Suddenly, something shook the Red Horse around.
"W-what happened?" Ukyo shouted out in surprise.
The doors to the bridge opened and a little, striped moogle appeared. "We're under attack, kupo," Stiltzkin explained. "A giant dragon that appeared as we came close to Bevelle airspace."
Shampoo looked down at him. "How funny little teddy-bear get on board?"
"It's MOOGLE, kupo," Stiltzkin said in a slightly hurt voice. "And I was in Home when the monsters attacked. I wanted to sell the Al Bhed some of my wares. So when the Airship took off, I just came along, you know?"
"Forget about that," Ranma said quickly. "What about that dragon?"
"It must be Evrae, the guardian of Bevelle," Auron alias Aura explained. After some pondering, she decided to took over that name. "He's the most powerful of the holy beasts."
"Holy beasts?" Nabiki asked in an unbelieving voice. "It's a fiend, right? How can a fiend be holy?" Aura just shrugged.
"I say we go out there and kick its butt," Tidus exclaimed.
"And how are you going to do that?" Cid said. "You can't exactly fly, you know?"
"You just have to fly as near as possible to that thing," Tidus said.
Ranma shook his head. "Won't work," he said. "It probably will be more nimble than the airship, and besides... your sword has to be really long to reach a dragon flying around the ship."
"Well, what do you suggest, Ranchan?" Ukyo wanted to know. Ranma smiled. "Don't worry! I've got two flying Aeons that I can use to take that overgrown lizard down. Leave it to me!"
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(BGM: Skies of Arcadia: Bombardement)
Ranma stepped out on the deck of the Red Horse. Flying overhead, he could see the slim, but enormous form of Evrae.
"Okay, it's your turn," Ranma said to his Aeons. "Do your best, okay?"
With a small whirlwind and a vortex of water, Griever and Leviathan appeared. Griever snarled and gripped his blades. Leviathan wasn't nearly as big as he was when carrying them through the ocean, but he looked ready to take on everything that was going to harm his master.
They took off into the sky. Griever headed directly to the dragon, who didn't seem to realize what was going on. Several slashes with the curved blades, and Evrae was crying in pain. He lashed out at Griever with his claws, but the lion was prepared and dodged quickly.
While Evrae was turning his attention towards Griever, Leviathan was flying towards him from the other side. He opened his mouth and let loose a strong jet of water that blasted the guardian dragon's back.
Now Evrae was really mad. He concentrated on Leviathan, who in his eyes seemed to be the slower one. He inhaled deeply and attacked with a giant cloud of poison. Because of his body size, Leviathan didn't manage to dodge in time. The poison found its way into his bloodstream and weakened him visibly. Evrae seemed to chuckle diabolically when he saw the results of his attack.
Griever roared in anger as he saw his comrade being hurt. He twirled his body around and created a vacuum vortex of wind that sucked the dragon in his direction. Evrae tried to escape, but the wind was just too strong. Griever lashed out with his swords, and several cutting blades of air flew from them. They hit Evrae and cut through his scaly body armor.
Evrae decided for another tactic. He charged up his horns and fired a barrage of photon shots at the winged lion. Griever got lost in all of the explosions and couldn't dodge them all. He tried to parry the last one, but the explosion inflicted some damage, anyway.
Evrae already saw victory approaching and raised his claws to finish Griever off. He really didn't pay attention to the poisoned water snake anymore. Leviathan used that to hit Evrae with one last surprise attack. He spread out his wing-like fins and flew over Evraes head. While he was doing that, an enormous wave of water followed him, created by the water Aeon. It hit the guardian dragon from above and made him screech in pain.
Griever took a deep breath, stretched out his weapons and charged. Both of the blades pierced Evrae's chest and hit a critical point.
When the lion pulled out his weapons, the dragon cried out one last time, before he dissolved into a large number of pyreflies, that slowly soared down onto the palace of Bevelle.
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Grand Maester Mika looked up from where the bride was approaching the podium and saw Evrae's pyreflies. He realized what happened and gave Kinoc a small signal. The chubby Maester nodded and gave the necessary instructions to his men.
The warrior monks got their weapons ready and activated the war mechs. They got ready to blast that Airship down from the sky, as it was approaching it with an increasing velocity.
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(Posted Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:53)
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