Final Fantasy X The Dark Aeon

[Red XIV]

In the Bevelle Ruins

Smoke rose from the Bevelle Ruins. Bodies scattered the ground. Explosions and gunfire could be heard, coming from the center of the city. Fiends prowled the wreckage. The Bevelle Temple was a pile of smoldering debris. The city was destroyed. However, a fight raged on.

Ajax Revan fired his machine gun, blindly, into the air, as a group of Condor's flew by, in the black sky. One of the giant birds was shot through the head and fell to the ground, landing in a crumbled heap on the cracked stone street of Bevelle. Ajax turned around as two coeurl's jumped at him, saliva and blood coated fangs bared. Ajax shot at the couerl's. Bullets tore through the fur, their white fur turning a crimson red. The two couerl's lay on the ground, dead. Ajax changed clips in his machine gun. While he reloaded, a large Dual Horn jumped out of the wreckage of an inn, in front of him. Ajax slowly looked up, to see the ugly face of the Dual Horn, a human arm still in his mouth.

"Shit!" Ajax shouted, as the Dual Horn swallowed up the rest of the arm. Ajax turned and ran, the large creature bounding after him. While running, Ajax managed to pull of a grenade from his belt and load it into his customized machine gun, able to shoot grenades. The grenade loaded, Ajax rolled to the left, the Dual Horn right in front of him. The creature slowly advanced on Ajax.

"Sweet dreams!" Ajax yelled, with a smirk, as he launched the grenade into the Dual Horn's open mouth. The Dual Horn's eyes widened, and after a few second's wait exploded. Ajax shielded his eyes from the gory sight and turned to check on his squad, the Destroyers, an Al Bhed machina unit.

Ajax was the leader of the Destroyers, the Al Bhed's largest and strongest military machina unit. The Destroyers had been following a small band of Yevon soldiers, but lost them in the Bevelle Ruins and stumbled upon these fiends. Now they were trapped.

"Captain! Look out!" an Al Bhed soldier shouted, pointing down the broken street. Ajax turned to look. A huge Iron Giant was stomping down the street, crushing human and beast alike. The giant sword of the Iron Giant, was covered in blood and rust.

"RUN! FALL BACK!" Ajax yelled, motioning for the remainder of his crew to pull back further down the street. Most of the soldiers left their battles and ran back, in fear of the tremendous monster. Several soldiers stayed behind, shooting, aimlessly, at the Giant, their bullets bouncing off of the monster's strong armor. The soldiers were only crushed, along with anything else in the Giant's path.

Ajax and his few remaining men turned down another street, past the flaming, destroyed machina, laying in the middle of the street. Most of the Destroyers machina had been destroyed, the few remaining machina in the outskirts of town, the ruins hard to navigate machina through.

The Giant crashed through the remaining wall of a home, onto the street the survivors were on. The now broken and destroyed tower of the Bevelle temple, blocked the road behind them. They were cornered. Ajax looked around, hoping for a way of escape. Nothing. No way out, they were trapped on the street, in the large ruins of a once great city.

"ATTACK! TRY TO BRING IT DOWN!" Ajax shouted, finding their situation hopeless. Ajax and the four surviving Destroyers started to shoot at the Giant, the bullets having no effect. Ajax tried a grenade, but it only dented the Giant's might armor. The Giant lowered the gap, only twenty feet away from the survivors.

"Damn!" Ajax muttered. "Its not working!" The Giant was almost there. One of the soldiers tried to run under the Giant's legs.

"No, Judda! Don't!" Ajax cried, but it was too late. The Iron Giant crushed Judda under his giant metal heel. Hope was lost. The Destroyers were gone. It appears the others knew, too. Ajax continued shooting, to no avail. The Giant was about to crush them, when...

ROAR!

Bahamut, the dragon-king, one of the mightiest Aeon's, swooped from the sky, a dark aura surrounding him. Bahamut shot down a flurry of dark flame balls, onto the Iron Giant. Rubble and stone was thrown up from the ground. Ajax and the others hit the ground, trying to hide from the blasts. The Iron Giant was hit with several flameballs, and fell apart, giant metal pieces falling to the ground. Eigaar was crushed by the falling breastplate.

Ajax looked up, at the mighty Aeon. The proud dragon circled above them, leaving a dark trail of energy. The dragon was now evil. It wasn't going to let them leave. Out of the frying pan, into the fire...

Meanwhile...

