Altered Tundra

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

As Nadeline started to read about the Esper in front of them, Jaakuna and Wesley listened intently. However, Savayna couldn’t care less even if she wanted to. She had such a dull-looking expression across her face. Every word that Nadeline spoke was just boring in her mind. Nothing but useless information and she would be vocal about it.

“Oh who fucking cares! All I need to know is that it’s in the way and we need to destroy it. I really couldn’t care any less about how this beast supposedly got here.” Savayna said expressing her deep, deep lack of caring for the legend of this Esper.

Wesley looked at Savayna. “Please, Lady Savayna.
“WOULD YOU STOP CALLING HER THAT!”
“Jaakuna please, she is obviously a lady
“YOU’RE CHECKING ME OUT! You creep!”
“But, I only meant..”
“I know what you meant — you dig her, don’t you Wesley?”

After that, Wesley just kept quiet, obviously embarrassed by both Jaakuna and Savayna. It could be seen across his face. He was red as a rouge tomato. “Let’s just eliminate this beast.” Wesley said lowly.

Savayna was laughing as she saw the redness on Wesley’s face. “You’re a pervy one, Prince Wesley.” She said in a teasing manner.

Jaakuna also laughed, but said nothing. He would turn his attention to the Esper in front of them. He drew Deamonsbane and held it in a single-handed grip. Wesley held his Platinum Sword and shield and prepared for battle as well. As for Savayna, she had her Ice Queen Sword and Crystal Shield as she also would prepare for the fight.

Mateus would come forward, flying through the air as if he was in water, In came a blizzaga spell and the group darted to opposite ways. Jaakuna would dart to the right, Savayna underneath Mateus, and Wesley to the left. They would each throw in a spell of their own. Wesley would slice upward(to the left of Mateus) and out flew a wave of Holy, Jaakuna would do the same motion, but with a Firaga spell. As for Savayna, she would actually jump upwards and attack with a physical attack. Two of the attacks would backfire as Mateus would first deflect Savayna’s attack with his Spear, thus sending Savayna back to the ground. The holy spell would be whipped aside with the tail, but the Firaga would hit and send Mateus flying ten feet to the left, tumbling on the ground in the process.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

It would be a few minutes before the group would all be on the ground. Jaakuna and Wesley were able to land on their feet when they had followed Savayna down the slide, but Emiri and Nadeline seemed to land off their feet. Actually, it would seem that both of them would crash into each other. Savayna and Jaakuna laughed aloud, but Wesley would contain his laughter to a mere chuckle. It would only be a minute or so until they were all on their feet and they would all head into the temple, not wanting to wait for any of the enemy forces to catch them.

As they would come up to the entrance, there were no Kitlas guards there, which was odd as those guards are the ones who are always guarding the entrance to the Stilshrine. Savayna especially found it odd, but she would just shrug it off as Jaakuna and Wesley would follow her, as would Emiri and Nadeline. They all would go into the Stilshrine, and once inside, the sight of the inside of the temple was certainly one to behold. First off, the big statue of the legendary Goddess of Swords. It was raised and leveled to such a way that would easily grant passage to those of worth. It would sense them right as soon as they would step through the entrance. Given that the sword was raised, the temple deems the group worthy.

As they would head around ltitle corners, they would eventually make their way to the Hall of Worth. Entering the Hall of Worth, they would be met by something that they weren’t expecting. A glyph of ice and wind would take over the room and in front of them would stand the Esper of Ice, Mateus, The Corrupt. Savayna would look on as if she was memorized by the esper in front of her, but she also was livid as she didn’t know what the hell it was.

“So, what exactly is this beast?” She asked.

Wesley gazed upon the beast. “Nadeline, does your tomb say anything about an Esper found within the Stilshrine of Miriam?” He asked as the Esper in front of them was just waiting for the group to make the first move.

Desolation Row(Altered Tundra and LimeyPanda)

Hopefully what I put in my post will do. You left it open for a lot of options, so I just went with it. xD

Desolation Row(Altered Tundra and LimeyPanda)

Even thought he didn’t get an answer from Beth, he did keep on wondering about it. Chris just wanted to know where these artifacts came from and how exactly they came to be in that particular safe. Like, who or what put them in there? Why were he and Beth the ones to find the gems and the artifact? These were the questions that Chris had on his mind, but he would put them to rest as Beth would turn a corner as she drove the care and slammed on the breaks. Chris was pushed forward a bit, but his seatbelt prevented him from going straight out the window.

When Chris came to from the whiplash, he heard Beth tell him that they were switching cars and that he should go grab the artifact. It was standard percedure when it came to heists. To prevent from being found out, the criminals must switch vehicles. Chris was used to this routine. So, as Beth would go to the other car, Chris opened the back of the white van, took the artifact, and placed it under his left arm, supporting the bottom of it with his hand. As Chris would get the artifact into the car, he heard a loud boom. Chris didn’t look until he saw the van on fire. “Give me a heads up when you’re going to do that next time, won’t ya?” Chris said slightly annoyed.

