Cloud Arrives in A.Eygeept

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It is almost sunrise and Cloud is hurrying to cross the 30 mile in diameter barren wasteland which is the boundry of the two countries, Aérialiste and Eygeept. He is almost towards the end This is an extremely dangerous time for him as he had only 10 minutes to sunrise. Cloud remembers stories from his childhood about these plains and that if any man tried to cross it at daytime, they would be burnt to crisp. This could be mainly because of the huge holes created by the dangerously hot rays of the sun in the Ozone layer.

Cloud hurries to run across and spots a dense forest somewhere in the distance, his exact measurements tell him that is is approximatley half a mile. He starts to sprint. His foot has started to burn and the rays of light of the sun were becoming increasingly stronger. Using his wit, he manipulated his quick attack ability and doubled his running speed (30sec), charging and absorbing the molecules from the air helped him run the half mile in just the 30 seconds at almost 3 times the speed of a normal human. He jumped into the deep shade of the jungle where the temperature was much more cooler. He landed head first on to a rock and falls unconcious. The last thoughts going through his minds that day were "O nuts...".

Welcome to Eygeept.

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| Encounter With the Altars | Part 1 - Awake

Cloud awoke, chained to a wall. He opened his eyes, his head was throbbing as if he had been hit by a huge rock on the head. Wearily he got up, moving as if he was drunk. Pain shot into his head and forced him back down. He mustv'e hit his head really hard on that rock from that speed.

"Note to self: Need more control in manipulating my quick attack"

There were scratches all over his left arm as well as bruises across his entire body. He had been beaten. He was in some type of dark room lighted by the primitive technology of a fire torch. He pulled at the wooden rope which held him in place. Mustering his strength he started to absorb all the energy particles in his hand and shot at the rope with a powerful blast of electricity. The rope turned alight by the fire and broke easily when he tugged at it, narrowly escaping the burning rope. He rubbed his leg where the big rope was tied and took it off. Warily and slowly, he left the hot room. He was now in some type of dark corridor. A close humming could be heard as if hundreds were joined in congregation. Cloud runs through the corridors until he finally enters a huge hall. What he saw took the colour from his face...

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| Encounter with the Altars | Part 2 - Anubis

... (Continued)

They were hideous creatures, some say that they arrived with the decimation of the Earth, some kind of deadly alien race that survived only to please their idol Gods. They're breath was so hideous and theyre teeth... theyre teeth were as sharp as razors. Others say that they were humans, mutated from the Last Great war that ended almost all civilisation on Earth. The newly invented proton bomb wiped out 99.9% of the worlds population, 0.07% became mutated and the other 0.003% remained alive to see through the world for the next 5000 years up till now.

Now Cloud had seen them himself. They wore only rags. Some were different from the others. There were thousands of them in the hall. None of them looked at Cloud so he was glad he hadn't rudely abrupted their prayer. He looked at what they were all praying at. What looked like a priest stood at the front with a small figure. A small girl was tied up in front of a statue of what seemed unhuman. It had the head of a dog but the body of a human. The Altars continuosly chanted "Anuuubisssssssss". Cloud turned away to try and run away, he did not want to see the little girl killed. On the way out of the hall he tripped over a small statue of a baby... The chanting had stopped. Cloud did not dare to turn around, screaming abrupted from all around him as Altars grabbed him from all sides trying to tear him to shreads. Cloud was tossed around for five minutes until finally he landed next to the girl. He quickly looked for an exit but there was none around. All the Altars had started leaving the room, heads down, including the priest.

10 minutes past, everyone had left and the room was empty. The doors locked. Cloud looked around for any signs of escape. He finally looked up and saw a small window about 50 feet up the wall. Cloud then looked back at the girl.

Cloud: "Whats your name?"

The little, brown haired girl did not reply. Cloud grabbed her and pushed her on to his shoulders as to carry her. As he approached the curtain, the statue started to open. Cloud quickly put down the little girl and watched as a figure approached.

The figure was hideous, its head was that of the statues. It was as if it was a half dog, half human kind of creature. Cloud frowned as he analysed chances of success and wielded his weapon, the Buster sword.

Anubis, the Ultra-Altar - Level 10...

