Post #133 [Cecil]

[Oh jackalope, this is gonna be a longer post... x.x]

Posted By Cecil (Member # 47) on :

Nole was shocked the say the least as he viewed the memories. From the start he could tell the girl wasn't by any means normal.

[You mean you couldn't already tell by what you saw of her in Nebiroth's memories, you derpbasket? :P]

The first memories he saw were through her eyes as she seemed to climb some odd tower filled with the ghosts of magicians of times past. The memories were devoid of sound, so he couldn't hear her or any of the beings she encountered, but visuals were nonetheless helping out in what he was seeing.

Soon he saw a large being that looked like an abomination of a large werewolf-like creature with biological arms, but also ghostly, like a spirit. This being appearantly was named Number 87, a guardian of the tower, by the way he mouthed his words in the view he had.

[Number #87... basically a name concept I also borrowed from FF6. :P]

The girl and the being fought for a small time, ending with her the victor, and appearently, she had been taught news powers by her experiences. Soon, the girl's memories showed her fighting two more beings in different parts of the power, but each looked and fought different from the first.

[lol, I just now of all times notice that horrible mistype. 'tower', not power, past me. :P]

The girl had been knocked out once in the second battle, but restored to consciousness seconds later, as if she had a guardian angel or so. Nole recalled some of the spells the monsters had used on her, and some of the one she herself used. It was as if the girl and her foes knew magic on a well known basis.

[So yeah, appearantly she had some kind of auto-revive item on her or something. I think the battle here with this guy was supposed to be similar to MagiMaster in FF6/3us, where he usually KOed you at the end of the battle with Ultima, TPKing your group unless someone had auto-revive of somekind. >.>]

Another memory of hers included of an elf from another world arriving in her backyard and talking to her for a short while about some odd myth. He wasn't able to discipher many of the elf's words. He had probably his own unique ways of mentioning stuff to the girl. That wasn't much of an important memory, except through it he learned the girl had only been 9 at the time since she had looked in a mirror at herself on one of those mornings to freshen up, which was a remarkable age for a girl to know such a destructive amount of magic.

[I didn't go into too much detail what this was about, but basically the 'elf' was actually a character from another game, in the middle of a transition from his first game to the second in his series. I won't go anymore into it now. Maybe later. :P]

Another set of memories included her, another boy, his two sisters, his father and mother, and his pet spider being asked by a group to do something, and then they had moved to some new village near the same towers the girl had been to in the previous memories.

[And not just any pet spider. Webgarth... he was a pretty damn big pet spider. Probably larger than most dogs, and just as craving for attention as a dog. Thankfully he's a big softie. @_@]

About 4 months more of memories that revealed a little more about the girl's average life, including that she even had a rival in those days, a green haired kid with a real attitude, who believed he had more powerful abilities than the girl and the other boy she lived with. Somehow, Nole knew the girl wasn't in her real family for some reason, and that these were merely her adopted family.

[Yeah... I mean... I have to assume Valius did tell you about the Polestars by now, which means you should be able to put one and three together to make four, genius. :P]

Other memories include that one day she went into the forests near her village and found the boy she lived with pale and dead, as if he had been thrown through a tree.

[Ouch. :(]

Then a snake-man had appeared, gesturing to the boy's boy, and smarting off about doing the same thing to her.

[bh34otgibtg2... THIS FLAPPIN' TYPO. 'boy's boy'.... MY GOD... I just... I always smack myself 5 times in the head everytime I re-read this line. It's supposed to be 'boy's body', Cecil you stupid twerpface. DDD:

Yeah, I nominate that beaut' as the worst typo of mine in the entire IF. It just sounds... wrong man, really really wrong. :\]

Nole was shocked as she had in a flash gotten in the thing's face, and rammed her fist through his body and out his back, and then freezing the being in place with ice and shattering it.

