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At the Temperary camp the following morning

I awoke to see a sleeping Clare lying next to me, this triggered a blush upon my face, and looked downward... My excuse for that which I saw: its morning, and my dreams were a little bit... sexy. I immediately jumped up, opened the door to the metal hut, and summoned my dark armor, but only from my feet, to the top of my upper abdomen so as to cover my... ragged jeans (yes lets go with that being the reason), followed by creating a platform of the darkness, which I floated about 10 feet up, followed by jumping onto it, and meditating, as I was trained to by the WR.

After a minute or so, I could feel my body changing. My horns were the first thing, they straightened out, then bent to the angle bull horns are at. My hair got a bit heavier. My feet split into three sections, like my old "dark" form would. I could feel two large spikes coming out of my shoulders. the puff of hairs on the end of my tail all stood on end and hardened, forming a spiked ball. This was my first transformation since I absorbed Discord, and I could feel the darkness-and chaos-flowing around me... It felt amazing, I opened my eyes, and saw that my wings, both on my back, and on my legs, had turned black, the tips of the lower wings had changed to be white. Finally, a scarf of black fire had formed around my neck and mouth, and was flowing behind me, I could tell the transformation wasn't permanent, I would be lucky if it lasted the full day.

I stood up and stretched my wings. I flapped my lower wings, and a wave of darkness shot out, leading to me being in a state of shock and confusion for a good 30 seconds or so, trying to figure out what happened. After the time passed, i simply gave up on figuring it out, and created a ball of darkness about the size of my head, which i began to mold into the shape of a hat, it turned out horribly, so I dissipated it into the environment. After that, I just began to nap on my dark platform.

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I awoke several hours later, and saw a lone person walking toward us... wait... person... I jumped off of my platform, and ran into the hut, and shook Clare and Ven awake, violently. I then proceeded to explain that there was a person walking toward our little camp who I don't recognize. This surprised them, but they calmly got up, grabbed what little stuff they had, which was mostly just their weapons, and exited with me. Ven had a slight limp, but that's because the healing process still had a few more hours to go.

The person was a few meters from the hut now. She was about Vens height, although I could be slightly off, blond hair in a ponytail, semi tanned skin, and bright blue eyes. Her outfit was a bit much in my opinion, black pants, black combat boots, black sleeveless turtleneck (seems odd to me, but whatever), black shoulder guards, three belts, one was brown, and had some sort of symbol on it, and supported by brown suspenders, while the other two were ordinary belts with grey buckles, and black gloves. Wait... is her right wrist... glowing? Nah, must be my eyes playing tricks on me. Anyway she seemed to be examining each one of us carefully as we walked out, as though trying to figure something out, her gaze stuck on Ven for a few seconds more than with the rest of us, but it broke off, and went back to me, understandable, as I'm not exactly human. I decided it was time for an introduction of sorts.

"Greetings!" I said in a loud voice, "Wonderful day, isn't it?"

"Let's just cut to the chase. Who are you, and what are you doing here? Did Shinra send you?" She said coldly. I gave her a confused look. Moody much? And who the hell is Shinra?

"The first two I can answer, I am Lumos, Demon of Balance, and these are my friends, Clare and Ventus. To answer the second question, I was training and I lost control of my power, next I knew, I was a few miles south of here. The third question I must respond to with one of my own, who, or what, is Shinra?"

“Don’t give me that bullshit. Everyone from my world knows who the Shinra Electric Power Company is. They’re responsible for making an energy source using mako, our planet’s lifeblood, and for creating SOLDIERs, their ‘living weapons’, as we’ve been called. Now don’t lie to me. Did they send you to eliminate me and Noctis, or just to bring us back for a public execution? Cause either way,” she drew her blade with her left hand, and held a strange, red orb in her right, “Shinra’s gonna be disappointed.” Well... at least my question was answered...

