The Start of it All

[acetalon]

"I should leave you out there to get fried, Mr. "All power Aspect."  But I'm not that cruel."

Ace sent a blue chain out of the bubble to wrap around Kwok and yank him in.  He WAS family after all.  If Kwok didn't want in, then that was his choice.

"As for the shield, no worries there.  Defense is what I live for."  He grinned.

That moment of glee was short lived.  Ace's face twitched.  

"Y-you f-forgot Evil Saturn?  You mean you l-left her out there alone?  With Kaos?  BASTARD!  How could you leave her with that sick, perverted walking disaster?!"  

Ace lunged for Ryder's throat.

[RyderHakubi]

"I don't even know who you're talking about!" Ryder exclaims as he ducks under the lunging Ace and rolls to where Ace used to be...

"Damn it, I've never met any of you people before... how do you all know me!!!" Ryder says while slowly getting into his familiar battle stance... not that he would notice...

[acetalon]

Ace totally ignored Ryder's response.  He flipped from his handstand position to his feet and punches the side of the shield.  

"You left Evil Saturn with...KAOS!  YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE!"

He turned to Ryder and glared at him.  "I hope you know that because of you an innocent girl's life has just been irreversibly changed for the worse.  Poor, poor Evil saturn."


Ace shook his head.  He'd never get his game of chess.
Might as well do the next best thing.  Ace charged at Ryder, smashing his fist down at Ryder then following with an uppercut.

[RyderHakubi]

As he was uppercutted, Ryder flipped back and formed a plasma ball as a warning.  "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?!  I'VE NEVER MET THIS KAOS GUY, OR THIS EVIL SATURN YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT!!"

[acetalon]

"Oh how sad it is!  To cover his guilt he pretends not to know who Saturn is!  Saturn, why did you have to be with such a jerk?!"  Ace wailed.  "Poor Evil-chan.  To be forgotten after so long?  What did you do to deserve this?"

[Carthrat]

Carthrat raised an eyebrow at the commotion inside Ace's shield.

Shield? Was it to keep the blasts out, or the warzone in? Geez, they're probably all just as violent and irrational as Kwok... am I the only Sane person left in the universe?

No time for that now- must kill Bahamut.

Carthrat twirled his Railgun, pointed it at Bahamut- pulled the trigger...

*Ka-ZAPAANNNNNNNNG! Wooooooooosh!*

Bahamut just... dissapeared. But the incredibly huge railblast kept going, eventually stopping at-

Oh dear. That was the moon.

And it wasn't stopping.

Dammit, now there'd be meteor showers... did I bring an umbrella?

[Tomas]

"So...where are we going again?"  Tomas admired the scenery as the overly large group walked down the dirt beaten trail.  He and Shi had bugged out of the bar within seconds of the starting fight.  Both realizing the type of destruction that was gonna happen chose to leave the city.

The pair had gotten lucky as they had run into a group of people also heading out of the city.  Introductions had been made, and the pair had managed to convine the group to let them tag along for the walk.  It hadn't been all that hard really.  All it took was a nicely phrased request to the young girl Yuna, and she said yes.  For some reason the others did what she asked.

"Gee, man," said Wakka, turning his darkly tanned face to Tomas, "You know even less then Tidus does."

"Hey!"  Tidus, the blond young man quickly took offense at that.

Tomas, however, simply shrugged.  "You say that like its a bad thing.  Being ignorant is bliss sometimes.  If I don't know, I can't worry about it, right?"

"Umm...Tomas...?"  Tomas turned to look at Yuna.  "Have you been effected by Sin's poison?"

With a frown on his face, Tomas slowly nodded.  "Maybe...maybe...but if I have," he shrugged and gave a smile, "I can't remember!"

[Naphtali]

Lulu, the black mage, spoke up from where she was walking near the back of the group.  "We are traveling to Djose.  We must follow the Highroad to reach it."

Auron simple remained silent.  Mainly because the writer couldn't think of a cool one-liner.

