Final Fantasy/8-Bit Theatre Fanstories

[Jared Todd]

Okay, it's been long enough, and I already made the fifth part, like, 5 days ago, which was the day after I posted the third part. BAH! You guys can't wait for that long, you just can't. It's impossible. Heck, I can't.

"It.. is time.. to see... if you are the one I'm looking for..!!" his fingers charged with electricity.
Black Mage immediately put his hands together, enough warning for him, trying to fit in as much energy as he could into the orb of power beneath his robes, obstructed from my vision.
The face grinned beneath the mage hat.
"That's it... show me your true colors.."
The doppelganger obviously was trying to represent Black Mage, but a much darker and evil version of him. As his hands clasped with stronger electric current, the smell of burning metal scoured across the waste of grey. It was getting stronger now, as well as the energy Black Mage had in his hands I couldn't quite place. Clouds of swirling black surrounded the skies around us.
"Now, defend yourself!"
As the clouds parted directly above Black Mage, striking and thunderous rage of legions of lightning bolted down toward the ground.
Black Mage stepped back, and cried out a spell. He spun around, and before he could release the orb, I managed to see what was between his hands. It was white! Black Mage kneeled to the ground, and a vibrant and beautiful flash of green filled the grey world, and with Black mage as the eye, a rippling tornado surrounded him, and the bolts of lightning were instantly trapped among the bowl of wind. The wind started rippling, and shocking with electricity, storing the bolts inside the wind.
"Black Mage..!!" White Mage cried, running toward him, but the wind tossed her easily off and away from him.
As the giant orb of wind and electricity now surrounded Black Mage, it slowly started to subside the electricity useless. As Black Mage made an incoherent sound of suffering, the rippled tornado flew away from him and dissapeared with sparks. Black Mage collapsed to the ground, his gloves surging with electricity for a second before that dissapeared too.
I stood back, astonished.
"... was that..." is all I could manage out. Black Mage growled a human growl under his breath, and shuddered, breathing heavilly.
"I can't control it as much as I can normal Black Magic..." he sighed, putting a hand to his mouth, wiping it off, "I have no idea what it is.. I didn't think it was White Magic.."
Immediately, I looked to the doppelganger.
"The wind attack... but..."
Black Mage slowly started rising, staggering toward White Mage.
"Red Mage, you were foolish to say there isn't anything you don't know about magic," the doppelganger shook his head, and put both hands together in front of him, "What you call White Magic, I prefer to call positive magic.."
He dissapeared and re-appeared next to White Mage, and kneeled down to White Mage softly. Black Mage could do nothing but collapse again, tired. The imposter put a hand out to her. I could see White Mage stare into the imposter's eyes for a second, before taking his hand and rising up with him.
"So... I can use White Magic then.." Black Mage muttered, disgustedly almost.

I get it now, it's a parlor trick.. that's it. It's just a-"
"No, Thief, I made this with my mind! I don't know how I'm doing it, but I've been working on it lately."
The ball slowly tossed and turned in itself, starting to grow bigger, flames waving slowly in controlled directions.
"Cool, right?"
"But how..??" Thief questioned, "If.. if a lowly human like you can control magic.."
Fighter looked at Thief, and the fire in his hands dissapeared in a wisp of smoke.
"You mean, you think you can do it too?"
Thief shook his head.
"No, Fighter. I don't think I can do it," he narrowed his eyes, and put his hands together like a magic user would, and concentrated on them, "I know I can."

"Anyone can," he smiled a little, and walked between I and Black Mage, "Anyone can use negative magic as well.. if they have the need for power and enough negativity."
I put my hand on my chin. Magic was my plaything, there hadn't been anything to do with negativity and positivity in my days of learning Red Magic.
However, Black Mage nodded understandably.
"S'why sacrificing makes people like me stronger.. why Darko entrusted me with Blue Magic.."
"That's it. It's time you stopped faking. Who are you, you imposter! How do you know so much about magic, and why are you sharing your knowledge with us?"
White Mage was still silent. She stared between Black Mage and his doppelganger, overwhelmed and confused looks on her almost-hidden face. His eyes flickered under the hat he wore.
"Janus..." escaped his lips, and I was stunned.
I thought a second, doubting my initial shock.
"J-Janus.. the greek god?" I raised a brow, "The god of power, and twofaced-ness."
He nodded shortly.
"I am named after the one and only, I'm afraid. I'm the god of White and Black magic, and the inner workings of the two."
White Mage cleared her throat, and looked to Janus.
"I'm sorry, but... the White Mage's oath... I mean.. I had no idea that White Magic was.. so capable."
"Oh?" Janus looked quickly at her, "Well, then you are going to get an earful that will change your grasps of White and Black magic today.."

So I lied about showing you what Fighter is capable of... to an extent. Black Mage said, himself, that Fighter is too naive and innocent to use Black Magic, and Janus' words about how Black Mages gain power are enough to tell us Fighter could never ever use Black Magic ever. So obviously, what Fighter is using is fire-elemented white magic.

Oh, and to explain the whole "it was supposed to be an air attack.." thing Janus and RM and BM went through... The candles each represented an individual Light Warrior. It's obvious now who owns each element.

RM.......Water
BM.......Wind
Fighter..Fire
Thief....Earth

He was told the person he was to help was supposed to have a dominantly Wind element soul, and possibly the be future holder of the Wind Orb. RM has water element, which is why RM was blasted with a water attack back in part 1. Janus pulled the element from RM (and later, BM) and used it against him. Hope that clears up any uncertainties that should be certain at this point in the story. I would predict there aren't many more chapters left, I'm running out of stuff to right about. >.>