Vivian Revan stood on the deck of the Celsius, Brother's airship, looking out of the glass plate. Yuna and her guardian's, new and old, also stood on the deck, staring out at the wreckage. Vivian watched as the mighty Aeon, Bahamut, the dragon-king, swooped down upon the ruins of Bevelle. The Aeon slammed into the ground, debris flying up, from the spot. Bahamut, with his giant claws, wildly punched and clawed at the ground and surrounding buildings. A large fire burned nearby. A destroyed machina. A moment later, Bahamut looked to the right, looking at something Vivian couldn't see. He planted his claws into the ground. The ring on his back started to rotate, faster and faster. A moment later, a large black beam of energy, Mega Flare, was launched from his mouth, soaring towards the heart of the city. It hit the ruins of the Temple. A large, blinding flash of white light ensued. Vivian shielded her eyes. A few seconds later, she reopened them to look into the result of the energy. Flames engulfed the entire city. Debris, metal and stone was flying all over, falling back to the ground as flaming hulks. Black smoke hung above the city. Vivian couldn't make out anything, anymore. Vivian looked high into the sky, to see Bahamut circling around the city...

Vivian looked away, in tears. She ran out of the control room, into the Hallway. One of the other guardian's, Kira, was about to follow, but Lulu just shook her head.

"Give her time..." Lulu said, smoothly. She turned back, and stared at the ruins of the once-great city, Bevelle.

[cetra_aeris]

Kira watched as Vivian ran out.She tried to follow but Lulu only shook her head."Give her time...."she said.Kira nodded and looked back twords the door.Hope she's okay...
She turned back to the window.She looked at the destruction as tears came to her eyes.She blinked them away and looked at Bahamut, who was stil circling the ruins.How could you?You once saved the world...how could you succomb to evil?She looked back at the city.Her anger rose.How many innoccents were killed..?!She stomped out of the room.She heard Lulu asking her where she was going, but didn't listen.She walked out the door and down the hall.You'll pay..she thought as she walked to the engine room.One day..you'll pay.I will see to it!...

About an hour later Kira walked out of the engine room.It was dark.She knew her way around enough.She walked to the "window room" as she called it, and rode the elevator outside.She sighed and smiled as the cool brezze blew her hair, on top of the ship.It was surprising just how being outside could make her mood so much better.She sat down twords the middle, her long black hair flowing.She looked up at the sky.It seems so peacefull out here..almost like nothing's changed...She pulled her knees up and cotinued to stare at the stars.Slowly she began to doze off.She rested her head on her knees and drifted to sleep, thoughts of the past going through her mind and forming a sweet dream of the times before the aeons' return...

[Red XIV]

When Bahamut began to charge his energy beam, Ajax and the two other surviving Destroyers, Linna and Ropp, ran through the remains of a small house, that Bahamut had just crushed. The three ran as fast as they could, through the rubble, Bahamut's beam charging, the ring on his back, spinning, faster and faster. Just as they had gotten through the house, Linna had tripped on a broken chair.

"Ugh!" she cried, as she fell to the stony ground, her head hitting a rock, knocking her unconcious, with a bloody gash on her head.

"LINNA!" Ropp shouted, turning back to go get her, tears streaming on his eyes. Ajax tried to hold him back.

"Ropp! Its almost charged! C'mon, we need to go!" Ajax pleaded. Ropp just broke free of Ajax's hold and ran to her limp body.

"Linna! Linna..." Ropp cried, holding her hand, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"NO!" Ajax yelled, the beam charged. Bahamut's mouth opened, and the beam, Mega Flare, was unleashed. The beam went straight through the house, burning Ropp alive, his flesh melting off of his body. Ajax hit the ground, in just enough time to miss the attack, however, stones and metal shards were lifted up by the enormous blast. The rubble and debris fell from the sky and covered Ajax, leaving him buried under a pile of debris. The beam, however, went on to hit the remains of the Bevelle Temple. It exploded, with more rock, debris, and flaming stones showered the city. Ajax managed to look up in enough time as a flaming boulder came soaring towards him. The stone flew down at tremendous speed and hit. Ajax went unconcious. Over where Linna was, the house collapsed during the blast, covering her. She was dead, for sure...

Bahamut flew away, his job completed...

Meanwhile, back in the Airship...

Vivian walked down the hallway, wiping the tears from her eyes, her boots clicking on the metal floor, echoing down the hall.

