as well. How have you been?" He kissed her on the back of her hand.
"I've been doing great. I have a job at the opera house getting the actresses and actors ready." The ex-general said smiling, but her attention wasn't on Edgar or her recapping of her life. Her brown eyes skimmed the area for Locke, but she doesn't see him.
"Please," Setzer began, "make yourselves at home." The ship was taking off again.
"Where exactly are we going?" Celes asked walking over to Setzer giving him a smile as she touched his arm.
"It depends. Where do you think Terra might be?" The gambler asked.
"I'm not sure, maybe Mobliz. She might have stayed with the children after... you know."
They all nodded as he steered the ship East towards the Veldt.
In a cave. Shadow can hear the rush of a waterfall as he's coming to.
'What hit me?' The ninja rubbing his head a moment. "Interceptor?!"
The dog then began to whimper from somewhere out of view. Shadow felt around in the dark until his hands came across the dog, its tied to a large rock, and judging by the warm sticky moisture he's bleeding. The ninja growled lowly in his throat, swearing that the Empire would pay for hurting Interceptor.
"But we have to tell the others. I might know where to find them." Shadow picked up his dog, but Interceptor leapt out of his arms and began to trot beside him. "You're strong, my friend. We need to hurry before they come back to finish the job."
In Mobliz. The whole village heard the huge airship sweeping through the sky, before it came to a land. Young and old came outside to watch the vessel descend from the sky. It was amazing!
"What is that?!" The kids shouted.
Terra looked stunned and happy, Gau was already up to them climbing all over their friends, talking a mile a minute about what he's been doing and how nice it was to see them. They laughed along with him hearing the story of how he chased two monsters away with his bare hands on the Veldt's field.
"Terra, my lady." Edgar kissed her hand as he'd kissed Celes's but the deeper warmth was there as he recalled the young lady from their earlier days. "You look stunning."
"Thank you." She said shyly; the Esper girl never really took well to compliments. She liked them, she just didn't know how to respond.
"How have you been?" Setzer asked her with intense interest.
"I've been very good actually. I'm a teacher for the students, and I watch them when their parents are working."
Gau jumped down from Edgar's shoulders and ran over to Terra as though he were showing her off. "Friend Terra live with Gau now, she like mother and friend, Gau love her very much."
She gave the young teen a quick hug, and then her face turned serious. "What are you all doing here? Where are the others?"
That was something Celes wanted to know, too.
"Well, we haven't found them yet... However, Locke is at the Returners's cave." Edgar was motioning them over to the airship. "We'll debrief once we meet back up. But, you must be aware it could be bad."
They start for the airship but Terra backed away.
"I can't fight, I don't wanna fight anymore."
"But Terra?" Celes began putting her arm around the Esper's shoulders. "If we do have to fight we'll need you there with us... It'll be like old times, all of us together again..."
"It's not some reunion!" The Esper girl shouted pulling away. "I can't do it, not with the children in jeopardy..."
"The village will be watched under great protection." Setzer said taking her hands looking her in the eyes continuing. "Umaro is watching the Moogles- who can actually hold their own. If he were to come here with them and something happened, the children would be well taken care of... Please, Terra?"
She met his gaze evenly, looking from him to the others who had the same pleading expression.
"Okay," she said slowly, and still uncertain. "I should trust my friends and their word. No harm will come to these kids with Umaro and the Moogles protecting them." She assured herself. "Okay. I'm in."
Her spirits began to raise a bit when they board the ship.
"There is a good chance that this is all just a scare. We might not have to fight after all." Setzer said trying to reassure her.
Terra grinned at him and walked below deck to join the others.
Edgar wondered what was with the extra special attention, but he does not remark on it. "We should try Tzen; my brother wrote me and said that he'd be moving there with Duncan. That had been sometime ago, he could be there now."
"You're the leader." Setzer saluted him and flew in the direction of Tzen.
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