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The Final Judgement	By : Resting-Madness Category: Final Fantasy Games > Final Fantasy VI Views: 1523 -:- 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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"Hey brother!" Sabin slapped his brother on the back so hard the king stumbled forward a bit.
"Hello," Edgar rubbing his shoulder.
"Hey Setz'." The blitz specialist raised his hand to slap him on the back as well, but he leaped out of the way.
"Sorry, I need this arm to steer."
Sabin let out a loud laugh. "You never lost that humor." he then turned to the ladies. "You three are looking very lovely; I'm glad you're taking care of yourselves."
They both blushed but brushed off his compliment, moving back inside the airship after greeting the martial artist at the door.
"Gau glad to see you too, friend Sabin."
Sabin hoisted the young teen up to sit on his shoulder, and he followed behind Setzer and his brother into the vessel.
Once they are walking the lengthy halls, Prince Figaro asked. "So...what brought you guys here, a party?"
"I wish," Edgar stated.
Setzer left the conversation and climbed to the upper deck.
"Locke thinks that the Empire might be re-forming under new management; they tried to kill him out near South Figaro. They might even have a bounty put out for us, every thief and assassin might be on the lookout for us." The weightless feeling surrounded them. It can really turn a stomach if you're not prepared for it.
"Well all right, we can finally have some action around here," He turned back to the village before they were too high up. "Duncan! I have to go with my brother! I'll see you later!" He waved down to him.
"Good bye, Sabin!" Duncan waved with a smile. "Maybe now I can get some peace, sheesh!"
The door of the ship was yanked shut, and the royal pair walked to the second floor then above deck. As the air ship began to make it's way towards the Returner cave they were all settling their nerves hoping for a good outcome in the news that had brought them all together but might soon tear them apart. War isn't fun and games. These somber times are what they want deep down, even if some would like to fight. The reality just needs time to better sink in for them where the year and months of war had lasted.
The Meeting:
Edgar paced around the table, they watched him quietly.
"Well?" Celes said.
"I'm thinking, that's all." He bit his bottom lip and turned around to face them. "I don't have a clue as to what to do about this, except we need to split up and find out any information we can- as quickly as we can." The king sat down in his chair and waited for their responses.
"How are we gonna do that?" Said Locke. "If we ask the townspeople, they'll freak, and then they'll know something is up..."
"Besides that, you know what a sort of panic they get in when they think they might be in danger. They'd turn us in for sure." Setzer added.
"You're right," Sabin began. "I say we hit them before they hit us!"
Locke, Sabin, and Setzer let out cheers, while the girls, Cyan, and Edgar shook their heads.
"I could send the Moogles around to investigate," Mog stood up to say over their noise.
"Mog, We forgot to ask you if the Moogles could watch the children of Mobliz with Umaro?" Terra pleaded.
That was surprising, though not by much. He knows how much the young woman loves to care for people. "Sure," Kupo. "But there are more than the few Moogles around Narshe, our tribes run deep. We can do both."
"Excellent idea Mog, no one will suspect them, they're allowed to come and go as they please," Edgar was saying then added. "so all we have to do is split into parties and try to track down and conquer any bases that the empire has... We're stronger as a whole than we are separate." They nodded to that comment in agreement.
"Now, to pick who should go with whom," he started to speak when the door burst open, they jumped from the startle and turned to see the uninvited and unexpected guest.
"Shadow?" said Locke
"The Empire...has Returned..." he collapsed winded.
Terra and Celes came to his aid but he pushed them away.
"I'm fine, just winded from all the running."
"But you're bleeding," said Relm. "so is Interceptor." She touched the dogs sticky fur then ran to get some water for it.
"Where was the location? Do you remember?" Setzer asked.
"The caves on the Veldt..."
Terra looked terrified. She knew she never should have left. The empire could be there, right now, shaking the small village to rubble in search of her and Gau. "Whichever team goes there, I'm in." She stated not wanting to hear an argument.
"I will too," declared the treasure hunter. "I promise I'll protect you..." he caught himself in the sentence. "Uh, better than the last time."
Terra smiled at him, thankful. "Thank you, Locke."
He blushed slightly and moved around the table to stand beside her.
'I can't just count myself in, they might suspect something.' Celes thought, then looked over at Setzer flipping a card between his fingers. 'Maybe if-...' her concentration was broken at the sound of her name.
"And Celes is with us." Edgar said.
They all stood from their seat around the table and walked into their group.
Edgar nodded with self assurance that he made the right call. "This time... it's personal. No pleasantries, no negotiations. We go in for the kill."
"Setzer?" Relm tugged at his jacket sleeve. "We have to stop at Thamasa first. I have to tell grandpa what we're doing and..."
"I'm sorry, Relm. We have to stick to the plan right now, we can't make any sudden stops." Setzer stated, obeying Edgar's orders to go straight to Figaro castle to tell his men.
"Humph! I always thought you were fun, but I guess you're just an old grump!" The little artist was starting a scene- as she often did- and sadly Setzer fell right into it.