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| Encounter with the Altars | Part 3 - Escape

"Holy Mayonaisse! I would say the others were uglier than you but then i would definitly we lieng wouldn't i?" said Cloud.
This angered the Ultra-Altar and it rushed towards Cloud at an unstopabble speed and swiped him in the chest. Cloud flew back with pain and rechocheted off the hard brick wall. He got back up slowly and painfully, The altar was coming for him again, this time the Altar missed and its fist landed straight into the brick wall. Its fist buried deep into the wall causing cracks on every brick within a metre. Cloud jumped on its head and brang his sword straight down on to its head, the sword just bounced straight off. Cloud jumped off his head and ran towards the little girl and picked her up again on his shoulders. He began to climb the curtain when he saw that the ultar had released itself from the wall and was quickly moving walking towards the curtain. Energetically, Cloud doubled his ascent up the curtain, when he reached 25 feet high, he felt a slight tug on the curtain and the altar had started to climb, much faster than he had. He hurried to rush to the top. He climbed with his hands and pushed himself up, metre by metre each second. He finally reached the top and then it finally got to him, it grabbed his leg, digging its painfully sharp claws into it. Mustering up all the energy he could find, Cloud finally drew one huge blast of electrical energy in his hand and shot at the Altar. It let go, puzzled at what had happened, shocked with slight pain. As it fell it tried to grab the curtain again but it just ripped in its claws.

It hit the floor with a small snap. After a few seconds of looking at it Cloud panicked. It was getting back up again as if it had just hit a thousand cushions. He quickly gathered a small amount of energy and lit a small part of the curtain below him with a spark. The curtain was in flames as cloud climbed out of the window, to the outside world.

He looked at his surroundings, he was above some type of forest. The structure he was stood upon was a huge triangular shaped building. It was ancient architecture, much older than even the war. It was made from huge bricks and layers that ascended to the top to form one final spike. He hurried dow the layers of steps and finally reached the bottom. Inside he could hear the screaming and screeches of the Altars. He ran with the little girl, this time he dared to look back now and again but kept an eye out for any objects which might cause him to... trip and maybe even a rock or two.

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Akira

An hour later Cloud is bieng led by the little girl. "Akira" whispered the little girl as they walked along the bushes of the jungle. Cloud was suprised. "What?" he said.

"My name is Akira" she said. She looked back at him and then looked foward again with her usual unthankful personality. "Um, well hi Akira, where do you come from?" Cloud asked.

"I come from Europia, my dad owns a small repair shop in Zaragoza" said Akira. "What! But thats in Europia! Thats like 500 miles from here!" said Cloud. They continued on walking as the air grew humid and hot. The sun was rising again but they were safe. They stopped for a quick rest. "I was playing along the beach when our town was hit by a monster wave. It took me out to sea where i floated for a few days, eating only the fish that tried to nibble on my toes. I then spotted land, i swam towards it and walked along the beach shouting for help and then the trouble came. I was hit by a hard wooden stick on the head and the next thing you know... im bieng held by the creatures, what happened to you?" asked Akira.

Cloud looked up to the sky and remembered how he was running through the hot desert and then fell... "Nothing really, pretty much the same thing actually, but i come from Aérialiste in this continent Warech, ive had only a couple of days journey and yet im suprised ive made it this far..." said Cloud.

"Wow, are you going to take me home mr......." said Akira stopping at a point. "Im Cloud, descendant of the famed Cloud Strife, you probably heard of him, hes from Europia but that was around 200 years ago". Akira looked puzzled and then Cloud realised that even she didn't know who his ancestor was. Almost noone did.

"Anyway, yeah i'll take you home. Hell, ive got no where else to go!" said Cloud cheerfully.

An thus Clouds journey began into the deep wilderness. He only had to travel 500 miles. How hard could it possibly be, he thought to himself?

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The Pain

The pain came back to him as they rested that night. It hurt his head and he almost screamed. The only thing that stopped him was thoughts of the Altars finding him. He threw bolts of electricity almost everywhere draining his own strength. Akira had managed to find cover from the small electric shocks but still hid behind the tree. five minutes passed and the pain finally stopped and Cloud dropped down to the floor, half dead.

The jungle went quiet again and the sounds of the birds eventually came back with it. Cloud had burnt himself seriously because of what had just happened. He lay still in pain from the burns and then fainted again. Every other second he would awake and every other few seconds he would faint again. This happened at least 15-20 times before he finally collapsed on the floor again.

Cloud awoke in the sunshine, his head was badly hurting, as he looked around him he saw a scene of total devestation. The trees around the camp were burnt to crisp and area around him was scorched. His eyes turned wide as he saw what lay next to him, a completely scorched Akira, lying dead with her eyes open on the ground. Her mouth was wide open and she had a look of pure horror...

| To Be Continued... |

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On the road to Zargoza

Azeem awoke, his head was sweaty. Instantly her turned around to look again. The trees were fine. No burn marks or anything. The sun seemed to be shining overhead as the sky was lit up a bright blue. Down here, among the 30 foot trees it seemed so far. The scenery pleased him. Akira had just come back from hunting, she held a small dead wolf in her hands.

"Want some?" she said. Cloud shook his head and tried to sit up but he didn't have enough energy. "No thanks, i cant according to my beliefs but could you... perhaps get me a glass of water?" said Cloud. "Yeah sure, theres a huge river around here, some say it goes on and on for thousands of miles" said Akira just before she dissapeared into the deep forest again.