[Yeah, Sandra's a stone-cold killa. Then again, her foster-brother was just murdered by this snake-faced asshole, so yeah... I mentioned before that harming or god forbid, killing her friends and especially her family (adopted or blood), is basically signing your death sentence. I was not kidding. >_>]

Nole had then seen her find two other monsters and screaming at them, appearantly about the slain boy. They had talked with her for a while, and then in a show of surprise for Nole, joined her, and returned to the village, and meeting up with her rival, who also in surprise joined him after learning of the other boy's death.

[Yeah... the two monsters she yelled at were actually RUNNING from the snake-guy, and long story short, her foster-brother ran into them, mistaking them for hostile monsters and attacked them foolishly. One of them defended themself with an attack than knocked the boy out, leaving him for their persuer to finish off, not aware of this possiblity, so they're feeling very guilty about this. <.<]

They also showed the four going to some castle a few miles off shores, and countless fights with legions on supernatural beings, undead creatures and the like, as well as their fights against countless castle guardians, and some of them giving their powers to her, and the girl's encounter with the ghost of another girl in the castle's library, and also the battle against a powerful man at the end of it all who almost destroyed her, the boy and one of the other monsters with a surprise attack from above. They had been pushed out of the way and saved by the other monster who in turn gave up his own life.

[Yeah that paragraph up there sums up MOST of Sandra's 2nd big story arc in her own past. It's a LOT LOT more complicated than I let it be implied, but again... I think even past me didn't want to get too much in to exposition here, and I'm glad he didn't. :P]

Nole was then in awe at her, the boy and the surviving monster as in rage they had casted a combo of spells including a blue dome of elementless energy, a plethora of meteors, and a swarm of blasts from the monster's trident that did the attacking man in, and destroying the entire tower where the fight had occured.

[Yeah, poor Count Nagar didn't last long after that. Yeah, that's the name of the guy in charge of that castle and all that stuff. Basically the castle and the entire arc was heavily inspired by not FF, but Castlevania of all things. >.>]

More memories led up to 1 year later. Through them Nole learned of her battles with large red and furry demons called the "Red Guard" as they mouthed it in the visions.

[So then where's the "Green Guard"? Or the "Blue Guard"? :P]

She had also defeated them after they had murdered a few inhabitants in a village, and one of them blurted something about the "Phantom Zone", which caused Nole to get suspiscious again.

[Yeah, now we're getting to what Nole probably really considers the important part. >.>]

The girl and her former rival then took a ship to a large coral reef miles off shore and get attacked by both a large bird and a large banacle/sponge creature.

[To be fair, their descriptions don't really make them out to be a really threatening duo of enemies. To be even more fair, they really weren't. :P]

After their defeats, the rival told the girl something to the effect of staying behind, and that she would have to go on alone, and then she ran through a portal in the face of the reef, and into a world with fire and brimstone castle ruins. Nole recogized the two monsters they fought from Nebiroth's visions, and realized this was the point where his and the girl's fates interwined.

He watched furtherly on the girl's treks through the strange new world: towers of fire, the large worm-like being in Nebiroth's memories, a group of caves that seemed composed of skin and living tissue, the large three-headed beast from Chaos' defeat and Nebiroth's visions, and how it's ghost spoke to the girl and became a light that went to her after it's defeat.

[The accquisition of Hydra to Sandra's roster of summons, basically. >.>]

This was likely how he was able to be used the way he had against ChaosGallentmon. Summoning. She could summon creatures to fight. More memories included a forest frozen over, large ice walls, a giant ice beast that attacked the girl with detachable ice claws, and had also given her his powers after his defeat.

[Now mentioning Freon's own experience with this. Also, I still think the concept of Freon's design is pretty cool looking. <.<]

More memories: a large castle hall, Nebiroth's friend, and his death at the hands of the girl and her first use of the three headed-beast's summon, proving his theory she could summon. Battles in a large tower, another fight against a clone of Nebiroth's friend, and then Nebiroth himself, or as he truthfully knew from Nebi's own memories, the fake of Nebiroth, and then finally, their master: the large blue skinned king demon, known as "Sardius" from the wording of his lips.