"I beg your pardon?" Setzer was saying looking down at the tiny young lady.
"Relm, please knock it off," Celes was saying "we have too much to worry about right now."
Relm seemed defeated at the moment and let it go. They all were quiet for the rest of the way. 'Like seeing my grandpa and making sure he knows I'm ok isn't important...? Why are they treating me like some dumb kid? I'll show them how dumb this kid ain't.' Relm stood up and walked below deck, no one followed or had even seen her go, because they too must have been in their own thoughts.
When they approached Figaro castle his men were already outside welcoming him as they landed. "How did you all know I was coming, I thought you were all standing down?" Edgar said stepping out of the airship. "We saw the airship from a good distance, sir." One of his guards replied walking beside them into the castle.
"I need all my weapons brought to me right away. And also bring the experimental ones."
"Sir, yes sir." The guards rushed away to do as he asked.
Edgar turned to talk to the second squad oof his guards, "I need to talk with you." he lead them up the hall into a room. The others waited patiently for him to return to the ship and when he did he wasn't smiling.
"Bad news, I take it?" Sabin asked.
"We're gonna have to go it on foot." Edgar answered.
"What?!" They were all baffled by his words.
"What does thou mean, sir?" Cyan asked following close behind him for an explanation.
"Setzer, your ship is far too noticeable for us to sneak around, we'd never get in anywhere undetected... We're gonna have to leave it once we get to Nikeah for supplies." Edgar said hoping he'd understand.
"You're the boss." Setzer replied, though you could tell he was a little hurt by these words. He hasn't ridden a Chocobo for some time, he hoped he still knows how.
"Take these," Edgar handed them each a sack to fill with things they'll need when they go through Nikeah, which had become the worlds biggest trading and selling market. "Fill these even past its limits, who knows how long we'll be doing this."
"Yes, sir." They reply mimicking the officiant palace guards.
"Away we go." The gambler said, started the engines. The vessel moved slowly through the sky headed towards the village; his spirits partially crushed, but, Setzer knows that what they have to do was more important than being able to fly his ship, so he set his mind on that instead.
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The trip there was pleasant everyone began to loosen up once they got to the village. The Returners looked around for food, asked what types of weaponry the merchants there had and the sales people who had taken the job more professionally.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Locke said, as he bumped into someone walking by.
Gau noticed the thief's hands slipping a pouch that belonged to the man into his own belt and figured he'd do the same.
"Gau want honey." He announced. Straying from the group, he snaps up a jar from a nearby vender, quickly shoving his hand inside and sucking the sweet goodness from his fist.
"Hey you gotta pay for that!" The salesman shouted at him. "I oughta cut you in half for this!"
"Sounds like there may be a scrap of trouble." Cyan said to the others.
They all turned in the direction of the commotion and ran to see what it was.
"Gau not mean to steal, just do like friend Locke," the boy said in a shudder.
"Is that supposed to be an excuse!?" The man shouted.
The guy was obviously angrier than they thought because he pulled out a clever on the child and held Gau's hand down. But just as the reforming cutlery was coming down on him a dirk clashed against it and knocked it out of the merchant's hand.
"Mind explaining what you're doing?" Locke asked holding the weapon to the man's neck.
"Locke we're not here to fight," Edgar stated while slamming some gold coins down for the honey, he was just as annoyed as Locke but tried to keep it down. "For the honey." The king explained to the man.
"That's all I ask." The shop owner grumbled, scooping up the coins to count them as the group walked back into the crowd.
"Almost makes you wonder why we're trying to save their lives." Locke mumbled bitterly looking back at the small shop.
"We shouldn't call anymore attention to ourselves," Celes was saying. "there could be eyes and ears everywhere. And too many people know us by now." She remained talking in a low voice. Over by the salesman's stand a man covered from head to toe walked over to him. Who could it be? An enemy or another friend?
"Once we get to Nikeah we'll take the first two boats we see out to the Veldt and back to South Figaro," Edgar commanded. "And you should keep west of that island, take my castle to Kohlingen when you get there. Any questions...?" Seeing it's a no he then said. "Good. See you in the middle, and good luck." They all bid one another good bye and took the boats to their locations.
Doma castle.
"Surely my men would tell me if they've seen anything," Cyan was saying as he, Edgar, Locke, Terra, and Gau approached Doma castle. "They are very loyal." They all nodded as they passed the castle.
"Do you have a Chocobo stable yet?" Terra asked wanting to pick up the pace for the Veldt.
"That we have," Cyan replied. "some of the best birds next to Figaro's."
Edgar humbly shook his head to the thought.
"Why Edgar, that's the first time I've seen you smile through this whole thing," said Locke patting his best friend on the shoulder. "Something going on up there that I should know about?" The thief asked quietly so the others wouldn't hear them.
"Why nothing at all Locke, don't worry about me." Edgar was saying trying not to smile.
"I wouldn't worry if you'd give me a better reason to believe you than a half-hearted smile..." Locke said looking at his best friend to see if it hit anything. Nothing.