Cloud smiled. Everything seemed to turn out okay. The nightmare from yesterday came into his head again but he just ignored it and lay his head back on to the smoothly eroded rock, it wasn't heaven but it was better than nothing he thought.

Akira came back 5 minutes later, carrying a flask of water. She held a small bag. Cloud instantly recognised it as his own. "I managed to yank this from the guards, i was carrying it around with me while i was about to be executed by those horrible creatures" said Akira. "But since you saved my life and im thankful for that... you should have it" said a thankful Akira passing a small bag to Cloud. Inside was his full 300 CR just sitting there, untouched.

Cloud got his bag full of 300 CR back!!!

"When i get back to civilisation..." said Cloud happilly.
"Im goin to get myself a fish burger..." said Cloud a second later.

"What happened to you last night?" said Akira sitting down next to Cloud. "I dont know... there was pain in my head, some sort of loud shrieking which was so unbearable. I lost control of my abilities and sent little unharmful shock waves out. It happened before aswell when i was in the temple, this time was worse though... Anyway, we better get going, we should be headed north" said Cloud.
"But your in no condition to travel, youve drained all your energy or so it seems" said Akira. Cloud slowly got up, warily he picked up his body and forced it to respond to his actions. He strapped on to his belt his Buster sword which was lying on a rock beside him. "Of course i am" he said with a little smile.

Akira got up and quickly finished the last of the raw Fox. Cloud looked around. Akira reached into her pocket and threw him a little object. He looked at her. "Open it, my dad gave it to me as a present but you can keep it, i dont like them anyway" said Akira. Cloud opened up round object. On the inside was a small marker with just the letter N. Cloud recognised this as a compus and tested the red dialer for a second... It worked.

Cloud recieved a Compus!!!

They both cleared the small campsite and left, walking slowly through the dense forest North. He had approximatley 500 miles still left and he could tell, in his condition, the journey wasn't going to be a short one.

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Cloud walked along the long road. They had travelled over 50 miles now, in the matter of the day. He had regained a little of his energy back but not much. The water had run out a while ago from the flask and him and Akira were searching now for an oasis somewhere in the small desert road. They had left the jungle about 18 hours ago and were still on the long desert road to Shriek city where they would catch a small fishing boat across the dangerous sea of Mahagre.

Akira finished the last of the flask of water. We both suddenly stopped. In the distance we could hear a small rumbling roar. It grew louder as it approached us and two figures appeared riding motorbikes. Cloud loved motorbikes, when he was back in his village he used to ride them all the time around and around his village. Motorbikes now adays run from plutonium, a fairly new source of energy which had recently been manipulated.

As the bikes got closer, Cloud drew the Buster sword. He recognised the people on the two bikes as thugs. Both were swinging chains around on the side of their bikes. "Your not in any condition to fight" said Akira.

The people got a few metres from Cloud. They started to circle. They were both two young men, around their 20's, much older than Cloud. One of them flung part of their chain and it hit Cloud in the back.

"Stop it" shouted Akira, trying to protect Cloud. Another chain came forth an hit Akira on the arm. Angrily Cloud concentrated. A small blue wave was slowly emmiting from his body. He then screamed, using his full energy, The blue

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Cloud walked along the long road. They had travelled over 50 miles now, in the matter of the day. He had regained a little of his energy back but not much. The water had run out a while ago from the flask and him and Akira were searching now for an oasis somewhere in the small desert road. They had left the jungle about 18 hours ago and were still on the long desert road to Shriek city where they would catch a small fishing boat across the dangerous sea of Mahagre.

Akira finished the last of the flask of water. We both suddenly stopped. In the distance we could hear a small rumbling roar. It grew louder as it approached us and two figures appeared riding motorbikes. Cloud loved motorbikes, when he was back in his village he used to ride them all the time around and around his village. Motorbikes now adays run from plutonium, a fairly new source of energy which had recently been manipulated.

As the bikes got closer, Cloud drew the Buster sword. He recognised the people on the two bikes as thugs. Both were swinging chains around on the side of their bikes. "Your not in any condition to fight" said Akira.

The people got a few metres from Cloud. They started to circle. They were both two young men, around their 20's, much older than Cloud. One of them flung part of their chain and it hit Cloud in the back.

"Stop it" shouted Akira, trying to protect Cloud. Another chain came forth an hit Akira on the arm. Angrily Cloud concentrated. A small blue wave was slowly emmiting from his body. He then screamed, using his full energy, The blue wave grew large until it was a blinding light. The engines on the motorbike shut off instantly and both the motorbikes crashed. The light stopped. The two motorbikes were on the ground. One of the thugs was trapped underneathe his motorbike and one of them was flung across the road. Cloud picked up the extra bike and sat down kicking it to start it. "Jump on" he said to Akira. She sat behind him clutching tight on to the bar. Cloud revved for a moment and then left at the speed of 50 miles per hour down the long and stretchy road...

Cloud recieved a Motorbike