As they were in their new getaway care, Chris had thusly put the artifact in the trunk of the car and they were off in the car and away from the scene. When Beth started driving, she told Chris about the plan. As he listened, she pretty much told him that they were going to go to her place and she would talk to a contact of hers to help fill in some of the blanks about the artifact and the weird gems. Chris just let all of that sink into his memory as he just acknowledged all of it with a nod.

About ten minutes of driving in the new car, they pulled up to a somewhat nice-looking house. It definitely gave Chris the impression that it was some kind of family house. Chris wouldn’t have believed it if he hadn’t seen it. To think, a woman as vulgar and reckless as Beth lived in a nice house like this. As Beth would state that this is where they would be crashing, Chris just nodded. He grabbed the Artifact from the trunk and followed Beth into the house. As per her instructions, he would pick a room that isn’t his. He really didn’t care about what room he chose. He just chose the first one that he could. He went up the stairs and took a right turn. It was a decent-sized room. He would set the artifact down, and just plop on the bed on his stomach side. He would then roll to his back, removing his jacket and shirt. He would just fall asleep there, not even bothering with removing his jeans.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

As they were just about to get the hell out of dodge, the ship started to descend. As Emiri would then go on to look out of the window, Savayna, Wesley, and Jaakuna would do the same, seeing the mountain range within the area. There was also a temple. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they had arrived at the Stilshrine of Miriam. As Nadeline would say that it was their time to get the hell out of the ship and into the temple, Savayna knew that the halls would be crawling with soldiers as they would prepare for departure. So, in response to that, Savayna pushed Emiri away from the window, she would then to use her Ice Magick to freeze the window, and then crack out the ice with a punch of her hand.

When the ice broke, the window was open. It was a pretty big window; well, big-ish, but it was still big enough for everyone to go through it. Savayna would then create an Ice Slide that led from the window to the ground of the temple.

“Well, what are you waiting for? I’m sure as hell am not going to risk getting caught by going out the proper way.” Savayna said as she slid down the slide and to the ground floor of the area outside of the temple.

Jaakuna and Wesley looked at each other and then to Emiri and Nadeline. “Not like we have any other option,” Wesley said as he would follow Savayna’s lead and Jaakuna would follow.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

While Jaakuna and Wesley both looked at each other when Nadeline would explain the dangers of destroying the Dawn Shard. Jaakuna didn’t understand what the big deal about it all was. To him, destroying the Dawn Shard right here and now would save them a load of trouble, but when Nadeline spoke, he started to understand as Wesley had come to understand. It was when she mentioned Nabudis. That was all Wesley needed to understand the errors in his previous judgment and Jaakuna was starting to.

“Mind telling me what the hell happened in Nabudis?” Jaakuna asked. He knew of the rumors, but it’s been so long before he actually read about it properly.

Wesley cleared his throat. “A while back, when Nabudis was a thriving city with a very rich family living within the castle, it was overrun by Archadian forces. Under the orders of the Emperor at the time, decided to the land of Nabudis as their own little playground for the Midnight Shard. They were going to test it, to see how it worked and reacted, but when they were reaching the final stages, something went horribly wrong.” Wesley paused, looking down as he curled his hands into fists and squeezed tightly obviously angry at what happened, “A massive explosion of pure mist was released due to the errors of man and now Nabudis is the home to Ivalice’s largest state of mist matter, crawling with monsters.” Wesley said as he was gritting his teeth, grinding them against each other.

Jaakuna had no idea. Well, he remembers reading some little details, but that was almost fifteen years ago and at the time, Jaakuna’s grandfather, Brandon “Bahamut” Ira Darcone was the Emperor. Jaakuna hasn’t seen his grandfather in over six years, and even then they weren’t on the greatest of terms. “I had no idea.” That’s all Jaakuna could utter. He really had no words or clever phrase to say in a situation like this. He didn’t know what to say in this situation.

Savayna finally saw that she was right and now, as Jaakuna and Wesley were talking it out, she would grab the Dawn Shard with her hands, carefully taking it from the storage compartment it was in. “Okay, we have it. Now, let’s get the fuck out of dodge.” Savayna said, as she was just getting ready to run out from the entrance of the Labs.

Jaakuna stopped her. “Um, before you do, I would like the Dawn Shard back if you don’t mind.” Jaakuna said taking Dawn Shard back as he literally snatched it from her hands.

“What the fuck Jaakuna?” She shouted.

Jaakuna looked at her. “This WAS mine to begin with, before you and fancy-pants Grant took it away from me.” He said.

Wesley intervened. “I would also like to request the Dusk Shard back, please.” He asked calmly.

“Jeezus, you two are so bossy.” Savayna barked, but she gave Wesley the Dusk Shard only cause he asked so nicely.