"Why? Why Bahamut? Why?" she thought, staring at the ground, her reflection looking back at her, in the shiny metal. "Those people down there...you killed them!"

While she was deep in thought, Kira ran past her, tears pouring down her eyes. She ran down the hall, towards the engine room.

"Huh?" Vivian looked up, her eyes following Kira down the hall. "Uh... hey, Kira, wait!" Vivian followed after her, running towards the engine room.

A few minutes later, she came to the engine room, to find it empty.

"Hey!" she said, looking around for Kira. "Where'd she go?" Vivian looked around for a few more seconds, until she heard the elevator leading to the roof turn on.

"Aha!" she exclaimed and ran off towards the window room. She hurried up the stairs, past the two arguing Al Bhed onboard Brother's airship, towards the elevator which was returning back down.

Vivian waited for the elevator to come back and walked on, pushing the red button. The elevator lurched forward and slowly made its way to the roof.

"What's up with her?" Vivian thought, as the elevator reached the outside. The cool breeze blew across her face, her jacket flapping in the wind. It was refreshing. The stars hung above, twinkling. It was a beautiful sight, amidst the destruction. Kira was napping on the roof. Vivian walked up to her and sat down next to her, stretching her arms.

"What's up?" she asked, turning to Kira, with a false smile.

[cetra_aeris]

Kira jolted awake.She turned her head."Oh, hey Viv".She smiled back.It wasn't a true smile but she hoped it seemed like it.She had almost begun to belive the dream.No Sin, no aeons, no destruction.She stoped smiling and looked out at the sky."Soooo..."she started,"you feeling any better now?"She looked back at Vivian and smiled again."Me and you...we can help stop that.I thought about that in the engine room."She looked at her feet,"If we can stop that, then we have to keep strong..."She turned back twords her friend."Right?"Her gaze confused and saddened, looked at Vivian questionly.She laughed alot, but it was only her way of escaping the pain.And when she couldn't, she came up here.She always felt that being alone, she could forget the things that were happening.But she was always brought back to the world.And today was one of those days..

[Red XIV]

Ajax's mind raced with thoughts.

"Am I going to die?"
"What happened to the others?"
"Where is my sister? Is she alive? I hope she's okay..."
"Am I going to be able to continue? To...stop Sin?"
"I don't know... Help me..."

Ajax awoke, with a gasp, sucking air in like a vacuum. He was on the ground, in the Bevelle Ruins. The debris had been moved. The rubble lay in piles around him.

"What?!?" he thought, examining his surroundings. "I am alive?!? How?" He stood up, knocking the dust off of his cut and dusty armor. He had a few cuts, but was pretty much unscathed. His bones ached, however. His bones cracked as he stood up. Ajax winced in pain.

"Gah!" he cried, almost falling to his knees. He lifted himself back up, slowly, mustering all of his strength. Back on his feet, he looked around, for the others.

"Linna? Ropp?" Ajax shouted, his voice echoing throughout the dead city. He sighed. "Where are you?" he muttered. He was alone, in the ruins of a city, with fiends everywhere. Ajax kicked a small stone in front of him in frustration.

"Why!" he shouted, falling to his knees, fists clenched. Ajax felt as if he wanted to cry. He slammed his head into the ground, over and over. "Why..."
After a few moments, he stopped and fell back. He was holding back the tears. His face was red, a mix of emotion and blood. Ajax looked around, again, hoping, that maybe they had heard him...that they were alive.

Ajax turned to his left and stood up out of shock. It was the body of Linna. Ajax ran over to her, in hopes of life.

"Linna!?!" he shouted, as he checked for a pulse. There was none. He hung his head. He was really alone...

Meanwhile on the Airship...

Vivian put a hand on Kira's back and gave her slight smile.

"Its gonna be okay..." she said, soothingly. "Come on back to the bridge." Kira shook her head.

"In a minute..." she muttered. Vivian understood and went back down in the elevator. Kira wanted to be alone. As Vivian walked back across the Engine Room, the Airship shook.

"What the hell was that?!?" she cried, falling to the ground. It was Bahamut!

