I followed the trail as best as I could manage. Nearly two hours had passed since they had left the Azys Lla. The dream world kept me enticed long enough to likely allow Diabolos to do what he wanted. Soaring through the sky, I was looking onward with only my aetherial senses to guide me. Finally I found a very thick trail of aetherial power left behind and flapped my wings harder as I opened my eyes to see before me.
"What... in the world?"
I looked up to see a large Allag technology ring floating in the sky. Around it, two massive floating isles with pedestals upon them. Many smaller isles surrounded the ring, suggesting it possessed a gravity of some sort. As I flew a bit further, I heard something. Stopping in the sky, a massive blast of darkness flew past my face, missing me by a mere centimeter.
Glancing down, I gazed upon Diabolos, whom slowly floated towards me. I awaited him as he stopped in front of me. His grim grin still gave me a chill down my spine.
"Where is my father?!"
"Hehehahahaha!"
The all to familiar laugh filled my ears as I glanced behind me to see Fafnir floating behind me with his scythe at his side.
"May I end her now? She has played her role long enough!"
Diabolos looked to the psychotic jester rand shook his head.
"No. I believe the god Chaos will have other intentions for her. Take her to her pedestal."
As I reached for my mothers hilt, Fafnirs scythe surrounded me. Grasping my arm, he slowly descended me upon the left isle near the large ring.
"I will not cooperate."
"Good, I am looking forward to slicing you up and making you come back to this realm over and over till you give in."
Landing upon the isle, I gazed upon the massive pedestal as he continued to move me closer to it. Before reaching it, Fafnir stopped and gazed behind him.
"Strange... I swear I felt something."
"Down here you spiky mess of a voidsent."
We glanced down and I grinned as I looked upon Kageru standing with his arms crossed.
"Kageru!"
I smiled at him, until I noticed he was not looking at Fafnir, but again, up my skirt.
"Bwahhh!!!!" I reacted and smacked Fafnir aside as I covered my lower half.
"Their, that was not so hard now was it?"
Fafnir grasped his scythe as he quickly went to slash at Kageru. His scythe slashed hard into the ground. Glancing around, he could not find the lalafell anywhere.
"Here spiky"
He looked up to see Kageru standing upon his scythes head. Quickly Kageru burst a massive fire blast in Fafnirs face. Reacting quickly, the voidsent backed away, covering his face as Kageru pushed him off the isle. Overhead I looked upon Ryu fighting with Diabolos. On par, he smacked Diabolos hard enough to toss him right into Fafnir. Soaring down before us, Ryu landed and looked to the two voidsent with a grin.
"Go on Scarlette. These two are ours."
I smiled to them turned to look at the other isle.
"Thank you loves."
My wings appeared upon my back and I quickly lifted off, heading towards the other isle with haste. Landing upon the outer rim, I looked around for my father. Making my way towards the middle, I sighed as I looked upon him standing still with his hands resting upon the hilt of his sword. He was fully clothed in a red and black armor with a massive cloak upon his back. With his back turned towards me, he seemed to be looking upon the Allag pedestal with much thought.
"Daddy.."
"Don't come any closer Scarlette."
"But-"
"Stop."
I stood very still as I looked upon him, reaching my arm out for a moment as it slowly lowered to my side.
"We do not have a lot of time left. I want to remember this moment for all that it can be."
"I have so many questions, please..."
He stood silently as he breathed quietly listening to the wind as it flowed past us.
"The form you see before you now is nothing more then a mere husk of whom I once was. I am no longer the Aeon your mother loved. No longer the father you wished to know."
"We can fix that. I just need time."
"Time is a luxury we have taken for granted is it not? Look around you. You are a grown woman now. I have been a toy for the Allagans for nearly fifteen years. But it never mattered to me as to what they did to me. All that I cared about was my daughter."
I kept my mouth shut as he continued to talk.
"Maybe she would grow up to be a Garlean child. By your accent, I am not surprised but I knew she would grow up safely. When I lost control, when I became the monster concealed within, I thought my life as a father had come to its end."