Both Jaakuna and Wesley put their respective shards in their pockets.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

While the girls were searching for the Dawn Shard, Wesley and Jaakuna were trying to figure out the mecahnics of the computer that they spotted that Jaakuna pointed out was, if one were to dumb it down, was connected to the ship’s mainframe pretty much. What Jaakuna had told Wesley was that it was connected to the engine, the ship’s weapons systems, and its security system. When Wesley would fiddle around with the controls, he noticed that it was much more connected to just the ship’s mainframe.

“Jaakuna, take a look at this.” Wesley said, pointing to the screen.

Jaakuna looked, but couldn’t see what Wesley was pointing to. “What is it? I don’t see what you’re pointing to.” He said confused.

Wesley enlarged the picture and Jaakuna saw it. “See it now?”

When Jaakuna saw it, he couldn’t believe it. “This can’t be..” Jaakuna said dumbfounded. “But how?” Jaakuna asked to himself, but aloud to where Wesley could hear it.

Wesley wondered the same thing. “I don’t know how they did it, but it seems that this ship is able to access AI technologies, much like your ship.”

Jaakuna just couldn’t believe it. “But there’s more to that it seems. There’s something that’s missing…it’s the intelligence part. They don’t have the one key part that makes an AI live aboard a ship. Do you think that’s what they need the Dawn Shard for?” Jaakuna asked Wesley.

Wesley nodded in agreement to Jaakuna’s question. “That must be it. Or else, I fear that it’s something far worse than that.”

Jaakuna looked troubled. He didn’t think that this was what they wanted the Nethicite for. If he had known this, Jaakuna wouldn’t have been so careless for such a thing. “We need to destroy it.” He said, “If we don’t, then we’ll seriously be in trouble. If either empire get their hands on this kind of AI technology, then we’re all fucked.” Jaakuna said.

Wesley agreed with Jaakuna and he would close out of that window of the schematics for the AI for now and he would follow Jaakuna over to the girls who would have just said that they found the Dawn Shard.

As the guys would head over to where the ladies are at, Savayna heard Emiri and Nadeline call out as they found the Dawn Shard. “Well it’s about fucking time. Grab it and let’s go.”

When Savayna said that, Jaakuna and Wesley were in ear shot. “No, we have to destroy it now!”

Though Wesley would usually disagree with Jaakuna, he agreed. “They’re after AI technology with Nethicite. So, I am with Jaakuna on this one. We need to destroy the Dawn Shard.”

Savayna looked at them like they were stupid. “What are you fucking stupid? If we destroy it in the machine, the ship could go down and we want to live, right?” She said with an attitude.

Jaakuna was angry with Savayna at the moment. “Damn it, Savayna! Don’t you see that if any empire get either shard, we’ll all be in danger! Or do you not care about your father or mother?” Jaakuna had snapped.

Savayna’s eyes widened. “You have no right to speak to them! Not after what you did!”

“You really want to go into this now? IF you want to blame me for leaving three years ago or whatever, then you can, but right now we NEED to destroy it.”

Savayna conceded for the moment, but Jaakuna didn’t know what Nadeline or Emiri thought about this, so he turned to them. “You two agree with Wesley and I right?”

Desolation Row(Altered Tundra and LimeyPanda)

Oh no, it was a lovely post, no need to change or edit anything. And sorry for a late response on it. Also, not to worry. I completely understand that we sometimes get real busy/preoccupied with other stuff.

Time Stops For Fire(Altered Tundra and Hero)

When Savayna had rudely asked Nadeline to use her sleepaga spell once more, it was obvious that the blonde princess wasn’t too thrilled that Savayna had pretty much ordered her to do something. However, it would seem that Nadeline did it and with perfect precision. When she did do it, Jaakuna saw as did Wesley. They saw that Nadeline was getting a little wheezy cause of what she did. Savayna didn’t see cause she already went through the door to the lab, seeing everyone unconscious.

When they all walked through the doors, Savayna would lead the charge as she would just look around, hoping to find the other Nethicite that was taken from Jaakuna earlier on. As she would look around, Jaakuna noticed that this lab was not only a lab, but it also seemed to be in control of all the weapons and engine. That’s when Jaakuna got a an idea.

“Wesley, this computer right here.” Jaakuna said pointing to the main computer. “It’s connected to the ship’s engine and main weapons system. Do you think we can use this to our advantage?” Jaakuna asked Wesley.

When Jaakuna spoke, Wesley was thinking about what he said. It was definitely possible. “We could, but how would it work exactly?” Wesley said interested to see how Jaakuna could make it work.

“Well, I’m no computer major, but perhaps we can link it up to Iris on the Ifirt, and perhaps get help via that way.” He said.

Hearing again, Wesley actually thought that was a smart idea. “If you think you can do it, then go for it.” Wesley said encouraging Jaakuna.

When Jaakuan and Wesley were talking it out with each other about what they could do to get some help from his own airship, Savayna, along with Emiri and Nadeline, were walking around the large lab to find the Dawn Shard. “Fucking hell, where is that piece of shit Dawn Shard!” She yelled out.

Do You Believe In Magic? (Altered Tundra & PhantomSekai

Welp, here it is~