Shi just sort of shoved Tomas and laughed.  "Yeah... Sin messed up his mind a little, pay no attention to him.  We uhh... got caught by it.. umm.. I forgot where, actually.  it was just a few.. uhh.. I forgot how long ago, too..."

[Tomas]

"Yeah!"  Tomas was now just having fun.  He didn't have a clue what he was saying, but by the Aspects, he was gonna say something.  "It was cool.  All the pretty colors and special effects!"  Now he was just running with it to annoy Shi.  He hadn't had this much fun in awhile.  Knowing his cousin, however, he was probably ready to kill him.  Maybe it was time to stop...

Looking around at the faces of everyone, he decided it was.  His manner changed from the hyper, over active persona, to a more serious, albeit somewhat annoyed attitude.  "Jeez, people, lighten up.  I'm just messing with you.  You're taking everything so damn seriously.  Its not like we're traveling to all these temples so someone can pray for their soul before they get killing in some horrible sacrifice, ya know?"

[acetalon]

Ace stopped his rantage and looked outside.  He watched the beam go up and straight towards the moon.  Bahamut's attacks, he could block with his shield.  A constant barrage of meteors...

Ace shrugged.  "Oh well.  At least that means there's not gonna be any Crystal Tokyo, thank Saturn."

Ace dropped the shield and decided that enough was enough.  People can only ignore so much property damage.  He quietly drifted into the shadows, and hopefully he'd get out without being seen.

"Kwok!"  He gave a mental shout to Kwok.  "Grab Ryder and lets get out of here!  I don't want to pay for this bar.  Our other siblings already bailed, and I think our turn's up as well."

With luck, the bill would be given to Carthrat, who caused the damage.

[Naphtali]

Shi sighed.  Tomas talked too damn much.  "Ignore Tomas.  He's not right in the head, ya see.  So, how long is this Highroad, anyway?"

Lulu spoke up again.  "It will take most of the afternoon to reach Rin's.  We won't reach Djose until tomorrow, I believe."

[Tomas]

"Not right in the head?"  Tomas frowned and smacked the backi of Shi's head.  "As I recall, you're the one who wanted to kill every man, woman, child, dog, cat, fish, and insect in a city of millions.  And then tried to do it."  Tomas ignored the looks from everyone around.  "I don't call that mentally sound."

"He wanted to...WHAT!"  The cry came from several different people at once.

Tomas simply shrugged.  "You ever have a day when you just want ot hit something?"  After see Tidus at least nod, Tomas continued.  "Shi was having one of those days.  But worse."

[Naphtali]

Shi grinned.  He staged whispered to the entire group, "I told you he wasn't right in the head.  He thinks I'm psycho or something.  Considering he can't remember anything except our names, that doesn't say much for him."

He skipped forward and bit and looked back to the group.  "Like I said, don't listen to him!  In fact, don't listen to me, either!  We're better at fighting than talking anyway..."

[Tomas]

"I can here you whispering, Shi, and I got the videos of it."  Which was very true.  It was nice of Kaos to have passed them along for the family album.  Of course, now he'd have to find a VCR and a TV, but how hard could that be?  "Anyway, Shi is right about one thing, we're far better at fighting then conversation."

Tidus had stopped for a moment as the rest walked on, before running back up to Tomas.  "Wait a sec!  Did you say you have vids?"  At Tomas' confirming nod, Tidus grew more excited.  "Then...are you from Zanarkan?  Like me?  I haven't see a vid since then!  How did youg et here?  Did Sin bring you?"

Tomas blinked and shrugged, though his face was serious.  "I have no idea how I got here.  That's the truth, okay."

Tidus sighed and his head bowed.  "Yeah, okay."

[Naphtali]

Shi nodded.  "Zanarkand?  Hm.  Never heard of it.  I think.  I... uhh.. can't remember."

Auron finnaly spoke up.  "It's unlikely that they from Zanarkand."  Of course, he naturally didn't explain anymore about that, instead just giving Tidus a look.