"Daddy, all I have ever wanted was for us to.... be a family... we have untold amount of time together! We can go back to having a normal life. A quiet life! It may be without mother, but... she is still with us."
He breathed heavily and my eyes widened as I took a small glance at his face.
"Hah..."
He breathed heavily again, I watched as a tear fell from his right eye, glancing back towards me.
"If only that were truly possible. But alas... the past is in the past."
As he turned around, I looked upon him and felt my feet walk backwards, trying not to believe it. His face was black as night, while crimson red allag energy markers flowed down his cheeks, breaking at his eyes and filling them with the same crimson glow. Grasping his blade, he held it in his right hand as he looked upon me for a long moment.
"What happens now is what must happen. I can no longer control myself."
He glanced down to his hands, revealing the same Allag energy lining flowing through his entire body.
"I wish the last few hours could have been spent at your side, sharing stories of our past experiences."
He breathed heavily again, placing his left hand upon his chest for a moment as he looked back at me.
"From what I can tell... Hahhh.... Err... You have become a strong individual with so much potential. Your mother would be proud, as am I."
He quickly plunged the sword Balmung into the pedestal and walked away from it.
"But that all does not matter now. The voice has become... enthralling. All I can hear now is his voice ringing inside of my mind. Release me from my chains and serve to me the world. So it is written, so shall it be."
"Father... no... Please..."
"I am the harbinger of Chaos. Two individuals have always been required to unleash the God of Eikons. Now that you are here, we will do what we have been crafted to do."
I blinked trying to rub at my eye, quickly looking back to see my father standing right in front of me as he grasped my arms.
"Now our world shall become his."
I looked him in his eyes and frowned as I shook my head at him.
"Not today."
His eyes widened as he looked down to see a red energy blade piercing his chest. Backing away he grasped his chest and looked at me, distraught.
"How DARE YOU!"
My eyes widened as his wound healed. Quickly he grasped his blade and slashed at me. My mothers shield emanated a red aura as I blocked all of his attacks. Parrying his upper slash, I quickly smacked him in the face with the shield, kneeing him in the gut and quickly smacking him with the hilt in my right hand. Staggering backwards he quickly flicked his arm at me and a chain released from his hand, attaching to my waist.
As I attempted to get it off of me, I found out quickly the chains themselves had incredible power as he lifted me off the ground and tossed me hard into the ground behind him. Snapping his fingers, the chains erupted around me.
"Had enough yet?"
Smoke covered the area where I landed. Slowly I stood back up on my feet, feeling weak.
"I'm just getting started."
Immediately he appeared beside me and landed a slash across my chest. Falling to my knees, I grasped my chest out of shock and tried to breath. Before I could muster a breath, I spat blood out of my mouth and almost blacked out. Taking a deep breath the wound began to heal and I looked to my father whom was coming in for another attack. Quickly I placed the shield up and smacked at his blade, causing it to fly out of his hands.
Before he realized what had happened, he turned towards me to see me vanish. Looking behind him, he gazed upon me with the red energy blade out. I glanced back at him and my eyes widened in shock as I watched his body regenerate.
"Not bad dear daughter... Not bad."
His body began to change and a massive amount of power released, blasting me backwards. Quickly I landed upon my feet and readied my blade and shield. Looking upon him now, I remained in awe as he flapped his massive demonic wing span. His skin changed to crimson red, while his hair turned white as snow. Demonic horns flowed down towards his neck. Much of his clothing tattered as he released his Eikon form. Allag energy still flowing all around his body.
"Father.."
"Your father died long ago girl. It is time you came to that realization!"
Standing tall before me, he kept his wings out wide as the sky became crimson. The Allag objects around began to spin to life as the chaos aether flowed through the winds. I closed my eyes as summoned forth my Eikon form. The blade and shield changed slightly, following the runic patterns of my Eikon armor. Opening my eyes I looked to my father once again.
"So be it."
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