[cetra_aeris]

After Vivian left the bridge, Kira began to think about how her father might be doing.I wonder if he's even alive...
Suddenly she saw a whir and scrambled up."Holy shit!" The force of the wind caused the ship to shake and Kira struggled to keep her balance.She went as fast as she could twords the elevator."Almost there!"Suddenly Hiromi, Kira's pet jumped and ran twords the other side."Hiromi! Don't do that!"Kira ran over to the kitten and picked her up.As she stoo back up, she stared almost straight at the back of Bahamut.She gasped and backed away hoping not to be seen.She reached the door and threw herself inside, still holding Hiromi.She sighed as the elevator went down.The ship shook again and the elevator stopped."Oh, man..."Kira got up and put the kitten back in her pouch.She started mashing buttons trying to get it to work."Damn it all. It won't budge.She sat down and landed on something."owwww...."She got up to look.It was an emergancy escape.She smiled.My luck hasn't run out yet!She pulled open the latch and started to climb down the ladder.The ship shook again, almost causing Kira to fall.She heard a groan and looked up."Uh Oh..."She climbed down faster as the elevator started to move.She could see the door.Just a little farther..She jumped and threw her self at the landing.She rolled from the impact and heard a loud noise as gthe elevator came to a crasing stop, where she had been moments before.Kira laughed."You didn't kill me yet.."she said.She closed her eyes and coughed.She gasped for air and slowly her breathing returned to normal.She got up but only lost her balance as the ship shook again.Feelling a bit annoyed, Kira jumped up and flew down the stairs, heading twords the bridge..

[Magi of Worlds]

Arkon flew towards the southwharf of the Moonflow with his giant black wings. He was escorted by the only creatures the dark aeon felt that he wouldn't kill for fun...three Bombs. Kill all of the rogue fiends! the dark aeon had told Arkon, his truly only royal servant and bodyguard. He was almost there. He could see burning trees from the sky. Guess that means they are already near the shoopuf Arkon thought to himself.
He finally arrived where he needed to be, and not too soon. He dipped and landed on the ground as did the Bombs, though they still hovered three or four feet from the solid ground. He looked around on the path and saw horror everywhere he looked. Dead humans everywhere and the only shoopuf lay on it's side slowly dieing. He heard a rustling somewhere and four Dual Horn's stepped out from the destroyed ruins of the rest stop growling.
They walked closer to Aekon and got three feet from him still growling. " Don't you dumbases growl at me!" he yelled at them. One started to rush forward, but before it got ontop of him one of the Bombs shot fira at it and knocked it back a foot or two. It was on...One of the huge monsters growled louder and a Behemoth stepped out from some trees. Oh god Arkon thought to himself as he saw it approach. Another one of the Dual Horn's rushed forward again towards Arkon, and Arkon ran forward meeting it. The Dual Horn got on it's hind legs ready to stomp Arkon to the ground when Arkon picked him up and threw him into a wall of the rest stop knocking him unconscious.
Well..one down three to go Arkon thought to himself. The Behemoth decided it was his turn..he rushed forward but was stopped dead in his tracks by three firaga spells from the bombs, he too fell down not quit dead. Arkon unsheathed his sword and rushed towards the fallen Behemoth and raised it over the monsters head and went down severing it's head. He turned around to face the last three Dual Horn's and found that one was three inches from his face. It raised a clawed hand and cut him in the stomach. Oh the pain was more excruciating to the fact that Arkon hadn't been wearing a shirt or any other covering on his stomach or chest.
He fell down loosing consciousness as one Bomb attacked the Dual Horn infront of Arkon's body. The fiend fell down unconscious as the other two Bombs faced off against the other two remaining Dual Horn's...

[Aerif]

Aerif stood in the ruins of the Rose Temple, a temple far from mainland Spira. The temple she was going to reside in. She held back a sob, knowing that nobody would hear her and it was as good as a breath wasted. Suddenly she heard the roar of a Dual Horn she turned on her heel...

[Red XIV]

Ajax sat next to Linna's crippled body, her face covered in blood and ash, her arms broken, and her jaw hanging. It was a terrible sight. Ajax had covered her with a torn cloth he found under a large stone. Ajax was staring into her empty eyes. Ropp and Linna, and the rest of his squad... All dead. They were like a family to him...his own family long gone. Ajax pushed the cloth over her face, the grotesque sight bothering him. He stared back into the sky, the black clouds only darkened by the billowing smoke.

"I can't just stay here! I need to move, Bahamut could come back any minute, not to mention fiends!" he thought to himself, staring blankly into the dark skies. With that, Ajax stood up. He wasn't going to die! He wasn't going to have let his friends die. There memories will live on...in him.