I face-palmed hard enough to break rocks, "You think you're on your own world? This... is going to take a while to explain" I said, beginning to sit down, "Would you kindly put away your blade, and that... orb thing? Now that I think about it, why is it glowing, anyway? It looks like an ordinary crystal, yet it seems to have some form of magic in it... Its a lot like my metal, actually." Clare stared at me

"Are you kidding me?!?! She pulls a sword on you, and you don't even LOOK at it?! Seriously, if you won't be prepared, I will be." Clare shouted, pulling Triquake off her back. Well she is drawing her blade because she isn't sure we are a threat or not, stupid.

I jumped to my feet, "Calm down, deep breaths, Clare, deep breaths."

I turned toward the stranger "Sorry about this, she gets like this sometimes."

The woman glared at me, slowly sheathing her blade. “She’s smart then. When someone pulls a weapon out, you either run or get ready to fight. That’s how you survive. As for your earlier statement, I know I’m not on my world, Celestia and Luna already explained things to me. I just assumed Shinra found a way here and sent you after us. I still can’t be sure you’re not with them. And the ‘orb thing’, as you call it, is the solar materia. It enhances my abilities even more than the mako and JENOVA cells inside me, plus it lets me draw strength from the sun itself.”

"Oh, OH!" Ven said, "I think I finally understand some of what your saying now," He turned toward me and whispered, "She seems to be from whatever dimension Final Fantasy is from." I looked at him as though he was crazy.

"You sure?"

Ven shrugged, "There is always a possibility, plus it would explain most of what she said" Damn, I never played any FF games, except for a bit of #7... and even then, not much.

"...Fair point," Then I turned toward the stranger again, and said in a normal voice "I think there has been a sliight misunderstanding. You see, I ended up on this world months ago, due to a situation I would rather not talk about, my travel across the void caused other humans to cross, oddly, each one I caused got an... ability of sorts, just as i can control darkness, as you can see." She seemed to look at the darkness of my scarf and lower armor with a bit of curiosity.

“I see. Well, I wield solar magic, and my brother, Noctis, wields lunar magic, thanks to the solar and lunar orbs. We can also channel it through our blades,” she unsheathed her blade once more, though she placed it in the ground this time “Though we still don’t understand everything about them, or their limits. And two more things. What kind of powers do your friends,” she gestured toward Clare and Ven, “have? And just what is this ‘Final Fantasy’ crap you mentioned?”

I sighed, "If I told you what 'Final Fantasy' is, it would likely lead to you questioning your own existence, and possibly an end to all worlds." I clapped my hands together once "Now, to answer your question, Clare can use Gravity based powers, she can control the effects that gravity has on anyone, in any way, as an example, she can make gravity go up, down, left, right, and so forth, as well as changing how strong it is, it can be focused on a single person, or on a whole area. Ven here," I said, gesturing to Ventus as I spoke, "Can control the wind, such as creating whirlwinds, flight, creating blades of air which can then be shot, said blades would be invisible, as they are only air." I could have mentioned that he can kill people using his power by crushing them with air pressure, or by making the air inside ones lungs expand. As well as the fact that Clare can tear things apart or make things compress to the size of a marble, but I want to AVOID a fight, not start one.

"I have three abilities, the first is to create an odd metal, such as that which makes up the cabin, and our weapons, this can then be enchanted, and only those who have either created the item, and the enchanter, or enchanters, can touch it. My second ability is darkness control, I can not only create shadows, but also create semisolid armor, like that I'm wearing, or the platform I was napping on. My third, and final power, is the exact opposite of the second, light control, which is almost the same in what i can do, these. By the way, about that metal I can make, even I cannot fully control it, the metal itself will attack anyone who it dosen't recognize as its creator or enchanter on contact with them. If you don't mind, I have a question of my own now. You keep mentioning this 'Noctis' person, who is he, and while I'm at it, who are you?"

She facepalmed, as though suddenly realizing something, “Die. My name is Die (though she said it like Dee-ay, kind of catchy actually). And Noctis, as I may or may not have said before, is my older brother. Both of us are ex-SOLDIERs, 1st Class. And if you’re wondering, he’s somewhere around here, waiting, ready to go if you try anything. And as for the whole ‘questioning my existence’ thing, I’m in a land of talking ponies, at this point, I doubt anything else you say will surprise me.” She smirked.