As they walked inside the castle entry they heard the chirp of the birds in the distance.
"Geez, how close are those things?" Locke said over the noise.
"You remember that door that lead to nothing?" Cyan was saying and they laughed knowing what he was talking about. "We built the stable over the water, right this way," he steered them through the doors to a marvelous stable for the birds.
"Gau want this bird!" He said running over to one and trying to climb on, the bird let out a loud sound and moved away.
"You can ride with me Gau." Terra said with a smile to his innocence.
They all hopped onto a bird and exited through the stable doors and outside. As they herded into the Phantom forrest, whispers went up around them but the birds feet were stamping too loudly for them to notice. Until- Whiff!
"Look out!" Locke shouted.
An arrow flew through the sky towards Terra and Gau, he leaped off of the bird rolling into the under-brush but the arrow grazed Terra's arm knocking her off the bird!
"Terra!?" They shouted turning around to go back for her but more arrows came followed by a flood of soldiers they began to attack them with their sword, axes, and bare hands atop their birds.
Edgar knocked a Templer Soldier off his balance but went down with him in the collision, they broke into a savage sword fight and in the end Edgar came out triumphant with a few little cuts.
"I can't believe these ruffians are so close to my castle," Cyan was saying. "don't let any of them get by!" He used his swordtech skills slicing soldiers in two with one swing.
Locke blocked an arrow with his shield and knocking it out of the way as he swung his boomerang around the woods knocking soldiers to the ground. One of the armoured men were coming right towards him, and the thief stood up on his bird and jumped on top of the man knocking him to the ground and stabbing him with the assassin sword.
'Why can't I help them?' Terra wondered watching the battle. 'I can't just sit here and watch them all get hurt, but if I reveal my secret ohhh. Why does this have to be so hard?' As she stood up she moved her hand showing that her arm was completely healed.
Battle cries went up in the air as the men disappeared from the fight, when it was all over they froze and looked around. "Is that all of them?" Asked Locke looking around.
"I think so..." Edgar replied. They re-mounted their birds. "Is everyone okay?" The king asked looking at them.
"I'm alright," Locke said then asked. "Cyan?"
"I am fine." He replied then asked, "Terra?"
"Yes, I'm- Gau? Where's Gua?!"
They looked around the forest with their eyes.
"Gaaauuu?!" Terra shouted.
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The others they're arriving at Figaro castle once again.
"We should take a rest," Sabin was saying as they walked inside. "This could be a tiring week." The prince went down the stairs to the man that will takes the castle to Kohlingen and while he was busy with that Celes and Setzer stood in the hall waiting.
'I really wanna see Grandpa Strago, but, Edgar says no...' Relm thinks.
"Hey Relm," Setzer said cutting into her thoughts. "I'm sorry I was so brusque before... I was being a little high strung." He felt the need to apologize to her but the little artist was lost in thought. "Relm...?" He asked.
"Huh? Oh it's okay, I'm already over it. I mean, I'd wanna make Edgar happy too so don't worry about it."
"You're awfully quiet though, is something wrong?" Celes asked her, feeling the girl's head.
"Hey, come on, can't a girl just not wanna talk?" Relm replied swatting at Celes's hand.
"Sorry." Celes said sadly.
The castle jerked and started to moving.
"Guess this starts the first day of hell?" Setzer said.
Celes gave him an odd look. Shadow on the other hand watching Relm stare into space and it seemed as if he knew what she was thinking. When the castle came to a brief halt, Relm took her chance and wandered into the prison cells room and disappeared into the tunnel undetected. As the castle started to move again Setzer and Celes walked down into the control room with Sabin.
"Hey guys," he was saying when he saw them. "we're almost there."
"I think something might be wrong with Relm, she's being too quiet." Celes said to Sabin crossing her arms across her chest.
"Oh yeah?" The blitz specialist asked looking around. "Where is she?"
"Probably still upstairs." Setzer replied.
"Maybe she really wants to see her Grandpa that badly and she's kind of down because of it, I'll have a talk with her when we get to the village, you guys can take a rest for a while."
And so that was the plan, or so they thought, because there wasn't going to be a talk with Relm, she had already been on her way back to through the tunnels and back to the surface to head to Nikeah.
"Well, we're here," Sabin said when they finally stopped. "See you two later."
They walked into the main part of the castle and to the bed room for a quick rest, while Sabin looked around for Relm.
"Relm? ...Hey Kid where are you?" He walked into the king's room remembering how much she adored his brother, thinking she might naturally go to his bed chambers, but she wasn't there. "Well where is she?" Sabin walked around the castle searching every room. "Relm? Hey Reeelm? Relm arrowny?" He laughed out until he realized just what was going on. "Hey guys...!"
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Commentary: I hate this so much lol. It's like getting roasted ^_^. I can only hope that the count is going up from first chapter curiosity, but you've been backing out afterwards. If not, wow, what on earth is wrong with you? Or should I say thank you? I don't know. To each their own, and if you like it ten I'll happily put it in for you. Thanks for reading.. I think.
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