Ajax ran off, over the crashed machina, towards the outskirst of Bevelle...

Meanwhile, in the skies above Bevelle...

Vivian rushed towards the Bridge, the Airship shaking to and fro. Bahamut was attacking! She ran down the metal halls, alarms blaring, red lights flashing, and her leather boots clicking the whole way.

"I wonder if Kira is okay?"she thought to herself, but she just shrugged the thought away. Kira was okay...

Vivian ran up a set of stairs, the Bridge door in sight. The Airship shook again, knocking her off balance, yet again. She fell to the ground, with a hollow thud. When she tried to get up, she found that one of her spiked boots was stuck in the holes in the metal ground.

"Shit!" she muttered, trying to pull her boot out. After a seconds struggle, she gave up. Vivian unzipped her boot and pulled her bare foot out. She got up and ran down the hall, to the Bridge.

Just as Vivian reached the automatic metal door that led to the Bridge, the Airship shook, again. Vivian managed to keep her balance, but, behind her, down the stairs, a gaping hole was created in the metal. Bahamut retracted his claw from the wall. Metal shards scattered the ground, a small fire had sprung up.

"Dammit!" she shouted, as Bahamut thrust his claw into the ship, again. This time, Vivian fell down, rolling all the way down the stairs. A metal shard flew over her and landed to her left, inches away from her face. She got up in a hurry. Fiends were coming in from the hole. Two Ahrimans flew in, their large grotesque eyes staring into her.

"Not good!" she muttered as she ran towards the stairs. One of the Ahriman's shot a laser beam at her. It grazed her brown jacket. Flames had erupted on her jacket.

"Hot! Hot! Hot!" she cried, pulling her jacket off, revealing her black bikini top, her body covered in sweat. While she was distracted, the other Ahriman darted forward, and knocked her to the ground. She hit the metal of the stairs and was knocked unconcious. She was in trouble!

[Ulteka Mako]

Nathan looks up into the sky from the island that he is on. He is on an island, that is unknow. He has know idea how he got there ethire. He sees that Bahamut is attacking the ship. *It can't be... There is no way..* Nathan shocked by Bahamut, he fills around in his pockets, and find a materia, that he made 5 years back. It had no name, but he was working on one. It was able to make a human, are any species. He used the materia, and he started to fight. he knew he had to go around on the other side from Bahamut. So Nathan goes around, with his black cloak moving from the wind blowing. His swords in sheths, and his guns in there black lether holster, on his waste. He starts to get closer to the airship, and he is nearly hit by a piece of the ship. He then gets into the airship, and sees poeple and monsters moving all over the place. He sees a Bomb coming at him, and he pulls out his guns and starts to shoots the Bomb a rapid amount of times. He killed the Bomb, and he started to run around the ship looking for more monsters. As he is looking he sees a girl in a black bikini, and he runs toward her. He gets to her, and see thats she is unconcious.

Nathan starts taping her on the face trying to make her concious again. He then sees all of the soldiers running and fighting. *What am I going to do? Should I take this girl to a safe place... But were? Should I get some help?* Nathan keeps on thinking all of these thoughts. *I don't know what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!* As he yells that out, the ship gets hit by Bahamut again. Nathan then falls, and hits his arm on a pieace of the ship. *Sun of a bitch* I need some help with this girl!!!!!*

[Aerif]

Aerif was facing the direction of the Dualhorn's cry. She ran out of the ruins into a bright sunshine. The only sunshine left in Spira.

She realised quickly that there were no Dualhorns anywhere near the small remote island. Nothing to worry about, yet. Suddenly all went dark. Aerif automatically stared up into the sky and saw Sin. She then said a single word: "Seymour..."


She then heard a loud explosion. A bomb she said to herself. There was definitly something big happening on mainland Spira. She turned towards the direction of the conflict. Moonflow... she thought. Another explosion was to be heard and her eyes glistned with tears thinking of the not so eternal 'calm' and her own pilgrimage...


Something awoke inside her. Her inner Aeon. She found herself running at great speed. She found her boat where she had left it and set off for moonflow at a speed only heard of in Legends. She arrived at the Moonflow in a few minutes and thought to herself "whoever cast that haste spell did a great job". She ran towards the source of conflict. There was a Dualhorn rearing up to kill it's prey. A winged man...


Without thinking she cast a Fire spell and the fiend fell. Whoever this man was, he seemed to be coming round...