I turned to Ven and said, with a bit of a worried look, "Should we risk it?"

He looked at me with a calm expression, but a worried look in his eye, "That's up to you."

I sighed, and scratched the back of my head, "Well, I suppose we can blame her if it causes a paradox," I turned back to Die, and said, "Final Fantasy is a series created by a company called Square Enix. The series itself has at least 12 or so games, there may be more, but I don't know, I've been away too long to know, it takes place in... I actually know very little about it myself, Ven played it more than I did, i only played a bit of number 7, in which you play as a young man named, Cloud Strife, an Ex-SOLDIER member, who is selling himself out as a mercenary. The 'materia' you mentioned are often found in the game, there are five main kinds: magic, command, summoning, support. The big bad guy of the game is names Sephiroth, according to most, he seemed to have a certain respect for Cloud and considered him unequal in power. He turned evil after realizing he might be a monster created by something called Hojo." I looked Die Directly in the eye, curious to see how she reacts to this information. "Does that answer your question?" Please don’t make the universe fragment any more than it already has, god.

Die took a moment to let the information sink in, then, shrugged her shoulders. Damn, talk about hard to impress, I practically told her her world is fictional, yet she doesn't even question it.... “I’ve heard stranger things that have turned out to be true, except Hojo was a person, not a thing. He was a Shinra scientist. And did you say Cloud? He was never in SOLDIER, though he was friends with one, Zack Fair. Before the Nibelheim incident, Sephiroth and Zack were our idols. We joined SOLDIER because we wanted to be as strong as them. After what Sephiroth did, and after Zack was killed, by Shinra no less,” She spat the man’s name as if it were poison, “We decided that the next mission we took on would be our last, that we no longer wanted to be part of an organization that so willingly killed without remorse. Turns out, he wanted us to destroy a village filled with civilians.” What. A. Bastard.

She took a deep breath. “It was the Nibelheim incident all over again, except this time it was being sanctioned by Shinra. Instead of following orders, we evacuated the villagers and prepared for the army we knew Shinra would send. Noctis engaged them first while I finished helping the oldest and the youngest escape using a series of tunnels located nearby. Afterwards, I got there just in time to save his ass from a helicopter.” She chuckled, which I found odd, all things considered. “Afterwards, we finished off most of the Shinra troops, three more copters appeared. Noctis took two down, but the third fired an experimental missile, loaded with mako, at us. We took a risk, combined the powers of the solar and lunar orbs, and fired at it. The explosion destroyed everything, and dumped us in this world.”

I just stared at her for several long seconds in shock, my eyes wide as the horizon, before Ven broke the silence when he responded.

"Wait, if the explosion sent you here, what's to keep it from sending others here too? " He had a look in his eye that I couldn't quite tell if it was fear for the majorities, or fear for someone else, or just him being excited by a chance to fight all out against something, and by the way his muscles suddenly tensed, I'm going to assume it was the third.

“It’s pretty simple. The solar and lunar orbs brought us here, they just used energy from the explosion to do it. The shinra troops, not so lucky, since the orbs were only targeting us. And even if they didn’t do anything, we would’ve been ok. Turns out, we’re immortal. Can’t die of age, can’t be killed. Or so Tia and Luna say anyway.” A small grin appeared on her face.

“So anyway, you wanna meet my brother? Hey, Noctis, you can come out now!”

I heard something coming from behind the hut, and and a man stepped out. His skin was as black as my darkness itself, and his pupils were long and thin, like a cat's, or a dragon's, his eyes glinting with blood-lust, and hate, he wore the same outfit as Die. His blade was drawn and pointed towards us, and he was sneering at us. Die froze up

She took a step back, and we all looked at her, confused.

She turned to us, and shouted, “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING! GET AWAY FROM HIM NOW!”

The man looked at Die, and smiled evilly. “Aww, what’s wrong Die? Didn’t you miss me?”...

Only one thought escaped my mind.

How the fuck didn't I notice that?
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AN: Well, I said I have a reason, and its a crossover! sure, its a little early, but who actually cares?