A Change For The Better

When we reached the docks, I went for a quick swim to go get the chest that had the moon crest in if for later. I wanted to craft weapons that were better than the 'ultimate weapons' within the world itself, utilizing the crest found in the world.

After I got that chest, and one on the beach that had antidotes within, I joined the rest of the party on the ship, as the villagers waved us off farewell. As we were on the boat, I checked out the sphere grid since I managed to get a few levels from those fights. I got one new ability, and upgraded my agility twice.

The new ability was frost mage, it allowed me to conjure up frozen constructs that could cast ice magic. On the sphere grid the next ability I was closest to was summoning an ice beast that allowed me to create a beast like enemy out of ice of a small or medium size. It can get stronger to allow me to make large sized beasts once I get stronger. I was mostly just relaxing up against the center pillar when I noticed Tidus with the binoculars.

I quickly blocked his view of Lulu, so the hot blooded blonde didn't stare at Lulu's breasts. I knew he was meant to end up with Yuna, but things could easily change since I was here, and I didn't exactly plan to go along with 'canon'. For instance, I wanted to save as many people as I could from Kilika island, by creating a bunch of frost mage constructs and having them cast a large ice wall in front of the island, blocking Sin from damaging it.

That may or may not help, but as long as I can save some people, I'll be happy. As I leaned up against the center pillar, Lulu was up against my shoulder trying to relax as much as she could. Of course, as Wakka was describing where they were going and what they were going to do with Tidus, Lulu just made a snarky comment. "Great plan."

Wakka looked at Tidus for help and he backed off. Then he looked towards me, and I just looked the other way, that wasn't my problem to solve, that's something he has to get over himself, as well as the bias he has against the Al Bhed. It's not nearly as bad since I'm a crafter and alchemist, but he still doesn't see eye to eye with them.

As Lulu and I were relaxing against a pillar, I was checking how much Gil I had, and wanted to see if Oaka, the new and starting merchant, sold any materials. I gained some Gil after each fight and was currently sitting on around 5k. Which is pretty good this early on. I tapped Lulu on the shoulder and told her I would see if I could get some extra supplies.

"I'll be waiting on the top deck of the ship for you. Don't be too long, ok?" After that, we temporarily went our separate ways as I went to the lower deck and saw Oaka rummaging through his large bag and checking his wares. I stood there for a second and saw Tidus come down the stairs as well.

Oaka then went on his whole spiel of dissing Tidus' clothes, and how he looked poor. Then Tidus' fought back saying that he's never heard of him, even though he dreams to be a well renowned merchant. Oaka was sad after that, and Tidus passed the guy like 1500 gil.

I was more interested in what the guy had on him though, so after Tidus left and went to check the engine, I proceeded to buy as many materials as I could from Oaka for 4k gil. Which ended up being four dragon scales, eight fish scales, Some dingo fur, some water flan jelly, a few condor feathers, and part of the wing from a garuda. Some of these things weren't drops in the original game, but it made sense to have here I guess, because not all of the creatures turn into totes of light when they die, and their corpses remain.

Once I basically robbed the man blind since Oaka and any other merchant for that matter didn't realize what I could do with these materials, I headed back up to meet with Lulu. Another feature I discovered about my crafting and alchemy, is that I can craft stuff within the menu as long as I have the materials to craft it.

However, if I wanted to craft anything new, I had to manually make it myself first. I can craft a hut though, since I have a few in my inventory, not that I needed to since I needed to figure out how I was gonna create that mobile house. I'll have to do it in parts. I sat down besides Lulu, as she looked out into the ocean.

I noticed in the corner of my eye that Tidus started talking to Yuna at the front of the boat. It was then that I started to create as many frost mages as I could since I knew I would need a lot to achieve the goal of making that ice wall, and Sin would show up soon. Lulu looked at me with a mix of worry on her face, but I just waved it off and told her I was just preparing in case something happened. I managed to summon a total of 30 frost mages before I couldn't handle anymore. It should be enough though, hopefully.

One Frost mages ice wall was 10 feet tall and 30 feet wide. If multiple frost mages worked on, and fortified the same wall, it should have good results. I can't show my intentions until they try to harpoon Sin though. Soon enough, the boat started to shake like crazy.

I grabbed Lulu by the side and held her in place to keep steady. Eventually, some of the crew on the ship started screaming Sin and were ready to shoot the harpoons when Lulu and I came down the stairs. I kept the frost mages back for now and summoned five frost archers since each type of summon had different limits.

I let the rest of the party fight, while I had my archers fire at Sin, and its sinspawn. My frost mages were preparing to cast the Ice Wall spell, they just needed Kilika in their vision, regardless of the distance.

The fight itself went on for what felt like hours, as more and more sinspawn were dropped around the top of the ship, so I had summoned some frost swordsmen to defend the rest of the ship that the party couldn't.

In real time, only about 45 minutes had passed, eventually, Yuna summoned Valefor and had it use its first overdrive, Energy Blast. This was the moment I would change things; I saw Kilika in the distance, and had my frost mages act. Sin broke off the harpoon, and Tidus fell in the ocean. Wakka swam after him, and I had all of my mages put everything into surrounding Kilika in a giant wall of ice.

Only time would tell if Kilika would be safe though. By the time wakka brought Tidus back, everyone realized what I was doing, but after the frost mages used up all of their own mana, I felt it wasn't enough, so I had them use my reserves of mana as well.

[3rd Person POV]

After everyone was settled back on the ship. A slight rumbling could be felt, and shining blue lights started to gather in the sky. They all came together and formed a giant spell circle in the shape of an ice blue snowflake. Everyone looked down at the source and saw that Yole was standing near the Frost Mages that he summoned as they were casting a spell.

Yole grit his teeth, and started supplying his own mana to the circle, this in turn caused it to double in size. However, once Wakka and Lulu realized what he was doing, they started running towards him to stop him. It was too late though, as the spell was finished being casted, Yole blacked out. His frost mages crumbled. And he was caught by Lulu, who had tears in her eyes, and Wakka, who helped her hold him up.

"What just happened? Why did Yole pass out?" Of course, the oblivious blonde had to ask a dumb question. However, even Yuna, and Kimahri were bewildered, so Lulu sighed, took a deep breath, and tried to calm herself a bit.

"Yole, he risked his life for a chance at saving the people of Kilika. That spell you just saw was originally one for casting a giant frost wall to stop Sin from causing serious damage. However, Yole used a large portion of his own mana reserves to increase the power of the spell even further.

To the point that the spell would have encased the entirety of Kilika in a dome of ice, including underwater. You may see me as a powerful mage, but Yole has always pushed the limits of his magic, time and time again.

His summons are a good example, while they may just be elemental constructs given semi-sentience, they are still powerful in their own right. This time though, he pushed himself the furthest he has ever in his life." Lulu sighed in happiness by the time she finished though.