Revelations of a Warrior

With the Four Crystals being tainted by darkness, the world has been torn asunder, forcing people to evacuate to a floating fortress high above the Earth. A lone warrior has been developed and his mission is to restore balance from chaos, light to the darkness. As he fights through the forces of Chaos, he soon discovers more of himself from the prophet, Lukahn, including a tragic past. Based on the original game as well as the runaway classic, Crystalis.
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So, for over a century, the world has been destroyed by the awakening of the four fiends, and Chaos, as well as constant mutations of life and the elemental Crystals being tainted. However, as prophesized by Lukahn, there was a Warrior of Light putting things right. Actually, it just came to at a distant cavern, and made some failed attempts to protect its closest ally named Cid. As he was gravely wounded, he explained that actually 4 Warriors were created by him, not just Warrior. Although, the former 3 were awakened sooner and they possessed some elemental traits, each one had fallen to the Fiends, excepting the weakest one, Liche. With the warriors' essence, they were absorbed into the Fiends, and by the time they were defeated after two conflicts, the main Warrior of Light freed the doomed spirits. In contrast, Cid's actually Warrior's father, as well as being called Cid himself, as the spitting image of him in his youth. In his dying breath, Cid wished the Warrior to restore the world and finish what he'd started.
Saddened, the Warrior still pushed forward till it eventually made it over to Chaos and his subterranean throne. Chaos tried to intimidate the Warrior, saying it's the bringer of darkness as it defeated the other 3 fallen heroes and the Fiends themselves. They were only mere tools of war, no hearts or souls, just tools of destruction growing stronger with each conflict; Chaos even offered to prevent the catastrophe if the Warrior shall join him, but it refused. Even if it would kill the God of Discord, nothing would happen, and the world shall still perish anyway. Besides, no one would remember nor praise it on its so-called valiant deeds. With everything he mustered, including the 3 essences inside it, the Warrior managed to defeat Chaos, then the cavern collapsed! With the power of the restored Crystals, they warped it out, yet still the world was barren and dead.
The Warrior stopped somewhere upon the broken earth, unloaded its possessions, gil, equipment, even its helmet, and committed suicide! Till it was stopped by a distraught Sarah (mistakenly named Serah), the young princess of Cornelia the Warrior saved awhile back; aside from the nobles and Cid, she was the closest friend Warrior's ever had! Even embracing on what it's like to be human and accepted. She pleaded for it to drop its sword, and it remained numb and blank. Some men took it away to a prison as an act of suicide watch. Later that night, the Warrior managed to climb out with no detection, then came across a dying bare tree. It tied the blanket around the topmost branch and wanted to hang itself! Until it heard some chirping!
A mother bird was separated from its baby and the Warrior put the dying chick back into the nest! As a reward, the mother fowl gave it a lush, fertile red rose! With that, and docile nature surviving the impossible, it restored the Warrior's heart. It returned to the garden where Serah was watering plants next to a fountain, and Warrior surprised her with the flower, birds, and nest. From that the Warrior was no longer stoic and bewildered as it found its true home within the courtyard with Serah! As she embraced it, all it did was return the gesture and smiled!
== Trivia ==
* This was a semi-crossover fic Ikran made several years back. As she combines elements from the original Final Fantasy, a bit of Dissidia, and Crystalis. Each of the elemental fiends has wreaked havoc, although they had similar traits to those in the latter game. And instead of Draygon, there was Chaos, the manifestation of Garland, instead.
* This was actually done with some extensive knowledge from one of Ikran's old friends, Cerb, aka BloodofCerberus/That Dastard Cerberus.
* Ironically, Ikran was never crazy of the Warrior of Light (Dissidia), nor the original. Ever since Dissidia, and certainly 012, she began to despise it due to its questionable motives involving the Manikins and the eternal conflict, and teaming with another hated character, Kain Highwind, to put heroes to sleep, and repeat the cycle. Plus, its personality and development are VERY shallow; so, Ikran added some here!
* This was the first oneshot/fic for the Final Fantasy juggernaut, and one of her early works on Fanfiction.net.
* This was based on a vague dream she had several years back; mostly Warrior fighting Chaos, but not like in Dissidia at all. More in a red cavern of sorts...
* Much like in Crystalis and Final Fantasy 1, the fiends were fought twice; the three Warriors were finally free after the second conflict, excepting Liche. Liche was much like Karmine, Marilith was like Mado, Kraken was Sabera, and Tiamat was Gen. Kelbesque with the Wind element, and no Thunder.
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