#crossover...ish?

[crossroadsdimension]

"Unofficial" FFXIVWrite Day 10

Yes, I know I skipped over Day 9. The prompt is messing with me a little. But! I believe I've managed to figure something out for it.

In the meantime -- the prompt for today was "Avail," and I think I came up with a rather fun scene in response!

Spoilers for the Dawntrail Alliance Raid, specifically the second one!

“To ensure I understand the situation: upon defeat, you managed to avail yourself of a different form in an attempt to escape Sareel Ja’s influence.”

“Yes.” The response is curt and irritated.

“Well, tis certainly quite creative of you, but I doubt you were expecting your remaining energy to result in this state.” Cross motioned to the minion-sized figure sitting on the box next to her.

 Eald’narche folded his shortened arms and did his best to scowl around the eyepatch he wore over his distinctly changed eye. “It will allow me to walk about unnoticed by you and yours.”

“Only if you stay close. Anyone seeing you would mistake you for a personalized mammet.”

Eald’narche’s expression twisted into something disgusted and angry.  “I am not—”

“I know you are not, but others will not.” Cross tilted her head at the miniaturized Zilartian, raising her eyebrows pointedly. “And as a result, you are going to either stay close to me, or you are going to be mistaken for something you are not and more than likely be seen as a child’s toy.”

The sounds the boy made definitely weren’t of Etheirys.

Cross waited until her former foe had worked out his frustrations through words before she spoke up again. “You couldn’t have picked a better adventurer to follow anyway, Eald’narche. I have experience with opponents turning themselves into smaller forms to avoid certain death—” Omega was going to have a field day when they crossed paths again. “—and I have more access to this world than most. You’re going to see the length and breadth of this world and learn more than you would have otherwise.”

The glowering look she got also seemed curious. “How so?”

“I’m like the ‘seasoned adventurer’ the others speak of around here, more than likely. Someone who can and has felled gods, or beings near enough. You’ll get to see a great deal of this world whilst traveling with me.”

The cursing restarted immediately, leaving Cross laughing as Eald’narche had a miniature tantrum at this revelation.

“I am bound to one with equal strength to her?!” Eald’narche shrieked. “Of all the lives to be cursed with—”

Cross had to resist patting him on the head. Eald’narche may be without his weapons, but a minion could still bite. “Oh, relax. You just get to see things from my perspective. Now, c’mon. Might as well talk to an electrope specialist. I want to make sure you won’t fall to pieces in the near future.”

“Hmph.” Eald’narche looked like he wanted to start cursing again. “You would do this for a former foe? Why?”

“Because you’re not the first to do something like this, and if there’s a chance you could learn something, I’m not about to let that slip by. Now, c’mon. Better for you to ride in my bag than try to run and keep up with me.”

“Of all the most embarrassing things…fine.”

[whiiteface]

The Black King

BGM: Uafasach

"This is the story of a Place that wasn’t here. A time that wasn’t now. There was a single King in a certain Castle. A king all by himself. No one besides the King was in his country.

That wasn’t always the case. There used to be a great many people Of all sorts in his country. and the king’s life was a busy one. However, one day… Something was born outside the country. It was a dazzling, radiant light from outside. It was the light of those who lived outside the country. It was a light that smaller, weaker and more ephemeral creatures had finally obtained. It was a joyous thing. Everyone blessed the small creatures. The King also blessed the small creatures Because it was a joyous thing. The small creatures had always been afraid of darkness, clinging to the king and the bigger people in the country to live. However, they no longer needed to. The small creatures had obtained light. At long last, light filled the world. It shone down upon the king’s country as well. One day, the people of that country realized What this light meant. The fact that they couldn’t live within the light produced by the small creatures. They realized that. And then… The people decided to leave. While blessing the light of the little creatures They went to the other side of darkness. There were none who wanted to fight. Because they knew. They knew that they were alive only because the small creatures lived. Everyone knew that. So all the people in the country left the world. One by one. The peoples and Kings of other countries also left for the otherside, of their own will, one by one. One by one. And then, finally… when everyone had vanished from that country… Only one person remained. The king. Even though everyone else in the country had traveled elsewhere, he remained there all on his own. In a country with no one in it. The king couldn’t accept it. The fact that everyone would disappear tomorrow. The fact that all the peoples and kings would leave. He couldn’t accept the disappearance of his country or the changing of the world. And then… The king chose to be alone. For the first time he spoke to the small creatures… What had he said? The king’s words didn’t reach the small creatures. They had grown used to the warmth of light, so they couldn’t hear the voice of the King of Darkness. Not until they stepped into the darkness themselves… The King became truly and completely alone. All alone in his big, black castle. Spending hundreds of thousands of Nights alone…”