Garnet stood glaring out the window with sadness in her eyes. Zidane walked up behind her and placed his hand on her back in comfort.
Zidane spoke " We must be strong for Alexandria.....we can be sad later. They are coming and we must be ready."
"but Eiko and Cid are gone. Eiko was so young..."
Beatrix entered Garnets room and nodded at Zidane and turned to Garnet and said "The enemy is at our gates my majesty and Steiner and the knights of Pluto are there in defense. I will go to join them now."
" The lindlum army was defeated over a night. Do you honestly think we can win?"
Beatrix looked down in response to the mention of Lindlum. She looked back up and said " I do not know but we must try"
Beatrix now arose from the bow and left the castle.
Zidane turned to Garnet and said " Do not worry we will win"
***
At the gates stood soldiers and Beatrix and Steiner. The banging on the gates got louder. There were moans and what sounded like clawing at the gate. The gate all of a sudden busted open with purple energy and splinters of wood went everywhere. One splinter flew into a soldier piercing him in the head. The creatures sauntered forward towards them. A man in a black cloak stood behind them with a purple glare in his eyes. The creatures started pouncing on the soldiers taking in their flesh. Steiner gripped his sword and ran forward slicing off limb from limb on the creatures. Beatrix ran forward and sent a spark of lightning from her sword into the creatures, sending the creature falling back. They still came back at her. She sent her sword threw their heads. A little girl with purple hair that Steiner recognized ran up and clasped her teeth around his leg. He kicked her back and sent his sword through her chest. He looked down and seen the blood chunk in his leg. He looked at Beatrix as he was fighting the creatures off and said "run and protect the queen. I will hold them off here longer."
Beatrix nodded with tears in her eyes and ran off toward the castle. Steiner made a big huge swipe with his blade sending the creatures around him stumbling back without their heads. The dead soldiers now arose. The creatures started grabbing him and feasting. He knocked them off at first but they overwhelmed him. The man in the black cloak walked past him as some creatures followed that were not occupied with Steiner. Steiner's scream lit up the air as he fell, the light had left his eyes. The man walked toward the castle with the creatures behind him infecting everything in their path. Steiner arose with death in his eyes and grabbed a women walking past him and clasped his mouth around her neck feasting on her flesh. She went lifeless.
***
Beatrix stopped in place at the sound of Steiner's scream. She closed her eyes then pressed on. She ran into the castle yelling for Garnet.
Garnet and Zidane stood at the stairs. Garnet looked down in sadness. "Not Steiner too"
The remaining soldiers in the castle gripped their swords as they heard the sound of moaning and footsteps. Beatrix turned around with her sword. The man entered with the creatures behind him. The creatures ambushed the soldiers around Beatrix. Beatrix ran toward the man with her sword held high and sent her sword toward the mans neck. The man pulled a hand up slowly and the blade stopped centimeters away from his neck. Beatrix went tumbling back with her sword to her side. He flung his hand a her and three purple spears of energy went flying at her. She dodged the first one but the second one went through her chest and the third through her leg. She turned around and mouthed "sorry...." to Garnet. Garnet screamed "NOOOOO!" Beatrix fell to the ground. The man walked over Beatrix's body and the creatures surrounded her feeding on her flesh. Garnet was on her knees in Zidane's arms. The man waived his hand up and the creatures stopped. " Garnet my dear it is nice to finally meet you."
Garnet arose and said in anger "why are you doing this."
"You will soon find out....I need you though."
Zidane responded in anger "No you don't"
Zidane went to run toward him but Garnet stopped him. "no one is going to die for me anymore." She sent her hands in the air and a loud screeching noise came from behind her. Bahamut crashed through the wall of the castle and sent a flare beam spiraling down toward the man and the creatures and everything went dark.
Zidane got up from the floor and brushed off dust. Garnet was gone. The man stood in the same place unharmed. Zidane looked at the man and said" Where is she? What have you done with her."
The man smiled " I have not done anything with her my boy. She is someplace else. The clash of energy must have sent her elsewhere. In any case you are useless to me"
The man pointed to Zidane and the creatures ran toward him. A silver haired man launched from behind Zidane shooting balls of energy at the creatures. Zidane eyed him in amazement and said "Kuja?"
"yes it is I who helps you my brother."
Zidane smiled and went forward slicing the creature apart with his daggers. The man swung his arms from side to side causing purple spears to fly toward them. Kuja dodged them with ease in the air. Zidane flipped over them. The man sent a purple beam at Kuja and Kuja crashed against the wall.
A high concentration of energy rushed over Zidane and Zidane was glowing. Zidane sent a rush of flame over the creatures and the man and purple energy sparked out of the fire and then a bright light absolved them...
***
Garnet awoke in a bed and looked over at a women with short brown hair. Then looked over out the window and they were in the air. The women started in " My name is Yuna. What's your name?"
" My name is Garnet...where am I."
"We found you on the shores of Kilika."
"Did you happen to find someone with a tail."
Someone from behind her chimed in "Nope only you" "Names Riku"
A speaker from the ship they were riding in spoke "trouble in Besaid get to the bridge now"
Yuna spoke "Garnet do you want to come with us"
Garnet "Sure. I've got a feeling I know what it is."......
***
Zidane and Kuja awoke in the back of a truck driving on a road.
Zidane looked around puzzled. The truck came to a sudden stop. A dark skinned man got out with a gun on his arm.
"You fools gonna help me or just stand there"
Zidane and Kuja rushed behind him as they walked toward a city with smoke arising from it. All that could be seen was destruction and the same creatures they had seen in their world....
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