[Oh boy... here we go, now we get to learn something about this 'Sardius' tool. >.>]

A large battle had ensued, and the girl had finally managed to send the large king into a crumpled heap on the floor, defeating him, or so she at first thought, as the huge room-sized being suddenly metamorphed himself into a smaller, two-headed Kelbeross with blue skin, blue fur, and faces on both sides of his stomach.

[Yeah, I have this bias that a smaller being turning into a massive, warped and disfigured version of themselves isn't always a good idea for a final battle. I took for a reverse route, or as Dragonball people would put it, the 'Frieza' route. :P]

The "new" Sardius was merciless, and seemed as potent in magic as the girl, seemingly more, as he had managed to cast three instances of the blue-dome spell and knock her out.

[LE GASP, she got knocked out AGAIN?! O_O

Yeah folk, she's NOT invincible, no matter what 'certain people' might want to think. Sandra has weaknesses and vulnerabilities and situations where she CAN be flat out OVERWHELMED if she's not expecting it. Doesn't mean she's down for good, but she can be at least temporarily defeated once in a while. >.>]

Nole at first wondered how she could've survived that. Because of there being no sound, he was unable to hear a vital part of her memories, and of exactly why she got back up minutes later, appearantly much stronger than prior, now using a bluish barrier to block and repel many of the demon king's attacks, and retaliate with her own, as well as use a move Nole didn't understand very well from seeing it.

[Yeah sorry, I'm not going to spoil the secret to Sandra's 'second wind' here anymore than my old post did, at least not now anyways. It doesn't feel appropriate to do that yet. >.>]

She then charged at the smaller Sardius, and tricked him, and then about crushed him in a bear hug. She then slowly floated up above the ground, squeezing Sardius against her for all she was worth, and Nole's view of her memories was blinded by a massive blue flash that only very slowly diminished and showed nothing left of Sardius. The girl had then blacked out and then later awoke again, returning to her own world, and out of the strange demon world.

[I will however explain this above scene: she learned a SECOND level of the Ultima spell, an ability she could also release using her own body as the epicenter. By basically grip-locking Sardius into submission beforehand, she was able to make absolutely sure he couldn't defend himself from it or even escape, and thus it finally brought him down. :P]

The last memories show a group of wizards showing her a portal that ended up sending her to Earth, and into a small clearing, and the memories of finding her Earth frozen, and the memory book and photo of her family that she took with her, and of the installation in Onett where she had found her Dad and one of their own spies, and of all the other memories left from then and up to this current point.

[So yeah, that's the memories of Sandra for you... well, the last 5 years of them. Anything that she went through previous to that 'tower' at the start is obviously too far back for Nole to see, so that's probably gonna be an issue with trying to figure out how to deal with her in full. >.>]

Nole's head was spinning from this. He was marvelled by these two: a girl, and large demonoid, who had at first seemed like ironic coinsidences in the game of their life, but now it seemed more certain that they had came to stop them. He had to find a way to STOP THEM.

[Well no crap man, they're probably two of the strongest ACs in the story. Of course you need to figure out how to do that. It's not exactly an epiphany. >.>[

Or in the very least, keep them out of the way. Nole had also gained a powerful feeling at that point. He had a sense of admiration for this girl, one that began to do odd things to his body habits. He was now all nervous and sweaty, and with a slightly beating heart.

[LOL... what? Oh no... seriously, you toolprick? o.O]

"Oh my dear creator... no... I'm falling in love with my enemy!! This is insane!!"

[Why? Why why why? You're a damn moron, Nole. x.x]

Nole left the room, to both go to work on improving his weapon using the data from Sandra's memories, and to get a refreshing drink, maybe to try and quench his thrist of his newfound love for her...

[Yeah, you better find a way to 'quench it, for I'm sure neither Sandra or Bob, or hell, even Paula would be all too happy to know this and would gladly pound your to ribbons for it. :P]

[AC/Post Count: 21/133]